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Sheridan, Oregon
|Sheridan, Oregon
View of the city from the northeast
Location in Oregon
|Coordinates: 45°5′54″N 123°23′50″W / 45.09833°N 123.39722°WCoordinates: 45°5′54″N 123°23′50″W / 45.09833°N 123.39722°W
|United States
|Named for
|Philip Sheridan
|• Mayor
|Harry F. Cooley
|• Total
|2.01 sq mi (5.21 km2)
|• Land
|1.96 sq mi (5.08 km2)
|• Water
|0.05 sq mi (0.13 km2)
|189 ft (57.6 m)
|Population (2010)[2]
|• Total
|• Estimate (2012[3])
|• Density
|3,126.0/sq mi (1,207.0/km2)
|Time zone
|Pacific (UTC-8)
|• Summer (DST)
|Pacific (UTC-7)
|ZIP code
|Area code(s)
|503 and 971
|FIPS code
|GNIS feature ID
Sheridan is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. Platted in the 1860s when it received a post office, the city was incorporated in 1880. A major fire burned much of the city in 1913, and a flood covered much of the city in 1964. The population of the city as of the 2010 Census was 6,127, an increase from 3,570 at the 2000 census.[6] However, the 2000 Census count failed to include those incarcerated at the federal prison in the city, while the newer count did include those inmates.
Located in the western part of the Willamette Valley, the city is at the base of the Northern Oregon Coast Range along the South Yamhill River. Sheridan lies west of the county seat of McMinnville, along Oregon Route 18. This highway and Oregon Route 18 Business run east–west through Sheridan and nearby Willamina, parallel to the river. Sheridan Bridge is the only river crossing within Sheridan.
This farming and timber community's largest employer is Federal Correctional Institution, Sheridan, a federal minimum and medium security prison. The city has a mayor-council form of government, with daily operations run by a city manager. The community has its own school district, with a single traditional high school. The main events each year in town are Sheridan Days and the Mud Drags, both held in June. Sheridan was named in honor of the American Civil War general Philip Henry Sheridan.
Absolem B. Faulconer laid out the plat for what became the city of Sheridan in the mid-1860s. This plat was recorded with the county on December 13, 1866.[7] He had settled in the area in 1847.[7] The Sheridan post office was established on April 4, 1866, with Absolem's brother Thomas serving as postmaster.[7] By 1871 the town had grown to include two blacksmith shops, one church, one school, one hotel, one wagon shop, and two general stores.[7] In October 1878, the Dayton, Sheridan and Grande Ronde Railroad, a narrow gauge railway, reached the community.[7]
The city, a timber and farming community southwest of Portland and northwest of Salem, was incorporated in 1880.[8] Sheridan was named for General Philip Sheridan, who was posted to Yamhill County and Fort Yamhill in the latter half of the 1850s to monitor the Native Americans at what is now the Grand Ronde Reservation west of the city.[8] By 1894, the city had grown to 400 residents, one bank, two hotels, three churches, and a flouring mill.[9] At that time there was a daily train to the city as well as daily stage coach service from McMinnville, and a single wooden bridge over the river.[9]
Agriculture was the main industry in the city's early years.[10] Around 1910, the main crops included hops, clover-seed, hay, potatoes, onions, and a variety of fruits including apples, prunes, and pears.[10] On July 18, 1913, a fire that destroyed most of the commercial district caused $300,000 in damage.[7] Most of the buildings were rebuilt with brick within six months.[7] On October 30, 1930, the Jesuits purchased an 891-acre (361 ha) farm on a hill overlooking the city.[11] There they started St. Francis Xavier's Novitiate, a school for training priests for the order.[11] Opening in a new building and several existing farm buildings in 1931, St. Francis Xavier's added more buildings over the next several decades.[11]
In 1932, the state built a highway through Sheridan from McMinnville to the Oregon Coast, which became Oregon Route 18 or the Salmon River Highway. With funds received through the Works Progress Administration, the current steel bridge across the South Yamhill River was built and opened in 1939.[12] By 1940, agriculture was still a major industry, and the timber industry was growing in importance to the local economy.[13] At that time the city had grown to a population of 1,008 people.[13]
The state built a bypass around Sheridan and Willamina that opened in 1957 to carry Oregon Route 18 on the south end of the city. The old alignment through the center of town became Oregon Route 18 Business. Sheridan had its largest flooding in history on December 22, 1964.[14] The South Yamhill overflowed its banks and isolated the town for two days.[14] The Jesuits sold their training school in 1974 to the Delphian Foundation,[15] who then opened The Delphian School at the site in 1976.[16]
In 1989, a federal minimum and medium security prison, Federal Correctional Institution - Sheridan, opened on the south side of the city.[8] At that time, Sheridan had a population of around 2,500 people.[8] Sheridan moved its city hall into the old railroad station in January 1993,[17] and expanded the renovated building in 1995.[18] The U.S. Census Bureau erroneously listed the city's population as 3,570 in the 2000 Census after mis-listing the prison's population in the wrong census tract.[19] This error of about 2000 people was enough to throw off the state legislative districts beyond their margin of acceptance and the Oregon Supreme Court ruled the Secretary of State must re-draw the boundary lines to match the correct data.[19][20] The city also counts the prison population as part of the city's official population. In December 2008, a two-alarm fire gutted the 1875 United Methodist Church in the city.[21]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.01 square miles (5.21 km2), of which, 1.96 square miles (5.08 km2) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km2) is water.[1]
The South Yamhill River divides the city between north and south, and is prone to flooding the city.[9][14] Deer Creek is the only other stream in the city. Sheridan is located in the western part of the Willamette Valley at an elevation of 189 feet (58 m) above sea level.[22] The city lies at the foothills of the Northern Oregon Coast Range.[8]
Surrounding cities include Willamina about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the west along Oregon 18B, Amity about 9 miles (14 km) due east, and McMinnville about 12 miles (19 km) to the northeast. Other communities include Ballston to the southeast, Shipley due west, Red Prairie to the south, the Gopher Valley to the north and east, and Bellevue to the northeast along Oregon 18. Sheridan is about one-and-a-half miles north of the Polk County line,[9] with the county seat of Dallas approximately 11 miles (18 km) south of Sheridan.
Sheridan, as part of the Willamette Valley, is within the Marine west coast climate zone. Summers in there are generally warm, but temperatures year-round are moderated by a marine influence from the Pacific Ocean.[23] The city receives most of its precipitation during the mild to cool winter months, with the wettest period from November through March.[23] Sheridan's average annual precipitation totals 47.16 inches (1,198 mm), with the wettest month coming in December.[22] August is the warmest month with an average high temperature of 83 °F (28 °C), while December is the coolest month with an average high of 45 °F (7 °C).[24] December is also on average the wettest month with 8.78 inches (223 mm).[24] July is the driest month of the year, on average.[22] The highest recorded temperature in Sheridan, 106 °F (41 °C), has occurred twice, on July 19, 1956, and August 8, 1981.[25][26] Sheridan's lowest ever recorded temperature was −11 °F (−24 °C) on January 31, 1950.[27]
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|Source: The Weather Channel[24]
The city is served by two main roads, Oregon Route 18 and Oregon Route 18 Business.[22] The business route, also known as Main Street, runs through downtown on the north side of the South Yamhill River and connects to Shipley and Willamina, to the west. The Sheridan Bridge on Bridge Street connects the two sides of the city across the river. The railroad has the only other bridge crossing the river in the city. Oregon Route 18 connects to McMinnville, the county seat, and beyond to the Portland metropolitan area to the east. Other major roads include Sheridan Street, Mill Street, Sherman Street, Cherry Hill Road, and Rock Creek Road.
Willamette & Pacific Railroad provides freight rail service to the city, but there is no passenger rail in the city.[22] Sheridan does not have any public use airports, with McMinnville Municipal Airport as the closest public airport.[22] Local private airports include Abba's Airport and Bushnell Airport. There is public transportation via Yamhill Community Action Partnership with a bus to McMinnville.[28]
The economy of Sheridan includes agriculture, timber, manufacturing, and service sector employment. As of 2000, the Spirit Mountain Casino outside of the city employed the most people in the area with 1,000 employees.[22] The federal prison was the largest employer in the city with 500 employees, followed by Liberty Homes with 100 employees at the manufactured homes builder.[22] The closest hospital is the Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville.[22]
The commercial district is centered on Bridge and Main streets, with their intersection as the location of the only traffic signal in the city.[29][30] There were 12 manufacturing companies in Sheridan, one commercial bank, and one savings and loan as of 2006.[22] Sheridan also has one gas station, two grocery stores, one pharmacy, five restaurants, and two hardware stores among other businesses.[30]
The Delphian School in unincorporated Yamhill County, near Sheridan, houses the offices of Delphi Schools and Heron Books.[31][32]
City police protection is provided under contract by the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office.[33] The office maintains a substation at Sheridan's city hall.[34] Sheridan Fire District provides fire protection to the city and more than 100 square miles (260 km2) of the surrounding area including neighboring Ballston.[35] The district operates three fire stations, one in the city, and had 35 firefighters as of 1998.[22]
Sheridan is a home rule charter city, with a mayor-council government.[36][37] Val Adamson is the mayor,[38] who heads the city council that includes six others, with the mayor voting to break ties.[39] Council members and the mayor are elected to four-year terms.[40] A city manager runs the daily operations of the city's government. City hall is located in the building that once served as the city's train depot.[30]
Sheridan operates its own water and wastewater treatment systems, both built in 1949.[22] Drinking water comes from the South Yamhill River and from springs on Stony Mountain to the north.[29] Sheridan has two city parks, Sheridan City Park that includes a skatepark, and South Park along Oregon Route 18 that features a fishing pond.[41] Additionally, there is the J. A. Art Hebert Memorial Plaza on Bridge Street near the river.[30]
2010 census[edit]
As of the census[2] of 2010, there were 6,127 people, 1,543 households, and 1,085 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,126.0 inhabitants per square mile (1,207.0/km2). There were 1,671 housing units at an average density of 852.6 per square mile (329.2/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 74.9% White, 5.5% African American, 4.8% Native American, 2.1% Asian, 0.7% Pacific Islander, 7.6% from other races, and 4.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 16.6% of the population.
There were 1,543 households of which 41.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.0% were married couples living together, 15.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.9% had a male householder with no wife present, and 29.7% were non-families. 23.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.22.
The median age in the city was 35.7 years. 20.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 38% were from 25 to 44; 23.8% were from 45 to 64; and 8.9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 63.8% male and 36.2% female.
The average household size was 2.92, while the median income for a household in the city was $49,940.[6]
Primary and secondary schools[edit]
Public schools[edit]
Sheridan is served by the Sheridan School District, which includes four schools. The Faulconer-Chapman School serves 608 students in grades kindergarten through eighth.[42] Sheridan High School is the main high school, with students in grades nine through twelve. Known as the Spartans, the Class 3A school has an enrollment of 287.[42] Opportunity House house is an alternative high school with 49 students in grades ten through twelve, while the Sheridan Japanese School (a charter school) has 88 students in grades four through twelve.[42] As of 2008, the district had 1,042[42] students and 69 staff members.[22]
Private schools[edit]
The Delphian School, a K-12 Scientology-affiliated private school, is located in unincorporated Yamhill County, near Sheridan.[43][44] The school uses the study methods known as Study Tech that were developed by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.[45] Enrollment at the kindergarten through twelfth grade school is 260 students, which includes a majority of students living in dorms on the campus.[46]
Colleges and universities[edit]
There are no colleges in Sheridan, but the city is within the Chemeketa Community College district that includes a campus in McMinnville.[47] Linfield College, also in McMinnville, is the closest four-year college with Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Willamette University in Salem, and George Fox University in Newberg all located in the surrounding areas.[48]
Built in 1892, Travelers Home on northeast Yamhill was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982, and is the only building on the NRHP in Sheridan (as of 2011).[49] The city operates a single branch public library at Bridge and Yamhill streets on the north side of the city.[22] The library is a member of the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service and is housed in a 3,000-square-foot (280 m2), one-story building.[50] In 2007, it had a collection of 33,792 items with a circulation of 187,000 among 4,256 registered users.[50]
The local newspaper is the once per week The Sun, published on Wednesdays.[51] The paper was founded in 1890 and has a circulation of 1,263.[51] Broadcast radio and television stations from Portland are also available, as is the regional newspaper The Oregonian, also from Portland.[22]
The city hosts two main annual events, Sheridan Days and the Mud Drags. Sheridan Days runs four days each June and includes a parade.[52] Most events are held at the high school and includes carnival type activities and rides.[53] The Mud Drags are held in early June and sponsored by the local Rotary International group.[54] Competitors race vehicles through the mud to win prize money.[55] The event draws crowds of 4,000 and includes a children's race through the mud.[55]
Civic groups include those involved in history, fraternal groups, and commercial promotion. The Sheridan Museum of History is a building-less group with a collection of artifacts and photographs displayed in borrowed space, including at the Yamhill County Historical Society Museum in McMinnville.[56] Commercial groups include the Sheridan Chamber of Commerce and the West Valley Chamber of Commerce.[57] Other civic groups include the Rotary International club, the Kiwanis, a Rebekah Lodge, and the Woman's Study Club of Sheridan.[57]
Notable people[edit]
The city is home to several notable people from athletes to politicians. Barbara Roberts, who served in the state legislature and as Oregon Secretary of State before election as Governor of Oregon grew up in Sheridan and graduated from Sheridan High School.[58] High jumper Joni Huntley also graduated from the high school and won a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.[59]
See also[edit]
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- ^ a b "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
- ^ "Population Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ a b "Sheridan (city)". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g Stoller, Ruth. "Sheridan - A. B. Faulconer's Town" (PDF). Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Mortenson, Eric (May 20, 1989). "Sheridan becomes a prison town". Register-Guard. pp. 1A and 4A.
- ^ a b c d Edward Gardner Jones, ed. (1894). The Oregonian's handbook of the Pacific Northwest. p. 258.
- ^ a b Mosessohn, M. (July 1910). "In the Valley of Content". Sunset XXV: 112–113.
- ^ a b c Schoenberg, Wilfred P. (June 1959). Jesuits in Oregon. The Oregon-Jesuit.
- ^ Pointer, Starla (June 24, 2006). "'It's the thrill of the search' – Marge Owens". News-Register.
- ^ a b Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Oregon (1940). Oregon: End of the Trail. American Guide Series. Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort. pp. 492–493. OCLC 4874569.
- ^ a b c Daquilante, Paul (January 26, 2008). "Sheridan gets advice on next big one". News-Register. Retrieved August 24, 2009.
- ^ Staff and news service reports (June 25, 1999). "The Sheridan novitiate". Catholic Sentinel. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
- ^ Associated Press (January 3, 1978). "Delphian School sets sights high". Register-Guard. p. 3B. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
- ^ "Sheridan City Hall moves into the renovated train station depot". News-Register. January 23, 1993. p. 1.
- ^ "Sheridan City Hall being remodeled and enlarged to make more room for the YCSO West Valley substation". News-Register. November 30, 1995. p. 12.
- ^ a b Hartung v. Bradbury, 332 Or. 570, 33 P.3d 972 (2001)
- ^ Bradbury gives court new map on redistricting. The Oregonian, November 29, 2001.
- ^ Daquilante, Paul (December 25, 2008). "Sheridan loses 1875 church building". News-Register. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Sheridan Community Profile". Oregon Business. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ a b Taylor, George (July 2005). "Climate of Oregon". Oregon Climate Service. Archived from the original on October 15, 2007.
- ^ a b c "Monthly Averages for Sheridan, Oregon". The Weather Channel. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ^ "August Daily Averages for Sheridan, Oregon". The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc. Retrieved August 25, 2009.
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- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". City of Sheridan. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ a b Daquilante, Paul (February 24, 2007). "No rush to judgment in building collapse". News-Register. Retrieved August 24, 2009.
- ^ a b c d Klooster, Karl (August 30, 2008). "Sheridan's central scene". News-Register. Retrieved August 24, 2009.
- ^ "About Delphi Schools, Inc." The Delphian School. Retrieved on December 27, 2010. "Delphian School 20950 SW Rock Creek Road Sheridan, Oregon 97378."
- ^ "How to Contact Us." Heron Books. Retrieved on December 27, 2010. "Postal Address: Heron Books 20750 SW Rock Creek Road Sheridan, OR 97378 USA
- ^ "Organization Chart". Yamhill County Sheriff's Office. June 16, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ Staff (August 12, 2009). "Traffic stop results in charges". News-Register. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ Daquilante, Paul (February 10, 2009). "Sheridan lands fire grant". News-Register. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ "City Charter". City of Sheridan. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ "III", Charter (PDF), City of Sheridan
- ^ Walker, Molly (January 6, 2009). "Mayor headed to inaugural parade". News-Register. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ Staff (May 6, 2008). "Sheridan fills city council vacancy". News-Register. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ "Your Elected Officials". City of Sheridan. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ "Parks". City of Sheridan. Retrieved August 24, 2009.
- ^ a b c d "Oregon School Directory 2008-09" (PDF). Oregon Department of Education. p. 88. Retrieved June 11, 2009.
- ^ "Sheridan city, Oregon." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on December 27, 2010.
- ^ "Contact Us." The Delphian School. Retrieved on December 27, 2010. "Delphian School 20950 SW Rock Creek Road Sheridan, Oregon 97378"
- ^ "Empower Them as Students". delphian.org. The Delphian School. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
- ^ "Delphian School". high-schools.com. High-Schools.com. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
- ^ "McMinnville Campus". chemeketa.edu. Chemeketa Community College. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
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- ^ "Oregon National Register List" (PDF). Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. June 6, 2011. p. 50. Retrieved September 28, 2013.
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- ^ a b "The Sun". Memners. Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved August 24, 2009.
- ^ Daquilante, Paul (June 17, 2009). "In Sheridan, music takes center stage". News-Register. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ Daquilante, Paul (June 24, 2009). "Sheridan Days rock but most miss out". News-Register. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ Shockley, Troy (June 10, 2009). "Mud drags a family tradition for this clan". News-Register. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ a b Morrill, Tyler. "Mud drags return to Sheridan". News-Register.
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- ^ a b "Service Clubs". Community. City of Sheridan. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
- ^ Mapes, Jeff (October 7, 1990). "Barabara Roberts; Campaign '90 The Race for Governor". The Oregonian. p. A1.
- ^ Goe, Ken (June 22, 2008). "Olympics: Olympic track and field medalists from Oregon". The Oregonian.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Sheridan, Oregon at Wikimedia Commons
- Listing for Sheridan in the Oregon Blue Book
- "Sheridan". The Oregon Encyclopedia.


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Fake ecstasy tablets that render users angry and aggressive have landed at least eight young Aucklanders in hospital needing sedation.
Middlemore Hospital in Manukau has reported half a dozen cases of drug-takers seeking emergency treatment last week after taking pills known as "red rockets" that they believed were ecstasy.
A further two people were treated on Friday.
While packaged as MDMA-based ecstasy pills, the tablets trigger behaviour similar to methamphetamine intoxication from those who take them, hospital spokeswoman Lauren Young said on Monday.
"They're coming in very aggressive, agitated and certainly wound up," she said.
"It's more like methamphetamine, which is prolific in South Auckland."
Some users suffered violent seizures and hallucinations that shocked staff, and all required sedating until they were well enough to leave.
Ecstasy tablets are made with MDMA and are known to make users feel euphoric, but sometimes the drug is cut with other chemicals and may contain no MDMA at all.
Police and drug specialists fear this latest batch of pills may be available in large quantities in Auckland over coming weeks and have warned potential buyers to be aware they may not be getting what they're paying for.
"They might get a bunch of chemicals that are entirely different and could include methamphetamine," Massey University drugs researcher Dr Chris Wilkins told the New Zealand Herald.
"Methamphetamine has got a really bad reputation at the moment as quite a harmful drug.
"One way to sell methamphetamine is to call it ecstasy and sell it as a powder."

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Take action on International Women's Day
1 March 2010
WAGGGS calls all members to participate in the poster competition 'girls worldwide say no to violence against women'. The competition will start on 8 March, International Women's Day and will end on 12 August, International Youth Day so there is plenty of time to run a special meeting with your groups, encourage your friends and family to join and check out all the other actions you can take on the WAGGGS action page! More details will be published on 8 March.
WAGGGS is launching partner of the Unifem campaign 'say no to violence against women'. The first milestone of 100,000 actions was celebrated in March 2010 and the next goal is to collect 1 Million actions by November 2010. Every action recorded on the WAGGGS action page [link] counts toward this goal.
Did you know
- Up to 70 percent of women and girls will be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in their lifetime.
- Rape and domestic violence are a higher risk for women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, traffic accidents or malaria.
- 140 million women and girls alive today have undergone female genital mutilation.
- It is estimated that 5,000 women are victims of so-called "honour killings" every year.
Take action now!
About International Women's Day
On the 8th March the achievements of women around the world are celebrated on International Women's Day (IWD). As the world's largest volunteer organization for girls and young women, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is a major supporter of this day, which is observed globally through a range of events that acknowledge the contribution women make to society, business, the arts, science and technology.
The first IWD was run in 1911. More than one million women and men attended IWD rallies campaigning for women's rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination. Find out more about the history of that important day.
The global United Nation themes used for International Women's Day 2010 is Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all but each country or organization has a different IWD theme. Some examples are:
- Global, United Nations: Women and men united to end violence against women and girls
- Canada, Status of Women (Federal Gov): Strong Leadership. Strong Women. Strong World: Equality
- Australia, UNIFEM: Unite to End Violence Against Women
- UK, Doncaster Council: Women's Voices and Influence
- UK, Accenture: Stretch Yourself: Achieving 50:50 in the boardroom by 2020
WAGGGS encourages you to take an active role on International Women's Day next 8 March. Participate on events organized near you and celebrate the achievements of women around the world! Have a look at the list of actions you can do on that very important day.
WAGGGS at the CSW
From 1 to 12 March, a WAGGGS delegation is attending the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. The delegation will joint efforts and approach country delegations to the CSW and also work with UN agencies, other NGOs, NGO committees and caucuses to make sure that the girl child is at the centre of attention.
This year the Commission on the Status of Women will undertake a fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly.
WAGGGS has submitted a written statement on the main theme for this year, emphasizing that the girl child must be at the centre of efforts to implement the Beijing Platform for Action.
Don't miss the daily updates that the delegates will be posting on the website.
|You can now download the press release on how the delegates at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York have advocated on the International Women's Day theme 'Equal rights, equal opportunities: progress for all'.
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Mpho Motale - 8 March 2010 - 12.15AM (GMT)
Women have from time and time proved that together we can achieve anything. Lets not stop now it is everyone battle for we are all sisters. I say no to violence against women.
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Timoce sits at a cafe terrace in Paris with her portfolio.
PARIS: With a fellow band of models – girls as young as 16, wide-eyed at the sight of the world's fashion capital – Ioana Timoce strides to her first casting appointment of the day.
It is 9:30 a.m. on the Boulevard St. Martin in Paris. With the Paris haute couture shows kicking off Monday, the 19-year-old steels herself for an intense few hours ahead.
Earlier, nestled in the sofa of the flat she is sharing for the duration of the shows with five Lithuanian girls, she went over the day's schedule with Sylvain Puij, head of the H Model Management modeling agency near the Louvre museum.
One may just yield the Holy Grail: a catwalk gig for a top designer, or a photo shoot for a magazine.
Before heading out into Paris' sub-zero temperatures, Timoce filled up – in a manner of speaking – on a breakfast of cereal, yogurt, an orange and some vitamin A for her skin.
When the day is done, she will eat some more – but nothing too sweet or carb-rich of course.
Heads turn as the lithe, chestnut-haired woman in mini-shorts, lightweight coat and black leather boots skips down the steps to the Paris metro, a city map in one hand.
A few hours ago she was in Cluj-Napoca, in Romania, where her parents – a jurist and a librarian – live, and where she is studying public relations at university in parallel with her modeling work.
Her first job was three years ago, in Bucharest. "I didn't know how to act," she told AFP. "I was biting my lips and clenching my hands."
Since then, with modeling assignments from Berlin to Tokyo and China under her belt, she has picked up confidence. "You gain a lot of experience and see so many beautiful cities and meet people," she said, reeling off the upsides of the job. The downsides? "You need to be all the time happy with a smile on your face!"
So far Timoce has scooped catwalk slots for Chanel, Vivienne Westwood and Roberto Cavalli.
But that takes hard work, warns Giani Portmann, a talent scout with two decades' experience and "second mother" to the young woman, spotted at a Bucharest beauty contest in 2008.
For the day-to-day life of most models is a long way from the luxurious lifestyle afforded by a handful of top models – stars of the profession who won't get out of bed for less than several thousand euros.
Timoce had no idea, when she landed in Paris, whether she would clinch a contract and earn anywhere from a few hundred euros for a photo shoot to several thousand for an ad campaign.
She may return home empty-handed, with a bill from her agency to pay back the advance they gave her.
"Whatever the outcome, she will have to pay the agent 20 percent of her earnings, on top of French taxes and social security contributions – even though she will never benefit from welfare here," Portmann said.
H Model Management is one of 50 modeling agencies in the capital. This morning it is buzzing like a hive with slender young girls, whose profiles – with photo and measurements – are tacked to the walls.
A dozen agents are briefing the girls. Timoce has three casting appointments including one with top fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth, who works for Vogue among others.
And so the marathon begins: from the 15th district in southern Paris, back up to the Brazilian designer Gustavo Lins' atelier in the central Marais quarter, then to a fashion magazine in the city center.
Hours of metro journeys, and waiting around, for what typically lasts 10 minutes each time.
Ellen von Unwerth snapped her picture. And she tried on a dress by Lins – though he decided she was too small and too dark-haired for his needs.
But Timoce is happy with her day.
"You have to be realistic. I can't expect everyone to like me. But I like myself as I am – and I believe in myself," she quipped with a flash of her pale, blue eyes.
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Featured TV on DVD Review: Here's Lucy: The Complete Series
April 6th, 2014
I previously reviewed several seasons from The Lucy Show, which ended for business rather than ratings reasons. Here's Lucy is a very similar show in tone, if not in terms of characters. It too lasted six seasons before ending its run. (This time ratings did play a significant part in that happening.) All six seasons have been released on DVD in the past, but a couple weeks ago, a full series Megaset was also released. Is the show worth picking up for fans of the Lucille Ball? Is the box set worth the asking price?
The Show
Lucille Ball stars as Lucy Carter, a single mother with two kids, which is essentially the same character she played in The Lucy Show. Here her two kids are Kim and Craig, who are played by her real-life kids, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr. She works for Carter's Unique Employment Agency, which is run by her bother-in-law, Mr. Moody, I mean Harrison. Same actor as before, and pretty much the same character. For most of the show's run, this was the setup. (After season three, Desi left, while the end of Season Four there was backdoor pilot for a spin-off for Kim, but it wasn't picked up.)
If you look at the list of episode names, you will also get a sense of déjà vu. Lucy Visits Jack Benny, Lucy and Miss Shelley Winters, Lucy and Eva Gabor, Lucy Sells Craig to Wayne Newton, Lucy and Carol Burnett, Lucy and Tennessee Ernie's Fun Farm, and those are just in the first season and just the episodes where the guest star has billing in the title. There are a few others that are not announced in the title of the episode. The rest of the seasons don't rely quite as much on stunt-casting as the first season did, while the overall story-lines did move beyond that as the seasons progressed. Other changes include Desi Arnaz, Jr. leaving at the end of the third season, while Lucie Arnaz was only a recurring character by the final two seasons. There was also far less broad comedy by the end of the show for reasons that are not hard to understand. Lucille Ball was in her 60s when the show finally ended in 1974 and between seasons four and five she broke her leg skiing, which obviously put an end to slapstick while it healed, but even after her recovery, the comedy moved on.
Overall, I think Here's Lucy is a little weaker than The Lucy Show, but overall if you like one enough to buy it on DVD, you will likely want to buy the other.
The Extras
This is a 24-disc set, but for most of those discs, the extras are the same: Intros by Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr. Each season also has extras on the fourth disc. These extras start with...
- Meet the Carter: A 14-minute look at how the show came to be.
Let's Talk to Lucy: An 11-minute audio interview of Gale Gordon by Lucille Ball.
Making the Main Title: A two-minute behind-the-scenes look at the stop-motion animation that went into the main title.
Screen Tests: Screen tests for Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr. done for Yours, Mine, and Ours.
Slide Show: 3-minute slide show.
- Here's Lucy on Location: A 15-minute featurette on all of the times the show shot on location.
Let's Talk to Lucy: An 11-minute audio interview of Carol Burnett by Lucille Ball.
Lucy Sings: a short clip of Lucille Ball singing.
Lucie and Wayne Newton: Four-minute clip of Lucie Arnaz on the Wayne Newton show.
- Lucy Meets the Burtons: A Comedic Gem: A 24-minute long featurette about the episode Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton had a guest appearance on. It's a bigger deal than it sounds like today. They were two of the biggest movie stars around and there was a bigger difference between movie stars and TV stars. However, Lucille Ball has a history of getting major stars on her show, even if they didn't usually do TV.
Let's Talk to Lucy: An 10-minute audio interview of Doris Day by Lucille Ball.
Make Room for Granddaddy with Lucy: Marjorie Lord introduces an episode of this sitcom in which Lucille Ball had a guest appearance.
Lucy with Jack Benny: Lucille Ball making an appearance on Jack Benny's 1970 special that has a name that's too long for me to bother typing. Once a title is a dozen or more words long, no one can be expected to type it out.
- Here's Harry: Remembering Gale Gordon: A 15-minute retrospective of Gale Gordon.
Let's Talk to Lucy: An 26-minute audio interview of Dinah Shore by Lucille Ball.
Lucy on the Pearl Bailey Show: Lucille Ball doing a bit on the Pearl Bailey Show.
Australian Promo: A 30-sec promo for the show.
Slide Show: a 3-minute slide show.
- Here's Lucy Spotlight: Desi Arnaz, Jr.: An 18-minute look at Desi Arnaz, Jr.'s career.
Let's Talk to Lucy: A 26-minute audio interview of Frank Sinatra by Lucille Ball.
Lucy on the Donny and Marie Show: A 6-minute clip of Lucille Ball on the Donny and Marie Show.
Slide Show: Another 3-minute slide show.
Production Files: four 2-minute looks at select episodes.
Syndication Promos: 15 minutes of promos for the show.
- Here's Lucy Spotlight: Lucie Arnaz: An 18-minute look at Lucie Arnaz's career.
Let's Talk to Lucy: A 19-minute audio interview of Andy Griffith by Lucille Ball.
Lucy on the Tennessee Ernie Ford Special: A 9-minute clip of Lucille Ball on the 1968 TV special Tennessee Ernie Ford Special.
Lucy and Vivian Vance on Dinah!: A 20-minute clip with Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance on the Dinah Shore talk show.
U.S. Savings Bond Episode: A 12-minute short film made by the show to support U.S. Savings Bonds.
Film Short: For A Wonderful Life!: A 13-minute short film about uterine cancer prevention and detection.
Syndication Promos: 15-minutes of more promos.
The Verdict
Skip it! Yes, Here's Lucy is a great show for fans of Lucille Ball and most will want to own The Complete Series. However, you can buy the individual series for about $20 each, more or less, for a combined total of or just over $110 for all six, which is substantially less than the $144 price tag for this box set. Additionally, Amazon.com has a package deal for just over $100, saving you a little bit more.
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Unlike the previously released Iron Throne blonde ale, Take the Black is a stout inspired by the Night's Watch. Take the Black Stout is 7 percent alcohol by volume, whereas Iron Throne was 6.5 percent. This beer will also be released in 750 mL bottles and sixth barrel kegs.
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As can be seen in the photograph below, the label art on the bottle features the Weirwood trees considered sacred by the people of the North. The design was created for the bottle by a52, the same studio that designed the iconic opening credits sequence for "Game of Thrones."
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Because Iron Throne was such a success, Brewery Ommegang promises to double the final volumes of Take the Black Stout. That means there will be more of the stout to go around when "Game of Thrones" returns for its fourth season in Spring 2014.
Take the Black Stout was brewed with star anise and licorice root. It is slated to appear in stores and bars nationwide in Fall 2013. More details regarding the beer will be revealed at a later date.


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Making whoopee on a windowsill
Midsummer, languid, the day stirred by the faintest breath of eastern breeze. Look closer and our Earthly peers, the multitude of insects, birds and mammals, are drinking in the zest of the mellow first hour of long shadows.
Golden oriels warble and whizz through the pines. A pair of hedge sparrows has left the family shoal and the security of the reef of holly oaks and wild olives next to the chicken run to make whoopee on a windowsill. Oxygen is alive with winged wonders and I have clocked my first western marbled white butterfly of the year.
I potter with the terriers Ted and Tilly on loose leads. They know the rhythm. I water and talk to my sapling olives and then dwell happily in the vegetables. Maggie joins me and we harvest runner beans, a moment of the greatest cerebral sustenance. For years we have tried to grow runner beans. They always reach for the sky, flower but fail. Last year I couldn't even be bothered to pull up the roots.
But this year those old plants shot again. I watered and sprayed them, building another bamboo frame, enjoying the meditation but not holding out much hope. It is too hot here, too dry, however much I give them to drink, or so we thought. Maybe that is the secret. Don't plant seedlings, but leave the old plants to die back, to come again and again.
New red pontiac potatoes jewel our plates. It has been a very good root crop year, for a change, and the wild boar have not come a calling.
The paths and track, remoulded by the crashing storm last week, harden again. Memories of the trauma are slipping away, but we must go to a neighbours to pick her ripening apricots that were pitted by the hail.
Our storm-blasted village made national television news. Hail in late June and the most rainfall anywhere in Spain in the last decade. Farmers in our valley face grim grape and olive harvests this autumn. We too, but our vast fig trees seem to have offered a little protection to the vines. We shall see. My pulse has settled again. What will be will be.
Another storm is coming, but of the human variety. In towns and along the coast road bright shacks have appeared like pop-up kitchens in London parks. Only they are peddling deafening wares – explosives for the all-night firework festival of Sant Joan, from nightfall today to birdsong and ambulance sirens on tomorrow.
Already piles of combustible rubbish are growing in villages and naughty boys are lobbing bangers in the streets, the portent of thunderous fun and roaring fires on the one summer night in the year when firemen and medics are particularly twitchy. Like running before the bulls, the risks never stop the ritual, the upholding of Iberic traditions that defy caution and define identity. Let's hope no flames are fanned and that our luck holds.
I must go and post an olive oil recipe. Maggie has been making parsley oil, perfect for our new potatoes, for marinating meats and simply for spooning on to her fresh bread. Quick and simple goodness, and such flavour. Mmmm.
If you would like some fresh olive oil, let us know.
Keep well
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Why we need to be in the garden
We can and must lose ourselves in our gardens, however small. We need to once in a while, don't we? To scatter our thoughts there; grounded in the toil; safe in the sanctuary; fortified by a sense of what is real; certain in the immeasurable worth to both body and soul.
I appreciate that more than ever now, as seasons and years shorten.
For some there is deep science in it. For most it is it is simply the unfathomable comfort of bending to the task with the ever-renewing, yet never repetitive, promise of flower, fruit, root and goodness, and in doing so touching the earth and being enriched by a sense of place.
And what about those delicious moments of tired contentment when you sit or stand and contemplate the progress, however small, even if it is one little pot, one bloom? Fulfilment flows from the fingertips to the heart.
As American environmentalist and writer Jim Nollman says in the opening sentence of his sensitive book Why We Garden, "People often turn to gardening to re-create a bit of paradise within an imperfect world".
It is right and vital that there is somewhere real where we feel able to make positive changes, to take responsibility and to care, to sense our place, our feet and hands on the soil. Such truths are a counter-balance in an information age that fills our minds and feeds our anxieties with cumulative, complex issues sometimes too heavy to bear.
Our little farm is very much an ecological meeting point of nature and need, where wild is wonderful and rightly dominates, and where we try and balance our hungers with a greater need.
We have always tried to tread softly, but is it me, or are the creatures here more accepting of us than ever? Life has been exceptionally abundant – and close – this autumn.
As with the bees and tiny young frogs lined up at the waterline of our old washpool- turned-pond, there is palpable harmony. I tried but failed to get a photograph of one bee sitting on a frog while quenching its thirst.
On my 55th birthday one treat was to sit for half an hour and dangle my feet into the circular reservoir in the company of curious carp, skaters, swallows and dragonflies. One smaller, iridescent blue dragonfly (with more than 5000 species I'm loath to suggest which one) returned repeatedly to settle on my knee.
Often a butterfly, usually one of the swallowtails that grow up on the abundant fennel, will follow me on my travels along the paths, causing me to turn circles. They always make me think of my mother, someone for whom, at raw moments, a trowel was an anchor and nature her sanity.
My birthday butterfly, though, was rarer still. To my wide-eyed astonishment it flashed in front of the car when I was just about to pull onto the lane, where just days before another event was also over in the blink of an eye, the Tour of Spain cycle race.
When I fanned hurried through my butterfly reference book to confirm it was, indeed, a Pasha, I was joyful. I have never seen one of these Mediterranean fritillaries before; maybe on account of there being no strawberry trees for them on the farm. No disrespect to cycle race fans and the racers but that fleeting Pasha moment made my week. Nothing could top that. Or so I thought.
Later, when I was wandering back from the pony's corral, there it was again, only now it was circling me like the swallowtails – large, fast, with telltale flashes of orange at the ends of dark brown wings. It settled on an old hazel. I studied it then hobbled in haste (bruised foot, long story) back to the house to get my camera, daring to hope it would still be there.
It was, flaunting its intricate under-wings and allowing me to get within a metre.
In the late afternoon I took Maggie and Joe to that hazel. A vain hope, but we strolled on along the terrace, Tilly and Ted straining on their leads. It is a regular pre-supper circuit, down to the hollow under the high firs, through the wilderness and out on to the crest of the almond grove, then down the track homeward.
But just beyond the hazel, behind the beehives, Maggie and Joe both let out a cry. I, and Tilly for that matter, had unwittingly stepped over a snake. It lay like a dark stick across a path which, to be fair, is littered with wood. We have had the pleasure on several occasions of studying ladder-back, grass, European whip and Montpelier serpents, including the adder-like local viper, but this one was different.
It had clearly just devoured something large and long, possibly a lizard, and wasn't planning on moving a muscle for some considerable time. So I felt a closer look was a reasonable risk, and this confirmed it was another first – a horseshoe whipsnake, a rare reptile that can grow up to five feet in length.
The pigeons glean on the cropped hay fields and strut about in ludicrous numbers while the peregrines circle.
And at night the boar descend in ever increasing numbers, coming to within 15 metres of our back door this long dry year. The lure is the well-watered vegetable patch in the olive grove, and the wet earth is patterned with hooves, small and broad. The damage is increasing nightly, but they keep skirting the prolific beds and, fortunately, we have almost concluded an enormous tomato, aubergine and pepper harvest.
It is a different story at our neighbours' home, though, where an ingenious network of irrigation pipes, resembling the London tube map and covering an area the size of a football pitch, has been ploughed up by the worm-hungry boar.
Our friends have been away for nearly two months and I gave up some time ago trying to put patch up the damage. The destruction was spreading faster than I could repair it, but the telling moment was when I looked the challenge squarely in the eye.
Returning home from a late supper in town I had to stop right outside our friends' garden…. to allow eight youngsters, about half-grown, and three humongous adults, to saunter across the tarmac and into the flowerbeds. I might as well have turned the engine off it was taking so long. Two of the adults led the way and the third stood in the middle of the lane to usher the brood across. Tusked and intimidating, it was immense, fearless, prehistoric.
One boar can wreak havoc, so I knew there and then I was beaten.
The almonds are harvested, about 100 kilos this year, which is not bad considering some farms have none due to hard frosts during the February flowering. We pick and de-husk them by hand, so it is not a money-making exercise, rather the reverse; just goodness from our Garden.
Now for the olives. Harvest in three weeks and it looks like a bumper year. Have you tried a new harvest from-tree-to-you olive oil? We are taking orders for a December shipment to Britain. Get in touch by all means (just click here) if you would like more information. Also, see our new Mother's Garden business Facebook page.
And, blink, another year has almost gone. That fact could weigh heavily if I dwell on it, so I will step out into the cool air of dawn and do some weeding among our Norfolk runner beans. It is too hot to grow them here in the spring, so Maggie had the bright idea to cultivate them now in the cooler autumn, but it looks like we will only have a handful all the same.
And still, in mid October, the temperature rises to 26 degrees during the day, and no lower than 15 degrees at night. The air is, for the most part, as peaceful as an angel's breath and the colours of autumn leaf and sky beguile.
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Walls imbued with happiness and song
Do you sense that walls are a store of echoes? Moments arrive and never really leave. Places seem to absorb the good and the grim and then hold them, emitting the essence of happenings.
I am acutely aware of this on entering an old building. Maybe you are too. Perhaps it is simply imaginings, but that first feeling rarely passes. The Mother's Garden farmhouse enveloped us with welcome the first time we brushed aside cobwebs and opened the shutters to let in the light, and the happiness and goodness are still as warming and rich today as that first illumination.
Down the track, next to the wild flower meadow, people have carried laughter and contentment into our holiday cottage, and now there is song too. The abandoned water reservoir beside the pool, reconstituted with stout roof and glass doors as a dry space for good things, is flooded with tuneful voices forever more.
Fourteen people had come to Sing Away with teacher Teresa Verney, in a week jewelled with fulfilment and fellowship, swallowtail butterflies and glorious surprises.
Towards the end of last year I told of our and Teresa's plans – inspired by our mutual friend the Jane Stevenson of Creature Comforters for whom Maggie makes some Bach flower remedies – to somehow combine Teresa's great accomplishments with her Sing For Joy groups in Norfolk, England, with the happiness of here, and so it came to pass. Within days of the activity holiday idea being aired it was fully booked and our handwringing began. Would it work?
At the end of the seven days the assembled had gifted their echo and also sung spontaneously upon mountain tops, in a wine cellar, a church, a Syrian restaurant and in the former home and garden of a famous sculptor that's now a sanctuary for the rare Mediterranean tortoise. Proof positive of the joy that can come of finding your voice, sharing, learning, eating, talking, drinking and laughing long and loud: Add to that taking long works, bird watching, standing and staring and scenting your hands by running them through herbs.
As for those glorious surprises, well, what can I say? Jim and Sarah Woodhouse, who live within the scent of the North Sea close to where I free-ranged as a child, are close friends of my godfather John Bell, the link being Lancing College, West Sussex, where Jim was headmaster and John was a master for 32 years. John had lodged with my parents at the start of his teaching career at 53 years ago. Then we discovered that Sarah is the founder of a charity we wholeheartedly endorse – it is called Right From The Start – which is committed to underlining the need for a loving and secure environment for children at the earliest stages of their lives and so create a similar core benefit within families and communities. How fundamental is that? Please have a look at the Right From The Start website.
I was just absorbing all of that when it emerged in coffee-break conversation that violinist Sarah Chadwick, who both sang and played at Mother's Garden, is connected to two people I have the highest regard for.
Sarah is the niece of the late Roy Clark, author of the definitive Black Sailed Traders (1961) and one of the small group of leading local figures including Lady Mayhew and Humphrey Boardman who worked tirelessly to the save Albion and hence keep the story of the Broadland wherries alive. I wrote a small book about Albion in 1998 for the Norfolk Wherry Trust and the first words within it are, fittingly, not my own but Roy's.
I talked to Sarah of my appreciation of him, and how his work was among the inspirations for my novel Count The Petals Of The Moon Daisy. I explained that the book is about a violinist and that another touchstone for it had been the pastoral music of English composer Herbert Howells. Oh, she said. She had studied at the Royal College of Music and knew him. This is when I had to sit down. How I wish I had met him. He died in 1983 leaving a legacy of glorious works. When we make the film of Moon Daisy – yes, we are getting closer – the entire score will be drawn from his compositions.
So you see, I found the voices all the more enchanting, in song and word.
The singers went home and I wandered in the company of a nightingale. Diversity and pace; perhaps these are the keys to logging experiences, so long as we stand and just be once in a while to properly gauge circumstance and detail, to register our place in time and to remind ourselves to use that time better; to acknowledge the obvious that, somehow, some days, we do not see; to break our gaze from the mollifying collectives of some surreal diversions headed by the dire and (I pessimistically believe) encouraged anxieties of image, possession, economics and, ironically, time.
I am sometimes blown over by the rush of the human race, with people all but busting blood vessels to keep up with whatever they will dream up next to keep everyone paying. Is life truly satisfying when it amounts to a line of expensive and "awesome" funfair rides where you sweat to buy the ticket then just sit like a plum pudding?
Sorry. I just think everyone craves less of more, with time to live and give.
Now for news of a tight squeeze. What is adventure without a little terror?
I'm in a hole….well I was a few hours ago; more than four metres down an ancient chest-wide shaft cut into the red rock, to be precise, trying to fathom out why our spring has stopped.
I already knew from a "never again!" descent a couple of years back – remember? – that at the bottom of the shaft a tunnel barely big enough for a toddler had been painstakingly chiselled into the hillside. So I crouched, took an enormous breath, muttered a few foul oaths and paddled along it.
Five metres from the shaft there had been a great collapse. A pile of rocks and mud was blocking not only my way forward but also the flow of spring water. Roots dangled from the dark void above, and my feeble torch could just pick out a great space beyond the fall.
I backed out at a rate of knots and climbed into the sunshine to tell a visiting friend how scary it was. He immediately volunteered to go down with a camera. Mad as a box of frogs. Sure enough, the photographs showed what looked like a man-made stone arch beyond the rock fall. Who? How? When?
The dilemma is what we can do without disturbing what could be an important site. We figure there can only be about three metres of rock and earth above the cavern, making it highly dangerous to drive a tractor or even walk above there. And, as I said, the water to our bassa (water store) has ceased. Doing nothing is definitely not an option.
So I have just taken expert advice and within the next few days we expect to be carefully clearing above the rock fall, opening and unblocking the spring and taking a clearer, safer look at the arch and what lays beyond it.
Close to that point we have a most unusual terrace wall just before the summit of the farm, comprising of right angle lumps of rock bearing the remnants of lime render, as if they had been taken from a ruin. You know what I am thinking…….
This fertile valley has been peopled since Palaeolithic times, and the evidence is scattered everywhere. To site a dwelling on this gentle rise, close to water, would have been an obvious choice. Oh for the gift of time travel.
Just a few days before I descended into the blackness I and the family climbed the valley wall into the light to look over the timeless pattern of life.
We passed a pink man in a white vest and weathered jeans carved the loamy red earth with a mattock. His narrow terrace and the rhythm of his labour snaked towards us between the babble of the river and the silence of the forest. We were rising into the peace.
After downpours, double rainbows and thunderbolts the clear air overflowed with colour and life. We slowly zigzagged up the face of the limestone ridge, absorbed by the dappled-shade-delicacy of the moss and the fern amid the host of nature and its perfume, contentedly lost for words, lost in time. With late shoots of wild asparagus sprouting from our fists we walked along the top of the ridge as man and woman have always done, until we found a suitable ledge on which to contemplate and picnic. Bliss.
I will relay news of the spring works next month with tales of Nartists in residence too, but meanwhile leave you with another treat, for entomologists and all lovers of wonder.
As you stand in the horse corral, dusty as the High Chaparral, four to five staggeringly large hymenopterans fly figure eights around your ankles. They are 4cm long scolia flavifrons, black with two yellow bands, known to some as mammoth wasps. Nectar gathers who are as large as the carpenter bees that are working the wisteria outside the back door right now, and seemingly just as unaggressive, they are parasites of the rhinoceros beetle which perhaps explains their unceasing dance close to the horses.
Since Spook the Anglo-Arab steed arrived we have the best roses in the valley and have been able to gift sacks of hhuu, as my mum would call it, to neighbours. The juggernaut beetles have been lured by the dung fragrance too, so the circle of life spins on.
PS: I now write a small weekly blog for the small business blog http://sme-blog.com/ should our fiscal trials, tribulations and the merry dance of earning a living at Mother's Garden be of interest. Anyone who is doing their own thing or is thinking about it might find the site helpful.
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Mother's Garden is as green as the Emerald Isle
What does it really mean to live in clover – a care-free life of ease, comfort and financial prosperity? These elude us – ha! – although we are happily knee-deep in the emblem of the distant Emerald Isle.
Life is bursting forth in all directions and I burst into song (see other recent out of tune blog). Well, it is always the greatest lift to walk away from the deafening, numbing, cold waterfall of world events and into the shamrock.
As I write the strimmer interrupts the wild birds, frogs and cockerels. Helper Andy, from Cornwall, is steaming through the lower vineyard and I sit here at my chaotic desk and gaze out at it in all its new leaf Easter glory.
Slowly but discernibly the round-shouldered mint plant in the pot outside my office window is responding to the water I have just given it. The fish are rising in the old washing pool and Joe is kicking his Barcelona football about beneath the buzzing wisteria.
Behind the house Maggie and Andy's partner Tamsin have planted a great swathe with spuds, and another patch has been cleaned and fed with compost and pony muck in readiness for an assortment of other vegetables, while every dawn smoke rises as the never-ending battle with the brambles rolls on.
Andy and Tamsin, who were mentioned in dispatches in February, have returned for another dollop of life on the farm and it is good to have them around.
I must away up the land on the tractor this afternoon to cut the verdant strips between the top vines, before we begin the great task of pruning the 80 olive trees. No doubt we will be outside watering the garden until night closes in.
Behind me, just inside the back door, our coats hang beneath the crowded shelf of teetering hats that so well define this life. We have an endless list of farming, literary, olive oil, holiday cottage, domestic and accountancy tasks that regularly outpace us, not to mention the constant distractions: Like the apparent demise of our washing machine (bang goes another 600 Euros) planning to export olive oil to the land of Maggie's birth, Canada (gulp), the demise of the currency exchange company that was holding a large lump of our money (double gulp), and the arrival of Lucky the chicken.
I say "apparent demise" of Daphne our Daewoo washing mashing because – ahem – I took her apart, put her back together again and she worked. Total fluke, of course, but we were desperate not to lose her. After 10 years of coping not only with our needs but the holiday cottage washing too, Daphne has every right to throw out the towel. But she is a great rarity – a dual feed washing machine, and a large capacity one at that.
Anyone with me on this? While solar water heating has become popular it seems washing machines with a hot water feed have all but disappeared. I just don't get it.
On the financial front we are sending, free of charge, a bottle of olive oil to a chemist in London. When the London currency trading company that has for the past four years converted Sterling into Euros for us suddenly stopped answering the telephone or my increasingly frantic emails I went pale. We needed the hard-earned funds in our Spanish bank account to pay our mortgage. What to do?
After days of getting nowhere down official channels I put on my frayed journalist's hat, Google-Earthed and street-viewed the company's offices, saw there was a chemist's shop next door, rang him and begging him to go round and bang on the door for me, which he did, bless him.
"It is a somewhat unusual request," I said.
"No it isn't," he replied. "You're the third person to ask me."
That told me there must have been thousands of desperate Brits abroad in the same boat, or at least a handful of dog-with-a-bone ex-journalists scattered around the globe.
I am much relieved to report that the money was recovered, but the salient point remains for all would-be ex-pats – you are going to have to become international money traders with one eye forever on the currently woeful exchange rate while the other eye scans for the best/safest deal. I hadn't counted on looking at the BBC business pages every day of my Mediterranean existence, but I do.
Almond grove rough ride because of the boar
Early morning on the tractor, first light brimming the sierra, settles the heart and mind. And we have a great deal on our minds.
Weighty challenge at time of abundance
Such an overwhelming time of plenty in the vegetable garden, when entwined with a resolution to waste nothing, can, if you are not too careful, water the notion that there can be too much of a good thing.
Sun, dragons and drunken mice
A cauldron of plum that was put aside for a short while, rapidly began to ferment, so had to be poured on to the compost, home of happy mice that now must be even merrier.
Push away the unhealthy diet of cyncism
Heritage is what we preserve because of its unquestionable value. Food wisdom is profoundly – essentially – appropriate here and now for a global campaign of appreciation and preservation.
Sweet comfort in the sweltering heat
I was busy reaping a line that was overshadowing the tomatoes, aubergines and peppers when I suddenly had company; a noisy sparrow fledgling on my head.
The ranting media sends me into the garden
Having three vegetable patches dotted about presents inevitable irrigation issues. Resourcefulness is watered by necessity (lack of cashflow) and stubbornness. We flatly refuse to throw away anything remotely recyclable until every last alternative use can be explored


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Dear Frederick,
I am Mr. Jim from the Philippines.
Actually, I believe what you've said on your site that the coconut tree is the "Tree of Life" or a "wonder tree" as they call it. I researched some facts regarding coconut oil a few years back.
I had a lot of pimples on my face before, especially on my back, and I bought some commercialized pimple cure cream at the drugstore. It helped a lot and cured my acne but after healing, black spots in the affected area appeared and some were turning into scars.
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Divya Jain is an accomplished Indian classical dancer and choreographer. Over last 20 years she has performed in many prestigious cultural, Interreligious and charity events in India, USA and abroad including the Dharma Music Concert in the 2006 Montreal World's Religions Congress in Canada, and the 2007 Monterrey World Religions Congress in Mexico. Divya has received Master of Arts degree in Bharat Natyam, a form of Indian classical dance; and several awards from a variety of institutions. She teaches dance at the Creations Dance Academy in Edison, New Jersey, USA; and hosts programs on Television and radio stations. She has performed with many actors, artists and musicians from Bollywood. She has exposed over 1,000 students to the richness of the Indian dances, heritage and culture.


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Great American Country wants YOU, the fans, to decide the GAC Top 50 Videos of 2008, and Taylor Swift has been nominated! âLove Story,â "Should've Said No," "Picture To Burn" and "I'm Only Me When I'm With You" are among the 133 videos nominated. Voting runs now through Dec. 1. You can vote for your favorite video once per day.
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Alice's Attic: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Today I unearthed Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Bottom Line: You don't need the post-apocalypse for a good survival story.
Why this book rocks: Karana is the original survivalist-with-a-heart-of-gold teen girl and she is as tough as they come. Stranded by her tribe on their dolphin-shaped island, she hunts for food, builds canoes, fights giant squids, and fights/befriends frenemy wild dogs.
Who should read this book: girls who suspect that they, too are tough enough to eat nails for breakfast, animal whisperers (Karana has a menagerie of animal bffs by the end of the book), and history buffs (this is based on a TRUE story).
Life lesson handed down: Vengeance can be sweet, but friendship is better. Also, never get in the middle of a sea elephant brawl, that's going to leave a mark.
About Alice's Attic
Rickety floorboards, killer sprickets (uh, they're real, and they're deadly), and dust avalanches won't stop us from heading down memory lane.


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Maputo — Further torrential rain in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula is thwarting efforts to repair the railway from Malawi to the port of Nacala.
Last Friday, the Nachicuva River burst its banks and flooded the Nampula municipality of Monapo. In doing so, it swept away earthworks on which the railway rested, opening a crater that is 70 metres long. The tracks now hang in mid-air and so all rail traffic between Nampula city and Nacala has been suspended.
The company that runs the railway, the Northern Development Corridor (CDN) hopes that temporary repairs could be concluded within a week, thus allowing traffic to resume on 9 February.
This emergency work would consist of building a provisional wooden bridge to support the tracks. But the attempts to put such a bridge in place have failed so far because of the continuing rain.
CDN rail director, Manuel Mucopa, cited in Wednesday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias", told reporters "the situation is very delicate, because if the rain does not stop, the period we originally established for re-opening the line to traffic will have to be extended".
Although Mucopa could give no exact figures, the losses caused by the interruption to traffic are clearly enormous. Last Friday, there were already 300 containers in Nacala port ready to be moved by rail to Malawi. Since ships carrying cargo for Malawi docked at Nacala over the weekend, the number of containers must have risen.
Among the goods that Malawi normally imports along the railway are fuel and fertilizer, and so the shutdown of the line could have a serious impact on the Malawian economy.
In the south of the country, electricity has been restored to Gaza and Inhambane provinces following an incident on Sunday night when a bolt of lightning struck a conductor on the transmission line carrying power to the two provinces from the sub-station at Infulene.
According to Alberto Banze, a spokesperson for the electricity company EDM, the power to the two provinces was restored at about 21.00 on Monday, after tests were carried out on the repairs.
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'Man vs. Wild': Jake Gyllenhaal's Icelandic adventure sneak peek videos
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal joined "Man vs. Wild" and star Bear Grylls for an Icelandic adventure in the season premiere. The episode airs Monday, July 11, but we've got some sneak peek videos of their time trekking over Iceland's mountains, volcanoes and glaciers.
In the first clip, the men are "roping up" to each other so that should one of them fall through the snow and ice into a crevasse, the partner could pull the fallen one up. In the second clip, Jake faces his fear by crawling on a rope across a very deep ravine. Yikes.
We can't help but wonder if he's flashing back to "The Day After Tomorrow" with some of this stuff. Heh. Do you suppose they encounter a pack of rabid wolves on their adventure?
"Man vs. Wild" airs Monday nights at 9 p.m. ET on Discovery.
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Deep Video Imaging of Hamilton, New Zealand, has come up with a way to make pop-up menus on mobile phone screens easier to read (WO 02/089102). DVI's screen is made from two transparent LCDs, one on top of the other. A backlight illuminates them both. A background image - such as a photomessaging picture used as "wallpaper" - is displayed on the lower screen, while foreground graphics or text are shown on the upper one. This has the effect of making menus or animations stand out more clearly.
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Mikael digging deep into the vinyl vaults on Radio P4
Opeth nominated in Classic Rock Magazine for 'Album of the Year'
Frankfurt show capacity upgraded
Unplugged London Show SOLD OUT
The Unplugged shows in Frankfurt and Bochum are also selling fast, get your tickets while you can.
Visit the TOUR PAGE for all ticket links to these shows and the rest of the bands upcoming European dates.
Von Hertzen Brothers to support Opeth in Scandinavia
Von Hertzen Brothers have been confirmed as support on Opeth's forthcoming Scandinavian dates with the exception of the show in Örebro on December 1.
Full list of Scandinavian dates are as follows;
26.11 - Vox Hall, Århus - DK
27.11 - Vega, Copenhagen - DK
29.11 - KB, Malmö - SE
30.11 - Katalin, Uppsala - SE
01.12 - Club 700, Örebro - SE
02.12 - Nefertiti, Göteborg - SE*
03.12 - Nefertiti, Göteborg - SE*
04.12 - Södra Theater, Stockholm - SE*
05.12 - Södra Theater, Stockholm - SE*
06.12 - Maxim, Gävle - SE
07.12 - Skandiateatern, Norrköping - SE
Denotes Unplugged show *
On the remaining dates, support will come from Anathema as previously announced with the exception of the show in Leipzig on November 24.
Full list of European dates outside Scandinavia are;
12.11 - Rock City, Nottingham - UK
13.11 - O2 ABC, Glasgow - UK
14.11 - St. Vicars, Dublin - IE
15.11 - Metropolitan University, Leeds - UK
16.11 - Union Chapel, London - UK*
17.11 - Pyramids Centre, Portsmouth - UK
18.11 - Den Altier, Luxembourg - LUX
20.11 - AB, Brussels - BE
21.11 - Ewerk, Cologne - DE
22.11 - Sankt Peter, Frankfurt - DE*
23.11 - Christuskirche, Bochum - DE*
24.11 - Werk 2, Leipzig - DE
25.11 - Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg - DE
Denotes Unplugged show *
For tickets visit the TOUR DATES section of the website or local agents.
New interview with Fredrik posted online
Check it out HERE
Opeth nominated at inaugural Progressive Music Awards
Opeth are nominated in the following categories open to public voting.
Live Event Category: Opeth at Brixton Academy 2011 CLICK HERE TO VOTE
Album of the Year Category: Opeth - Heritage CLICK HERE TO VOTE
Mikael has also been nominated in the Guiding Light category which will chosen by a carefully selected council.
Please register your votes now.
New items added to the webstore
A number of new designs and special discount bundles have been recently added to the official Opeth webstore. To get your hands on all things Opeth, check out their official stores around the world.
USA (East Coast) - CLICK HERE
USA (West Coast) - CLICK HERE
Opeth mentioned in Lenny Kaye's new tour blog
Swedish tour dates announced for November & December
Support for this tour will be announced shortly.
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Philadelphia Film Festival Announces New Dates – Now Beginning on October 20th to Celebrate 20 Great Years of World Class Cinema
(PHILADELPHIA, PA) June 17, 2011 – The Philadelphia Film Society is pleased to announce the official dates for the 20th Philadelphia Film Festival, now beginning on October 20, 2011 and concluding 15 days later on November 3, 2011. The official Closing Night Ceremony will be held on Saturday, October 29, followed by a film-themed closing night Halloween party (costumes encouraged but not required).With over 230 film screenings expected in venues across the city, the Festival promises once again to excite film lovers of every taste. And as always, the Philadelphia Film Festival will be hosting several special events, receptions and programs attended by our many guests, industry professionals and festival goers alike.
"As the pieces begin to fall into place for what looks to be a great festival, I am extremely excited to announce our new dates," said Artistic Director Michael Lerman. "Not only are we getting four more days of high quality filmmaking, but we have a week more to prep the plethora of fantastic special events we're planning for our 20th Anniversary."
"I'm particularly thrilled with our new dates," commented Executive Director Andrew Greenblatt. "In addition to providing us with additional time to program more exciting films out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto, it's also particularly fun to launch our milestone 20th Anniversary Festival on the 20th of October. I am extremely appreciative that our venues, particularly Landmark Theaters, were willing to accommodate our preferred 2011 dates."
The Philadelphia Film Festival has become one of the leading film festivals in the Eastern United States, welcoming over 30,000 attendees to the city in 2010. Each year, the Festival features a juried competition for feature film, documentary, short, director and first film, as well as an Audience Award for best feature-length film. In 2010, the Festival screened 131 films over its 11-day run. A surprise number of guest appearances were made by notable figures that have made a profound impact on the art of filmmaking, including Directors Darren Aronofsky and M. Night Shyamalan. Additional guests included actors Jamie Kennedy, Kerry Washington and baseball legend Pete Rose.
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I've found the software to be GREAT for collecting, organizing and then finding my recipes again.
Recipe collecting has been a big hobby of mine. Over the years I've collected hundreds of cookbooks shared by other people who use the software to store their recipes.
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Rated 3 out of 5Â by LyndieLou Too bulky for full figured gals I really wanted to love this coat because it looks so great on the model. I typically wear a size 10-12 in Free People and ordered the size 12 coat. The sleeves are snug so the 10 would not have fit in the arms. I love that the coat is soft and the detail is very pretty, but the coat is just too bulky for my figure. I am a 38DD and this coat just makes me look way too big all over. I think it may look wonderful on smaller gals. Not a fan of the packaging...the coat was wrapped up so tight and small that it is a wrinkled mess. Sadly, will have to return. 10.8.2012
Rated 5 out of 5Â by Stegosaurus Thumbs up! I was lucky enough to find this coat in my local FP store because someone returned it. I always wear a size 4 in FP coats and this size fit perfectly. Note that it does run slightly tight in the upper arm area. I was happy to find that the sleeves were long enough (I am 5'10" and have long arms) - could've been a tad longer but still OK when I tried it on with a thermal underneath. The coat was not bulky and length was as shown on the model. Overall: gorgeous, soft material, very unique. 11.4.2012
Rated 5 out of 5Â by Hoopingmtnmama happiness... I'm a medium in most FP and ordered this in an 8. The upper arms and across the back is a little snug but not so bad that I can't wear a long sleeve underneath it. I plan to wear this inside out so that gives me even more room with the fur on the outside :) This is a beautiful coat-the embroidery is sweet and subtle and the fur is super soft. There are no pockets on the inside and the buttons are made of wood. The collar is minimal but I love to wear scarfs so it is absolutely perfect for me. My only wish is that I could throw it in the washer because I know I won't be able to keep it white for long. 10.8.2012
Rated 5 out of 5Â by NinjaGirl Happily ever after I received this coat today and it is perfect. I normally wear a size XSmall in FP, but I noticed that their jackets are running a little tight in the upper sleeves and shoulders this season, so I ordered this in a 4 rather than my normal 2 and I am glad that I did. There is just enough room to wear a long-sleeved thermal shirt or even a sweater. The corduroy is soft and the embroidery is beautiful. I purchased this in ivory and it looks exactly as it does online.The faux fur is soft and not itchy. I flipped the coat inside out to see what it would look like reversed, and it looked ok, not quite as bathrobe-y as I thought it would look, but I would prefer the corduroy side out anyway because of the gorgeous embroidery, plus the horn buttons looked a little odd hanging on the inside. There are string loops for the buttons that are easy to work, and the pockets are useful. I would call this coat more midweight than heavyweight, and it certainly would keep you warm. Can't wait for it to get a little cooler to wear this one. Thanks FP! 10.4.2012
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