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Hello Dear Reader,
I'll be blogging about this all week. It'll help me get ready for going away for the summer.
When we get on the ferry in the summer, the atmosphere is palpable. Families have saved all year and for most of the travellers, that two weeks is the only holiday the family will have. Many are laden with everything they need, from tents, boats, bikes and others have two suitcases full of clothes in the boot. Many families are travelling in convoy with extended family, siblings, all the children and three dogs. They may well be going to self catering accommodation in France, which can be found very reasonably if you do your research and find a good deal. Many gites will take pets which will save you hundreds of pounds in dog minding fees and they are family members and it's great to go on holiday with them.
So, here's five frugal things to do or take with you to save money on a self catering holiday.
Choose inland accommodation instead of coastal. This will save you a lot of money if you are travelling in a larger group. You will be able to find a cheap studio beach side apartment in the school holidays if you're a couple or just a family with two children and no pets. If you want to go in a group, take your pets and have plenty of space then rent inland. An hour from the coast will be the cheapest.
Take food with you for the first couple of days. You might not have any idea where you are, where the supermarkets are, what time the cafes open or know when the shops do and don't open. In our village, the shops open Sunday morning but some of them, along with the bank, are closed on Mondays. Take a cool box with easy to cook food: bacon, eggs, butter, bread, squash for the kids to drink, biscuits, snack, some crisps, a homemade quiche or cake wrapped in foil, so you've got something ready when you get there. Pack a couple of litres of UHT milk, teabags and coffee so, you can open the door and make yourselves a drink when you get there. If you've just driven miles, you'll be glad of it.
Take plenty to keep yourselves and the kids amused: books, games, jigsaws, cards, a laptop loaded with films will mean you can have 'down time' without having to add in the expense. You may not want to go out every day and you can buy most of the above in charity shops. I take a jigsaw every time, it's daft to think as an adult but I find it relaxing on a warm evening to sit with this on a garden table as it's light a warm until 10pm.
Research where the cheaper supermarkets are such as Lidl or Netto. Simply search Lidl.fr, or Netto.fr and use the search to find them near you. They are the cheapest supermarkets in France and are especially good for fresh produce.
French markets are not very cheap! They mainly sell the best of local produce, which is nice to buy but not if you're on a budget. Supermarkets are cheaper and budget supermarkets even cheaper again. Also, don't drastically change your shopping habits. I never see the point in having a self catering option and then eating out every day. You have the facilities so shop for a few days at a time and meal plan in just the same way.
I'll be back tomorrow with more money saving ideas for self catering holidays in France. Now, if you always self cater with or without a passport and never leave your home country, here's your chance to share those self catering ideas for holidays. What do you take with you so you don't have to rush off and shop immediately? What do you do to save money on your holiday?
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Srinagar, June 9 (IANS) Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday shot dead a health department employee in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town, police said.
"Unidentified gunmen fired from close range at Muhammad Altaf Sheikh near the bus stop in Sopore town today (Tuesday)," a senior police officer told IANS here.
Sheikh was taken to a hospital in a critical condition where doctors declared him dead.
An FIR has been lodged, the officer added.
Police sources said Sheikh, 45, a resident of Iqbal Nagar, was affiliated with the hardline Hurriyat group headed by Syed Ali Geelani.
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It can be a female dog? :0
boyguydudemalema | 0
ha ha ha ha ha I did you a favour by laughing at your joke. your welcome ^^
6969awesome | 0
Your profile picture is fucken hilarious
DeadxManxWalking | 27
especially if they lose your stuff or break it (ex. like a vase or such. they just throw the bags around and all :l )
Just thank god you wernt next to a dying man that is puking violently.
boyguydudemalema | 0
It was not cheating, she/he got an offer to take an earlier flight, doesn't sound cheating to me.
Alexstraza_fml | 5
Or crashed, or been hijacked, or been held up by security, or died, or
eog314 | 0
^ that's not the point of the fml. he was offered an earlier flight, so of course he excepted. however, they lost his baggage for over two hours and the people on his original flight headed home earlier. this means that BECAUSE of the earlier flight he was offered, he was home even later than he planned on being, even after his original flight. and have you ever had to wait in an airport for a couple of hours because of some inconvience? it's a bitch!!
FlipInBrosky | 4
Yup. When something seems to good to be true, it probably is.
anorexicbarbie | 8
Good. I guess you aren't a complete idiot then.
"today, I had to read a comment on FML from lulututu. FML" I swear I lose brain cells every time you try to make a joke!
anorexicbarbie | 8
Just...stop already.
I'd just like to express a few concerns. I don't think there is any way OP could have deserved this. It has nothing to do with being patient. If I were offered a spot on an earlier flight, I'd take it in a heartbeat. I don't know what parallel dimensions have anything to do with this FML either. Also, I don't find that putting a ";)" after an insulting comment makes the comment seem nicer. If it does anything, it makes a person's comment seem more rude. It would be a smart decision to just bow out of this argument with grace Lulututu. MonikaBug seems like a very powerful person on FML and it would be hard to win an argument with her.
STFU! nobody thinks you're being cute or funny so just stop while you're behind, or before you hurt yourself from trying too hard
35 I don't use winky faces and I definitely do it to be more rude:) and its fine if she wins. I hope she feels better about herself. All I know is I don't need to pick fights to feel good about myself but I will defend myself. Especially since I definitely was not trying to be funny in the first place the way people seem to think I was. But whatever:)
if you're going to try to diss someone at least get your spelling right. "lile"? honestly, just stop before you hurt yourself by thinking too hard. please do us all a favor
41- Just shut up already. You alreay made yourself look like an ass. And obviously you always dont win an arguement. You might want to change your bio there. Also, you should take an attitude check. Hope you get far in life (:
it's even more sad that you say you're not trying to be funny. at least before it could be passed off as bad humor, I mean who honestly says that kind of BS? there is seriously something wrong with you
dudeitsdanny | 9
Guys, guys.. She's an 18 year old egocentric kid. She's just a child mentally, perhaps she's been dropped on her head too many times. Personally, I'd have swung a bat at her head, but dropping has negative effects, too. Let's just move along, and let her think she's not a snot-nosed bratty idiot. Trust me, I have one of these for a sister. I really think it's one of those strange creatures that disappears when ignored. Teenagers like this can't stand to be ignored. Try it. She may just die from lack of attention. Seriously, though, is it just me, or ar 18 year olds unbearable lately? Sigh. I blame Justin Bieber.
OceanBreathesSal | 5
goodness lulututu, you are definitely no help in proving that the stereotype people have on us texans is wrong.
51- I blame Justin Bieber too. He gets gayer everyday. I mean he comes out with nail polish & now his own perfume ? Geez. And 18 year olds are definitely hard to handle. My brother is a prime example !
My brain is going into BS overload right now. The comment that MonikaBug made about you being funny in another dimension did not need any further conversation. Who cares if you are trying to be funny or not? People don't pick on other people because they aren't funny. People pick on other people because they are E.G. self centered, obnoxious, always thinking they are right.
honestly lulututu, you, Miley cyrus, and Justin bieber are the reasons why terrorists hate America
dudeitsdanny | 9
No, you're not. You've reached the point of senselessly arguing for the sake of living up to your bio. The way you act, and the way you present yourself, on this site is what makes you a typical egocentric child with delusions of maturity. Make stupid comments, be ready to get bashed. Argue like an idiot when you're not right, prepare to either lose the argunent or look like a bigger idiot. Your behavior is not cute, it's not nice, and it's that of another teenaged drone who thinks the world owes them something. We don't. Get over yourself, and bow out like a woman, or get treated like a child.
OceanBreathesSal | 5
You are dragging this out way too long. Just let it go already. Your comebacks suck and you just keep repeating yourself. You are convincing no one but yourself that you were not trying to be funny.
ImaMonsterRawr | 0
I've got a question lulututu or whatever it is, your telling people to get a life but you keep coming back to comment? Thats a life?
SuperCassie | 0
oh c'mon guys, you have to agree. lulututu is now so funny because of her nonsense parallel universe comment. dont worry lulututu, you are definitely making me laugh with all your angry replies. keep up the stupidity. lmfao
womanjesus | 0
HAHAHAHAHAHA Lulututu: A) Youre telling people to get a life as your constantly checking the comments on this to see if people bashed you more? B) Clearly you were trying to be funny or at least get thumbs up, and were defending yourself in the best way that you could, which evidently was making you look like more of a dumbass. C) Why do you think it makes us people feel any better by commenting on your mistakes? You took everything so seriously and tried to act cavalier by putting a smiley face when what started out as a simple joke (I.e. 'you're not funny') became a desperate need for you to stop commenting. SO STOP COMMENTING, DELETE YOUR FML ACCOUNT, AND GO OUTSIDE k thanks.
IronMaiden45 | 0
how could the op deserve it did he purposely lose the baggage? I love how idiots say how to op deserves it when they dont it cracks me up
IronMaiden45 | 0
maiimpressivetit | 0
You're a pathetic 18 year old. Get off the Internet and go outside for once.
Dear lulu the idiot, Shut up, your more annoying than me when I put 30 seconds into a joke, which almost always turn out terrible combined with the fact that Chris Brown came out of the closet after he sang with Justin Bieber. Lol your name sucks, I should make an account just to troll you wherever you comment, and I'm not one of those I loose interest over time tro.... Hey look a kitty kat!
A7X_LoVeee | 10
I cannot believe I read this entire conversation.
Human_Delilah | 0
o-o You people..Had a Convo basically About Lulututu ..&& I only had to Read Half to understand..She actually Is the Winner on all Those Comments..
-89 Cool story bro
By ColorfulDonut | 7
Stupid baggage people how is even possible to loose something as big as a bag?
marthagayo | 14
when there are hundreds of bags on one plane, millions of bags in one airport? yea that's ebb it's possible. dushe bag .
thebestof1984 | 0
Once again I need to repeat myself on another airline story. Fuck off, I work for the airport. We are human like you. We do not lose luggage, they get found later. He was offered an earlier flight which means HE'S LUGGAGE IS ON THE LATER FLIGHT. Many things go wrong. If someone checks in late you better believe we are not holding up a flight for the luggage to make it on a plane. It also passes thru TSA which takes longer.
By wordnerd42 | 0
if you lived at the airport like some people, this wouldn't be a concern at all! There would instead be much bigger concerns, of course..
wordnerd42 | 0
Optimistic redemption time: Maybe you would have been stuck next to someone who uses up three sick bags by the time the airplane takes off. Think of the fate you avoided. In case that's the person you did end up next to on the new flight, FYL. In case you are that person.... yeeeuch.
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Went there last night, was impressed by the place, seats are pretty comfortable. Hope it takes off and does well, there was only 4 of us in the 18:20 john Carter showing.
Was at the cinema myself last night. About 50 of us in at the 8:45 showing of Contraband.
There was an issue for the first few trailers with the cropping as mentioned before but didn't see any issue after that. The picture quality was very clear and the sound was good too. The seats where comfortable with plenty of leg room which was great as my knees used to be killing me by the end of a movie in storm.
Food is expense as is to be expected I suppose but all and all it was an enjoyable experience. The cinema as a whole is not that big but thats fine by me.
Just a quick question does anyone know if they sell cheesy nachos in the new cinema, we are going to see the hunger games on Friday and a friend is refusing to go until she finds out if they sell then
Ya they have those nachos with the cheesey dip.
Thank you, I will let her know
Havnt been out there yet, but I know Storms pic and sound quality has been perfect since their digital install.. I hear new cinema has the same so lets hope competition will be a good thing for cinema goers
Tell that to my friend who went to see Hunger Games at 8 last night and left at 8:45 because they couldn't get the projector to work/fix it. The amount of films the pair of us have gone to that have been faulty like that in Storm is unreal.
Going to this new cinema Sunday so looking forward to seeing how that is.
Something like this happened at the new Show Time cinema today, my friend went there at 3pm and after 15mins they could not get the film to play (why I don't know) but they did ring her and tell her that the 6pm showing would be working fine and it was.
I was there on Friday, the projectors weren't working came back five minutes later and it was grand. The local youth however arn't the best though, was seeing 21 Jump Street and they wouldn't stop jumping and screaming and running around. However beyond that enjoyable experience. Small cropping issue but I didn't notice it that much and the sound and visual are very good.
We went to 6 pm showing of Hunger Games . Thought it was excellent.
Widest screen I have seen in a while so we had to sit right at the back or it was disconcerting to watch- or maybe it was just me.
A bit of cropping on the adds - but who cares , if it was during the film we did'nt notice.
Great seats, very comfy and a great asset for all of us on the west side
Been there twice now, went to see The Muppets with my girlfriend, 2 brothers and sister for kids club on Saturday, 5 tickets for €20 inc. booking fee. I thought it was very reasonable. Food was great too, 13.50 or something like that for 2 Regular drinks, a large popcorn and a bag of sweets. For 5 of us to go cinema with food it was around €50 so I was happy out! Went back Sunday for 21 Jump Street and it was great, on in screen 1, very big screen, maybe a lil too big but great sound and video quality. I do hope that they get an Unlimited card as I would go more than once a week! They'd make their money off of me eating
saw The Hunger Games earlier, really impressed with the place, tons of legroom, seats lean back a fair bit, was in screen 2 and its pretty big, sound and picture were immaculate, even during the ads, which there werent too much of, four short ads and three trailers if I remember right, they've definitely got a new customer in me anyway would really recommend it.
Does anyone know if they do Slush Puppies at the food counter there?
they sure do, of what i saw there was cola and red..which would either be strawberry or raspberry? might be more but i wasnt really looking
Strawberry is red. Raspberry is blue. No, I don't know why either.


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I generally refrain from commenting on developments in the Sydney Tar Ponds project, because I know better than most the PR minefield faced by those charged with getting the job done.
Nevertheless, the Government of Canada has just released a short video that sanitizes the history of the cleanup in a manner so patronizing and false, it demands comment.
Here's an excerpt from the video's smarmy narration:
In the years and decades that followed, Sydney would see good times, and it would see hard times. But the resilience of its people would never falter. Faced with the environmental legacy of a century of steelmaking, the people of Sydney persevered. Their grit and determination resulted in the largest cleanup project in Canadian history to date.
Anyone even passingly familiar with the destructive process that hobbled cleanup decisions knows how dishonest this account is—especially coming from the Government of Canada, whose foot-dragging and pandering to irresponsible elements rendered the process nearly interminable.
One can easily imagine the battalions of craven bureaucrats who vetted and re-vetted this text with an eye to excising anything that might give offense, oblivious to the reality that the unwillingness to offend was the greatest offense of all.
I won't sully the pages of Contrarian by embedding the video here, but the morbidly curious can find it here.
Finally, Contrarian gets its very own weather page
In response to this, this, this, and many other provocations, a particularly keen-eyed consumer of Contrarian arguments has graciously created the official Contrarian weather page. (Click the image to download a larger version.)
Reining in environmental assessments
Here's another placemarker for an issue I've wanted to write about for some time. I have not read any details of the Harper Governments plan to rein in federal environmental assessments, but in principle, I believe such an exercise is long overdue.
It is a dirty little secret of the environmental movement that federal environmental assessments are a massive scam. They take far too long. They cost far too much. They do not focus on important issues.
Everyone in the system knows this, but no one complains, because almost everyone benefits. Engineering companies get tens of millions of dollars to carry out the studies; environmental groups get hundreds of thousands in baksheesh for their participation; the Environment Canada and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency get a level of featherbedding that would make John L. Lewis blush. The process does little to protect the environment that a much simpler, more focused approach could not do better and more efficiently.
More on that Sydney Harbor silt plume
The Cape Breton Post's Chris Shannon has a thorough and detailed account of Environment Canada's failure to monitor or control rampant siltation from the Sydney Harbor dredging
boondoggle project (first reported here).
In among the buck-passing and not-my-department quotes lies this gem:
The federal environmental screening assessment report is supposed to be posted online. But a check of each of the departments' websites didn't turn up the report.
A spokesperson for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency said the screening report couldn't be found on its agency's website either since it doesn't conduct that type of environmental assessment.
"It's really the responsible authorities that are responsible for the mitigation measures, the follow-up programs, and that would all be detailed in the screening report," Lucille Jamault said.
Did Ms. Jamault really say the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has no responsibility to provide access to environmental assessments? Did she say it with a straight face?
The real problem here is the politicization of Environment Canada. Projects should not be subject to varying standards of environmental assessment, monitoring, and control simply because they are popular or politically useful to the government in power.
A contaminated silt plume no one seems concerned about
A 100-hectare sediment plume kicked up by the Sydney Harbor dredging project, and presumably laden with industrial contaminants, has some officials annoyed over Environment Canada's failure to regulate the project.
Gerry Langille, a Sydney-based industrial photographer often used by government agencies, snapped the photos Wednesday in calm conditions at slack tide. They have since circulated widely among federal and provincial bureaucrats.
The Google Earth screenshot at left shows the approximate location of the upper photograph. The photo below shows the shoreline at Pt. Edward where the dredged material makes landfall, and where most of the sedimentation appears to originate. The infilled material will supposedly form the foundation for a container pier, but provincial and federal officials are privately skeptical it will ever be built.
The $38-million dredging project, condemned by some as a costly boondoggle raising false hopes for economic revival in Sydney, was widely seen as an effort to elect Conservative candidate Cecil Clarke in last spring's federal election. Clarke lost narrowly to five-term Liberal MP Mark Eyking, but was subsequently hired as a $135,000/year consultant to the Cape Breton County Economic Development Agency. The position is funded by Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation, the federal agency funding Ottawa's share of the dredging project.
The Sydney Tar Ponds were first identified as an environmental problem in 1982, when fisheries scientists found high levels of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in lobster caught in Sydney Harbor. They fingered the Tar Ponds as the probable source. A 2002 report by Kenneth Lee of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography found harbor sediments contaminated with widely varying levels of industrial chemicals, particularly PAHs.
Contaminant levels are thought to have declined since the coke ovens stopped operating in 1988, thanks to dispersion from tidal action, storms, and the prop wash from the large cruise ships that regularly dock just outside the Tar Ponds. The dredging project, sold as a first step to the container terminal, received provincial environmental approval in 2009, based on an environmental assessment prepared by the engineering firm Jacques Whitford.
In 2009, and again last February, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency approved the project based on an environmental screening, the lightest form of environmental assessment, but the screening report does not appear on the agency's hard-to-navigate website.
Officials of Public Works and Government Services Canada, the federal department responsible for the Tar Ponds cleanup, threatened to suspend marine effects monitoring of that project Friday because uncontrolled sedimentation from the nearby harbor dredging would obliterate the small amount of sediments escaping the Tar Ponds.
One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue, complained of a double standard by Environment Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Just last week, Environment Canada ordered the provincial Sydney Tar Ponds Agency to lift a control boom at the outer edge of the Tar Ponds so a Cape Islander could enter the North Tar Pond and collect sediment samples. Meanwhile, the same agencies took no action as the dredging project kicked up a huge plume of presumably contaminated sediments a few hundred meters away.
"We are pumping all the water from Coke Ovens Brook and the Wash Brook around both Tar Ponds," the official said. "The South Pond is completely filled in. How could our project possibly be doing anything but reducing the amount of sediments moving into the harbor?"
[Disclosure: I managed communications for the Tar Ponds cleanup from 2001 to 2007, when the Sydney Tar Ponds Agency terminated my contract.]
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A report last week in the prestigious scientific journal Nature revealed that the hole in the ozone layer over the Arctic was the largest ever recorded—comparable for the first time to the man-induced hole that appears every year in the ozone layer over the Antarctic. But when reporters asked Canadian scientist David Tarasick, who was involved in the study, to explain its findings, Environment Canada refused to let him speak.
Environment Canada scientist David Tarasick, whose team played a key role in the report published Sunday in the journal Nature, is not being allowed to discuss the discovery with the media.
Environment Canada told Postmedia News that an interview with Tarasick "cannot be granted." Tarasick is one of several Environment Canada ozone scientists who have received letters warning of possible "discontinuance of job function" as part of the downsizing underway in the department.
Meanwhile, the Harper Government is cutting back on ozone monitoring. CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks host Bob MacDonald decries the government's behaviour:
How has this country turned from a world leader in environmental protection, to one where scientists are forbidden to speak and the government seems to have turned its back on environmental protection?
….Scientists are our eyes on the planet. Their detailed monitoring of changes to the atmosphere, water, and movements in the ground, give us a window into the complex interplay of the Earth's many systems. They also see how human activity has an effect on those systems and the courses they will take in the future.
Over the long term, the scientists see trends, such as warming temperatures, loss of Arctic sea ice, shifting ocean currents or changes in biology, that are used to make predictions about the type of world our children will inherit.
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Blaming unions
Saint Mary's professor Larry Haiven thinks blaming unions for unnecessary snow days is silly:
This is part of a syndrome of "if in doubt, blame the unions." So convenient. So wrong.
A few years ago I was taking a tour of the new Toronto opera house. We were allowed to go everywhere except on stage, even though the stage was bare, with no current production going on.
One of the tour members asked the docent why we couldn't go on stage. The tour member said he had been on tours of all the great opera houses of Europe and had never been barred from the stage. The docent looked serious and said "union rules." All of the tour members (except me) nodded their heads sagely in rueful agreement.
It just so happened that I had an interview with the head of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (the stagehands' union) on another matter later that day. So I asked him if this were true. He got very angry and told me that there was no union rule, no union prohibition and, in fact, the union was very much in favour of tours visiting the stage when there was no production going on. He said that "union rules" have become a pernicious legend in his field. I later phoned the management of the opera house to complain about the docent's mistake.
What I found most interesting was not the docent's duplicity but the tour group's acceptance of it. As a former union staffer and a person who researches and teaches about unions, I'm amazed at the difference between the real power that they actually lack and the perceived power people think they have.
As I said before, I regret making the union issue part of this discussion, because it permits people like Larry to wrap themselves in solidarity's flag and ignore the core issues:
- In the management of risk, our society increasingly allows knee-jerk caution to trump common sense, and important social values like child-rearing suffer as a consequence.
- After their sub-par performance during Hurricane Juan was criticized, Environment Canada and the CBC began to over-hype forecasts of routine weather. Ironically, this monomaniacal focus on safety has created a very unsafe situation.
- Senior managers in our school system either belong, or kinda-sorta belong, to the teachers' union. The apparent willingness of class-struggle buffs like Larry to countenance this absurdity is astounding.
- We have far too many snow days, and the ones we have apply to far too wide an area.
I honestly don't know whether point three plays any major role in point four, but it ought to be changed anyway. No one above the level of small-school teaching principals ought to belong to the Teacher's Union, and the law should be changed to reflect this.
As for the accelerating trend toward a New Jerusalem of 'fraidy cats, Contrarian will continue to rail.
A nation of 'fraidy cats
By 7:30 a.m., today, it had stopped snowing at Kempt Head.
Total accumulation: 2-5/8ths inches.
Cancellations: Cape Breton Victoria School Board; Strait Richmond School Board; NSCC Marconi Campus; NSCC Strait Campus; Mayflower Mall (until noon, except for anchor stores); and pretty much every other event you could think of.
Imagine! Two and five-eighth inches of snow! In February, in Nova Scotia! Gadzooks! Why hasn't the army been called?
What on earth has happened to us? What has turned us into a nation of cowering, cringing, 'fraidy cats who darsn't get out of bed in the morning, lest something bad happen.
Something bad might happen. Get over it. Haul on your galoshes. Brush off the car. Get to work.
[Yes, dear readers, I understand there was significant snow in parts of the province, including Halifax. But not where I live. Our province is dominated by Halifax-rooted reportage, so we were bombarded all morning with the shrill weather warnings that have become the norm for Environment Canada and the CBC. Our province also has huge school boards, whose administrators seem to feel that if it's snowing in Bay St. Lawrence, they must cancel classes in Louisbourg, where is may be five degrees and drizzling.]
As a people, we have lost the ability to assess risk. An unachievable, zero-risk approach has infected every aspect of our lives. How this happened, the huge price we are paying for it as individuals and as a society, and what can be done to rein it in, will be continuing topics on Contrarian.
Contrarian weather forecast
Let the blogosphere note that on Friday morning, contrarian bet a friend that Hurricane Bill would not rank among the 10 highest wind speeds recorded in Nova Scotia in 2009. As of this morning, the bet is looking pretty safe.
Environment Canada and the CBC need to realize that the shrill, cover-your-ass forecasts they adopted in the wake Hurricane Juan are just as dangerous as under-predicting. EC and CBC cry wolf so often, and so predictably, citizens simply tune them out.
This is a topic contrarian will return to. Reader comments welcome.


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Album Rating: 4.5I'd love to see them live. I'll probably grow up and this won't be a 5 anymore but oh well I love it a lot right now
"This band is the embodiment of angst"
looks like my decision on whether to listen to this or not was made for me
Album Rating: 4.5lol go back to your teenage days Calc
Album Rating: 4.5It's really not that great I was just having a smoke and listening to it earlier and decided to review it for fun
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Imagine if early Converge didn't suck,
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I've never heard this all the way through
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steph curry that is
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Will you still feed me
When I'm 64
Album Rating: 3.5"more about the album that I am able to as a 16 year old kid"
"Anyway, the vocals are strained, yelled, and raspy."
that anyway is unnecessary
"Simply put, they are angry."
as is the simply put
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One of the top juniors from New Jersey for 2006 is linebacker Ryan D'Imperio out of Sewell (N.J.) Washington Township. His older brother, Hugh, signed with Michigan State in 2004. Will he follow?
The 6-foot-2, 230-pounder already holds offers from West Virginia and Rutgers and is receiving interest from Michigan State, Syracuse, Toledo, Alabama, Boston College, Pittsburgh and every school in the Big Ten and ACC.
It's not surprising seeing that D'Imperio was named a first team all-group running back as he posted over 1,000 yards rushing with 17 touchdowns. D'Imperio helped Washington Township to an 8-4 record this past season. As a linebacker, he was named first team all-group linebacker where he registered 60 tackles (seven for loss) two interceptions, five sacks and a defensive touchdown.
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"I improved a lot offensively and defensively. Last year nobody knew who I was, but this year I put even better numbers as teams were keying on me, so I feel I did better."
So who is leading for the linebacker?
"I like Virginia a lot, because they have a good football team and their academics are good too. After them it's probably, Virginia Tech, Miami, West Virginia, Michigan State and Michigan."
This summer D'Imperio is planning to attend the football camp at Michigan State where his brother attends school along with a Nike camp.
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I understand there may be a certain amount of settlement posturing to all this, but is Gene going overboard with his very public and very direct "Judge Ungaro screwed up" approach to appealing the BankAtlantic securities verdict?
I mean, this is a guy who already said it was the worst-tried case he's ever seen in his life, and that includes every episode of Judge Judy plus that old Boston judge from The Verdict (ok, I added the last part).
In today's DBR, Stearns continues to focus exclusively on Judge Ungaro:
"I don't blame the jury," Stearns said. "The judge instructed them that Alan Levan made four false statements. And that is, I believe, unprecedented for a judge to tell the jury that one of the defendants made false statements."Gene also didn't like how the Judge handled the damages expert:
Stearns said Preston's testimony about damages rested on several factual assumptions that the jury did not assess: "The judge refused to allow the jury to decide the factual questions upon which her testimony was predicated. Very puzzling."Puzzling? It's downright perplexing!
In their response, posted here, the plaintiffs take this argument head on:
Even though the Court was not required to submit a special interrogatory regarding Preston's assumptions to the jury, the jury clearly had the opportunity to consider and reject the assumptions. Preston's assumptions (found at paragraph 10 of her report, PX726) were published to the jury during her testimony. Trial Transcript ("Tr.") 2668-69. Defendants vigorously cross-examined her about the assumptions and the significance if Plaintiffs failed to prove them.6 Moreover, the instructions given by the Court were absolutely clear that unless the jury first found liability the issue of damages was not to be reached (DE 635 at 23) and specified that it was up to the jury to decide whether it would rely on the expert's opinion. Id. at 6. Given these instructions, it is implicit in the jury verdict awarding damages based on Preston's testimony that the jurors found that the factual assumptions she relied on were proven.If Judge Carnes gets this, given his penchant for quoting old song lyrics, I hope he updates his references a bit (I've given him a hint above).


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Tejada's surge could pose puzzle for Bochy
SAN FRANCISCO -- If Miguel Tejada maintains his recent performance level, Giants manager Bruce Bochy might have to resort to creative means to keep him in the lineup once Pablo Sandoval is activated from the disabled list. Tejada entered Friday batting .223 overall. But he owned a season-high six-game hitting streak, during which he was batting .320 (8-for-25), and he extended it to seven games with a first-inning double Friday. Tejada might have to keep hitting to force Bochy's hand. "As far as what we're going to do on a consistent basis, I won't know until Pablo gets back," Bochy said Friday.
Sandoval, playing with Triple-A Fresno on an injury rehabilitation assignment to test his surgically repaired right hand, is expected to rejoin the Giants during their June 14-16 series at Arizona.Third base will belong to Sandoval, thus displacing Tejada, who made two outstanding plays while manning third Thursday night. Bochy already has said that rookie Brandon Crawford will continue to receive significant playing time at shortstop. So returning Tejada to that spot, where he has started 27 games, appears unlikely. Bochy mentioned that Sandoval conceivably could play a game or two each week at first base to rest Aubrey Huff, thus vacating third base for Tejada. Tejada has never played first base, second base or the outfield during his 15-year Major League career.


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The Gunners head to West Brom on Sunday knowing destiny is once again in their own hands, with victory guaranteeing automatic qualification for the Champions League.
Given the disastrous start to the domestic campaign which saw four defeats from seven matches — including a humiliating 8-2 thrashing at Manchester United — to even be in this position is an achievement in itself.
"It will be a great achievement if we manage to do it. I believe it would be reward for a group which has exceptional strength," Wenger told Arsenal Player.
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TBC raids and 5man hc wer harder just saying.
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text: Wendy is an inventive French/American cook, inspired by the colorful flavors of Provence. Her recipes are short, but absolutely delicious and easy to make. She gives a great amount of insight into Provencal cooking. She will be coming out with a new book very soon. Wendy lives in Arles en Provence. In Mediterranean countries there exists a deep-seated unspoken concensus that eating is very important. As a great anthropologist once told me, it is our single most intimate act, far more intimate than sex because through food we literally re-create ourselves each and every day of our lives. Gathering around the table , literally breaking bread together, is both a symbol of communion and an act of communion in and of itself. And so it is important to pay attention, to be aware, in an almost Zen way, of what food is, where it comes from, and how it gets tto be the way it is when it comes into our lives. Wendy says "This is good food, food you'll want to eat AND doesn't take hours to fix.


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text: So in preparation for the X I traded back my iPhone 4 at the Apple store. I originally had a iPhone 3G. I was a bit surprised that they pressed me for reasons why I was turning it back in (see prior post from me) and I just didn't feel like complaining knowing it wasn't going to amount to much. It took about a 1/2 hour for them to reconnect my old iPhone then I went into the Verizon store which was on the same floor in the Mall I was in. To my surprise they let me play with the phone for about 1/2 hour and I wound up showing a potential buyer some of the great features I had already knew from being on the Android Forum site. Since only one other person was in this small Verizon store I wound up playing with it for a bit longer before I had to go. So here are my quick impressions: The phone is big but manageable for me and my hands. The screens and icons were very responsive. Without the phone being connected to WIFI it was quickly able to load a couple of sites I went to like ESPN and Engadget, much quicker than I expected on 3G. The typing experience on the large screen was impressive - the blackberry user I was convincing to upgrade to the X was very impressed from using her blackberry all these years. The device felt solidly built and rugged. I felt like if I dropped it, it wouldn't fall to pieces. I took a quick video with the X of people behind the counter and such, and played it back. It was good, but not nearly as crisp as the iPhone 4's video recorder/player. I think that may be the difference between the 24 and 30 fps in each device. Speaking of comparatives - I never thought about the difference between the iPhone 4's Retina display when using the X. I mean there are plenty of blogs about the differences, but using the X didn't make me feel like I was missing much in screen resolution. In closing, it was an absolute joy to use for the 45 minutes I was in there. I didn't do much with it, a couple of sites, resizing pages, playing with the different home screens and the video I took. It made me so secure in turning in my iPhone 4 that I almost wished I had never brought the iPhone 4. But then again, this whole elaborate process is to my benefit of appreciating the X.


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Weston Park for just 50p as estate celebrates anniversary
Visitors to historic Weston Park will be able to enter the stately home and grounds for just 50p for one day to mark half a century since its doors opened to the public.
The discounted rate will apply on June 3 to celebrate the anniversary of the 6th Earl of Bradford opening the estate to the public in 1964.
The estate is now owned by independent charitable trust the Weston Park Foundation and welcomes more than 250,000 visitors a year. It is also home to the annual V Festival, which attracts thousands of visitors from across Britain and beyond.
Sights available to visitors include the home's newly re-decorated drawing room, Lady Anne's Memorial Garden and one of Capability Brown's rare pleasure grounds Temple Wood.
Weston Park was the latest of a string of country houses to open its doors to people to look around when the Earl made the decision 50 years ago.
The anniversary will also coincide with a volunteer's day at the home, where people interested in getting involved can talk to some of the 100 people who already work on the estate. A cheese and wine event will be held at the estate's Granary Deli from 3.30pm.
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Residents offer £180k to pay for their own police
HOMEOWNERS have raised £180,000 to pay for beat bobbies to counter "violent and aggressive" criminals after the closure of their local police station.
Residents in Hampstead have offered to pay for a police force
The money, gathered in only four weeks, will pay for dedicated police officers over the next three years.
Residents in Hampstead, northwest London, hope that by offering the Met £60,000 a year for a dedicated ward officer the force will provide another policeman.
Jessica Learmond-Criqui, who chairs the Frognal and Fitzjohns safer neighbourhood panel, hopes to secure a total of £600,000 over three years to fund five PCs and a sergeant for Hampstead.
The government cuts mean that the local police station has been closed
They will have no choice as the Government seems undeterred in its rush to close down the police force
She accused the Met of "pillaging" Hampstead's safer neighbourhood teams after the force cut £600million from its budget and looks to slash a further £800million by 2020.
Ms Learmond-Criqui, a solicitor, said the closure of the area's only police station last year meant local crime had "taken on a more violent and aggressive quality".
"We are one of the first communities to propose this type of funding scheme for our area," she said.
"I have no doubt that when other communities, wealthy or otherwise, understand that they can do the same, they will do so.
"They will have no choice as the Government seems undeterred in its rush to close down the police force."
The community's proposal has not won the support of Scotland Yard, despite growing anger from public and police alike about plans to cut the budgets of over-stretched forces.
Residents are concerned that
Six Police and Crime Commissioners and London's deputy mayor have threatened to sue the Home Office over the "potentially serious implications" of further funding cuts.
The Government is being urged to delay a decision on police force budgets expected in this month's spending review.
The PCCs told policing minister Mike Penning that funding changes would result in "unfair, unjustified and deeply flawed" cuts.
Bedfordshire's crime tsar Olly Martins told MPs on the Home Affairs Committee this week that he would welcome sponsorship logos on patrol cars to raise cash.
The community proposal has not won the support of Scotland Yard
And Surrey's chief constable Lynne Owens, said offences such as petrol theft, vehicle crime and shoplifting were often not investigated because funds were stretched.
Responding to the Hampstead offer, Detective Chief Superintendent Penny Banham said that the area would continue to benefit from a "quality" service.


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Kotaku - The Wii U is a wonderful console. And its Miiverse is a hive of fun! But, according to a photo on Japanese site Game Watch Impress, Nintendo's Miiverse presentation at the Game Developers Conference looked...sparse.
we know kotaku is a ps3 fanboy web site as they never say anything good about nintendo! to me this looks like a set up as the presentation has not even started and people are still making there way to it! if that were not true why are people sitting right at the back and not the front to get a closer look etc! or random placed in seats? it just seems more bashing on N4G of anything nintendo thats what is sad.


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I have been busy lately. I will post something soon.
- Listening to: the world sleep
- Reading: Homework and more homwork!
- Watching: Young Justice
- Playing: Left 4 Dead
- Eating: Japanese food
- Drinking: Green Tea
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Can you shared some of that oxygen with me. We might need a shovel.
Me either..


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Text: Zimbabwean churches joint pastoral letter
The Churches of Zimbabwe have issued the following joint pastoral letter (dated April 2005) entitled 'A Call to Conscience' to mark the country's 25th anniversary. "The Spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for Yahweh has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the poor, to bind up hearts that are broken; To proclaim liberty to captives, freedom to those in prison; To proclaim a year of favour from Yahweh, a day of vengeance for our God, to comfort all those who mourn and to give them for ashes a garland; For mourning robe the oil of gladness, for despondency, praise." Isaiah 61: 1-3 1. A Year of Favour Zimbabweans celebrate twenty-five years of independence this year, 2005. Married couples often celebrate their first twenty five years together, their silver jubilee. It is a celebration of their love for each other, in which their children join them, but it is also a celebration of achievement. Despite difficulties, disappointments and maybe misunderstandings, they are still together. A silver jubilee is not just an excuse for a party. It is a real celebration of faithfulness. 2. Are we approaching our jubilee in this mood of celebration? Are we happy with the relationships we have lived together these past twenty-five years? Have we built a society in which each feels at home and at peace with his or her neighbour? 3. Ancestral Home The biblical concept of the 'Jubilee Year' (Leviticus 25) has two major thrusts: returning to one's ancestral home and giving the fields and vines a rest Both of these are connected with renewal. It is now a tradition among us in Zimbabwe to visit our 'ancestral home' at Christmas and Easter and on other occasions according to our means. It is wonderfully refreshing to go back to one's roots. You see again your life's journey from where it all began. And you meet some of the people with whom you lived those early years. To see where you have come from is a great help in reflecting on where you are going. 4. Silver Jubilee is an opportunity for us here in Zimbabwe to reflect and see where we have come from. Many of us can remember vividly the suffering and trauma of the liberation struggle. We would have preferred, in the 1950s and 60s, to achieve our freedom through non-violent means but every attempt ended in frustration. We were driven by the prevailing circumstances to embark on a violent road. We did it knowingly and deliberately. To be fully human is to be free and we were determined to be free. Our dignity, our sense of who we are, had been trampled on for decades. The conviction grew among us and within us that we had to embark on this great struggle. 5. The option for violence, once taken, has to be unequivocally renounced once the reason for that violence is no longer there. As we revisit our ancestral homes, either in spirit or in body, this jubilee year, we cannot fail to notice that violence has really made its home among us. We are familiar with the increase in robberies in our cities and towns. We know of the difficulty of people to obtain services in public offices. This is a kind of violence. We know that HIV and AIDS have spread among us because men have taken advantage of women, especially girls. This too is violence. And there is much evidence of public servants, particularly politicians, using violence to obtain what they want. We have allowed a culture of violence to persist among us since the time of the liberation war. 6. Giving the Fields a Rest The second way the Bible tells us of celebrating the jubilee is to give our fields a rest. "You must not sow your field or prune your vine, or harvest your ungathered corn or gather grapes from your untrimmed vine. It is to be a year of rest for the land," Leviticus 25: 4,5. In our profit driven global economy the idea of giving fields, factories or computers 'a rest' sounds like pure foolishness. Yet the idea of resting one day a week is built in both in our traditional culture and in our Judeo-Christian heritage. Even God took a rest on the seventh day, (Genesis 2:2,3). The biblical idea here is to recognize that human beings are not totally in charge. We do not know everything. 'It is God who makes things grow,' (I Cor 3:6). 'Of its own accord the land produces first the shoot, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear,' (Mark 4:28). 7. The image of the mechanic and gardener can be helpful here. The mechanic fixes things. He imposes solutions on problems according to a set idea he has in his mind. He follows physical principles, which lead to preconceived ends. There is little room in his craft for unpredictable results. 8. The gardener on the other hand prepares the way. He does all that is necessary to create the conditions for growth. He cultivates the soil, sows the seed, manures it, weeds it and waters it. But once he has done all he can he remembers that he is only a servant who 'has done no more than (his) duty,' (Luke 17:10). He is open to whatever happens next. In the image of the gardener there is room for surprise. 9. A jubilee year is a special occasion when we can stop and listen and open our lives to the 'God of Surprises.' It is a time of allowing the values that are there within the soil of our hearts to produce their fruit. It is a time for us to come in touch with our deepest desires. 10. Achievements of the New Zimbabwe As we reflect on our first twenty-five years as an independent country, we are conscious that the values we live now are not altogether the ones we aspired to during the struggle and at the time of the raising of our multi-coloured flag at midnight on 17th April 1980 in Rufaro Stadium. Many speeches at that time put flesh on the idea of freedom. It was to mean equality of all before the law; equitable access to opportunities in education, employment, housing and land; the ability to associate with others; participation in the processes of decision-making and production. The list was impressive and inspiring. It amounted to the proclamation of a new state where all would be equal and free and where the instruments of the state would be used to promote the good of all the citizens. Reconciliation with old enemies was proclaimed. There was euphoria and an atmosphere not unlike that of a wedding feast. 11. Some of these great ideals were achieved in the early years. There was a tremendous drive in education. The school building programme of the 1980s was truly impressive. Similarly the health services were expanded: hospitals and clinics were built and medical staff welcomed from abroad, notably Cuba, to meet the shortfall among our own personnel. Opportunities opened up in business, industry and agriculture and in the public service. We improved roads and extended electricity to some rural areas. 12. Today the achievements of the 1980s look deeply flawed and the lofty sentiments of that time tawdry. The reality in our homes and schools, our hospitals and public buildings, is one of bleak decay. Our money loses value between the time it is put into our pocket and the time it is taken out and used. Most families in the country focus on how to find their next meal. Planning for the future is a forgotten luxury. 13. How Did We Come to Where We Are? Perhaps before asking this there is a prior question: how is it that up to today we remain hopeful, cheerful and resourceful as a people? Foreign newspapers paint a scene of gloom. But that is not our experience. Wherever we travel we find resilience, hope and even joy. It is as though our people recognize the words of Paul: "It is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of grace in which we can boast about looking forward to God's glory. But that is not all & we can boast about our sufferings. These sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit." Romans 5: 2-5 14. In our hearts we know that we are on a journey. Every Zimbabwean tries to progress in that journey even if it involves suffering. He knows where he has come from. He has experienced, or heard his parents speak of the bad old days of Rhodesia. He knows that the present situation is, in substance, a huge advance on those days. He also knows, in spite of the gloss politicians put on our situation, that up to now we have failed to develop our country in any meaningful way. But he further knows that he is learning all the time how things could be. Zimbabweans are forming a vision, maybe at this stage still a bit confused, but it is a vision nonetheless. We are full of hope. 15. Freedom has been won but it is like a parcel that is held up in customs. You know it is there but you cannot get at it. Nonetheless, we know that a time is coming when we will soon 'get at it.' Then we will be able to unwrap it and set democratic institutions and structures in place. These allow each person the space to live their life fully and in peace. People will realize their potential. That is why people are cheerful. They have a hope founded on belief in their own genius. They know they can do wonders in this richly endowed and beautiful land that God has allotted to Zimbabweans. 16. Our path since 1980 has been strewn with achievements and failures. This will help us design the future if we understand the past. Certainly, we have enjoyed relative peace. We had terrible civil conflict in the 1980s but that did not reach the stage of tearing the country apart as what happened among our brothers and sisters in other parts of Africa. We have held together and discovered confidence as a people. We know the future will be brighter than the present. We are going to make it so. 17. We have to accept responsibility for the path we have walked. If we go on denying the part we played in the present failures and blaming others for our problems, we are only postponing the day of recovery. Without repentance we waste energy trying to justify our faults. We have to admit that in the assertion of our dignity we have asserted our power; in asserting our own freedom we have trampled on the freedom of others; in safeguarding our own security we have taken away the security of others; in proclaiming our own message we have closed our ears to the message of others. Through strong-arm tactics we may have attained what we want in the short term, but by alienating other people in the process, we may eventually lose all. 18. A House of Fear The result has been that we have built a house of fear. Some people do not feel free to speak their mind. Some no longer give their opinion without first checking if there is anyone listening, who could be a threat. Even the Preacher cannot preach the Word of God contextually for fear of harassment and even deportation if expatriate. For certain crimes, people will not seek redress from the law because they know they will not receive it. The vision of Zimbabwe as a free nation is stifled. The people are frozen in a war mode with the language and practices of a command structure. All this we have lived each day, prisoners in a concentration camp from the Zambezi to the Limpopo. 19. The Death of Conscience All of this has happened because we have not listened to our conscience, which is the voice of God within us. We have buried it away because it is too uncomfortable to live with. We have resorted to lying, deceit and equivocation as tools of survival. We have obeyed orders without allowing ourselves to ask whether they are good or evil. We have cooperated in commercial practices that further marginalise the poor. We have also connived in sycophancy towards the rich and powerful. We have regressed to the blindness of the Jews in Isaiah's time: "Woe to the legislators of infamous laws, to those who issue tyrannical decrees, who refuse justice to the unfortunate and cheat the poor among my people of their rights, who make widows their prey and rob the orphan," Isaiah 10 1,2. When we return to our ancestral home and allow the soil of our heart to bring forth what it wills, we face the raw message our conscience speaks to us. In the stillness we discover that things do not have to be as they are. Like Elijah of old, we learn our mission again, (I Kings 19:9-15). 20. Reconciliation We have reached our twenty-fifth birthday. Is there a way we can draw a line under the juvenile delinquency of the past and begin to live our mature years in justice and peace? In order to do this, we have to learn to listen to the Good Spirit speaking in our heart. As a first step, we call upon all the people of Zimbabwe to be reconciled among themselves. 21. We need to begin with the ancient hurts and honestly recognize that, although we have achieved a great degree of unity. We still need to enhance the relationship between the two great groups of people: the Ndebele and the Shona. Some animosities stretch as far back as the pre-colonial times. These were suppressed for a time, under the colonial government but re-surfaced in the liberation struggle and the years immediately succeeding independence. The Gukurahundi of the 1980s shall remain a festering wound until it is squarely faced. One of the practices of the ancient jubilee was the freeing of slaves and the cancelling of debts all with the purpose of rebuilding relationships among people. In a situation not unlike ours, Martin Luther King wrote: "We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out into the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicine of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured," Why We Can't Wait, 1963. 22. We have also had a long history of mutual suspicion, fear and even hatred, between black and white people in our country throughout the twentieth century. This spilled over into violence and rapine in the first years of this new century. 23. We have minority groups in Zimbabwe. There are approximately two million of our people that are neither Ndebele nor Shona. We refer to the Shangaans in Chiredzi, the Sothos in Gwanda, the Tongas in Binga, Nyaminyami and Gokwe North, the Nambyas in Hwange, the Vendas in Beit Bridge and the Kalangas in Plumtree and Bulilima Mangwe. Because they are relatively few, divided by language and geography and in generally poor-soil areas, they have not featured much in the national agenda. They have suffered from a marginalisation of cultural respect. By and large their languages have not been taught in their schools. The Tonga, in particular, have never had their grievances, dating back to the building of the Kariba Dam, addressed. 'If one art of the body is hurt, all parts are hurt with it. . .it is precisely the parts of the body that seem to be the weakest which are the indispensable ones. . .' (I Cor 12: 26,23). 24. Hope Reconciliation looks to the past; hope to the future. There are signs of economic improvement after the upheavals of the past five years. This can be seen in the economic indices, such as inflation, but also in the economic activity of the people. Formal employment has plummeted but many people are finding ways of employing themselves in small businesses and small plots. It does not amount to a turn around in the economy but it does underlie the wonderful resourcefulness of the people. If they can show such initiative in economic matters they can show it in other spheres as well. 25. Our leaders have often called the Churches the 'conscience of the nation' and truly we believe we have a contribution to make. We believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the Lord of history. Many in roles of authority in this land say they are Christians. So we can say they share this belief. The expression 'Lord of History' means that Jesus is working (John 5: 17) to draw (John 6: 44) all people to the Father, the source of all life and the goal of all history. Jesus is fully aware of the promises we make, the hopes we hold to, as well as the failures, compromises and evil deeds we fall into. But he never abandons us (Isaiah 49:15). His Spirit 'hovers' over the land as it did in the beginning of creation (Genesis 1:2). He knows what we are made of (John 2:25) and waits for us to return to him and then he will prepare a feast (Luke 15:20-24). 26. Our Heritage We truly celebrate our silver jubilee with joy and thanksgiving. We have much hope for the future. We have set our hand on the plough and we will not look back (Luke 9:62). By happy coincidence our independence is celebrated each year at the time of Easter. For the Christian this is a time of immense joy, which we want to share with all our fellow citizens. In our capacity as leaders of Churches in Zimbabwe, we invite all people of good will to join with us in rising up in spirit and laying hold of our heritage. 27. This heritage calls us to listen to the voice of conscience within us and courageously to follow it; it calls us to compassion and leaving our own security to reach out to others in pain and poverty; and it calls us to the civic duty enshrined in the aspirations of the founders of this nation. Some of the aspirations were that the common interests of the people be paramount in all efforts to exploit the country's resources; that the productive processes involve them as full participants, in both the decision making process, management and control. 28. This jubilee is a moment of grace. No one would deny that the past five years have been hard for the majority of our citizens. The Lord did not promise us peace (Luke 12:51). In fact He expressly invited us to 'take up our cross' (Luke 9:21). The disciples were slow to understand this. But eventually they did and were 'glad to suffer humiliation for the sake of the name.' (Acts 5:41). We are on the same journey and we are facing the same sufferings. 29. Our perseverance, our hope and our joy will bear fruit. Let us pray for our country: for reconciliation, for honesty and integrity, for compassion for others, for justice for all and for true peace in our hearts, our homes and our communities. Let us remember that prayer alone is not enough. The word constantly on the lips of the disciples in the early church was not 'prayer' but 'witness.' Prayer is essential but it is useless if it is not backed up by the witness of our lives. We realize as Churches that counting solely on good will in Nation and Peace Building is not enough. While Government should play its part in enabling a people-driven Constitution to help consolidate the good and remedy some of the ills experienced in the past twenty five years, the Churches should intensify their efforts in the coming years in imparting the necessary social teaching based on the Gospel and skills in Nation and Peace building. 'The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all' (2 Cor13:13). Rt Rev Michael D Bhasera, Bishop of Masvingo (President of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference) Bishop Khumbulani P Nemapare (President of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches) Bishop Trevor Manhanga (President of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe) Very Rev Murombedzi C Kuchera (Chairman of the Heads of Christian Denominations)


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