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In April of the year 2000, a very unique and exciting event took place in the sleepy Scottish fishing village of Ballantrae around eighteen miles south of the world famous Turnberry Golf Club in Ayrshire. For the first time, after many years of neglect, followed by a painstaking restoration project, Glenapp Castle, the vast and spectacular Victorian mansion set high above the village overlooking the Irish Sea and the island of Ailsa Craig, opened its doors as an exclusive luxury hotel.
The castle has been the home of the Cowan family since 1994. For six years their full time occupation was the restoration and conversion of the castle and its thirty-six acres of magnificent gardens.
That work was completed and Glenapp Castle has now been restored to its rightful glory.
Inside Glenapp there are once more graceful lounges and elegant dining rooms with seemingly endless oak panelled hallways leading to seventeen individually furnished and decorated bedrooms and suites. All are now handsomely furnished with personally chosen antiques and fine oil paintings, and individually decorated to the highest standard in traditional style. The two 'Master Rooms' are palatial in size, with highly ornate cornice- work. There are two suites, which in addition to the bedroom area have an interconnecting sitting room. All of the castle's rooms are bright and sunny thanks to the tall and elegant Victorian windows and all rooms have luxurious traditionally appointed en suite facilities, wireless broadband internet access (T-Mobile Hotspot) television, DVD player, video recorder and compact disc player. Each bedroom and bathroom has a direct dial telephone. Many bedrooms have coal and log effect gas fires, and all rooms have superb views of the gardens or the coastline, or both in many cases.
The Castle is a strikingly beautiful example of the Scottish Baronial style of architecture. Built in 1870 by the renowned architect David Bryce for James Hunter, the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire, the castles mellow sandstone battlements are topped by soaring turrets and towers, earning Glenapp a published place as one of the most romantic castles in Scotland.
Glenapp was for many years the private home of the Inchcape family who had made their fortune in shipping. In 1982, the third Earl of Inchcape sold Glenapp to an American family who used it as a holiday home, and spent many happy times there. In 1987 the castle was sold again and unfortunately began to fall into disrepair.
The gardens, which were open to the public until the early 1980's, are now exclusively for the use of the castle's guests. They are once more lovingly tended and look quite magnificent, boasting amongst other things, a spectacular walled garden, a remarkable category 'B' listed 150-foot Victorian Greenhouse filled with ornamental plants and flowers. Throughout the gardens there are many rare and unusual plants and shrubs including colourful azaleas and huge specimen rhododendrons. Semi-tropical plants such as palm trees flourish in the mild climate of the south west, which is influenced by the Gulf Stream. Fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit from the garden are used daily in the castle kitchens and there are freshly cut garden flowers in every room. There is now a new all weather tennis court and a croquet lawn.
The story of Glenapp Castle's restoration began in the autumn of 1993 – Graham tells us, 'Fay and I, a hotel manageress and a country vet, had been married for almost a year. I had been working in mainly farm animal practice for seven years and it had begun to dawn on us that this was not how we wanted to spend our lives as a married couple. Fay worked in her family's hotel business in Stranraer – a hundred miles away, we both had little time off and something was going to have to give way. Fay loved her job and was living close to home and family so we decided that I would give up my position and do some locums while we looked around for something new. After I had briefly considered a career as a government vet we were discussing the possibility of buying a small hotel of our own and had been to view several places with little success.
One day, while looking through a property magazine, we happened upon a full-page advert for the sale of an unnamed, but spectacular looking Victorian Castle in South Ayrshire. It looked to be in a terrible state with overgrown gardens and peeling windows - but huge and incredibly beautiful. Neither we, nor Fay's parents, with whom we were staying at the time, knew where it was or what it was called, and in any case it was obviously going to be completely out of our price range and it was virtually derelict. Just a romantic idea, and quickly dismissed from our thoughts. The next day, a Sunday, Fay's mother and father, offered to take us out for lunch and off we set on a long roundabout trek through the countryside. Fay and I sat in the back seat getting hungrier and hungrier and more than a little puzzled as to the chosen venue, when all of a sudden just outside the little fishing village of Ballantrae - made famous forever by Robert Louis Stevenson's book 'The Master of Ballantrae' - the car unexpectedly turned off the main road and onto a driveway, then wound slowly through almost a mile of trees. On rounding the last corner, past a pair of magnificent monkey-puzzle trees we had our first glimpse of our future home, Glenapp Castle. It was a completely breathtaking sight – a forgotten place - a sleeping beauty, like the castle in the fairytale that slept for a hundred years. The lawns were meadows and the paths merely suggested themselves by a dip in the ground. The windows were black and peeling and many were rotted completely away like missing teeth. The huge oak doors hung loose and creaking on their hinges. That day we stayed only a little while, but we were completely hooked. Nothing else would ever come close to this.
We arranged a viewing with the caretaker and were overwhelmed by the beautiful oak panelling and the fine cornice-work in the enormous rooms and equally overwhelmed by the huge amount of work required. I think that the gleam in our eyes and our total inability to discuss any subject other than Glenapp probably alarmed our family and friends considerably. Slowly, however, a plan began to unfold.
There were many hurdles to overcome and on more than one occasion, the whole thing was nearly called off, but after more than a year of negotiations, we managed to acquire a leasehold on the castle. Fay and I moved into the castle in June 1994, ten days before the lease actually came into effect, mainly to try and prevent the ever increasing flow of unwanted visitors intent on removing the fixtures and fittings from the by now caretakerless castle. Just in time, as it turned out, because that very weekend there had been some kind of party in the gardens and fires had been lit, the lawns were strewn with beer bottles and cans, the castle had been broken into and worst of all the beautiful sundial in the terraced garden had been smashed to pieces.
Our first year was spent 'camping' in the master bedroom, along with four electric fires, a four poster bed with its own chandelier, and a geriatric Springer Spaniel. We were often asked if we weren't nervous of living alone in a vast deserted castle, but to us, Glenapp has never felt like anything other than a much loved home, despite its enormous size and we were just delighted to be here. Much of this first year was spent trying to get our plans passed by the local planning department, and making a start on the thirty acres of neglected garden and woodland. It took days for us even to get into the walled garden and the greenhouses alone were to take three months of joiner work and hundreds of panes of glass to restore. In the early days we had to switch four different hot water tanks on, to get scalding hot water in our bathroom. If we switched one off the water was instantly stone cold. Our bathroom was bigger than some of our friend's flats, and boasted a row of nine fitted wardrobes as well as for some reason, a bidet on wheels.
The next five and a bit years were a blur of architects, planners, building control inspections, site meetings, consultants, workmen of every description, dirt, mess, power cuts, floods, leaks and all manner of major successes and setbacks. We worked all day and all evening, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Sometimes we weren't off the premises for weeks on end. We certainly couldn't converse on any other subject, which must have been very boring for our families and friends. After the first year, we moved out of the castle to allow all the wiring and plumbing to be replaced and for the next year and a half we lived in the small cottage next door. Our first son, Kerr, was born in 1996 and was often carried around the semi-derelict castle while Mum or Dad did whatever was required that day. We moved into our apartment on the top floor of the castle at the end of 1997, and very soon afterwards, we were able to purchase the castle outright from its previous owners. Our second son Ruadhan was born a month before we moved back in and both boys have never known any other home.
The last stages of the restoration were the fastest moving – all of a sudden rooms appeared where there had been bare stone walls. Suddenly people wanted to know where the beds were going so that electric sockets and switches could be put in place. Then, quite quickly strapping and plasterboard appeared, a skim coat of plaster and a moulded cornice and before we knew it, we were having to choose wallpapers, paint colours, curtain and upholstery fabrics, bathroom suites, kitchen and office equipment, dining room tables and chairs. And of course, carpets for sixty or so rooms. We drove to Newcastle to a massive factory and browsed through the archives and finally chose the patterns and each separate colour over a whole day and many months later the whole lot arrived on a vast articulated lorry at six o'clock in the morning. We had to wait till the workmen arrived because the lorry driver and I couldn't even move the smallest rolls.
Over the years, we had gradually accumulated a big collection of furniture, all bought at auction and driven back to the castle by the van load. We had no auction experience at first and made lots of mistakes, but we got better at deciding what was good and what wasn't and judging how much to pay – and most importantly – when to stop bidding! We ended up with several huge rooms at the castle stuffed to the ceiling with furniture and paintings – so much so that nobody could get in to decorate the rooms. We had to spend endless evenings shifting it all from one room to another - sometimes on our own - but occasionally some unsuspecting victim could be coerced into helping.
One of the last stages of the project was to actually place all the furniture in the rooms and hang all the paintings – a mammoth task. I vividly remember carrying large chests of drawers and wardrobes from one room to another and back again. It doesn't seem to matter that much what the tape measure says about whether or not a piece of furniture or a painting will fit in a space. You have to actually see it in situ. It either looks right there or it doesn't. And if it doesn't, you get to carry it somewhere else! We were still hanging paintings up at 3.00am on 20th April 2000 with the first guests due to arrive ten hours later. It was a very surreal moment as we stood in the entrance hall waiting for their cars to appear at the door, all the time our minds racing, trying to figure out if we had forgotten anything. I used to have a recurring dream about having forgotten to buy the silver cruet sets for the dining room, but luckily Fay had that one covered, and there they were. We were reasonably busy that first weekend – I think we had fifteen guests so we were half full. All seemed to go smoothly, and many of those first guests have been back to stay with us again, so it must have been alright!
Of course it was quiet at first, but every year the castle gets busier and busier. Exclusive-use has always been an important part of our business – we host many beautiful weddings and family occasions as well as private corporate occasions, but we don't feel these occasions would mix well with our individual guests, so we keep them separate. We still try to personally meet every guest when they arrive and bid them farewell when they leave. We've only ever missed a few, and we still manage to meet every guest at some point during their stay with us. We are lucky to have a wonderful staff, many of whom are with us from year to year, and we are now open from late March right through until 2nd January, the day our New Year guests depart. We still close over Christmas as it's the only school holiday we can spend with the boys and family.
We couldn't be more proud of what we have created at Glenapp. The effort has been enormous but very worthwhile. The castle is a very special place to live and has proved to be a very special hotel. We are delighted that the castle has been successful in terms of awards and recognition, but the best bit for us is when guests tell us how relaxed they feel, or how much they enjoyed their dinner, or their restful night's sleep. We don't really see Glenapp as a hotel. The castle is very much our home, and it just happens to also have a constant flow of nice people coming to stay. We wouldn't want it to be any other way.


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I'm considering staying off the boards until 2nd trimester when there will be far less m/c posts. I feel terrible I can't be supportive, but I'm stuck in a selfish fear.
This is my third pregnancy, I feel very fortunate not to have suffered a loss. My heart goes out to the women who have, it is heartbreaking. Praying/worrying constantly about this LO. Hope we all go on to have happy, healthy pregnancies!
Married my love - Aug 1st, 2009
Braxton - 2/19/04 Evan - 2/13/07
My other "fear" is the health of the baby. Has anyone ever felt as though you're simply blessed beyond measure and why-oh-why would I be deserving enough to have yet one more "healthy" baby?! This fear consumes me a little but I'm trying so hard to have faith in God's plan for our family... whatever His plan may be.
Jude - 3
Baby Boy Ewan - 9/1/13
This is also my 3rd pregnancy, and hopefully 3rd baby. I had a possible chemical pregnancy in Oct. but I'm not really sure, it was never confirmed. I too sometimes feel like the odds are against me to continue having healthy pregnancies without ever having to endure a miscarriage. I hope for all our sakes, that our beans stick!
Ashley (28) Johnnie (33) Claire (8) JJ (3) Charlotte 10/3/13 baby #4 coming 12/2015
i was thinking the saaaame thing! it stresses me out to see how many miscarriages there are and how many women have had to endure them just on this site! i'm freaking out and i'm 9 weeks pregnant and it is my first pregnancy as well.
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Greens attack 'paltry' cash for community energy projects
Posted: January 29, 2014|
GREENS have poured scorn on an announcement that the Government is to invest £10million in community renewable energy generation projects.
The kick-start fund for community generation projects in England is part of a new Community Energy strategy announced by the Department for Energy and Climate Change this week.
The figure was described as "paltry" by South West Green Party, which said it would fund no more than 70 community schemes across the whole of England between now and 2020.
The Greens said there had been a fivefold increase in the number of renewable energy co-operatives in Germany between 2007 and 2011, rising frmo 101 to 586.
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Molly Scott Cato, lead South West Green Party candidate for the European elections, said: "The Government is spinning this strategy as 'power to the people'.
"It's no such thing of course. Ed Davy and his department would do well to look to our European neighbours in Denmark and Germany who are really empowering people to take control of their energy supply.
"In both countries communities wanting to generate their own energy have been offered ongoing support in the form of high and guaranteed levels of feed-in tariff.
"By contrast Davey's limited announcement suggests that this is more of a PR exercise than a genuine commitment to community ownership of energy."
Earlier Dr Scott Cato visited an example of a community renewable scheme in South Brent, near Plymouth.
Their community-owned wind turbine, paid for entirely through the issue of shares to local people, began generating electricity in September 2013.
By early December 2013 it had generated more than 80,000kWh towards an annual target of between 300,000 and 400,000kWh.
The society hopes to be able to reinvest around £10,000 a year into local energy saving and generating initiatives in the South Brent area.
Power to the people – government boost to community energy
27 January 2014 9:41am
OVER 50 per cent of people surveyed by DECC, the Department for Energy and Climate Change, said that saving money on bills would be the major motivation for getting involved with community energy schemes, and around 3.5million bill payers are ready to get together with other people in their local community to take more control of their energy. Meanwhile while four in ten respondents said they were already interested in joining a community energy group, and taking part in collective switching or collective purchasing schemes.
Under the plans Government will broaden the support available for community energy projects, whereby people come together to reduce their energy use or purchase and generate their own energy. Plans include:
£10m Urban Community Energy Fund to kick-start community energy generation projects in England;
£1m Big Energy Saving Network funding to support the work of volunteers helping vulnerable consumers to reduce their energy;
a community energy saving competition, offering £100,000 to communities to develop innovative approaches to saving energy and money; and
a "one-stop shop" information resource for people interested in developing community energy projects.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey said:
"We're at the turning point in developing true community energy.
"The cost of energy is now a major consideration for household budgets, and I want to encourage groups of people across the country to participate in a community energy movement and take real control of their energy bills.
"Community led action, such as collective switching, gives people the power to bring down bills and encourage competition within the energy market."
Energy and Climate Change Minister, Greg Barker said:
"The Community Energy Strategy marks a change in the way we approach powering our homes and businesses - bringing communities together and helping them save money – and make money too.
"The Coalition is determined to unleash this potential, assist communities to achieve their ambitions and drive forward the decentralised energy revolution. We want to help more consumers of energy to become producers of energy and in doing so help to break the grip of the dominant big energy companies."
Since 2008, at least 5000 community groups have participated in energy projects in the UK. The Ashton Hayes Going Carbon Neutral project in Cheshire, for example, saved local households an average of £300 a year through encouraging behaviour change and installing simple energy efficiency measures.
In the future, the generation of electricity by communities themselves could put pressure on energy suppliers to drive down prices, creating warmer homes, cutting carbon emissions and diversifying the UK's energy mix. Estimates suggest that energy generation schemes involving local communities, such as installing solar panels on social housing buildings, could supply enough electricity for 1 million homes by 2020.
The potential of community energy beyond this is even greater. Community shared ownership schemes with renewables developers will be an important future part of ensuring that local people reap the financial and social benefits of energy developments built in their area.
Government's vision is that every community that wants to take forward an energy project should be able to do so. The Community Energy Strategy sets out how we are removing barriers faced by communities that want to take action on energy to create opportunities for more people to get involved.


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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before. Nothing in nature could hobble the gleaming city of Galveston, then a magical place that seemed destined to become the New York of the Gulf.
That August, a strange, prolonged heat wave gripped the nation and killed scores of people in New York and Chicago. Odd things seemed to happen everywhere: A plague of crickets engulfed Waco. The Bering Glacier began to shrink. Rain fell on Galveston with greater intensity than anyone could remember. Far away, in Africa, immense thunderstorms blossomed over the city of Dakar, and great currents of wind converged. A wave of atmospheric turbulence slipped from the coast of western Africa. Most such waves faded quickly. This one did not.
In Cuba, America's overconfidence was made all too obvious by the Weather Bureau's obsession with controlling hurricane forecasts, even though Cuba's indigenous weathermen had pioneered hurricane science. As the bureau's forecasters assured the nation that all was calm in the Caribbean, Cuba's own weathermen fretted about ominous signs in the sky. A curious stillness gripped Antigua. Only a few unlucky sea captains discovered that the storm had achieved an intensity no man alive had ever experienced.
In Galveston, reassured by Cline's belief that no hurricane could seriously damage the city, there was celebration. Children played in the rising water. Hundreds of people gathered at the beach to marvel at the fantastically tall waves and gorgeous pink sky, until the surf began ripping the city's beloved beachfront apart. Within the next few hours Galveston would endure a hurricane that to this day remains the nation's deadliest natural disaster. In Galveston alone at least 6,000 people, possibly as many as 10,000, would lose their lives, a number far greater than the combined death toll of the Johnstown Flood and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
And Isaac Cline would experience his own unbearable loss.
Meticulously researched and vividly written, Isaac's Storm is based on Cline's own letters, telegrams, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the hows and whys of great storms. Ultimately, however, it is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets nature's last great uncontrollable force. As such, Isaac's Storm carries a warning for our time.
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Sandy was not just enormous, it was also unprecedented. As a result, the entire nation was left flat-footed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration couldnand#8217;t issue reliable warnings; the Coast Guard didnand#8217;t know what to do. In Superstorm, journalist Kathryn Miles takes readers inside the maelstrom, detailing the stories of dedicated professionals at the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service. The characters include a forecaster who risked his job to sound the alarm in New Jersey, the crew of the ill-fated tall ship Bounty, Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Christie, and countless coastal residents whose homesand#151;and livesand#151;were torn apart and then left to wonder . . . When is the next superstorm coming?
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Every year when the crisp fall winds begin to blow and Halloween approaches, Knoebels transforms into a spooktacular place for ghosts and ghouls of all ages. Visitors can experience tasty treats, thrilling games, freaktastic attractions and of course, a selection of Knoebels' hallo-riffic rides. There are even special treat stops for children 12 and under in costume!


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Kiss' biggest and boldest shows yet would unfortunately mark the end of an era.
41 Years Ago: David Bowie Launches 'Diamond Dogs' Tour
David Bowie shed the sparkling jumpsuits and flamboyant makeup of the 'Ziggy Stardust' era as he began the 'Diamond Dogs' tour on June 14, 1974 in Montreal.
Def Leppard and Kiss Return With a Fury to the Fabulous Forum
We've got pictures from the recent Def Leppard and Kiss concert at the Forum in Los Angeles.
Derek Trucks Looks Beyond Life With the Allman Brothers Band
The guitarist talks to us about working with his wife, Susan Tedeschi, and being able to play with his heroes.
By Land, Air Or Sea: The History of the Rolling Stones' Outrageous Tour Announcements
The Rolling Stones' tour announcements have often surprised and delighted over the years, beginning with an impromptu performance on the streets of New York City.
Def Leppard's Phil Collen Gives Master Class at Performing Arts High School
Phil Collen recently stopped by an Orange County performing arts high school to deliver a master class.
35 Years Ago: Ronnie Wood Releases 'Gimme Some Neck'
Ron Wood's third solo album, 'Gimme Some Neck,' was released on April 20, 1979.
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Professional football made its return to Los Angeles on April 5, as the newly formed L.A. Kiss of the Arena Football League won its home opener at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., 44-34 over the Portland Thunder.
Team owners, and Kiss bandmates, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley were on hand to take part in the pre-game festivities and, true to their words, they helped present an over-the-top rock 'n' roll sports experience that more than delivered bang for the buck.
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CSU archivist Linda Meyer has asked that RMFU members with back issues of the Union Farmer help us complete the collection. If you have some old Union Farmers in your attic or basement, please check for the missing dates. Ideally, we would like to add them to the archival collection. Even if you wish to keep them, we would like to make copies so that the information is included in our historical collection housed at the Colorado State University library.
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The Beauty of Love
"You are beautiful as Tizrah, my love, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me—Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead" (Song 6:4–5).- Song of Solomon 5–6
In his teaching series Wisdom, Dr. R.C. Sproul says that "there is so much wrong with the romance we experience in our own culture. But the answer is not to…deny the reality of the sensuous attraction between the sexes or the erotic dimension of marriage, but rather to understand it in a way that is pleasing to God. If you want to know what real love is, spend some time in the Song of Solomon."
Married or single, sexuality is a central aspect of our humanity. Though it can be perverted, the physical relationship between men and women is deemed "very good" within marriage (Gen. 1:31). Solomon's song is one of many biblical encouragements for husbands and wives to enjoy their sexual union (see also 1 Cor. 7:1–5). Though we do not have time to discuss this point fully, there are all sorts of double-entendres and word-plays in the Hebrew text that, in no uncertain terms, tell us Solomon and his bride take great pleasure in one another (Song 4:10–16; 5:2–5, 10–16; 7:1–10).
Today the church often acts as if sex is a taboo topic. Yet we are not to ignore it because the Lord talks about it in Solomon's song. If the church does not work to shape our sexual ethics according to God's Word, we cannot be surprised when pagans define them. Ministries to men, women, singles, and youth, and discipleship groups, are all avenues through which the church should not only warn people that sex is wrong outside of marriage but also affirm its goodness, the depths of which can only be reached within marriage.
One of the ways the Song of Solomon encourages married people to celebrate their physical relationship is through words of praise to one another. Some of these are strange to us, such as Solomon's comparison of his wife's hair to a "flock of goats" (Song 6:5), but in that culture, centered as it was around animal husbandry, this was a great compliment indeed. In fact, a modern scholar once said he never understood how such a thing could be beautiful until he saw with his own eyes a flock of goats descending a mountain in Palestine. The compliments we offer may be different today, but the Song of Solomon exhorts us to build up our spouses through words of praise.
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Dr. R.C. Sproul says in his series Wisdom: "There is nothing wrong with being in love. There is nothing wrong with extolling the beauty of our wives or of our husbands." Husbands and wives, when was the last time you complimented your spouse on their appearance? When was the last time you did something to enhance your beauty? Married or not, find trustworthy Christians with whom you may discuss relational intimacy and God's Word regarding it.
Passages for Further Study
Eccl. 3:11
Song 2:8–17; 8:14
Isa. 61:10–11
Matt. 26:6–13
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SRI LANKA: Rizana Nafeek -- Death Sentence Confirmed
Call for Action on Behalf of Rizana Nafeek, Given on AHRC Website Link Above.
The death sentence has been confirmed in the case of Rizana Nafeek. She was charged with strangling the 4-month-old child of the family for whom she worked as a housemaid. She was legally allowed only 30 days from the date of the court order to make her appeal. An appeal was made on her behalf by the intervention of human rights groups who paid for the lawyers and her death sentence was set aside pending appeal.
Rizana Nafeek was born on February 4, 1988 and comes from a war-torn, impoverished village. Here, many families, including those of the Muslim community try to send their under aged children for employment outside the country, as their breadwinners. Some employment agencies exploit the situation of the impoverished families to recruit under aged girls for employment. For that purpose they engage in obtaining passports by altering the dates of birth of these children to make it appear that they are older than they really are. In the case of Rizana Nafeek, the altered date, which is to be found in her passport now, is February 2, 1982. It was on the basis of this altered date that the employment agency fixed her employment in Saudi Arabia and she went there in May 2005.
She went to work at the house of Mr. Naif Jiziyan Khalaf Al Otaibi whose wife had a new-born baby boy. A short time after she started working for this family she was assigned to bottle feed the infant who was by then four months old. Rizana Nafeek had no experience of any sort in caring for such a young infant. She was left alone when bottle feeding the child. While she was feeding the child the boy started choking, as so often happens to babies and Rizana Nafeek panicked and while shouting for help tried to sooth the child by feeling the chest, neck and face, doing whatever she could to help him. At her shouting the mother arrived but by that time the baby was either unconscious or dead. Unfortunately, misunderstanding the situation the family members treated the teenager very harshly and handed her over to the police, accusing her of strangling the baby. At the police station also, she was very harshly handled and did not have the help of a translator or anyone else to whom she could explain what had happened. She was made to sign a confession and later charges were filed in court of murder by strangulation.
On her first appearance in court she was sternly warned by the police to repeat her confession, which she did. However, later she was able to talk to an interpreter who was sent by the Sri Lankan embassy and she explained in her own language the circumstances of what had happened as stated above. This version was also stated in court thereafter.
According to reports, the judges who heard the case requested the father of the child to use his prerogative to pardon the young girl. However, the father refused to grant such pardon. On that basis the court sentenced her to death by beheading. This sentence was made on June 16, 2007.
The said murder allegedly took place in February 2005 when Rizana Nafeek was only 17 years old. Sources said she had modified her age on her passport so that she could enter Saudi Arabia to work. Accordingly, she was still considered a minor by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Child.
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From: WUNRN ListServe
To: WUNRN ListServe
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 10:24 AM
Subject: Saudi Arabia - Sri Lanka Girl Maid Case Update - Death Sentence Appeal
A Press Release from the Peace Secretariat for Muslims forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
SRI LANKA/SAUDI ARABIA: Rizana's Trial in Saudi Arabia Takes a New Turn
The case of Rizana Nafeek, the underaged Sri Lankan housemaid who was found guilty of the death of a Saudi infant in May 2005, has taken a new turn. The court in Dawadmi where Nafeek was initially tried has referred the case once again to the Supreme Judicial Council in Riyadh.
The referral is accompanied by a new statement from the police who took Nafeek's alleged confession, embassy officials said on Wednesday. No details about the new statement were available.
The case has been bouncing between courts over the past year. It first arrived in the high court in Riyadh in March 2008.
In November the high court announced that a key witness to what happened on the day Nafeek allegedly made her confession, the Lankan translator, had left the Kingdom and would be unavailable for testimony. Nafeek is appealing a death sentence. The parents of the infant accused her of murdering the child; she claims the infant choked while being bottle-fed.
Nafeek was trafficked into the country to work as a housemaid on a passport that falsely stated her age as 23. Her original birth certificate indicates she was 17 at the time, which would have barred her from work in the Kingdom.
The act not only violated the Kingdom's own laws against utilizing under-age labor, but it also constitutes human trafficking on the part of the recruiter who sent her to the Kingdom.
A court advocate for the accused from the Sri Lanka Embassy expressed concern that Nafeek had been in prison for five years while the system sought to dispense justice. "We visit her often and will console her until a final verdict is given," said the official who did not want to be named.
Nafeek was spared execution last year on the last day of the deadline for appeal when she was assigned a lawyer, retained with the help of the Asian Human Rights Commission and the Lankan community in Saudi Arabia. Khateb Al-Shammary, the lawyer, cited several reasons why the maid should not be executed.
In addition to the issue of Nafeek's age, the legal representative says she was assigned the duties of a nanny and assigned the care of a newborn in addition to her duties as a housekeeper.
The lawyer also says that since Nafeek had only been on the job for seven days, there was not enough time for her to harbor ill will that would cause her, as the parents of the dead baby allege, to murder of the newborn out of anger and vengeance.
Nafeek maintains that her confession is invalid because it was produced under duress and with inadequate translation. Nafeek arrived on May 4, 2005, three months after her 17th birthday, to work for Naif Jiziyan Khalaf Al-Otaibi and his family in Dawadmi, 390km west of Riyadh.
The incident in which the infant died occurred around 12:30 p.m. on May 22, 2005, while Nafeek was bottle-feeding the child. On the same day, she was in the police station, allegedly confessing that she had murdered the child.
Kifaya Ifthikar, a social worker who visited Nafeek last week told Arab News that Nafeek spent her time embroidering pillow covers. Nafeek's family has requested the Sri Lankan government to assign a negotiator to encourage the Al-Otaibi family to forgive Nafeek during Ramadan.
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About AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation monitoring and lobbying human rights issues in Asia. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in 1984.
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From: WUNRN ListServe
To: WUNRN ListServe
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: Saudi Arabia - Sri Lanka Migrant Girl Maid Case Status Rizana Nafeek - Death Penalty Issue
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families - http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cmw.htm
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No ratification to date on UN website for Saudi Arabia.
WUNRN posts this case status and history to illustrate the vunerability of migrant workers, especially young, especially FEMALE, assuredly poor, and the complexities of legal and court issues in another country and with religious and/or civil law. In the case of Rizana Nafeek, global intervention, very much through NGOs' leadership, brought the case to public attention and political/diplomatic/legal intervention.
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Hope in the case of Rizana Nafeek
To the recipients of communications through the AHRC network, Rizana Nafeek is a familiar name. The 17-year-old girl from a poor family from a conflict ridden area with a passport indicating her age as 18 arrived in Saudi Arabia as a domestic helper. Within two weeks this young girl was accused of the murder of an infant which she denied, claiming that the death was the result of accidental choking. However, by the time the news reached the outside world she had already been sentenced to death by beheading by a Saudi court and she had only 20 days remaining to make an appeal.
The BBC Sinhala Service broadcast this news and expressed the fear that, like four Sri Lankans who had been beheaded earlier, she might face a similar fate.
At this stage the Asian Human Rights Commission wrote twice to the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry urging intervention to provide legal assistance to the girl. However, it was then learned that it is not the policy of the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry to provide financial assistance for legal fees. On this basis the Asian Human Rights Commission launched an appeal for raising SR 150,000 which amounted to around US$ 40,000 as legal fees for a very competent legal firm, Al Shammary. With the quick responses received from local as well as outside sources the appeal was launched in the nick of time and the death sentence was suspended until the final hearing of the appeal.
Due to the untiring efforts of Al Shammary the case was taken up and the Supreme Council which sent the case back to the original court of Dawadami. During these proceedings it was discovered that the person who authenticated Rizana's alleged confession was not a qualified translator and may not even have known the Tamil language properly. As the case proceeded with the likelihood that the court may quash the earlier sentence, the happy news has reached us that the parents of the deceased baby may take steps to forgive Rizana, which according to Saudi law brings the matter to an end.
Mohammad Rasooldeen who has reported this case regularly has published the following article on October 5.
Nafeek case: Father willing to forgive
Md Rasooldeen | Arab News
RIYADH: The Kingdom's Human Rights Commission will attempt to persuade the mother of an infant who died in the care of a Sri Lankan woman hired as a house cleaner but given nanny duties to cease pursuit of the death penalty.
The father, according to the mediators, has expressed his desire to forgive the maid.
HRC President Turki Al-Sudairy conveyed the latest information in this much-publicized case to Sri Lankan Ambassador Abdul Ageed Mohammed Marleen at a recent meeting at the HRC headquarters in Riyadh.
Al-Sudairy said that HRC officials met the father, Naif Jiziyan Khalaf Al-Otaibi, and he expressed w illingness to pardon 20-year-old Rizana Nafeek. However, the mother still claims her private right in the case and is not ready to forgive the maid.
Al-Sudairy told Marleen that the HRC will meet the father and mother together and persuade them to pardon the maid at the next hearing on Nov. 5 before a judicial tribunal headed by Chief Justice Sheikh Abdullah Al-Rosaimi.
The local court in Dawadmi found Nafeek guilty in June 2007. Since then her appeals process has bounced a number of times between the local court and the Supreme Judicial Council via the Cassation Court. Her case is still in this appeals process after the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission retained legal representation for Nafeek, with the help of contributions from the Lankan community in Saudi Arabia.
Prior to the first verdict that sentenced her to death, Nafeek did not have any legal representation.
Nafeek allegedly signed a confession, but her lawyers argue that the confession was made under duress and, more importantly, Nafeek had no access to a translator during the initial questioning after she was arrested in 2005. Confessions are typically written in Arabic and signed by fingerprint.
It later came to light that Nafeek was recruited illegally as a minor and trafficked to Saudi Arabia on a forged passport.
Her birth certificate says she was 17 at the time she began working for the Saudi family, but her passport states she was not a minor at the time.
It is illegal to bring in foreign workers to Saudi Arabia under the age of 18. An unscrupulous recruitment agent in Colombo may have committed the forgery, thus violating Sri Lankan law and engaging in the trafficking of minors and racketeering. Nobody has been named a suspect in this crime.
Putting to death a person who committed a crime under the age of 18 would violate Article 37 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child that Saudi Arabia voluntarily si gned in February 1996.
Marleen said he told Al-Sudairy that whenever there are trials involving Sri Lankan nationals, it is absolutely necessary for Sri Lankan Embassy officials to know the progress of the case in order to avoid "misrepresentations and misgivings."
Embassy officials should be allowed as observers at the hearings, he added, pointing out that an official representative of the Sri Lankan government was not allowed to be present at Nafeek's hearing at the Dawadmi court.
"An effective mechanism must be in place to ensure that the arrests of Sri Lankan nationals are reported to the embassy on a priority basis so that we can provide consular assistance to the detained (suspect)," Marleen told Arab News.
Meanwhile, in a letter addressed to her parents, Nafeek said that this would be her last Eid in the Kingdom since she would either be released and sent home or executed before Eid 2009.
The campaign launched for Rizana Nafeek found overwhelming local and international report is summed up in an article published in Ethics in Action:
Campaigning for the right to life: The case of 17-year-old Rizana Nafeek
Asian Human Rights Commission
On 16 June 2007, 17-year-old Rizana Nafeek, a Sri Lankan migrant worker, was sentenced to death by a Saudi Arabian high court, for the death of a four-month-old infant in her care. The baby died from choking while being bottle fed by Rizana on 22 May 2005. Rizana was arrested by the Saudi police on the same day and allegedly confessed to the crime; however, in February 2007 she retracted this confession, saying the police obtained it under duress. Moreover, at no time was Rizana given translators or legal assistance. In subsequent hearings the three-judge panel noted that if the dead baby's family were to pardon Rizana, the case would be closed and Rizana would be free. The family refused, leading to Rizana's sentencing in June. Under Saudi law, Rizana could file an appeal against the death sentence within one month; by 16 July 2007.
Surprisingly, this case was barely reported in the Sri Lankan or international press. For this reason, when it initially came to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), it came as a sketchy tale. However, the AHRC took up the case purely on the basis of a 17-year-old being sentenced to death, and issued its first urgent appeal. Only later were more details uncovered, through communication with a number of different persons, including the Sri Lankan ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Eventually it was realized that the crux of the case came down to filing an appeal against the death sentence; if Rizana was to be saved, the next legal step had to be taken. Amongst all the letter writing to the Saudi Arabian government as well as the family of the dead child, it was necessary that concrete steps be taken within the system; filing an appeal. The deadline was looming, and Rizana was unable to lodge an appeal without financial and legal assistance. The AHRC had written to the Sri Lankan government to assist Rizana in making an appeal, which the government claimed it could not do, as it had 'no policy' regarding such matters. When this was made public, several groups contacted the AHRC and expressed an interest in partially covering the legal cost. The AHRC immediately wrote to the Sri Lankan government asking them to engage lawyers, whose fees would be paid through the AHRC. The AHRC then requested persons to donate. Within a short time the fees were collected and legal representation was attained for Rizana, ensuring that she was able to make the deadline of July 16 for the appeal.
This interest indicated that when people are asked specifically to do things, they are more likely to take an interest in cases. It is therefore useful for human rights groups to move beyond certain self imposed boundaries when attempting to garner support for cases.
It was also important to note that throughout the two weeks in which these events occurred, there was a lot of media support. From the BBC to the International Herald Tribune, from Al Jazeera to local Sri Lankan media, correspondents called up the AHRC and asked for information on Rizana. Other individuals and groups wrote to the AHRC expressing their support. Within a short time, there were 30 000 signatures to an online petition requesting pardon for Rizana. A local petition was later handed over to the Saudi Arabian embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka with 100 000 signatures. While there was a lot of attention specifically on Rizana, there was just as much attention on the issues of migrant workers and the use of the death penalty. Discussion focused around the Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and its Optional Protocol, and previous beheadings of Sri Lankan citizens in Saudi Arabia.
This interest and discussion is ongoing, and the AHRC continues to receive expressions of support towards Rizana.
(Edited text of two statements issued by the AHRC: AS-155-2007 & AS-169-2007)
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to Muslim scholars worldwide regarding the death sentence of a 17-year-old Sri Lankan girl, Rizana Nafeek, in Saudi Arabia.
In the course of Rizana bottle feeding a four-month-old infant, the infant choked to death even as the teenage girl desperately tried to help by way of soothing and stroking the baby's chest, face and neck. Due to misunderstandings, the case was presented as the murder of a baby by strangulation. Subsequently, the judges hearing the case requested the baby's father, Mr Naif Jiziyan Khklafal Otaibi, to use his prerogative to pardon Rizana, but he refused. On this basis, Rizana was sentenced to death by a Saudi Arabian court on 16 June 2007.
After careful consideration of all the facts, the AHRC is of the view that the baby's death was a terrible tragedy, but current events are leading to a further tragedy: the execution of an innocent, inexperienced teenager.
Scholarly considerations can help to make the necessary reflections distinguishing a tragedy from a crime, and from such reflections interventions can be made to prevent a further tragedy. We encourage Muslim scholars to communicate with this unfortunate family and provide them with the necessary counsel and support so they may deal wisely with the case.
While the AHRC is experienced in common and civil law jurisdictions, the same cannot be said of the Islamic legal system. To deepen our knowledge and understanding regarding the operation of Islamic laws in Rizana's case as well as overall, we request Muslim scholars to consider the following issues:
a. How would complaints of causing duress to obtain a confession be examined in a Saudi Arabian court? Under both common and civil law procedures, such a complaint would be separately examined, and if the court was satisfied that the complaint is true, no importance is attached to the confession. The court will then decide the case on the basis of whatever other evidence is available.
b. How would a Saudi Arabian court treat new information which could have a significant influence on understanding the issues relating to the case? For instance, if it is revealed that the actual age of the accused is 17, and not 24 as originally claimed, would the court re-consider its verdict, taking into account any implications arising from this new information?
c. How would mens rea, or the mental element in crime be examined in a Saudi Arabian court? According to both common and civil law systems, the intention to cause the crime is an essential ingredient of the crime itself, and sophisticated jurisprudence regarding this exists. What is the counterpart in Islamic law?
d. What is the manner in which guilt is determined and the proportionality of the punishment measured under Islamic law? Again, common and civil law jurisdictions have seen centuries of debate on these matters and certain basic principles have become the norm in all courts.
e. What importance would a Saudi Arabian appeals court attach to the absence of legal representation during trial? It is now customary in common and civil law systems to consider the issue of legal representation as an essential element of a fair trial, particularly in cases carrying serious sentences such as the death penalty. An appeal court in either system may set aside the decision of a trial court if the accused was not provided legal representation. In fact, courts are also taking the stance that if legal representation was provided but it was inadequate - for instance the lawyer was patently incompetent - there is a strong ground for appeal. How are such matters considered within the Saudi Arabian legal system?
f. How does a Saudi Arabian trial or appeal court consider the issue of persons who are aliens to the country, who are unfamiliar with the culture, laws and legal practices of the country of residence? In common and civil law jurisdictions it is now a recognized duty to provide services which enable such persons to participate in the trial process with full comprehension and dignity. Any failures in this regard would be considered as flaws in the trial, giving rise to reasonable grounds for appeal.
The AHRC invites scholars and practitioners to express their views on these matters by writing to firstname.lastname@example.com. Those wishing to offer their advice to the family of the deceased child may do so through the following address c/o the Sri Lankan Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:
Mr Naif Jiziyan Khklafal Otaibi
Ministry of Finance, Riyadh
C/O Sri Lankan Embassy
PO Box 94360
Riyadh 19693
Saudi Arabia
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
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About AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation monitoring and lobbying human rights issues in Asia. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in 1984.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON CASE OF Rizana Nafeek
AI Index: MDE 23/026/2007
05 July 2007
UA 175/07 Death sentence
SAUDI ARABIA Rizana Nafeek (f), aged 19, Sri Lankan national
Domestic worker Rizana Nafeek was sentenced to death on 16 June for a murder committed while she was 17 years old. Saudi Arabia is a state party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which expressly prohibits the execution of offenders for crimes committed when they were under 18 years old. Rizana Nafeek is believed to have appealed against her sentence, but if her appeal is unsuccessful she could be executed within days.
She was arrested in May 2005 in Jeddah on charges of murdering an infant in her care. She had no access to lawyers either during interrogation or at her trial and was believed to have confessed to the murder during police questioning. She has since retracted her confession.
She apparently told the authorities that she was born in February 1988, but they seem to have ignored this on the basis that her passport indicated that she was born in February 1982. According to information available to Amnesty International no medical examination is believed to have been carried out to ascertain her age, nor was she given the opportunity to present her birth certificate, which reportedly shows that she was born in 1988.
Saudi Arabia applies the death penalty for a wide range of offences. Court proceedings fall far short of international standards for fair trial, and take place behind closed doors.
Defendants normally do not have formal representation by a lawyer, and in many cases are not informed of the progress of legal proceedings against them. They may be convicted solely on the basis of confessions obtained under duress, torture or deception. The rate of executions in Saudi Arabia has recently increased sharply, and the authorities have executed at least 100 people so far this year, although the true figure may be much higher. Death sentences are usually carried out by beheading.
Saudi Arabia assured the Committee on the Rights of the Child (who monitor states' implementation of the CRC) in January 2006 that no children had been executed in the country since the CRC came into force in Saudi Arabia in 1997. This is a weaker commitment than is required by the CRC, which demands that no one is executed for crimes committed when they were under 18, no matter how old they are now.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible,
in Arabic, English or your own language:
- urging the King to intervene and commute Rizana Nafeek's death sentence;
- pointing out that the execution of juvenile offenders is expressly prohibited by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Saudi Arabia ratified in 1997;
- calling on the Saudi Arabian authorities to ensure that Rizana Nafeek has access to a lawyer of her choice to present her appeal and is given an effective opportunity to exercise her right to defence and appeal against her death sentence in a transparent process;
- acknowledging the right of the government to bring to justice those responsible for criminal offences, but expressing unconditional opposition to the death penalty;
- reminding the authorities that they are bound by international standards for fair trial in capital cases


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Roger Zahab instigates complex relations through his activities as composer, violinist, conductor, teacher and writer.
His work has been performed throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia by such soloists and ensembles as cellists David Russell and Lawrence Stomberg, kayagum artist Heesun Kim, violinist Nathalie Shaw, flutist Lindsey Goodman, pianists Robert Frankenberry, Eric Moe and Bennett Lerner, guitarists John Muratore and James Marron, and The Furious Band, California EAR Unit, IonSound Project and PNME.
Daedalus String Quartet:
Philip Baldwin, Roger Zahab, Jerry Miskell, James Hinkley
A selection of chamber music has been released: entelechron: time + memory. Performed by entelechron: with the composer as violinist, cellist David Russell and pianists Robert Frankenberry and Eric Moe, it is available from cdbaby as well as iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. Other recordings include deceived by starlight performed by vibraphonist Dale Speicher (Seattle Percussion Collective), levitation of pianos during a waltz played by pianist Eric Moe (Albany Records), Earth's Jig and Silence Orchids played by pianist Bennett Lerner (Albany Records) and Verging Lightfall played by the composer on violin and Eric Moe, piano (Koch International Classics). These recordings and others are available from Amazon and iTunes. Recent works include numerous commissions for soloists and small ensembles as well as vioentelechron - for violin and orchestra in flexible instrumentation, at the piano - in honor of favorite pianists, and Akron Chronogram for large orchestra with video by Laura Ruth Bidwell commissioned by the Akron Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Wilkins, music director, to celebrate its 60th anniversary. Current projects include a chamber music version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which can be performed in a concert setting or staged as a theater work. First performances are planned for New York City and elsewhere in December, 2012.
As a violinist, Zahab has given more than a hundred first performances and championed music by a wide range of composers from John Cage to Eric Moe, Kwabena Nketia and Tison Street to Judith Weir and Christian Wolff. Recordings as violinist and composer are available on the Truemedia, Albany and Koch International Classics labels. His version of John Cage's Thirteen Harmonies for violin and keyboard instrument is published by C.F.Peters Corporation.
His conducting repertoire encompasses the history of ensemble music from Andrea Gabrielli up to the present.
Current faculty positions include:
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Senior Lecturer and Director of the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra
Vermont College of Fine Arts: Founding core faculty member of the MFA in Music Composition.
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Surprise storm snarls travel plans
An unexpected snowstorm delayed Christmas Eve plans for many in Abilene and stopped some travelers cold.
Interstate 20 was shut down due to ice and wrecks. Plus, flights in and out of the Abilene Regional Airport were canceled or delayed.
Gabe and Melia Corrales waited in the airport's terminal for the 2:10 p.m. flight to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport where they planned to then fly to California to see family.
"We're trying to make it before Christmas," Gabe Gorrales said. "We'll most likely show up on Christmas Day."
Melia, who said she was enjoying wearing flip-flops just a day ago, did not expect anything like the weather that delayed the flight.
"I knew it might rain and (the flight) may be delayed with storms, but certainly not a blizzard," she said.
As the winter storm moved east, the Corraleses knew they might arrive in Dallas to more delays.
"They said if we make it to Dallas we'll probably be stuck in Dallas," Melia said. "At least we'll be one step closer."
In Abilene, the slushy roads forced some to wait to leave their homes.
Though roads were in decent shape in the afternoon, Eddie Lloyd said he worried about the slush icing over later in the evening.
"It kind of affected the plans because I was supposed to go to my daughter's house," said Lloyd, sitting on a bench at the Mall of Abilene. "I don't know if I'm going to make the trip over there. I may not get to see my daughter tonight, but it depends on what it looks like when I get out there."
Phil Watkins, also at the mall, said he had been on the roads for business Thursday morning and then at the mall to pick up an item.
He attributed the large amount of people at the mall to a case of cabin fever.
"We're a nation of people on the go all the time," he said. "Most aren't carrying big bags."
Those venturing past the Abilene city limits faced their fair share of snow-laden problems.
Shelters were set up in Cisco and Eastland to care for the stranded motorists, the Texas Department of Public Safety said, and shelters were also available at First Baptist Church and the Mountain Top Church in Cisco and First Baptist Church in Eastland.
As of 2:30 p.m., in Abilene, about 20 homeless people had sought shelter at the Salvation Army, said Major James Parrish, who expected possibly more need as the night wore on.
"Every year when we have one of these (storms) come around, they close up Ranger Hill, and the buses stop before they get there," he said. "So we're going to have our cots ready and our beds ready for folks who get stranded."
Several hotels on U.S. Interstate 20 reported an influx of customers because of the inclement weather.
Some said that travelers had turned around when faced with icy roads and booked another night, while some said that others were flocking into motels after being stymied by the weather.
"Earlier it was bad — we had about 10 back-to-back," said Nayteria Valencia, a desk clerk at the Holiday Inn location on Interstate 20, a bit after 2 p.m. "Now we've gotten about three or four in the last hour. But I have a lot of them who have made reservations, and they haven't made it in yet. They're trying to get here right now."
At Comfort Suites, desk clerk Jennifer Arredondo said that the hotel had seen "five or six" walk-ins because of the weather, coming from El Paso, California and other places to Weatherford and Dallas.
At about 2:40 p.m., eastbound traffic on Interstate 20 began to be noticeably backed up near Loop 322.
Near Elmdale Road, Myra Salcedo walked slowly on the access road, facing the opposite direction as a long line of mostly stopped cars.
On her way from Midland to Arlington, her Lincoln Town Car had gotten stuck in the icy, snowy elements.
Fortunately, her husband Andy, making the trip in an SUV, was able to move the vehicle, but the couple said they had no plans to continue on.
"We're going back to Abilene," Myra Salcedo said.
Nearby, Jan Engelske's restaurant, The Gym Diner, beckoned many frustrated motorists.
The steady stream from the interstate began walking through the door at about 12:30 p.m., said Engelske, adding that things only got worse when an influx of drivers mistook the sun's appearance as a promise of a clear road ahead.
Seated at a table, Kenny Dies wore shorts as he sipped a cup of coffee.
"I'm pretty good at driving in the snow," Dies said. After claiming years of experience as a long-haul trucker, it seemed like no idle boast.
But during a day of highway driving that began in New Mexico, he said he had witnessed plenty of drivers show less-than-sound judgment with their speed and following distance.
"It's these idiots," Dies said calmly, describing how he had seen what appeared to be an accident between a sheriff's deputy and another motorist near Sweetwater.
On his way to Tennessee to visit family for the holiday, Dies wasn't in a rush, all things considered.
"I'd just as soon sit, as long as I get there sometime," he said, adding that he had been at the diner about a half-hour.
Chloe Carpenter, 16, was riding with her older sister, Chandra, 19.
It has been a long day since setting out from Lubbock, where they had been visiting friends, hoping to get home to Little Rock, Ark., though Chloe at least was able to make use of restaurant's restroom before the pair headed eastbound again.
Little Rock seemed like a long shot, so Chandra thought perhaps the pair might spend the night in Waco, where she is a student at Baylor University.
One savvy driver wanted to know about a way to get east without using the I-20, and Jerry Engelske, Jan's husband, offered directions along a side road that seemed like it must be a better option compared to the gridlock outside.
After about 20 minutes or so, Dies decided also to use the county road in place of the Interstate.
"That was a great break. I needed that," he said as he walked out the door, a long road still ahead.
Staff Writers Jaime Adame, Jared Fields, and Brian Bethel contributed to this report.
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Berklee Global Jazz Institute Concert Series and Jam Sessions
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