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BIRTHFIT Podcast Featuring Dr. Candace Gesicki and Dr. Erica Boland
BIRTHFIT Podcast Episode 79 Featuring
Dr. Candace Gesicki and Dr. Erica Boland
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Hello, BIRTHFIT community. This is Dr. Lindsey Mathews, your BIRTHFIT founder. Today, I have a special episode for you. This was recorded Saturday evening in Dallas, Texas after day one of the inaugural — "inaugural," I can never say that word correctly — after the inaugural professional seminar. In this episode you will hear myself along with Dr. Erica Boland, who is BIRTHFIT Wisconsin, and Dr. Candace Gesicki, who is BIRTHFIT Cleveland.
Now, just a little bit of insight as to what went into preparation for the professional seminar, and also there were instructors that were missing because they had to put babies to sleep, like Dr. Jamie, Dr. Mumma, and Laura Bruner of BIRTHFIT Santa Cruz. So we've spent months and literally years putting this thing together. This prenatal/postpartum birth education is near and dear to our hearts. Our goal with this professional seminar is to unite all professions, whether it be chiropractic, physical therapy, midwifery, OB-GYN, acupuncturists, nutritional therapists on the one common ground to serve women throughout the motherhood transition. So yes, this was only the beginning, and I see awesome educational material, other seminars, other workshops branching off from this in the near future but this is literally the first discussion, the first time we've gotten people in the room to actually have a conversation but also have a conversation where they respect each other, they hold space for each other, and not only do they, I don't want to say agree to disagree on some topics, but they from the bottom of their heart care to see where the other person is coming from.
For instance, the highly polarizing topic of vaccinations. So if one person is for vaccinations and another person is not, and maybe another person wants a delayed schedule, these conversations were had and anger was not present. Resentment was not present. Silly words that are just degrading and dehumanizing were not present. This is literally a safe space to have all kinds of emotionally heavy, highly polarizing topics and conversations. So I was just super floored by this weekend, and if I could have done a follow-up interview with all the seminar staff, I would have, but come 6:00 p.m. on Sunday people are getting to the airport, they're driving back to their offices, their cities, and they have to go back to work on Monday morning. So I want to thank everyone, including all the participants, all 40 participants that were there for the sold-out BIRTHFIT Professional Seminar in Dallas, Texas, and I want to thank the BIRTHFIT Professional Seminar staff for devoting their time, their energy and their wisdom and their love to making this weekend happen. It was purely magical and I know it's only the first of many conversations. So I hope you enjoy this podcast and let us know if you have any feedback. Please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
All right, a few announcements before we get started. So we have the BIRTHFIT Coach Seminar happening in New Jersey in less than two weeks. We also have a BIRTHFIT Coach Seminar happening in Chicago in almost a month. Those are the last two BIRTHFIT seminars of the year. BIRTHFIT Professional is happening in Raleigh in just about a month but that one is sold out. We are working, working, working, working to try to confirm dates and locations for the first six months of 2018 for both BIRTHFIT Coach and BIRTHFIT Professional seminars, so if you're not on our newsletter be sure to sign up because that is where we will announce new seminar dates and locations first and you will have access to signing up first. So I encourage you to sign up for the newsletter because if you miss it and it gets sold out, we really can't do anything because of spacing. So sign up for the newsletter.
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So we're sitting here in Dallas, Texas. We're recording. We just finished day one of the BIRTHFIT Professional Seminar, the inaugural BIRTHFIT Professional Seminar. I'm sitting here with Candace. Say your last name.
Candace: Gesicki.
Lindsey: Wow, that's pretty good, and Erica Boland who's taking a picture of us, an awkward photo of us, and we're all sitting together on this king-sized bed. So day one is done. Tell me what you're feeling and what you're thinking.
Candace: I thought that it was great. I had a lot of fun. I feel super excited already to go back to work on Monday even though we have a full, exciting day tomorrow.
Lindsey: Yeah. Nice!
Candace: How about you, Erica?
Erica: Feeling good! My brain was a little bit swollen by the end of the day but there's a lot of good energy and good conversation. Prenatal was today and we touched on a ton of really good topics, and tomorrow postpartum so I'm excited for that, too.
Lindsey: Awesome.
Erica: Yeah. It's good to be back in Texas. It's always a good time.
Lindsey: Last time we were in Texas it was me, you, Mel and Nast and we did the BIRTHFIT Coach Seminar and there recorded a podcast after two or three ciders.
Erica: Yup, that was entertaining.
Lindsey: And what's hilarious is that somebody in Denver at our last BIRTHFIT Coach Seminar was like, "Mel, you were so funny on the BIRTHFIT Coach podcast after Dallas after you drank those ciders."
Erica: Totally called her out at the seminar. That's awesome.
Lindsey: Yeah, so great, so funny. What was some of the conversations you had with some people today that you thought were interesting, like both of you? It can be one conversation or many.
Erica: There was a lot of really good questions on just the breath and intra-abdominal pressure that we had and establishing the difference between the breath and the intra-abdominal pressure, which I think is something that people definitely need to feel, but really especially when you're talking to other professionals that are going to be educating other people on this, so as far as like content, course content, but then learning about what other people do and where other people are from and just getting to know the people in the seminar a little bit better was nice, too. I hardly knew anyone, but then there was also one chiropractic student and one chiropractor that are here in Texas that live both within a 20-mile radius of our house in Wisconsin, so that's cool, too.
Lindsey: In "No Internet" land?
Erica: Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's a wonder they even got out of that place.
Lindsey: How did they even find BIRTHFIT?
Erica: Exactly.
Candace: So from a clinical perspective, one cool thing, we just kind of hear about how different all of us practice or just learn a little bit about how everyone practices that was there, even though some of us have the same profession, just super different. And I think outside of the course material, the one thing that was super cool in a lot of cool conversations was just how kind of like a "small world" type thing because there was no one there, I think — well, there's one student that graduated from National where I went but I don't think she was in school when I was, or at least I didn't know her, but just a lot of people that you know their friends or people they went to school with, and that was pretty cool to connect with people like that.
Lindsey: Small world.
Candace: Yeah.
Lindsey: For sure. Yeah, you definitely touched on there's so many people and how we have the same profession, or PTs or chiros or we have nutritionists here, and they all practice so different. It's no wonder that we have no standard of care as far as prenatal support or postpartum, which we'll talk about tomorrow but we won't talk about on the podcast, but we'll talk about that right now. And for us it seems obvious that no wonder OB-GYNs or midwifes are like, "I don't know if I want to even refer to a chiro or a PT because I don't even know what they're going to do." It's pretty eye-opening.
Erica: Bringing it all back together now.
Candace: It does.
Lindsey: Definitely bringing it all back together. The group is really cool in there, super collaborative, like PTs talking to chiros, nutritionists talking to PTs. Did you all see any of that?
Candace: Yeah, and I feel like it was different from — because I was at the first coach seminar so I also don't know how that has evolved, but just the — I don't know. I just feel like it was a different kind of conversation, which is cool.
Lindsey: Yeah, definitely intense.
Candace: Mm-hmm, very.
Erica: There were a lot of really good questions.
Candace: There are a lot of really good questions.
Lindsey: Yeah. What are some of the questions you got?
Candace: Erica got a lot of them. Okay, so what popped into my mind right away, I'll speak to it, it was in the small group breakout towards the end when we were working on breath and intra-abdominal pressure, and there's one attendee, one woman that said she didn't feel like she could really breathe very well. So she's asking me about it and I was just palpating, feeling her diaphragm, trying to help her connect with her breath and felt so much tension, unbelievable amount of tension in her diaphragm and then asked if anything was up with that. She has asthma, which led into the conversation of her being born via C-section, and there is some research that's coming out about that with there's a high rate of C-section children or babies that develop asthma actually, and I think personally it relates all back to the diaphragm and the way that that breath is supposed to be established when baby is born through the vaginal canal.
So I think it was cool for me to be able to help her connect with why she may still have so much tension there but also good for her to hear that she can continue to work on it just with her breath simply out of just asking me how to breathe, but then what you touched on with the conversations between different professions, I think that's huge, and one of the main goals of having a BIRTHFIT Professional Seminar and bringing those different professions together because these conversations have to happen in order for the standard to be set for prenatal and postpartum care. So it was really exciting to see that start to happen in the room today from the get-go, questions being asked and respectful conversations had. There's differences in how we practice and everything but still respecting where one another's coming from. Yeah, it was cool to see that come together so early on day one.
Lindsey: Yeah. Did you get any tough questions in small group?
Candace: A lot of my questions in small group were based on treatments and what that looks like and a little bit on more of the positions. The one tough question I did get right after small group was how long I plan on working. This is the real thing.
Lindsey: How pregnant are you right now?
Candace: Twenty-six weeks tomorrow.
Lindsey: Yeah.
Candace: Yeah.
Lindsey: And what is your profession?
Candace: I'm a chiropractor.
Lindsey: And an acupuncturist.
Candace: Yes.
Lindsey: Yeah, that's real.
Candace: Yeah, mm-hmm.
Lindsey: Because you own your own business.
Candace: Yeah.
Lindsey: And if you don't work, you don't make money.
Candace: Mm-hmm, and we also work with the population that we want women to take ideally 12 weeks for maternity leave. That would be awesome.
Erica: At least, right?
Candace: At least, yeah. Exactly. So it is a tough position to be in.
Lindsey: For sure. Yeah, it's hard to — like I want to lead by example but I better make sure I have money in the bank to put food on the table.
Candace: Mm-hmm, yeah. And to even, I think, with just whether you're a chiropractor or even PT or nutritionist even, you're scheduling appointments in advance, so when you stop, you know, "Yeah, I'm going to work until I have the baby," but are you going to have people on your schedule? Or what are you going to do then?
Lindsey: Right, and if you schedule people ten weeks out from now, that's like 35 weeks, like, "Ah!" Thirty-six weeks, that shit is getting real.
Candace: So real.
Lindsey: Oh, my goodness!
Candace: I think some of my patients are now just finding out I'm pregnant.
Lindsey: Via this podcast.
Candace: Yeah, right. Well, it was weird because in the beginning I didn't know how to tell — well, obviously I didn't tell people in the beginning, okay? And then it got to a point where I was like, "All right, I'm not really sure how to bring this up."
Lindsey: "By the way, that's my belly touching you."
Candace: Yeah, and then now I notice people just stare at my stomach and look at me funny and wait for me to say something, and then I don't know who I've told and who I haven't told.
Erica: That would be great.
Candace: Right, right. So it's funny. People I know are just finding out.
Lindsey: Being pregnant now, does it make you connect or treat patients differently or look at them differently?
Candace: I don't think it really makes me necessarily — well, maybe treat them differently and connect with them differently. I definitely connect with them on a different level especially if they talk about something or have an example of something that's uncomfortable and I can at least say like, "Oh, yeah, I definitely overdid it at the gym whatever day and I was really feeling it," and this and that. So I definitely can connect with them more on that level, which is cool.
Lindsey: What does your schedule look like right now?
Candace: Patient-wise?
Lindsey: Yeah, in your office.
Candace: Oh, it's a mess. Sorry.
Lindsey: She's like Monday through Friday, 8:00 to 5:00.
Candace: Oh, no.
Lindsey: Okay, good.
Candace: No. It is Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:00 to 7:30, and then I coach BIRTHFIT Prenatal Fitness 7:30 to 8:30, but we usually —
Lindsey: [0:22:52] [Indiscernible] on Monday/Wednesdays, huh?
Candace: Yeah. We usually don't get out either until like 9:00 because there's always discussions and chatting.
Lindsey: Girl talk.
Candace: Yeah. It's fun, though. It's a good way to end the day.
Lindsey: Yeah.
Candace: And then Tuesdays, 8:00 to 4:00-ish, and Fridays I don't see patients. I'm sorry, Thursday I don't see patients and Fridays either 8:00 or 9:00 until about 1:00, but Tuesdays and Thursdays I try to do Postpartum Series or something like that because Tuesdays are pretty slow for me. I'm busiest in the evenings, like after 4:00, so since I'm only in there during the day on Tuesdays, it's usually pretty slow so I'll block off times for Postpartum Series.
Lindsey: That's cool.
Candace: Yeah.
Lindsey: What does your schedule look like?
Erica: She's making me look bad.
Lindsey: You have four kids. She's growing one. She's growing one. You've got four.
Erica: Yeah, yeah, there's that. I was four days a week until I had Maclin and then after I came back, I think I was nine or ten weeks postpartum when I came back and pretty much since then I've been Monday and Wednesday or like a day-and-a-half. So Mondays I'm there 2:00 to 6:00 and then Wednesdays I'm there 8:00 to 6:00. So then I do my Postpartum Series on Tuesday/Thursday morning, I do my Prenatal Series on Tuesday night right now, and then Fridays are pretty open but the boys just returned to school so three-quarters of them are at least in school at some point, which frees, I mean, ideally leaves a little bit of space for doing stuff with planning for the professional seminar or meetings or whatever. But a lot of our schedule runs around their schedule type of thing.
Lindsey: It's interesting. I think a lot of questions throughout the weekend, they even started today but we'll probably get more tomorrow about what your practice looks like especially as women and business owners, or a lot of these women maybe their partner/husband/whoever is also a chiropractor or does something in the healthcare world so they're all small business owners and they want to all have families.
Erica: They want to know how.
Lindsey: Yeah, hear how people like you and you and everybody else do it.
Erica: Right. Yeah, I get that. I mean, it's always interesting even for me to hear other people's schedules, like what works for you. I remember, oh gosh, it was over a year ago now probably that Cecily posted something. It was a picture of her table and it said something about work-life balance and how there is no such thing, how it's all life.
Lindsey: Oh, I remember that.
Erica: That's powerful and it helped me a lot to realize like, yeah, because that's always the quest that people are searching for is that work-life balance and what is it really and all of it is life, so I think it's just really finding what works for you to be present in what you're doing because it's definitely a flow of if I'm home with my kids, then making sure I don't get sucked into doing something on the computer for less amounts of time so I could be present with them.
Lindsey: Yeah, not being present. Yeah.
Erica: Right, and not just giving half of myself to everything, so yeah.
Lindsey: Yeah, that's good.
Erica: Sometimes things change and then you've got to change it up a little bit with schedules as far as their school or their sports or whatever, but it is also the benefit of owning your own business to be able to make your schedule that way a little bit.
Lindsey: Yeah, the good and the bad.
Erica: Yeah, right?
Lindsey: For sure, for sure. Let's talk about prenatal for a sec. We probably have ten minutes before our battery runs out but —
Erica: Bad time.
Lindsey: What do you think is one of the biggest issues for women prenatally in our country maybe that we talked about today?
Erica: Yeah. I think the biggest issue overall is just the lack of true informed consent or true education. So many things are presented to them as fact that are choices and there's a lot of fear-based information out there, but also the fact that, and we touched on this today, that during prenatal we treat pregnancy like a disease in this time when women need to be careful and they really, truly need to be training mentally and physically for the biggest athletic event of their life, but in order to do so they need the support of their entire birth team and they need information. They need not decisions be made for them but information given to them to support what their birth mission is. So I think prenatally that that's in my opinion the biggest.
Candace: Yeah, I was going to say education too, and on both ends of providers being educated so that they can pass along good information, and then also women taking charge of their own health and becoming educated to question things or research and learn a little bit more about options that they have.
Lindsey: Totally, yeah, and you all just reminded me, I probably had a different answer five minute ago, but when we started talking about breech today, women's choices are so limited if they have a breech baby and the baby doesn't go head-down and then they're either forced into a caesarean because that's the only choice in their city or their state, and it shouldn't be the case because babies going head-down for a reason and if baby wants to be born booty first, baby knows why. Babies are smarter than us sometimes.
Candace: They are.
Lindsey: They also move better than us, for sure. Yeah, birth, definitely business is a business, and we were talking about today how if you don't think it's a business you're very naïve, and I would like to say that — or I would like to live in a fairytale world where, yes, your OB-GYN or your midwife or whoever is in it for your best interests, but if you go to the hospital and you're 41 weeks and the induction happens or whatever, they're never going to fault the doctor for doing a caesarean. Like liability stuff, if anything comes up, that doc is going to get off the hook because he chose a caesarean, which is crazy to think about. Even if he didn't believe in it, or if he believes in natural childbirth or wants to support it, it's like he's ruled by the hospital and the policies there and the insurance company that is in charge of that hospital or whatever, which is crazy, like that's what makes our choices today.
Erica: [0:31:22] [Indiscernible].
Lindsey: Yeah. What else came up today?
Erica: [0:31:36] [Indiscernible] breech conversation [0:31:38] [Indiscernible].
Lindsey: Yeah. It's just, ah! And the breech thing pisses me off and then patients don't even find out. They don't even find out they're breech until it's 36 weeks and then the ECV is mentioned, and then ECV risks aren't even discussed but ECV is performed in the hospital operating room and, "Oh! It's convenient. We're in the hospital operating room so let's just have a caesarean now."
Candace: Yeah, or I don't know if you guys see this in your areas but I'm hearing a lot more frequently from patients or clients that their OB doesn't actually know how to palpate if baby is head-down so they always do an ultrasound to check, which I can understand if you're not a hundred percent sure and you want to be a hundred percent sure but just learning that skill.
Lindsey: Totally. Midwifes palpate. Let's go back to the power of our hands, and it's energy. You're sending that baby love, or not if you're a dick. I don't know.
Candace: And it's funny because I even had a client a couple of weeks ago who wanted another ultrasound just because she wanted to see the baby, and she was seeing a midwife and her midwife was like — ever since she was like, "Oh, well, can we do an ultrasound and make sure the baby's head-down?" She's like, "I just palpated it. We don't need to do an ultrasound. Do you know how many times I've done this?"
Lindsey: Yeah. "I have done this hundreds of times."
Candace: Right, and it was just really cool that that was her response. But then I have some other people who are seeing OBs and they're like, "Oh, I'm scheduled for my ultrasound to check the baby's position," and they're like, "What?"
Lindsey: There are some hospitals in Los Angeles that will do an ultrasound upon checking in for labor and delivery just to make sure the baby is head-down. Isn't that crazy? And how crazy is that that we talked about ultrasounds are eight times more intense than they were prior to 1993? And sometimes even a hundred times.
Candace: That's nuts!
Lindsey: Before we hang up, what are some of the questions that you ask in a prenatal intake or exam that we talked about today? because if some of these topics and questions are asked throughout your pregnancy, they should be.
Candace: So I have one that's similar to something that we had on ours but I have a scale of zero to five and you rate "never" or "almost always," and I have questions that include exercise, and this isn't necessarily — this is my intake for everyone but like alcohol, smoking, stressors — shoot, and I feel like there's one more that for some reason I can't think of. Maybe it just says "Other." And then I spend a lot of time talking with them like, "Hey, well, what does your exercise routine look like or what is exercise for you?" and same thing with stress, "How often are you experiencing stress and what causes you stress? Is it everyday-life stress or is it more related to your job? Is it related to pregnancy? What's causing a lot of the stress?" So that's one thing that sometimes I feel like is pretty unique to my intake. It sounds like a lot of us are doing some of that but people are usually surprised by that when they come in.
Lindsey: Yeah, could you ask specifics about it.
Candace: Mm-hmm, yeah, go into that.
Erica: I think one of the big ones that came up today and even more towards the end of the conversation was what you touched on with stress, but like where do those stressors come from or how is your mindset, what is your mindset practice, and out of that came an entire conversation even on history of abuse and things like that. And I think, without getting into that full discussion of abuse right now because of the battery, the underlying thing is just making space in your office for those hard conversations, and it was brought up like people might not be comfortable putting that down on the intake. That's totally true, but if it's on your intake, if there's questions, hard questions like that on your intake, then people at least know that you care and that it maybe or likely is related to symptoms or obstacles that you're going through right now. So the more we talk about things like sexual trauma or abuse or miscarriage or past birth trauma or past birth history, abortion, all that stuff, the more that we ask those questions, the more people understand that it's okay to talk about it and then that there's support for them out there rather than them having to literally hold on to it internally and it's going to manifest physically eventually maybe in their birth.
Lindsey: Yeah, and then they feel isolated, alone and disconnected. Yeah, for sure the intake stuff was good. It was really cool to see how different practitioners create space for those tough questions, because sometimes I just take a blank piece of paper and write a history but I'll go through, "What was your last birth like? Talk to me about the rehab. Talk to me about what did labor and delivery look like. Talk to me about the pushing stage," and also especially if they're pregnant, I forgot who touched on this today but I'm so glad she brought it up, "Do you know your birth experience and have you talked with your parents about that?"
Erica: Mic drop. Yeah, for sure. That's huge because —
Lindsey: Yeah, so many people don't know. So when we took break, two people that were from California came up to me and they were like, "So you ask about vaccinations on your exam?" and I was like, "Absolutely. I want people to know there's risk associated with this," and one of them said, "I took it off because so many people don't even want to write it. Because we're in California, they mandate that now, so they don't even want to write down that they haven't been vaccinated." How crazy is that shit?
Erica: Yeah.
Lindsey: But yeah, like you said, I think it's super important to have that safe space to talk about those things because sometimes this is the only conversation they're going to have with the chiro, the PT, the acupuncturist, the nutritional therapist, and the floodgates might come open.
Erica: Well, even with the vaccination thing it's like people should be able to have a conversation about that. People should be able to tell you their choice and you respect their choice whether you agree with it or not. It isn't so much about what my choice is, it's about you're informed to make your choice. You should have a safe space to talk about even those things.
Lindsey: Yeah. Oh, man, crazy world we live in.
Erica: Setting the standard for it, though.
Lindsey: Yeah, I'm pumped. What are you pumped about tomorrow?
Erica: Postpartum.
Lindsey: Well, that's all day.
Erica: I know. I'm excited to start the day talking about the opportunity that we have to change postpartum care. And I got a little bit emotional before we even started today, like as I was observing the room, just watching everybody come together and thinking about how this has impacted me for so long and how I've wanted to create this change for so long and I've known there's more out there, and to see a group of individuals step up and come forward for the same cause and the same mission was pretty cool.
Lindsey: Awesome.
Erica: Yeah.
Candace: I'm excited to do more small-group work. I think even as I opened up my small group, I asked if there were any questions, they don't really have any, but as soon as we broke up into pairs and started workshopping on their own, then there were tons of questions and just a lot more conversations flowing and I'm excited for that.
Lindsey: I'm excited, too. Yeah, I think the small groups allow a safe space for the conversations to ignite and start talking about, "Oh, this is what postpartum care actually look like," or "This is what you screen for, test for, exam. That's awesome. I'll add that," people working together and collaborating.
Candace: Yeah, and I like when other people outside of our little staff share as well what they do.
Lindsey: Yeah, totally.
Candace: I forgot what someone said today but —
Erica: We're learning so much from them too.
Candace: Yeah, it's awesome.
Lindsey: Yeah. I like how — I want to toot our own horn — how we do a really good job of, I don't want to say putting everybody on the same level and say, "Hey, this weekend is a discussion. It's a collaboration," like we're not here to tell you the protocols and exactly how to treat people, we're just telling you what we've done and we want to hear what you've done, too.
Erica: Yeah, for sure.
Lindsey: I mean, that's how stuff is going to change.
Candace: Exactly.
Lindsey: Pretty powerful.
Candace: Growth mindset.
Lindsey: Growth mindset, read Carol Dweck, Mindset. All right, before we get off, who are you and what regional director are you? Where can people find you?
Candace: Candace Gesicki. I am BIRTHFIT Cleveland.
Lindsey: Awesome. And she's looking for an associate.
Candace: Yes, so I can take a longer maternity leave.
Erica: Your patients also just found that out, huh? Erica Boland and I am BIRTHFIT Wisconsin.
Lindsey: Awesome! So find them on social media, those handles.
Erica: The interwebs, Instagram.
Lindsey: Yeah, and I'm Dr. Lindsey Mathews. If Chef Antonia is listening, that's what she always calls me. I'm your BIRTHFIT founder and follow me @birthfit or @gigemlindsey. All right, ciao!
All right, I hope you enjoyed sitting on the hotel bed with us. Now, if we could take one thing away from this, and I said this at the beginning, it would be that this is the first of many conversations. All of us on the seminar staff are blown away at the questions, the comments, the discussions that have been happening just as you heard on Saturday, but now I'm telling you from Sunday as well. So if you are a chiropractor, if you're a PT, if you're OB-GYN, if you're a midwife and you're listening to this and you have people in your area, I strongly encourage you to connect and have a conversation with them. Break down those barriers because that's the only way the birth world is going to change in our country.
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"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do". This well known Steve Jobs quote is hung above my desk as a constant reminder to keep thinking differently. As educators, we should tell our students this every day.
Innovation is a hot topic in the UAE in recent years and is only getting bigger as Dubai gears up for the EXPO 2020. Believing that innovation is the future of human investment, the UAE Leadership emphasises its importance across all sectors through the UAE Vision 2021: "Innovation, research, science and technology will form the pillars of a knowledge-based, highly productive and competitive economy". Simply put, the aim is for the UAE to be among the most innovative countries in the world.
What does all of this mean for schools? In May, Dr Abdulla Karam, director-general of KHDA said that "in a world that is no longer standing still, schools need to keep up, and focus should be on innovation". So, what does this look like and how can it be implemented?
Many schools in the UAE are leading the way with using virtual reality in their curriculums. These schools are well equipped with smart devices, robotics and STEAM equipment. But, is this what makes them innovative? I would argue it is much more than that.
Yes, technology helps schools achieve outcomes that may not be otherwise possible, however it's the 'growth mindset' with constant learning and improvement that truly drives change through schools. I was lucky enough to attend an amazing CPD sesison on virtual reality last year. After beginning in a lecture theatre, we soon ended up under the sea and even had time for a quick trip to Mars! Although the technology was impressive, the thing that struck me was the leader's knowledge of how the students could apply it to their learning. Everything has to have a purpose.
The biggest killer of innovation in schools is a fear of getting it wrong. From teachers using a new app in a lesson for the first time or students attempting to code a robot in a STEAM lesson, mistakes must be celebrated and recognised as a by-product of learning. Albert Einstein summed up this point well when he said "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new".
The word 'consistency' is overused in schools. Of course each child should receive the same level of education and cover all of the relevant learning objectives. However, if our goal is innovation, we can't afford to use the term 'consistency' to force teachers to work at exactly the same pace and teach lessons in exactly the same way. If we do, then we may as well replace teachers with robots, devoid of individual flair or their own ideas.
I count myself lucky to have taught in positive schools with supportive management and parents who have built an environment for innovation to grow. This year, I have lead a group of teachers on an Innovation and Enterprise Team who created an action plan linked to all areas of the school. Through our conversations, we soon realised that to truly embed our chosen teaching methods and further integrate effective technology, our main focus had to be on CPD. Techniques like Flipped Learning, Talk for Writing, Singapore Maths and the Protégé Effect have to be methodically embedded into the schools curriculums, with enough training and support for staff to feel confident.
Just as the latest golf clubs aren't going to help me get onto the Ryder Cup team, simply buying into innovative teaching methods isn't going to improve teaching and learning on its own.Schools have to build a professional culture with the conditions necessary for those methods to flourish.
What is the most important element in building these conditions? Trust would be top of my list. Trust from the school's management for teachers to take risks in lessons by attempting innovative lesson ideas, trust from teachers to management that they won't be castigated if a lesson observation doesn't go as planned, and trust from teachers to their students to drive their own learning.
If you want something you've never had, then you've got to do something you've never done. Failure is a part of innovation, maybe the most important part. To end with another Steve Jobs quote: "Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity- not a threat".

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WESTON, FL – July 1, 2019 – Monaker Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MKGI), a technology leader in the travel and vacation rental markets, has been added to the Russell Microcap® Index at the conclusion of the 2019 Russell indexes annual reconstitution, effective after the U.S. market opens today.
Membership in the Russell Microcap® Index, which remains in place for one year, means automatic inclusion in the appropriate growth and value style indexes. FTSE Russell determines membership for its Russell indexes primarily by objective, market-capitalization rankings and style attributes.
"Monaker is honored to be included in the Russell Microcap Index," said Bill Kerby, the company's vice chairman and CEO. "It comes at an opportune time with the recent launch of our next-generation Monaker Booking Engine with Trisept Solutions and other travel distribution partners. We expect our inclusion will raise awareness across the investment community."
Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for active investment strategies. Approximately $9 trillion in assets are benchmarked against Russell's US indexes. Russell indexes are part of FTSE Russell, a leading global index provider.
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FTSE Russell index expertise and products are used extensively by institutional and retail investors globally. Approximately $16 trillion is currently benchmarked to FTSE Russell indexes. For over 30 years, leading asset owners, asset managers, ETF providers and investment banks have chosen FTSE Russell indexes to benchmark their investment performance and create ETFs, structured products and index-based derivatives.
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FTSE Russell is wholly owned by London Stock Exchange Group.
For more information, visit www.ftserussell.com
About Monaker Group
Monaker Group is a technology-driven travel company focused on delivering innovation to the alternative lodging rental (ALR) market. The Monaker Booking Engine (MBE) provides access to more than 2.6 million instantly bookable vacation rental homes, villas, chalets, apartments, condos, resort residences, and castles. MBE offers travel distributors and agencies an industry first: a customizable, instant-booking platform for alternative lodging. For more about Monaker Group, visit www.monakergroup.com.
Important Cautions Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations, opinions, belief or forecasts of future events and performance. A statement identified by the use of forward-looking words including "will," "may," "expects," "projects," "anticipates," "plans," "believes," "estimate," "should," and certain of the other foregoing statements may be deemed forward-looking statements. Although Monaker believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, these statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual future activities and results to be materially different from those suggested or described in this news release. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by the "Risk Factors" and other cautionary statements included in Monaker's annual, quarterly and special reports, proxy statements and other public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including, but not limited to, the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended February 28, 2019 and the company's subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, which have been filed with the SEC and are available at www.sec.gov. Investors are cautioned that any forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date hereof. The company takes no obligation to update or correct its own forward-looking statements, except as required by law, or those prepared by third parties that are not paid for by the company.


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Establishing and conducting business relationships is a common-sense activity that often gets distorted and confused into a power struggle or battle of wits. No relationship can succeed if there is not equality and mutual benefit at its foundation.
The driving force in relationships between equals is frequent, open, honest communication. Suppliers looking to win new clients or cultivate existing ones are fighting a losing battle if they try to manipulate, outwit or control to get what they want. The same is true in the reverse.
So, if you're looking to hire great employees, work with ideal clients and be the go-to provider of your services, look first at your communication style. Ask yourself these questions:
- Am I honest? Seems like a no-brainer, but honesty isn't just speaking the truth. A great acronym for real honesty is T.H.I.N.K. (Thoughtful, Honest, Intelligent, Necessary and Kind). Brutal honesty is not what we are after in our relationships. What we are seeking here is an ability to say what we need to say in a direct manner, without dodging and intimating or indirectly addressing, hoping someone will get the hint. Speaking this truth early ensures everyone is on the same page, eliminating festering resentments or misunderstandings, and allows everyone to stay in solution mode.
- Do I ask for what I need? Asking for what we need acknowledges our essential worth and ensures that we don't turn0 ourselves wrong side out for a situation that doesn't work. It also admits that there are times when we can't do it all and need help. This isn't a sign of weakness. It's a sign of sanity. Asking for what we need (payment, information, cooperation) acknowledges that not all clients are good clients for everyone and not all suppliers are created equal. It's just as important, however, not to ask for the unfair or impossible because that is not a need. That is greed.
- Do I know when and how to say no? Many businesses proudly proclaim an "our answer is always yes" philosophy. That's a great attitude, but it's meaningless if you don't understand the equally liberating and powerful "no." "No" gives us the freedom to end our workday and be with our families. "No" ensures that we are not taken advantage of. "No" leaves room for greater attention and success where you say "yes." "No" means others will value and respect your "yes."
- Do I express gratitude? Sounds corny, but everyone craves acknowledgement and appreciation. Your clients do. Your employees do and so do you. If you take time to thank your clients for a great event, write a personal note to the new person or just send an email with some information that person might find of interest, you're letting them know they matter. In business, as in any relationship, this is where you build bonds that endure and put credits in the virtual bank that are there when you make a small error, or even a big one.
- Do I stay connected? Silence in business relationships is not golden. In fact, it's often the root of most broken business relationships. Silence means poor communication and festering misunderstandings. Frequent communication ensures everyone involved in a project knows where things stand. It's even the saving grace if a project is off-schedule because at least it ensures everyone has time to react and work on a solution.
Connection also means being visible in your business community, networking, sharing your knowledge and expertise. By giving back, we also get to receive the respect and appreciation of others and, more often than not, it spurs our own personal and professional growth.
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Our Roasted Wheat is produced by roasting unmalted wheat. It is a great way to get those roasted coffee and chocolate flavours without the extra bitterness that comes from roasted barley or chocolate malt. The wheat malt, lacking its outer husk, is less susceptible to burning at the higher roasting temperatures which prevents bitter and astringent flavors. This malt is a great addition to any darker beer style.


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Yogurt with Sauteed Peppers and Walnuts
(Yogurtlu-Cevizli Biber Sote)
400-450 g fresh Bell peppers or yellow or orange or green peppers, cut in bite size
2-3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Garlic Yogurt Sauce:
Plain yogurt, strained for about an hour
1-2 garlic cloves, mashed with salt
Walnuts, crumbled, lightly toasted
Red pepper flakes
Extra virgin olive oil
Saute the peppers with olive oil and salt until they area little bit softened. Let it cool down.
Place the strained yogurt on a service plate. Arrange the sauteed peppers over the top. Garnish with walnuts, red pepper flakes and extra virgin olive oil. Serve as an appetizer. This goes with grilled meat, roast chicken, pretty much anything.
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Soil Preparation
Getting Your Soil Ready
- Add one inch of well-rotted horse manure (cattle manure tends to compact too much) and wood shavings. Thoroughly work this material deeply into the soil (8-10 inches). Then add another 1-2 inches of wood shavings or peat moss and work this in. Weathered wood shavings are preferred. Caution: Higher rates of pine shavings could cause an accumulation of turpentine.
- Attention to soil preparation before seeding or sodding a lawn will help assure satisfactory results and help reduce your water bill. Before establishing a lawn, remove all debris such as rocks and building materials. The top 8 to 12 inches of soil should be free of any large debris.
- Avoid walking on the new lawn as much as possible. Keep footprints to a minimum by temporarily laying boards across the lawn to support all foot traffic. Mow the new lawn when the grass reaches a height of 2 to 2.5 inches. Avoid the use of herbicides until after mowing two, and preferably three times.
- Check the soil before laying the sod. If it is dry, sprinkle it lightly. Lay the first strip of sod in a straight line and the next strip as tightly against the previous strip as possible. Think of it as laying bricks for a wall. Roll the sod after first using a light roller to help firm and smooth the surface.
- For heavier soils, it's good to add 2-5 inches of sand. Sand should be washed to remove salt and silt. Sand needs to be round particles, not crushed, as round won't compact as easily. All fill material should be selected for cleanliness and absence of alkali and salt. During soil preparation, work 5-10 pounds of available phosphate per 1,000 square feet into the soil. This will help supply phosphorus to the deeper growing turf grass roots. Soils prepared in this manner require less water and are healthier.
- Frequent, light watering, as many as three or four a day, is necessary during warmer periods, until the seed germinates. This may take two weeks or longer depending on the weather.
- Grade the lawn area so it slopes away from the house. Thoroughly soak excavated areas such as around sewer and water lines and over septic systems to settle the fill dirt. After the fill areas are settled, add topsoil. Make sure all topsoil is free from salt or alkali. Repeat soaking and tilling until the surface is level.
- If the decision has been made to sod the lawn, remember that sod is perishable. Sod should not be left rolled or folded for more than a day in warm weather.
- If the lawn is to be seeded, use a drop type or broadcast spreader. Seeding in two directions reduces the likelihood of skips.
- One problem when laying sod is the inability of the grass roots to penetrate the soil. To avoid this, make sure that the soil beneath the sod is of a lighter texture than the soil in the sod. Numerous cases exist where the roots from the sod, after several years, have still not penetrated the base soil.
- Quality is the prime consideration in buying seed or sod. Planting cheap seed mixtures or cut-rate sod often results in a poor lawn. Although varieties of Kentucky Bluegrass would work fine in some areas of the county, it's not very hardy in areas with a high salt content or in drier climates. For alkali or salty areas use Tall Fescue, Red Fescue and perennial Rye grass varieties. These varieties are more drought and salt tolerant and very good for dry rocky soils, yet still develop a very attractive lawn. Lawn mixes that contain large amounts of annual rye grass should be avoided.
- Soak the sod as soon as possible after laying. Turn back a few corners to make sure water has penetrated the sod. Water to keep the new sod damp, but not wet.
- Watering a day or so before finishing the soil preparation will help eliminate large, hard clods. Soil should be well worked and left firm, but not packed, prior to turf establishment. If walking over the lawn site leaves footprints greater than 1" deep, firm the soil with a roller.


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Rent a cycle to keep National Park green
In a bid to curb noise and air pollution caused by motor vehicles at the park, authorities have started offering eco-friendly rides on these two-wheelers to visitors
In a bid to curb noise and air pollution caused by motor vehicles at the park, authorities have started offering eco-friendly rides on these two-wheelers to visitors
Your next visit to Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) is sure to be adventurous as well as environment friendly.
In order to reduce the levels of noise and air pollution caused by motorised vehicles in the 104-sq km park, officials have started a bicycle rental program within its premises. So visitors can now cycle their way to health as they enjoy the breathtaking views offered by the park.
Nature on wheels: Presently, 40 cycles are available on rent at a
deposit of Rs 200. For the first two hours, the cyclist will be charged Rs
40, and Rs 20 for every additional hour
Presently, 40 cycles are available on rent. A deposit of Rs 200 is collected at the cycle counter prior to the ride.
For the first two hours, the cyclist will be charged Rs 40. For every additional hour, cyclists have to pay Rs 20.
Chief Conservator of Forest (CCF) and SGNP Director Sunil Limaye said, "The main reason behind starting the rent-a-cycle programme in SGNP is our desire to promote cycling, which will indirectly bring down the sound and air pollution levels caused by motor vehicles inside our park."
Since its inception two weeks ago, the response received by the programme has been so phenomenal that park officials sometimes run out of bikes to rent out. "Many people wait for the cycles to come back," said one of the forest guards present at the counter.
The authorities had purchased 80 cycles, of which 40 cycles have been been stationed at the cycle counter at present. However, authorities plan to make the remaining 40 cycles available for rent next week. The cycles are also a cost-effective means of exploring the park. While the entry fee for cars and two-wheelers is Rs 85, a cyclist only has to pay Rs 40.
The park authorities are in talks with the Maharashtra Forest Department to implement certain forest laws within the premises as well. They wish to ban entry of vehicles beyond Tumni Pada, where the tourist zone ends. They have also requested permission to impose a fine on motorbikes, which violate the maximum speed limit of 20 kmph.
Did you know?
SGNP is divided into a core restricted area and a tourist zone. Tourists are only allowed in the tourist zone. Tumni Pada is the farthest a tourist can venture.
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J.R. Reynolds column: Time for Michigan court to show some heart
Time for Michigan to join 18 other states and sanction same-sex marriages. It's the right thing to do and here's why.
The position against gay marriage and same-sex adoption is essentially fueled by belief systems rooted in oppressive cultural traditions, habitual lifelong conditioning and largely misinterpreted religious one-liners (the word "abomination" comes to mind).
Currently in Michigan federal court, a judge is weighing a lawsuit that strikes at the heart of what it means to be a human being in love. Keep those words in mind: heart and love.
The facts of the case are these: Two lesbian nurses, Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer, seek to have the court overturn Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage. And it's not just because they love each other and want to marry, but also so they can adopt each other's children.
In Michigan it's illegal for same-sex couples to adopt children.
An inconvenient truth is that there was a time when I thought "gay sex" when regarding gay people. That was it. Their full human richness boiled down to the single (ultimately irrelevant) dimension of what they might or might not be doing in the bedroom.
You can't imagine the shame I had when I became aware of my ignorant way of thinking. After all, I've always considered myself a good, open and affirming person.
Time and friendships with gay persons, couples and their families changed my thinking.
Being different in our society can be oppressive. So much so that among those who are different from the majority, it can lead to issues ranging from debilitating clinical depression to self-destructive behaviors as unthinkable as suicide.
In the case of those who are intolerant of people who are different, it can foster everything from throwing up barriers of discriminating prejudice all the way to physical acts of violence and bullying.
Regarding the case, state attorney Kristin Heyses argued that not enough time has passed for there to be an accurate determination as to whether same-sex marriage works or produces well-adjusted kids.
At one point during the trial, Texas pro-traditional marriage sociologist Mark Regnerus stated that, "…intellectually, it's frustrating to see social science close off a debate by saying this is settled."
I liken Regnerus'intellectual sentiment and Heyses' rhetoric about waiting to those made about waiting to give American women the vote, waiting to release Japanese Americans from war internment camps, waiting to free African-American slaves and waiting to create child labor laws.
All that historical waiting was based on intellectual gobbledygook and bogus self-serving pseudo-science and research.
Parents in families with difference who are raising thriving kids already know what the rest of us are only just now beginning to realize: it's not the family structure that fosters resilience (that ability to cope with problems and setbacks in healthy, productive ways) in kids. Nor is it the letter of the law or misguided belief systems. For that matter, it's also not lots of money and material things.
Currently, I'm in the process of adopting my wife's wonderful daughter. My being married, male and straight gives me the right and privilege in Michigan to do this. Our daughter is thriving too, and not because she lives in a home where her parents happen to have coupled in the traditional male/female way.
Instead it's because of love. Love of a kind that has no gender. Love that is ageless and has no color or sexual orientation or citizenship or ethnicity. It's also because of heart and qualities like patience and tolerance. Combined, it's as nurturing and affirming as it is protective and comforting.
Here's hoping the court gets out of its head, stops all the waiting and shows some heart.
Visit J.R. Reynolds' blog at http://4humansbeing.blogspot.com or contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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BIG NEW HD MOTOR…The all new, big displacement motor from Harley-Davidson is impressive I tell yas. Here's my take on the Milwaukee Eight motor.
The Milwaukee-Eight engines power the 2017 model year Touring and Trike motorcycles.
The motor's styling is sleek, modern and continues to show off that classic Harley-Davidson V-Twin power look that many of us have grown to appreciate and even love over the years.
Every part of these motors is new. Yes, a clean-sheet design from the talented engineers and designers at the Motor Company. According to Harley-Davidson, they are the most powerful, coolest-running motors they have ever built and come with crisper throttle response and a truer, cleaner rumble-sound.
Massive rocker covers, big cylinder fins.
As you can see in the photo on the right, the rocker covers and cylinder air fins are massive. With 4-valves per cylinder, there's a lot of action going on under those engine tops but word is that engine noise is reduced compared to the Twin Cam.
The new Milwaukee-Eight motor is quieter, yet still provides a rich, quasi-loud exhaust tone. There's no mistaking the traditional Harley-rumble from this powerplant.
The all new Milwaukee-Eight 107 and Milwaukee-Eight 114 engines are all Harley-Davidson.
These Milwaukee-Eight V-twin motors are about power.
According to Harley-Davidson's press releases, each new Milwaukee-Eight engine produces 10% more torque than the Twin Cam engine it replaced.
The Milwaukee-Eight has quicker acceleration.
The Motor Company spec information indicates that the 107ci accelerates 11% quicker 0-60 mph and 11% quicker from 60-80 mph in top gear…significant improvement compared to the Twin Cam 103ci.
The 114ci motor accelerates 8% quicker 0-60 mph and 12% quicker 60-80 mph…significantly faster than the Twin Cam 110ci it replaces.
The Milwaukee-Eight has Reduced Vibration
These new engines are rubber mounted so some vibration will be always be noticeable but, the engineers at Harley-Davidson use an internal counter balancer that now cancels 75% of primary vibration at idle. The feel, while still classic Harley-Davidson, is more refined and more comfortable.
The Milwaukee-Eight motor is offered in two displacements and three variations:
107ci Displacement – Oil-Cooled – (1750cc, 92.5hp) featuring precision oil-cooled cylinder heads for the Street Glide®/Street Glide® Special, Road Glide®/Road Glide Special®, Electra Glide® Ultra Classic®, Road King® and Freewheeler® models.
107ci Displacement – Liquid-Cooled – (1750cc, 92.5hp) featuring liquid-cooled cylinder heads for the Ultra Limited/Ultra Limited Low, Road Glide® Ultra and Tri Glide® Ultra models. The liquid-cooled engines are branded by Harley-Davidson as "Twin-Cooled".
114ci Displacement – Liquid-Cooled – (1870cc, 100.6hp) featuring liquid-cooled cylinder heads for the CVO™ Limited and CVO™ Street Glide® models. Also branded as a "Twin-Cooled" Milwaukee-Eight.
My Bottom Line…
From all I've seen and read since the unveiling on August 23, 2016, the power characteristics of the classic Harley-Davidson engine culture remain…strong low-end torque, broad and flat curve through the mid-range that is ideal for the Touring rider.
To experience the Milwaukee-Eight power of the 2017 Harley-Davidson models for yourself, go to www.h-d.com/demos and schedule the test ride of your life.
Check out the roadtest report I did on the 2017 Street Glide Special…powered by the 107ci Milwaukee Eight.
Ride Safe Out There.
* Notes obtained from official Harley-Davidson Press Releases provided to the U.S. Media on 2017 Model Launch Day, Tuesday, August 23, 2016.
About Harley-Davidson Motor Company – Since 1903, the Harley-Davidson Motor Company has fulfilled dreams of personal freedom with cruiser, touring and custom motorcycles, riding experiences and events, and a complete line of Harley-Davidson motorcycle parts, accessories, general merchandise, riding gear and apparel. For more information, visit www.h-d.com.
About Motorcycle Marc – I'm a motoblogger. I prefer to ride motorcycles but when I can't ride, I blog about it. Since 2009, I've developed a strong, dedicated following of gearheads, motorheads, biker-wannabes and 2-wheeled adventurers who love motorcycles and everything there is about motorcycles. #RideSafeOutThere – Marc J. Beaulieu (MJB)
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The En Passant project strives to create a contempory dance installation, web delivered documentary and short film by bringing creatives and artists from different artistic backgrounds together. The idea started as a film idea that contained a dance sequence. Haydn Walker, Song Zu composer designed a piece of music that was so inspiring that a team of contempory dancers, led by choreographer, Shannon Ryan, offered to create the routine for the music. Erin Collett's story of En Passant inspired the idea of a dance made up of chess pieces learning the lesson of love found and lost. The En Passant project expanded and became three pieces of work that each speak to a singular idea- the creation of a story in many different artistic forms.
This offered a great opportunity to document the journey and the mixing of creative minds to show an array of talented and sucessful people. It is a combination of music, story and emotion told through film, dance and fact. We invite you to follow our journey and the creation of the En Passant project as it reaches its destination and the world of its audience.
en passant – in passing
1. A chess term used to describe a method by which a pawn, who, after advancing two squares past an enemy pawn can be captured as if he had only moved one square.
2. Adv- in passing; by the way; incidentally.
En Passant is hosting an FBi Social event on Sunday 1st September from 7pm to 11pm. The following bands will be making sweet, sweet music for your listening pleasure:
The Year of Our War
Terry Serio
The Trobes &
Dead Eyed Suburbanites
Tickets are $15 and available via the website and on the door.
Website: http://www.enpassantproject.com


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Let's See What I Come Up With
I received a creative craft and food notification email from Pinterest for St. Patrick's Day. I don't know if that's the official name of those emails, but it should be. It was an email with a billion different things I could do to make St. Patrick's Day more meaningful for my family. I counted.
I guess a Shamrock shake from McDonald's to ease down the Shamrock shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's just doesn't cut it anymore.
Instead, I should be making a shamrock stamp out of a potato to spark a conversation on the Potato Famine of 1845. (I was actually planning on doing this but I as waiting until we celebrate St. Patrick's Day IN IRELAND.)
I should also be making shamrock shaped petite fours. And green cupcakes baked in clear beer steins with frosting that looks like foam. In other words, I should make drinking look really fun to my grade school aged kids. (This was also something I was saving for our trip to Ireland.) (We don't have one planned, actually. But I'm collecting all these fun activities, in case we do ever go.)
I also need to start gathering material scraps so I can hand sew a cloth banner that says "Kiss Me." The rest of the year I tell my kids not to talk to strangers. On this special day, I'm supposed to promote strangers kissing my kids. Actually, I'm supposed to promote my kids advertising that they'll let a stranger kiss them with handmade boutonnieres. And I've noticed none of the examples on Pinterest say "But only on the cheek. It's still flu season. And you're a stranger."
I guess there's nothing wrong with spending the next two weeks sewing and cooking and buying all green dishes to celebrate this lovely holiday. Well. Except maybe the fact we're not actually Irish.
We're Scottish. And British. My family line has been researched pretty well. The red hair comes from Scotland. I'm sorry. It's just the way it is.
(I do tell people I'm Irish on St. Patty's Day. It takes too long to argue that you can have red hair and be from somewhere else. And I just don't have the time. Beer stein cupcakes DO NOT bake themselves.)


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Five years ago, Jamie's sister, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. Five years later, his family is still wrecked by grief. Now Jamie, Dad and his teenage sister are moving to the Lake District for a fresh start. But things are just as bad as ever. Jasmine, who was Rose's twin, has turned to piercings and punk hairstyles. Mum has run off with a man from her support group. But ten-year-old Jamie hasn't cried the entire time. To him, Rose is just a distant memory. Jamie longs for Mum to come home, and for his family finally to start living. And when he sees an advert for a TV talent show, he feels certain it will bring them all back together…
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Please, pray for rain," says U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas, member and former chairman of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee. A rancher himself, Lucas says the current drought is worse than any he's seen in a lifetime of living in Oklahoma.
Persistent drought conditions over the last several years have had wide-ranging effects on the economy as well as the budgets of state and local governments and the consumer pocketbook at the grocery store, says Lucas.
Oklahoma agriculture is mostly non-irrigated, so farmers depend on rainfall for crops. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research shows that drought is especially impactful in farm states like Oklahoma.
According to researchers at Oklahoma State University and numbers from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, Oklahoma has suffered about $2 billion in agriculture sector losses annually since 2010.
U.S. Drought Monitor research shows that water wells are drying up, ranchers raise less livestock and agriculture-related industries – such as equipment sales – are lagging. Municipalities feel the pinch to provide water, especially in western Oklahoma; and wildfires strain county budgets. Even tourism is impacted, as many lake levels have dropped significantly in the years since the drought began.
The drought is at its worst in five counties of southwestern Oklahoma, while 64 percent of the state is experiencing moderate to exceptional drought, says Jim Reese, secretary of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. Reese, however, is reservedly upbeat about the future.
"While some will say we're historically doomed for more droughts, I am hopeful we will receive the rain we need," Reese says. "Negative projections are based on the fact that we went 20 years with wetter-than-average rain, and so they think it will be 20 years of drought to balance out the average. But I am optimistic."
Many government-led proactive measures are underway, say both Reese and Lucas. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated all of Oklahoma's 77 counties a natural disaster area due to drought, which opens the door to USDA assistance and special provisions, including a two-year IRS tax deferral on livestock sales. Other measures include disaster loan availability and the exemption of oversized loads of hay on highways in Oklahoma and nearby states, as well as an updated and improved state hay registry and the formation of a pasture registry to assist producers.
Innovative planning is a priority, says Reese. Other actions afoot to address drought conditions include the passage in 2013 of the state's first Drought Emergency Fund, providing $3 million in relief, loans and grants to agricultural producers and drought-affected municipalities for water projects. Also, Oklahoma State University is utilizing a $1 million USDA grant to tackle beef cattle climate adaptability and to research beef genetics for feed/water and natural resource usage efficiency.
Tom Buchanan farms cotton, wheat and cattle near Altus in southwest Oklahoma – the heart of the current drought. Buchanan is also president of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau and manages the Lugert-Altus Irrigation District.
"This is a drought of historic records, and we are still in its grips in western and southwestern Oklahoma," he says. "The irrigation district started in 1946 to irrigate about 50,000 acres annually. Up until 2011, there was only one year in the 1950s where we had a minimal amount. But from 2011 to 2014, we have had zero release out of Lake Lugert."
Buchanan places little value on wondering when the weather will change. Instead, he focuses on what it takes to survive the current conditions.
"My first cotton crop was in 1980, and I bought my first cow herd then, too," says Buchanan. "I have fewer cows today as a result of having to sell them because of lack of water for them to drink. You make adjustments, like selling cows, but maintain a seed crop of cattle. You reduce your input to just scrape by until better times come. The agriculture producer himself, even with federal crop insurance, can recoup a portion of loss. However, the local infrastructure – like labor, seed sales, fertilizer and fuel – suffers. If I'm not making a payroll, then the guys aren't buying groceries and shoes, so it negatively impacts the local economy greatly. Therefore, the state as a whole is suffering.
"I'm not sure people understand that when it starts to rain again, we will again produce crops that [immediately] will be back in the economic engine," Buchanan says. "But the largest economic impact – the beef industry – will take years to rebuild, so the economy will suffer from lack of beef income for years to come."
Buchanan adds that he hopes Oklahomans will learn from this drought and push to improve water resources so that all residents benefit, "because our lakes, pipes and wells are under a big strain," he says. "It is time for Oklahoma to improve her water resources and make plans for the future, because there will eventually be another drought when this one ends."
As bad as the current drought has been, it doesn't compare to past dry spells in the region, including the Dust Bowl, says Lucas.
"The drought is the worst seen in my lifetime. My parents and grandparents talked about the 1950s and the great drought of the 1930s. But fortunately in this time in history, we have a safety net system that wasn't in place then and which does help somewhat, such as crop insurance and some products to help livestock producers deal with drought that didn't exist then," Lucas says. "But most of all, conservation efforts have gotten better and stronger, technology has improved, seed germinates faster, equipment is faster – which means we didn't get giant dust storms. Farmers and ranchers have become very conscious of conservation to keep our soil on the land and out of the waterways, therefore avoiding another environmental catastrophe."
Weather is a constant focus for Gary McManus, state climatologist at Oklahoma Mesonet.
"We do look at similar oceanic patterns that occurred during some of our past droughts, such as the 1930s and 1950s droughts, and see how similar they are to the present situation," McManus says. "When we compare the very dry period from 1950-1975 in our state's precipitation history, we see very similar oceanic temperature anomalies such as El Niño and La Niña, Pacific Decadal Oscillation and Atlantic [Ocean] temperatures.
"Since the oceans have such a profound impact on the world's air patterns, this gives us some indication that we might be facing a long-term drought such as the 1950s and possibly an extended dry pattern that we saw during that previous 25-year span," McManus adds. "This is certainly not a prediction, but something we take into account, considering we just recently came out of our wettest 30-year period in the last 120 years."
But what about Oklahoma's most drought-stricken areas? Is there any hope for adequate rainfall in the near future?
"There is no relief in sight right now for western Oklahoma," says McManus. "We're entering the driest part of the year, so it would normally be tough to get widespread drought relief for the next several months. The good news is that it's generally cool and the plants are dormant, so little water is needed [or] being used."
While scientists and meteorologists study oceanic currents and weather patterns past and present, folks like Buchanan remain focused on the reality of running an agriculture business daily.
"For all the technology we have, weather prognostication past a couple of days is just a shot in the dark in my personal experience," he says.


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Wednesday was the one-year anniversary of former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's crushing defeat at the hands of an extremely unlikely victor: Donald Trump.
Ever since that fateful day, when Americans made it clear they weren't big fans of the Democratic Party's agenda, and despised their pet Hillary, liberals — Clinton included —- have been throwing temper tantrums and flooding the streets with tears.
President Trump decided to commemorate his victory with a delicious tweet that roasts Hillary in the best way.
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President Trump just loves to needle Hillary Clinton. And even though he crushed her in the 2016 presidential election — sending her on an extended walk in the woods — Trump rarely misses an opportunity to deliver a jab.
On Wednesday, exactly one year after he trounced the Democrat, he posted this on Twitter:
Congratulations to all of the "DEPLORABLES" and the millions of people who gave us a MASSIVE (304-227) Electoral College landslide victory! pic.twitter.com/7ifv5gT7Ur
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2017
Trump's reference to "deplorables" comes from a September 2016 speech in which Hillary said half of Trump's supporters belonged in a "basket of deplorables." Appearing at an LGBT gala fundraiser where Barbra Streisand performed, Clinton said many of Trump's supporters are "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it."
Trump's loyal fan base decided to get in on the fun too:
A day we will all never forget!!! #MAGA pic.twitter.com/1P02pMLeyj
— The Columbia Bugle (@ColumbiaBugle) November 8, 2017
— Diane Sims (@iceprincess1963) November 9, 2017
If anyone is deserving of a good roasting, it's Hillary Clinton.
She has managed to cement herself in the history of politics, not by positive contributions, but through the massive corruption she has been involved with since the beginning of her career.
Here's a greatest hits collection of the garbage she's been responsible for: Benghazi, lying during the Watergate investigation, the email scandal, Whitewater, and getting a child rapist off the hook.
What a legacy to leave behind.
Unfortunately, she's still managed to escape being held accountable for her actions due to the connections she has in Washington.
Hopefully one day she'll answer legally for her indiscretions. Until then, we can at least enjoy Trump destroying her on a regular basis.


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Bengal boss Gazi raring for a long cup run to build on a successful start to campaign
PUBLISHED: 14:00 09 November 2018
Sporting Bengal United manager Imrul Gazi is keen for his side to have a cup run to continue the momentum they're building in the Essex Senior League.
Bengal will welcome Saffron Walden Town to the Mile End Stadium on Saturday in the newly-formed Peter Butcher Memorial Trophy for a first-round clash.
They had extended their unbeaten run to nine matches with a 4-1 win at Ilford on saturday before making it ten with a 1-0 win against St Margaretsburyin the second round of the Errington Challenge Cup on Wednesday night.
"It would be great if we could have a cup run this season, that is our aim, so let's see how it goes," said Gazi, whose side are keen to add a cup run to their recent successes.
After picking up 28 points from their first 14 league fixtures to put them fourth in the table, Gazi added: "I would have taken that. We have been on an incredible run of form since the loss away to Stansted at the end of September.
"We changed things up and have not really looked back since then.
"The players have all responded to what's been asked of them and it's all positive."
Gazi also revealed he is not one bit surprised by his side's run as he has always backed them to perform with their strongest 11 on the pitch.
"I'm not surprised with this run as I've always said if we can put out a consistent team, more often than not we will get results and that's what is happening.
"Not to mention the fact we now have strength in depth in the squad with new additions that are really pushing for starting places.
"The additions of Jay Knight, Jason Ngandu, Declan Nche, Chris Greenslade, Ibrahim Ugradar have all been key and given me sleepless nights!"
Gazi praised the team spirit and is hoping it will continue.
"There is a good vibe around the dressing room at present and we are beginning to feel like a team." he said.
"It's great to have injured players coming back slowly and even those that are not ready turning up to support the lads as that means a lot.
"I always love to see the likes of Anthony Bruce-Murray and Freddy Tandon having banter in the changing room before and after the game, even though they're both out injured as it says a lot about the team spirit we have."
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Jenny Cook has been working as a marine educator at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama for almost seventeen years. Located on the eastern tip of a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, the lab is Alabamas marine education and research center the home site of the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, a group of state educational institutions. It offers undergraduate and graduate studies, faculty research, and K-12 programs and teacher training (through the Discovery Hall Programs) as well as housing the Estuarium (a public aquarium) and the Coastal Policy Center. Discovery Hall education programs target everyone interested in learning about the ocean who is not pursuing a degree in marine science, according to Cook. This includes kindergartners to senior citizens.
During the school year, Cook teaches primarily K-12 students who come for day classes or an overnight stay. Typically, well do beach walks and talk about the dunes, maritime forest, beaches, and barrier islands, Cook explains. Other activities include a salt marsh trip to learn about estuaries, a coastal oceanography activity in which students measure waves and currents, a program about hurricanes and how theyve affected local history, and vessel trips. In the summer, we shift gears completely, Cook says. Summertime means four-week courses for high school students from around the country and teacher training workshops. No matter what the time of year, marine technology plays a role in the curriculum. For example, on boat trips students use a Hydrolab® to measure salinity and dissolved oxygen, and theyre introduced to Niskin bottles (for water sampling) and other equipment that oceanographers use. Cook holds a B.S. in secondary education biology, an M.S. in biology with an emphasis on marine science, and a high school teaching certificate. Neither the masters degree nor the certificate is essential for her current position, she points out, but the education and training she gained in earning them comes in very handy. Her training also includes a stint as a research technician at Dauphin Island Sea Lab before she completed her formal education. I really learned about field work and how to think scientifically in that position, she explains. She has also learned on the job, as have many of her colleagues. Its expected that the people we hire will usually have a stronger background in either science or education, she says. Were happy to fill in any missing experience with on-the-job training.
There are aspects to her job that dont come from a classroom or on-the-job training. Teaching is a gift, Cook believes. Knowing something and being able to explain it to others so they can understand are two different things, and that cant necessarily be taught. Other important skills include being able to keep the attention of children of different ages and making learning fun. Cooks least favorite part of the job is that she doesnt get to know the students well because they dont stay long. The best parts of the job are feeling that shes making a difference in kids lives and simply being outside a lot of the time. I teach at the beach, she enthuses. How can you get better than that?


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Armed masked gunmen have attacked at Thai school bus near the border with Burma, killing at least two students and leaving some 15 others wounded, and the Thai military and police have launched a massive manhunt for the killers.
At least three masked gunmen armed with assault rifles attacked the Thai school bus early Tuesday morning near the Burmese border. The attackers later fled into the surrounding foothills.
A Thai Defense Ministry spokesman, Major General Supaluck Suvarnajata, says hundreds of soldiers and police are searching the area.
"The incident happened within the Thai territory some 20 kilometers within our border," said the general. "So the first authority should be the police, the Ministry of the Interior and then the Ministry of Defense; we co-operate and try to find out what happened down there."
General Supaluck says it is not yet clear who was behind the attack. But authorities say the gunmen wore masks and jungle fatigues similar to those worn by Burma's ethnic Karen rebels.
The main Karen rebel group, the KNU, has denied responsibility. But other Karen guerrillas have in the past launched attacks inside Thailand.
Tuesday's deadly incident comes amid heightened border and diplomatic tensions between Thailand and Burma. The problem flared in May when Burma accused the Thai military of firing into its territory to support ethnic Shan separatist rebels. Bangkok denied the charge, saying its soldiers fired warning shots after shells crossed over into the Thai side of the border.
Since then there have been a series skirmishes.
Burma's military government has closed several border checkpoints and has mounted a propaganda campaign accusing Thailand of working with rebel groups to destabilize Rangoon.
Tuesday Burma warned it is preparing a major assault on Shan rebels near the border and warned the Thai military not to interfere.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has called for calm and high-level talks to ease tensions. Burma has yet to respond.


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