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Kant and Bataille emerge as thinkers on either side of the industrial-technological revolution. Philosophers of the period in between, such as Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx and Nietzsche, have argued that the meaning of both reason and the 'sacred' have undergone a radical transformation with this historical and existential revolution. For Kant, reason remains specifically aloof from temporality and history – indeed, as he alludes in the Critique of Judgement, reason emerges with the self-suppression of imagination, of temporal and spatial perspective, in the sublime. In parallel, his notion of the sacred or true morality, especially that portrayed in the Critique of Practical Reason, admitted no admixture with the imagination and motivations of experience – with temporality.
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Robert Sternberg's piece is fully in keeping with the Super PAC's tendency to unleash misinformation about their opponents in this heated presidential race. Sternberg follows the standard line of attack: Distort the position of the opponents, and then demolish that position. He rubbishes standardized assessments used in higher education, including the College Learning Assessment (CLA). He implies the only use for such tests is for nefarious--and unwanted--No Child Left Behind (NCLB) high-stakes testing and top-down accountability systems in higher education. He dismisses the CLA as a narrow test of something he calls "general learning," which, in his view, will narrow the curriculum because instructors will have to teach to it. Sternberg provides his preferred list of attributes to assess, such as: academic disciplines, creativity, ethical behavior, portfolios, and persistence. These qualities, he argues, are far more relevant to the success of students than the content measured by the standardized tests. Moreover, he asserts that reliance on a single test score at the institutional level to evaluate student learning is ludicrous. The case is closed for Dr. Sternberg. Please read on for a different perspective.
Sternberg's argument falls prey to two shibboleths about assessment in higher education. However, I begin by describing the measurement goals of the CLA and how the test differs from multiple-choice tests and bears no resemblance to Sternberg's caricature.
Critical thinking, problem solving (both qualitative and quantitative in nature), and writing--the skills the CLA measures--are at the top of both faculty and employer surveys. They are also at the core of most major education reforms, such as the common core standards movement, and are regarded as necessary for student success in college and work. Secondly, the CLA is not a multiple choice test. CLA performance assessments are realistic problems that require constructed essays and have no "correct answer." The goal of the CLA is to stimulate students' abilities to "form original, concise thoughts"; which is parallel to the goals that Dr. Sternberg approves of. In fact, performance assessments are tests worth teaching to because there are no "right" answers as with multiple-choice tests. Moreover, performance assessments are as useful as instructional tools as they are for assessment. Through our performance academies, thousands of professors have been taught to develop their own performance assessments along with the curriculum and text materials. These same faculty members encourage their colleagues to share best practice ideas to improve teaching and learning at their home institutions. They also profit from sharing best practices across colleges, which brings me to Sternberg's conflation of standardized tests with the potential evils of bad education policy.
Without appropriate standardized assessment comparisons between institutions, colleges remain isolated silos with no objective way to set their level of teaching and learning in a larger context. What evidence do institutions have to back up their claims for the education they offer? Opponents of institutional comparisons argue that assessments within an institution are more than sufficient. However, suppose one finds that 35 percent of an institution's students report reading a book during the past two weeks that was not assigned by their professors. Is that percentage good, bad, or indifferent? We cannot know the answer unless we can confirm that this percentage was one of the highest or lowest reported by students at colleges similar to this one. One needs a comparative-based benchmark to frame this finding in order to give the specific finding meaning. This is true of all of the assessments that Dr. Sternberg approves of.
Finally, Sternberg joins those who argue that one-size-fits-all measures to compare institutions are inappropriate. On this point he is correct. No one measure can capture the complexity of a college or university. The scores on the CLA and other tests at the institutional level should be set in the context of multiple indicators collected and analyzed by faculty at the institution itself. Faculty and administrators might respond to the initial institutional-level assessment scores in steps, such as examining the factors that are correlated with the results and placing the performance tasks in the hands of the faculty so they can use them in their classrooms.
Comparative-based assessments should be designed to be objective characterizations of institution-level performance on student learning outcomes, offering evidence that is judged to be reliable and valid, and thought to be authentic by the faculty. Such assessments offer a powerful reality check for institution-based formative assessment, which is, at the least, as important as standardized tests. The testing organization should report assessment results for the institutions it tests back to them only. Otherwise, why would an institution, department, or program want to permit comparative-based testing? It should play a critical role in making formative assessment more systematic. Of course, the questions of what to report and who gets to report it under what review conditions are central issues being debated today. For colleges, the peer-review concept is the best place to start such conversations.
Since it is possible to learn from other institutions that are producing advances in teaching and learning, there is no intellectual argument for not doing so. The stakes are too high. Peer review anchors the continuous improvement system that provides progress in research. We may never achieve such clearly positive results in teaching and learning. However, we can build a strategy to move the subject of teaching and learning forward to a more evidence-based systematic subject in which verifiable best practices are continually adjusted or changed and improvement of student learning demonstrably occurs. See The Case for Generic Skills and Performance Assessment in the United States and International Settings for the rationale behind performance assessment, a review of the many independent studies of the CLA, and links and reports on numerous best-practice examples of institutions engaging in comparison between best practices of teaching and learning and improving their teaching and learning, which should be the principal reason for doing any assessment.
[Benjamin appends the following note:This response is based on a larger argument about assessment in higher education in my "The New Limits of Education Policy: Avoiding A Tragedy of the Commons," (London, Edward Elgar, 2012). My response represents CAE and the CLA only.]


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This week's featured posts.
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A few days ago I published a brief article, Chocolate Brain, which discussed the cognitive benefits of eating chocolate. Bottom line: people who eat chocolate (like my sister) have better cognition than people who don't. As always, there are some caveats, but it seems that good cognition and chocolate go hand in hand.
I was headed to the chocolate store when I was stopped in my tracks by a newly published article in the journal, Age and Ageing. The title, "Sex on the brain! Associations between sexual activity and cognitive function in older age" pretty much explains it all. (Click here for the full text).
The two studies – chocolate versus sex – are remarkably parallel. Both use data collected over the years through longitudinal studies. The chocolate study looked at almost 1,000 Americans who have been studied since 1975 in the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study. The sex study looked at data from almost 7,000 people who have participated in the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA).
Both longitudinal studies gather data at periodic intervals; both studies are now on wave 6. The chocolate study included people aged 23 to 98. The sex study looked only at older people, aged 50 to 89.
Both studies also used standard measures of cognition. The chocolate study used six standard measures of cognition. The sex study used two: "…number sequencing, which broadly relates to executive function, and word recall, which broadly relates to memory."
Both studies looked at the target variable – chocolate or sex – in binary fashion. Either you ate chocolate or you didn't; either you had sex – in the last 12 months – or you didn't.
The results of the sex test differed by gender. Men who were sexually active had higher scores on both number sequencing and word recall tests. Sexually active women had higher scores on word recall but not number sequencing. Though the differences were statistically significant, the "…magnitude of the differences in scores was small, although this is in line with general findings in the literature."
As with the chocolate study, the sex study establishes an association but not a cause-and-effect relationship. The researchers, led by Hayley Wright, note that the association between sex and improved cognition holds, even "… after adjusting for confounding variables such as quality of life, loneliness, depression, and physical activity."
So the association is real but we haven't established what causes what. Perhaps sexual activity in older people improves cognition. Or maybe older people with good cognition are more inclined to have sex. Indeed, two other research papers cited by Wright et. al, studied attitudes toward sex among older people in Padua, Italy and seemed to suggest that good cognition increased sexual interest rather than vice versa. (Click here and here). Still, Wright and her colleagues might use a statistical tool from the chocolate study. If cognition leads to sex (as opposed to the other way round), people having more sex today should have had higher cognition scores in earlier waves of the longitudinal study than did people who aren't having as much sex today.
So, we need more research. I'm especially interested in establishing whether there are any interactive effects. Let's assume for a moment that sexual activity improves cognition. Let's assume the same for chocolate consumption. Does that imply that combining sex and chocolate leads to even better cognition? Could this be a situation in which 1 + 1 = 3? Raise your hand if you'd like to volunteer for the study.
In 1979, Paper Mate introduced the world's first ballpoint pen with erasable ink. Technology analysts considered it an important breakthrough and the news made headlines around the country. Many of us thought, "Wow! Finally I can write in ink and then erase it. How cool is that?" After a few moments of reflection, we had a second thought, "Why would I ever want to do that?"
Before erasable ink, we thought of ink's permanence as a drawback and a disadvantage. After erasable ink appeared, we realized that ink's permanence was actually its primary benefit. Write it once and you know it will never go away. If you might want to erase something, use a pencil.
In an odd way, permanence may also be the primary benefit of the blockchain technology that underlies Bitcoin. We think of databases as interactive, up-to-date records of the world as it is. The closer to real-time, the better. If you want to know what's happening right this millisecond, high-speed databases will tell you.
But what if you want to know what happened some time ago? And what if you want assurances that the information you retrieve is tamper-proof and immutable? In other words, what if you want the electronic equivalent of permanent ink?
That's exactly what blockchains on distributed ledgers give you. You can't change the blockchain unless you can decrypt it – and that's very difficult. Even if you can decrypt it on one network node, many original copies exist on other nodes. It's fairly easy to restore the status quo ante. You can be very confident that the information you retrieve is unchanged from the original. It's an immutable, permanent record.
The blockchain/ledger technology allows Bitcoin to keep a permanent record of all transactions. That's important if you want to create a trusted financial system. But why stop at financial transactions? Are there other transactions that might benefit from permanent, tamper-proof records?
Indeed, there are. Here are a few that are in production or beta today:
I could go on and on. (If you want to dig deeper, click here, here, and here). While Bitcoin popularized the technology, blockchain extends far beyond the financial world. Indeed blockchain may disintermediate and disrupt supply chains around the world. If so, the world will get much more efficient. Is that what we want?
How are Fox News and Michael Moore alike?
They both use the same script.
Michael Moore comes at issues from the left. Fox News comes from the right. Though they come from different points on the political spectrum, they tell the same story.
In rhetoric, it's called the Good versus Evil narrative. It's very simple. On one side we have good people. On the other side, we have evil people. There's nothing in between. The evil people are cheating or robbing or killing or screwing the good people. The world would be a better place if we could only eliminate or neuter or negate or kill the evil people.
We've been using the Good versus Evil narrative since we began telling stories. Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphics follow the script. So do many of the stories in the Bible. So do Republicans. So do Democrats. So do I, for that matter. It's the mother of all fallacies.
The narrative inflames the passions and dulls the senses. It makes us angry. It makes us feel that outrage is righteous and proper. The narrative clouds our thinking. Indeed, it aims to stop us from thinking altogether. How can we think when evil is abroad? We need to act. We can think later.
I became sensitized to the Good versus Evil narrative when I lived in Latin America. I met more than a few people who are convinced that America is the embodiment of evil. They see it as a country filled with greedy, immoral thieves and murderers who are sucking the blood of the innocent and good people of Latin America. I had a difficult time squaring this with my own experiences. Perhaps the narrative is wrong.
Rhetoric teaches us to be suspicious when we hear Good versus Evil stories. The word is a messy, chaotic, and random place. Actions are nuanced and ambiguous. People do good things for bad reasons and bad things for good reasons. A simple narrative can't possibly capture all the nuances and uncertainties of the real world. Indeed, the Good versus Evil doesn't even try. It aims to tell us what to think and ensure that we never, ever think for ourselves.
When Jimmy Carter was elected president, John Wayne attended his inaugural even though he had supported Carter's opponent. Wayne gave a gracious speech. "Mr. President", he said, "you know that I'm a member of the loyal opposition. But let's remember that the accent is on 'loyal'". How I would love to hear anyone say that today. It's the antithesis of Good versus Evil.
Voltaire wrote that, "Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices." The Good versus Evil narrative is absurd. It doesn't explain the world; it inflames the world. Ultimately, it can make injustices seem acceptable.
The next time you hear a Good versus Evil story, grab your thinking cap. You're going to need it.
(By the way, Tyler Cowen has a terrific TED talk on this topic that helped crystallize my thinking. You can find it here.)
Which causes more deaths: strokes or accidents?
The way you consider this question speaks volumes about how humans think. When we don't have data at our fingertips (i.e., most of the time), we make estimates. We do so by answering a question – but not the question we're asked. Instead, we answer an easier question.
In fact, we make it personal and ask a question like this:
How easy is it for me to retrieve memories of people who died of strokes compared to memories of people who died by accidents?
Our logic is simple: if it's easy to remember, there must be a lot of it. If it's hard to remember, there must be less of it.
So, most people say that accidents cause more deaths than strokes. Actually, that's dead wrong. As Daniel Kahneman points out, strokes cause twice as many deaths as all accidents combined.
Why would we guess wrong? Because accidents are more memorable than strokes. If you read this morning's paper, you probably read about several accidental deaths. Can you recall reading about any deaths by stroke? Even if you read all the obituaries, it's unlikely.
This is typically known as the availability bias – the memories are easily available to you. You can retrieve them easily and, therefore, you overestimate their frequency. Thus, we overestimate the frequency of violent crime, terrorist attacks, and government stupidity. We read about these things regularly so we assume that they're common, everyday occurrences.
We all suffer from the availability bias. But when we suffer from it simultaneously and together, it can become an availability cascade – a form of mass hysteria. Here's how it works. (Timur Kuran and Cass Sunstein coined the term availability cascade. I'm using Daniel Kahneman's summary).
As Kahneman writes, an "… availability cascade is a self-sustaining chain of events, which may start from media reports of a relatively minor incident and lead up to public panic and large-scale government action." Something goes wrong and the media reports it. It's not an isolated incident; it could happen again. Perhaps it could affect a lot of people. Perhaps it's an invisible killer whose effects are not evident for years. Perhaps you already have it. How would one know? Or perhaps it's a gruesome killer that causes great suffering. Perhaps it's not clear how one gets it. How can we protect ourselves?
Initially, the story is about the incident. But then it morphs into a meta-story. It's about angry people who are demanding action; they're marching in the streets and protesting in front of the White House. It's about fear and loathing. Then experts get involved. But, of course, multiple experts never agree on anything. There are discrepancies in the stories they tell. Perhaps they don't know what's really going on. Perhaps they're hiding something. Perhaps it's a conspiracy. Perhaps we're all going to die.
A story like this can spin out of control in a hurry. It goes viral. Since we hear about it every day, it's easily available to our memories. Since it's available, we assume that it's very probable. As Kahneman points out, "…the response of the political system is guided by the intensity of public sentiment."
Think it can't happen in our age of instant communications? Go back and read the stories about ebola in America. It's a classic availability cascade. Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, reacted quickly — not because he needed to but because of the intensity of public sentiment. Our 24-hour news cycle needs something awful to happen at least once a day. So availability cascades aren't going to go away. They'll just happen faster.
My career has been a steady diet of disruption.
Three times, disruptive innovations rocked the companies I worked for. First, the PC destroyed the word processing industry (which had destroyed the typewriter industry). Second, client/server applications disrupted host-centric applications. Third, cloud-based applications disrupted client/server applications.
Twice, my companies disrupted other companies. First, RISC processors disrupted CISC processors. Second, voice applications disrupted traditional call centers.
In 1997, a Harvard professor named Clayton Christensen (pictured) took examples like these and fashioned a theory of disruptive innovation. In The Innovator's Dilemma, he explained how it works: Your company is doing just fine and understands exactly what customers need. You focus on offering customers more of what they want. Then an alternative comes along that offers less of what customers want but is easier to use, more convenient, and less costly, etc. You dismiss it as a toy. It eats your lunch.
The disruptive innovation typically offers less functionality than the product it disrupts. Early mobile phones offered worse voice quality than landlines. Early digital cameras produced worse pictures than film. But, they all offered something else that appealed to consumers: mobility, simplicity, immediate gratification, multi-functionality, lower cost, and so on. They were good enough on the traditional metrics and offered something new and appealing that tipped the balance.
My early experiences with disruption – before Christensen wrote his book — were especially painful. We didn't understand what was happening to us. Why would customers choose an inferior product? We read books like Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds to try to understand. Was modern technology really nothing more than an updated version of tulip mania?
After Christensen's book came out, we wised up a bit and learned how to defend against disruptions. It's not easy but, at the very least, we have a theory. Still, disruptions show no sign of abating. Lyft and Uber are disrupting traditional taxi services. AirBnB is disrupting hotels. And MOOCs may be disrupting higher education (or maybe not).
Such disruption happens often enough that it seems almost intuitive to me. So, I was surprised when another Harvard professor, Jill Lepore, published a "take-down" article on disruptive innovation in a recent edition of The New Yorker.
Lepore's article, "The Disruption Machine: What The Gospel of Innovation Gets Wrong", appears to pick apart the foundation of Christensen's work. Some of the examples from 1997 seem less prescient now. Some companies that were disrupted in the 90s have recovered since. (Perhaps we did get smarter). Disruptive companies, on the other hand, have not necessarily thrived. (Perhaps they, too, were disrupted).
Lepore points out that Christensen started a stock fund based on his theories in March 2000. Less than a year later, it was "quietly liquidated." Unfortunately, she doesn't mention that March 2000 was the very moment that the Internet bubble burst. Christensen may have had a good theory but he had terrible timing.
But what really irks Lepore is given away in her subtitle. It's the idea that Christensen's work has become "gospel". People accept it on faith and try to explain everything with it. Consultants have take Christensen's ideas to the far corners of the world. (Full disclosure: I do a bit of this myself). In all the fuss, Lepore worries that disruptive innovation has not been properly criticized. It hasn't been picked at in the same way as, say, Darwinism.
Lepore may be right but it doesn't mean that Christensen is wrong. In the business world, we sometimes take ideas too literally and extend them too far. As I began my career, Peters and Waterman's In Search of Excellence was almost gospel. We readers probably fell in love a little too fast. Yet Peters and Waterman had – and still have — some real wisdom to offer. (See The Hype Cycle for how this works).
I've read all but one of Christensens's books and I don't see any evidence that he promotes his work as a be-all, end-all grand Theory of Everything. He's made careful observations and identified patterns that occur regularly. Is it a religion? No. But Christensen offers a good explanation of how an important part of the world works. I know. I've been there.


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A new radioactive water leak was recently detected pouring into the sea near the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.
According to TEPCO officials, contamination levels at the nuclear power plant have climbed to over 70 times higher than normal levels.
After the leak was discovered, the passageway that was allowing the water to seep into the sea was shut off, but it is unclear how long ago the leak began. After the leak was blocked, contamination levels in the sea fell slightly, but were still significantly higher than normal.
"We are currently monitoring the sensors at the gutter and seeing the trend," a TEPCO spokesman said.
The devastated nuclear power plant has been releasing radioactive water into the pacific ocean for a number of years, and into the atmosphere as well. As of now there is still no concrete clean-up plan for dealing with the disaster.
Officials in Japan admit that 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima is entering the Pacific Ocean every 24 hours. According to a professor at Tokyo University, 3 gigabecquerels of cesium-137 are flowing into the port at Fukushima Daiichi every single day
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It's sometimes amazing the coincidences that can bring a person into your life. How they can be plopped down into your life, just like they belonged there.
Such was the case of Southern writer and humorist Celia Rivenbark and how she landed in my life. Here's how it happened:
Several years ago, a friend called to say that she had just read an excerpt in Reader's Digest by a Southern writer, Celia Rivenbark. It was a passage from her book, "Bless Your Heart, Tramp."
"Have you heard of her?" she asked.
No, I hadn't, but as soon as I hung up the phone, I did an Internet search and found Celia's latest newspaper column online. Lo and behold, that week's column was about me and my first book. It was an incredible coincidence.
"I fell to my knees and wept with admiration," Celia had written. Since it's usually a no-brainer to like those who like us first, she became my new best friend. I sent an e-mail of appreciation and a new friendship began. In another peculiar twist of fate, we now share the same fabulous New York literary agent.
Over the years, Celia and I have stayed in sporadic rather than constant contact, but one thing always is consistent: We understand and admire each other. So, when I heard that Celia's latest book tour for "Belle Weather" was bringing her to nearby Atlanta, I sent one of those sporadic e-mails.
"Let's go into the studio and record a Cover to Cover interview for Public Radio," I suggested.
She agreed.
"Then we'll have dinner and charge it to your publisher," I continued.
She agreed with greater enthusiasm.
Interview finished, we left the studio and headed out for dinner at a quaint restaurant owned by one of the Indigo Girls ("My husband will be so jealous," she reported. "He loves the Indigo girls."), then we sat down to do what Southern women do best - dish about commonalities and the hilarious side of life's travails.
"Are you always funny?" I asked.
She frowned and shook her head. "No. There are some mornings when nothing's funny so I have to read something that puts me in the mood."
But one thing that's always consistent about Celia is her funny-bone delicious titles. A couple of years ago, she wrote a book called "We're Just Like You, Only Prettier."
"That title could get you in trouble," I warned. After all, I've been whacked enough to be an authority on such. Some people don't have a funny bone or even a funny pinky nail.
Turns out that the title got us in trouble.
A newspaper guy up in Memphis, Tenn., wrote an entire Sunday feature on female Southern writers and railed against Rebecca Wells ("Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"), Jill Connor Browne ("The Sweet Potato Queens"), Celia and me.
"Shut up!" he screamed through the pages. "We're tired of hearing it."
One by one, he tore us apart. But reserved his most venomous comments for the title of Celia's book. He posed a question. Instead of writing a book called "We're Just Like You, Only Prettier," why don't one of you write a book called "We're Just Like You, Only Smarter?"
"Because you can't!" he snorted.
Since we're a sisterhood, I stepped up and stood up for my sisters. I wrote him a thank you note. The publicity had been grand, I noted. Then, one by one, I listed our accomplishments.
"So, you see, writing about Southern womanhood has been rewarding for us. We make a nice living by just being ourselves. Unlike you, we answer to no boss. We're independent."
I concluded, "So, I guess we could write the book you suggested because we are just like you. Only smarter. Apparently, much smarter."
Celia and I still laugh about that.
• Ronda Rich is the best-selling author of "What Southern Women Know About Faith."
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Jan 24 (Reuters) - (The following statement was released by the rating agency)
Fitch Ratings has downgraded three classes and affirmed 11 classes of Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust 2004-TOP16 commercial mortgage pass-through certificates series. A detailed list of rating actions follows at the end of this press release.
The downgrades reflect a decrease in credit enhancement from incurred losses since the last rating action. The affirmations are the result of stable performance of the underlying collateral and sufficient credit enhancement relative to the ratings.
Fitch modeled losses of 2.8% of the remaining pool; expected losses on the original pool balance total 2.8%, including $11.8 million (1% of the original pool balance) in realized losses to date. Fitch has designated nine loans (13.5%) as Fitch Loans of Concern, which includes two specially serviced assets (0.7%).
As of the January 2014 distribution date, the pool's aggregate principal balance has been reduced by 36.1% to $738.2 million from $1.16 billion at issuance. Per the servicer reporting, 17 loans (31% of the pool) are defeased. Interest shortfalls are currently affecting classes L through P.
The largest contributor to expected losses is the Congress Center Office Development loan (9.7% of the pool), which is secured by a 524,784 square foot (sf) office building located in Chicago, IL. The loan is performing under its modification from November 2012. Terms of the modification included an extended maturity until October 2017 with interest-only (IO) payments through the term. The loan was also assumed by a new borrower and paid down by $15.6 million. The propertya€™s occupancy has remained unchanged since the loan modification at 73.9% as of year-end 2013. The servicer reported NOI debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) has increased due to reduced principal balance and IO to 1.29 times (x) as of the second-quarter 2013 from 0.91x as of year-end 2012.
The next largest contributor to expected losses is the specially-serviced asset (0.6%), Wal-Mart- Carlyle Plaza, which is secured by a 126,846 single retail center located in Belleville, IL, approximately 20 miles southwest of St. Louis. The loan transferred to special-servicing in August 2013 for maturity default. The sole tenant, Wal-Mart, vacated the property in 2010 and continued to pay rent until their lease expiration, which was coterminous with the loan maturity.
In addition, the special servicer reports there may be environmental issues associated with an adjacent property and has ordered third-party reports. The third largest contributor to expected losses is the Western New York Medical Park loan (1.6%), which is secured by 81,204 sf medical office park located in West Seneca, NY, south of Buffalo. The property has been suffering from poor performance over the last several years due to increased expenses. The servicer reports that the increase in expenses are primarily a result of higher real estate taxes, property insurance, utilities and repairs and maintenance. The propertya€™s occupancy and DSCR were 84% and 0.86x, respectively, as of the third-quarter 2013.
Rating Outlooks on classes A-6 through F remain Stable due to increasing credit enhancement and continued paydown. Rating Outlooks on class G is Negative due to the relatively thin class size of the majority of the subordinate classes. Fitch downgrades the following classes and assigns Recovery Estimates (REs) as follows:
--$2.9 million class J to 'CCsf' from 'CCCsf', RE 40%;
--$4.3 million class K to 'Csf' from 'CCsf', RE 0%;
--$5.8 million class L to 'Csf' from 'CCsf', RE 0%.
Fitch affirms the following classes, maintains Outlooks and assigns REs as indicated:
--$630 million class A-6 at 'AAAsf', Outlook Stable;
--$20.2 million class B at 'AA+sf', Outlook Stable;
--$13 million class C at 'AAsf', Outlook Stable;
--$13 million class D at 'Asf', Outlook Stable;
--$15.9 million class E at 'BBBsf', Outlook Stable;
--$10.1 million class F at 'BBsf', Outlook to Stable;
--$11.6 million class G at 'Bsf', Outlook Negative;
--$10.1 million class H at 'CCCsf', RE 100%;
--$1.3 million class M at 'Dsf', RE 0%;
--$0 class N at 'Dsf', RE 0%;
--$0 class O at 'Dsf', RE 0%.
Fitch does not rate the class P certificates. Fitch previously withdrew the rating on the interest-only class X-1 certificates.
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These are all channels focused on Windows and Android customization/personalization; then I follow....
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- Cayleigh Elise
- BeyondSilence
- A couple of italian channels.
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For the Houston Rockets, it was a weekend full of highs and lows — and not necessarily in that order.
MK Bower of CultureMap joins me from the scene at the Toyota Center after James Harden, Dwight Howard and Corey Brewer powered the Rockets to a 121-114 win over the New Orleans Pelicans Sunday night. We discuss what we saw in the win, the massive opportunity lost against the Spurs, the latest opponent strategy to intentionally foul the Rockets early and often, the impact of Donatas Motiejunas' injury and potential playoff matchups for the Rockets as the NBA season draws to a close this week.
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Pioneers of Cultural Travel
Travel is something that is embedded in the cells, the blood, the DNA. Pioneers of cultural travel did not begin with a golden wand guiding them to unknown places. They took risks, walked through walls of fear, and took the unbeaten path to places that many would be afraid to traverse. One such pioneer of cultural travel is Jim Calio. The Huffington post has a great article about this travel pioneer.
JC: What were your goals when you started out in Africa?
GK I made a decision early on that our safaris would be about appreciating the wildlife and the scenery in the most luxurious way possible and came up with the slogan "shoot with a camera, not a gun" and we stuck with that. Early on I got an old army buddy of mine, who was a brilliant engineer, to develop a refrigerated truck so we could have ice in the bush for the gin and tonic. It was the first time this had been done and it worked brilliantly.
JC: What was the first trip you organized when you started the company?
GK: One of my first trips ever was with Jane Chapin from Adventures Unlimited. She was the exclusive travel agent for A&K. She had somehow heard of me and, when she came to Nairobi, I took her on a safari. I picked up Jane at the old Stanley Hotel and took her into Nairobi National Park. Then, in 1966, I took her off on a longer adventure. I was the guide, and we had a mobile tented camp — with ice and electric lights. She had such a wonderful time that soon she and I were operating 10 safaris a month.
Pioneers of cultural travel exist throughout history in the form of naturalists, theosophists, anthropologists, artists, dancers, and curious people. Jim Calio is one example of a person who has combined passion with an entrepreneurial spirit to create a lifetime of crafting trips for people around the world. What about you? Are you a pioneer, or a curious seeker? Read the whole article here.
Folk Art and Cultural Travel to China
Folk art is a great reason to plan travel to China. Why? Because China has a long history of the silk road, where silk and fabulous textiles were transported from place to place, and the cultivation of silk was one of China's most valued treasures. Pingliang, one of the silk route's places of trade is a part of the 9th China Folk Art Festival. The famous silk route spans roughly 4000 miles, and existed as trade routes between China, India, southeast Asia, Turkey, Persia, Africa, and Europe. The silk road began around 206BCE and expanded between the 5th and 8th centuries. Silk was not the only commodity traded along the silk route. Spices, teas, functional items produced by craftsmen, and religious beliefs were also ignited during the time of the silk route.
The 9th China Folk Art Festival will be held in Pingliang, Gansu province from September 12 to September 15, according to a press briefing in Beijing on Sunday. The theme of the festival is "Beautiful Kongtong Mountain. The festival aims to combine the Chinese folk art exhibition and tourism promotion of Pingliang, located on the Silk Road.
If you're going, do some research on Folk Art of China, and the fascinating history of the silk route. Folk art and cultural travel to China is a world that is interesting and wonderful. You will be drawn into a time and place that is reflective of ancient people long ago, and how they learned about the rest of the world through trading silk and other objects of art. Read the full article here.
The Culture of Mermaids
We all know the mythical, and sometimes strange story of mermaids. But what if the culture of mermaids is a real phenomenon? Recently, I discovered a video on utube that is really interesting. Personally, I have never thought about travel through the ocean, but what if there are species of mermaids that live in the ocean? Perhaps you should look at this yourself, and ask yourself if you believe in the culture of mermaids.
So what do you think? Do you think Mermaids are real? Do you believe that there is a culture of mermaids in the sea? There are many other cultures in the sea, why not Mermaids?
Tom Cruise in Iceland
Famous people and travel are interesting to those of us who adhere to holding movie stars, and musicians in high regard. I often wonder where certain people are in the world, as famous people are known for being all over the world. Take Tom Cruise for example. Right now he is in Iceland. I can assure you, he didn't get there by flying coach. What is Tom Cruise doing in Iceland? Just ask the Reykjvik grapevine.
Actor and noted Scientologist Tom Cruise is currently in Iceland for the filming of Oblivion, taking place in the northeast of the country.
Vísir reports that Cruise is staying at the Hótel Hilton in Reykjavík. He will remain in Reykjavík for a few days before moving his residence to Hrafnabjörg in Vaðlaheiði, near Akureyri, for the summer.
I like to imagine Tom Cruise traveling all over the world in his jet. Personally, I find imagining Tom Cruise in Iceland far more appealing than the tabloid's parade of his personal life. I loved the "Fourth of July" a movie that he shined ever so brightly. Best wishes to you Tom Cruise on your 50th birthday in Iceland. Read the whole article here.
Famous People and Travel
It is interesting to hear how famous people see the world. Famous people and travel is a subject that is relatively unknown to most, but hey, they're human beings just like us. Many famous people get to see a vast part of the world, but I imagine it is only a glimpse, as they are in and out of places in a very short period of time. To hear how famous people perceive the world comes through snippets on the news, or magazines, and blips on the web. But what about the life behind role that famous people have to endure? What cultural perceptions do they carry back home? Take Tony Hadley for example. Hadley is an English pop singer and songwriter. Recently, the "Independent" had an article about Hadley's life in travel.
Ideal travel companion?
Ali and my children. I've got five now; the eldest is 28 and the youngest is five months. They're all beautiful and brilliant. I couldn't think of a more perfect holiday than being with them. We go skiing every year to Morzine in France and stay at a B&B right on the slopes. I love it. If I hadn't become a musician, I would have been a skier.
Beach bum, culture vulture or adrenalin junkie?
I do like the cultural aspects, but I've also been on several big treks with Action Medical Research. One was to Costa Rica – from the Pacific coast, through the jungle, to the Caribbean, where we endured torrential rainfall and got lost. We also went to Peru and to Venezuela, which turned out to be a bit dangerous because I almost fell off of a cliff. Luckily, someone caught me.
You don't have to be famous to enjoy the cultural wonders of the world. It helps to have the funds to travel, but you can create a trip anywhere by creating the possibility in your mind, and taking action to go. There are still ways to travel on a shoestring. Ask me, I've been out on a thin thread to some of the far reaching places on the planet. The key is taking action. Just do it. You don't have to be famous. Live now, go places. Read the whole article here.
The Sound of Music in Malaysia
Malaysia is one of the world's best kept secrets in the way of food, place, and how about a world music festival to top it off? Cultural travel to Malaysia is a trip that can enliven the senses. Each year, in a place called Sarawak, a world music festival takes place. Where is Sarawak? It is in Borneo. Take a look at these musicians at the Rainforest World Music Festival.
Lan E Tuyang performed by the Sape Masters: (l-r) Mathew Ngau Jau, Asang Lawai, and Tegit Usat at the 2011 Rainforest World Music Festival
It is not only their music and instruments that are inspiring, their textiles and garments are enough to make me want to get on a plane. Borneo here I come. Here is another video of musicians from Borneo.
And lastly, the most clear sound of sape orang ulu. I love the sound of these instruments.!
Cultural Travel Shock
Cultural travel shock is an experience that occurs when we travel to a different culture and find ourselves in stark juxtaposition to the beliefs, ideas, language and economic differences with another culture. Opening oneself to experiencing culture from the inside out means allowing and opening to the differences, smells, tastes, and traditons of a culture, and suspending the "frame" around what we think and know about culture. Dealing with cultural travel shock means walking through walls of fear, and being uncertain withing the context of the culture that you are visiting. There are many places where cultural travel shock is more acute. These places are usually places where the culture is still somewhat intact. Places in the South Pacific, certain islands of Indonesia, and numerous other places in the world, have cultural story and traditions still in place. There is a certain protocol that is important to remember while in another culture.
Here's what the travel dudes say about cultural travel shock:
To start, one thing that you can do is to change some of your perceptions and think of culture shock as the first step towards learning about other cultures.
Remember that in every culture some things may be right and valid while in your own culture they might not. Remember that each culture is shaped in response to peculiar environmental challenges that differ from society to society and from country to country. So if people dress or eat differently it is because it helps them to adjust best to their local environment. If you have this understanding you will be less likely to feel offended and disturbed by local customs.
Research on a culture's beliefs and traditions can also go a long way in understanding cultural differences. As an example, women in Malaysia wear sarongs and long skirts, and it is way out of context to wear short shorts, or skirts that are really short. As a visitor to another culture, it is really disrespectful to stand out like a sore thumb. It is better to do the necessary research, and find out in advance what customs and beliefs a culture embraces, so that you can gain cultural awareness and immerse yourself fully in the experience of embedding yourself within a culture. Cultural travel shock has much less impact on you when you do your homework before getting on a plane, or ship to travel to the other side of the globe. Cultural sensitivity is an attribute we could all foster, and it makes us better citizens of the world. Read the whole article on how to deal with cultural shock here.
Cultural Travel with An Escort to Burma
I'm not the type to want an escort anywhere, especially on a trip, but having things planned out for places that are otherwise inaccessible seems pretty appealing when you consider all of the time and planning required to go to unknown places. Cultural travel with an escort to Burma may qualify for a trip that I wouldn't mind having an escort. In fact, in places such as Bhutan, the government requires that you have an escort to move you throughout the country. You are also required to spend a minimum of $200.00 per day while in Bhutan. What a wise way to keep the masses from ruining your country. Burma is a country that has just opened the pearly gates again to tourists, and is probably one of those places that you might want to have an escort with you.
You might ask, what is there to see in Burma? A blurb in the Telegraph talks about Burma's highlights here:
After years of anticipation and frustration, lovers of south-east Asia are now able to visit the region's least explored – and arguably most magical – country. Rural Burma is a scenic backdrop for stops including the Pindaya caves, the ancient temples and pagodas of Pagan, historic hill stations and a cruise on the Irrawaddy River. Inle Lake, the colonial architecture of Yangon (Rangoon) and the northern city of Mandalay are further highlights of a tour with Voyages Jules Verne.
- Voyages Jules Verne 0845 166 7003; vjv.com) offers the 14-night Discover Burma tour, departing on August 13 and September 10. From £2,495pp, including return flight.
Burma has some of the world's best exemplars of neolithic artwork in caves. The neolithic culture of Padah Lin caves is indicative of one such site. Below you see the neolithic images from the Padah cave.
Photo from wikipedia-uploaded by Dimitri Lytov
There are numerous other wonders in Burma that any human being would find interesting and fascinating. For one, the temples are extraordinary, and cultural travel with an escort to Burma can provide an enlightened twist to a traveler's experience of all of the dimensions of Burma. The people there are interesting and while there has been considerable unrest, the rich traditions and beliefs of the culture there is worth the time and effort it takes to get there. There are 135 distinct ethnic groups, and 4 different languages spoken there. Below is an image of a little girl from Padaung.
Burma is one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia. Bordered by Thailand, India, China, Burma has a unique tie to ancient human beings, with a history that goes back 750,000 years! The neolithic paintings above, date back 13,000 years. It is easy to see how cultural travel to Burma offers a unique view into a culture that is knitted to ancient people of long ago. Burma is a country that one should fully explore in the way of research, before traveling there. Cultural travel to Burma with an escort would be a wonderful way to see places that would otherwise be difficult to access. If you're going, you might want to check out the full article in the telegraph here. Check out Lonely Planet's guide to Burma. You'll be glad you did!
Tibet Travel on Your List?
Let's face it, life is brief, and if there is a place that you would like to travel to in the world, you need to make a commitment to travel. Let me ask you, is Tibet Travel on your list? If not, you might want to learn more. I the late 1980′s I traveled to Nepal, and it was one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life. Outside of the airplane window, I saw the most magnificent mountains in the world. Mt. Everest, and the Himalayas were so surreal.
Tibet Travel Coop (TTC) now offers three kinds of Tibet tour. Depending on their interest, travelers can choose spiritual journeys, cultural odysseys, or adventure trekking. Itineraries can be tailor-made to suit individual requests.
"These journeys reveal historical and cultural places," TTC said. "They include short hikes to stunning nomadic hillsides, connect the traveler with the hearts and minds of rural Tibetans, and the homestay trips in the Minyak region stay off the popular tourist paths."
Cultural Travel and Unknown Places
For many years, I worked along side Hmong sisters who helped me to sew soft sculptures out of silk fabric. While I have never traveled to Laos, I can say that it is on my bucket list of places to go to. One of the destinations for travelers to Laos are the caves that still hold the mystery of time and history. Lonely planet has a great video on the caves of Laos. Tony Wheeler gives a great account of the caves of Laos on Lonely Planet's site:
Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler heads up the Mekong from Luang Prabang, Laos, to explore the Pak Ou Caves, a Buddhist shrine.Read more: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/#ixzz1yxh59ERt
Cultural travel to unknown places can be really exciting whether you discover them on your journey, or seek them out in advance of going. You must go to the Washington Post's travel destinations off the beaten path visual, pictorial show of places around the world that are off the beaten path. If images can speak, these photos can make you pull out your credit card to explore relatively unknown places. So go here to see these amazing photos of places around the world. Perhaps I will see you in one of them! Go here to see the photos.


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Dec 18 (Reuters) - Seattle Seahawks cornerback Brandon Browner has been suspended indefinitely for violating the National Football League's substance abuse policy, the NFL said on Wednesday.
The 29-year-old's suspension begins immediately, the league said in a statement.
According to a league source, Browner turned down a deal that would have "significantly reduced" his initial one-year suspension, NFL.com reported.


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The 2016 Amarillo Outdoor Expo
If you love the outdoors, then you need to make plans to attend the Outdoor Expo this weekend at the Amarillo Civic Center.
If you love the outdoors, then you need to make plans to attend the Outdoor Expo this weekend at the Amarillo Civic Center.
Putting grown hunters to shame, a 10-year-old Texas girl bagged a 13-foot alligator on a hunting trip this past weekend in the Guadalupe River near Victoria.
Eight months after setting off an internet firestorm with a series of hunting pictures, Texas Tech cheerleader Kendall Jones is speaking out.
Day one is 'in the books' for the Outdoor Expo at the Amarillo Civic Center, but you still have all day Sunday (7/27) to stop by the South Exhibit Hall and check out all the great items that are being sold.
Animal rights activists across the globe have expressed outrage at photos posted to Facebook by a 19-year-old Texas Tech cheerleader.
In case you missed it, these guys came across two bucks that were tangled up from fighting. One is already dead, while the other is still alive and fighting. Once they got the pair unlocked, what the live buck did next was kind of remarkable.
Thanks to the frontier spirit that helped found this nation, hunting and fishing are pretty ingrained into the American psyche.
But how many folks in the United States still participate in these outdoor activities?
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The Five Great Elements RediscoveredA course by Swami Nityamuktananda
5 hours of video guidance. Lectures, Makkaho Exercises. Dance. Plus 401 page E-book.
- Introduction to Concept
- Universal Concept and stories from around the world
- The Five Stratas
- Talk on Earth
- Talk on Water
- Talk on Fire
- Talk on Air
- Talk on Space
- Philosophy
- Purpose
- Relationship
- Application on level of Personalities
- Balancing the Energies
- Makkaho Exercises demonstrated
- Sabina Cesaroni's dance on the Five Elements
Since time immemorial the human being has the desire to understand the world he lives in, his own existence and the powers behind both.
Over millennia, there is one concept which resurfaces again and again.
Almost in every culture, in every time and every corner of the world people have come to a similar answer; we can even include most modern science.
We can give this understanding the title: Five Element theory – albeit is "not theory…but very real and practical knowledge.
The words the cultures have given it vary, but the universality of understanding is shared. The most common way is to talk about these five energy-fields (strata of energy of different character and vibration) as: Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Space.
Or if one wants to take it into the realm of Gods (i.e. in India) we talk about the realms of Bhumi, Varuna, Agni, Vayu and Shiva.
Entering modern science we talk about: gravity, electromagnetism; weak and strong nuclear forces – and the combined "Strong force" (which we don't really yet know what it is).
Whatever culture and language we choose, there seem to five forces working, from the most subtle level (spiritual or energetically) to the gross which we can actually perceive with our five senses.
We cannot escape the fact that everything is made up of these Five energy-forces which have their source in the indescribable Absolute, of whatever cultural description.
This means we (you and I) too are shaped by these forces, spiritually, psychologically, mentally and physically .
Knowing one's energetic make-up gives us a clue about our talents, our weaknesses, our problems… and illnesses.
Health, peace and balance come from these forces being in harmony.
To bring harmony, to balance opposites…whether in our body, our relationships, the environment or the world at large depends on our ability to understand these force and the laws according to which they move in the perpetual change we call life.
In this workshop, we will explore, play with and understand these forces and then look at ways to bring greater peace and balance into our bodies, lives, relationships – even problems and issues in the world at large.
Swami Nityamuktananda Saraswati (Dr. Christa-Maria Herrmann ( PhD; MA; MEd; DAD; Dip theol; Dip Ed; etc.), German by birth (1945), naturalised British, originally studied Theology; her university studies soon expanded to Education, Psychology, Philosophy and Art and Design (Ceramics). In fact she has never stopped studying and never stopped teaching. Be it in colleges and universities; in workshops and international conferences, in Yoga Institutes and ashrams; or even on Silent Retreats etc. At the centre of her studies and teachings always is the subject of 'Self-awareness'.
Life in Asia (Australia and America) awakened her interest in Eastern Philosophy (Taoism and Zen) and led to the Zen-arts of Raku (as an artist potter she exhibited worldwide) and Shiatsu (one of several complementary medicines she studied and practiced).
As artist and philosopher merged more and more, a unique combination emerged of deep involvement in Meditation, Sattipahana (mindfulness) and Ngal So; as well as the contemplative practices of Jnana Yoga and Vedanta. Throughout, she worked with several great spiritual Masters among them Zen-Masters, great Siddhas, the Tibetan Lama and Tulku T.Y.S. Gangchen, the great Yogi Swami Maheshananda and H.H. Swami Anubhavananda (Acharya of Vedanta) and M.M. (Mahamadeleschwara) Swami Veda Bharati, disciple of Swami Rama of the Himalayas.
In 1997 she made her Doctorate in Eco-philosophy on the subjects of the Mahabhutas (Five Great Elements) and has since contributed world-wide in conferences and workshops. The wisdom of the of the Mahabhutas, the five Elements, is a universal concept shared by many, if not all wisdom-traditions around the globe; including but by no means only, Yoga Philosophy.
Swami Nityamuktananda continuously travels around the world, sharing wisdom and spiritual practices including meditation and "The Five Elements". All this from Norway to New Zealand, from Germany to Mexico; from Japan to Ecuador; from Singapore and Australia to Ireland.
In 1997 she was awarded a 'World-Peace Prize' for contributions to World Peace (LGWPF/ NGO of UN).
She is the author of several books especially an encyclopedic book on the Five Elements; as well as a simpler version translated into Italian and soon to appear in German, Chinese and Hungarian.
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lol as I read the bible I am always astounded by how syntax and verbiage as well as the version of the scriptures has a tendency make this a subject of contention. I am unaware of any group of Israelites who ever went out the prove the point even if several of the prophets amongst them made alliterations to the shape of the earth. Whether the Israelites took any of that seriously it is uncertain as one scripture referred to the earth as God's foot stool. In the last moments that Christ spent amongst his people he did mention that there were other sheep that he needed to visit and when he was pressed for whom those were he gave them to understand that there were island in the sea that he had to visit and bring his gospel to. As I am not bound by the Bible alone for evidence of the curvature of the world at the time Christ or even before, I am aware that one of the sons of Jeremiah managed to escape and charter a boat to escape the invasion of Jerusalem at the time of Zedekiah. The Book of Mormon records running into that people. Thor Heyerdahl found a group of people who operated around the equator in their pursuit of Sun worship who were the probable people that Mulek contacted to get out of the way of the Babylonians. As most of Israel was unconcerned with the rest of the world favoring their promised land above all others, that the knowledge existed during that time is certain but beyond that is pure speculation.
No it didn't, what it actually said was it was a circle which is the Flat Earth version of the shape of the planet.
If you stand in a high place or at sea out of sight of land and look around the horizon it indeed forms a circle. What you cannot see is the curvature of the Earth that leads to a sphere.
I'd also like to point out that it was the Christian church who used the same Bible to prosecute Gallileo for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around. A theory that tended to put a big dent in the Genesis creation theory that God created the Earth first then added light (Sun) as an after thought.
Yes, the bible says the earth is shaped in a circle.
Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Isaiah is a Book of The Prophets. It was written in Hebrew/Aramaic and Circle meant Circumference. It referred to the region that completely surrounds the Earth. It was not talking about the shape of the earth.
That's the problem, people think and don't really grasp the meaning.
Christians don't have much to do with the Old Testament because they THINK the New One replaced it.
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Amity - Jennifer (Faulkner) Fields 57 of Amity, Passed away on October 8th, 2016 at Eastern Maine Medical Center. Born January 9th, 1959 to Madeleine and Donald Faulkner. Jennifer attended East Grand High School, where she graduated with honors in 1977. She was a third generation mail carrier. Jennifer delivered mail for roughly 38 years. She loved her customers, as well as her co-workers at the Danforth Post Office. Jennifer often worked after hours, especially in the winter. She could be seen shoveling out mail boxes of those who just weren't able, or delivering packages late into the evening to make sure people got their Christmas presents on time. Community service was important to her, and making those around her happy, gave her great joy. She loved spending time with her family, gardening, biking, and cross country skiing. Jenny also greatly loved music, and was a beautiful pianist. She was famous in her family for her cooking. Jenny had a huge heart, and a gorgeous smile that could light up the room. She will be greatly missed. Jenny was pre-deceased by her parents, and two brothers, Gary Dean Faulkner, and Errol Douglas Faulkner. She is survived by her loving husband, Odel B. Fields of Amity. Her first husband, Michael Carr. Two children, Matthew Lewis Faulkner and daughter Courtney-Lynne Lamontagne and her husband Michael, of Bangor. Two grandchildren, who she was very proud of, Raymond Joseph and Emma Lee Lamontagne, as well as several very special nieces and nephews. Jenny had been battling pancreatic cancer for several months before she passed. It is a very painful and fast moving cancer. It is for this reason, we would ask that in lieu of flowers, friends and loved ones may donate to The Purple Iris Foundation in her memory. 418 South Main Street Room 9 Brewer, Maine 04412. A small committal service for close friends and family will be held at The Maine Veterans Cemetary in Augusta on Civic Center Drive, Thursday October 20th at 2 PM.
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At around 6.50pm I found that the pain was getting too much and I was losing control. I asked for an epidural. The midwife said she would happily call the anaesthetist for me but it would take about half an hour before she could come in – and by then my baby could be here! I immediately switched focus and forgot about the epidural. It was only minutes after that I felt an urge to push, and the pain went away.
After 30 minutes of pushing Hamish entered the world at 7.36pm on Sunday 13 November 2011, weighing a perfect 6 pounds 10 ounces. Not long after his arrival I was asking my husband when we could do it again!
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