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Injured In A Colorado Truck Accident?Get the help you need today.
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Serving Denver & the Greater Colorado Area for Three Decades
Trucking accidents are on the rise nationally, and their effects can be devastating to both truck drivers and other motorists. Besides causing serious personal injuries and fatalities, accidents often lead to lost time at work, emotional anxiety, lower quality of life, and more.
If you've been injured in a truck accident or any other type of auto accident in Colorado, you can contact me for a free consultation at (303) 454-8000 or toll-free at (800) ROSEN-911, or by filling out the form on the right.
I've handled thousands of truck accident and personal injury cases. I've seen a case just like yours, and I can help you through it!
Whether you're a commercial truck driver or a fellow motorist on the road, it's important to be aware of the leading causes of truck accidents and what all drivers can do to prevent them.
Injured in a truck accident in Colorado?
Get the facts you need to know…
If you have survived an accident with a large commercial truck, now you need to survive the legal aftermath to recover damages. Here are answers to some of the important questions you probably have.
What Is the First Thing I Should Do If I Am Involved in an Accident With a Truck?
Call the police. Seek medical attention. Take photos, if you can, of the damage. And obtain insurance information for the truck involved.
If I'm Injured in a Truck Accident Caused by the Truck, Who Is Liable?
The driver of the truck, the trucking company, and the truck's manufacturer—if you can prove that the accident was caused by some mechanical defect in the truck—may all be found liable for the accident.
What If the Accident Happened at Least Partly Because of Bad Weather Conditions?
It can be hard to figure out who is at fault when an accident happens during bad weather. The assignment of liability will largely depend on how severe weather conditions were and the speed at which the drivers were traveling. If conditions were blinding, as during a blizzard, insurance companies may classify the accident as an "act of God"—an event occurring entirely from natural causes that could not have been reasonably foreseen and prevented—making it harder for you to recover damages. An experienced truck accident attorney can aggressively defend your position and increase your chances of recovery.
What Are the Most Common Causes of Truck Accidents?
Truck accidents that are the fault of the truck driver are most commonly caused by:
- Fatigue, excessive speed to meet tight deadlines, equipment failure, mountain road conditions, overloading or improper loading, inclement weather, driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or prescribed medications, and distracted driving (texting).
- The cargo being hauled can also cause accidents, including hazardous or flammable materials, oil spills, and chemical releases.
But not all truck accidents are caused by the truck driver. Lawcore.com reports that the majority of truck accidents are actually caused by errors on the part of those who drive smaller vehicles.
Smaller vehicle errors include:
- Driving in the blind spots of the trucks, cutting into a lane directly in front of a truck, following a truck too closely, trying to pass a truck on the wrong side of the road, abandoning a stalled car in the middle of a traffic lane instead of the shoulder of the road, distracted driving, and driving under the influence.
How Is an Accident Involving a Truck Different From a Typical Automobile Accident?
Because of the size and weight of these rigs, the injuries sustained in tractor-trailer accidents are often more severe. Such accidents also tend to involve several insurance companies; the trucking company may be insured by one carrier and the goods being transported by another. And many federal laws apply specifically to truck drivers but not to other drivers.
What Are the Unique Responsibilities of Truck Drivers on the Road?
Because they operate large vehicles, truck drivers have a special responsibility to other drivers on the road to operate their truck safely. They must maintain a safe speed, check their blind spots before making turns or changing lanes, and watch for other vehicles when making wide turns. They are prohibited from drinking and driving, operating a cell phone while driving, driving while fatigued, and exceeding federal hours-of-service safety regulations.
Truck Accidents on the Rise: Disturbing Statistics
As the number of cars and trucks on the road steadily increase, it's unfortunately not surprising that truck accidents are growing. Commercial trucks can be 80 feet long and weigh as much as 40 tons, and motorists who collide with them are likely to suffer serious and even fatal injuries. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, about 500,000 truck accidents occur every year in the U.S.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 4,067 Americans died in traffic accidents involving large trucks in 2015, up 4.1 percent from 2014. In Colorado, 64 drivers were killed in collisions involving trucks in the same year.
Other national statistics that drivers may find surprising include:
- 68 percent of all fatal truck accidents occur in rural areas, not cities.
- Two-thirds of all fatal truck accidents happen during the day as opposed to at night.
- Fatal truck accidents occurred more often on weekends.
Laws That Impact the Trucking Industry
The Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Enhancement Act of 2012 requires truck operators to use electric onboard recorders (EOBRs) to help deal with driver fatigue, implements higher fines for carriers that continue to operate illegally after being shut down for safety violations, and sets up a clearinghouse of alcohol and controlled substance test records of drivers.
Beginning in January 2012, a federal law was put in place by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration with prohibitive restrictions for truckers, including:
- Texting, dialing, and even holding a phone while operating a truck, but allowing drivers to use hands-free mobile devices requiring only a single touch.
Operators who violate this law may face over $2000 in fines and the loss of their license. According to an ABC7.com report, the law came as a response to an accident involving a truck driver who was using his cell phone when he caused an accident that killed 11 people in Kentucky in 2011.
Do I Need to Hire a Truck Accident Attorney?
Truck accidents tend to be a lot more complicated than accidents involving only automobiles. The driver usually works for a large trucking company that is represented by a truck insurance company. Depending on the truck's cargo, the goods being transported may also be insured—so now another insurance company is also involved. Moreover, truck insurance companies routinely order extensive investigations of accidents involving trucks. Trying to handle all this without the help of an experienced truck accident attorney is usually a bad idea.
If you've been injured in a crash involving a large truck, contact the Law Offices of Daniel R. Rosen online or call (303) 454-8000 today.
Colorado Truck Accident Resources
Overcoming from a truck accident injury is overwhelming enough. Navigating the legal process doesn't have to be. We're here to guide you every step of the way.
What's My Truck Accident Case Worth?
Learn the key factors that go into calculating damages in an auto accident case — a critical process that can greatly impact your settlement.
Common Causes of Large Truck Accidents
Injured in an accident involving a large truck? Learn about the different factors that may be to blame for large truck and tractor-trailer collisions.
Truckers Face Natural and Man-Made Hazards
While navigating trucks through distractingly beautiful scenery, Colorado truckers deal with a variety of geographical layouts and hazards. Discover some of the state's accident hotspots.
Safety Regulations For Truckers & Their Employers
How is the trucking industry protecting you from dangerous collisions with their trucks? Explore the safety regulations imposed on the industry in an effort to curb accidents involving large trucks.
Determining Liability in Truck Accidents
Truck accidents, unlike passenger vehicle crashes, involve multiple parties so assigning blame is not as easy as it may seem.
Sharing the Road Safely with Large Commercial Trucks
Learn why large commercial trucks present unique driving challenges for smaller vehicles and the techniques to avoid these collisions.


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Nerves of the Hip and Thigh
The joints and muscles of the hips and thighs need nervous input so they can do what your brain wants them to do. The muscles also require a lot of blood flow, which provides oxygen and nourishment, especially when you're physically active.
The following nerves serve the gluteal and thigh regions:
Superior clunial nerve (L1–L3): This nerve starts from the 1st through 3rd lumbar spinal nerves and crosses the iliac crest to supply to the skin over the buttocks.
Middle clunial nerve (S1–S3): Starting from the 1st through 3rd sacral spinal nerves, this nerve runs to the gluteal region to supply the skin over the buttocks.
Inferior clunial nerve: This nerve branches from the posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh to the inferior border of the gluteus maximus. It also supplies the skin over the buttocks.
Sciatic nerve (L4–S3): This nerve branches from the sacral plexus and passes through the greater sciatic foramen to enter the gluteal region. From there it traverses underneath the biceps femoris and splits into the tibial and common fibular nerves at the knee. It innervates the muscles of the posterior thigh.
The sciatic nerve is the longest and widest nerve in the human body and can quite literally cause a pain in the butt when it's compressed by a herniated disc or sometimes by the piriformis muscle. The pain, along with burning, numbness, and tingling sensations, may also be felt in the lower back and down the back of leg on the affected side. This condition is called sciatica and can be treated with ice packs, special exercises, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications. It may also help to avoid sitting positions for long periods of time.
Posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh (S1–S3): Beginning at the sacral plexus, this nerve runs through the greater sciatic foramen and under the gluteus maximus before traveling down the thigh deep to the tensor fasciae latae. It innervates the skin of the buttock, posterior thigh, and calf. It also has a perineal branch that innervates the perineum and upper medial thigh.
Superior gluteal nerve (L4–S1): This nerve runs from the sacral plexus through the greater sciatic foramen and between the gluteus medius and minimus. It innervates those two muscles along with the tensor fasciae latae.
Inferior gluteal nerve (L5–S2): Running from the sacral plexus though the greater sciatic foramen, this nerve then divides into several branches that innervate the gluteus maximus.
Nerve to quadratus femoris (L4–S1): This nerve runs from the sacral plexus through the greater sciatic foramen and innervates the hip joint, inferior gemellus, and quadratus femoris.
Pudendal nerve (S2–S4): This nerve runs from the sacral plexus through the greater sciatic foramen and enters the perineum through the lesser sciatic foramen. It innervates the perineum.
Nerve to obturator internus (L5–S2): Running from the sacral plexus through the greater sciatic foramen, this nerve enters the lesser sciatic foreman to the obturator internus. It innervates the superior gemellus and obturator internus muscles.
Three nerves run through the region of the anterior and medial thigh:
Femoral nerve (L2–L4): This nerve runs from the lumbar plexus along the psoas major past the inguinal ligament to enter the femoral triangle. It has branches that innervate the anterior thigh muscles and the hip joint.
Obturator nerve (L2–L4): This nerve runs along the psoas major through the obturator foramen, where it divides into anterior and posterior branches. It innervates the adductor longus, adductor brevis, gracilis, pectineus, obturator externus, and adductor magnus.
Saphenous nerve: This nerve is the terminal cutaneous branch of the femoral nerve. It accompanies the femoral artery and innervates the skin and fascia of the knee, leg, and foot.
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Improve Performance with Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA)/
I just finished a great two-day course on Select Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA)! I'm really excited to incorporate this movement based approach to treating pain. What is it?
SFMA is a series of 7 full-body, functional movement tests (i.e., squatting, bending, etc.) that detect deficits in mobility and stability which can increase the risk of injury, compromise athletic or work performance, and reduce overall quality of life.
Athletes must be able to perform a wide variety of movements to safely and effectively participate in their sport. Therefore, rehabilitation and pre-participation screening have moved away from a traditional isolated assessment towards a more dynamic functional approach.
SFMA Assessment
SFMA helps uncover deficits that may be overlooked in traditional medical or performance evaluations. During a detailed assessment, the clinician is looking carefully for inefficient movement patterns that are used to compensate for weakness or injury.
Without correction, the dysfunctional activity will continue and further reinforce poor biomechanics which can lead to decreased performance and ultimately injury.
I'll give you an example from my own experience.
I've recently started Crossfit, so I've been doing alot of squats lately. I find it difficult to go into a deep squat position with my arms overhead , sometimes causing me to lose my balance and take a step backward.
The SFMA shows that my problem stems from decreased shoulder mobility, insufficient thoracic spine (upper back) movement and poor ankle range of motion. My lack of ankle motion is a result of several ankle injuries during years of playing soccer, while my upper body deficits are just natural dysfunctions.
I've subconsciously developed a risky movement pattern to compensate for these weaknesses. I will either take a stance that is too wide or I will turn my feet out. In addition, my lack of upper spine motion causes me to bend forward at the bottom of the squat.
Click here to see a pic of meworking on my squat atBrazen Athletics
Targeted treatment (manual therapy and therapeutic exercise) begins by addressing dysfunctional/non-painful movement patterns. This way, the intervention is not adversely affected by pain.
I will have a fellow colleague provide manual therapy to my shoulder, upper spine and ankles to improve my mobility at these joints. I will also need to reprogram my movement pattern to properly utilize improved mobility in perfecting my overhead squat.


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Manchester United linked with £12m transfer for 'new Kaka'
The January transfer window must be close if the amount of transfer rumours involving Manchester United are anything to go by. Today the Red Devils are being linked with a swoop for Raphael Varane, while rumours persist of a move for both Fabio Coentrao and Pepe. Wesley Sneijder looks likely to be on the move next year and of course the Red Devils are being mentioned in connection to the Dutchman again.


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Concept Development
The concept design and development process involves progressing initial sketches through to either a prototype stage or a position where resolved mechanical designs can be generated. This can be achieved through the further development of sketches, flat CAD, the generation of 3D CAD models, soft models or mechanical test rigs. Often a blend of all disciplines is utilised to ensure a visually and mechanically sound solution is realised.
Optima's dedicated design engineers can help develop and refine your ideas, instilling confidence that your desired result will be achieved. With our vast experience we can also advise on aesthetic elements, mechanical principles, electronic and mecha-tronic design, materials and manufacturing techniques. We boast a wide range of development partners and if we do not have a particular specialism in-house, we can most often find the right partner to assist in the development process.


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Dallas Cowboys
Cowboys favorites to win NFC; Zeke odds-on favorite to win MVP
The Dallas Cowboys have the best odds of any NFC team reach Super Bowl LI, and rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott is projected to take home some hardware at the end of the season.
The Cowboys have 8/5 odds to win the NFC, according to Bovada. The Seattle Seahawks are 12/5 favorites followed by the Green Bay Packers (7/1), Atlanta Falcons (17/2) and New York Giants (9/1).
To take it a step further, the Cowboys have the second-best odds to snap their 22-year championship drought. They are listed as 5/1 favorites to win it all.
The New England Patriots have the best odds at 11/5. Seattle (11/2), Pittsburgh (10/1) and Green Bay and Oakland (each 12/1) round out the top five.
Elliott, meanwhile, is the favorite to win the MVP. He's a 2/1 favorite for the award. Elliott is leading the league with 1,551 rushing yards and set a franchise record for most rushing touchdowns by a rookie with his 13th against Tampa Bay last weekend.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has the second-best odds at 5/2 followed by the Falcons' Matt Ryan (9/2), the Oakland Raiders' Derek Carr (7/1) and the Packers' Aaron Rodgers (10/1).
Cowboys rookie quarterback Dak Prescott is listed as "off the board" this week. He had 33/1 odds last week.


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Harvey Kurtzman, the mastermind behind Mad's golden age (in convenient comic book form, not as a bulky, cumbersome magazine) is being featured in a retrospective at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art at the Society of Illustrators in Manhattan. Hoo, and might I add "hah."
If you're any kind of fan of comics, cartoon art, modern American humor (by that I mean post-WWII), absurdity, fine pen work, the better things in life, chicken fat, Little Annie Fanny, and all things Melvin, by all means, get thee to the show. It runs till May 31, 2013, at the Society of Illustrators. That's on the lovely, tony, trés hah-schwah Upper East Side of Manhattan at 128 East 63rd Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues).
Don't be a schmuck. Make the show. Whattaya, meshuggeneh?
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Interesting view of Microsoft about short Attention spans
In somewhat more than 10 years, the human consideration compass has dropped 25% - from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8 seconds in 2013 - and is presently 1 second not exactly the consideration compass of a goldfish.
At the normal rate of the human consideration compass, and human perusing velocity, you proceeded onward to something else when you read that first sentence.
That is on account of 8 seconds is the present normal human consideration compass.
Here's a child singing "Let it Go": Was it difficult to overcome it all without taking a gander at something else? That is on account of computerized media and innovation have prepared you to "Frontload" your consideration compass.
The 2,000 respondents to the online overview were separated into three equivalent measured gatherings: low, medium, and high consideration, every speaking to 33% of the specimen.
It additionally took a gander at the adjustment in consideration compasses when individuals connected with one and only type of media at once versus various screens at the same time.
The specialists found that study members who were all the while drawing in with different screens held more data, were more drawn in, and gave careful consideration than when the individuals who were watching a solitary medium, similar to TV. We've adjusted our brains to certain sound-related prompts that fundamentally say, "alright, you have to focus here," like a giggle in a sitcom.
At the end of the day, we're not so much giving careful consideration for the duration of the day than we did some time recently.
We've adjusted to a boost rich environment by figuring out how to deal with our fixation assets better.
Here's a feature of a moving otter: The study additionally investigated three unmistakable sorts of consideration: Sustained fixation; errand exchanging; and particular consideration.
We may be deteriorating at managing focus, yet we're improving on the other two.
Like we encoded the memory of how we murdered the panther with a lance superior to anything we encoded the memory of sitting by the pit fire, we encode the memory of the 21st century storm of information superior to anything we encode times of maintaining focus.
Granted, it sounds awful to say a human has a shorter consideration compass than a goldfish, however, what the blazes does a goldfish do throughout the day? Swim around its bowl.
Does a goldfish need to be continually moving fixation from the minimal plastic palace to the minimal jumper, and back to the little stronghold? No. People, then again, do need to move consideration.
What do you think? Is the cutting edge world, changing your mind? Improve or more awful consideration compass than you used to? Improve maintenance when you multi-screen than when you're in a solitary screen circumstance? Let us know in the remarks area beneath.


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It is here; The Thirteenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver by Character Options!
At Doctor Who Action Figures Online we were very lucky to have been chosen to receive an advanced copy of the sonic device, which is due to hit toy shelves up and down the country very soon! A big thank you to Character Options and Evolution PR for allowing us this opportunity!
So, what is new?
Well, the Sonic Screwdriver has been completely reworked for Jodie Whittaker's era. Measuring 8 inches long, the device has been given a solid metal appearance with a texturised two-toned surface. Even though the Sonic is not made from metal, it feels sturdy to hold and the smoked plastic gives a nice glass effect, especially when it glows amber within, giving the impression that the Sonic is alive! The device marks a departure from the straight designs of past as it is the first Sonic Screwdriver to feature a curved handle which fits comfortably in your hand.
In the original press release, Alasdair Dewar, Character Options' Director of Product Development commented:
"The new Sonic Screwdriver collectible is a radical departure in look but still retains the classic Sonic abilities and getting access to the prop images early on really helped the development of this toy."
Prop designer Arwel Wyn Jones added;
"It's a privilege to have been asked to redesign the iconic sonic screwdriver for the Thirteenth Doctor and a new generation of audiences. I can't wait for people to see how the Doctor acquires it!"
The device features two buttons; 'Button A' and 'Button B'.
'Button A' is located towards the bottom of the device, marking a change from the previous Sonic
Although listed as a dummy button with no function, we believe 'Button B', located towards the top of the device, is actually a motion or touch sensor which allows the sonic to light up when picked up or being held. The actual button has no other feature, as listed in the instructions, but is loose within the casing, allowing it to move.
We are certainly impressed with the device and we are sure that children, adults and cosplay fans alike will enjoy using it!
The Thirteenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver will be available from mid-August, however,
selected retailers are taking pre-orders now.
For more information go to www.character-online.co.uk.


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It's been an extremely long day. Went back to the junkyard at 10am to pull a strut out of a dead volvo. We ended up pulling two and then picking the one that looked better. We forgot to bring a breaker bar for added – bolt removal – leverage, so we scoured the fucking junkyard until we found a random hollow bar-shaped piece of a truck that worked. From there to a westside pit stop, and then into Rio, for piles and piles of laundry while performing car maintenance. Grease and brake line cleaner and laundry detergent. Heavy metal clanging to the ground after long minutes of delicate-but-firm rubber mallet pounding. Selecting the delicate cycle and cleaning the lint trap. Soldering severed electrical wires in the brake system, remembering to add a dryer sheet, kneading chemicals like clay to form a polymer and then spreading it over a sprawling crack. And while the adhesive set, a trip to the store. A trip to the store where I scored a new pair of cheap-but-comfortable tennis shoes, along with a few food style supplies. Then pulling piping warm clothes from the dryer, and adding a layer of industrial strength tape over the polymer patch. So strong it pulled at my skin in a way that threatened removal. Finally a shower, and into clean clothes, as the last of my junkyard garb swirled with suds. A quiet hour on the couch with my parents, watching nothing and trying to write and helping my mom with her computer. Four trips to the car to load everything up, and a long drive home. A long drive home with no squeaks or creaks or sputters.
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I applied for that thing. We'll see what happens with that, if anything. Going to meet my dad at the zoo tomorrow, because he's the only family member I haven't taken on a zoo excursion with my free pass thing yet. My brother wants to go with me on Friday to pull a new strut from a dead volvo. He said he would buy it for me, which is cool since I have literally zero monies right now. ZeRo MoNiEs. So maybe that will happen, we'll see. Maybe if we go early enough we could go into Rio to do the whole thing on Friday and I could do a bunch of laundry because all of my clothes are dirty at this point and I've shower washed some of my more delicate items and it's really fucking annoying overall. Again, we'll see. I shaved a couple seconds off my all time best 2 mile elliptical time today, so that's cool. Hey, I'm really tired but I should work some more on my personal style project. Hey, I'm really tired. Hey, I'm really tired. Hey, I'm really tired. Hey, I'm really tired. Hey, I'm really tired.
So, I think I'm going to apply for this weird job as a "history and ghost tour guide" in old town because… I dunno. why the fuck not right? It seems like something I would possibly not hate, and it seems like something I could be good at, and it would be at least **some** reliable income, which is more than I fucking have going for me now. Also it would be some supplemental exercise. I dunno. I'm good at public speaking, and I have a really good memory, and I just… need… something different. I need to do something more and different with my life, and if this doesn't work out then oh-fucking-well, but I think I'm going to apply for it. This month is rapidly approaching its end and I have… absolutely nothing to show for it money-wise… which is extremely sucky, and I really can't continue on like this. Also, I'm trying to put a little time into writing my dumbass novel… but that's a whole 'nother thing. My dad is fucking convinced that it's going to somehow be the answer to everything which is frankly ridiculous, but I'm willing to give it a go … mostly for him tbh. Today I talked to him on the phone and he said "I had a dream you were writing your book" and I was just like… omg. omg. omg. yeah. I dunno. I need to deal with my resume, which is going to be a little weird because I've been a freelancer for so long and I don't even know exactly how to write that up, you know?? yeah. I dunno. whatever. Like I said, I'm going to give it a try.
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we have dreamed this day, we dream still, and tomorrow will wake from it
I'm pulling myself back to reality after the last couple days. Valentines day and our -sort of sort of not- anniversary the next day. It has been like a breath of air, a vacation from myself and my thoughts. Everything narrows and simplifies for those hours, and afterward everything is softer. All of the problems from before still exist, but they are somehow beveled. As I go through the day smiling softly to myself to think on it. It was intense, after so long. I was experiencing such strong, visceral reactions. Fire and ice racing through me and clean excitement. A dance at once familiar and new, as we find our footing and each other. A thin thread of nervous fear winding through it all, somehow making it sweeter. I am sore today, and tired, and really it's a good thing that I don't bruise easily because it would be hard to explain, if the myriad of tender spots I feel had colored. I didn't do anything today really, just… recovered. It's been nice. I'm not going to go into any other details. Anyway, tomorrow is another day with another set of things to deal with, and I have to actually start dealing with them… for reals. big time. Okay, for now I'm going to go, and read, and breathe, and give myself this reprieve.
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I feel bowled over and dejected by the weight of the world. Fucking buried. growing hopeless and desperate in equal measure. a heart so wrapped so squeezed so so so so so so so so so so so. I don't even know. I don't know what to do. Measure my time out in pages and lines. Measure my time out in strokes and strides. I don't even know. I don't know what to do. Today I'll look up names and keep open eyes. Today I'll write and lie and ride. Today I'll see what chords my hands remember. This isn't fun and folly. This isn't what I wanted.
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The things about stuff
So yeah I'm like… sick or something?? **coughing break** It's really fucking annoying and I'm really antsy and frustrated because of it. I haven't gotten any significant exercise in two days and it's making me feel bad and gross… among other things also making me feel that way that I'm not going to get into right now. My throat hurts a lot and it's just generally really fucking annoying okay? My brain feels stupid and I'm over it. I'm so totally over it, I need to be done and well now. When I wake up tomorrow I need this shit to be fucking done. 20 more days 'till the end of the month… which is …. bad for reasons. Buuut I'm not going to get into it right now because I just don't feel like it bro. **insert various throat pains here** I should make myself tea or something maybe, but I don't really want to. Also I should definitely take a shower, but I don't really want to. I'm trying to decide wtf to do with my hair. At this point it's blond and I'm sorta over it being blond. I wanted to do like… a fun color originally, like purple or whatever, but it didn't work and my roots are already starting to grow in normal style and it's like…. such a pain to get it to go back to a "normal"color after doing a wild color so I dunno if it's worth it at this point, and I was considering a semi-permanent color instead but like… that only lasts a few washes and it would still cost me like $20 which is a lot and that's annoying. Sooooo I'm kinda thinking of doing like… backward highlights?? where I foil up some blond pieces and dye the rest a brown style color that matches my natural hair close enough to not be weird when it grows back in. That's not exactly super fun and exciting… but… it's practical?? and it would probably look decent??? and I think it would be a lot easier than getting highlights via pain bonnet like I did last time (although to be fair I think I kind of enjoyed it??) So, I dunno. I haven't decided for sure yet, but I kinda wanna do something soon. I keep going back and forth about it and it's annoying and I annoy myself. Okay, I really need to take a shower now so I'm going to go do that. There are a number of things I have to take care of tomorrow. Peace out.


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Mary Theresa Ledóchowska
Bl. Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, S.S.P.C.
|Missionary, religious, foundress
|29 April 1863
Loosdorf, Lower Austria,
Austrian Empire
|6 July 1922
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
|Venerated in
|Roman Catholic Church
(Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver)
|19 October 1975, Vatican City, by Pope Paul VI
|Major shrine
|Motherhouse of the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver
|6 July
Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, S.S.P.C. (Polish: Maria Teresa Ledóchowska) (29 April 1863 – 6 July 1922), was a Polish Roman Catholic Religious Sister and missionary, who founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, dedicated to service in Africa. She has been beatified by the Catholic Church.
Early life[edit]
Mary Theresa was the eldest of seven children. Members of the Polish nobility, she and her siblings - including Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, St. Ursula Ledóchowska and Ignacy Kazimierz Ledóchowski - were born in Loosdorf on the Lower Austrian estate of their parents, Count Antoni Halka-Ledóchowski and his wife, Countess Josephine Salis-Zizers.[1]
As a young girl, Ledóchowska exhibited a great love of the arts and displayed talent as a writer, she loved society life and would dress in her finest attire to attend the balls which were part of the family's social life. She was educated by the Sisters of Loreto, though, and in her school life also displayed a devotion to the Catholic faith which was instilled in her by the Sisters and her family; this social life continued until both she and father contracted smallpox in 1885.[2] She was nursed back to health, but her father succumbed to the disease. After his death, their uncle, Cardinal Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, took charge of their care.[1]
During her convalescence, Ledóchowska had begun to reflect on the meaninglessness of her life, her sister Julia later claimed that Mary Theresa had made a vow of virginity during that period. From 1885 to 1890, in order to help her family, which had fallen into economic difficulties after the death of the Count, through the connections of her uncle, she obtained the position of lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice of Parma, the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, at the imperial palace in Salzburg. While living at court, she resumed her participation in the social functions there, again attending concerts and balls. At the same time, she maintained a strict commitment to the practice of the faith. Under the guidance of a Franciscan friar who served as spiritual director to both the princess and her, she was admitted to the Third Order of St. Francis, following its spirituality, with an emphasis on the Passion of Christ.[2]
Shortly after her arrival, two members of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary came to the court seeking financial help for their missionary work. Ledóchowska listened intently as the two Religious Sisters shared their experiences of working with lepers in Madagascar, she took no action, however. The following year two other Sisters of the same congregation arrived at the court with the same purpose; this time their accounts of work in the overseas missions sparked a desire in her to commit herself to this work. Her interest in the missions increased when she read a pamphlet on Cardinal Charles Lavigerie's anti-slavery campaign.[1] Pope Leo XIII had entrusted the evangelization of Africa to Lavigerie, she began to publicize his cause, which soon attracted donations.[1]
Missionary service[edit]
In 1889 Princess Alice arranged for Ledóchowska to meet Lavigerie, who encouraged her to establish committees throughout the Austrian Empire in order to combat slavery, she proceeded to do so, starting them in Salzburg, San Ippolito, Vienna and Krakow.[2] She began to use her literary talent to oppose slavery and to protest the inhuman treatment of women then prevalent in Africa,[3] she wrote a novel entitled Zaida to show the terrible consequences of slavery, especially for women.[2] At the same time, she began a mission page in a Catholic periodical; these mission features, called Echo From Africa, were based on letters from missionaries serving in Africa. The page of letters evolved into a monthly magazine, which made its debut in 1889, with her as the publisher, even though this was still unheard of in the 19th century;[1] the magazine soon became a full-time job, and Emperor Franz Joseph personally released Ledóchowska from her duties at the imperial court in 1891 so that she could devote all of her time and energy to the missions.[1]
Ledóchowska left the court and took up residence with a community of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Salzburg. Struggling to find financial support for her project, she lived in near poverty, surviving on a prebend granted to her by Empress Elisabeth of Austria, who named her a canoness.[2]
As the work expanded, Ledóchowska's vision took shape gradually, she began to recruit other women as "auxiliary missionaries", whom she organized in 1894 as the Sodality of St. Peter Claver for the African Missions and the Liberation of Slaves, an association of laywomen, she placed her work under the patronage of the Spanish Jesuit missionary, St. Peter Claver, who spent a lifetime in service to the enslaved African people brought to South America, which earned him the title of "Apostle to the Slaves"; the society's goals were to publicize the needs of the missions in Africa and to raise funds for this work.[1]
On April 29, 1894, Pope Leo XIII formally blessed the enterprise, approving the St. Peter Claver Sodality as a Pious Association of the Faithful on 19 April 1894. Out of this society, the auxiliary missionaries developed into a religious congregation. On 8 September 1897 (the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, but also the anniversary of Claver's death), she and her first companions professed their permanent religious vows as Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, they adopted the Jesuit Constitutions for their own use, to combine the elements of contemplation with an active life of service.[1]
The new foundress then traveled throughout Europe to raise support for the missions which she and her Sisters served, addressing various conferences and international gatherings of Catholics to speak on the needs of the missions. One need of which she became aware was the lack of printed resources in the native African languages, her publishing house began to produce books to answer this need, ranging from Bibles and dictionaries to hymnals.[1] The number of Sisters began to grow and the congregation began to open houses in Africa.
Death and legacy[edit]
Late in her life, Ledóchowska developed tuberculosis. Despite the pain and exhaustion caused by her affliction, she continued to serve the needs of the missions and of her congregation, she finally succumbed on 6 July 1922 at the congregation's General Motherhouse in Rome.[1]
The congregation Ledóchowska founded never grew into a large one, but communities of the Sisters of St. Peter Claver include 28 nationalities and serve in 23 countries around the globe.[3] Echo From Africa is still published by the congregation.[1]
During her own lifetime, Ledóchowska had become known as the "Mother of the African missions"; the cause for her beatification was opened about 1930. As part of the process, her remains were exhumed and transferred to the chapel of the General Motherhouse in 1934.[2] Pope Paul VI beatified her on 19 October 1975, her feast day is celebrated on 6 July.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Foundress". Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver.
- ^ a b c d e f "Beata Maria Teresa Ledochowska". Santi e beati (in Italian).
- ^ a b "Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver". Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious. Archived from the original on 2012-06-23. Cite uses deprecated parameter
See also[edit]
- Ledóchowski Ledóchowski family overview
- Ursula Ledóchowska The canonized sister of Maria Theresa Ledóchowska
- 1863 births
- 1922 deaths
- Ledóchowski family
- People from Melk District
- Polish Austro-Hungarians
- Members of the Third Order of Saint Francis
- 19th-century publishers (people)
- Polish Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns
- Founders of Catholic religious communities
- Polish Roman Catholic missionaries
- Female Roman Catholic missionaries
- 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- Infectious disease deaths in Italy
- 19th-century venerated Christians
- 20th-century venerated Christians
- Polish beatified people


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One thing you may not know about me is that I share a lot of morally charged articles on my personal FB page. It gets me in trouble with friends sometimes, but it often leads to good discussion too. I don't post those things on the blog page because its not what you all are there for, but in my personal life, I guess I like to passively stir things up a bit. Surprised? But I'm all about being real around here and my beliefs are part of me, so sometimes I feel the need to mix things up a bit over here too.
I've been thinking a little about leopards this week because of all of the talk on FB about a certain female hunter. There are plenty of opinions out there and I can see all sides of the issue. I definitely love animals and value animal life. For example, we have two cats and I dream of someday owning a miniature pig. Also, yesterday Soren saw a snake in our yard and brought it to the house for the kids to see. Unfortunately he had hit it with a stick first because he couldn't tell what it was doing or where it began and ended when he found it. The hit mortally wounded the snake and I couldn't bear to watch it writhe on the deck. I had Soren put it out of its misery. A snake pulled my heart strings y'all! A snake! So yes - I really despise cruelty or pain towards animals.
That being said - we eat meat. We drink milk. We own a leather business, although all of our leather is a food industry byproduct (meaning the animals would have been killed anyway). I do believe animals were created for man to use - wisely and respectfully.
Anyway back to leopards. This article is really what hit home with me. Would I hunt African animals? Nope. I wouldn't hunt anything. I'm sad to see any animals die, even if it helps the local economy and environment. But the issue at hand is not about someone hunting big game in Africa - what I'm interested in is why our country can get so outraged about this. While this type of hunting seems unusual to us, first world folks who grew up in awe of the exotic African animals, I doubt it is. This gal is certainly not the only one doing this and just like all other social media posts, I'm sure we don't and can't understand the entire situation based on a few FB photos. When do FB photos EVER tell the whole story of ANYTHING? What the article points out that I really agreed with is the moral inconsistency that surrounds this outrage. Matt says it all so much better than I can, but I can say that as a mom and a Christian I will never be anything but pro-life: pro everyone's life. Life is a gift. I wish that people who fight so hard for these animal's lives would put the same effort and zeal into fighting for everyone's life. I hope to do more myself.
I'd love to hear your thoughts - provided they are kindly spoken - as they always are. Have a great Sunday!
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25 Dec2014
From our family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Peaceful Holiday Season! This was the setting for our Christmas Eve meal this year…
…and after dinner when the guests had left, and we were putting away the plates and crystal… we decided to leave Santa a more "adult" tray of refreshments as he zooms around the planet at warp speed. In the past, he's been offered hot chocolate and gingerbread cookies, here, a Diet Coke and chips, broas and chocolate eh, etc. :) This year, he had a choice of red wine or champagne and some fresh nuts (protein), dried fruit (golden cherries, apricots, strawberries, figs and dates) and home-baked cookies (gingerbread, chocolate shard with cacao nibs, raspberry jam filled cookies, chocolate chip, etc.) and he was kind enough to snap a photo of the tray with the Santa present for Marketman in the background…
…before he sat down at the dinner table to take a quick pause (seventeenth millionth of a second) to enjoy a sip of some nicely aired red wine in an appropriately celebratory crystal goblet. Yes, there is a Santa. Seriously. Happy Christmas to all!
Happy holidays MM. May you and your loved ones be blessed with peace, good health, properity and joy.
Dec 25, 2014 | 12:11 am
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to you and your family!
Dec 25, 2014 | 12:16 am
Dec 25, 2014 | 1:16 am
Merry Christmas MM and family! Thanks for a wonderful year of food, travels, & fun!
Dec 25, 2014 | 3:38 am
Merry Christmas, MM and family, and to the chocolate Lab.. The Tree!
Dec 25, 2014 | 5:19 am
Maayong Pasko MM and family.
Dec 25, 2014 | 6:17 am
A smile on my face Christmas morning, thank you MM, Merry Christmas to you and your family
Dec 25, 2014 | 6:51 am
Happy Christmas Santa.
Dec 25, 2014 | 8:06 am
I am one of your avid readers (have to catch up on past posts) but not a commenter. I just want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year! Thank you for giving us unending good reads.
Dec 25, 2014 | 8:19 am
Merry Christmas, po. Thank you for sharing your culinary world!
Dec 25, 2014 | 8:33 am
Happy Christmas!
Dec 25, 2014 | 10:58 am
Merry Christmas MM and family. I love your Christmas tree!
Dec 25, 2014 | 12:36 pm
Merry Christmas and happy new year to MM and family. You have also been such a generous Santa this year !! Looking forward to all your posts in the coming year. Thank you always,MM, for your generosity of spirit.
Dec 25, 2014 | 12:54 pm
Merry Christmas….
Dec 25, 2014 | 1:33 pm
A sip from a Baccarat goblet no less! Merry Christmas!
Dec 25, 2014 | 2:08 pm
Merry Christmas!
Dec 25, 2014 | 3:25 pm
same to you.
Dec 25, 2014 | 3:50 pm
I'm probably the most 'quiet' reader of your notable blog. You've been so generous in sharing your culinary knowledge and I want you to know that you're very much appreciated. As a Pinay housewife of a Jewish/American, I have tried quite a few of your recipes and my husband love all of them.
Merry Christmas, MM and your family.
Greetings from the Big Apple :-)
Dec 25, 2014 | 4:27 pm
Merry CHRISTmas po, Marketman & family! Be blessed po!
Dec 25, 2014 | 8:43 pm
MM: If you say Santa stopped by, did RUDOLPHA bring him? You see,
According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game,
"while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year,
male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter,
usually late November to mid-December.
Female reindeer retain their antlers till after they give birth in the spring.
Therefore, according to EVERY historical rendition depicting Santa's reindeer,
EVERY single one of them, from Rudolph to Blitzen, had to be a girl."
We should've known……
"ONLY women would be able to drag a fat old man in a red velvet suit
all around the world in one night and not get lost."
Merry Christmas and a blessed season to all!
Dec 25, 2014 | 9:05 pm
Whoever named the reindeers probably caught on and figured it is safer to have a Dancer, a unisex Prancer and definitely, a Vixen!!!:)
Dec 25, 2014 | 10:40 pm
Merry Christmas to MM and family and cheers to a generous sharing of culinary and travel experiences. I J
hope to win even one contest next year. Lol. Merry Christmas to everybody!
Dec 25, 2014 | 11:12 pm
@ Connie C: so funny!!!
Maligayang Pasko sa inyong lahat!!!!
Dec 25, 2014 | 11:59 pm
To MM and family and to the MM readers community – maligayang Pasko at mas manigong bagong taon para sa lahat!!!
Dec 26, 2014 | 2:42 am
Merry Christmas to you MM and family….and to the Marketmanila community!!!
Dec 26, 2014 | 9:04 am
…so what did Santa bring you, MM? was it for being naughty or for being nice?
Dec 26, 2014 | 10:58 am
Maligayang Pasko sa inyong lahat!
Dec 26, 2014 | 1:50 pm
Merry Christmas to all!
Dec 26, 2014 | 5:27 pm
Merry Christmas to you and yours, MM, as well as to the Marketmanila community!
Dec 26, 2014 | 5:59 pm
Happy Christmas to all!
Dec 26, 2014 | 7:11 pm
Malipayong pasko marketman,mrs. Marketman,teen,inyong banay ug mga kauban!
Dec 27, 2014 | 2:25 pm
hahahaha! I love that trivia Connie C! :)
Dec 27, 2014 | 8:43 pm
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All!
Dec 28, 2014 | 1:29 am
A belated Christmas grettings!!been busy lately spending time in Vegas..my hubby and I belong to Nomadic tribe now..loving it .Love your holiday postings,the community interactions..Love Connie's trivia.
Dec 28, 2014 | 10:18 am
Merry Christmas, MM!
Peace, good health and abundance to all in 2015!
Dec 29, 2014 | 12:43 pm
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year!
Dec 30, 2014 | 11:26 am


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Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel by Wyndham Madison
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- Madison, WI (MSN-Dane County Regional) 6-min drive
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Within the villages of Pewsey Vale, the local man who services and repairs boilers is in great demand. He must be booked at least four weeks in advance. You would think people would learn from experience, but no — every year it is the same. Only with the first cold snap do our neighbours notice that their heating is not working properly and, on ringing Mr Hiscox again, they experience the seasonal outrage of learning that he cannot come immediately.
So I am proud that, for the first autumn ever, I had the sense to think ahead and book a service, not least because it turns out that our boiler is on its last legs. Hot water requires one of us to fiddle with the dials while the other fiddles with the taps. The radiators, however, will not come on at all.
"It's just as well I booked Mr Hiscox," I told my husband. "He's coming on the 18th."
"Can't you put him off?" came the response. "Let's just soldier on and see how we manage."
This chilling exchange gave me a taster of the bleakness to come during winter. Since autumn arrived with a rush last week, all over Britain couples are squaring up for those daily battles over the thermostat. It is rare for couples to be "calorifically compatible"; usually one is "freezing" while the other claims to be "baking". As the winds gather, a straw poll reveals it is mostly the woman who wants the heating on now. Men seem much more hardy, unable to countenance heating a room until at least the clocks have gone back. As a breed, husbands seem happy just to let the wife hog the duvet while they lie exposed, blasting off heat like human Agas.
Guy Taplin, the artist known as the Birdman of the Essex Marshes, may have something to teach us. To turn driftwood and discarded timber into carved birds, Taplin stands all year on a spit near the mouth of the River Colne, clad only in a lightweight jumper or shirt as he absorbs the atmosphere that inspires him. "I never feel the cold," he says. "I think if you never wrap yourself up too much, you develop a sort of hide."
But after years of balmy winters and overheated offices, shops, trains and buses, we women have become enfeebled. No wonder we do not buy winter coats. There is nowhere to wear one — except, these days, in your own home.
We are all in search of moral identities, and one way of showing how ethically superior you are is by not turning the heating on. It shows you are "green". It is nothing to do with saving money, of course, and all to do with countering global warming.
"Oh no. We never put the heating on until the first winter calendar month, which is November," boasts my husband. "If you want to live in a cottage in the country, the way to keep warm is to keep moving."
But I can't keep moving if I have to sit at a desk and work. "Just wear more clothes," he suggests, offering me a selection of hideous fleeces. "Read Richard Jefferies, the 19th-century Wiltshire naturalist, and you will see that cottagers like us used to make hedgerow pies to heat themselves up. No need to go on an organic foraging course at Daylesford to see what's obviously out there on your doorstep. This is the season of plenty!"
Since I am too cold to forage at this time of year, he does it, often with a torch, returning with apples. "If you add enough maple syrup, it will take away the sourness," he says, handing me a plate of crumble. "The blackberries are late this year, yet Richard Mabey says you must not pick them after the end of October, because after then they will have picked up mildew and bacteria. The old country custom says that after Michaelmas night, the devil will have spat on them."
While he is out scrumping and scouring hedgerows, I can surreptitiously plug in an old nursery heater. But not for long. My husband has an uncanny ability to "smell" heat and, returning from foraging, will march in and turn the dial down.
As well as his thermostat-watching, the seasonal curtain fascism has started up again. Each evening, as I admire the lovely gloaming over the Downs, the sound of jackboots approaching signals its censorship. "Keep the curtains shut and you will keep the heat in," he insists.
One year, he came up with a "brilliant" double-glazing solution, which was to use bubble wrap found at a recycling yard and tack it into the windows. Had it not been that natural light was shut out by day, requiring electric supplements, we might have had to stick with it.
Many partnerships may well be driven to breaking point by winter, but a key survival strategy found in the bestselling self-help manual The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People has relevance to soldiers in the cold wars ahead. When faced with someone with opposing views on a subject, and whose mindset is unalterable, you should cease trying. Instead, save your energy, sidestep the issue and concentrate on winning another battle.
For this reason, a friend has joined the London Library, which has an unparalleled collection of books. She pays £400 a year to be a member — not to read the books, but to have somewhere cosy to lounge. "I am not allowed to have the heating on at home," she admits, "and have given up arguing about it."
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Proposed seaport in Vizhinjam can spell disaster for fishers, tourism and biodiversity in Kerala
Perilous port
Despite warnings, the Kerala government has decided to go ahead with the construction of Vizhinjam seaport which, according to marine experts, would be an ecological disaster. The international container transshipment terminal, highlighted as a dream project that would bring huge investments, would not contribute to economic development of the state either, say finance experts.
The Rs 6,595 crore project was showcased in Emerging Kerala, a global investor's meet held recently in Kochi. The terminal would act as a cargo switching point for deep-sea vessels operating on trans-continental trade routes. The state will soon call international tenders for engineering, procurement and construction contract worth Rs 1,600 crore. The project is being implemented by the Vizhinjam International Seaport Limited (VISL), a special purpose company formed by the state government. In 2009, the government had chosen International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group as lead transaction adviser to assist in structuring and implementing the project.
"The Kerala government is committed to clear all hurdles and realise this project fast," says K Babu, the state ports minister. An environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) study has just been completed by the Asian Consulting Engineers Private Limited, an accredited agency hired by VISL, and a public hearing would be called soon, says the minister. Civil works will begin once the government gets clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).
The site is 18 km from the Malacca strait, which is one of the busiest international shipping channels, and the sea water along the southern coast of Kerala near Vizhinjam has a natural depth of up to 22 meters. These two factors will enable the port attract big container ships, says A S Suresh Babu, chief executive officer of VISL. "At present, almost 40 per cent of India's transshipment is done at the Colombo port in Sri Lanka. If the Vizhinjam port is built, it can contribute significantly to the container transshipment business of the country," he says. Since the seabed is rocky, the port does not need maintenance dredging either, he adds.
Nearly 80 hectares (ha) of the sea would have to be reclaimed and about 85 ha of land would be purchased for the project. VISL has already spent Rs 260 crore on purchasing some of the land from private parties and has completed the last stretch of a road leading to the port site, even though a clearance for the project from MoEF is awaited. The company even called tenders last year for a private operator and a consortium led by Welspun Infratech Limited (India) qualified. But the firm demanded Rs 470 crore for operating the port for 15 years and the negotiations failed. "After completing the construction we will again call tenders to finalise the private operator," says the ports minister.
Ecological nightmare
The proposed port site is just 250 metres south of the ever-busy Vizhinjam fishing harbour. This would spell doom for the booming fishing industry and the marine biodiversity of the region. Over 20,000 fisher families live in 11 villages close to the site. Fishers say they will lose their means of livelihood if the government goes ahead with the ambitious project. Marine experts warn the port would damage the ecologically fragile coastal belt of southern Kerala, hurt the marine fauna and flora, change the shoreline and erode the popular Kovalam beach north of the project site.
Just like Vizhinjam, Adimalathurai, a village south of the port site, too, is an important fish landing centre. "If the port is built here, the area will come under the port authorities and fishers will be denied access to the sea," says T Peter, the state president of Kerala Swathanthra Matsya Thozhilali Federation, an independent federation of fishers.
Marine scientists say that underwater rock dredging, rock removal, reclamation of sea, sand mining, construction of breakwater and quay walls for the port and the resulting pollution will cause substantial damage to the coastline and the fisheries resources. "The affected coastline will most likely extend to 10 km north and south of the proposed port," says Sanjeev Ghosh, former additional director of the department of fisheries of the Kerala government. He points out that the Wadge Bank, the main fishing ground in southern India, is just 50 km off the Vizhinjam coast. "It is a breeding ground for over 200 varieties of fish and is the largest coral reef of the Indian Ocean," he says.
The Wadge Bank is home to more than 60 species of ornamental fish and other oceanic animals. Commercially important fish such as squids, cuttle fish, carangids, tuna, anchovies and lobsters are abundant there. Ghosh wrote a letter to MoEF on July 10, 2012, pointing out the ecological importance of the area. "Wadge bank is currently being considered to be classified as a Marine Protected Area. The government should take the opinion of marine experts before going ahead with the project," he wrote.
K K Appukuttan, retired scientist of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute in Kochi, says several endangered, threatened and protected species like Leatherback turtle, Olive Ridley turtle, black pearl oyster and dolphins have been spotted on this coast. "The construction work will cause heavy silting up leading to massive biodiversity loss."
When questioned about the possible damage to biodiversity, Ajith S, executive engineer and head of the environment division in VISL, says, "I don't want to make half-baked comments. Let the ESIA report be published. Those who have objections can raise them in the public hearing. There are vested interests behind the allegations," he says.
Trouble for tourism
There are 31 beach resorts on the Vizhinjam coast. They cater mainly to foreign tourists who come here for ayurveda treatment and employ nearly 3,000 people. The resorts will go out of business once the port is built. The owners of these resorts point out the proposed port would offer only 500 jobs.
The dynamics of sea currents along the southern Kerala coast is such that any construction into the sea would erode the coast to the north of the construction and cause the sand to collect on the stretch towards the south, says Ghosh. "This trend has been noticed wherever breakwaters have been constructed," he says. This means the Kovalam beach, just 1.5 km north of the proposed port, would get eroded. Kovalam is one of the most sought-after international tourist destinations in Kerala.
Kerala Hotels and Restaurant Association has protested the project. Of the Rs 18,000 crore generated a year by the state's tourism sector, over 30 per cent come from the Kovalam-Vizhinjam-Poovar belt, say the owners of the resorts on the Vizhinjam coast. At least Rs 20,000 crore has been spent for developing the tourism infrastructure in this belt and all of that will go waste if the resorts are shut due to the port development, says M R Narayanan, secretary general of the South Kerala Hoteliers' Forum.
The hoteliers also allege that VISL has falsified the facts to get clearance for the project from MoEF. The firm had hired L&T Ramboll, a leading consultancy firm in the country, for a site selection study in 2004. "The study says there are only three resorts in the project area," says Cyriac Kodath of Coconut Bay, a resort that falls within the project area. VISL seeks ESIA approval in the public hearing based on this study. The study does not say a thing about the possible environmental damage, biodiversity destruction and the peculiar erosion pattern in the southern coast, allege the hoteliers.
A debt trap for Kerala?
The proposed port is a public-private-partnership. The state will take up the civil work—sea reclamation, dredging, rock removal construction of breakwater and quay wall, land acquisition, road and rail connectivity and ensure water and power supply. The private party will just bear the expenses for superstructure of the port which includes cranes and equipment. Of the total revenue generated, the private party will collect cargo charges and the state will get vessel charges. Projections based on market studies show that the private player will make an estimated Rs 21,346 crore over 30 years that it would operate the port, leaving the state with a paltry Rs 2,181 crore.
This means the government would bear 80 per cent of the Rs 6,595 crore to be spent on the project but would collect only 10 per cent of the total revenue generated from the port. Not only is the idea illogical but would come at a very high cost to the public exchequer. The advisory body of the project, IFC, has itself warned the government against the project.
It submitted a report, "Vizhinjam : Strategic Options", to the state government in 2010 that warns the project could push Kerala into a debt trap, considering the huge cost involved and the low returns for the state. The report says that being new in the business, the port would attract ships only if it gives at least 40 per cent concession over the charges in the Colombo port in Sri Lanka.
Interestingly, all the local political parties and people's groups like Janapaksham strongly support the project. They insist the project would pave way for regional development. But the IFC report clearly says Vizhinjam will have stiff competition from Dubai, Singapore and Colombo ports. It also says that since the focus is on transshipment, the project will not contribute much to regional economic development.
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Comprehensive Article and Firm in its Assessment.
It is even more worrying that one of the reports by the IFC suggests to the Kerala Govt to call this port as "Gods own Port". Really an eye opener to the real agenda behind this development constantly called as a "dream project".
If one takes into account the present condition of Vallarpadam, which had to recieve cabotage waiver to continue business, then it is doubtful that these port operators will ever make Vizhinjam Port a success. The project is an unviable loss to the state.
Environmental damage and impact on fishing would be a real concern from this construction. We must consider why a few local groups and politicians are blindly supporting this project. Modern ports do not employ many people. There are some jobs but then it is unlikely that fishermen communities will recieve them.
I wish the government would spend this much money on something that the people would benefit. Look at the waste problem in Trivandrum.
It is sad to see the
It is sad to see the Government trying to destroy the thriving industry of tourism in Vizhinjam and Kovalam. It is even sadder to take part in a special meeting organised by experts from IFC and only to be prevented from voicing our concerns properly. The real question is how VISL and IFC could invite us for a sorry excuse of a stakeholder grievance meeting and purposefully arrange about 30 people to shout and prevent affected parties from speaking.
Tourism in Vizhinjam and Kovalam is based on the natural beauty and the beaches here. It is a laughable concept to hear so called industry ÔÇ£cheerÔÇØ-leaders who are in no way connected to the project voicing blind support. There is a need for transparency and informing the affected community and the public at large about the true nature of this project.
There is a bias within this study and the impact on tourism has been portrayed in a very light manner. VISL officials are involved in trying to create false impressions of "development" and refuse to answer how many direct jobs the port would bring in. The same officials allege that vested interests are the reason why environmentalists question the impact on marine resources and biodiversity and that there will be no erosion upon Kovalam or further northwards before a shoreline impact study is even completed.
It is also amazing to hear people groups who supposedly represent the fishermen community support the project. Several members also recommended that there is no further need for the studies and that within a few years all the fishermen will get jobs as Engineers in the port. The reality is far from this.
Honestly it is the duty of the Malayalam media to inform the people about this reality.
Very well written!!! Trouble
Very well written!!!
Trouble for tourism, ecology and above all for fishermen Community !!!
Let us fight to make Kerala a beautiful Museum and serve it to the coming generation... Let them go & work at the Dubai port make money for us... Let us live as a parasite for ever...
But my humble request is not make the fishermen an instrument for establishing you theories...
Dear friends, In the current
Dear friends,
In the current situation, country like India which is emerging in all sectors and becoming a major player in international market, there are certain factors country need to have, like high skilled man power, infrastructure, good transportation etc. When people in india have to depend on outside community for basic things like education, job, vehicles, dress, communication, equipments like gun, missiles to aircrafts etc foreign countries do have commanding power over the nation. They decide how things should happen in country. Only way to be free our self from foreign strength is to become self sufficient. people should become educated, country should have its own production companies in all sectors.
About Vizhinjam, its only 1 of the many projects country needs for the future generation. For the last 50+ years what ever goods people in india need are brought through dubai, singapore or colombo like dress, vehicles, manufacturing goods, tv, toys, what ever you name it. For example, if the country that sells a toy for 100rs, they load it in a ship it will go to dubai/singapore/colombo, from there it will be loaded to another ship which will carry to mumbai/kolkata/kochi. From there in train or goods vehicle it will take to different parts of country. When it reach the hands of consumer that toy will cost 150 to 200 rs. Hope you can understand the wealth the container port/country earns if one looks at dubai/singapore. When our country will have a port we can directly bring goods from producer there by goods price will be reduced and also do the work dubai/singapore is now doing. If one looks deep and try to understand why millions of men/women leave there home and travel to countries like dubai/singapore/australia/usa/britian for a job. how and from where is those country produce that many jobs?
through Vizhinjam, India will have the deepest port in the world which can even accommodate the biggest container ship in the world which is under construction.
Its necessary to hear those people who stand against having a vizhinjam container terminal. there points like fisherman losing there jobs, people losing land, resorts losing business, life's living in water get effected etc are very valid and an alternate way need to be find out for each and every thing and that no one have a loss. Development should happen, its for every single men in this country, at the same time nature have to preserved, people have to be taken care.
There is a solution for every problem. The one who handles should be capable of making the right moves. those kind of people are less in our country, its that much less that there is only one grand master Viswananth in india.
There are many countries in this world which takes care of nature and constructed container terminals and fishing community also lives with out problem. Ports like kingston, ghana, sana, sines, tema, aden and few more can be studied to understand how those countries take care of nature, people, business community and developed world class infrastructure. when country start using the natural resources in right way, there will be a change in every life that exist and those life yet to come.
The international Ombudsman
The international Ombudsman has arrived in Kerala to investigate these complaints.
There is reports that rock blasting will be needed for port construction. Where will the traditional fishermen who are in the Vizhinjam area go for their livelihood.
The media channels and newspapers are saying that the resort lobby is trying to stop the port. Why is nobody understanding that the real question is what will all the staff who are working in the tourism sector do.
No one is concerned about the resort owners who are going to get compensated. But there is a real issue of where a large work force of workers are going to work once these resorts are shut down.
In my humble opinion, this
In my humble opinion, this port is a total waste of public money. The project is financially unviable and will not generate jobs as promised. Ports have a very long gestation period, and especially in Kerala the impact of a strike or trade union agitation can send a damaging signal to the motherships that government is hoping to attract.
Instead, let us forget all sense and sensibility. Let us blindly follow our leaders who are going to give us development and this Dream Project which will solve all our problems.
The problem with these kind
The problem with these kind of projects is that there will always be some behind the curtain agendas. A clear example is waste management plants in Kerala always fail so that new orders for new projects and plants can be given for latest technology.
Then there will be some other interests involved where actual deserving people are sidelined and silenced and whatever benefits flow to a small minority like the ration system where BPL families who should be getting rice for Re 1 and Rs 2 per kg do not get anything. The rice meant for them is sold in the black market.
The problem with Vizhinjam is that there is massive expenditure in construction works which is the real dream for many.
The Vizhinjam Fishing
The Vizhinjam Fishing community will be permanently affected and displaced. There is no doubt in my mind about this reality
Recently I saw this link on youtube.
I feel the story is very much accurate. India and especially Kerala is not a place where rehabilitation is done properly. Moolampalli evictees are still struggling for their livelihood.
Vizhinjam Port will result in increased hardships for the fishing community as a result of the drinking water shortage in the area. It is only a matter of time before all the fishermen realise the serious negative impacts they will face from this project.
I read in the Hindu that the
I read in the Hindu that the government is planning to build a cruise terminal to improve tourism here. I was working for 8 years with a well known cruise liner before deciding to retire and come home to Trivandrum. The cruise business has a few serious drawbacks ÔÇô several anti social activities are rampant on vessels because while at sea, there is no danger of police or being raided. Several of my colleagues contracted AIDS due to their mistakes in the course of work. The same passengers, when they arrive at a port, engage in a day's visit to many places in and around the local area. There is a very high possibility that Trivandrum will suffer an AIDS explosion once cruise liners arrive with their tourists. Secondly, in places like Singapore where there is strict regulation, cruise liners are careful not to discharge their wastes or dump anything into the sea. However you can be sure that to save money and for their objectives this will not be followed in Kerala. I have seen the same cruise liners with certificates of environmental best practices dumping all their wastes without any remorse.
The overall potential for cruise terminal is low here, Cruise passengers look for night clubs and midnight parties when they arrive at a new location. They are rarely considerate about local customs or social importance of the traditional people.
After travelling all over
After travelling all over Kerala and seeing the beauty of our state, I have come to the conclusion that one of the most beautiful places in the entire state is the Kovalam-Vizhinjam-Poovar stretch. The area is so fantastic to witness a sunset and to just walk on the beach.
Should we really destroy such a beautiful place, There is not one Malayalee in the world today that believes this port will be run without polluting the entire area. Our governments are always making big promises.
Really it is a Gods gift and a true example of Gods own country. No one can deny that.
The Vizhinjam area is known
The Vizhinjam area is known for its epidemic threats and highly polluted drinking water supply. Malaria and epidemic outbreaks is a well known phenomenon here. Health and hygiene is a foregone conclusion with zero sanitation for the residents of the fishing harbour. There is severe water shortage in Vizhinjam. It is almost like 10,000 people stuck in a desert. How can someone blindly propose an activity such as a port which will consume all the water available in the area? A comprehensive draw down test must be conducted to assess the water resource availability which is already known to be scarce, given the consumption demands for the port.
This is a dangerous activity that has potentially permanent and irreversible social implications. I would request the experts conducting the study to study these aspects of environmental impacts in detail.
Vizhinjam project is not
Vizhinjam project is not viable. I read in a PPT online that that the project Advisor IFC has written that the Port will not generate much revenues for the state. Also, it was mentioned in the report that the main business for Vizhinjam will come from Cochin traffic that will now be rerouted to Vizhinjam. Colombo-level business will never be achieved due to massive competition and the advantages of already being established in Colombo.
Where is the need for one more un-viable port in Kerala, just 200 km from Vallarpadam. I believe that recently there was a big hue and cry about cabotage waiver being given to transhipment in Vallarpadam. Cabotage waiver is not an achievement, it is an indicator of a massive failure of Kerala's port sector to operate viably within the market framework.
The student has failed the exam and grace marks are being given to continue. In spite of these realities, the govt wants to go ahead with Vizhinjam. Cabotage waiver with the new security requirement to scan all containers will prove of no use. There is no scope for Vizhinjam to be able to get the same cabotage waiver and most importantly in the case of Vizhinjam the student is asking for grace marks before even writing the exam.
There is one aspect of the
There is one aspect of the Environmental Impact Study that is clearly mentioned in this article that is very important. The resulting shoreline changes. Indian Express had carried an article where it was mentioned that an RTI reply revealed that the Shoreline Study was not yet completed.
This is a case of very bad environmental management and judicious public expenditure. The southern tip of Kerala is prone to littoral drift and Erosion as a common phenomenon. A visit to Poonthura will make one realize this aspect. The problems of Poonthura and areas in and around this region started once the Vizhinjam Fishing Harbour was built. The Vizhinjam port if built will cause massive cumulative shoreline impacts including erosion.
The Pondicherry Citizens Action Network (PONDYCAN) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) with National Coastal Protection Campaign (NCPC)and BNHS had recently released a report on the cumulative impact of ports in India and their shoreline changes. This information is new to the Environmental Impact Assessment Data so far released or considered. The MOEF will necessarily have to call for the consideration of this information as the cumulative impact of the ports in India leads one to question the rationale of the Vizhinjam Port. No agency has conducted as comprehensive a study as the report prepared by the above groups.
The report is available here
Why all these are not
Why all these are not applicable to Tuticorin port or the one planned in AP or WB ?
This project conducted a
This project conducted a public hearing last month in Vizhinjam which was a total display of goondaism. Friends we are not against development but several vested groups are trying to create a false impression of support for this project in the name of fishermen and locals. And not allowing genuine people to speak.
The local fishermen and residents are opposed to the project in full manner but lobbies of the real estate and land brokers are playing behind the scenes creating a false support impression. What is the need for these threats in a democracy. If anyone has the video of the public hearing I request you to upload the same in the youtube etc.
Hope this disaster never becomes reality. 10 years back all the media proclaimed that Vallarpadam would be the greatest port in India with Transhipment and bring great development for Kerala. Today the same newspapers are writing the loss to State is 1000s of Crore and counting. Why the experts are making fools of the people here. This project is bad for the local community and State Budget.
Already one road constructed has totally dried the ground water wells in the region. I feel sorry for the people going to be affected.
Clearly, Cochin Port isn't
Clearly, Cochin Port isn't profitable because its far from the international shipping route and is not even considered as an option by the bigger vessels that continue to prefer Colombo. Here is why an International Harbour in Trivandrum makes more sence due to its proximity to the ISR. A major port in TVM will provide enough competition to Colombo which by the way handles almost 85% of the container transport within South Asia. So with a decent infrastructure in place TVM will attract a major portion of that because India contributes to over 70% of the container transhipment at the colombo port. India also is the biggest consumer and manufacturer in South Asia.
Concerns about tourism and fisher men getting affected is pointless. Please go to places like Dubai, Singapore or Beirut and you'll see major mega ports, fishing harbours and tourist beaches all functioning peacefully in close proximity! All it takes is some sensible planning and sure fishermen and tourists will not be affected by the port. And also, those 500 new jobs mentioned is not true. A major port will employ over 1500 direct staff and many other temporary workers. Several other adjascent businesses will spring up in and around the port that will employ thousands. So we are talking about employment opportunities to atleast 200000 people apart from the millions we save from not using the Colombo Port.
So we can either make use of this opportunity OR keep worrying about fishermen who by the way will lose nothing if planned properly.
I strongly think TVM Port should be opened ASAP even if that means they close down the enitre maritime operations in Cochin, which by the way, is still on loss even after 30 years!
The port should be developed in Vizhinjam. Period.


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Friday, January 27, 2012
Jack Attack!
Happy Friday!! This Friday post edition is late because I got called into work :( Womp womp. Oh well. I'm super excited about life right now because I made my first ever GIF! Look at me, getting all fancy, I know. First GIFs of puppies, next GIFs of Tyra from ANTM. That's my ultimate goal in life. But srsly, what better reason to make a GIF than the best puppy in the world- JACK! He's my brother Shane & his wife Diane's dog. I'm basically obsessed with him. I've determined that Boston Terriers are the best dogs ever. This is based 100% on the fact that Jack is so awesome. All he wants in life is to be around humans. He doesn't want to play fetch or even eat his food. Literally he just wants to sit with humans and pretend he's a human, too. It's adorable. Shane and I were having a little fun at Jack's expense last night on Facetime, and I couldn't resist posting it. How cute is this dog?!?!
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This has to be my most favorite color to find in nature: magenta. It really says, I'm happy!
Magenta and purple together look very pretty too.
Who can argue that all shades of purple look beautiful?
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