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By Mike Collett-White
LONDON (Reuters) - Christie's will offer 50 items of James Bond memorabilia over the coming week in a charity sale that culminates in a live auction next Friday, the 50th anniversary of the release of the first 007 movie "Dr. No".
The auction, which will raise funds for a range of charities including UNICEF, is one of a series of events being held around the world to mark the anniversary of one of the world's longest-running and most successful film franchises.
Fifty lots will be up for sale, many of them coming from EON Productions, the company behind the movie series.
Of the total, 40 will be sold online between September 28 and October 8 and 10 of the star items have been reserved for the live auction on October 5, "Global James Bond Day", at Christie's offices in South Kensington in London.
All lots will go on public display there from Saturday until October 4. Admittance is free.
"I think what we wanted to do was to celebrate the 50th anniversary in a meaningful way and let people have the opportunity to buy some of the things in our archive that we could raise money for charity from," said Michael G. Wilson, who along with Barbara Broccoli is guardian of the Bond films.
"There's a lot of things ... from 1,000 pounds ($1,600) on up, really," he told Reuters. "There's plenty of things for a whole range of collectors."
Among the highlights for him was a one-third scale model of an Aston Martin DB5 used in the filming of "Skyfall", the next Bond adventure which hits the screens in October. Continued...


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Play Mechanix and Betson Enterprises are bringing big-screen action to coin-op with the release of their latest arcade shooter, inspired by one of Hollywood's most successful sci-fi film franchises. Terminator Salvation Arcade captures the thrills and excitement of the 2009 mega-hit movie.
Described by the Play Mechanix as "the ultimate showcase piece," the videogame, licensed from Halcyon Games LLC, is adorned with glowing neon rifle holders and a life-size replica T-600 model Terminator marquee topper with glowing red eyes. The interactive shooting experience takes place on a 42" HD display.
Players are thrust into the future and on the firing line as "terminators" of all kinds attempt to squash their resistance. Heavy-duty recoiling rifles have a new clip-action reload feature, which adds a depth of realism that Play Mechanix claims is unparalleled in any arcade shooter.
Players can add to their arsenals of weapons by securing numerous powerups, including grenades, shotguns, rocket launchers and devastating miniguns. Full-time, two-player play coupled with more than one hour of cinematic high-definition footage are expected to drive interest and earnings longevity.
"The sheer presentation value of Terminator Salvation Arcade will help assist operators to secure prime locations and premium real estate within those locations," Play Mechanix said. "The traffic volume created with this exciting new shooter will promote increased earnings and extend players' stays at the game through compelling and addictive gameplay. With the continued support of the Terminator franchise, this arcade shooter will be a high earner for years to come."
Play Mechanix was founded by George Petro in 1995 and has since created more than 30 games for the arcade, street and casino markets. For coin-op, these include best-selling hunting videos Big Buck Hunter and the new Big Buck Safari, and Deal or No Deal. Play Mechanix recently merged with Raw Thrills, a development studio founded by former Midway Games designer Eugene Jarvis in 2001. Betson Enterprises, the nation's largest equipment distributor, is the marketing and manufacturing arm for the game developers' products.
Petro was a programmer on Terminator 2: Judgment Day, an arcade game released in 1991 by WMS Industries, the owner of the Williams Electronics and Midway Games. That game was loosely based on the film of the same name. The home console versions were called T2: The Arcade Game to avoid conflict with the platform games. The 1991 game's story falls in line with the movie: to save the leader of the human resistance, John Connor, and his mother, Sarah, from the T-1000, a mimetic poly-alloy terminator, bent on killing them both.

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Here we go! Next rev of the specs are officially under development!
March 3rd, 2012 | Published in Google OpenSocial
On Tuesday, February 28, the OpenSocial community came together to officially kick off the next round of development on the specification. It was a long, but very productive day. You can read the minutes of the meeting on the wiki.
I would like to thank all of those who travelled in from out of town to attend the meeting in person, as well as those that joined via video conference. Especially the folks from Europe that stayed late into their evening. I would be remiss if I also did not thank Rajat Paharia from Bunchball for giving a great talk about gamification and how an open, community driven standard could be used as an accelerator for the adoption of game mechanics in enterprise.
There are three other individuals that deserve a big round of "Thanks". James Snell (IBM) and Matt Franklin (Mitre) graciously volunteered their time and stepped up to the plate as spec editors. I will tell you from past experience this is no easy task. There are a tremendous number of areas in the spec that need to be cleaned up, where proper diction and examples will be paramount to ensuring clarity and consumeability. This is on top of the hundreds of other little details that will come up requiring their attention and consuming their time. And finally, Matt "the Hun" Marum (IBM) has agreed to continue his work as Release Manager. We affectionately gave him this nickname because he's the guy who will kick us into shape and make sure we make our dates.
There's a lot to do between now and May, and that's just for 2.5! We'll be starting the 3.0 work right after that. Given the creativity, passion, and dedication that I saw over the last few weeks that culminated in the kickoff, I've got no doubt we are in for another fantastic release of the spec.
--Mark Weitzel
President, OpenSocial Foundation


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Nikon D5200 DSLR Camera with 18-55mm VR II Lens (Black)!! BRAND NEW!!$479.99 View Item
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Thank you for the excellent review. While the high ISO/low light performance of the D5200 is very impressive indeed (I write this as an envious owner of a Canon T4i / 650D, which is notably inferior in this respect), there are some very strange patterns in the dark areas of the night-shot. See, above all, the weird gradations to the left of the light beam -- and, above all, at the upper left side of the photo.
Pretty low score for what is currently the best performing APS-C DSLR both for stills and video. Not sure why it's low, but I think I trust some of the other review sites in this case.
But thanks.
I am willing to use a D5200 for shooting car races because its AF seems pretty good. You have tested it with the basic 18-55mm lens... it looks like it does well with a more pro lens attached (see this Nikon 70-200mm F2.8 VR II review : http://www.photographydaily.... If I use this combination, will it really improve the autofocus performance ? What if I buy the 70200mm F4 ?
Hi everyone, I just picked up this camera from Costco on Tuesday. They had it in a bundle for $1050.00 until April 27th. It included the body(obviously), both 18-55 and 55-300mm lens, the wifi adapter, Nikon bag, and 16 mg memory card. This is our first DSLR and everyone we talk to tells us how great of a deal it is so we just wanted to share it with everyone.
Hi everyone!
Yes I'm new to dslr. After a little research & budget I finally settled my hands on Nikon D5200.
I learned the initial set up & started clicking ...
In this process I found two irritants as of now
1. When I put Auto ISO sensitive control(in the menu) to ON , the command dial don't change values when in P Mode! Is it a bug?
2. In focus mode if I set to AF-C then built in AF assist illuminator does not work? Is it a bug?
Pls help
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Adam Spencer - Broadcaster and Mathematician
Are the measurements we use today arbitrary or was there a specific reason? asks Gerry, QLD
Back in the late 1790s and before the introduction of fancy technology, measurements had to be defined on the basis of what people had at the time. A metre was defined at 1 ten millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole.
A gram was a cm, by a cm, by a cm of frozen ice. Today, CSIRO are trying to build the worlds most perfectly spherical object that would weigh exactly a kilo.
A second is officially defined as slightly more than 9,132,000,000 little atomic oscillations of an element called cesium.
How can I win lotto? asks Wendy, NT
The best way to win lotto is to successfully predict the numbers that come out of the machine and that is really hard. What you can do is pick numbers that other people are unlikely to pick so if you win, you dont share the jackpot with dozens of other people. Try to pick a string of numbers or numbers greater than 31 because people pick birthdays and anniversaries etc.
Dont get too smart by ticketing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 because it is a very common selection in any big lotto draw and if it comes out, you wouldn't win much.
Is the birthday paradox really true? asks Maddie, WA
The birthday paradox is a beautiful piece of counterintuitive mathematics; the answer is not what you might expect. If two people are hanging out, it is unlikely that they would have a shared birthday but if a group of 250 people are together, the probability of a shared birthday is much higher. The question is how big should a group be before it becomes more likely to have a shared birthday than not. The answer is that a group of 23 people is ever so slightly more likely to have a common birthday than not.


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Lying on Your Resume
A recent episode of USA's "Suits" explored what happens when someone lies on a resume and is caught years later.
The individual in question claimed to have graduated from college and attained his CPA (Certified Public Accountant) designation. The truth was, he hadn't graduated and he wasn't a CPA. That didn't mean his work was lacking. In fact, it was stellar.
Didn't matter. By lying about such critical data, he exposed the firms whose accounts he audited to possible lawsuits.
That episode clearly showed what happens when you play with the truth on your resume. The individual lost his job and it didn't look like he'd been working anywhere else as an accountant anytime soon.
Is it worth it to fudge even a little on your resume?
No, it's not. Even if you're not caught immediately, the lies told will always hang over you like a cloud. Worse, they could expose you to legal action if your position involves critical or sensitive information.
What Are the Chances You'll Get Away with a Lie?
Today, most employers do background checks to determine if a degree was earned or a certification attained. Once they catch you in a lie, you can forget about ever working for them. If it's a small, tight-knit industry, you won't be welcome at any of the other businesses either.
A resume isn't a lie-detector test. You don't have to put every bad incident from your past on it to prove veracity. However, you shouldn't embellish or rely on falsehoods to get the interview or the job.
If you do, someday you may regret it.


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Petsmart Latest Pet Food Retailer To Stop Selling Treats Made In China
NEW YORK (AP) _ PetSmart is the latest major pet food retailer to say it will stop selling dog and cat treats made in China because of continuing fears of their safety.
A spokeswoman at PetSmart says it plans to have the treats off all its store shelves by March 2015.
Investigators at the Food and Drug Administration haven't been able to prove that treats made in China are making pets sick. But since 2007, it has received more than 4,800 complaints of pet illnesses and more than 1,000 reports of dog deaths after eating Chinese-made chicken, duck or sweet potato jerky treats.
Rival Petco announced Tuesday that it would remove all its China-made treats at its 1,300 stores by the end of this year.
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temporary basement insulation - over window or around?
I am finishing my basement, starting with insulating. I plan to put in an electric sauna but right now there's a window where the sauna will eventually go. I can't take the window out and brick up the opening until next spring, should I plastic over it on the interior and build stud walls overtop, or build around it and add a section in the spring? the walls will not be finished (drywalled) until the spring also.
And what do you plan on doing, when the basement starts growing mushrooms, and mold & mildew takes over on the floor.
You absolutely need to have a complete and finite vapor barrier around the sauna if you are ever going to use moisture/steam in it.
That huge amount of moisture and aggressive pressures will create the mold issues that greg is referencing if you are not careful.
As I stated in the original, I'm not building the sauna right now, it's a project for next year, all I was asking was, is it better to build a complete stud wall now, or frame the window that I will be taking out in the spring and restud that portion when it's removed. But thanks for the sarcasm, very helpful.
It was not being sarcastic. Sarcastic is, do what you want, but have fun with all of the mold & mildew that will happen down there.
A home no matter what you do with it, will not be happy with a sauna being placed into it. You would need large cfm exhaust fans in the space to pull the humidity and hot air that leaches from the sauna box, into the rest of the home.
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JustStartin' wrote:Best: Bigfoot floaters still look as good as when i bought them hunted about 20 times with them,
Worst: Mossberg 935, mojo flyway feeder, PUBLIC HUNTING, and not shooting the right shells.
So the new avian x decoys are that good? i was destroying them at bass pro and the paint didnt come off.
Same here. When I got mine I took all of them and rubbed at them with my finger nail and no paint would come off. They have now been on about a dozen hunts and still look brand new. Very durable and the oversize bodies work great.


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I was in Morgantown on Saturday, February 27, for the WVU-Cincinnati men's basketball game. I'm indebted to the smart people who scheduled the women's game with Marquette for that Saturday evening. The timing was perfect -- the men's game tipped at 2 p.m. and finished around 4, allowing time for dinner and a beer before coming back to the Coliseum for the tip of the women's basketball game at 7. With coupons we received as we were exiting the men's game, admission for the women's game was the grand price of one dollar.
I enjoyed the WVU women's game just as much as I enjoyed the men's game.
I never thought I'd say that.
It was the first WVU women's basketball game I've ever attended. It won't be the last.
I admit that I was more relaxed during the women's game, but I enjoyed it just as much. The WVU women play a great game. The event's presentation -- the pep band, the videos, the good available seating, the entire court experience -- was outstanding. The Coliseum was a fun place to be that Saturday evening. I didn't know I liked women's college basketball, but I do, or at least I like WVU women's basketball.
Sarah Miles is an absolutely sensational point guard. Liz Repella and Korinne Campbell are excellent players. So are fellow starters Medina Ali and Asya Bussie, and there are fine players who come off the bench as well. Post-season honors included Repella being named an Academic All-American and selected for the all-Big East first team, Miles on the all-Big East second team and named conference defensive player of the year, Campbell an all-Big East honorable mention, and Bussie all-conference freshman team. But this team is more than a few good players. Mike Carey's roster appears to have a lot of skilled players. And their game that Saturday night was a blast to watch.
The crowd that night was 4,485 fans, the sixth largest crowd to see a women's basketball game in the history of the WVU Coliseum. That's a nice crowd, but why aren't the crowds larger for WVU women's basketball? Why don't more students attend the women's games? The only reason I can think of is that people don't know what they're missing. It may just take time. Maybe twenty years from now, or ten, or next year, the women's games will routinely draw twice that many or even play to a sold-out Coliseum just as the men's team does.
As I write this, the WVU women's record is 28-4, and they finished the regular season 13-3 in the Big East conference. They went 17-0 at home this season. Their 28 wins set a season record. They're ranked seventh in the nation in one poll, ninth in the other. They're the number two seed in the Big East tournament, and after beating DePaul and Rutgers they are set to face UConn tonight in the championship game. They deserve to play before bigger home crowds.
My admittedly limited perception is that women's college basketball has progressed far beyond what it was a few decades ago, and it's easier to appreciate the difference in person than by watching on TV. To my eye, there's a huge contrast. It's the difference between a house cat and a jaguar. The difference between a Gramophone and an iPod. The difference between black and white TV and high-def. The athleticism, speed, strength, and ability of today's college women basketball players seem to me to far surpass that of women college athletes twenty or thirty years ago. The effects of that kind of change on our nation's women, and on our society generally, is beyond estimation and, if we hadn't seen the change with our own eyes, nearly beyond imagination.
I know that to some sports fans, particularly some men, Title IX is not a good thing. Some men blame Title IX for the loss of men's teams. It is undeniable that in some cases men's sports have been cut at the same time when women's sports have been added. But placing the blame on those women's sports or on Title IX seems to me to be blame misplaced. The problem is that overall funding has been insufficient to keep those men's sports in addition to adding a comparable number of women's sports. It's not really a zero-sum game, although it might appear to be. If athletic department funding could be increased sufficiently, I'm reasonably certain that administrators would love to keep all of their men's sports while adding a comparable number of opportunities for women college athletes.
Limiting scholarship opportunities for women participating in non-revenue-producing sports just to continue to fund a far greater number of scholarships for men in non-revenue-producing sports would be simply unfair. That's one of the things that Title IX fixed. It gave women a chance to gain educational opportunities through athletics, just like men. And like it or not, it required an act of Congress to achieve that basic introduction of fairness.
Yes, I'd like to see men's track and golf teams return to WVU. I'd also like to see women's softball and golf added. I'd like to see men's lacrosse and women's field hockey added. I'd like to see men's ice hockey elevated. Unfortunately, I can't afford to pay for any of that. Evidently, neither can the WVU athletic department under its current budget.
I graduated from high school in 1968 (I know, I know, the dark ages), and from WVU in December 1972. There were no women's sports in my high school then. There were no women's sports at WVU then. In March 1970, I wrote an article for the Daily Athenaeum about the beginnings of the WVU women's gymnastics team. Actually they couldn't call themselves a "team," since the University didn't sponsor them. They preferred to call themselves a gymnastics "group."
Linda McGrath, who taught women's physical education at WVU and was married to the WVU soccer coach then, John McGrath, volunteered to coach them. At that time WVU had a men's gymnastics team, and its coach, Bill Bonsall, assisted in instructing the women as well. About 26 women students gathered in the Field House on Mondays after class for practice. Six traveled to Pitt for their first intercollegiate meet on February 7, 1970. They lost 50-42.9, but had two first-place finishes in the four events. As I recall, they assembled or decorated their own uniforms. That spring, interest was also forming around the concept of a women's track team.
Times have changed, and they've changed for the better.
Dr. Barbara Howe, Director of the Center for Women's Studies at WVU from 1998 to 2008, wrote a brief history of WVU which is available on-line at http://www.as.wvu.edu/cwc/WVU-history-bhowe.html. In it, she writes of the early 1970s:
"WVU had to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments Act, which Congress passed in 1972. This forbade discrimination against students and employees in federally assisted educational programs. As a result, the marching band first admitted women in the fall of 1972. In 1973, WVU abolished curfews and dress codes for women students and approved a proposal for women's intercollegiate athletic teams. Across the country, the growth of women's intercollegiate athletics has been one of the most visible results of Title IX, but the law also opened opportunities for more women to study law, medicine, and engineering."
Can you imagine having a dress code or curfews for WVU women students today? How ridiculous it seems.
As far as I've been able to determine, basketball and tennis became the first University-sponsored women's sports at WVU in 1973-74. The first official season for the women's gymnastics team was in 1974. Track was added in 1978.
Now WVU women compete in ten intercollegiate sports (or eleven, if you count indoor and outdoor track separately). According to the WVU Equity Report dated October 14, 2009, in the 2008-09 school year 298 men and 202 women participated in intercollegiate sports for WVU. About $3.65 million in student aid went to male athletes, and about $2.63 million in student aid went to female athletes, which is in approximate proportion with the respective number of participants. And of course that report doesn't include the number of women playing intramural sports or the number of individual women students who use the great athletic and recreational facilities at WVU.
Granted, that's not a fully equal number, in participants or in funding. Still, multiply those participation numbers by the number of colleges in the NCAA. Imagine the effect on young women across the nation. Imagine what it means for their physical and emotional development. Imagine what they learn about sportsmanship and teamwork and how they apply those skills after college -- just as men do. Comprehend how it creates greater opportunities for women to get an education, to learn and grow and gain confidence. Imagine how many college women and high school girls, because of sports, because of Title IX, now say, "I can do this."
Every American, unless one is just a complete sexist troglodyte, should be proud of that change. It all makes our country a stronger, better place.
The progress has benefited all of us.
One of the things I enjoyed at the WVU-Marquette women's game was watching WVU's Mountaineer, Rebecca Durst. And this has nothing to do with her gender -- this would have happened just as much if the Mountaineer was a man. Time after time, little boys and girls approached Rebecca before and even during the game, and she gave them just what they wanted -- a smile, a cheerful hello, a pose for a photo, a hug or a high five for every one of them. I couldn't help but wonder, will one of those little girls grow up to be like Liz Repella or Sarah Miles and play for WVU? Will any of the boys grow up to be a Mountaineer quarterback? (Or, for that matter, and this will make some readers gasp and check their hearts -- will any of the girls?) They're all growing up in a different time and place than I did, back in those dark ages forty or fifty years ago. Now they have community youth sports to play -- the boys and the girls.
If that's a digression, allow me one more. I love that the WVU women's teams are called the Mountaineers, as they should be, and not the "Lady Mountaineers." It's a point of pride to me as a WVU grad. I live in central Pennsylvania, and the Penn State women's teams are called the Lady Lions. As a consequence (at least I think it's a consequence), most of the high school girls' athletic teams in our area have "Lady" in their nickname -- the "Lady Polar Bears" or "Lady Eagles" or whatever. Central Pennsylvania is a conservative area, and the locals don't seem to have any problem with that. In my opinion, however, it's terribly demeaning. It says the girls' teams are different, separate, not quite as good, not as worthy. I'm so glad that when women's sports began at WVU, some wise individuals made the decision that, just like the men's teams, the women's teams also would be called "the Mountaineers."
The Mountaineers who took the court on that Saturday night against Marquette won me over to WVU women's basketball. I'm sorry I won't have a chance to see them play at the Coliseum again this season. Next year, though, I will. And the entire roster will be back. Look out, Big East. Look out, UConn!
The changes brought by Title IX have been magical, in college sports and in America more broadly.
There's magic in the WVU women's basketball team, too. They turned me into a fan.


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Wednesday, December 17, 1997
What if the Fool Went
By WadaPhooliam (email@example.com)
It's probably premature, but has anyone thought of the possibilities of a Foolish Financial Empire? Of course, the Foolish Financial Empire would be divided into Foolish Financial Fiefdoms. Here's the scenario:
In a wildly successfully IPO (ticker symbol: FOOL, of course), the Fool raises millions in lovely cash, mostly from the rest of us Fools. The question is, what kind of other businesses could benefit from the Foolish touch?
Here are some ideas.
Airline -- Corporate name JestAir. Corporate motto "We keep you laughing from takeoff to touchdown so you won't notice that our food really sucks." Flight crews would wear motley instead of uniforms. Get it? Motley crews on each flight?
Cruise Line -- Corporate name Motley Cruises. First ship would be built by the world-renowned Lee Kee Shipyards. Ship would be christened -- what else? -- TMF Katherine Ann Porter. (For those who don't catch the reference, she wrote Ship of Fools.)
Hotels -- A coast-to-coast chain of Fools Rush Inns. Each guest would receive a Fool's (night) cap.
Fitness -- A chain of salons combining exercise equipment with psychiatric clinics, called Pump and Dump? Here the P/E ratio would refer to the number of hours you spend in psychotherapy versus the number of hours you spend exercising. Of course, if you spend all your time dumping without ever pumping, your P/E ratio would be infinite.
Manufacturing -- What about a line of motorized zippers (zipper drives) manufactured by a company called FlyOmega?
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Saturday, May 17, 2014 - 9:30am to 4:00pm
Special event for kids!
Featuring Annie Barrows, Andrea Alban, Gennifer Choldenko, Christopher Cerf & Paige Peterson
In conjunction with Children's Book Week, Book Passage is proud to take part in the inaugural Indies First Storytime Day, founded by award-winning author Kate DiCamillo along with the American Booksellers Association and the Children's Book Council. Indies First Storytime Day will be celebrated at independent bookstores across the country, with authors and illustrators invited to read from a children's book of their choice.
At Book Passage we have a day of activities scheduled with some of our favorite children's authors stopping by to participate in the event.
At 9:30 am, we welcome Andrea Alban, author of The Happiness Tree and the YA novel Anya's War, for our opening storytelling activity.
Then, at 10:00 am, Christopher Cerf & Paige Peterson will be stopping by to present the new mini-edition of Blackie: The Horse Who Stood Still, a gorgeous picture book about a local equine hero.
The day continues at 11:00 am with Ivy & Bean author Annie Barrows, who will participate in the festivities with additional storytelling.
At 12:00 pm, there will be a Timmy Failure Total Failure Party! We welcome lovers of Stephan Pastis' Timmy Failure series to take their photo with Total the Polar Bear, make their own Timmy Failure scarf, and participate in a number of fun activities and puzzles.
Finally, at 3:00 pm, we welcome Gennifer Choldenko, author of the bestselling Al Capone Does My Shirts, who will conclude the day with reading stories.
We hope to see you all there!


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This was not a particularly safe option because the Battle for the Atlantic was at its height. Between September 1939 and June 1940, 2.3m tonnes of shipping were sunk by U-boats. Ours, The Duchess Of Atholl, was the last ship with evacuees to cross the Atlantic safely. It was only after the war that I learned 11 ships in our convoy of 28 had been sunk.
The first days on board we were all seasick, and then I remember depth charges being dropped, more with excitement than fear. As we reached the American side, we met icebergs, viewing with awe their size and beautiful colours. After that came fog. I have a recurring dream of getting lost in long corridors with many doors, which I feel stems from life below deck, but at the time, while leaving my parents and younger brother was distressing, in other ways it seemed a big adventure.
After arriving in Montreal, we were transferred to Philadelphia to meet the strangers who had volunteered to look after us. Uncle Dick and Aunt Nancy, as we soon learned to call them, welcomed us and I immediately felt at ease with them. Like my family, they were Quakers. And, like ours, there were three children: a son my age, eight, and two daughters older than my sister.
We were treated like their own children. "Your little girls seem as well and happy as can be," my foster mother wrote in one of her first letters to my mother (these were kept, and found by us only when we cleared her house after her death). "To me they seem almost a miracle, they have fitted into our scheme of life so easily. There have been no tears at all, not once, and the house is full of laughter all day long - as a house should be with children in it."
Playing with friends, enjoying hockey and baseball, we soon became American in speech and outlook. Living in a small town with little danger, we were free to roam on our bikes to visit friends or to follow the volunteer fire brigade when they were called to grass fires.
But after five years of a wonderful American childhood, our return was arranged for August 1945. My real mother was to collect us; this way, she would learn what sort of life her daughters had been living away from her care. She found a happy household where housework was not a high priority and where the basic values of Quakerism had been well taught. She herself was a fastidious person who did not take to the muddle or finding pet dogs sharing the beds.
When she arrived, I was confronted by this woman whom I could hardly remember, with this very English accent and, strangely, she had shrunk; she was hardly taller than I was. Recognition came slowly. Here was my mother, and we were going to have to leave our much-loved American family and return to austerity Britain. My sister, by now 15, dearly wished to stay.
This, then, was the harrowing aspect of our return. After the strain of two months with two mothers, we travelled back to England. Once more I was the odd one out at home and at school; I now had an American accent and ways. And I had a much-loved dress with red poppies, so different from dresses bought with clothing coupons in England, but which was not approved of by my mother. She wanted us English again as soon as possible, constantly nagging us about saying "OK" when we should be saying "all right".
My father accepted us for who we were, but mother's jealousy never stopped her trying to erase our Americanisms. As I was sent to boarding school two weeks after landing in England, it was always going to be difficult to re-establish a good relationship. I did my best to be a dutiful daughter, but it was never going to be quite the same again with my mother. I think she regretted to her dying day that she sent us. I am still in touch with the marvellous family who cared for my sister and me for five years.


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Burrell boys regroup for state basketball playoffs
Burrell's boys basketball players aren't quite ready to see their high-tops dangle from the electrical wires.
After a surprising run in the WPIAL playoffs, the Buccaneers will try to regroup for the PIAA postseason.
But first, a cool down for the silver medalists.
"We're going to take (Monday) off, take a breath," Burrell coach Rob Niederberger said. "We need some time to acknowledge what we did. I am proud of our guys and the way they fought. They gave the community something to latch onto."
Burrell (19-7) gave its all against the best Class AA team in the state — some coaches are saying perhaps the best in any classification — but couldn't overcame a blinding first-quarter surge by defending champion Beaver Falls (23-3) and fell, 61-33, in its first title-game appearance since 1979.
The trip to Duquesne's Palumbo Center was swift, but memorable. Burrell had a 10-game winning streak stopped but will set out to begin a new streak in the state playoffs.
"Basketball season's a grind; you have your ups and downs," Niederberger said. "We expected to make it (to the finals). It's disappointing, but these guys have nothing to be ashamed of. I think we're starting a tradition here.
"You will see us back (at Palumbo Center) again."
Burrell took its previous two playoff opponents to overtime, but the championship game was leaning noticeably one way by halftime. The Bucs couldn't settle in offensively against a pestering and chaotic Beaver Falls defense that limited quality shot attempts and cashed in turnovers with ease.
The Bucs, led mainly by seniors, knows a second chance awaits in the state tournament, which hasn't included Burrell in its brackets since 2001.
They'll start with a first-round game against District 6 third-place team Bishop McCort (18-8) at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Gateway High School's Furrie Sports Complex.
The game site will allow a hefty fan following to keep an eye on the Bucs.
"We didn't play the way we can (in the finals)," Burrell senior forward Cole Bush said. "We'll have to take it out on Bishop McCort."
Burrell's WPIAL playoff run has been an extra-large energy drink for the program, which isn't used to playing into March.
Beaver Falls coach Doug Biega, who has won three titles in 14 seasons, argued on Saturday that Beaver Falls should be known as a basketball school. Niederberger
wants to be able to say that about Burrell one day.
"Burrell is a wrestling school," he said, "along with football and baseball. Nobody talks about Burrell's basketball teams. We're going to change that."
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
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Five Boroughs, Seven Killings
Rishi Nath
| December 28, 2015 | Asian American Writers' Workshop
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Bob Marley
Boston Jerk Chicken
Jamacian Police
Night Nurse
Starlite Ballroom
New York City through Marlon James' Booker Prize-winning novel
The Margins
On Vincent Chin and the Kind of Men You Send to Jail
Thirty five years ago, Asian America's faith in the justice system was shaken. Have we forgotten the lesson?
June Bookmarks: 8 Books by Asian Diasporic Writers to Read this Month
This month in Asian diasporic lit brings new queer desi stories, "badass letters to comicdom," and love songs from down and out Asian American country music stars.
Trying To Recognize People Like Me
Writers Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Violet Kupersmith, and T Kira Madden speak to each other about mixed-race identities in life and literature
Open City
The Ice Cream That Never Melts
This Chinatown ice cream shop refuses to melt, despite pressure from past gang violence and heat from present gentrification debates.
The Battle for Chinatown
Two contending schools of thought on rezoning continue to divide Chinatown. And the neighborhood might be running out of time.
Stumping for Trump
They are not non-college, white, working-class men, but they campaigned and voted for Trump.
June 14, 6:00 PM
Vernacular as Resistance
Three Sessions, 3 hours each (6-9pm) Wednesdays June 14th, June 21st, June 28th
Fees & Payment Options: $250 General / $220 AAWW Members (Become a Member!) Full payment due before first class. Maximum of fifteen students. *
Sign up before June 1st for $200 General / $180 AAWW Members* *
for limited seats, contact Tracy Wong at email@example.com for availability!* What is vernacular literature? What is its role in dismantling the oppressor's language and assumptions? What happens to power when the oppressor co-opts the vernacular of the oppressed? And why would the oppressor want to co-opt the oppressed's vernacular? Could it be becoz our power is embedded, encoded in our vernacular? We will explore these questions and read texts that challenge imposed ideas of hierarchy. Workshop discussion will center around Rotten English ed. Dohra Ahmed, Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen, Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, and more. Students will create original vernacular works as part of the workshop.
Marwa Helal
is a poet and journalist. Her work appears in
, the Offing, Poets & Writers, the Recluse, Winter Tangerine
and elsewhere. She is the author of
(No, Dear/Small Anchor Press, 2017) and
Invasive species
(Nightboat Books, 2019). Helal is the winner of
BOMB Magazine
's Biennial 2016 Poetry Contest
and has been awarded fellowships from Poets House, Brooklyn Poets, and Cave Canem. Born in Al Mansurah, Egypt, Helal currently lives and teaches in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School and her BA in journalism and international studies from Ohio Wesleyan University.
June 19, 7:00 PM
The Speculative Lyric: Alternate Universes and Imagined Freedoms
Two Sessions, 2 hours each (7-9pm) Mondays June 19th & June 26th
Fees & Payment Options: $100 General / $80 AAWW Members (
Become a Member!
) Full payment due before first class. Maximum of fifteen students. *
for limited seats, contact Tracy Wong at email@example.com for availability!* In the introduction to the anthology Octavia's
Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
, Walidah Imarisha writes: "Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction. All organizing is science fiction." In this workshop, we will use principles of sci-fi to explore ways to engage in the speculative mode in poetry. We will conduct experiments in imagining alternate universes, talk about utopias and dystopias, and discuss what distinct possibilities the lyric can offer us in the project of envisioning freedom.
Franny Choi
is the author of
Floating, Brilliant, Gone
(Write Bloody, 2014), which the providence Phoenix called "a thin, muscular book crackling with energy." She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams and has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has been featured by the
Huffington Post
PBS NewsHour
, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Poetry Review, the Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She is a Project VOICE teaching artist and a member of the Dark Noise Collective for multidisciplinary artists of color. She is currently an MFA Candidate in the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program, and her chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press) is forthcoming.
One of the things I admire most about Franny Choi's work is the questions she asks. With her book
Floating, Brilliant, Gone
(Write Bloody, 2014), she asks questions about power, about the fluidity and intersectionality of identity, about the many shapes that grief takes when it comes to visit, and about how it feels to perceive and be perceived by the world, amongst others. [...] Funny, heartbreaking, and unpretentiously intelligent.
June 29, 7:00 PM
Celebrating Nick Joaquin
Celebrate the new edition of works by Nick Joaquin, one of the most important writers of the Philippines who is only now being published in the United States for the first time by Penguin Classics. Born in 1917, Joaquin wrote a surreal, anguished sentence that cast an ironic eye at colonialism's longue durée and Catholic rites, both of which he depicted through magical realism and baroque splendor. We'll feature readings and discussion by Pen Open Book winner
Gina Apostol
(who wrote the introduction to the new Joaquin collection), legendary activist and author
Ninotchka Rosca
(a friend of Joaquin's), and Five-Under-35 winner
Alex Gilvarry
, author of
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
Melissa R. Sipin
will moderate the discussion.
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Nick Joaquin, Jessica Hagedorn writes, "is akin to García Márquez in the extravagant, surreal imagery of his stories, the fatalistic humor, and the intricate weaving of history and memory. His magical Macondo was the very real Philippines, in all its beauty, splendor and ruin." The new Penguin Classics edition of Joaquin's work includes his best-known story, "The Woman Who Had Two Navels," the stories "May Day Eve" and "The Summer Solstice," and a canonic play, "A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino." Former AAWW board member Luis Francia class Joaquin an "intense chronicler of doubleness," whose depiction of double consciousness took in "the patriarchal tone of Spanish and the feminist susurrations of Tagalog."
Gina Apostol
wrote the introduction to the Joaquin collection. Her first two novels,
The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata
, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel. Gina's third novel,
Gun Dealers' Daughter
, won the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2014 William Saroyan International Prize. Her essays and stories have appeared in
The New York Times
Los Angeles Review of Books
Foreign Policy
Gettysburg Review
, and
Massachusetts Review
Check out an excerpt
from Gun Dealers' Daughter in AAWW's The Margins.
Ninotchka Rosca
writes: "One cannot overstate what Nick Joaquin is to Philippine literature. Writing in English with the melody of Spanish and Tagalog, Joaquin was the first Filipino writer to focus on the impossible contradictions of a tribal civilization overlain by Spanish and American world views. And because that tribal civilization was woman-centered, Joaquin's heroines are as complex, romantic and defiant as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina." Rosca is a legendary organizer for women's liberation and is engaged in the study and codification of the theory and practice of transnational and intersectional feminism. Her two novels,
State of War
Twice Blessed
, are considered classics of modern Philippine literature, with the second receiving the American Book Award for Excellence in Literature.
Alex Gilvarry
's novel
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
won the Hornblower Award for First Fiction, was named a Best New Voice 2012 by Bookspan, and selected by the
New York Times
as an Editor's Choice. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 nominee, Alex has received fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Norman Mailer Center. His essays and criticism have appeared in
The Nation
Boston Globe
, NPR's
All Things Considered
, and many other publications. His second novel,
Eastman Was Here
, is forthcoming from Viking in August 2017. He is a professor of creative writing at Monmouth University.
Melissa R. Sipin
was born and raised in Carson, CA. She won
Glimmer Train
's Fiction Open and the
Washington Square Review
's Flash Fiction Prize, and co-edited
Kuwento: Lost Things
(Carayan Press 2014). Her work is in
Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Guernica Magazine, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, Eleven Eleven Magazine, and PEN American Center
, among others. She cofounded and is editor-in-chief of
TAYO Literary Magazine
, and her fiction has won scholarships and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Poets & Writers Inc., Vermont Studio Center, Kundiman, VONA/Voices Conference, Squaw Valley's Community of Writers, and Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is hard at work on a novel. /\ /\ \/\/ \/\/


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The main body is set over three floors; on the ground floor there are spacious lounge areas, porch with lowered arches with five spans in addition to two small wings on the sides; on the first floor and the second floor there are bedrooms used as living rooms and bedrooms with original antique finishes. There is a remarkable hall with decorations made by Inganni on the ground floor. Comprised within the main body and the two side wings, there is a courtyard called "Belvedere Terrace". On the east side, opposite to the Palazzo, there is also a swimming pool, a tennis court and various outbuildings used for local services (total sq.mt. 715).
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Rihanna's Dad Says Chris Brown Deserves A Second Chance
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In an interview with The Daily Mirror (via The Sun), Rihanna's father Ronald Fenty thinks that Chris Brown deserves a second chance after beating her in 2009.
He said: "Chris made a mistake… a terrible one. But I'm a great believer that everybody deserves a second chance and Chris is no different. Everybody goes wrong at some point. I certainly have. But it is how you come back and live your life which is important. And as long as she is happy then so am I. Everybody has had their say about her and Chris but it is up to her to find her own way. Chris has always been polite and kind to me and treated me with respect. That's all you can ask from your daughter's boyfriend."


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I only read about burial in the bible. What do you feel about cremation?
I only read about burial in the bible. What do you feel about cremation?
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I figure if God can make us from dirt to begin with, God can probably do it again.
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To know and to serve God, of course, is why we're here, a clear truth, that, like the nose on your face, is near at hand and easily discernible but can make you dizzy if you try to focus on it hard. But a little faith will see you through.
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Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived. - Shane Claiborne
I think we need only look as far as events such as 9/11 and the Titanic to realize that burial offers no special dispensation. In all ways of handling a body, whether planned or not, the body decays. American burial traditions actually suggest a continued rejection of the reality of death with the process of preservation of the body and the armored vault used in the ground for the casket. I expect to be cremated, possibly giving my body to science use first.
And come to think of it, Jesus did not *stay* buried, so I guess that lets us know his opinion of it!
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To know and to serve God, of course, is why we're here, a clear truth, that, like the nose on your face, is near at hand and easily discernible but can make you dizzy if you try to focus on it hard. But a little faith will see you through.
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There is no choice. If anyone thinks God condemns people to hell for being cremated, they should be burned at the stake!
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One of the most fervent rants against cremation I ever heard was delivered by a good Southern Baptist undertaker as I was riding in the hearse with him to do the graveside service (I was doing a short-term interim pastorate a looonnnnng time ago). Although he presented his case with lots of scripture, I can't help but wonder if his concerns were more than just theological.
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I believe that the Church at times in its history was against cremation as "pagan" while burial was "Christian"... but those times are long gone, as far as I know.
I don't really care what happens to my body after I die, and my wife feels the same way. We both want any usable organs to be harvested, and then I think we're both going to have our bodies donated to science, if science wants 'em. Apart from that, we'll probably be cremated, because it's cheapest, and we'd rather that money be used for good rather than wasted on trying to preserve our corpses. God will raise us up on the last day no matter what condition our remains are in.
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I wonder what happened to the Christians who were devoured by wolves and other animals in the Roman coliseum(s), those who were beheaded, and as someone else has said those who were buried or lost at sea, those who were burned at the stake, or those who were blown apart in explosions such as those of 9/11?
The Roman Catholic tradition holds that various parts of the different saints were sent to various locations so that the various places could have items of veneration.
The point is that bodies decay, especially without embalming. As someone else in this thread has alluded to, our American tradition of embalming seems to me to be less Biblical in some ways than cremation.
Think of the costs not just to self, but to the family members left behind. we just buried my father-in-law on Monday. He had purchased the plot about 40 years ago. Yet when he went to pre-pay his funeral about 6 years ago, the cemetery also charged a "grave opening" and "grave closing" fee. When the burial was about to take place, the funeral director (who is a long-time friend of ours) told us that he was going to have words with the cemetery personnel, because even though the funeral was pre-paid (including the grave opening and closing fees), they were now wanting to charge a $15 additional fee for "vault inspection." The funeral director got that charge waived. But he also told us that this particular cemetery has a new policy for "new customers" (as if they really have repeat business?) who purchase a plot--an additional $525 just for the privilege of purchasing a plot.
Cremation is sounding better and better to me all the time. Go and buy an urn from Wal Mart or something, get the ashes, put them in the urn, then seal it. After a generation or two, let someone bury it in their back yard. Until then, it's up to the surviving family--keep it displayed, store it in the garage or attic--whatever. I guess I still have just enough Roman Catholic roots in me to want to keep the body "together" for the most part, so I prefer that ashes not be "scattered." But that's just me; I see no Biblical prohibition against it.
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Cremation is all there is. Fast burn and slow burn. After all, weren't we taught to say, "Dust to dust. Ashes to ashes."? Arguments for embalming, caskets, vaults, burial places only feed the pockets of those who bank on such practices.
Years ago I attended a meeting of the "Undertakers Association" (or something like that). They spent hours that day extolling the benefits of giving the family "closure." My unspoken response was that often open caskets give closure in ways that families members have trouble forgetting for years and decades.
My corrupt mind played with what my topic would be should I ever be asked to speak at that gathering. My conclusion, "Putting the FUN in FUNerals!"
Not particularly related to this thread but I read about a Nazarene in the Midwest who planned his funeral way in advance and arranged for blowup, bouncie games for the children, wonderful music and lots of other fun stuff.
One guy asked if I would officiate his funeral. He wanted a baseball theme. My heart took to his idea...because he was a St. Louis Cardinals fan. (MY team...Bill White, Dick Grote, Tim McCarver, Julio Gotay, Ken Boyer ((my all-time favorite)), Bob Gibson, Stan the Man, Ozzie Smith, etc.) What fun! He wasn't buried with his Cards hat on, but it was tucked in his fingers on his chest. We wrapped the wonderful service up (and, folks, it is easy to make a gospel message out of a baseball game!) with, of course, "Take me out to the ballgame. Take me out to the crowd!" Wonderful tears and wonderful laughter!
As for me? I would like nothing about my departure to be anything but as easy as possible on my family. I'd kind of like for my ashes to be placed in an urn and stored in a convenient place. I only say that because when I visit my "roots" back in Iowa, it is fulfilling and fun to go with the family to visit the graves of parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. Just saying, a place for the ashes (at whatever speed) is good.
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My wife and I have opted for cremation (after we die of course). For us there are three issues:
1. Money. The cost for a traditional funeral IMO has gotten out of hand. The last funeral I conducted two weeks ago cost the family a little over 10K.
2. Environmental impact - at least that's what my environmentally conscious children tell me.
3. We've lived in so many different places it would be difficult to choose a place to be buried. Cremation simplifies things.
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I think, legally, you can't just bury or scatter them wherever you please, since they're human remains. But maybe that varies from state to state. But they have to be disposed of somehow, somewhere, eventually.
I guess you could always leave them in the attic as a fun surprise for whoever buys the house from you someday.
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"But by the grace of God I am what I am." (1 Cor. 15:10)
I was planning on donating my body to science, but then realized I am not sure what they would do with a perfect specimen.
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If a state really wanted to enforce where cremated remains could be scattered, then they would have to require the funeral home to be involved in the final disposition.
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Thank you everyone for your comments. There is a lot of "food for thought" in those comments. I don't personally know very many people who have been cremated but it seems the younger generation is talking a lot about it. A friend recently started working for a funeral home and works at the crematory. He has talked a little about it. I asked him if he was going to be cremated when he dies. He said, "No way." I wanted to hear some more thoughts on the subject so you have provided them.
One of our neighbors died a few months ago and was cremated. His son said they are going to spread his ashes on the golf course, which is not legal in Ohio, I guess, but they are going to do it at night. I think this was the father's wish.
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Has anyone notice in the Old Testament the Jews cremated all the bad people just for example Gen.38:24, Ex 32:20, Lev. 20:14,21:9 and forget Rev. 20:15. Some of may have heard of E. Stanley Jones who body was creamated here in America but his heart was burial in India. Few week ago we lost great holiness preacher and he donated his body I have not heard any Christian condemning creation so it won't make any diffence what done to the body have you are dead.
For the record, at this particular point, my wife and I will PROBABLY be cremated.
Our cremations will take place AFTER our (open casket if appropriate) funerals.
Furthermore, I think we will request that our ashes be "spread" (somewhere legal) rather than being kept or preserved somewhere.
Basically we find "regular" funerals to be beneficial to the survivors so we will have them, but we don't see the same value in a distinct "final resting place."
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I would like to be cremated, but Hannie doesn't. So if she survives me, that won't happen. Funerals are not for the departed, but for those remaining.
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Once the body has been cremated, it has been disposed. There are no subsequent health issues. Laws restricting dispersing the cremains largely have to do with polluting water and air, funeral industry objections, and safety - opening the door of an airplane to throw out ashes isn't especially a safe activity. As for conservation issues, they tell me that the natural gas used to cremate leaves a larger carbon footprint than burial.
I used to tell Linda to keep my cremains in a jar beside the bed, but now I just want them to be used as landfill in the swamp behind the family camp.
Should someone want to have the cremains and urn put in a cemetery, the fees can be astounding. When my mother died four years ago, a family member wanted the urn to be in a memorial grotto, so they would have somewhere to go to "reflect" on memories of her. Placing that canister in a marble wall in that grotto cost an additional $5,000. Of course, that takes care of perpetual care of the grotto. Last time I checked, no one in the family had been to the grotto even once to reflect.
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I had never heard of anyone thinking of this from a spiritual or biblical perspective until we moved to the States. It was always an issue of desire as far as I was concerned.
Quite apart from any "right or wrong for Christians" aspect to the issue, I do have a problem here. We have a funeral home just down the road from MNU and I am often bothered when I drive past and see their sign: "Funeral Home and Crematory". My mind conjures up images of a Nazi Concentration Camp OR even more bizarre some sort of dairy establishment. Maybe I am just warped, but I really don't care for that word "crematory"!
Being cremated and not buried takes away enjoying looking for ancestors. If you watch the current programs ('Who Do You Think You Are?" and the Louis Gates program on PBS) they find information from graves. Barbara Walters found out her real name from a gravestone of an ancestor.
Bob and I have enjoyed just walking through a cemetery locally or while away from home reading the dates and information. Some of the monuments are beautiful.
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I think the discussion has to be, on one hand, a family one but, also, a generational one. For young people it's all theoretical anyway - just a ball to be batted around. For those approaching senior adult years it's practical - something to be included in the will. For those with the end of life in sight - it's imminent, a serious discussion to be had. (You can see these stages reflected in this thread.) There's nothing wrong with any of them, just different perspectives.
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We lean towards cremation. Or, opportunity allowing, immediate and direct deposit on soon to be family's ranch, sans funeral parlor and with homemade casket.
I absolutely and totally loathe, as does my family, the emotional torture so many funeral homes (and more than a few pastors I've known) think they have to put the family through in order to bring psychological healing and closure.
My explicit directions to my family, in writing, allow for no such shenanigans.
I plan to go be with Jesus, and that is a GOOD THING. I want the gathered relatives and friends to be told how they can get there also, briefly, and then have a rousing good celebration of Jesus, complete with Easter dinner including the coconut cake.
No matter the time of year, celebrate HE IS RISEN because that means I will be too someday!
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I had a pastor friend ask for my advice... One of his grandparents had died, and his mom wanted him to join her and some other family members for a middle-of-the-night jumping of the cemetery's fence so they could scatter the ashes over the grave of the grandparent's spouse. They wanted him with them to lead a quick little service. He told them he didn't think it was a good idea. I agreed with him.


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Originally published in the Winter 2009 issue of the Harvard Kennedy School Bulletin.
For Carol Chyau and Marie So (both MPA/ID 2006), a yak is more than a hairy, one-ton animal. It's an undeveloped asset, numbering in the millions, that can bring change to the mountainous areas of Western China that have missed out on the country's stunning economic success story. The nomadic people who have herded yaks for centuries already know that it's an extremely useful creature, of course. They use it as a pack animal, eat its meat, and make dairy products from its milk; use its dung to build walls for their homes and burn the same stuff for heat; and they turn its fibrous coat into tents and clothing. What they probably didn't know is that patrons of fine restaurants in Hong Kong and Shanghai would pay good money to dine on yak cheese (a bit like sharp cheddar in consistency and flavor), or that in cities as far away as New York, San Francisco, and London, customers would buy clothing and accessories made from the finest hand-combed yak down.
That's where Chyau and So come in. The pair met at the Kennedy School. Chyau, a native of Taiwan, came directly from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied abroad in Chile and Peru and wrote her senior thesis on microfinance. So, a native of Hong Kong, left an engineering career (her last project was the Beijing Olympics' swimming pool). They began to talk seriously about their shared passion for bringing economic change to the poorest parts of China at a social enterprise conference at Harvard Business School and traveled to China over winter break in January 2006 to research existing nonprofit organizations and opportunities there. In Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, they met with How Man Wong, founder of the China Exploration Research Society, and learned that the organization had brought over an expert from the University of Wisconsin a couple of years earlier to help villagers start up a yak cheese project in the isolated Diquing region.
"The society's mission was exploration, not economic development," Chyau explains. "Marie and I thought we could add the most value by trying to bring the cheese to market." They returned to Cambridge and wrote up a plan for two yak-based, for-profit businesses: one selling cheese, the other, marketing a luxurious, cashmere-like yarn produced from the softest yak fiber. After teaming up with two HBS students and an undergraduate from Penn, "Yashmere" (their proposed name) won the social enterprise track of the HBS Business Plan Contest and a $20,000 start-up grant.
Chyau and So went back to China after graduating to do more on-the-ground research, traveling to four yak-rich provinces in three months to gain some clarity around the details of their proposed endeavor. (Their business plan teammates chose to pursue other opportunities.) They worked with experts in China's Bureau of Animal Husbandry to develop the best method to hand-comb yak fiber and sourced a manufacturing partner to produce a sample batch of yarn. "It was so beautiful that it confirmed we had a doable business plan," Chyau recalls. In September 2006 they changed their name from Yashmere to Shokay ("yak down" in Tibetan) and formed an umbrella nonprofit organization, Ventures in Development, to serve as an incubator for it and the Mei Xiang Cheese Farm, which is run by a Tibetan family. Each has the goal of operating as a sustainable, for-profit enterprise that can bring about long-term economic development.
"When we looked at traditional models, it didn't seem that charity and philanthropy could do the job on its own," says So. "We were attracted to the idea of bringing private sector business efficiency to social enterprise." It's a concept that doesn't always go over easily, So acknowledges. When she and Chyau speak to new herders about coming into the business, they often find they have to do quite a bit of explaining. "If you go into rural areas in China, people often expect free stuff," says So. "We try to show them the difference between a onetime deal and something more sustainable that they can create by using their own resources. It's a paradigm shift; the government doesn't always understand what we're doing, and we're learning as we go too. It can be very challenging."
No day is the same, she adds. From April to October, Chyau and So are often in the field, exploring new areas for development, training villagers in proper shearing techniques, or surveying households to measure the program's impact. Given that they're working with nomadic herders who don't follow a set schedule, this can take a while — but it's an essential part of the process. "Otherwise you're just talking, right?" So remarks. "We focus on income generation, but also on what is done with the money. We do our best to educate people on the value of investing in an education for their children versus buying a radio or alcohol, although we can't dictate how the money is spent." Recently the pair took a short break from their field work to attend an Echoing Green Fellowship conference at Duke University. (The fellowship awards a two-year, $90,000 grant to social entrepreneurs.)
Shokay has scaled up quickly, working with 15,000 people this year compared with 3,000 last year. In 2009, they expect to break even and expand their reach into new communities. After an initial product launch with yarn, hand-knitted scarves, and throws, the business has branched out into pillows, children's clothing, and accessories like hats and mittens, all of which can be purchased via the Internet, at the Shokay retail store in Shanghai, or at boutiques in cities around the world. Soon, Shokay will even be offering hats, gloves, and scarves through Harvard Student Agencies.
Despite these early successes, the demands of Shokay, the cheese business, and building the Ventures in Development nonprofit can be overwhelming at times. "My brain every day is divided into 10-minute slots," says So. "The driving factor is the level of satisfaction that comes from making a difference in someone else's life."
"Balancing the double bottom line of financial return and social impact is challenging," Chyau agrees. "But I love using business skills in a way that helps other people."
"Balancing the double bottom line of financial return and social impact is challenging," says Carol Chyau. "But I love using business skills in a way that helps other people."
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