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I get 4 day weekends. I'm not going to lie, it's outstanding, but like I'm sure I said last time, I think that's about to change….devastated. Anyway, this weekend thankfully had 4 days. On Friday I was up early doors to look after Lilypop, so that Mick could go and do some work on Elo's stepdad's house, Lauri was also meant to go, but didn't, which would cause some drama later. Anyway, babysat la petite until Mickael got home then we went to a nearby big artifical lake. I mentioned it at the very start, it's a big artificial lake next to a big artificial ski-slope. It's really cool, you can do watersports, hire a pedalo or whatever, there's a playpark, a wee beach and a pathway you can walk round the edge of the lake. Since 5 month old babies are notoriously workshy on pedalos, we opted for walking-round-the-lake. My personal highlight was when there was a path-user-with-physical-aids etiquette battle, between a guy in a motorised wheelchair, and us with the pram, both trying to be polite and move, both considering the other party more burdened than ourselves, which resulted in the disabled man accidentally going off-terrain from the path onto grass, nearly getting stuck. Mortifying yet hilarious.
My dissertation has become a bit of a running joke chez nous, with E&M constantly winding me up about not having started it. So, having spoken to my lovely professor, and having agreed that my topic couldn't really be anything other than fashion (I was told to choose something that interests me) and having been assigned an advisor (I struck lucky and got a charmingly eccentric ginger, with a penchant for stopping classes midway to go on tangents about how weird the French are) I decided to commence. Buoyed with diligence and enthusiasm, I used my Friday night (Friday night!) researching local libraries, and filled out forms to join the big 'un in Lille. Next day, packed my bag with my wee notebook, water (study aid #1) and about a million identity documents (you need a passport and a proof of residence to take a piss in France) and set off. Didn't want to jump right in with the studying, since I was out practice and could well have pulled an educational-hammy, so had a gander in the shops and ate some lunch to the beautiful big fountain at Palais de Beaux-Arts. THEN, when I was ready to study, I was told that the library was now only open Monday-Friday and that the website must be wrong.
Naturally, I was crushed, but since I had a date in town that afternoon, I decided the best use of my time until then would be to go and sunbathe in the park and listen to The Strokes. I don't know why I never think I'll burn here, it was 27°C on Saturday and I still had it in my head 2 hours in the peak of the day's sun, will do nothing. I now have one entirely red leg, it's a good look. Anyway, met the guy for a couple of drinks and went a wander round sunny Lille. Everytime I go to Lille I find places I didn't know existed, this time it was a big archway, loads of Parisian style buildings and an old railway station that's been turned into a bar….beaut!
On Sunday it was Elo's cousin, Alex's, christening. I decided to look after Lily at Romu & Isabelle (Alex's parent)'s gaff instead of going to the church and try to get her to sleep, but I tried in vain. Very sweetly, they'd bought in vodka just for me (for after the christening that is, not for babysitting), and Romu, Elodie's uncle, had brought me back 56% alcohol for my dad that's apparently a German/Belgian tradition to drink after beers. Most men in France prefer wine over beer, except in the North, so they're delighted my dad loves beer and have bought him a fair few beer-based presents since I've been here. The plan was for a BBQ since it's been glorious sunshine for like a month straight. Naturally, the minute the barbecue was fully fired up there was a torrential, fittingly biblical downpour. In true Ch'ti spirit we continued nonetheless, and a good time was had by all. The last christening I remember in Scotland was being locked outside my cousin's with my grandparents, eating sweets because we were late. I was 5, so I could be wrong, but France just does them better, I spent the day practically being drip-fed what was a bingo-card of alcohols, cake and (really!) being given tiny ginger kittens to play with. Was nice just to sit outside under the cover of a gazebo, drinking champagne and talking shite. Naturally, the royal wedding came up and one of Elo's uncles asked me all these really detailed questions about the royal family, some of which I bluffed and some of which I fully admitted I had absolutely no idea. Everyone thinks that I'll be well-versed in all matters royal. Kilts also came up, natch, so was asked about the issue of underwear, as if it was a joke, but when I assured them that, no, actually they don't wear underwear, I was met with "Well, actually, you're right, remember in Braveheart, he showed his arse to the English and he wasn't wearing any". I was also informed that the reason that Scotsmen wear such high socks with their kilt was so that they has tuck their knobs into the top of the socks, to which a murmur of "oh, bien équipé" went round the table.
Currently sitting on Wednesday, having only 1 class today, since my new timetable hasn't been drawn up yet. It has been interesting so far this week to say the least. Yesterday I had a class so bad I had to write in 5 kids report books, and take points away from them (Yes, I teach at Hogwarts). One wee girl, aged 12, started out this term as super-enthusiastic and really cheery, and now has turned into some sort of moody annoyance. She refused to let this girl past her chair yesterday, and the girl's obviously the one they all pick on, so I was absolutely raging, and told her to move and she just went "no". She also later tried to embarrass me by asking "how do you say 'penetration' in English?"….silly girl, everyone knows it's the same word!
Going through to Lille for a couple of days after work tomorrow. Already explained to the yanks the full brilliance of Eurovision, so that'll be Saturday's entertainment. Sadly, my lovely German friend has departed so I'll have no one to friendly banter with….but can vote for the UK from here….result. Also, definitely, definitely starting my dissertation asaps. I can definitely do it and sunbathe at the same time.


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Out In The Know Traveler crew hit the Los Angeles Travel Adventure Show in Long Beach. Here is one of our stops to visit with Samantha of Marly Tours. Learn more about this spiritual walking tour in Northern Spain with our own Audrey Ngo.
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There's only one more week left of ski season but you wouldn't know it if you looked at Snowshoe Mountain, Timberline or Winterplace's snow report or webcams this morning. Another 3″ of snow hit the Pocahontas County ski resort and THAT takes them to 100″ on the season. One look at the webcams shows that it was still snowing at 7:30am this morning.
Timberline Resort and Winterplace also picked up around an inch of new snowfall. Beech saw a trace of snow.
We will post the FINAL snowfall numbers once the season is over and done with, but suffice to say that snowfall numbers were down. Snowshoe's 100″ constitutes only about 56% of their normal 180″ of snow. Canaan Valley Resort and Timberline Resort – both located in Davis, West Virginia average 180″ of snow annually and the 125″ that they hit this season only got them to about 69% of normal…and West Virginia hogged most of the snowy patterns this season.
Beech Mountain Resort picked up the most snowfall of any of the ski resorts south of West Virginia with 47.8″ of snow on the season and that is 60% of normal.
As "OFF" as snowfall has been, the temperatures have been off that much and more. Our region depends on snowmaking and without temperatures below freezing, that won't happen and we will share those numbers when we have them, but suffice to say that this winter has been one of the warmer ones on record.
Spring Begins Tomorrow, March 20th…
Some resorts will carry the torch and remain open for one more week. The ski areas that we are certain will be open after today are Snowshoe Mountain, Cataloochee Ski Area and Appalachian Ski Mountain. Sugar Mountain has not released any news of yet, but they are looking pretty narrow. They may operate this week, but don't be surprised if they close after today's sessions.
Wisp Resort was already CLOSED for the season but then Stella dumped a ton of natural snow on them AND they made snow. They LOOK pretty great, but they may decide to shut things down again after today. We will keep you posted. However, the photo of the day at the top of this post is of Wisp on Friday. This one below shows lots of snow!
A few resorts are THINKING about reopening NEXT WEEKEND. Check out the full report. I'm updating the snow report this morning ranked by the amount of natural snowfall this season:
Timberline Resort – 27° – 18 of 40 trails open. 1″ of new snow and 125″ on the season. Today is their last day of the season.
Snowshoe Mountain – 24° – 36 of 57 trails open. 3″ of new snow. 100″ on the season.
Wisp Resort – 30° – 7 of 34 trails open and 77″ of snow on the season. Wisp looks in awesome shape and made snow along with big snow from Stella. Not sure about opening this week.
Beech Mountain Resort – 20° – 9 of 17 trails open. Trace of new snow. 47.8″ on the season.
Sugar Mountain Resort – 21.6° – 8 of 21 trails open. 41.3″ of snow on the season.
Winterplace Resort – 28° – 23 of 27 trails open. .5″ of new snow and 31.5″ on the season. They will close during the coming week with the potential of reopening the weekend of Sat, 3/25 – Sun, 3/26 based on weather.
Appalachian Ski Mtn – 28° – 9 of 12 trails open. 19″ of snow on the season.
Cataloochee Ski Area – 24.4° – 7 of 18 trails open. 17″ of snow on the season.
Bryce Resort – 36.9° – 3 of 8 trails open. 14″ of snow on the season.
Wintergreen Resort – 25° – 11 of 24 trails open. 12″ of snow on the season. Slopes closed March 20-24 with the possibility of reopening March 25.
Massanutten Resort – 43° – 5 of 14 trails open. 10.5″ of snow on the season. Massanutten will close for the season after Sunday's sessions.
Here are the resorts already CLOSED for the season:
Canaan Valley Resort – 122.6″ of snow on the season.
Wolf Ridge Resort – 15″ of snow on the season.
Ober Gatlinburg – 11″ of snow on the season.
Sapphire Valley Resort – 6.5″ of snow on the season.
Omni Homestead Resort – 6″ of snow on the season.
That will do it for me today. Email me if you like at [email protected]
By the way – thanks to all of you who have been emailing me a good bit lately. Keep those emails coming!


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Wolfsburg, Germany— Walk round this experimental battery-electric Golf and coachwork stickers aside, there's only one detail that marks it out as anything other than millions of VW hatchbacks already produced. There's no tail pipe. As rivals, including Nissan, prepare lightweight futuristic electric transport for sale this year, VW is a bit behind. But the company believes that acceptance of EVs will take some time and if folks soon want an electric Golf, they'll be ready. We got a chance to sample a very early prototype. Let's see what it's like behind the wheel.
The Specs
VW has been here before, most notably in 1976 when an experimental 25 hp electric Golf was successfully tested over 12,500 miles. In 1981, VW unveiled a series of CityStromer battery Golf models in conjunction with electricity supplier RWE. Powered with lead-acid batteries, performance and range were gradually increased and VW sold 100 units of its electric Golf. More recently we have seen the plug-in hybrid Golf Twin-Drive, which will enter small-scale production this year.
The big difference here is the inclusion of a 176-pound AC synchronous (brush-less) electric motor driving the front wheels, powered by a 694-pound, 26.4kWh, 180-cell water/air-cooled lithium-ion battery, which is distributed in three places round the car; under the trunk floor, under the rear seats and in a central under-floor tunnel. The extra weight of the battery, current inverter and electric motor is partly compensated by the loss of a fuel tank and piston engine driveline. At 3358 pounds, the battery Golf weighs 452 pounds more than its diesel equivalent with a twin-clutch transmission. The motor punches out a healthy 114 hp and 199 pound-feet of torque to the front wheels. That's enough to give it a top speed of 113mph, with 0 to 62 mph in 11.8 seconds. The bad news is the range is just 87 miles in the NEDC Combined driving cycle. After that you are in for an eight-hour wait if you recharge on a domestic US supply. If they ever arrive on the sidewalks, three-phase 50 kW fast-charge monsters will provide an 85 per cent top up in half an hour, but regular use of such rechargers will reduce the battery's life.
Ironically the Golf/Rabbit GTI launched in Frankfurt almost 35 years ago had a similar top speed and power output, although its weight was almost half that of the battery Golf and it also chucked a fair old balloon of hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide out the back.
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Climb in and you'd struggle to see any difference between this interior and that of the standard turbodiesel Golf. The trunk floor loses a couple of inches of capacity to accommodate the battery and 20-foot recharging cord, but that's about it. Wait a moment, though, what's this on the dashboard? In place of the standard rev counter and fuel gauge, VW has brilliantly changed its analogue instruments to show power usage in kilowatts, and the charge left in the battery pack. For the pedantically minded, there are digits available in the pull-down menu, but the dials give you a quick glance at how far you've got left to run. A key start activates the systems and a further twist gets the motor prepared.
The transmission is a single speed, with an automatic-style shifter in the centre with conventional markings of Drive, Neutral, Park, Reverse and Brake, which dials in more regenerated braking energy. You can also use steering wheel paddles to slow the car by regenerating electricity in three progressive stages.
Like all electric cars where peak torque is available from zero revs, the Golf is quick away from the lights. Even with three adults on board, the motor's torque keeps it strong and responsive to the accelerator up to about 50 mph when the torque starts to tail off. This is a problem with single-speed electric motors, but as Tesla have found, sourcing a transmission to handle the getaway grunt is not easy. VW says it is working on it. Despite that drawback, the Golf will cruise happily at 75 mph and pulls gamely up to 90 to 100 mph. It's eerily silent and refined, much better than rivals that are much nearer production.
Throw it through the turns and Golf feels taut with good body control. The low rolling resistance Michelin tires clump about in pot holes, but VW says it has yet to optimize the chassis and that will improve. The engineers won't have to do much with the steering, however, which is well weighted and direct. Production cars will come with a three-stage drive system comprising Comfort, which gives the full 114 hp, Normal which restricts power to 87 and Range+ which further reduces it to 67. As a way of eking out the remaining juice in the battery Range+ works, but if you are trying to struggle to a far-off destination, it's a stressful sort of drive.
The Bottom Line
As far as battery-electric car go, the Blue-e-Motion Golf shows promise even though the Leaf is going to beat it to market by several years. True, there are niggles, the range is too short and this is very much a work in progress, but it's about as normal as electric drive gets. A fleet of these cars will be tested in Europe, China and the U.S. in the next few years. While other companies are quite enthusiastic about the upcoming EVs, the man charged with selling VW's version, VW Group chairman, Martin Winterkorn doesn't think the market is right just yet. "To be a resounding success," he says, "the electric car must be affordable for a wide range of people and must be uncompromisingly practical in everyday use. Only then can one truly speak of the beginning of the era of the electric automobile and of measurable positive effects on the environment."
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There were two vexing questions about big city life. How would residents maintain their connection to the natural and rural worlds?
And, how would farming and small town life be protected from the outward spread of the city?
The flip-side of Toronto's residential boom was seen in Oakville's struggle to maintain its identity as an integrated community despite being in the path of commuter subdivision development.
Oakville's balance between its idealized sense of itself as a friendly main street-focused village and the reality of its continual expansion began during Toronto's building boom a century ago and continues today.
This identity crisis is echoed in each one of the Greater Toronto Area's constellation of municipalities. Markham, Brampton and numerous other ex-urbs have turned to New Urbanism for answers. This movement invokes the design vocabulary of the 19th century village to create more human scale and less car-centric environments.
Mixed use spaces, traditional architecture and transit oriented design are the new bywords in the fight against 'place-less' development. New Urbanism's contemporary appeal is fueled by familiarity with such nostalgia-tinted postcards and photographs of village life as those produced by William James.
To read more go to Menu: "Paving the Way to Paradise…" Chapter 1.
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Last night, I lay in bed panicking. It hurt to cough. It hurt to breathe.
Did I need to go to the hospital? I wondered.
No. I would lie in bed and gently breathe until my doctor's appointment the next day.
Going to the emergency room in the middle of the night is not an experience one wants to repeat. Long, long ago, in a city far, far away, I foolishly went running at night and tripped on the sidewalk and broke my arm. At the hospital I waited four hours in a filthy emergency room (no soap in the restroom) and all they gave me was a sling. Does that left arm look a little hyperextended to you? Yup. That's ER care.
No, I would wait to see the doctor. Because I knew it was bronchitis, not pneumonia. A cough, chills and sweating, aching lungs, and a fading feeling when I tried to take a walk.
But had it ever hurt to breathe? It's been 20 years since I had bronchitis. I didn't remember that.
I was in pain, but I am glad I didn't visit the ER in the middle of the night. The diagnosis is bronchitis and an hour after taking the antibiotics for bronchitis, I COULD BREATHE AGAIN and was on my bike.
And after the bike ride, I was laughing at Odette.
What do I mean by laughing at Odette, you might want to know.
I'm rereading Proust's Swann's Way, the first volume of In Search of Lost Time, previously translated more elegantly, to my mind, as Remembrance of Things Past.
Not being a French literature scholar, I find it difficult to write about Proust. Would that I had read Swann's Way with Sam Jordison at the Guardian Book Club in 2013. He eloquently said,
I'm guessing that a healthy proportion of people who pick up the book don't even get beyond page 51. Within a similar word count, Raymond Chandler could have got through two murders, six whiskies, half a dozen wisecracks. Raymond Carver could have described at least six suburban households descending into despair. And Hemingway had almost finished The Old Man and The Sea. Yet, in pure plot terms, pretty much all that happens in those first pages of Proust is that the young Marcel struggles to fall asleep.
Although little happens, there are moments of wild joy. Proust is for those who revel in lyrical, sensual language rather than traditional narrative. Three thousand pages pass while the narrator Marcel meditates on the subject of memory and describes the visual and sensual cues that evoke the past. Reading Swann's Way is like falling into a luxurious feather bed of exquisite language. Marcel, the narrator, remembers as a boy he couldn't sleep unless his mother kissd him. He describes every detail of life at Combray, where the family lives in the summer with his great-aunt, from his Aunt Leonie's two rooms to the hawthorns he admires on walks to the emotions evoked by the joyful reading of his favorite author, Bergotte, and the joy of his first serious writing.
Swann, a brilliant, thoughtful, charming man who moves in high society, is s a close friend of Marcel's family. He is pitied for an unfortunate marriage to a woman who blatantly is unfaithful. Marcel's aunts don't quite understand how well-connected Swann is in society. They like him purely for his kindness, courtesy, and conversation.
The second section of the novel, "Swann in Love," focuses on Swann's passionate affair 15 years ago with Odette, a former courtesan. The prose is often erotic, and Proust does very definitely know how to evoke the development of an erotic relationship.
Odette is often comical. Like Marcel's aunts, she doesn't understand the meaning of the social circles Swann moves in. Because his friends, high-ranking government officials and aristocrats, don't go to the parties and balls she has heard are fashionable, she concludes that Swann's friends are bores, though she appreciates the first-night theater tickets and racing tickets .
She hoped that he would continue to cultivate such profitable acquaintances, but in other respects she was inclined to regard them as anything but smart, ever since she had passed the Marquise de Villeparisis in the street, wearing a black woolen dress and a bonnet with strings.
"But she looks like an usherette, like an old concierge, darling! A marquise, her! Goodness knows I'm not a marquise, but you'd have to pay me a lot of money before you'd get me to go round Paris rigged out like that!"
So funny!
A few of my impressions so far.


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Sunday, 8 January 2017
Bed-loving Bertie's Blog?
Shall I let you into a wee secret?
Nothing to excite MI5 admittedly. It's just that the whole 'Bouncing Bertie' thing is not, these days, an accurate description of my usual demeanour at the break of day in the middle of winter here in Scotland.
In fact Gail has suggested perhaps I should consider renaming this blog 'Bed-loving Bertie'.
In my view, when a chap reaches middle age, he is entitled to a lie in every once in a while.
That said, once I am up and about, and especially when staying at our cottage in Torridon, there is something a bit special about our early morning rambles.
Or perhaps I should say early-ish morning. Here I am yesterday beside the footpath to Wester Alligin sign at a quarter to nine a.m., and it is just light enough for Gail's smartphone camera to capture my handsome figure posing against the loch in the stillness of dawn.
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What a gorgeous view of the world you have Bertie. Definitely worth getting of bed for early-ish in the morning. Enjoy your strolls.ReplyDelete
Bertie my fine handsome WFT man...I 100% agree what is the rush to greet a cold icy morn anyway...unless you know there are amazing things to see and do. OMCs that view with Gail's smartphone is breathtaking...the cloud just hovering over the mountains and the blue/pink skies WOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!ReplyDelete
Oh and then there is you and that fine WFT tail.
Hugs madi your bfff
Bertie - Best to get up early. It gets dark soon enough.ReplyDelete
WE don't get up TOO Early...However, we do go Out and About... and then we like to head BACK to Bed... or COUCH or Cliner Chair... ANY place where we can have a WEE Warm Nap.ReplyDelete
It is OUR RIGHT... We have EARNED this small luxury... at our stage in life. RIGHT?
Light at 8:45..sheesh. Though it is getting light later, here, we can be out at 5:30 with enough light to untangle leads.ReplyDelete
We agree with Frankie and Ernie. You have the right to sleep late. We're expecting temp of 39°C today, and 41°C later this week. So we'll be doing lots of lying around all day.
BUTT you are still bouncing in your heart! Mom said to tell you that the split antlers are MUCH better since all the marrow is exposed. We tried the NOT split ones and didn't like them at all.ReplyDelete
Your Pals,
Murphy & Stanley
You do look very comfy cosy, all snuggled up in bed, but we always thought you were an early riser, just like us. You have such busy days with all your scientific works, and experiments.ReplyDelete
We're all up around 7 a.m. in the winter, and much earlier in the summer ! We're used to being up when it's still dark, though we don't go for a walk until early afternoon when it's not so cold.
Love from
Petite-Chose and Inca xx
I agree with you completely, Bertie. Now that I'm a mature gentleman, I do a lot more lounging around than bouncing.ReplyDelete
Bertie, you do strike a handsome post in that last shot! I'm goad you got up yesterday morning!!ReplyDelete
I'm right there with ya Bertie! With me, it's my daily game of tuggy and a nice constitutional around the block!ReplyDelete
We think the picture of you in bed looks like a fine art portrait!ReplyDelete
Tootsie & Renee
Looks like a fun adventure!ReplyDelete
Lounging is very importantReplyDelete
We think it is important that you have as much rest and relaxation as possible during the winter months. Come summer you can go back to bouncing again.ReplyDelete


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I had to take liberties on this letter, since I couldn't figure out how to make x-ray fit into a bankruptcy context.
If you have an ex-spouse, any alimony or child support awarded to your ex-spouse will not be discharged in your bankruptcy. However, it is possible to discharge debt from a property division. If you have a joint debt with your ex-spouse which you were made responsible for in the divorce, it can still be enforced by the ex-spouse in family court after the bankruptcy is over.
Lastly, the #1 way the United States Trustee catches people hiding income or assets is from an ex-spouse. So make sure your lawyer knows everything. The last thing you want is for your ex to show up at your 341 meeting to spill the beans.
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Of course, there is only so much the sympathetic words of athletes like American tennis star Andy Roddick can do. Respectful gestures, like the wearing of black armbands or the staging of a minute's silence, are symbolic for the victims but offer no solution.
But then athletes, like the rest of us, are in an impossible situation when responding to national tragedies.


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Warning: If you don't like pictures of raw meat, stop right here! You have been warned. This post is not for the squeamish. It is for people who like to start from scratch when making their food.
We hatched about 30 chicks in September–or rather, four of our hens did the hard work of keeping the eggs warm and hatching the chicks! Fifteen turned out to be roosters, and only one was wanted for future breeding. The rest were big enough by now to eat, and I didn't want to move them to the new place, so we butchered them today. As I was cutting them up, I thought this would make a good post–maybe someone else wants to know how to cut up a chicken!
Start with a SHARP knife. Keep a steel close to keep a good edge on it. This is what will make or break your experience. I also like to have a wooden cutting board (anything else will dull your knife faster), and kitchen shears if I am splitting any breasts.


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My clearest memory of us spending time together was a crisp Saturday during my first autumn in New York. We met up for some time and walked around Alphabet City and the East Village, talking (and disagreeing) about movies and comedy. He told me about a comedy club near his place where he saw a number of good shows, and we made plans to go together. I helped him pick out a leather jacket for him at a nearby resale store—I remember it was a worn, soft brown, and I caught him checking himself out in the mirror with a tough-guy face.
All the little details of our time together have faded away (I think I'm starting to feel the wear-and-tear of an aging brain nowadays) but despite that, I can clearly remember feeling an ease, a warmth, when spending time talking to Kavi Shekhar. In the end, I don't remember if he bought that jacket, or which comedians or movies we argued about, but that doesn't seem to matter. Over the years, we had developed a friendship that transcended those things—one built over years of family gatherings, wild parties, and, mostly, the times in between—the quiet moments of friendship that sustain you for a lifetime, when you can stand next to each other waiting for the M15 bus without saying much, not knowing when you'll see each other again exactly. Those are the moments in which you can truly just exist, with all of the familiarity of your past but none of the weight of it, and understand something about each other's hearts. That was something that felt effortless with Kavi, and I'll miss it dearly.


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Before it became a crater of saurian doom, the space rock that ended the age of the dinosaurs most likely was a near-Earth object (NEO), an asteroid that occasionally came within striking distance of our planet as it orbited the sun. NASA and other space agencies are now developing ways to deflect and redirect asteroids should they approach, but those techniques will be useful only if we find dangerous NEOs before they find us. Yet NASA's search is not going as planned.
In 2010 NASA completed a congressionally mandated inventory of more than 90 percent of NEOs with a diameter of one kilometer or greater—objects that are big enough to create a planetary-scale disaster. No known objects of such cataclysmic size are now on collision courses with Earth, but smaller NEOs are still out there undiscovered by the millions. Even puny ones can cause big regional problems, such as the 18-meter rock that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 2013, inflicting more than $30 million in damage and injuring at least 1,600 people.
Recognizing the threat of smaller NEOs, in 2005 Congress upped the ante for NASA, giving the agency until 2020 to catalogue 90 percent of midsized NEOs at or above 140 meters in diameter. Congress, however, failed to provide the agency with sufficient new funding to achieve this ambitious goal.
So NASA is far behind. "With the current capabilities we have, the deadline of 2020 is not achievable," says Lindley Johnson, program officer for NASA's NEO survey. The agency largely relies on three ground-based optical telescopes to hunt for NEOs—objects that, even at their largest and closest, are still very dim and difficult to find. This approach limits the search to hours when the skies above the observatories are dark and clear. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft also hunts NEOs by looking for their telltale thermal glow as they are warmed by sunlight, but WISE is predicted to cease functioning as early as 2017.
All these limitations mean that the present survey would require another 30 to 35 years to find the several tens of thousands of midsized NEOs estimated to lurk undetected in the solar system. "There are no penalties for missing the deadline," Johnson says, "so long as there's nothing big out there that's going to hit us."
Now the best hope for global asteroid awareness may be a proposed infrared space telescope called NEOCam, which the agency short-listed in September 2015, along with four other proposals competing for funding as part of its Discovery program of highly focused science missions. NASA will select one or two of those proposals later this year for continued development toward a launch as early as 2020.
If flown, NEOCam would use innovative new infrared detectors to discover 10 times more NEOs than all those found to date, fulfilling Congress's 2005 mandate. But NEOCam's selection is not a foregone conclusion. In the high-stakes environment of federally funded space science, it could be argued that the money for a mission to seek out dangerous space rocks should come from somewhere besides NASA's planetary science division, which has been a regular target for cuts in recent federal budgets. Although Congress recently increased the financial support for the NEO survey from $4 million a year to $40 million, the price tag for a space mission to hunt for midsized objects is estimated to be about half a billion dollars. So without another big boost to the NEO program's funding, there is nowhere else within NASA that the money can easily come from except for the agency's planetary science programs.
The struggle for money is not a problem that should even exist, says Michael A'Hearn, an astronomer at the University of Maryland and former principal investigator for NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, a Discovery-class mission. Given that Congress considers the search an important public policy task for NASA, it should appropriately fund the mission itself, he explains: "Can NASA afford not to select NEOCam? That is precisely what I worry about."
Amy Mainzer, an astronomer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NEOCam's principal investigator, emphasizes that the mission is an excellent candidate for the Discovery program because it has scientific objectives that go beyond protecting Earth from asteroids. For example, the telescope would characterize the orbits, shapes, compositions and spin rates of some near-Earth objects—information that would help researchers trace the history of the solar system as well as select new targets for future human and robotic deep-space missions.
But even if NEOCam was purely about planetary defense, it or another mission like it still would be worthwhile, Mainzer maintains. "In terms of risk versus consequences, the possibility of an asteroid strike isn't as worrisome as something like climate change, which is very real and must be addressed right away," she says. "But this doesn't mean we shouldn't go out and look for potentially hazardous NEOs. Looking will go a long way toward quantifying what we're dealing with and how worried we should be. It's a reasonable thing to do."


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Anointed By God
December 14th, 2017
2 Corinthians 1:12-24
Sometimes we find ourselves the object of criticism, not because we have been duplicitous or deceptive, but because of circumstances beyond our control. Even though we do our best to be honest, straightforward, and trustworthy, there are times when our plans and promises are thwarted by others, by illness, or by events we could not foresee.
On some occasions, rare, and to be avoided whenever possible, we change our plans for the sake of those to whom we made pledges or promises. Paul faced that dilemma with the Corinthians. Their continued conflict, in some cases built around moral failure, made it necessary for him to forgo his plans to visit them, lest his visit become a source of greater conflict and pain.
Paul did not simply ignore his promises. He wrote candidly and with loving concern. And he made his case as a man of deep integrity and with a firm dependence on the Holy Spirit.
Our word will only stand the test of eternity if we are deeply dependent on the Spirit of God.
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I was brought up on a diet of Commando Comics, Biggles and Alistair MacLean's war novels. My greatest wish, when I was ten years old (and rated David Westheimer's Von Ryan's Express as the best book ever written), was to see the film version of the book. More about that in a later post, when I'm scraping the barrel for films to review. World War II is an obsession with me (well, almost: it shares space with Westerns, Mughal history, gelato, and a couple of hundred other things). So, a war film, and that too one starring Gregory Peck, was bound to arouse my interest. And am I glad I saw it.
Twelve O'Clock High is a war film that examines the relationships, fears and psychologies of the men who went into battle—and yet it never topples over into melodrama. The action is sparing, the acting excellent, the atmosphere very real.


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One part of the Dungeons and Dragons Scenary kit was a dragon. It required some assembly and wiggling to get the parts to fit in well but all in all, it wasn't too bad to put together. Once this was done, it was a sizeable miniature to deal with. I've never painted a dragon before and I think this might be the largest miniature I have painted and finished (I still feel a pang of guilt over Magnus…). Having the airbrush to basecoat the fellow made this a lot easier to paint I think as I wasn't quite so daunted by the size.
I went for green, as this was the colour on the box, though I did have free rein from the client who it is going to. Anyway, here is the finished dragon. It was a bit too large for the lightbox as well, so I've had to be a bit careful with the angles of the pictures:
Pleased with how he looks at the very least, and I know he will see some use on the gaming table as well.


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2. Three years ago today, Derek picked me up from the airport after getting back to school from said baptism, and took me out to dinner for the first time. Clearly things went well.
3. It's finally warm enough here to play outside together when Derek gets home from work. Clearly an occasion that calls for a family group selfie... which is a lot harder on a DSLR than you would think.
4. Making it through the entire week without eating out once! Our reward? Eating out at Five Guys tonight. Rewarding not eating out, with eating out. Sounds wonderful! This is a favorite weeknight meal of ours! Light Lime Shrimp, YUM! (Recipe: Here)
5. Finally perfecting the chocolate chip cookie. Something I never thought would happen to me until I left this earth life and became perfected later on. (Recipe: Here)
Have a great weekend! And as always, thanks for reading!


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Professors Lynne Parker and Adriana Moreo have been selected as 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows for their work as leading researchers and their distinguished professional service.
Parker, a member of the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was honored for her contributions to the field of robotics. She is the 32nd faculty member at UT to be recognized and the 10th from the Tickle College of Engineering. Parker also is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow. She is currently serving as assistant director for artificial intelligence for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
"It's always nice to be honored, especially when it comes from your peers in science and engineering," said Parker. "This is validation—not just on a personal level, but on the growing importance of my chosen field of research."
Adriana Moreo, a professor of theoretical condensed matter in the Department of Physics, also made the AAAS list for her studies of condensed matter—specifically the properties of materials that result from a large number of interacting atoms and electrons.
Moreo is the fourth member of the current physics faculty to be elected a fellow of the AAAS and the 33rd among all UT faculty. She also is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
"Internal motivation and curiosity are what really drives us to pursue research in physics, but having our efforts recognized by our colleagues provides the external support and encouragement that are needed to succeed," Moreo said. "I really appreciate this recognition from my scientific colleagues and, as a female physicist, I hope that it may encourage younger women to join the physics community."
A Life Dedicated to Robotics
During her time at UT, Parker founded the Distributed Intelligence Laboratory and the Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning. She also served as associate department head and associate dean for faculty affairs and engagement.
Most recently Parker was interim dean of the Tickle College of Engineering before taking a position in theWhite House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
In this appointment, she leads artificial intelligence policy for the White House, which includes setting research and development priorities and establishing coordination; advising on budgetary matters; advancing infrastructure, education, and workforce initiatives; advancing AI innovation; and considering AI in national security and defense.
"AI is a topic of intense national and international attention, and the world is looking to the United States to provide leadership," Parker said. "The opportunity to help lead the nation in an area that has such importance, and which has been the focus of my career, is a once-in-a-lifetime privilege. I am honored to be asked to serve the nation in this manner."
Parker also has served as division director for information and intelligent systems at the National Science Foundation, leading the agency in shaping the nation's artificial intelligence capabilities.
Searching for Better Materials
Moreo joined UT in 2004 and currently holds a joint position in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Division of Materials Science and Technology. She specializes in the research of condensed matter, a field that studies both the micro- and macroscopic physical aspects of matter.
Using a variety of theoretical and computational approaches, she studies and develops models that capture the properties of materials with strongly correlated electrons.
"The huge number of electrons inside a standard metal, such as copper, behave like independent particles," Moreo explained. "In strongly correlated materials, the behavior of one electron is affected by the properties of all the other electrons in such a way that they behave as a coherent group—like synchronized swimmers instead of individual performers."
This correlation drastically changes the properties of the correlated metals compared with standard metals and makes the calculations much more challenging.
The understanding of these kind of materials and the peculiar properties they can develop is crucial for new technologies that could affect energy storage, medicine, and computers.
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In Hugo 0.76.0 you can now have a list of cascade blocks per page and a new
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This release represents 35 contributions by 8 contributors to the main Hugo code base. A big shoutout to @bep, @ai, and @jmooring for their ongoing contributions. And a big thanks to @digitalcraftsman for his relentless work on keeping the themes site in pristine condition and to @davidsneighbour, @coliff and @kaushalmodi for all the great work on the documentation site.
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One of my goals for February was to practice yoga – even for 15 minutes – every day. That hasn't happened (not even close!) but I have practiced at home 3 days. I love the studio experience for many reasons – a guided practice helps me focus better focus since I'm not thinking about what to do next, learning new poses, good playlist, adjustments from my instructor, calm setting, no distractions, group energy.
But, my at-home practices have been pretty great too since I'm able to focus on poses that I really enjoy or that I want to work on. For example, I've really wanted to work on my donkey kicks into a handstand but get nervous at the studio without a wall for support. So, at home, I'm able to move my mat to the wall when practicing donkey kicks to really push my limits. (And, I've never needed the wall which gives me confidence without the wall.)
At home, I set my mat up in my guest bedroom. I move my space heater and humidifier into the room and let them run while I get changed and all during my practice. The rooms warms up quickly! I can definitely get my space hotter at home than at my studio. (But still not as hot as I'd like! 🙂 )
The humidifier and my lamp give off just enough light to give the room a gentle glow. The rest of the room isn't exactly a yoga space – a basket full of wires and modems, dog toys, a laundry drying rack, etc. – but I'm able to create a little serene space in there. Finding a good yoga playlist has been harder that I thought, so I've been using the Phoenix station on Spotify. I really like it for yoga, other than when the artist commentary tracks come on.
For my hour-long practices, I follow this general sequence with vinyasas between almost everything:
- Sun Salutations and variations
- Balancing (e.g. standing pigeon, tree, dancer, eagle)
- Warrior II, Triangle, Side Angle series
- Warrior II to Half Moon and Reverse Half Moon
- Hip openers (usually pigeon)
- Arm balances (I'm obsessed with side crow these days) + donkey kicks
- Back strengthening poses (bow, bridge, wheel)
- Inversions (still working on forearm stand!)
- Savasana
I just got that carrying strap from Paz Boutique to carry my Lululemon The Mat (read my review here). It's the Lululemon Loop It Up Mat Strap. I love having a carrying strap – it makes it so much neater and easier to store and carry. Seems kind of a obvious but I'm surprised how much I love having it. 🙂
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Bear Island Plantation Ashepoo River Colleton County
Basic Information
- Location Ashepoo River, St. Bartholomew's Parish, ACE Basin, Colleton County
Original property was bounded to the south by Mosquito Creek, Musselboro Creek, and Crooked Creek, to the west by the Ashepoo River, and to the east by the South Edisto River
- Origin of Name ?
- Other names Bare Island
- Current status Open to the public, part of the ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge
- 1760s Earliest known date of existence
- ? House built
- Number of acres ?
- Primary crop Rice
- Alphabetical list Barker, Elliott, Hanahan, Matthewes
- Number of slaves ?
Web Resources
Print Resources
- Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
- Lucius G. Fishburne, Plantation Notes, St. Bartholomew's Parish, 1960, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
- Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860
(Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995), pp. 45-48.
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There was a comment floating around Twitter that "Biotech was boring this week" and that's true, it has been a slow news week. Sanofi took the ax to about 100 Genzyme site staffers, Bayer and J&J announced R&D reorganizations, another CAR T cell deal got done (China) and IPOs and follow-on financings were announced: business as usual.
In the background though, slow but steady therapeutic advances are being made that will impact long-term company values. The development of antibody-based therapeutics in multiple myeloma (MM) is one nice example. Among the hematologic malignancies MM is a major disease. The incidence in the US is ~30K yearly and the prevalence is ~85K. A quick glance at that math reveals a disease with pretty short-term survival, less than 5 years according a report produced by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in 2014.
The age of onset for MM is 70 years old in the US, and this is important because it limits some treatment options for many patients who are physically frail. Such patients may not be candidates for high-dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation (SCT) and even patients who are given this first line regimen will eventually relapse. Those patients are served by second line therapeutics, described below.
The huge advance is this field has been the development of non-chemotherapeutic drugs. The IMiDs such as lenalidomide and pomalidomide (Revlimidtm and Pomalysttm, both from Celgene), are used with the proteasome inhibitors such as bortezomib (Velcadetm from Takeda) or carfilzomib (Kyprolistm, from Onyx) along with steroids (dexamethasone, prednisone) in various combinations. "Triplets" are the preferred therapeutic, as exemplified by the combination of lenalidomide, bortezomib and dexamethasone.
At the ASH conference in December a large retrospective outcomes study of newly diagnosed MM patients was presented (link 1). Here is some of the data from that study:
Cohort % Probability of 3 yr Survival
|All ages (N = 1444)
|< 65
|65 to < 75
|≥ 75
|Triplet therapy
|IMWG risk
So a few things here to note: age of onset is a negative factor for survival, in part due to the inability to get the majority of elderly patients to autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). In addition to age of diagnosis, the International Myeloma Working Group
(IMWG) risk score is a composite of factors that determine outcome, and finally the presence of a chromosome deletion (called del(17p)) is known to be associated with significantly shortened survival.
In this study they demonstrated further that the use of triplet therapy vs. non-triplet therapy was associated with significantly prolonged OS regardless of IMWG risk but no improvement was noted for triplet vs. non-triplet therapy in patients with del(17p). Two things are clear from this study – one, we have patient subsets that remains underserved (the elderly and those patients carrying del(17p), and two, triplet therapy is keeping 70% of patients alive for at least three years.
What about patients that fail triplet therapy and who relapse and or are refractory to further treatment (rrMM)? They fare very poorly indeed, as shown here:
newly diagnosed treatment failures
There are a variety of novel therapeutics moving forward in rrMM, including novel proteosome inhibitors, HDAC inhibitors, nuclear export protein inhibitors and any others. One class of therapeutic gaining significant attention are the antibodies directed to the MM cells. These include the antibodies to CD38 and other MM-selective cell surface proteins.
The lead therapeutic among the anti-CD38 antibodies is daratumumab from Genmab in collaboration with Janssen. The deal included a US$55 million upfront payment, an $80 million equity stake in Genmab, and milestone payments adding up to $1.1 billion or more.Daratumumab is a huMAX CD38 mAb which kills CD38+ tumor cells via CDC and ADCC activity and antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis (ADCP) by macrophages. Additional activity may be due to apoptosis upon secondary cross-linking and modulation of CD38 enzymatic function (see ASH 2014 abstract # 3474). Daratumumab received the FDA's breakthrough therapy designation in May 2013 for treatment of rrMM (for patients failing 2 lines of therapy).
When combined with lenalidomide and dexamethasone (len/dex), daratumumab produced an overall response rate (ORR) of 75% in the phase I dose ranging clinical trial. The trial was designed to accommodate an expansion cohort dosed at the MTD (maximum tolerated dose) of 16mg/kg. In the expansion cohort the ORR was ~ 92%.
In a phase Ib study daratumumab was combined with various regimens:
These efficacy numbers are startlingly good. What will be really impressive is the associated duraton of response (DOR) and overall survival (OS) data once the trial is mature. In early February preliminary results from another Phase II study were announced. The study, called MMY2002, is listed as NCT01985126 on clinical trials.gov (link 2). This two-part study enrolled 124 rrMS patients who had received at least three prior lines of therapy, including both a proteasome inhibitor and an IMiD, or were double refractory to therapy with a proteasome inhibitor plus an IMiD. The primary objectives of the study were to define the optimal dose and dosing schedule, to determine the efficacy of two treatment regimens of daratumumab as measured by ORR, and to further characterize the safety of daratumumab as a single agent. Two doses of daratumumab were compared in part 1, at 8 mg/kg and 16 mg/kg. The expansion cohort (part 2) received the higher dose based on interim safety analysis of the initial dose comparison.
The ORR was 29.2% in the 16 mg/kg dosing group with a DOR of 7.4 months. We can expect additional data to be presented at a medical conference this year, perhaps ASCO or ESMO, and ASH or EHA. These data will support the breakthrough therapy designation for daratumumab in rrMM and may lead to a 2015 approval in this patient population, i.e. based on the phase II results.
Additional daratumumab trials include 5 phase III trials in MM, including a series of studies in newly diagnosed MM, therefore, as front-line therapy, and a phase II trial ((LYM2001) in hematological malignancies. The study will evaluate daratumumab monotherapy in three different types of NHL, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), follicular lymphoma (FL) and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). The study is expected to start enrolling patients in 2015.
Sanofi Oncology is developing SAR650984 (SAR), is a human IgG1 antibody that targets CD38. TCD11863 (NCT01749969) is a phase Ib trial evaluating the combination of SAR with len/dex in rrMM: patients averaged six prior therapies. These prior therapies included the second line therapeutics lenalidomide (94%), pomalidomide (29%), bortezomib (94%), and carfilzomib (48%). Eighty four percent of patients were relapsed and refractory to a least one second line therapeutic. In the dose ranging phase, the highest SAR dose of 10mg/kg was well tolerated.
After a median 9 month follow up, the ORR was 58%, with a clinical benefit rate of 65%, including a 6% stringent complete response rate. In patients receiving the 10 mg/kg dose, the ORR was 63%. The median progression free survival (PFS) was 6.2 months for all evaluated patients but was not yet reached in patients who received fewer than three prior therapeutic regimens before entering the study.
Looking just at the 84% of who were relapsed and refractory to least one second line therapeutic, the ORR was 50%.
An interesting study presented at ASH in December suggested that Immunogenetic factors contributing to NK cell function influenced clinical activity in pts treated with SAR/LEN/Dex. Specifically, the presence of a high-affinity KIR3DL1, HLA-B Bw4-80Ile genotype was associated with high ORR and prolonged PFS. This suggests that the NK cell competency of the patient influences the ability of NK cells to become activated in the presence of tumor cells coated with SAR antibodies. This fascinating study (ASH 2014, Abstract # 2126) should stimulate investigation of mechanisms of NK cell activation that could be used in combination with SAR, assuming the presence of len/dex does not complicate the picture. There are additional clinical studies of SAR, listed here: link 3. These include a phase I/II study in hematologic malignancies.
In addition to daratumumab and SAR650984, Celgene and MorphoSys are collaborating on the development of the CD38 antibody MOR03087 (aka MOR202). This antibody is currently being investigated as monotherapy and in combination with len/dexamethasone or bor/dex in a phase I/II rrMM study (NCT01421186). The Morphosys licensing deal with Celgene included a $92M upfront, $60M equity investment and downstream milestones. Takeda is developing the anti-CD38 antibodies Ab79 and Ab19, currently in preclinical studies (link 4). Xencor has a CD3/CD38 bispecific program. The small private biotech Molecular Templates has an anti-CD38 antibody-drug conjugate program. There are likely other programs out there.
Elotizumab (ELO) from Bristol Myers Squibb targets a different MM antigen, SLAMF7 (aka CS-1). A presentation at ASH (abstract #2119) reported early results from a phase Ib study of ELO in combination with len/dex.ELO selectively kills SLAMF7-positive MM cells through both direct activation and engagement of NK cells. A multicenter, open-label, Phase Ib trial (NCT01393964) enrolled patients with newly diagnosed or rrMM and varying renal function. Renal function is a dose limiting feature of rrMM treatment and disease progression. ELO (10 mg/kg) plus len/dex was given in 28-day cycles until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. 26 pts were treated, 8 with Normal Renal Function (NRF), 9 with Renal Insufficiency (RI), and 9 with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). 89% had received prior therapy (median 2 regimens). Prior bor, thalidomide, or len treatment occurred in 21 (81%), 11 (42%), and 9 (35%) patients, respectively. ORRs were 75% (NRF), 67% (SRI), and 56% (ESRD). Thirty-eight percent NRF, 56% of SRI, and 11% of ESRD patients had a very good partial response or better. Therefore ELO/len/dex was well tolerated and showed clinical responses in MM patients regardless of renal function.
These new therapeutics for MM will certainly complement the existing triple therapies, giving patients added hope and time. We certainly expect that one of the new combinations of antibodies and the second line "triple therapeutics" discussed above will have an even more dramatic impact on MM when given in the front-line setting.
In the meantime Janssen (J&J) and Genmab are poised to give Celgene some real competition in the MM space.


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I remember one Christmas Eve years ago, when I was a Sunday School teacher trying to wrangle small children dressed as shepherds and herd animals dressed as small children and deal with both kings and wise guys and try not to show favouritism to the little angels …
There was a ten-year-old girl who was not at all happy to be there at the pageant rehearsal. Ten going on eleven is a difficult age: everyone tells you that you're growing up, but they still treat you like a child. There are secrets whispered around the house behind closed doors, and you are awake late enough into the evening to hear both them and the raised voices that might follow. Your body keeps growing and changing – you can't rely on it from one day to the next to be in the same condition as you left it in the night before. Everything is in flux, there is little security to be found, and it is frightening and frustrating, so this young girl was understandably angry at the world, at the pageant, and at her mother. "I don't want to," and "I hate you," were the refrains to her Christmas caroling.
And this, this was the child they had chosen to be Mary.
The pageant director showed her, in no uncertain terms, her place. The child sat scowling, kicking her foot in front of her.
The mother of the baby Jesus, little Joshua, brought her son, her firstborn, her heart, and placed him in the girl's arms. And she changed.
Her foot stopped swinging. Her face stopped scowling. Her breathing grew quiet and calm, as though she were breathing the sleeping child a lullaby. A kind of peace – the kind of peace which passes all understanding, came, not as if out of nowhere but as if out of the core of her being, called out of her by the baby boy in her arms. She sat, suddenly serene, and all of the little shepherds and the wise guys and the animals and the angels tiptoed around her in reverence and awe for as long as the spell lasted, which was for as long as the baby was in her arms. And even later, as they trailed away for the journey home, you could still find traces of calmness in the air where they had sat and moved and had their being.
I think that one of God's wisest moments was when the choice was made to be born as a vulnerable and dependent child. The fact that we depend on an almighty God for our very being is a wonderful comfort in times of deep despair, and it can be one of great frustration when we wish that we could do more for ourselves, make the world in our own image.
In coming to us as a newborn baby, God shared our dependence, our lack of control, our frustrated cries, our hunger and the pain of separation; our deepest danger and our profound doubt in the face of an uncertain future.
We are told that Christmas is a time of joy, and it is, but joy is about more than happy feelings and bubbly thoughts. Joy, true joy is more complex; it understands frustration and anger and fear, even deep sadness, and it owns them. Joy does not depend on the perfection of the season, or of the world, or of our lives, thank God. Instead, joy is that which allows our entire being to know that we are beloved of God, as newborn infants cradled in gentle arms, whether we are crying or sleeping, or scowling or smiling. Joy is the knowledge that God delights in us, and calls us into that peace which passes all understanding, through the birth of a child at Christmas time, in the bleak midwinter, when all was dark and cold, and the only light was a stable lamp, lit to brighten the arrival of the one who loves us all. And that is the joy, the peace and the joy, that I wish you all this Christmas time.


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Guyana"s local celebrities took time out of the busy schedules to support the Guyana Red Cross Blood Drive in February. Soca artistes, Adrian Dutchin, Michelle Big Red King and Jumo Primo - NCN Radio Announcer Casual Armstrong and Nigel Worrell supported the blood drive by interact-ing with the donors, taking pictures and sign-ing autographs for donors.
Donors showed up in their numbers on the second Tuesday in February to help save lives as well as to get a glimpse of the local entertainers .
In 2011, the GRCS plans to do more, reach further with the blood recruitment programme.
Soca Artistes Michelle "Big Red" King &
Adrian Dutchin with donor.
Each quarter , different themes are used in order to attract new and young donors as well as to retain current donors.
In March , the GRCS Blood Recruitment team held meetings with several secondary schools on the East Coast of Demerara to speak on the importance of voluntary blood donations and safe blood.
Several students uttered " I had no idea giving blood was this important, it could be someone I know that may need a blood type that might not be available." These meetings have even increased the number of youth within the GRCS Youth Group and potential Club 25 Members.
GRCS at University Of Guyana Career Day
Secondary School students exmaine the contents of a First Aid Kit.
For the first time, the GRCS showcased its many programmes and activities at the University of Guyana Career Day on February 18th, on the Campus of the University. Organizations from both the private
and public sector took part in the day"s activities. The event is an annual one, organized by the University to display and educate potential students on the course/programmes offered by the University.
Over 50 primary and secondary schools attended, and many were very interested in the courses offered by the RC. Schools in outlying areas were particularly interested in how youth could get involved in volunteering and especially in learning First Aid. The younger children, from the primary schools asked more questions on health and hygiene and voluntary blood donations.


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Chuck Schumer Attacks Texas
Chuck Schumer said in an interview that Texas did not help with Hurricane Sandy and he hopes Texas learned its lesson. Texas tried to help after Hurricane Sandy, but when they arrived in New Jersey and New York, many of them were told they had to join their Union or they couldn't help, so they said no thanks and went home. Other groups managed to start helping without joining any Union and while they tried to repair utilities and move rubble they were shot at, some of them lost all their equipment to looters. They came back to Texas complaining that the people were rude, mean, looting. I didn't hear a single nice anything said about New York and New Jersey. No matter how much or how little they managed to help, every Texan was glad to be back in Texas after Sandy. As for the hope we will learn, Texas has taken care of itself for a good while, there isn't much to learn other than reinforce our infrastructure. I thank those who went to South Texas to help repair the power after Hurricane Dolly. I saw Electric and Fire trucks from Louisiana, Oklahoma, Florida but I didn't see any trucks that said New York or New Jersey. Yankees like Schumer wonder why there is still a line that divides the North and the South, it is that kind of holier than though Yankee attitude, that is why. Schumer can stuff his 'New Yawhk' opinions where the sun doesn't shine!
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Today is September 11, 2022, 21 years since the horrible day that changed our world forever. Back in October of 2001, I actually made a pilgrimage of sorts to Lower Manhattan, as I simply had to see what had happened to New York after the events of the prior month.
I remember speaking with police officers directing traffic, still looking exhausted and shell-shocked, yet treating me and others with dozens of questions with the utmost kindness and respect. I parked a couple of blocks from where the Trade Center had stood, gasping as I saw dozens of cars covered in a thick layer of dust and realizing that they'd been sitting there since 9/11, their owners never having come back that day. I remember closed stores along Broadway, their merchandise covered in layers of gray dust that eerily reminded me of Pompeii. And I remember spontaneously bursting into tears when I rounded a corner and saw the wreckage of the front façade of one of the towers looming ahead of me a couple of blocks away.
Three years ago, as I made my way west across the U.S. on one of my annual summer road trips I was driving on some smaller highways in Pennsylvania between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, and I suddenly thought about Flight 93, the plane that was hijacked on 9/11 and whose passengers had stormed the cockpit and forced the plane to crash in a field in rural Pennsylvania near the town of Shanksville before it could reach Washington, its suspected destination where it may well have harmed who knows how many more innocent people. I wondered to myself where exactly the flight had crashed and thought I must be nearby.
Not a half an hour later, there was a sign for the Flight 93 National Memorial, and with a feeling of what I can only describe as obligation, I took a detour from my intended route to pay my respects. The Memorial is located about 1.5 hours southeast of Pittsburgh in lush, rolling countryside. Inside the memorial is a large Visitor's Center and museum with exhibits that detail the entire timetable of what happened that morning. Outside is a large, ramp-like observation deck which has been built to align with the flight path of the plane as it came down that day. In the distance, a wide pathway has been mown through the fields to again show the flight path of the plane and a 17 ton boulder has been placed to mark the place where the aircraft crashed.
With that perspective, I drove down to Memorial Plaza where you can walk along a path that parallels the debris field where the last remains of those on board the flight were buried, and from where you can get a more close up, intimate look at the exact area where the plane came down. A commemorative Wall of Names lists the passengers and crew members who'd been aboard Flight 93, and along the way information signs describe the heroic efforts of the passengers that thwarted the terror attack. As if it were yesterday, the names of the heroic folks who had taken part in the rebellion came back to me: Tom Burnett, Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Jeremy Glick, Sandra Bradshaw and others who'd learned via cell phone calls to family and authorities what had happened in New York and Washington and decided to try and prevent the terrorists from using their plane as another weapon. Tom Burnett's last statements to his wife were, "OK. There's a group of us and we're going to do something. If they are going to drive this plane into the ground, we've got to do something." After reciting The Lord's Prayer together with a manager from the telephone switchboard that handled in-flight phone calls, Todd Beamer uttered the famous lines, presumably to Burnett and Glick, "You ready? OK. Let's roll"
I instantly felt my throat close and my eyes fill with tears as I walked the path and read the information signs that brought the whole ordeal back to my consciousness. Along the path I spoke quietly with many of the visitors who'd come from all over the country, and I was comforted to see that many of them, like me, could barely speak, experiencing the same reaction that I was having as they struggled to comprehend what had happened here. Occasionally, when we just couldn't speak, we simply put a hand on a shoulder or gave one another a hug and words didn't have to be spoken.
Another aspect of the Memorial that was not finished during my visit but is now complete is called the Tower of Voices, a huge, 93 foot tall structure which houses 40 different wind chimes, one for each of the passengers and crew members and each weighing over 100 pounds. They are tuned to a different tone to represent the voices of those lost on that day. You can sample what the chimes sound like by listening to them at the National Park Service site.
This may not be a pilgrimage that everyone is eager, willing or able to make, but I was glad I was able to visit this place and pay my respects to those who lost their lives that day trying to save others. It moved me deeply and afterwards I took even more comfort than usual in making stops at an Amish produce stand, marveling at the gorgeous scenery in this part of Pennsylvania, and visiting Pamela's, my favorite place for pancakes in Pittsburgh. Remembering the passengers and crew of Flight 93 made me more acutely aware of how grateful I am for the life I still have and the freedoms we have in our country. I won't forget those people and I won't take a minute of my life for granted.


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