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Over the 12 months been on putting health at the top I have lost a total of 150 kilos and have gone from looking like a 50 year old to looking 37 years old says one of my friends she asked me my age I am 44 years old
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The October of 2017 was when My life changed.
I made the huge step of telling my family that I was gay.
Their love and acceptance of me made me realise that my life was worth living and I knew I had to make some big changes. I wanted a different life.
I was trapped by my body. A trap I had created for myself. I wanted to be free.
I had let myself down, I had let my body done. How was I going to change my life whilst I was lugging around probably 300 kg of extra weight?
My family and I moved into a new house and I started looking into weight-loss programs. I had tried them all before, nothing had ever worked but i was determined that this time with the right plan and the right head space I would succeed.
For the first time I started talking to people about dieting and one of my Aunties gave the name of a lady who was a mentor for Ph@tt, the Putting Health At The Top gut healing program.
I was added to the Healthy Living support group. I spent a few days reading people's story's of amazing weight loss experiences. Of people, who were just like me, joining this program and changing their lives.
But could I actually change my life too? Everything I had ever done in my life had been a failure. I was filled with doubts.
Behind my doubts was this overwhelming need to save my life. My need for change.
My need for good health and happiness.
My sister agreed to buy the first lot of supplements and together we studied the program. It was different to any other diet I had ever seen, or tried. It wasn't about starving, or shakes or herbal teas. It was simple, easy to understand and lots of good, healthy food.
As I waited for my products to arrive I took some time out for myself to find my why.
Why did I want this? Why did I need to lose weight? Why did I want change?
I decided that this was it. I was going to do this. I was going to win.
I was going to escape the chains of my body and give my body what it deserved.
I knew then my mindset was right and I was going to win.
I started ph@tt on the 3/12/2017, I didn't know my exact weight.
I knew I was over 300 kg, that's as high as the scales went.
Straight away I started to feel better, the weight fell off me.
My poor body wanted this as much as I did and was more than ready to shed the fat.
I could not believe how easy it was. From day one I had no problems at all, except for my pants falling down.
Today I have lost over 150 kg and I feel fantastic.
I walk every day and I have met so many wonderful people. My new ph@tt family.
The day I came out as gay changed my life and this program has made all the difference.
I know who I am. I no longer hide behind layers of fat. I have self-worth in all areas of my life. I have value.
If you are also trapped in you body please know that with the right mindset and ph@tt you can also be free.
Believe in yourself, find you why and be free


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The Islamic sect being evacuated
No fewer than 240 members of a radical and controversial Islamic sect were yesterday, June 4 evacuated from their camp by the joint military group led by Lt. Col Adamu Yakubu.
The sect, Nibrassiya Huda Islamic Sect made up of mostly young men and women were dislodged from their houses in a forest in Chechei, Lapai Local Government Area in Niger State and about 40 thatched roof houses built of straws and new buildings were demolished.
The sect under the leadership of of Sheik Mohammed Abubakar, had been at loggerheads with members of the public and the traditional ruler of the town, Etsu Lapai, Alhaji Umar Bago Tafida, who accused the leader of the sect of teaching and propagating wrong doctrines that have no root in Islam.
Members of the group were also accused of causing trouble, attacking people who do not share their views, engaging in promiscuous activities, conducting forced marriages which they also dissolve at will and they also allegedly see other Muslims as not well informed as they are.
Their problem started on May 13, when the government of Niger State revoked the Certificate of Occupancy of the land where the camp was situated and giving the sect members two weeks notice to move out, following complaints by the public that the sect was using the place to train terrorists but the members ignored the government.
Yesterday, the military troop swung into action and evacuated the sect members from the camp, moving them to their local government areas except for two members who were said to have hailed from Kwara State.
However, the leader of the sect, Mohammed Abubakar debunked all the allegations against them, saying the group had come together only for the purpose of learning more of Islam and without any other motive and they have never engaged in illegal activities.
Meanwhile, the Etsu Lapai, Alhaji Umaru Bago Tafida, commended the action of the state government in dislodging the group, saying "if no action is taken now, the sect will grow to become a terror that will consume all."
The Niger State Jumaat Imams Forum had sometime in April raised an alarm over the spring up of Boko Haram look-alike Islamic group in Bida, Niger State, which according to them is capable of impeaching the peace of the state


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Making big words
This instructional strategy requires students to use a given set of letters to make words. The teacher chooses one big word as a 'mystery word' and gives students the vowels and consonants that make up the word (in scrambled order). Students must create as many words as they can that are 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 or more letters long. The challenge can be to create as many total words as possible, as many 6-letter words as possible, etc. Students also try to find the 'mystery word' that uses all the letters.
I used this strategy often during practicum to provide extra phonics and spelling practice for the grade 6 extended students. The students worked individually on the activity, and they generally worked for 30-40 minutes before comparing words with classmates. It was an effective strategy for finding patterns in words and getting students actively involved in a manipulative spelling activity!
Cunningham PM, Hall DP, Heggie T. (2001). Making big words: multilevel, hands-on spelling and phonics activities. New York, NY: Good Apple.


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Style, Music & a Little Bit of Story - How Atomic Blonde, Baby Driver & Dunkirk Work/
I recently saw three movies that are vying for box office dollar, and each have had varying success, both in dollars and in praise. I try not to know too much about a movie before I see it, this includes the trailers, as they give away so much, and reviews, which gives away everything. It is, of course, impossible not to know something, even if it is just the general thumbs up or down of the vast tidal wave of opinions and click bait headlines. The films were Atomic Blonde, Dunkirk and Baby Driver. All three movies are technically brilliant and stylish variations of their genre. The combination of music, editing, visuals and action have elevated each of these movies and have earned them various levels of praise, ranging from begrudging to worshipful. Definitely worshipful for established directors Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk) and Edgar Wright (Baby Driver). However, for Atomic Blonde, the praise for the fantastically brutal fight scenes is rightfully inclusive of Theron's execution of the scenes as well as the director, David Leitch. Acknowledgement of collaboration in creativity is a little bit more palatable than laying down platitudes at the feet of 'auteurs', in my opinion.
I enjoyed each of the movies, but I only want to watch Atomic Blonde again in its entirety. So I asked myself why? Why not the early Oscar frontrunner, Dunkirk, or the musical by any other name, Baby Driver? I really do love musicals. Nothing makes me happier than an effective use of music in storytelling. Baby Driver is ALL this. The artists featured in this film will definitely get a bump in sales and we will definitely be seeing many pale imitations of Edgar Wright's mix of car chase filming and editing. I will be re-watching these key scenes again on youtube, in gif form and ultimately as memes for many years to come.
The score in Dunkirk, by Hans Zimmer, is excellent. Again. How it is used to enhance the feeling of the scene reminds me of the music in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival. Atomic Blonde's setting in Berlin, 1989, gives the movie great Euro synth pop from the mid to late 1980s. The music is not used as stylishly as Baby Driver, but it will definitely make for a great soundtrack. But what gives Atomic Blonde the edge for me is two things, one has divided audiences and one has not.
Let me start with the 'not'. Charlize Theron is so awesome in this movie. She brings gravitas and charisma to this role and you can see what it means to have someone who is a great actor bringing their A game. Not that the actors in the other two movies are not good, but they do not own the screen the way she does. James McAvoy and Sofia Boutella are also great. Dunkirk deliberately gives you the situation over the individual for the majority of the film, anchoring its information dumps and emotional beats with British thespians. Read Vulture's helpful tips for telling the white young men with short brown hair apart. As for Baby Driver, only Lily James makes the very most of her paper thin role. The good people at Pop Culture Happy Hour put it best when they discuss the possible alternative casting of Baby.
Any fairy tale can be sold by keeping the plot points true to the rules of the world that has been created, something I do not think is done by Baby Driver. Character decisions are driven by plot, just look at Jamie Foxx's character (can't even remember his name). Being 'crazy' or 'psychotic' is not enough. And I am still asking why Deborah would want to run off with Baby. In this she is just the dream girl, minus the manic pixie part.
Back to the dividing element of Atomic Blonde. The story. It worked for me as the characters were well-rounded and their decisions understandable. However, some found it either boring, too much Le Carre and not enough John Wick; or too convoluted, too much Le Carre and not enough James Bond. Either way, it really does depend on how much you like John Le Carre or the plot of the original graphic novel, The Coldest City.
Go and see each film and decide for yourself.


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Last week, we reported that the Japan Sumo Association had come up with a solution to improve communication by handing out iPads. It seems the problem was the sumo wrestlers were challenged by using their big fingers on small keyboards. Unfortunately, the rest of us can't simply buy an iPad to improve our accuracy with typing or texting, but now there's an easier solution.
Larry Carswell of Georgia has created Textees. Textees slip over your thumbs or fingers to improve accuracy when typing on a phone's keypad or touchscreen thanks to a small rubber head on the end of the product. Textees are sold as a pair and come in two sizes (except for pink) and six colors including black, silver, green, red, blue and pink.
A commercial selling the Textees began running on Comcast cable first in Atlanta followed by Chicago, Jacksonville and Ft. Lauderdale/Miami just this week. I will warn you before watching that the song will stick in your head.
If you're interested in getting a pair you can order online or by calling 1-888-798-2112. They retail for $12.95 plus shipping and handling.
Read more at the Textees website.


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Now Hiring: ADMINISTRATOR
Attached PDF file has the posting.
2018 Entries & scheduling Completed
Expect program to be posted shortly.
Join Us March 13-19
The adjudicators and venues are booked, the participants are scheduled, the program is online!! Join us the week of March 13-19 for the Parkland Music Festival. Sessions are happening in Spruce Grove and Stony Plain Monday-Saturday, March 13-18 with the Gala concert on Sunday, March 19 at 7:00pm. All sessions are free to the public.
2017 Festival
The 2017 Parkland Music Festival is right around the corner. Join us in our 26th year!!
Entries Are In!!
It is hard to believe but February 1 has already come and gone!! Entries have flooded in our fantastic entry secretary, Carmen, is now in the midst of entering all of the information. This is an exciting time for the committee and we are looking forward to start scheduling in a week or so. Our hope is that this will be the best Parkland Music Festival yet.If you would like to support the festival, either by donation or by volunteering, please contact the appropriate individual on our contact page. As well, all questions and comments can be sent to our Chairperson as he is happy to direct them where they need to go. Stay tuned for a schedule in the coming weeks!!
2015 Planning is Underway!
We are already gearing up for a fantastic 2015 music festival. In the next month or so, the syllabus will be online. The entry form is updated and ready to go and we are thrilled to have the following disciplines in 2015: Voice, Piano, Guitar, Strings, Choir, Band, Brass, and Woodwind. Keep an eye on our adjudicator page as bios will continue to appear.
Another Festival Come and Gone!
Well, we just wrapped up the 2014 festival with a very successful Gala concert. What a wonderful night of performances! Congrats to all the students of music who participated in our largest festival to date.
2013 Program
The 2013 Parkland Music Festival program is online and available for download. Check it out under the "Program" tab! As you can see, we have a full festival this year and we could not be more excited. Come join us for as many sessions as you can!
Entries Are In!!
Well, March has quickly come upon us and all of the entries have now been received. Carmen has done a ton of scheduling and letters are going out today!! We have a huge increase in voice entries so we will be adding Thursday morning and afternoon sessions for voice performers. This is the best problem for a festival to experience :-)
The program is underway and we will have it online towards the end of March. Thank you again for your entries and we look forward to another fantastic Parkland Music Festival!!
RJ Chambers
New Classes
In addition to Band, Woodwind, School Woodwind, and School Vocal classes, we will also be adding Composition classes to the 2013 festival! Entry fees are listed for all classes (see "Entry Fees" tab) and the full Parkland Music Festival Syllabus will be online by this weekend.
Please continue to check back for further updates :-)
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We had initially planned on doing Cartagena on our own. We did not have a ship excursion booked up until the night before. We talked to a few people who said that they felt a lot safer on a ship excursion. After looking at the cost of a taxi and the ship excursion we decided the $20 difference was well worth being on a ship excursion for the peace of mind. I have to say I am so glad we were on an excursion. Cartagena is a busy city with people everywhere.
On our way out of the port area into town the bus we were in was hit by a taxi cab. There was not much damage but I was so reassured that we were on a boat excursion and not in the taxi cab. Cartagena is a city filled with scooters, donkey carts, and so many cars. This is not a city I would want to drive in. Just sitting in the bus watching the cars go by was an adventure.
Our tour included a guided walk through the old city and then time on our own for shopping and wandering. This was the perfect tour for us. Our tour guide led us through an hour long tour of the city. We were able to see the main sites and get comfortable in the area.
As soon as we stepped off the bus we were "greeted" by peddlers and people selling a bit of everything. I bought John a super cool hat from the first person we talked with. One thing to note is that you have the opportunity to barter in Cartagena with the street vendors. The vendor initially offered me $25 for John's hat. I was able to barter him down to $10. We were both happy with the price and I really like john's hat.
Bartering can be a bit overwhelming the first time you do it. The street vendors in Cartagena were really fun to barter with. I did not feel a lot of pressure from them. I ended up laughing with them and having a great time. If you do not want to purchase something you can say No thank you and they are happy to move on to the next person. If you show interest in a product they are going to show you everything they have in hopes of you buying something.
The old city in Cartagena is beautiful! It is filled with gorgeous old buildings, open squares and colorful people watching. You see a little bit of everything while walking through town. I did not feel uncomfortable walking through town but I was glad there were guides from the tour company available. It was reassuring to have someone to ask questions to and know that they were familiar with the area.
There were city police officers on almost every corner of the Old City. There were police cars driving through town and a large police presence. We were told prior to leaving the boat that we needed to be careful of pick pockets and offers of illegal drugs. The country has done a lot to make the city as safe as possible for tourists. Even with the police presence I felt better being on a ship excursion. The Old City is a maze of tiny streets and alleyways. I am pretty sure I would have been lost within a couple of blocks trying to find our way out.
I am so glad we did not let the warnings about the city deter us from visiting. We had an unbelievable time visiting Cartagena. The city is absolutely amazing. You are transported back in time and really get to see a city unlike anything we have in Spokane.
Here are a few more of our favorite photos from Cartagena
Are you traveling on a cruise ship to Cartagena? We loved the Cartagena Cruise Terminal. One of our favorite spots on our Panama Canal Cruise.


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MILWAUKEE — When two financiers purchased the Milwaukee Bucks for $550 million last April, they promised to pour not only money and new management into the moribund franchise, but also the same kind of creative and critical thinking that had helped make them hedge fund billionaires.
It was not enough to increase the franchise's sales force or beef up the team's analytics department — the Bucks were looking for a more elusive edge. So in May, the team hired Dan Hill, a facial coding expert who reads the faces of college prospects and N.B.A. players to determine if they have the right emotional attributes to help the Bucks.
The approach may sound like palm reading to some, but the Bucks were so impressed with Hill's work before the 2014 draft that they retained him to analyze their players and team chemistry throughout this season.
With the tenets of "Moneyball" now employed in the front offices of every major sport, perhaps it was inevitable that professional teams would turn to emotion metrics and neuroscience tools to try to gain an edge in evaluating players.
"We spend quite a bit of time evaluating the players as basketball players and analytically," said David Morway, Milwaukee's assistant general manager, who works for the owners Wesley Edens and Marc Lasry. "But the difficult piece of the puzzle is the psychological side of it, and not only psychological, character and personality issues, but also team chemistry issues."
Hill contends that faces betray our true emotions and can predict intentions, decisions and actions. He employs the psychologist Paul Ekman's widely accepted FACS, or Facial Action Coding System, to decipher which of the 43 muscles in the face are working at any moment. Seven core emotions are identified: happiness, surprise, contempt, disgust, sadness, anger and fear.
Before the 2014 draft, Hill spent 10 hours with Milwaukee's team psychologist, Ramel Smith, watching video of various college prospects and picking apart the psyches of potential picks. The Bucks had the No. 2 selection over all as well as three second-round picks, one of which they traded.
A vexing player at the top of the draft was Dante Exum, a point guard from Australia who was projected to be taken among the top four selections. Smith had done player personality analyses but wanted to validate them by having Hill present his player assessments first. The Bucks selected Jabari Parker with their top pick, and Exum fell to Utah at No. 5.
What Expressions Can Say About a Player
Many sports teams have adopted advanced data analytics to help determine a player's athletic abilities and value. And now, some are taking it a step further — trying to analyze the psychological aspects of the players as well.
"Nothing against Exum, but emotional resiliency, stability and an immediate, assured presence were all key considerations in support of selecting Parker," Hill said.
Until he sustained a severe knee injury on Dec. 15, Parker was among the leading candidates for Rookie of the Year honors, averaging 12.3 points and 5.5 rebounds. Exum is averaging 4.9 points and 2.0 assists coming off the bench for the Jazz.
Smith said he felt that if Hill's facial-coding analysis could be so effective in such a short time, his skills would be even more useful when he was given more time to assess players and work with the organization. "I wanted him to be our secret weapon," Smith said.
But is such facial analysis truly effective? Martha Farah, a cognitive neuroscientist and director of the Center for Neuroscience & Society at the University of Pennsylvania, said she was skeptical about its applications in sports.
"To me the big question is, how well does the method actually work?" she said in an email interview. "It's not easy to get good evidence, because a player's performance and teamwork are complex outcomes, and the teams are not run like clinical trials, with coaches and managers blind to the facial coding findings and so forth. So it's hard to know whether this system works well, gives some marginal benefit or does nothing at all."
Hill has done facial analysis for 16 years, mostly for companies developing advertising campaigns or new products. He said his analysis is especially useful with focus groups whose members are often unwilling to speak frankly or have trouble conveying their true opinions.
"I look for quick, micro-expressions and instances of the say/feel gap — said this, but felt that — to guard clients against what I call speed bumps: hidden objections that keep a person from buying, if not recognized and addressed," Hill said.
Hill said he was inspired to take his work into sports after observing "profound sadness" in the face of Rafael Nadal soon before he lost the 2008 United States Open semifinal match to Andy Murray. The epiphany convinced Hill he could help teams find the "heart of a champion" by predicting and improving performance through facial coding.
Hill measures the players on the seven emotions and categorizes smiles, for example, four ways: true, robust, weak and micro. Consider Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook. According to Hill, Westbrook shows a high number of weak smiles or "satisfaction," and enough "true" smiles, which equate to "joy" and contribute to what has been a highly effective season — averages of 28.6 points and 7.4 assists per game.
Football players are more difficult to assess because their expressions are obscured by a helmet's face mask. Basketball is more suitable because players are exposed and there are fewer of them. Still, Jeff Foster, who runs the N.F.L.'s scouting combine, used Hill in 2011 to evaluate top prospects. He said Hill had a "master gift" for uncovering a football player's emotional DNA.
Foster invited Hill to modify a set of questions posed to players. One of the queries Hill proposed was, "How would your mom describe you?" It is not the players' verbal answer that matters, but rather their facial gestures when responding.
"Actions speak louder than words and are a more natural medium for players who excel in getting in the zone and acting intuitively with great speed and skill," Hill said. "Verbal dexterity — including in the interview — is a nice-to-have, not a must-have. Besides, it might serve as camouflage."
Foster said he believed that Hill's services could be most useful for teams considering quarterbacks and safeties with high draft picks. Players at those positions require unusual leadership and cerebral traits that are notably hard to project.
"Dan has created an interesting emotional profile model to correlate the emotions he observes to characteristics that are important to an individual's success," Foster said in an email. "I believe his insights could be valuable in helping teams understand an athlete's emotional makeup and provide implications for how he may perform, both on and off the field."
Mike Leach, Washington State's football coach, had Hill evaluate his team before the 2012 season — his first there — in an effort to understand the kind of players he had inherited and what motivational tactics they might best respond to.
Leach lamented that coaches were overwhelmed with too much data that could lead to overthinking and indecision. But Hill's facial coding, he said, could break through the noise. "Someday Dan will be able to get hard data linking the face to on-the-field performance, and I don't want to miss that," Leach said in a telephone interview.
Hill has worked with a few other teams, but the use of facial coding in sports is hardly widespread. Its acceptance may rest on the success of the Bucks.
If you want to be creative, Smith, the Bucks' psychologist, said, "you have to be willing to be ridiculed." "People laugh until they see results."


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Hi guys!
Foundation review time! Been a while since I've done one. I actually stopped trying out a ton of foundations like I used to because Im trying to finish up what I have. Always hoped that one day I'll find my holy grail foundation and I finally found it; the Clinique Beyond Perfecting Foundation + Concealer!!! I'm so excited. For reference, my skin is oily combo acne prone.
This is not a new launch and I actually have seen this around but never felt like I wanted to try it because honestly, Clinique is a brand that I'm never drawn to until now. I saw a couple of YouTubers raveee bout this foundation and I decided to finally try it. I went to the Clinique counter in Parkson KLCC and I asked for a sample (I'm in the shade 64 Cream Beige). After trying it for the first time, I knew I had to get it.
- Overall review:
The foundation looks like a large concealer tube with a doe foot applicator. I dont mind the packaging although some said its pretty unhygienic to keep putting back the applicator into the tube after every use but its fine with me. When my skin is good, I apply it directly onto my face and when my skin is acting up, I apply it on the back of my hand first to avoid cross contamination. Also, this packaging does not get messy and its ideal for travelling.
The consistency of this foundation is a little thick but the amazing thing is, it does not feel heavy AT ALL. It feels really light and comfortable on my skin and does not break me out. I use this foundation as both a foundation and a concealer as the name suggests. It is FULL coverage too which I LOVEEEE. I apply one full layer on my entire face and spot conceal on the face, where I need to. I use a separate under eye concealer because I want that area to be lighter than the foundation but this works under the eyes beautifully.
This foundation is just perfect for my skin. It has a healthy finish before setting with powder but I always set my foundation for the longevity and it looks amazing even after setting with powder. Does not look heavy or cakey. It lasts all day on my skin, controls my oil like no other foundation, and it looks beautiful even at the end of the day.
Also, the price point is another thing that makes me happy bout this foundation. It's RM142 and I think that is a fair price because I do use it as a foundation and concealer and I have used other expensive foundations that doesn't come close to this one. I would pay much more for this.
This is a foundation that I will definitely repurchase because I dont have to mix it with other foundations to make it look pretty, it's everything I want in a liquid foundation and it's even a great concealer! I'm kicking myself for not trying this sooner :p
I hope this review helps you if you're considering on getting a new foundation. You can always ask for a sample first before buying the whole bottle 🙂 Thank you for reading guys xx


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More than £700,000 of Euro cash is to be spent finding out why yoghurt goes runny. British university researchers who have been handed the £720,000 European Union grant will spend three years trying to develop a creamy consistency without using additives.
(The Express, 22 January 1999, p29; The Evening Standard, 21 January 1999, p4; The Telegraph, 22 January 1999, p9)
A team lead by scientists at Huddersfield University, will work with colleagues in Belgium, France, Norway and Sweden to develop bio-friendly organisms, such as lactic acid bacteria, to naturally thicken custards, frozen desserts along with other fermented dairy products including yoghurts. St Ivel, the dairy product manufacturer in Britain and Rhone Poulenc/Rhodia in France will also be involved in the research. Artificial substances and gelatins made from cattle bones are frequently used to thicken these products at present. Researchers will meet regularly and will report back to the European Commission who will monitor their progress. It is hoped the end result will be a cheaper and more natural product.


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Sidelines with John Clay
BBL: New UK football commit; USA keeps winning; Patrick Patterson's new deal
Big Blue Links for Wednesday:
Highly-touted linebacker Xavier Peters picks Kentucky, reports Ben Roberts of the Herald-Leader. "A look at the list of scholarship offers that Xavier Peters has accumulated over the past few months is enough to justify his status as one of Kentucky's biggest additions for the class of 2018. Peters — a 6-foot-4, 225-pound outside linebacker from West Chester, Ohio — announced his commitment to the Wildcats on Tuesday, giving a UK a major recruiting victory over some of the top college programs in the country."
John Calipari's USA team beats Italy to win group play, reports the Herald-Leader. "The United States, coached by John Calipari, won Group D with a 3-0 record, posting victories over Iran, Angola and Italy. All 16 teams in the World Cup advance to the single-elimination round of 16 beginning Wednesday. Group play was used to establish seeding. The United States will take on Mali, the last-place finisher in Group C, on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. EDT."
Watch live at 9:30 a.m. Team USA in FIBA World Cup
Patrick Patterson agrees to deal with Oklahoma City, reports the Herald-Leader. "Former University of Kentucky star Patrick Patterson has agreed to a three-year, $16.4 million contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder, according to a report by ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. Wojnarowski's report was sourced, and The Oklahoman's Tony Horne reported that he could also confirm the deal. Free-agent contracts can't be signed until Thursday."
Top b-ball links: PJ Washington leads Team USA; Romeo talks about playing for Cal; UK dad working 'recruiting magic' https://t.co/FGcyZljyU9 pic.twitter.com/1ggpEjdP8q— Ben Roberts (@BenRobertsHL) July 4, 2017
Aaron Harrison is fighting for a roster spot, reports Mike Sielkski of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Nobody wanted to talk to Aaron Harrison, not really. He had been shooting long jumpers on a court at the Philadelphia 76ers' practice facility Thursday, during the first day of the team's summer camp workout. It wasn't the main court, though. It wasn't where the established guys were. The established guys — Joel Embiid, Robert Covington, Nik Stauskas, even Markelle Fultz, who hasn't played an NBA regular-season game yet — shot on another court, the one next to where Harrison flicked three-pointers from the top of the key."
Bam Adebayo is flashing his regular season role, reports NBA.com. "Through Bam Adebayo's first two games in Orlando, the HEAT are doing their part to ensure he isn't lost in the usual big man shuffle. As he gets touches on both the elbows and the block, including a regular diet of jumpers, Adebayo is leading the team in shots (30). The efficiency hasn't been there (10 makes) but it's the volume that's of greatest interest right now. "
Homer Bailey picks up first win since return, reports Pat Graham of the AP. "Homer Bailey wouldn't read too much into one solid outing. Still, it was a big step in the right direction for the right-hander whose career has been riddled by arm injuries. Bailey went six effective innings for his first win since Aug. 12, Billy Hamilton had a two-out, two-run single after missing a game with a bothersome back and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Colorado Rockies 8-1 on Tuesday night."
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Could legal betting coming to NASCAR? asks Mark Story of the Herald-Leader. "Before he followed original Kentucky Speedway owner Jerry Carroll into motorsports, Mark Simendinger spent a decade as an executive at horse racing's Turfway Park. Over the years, the Kentucky Speedway general manager said he has thought often about how it would work if his past world merged with his current one — and there was legal, pari-mutuel wagering on NASCAR races."
Prized NBA free agent Gordon Hayward picks Boston, reports Chris Forsburg of espn. "The Boston Celtics finally got their fireworks -- on the Fourth of July, no less. Gordon Hayward, the prize of this summer's free-agent class, announced Tuesday that he's going to play for the Celtics, choosing their maximum-contract offer over those from the Utah Jazz, his team since 2010, and the Miami Heat."
Missouri wading into one-and-done waters, reports Tod Palmer of the Kansas City Star. "The NBA's 2005 collective bargaining agreement introduced a new term into college basketball's lexicon: one-and-done. It's a phenomenon — the league required U.S. players to be 19 years old and a year removed from high school to be eligible beginning with the 2006 draft — with which Missouri is largely unfamiliar."
Is Big 3 a basketball league or a traveling sideshow? asks C. Jackson Cowart for the Charlotte Observer. "Cuttino Mobley walked to the postgame podium, sweat trickling from his brow as he tried to catch his breath. He took a seat next to DeShawn Stevenson, who hit the game-winner for Power in the BIG3's debut last week in Brooklyn. This weekend at the Spectrum Center, it was Mobley's turn to knock down two game-winning free throws to cap off the most competitive of Sunday's four games."
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text: Culture 12 December 2011 Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001 Sign-up Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001 W G SebaldHamish Hamilton, 240pp, £14.99 When Paul Celan, the great poet of the Holocaust, declared that the German language had emerged from the atrocities of the Second World War as the one thing unmarked by loss, he signalled its sublime alliance with human memory. The late W G Sebald's Across the Land and the Water, which compiles his poetic output from his student days through to the last years of his life, derives much of its strength from his recognition of this relationship. The title of the collection points to the peculiar carriage of the mind when reading Sebald: a fine-grained movement of intelligence in the act of recalling and deciphering, the swift transition from sure-footedness to the littoral territories of belief and out across the unsteadying waters of significance and insinuation. Both Celan and Sebald were masters of rich understatement, conjurors of the dark, hidden sense of words, names and phrases profoundly marked by history. At their best, Sebald's poems engage thrillingly with the private archives of Germany's memory of the war. In an age of distrust for abstruseness or overabundance in poetry, the force of suggestion in the seeming simplicity of his word-choice and phraseology contrasts with many modern poetic idioms, which aim to be instantly accessible. It is a testament to the muted skill of these poems that the appearance of the word "train" in the opening of the collection strikes the reader as neither vulgar nor blatant: "For how hard it is/to understand the landscape/as you pass in a train." From this first disclosure of Sebald's concern with landscape and meaning, however, we are steered to both familiar and unfamiliar sites from Germany's past - the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, or Schattwald, a Tyrolean village on the line to Wertach, Sebald's home town and the place to which the Sebaldian character in his debut novel, Vertigo (1990), returns in its closing sequence. A few poems further on, we witness another homecomer, "astonished to find/he had strayed to a country/not his place of origin". Each poem, in its way, reaches towards the irreducible truth of a large number of individuals, Jewish and non-Jewish, brutally transported from home and out of recognition and existence. These poems are careful to allow our memories of the reality to trespass along the indirect routes of Sebald's thinking. In "Solnhofen", he recalls the 19th-century geologists who uncovered the fossil of archaeopteryx, the ancient creature that provided the missing link between dinosaurs and birds and transformed human understanding of evolution and our place in nature. Yet the reader cannot escape the intimation in images of "White fields/in winter sometimes/strewn with ash". Sebald uses a single word and its potency to reorder our place in nature, members of a supposedly enlightened civilisation capable of unspeakable acts of violence. Iain Galbraith's translations are both guarded and diligent, and he succeeds in the considerable task of conveying the atmosphere of Sebald's unmistakable prose voice into the poetic form. While the poems, taken by themselves, lack the mastery of Celan, they show a humane and complex intelligence at work and deserve a place next to Sebald's prose output. In his excellent introduction, Galbraith writes that poems "remained an important medium to Sebald until the end of his life". Before his death in 2001 aged 57, he was preparing a collection of his poetry for publication. In Galbraith's estimation, the poetry, a considerable body of which was written before Sebald's suite of astounding prose works appeared, formed a kind of "cascade" of creative intention, which made possible his maturation into the longer narrative forms for which he is best known today. This volume offers readers of Sebald the chance to witness some of the progressive stages of intellectual and artistic development that coalesced powerfully in such prose projects as The Emigrants (1992) and The Rings of Saturn (1995). Trains recur throughout the collection as means of displacement and reflection, as warnings against assumed knowledge derived from careless observation, and as suggestive of habit, commerce, civilisation and reflection. 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While David Cameron was running the idea of the big society around in his head James Wickes had already decided to start building part of it.
Frustrated by a spate of burglaries and incidents of petty vandalism in his neighbourhood and on the small-holding he owns in Esher, the technology entrepreneur decided to build a system that would not only deal with it, but one that would also bring his neighbours into a joint effort to combat it.
The result is Jabbakam, a network of cameras that can be accessed by anyone who has signed up to a particular group on the web that can be accessed via the internet and which can send out picture alerts when a camera has been triggered by a suspicious incident to a mobile.
"What really made my mind up was waking up and hearing voices outside in my garden. I looked out of the window and there were four men there. I rang up the police and they asked whether they were trying to break in.
"When I said no, the operator said to ring back if they did, I was not only appalled by that I also felt very vulnerable and doing something that harnessed my neighbours together seemed the only way out. I suddenly thought about social networks and the way that people were using technology and it struck me that it wasn't being done properly. It wasn't joined up."
Wickes is a small man but very determined, and on the issue of community CCTV he is an evangelist.
"I think that there is too much state CCTV in the country and that is why it's not trusted. This system simply makes CCTV work in the way that it should have done in the first place. It should always have been people who were using the system and not the authorities."
Wickes is keen to avoid any do-gooding labels, initiative like Jabbakam are as far as he is concerned simply people taking responsibility for their streets, their houses and their lives and in a technological age it makes sense to use trends in technology to meet social problems.
By logging onto the internet anyone with an internet camera can download the software and then either set up their own group or sign up to an existing group. The Jabbakam system, then lets them take footage of a street or location but also stores it for up to six months on web-based computers to allow incidents to be produced as evidence.
Cameron's 'big society' as far as Wickes is concerned is only the expression of a trend of disaffection that is starting to build up a head of steam in the UK, as people vent their frustration at anti-social behaviour and a feeling of impotence in the face of petty theft, vandalism and burglaries, his Jabbakam service, which costs around £5 a month, could be an answer to that.
Whether or not Wickes is right, using systems like his high-tech neighbourhood watch definitely has advantages, according to the National Crime Survey properties without basic home security measures are 3.4% more likely to become victims of burglary than those that have taken precautions.
A statistic backed up by the Neighbourhood Watch Trust.
"If you're a member of NW then you are five times less likely to be a victim of domestic burglary," said Roy Rudham, NW's UK chair, adding: "many insurance companies now give discounts to members. One insurance company recently released figures that confirmed you were 37% less likely to be a victim of domestic burglary if you were an active NW member.
"I think that this is about caring," said Wickes. "If you care about something then you look after it and that's what this is about. Taking responsibility is about taking control."


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I never saw one prairie dog. That's what I took away from my time in the desert. Sure, I saw scorpions and road runners and tons of lizards and all, but no prairie…waitaminute. Do they only live in the prairie? Is that why they're called that? What exactly is a prairie anyway? Oh dear, now I feel stupid. So just ignore what I said. My time in the desert was just fine.
The campsite was tiny and mostly unoccupied when I arrived. Only one site was full, crammed to the gills with an RV clearly made for a lot twice the size. This was no weekend camper, these people were prepared to be here for a loooong time. A sign on the RV door said "Camp Host" so I pulled up outside and cut the engine. After eight hours of driving I was tired. Not nap tired or "I just need to lay down" tired, but the kind of weary where it feels like your very life force has been drained out of your toes. And I still had to set up camp.
I pried myself out of the car and approached the RV door, knees complaining the whole way. The door opened before I reached it and an odd little man stuck his head out, peering at me through the desert haze. He wore a plaid oxford button down and khaki pants, the kind of thing I'd expect to see my dad in if he and my mom were going out to dinner. Definitely out of place in this crusty, dry wilderness.
The camp host looked me up and down, taking in my fleshy rolls and blue hair. I looked as out of place as he did, I bet. I offered my hand and he took it, his dry palm scratching against my relatively soft one. I was still pretty green at that point, my only camping experience a two-day overnight in a state park back in Oregon. I'd spent most of the trip in my car, reading a magazine, eating a package of fudge grahams from Safeway, licking my fingers and then turning the page. I can't say I really enjoyed the trip, but it was good to get my first camping experience out of the way. I hoped I still remembered how to assemble the tent.
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These include pit-road bleacher seating (see yellow area on map, above), which gets fans across the Speedway's legendary tarmac and up close and personal to the TT action, and a multifaceted, family friendly UNOH (University of Northwestern Ohio) Fanzone in the legendary Daytona International Speedway infield, which incorporates vintage bike displays, a Harley-Davidson stunt show, and much more.
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
Yesterday was a perfect Fall day. So I drove to South River to take pictures.I stopped at the old railway station, which has been restored but is not used any more.I got some very good images most of them in black and white.So expect a few more in the next few days. Many viewers don't realize that you can enlarge the image by clicking on the small image on the blog. When you press F11 the image will fill the screen. Press F11 again to get back to your menu bars.
Friday, September 28, 2007
this is my final image of the Brent store. I suspect that Nonie thought I made the remark about the clutter and dust. No I did not however I should say that I did not have the same emotions about the place than you do. Of course we all have spots we feel very attached to while others don't move us. I did enjoy Brent but it certainly is not a ghost town. People live there either during the Summer while a few hardy ones stay year round. The store caters to canoeists,backpackers and campers.The surroundings are beautiful but the place is now simply a cottage community.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Nonie liked to see a different view of the General Store in Brent so here it is. Rob might enjoy this picture almost as much as he did the first one.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
In an earlier posting Nonie told us that she had visited Brent, an old logging community, in Algonquin Park. So I went with my wife to see this place. After driving for about forty kilometres over a very winding gravel road we arrived at the town located on a beautiful lake. The houses are now simple cottages but the store is something else. The place is crammed full of "stuff" mainly for the canoeists and campers. So here is a picture which gives you some idea what it looks like.
Monday, September 24, 2007
What a glorious beginning of the Fall. We built a fire and spent the afternoon relaxing and simply enjoying the play of the flames.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
The leaves are changing quickly. It is one of my favourite times of year, as it probably is for most people. In another week the colours will be at their peak so enjoy the season.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
One final image from our visit to Fort Temiscamingue. At this park you will find a interesting small cedar grove. The trees are twisted in a variety of shapes, which make this site a great source for visually interesting photographs.I will certainly go back when I have more time to look around.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
In an essay on the Abitibi Fur Brigade the artist and writer Arthur Heming (1870-1940) describes how the furs were transported from the Hudson Bay post on Lake Abitibi to Lake Temiskaming. The Abitibi Fur Brigade was the last of the once famous canoe flotillas. They operated till the early twentieth century.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Yesterday we made a trip around lake Temiskaming. In Ville Marie we picnicked at the site of the old Fort Temiscamingue. I had not been there for a few years and was surprised at the changes on the site. First I was not sure if I liked the reconstruction of the fort by showing only elements of building and rooms. After looking at my pictures I realized that instead of building a replica they made it look like the remnants of buildings. Very similar of what you would see on other countries which show the ruins of the former site.Hope you like it Nonie.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Thanks for your comment Nonie. Here is another picture of the same barn. I liked the pattern of the light in this image. This place was wonderful. It was a pity I couldn't spend more time there. The palce even has an old pioneer graveyard. But I will go back next year and hope to get many great images.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Walking along lake Nipissing I noticed a change of colour of the lake. Of course its only a feeling of Fall which made me see the steel-grey and blue colours of the water as the arrival of the new season.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
We started our tour with a visit to the Norman Hardie Winery in Prince Edward County. This winery is in a class by itself. The wine is simply superb. Try the Pinot Noir unbelievably good. The other interesting part of this visit is that the wine tasting area is inside the winery itself. You are surrounded by the large French oak barrels and the work continues around you. I loved it.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Yesterday we did a wine tour of Prince Edward County. It was a glorious day. We visited five great wineries and I can recommend visiting this area. The area is still largely rural and the wineries are small. I photographed this birdhouse at the Chadsey's Cairn Winery, which is actually an old farm. Check out their website. I definitely plan to go back and stay longer so I can , in addition to tasting the wine, spend more time taking pictures.
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Another view of my favourite trail along Lake Nipissing. I prefer to take evening shots after the sun sets. The colours are much richer and you don't have to worry about the enormous contrast in light. But walking along the trail I saw the almost magical light of the sun streaming from between the trees. It is of course a very romantic view but I could not walk by without taking the picture.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
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A flower for Lottie
VOORBURG, Netherlands — Next year at the annual convention of the Baha'is of the Netherlands, there will be a rose on an otherwise empty seat, the one traditionally occupied by the late Lottie Tobias.
The National Spiritual Assembly promised the gesture, in a eulogy read at her funeral.
The rose will be a symbolic tribute to the five decades of loving, expert attention paid by Elisabeth Charlotte (Lottie) Tobias to the development of the Baha'i administrative order in her homeland and beyond.
On 25 July 2003 Lottie, 93, died while on her way home to Voorburg from a summer school held in De Poort. More than 350 mourners attended her funeral.
The National Spiritual Assembly, describing her as the "mother" of the Netherlands Baha'i community, pointed out in its eulogy that Lottie herself had always said the Baha'i community was her family.
"She was interested in everyone and followed the progress of her friends' children -- they were her children and so it was very moving that she died in the arms of two of these, now very adult, children."
Lottie Tobias became a Baha'i in 1950 when there were only a few dozen believers in the whole country. She was elected to the first Local Spiritual Assembly of Den Haag in 1952, and in 1957 was elected a member of the first Spiritual Assembly of the Benelux countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg), serving as secretary for the Netherlands.
In 1962 she was elected to the first National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the Netherlands, and served on that body until 1986. For 24 years she was the secretary.
"Alone, without the help of a secretariat, her only help a typewriter and a table, she performed this work cheerfully and uncomplainingly for all those years in a manner which today still serves as an example," the National Spiritual Assembly said.
"Everything had still to be built up both in the office in the Hague and in the administrative order in the country. In addition most of it had to be done in the evenings after a busy day's work."
Not only was she meticulous in her work as secretary but also as a proofreading member of the editorial team of the "Baha'i Vizier" (a regular publication with scholarly and other articles). To the last moment of her life, she was a member of the national properties committee.
She kept in touch with Baha'is who went to live abroad to assist other communities and gave a warm welcome to newcomers, wrote cards to and visited the sick, and kept up to date with the welfare of others in person and by telephone.
That legendary care for others was in her nature. For years she wrote a column in the "Haagse Courant" newspaper as a counselor on social and legal matters. Her nom de plume was "Raad" (a combination of the words for "advice" and "deed"). She even held a weekly consultation hour for individuals at the newspaper office.
When staff at her newspaper learned of her death, they placed a large display notice commemorating their beloved former colleague.
In a personal eulogy, Jan Sijsling, a Baha'i who had known her more than 50 years, said she had made a great impression upon him because of her reliability, the bond between them deepening as a result of her care not only for the work but everyone as individuals.
Another long time Baha'i friend, Wilco Broekhuizen, said that getting to know her was by observing her actions for she never really spoke about herself.
"The Covenant, loyalty to Shoghi Effendi, the Universal House of Justice, the Hands of the Cause and the Spiritual Assemblies formed the very foundation of her life."
Mr. Broekhuizen said that in consultation she provided clear, personal opinions and solutions but, having heard another point of view, could completely change her opinion.
She possessed an endearing humanity and a sense of humor.
Mr. Broekhuizen recalled once when a meeting was to be held in her flat, somebody said there was a wonderful film on television that evening.
"And it was actually Lottie who proposed we should 'leave the business' and all sit around the TV instead."
Arts and culture were dear to her, and she had begun to paint in watercolors.
In a tribute, the Universal House of Justice said: "Having served with distinction for more than two decades on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Netherlands, as well as on the first Spiritual Assembly of the Benelux countries, she will always be lovingly remembered for her dedication to the progress of the Cause, the upbuilding of its institutions and her tireless endeavors over many years to inspire and encourage all the friends."


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In an effort to continue to improve the stormwater improvement plan, comments are being accepted on the recommended projects. These projects are ranked from the hightest to lowest priority.
Additional information about the stormwater improvement plan can be found at www.HarrisonburgVA.gov/stormwater-improvement-plan.
Please provide the following information for each topic (new BMP, stream restoration, and BMP retrofit):
To what extent do you agree with this list of the top five projects based on your rankings?
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But her co-owner Diane Baskin-Wright said not to be fooled. "She morphs into psycho dog when she hits the line," Baskin-Wright said.
There were about 200 sled dogs here on a recent Saturday, barking and howling alongside vehicles with license plates like Sib Box, Mushers, Haw Gee and Ondasly. Winnie stood out not just for her calm race-day nerves — she is the lead dog on her team — and the spray of gray along her back. Unusual for a racing dog, Winnie is also a show dog, the top-ranked female Siberian in the nation. Her show name is Huskavarna's Destined to Win. She will appear at the
But after the headlines ceased, what happened to two of the lead dogs — Winnie's forebear
"It's still very much in the mind of mushers," said Bob Thomas, a Siberian musher and a historian for the International Siberian Husky Club.
In January 1925, an outbreak of diphtheria had killed two children and was spreading quickly in Nome, a town of about 1,400 that was icebound seven months a year.
A local doctor telegraphed Washington, urgently requesting serum to treat the diphtheria, and public health officials found a supply in
As the dog-sled teams raced west, roadhouse owners provided near-real-time updates over telephone and telegraph lines. Front-page headlines from
"It came right down to just the spirit of men and dogs against nature," Gay Salisbury said.
A noted racer and mining-company dog driver named Leonhard Seppala was originally assigned half of the Nenana-Nome distance. Seppala's lead dog, a gray and brown Siberian husky named Togo, had covered 4,000 miles in one year alone, guided a famed polar explorer around Alaska, and won major races. Togo had been Seppala's lead dog since he was 8 months old; now, at age 12, Togo would have one of his final Alaska outings with his driver.
Seppala, Togo and the team set out at high speeds, running a total of 261 miles — they carried the serum for almost double the length any other team did. Twice, to save time, they violated warnings to avoid Norton Sound, a dangerous inlet of the Bering Sea, and instead went straight over the frozen sea, where ice often separated from shore, stranding travelers on floes. In the dark, in 85-below temperatures with wind chill, Seppala could not see or hear the cracking ice, and was dependent on Togo, the Salisburys wrote.
Meanwhile, worried that Seppala's dogs would get too tired, Alaska's governor called in additional drivers for the final portion. Just five and a half days after the serum left Nenana, a driver named Gunnar Kaasen and a lead dog named Balto pulled into Nome, serum in hand.
"It was Balto who led the way," Kaasen told a reporter. "The
Kaasen and Balto, a handsome black Siberian with white paws, became instant heroes. There were front-page articles; commendations from the president; tributes from the Senate; newspapers (including The Times) printing a report that Balto had died from frozen lungs, then quickly rescinding it; wishful editorials proposing that Balto appear at Westminster; a national tour; a Hollywood contract.
But as Kaasen, Balto and that team of dogs were becoming celebrities, the other mushers from the relay straggled into Nome with a different story. Kaasen was assigned the next-to-last leg. But, in an account that some mushers still doubt, Kaasen said the lights were off in the cabin where he was to hand off the serum, so he headed for Nome himself.
Seppala was already broken when he arrived — he had lost Togo when the dog ran off after a reindeer. Then he found that not only were Kaasen and Balto on their way to Hollywood, but the newspapers had attributed Togo's lifetime feats to Balto, a dog he had not considered decent enough to put on his 20-dog team.
"The story had already heralded a winner by the time Seppala made the 100 miles home," Gay Salisbury said. "It was too complicated to showcase 20 drivers and 150 dogs. The relay as a concept was not as exciting as 'Balto crossed the finish line.' "
Sol Lesser, a Hollywood producer, shot Balto and Kaasen for a short film, and Balto made joint appearances with
Togo limped back into Nome about a week after the serum run ended. Later, wanting the acclaim due his dogs, Seppala embarked on his own tour of the States in 1926. It culminated with a Madison Square Garden ice-rink appearance, where the explorer
"That was the foundation kennel, pretty much — all the mushers in the Northeast at that point, most had never seen a Siberian when he showed up," Thomas, the Siberian historian, said. In 1930, the American Kennel Club admitted Siberian huskies.
Seppala sold some dogs, and a few had strange fates — Fritz, Togo's half-brother and a serum run veteran, died at Gimbels in
Togo's body was initially displayed in a Yale exhibit about notable dogs. Later, his mount was transferred to another museum and forgotten in storage; an employee and sled-dog enthusiast stumbled across it in the early 1980s. When Alaskans found out it was Togo, they demanded his repatriation, and the dog's body is now on display at the Iditarod Trail Headquarters in Wasilla.
Balto's life was sadder in many ways. He and his teammates were bought and sold, to the vaudeville circuit, then down another notch. In early 1927, just two years after the run, a Cleveland businessman stumbled upon the team in
The businessman announced he would raise $2,000 within two weeks to buy Balto and the team. He turned to The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which exhorted citizens to help save Balto. "It's schoolkids giving their lunch money; kennel clubs that are making contributions in the name of champions," Webster said. Cleveland succeeded, and Balto and his teammates became popular fixtures at the Cleveland Zoo.
Balto was aging. Neutered as a puppy because Seppala did not think he showed much promise, he never had offspring and he died in 1933. His body was transferred to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where he is on permanent display next to an exhibit about Inuits.
Seppala and Kaasen, who were good friends — their brothers died in a fire together and are buried side by side, Salisbury said — never spoke again, as far as Salisbury found.
As for the dogs, in 1998, an Alaska legislator proposed a bill that would return Balto to stand alongside Togo at Iditarod headquarters. "They were imploring the museum to send our doggie home," Webster, of the Cleveland museum, said. "And we said: 'Wait a minute. He spent a majority of his life, actually, in Cleveland, and it was the community of Cleveland that saved him from a pretty despicable fate.' "
A museum in Anchorage suggested a compromise — it would borrow Balto for an exhibition — and after two rounds of failed negotiations, Cleveland agreed, conditionally. "We made them insure the dog for some huge amount of money, and created this custom-made crate for Balto and the cabinet in which he's displayed, with his plexiglass top," Webster said. "He and a museum representative went up to Anchorage, and on the side of the box was 'Contents: One Hero Dog.' "
In 1997, Togo finally got his statue, at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, sitting alongside a statue of Balto. A couple of years later, Togo got a standalone statue, though in a small playground in New York's Lower East Side that is hardly a tourist destination.
The overlooking of Togo still infuriates mushers. "It rankles a lot," said Jonathan Nathaniel Hayes, who breeds and mushes Siberians based on Seppala's stock, who says he winces when his kids watch "Balto," an animated 1995 movie.
The Iditarod, which starts this year in March, will commemorate the 1925 event, meeting up with the serum-run route along the Yukon, "except for the portion where Seppala went across the sea ice," said Erin McLarnon, an Iditarod spokeswoman; that section is still considered too dangerous. Each year, the Iditarod gives a prestigious award named after Seppala to the musher who treats his or her dogs with extraordinary care.
Seppala, according to "The Cruelest Miles," wrote a journal entry when he was 81, about 30 years after his lead dog's death:
"When I come to the end of the trail, I feel that along with my many friends, Togo will be waiting and I know that everything will be all right."
Back in Massena, Frank Wright ruffled the fur on Winnie's head and bent down to whisper, "Gonna be good today." As Wright and Baskin-Wright attached the dogs to the line, Winnie started howling. She wanted to race.
Wright was not expecting the fastest time in the six-dog category. Siberians that compete in shows, like Winnie and her crew, are too stocky to beat Siberians bred for racing and the mixed-breed hounds that are even speedier.
But at the starting line, as the timer started counting back from 10, Baskin-Wright could barely hold back Winnie, as the dog was tugging so hard. Balto may live on in the movies, but Togo's descendant is still running.Continue reading the main story


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Letters to the Editor
'His own medicine'
"I can't believe the administration premeditated a change of course in Iraq," Rep. Devin Nunes said. "They led us down the path that we're going to stay the course and stay with the leadership. I will never understand why they waited until after the election to make a change in strategy."
Isn't this the same statement most of the voters have been saying about Rep. Nunes not involving himself in debates with his opponent? Must be a taste of his own medicine. I hope he is ousted next.
Dana Bobbitt


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It's been more than 2 weeks since Android's Stagefright bug was unearthed, but the hype surrounding it just refuses to go away that easily. This makes sense though, since the potential damage that can be caused by this vulnerability is more than considerable. If wielded by the wrong hands, Stagefright can put your device's entire data and control at risk. Hackers can go through your usage history, and view all the videos and photos saved on your phone. If this is alarming for you, you are sure to want to check Stagefright vulnerability status of your device. While you can try Googling your phone's model and see if there is any news on it getting affected (or remedied by the OEM), there is an even better option available now. A newly released app from the discoverer of the bug (Zimperium Inc.) can help you check Stagefright status of your device with a single tap.
While Zimperium is working with OEMs to roll out patches for the bug to as many users as possible, your device might continue being exposed for quite a while. The app to check Stagefright status is pretty simple to use.
Once the app has been launched, the main screen shows a brief description of the Stagefright bug. Once you have read this description, just hit the 'Begin Analysis' button and let the app do its work. You just have to wait for a few commands to run their course, and the results of the analysis will show up. As you would expect, once you check Stagefright status of your device, the result can be nothing other than 'Vulnerable' or 'Not Vulnerable'.
If your device turns out to be vulnerable, the app directs you to go to the official Zimperium website. The service might offer you a few useful tips to secure your device. Even if it doesn't do that, you will still be contributing to better reporting of the bug, and making sure that in future others can check Stagefright status of their device even faster than you did.


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Are You a Parish Who Wants to Know More About Cursillo?
We have a team of people ready and willing to come and talk to your Parishioners. Cursillo has been very effective in motivating people to disciple others, and to lead a more pro-active Christian walk after the weekend. If you would like our team to come visit please contact: Tanya Macdonald, Diocesan Lay Director.


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Vdub Camper Hire
VW campervans are a well loved and iconic part of the 70's 'flower power' scene but are still as popular today, with thousands of people enjoying their vans at Vdub events and camping trips around the country, and now you can join them too!
Tallulah is a vintage style yet brand new (2011) VW T2 Bay Window campervan with a modern, fuel efficient, economical and very reliable water cooled engine and power steering, and she is available to hire by anyone wanting to recapture their youth on a camping trip or holiday, get married in style, treat someone for a special occasion, take part in a Vdub event or maybe even to 'try before you buy' – we might even be able to help you find one of your own.
Our Vdub is fully equipped with everything you need to make your trip enjoyable, even some games for the kids! Just bring yourselves, drive, park and have fun.
Our camper is based in Reading, Berkshire, just 35 miles West of London with easy access North, East, South or West via the M3, M4, M5, M40 or even the M25 (if you dare!).
Explore the South Downs or the hidden beaches of the West Country, the rolling landscapes of East Anglia or head north to the Lake District or Scotland, the choice is yours, just don't forget to come back.


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The sun is shining here in London!
This has been an amazing week, hope you guys are feeling as inspired as I am right now.
Just leaving you with the links for this week's good stuff – check it out:
- A fantastic episode with Busted bass player Matt Willis
- Matt Willis's Success Secrets
- The opening of our next Business Accelerator course
- My blog on what I learned from millionaire Kevin Green
- This week's vlog from me (I crash a drone!)
- An amazing Live Show with MMA fighter Alex Reid
- A new clip based on my intense conversation with ex-Navy SEAL Jocko Willinck
- A fascinating Live Show with fashion entrepreneur Oliver Proudlock
Okay have a great weekend, and I'll catch up with next week!


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Ancient greeks had a legend of a creature called ouroboros, a serpent or a dragon who eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
This men's ring represents all the energy of one of the most powerful and dangerous magical creatures. Dragons don't care of what others think about them. They are smart and wise, and powerful enough to do whatever they want. This men's ring doesn't make you a dragon, it reminds you that you are already one.


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"Festa della Repubblica" in New York: Tributes, Concerts, Food and Much More
Tuesday was a day of great surprises and emotions at the institutions of the 'Sistema Italia' in New York, where Republic Day was celebrated from the early hours in the morning with special events as well as special guests.
Living an "Authentic Italian Experience"
An "Authentic Italian Experience" was lived by a considerable influx of people at the Italian Trade Agency, whose Deputy Trade Commissioner Romano Baruzzi expressed the importance of celebrating Italy's national day. He then thanked all the companies which contributed to the successful event, such as: Agromonte, Parmigiano Reggiano, Cibo Italia, Acqua Lurisia and Cioccolato Venchi.
The New Knights of the Order of the Star of Italy
Among the ritual honors of Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) given by Consul General Francesco Genuardi on behalf of the President Sergio Mattarella, there were two amazing women. The first was Maria Laurino, a third generation Italian-American journalist, essayist, and memoirist grown up in northern New Jersey, who published in 2014 The Italian Americans: A History, chronicling the Italian American experience from 1860 to the present day.
Just back from the success of Open Roads 2018 opening night, the famous public relations officer Sally Fischer was awarded too. The honor proposals are usually made by selecting the people who distinguish themselves in the various fields of human activities, including the economic, social, political and cultural importances.
"Those who work in the world of art, culture and in the cinema industry play a special role and for this reason we proposed with deep conviction the name of Sally Fischer to the President of the Republic . . . I think you, Sally, are living a new complex challenging era where we all need bridges. You are a very special bridge between Italy and New York," said Consul General Genuardi.
And we extend our congratulations to Giorgio Spanu (chairman of Casa Italian Zerilli-Marimò and co-founder of the Olnick Spanu Collection), Joseph Sciame, (president/Chair of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee), Angelo Vivolo (Chairman of the Board Columbus Citizens Foundation), Harvey Sachs (writer and music historian), Frank Desiderio (attorney and founding member of the GDKSK firm0, for being the distinguished recipients of this year's NY Onorificenze.
The Consulate General dedicates a tree to Italo Calvino
During the same day, in concomitance with the celebration of the 72 years of the Italian Republic, the Consulate General paid tribute to one of the greatest Italian journalists, short-story writers, and novelists of the 20th century, Italo Calvino, and the 61st anniversary of Calvino's publication of The Baron in the Trees. This masterpiece was published two years later, in 1959, in the United States where it immediately received a positive feedback and is still read, sold and discussed in universities. A beautiful tree was dedicated to the author on 690 Park Ave. with the unveiling of a plate showing one of his quotes.
Giovanna Calvino was there to commemorate her father, wishing that the tree could mark the beginning or the continuation of a period in which Italian education in New York thrives. "Since my grandmother was a botanist and my grandfather was an agronomist, the most beautiful tributes for me are linked to gardens. The idea of this beautiful tree was by Francesco, "Giovanna Calvino said. "My father's stories have always amused me. I hope this humor will be timeless and will continue to win over future generations."
Annavaleria Guazzieri, Director of the Education Office at the Consulate, intervened declaring the will of the institutions to relaunch the Italian literature in schools, starting precisely from Calvino, which represented so much to world culture. Guazzieri, then, introduced Professor Ghezzo from La Scuola d'Italia who, with the help of two very young students, read and talked about some passages taken from The Baron in the Trees.
"With this novel Calvino wants us to understand what is the right distance between our ego and the world. In other words, living in a tree does not mean for Calvino living a life without responsibility, but simply looking at everything from a more detached perspective to understand how things really work. A metaphor, therefore, that can be associated with our condition as expats, who observe Italy with an ocean that separates us," said Ghezzo.
Representing the spirit of Rizzoli New York and the best of Italian culture, Director Livia Senic commented about Calvino and his masterpiece: "I remember it as a first reading experience. This book is a metaphor of independence and I think it tells a lot about all the people here today."
The end (in music) of a wonderful day
At the end of the day, students from La Scuola d'Italia performed the National Anthem of Italy "Inno di Mameli" and the European Anthem "Inno alla gioia". The performance was followed by Pasquale Grasso Trio's concert at the Italian Cultural Institute.


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Hey TonyB: I never skated the indoor part(I prefer crete) and I always travelled via train on totally dry days as I lived about 90-100 miles from London. Also, I forgot to add Central Park, the Harlem and Brooklyn banks In NYC; Colchester not Glasonbury,CT(cretesk8 pk), and it was Lynnhaven Skate Park in Va Beach that eluded me yesterday...I even forgot to add some pools in TX(Dallas-area) and ditches in Colorado Springs during my first snowboard trip out west on my wooden Burton Backhill.
Super Gnarley pool. Sick Pictures and that layback......woah!!!!
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Patterned concrete screens
I'm developing a taste for these. There are lots of dinky suburban tract versions of these perforated walls, but when the scale and placement are well thought out, they can be the building's most arresting feature. This collection is a mix of decorative landscaping walls or actual exterior treatments on buildings. Either way, the fact that they afford both privacy and light is nice. See also the entry on patterned concrete blocks. Above, "the white room" by Dag4 ('m not sure if that one is concrete, technically, but it's the same idea). Below, Racquet Club Tract, Palmer & Krisel. Architect: William Krisel. Palm Springs. American Cement building, and office building, all by Chimay Bleue.
Below, another shot of the Parker Hotel, Palm Springs, by schafphoto:
Photos below by how_long_it_takes, one0one0one, Fernando Stankuns, and Michael-D(new works). Click on photos for more info.