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By Jamie L. Freedman
The headlines say it all. Teenagers from rival gangs stab
each other in suburban shopping malls and at high school football
games. Students settle disagreements with guns and violence.
Backpacks now travel through X-ray machines and students through
metal detectors on their way to school. Where will it end?
GW professors are striving to find answers through a number
of promising research projects. A shining example is The George
Washington University's Hamilton Fish Institute on School
and Community Violence, a national resource for the research
and development of school violence prevention strategies.
Housed in GW's Graduate School of Education and Human
Development, the interdisciplinary research consortium was
created in 1997 in honor of the late Hamilton Fish IV, a longtime
member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York
state who advocated joint research to eradicate school violence.
"Juvenile justice and the well-being of young people
were issues close to his heart," says Beverly Caffee
Glenn, who has directed the institute since 2002. The institute
works with a research consortium of eight universities to
develop and test violence prevention strategies in urban,
rural, and suburban schools across the country. Members include
Eastern Kentucky University, Florida State University, Morehouse
School of Medicine, University of Oregon, Shenandoah University,
Syracuse University, the Trauma Center-Boston, and the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "We were established to research,
develop, and evaluate programs and practices that help to
prevent youth violence," Glenn says. Funded by the Department
of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency
Prevention, the consortium convenes meetings of researchers,
issues small grants, fields investigational studies, and coordinates
an annual national conference.
"Here at Hamilton Fish, we strive to transfer research
into practice," Glenn says, noting that the institute
works closely with D.C. Public Schools. "This summer,
we held a young people's summit of local high school
students at the Marvin Center to discuss what the main problems
are and what adults can do to help," she says. "Over
pizza, one student shared that his high school was built for
1,800 students but houses 2,700, and that not enough adults
in the building care about the students or make them feel
safe. It was an insightful meeting."
The institute conducted a four-day conference in Philadelphia
last year, where some of the nation's foremost experts
on school violence gathered to discuss the most recent means
and methods for curbing school violence and implementing innovative
programs of prevention. Hamilton Fish hosted this year's
national conference, "Persistently Safe Schools 2006:
Collaborating with Students, Families & Communities,"
which took place Sept. 19-21 in Washington. "Our annual
meeting routinely draws 250 to 400 participants per year,"
Glenn says. "This year, we focused on persistently safe
schools, because in some cities around the country, there
are no safe schools to transfer into. We provide a forum for
informative discussions about the state of school violence
prevention research, while encouraging partnerships among
public, private, and not-for-profit enterprises."
GW, which serves as the national office of the institute,
is working on many levels to make the D.C. Public Schools
safe. "Right now, we're working with a school
in Southeast Washington where a student was recently shot
in the back and killed," Glenn says. While there's
no ironclad recipe for success, she says that a number of
strategies do help prevent violence. "It's important
that schools implement clear, concise, fair rules that apply
to everybody and are fairly applied," she says. Strong
anti-bullying policies are vital. "We know bullying
leads to violence," Glenn states, noting that most school
violence occurs between April and June because students have
been bullied since September and are eager to get back at
their aggressors.
"Our research has found that investing in after-school
programs in the humanities, arts, music, drama, and other
emotional outlets for young people plays an important role,
as does mentoring and engaging in rigorous academic pursuits,
regardless of ability," she continues. "We also
know that safe schools enroll 500 students or less, since
teachers in small schools know all of the kids by name. Large
schools can easily be split into houses, schools within schools,
grade-level academies, special programs, and teams of 500
students or less. It's not an impossibility. It can
be done."
Glenn notes that violence decreases when young people are
emotionally and intellectually attached to the adults who
run the schools, as well as when adults are around at home
for kids to talk to. "Kids who are on their own for
hours each day after school are the most likely to get into
trouble," she says. "When kids have activities
to engage in and positive role models to interact with, they
develop pro-social, rather than anti-social, skills."
An advocate of universal preschool, Glenn emphasizes that
investment in young people pays off. "Every dollar invested
in preschool generates $7 in terms of social benefits,"
she says.
Glenn cautions that the problem of youth violence cannot
be solved with the wave of a magic wand. "We know young
people's judgment is not clear until the ages of 23
to 25," she explains. "Some 420 juveniles in the
District are repeat offenders, and many of them have been
sent away 12 times. It's just a revolving door, because
these young people have not yet physically developed the ability
to step back and analyze a situation."
As the institute heads into its 10th year, Glenn is quick
to state that school violence is not as rampant as headlines
might suggest. "The Centers for Disease Control says
that less than 1 percent of violence committed against young
people occurs in school, so despite recent headlines, school
is still the safest place to be," she concludes.
As part of the primary intervention program SAFER Latinos,
Mark Edberg trains high school seniors to become members
of a peer advocate system in local schools.
Jessica McConnell
Just a block down K Street, Mark Edberg, associate professor
of prevention and community health, quickly is gaining a national
reputation for his research focusing on ways to reduce Latino
youth violence in the local community. Funded by a four-year,
$2.4 million research grant from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, he is spearheading a study to develop and
test a community-based youth violence prevention program in
Langley Park, Md., a Washington suburb with a substantial
Central American population. "Youth and gang violence
has increased substantially over the past decade in Langley
Park and other similar communities around the country,"
says Edberg, who has spent his career researching violence,
HIV, substance abuse, and other high-risk issues.
Together with two community partners—the Council of
Latino Agencies and the Latin American Youth Center, Edberg,
assisted by Elizabeth Collins, MPH '04, is implementing
a multipronged intervention called SAFER Latinos, a primary
prevention program addressing community-level mediating factors
that contribute to Latino youth violence.
"Langley Park is impacted by a number of social and
demographic factors, including a lack of resources and an
influx of refugees/immigrants from Central America,"
Edberg says. He points to a number of "funnels"
that contribute to youth alienation and violence in Langley
Park: a pattern of "sequential family immigration"
that erodes family cohesion and leads to a reliance on peer
socialization; a language barrier and paucity of culturally
appropriate services for immigrant youth, resulting in poor
school performance; low awareness/perception of community
support; the presence of several major Latino gangs, including
the infamous MS-13; and the integration of violence into prevalent
youth norms related to status and reputation.
"Informal local data puts the dropout rate for ninth-grade
Latino boys in Langley Park at 50 percent or more,"
Edberg says. "And the percentage of Latino elementary
school students receiving satisfactory ratings on state performance
measures in reading, writing, and math is very low (sometimes
well below 10 percent in specific areas), with males scoring
lower than females, particularly in writing. Because their
school success rate is so low, violence very likely plays
a heightened role in Latinos gaining status and recognition.
Gangs become a social structure through which young people
find a sense of belonging. They have your back all the time
and become like family. Violence simply becomes a piece of
what they have to do to belong and be known."
Edberg's study, titled "Primary Prevention Addressing
Community Factors for Latino Youth Violence," will utilize
a number of techniques aimed at reducing violence in Langley
Park by addressing those factors that contribute to it at
the community level. Trained Latin American social/health
promoters will work with local families, serving as a bridge
to facilitate communication between parents and children,
as well as between school and parents. To address school issues,
a peer advocate system will be put into place, in which successful
high school seniors or college students will serve as mediators
at the local middle school and high school, intervening when
Latino youth are in trouble or considering dropping out and
conducting early conflict resolution. A drop-in center will
be established in the community, offering free academic support,
recreation, counseling, job training, and other youth services.
Ongoing community events will be held and public information
disseminated, including violence prevention messages and events
designed to increase community contact with support services.
The Council of Latino Agencies, a regional umbrella organization,
will run a series of events aimed at involving community youth
in street theater, musical performances, and other activities
that provide emotional outlets and show participants that
there are better ways to make a name for themselves than through
"At each of these events, as well as at large community-wide
events such as Langley Park Day, we plan to invite social
services to set up tables, staffed by Spanish speakers, to
make linkages to services and address questions of community
alienation," Edberg says. "In combination with
that, we'll be running a media campaign featuring messages
on alternatives to violence.
"This is, above all, a community project," continues
Edberg, who came to GW in 2002 and has a joint appointment
in anthropology and in public health. "It's our
hope that this type of community-public health approach to
dealing with violence will help to reduce youth involvement
in gangs and violence and ultimately serve as a model for
other communities that might be facing the same situation."
Currently, Edberg and his team are collecting baseline community
data through door-to-door surveys of a random sample of Langley
Park Latino residents and simultaneously from a similar sample
in the study's control community in Virginia that will
not receive the intervention. "We're interviewing
them on topics like family cohesion, self-reported participation
in violence, attitudes to violence, substance abuse, perceived
level of community support, and attitudes to school and school
dropout, and we will assess this information against school
and police data on youth violence," Edberg says. "We
are also conducting focus groups to assess community perceptions
of the problem." Once the interventions are in place,
he will monitor results through follow-up surveys, focus groups,
police reports, and other data and keep careful documentation
so others can replicate the project.
"There are not a lot of programs out there to address
the broad interplay of community factors that contribute to
youth violence, so I'm pleased and thankful the CDC
decided to fund this project," says Edberg, noting the
group funded only three similar projects nationwide. "I
hope that this collaborative effort between GW and the community
stays in place for a long time."
Across campus in the psychology building, Sharon Lambert,
assistant professor of psychology, is hard at work researching
a related topic—how neighborhood crime, violence, and
poverty affect children and families. Funded by GW's
Institute for Public Policy, much of Lambert's work
focuses on the effects of exposure to community violence on
urban children and adolescents, as well as the risk factors
for community violence exposure. "We're trying
to understand what places kids at a greater risk of being
exposed to community violence, either as witnesses or victims,"
she explains, noting that it is a significant public health
problem with rampant negative consequences.
According to Lambert, risk factors for violence exposure
include being male, living in a poor, urban area, and associating
with deviant or delinquent peers. "There are also behavioral
risks we can target in interventions," she states. To
date, Lambert has looked closely at the links between violence
exposure and aggression, depression, and anxiety. "We
know aggressive behavior places youth at risk for exposure
to community violence. Aggressive behavior coupled with depression
increases that risk."
Next on Lambert's agenda is utilizing the research
to build school- and community-based behavioral intervention
programs to help protect kids at risk for violence exposure.
"My research is mainly focused in Baltimore and Washington,
D.C., which both have high rates of violence, crime, and drug
activity in poor neighborhoods," she says. "The
big challenge is that, in many poor, low-resource environments
with high crime, kids are praised for being aggressive, and
violence is the norm. It's hard to combat that."
A clinical community psychologist, Lambert came to GW two
years ago from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School
of Public Health. "I got into this field because I'm
interested in understanding how neighborhoods affect children
and families," she explains. "Some families fare
well despite challenging situations, while others experience
more difficulties. I'd like to find out what makes people
resilient to environmental stress, and package those strategies
into interventions for youth."
Lambert says that she hopes to tie together community and
clinical interventions, such as offering more after-school
activities in poor neighborhoods, to keep kids off the streets.
"One of our goals is to increase access to services
in the communities that need it most," she says. "I'm
also interested in mapping locations of community risks and
resources to better understand risk for exposure to community
violence, as well as access and utilization of services."
She's quick to state that the research is still in
its early days. "The integration of geography and psychology
to understand risk and inform intervention is a fairly new
field," she says, "but we're getting there.
By understanding how kids manage neighborhood-related stressors,
such as crime, poverty, and access to fewer resources, we
can help cut down on community violence exposure and its effects,
hopefully soon."
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The Mountain Valley Conference has recognized Hudson Valley Community College freshman guard Jocelyn Moy (Greenwich/Greenwich High School) and sophomore forward Megan Baldwin (Glenmont/Bethlehem High School) for their play during the 2003-04 women's basketball season.
Moy earned First Team All-Conference accolades. She averaged 17.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 4.9 steals and one block per game this season. She established a school single-season record with 141 steals. Moy also finished second on the college's single season scoring chart with 518 points.
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Scientists carrying out a major epidemiological study at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University have discovered that there is no clear correlation between routine ultrasonic scans and intellectual impairment.
"Fears have been expressed that sonography can lead to diminished intellectual capacity," explains Helle Kieler, research scientist at Karolinska Institutet.
Previous epidemiological studies have shown that young men who had been exposed to in utero ultrasonic scans are more likely than other young men to be left handed; and that there is a correlation between left-handedness and reduced intellectual capacity in children born after a complicated pregnancy.
The new study, which is to be published on 13 April in the scientific journal Epidemiology, is based on data from approximately 180,000 boys born in the 1970s, when routine ultrasonic examinations of foetal development were first introduced in Sweden. Almost 20 years later, the young men were given intelligence tests on signing up for their military service. When researchers compared the boys who had been scanned with those that had not, it transpired that intellectual capacity was lower in those who were exposed to ultrasound in during gestation. The differences, however, were small and other influences on the results could not be ruled out.
To control for such (unquantified) factors, the scientists then conducted a smaller-scale analysis of brothers. This enabled them to confirm that there was nothing to suggest that the brother who had been exposed to in utero ultrasonic radiation was intellectually inferior to the one who had not.
"The results are reassuring in terms of the risk that routine prenatal sonography has lasting effects on the development of the foetal brain," says Ms Kieler. "It is important to remember, however, that the study reflects the effects of how ultrasound was used in the 1970s. Scanning procedures have changed since then, and children born today have generally been exposed to more ultrasonic radiation than those included in the study."
Helle Kieler, Bengt Haglund, Sven Cnattingius, Juni Palmgren, and Ove Axelsson:
Does prenatal sonography affect intellectual performance? Epidemiology, 16/3 (May 2005).
Karolinska Institutet is one of Europe's largest and most prestigious medical universities. In providing education, research and information, Karolinska Institutet contributes to the improvement of human health. It is also Karolinska Institutet that selects the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. For more information see www.ki.se.
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Special Needs Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 31, at Haywood County Fairgrounds. The event will include wagon and pony rides, horses, goats, sheep, music, face painting, balloon animals, pizza and more.
Deslyn Sherrill was born with cerebral palsy and passed away in July of last year. To honor her memory, her family wanted to provide a day for people with special needs.
Terri Messer, Sherrill's grandmother, said nothing made her granddaughter happier more than animals and anything outdoors, whether it was riding a horse, or being out on the lake in a boat.
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Sherrill attended Clyde Elementary School and made a lasting impression on her classmates and teachers. To many, she will be remembered as the "Princess of Clyde Elementary."
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The man-in-the-know nursed a late-morning beer at a bar near the Suchiate River that separates Guatemala from Mexico, and answered a question about his human smuggling business with a question: "Do you think a coyote is going to say he's a coyote?"
Dressed as a migrant in shorts and sandals but speaking like an entrepreneur, he then described shipments of tens of thousands of dollars in human cargo from the slums of Honduras and highlands of Guatemala to cities across the United States.
"It's business," he said, agreeing to speak to a reporter only if guaranteed anonymity. "Sometimes, business is very good."
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee approved a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 that includes $5.508 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Included in that amount is more than $87 million for the transportation of illegal immigrants–most often via plane–from the U.S.-Mexico border to federal facilities around the nation…
A DHS request for "escort services for unaccompanied alien children," posted online in January, claimed that 50 percent of transported foreign minors are brought to interior U.S. cities via commercial planes. The others are transported via local ground transport and ICE charter air crafts.
Many U.S. citizens remain outraged that instead of turning illegal immigrants away at the border, tax dollars are being used to relocate foreigners to cities all around the nation.
The federal government is so overwhelmed by the current tide of migrants crossing the border it can't provide basic medical screening to all of the children before transporting them – often by air – to longer-term holding facilities across the country, ABC News has learned…
"Preliminary reports indicate that several unaccompanied minors in the shelter had become ill with what appears to be pneumonia and influenza," according to a statement from the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services.
HHS told ABC News the children were supposed to be screened for sickness before leaving the Border Patrol screening centers…
But, according to the memo ABC News reviewed, "Curi Kim [the HHS director of the Division of Refugee Health] has identified a breakdown of the medical screening processes at the Nogales, Arizona, facility. The [unaccompanied children] were initially screened and cleared upon entry into that facility with no fever or significant symptoms. They were not however re-screened and cleared for travel and placement at a temporary shelter."
The administration's frivolous approach to the deluge is clear from a recent request for an extra $3.7 billion to address it. The majority of funds would go not to enforcement but to efforts at resettling the illegal aliens in the United States.
The response of the administration and its supporters to the breakdown of the border in South Texas seems to have finally gotten a large share of the public to see what's happening. Even the White House's use of illegal-alien children as human shields for its anti-sovereignty policies has not managed to allay the increasing sense of alarm across the country…
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"Do you know why people migrate there? Do you know? Because there is no work here. There is no work," said Ana Patricia Mejia, 39, who had tried to make the trip with her kids and her neighbor's son but was deported from Mexico. "Of course I am going again. I have to have a house. I do not have a place to live. If I want to or not, if the gringos like it or not, I am coming."…
"Many people are saying the U.S. has approved a law to receive children," [Waldina Lizeth Amaya] said. "The U.S. is an advanced country, and I want my children to study there. I want them to have a better life. That's the main reason."
Honduran President Juan Hernandez blamed U.S. drug policy for sparking violence in Central American countries and driving a surge of migration to the United States, according to an interview published on Monday…
"Honduras has been living in an emergency for a decade," Hernandez told Mexican daily newspaper Excelsior. "The root cause is that the United States and Colombia carried out big operations in the fight against drugs. Then Mexico did it."
Those operations pushed drug traffickers into Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, he suggested, adding: "This is creating a serious problem for us that sparked this migration."
How did the region become a killing field? His diagnosis is that big profits from the illicit drug trade have been used to corrupt public institutions in these fragile democracies, thereby destroying the rule of law. In a "culture of impunity" the state loses its legitimacy and sovereignty is undermined. Criminals have the financial power to overwhelm the law "due to the insatiable U.S. demand for drugs, particularly cocaine, heroin and now methamphetamines, all produced in Latin America and smuggled into the U.S."
Gen. Kelly agrees that not all violence in the region is linked to the drug trade with the U.S., but "perhaps 80% of it is."…
That migrant children are drawn to the U.S. when they decide to flee may very well have to do with the fact that they believe they will be able to stay because of an asylum law for children passed in 2008 during the presidency of George W. Bush. But refugees from the Northern Triangle are seeking other havens as well. According to Marc Rosenblum of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, from 2008-13 Honduran, Guatemalan and Salvadoran applications for asylum in neighboring countries—mostly Mexico and Costa Rica—are up 712%.
On Saturday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was a "down payment" to the Hispanic community before more grants of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Speaking at the National Council of La Raza conference in Los Angeles, Gutierrez said that Obama assured him during a White House meeting with Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus last week that he would be as "generous and broad" as he can to "stop the deportation of our people each and every day."
"You gave us a down payment when you freed 600,000 DREAMers from deportation," Gutierrez said. "Now it is time for the president in the United States… [to] free the Mom and Dads of the DREAMers. And to go further. Be broad and expansive and generous."
Make no mistake: President Obama has instigated this crisis — a two-fer that advances the project of remaking the country while crowding the IRS, the VA, Benghazi, Bergdahl, the Taliban, ISIS, Hamas, the EPA, Obamacare, Ukraine, and other debacles out of the public's finite attention span. The invasion was invited by a systematic campaign to gut the immigration laws.
As Faithless Execution relates, that campaign has included punishing states that attempt to police illegal immigration. Obama's Justice Department unabashedly contended in court that it was immaterial whether state enforcement practices conformed to congressional statutes; what mattered was whether the state was in violation of Obama's immigration policy — i.e., the policy of non-enforcement. If not, state self-defense measures had to be invalidated…
[I]f a renegade United States government is not going to secure the borders of the United States, the states must secure their borders or surrender. As the Supreme Court recognized in 1837, each state has a sovereign right and duty of self-defense — one that is never "more appropriately exercised" than in preventing her citizens from being "exposed to the evil of thousands of foreign emigrants arriving there, and the consequent danger of her citizens being subjected to a heavy charge in the maintenance of those who are poor. It is the duty of the state to protect its citizens from this evil."
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1 Apple Lisa = 43 iPads, or, How Far We've Come
Laurie Fleming
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We old bastards sometimes get teary-eyed when we think about the Lisa, but we're secretly pleased that we never had to rely on them to get any work done (hands up anyone who did?).
But for the price they cost so many, many years ago, you can get 43 iPads.
There's no floppy drive in the iPad, though, which is definitely a mistake.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/apple/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501835&objectid=10637290[ Edited: 12 April 2010 02:47 AM by Laurie Fleming ]
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Another sad thing is that I've never seen things like a Newton or a Lisa in person.
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I stopped byThe Life of the Party party held by the Republican National Coalition for Life and Chairwoman Phyllis Schlafly. Schlafly is a socially conservative activist best-known for her opposition to feminism and abortion.
The event was being held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown St. Paul, which is also where the Texas delegation is staying. Fox News was being shown on TVs throughout the lobby, which I found out is not the norm but rather a courtesy for their Republican guests.
Protesters from Code Pink were outside the hotel greeting those who paid $95 to attend the event.
Gov. Sarah Palin was scheduled to accept the 2008 Life of the Party award at the event before she was chosen as McCain's running mate. She canceled her appearance late last night and while Schlafly did not express unhappiness while addressing the gathering, she expressed it to ABC News.
But the attendees I spoke with didn't seem disappointed — they just seemed really excited about Palin. She's clearly energized the social conservatives and I saw one man with a hand-made "Vote Sarah" signed taped to his back.
A protester from Code Pink managed to make it inside the hall where the party was being held and got on stage during Schlafly's welcome. After grabbing the mic and starting to say how the "truly pro-life" members of Code Pink welcomed them, a few delegates got up on stage and escorted her off as the rest of the crowd spontaneously started singing "God Bless America."
Conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham and Rep. Michele Bachmann also spoke at the event. Gov. Palin's award was accepted on her behalf by Debbie Joslin of the Alaska Republican Party.
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One of the activists told Reuters that Rastan remained sealed while "state media stage their version of events" but that at least 130 people, both insurgents and civilians, have been reported killed in the assault since Tuesday.
"The Khaled bin al-Walid battalion took a decision to withdraw from Rastan to spare the town further killings," he said, adding that they included 12 insurgents from the Ali bin Abi Taleb brigade of defectors in the nearby region of Houla, across the Orontes river.
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The White Sox did manage to make things interesting in the ninth, down 1-0, putting men at the corners with one out. But it all ended as a hard-hit liner by Brian Daubach, one that appeared to be an easy double, was caught by the diving Carlos Pena, who, while on the ground, doubled up Magglio Ordonez at first.
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We just don't know where to start with this entry! We've only been in New Zealand less than a week, and only actually started our tour 3 days ago, but already we have done and seen so much, New Zealand is just simply amazing!!!
Firstly, maybe we should tell you about the tour we're doing. Originally we had booked to go on the Kiwi Experience, which we'd booked back home, not knowing there was an alternative. Well, there is. On Thursday in Auckland we went on a free city tour with a company called Stray, and already hearing a few stories about Kiwi Experience being a bit of an 18-30's bus, we were a bit miffed we hadn't known about this company. They also go to what we consider better places in New Zealand in that they don't really stop off in the big cities, taking you to the real NZ and actually go further off the beaten track
Onto our adventure...
Day 1 of Stray tour:
We drove from Auckland to a place called Raglan, a gorgeous town on the coast which has the world's longest wave break for surfing. On the way there we stopped off for a walk to Bridal Veil Falls, the most spectacular raging waterfall we've ever seen. Luckily, there was a rainbow right below it and we got some amazing photos, it was a real perfect way to be introduced to the nature and beauty of NZ.
Raglan had a beautiful beach, and although we didn't surf, we still enjoyed watching them and..
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After a bit of a hiccup - the bus broke down - we finally set off for Waitomo, a town with an underground network of caves
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Unfortunately the great weather we'd been lucky enough to have in NZ finally broke and so we missed seeing the Coromandel Peninsula, a paradise Beach. What we did this evening, though, made up for everything
At 5pm we arrived in Uncle Boi's house. Uncle Boi is a Maori who can trace his ancestry right back to the very first Maoris who settled NZ, and he actually lives on the site where his particular tribe first landed. Uncle Boi was a really special man - he decided to invite backpackers who were able to be respectful into his home and share the Maori culture with them. As soon as we entered, he made it very clear (and you wouldn't mess with this guy!) that we were to treat his house as ours, and that we were welcome to stay as long as we liked. He then told us loads of stories about the Maoris and their culture and history> For example, the original name for NZ is Aotearoa which means "land of the long white cloud" because when the Maoris first discovered the land, the sky was covered in long, white clouds, funnily enough. The Maoris arrived in 1320, and were allegedly the first people to inhabit what's now NZ. They originally came from a land called Hawakki in the Maori language, which many people believe to be Hawaii. Uncle Boi then cooked us all a traditional Maori "hangi" meal, which is slowly cooked in the thermal ground, and was delicious!
After dinner, the real experience began - about 25 of Uncle Boi's family and tribe arrived for a traditional performance
There are Maori culture and language schools now, the Maori language was banned until 1980, so Uncle Boi's nights are a way for the locals to show the native culture to us tourists. And, it wasn't just them showing us their culture, we actually took part. All the fellas had to learn and perform a Hakka, with shirts off, of course. The girls learnt and performed a Poi dance, which involved twirling a ball around and shaking your hips all in time. It's hard to know which was the more difficult, or laughable to watch. You can all judge for yourselves in the photos. We both had an amazing night, it was such an experience, and it was so touching that the locals so clearly enjoyed performing for us, and good to know they "got good money" for it too. There was one 6 year old Maori boy who was so hyper and loud the whole night long
That night we drove on to Rotorua where we stayed in a hostel because the authorities have banned Uncle Boi from allowing backpackers to stay in house his. No.1 - it doesn't meet the safety regulations for being accommodation and no.2, they wanted a share of his profits!
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Rotorua was a town that had a rather strange smell to it. It's built on ground where there is a lot of underground thermal activity, so the air smells of sulphur, just like stink-bombs adn rotten eggs. Thank God we only stayed one night, how people live there is beyond us. Before we left Rotorua, we visited a Maori village which was surrounded by thermal water-pools and mud-pools. We had a guided tour, and went to another cultural performance - this was by professionals, so although it was great to see, it just wasn't as personal as the night before at Uncle Boi's. The village itself was like something out of Star Trek. There were pools of boiling green water and bubbling mud, like nothing we'd ever seen before.
We then left Rotorua for Taupo, but before reaching Taupo, we did what we would definitely say was the funniest experience of our lives, "Zorbing". The Zorb is a large plastic ball that one, two or three people get into with a quantity of warm water, then you're simply pushed down a hill. So simple, but so much fun. The pair of us were laughing the whole way down. And Jillian did something in the Zorb that all the Mullan women, and Naomi Salmon, will know all about :-)
After we both got dried up, it was back on the road to Taupo. There wasn't much to do in Taupo, but on the way, Jillian and I won the bus quiz with Paul our fellow Paddy from Manorhamilton and Louise from London. Our prize was a $20 tab, wow, in Mulligan's bar. That was drunk, and much more. Big hangovers for both of us the following morning. I faded at about 1, while Jillian stayed out 'til 3.30!
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Fears of a major outbreak of bird flu in China grew today as four more suspected outbreaks in three new regions were reported, while questions were also raised over the safety of Asia's mass chicken cull.
The new suspected cases in China, in addition to three confirmed outbreaks in south-west and central provinces, came after the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that the outbreak there could be far larger than reported.
After Beijing announced the four new suspected outbreaks, Hong Kong said it had suspended the import of all live birds and poultry meat from the whole of mainland China. It had already banned imports from Guangxi, Hunan and Hubei provinces following outbreaks there.
In the meantime, the WHO said today the current wave of bird flu outbreaks sweeping Asia may have appeared as early as April 2003.
WHO spokeswoman Maria Cheng said a similar strain was found in samples that were rechecked by a WHO-affiliated laboratory recently.
"One of our collaborating centres received two weeks ago a sample from a country that we are not naming that had been taken last April,"Cheng said.
"It looks to be a similar strain (of the virus) as H5N1," she added, referring to the deadliest strain of the bird flu.
The outbreaks, which have killed 10 people in Vietnam and Thailand and infected millions of poultry in 10 Asian countries, were first reported in South Korea on December 15 last year.
Of the latest suspected outbreaks in China, two were detected in eastern Anhui province, one in the eastern coastal metropolis of Shanghai and the other in the southern province of Guangdong, the Xinhua news agency said.
The WHO said that given China's size and its vast poultry industry, there was only a "small window of opportunity" to prevent a major outbreak of the disease.
"It's entirely possible that there are outbreaks elsewhere (in China) that have not been reported," Beijing-based WHO spokesman Roy Wadia said. "If there are small, isolated outbreaks, it could be entirely possible it could be unnoticed. This could cause the virus to spread faster," he said, urging Beijing to improve co-operation and prevention measures swiftly.
Only about 200,000 chickens and ducks have been culled in China, but more than 25 million poultry have been slaughtered across the rest of the region as Asia's main weapon against the outbreaks.
A government spokesman from Hong Kong said today: "We have received notification from the mainland authorities on the outbreak situation and decided that all live birds, including chickens, ducks, geese, pet birds and day-old chickens, and all poultry meat would not be allowed to be exported to Hong Kong with immediate effect."
Health experts have warned that while humans have so far only caught the disease through contact with infected birds or their droppings, it could claim millions of lives if the H5N1 strain mutated into a more contagious form. The WHO has said there is an increased risk of mutation if the cull in China is not executed properly.
"If (the killing of birds) is done in such a way that exposes more people, then this ... could be increasing the risk of developing a strain that you would not want to see," its spokesman in Geneva Dick Thompson said yesterday.
"From what we can see ... many of these culling workers are not wearing the right personal protection equipment. We are also unsure how many of these people have been vaccinated against (normal) influenza," he said.
Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam have all reported outbreaks of H5N1 among poultry, while Taiwan and Pakistan have reported weaker strains of the virus.
Indonesia has come in for heavy criticism over its reluctance to carry out a mass cull to combat the virus which has infected millions of birds there. President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday ordered the immediate killing of all poultry infected with bird flu following pressure from the WHO. But Indonesia appeared to backtrack today, with officials saying they would only carry out a selective cull.
WHO Western Pacific spokesman Peter Cordingley said Indonesia should comply with UN Food and Agriculture Organisation recommendations by placing a "sanitary zone or a quarantine area" around infected areas, which would require killing chickens in farms close to those with confirmed infections.
"We have to cut down on the contact level between chickens and humans," Cordingley told AFP. "It's the only way."
In Vietnam, the government said more than half of its 64 provinces and cities had now been hit by the outbreak, as authorities in Hanoi ordered the slaughter of all of the capital's one million chickens.
In Thailand alone 10.7 million chickens have been slaughtered, mostly packed into sacks and buried alive in deep pits in a hasty operation that was criticised today as inhumane and avoidable.
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Before Tuesday's trip to Guatemala City, a 1-1 draw might have seemed like an acceptable outcome for the U.S. national team. The Americans, after all, knew they would be facing a hostile environment and desperate opponent. But as it turned out, the result left much to be desired.
Guatemala substitute Marco Pappa's superb 83rd-minute free kick negated Clint Dempsey's first-half tally as the U.S. settled for the tie, moving to 1-0-1 in the semifinal stage of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying. The U.S. currently sits atop its group, level with Jamaica at four points but ahead on goal differential.
After controlling the match for long stretches in the opening stanza, the U.S. struggled to hold off Guatemala's second-half surge, conceding several opportunities before finally getting burned by Pappa's equalizer.
Stepping over a 25-yard free kick following Fabian Johnson's foul on Carlos Ruiz, the Chicago Fire midfielder curled a left-footed shot over the U.S. wall and past a motionless Tim Howard.
The U.S. went ahead in the 40th minute when Dempsey collected a pass from Johnson, evaded the flailing tackles of two Guatemalan defenders, and slotted a low shot into the back of the net for his 27th international goal and second in as many games.
U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann offered no surprises in his starting 11, using the same lineup that picked up a 3-1 win over Antigua & Barbuda on Friday with the exception of Johnson, who returned from a calf injury.
Coming off a 2-1 loss to Jamaica to open the stage, Guatemala failed to find much cohesion going forward in the first half, often falling into a defend-and-counter strategy and looking to earn set pieces in the attacking third. The Americans, meanwhile, struggled to find the final ball until Dempsey broke the deadlock.
The strike came just moments after Guatemala had a chance at the other end, with Howard turning away an angled blast from Carlos Figueroa.
Klinsmann used his first swap at the start of the second half, bringing center back Geoff Cameron on for Clarence Goodson, who had picked up a yellow card. Guatemala, on the other hand, used all three of its substitutions, adding attackers Pappa, Manuel Leon and Dwight Pezzarossi.
The gamble paid off. Guatemala found increased confidence going forward as the half went on, and the home side should have leveled the score in the 68th minute. Mario Rodriguez forced a stellar save from Howard off a corner kick and the rebound fell straight to Ruiz, but the veteran striker skied his point-blank rebound effort over the bar.
The U.S. will return to World Cup qualifying in September, with a pair of matches against Jamaica: Sept. 7 in Kingston and Sept. 11 in Columbus, Ohio.
i agree with most of what you said, but you are being overly critical about the chances on goal. we put two goals in the back of the net before they put one in. we were screwed by the ref on the second goal. if we go up 2-0, we go home with 3 points and a clean sheet and everyone would be talking about how great of a game it was.
spot on.
absolutely. he just needs to get out of LA and i hope he can go to Everton. i honestly think that'll get him back into the game.
jones has the most assists on the team this year so far. so yo are wrong.
honestly, your comments are insane.
hahaha dude, you truly think this is a better lineup?! to each his own, but wow.
who cares where the assists come from? and I also don't really care about what anyone did in the Scotland match. You think Donovan or Jones has played well aside from that match? No. You honestly think jones is a "creator" because he lucked up on a few assists? His ball skills are dreadful. He's an enforcer. He's the exact opposite of what the midfield needs.
You could easily tell Altidore is rusty…He wasn't continuing runs off the ball that may have been goalscoring chances with passes going no where when attempted as he didn't run into space….Darn you AZ Alkmaar!….I was disappointed with Howard being frozen on the Guatemala goal….He didn't even try…
I have no idea if it is or not…and neither does anyone else, because we've never seen anything close to it. I don't think it's a better starting defense, but I think it's extremely important to start getting more players experience at fullback. I would be ok with just about any midfield combination over the 3 man with bradley and jones wide. My example calls for 1 different defender and 2 different midfielders. It's not exactly drastic.
Also, anyone who bases their opinion EXCLUSIVELY on USMNT performance can't possibly conclude that Edu is a better option than Beckerman as a traditional center mid.
i'm sorry, but to argue Edu should sit and Beckerman take his place is silly. we should be trying Williams in that role. or moving Jones back there and having someone like Corona, Torres, or Adu play one of the more offensive mids.
i just think it's ridiculous to complain about defensive mids and then put out a 4-2-x-x line up. i would also never play Corona in the slot you have him in.
to me, our best lineup (still a 4-3-2-1) would be something like what is below. ( ) = players who i wouldn't mind either:
ST: Gomez (Jozy)
LW: LD (Adu/Shea), RW: Dempsey
LCM: Corona (Torres/Castillo), CDM: Jones (Williams), RCM: Bradley (Chandler)
LB: Johnson, LCB: Boca, RCB: Goodson (Cameron, Gooch), RB: Dolo (Lichaj/Chandler)
GK: Howard
i went ahead and included Chandler because this is a "what i would like to see" list.
i'm sorry, but you are in the wrong on this one. your opinion is your opinion, that's fine. but you are clealry in the minority on this one.
who cares where the assists come from?!?! i do! that's a very important stat dude. Jones has played well in more than just the Scotland game. i'm not even sure how my comment made you think i was even using the Scotland game as an example. we're not talking about LD. i alos never called him a creator, did i? but he HAS been creating, thus, the assessment he is ineffective is WRONG. and then your counter point is he was lucky?!?! that's not an argument for your point. and i agree about his ball dribbling skills, which is why i said the exact same thing and said that continues to be his weakness.
he is an enforcer on his club team, he is there to clean everything up and commit fouls and take a yellow. everyone thought it was just his style, but as we have seen, he can be more than just an enforcer who gets cards. to say he is the opposite of what our midfield needs is truly ridiculous.
I don't really have a problem with that line up too much. But I based my line up on who was actually available to play in the game and the 4-3-3 that JK is clearly leaning toward (and went with).
My point is really.
1) Groom new backs.
2.) Anything but jones,edu,bradley as the entire midfield. Which is what we have been seeing other than one appearance by torres as a mid
1. Agreed. But if you were discussing players on the roster, then it's a moot point since we didn't really have anyone to groom. Castillo I guess, but he got injured.
2. Ok, but again, with our roster, that WAS the best midfield given our injuries. I'm sorry, but the idea that Beckerman would be better than Edu doesn't make sense to me. And Corona, who I like, was not ready to start. But I agree he should have come in for Edu with Jones sliding back.
Cameron is on the bench ready to go. So is Onyewu. If Onyewu isn't fit (which I don't think he is yet) why does he get a pass? He shouldn't be there if he isn't ready. Hopefully he will be soon.
In a 433 where the outside backs are attacking, you need a center mid to push up and attack while the outside mids drop back and in to cover…or a center mid to stay back while everyone pushes up and in. I think with the current roster we could do either, but I like the first option…and yes I think Beckerman would be better at that than Edu. I also think that Bradley is showing that he may be a better option at CAM than at CDM RCM LCM or CM.
Very concerned about Dolo keeping up in an attacking outside back role…especially in 2 more years.
I have no idea how Torres would be at CM LCM RCM because he never got to play in his natural position.
I have no idea who is the best CDM because we had three stepping on each other in every match. Consequently no one really ever played that position in a normal sense.
I really don't think we have learned much because so many players have been asked to play outside their normal positions.
Gomez has great instincts and aside from an in form Donovan or Dempsey, seems to clearly provide the biggest threat
Fabian Johnson looks legit.
"or a center mid to stay back while everyone pushes up and in" – this is exactly the type of 4-3-3 we play, except i don't understand why "everyone" need to push inward. the full backs and the wingers are the ones providing the width and staying wide. while jones, bradley and gomez are staying central. of course, like JK wants, players are changing positions as they play to go with the flow of the game.
as for beckerman, agree to disagree, i'm not going to have this argument again.
for bradley, he is good going forward, but he has played just fine in a RCM/LCM spot, creating chances going forward and getting back to help on D. in a 4-3-2-1, either the LCM or RCM will essentially be acting as a CAM. i feel like you are getting way too caught up in position labels and not realizing that while he is technically playing as a RCM, he is clearly alternating with Jones as what you refer to as a CAM.
Dolo, agreed man. i think he has one more season in germany before coming back home. these games showed me that while he is still solid, and should be starting in a group like this, he needs to have a replacement ready to go. i hope that is lichaj (or chandler…).
Torres, no, he never got to play as a CM. and he was played out of position basically the entire time. him and Williams.
best CDM, tough to say. but i would go with Williams or Jones. not because Bradley isn't as good, but because i want him in that RCM/LCM spot. but i disagree they were stepping on each others toes. well, they kind of were in the Brazil game during the first half, and certainly against Canada. but we have seen what they can do when they are playing correctly. last night it was obvious that Edu was the CDM and that Jones or Bradley would drop back to help (if needed) with the other staying up a little to be an outlet.
agree 100% with your positives.
Couldn't agree more with you on Boca. All he knows is to play the ball over the top from the back. It's like watching paint dry.


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Can LeBron James Pull it Off? Will Frey
Yes. If Love is on his game from this point forward, despite the Banana Republic ads
Can Exaggerator Beat NYquist in the Belmont? WIll Frey
WIll NYquist be able to beat Exaggerator again if it is a dry track at the Belmont. Hope the track is dry for the horses sake. One horse with a broken leg on Preakness day and a tangle on Derby day makes me hope the rain holds off.
Geothermal Energy – A Way of The Future
It is also critical for the government and other regulatory offices to work with the private sector in the development and introduction of more efficient technology, so that a path can be constructed that slows down and eventually stops the growth in greenhouse gas emissions, while providing a reliable, affordable supply of energy.
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"Geothermal resources have been known since the dawn of mankind, when
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"Electricity is actually generated from geothermal energy by harnessing steam power. Large volumes of thermal water are brought to the surface through production wells, which are drilled into the upwelling plume of the natural hydrothermal convection system. The water is under high pressure since it is coming up from depths of 1 to 4 km. A well 25 cm. in diameter at the bottom can produce 200,000 to 800,000kg/hr of geothermal water and steam. Between five and ten of these production wells, depending on temperature, will generate enough steam for a power plant producing 55MW of electricity, which is typical single-plant size."
A Movie Everyone Should See – Will Frey
Kentucky Senator Aide Status Update – Will Frey
After showing that he liked how the confederacy worked no aid has been given by any of his fellow senators. Doing this was probably the biggest mistake in his life this became a national new story since racial discrimination was a big problem in the 1800's and still today in some parts of the world is including the United States. This was a big setback for him and i bet he would do anything to turn back time and reverse everything. Sometimes I think that people need to think what they are going to say instead of speaking their mind and that what I think Hunter should have done. He should have thought that through, because now his reputation i tarnished and when people think of him they will think of what he said about how he was associated with the confederates. Everyone was bemused when he said that and the reporters swarmed all over the story as soon as they heard what he said. They asked him different questions until he got angry off them. He told them to stop with their questions and ask questions of the people that hate him. One little mistake of him could have tarnished his whole buildings reputation and now people will look at them like they were a part of his confederate loving person. This whole thing shows that you should watch what you say before you say it and never say anything risky until you have thought of how it could affect other people.
Breaking Bad – Getting You Up to Speed – Will Frey
The man that Gus replaced Jessie with was a weird person he was polite and perfect and always helpful with everything. Walter was not used to this he was used to cooking with an arrogant person like Jessie, he liked it when someone was back talking to him. He liked this, because no one cooks meth with some kind of goodie two shoes kind of person, Walter wanted to live life on the edge instead of some kind of cooking with some kind of weird coo.
He made a plan to get rid of him after the guy put the right temperature Walter changed it and used that to get him fired. He got Jessie back and everything this was good. Jessie met a new girl at his rehabilitation meetings a nice local girl that also had a problem with meth. They start to hang out and get close she tells him about her brother Thomas who was taken by the thugs into the world of dealing he was a kid that rides his bike around and when someone wants to buy he signals the guys and they sell to him but those thugs killed him and Jessie wanted revenge so he went to that corner and saw them he took a gun and was going to kill them when suddenly Walter comes out and drives them over in his car they get into his car and drive of but get stopped by someone and get taken to Gus's lab.
They get questioned there and Jessie is taken by one of Gus's henchmen and Walter gets put in the lab with the old guy that got fired.
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People Need To Hear "Control" by Big Sean and Kendrick Lamar! – Will Frey
People do NOT understand the meaning of Kendrick Lamar's verse in the new song with Big Sean and Jay Electronica. In the song, he says, "I'm usually homeboys with the same n****s I'm rhymin' with, but this is hip-hop and them n****s should know what time it is, and that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale, Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake, Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller, I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you n****s, tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you n****s, they don't wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you n****s".
Please point out to me, where in this song does he dis anyone? He isn't making fun of anyone or anything. What he's doing is calling out his competition. Kendrick Lamar has made a name for himself with his previous albums, especially Good Kid m.a.a.d. City. In this song, he is only establishing the goal of wanting to be at the top. He also mentions his idols as artists, which include Eminem, Nas, Jigga, and Andre 3000. He has another line in the song where he puts himself at the top with him, and he that in reality is where he wants to be. People need to stop misinterpreting the meaning of the song. I have a lot of respect for Lamar after this song. I've never heard him go harder, and he is telling everybody what he plans to achieve in his career.
Will Frey
Wills Movie Review – RED 2
With as much excitement and punch that is packed into the sequel of 2010's RED, I wouldn't be surprised to be seeing a sequel in the coming years. That's right folks, as much as you'd want to avoid, it seems to be the route that Hollywood is taking with almost every successful movie these days – duplicating the hell out of it.
RED 2 came out on July 19th, and already it seems to be a stagnant summer flick of underwhelming numbers. Just barely breaking even, will RED see a third installment anytime in the future? Probably not, and let's hope that with that time away from "R3D" (Get it?) the actors can go and make some introspective films that really latch onto their audience. Not to say that the RED series is innately bad, but once you give them a decent sit-through, you'll feel like you've been sent back in time.
With loads of action and two-way dialogue, RED 2 is the perfect movie for the family of 5 with nothing really else to watch. There's a bit of something for everyone – action, romance, betrayal, dignity – everything that makes a spy thriller worthy of a good sit-through. As formulated as it may be, it's no secret that this is the kind of stuff that people want, so Hollywood will simply keep making it. Not everyone wants the introspective tale that one has to sit and think about after viewing it – sometimes they just want an "easy-read".
As far as summer movies go, RED 2 has easily been one of the better bad movies I've seen this summer. There have been some flat-on-their-face flops throughout the past couple of months, so maybe RED 2s only success was its timing. If it's any consolation, I'd probably pick it up if I were to one day see it in the five dollar bins.
Will Frey
Will Frey Talks About The Purge
The purge, which opened nationwide on June 7th, is a thriller unlike any other. Set in the somewhat near future, it tells a story of a world that needs a release, and that is exactly what the "purge" is. Every year , thanks to a new amendment, the people of the United States have 12 hours to do whatever they want without consequence. There are no emergency services available, so you're really on your own. Ethan Hawke (Getaway, Before Sunset) plays a rich contractor who makes a living on installing security systems that protect against this very night. The only problem is that, this year during the purge, things get a little complicated for him and his family.
He has a wife, a son and a daughter. There is a siren an hour before the purge officially starts, warning people to get to safe hiding if so they choose. Ethan's daughter sneaks in her boyfriend as the lockdown is taking place, which Ethan and his wife do not approve of. They have no choice but to keep him since they can't open up during the 12-hour anything-goes period.
As the purge begins, they watch from protected home as people are killed and tortured outside of their house via security cameras, gasping at what some people are doing during this crazy time. Just when they think it can't get any worse, a poor man who's been badly hurt is begging to them that he be let in, and the family has to sit and come up with a decision so that they can protect the family first.
I won't go into further details, but if you like watching a movie that's a little different; this one might just be for you. A terrifying concept nonetheless, it's scary to think about something like that actually happening. Luckily we live in the real world.
Will Frey


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The opener on this bright debut floats along on the bleating of a couple of wonky wooden recorders and some chirping Icelandic vocals — it's high pitched and somersaulting (like a back-masked Joanna Newsom track), part bedroom pop and part forest folk, an echo of Nordic cousins like Islaja and Lau Nau. These four 16-year-old girls from the Icelandic town of Múmíndalurinn have been playing together hardly longer than a year, but they could go anywhere. And despite being scooped up by MORR, they're reported to have insisted on recording their debut on equipment they found themselves and techniques they scraped together on the fly. The direction they take here veers toward the blankets-and-chairs fort of daydreamy indie pop that Kimya Dawson has been building for years. Lyrics flip over to English and pick up that starry-eyed Björk quality you'd love not to have to expect from her neighbors (but never mind when it happens). The ladies drape toy pianos and sets of bells over nursery-rhyme guitars that are like cut-out Michel Gondry props. And the result plays like the most tasteful middle-school-crush mixtape of the past 10 years. Which isn't bad when you consider that they've had scant more time than that to prepare for it.
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This week, I found myself at a bit of a sticking point in my work on my new book,"The Grace of Yes." In one of the chapters, I am looking at the concept of saying, "Yes" to love in our lives. I want to include all kinds of love, including the choice a single, celibate person makes to express love in his or her life.
But I'm at a bit of a loss. Just as when I wrote about step-parenting in The Handbook for Catholic Moms, I need a consult. I was a single person more than a quarter of a century ago and much has changed in our world since then. And like many single people I know, I was single by circumstance, not by choice.
I believe at that time my heart was set on finding a vocation to the married life. Blessedly, I married my soulmate at a young age and our love has blossomed.
But I often ask myself, "What if?" Had I not fallen in love with Greg, how would my life have been different? Would I have chosen a religious vocation? Would I have worked somewhere as a missionary? Would I have been happy with a life dedicated to serving others and living on my own? I don't know…
But back to our single friends. I have many of them, and when I look at their lifestyles from the outside, it seems to me that they are people who are living lives filled to the brim with love. Let's exempt for a moment folks who have chosen a religious vocation to the priesthood or religious life—they will be covered in another part of this chapter. Let's talk simply about unmarried folks.
How do those of you who are single say, "Yes!" to love?
It would be my contention that singles affirm their love for themselves and for God through their choice to live a faithful single life. Additionally, many of the single folks I know are in a better position to serve those in their communities since they are free of familial encumbrances—although this may not be universally true as many are single parents, care for family members, or have responsibilities with elderly loved ones. The singles I know have solid friendships and a passion for making the world around them a better place.
Am I off base here? Edify me about your yes—the challenges you face and the joys "yes to love" brings to your life as a single.
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