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So as we are coming out of Winter and heading into spring, here is my breakdown of the seasons in Korea, starting with Summer.
Summer is the season in Korea that I dislike the most, contrary to England where it is undoubtedly the best. In England we get the odd really hot day but generally it is warm rather than hot and affords me the opportunity to get outside enjoying the countryside and playing cricket. In Korea Summer is stiflingly hot and for the period of about a month or so it becomes almost unbearable to spend any time outside, I just sit at home under the air conditioning wearing only my underwear. I try to fight the heat by rising early in the morning and running at 6.30am but to no avail, the heat saps all the strength right out of me. Sleeping also becomes difficult and I have to ignore warnings from many Korean people about fan death (the funny little superstition that if you sleep with the fan on it could lead to your untimely end) and have the fan and the air conditioning on overnight sometimes .
In the middle of summer (mid to late July) there is also the monsoon season, it's hot, humid, and rainy and no clothes can dry on the clothes hangers in our apartments. If the rain doesn't make you wet, your own sweat will. I remember leaving a pile of clothes in the washing machine one time for a couple of days over a weekend and because they were so sweaty, when I returned they smelled pretty funky and most stayed that way and I had to chuck them.
I think it is fair to say that even after just a couple of months of summer I am longing for Autumn and Winter.
What to do in Summer
- Stay inside, and if you go outside make sure you make regular stops for air conditioning. Or, if you must go outside.....
- Go to a valley and enjoy the mountain streams.
- Go to the beach, but you can't in the monsoon season very easily and it can be almost too hot if you find a weather window.
- Go hiking. While it is initially difficult, you can get some relief from the heat near the tops of the higher mountains, although beware of heat exhaustion.
What not to do in Summer
- Eat sushi and seafood generally. I have been warned by a few different Korean people that eating sushi in summer can cause the odd stomach upset.
- Wear grey T-shirts. Even walking for 2 minutes to catch a bus causes unwelcome sweat patches.
- Exercise outside (apart from hiking and swimming). Going for a run in summer almost feels dangerous, if you do make plenty of water stops.
The beginning of Autumn also brings the celebration of Chuseok, Korea's Thanksgiving day that has much to do with remembering their close relatives who have passed away. This can be a bit of a nuisance for the foreign population in Korea, however, because of the extreme amounts of traffic on the roads down to people migrating out of the major cities to go back to their home towns for the holiday. On the plus side it is a culturally rich time of year, and I myself am right in the thick of it with my Korean family which is sometimes a good thing and that I am honoured to be a part of but also it can be a real test of patience as long hours of family time (with lots of people) is not what I am used to back in England.
What to do in Autumn
- Go outside. Hike, run a marathon, start an exercise regime, go to the park, have a picnic, even go to the beach (it is often still warm enough, especially in early Autumn).
- Get your camera out. Trees on the mountains are everywhere and they look beautiful, you never have to go far for a great shot.
- Go on a trip. Comfortable temperatures mean this is the time to go away for the weekend and visit historic cities, go to Seoul or Busan, or wonder around for the weekend somewhere new.
What not to do in Autumn
- Honestly, I can't think of anything.
Although freezing cold, and consistently so, I quite enjoy Korean Winter. I find that it is the time of the year that their food really tastes even better than normal. I am a real fan of Korean street food, which is absolutely perfect for warming yourself up with; tteokpoggi, odeng, sundae, pajeon, ho duk, and pungopbang all do the trick very nicely. Korea's normally spicy food seems perfect for the chilly Winters.
Winter back home in England is a bit of a dark and dismal affair. It is dark by 3 o'clock sometimes and very often cloudy, so getting out and about and being outside doing activities is very difficult. Korean Winter, on the other hand, is very cold but sunny and dry with more hours of sunlight in the day. This affords the opportunity for hiking, skiing, and generally being a bit more active outside. The only drawback is that in my area of the country is rarely snows and this makes for a rather drab, brown, and dead appearance to all of the nature around. It is therefore not the prettiest month, at least not for me down south.
What to do in Winter
- Go skiing. It is very affordable but it is very often extremely busy. If you are already a good skier, the harder slopes are much less busy in places like Muju.
- Eat street food.
- If you are a hardy kind of person, hiking in the Winter to some of the National parks is really beautiful. But be warned the thick snow and plunging temperatures are not for the faint-hearted or ill-prepared.
- Go on a vacation. The Winter cold can drag on and a trip to a warm country to break things up is very welcome.
What not to do in Winter
- Go to the coast. The freezing cold wind makes it feel even colder when you are by the sea.
- Be stuck in the house. Sometimes people can just hibernate in the Winter, but Winter in Korea also harbours some of the clearest weather with a good deal of sunshine. Try to find ways to wrap up warm and go outside.
Spring is a good time to visit Korea, outside of the dust storms, because of the many festivals that are running in the Spring months. These festivals take place all over the country and usually celebrate the particular foods, animals, and general qualities of the area in question.
What to do in Spring
- Go to a festival. Towns and cities all over Korea have lots of festivals celebrating what is special about their particular area so are good places to get your culture fix.
- Go hiking (hang on, I think I have said this for every month). Spring is the month for the blooming of flowers of course, the Royal Azaleas on the mountains can be really pretty.
- Go to a place with Cherry Blossom trees and have a picnic.


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The following are some of the state laws taking effect in 2013:
Gay Rights:
- Maryland: Voter-approved laws allowing same-sex marriages will take effect in January
- Maine: Voter-approved laws allowing same-sex marriages will take effect on Saturday
- California: A law that exempts clergy members opposed to gay marriage from performing same-sex marriage ceremonies will take effect
Laws that Protect Children from Bullying and Abuse:
- California: Coaches and administrators in schools who have regular contact with children, will be required to report suspected child sexual abuse
- Florida: The Safe Harbor Act will require police to turn over to the Department of Children and Families any children who are alleged to be sexually exploited or dependent for assessment and possible shelter
- Oregon: A law requiring schools to adopt a policy on teen dating violence will take effect
Immigration Laws:
- Pennsylvania: A law that requires contractors on public works projects to use the federal E-Verify system to make sure that their employees are legal U.S. residents will take effect
- Montana: A Montana ballot measure denying illegal immigrants of state services will take effect
Abortion Laws:
- Georgia: A law prohibiting doctors from performing an abortion 20 weeks after an egg is fertilized unless a pregnancy is determined to be medically futile will take effect
- Montana: A Montana ballot measure requiring parental notification for minors' abortions will take effect
- New Hampshire: A law banning "partial birth abortion" (a type of late-term abortion procedure) will take effect
Other Laws:
- Georgia and Pennsylvania: A law that raises employers' contributions to unemployment compensation trust funds will take effect
- Utah: A law exempting U.S. military personnel from having to pay a full year's property taxes after their return from 200 days of active duty in any calendar year will take effect
- Florida: It will no longer be illegal to flash your headlights to warn oncoming drivers that police are lurking on the roadside ahead
- California: A law banning the use of dogs when hunting bobcats or bears will take effect
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Every month I would like to shine the spotlight on one of our participating writers. This month, I would like to introduce Virginia Carraway Stark, who is an established writer from BC, Canada. Virginia has now contributed to all 3 CWC novels, and has signed up for project 4, which means there is more to come from this talented writer. Virginia has been one of our 'go to' writers, and has always managed to produce outstanding writing as an emergency back up. This is no easy task at all. Virginia's submission for the final chapter of The Concierge was also selected, and she graced our last page with a beautiful poem about collaborating. I have shared this poem at the end of the interview.
1. What made you start writing?
I've always written stories, even when I was very young and the stories were illustrated with stick figures. Before I could write I told stories. I saw things in my very young world and I would come up with explanations to explain my universe. Usually these explanations were fairly fanciful and based on the 'what ifs' of a small child's mind. For example what if the clouds were made of cotton like the cotton batting inside the lids of children's vitamins? I hypothesized that they looked similar so that made sense and all that cotton attracted a world of intelligent mice ruled the skies. My first time on an airplane when I was about six I watched avidly as we reached the clouds for the mice and their castles. From there on forward I always had an understanding of the 'what if' that seemed outside of the norm with a tendency towards the magical and the whimsical. When I got older I began to watch people around me more and learned about character development by seeing how people interacted and how they differed in their reactions to each other. My propensity for telling stories remained and it was through this that my stories were told and re-told to reach the ears of a movie producer who asked me to put some stories into screenplays. Three movies were made over a year long period, Blind Eye and The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens and then a sequel to that as well.
2. Do you use good old fashioned pen and paper or your computer?
I use whatever is handy! My preference is to use my laptop for longer pieces but I have oodles of notebook and even napkins with stories on them as well. Lately I've taken to using the notepad function on my phone a lot because it's something that I always have with me. I'm the sort of person who will be out for a walk, at the mall or any place else and will be suddenly struck down by an inspiration. So a common sight had become me pecking away at my cellphone frantically while standing in the middle of the sidewalk or by a clothing rack trying desperately to get my idea/poem/scene down.
3. How did you feel when your writing was first acknowledged?
The first time it was really acknowledged was for the screenplays. A friend of mine had shared some of the stories I had told her with her friends and one of those friends just happened to be a movie producer. He repeatedly asked me to turn some stories into screenplays for him. I laughed at first because I had never written a screenplay and had no clue how to do so. He was persistent and so I went to the library and spent an afternoon taking notes on 'how to write a screenplay'. He was forgiving about my beginner mistakes and I was shocked by how easy a screenplay was to write! That was the beginning of a three movie partnership and a budget that seemed to grow with more investors with every page I wrote! Is that an answer to how I felt? Hmmm, maybe not. I guess you could say that i felt slightly bemused and that predominantly I was just having a really fun time! My feelings could be summed up with: Wheeeeeee!!
4. What are you currently working on?
I have quite a few projects on the go. This year my new year's resolution was to finish an older project for each new one I began so I've been working a lot on short stories started and never ended. I also have several book launches that I am to attend between now and October. There comes a point where promoting takes a lot of writing time up but that's all part of the purpose of getting our stuff out there. I am currently polishing Carnival Fun and Gendler's Landing. The second was written during Nanowrimo and has needed a lot of work polishing to get ready.
5. How did you find writing a chapter for CWC, was it what you expected?
Hmmm, hard question. The first chapter I wrote was the hardest. I felt like I was handling fine crystal that didn't belong to me and that I was scared I would drop it and break it! After the second chapter I had more confidence in not only my capability to handle the metaphorical crystal, but also that what I was handling was a lot more sturdy than I had originally thought. My biggest challenge was overcoming the idea that anyone owned the story any more than I myself had the potential to own my contributions to it. Once I stopped being quite so ecumenical it started to be just about the fun!
6. Where is your favorite place to write, and why?
My favourite place to write is this big huge lazy boy chair. I love to write in It because it's positioned so I can look out the window and watch the trees and the birds. I find that the perfect patterns of nature help my subconscious processes more than anything else. My chair is very wide and I can push it back, lie back, sit up, put my feet on the arm rests or use it as a jungle gym for writing in any number of other ways. It is made from soft soft material that is just cloth but feels like the softest suede and is coloured a tad like buckskin. The back has a sheepskin on it and I like to put my cheek against it while I think or look out the window. I put out bird feeders and in the summer bird baths as well so I have a lot of extremely colourful and cheerful companions when I write. I have it set up perfectly with my favourite stainglass lamp to cast cheerful pretty lights in the evening and a little table to hold coffee, wine or writer snackums and my notepad for supplementary note taking. I usually have an aromatherapy burner going or incense that I feel is evocative or inspirational or just pleasant. It is a simple workstation that brings me pleasures of all the senses.
7. What do you consider your best work to date? Tell us a little about it?
Best is subjective and hard to sort out from the feedback I've received. My favourite piece is 'Gendler's Landing'. It was published in the first 'Tales from Space' anthology from Starklight Press. I have read it to a few different audiences and there are always tears, laughter and at the end a lot of very satisfied applause. The aliens I invented for it are adorable (I want one of them as a stuffed animal soooooo much), intelligent and come from a galaxy without elemental calcium. This last piece about the Gendlers has been a lovely mind puzzle to write and develop and I'm proud of the job I did with them.
8. You have now had chapters selected for all three projects. Congratulations, how do you approach the task at hand, and which story did you enjoy working on most?
Usually I read every note that is sent to me and then sit and stew about it for a couple of days before making my attempt. I find that a lot of my story creation happens on a deeply subconscious level so I have to have faith that my brain will hand me the right story before the deadline comes up. I essentially sit until the eureka miracle happens and then I put my fingers on the keyboard and see how it comes out. A lot of the time I ask for assistance with details of the characters or plots because of both the time lag between reading and writing and also because it's plain old an awful lot to take in, especially later on in the chapters. The people who do the collation of the stories are like gatekeepers who keep the integrity of the stories and characters in tact. There assistance is vital, especially since they are the only ones who have actually read all the chapters!
9. If you could give just once piece of advice to upcoming writers, what would it be?
Just one piece of advice is hard. Fundamentally you need to believe you are a writer. You need to need to write. You need to stop playing the games of doing absolutely anything to distract yourself from writing and just sit down and do it. If you don't believe that what you have to say is important enough to take the time out to say it, then why on earth should anyone else think it's important enough to to listen to you? I know it's only one piece of advice but I'm going to say a second anyway because it's too important not to say: love other writers. Share your love, and support with them and they will do the same for you. Read the writing of other authors. Leave reviews. Not everyone will repay the favour but many will. This will build you a support network of really good writing friends and I guarantee that finding your tribe will increase how much you write and how far your stories travel.
10. What is your preferred Genre to read and write?
My preferred genre is supernatural. That isn't really a genre so I usually say, 'speculative fiction'. Mundane stories are a little boring for me and my mind gusts into magic and supernatural with alarming abandon. I've enjoyed writing Ambition to let my flights of fancy get into the world of spies and intrigue. That's been a fun way to control my urge for extra supernatural to pervade my work.
11. Inspiration point: Write 100 - 300 words using this randomly generated word - Afterlife.
There are so many times when I could have died. Not in a passing way, in a serious and intense way. I was in a coma from chicken pox that my parents were told I would never recover, I lived in sub -40 temperatures for several winters with nothing but the rudest of shelters, I had a miscarriage and nearly bled to death and just last month I was hit bang on by a taxi cab. The funny thing is that as a result of this, I am not afraid of the afterlife. I don't worry about a heaven or hell of reincarnation or about nothingness. Sometimes I think the world we live in is the afterlife. That we are all ghosts here, searching for meaning more in where we have come from than where we are going. Sometimes I wonder if the kiss of death is only to restore us to life. Whatever the case is, whatever the meaning of here is, whatever the meaning of the next life is: I know that the leaves rustle in the trees and that my heart continues to beat and will do so until it is my time to meet the next big adventure. What lies over the horizon of death? What sun will shine on us there? Perhaps it is the same question as where do stories come from? There are other places than here. When I listen to the heartbeat of the universe I hear the words: Have faith. So that's what I do, whatever is after life it is sure to be an enormous adventure and when the time comes for me to leap the penumbra of darkness to what is beyond, my soul will continue to sing.
12. What is your favorite book and why?
This is such a hard question for a reader! It seems to constantly change according to what is happening in my mind and in my life. I go for comfort reading from the works of Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and a few others. I can give you a favourite comfort read from each: Tolkien: The Hobbit. Stephen King: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. C.S. Lewis: The Horse and His Boy (neck in neck with The Magician's Nephew)
By Virginia Carraway Stark
Where did you go
And what are you doing there?
It's a puzzle
It's a riddle
It's a pile of yarn
With loose ends flying
It's not for the faint of heart
Be brave, be bold
But most of all be clever and true
When the baton is passed to you.
All that is asked
Is that you rise to the challenge and do your best
Grab the story with both hands
And tell the truth
Of what you think
Happens next.
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CIPFA took top honours at the 2014 PQ Magazine Awards last night, winning the prestigious Accountancy Body of the Year accolade at the ceremony.
The institute saw off competition from the likes of ACCA, CIMA and ICAEW as the judges highlighted CIPFA's recent innovations and its forward-looking approach, as the main reasons for its success.
The institute's cooperative scheme in Nottinghamshire, its West Midlands finance apprenticeship pilot programme and the repositioning of the institute to a more global focus were all given as reasons for the Accountancy Body of the Year award.
CIPFA Chief Executive, Rob Whiteman, commented:
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Forrest Martin is looking at the same help-wanted listings as all the other Sparrows Point workers, the jobs with wages of $10 an hour, $13, $15. The jobs that could mean a pay cut of half — or more — from his steel mill days.
But Martin, 31, isn't exactly in the same boat as everybody else.
Half of the mill's workers started at Sparrows Point before he was born. Hundreds of its laid-off workers are eligible, if not able, to retire. Martin is part of a smaller group — about 280 of the 1,700 hourly employees — who are in their 20s or 30s and have most of their working lives ahead of them.
It's debatable which group has it worse as a result of the mill's idling — a closure that is in danger of turning permanent. The older workers fear age discrimination as they search for another job. Martin and others his age face the grim possibility of decades of making do with less.
He doesn't mince words: "We're scared to death."
Sparrows Point's closing is a double-whammy for Josh and Angela Polanowski, also in their 30s: They both worked there. Now they and their two children are living on unemployment benefits.
And Jeff Ervin Jr., 31, laid off from the mill along with his father, two brothers and five cousins, is the sole breadwinner for his family of four. He'd like to get training for a new career, but he said his priority is finding work. And soon.
"I can't lose my house and everything else, so I have to get a job," he said.
It is a situation that has been repeated over and over in the course of these workers' lives. Theirs is a generation of contraction in American manufacturing.
Maryland has 89,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than it did in 1990, a 44 percent drop. The problem is particularly pressing for neighborhoods — like many in Baltimore and eastern Baltimore County — where manufacturing offered the principal path to the middle class.
Howard Wial, a nonresident senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, said the sector saw a big wave of job losses nationwide in the 1980s and an even bigger one during the last decade. Offshoring to low-wage countries is a key part of the story.
"Only in the last couple of years has that started to turn around, and the turnaround has been pretty small compared to the losses," said Wial, also director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
It's not too late for the country to make manufacturing a priority and rebuild its industrial base, he said. But in the meantime, the odds are stacked against workers in that sector whose jobs disappear.
"Manufacturing workers who get laid off take a large hit to their pay," Wial said. "And it takes them a long time, if ever, to recover their previous pay and benefits."
Before she landed a job at Sparrows Point eight years ago, Angela Polanowski was a manager at a McDonald's, making about $7.50 an hour. Her husband, Josh, who started at the mill the same year, had earned $12.50 an hour as a machinist.
Ervin had previously worked mostly "odds and ends" jobs, and Martin had made $16 per hour doing home improvement work before being hired at Sparrows Point four years ago.
The mill's last new hires in 2008 started at a minimum of $16.39 an hour with incentives that could push that base wage up to nearly $20. Beyond that, there were quarterly profit-sharing checks under former owners. And overtime could add a lot.
When business was better, Martin often worked 56-hour weeks — sometimes nearly 70. He earned more than $60,000 one year. And he loved the work.
But his hours as a crane operator were so long and uncertain that he and his wife, Lacey, couldn't set the date for their younger daughter's first birthday party until the week before. And his older daughter once declared (at age 2) that he didn't live at home.
"Where do I live?" he asked, amused.
"At work," said Ophelia Martin, now 4.
Thinking of this the other day, he asked her, "Do I live at home now?"
"Yeah," she replied.
The last few months certainly have been a change. Martin's final day at the plant was June 15, when he arrived and almost immediately was told he might as well go home — there was nothing left to be done at the plant's hot mill. Owner RG Steel was idling the entire complex, having workers finish orders without taking more.
RG Steel, the fifth owner of the Baltimore County mill in the past decade, created a New York investment holding company to buy Sparrows Point and other assets in March 2011. Now it's in bankruptcy. The company was done in by problems that included rising prices for raw materials — which account for about 85 percent of a mill's costs — and falling prices for steel.
Martin had been optimistic that Sparrows Point would be sold to another steelmaker and everyone would get back to work. But no steelmaker placed a bid at the Aug. 7 auction.
Workers awoke the next morning, those who slept at all, to the news that the mill had been sold for $72 million to a company that liquidates closed plants. (It was later disclosed that the winning bidder was a redevelopment firm working with the liquidator, which didn't seem any less dire.) The winning bid was less than a tenth of what Sparrows Point had sold for in 2008.
"I was in tears," Martin said. "How could this have happened?"
Now the supplemental unemployment pay from RG Steel is gone. Health benefits ran out Aug. 31. What hope employees have left is focused on the buyers' stated intention to find an operator to restart part or all of the mill, and local union leaders' belief that the key is more time. The auction was held just 10 weeks after RG Steel filed for bankruptcy protection.
Martin and his wife say they are fortunate, relatively speaking. Lacey Martin left her job at the Johns Hopkins Health System in 2010 to stay home with their two daughters but quickly returned after her husband's hours were cut. So they have her salary, and they can switch to her health insurance.
They had moved to his grandparents' former home in 2010 to cut expenses. The one-story house built in the 1930s, now owned by Martin's father, is small and aging, and the couple had hoped to buy a place of their own. They had wanted to be settled before Ophelia starts school next year. Now there's no point in looking, but homelessness at least is off the table.
Even so, the layoff is a wrenching, stressful hardship: less money, more expensive insurance, uncertainty about the near-future. What weighs on them are the much-lower-paying alternatives to Sparrows Point.
Martin, sitting on his couch with photos of happier times on the wall behind him, said he can't seem to shut his mind off at night to get some rest.
"That's the thing about anxiety," said Lacey, 30. "You're always tired, but you can never sleep."
"When I started looking at jobs, I was like, $10 [an hour] for a forklift operator? Really?" Martin said.
"You have to adjust your expectations," Lacey said. "That's what we've been living with the last year, adjusted expectations."
Lower wages aren't the only problem. A new study by the Brookings Institution found that unemployed workers with a high school education or less are locked out of three-quarters of Baltimore-area job openings.
Martin, Ervin and the Polanowskis, like many at Sparrows Point, have high school educations plus largely on-the-job training, and are trying to figure out how to get more education while also paying the bills.
would cover education costs
But there's bad news for those who need to find another job immediately — which is a lot of people, Josh Polanowski says. You generally can't qualify for the training aid after going back to work, according to the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.
Another benefit of the program is a stipend to cover
Scott Wallace, manager of the state labor department's dislocation services unit, noted that some training programs can be finished quickly. Truck driving, for instance. He urged workers to talk to his agency to help sort through the options.
"Everybody's situation is different," he said.
Josh Polanowski is hoping to land a job — he's pursuing a promising one — so his wife can go back to school to learn heating and air-conditioning installation and repair. They're looking for stability, and the profession seems to offer that possibility.
"That field is always going to be there," said Polanowski, 31. "You can ship steel from overseas, but very few air-conditioning people are going to come from over there to install air conditioning in a house. It's more of a certain career."
Martin has deeply mixed feelings about what to do. He would like to get his job back — not just for the pay but for the satisfaction of being part of an operation that helped build huge projects such as the Golden Gate Bridge, and for the camaraderie of a workforce he calls his second family. But he doesn't want to go through further cycles of layoffs and loss. If he finds another job — a good, stable job — he thinks he'd stick with it even if Sparrows Point were to land a new operator.
But if that new owner came in with plans to make big capital improvements, that would be a sign of true change — a signal that the younger workers could stick around for the long haul.
"I don't want to be in the same boat again in two years," Martin said.
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Today I'm excited to share my experience at a Springtime Past Making Class I attended recently at Giovanni Rana Pastificio & Cucina! Located in one of my favorite foodie places, Chelsea Market, Giovanni Rana is a warm and inviting Italian restaurant with a friendly, family vibe:
I was so excited to attend this class – I've made pasta a few times before, but this was my first time making filled pastas. The class was taught by the daughter-in-law of Giovanni Rana himself – engaging and endearing Antonella. She was so welcoming and patient – and she even had an extremely helpful assistant – her 9 year old daughter! The two of them were definitely one of the highlights of the class.
Our workspace was soon to be covered with flour, so I didn't get to take a ton of photos – but hopefully you'll have a glimpse of what this class was all about – we started with flour, eggs, and of course an apron and workcloth:
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There was one hit in a thousand clear misses when it comes to Mother's Day
For half a century, I have failed at getting my mother a thoughtful gift for Mother's Day.
I thought, as I stared at the pitiful condition of her kitchen's screened door, I had found a thing that could not miss. It was not just that the screened door could no longer keep out the flies; I was not altogether certain a turkey buzzard, or a pterodactyl, could not glide through. I headed for the hardware store, but I didn't even make it out of the driveway before my conviction came apart like that raggedy door.
You might think Mother's Day would be easy for me. I have written about her for three decades and should have her figured out. But in all that time, the only truly adequate gift I have given her was two grocery bags full of pork fat, but that is another story. One hit in a thousand clear misses.
I got her a classic, two-tone blue 1956 Chevrolet. She used it as a greenhouse. I got her a house. It had too many light bulbs. I got her another. The driveway is too steep. I got her false teeth. She spit them out in the weeds, just outside Pell City, Alabama.
It all failed. Jewelry is frivolous. Cute stuff and doodads gather dust 12-deep on the windowsills. "How many piggy banks," she asked me once, "does a poor woman need?" Cut flowers sometimes made her sad; live flowers required
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Finally, I decided to sit down with a No. 2 pencil and list the things I knew she enjoyed. This amounted to good coffee, snuff, Westerns, and TV preachers who preach the Full Gospel and have excellent piano players. She is, as we have written here, also fond of mariachis.
I crossed them off one by one. You will pay hell getting a mariachi to do a command performance at the end of our driveway, and I am pretty sure I cannot afford a TV preacher. Westerns, then? I considered DVDs—which she calls "them little round things"—of her favorites, but that would require teaching her to use the DVD player, and there is no time for that, she said, before the Lord comes back.
Snuff, then? And coffee? She said I was wasting money, and it was a sin to waste it on such vices.
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"What do the cats have to do with it?" I said.
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I decided to give her money. I heard she spent it on snuff and coffee.


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His wife, Jean Ann (Malo) Saucier Benoit died Oct. 9, 2007. He leaves a son, Wayne R. Benoit and his wife, Patricia of Spencer; two grandchildren, Christopher and Elizabeth Benoit; a step-daughter, Susan M. Saucier of Millbury; a step-son, Stephen Saucier of Douglas; a step-grandson, Cory D. Saucier of Douglas. He was born in Spencer, son of Alton and Dorothy (Sherby) Benoit.
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(i) The Functionalist Perspective:
The functionalist perspective draws its original inspiration from the work of Herbert Spencer and Durkheim. In the view of functionalists, society is like living organism in which each part of the organism contributes to its survival. Therefore, the functionalist perspective emphasises the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
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Spencer compared societies to living organisms. Any organism has a structure, that is, it consists of number of interrelated parts, such as a head, limbs, heart, blood veins, nervous system, and so on. Each of these parts has a function to play in the life of the total organism.
Spencer further argued that in the same way, a society has a structure, it also further argued that in the same way, a society has a structure, it also consists of interrelated parts, such as the family, religion, state, education, economy, and so on.
Each of these components also has a function that contributes to the overall stability of the social system. Modern structural-functionalism [which is usually referred to as functionalism] does not insist much on the analogy between a society and an organism. However, the general idea of society as a system of interrelated parts, persists even now.
Emile Durkheim's analysis of religion represented a critical contribution to the development of functionalism. Durkheim focused on the role of religion in reinforcing feelings of solidarity and unity within group life.
The work of Durkheim, Max Weber and other European sociologists greatly influenced Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), a Harvard University sociologist. For over four decades, Parsons dominated American sociology with his advocacy of functionalism.
He saw society as a network of connected parts, each of which contributes to the maintenance of the system as a whole. "Under the functionalist approach, if an aspect of social life does not serve some identifiable useful function or promote value consensus among members of a society – it will not be passed on from one generation to the next.
The functionalist theory assumes that society tends to be an organized, stable, well-integrated system, in which most members agree on basic values.
In the functionalist view, a society has an underlying tendency to be in equilibrium or balance. Social change is therefore, believed to be disruptive unless it takes place in a slow and gradual manner. Because changes in one part of the system normally brings about changes elsewhere in the system.
Functionalism presumes that a given element in the social system may have its own functions or dysfunctions. The proper 'functions' add to the stability of the order, whereas the dysfunctions may disrupt the social equilibrium.
Functionalism makes a distinction between 'manifest functions', that is, those that are obvious and intended, and "latent functions ", that is, those that are unrecognized unintended.
An important criticism of the functional perspective is that it tends to be inherently conservative. This theory, it is said, fails to pay sufficient importance to the changes that take place in the system. Further, it is commented that this perspective ignores the element of conflict and its role in the social system.
(ii) The Conflict Perspective:
The conflict perspective derives its strength and support from the work of Karl Marx, who saw the struggle between the social classes as the major fact of history. In contrast to functionalists' emphasis on stability and consensus, conflict sociologists see the social world in continual struggle.
The conflict theorists assume that societies are in a constant state of change, in which conflict is a permanent feature. Conflict does not necessarily imply outright violence. It includes tension, hostility, severe competition, and disagreement over goals and values. Conflict is not deemed here as an occasional event that disturbs the smooth functioning of the system. It is regarded as a constant process and an inevitable part of social life.
Karl Marx viewed struggle between social classes as inevitable because of the exploitation of workers under capitalism. Expanding on Marx's work sociologists and other social scientists has come to see conflict not merely as a class phenomenon but as a part of everyday life in all societies.
Thus in studying any culture, organisation, or social group, sociologists want to know "who benefits, who suffers, and who dominates at the expense of others ". They are concerned with conflicts between women and men, parents and children, cities and villages, rich and the poor, upper castes and the lower castes and so on.
In studying such questions conflict theorists are interested in how society's institutions – including the family, government, religion, education, and the media, may help to maintain the privileges of some groups and keep others in a subservient position.
The conflict perspective dominated the Western European sociology and was largely neglected in American sociology until the sixties. Modern conflict theory, which is associated with such sociologists as C. Wright Mills (1956) and Lewis Coser (1956), does not focus, as Marx did, on class conflict. It sees conflict between many other groups such as the Whites and Negroes, Asians and the Europeans, and so on.
Conflict theorists are primarily concerned with the kinds of changes that conflict can bring about, whereas functionalists look for stability and consensus.
The conflict perspective is viewed as more "radical" and "activist". This is because of its emphasis on social change and redistribution of resources. The functionalist perspective, on the other hand, because of its focus on the stability of society, is generally seen as more "conservative ". At present, the conflict perspective is accepted within the discipline of sociology as one valid way to gain insight into a society.
One important contribution of conflict theory is that it has encouraged sociologists to view society through the eyes of those people who rarely influence decision-making. Example, the Blacks in America and South Africa, the untouchables in India, the Hindu minorities in Pakistan, and so on.
Similarly, feminist scholarship in sociology has helped us to have a better understanding of social behaviour. Thus a family's social standing is also now considered from the woman's point of view and not solely from the husband's position or income. Feminist scholars have also argued for a gender-balanced study of society in which women's experiences and contributions are visible as those of men.
The conflict perspective has its own limitations. It is also criticized. "By focusing so narrowly on issues of competition and change, it fails to come to grips with the more orderly, stable, and less politically controversial aspects of social reality ".
The functionalist and conflict perspectives both analyse society at the macro-level. These approaches attempt to explain society — wide patterns of behaviour. However, many contemporary sociologists are more interested in understanding society as a whole through an examination of social interactions at the micro-level small groups, two friends casually talking with one another, a family, and so forth.
(iii) The interactionist perspective:
This is the integrationist perspective. This perspective generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction. From these generalizations, integrationists seek to
The interactionist perspective in sociology was initially influenced by Max Weber. He had emphasized the importance of understanding the social world from the viewpoint of the individuals who act within it. Later developments in this theory have been strongly influenced by social psychology and by the work of early leaders in the Chicago School of Sociology, particularly George Herbert Mead.
"The interactionist perspective focuses on social behaviour in everyday life. It tries to understand how people create and interpret the situations they experience, and it emphasizes how countless instances of social interaction produce the larger structure of society – government, the economy and other institutions ".
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There was an American Indian ballet dancer who became a slab helper.
There were over 300 Chinese, a large group of Latin Americans, and refugees from Europe.
There was a man whose first name was General, there was one whose first name was Colonel, and there was another whose first name was Baron.
There were ex-convicts who had got shipbuilding training from models in San Quentin.
There was the composer of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," and there was a pie-eating champ who once consumed twenty-six lemon chiffon pies at one sitting.
There were men who were at Midway, Honolulu, Pago Pago, and Surabaya during Japanese attacks.
There was a man who had been torpedoed twice, a man who had spent eleven days in a lifeboat after Japs had sunk his freighter, and a former tail-gunner in a B-24. There was a welder called Miss Weld.
There were retired men who used their past experience in some related craft, and wives who replaced their drafted husbands.
There was a 72-year-old painter with twenty-one sons, step-children and relatives in the armed forces, and a 35-year-old electrical worker who had a son in the Navy.
There were fourteen deaf-mute chipper s in the Plate Shop, and a welder three feet eleven inches tall in the double bottoms.
There were a Mr. Dew and a Mr. Dont.
There were thirty Australian sailors, welding while their ship was being repaired, and fourteen members of one family: father, sons, daughters, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, grandson and granddaughter.
After helping to build the first Mission tanker one worker joined the crew and sailed away with her.
There was the man who reported for work but had to go back home to get his tools—and his home was in Oklahoma.
The man with the shortest name was Mr. Ng, and the man with the longest was Mr. Papachristopulos.
The shipyard personnel included: a scrap-paper baler, a traffic cop, a refrigerator man, label stampers, window washers, a keymaker, a man who recharged flashlight batteries, locomotive engineers, a hard-hat repairer, goggle repairers, a deep-sea diver, a saw filer, a boiler-petcock checker, a fingerprint taker, a rat exterminator.


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Dr. Carol Harle was sworn in as a Northside ISD trustee Tuesday night. She replaces District 6 Trustee Randy Fields, who decided not to run for re-election after serving on the Board since 1999.
"I am honored to serve as a member of such a caring, wise team of leaders," said Dr. Harle, who was sworn in by her husband, Judge Sid Harle. "Collaborative work on behalf of educators, students and their families has been the cornerstone of my life's work and I am excited about the opportunity to work in partnership with the trustees and stakeholders."
Harle graduated from Marshall High School and the University of Texas at Austin before becoming a teacher in both Northside ISD and North East ISD. She worked as an Academic Dean at Rayburn Middle School and as a Staff Development Specialist in the NISD Organizational and Staff Development Department. She also served as an Executive Director for the School Improvement Department in North East ISD and as Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction in San Antonio ISD.
Harle received her Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently the Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction in Harlandale ISD.
Trustees Karen Freeman and Katie Reed also were re-elected and were sworn into office.
For more information about Harle and the other NISD Trustees, please visit the Board of Trustees website.
Dr. Harle was sworn in by her husband, Judge Sid Harle.
Trustee Karen Freeman is sworn in for her third term.
The longest-serving Trustee in Northside, Katie Reed, is sworn in for another term.


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No gnomes this time! When I saw the theme for this week on illustration friday, it was an abstract network that came to my mind.
Here is what I made it with:
- A piece of cardboard from a post package as a "canvas"
- Envelopes that once contained tax returns, a letter from my grandma and whatnot
- Colorful bits from selected pages of catalogues, tracts, museum brochures and recycling instructions. (I keep these organized by colors in a box that's moved with me in three different places. Crazy ?) I chose only mat papers so that I wouldn't get any reflections when taking a picture with the flash.
- Homemade wheatpaste. It has the perfect drying time for this kind of work and it's super efficient.
- Tools: scissors, a scalpel knife and self healing cutting mat. Oh, and washers as circle-drawing guides!


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I was up last night contemplating murder for people in my organization who are trying to thwart my travel plans. It took an hour of reading Neil Turok's The Universe Within to calm me down. Buy the book.
Discussion of Turok's Perimieter Institute and the state of science in Canada is here.
Also, bookmark Astronomy Picture of the Day, from NASA. It will put matters in perspective.
I am reminded of the saying of some German poet (Schiller?) who said that all he wanted for the contented life was a nice little cottage, a happy wife, a set of apple trees at the end of the garden, and all his enemies hanging from their branches. An honest man.


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Active Clubs 129
Active Members 3888
Distinguished Clubs 0
New Clubs 12
- Toastmasters District 20 (D20) is part of Toastmasters International. District 20, which originally consisted of 7 countries in the Middle East, has seen a phenomenal growth over the past few years. In 2017, D20 has been split into two, Bahrain and Kuwait which are two of the original seven countries have become one district retaining the name District 20.
- Currently, in District 20 there are 7 Divisions, 122 clubs & about 2801 members including English & Arabic speaking clubs. There are 55 clubs in Bahrain and 67 clubs in Kuwait.
- Every year, District 20 of Toastmasters International organizes District Annual Toastmasters Conference (D20TAC) in one of the member countries. The participating Toastmasters are the ones that make it through Club contest, Area contest, and Division contests. The winners of the D20TAC will certainly be the 'Best of the Best' and will represent D20 at the International contests.
Khurram Salman District Director
Affiliated with Toastmasters since the past 15 years. Founding President of the Club BEST (Bahrain Elite Speakers Toastmasters). Evaluation Champion Division C, 2015, a Triple Triple Crown Award Winner and the Youngest Distinguished Toastmasters of District 20.
Wafaa Salman Program Quality Director
Learning and Development Manager at Australian College of Kuwait by day, passionate toastmaster by night. A figure that has been twinned with Toastmasters since 2011. She earned her first Distinguished Toastmaster title in 2015 and a second time in 2018. Her leadership quality and willingness to serve members selflessly makes her worthy of her position as a Program Quality Director.
A FIREBRAND and BEAUTY-both inside and out!
Mohamed Saleem Club Growth Director
Just as the creeper counts on sunlight for the direction to grow, and a solid support to latch on to as it does, every club needs a guiding force to give them direction, and a reliable crutch to lean on as they grow. Our Club Growth Director is the perfect amalgamation of WISDOM, PATIENCE, and CLARITY OF VISION that can only come from experience.
He has served the District ever so diligently as a Logistics Manager, and Public Relations Manager in the past. We wait in excitement to see him in action!
Naseema Khan Public Relations Manager
A seasoned speaker, an affable personality, and an assertive go-getter. She possesses all the competencies of a great Public Relations Manager. What sets her apart is her passion for PR and more importantly, Toastmasters.
She has been linked with Toastmasters since 2012 and was the Head of Marketing for District 20 Toastmasters Annual Conference 2018 (D20TAC).
Mary Sharon Admin Manager
Young people aren't the leaders of tomorrow. They are the leaders of today and tomorrow.
Kathy Calvin CEO, UN Foundation
She took her first steps in Toastmasters in 2014, and since then has grown to be a force to reckon with, leaving no opportunity to be a leader unexplored.
Venkata Rao Finance Manager
Money, like emotions, is something that must always be in check so that life goes on smoothly.
Our District Finance Manager for this term is a Chartered Accountant by profession. His Toastmasters journey began in 2016 with ICAB Toastmasters club in Bahrain.
His passion for learning, improving his speaking and leadership skills led him to take up various roles at Club, Area, Division and now Finance Manager at the District level.
Mohamed Makhlouf Immediate Past District Director
He is a man who displayed the true essence of Toastmasters International throughout his tenure through his dedication and sincerity to the members of his district. When one works hard and with utmost passion, results will definitely show. Surely enough, DTM Makhlouf bagged several accolades throughout his toastmasters' journey including Excellence in Program Quality award from Toastmasters International and Division Director of the year award to name a few.
He is Maxillofacial Surgeon by Profession but a true Toastmaster at heart. His zest and his zeal toward leadership make him a role model in the eyes of every toastmaster.
Anil Menon Logistics Manager
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
Tom Peters
Logisticians have one of the most vital roles in any organization. To take up this Herculean challenge, we have someone who is no stranger to logistics, in his career, as well as in Toastmasters. One of the reasons for the par perfection we saw at DTAC 2017, was his magic as Head of Logistics.
Abdulla bu Hamed Head of Arabic Club Affairs
A key player, especially for District 20 officers – The Head of Arabic Clubs Affairs. His journey in Toastmasters International began in 2016. Al Dirwazah Toastmasters Club was his maiden club and became the launch pad for his leap into leadership.
When asked about his goals for this term, he said that he wanted to make the presence and impact of Arabic clubs felt in District 20, and increase the number of good quality Arabic-English bilingual clubs.
Ali Shahbaz Ali Parliamentarian Chairman
The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.
DTM Ali Shahbaz affirms this statement in every speech he delivers.
He served as the District Director for D 20 during 2016-17, when it was the largest district in the world with 19,692 membership payment, 366 Clubs, 88 Areas and 22 Divisions spread across 7 countries.
The epitome of humility.


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Saturday, 21 January 2017
Tea Tourist December Box
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Oh my goodness, this looks like heaven! Looking into Australian alternatives (and how to ship that Scotch Acorn into the country) right now!ReplyDelete
x Jessi
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Oh wow such a great idea! I did not know such a thing existed! Where do I sign up?!! lol The gingerbread chai sounds amazing!ReplyDelete
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I'm thrilled you like the concept, we're relatively new (launched last Nov) but our Tea Discovery Subscription is going down a storm. At the moment we offer a month-to-month subscription (monthly deliveries, pause or cancel anytime) and you can sign up here > www.teatourist.co.uk/join
The gingerbread Chai is awesome and you can get more from Tugboat Brews here > www.tugboatbrews.co.uk/products/gingerbread-chai
Our next Discovery Boxes are due out in Feb - watch this space for more exciting tea adventures :)
I love good artisan tea. So annoyed that I'm not allowed to drink almost any tea at the moment.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 February 2017 at 15:54
My list was the same as yours but completely reversed!!! My favourite by far was the citrus ginger, it was crisp, clean, natural and with a nice fire from the ginger. The scotch acorns was by far my least favourite, though I didn't like either of the rooibos either, all I could taste was the flavouring and they tasted fake and unnatural. The singapore green was far from the favourite green tea I have ever tried, but at least it was pure and natural tea. And I liked the winter spice but found the sage a little overwhelming.ReplyDelete


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This is the Best Time to Get into Playstation Plus
Playstation fanboys out there. In case you didn't already know about this, Playstation Plus is a premium service for owners of Playstation devices, specifically PS3 or PS Vita. And they have having a dual promo right now which you have a little under a week to take advantage.
There is a running promo where if you purchase the 1 year subscription ($49.99), it gives you 3 additional months for free (Promo expires March 4). Great right? Now there is another promo that is running where every $50 you spend for buying whatever in the PS store gets you a $10 rebate next month (Promo until April 1). So all you have to do is buy the subscription then buy something that's worth at least 1 cent, just to make the whole $50, then you get your rebate. This is an incredibly crazy deal. You end up with a cost of less than $3 per month. Insane. For those based in the Philippines, you can
use this process via AMEX GCash to try and purchase credit for your PSN account.
Playstation plus is a premium service where, as long as you're subscribed, you get additional services from the Playstation Network. I've been subscribed since 2011 and I've never regretted it. Some examples of the perks you get are:
Free games – Not just 1 or 2, I'm talking like 20-30 games to date. They give these away twice a month. And as long as you stay being a subscriber, you get to keep the games. Of course, to maximize this you need to own devices within their ecosystem like the PS3, PS Vita and the upcoming PS4. If you weren't a member when a specific game comes and goes in the free list, then you don't get it any more. The thing here is that you never actually know what they're giving away. So sometimes the games on the list I already own. Sony claims that last year the free stuff they gave away was around $2,472 in value. Some of those games were Little Big Planet 2, Darksiders, Back to the future (Full season), Super street fighter 4, NBA Jam, Plants vs Zombies, Scott pilgrim, Vanquish, Infamouse 2, Trine, Far Cry... the list goes on.
Discounts – On top of some of the discounts on the games being sold, there usually is an additional discount for PS Plus users.
Early Access to games/demos – Pretty straightforward. You usually get 1 or 2 weeks access earlier to some stuff that you can brag about.
Cloud saves – This is one of the best ones. You get to pick which game save files you want to save in the PS cloud. Now I wish this feature was there a few years back when my old PS3 conked out. Now you can rest easy with the thought that your save games are "safe". For those who think this is a dumb feature and say "why not just save on a USB stick?".. Well you can. But 2 things: 1. that is too much work and 2. There are certain games that will not allow you to save on a USB stick since some people might use that to cheat in getting easy trophies.
Auto-updates – You schedule what time of day and your PS3 turns on by itself and checks for any of your games that have pending updates and downloads/installs them all. This includes system patches as well as cloud saves.
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Although Paris is a very walkable city, you may sometimes be feeling a little lazy, the weather may be poor or you may just want to venture outside the centre. In these cases, your first port of call when it comes to transport should be the Paris Metro.
There are over 300 stations being serviced by 16 Metro lines, so exploring the city on the subway is super easy!
Most lines run from 5.30am to 12.30am Monday – Friday, with weekends keeping lines running until 2.15am. Departure times of the first and last trains differ with each station during these times. But if in doubt, there is a chart on the wall of every station (either at the station entrance or on the platform) listing the departure times for both the first and last trains leaving that particular station.
Insider Tip: the RER trains look similar to the Metro, but it is actually a different train system. If you decide to travel further into France from Paris, then this would likely be via the RER trains. But if staying inside Paris only, it's the Metro you want. The Metro stations will either have a large M over the entrance, or be called Metro or Métropolitain.
Purchasing Metro Tickets & Ticket Types
There are a number of tickets available to purchase, including single use tickets, books of multiple tickets, day passes, multi-day passes, weekly passes, you name it. To keep us all on the same page, tickets that are purchased individually are called un billet in French, whereas books of tickets are known as un carnet.
But which is the most cost effective?
The books of tickets (carnets) allow you to use the Metro and buses around Paris within zones 1-3. Books of tickets offer limited journeys (ie 10 or 20) and they are actually much cheaper than buying individual tickets.
There is also the Paris city pass (Paris Visite) on offer, which may help keep costs down with unlimited travel included in the price. It's possible to get a pass from 1 to 5 days. Not only can you use unlimited transport, but you'll also receive discounted entry to some museums and attractions too. These include: Centre Pompidou, Versailles Palace and the Notre Dame towers to name just a few.
My Advice: If you plan on using the Metro a lot each day, then the Paris Visite pass would be the best option. But if you choose to walk to most places with only getting a couple of Metros here and there, then a book of tickets would be best instead.
You should ensure that your ticket type is for the correct zone. This is easy to do as the Paris Metro is contained entirely in zones 1 and 2, except the La Défense station, which is zone 3. You'll likely find that most tickets are for zones 1-3 only, but if you need to head out further, then this will take you into new zones. For instance, Charles de Gaulle airport is in zone 5 and Versailles is in zone 4.
Whichever ticket you decide to choose, you can buy them in advance or on the day via ticket machines at the Gare du Nord station, Charles de Gaulle Airport and other major stations.
One word of caution: beware of scams! In some stations, there are people who try to con unsuspecting travellers. The ticket machines really are super easy to use, and have a variety of language settings. But some will try to convince you that the machines are difficult or confusing to use – do not listen to them!
Major Paris Landmarks & Metro Stations
When keeping things slick and stress-free during your travel around Paris, it makes sense to find Metro stations near to your hotel and chosen landmarks ahead of your trip. This prevents you from having to spend valuable sightseeing time on planning journeys whilst you're in the city.
Even if you wish to walk to most places, you'll never know when you will become tired or need to hop on a Metro rather than walk. And in aid of keeping things super simple for you, here are the closest stations to each major landmark in the city, plus which Metro lines they are accessible via:
- Eiffel Tower: Bir-Hakeim (line 6)
- Arc de Triomphe: Charles de Gaulle Étoile (lines 1, 2 and 6)
- Champs-Elysees: George V (line 1), Franklin D Roosevelt (lines 1 and 9) or Champs-Elysees-Clemenceau (lines 1 and 13)
- Louvre: Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre (lines 1 and 7) or Louvre-Rivoli (line 1)
- Sacre Coeur: Anvers (line 2)
- Notre Dame: Cité (line 4)
- Jardin du Luxembourg: St-Sulpice (line 4), Rennes (line 12) or Notre Dames des Champs (line 12)
When it comes to the Metro, the lines are all colour-coded and numbered, keeping things nice and simple. Each line travels in two separate directions, which is indicated by the start and end stations on each line. For instance, when looking from left to right on the Metro map, line 1 starts in La Défense and ends in Château de Vincennes.
There are also some stations that serve more than one line, whereas some stations serve just one Metro line only. On the map, it's super easy to spot those stations operating on more than one line, as they show a white circle or oval shape across all of the lines running through that station.
Take main station Châtelet for example: this station serves lines 1, 7, 11 and 14, which is shown by a white oval shape across the coloured lines. The brown dot inside the circle simply indicates that it is also the start or end point of a line (in this case, line 11).
This is all useful to know as it allows you to plan your route, ensuring you're heading to stations that are serving the lines you need to use.
When understanding the Paris Metro for the first time, I find it pays well to make notes of example journeys you plan on taking using the Metro.
Take this example for instance:
Say your hotel is located in the 19th arrondissement near to the Belleville station, and you wish to head to the Louvre for some chic art. In order to get there, you would need to hop onto line 11 at Belleville, in the direction of Châtelet. You would need to head all the way to Châtelet, and then change to line 7 and finally get off at either Louvre Rivoli or Palais Royal Musée du Louvre.
I'd recommend planning a journey like this (and writing it down) for the common journeys you'll need to take, or the main journeys you'll be taking on each day. If you travel with a journal or guidebook with all of this written down, then it will definitely help shave minutes from each day.
Super Speedy French Language Guide
Despite most people speaking perfect English in Paris; when travelling to anywhere new, it pays to have at least a few words in your arsenal in case you do need them:
Hello: Bonjour
Goodbye: Au revoir
Thank you: Merci
Please: S'il vous plaît
Sorry: Pardon
Excuse me: Excusez-moi
Entrance: Entrée
Exit: Sortie
Left: La gauche
Right: Droite
Metro Ticket: Un billet
Book of Tickets: Un carnet
Metro Safety Advice
Although the Metro trains and stations are fairly safe, it pays to be on the lookout for pickpockets (as within any city). Ensure your bag, pockets and valuables are in your sight at all times.
Also, there may occasionally be con artists inside some Metro stations. Despite the ticket machines being easy to use with a number of different language settings, some will try to convince you that the machines are difficult or confusing to use. Do not listen to them! They are simply trying to whittle money from unsuspecting travellers.
Unspoken Rules of the Paris Metro
In large cities, there are always unspoken rules (especially when it comes to public transport). Here are just a few things to bear in mind when using the Paris Metro:
- When Metro doors open, stand to one side. This allows people to get off the train first, then you can get on.
- If the trains are busy, make your way as far back as you can go so that others can board the train without any delays.
- Stand on the right on escalators as people running up and down them will do so on the left. Don't be that person who gets in their way!
- Paris Metros are very quiet, so avoid talking loudly on your phone or playing loud music. People are here for a quiet, hasslefree commute.
- If you spot performances on the trains or in the stations, then avoid watching unless you want to be pestered for money afterwards.
You should now be well equipped to work with the Paris Metro on your trip – enjoy! Where are you most excited to see in Paris first? Let me know in the comments section below…
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Featured Tattoo Designer: Hector Guma Jr.
October 9th, 2013
This week our spotlight is on one of our many talented artists, Hector Guma Jr.
Hector is a professional artist who was born and raised in New York city. According to Hector, he fell in love with drawing when he was only 6 years old. His grandfather was a well known painter from Puerto Rico and a left-hand artist just like Hector. As a teenager, Hector attended an art school for gifted teenagers called Art and design H.S in New York and continued his passion in art in many mediums from acrylic oil to water colors. Hector's favorite style that he enjoys doing the most is photo realism and fantasy art. Hector loves challenges!
As a young adult, he attended the art college called F.I.T(Fashion Institute of Technology) from where he received a degree in illustration. At the age of 24, he met a local tattooist from Brooklyn New York by the name of Larry Rotundo who was a tattoo veteran with almost 30 years of experience. Hector trained under him for about two years in tattooing and after his apprenticeship, Larry told Hector that he was a gifted artist and had a natural flair for tattooing.
Inspired, Hector moved on in his tattooing career and created his own collection of flash designs and more. He now has 17 years of tattooing experience and his work was featured in Urban Ink magazine's tattoo revue, skin art, envy, and more. He insists that his true passion is art and making his clients happy with every unique drawing he creates for them.
Hector currently owns a reputable tattoo shop in Cartersville, Georgia for 12 years now and is still going strong due to the support of his loyal clients and friends.
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