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Heller School for Social Policy and Management
415 South Street, MS 084
Waltham, MA 02453
United States
Master of Public Policy
Format: Campus
The Heller MPP at Brandeis University is an innovative and interdisciplinary two-year graduate program that equips future leaders to succeed in careers within government, advocacy, policy research and analysis, policy implementation, and community work. The program draws bright and accomplished students who are committed to social change, helping to prepare them with the intellectual and professional tools to become the next generation of leading policymakers. Our students specialize in critical policy areas, including health and behavioral health, poverty alleviation, children, youth, and families, and aging, while others pursue a general track. Heller's networks and leadership in these areas provide our students with excellent internship and research opportunities as well as the chance to work with a faculty member and senior researcher on a policy analysis thesis in the final semester.
With the Heller School's rich tradition of being in the vanguard of critical public and social policy research, analysis, and practice, the Heller MPP is designed to help students maximize their impact. Additionally, the Heller alumni network has more than two thousand members, and our faculty members are deeply engaged in their policy fields. The Heller School has helped launch countless careers dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable people, and we invite you to learn more about the Heller MPP.
The MPP is a two-year degree program that follows the traditional academic year from late August to May. The degree requires sixteen courses over two years in residence. The core curriculum fits into three categories: concepts, methods, and tools. Ten courses are required, including an introductory policy foundations class. A minimum of three courses is required in a concentration, allowing for three electives.
A final master's thesis with optional field research is also required. In addition to coursework, students will complete a thesis with the guidance of faculty and senior research advisers in the various concentrations, working closely with the research institutes and centers. The thesis, including a fieldwork option, is the culmination of training in social policy. The thesis can address any suitable dimension of social policy, from analysis to evaluation to communication, and must demonstrate the student's competence in core skills through scholarship, application, integrative analysis, and originality. The MPP thesis will demonstrate students' ability to provide detailed policy analysis and use many of the skills acquired throughout the program. Students will also present their theses orally at the conclusion of the thesis class in the second year. Successful completion will demonstrate superior writing, oral, and analytical skills. It will also show a keen awareness and understanding of the political, organizational and fiscal factors influencing the policy environment. The paper and presentation will highlight a social problem, evaluate alternative solutions and make policy recommendations. Alternatively it will provide a detailed policy or program evaluation with recommendations for improvement.
Financial Aid: Yes
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Classification: Doctoral/Research University—Extensive
Loans Offered: A variety of loan programs, including the Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan and the TERI Continuing Education Loan, may be available to Graduate Professional Studies students who meet this criteria.
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I'd be more concerned with... Whether the marsh mellows are the same size in Canada... Try taking your marsh mellow, to the hardware store and checking some different tubes... don't forget your alloy's as well.. If memory serves me correctly... The "marsh mellow" guns are under a fair amount of pressure... I don't think a "perfect fit" would be necessary... as long as it's snug it'll fire... ;P
1/2" PVC inner diameter? Answered
I was looking at all the excellent instructables about marshmallow guns, but I have a concern. I'm Canadian, and it seems to me that the inner diameters of 1/2" PVC pipe in the US is larger than 1/2" PVC in Canada. So, could someone in the know please straighten this out? Is there a difference or not? If so, what would be the appropriate substitute size? Thanks to all.
... and take a friend with you to take photos of you explaining your needs to an assistant!
ROFL... You'll notice that I left out the "ask an assistant". So he wouldn't get laughed at.... Although if you caught someone like me.... I'd probably spend half the day re-designing you cannon and pulling all our stock apart to get bits for it... Te he! I love working at a hardware store!... Wierdest moment at work:~ Can I help you there? Lady: I'm after some plastic. thanks Hmmm... just cheap dropsheet's or a heavier grade? Lady: I think I need the heavier grade... Do you mind if I ask what your using it for.... So I can send you in the right direction... Lady: Well it's for my father... Oh , ok what does he need it for? Lady: I need to wrap him in it... You need to wrap him in it?... Lady: Yes, he passed away last week and I need to wrap him in it.... ???.... I politley got her the plastic....I could only assume, she couldn't afford a hardwood coffin... and I believe a pine one needs to be lined..?? Possibly a home buriel?
Thanks for the advice everyone.
Check out mcmaster.com , they have very detailed CAD drawings available for almost every pipe and part you can think of.
For pipe, outer diameter is constatnt (mates to fittings) and inner diameter varies according to 'schedule.' Here's a table: Nominal Pipe size chart
According to that, US and Canada should be the same. I'm not sure about the marshmallows :-) 1/2 inch pipe seems like it would be too small for "large" marshmallows, and too large for "mini" marshmallows, but I'll bow to people who
have actually made the guns... (Hmm. Don't glue the final barrel, and you can interchange different schedule pipes for different effects.)

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Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you'll be hearing from American stand-up comedian Russell Hicks.
We kick off the interview with Russell being in the midst of his Edinburgh Fringe Festival experience, he tells me he's been doing about 4-5 shows per days, his own solo show The Brain is in the Heart, as well as spots all over the city.
We have a wee chat then about podcasting then, Russell has just started a new podcast, Off the Grid. He had, of course, already been hosting a podcast about comedy called Art, For Fuck Sake, so we get talking about the art form, why he's interested in it and some of the mistakes people make when appearing on them.
Russell's changed quite a lot since starting out in comedy, going from a person who, in his own words, didn't like the audiences and being an angry-Bill Hick's type of comedian to someone who has learned to embrace spontaneity and improvisation while on stage, indeed now, the vast majority of his sets are improvised.
So, we get chatting about that and I ask him about how he practices his sets and how he prepares for something even though so much of it is made up on the spot.
We get chatting then about a comedic hero we both share, Lenny Bruce and his importance. Russel speaks about how Bruce didn't mind not getting laughs because he was being honest and the laughs would come later. He says that this approach is what really inspired him to become a better comedian.
We get talking then about the idea of the critic. We go to town on this, our shared hated for critics and criticism comes to the boil here. You won't like this if you're a critic, but there's no apologies here.
Russell is a brilliant writer and I urge you all to visit his website and read his blog posts. There was another article about hero worship, so we speak about that and why people who worship heroes can't see the wood for the trees, they get too mixed up in thinking that an idol is perfect when really we're all humans and prone to mistakes and the like. Russell believes that of course we can praise people and admire what they're doing but it's important to remember that we can all achieve our goals and putting people on pedestals only leads to putting far too much pressure on ourselves.
Russell Hicks will be already well-known to some thanks to his videos on YouTube where he takes hecklers to task and destroys them. We get talking about putting heckle videos online, the temptation of doing it to earn a few bob but also how it's not a real reflection of a comedian's set. I ask him whether he was ever nervous of attracting the wrong crowd becaose if the videos, would they attract hecklers to his show?
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Has anyone purchased a yearly membership and obtained the booklet with the vouchers? The sample online says "not valid for existing bookings" for all the vouchers. So, how could any of them be used if you have a reservation, since I interpret that to be an existing booking? Unless they are only valid if one were to simply walk in and ask for accommodation without a reservation?
Hi Debra,
That sounds odd. Can you post the link to that webpage you are looking at?
I can't access it from my phone but it was the membership booklet online. I tried to contact the hostel but haven't been able to contact anyone all week. I guess it's because of easter maybe? I hear it's a big holiday in Switzerland. Not so much here, I even work for a catholic organization and it is not a work holiday, not even if you work on Easter Sunday.
Seems odd a Catholic organization wouldn't be closed for Easter!
Yes, most everything here is closed on the weekend except the Saturday.
Were you on https://www.youthhoste l.ch/en/become-a-member/become-a-member/ ? Did you get a reply?
Lucas I am a hospital nurse, we never close! And yes that's exactly where I read the info. No reply as of yet. I'll just do the daily membership, the yearly benefits sounded too good to be true, it would save a lot of money using the vouchers but sounds like there's a catch.
Well yes hopefully the hospital doesn't close! But surely everyone got some extra holiday pay? My mom is a nurse and loves working holidays for the extra pay.
I read the vouchers as well and it is odd. If I had to guess it means you have to be a member before making a reservation and using the voucher.....hopefully they will get back to you with a nice answer. :) Please do let us know what they say.
Yes that is how I am interpreting it as well. And no, easter is straight time. We finally started getting holiday pay for the other holidays including Christmas just a few years ago. But if you don't work it you don't get any extra compensation or time off. But there are not many hospitals to work at so they pretty much can offer what they want and if you want to work you just go with it.
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… in some series one can sense Moholy-Nagy's intervening hand, in others he himself remains entirely passive, as though waiting for the material to show what it can do by itself.
This (images and text) is from Moholy-Nagy: The Photograms Catalogue Raisonné edited by Renate Heyne and Floris M. Neusüss. with Hattula Moholy-Nagy. The text that I quote is a small part of an Renate Heyne's essay, "Light Displays: Relations So Far Unknown":
… In most cases, several objects would be used for the making of the photograms, but unlike Man Ray, who assembled objects in his photograms into poetically surreal séances that at times remind one of the "chance encounter of a sewing machine with an umbrella on a dissecting table," Moholy-Nagy considered only the material and the form of the objects to be important for his compositions, even putting them in full control at times: while in some series one can sense Moholy-Nagy's intervening hand, in others he himself remains entirely passive, as though waiting for the material to show what it can do by itself.
… Using movable light sources, with which he "irradiated" the objects on the photographic paper from different positions and from all sides, Moholy-Nagy was able to dissolve their forms into intermerging tones of gray. While the objects served him as a means of creating the composition (as in photography), they completely disappeared from the final image. But there is something else too. Not only was the image the result of an interaction between the light and the object, but it also had a tactile quality arising from the physical contact between the object and the photographic paper: both the light and the object were in contact with the paper during exposure and left their traces. … The action of the light left traces — Moholy-Nagy coined the phrase "surface treatment with light" to describe them — that were comparable with the traces of a paintbrush on a canvas.
[(above) click for larger]
[photograph of the type of tea infuser with dish used to make the photogram above]
In Dessau, Moholy-Nagy used almost only black-tone darkroom developing paper of 18 x 24 cm format. Although he denied that it was his intention, the pure black, unmodulated backgrounds of his Dessau photograms awaken associations with cosmic space. The light modulated by the objects now passes through the seemingly infinite blackness of the picture space, creating tension between the suction forces that seem to be generated by this blackness and the finely graduated gray tones of the forms that develop within it. Compared with the photograms of his early period, in which the "effect of form" took priority, those of the Dessau period placed emphasis on the "effect of light." Just as in infinite space, there is no top or bottom, left of right, in these photograms. Indeed, Moholy-Nagy also displayed them with different orientations in his publications.
Captions to the above Popular Photography spread:
(Tacks) "Two coils of string and some tacks were placed on a sheet of sensitized paper. The whole was illuminated briefly with a small flashlight. The objects were then moved ont he paper and another exposure was made."
(Spoons) "Two spoons and a napkin ring produced this photogram. The highly reflective, curved surfaces give interesting tone gradations. They were illuminated from a low angle."
(Double head) ""Moholy-Nagy laid his head down on the projection paper to make the photogram shown above. He then turned his head on the paper and made a second exposure."
(Leaf catcher) "A circular piece of wire screen was placed on sensitized paper and then covered with an inverted bell-topped glass vase. The light was placed slightly off vertical. This setup was then removed and replaced by a silver fruit basket for the second exposure." [I think maybe he said "silver fruit basket" either by mistake or because he didn't want to explain what a leaf-catcher was. Elsewhere in the book, they have a photograph of the leaf-catcher that he used (it's a device that goes on the end of a gutter's downspout).]
(Hand/brush) "Originally a paint brush and a wire grid were placed on the paper. When the design began to appear on the paper in the developer, the author placed his hand on the paper and made two more exposures."
(Rose) "Here a rose was laid on the paper and the illumination was concentrated in certain spots with a very small flashlight."
Below is a collection of photograms from the book that I particularly like. Sorry, there is no larger size: they are the same as found in the book.
For previous post on Moholy-Nagy, see here.


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letter itself
Due to explosion of times, someone
sitting slowness lonely in a little dream, too salty, of course.
There' ……
I love you more than love itself.
i Can't be win, rain, even the bloody god
so, so…….
The word impossible scattered in my dictionary But
I love you more than love itself.
The majesty of flawless uncertainties:
Schedule The Liar lie itself even
The god himself can't help for thus,
Ok, Seven Sea, let celebrate the party for lateness
Of me, all hands stand by,
Frisch weht der Wind
Der Heimat zu.1
Oed' und leer das Meer.2
Hay mate, who known as god,
Remove thee to yonder place:3
I love you more than love itself.
Verily I say unto you, my love,
I love you more than love itself.
(But now, I can't be the first
Who say Happy birthday to you on
Your birthday)
MAY DAY, MAY DAY, man overboard!
Nearly Foolish God try to suicide itself
(due to so many holiday in painting on lives)
AYE, FINISHED, beside
I love you, my sweet.
To my heart then you came.
Nothing can separate us even the wind and tide,
due to explosion of times,……….
Phone Thant Khant
- From "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot
- From "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot
- From Matthew 17:20


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Stepan Kubiv, the First Deputy PM of Ukraine, while attending the Belt and Road Initiative forum in Beijing on April 25, "offered" to build a logistics corridor to link China and the EU through Ukraine.
Just 4 days before this official 'offer', an actor (comedian) Volodymry Zelensky was elected as the next president of Ukraine.
"Not much is known about his foreign policy except that he is mainly pro-Western, wants Ukraine to enter the European Union, and would seek NATO membership for his country …" reported by Vox on April 21.
This same article does not forget to mention that "… Ukraine is still among Europe's poorest — if not the poorest — countries …"
It is unclear whether the EU-Ukraine-China corridor 'offer' has got the president-elect's approval, there is a very important implication if he is interested in it.
In March, an article by Carnegie Europe elucidated why it is "time for NATO to talk about China". Despite a lack of new points (e.g. Huawei again), the analyst warned that "NATO unity would certainly not be well-served by importing a growingly toxic transatlantic debate on China …"
On April 4, a POLITICO Europe's essay further dissected the current situation and its admonition is more direct: "For NATO, China is the new Russia". While it also failed to suggest any new deliberation (e.g. repeating the South China Sea issues), the author quoted the view of Jan Techau, director of the Europe program at the German Marshall Fund of the US, that "China paralyses decision-making in Europe …"
As many eastern European countries are not hostile to Russia (e.g. Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria; whereas Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are considered as Baltic states), Ukraine is the only one, and the largest one in terms of territorial size, which is more willing to side with the EU. If Kiev under different pro-EU presidents persistently seeks lifeline from China rather than France and Germany, the integrity of the EU in future would be in doubt.
To China, Ukraine is a key partner not just on its Silk Road, but also a significant member for the overall growth of Eurasia. For example, Ukraine is a major source of grains and oilseeds for China, and since 2013 China's Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have been talking with KSG Agro to buy 100,000, and eventually up to 3 million, hectares of agricultural land in Ukraine.
A pro-China Ukraine will generate a big headache to EU and NATO. Nevertheless, the ultimate question the EU and NATO leaders should ask is not why China is so appealing , but "what is wrong with ourselves?" It is the beginning point of Nietzsche's "Self-overcoming".
The opinions expressed are those of the author, and not necessarily those of China Daily Mail.


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Clifford Burns (born 1860's) was Charles Montgomery Burns's biological father and a seemingly pleasant man and loving father. He was married to Daphne Burns. His mother was Evelyn Graycomb. He is also the paternal grandfather of Larry Burns. He apparently knew of his own father Wainwright's ill-will but was unable to stop Wainwright from abducting his son, adopting him, and corrupting him into a miser. Despite being a seemingly caring and decent father and apparently neglecting his own twisted, heartless father, he has an aggressive and even cruel side. As seen in a flashback in "Dark Knight Court", he burned down an entire comic book company to "teach his son a lesson" after he saw Charles reading comic books, as he saw them as a bad influence and would make Charles anti-social, and wanted him to socialize by playing out doors. This shows that although he loved and cared for his son, he was aggressively over-protective. Seeing as he is Wainwright's son, he is probably around the same age as Abraham Simpson I.
Clifford had over fifteen children: Charles, George, Clifford Jr., Dominique, Archibald, Ernest, Sarah and 10 other unnamed children.
- He speaks with a southern accent in "Dark Knight Court", but has a "regular" American accent in "Rosebud". He also has brown hair in "Dark Knight Court" and grey hair in Rosebud, which is probably due to him being younger in the flashback of the former.
- His children Zeph, Cornelia, and Cornelius have "father unknown" listed under their names in the Simpsons Family Album. This may mean that he adopted the children at a young age, or that Daphne either cheated on him or had an affair with another man before she met Clifford.
- Episode – "Rosebud"
- Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" (seen in picture)
- Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
- Episode – "Pork and Burns"
- Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" (flashback)
- Book – The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album
- Book – C. Montgomery Burns' Handbook of World Domination


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Monday, December 29, 2008
Happy to Me
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Introducing Roommate #14
This week we got a new roommate, this one is much furrier than any others to date. Meet the cat with many names: Gush (uyghur for "meat"), Aslan (Uyghur for kitten) Bu Yao ( national language for "don't want" - I think the mom of the family we got him from wasn't too thrilled at the prospect of having a cat in their home) and Puss in boots ( sometimes he looks just like the cat from Shrek). We are officially just babysitting the cat for a few weeks while friends of our are back in the states. Roommate 13 has been bugging me to get a cat since she moved in, so she is overjoyed about the new addition to our home. She said it was the best Christmas present I could have given her.
On that note I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. I sure did, although all the parties tired me out.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Going out with a Bang
This week has been exam week which was anything but normal. My first exam was actually just a reused one from my teacher's fourth year local student's class… all of the questions were written in the majority language, which I can read a little of, but not enough to understand when it says "conjugate these verbs in to the perfect past continuous forms". Because our class used a different textbook this year, it wasn't really based on the information we had studied. I was also unable to translate whole sentences between these two foreign languages. In other words I bombed it.
In the afternoon on Monday we scheduled to take the exam for our oral Uyghur class, but because the teachers need to hand in hard copies of our exam, it would be a written test. When we showed up to take the exam, we were hustled off to another room, where a bunch of young Russian kids were writing their listening exam (this meant the teacher kept reading passages out loud to them) making the room anything but quiet. The proctor then gave us the wrong exam paper (we thought we were writing an exam based on our oral class and he gave us our grammar exam –which I thought I still had one more night to study for). The font that was used on our grammar exam was next to impossible to read (many of the letters were formed incorrectly because the computer it was printed off of did not have Uyghursoft) and took double the time to read. We tried to tell the proctor it was the wrong exam and that it was illegible, but he doesn't speak or read Uyghur. He told us not to complain and just write. "Anyway" he said "it doesn't really matter, these exams don't count for anything". IF THEY DON'T COUNT THEN WHY IN THE WORLD ARE WE TAKING THEM?????
When our teachers saw how poorly we as a whole class did on these exams they invited us over to their homes separately (secretly). If a teacher's whole class does poorly it reflects on the teacher and they will loose face (shame is a very big part of this culture). At their homes we drank tea and corrected our exams together one by one… but we had to have different answers in some places so that it wasn't so obvious that we had cheated. The whole thing was so frustrating. In the last two day I have written three exams of which I had to re-write two of them. I try not to use this blog as just a place to vent my cultural frustration… but today this is me venting.
Monday, December 22, 2008
No Harm Done
Sunday, December 21, 2008
I Don't Know How Santa Does It
We started the night by taking buses from one stop to another, but soon broke down and paid the little extra to go by taxi. We had a lot of stops to make, and our arms were loaded with yet undelivered baskets. We almost had to be rude at each home as we wanted to just sing them a song (which is a lot harder to do after climbing six flights of stairs), pass off the gift, take a picture (which you will notice are mainly from the waist up… as everyone was answering the door in their long underwear) and leave for the next delivery, this was hard with Uyghur friends continually inviting us in for tea (a two hour event).
It was a cold crazy night, the temperature seemed to be dropping between each stop. It dropped so low that the batteries in both our phones and cameras were dying and making it hard to contact those at our next location. But we did it. We made 11 stops in just over three hours, with only one family not home to get their gift. We were all wiped out and very glad to crash at the end of it all. One night around the city was more than enough for me, I don't know how Santa does the whole world in a night.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
It's Back
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Rejoice with Those Who Rejoice
I even met up with my old crutch buddy. This woman is in her mid seventies and part of the majority people group (ie speaks the language I am not as good at). She was so impressed to see me up and walking on my own. She is still on her crutches moving slowly but greatly rejoiced with me in my restored health. I couldn't help but think what our good North American Medicine would be able to do for her, if only she had the access I had.
It is wonderful to be part of the community here… not just to realize that all of the neighbours know me (and everything about me), but to have them greet me on the street. The vegetable man salutes me everyday as I pass by on my way to class… the sweet potato man waves from across the street, students run to catch up and walk together, my teacher calls me her oldest daughter and mocks me unmercilessly. I love the fact I get to live here.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
On the Bloody Morning After…
but the day after is DISGUSTING. I am very thankful that Asian people see it as rude to wear your shoes in the house, because on the day after Korban, I don't even want to think about what is on the bottom of my shoes. You really have to watch where you walk outside, there is sheep poop, the sheep guts and intestines everywhere, blood and the contents of the sheep's stomach get tracked up and down the streets. It really is gross here (This holiday moves about a week or so every year, but I am thankful that every year I have been here it has been winter and all this stuff freezes, as does the smell). If you keep your eyes open, you may even find a foot, head, horn or hoof that they forgot to clear away the day before.
All of the above pictures are taken just steps outside my front door. These same scenes are repeated in ever apartment complex courtyard around the city and throughout the province. It is a bloody, bloody day.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Happy Hate
Off to the side of the street are the sheep for sale.
The first day of the holiday is often reserved for family. They gather at the oldest family members house and eat the meat of the sheep that was sacrificed on their behalf. Today instead of going to a bunch of my friends homes, and eating food till I burst, I went to the hospital. I remember as a kid when I was in hospital right up until the 24th of December, it wasn't fun to feel like I was missing out on the celebration. My teacher's sister-in-law is currently in the hospital struggling with cancer. My classmate and I spent the afternoon visiting her and some of the other patients in that ward. We had packed a dozen small bags filled with bread, dried fruit, nuts and other goodies, all things you would normally find on a Uyghur table during the holiday season.
Friday, December 05, 2008
It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas
Also the huge amounts of snow that was dumped on the city this week went quite far to getting me in the spirit of things.
I was out walking on the first day it snowed (before the masses had gotten out to clean off the roads) and actually went for quite a tumble. I am alright… although I was pretty stiff there for a few days. The good news, if you can say that when you slip on the ice in the middle of the road, is that I sounded local while doing it. Out of all the sounds, noises, or colourful metaphors that could have come streaming out of my mouth in this moment of panic… I screamed "Woi Jan". This Uyghur expression would most literally be translated "Oh dear". The guy walking behind me a few feet thought it was hilarious to see a foreign girl scream out like an old Uyghur lady that he was still laughing to himself as he gave me a hand up.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Sometimes Owning is Better than Eating
Packages from home filled with Mac and Cheese, soup mixes, coffee and hot chocolate are one of the most exciting things to get in the mail. It's like sending all the joy of a North American grocery store in a box. My roommate has been known to say that a care package doesn't really live up to its name unless it has food supplies.
It is so fun to open the kitchen cupboard and see it full of all these goodies we just can't buy here. As I look at each box I can clearly imagine what the dish tastes like, I start to salivate. Just standing looking at it brings so much joy.
Sometimes the joy of just owning the food is better than actually eating it. If you live overseas you know what I am talking about… the anticipation of what it will taste like, the dreams and images it conjures by merely feasting with the eyes go on and on… but once you have opened the box and consumed the food the dream is over. The box no longer joyfully greets you when you open the cupboard… the anticipation has been met… the longing fulfilled… and dead.I know I am not alone in this feeling, in fact it would explain why all of the supplies my friend gave me the other day are past their best before date. (Do you think it is safe to eat Velveeta – still sealed- with an expiration date of 2004???). I tend to view these dates as mild suggestions printed to merely relieve the company of any legal obligation. Although I do remember this same friend once making a pie for thanksgiving using shortening that was years old, the end result was just gross. I think in that case she should have held on to it longer and enjoy the dream instead of the reality.
Monday, December 01, 2008
Not Fast Enough
With this cultural understanding as a backdrop, you will understand why all my friends and teachers have started an outright campaign to get me married off. My roommate thinks she knows the prefect person for me… her 'perfect person for me' has a suggestion of his own on who would be a good match. My teachers spent half of our class period the other day discussing the matter. One teacher even offered me her younger brother… which is quite the allowance, considering what a devote Muslim she is (the whole idea of letting such an unclean, pork eater as myself into the family is unthinkable). Thankfully I stopped them before we got to my bride price.
I can pretty much avoid most of the offers with a quick etymological look at the Uyghur word for husband 'yoldash'. Yoldash literally means ones road mate. It implies that two people have chosen to walk together through life on the same path. When I point out that most Uyghur man walk on the Islamic road, and I am personally on another road, they see that it would be quite impossible for us to truly be road mates.
A few weeks ago after giving this little speech, in attempts to put an end to my teachers match-making meddling, one of my favourite staff members from the school's Foreign Affairs office walked in. She is a single Uyghur woman about my age. The teachers quickly switched the focus of their inquires to her. "You're still single, aren't you?" they asked. "You don't have a boy friend?" "Do you want to get married?" And off they were again… throwing out names and suggestions of men that might be a suitable suitor for her. I was glad to be out of the lime light on this discussion. But yesterday this same girl invited me to her wedding in January. The matching making, the set-up, the dating, the proposal, and the setting of the date were all done, now all she needs to do is show up. My teachers kept looking at me like it was my fault I didn't act fast enough, as if to say, "It could have been you, we tried our best."
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Diamond Platnumz has been criticized by his compatriots just a few days after he introduced Tanasha Donna Oketch as his girlfriend.
Tanzanian on Instagram gossip pages went Hard As a [email protected] (HAM) on Tanasha claiming that she is not wife material.
Also read: Kwa nini Diamond anapenda mimalaya? Tanzanians go HAM on Tanasha Donna Oketch
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Esma Platnumz has come out to show her support to Tanasha after the myriad of criticisms on social media. Speaking during an interview with Risasi newspaper, Esma said that Diamond is satisfied with Tanasha and that there is nothing she could do about it.
Esma further stated that she has already accepted Tanasha as her sister-in-law. She wished her luck urging her not to be like previous sisters-in-law (Zari and Hamisa Mobetto)
"Wala sina shida, nimemkubali wifi yangu na kwa sababu Nasibu (Diamond) mwenyewe ndiye amesema anamuoa na ameridhiana naye, mimi ni nani nikatae? Kikubwa ninawaombea heri tu asiwe kama wengine ili na mimi nipate wifi wa halali, niache uyuda," said Esma Platnumz.
- Jenifer : December 6, 2018 at 2:59 pm
They are getting married? I have to see it to believe it
- Tancia : December 8, 2018 at 3:12 am
They are moving waaay too fast. People don't date and get to know each other anymore before marriage??
- Diamond's mother impressed by Tanasha's young age... says she can't oppose son's hurried wedding - Ghafla! Kenya : December 7, 2018 at 12:48 pm
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Senior Missionaries, LDS Charities, and Nonprofit Organizations Unify to Recover the Caribbean
Contributed By Scott Taylor, Church News contributor
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- After Hurricanes Irma and Maria, senior missionary couples, LDS Charities, and other nonprofit organizations are uniting to recover the Caribbean.
"The members are strong here, no doubt about it. They are helping each other and those around them. We have a good reputation in the neighborhoods where our members live because of the good works, donations, time, and money spent helping get things back to normal." —Steve Richards, St. Thomas Branch President
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Outside the secure baggage-claim area of St. Thomas's Cyril E. King International Airport, a man and a woman scan passengers coming in from Puerto Rico on a 34-minute Monday morning flight on February 19 between the two U.S. territory islands in the Caribbean. The couple wait to greet a trio of passenger pairs arriving for different reasons, but all three as a result of last September's devastating hurricanes Irma and Maria.
One twosome is a senior missionary couple, returning to their Puerto Rico San Juan Mission assignment after fortuitously leaving the Caribbean the day before the first storm, Hurricane Irma. Another pair represents LDS Charities and Church welfare concerns, checking on how previous hurricane relief donations have been used on St. Thomas and what ongoing needs may be assisted. And the third is two journalists documenting an update on the island's recovery.
The host couple—St. Thomas Branch President Steve Richards and his wife, Kim Richards—welcome the three pairs, first directing the two missionaries and their five pieces of luggage to a waiting mission vehicle. Then they load up in their SUV with the other four visitors, who have six hours to survey the lingering damage and witness recovery efforts before returning to San Juan on an afternoon flight.
As they drive through the territorial capital city of Charlotte Amalie and across much of the 32-square-mile island, the Richardses point out still-damaged public buildings and private homes, stop by the recently refurbished LDS meetinghouse, and make stops to meet with LDS Charities relief partners.
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In the Puerto Rico San Juan Mission, nearly all of the missionaries serving on outlying islands besides Puerto Rico are senior couples; Elder Win Duersch and Sister Karen Duersch from Orem, Utah, were assigned to Tortola of the British Virgin Islands. But just before Irma hit, the Duersches took a temporary-leave trip to Washington to be with an ailing granddaughter hovering near death.
After learning of Irma's toll on Tortola and the rest of the U.S. and British Virgin Islands while in Washington, the Duersches didn't know if they had anything to return to, with no prompt return in sight.
With all the missionaries from Puerto Rico and outlying islands evacuated and reassigned elsewhere in the United States, Elder and Sister Duersch were "recruited" from their Washington stay by a son serving as a stake president in Reading, Pennsylvania, to be assigned to his Allentown (Spanish) Ward. The Duersches served in Allentown for three months, with a number of the ward members attending there having Caribbean roots.
When missionaries started returning to the Puerto Rico San Juan Mission, plans were made for the Duersches to return to Tortola, where their apartment and their belongings survived relatively unscathed. But there was a twist—they were also being assigned to serve on St. Thomas as well, with an apartment provided there and a plan to serve alternate weeks on the two neighboring islands, ferrying back and forth.
"There weren't plans for us to return," said Sister Duersch, once on St. Thomas, "but we're where the Lord needs us to be."
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After making annual work trips to St. Thomas for a dozen years, Steve Richards decided to relocate his wife and the three youngest of their eight children to the island, where he works as controller for a local company selling and servicing boats and outboard motors.
In September, they prayerfully prepared for their first major hurricane. The parking-by-prompting of their SUV, a mission vehicle, and a friend's car near their home resulted in debris falling all around—but not on top of—the three cars. And their home weathered Irma relatively well, with only limited water damage.
"But we were so naïve," Kim Richards said. "We walked out the front door (after the storm) and saw that a whole home nearby was missing."
So was St. Thomas's lush, green appearance. Aerial photos after Irma showed the island looking like a brown desert—the brown wasn't sand or dirt, but rather the bare branches, limbs, and trunks of the island's defoliated trees.
The Richards home may have gone relatively unscathed, but many of the residential and public buildings across the islands didn't fare as well, including the LDS meetinghouse among the handful of other places of worship located on what is known as "Church Hill." Irma's winds peeled off about a quarter of the meetinghouse's roof tiles, took out the three large palms in the front, toppled and smashed the glass backboards in the parking lot, and rearranged the steeple.
Steve Richards had his wife and kids return to the United States just days after Irma while he stayed and focused on the branch members and others on the island. No Latter-day Saints were among the island's four fatalities, but two had lost their residences and others suffered extensive damages.
LDS tourists from the mainland (who had visited the branch the Sunday before Irma and who ended up being holed up in a local hotel for days after because of the damage) returned home and set up a GoFundMe online account for branch members, surpassing its $10,000 goal. The money went to buy food for members and their neighbors, supplies to repair damaged homes and cars, and gas for the generators as power outages continued for up to four months.
President Henry B. Eyring, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, made a brief stop on St. Thomas a week after the initial hurricane, visiting members and the meetinghouse during his post-Irma trip to encourage affected Church members in the Caribbean and Florida. Soon after, Maria's downpour drenched the damaged meetinghouse, soaking sections of wallboard and interior studs and resulting in black mold.
"Irma did most of the damage, and then Maria came in and flooded it all," Steve Richards said, describing not just the meetinghouse but the impact across the island.
At first, the branch held its Sunday meetings at the Richards's home, which doubled as a makeshift shelter for some displaced members and friends. Later, the branch rented a room at a local school, with Primary held out on a picnic table and priesthood inside a gazebo.
Kim Richards and the kids returned four months after the hurricanes, and the meetinghouse has been refurbished and reopened, with a Friday night branch activity preceding the first Sunday meetings held there on February 18.
What hadn't returned to normalcy were the branch numbers, with branch membership hovering just above 100 with a number of member families and individuals having left battered St. Thomas for the United States. Prior to the hurricanes, branch attendance was averaging 48 members and 24 visitors—mostly tourists—per Sunday; after the storms and through February, the averages dipped to 25 members and two visitors.
LDS Charities and welfare
Key to the six-hour itinerary were visits to local relief organizations having received assistance donations from partnering with LDS Charities. Directing the visits were Ty Johnson, LDS Charities director of emergency response, and Julio Acosta, the area welfare manager for the Church's Caribbean Area and an Area Seventy from the Dominican Republic.
Representative of such partner visits was a stop at My Brother's Workshop, a nonprofit charitable organization providing at-risk and high-risk young people on the island mentoring, counseling, paid job training, education, and job placement. LDS Charities has helped provide wood, as well as other materials and equipment.
Scott Bradley, a retired manufacturing engineer in Maine who moved to St. Thomas 12 years ago, founded My Brother's Workshop and serves as its program director. It has expanded from a woodworking shop on St. Thomas to now include a bakery and café, an online school, an online radio station, and a second woodshop on neighboring St. Croix.
In 10 years, the organization has helped some 1,500 young people, said Bradley, adding that the U.S. Virgin Islands ranks high globally in youth crime and violence statistics. "We had one kid—his history caught up to him," he recalled of a former program participant. "He was gunned down and robbed—and we made the casket for him because his family couldn't afford it."
Since the hurricanes, the bakery and café has served tens of thousands of meals. Meanwhile, the woodshop has halted the manufacturing of benches, tables, custom furniture, and handcrafted gifts—in part because it was without power until electricity was finally restored in February—with work crews sent out across the island to repair roofs and clean up and remove debris.
Declining offers for paying jobs to do recovery work, My Brother's Workshop rather has focused on providing services and using donated materials to help seniors and low- or no-income households. "We can't turn our backs on them," Bradley said.
Which was not lost on Johnson, mindful of LDS Charities having provided wood and other materials and equipment. "What I love is that you're not only helping the kids," he told Bradley, "but that they're in turn helping the less advantaged. It's a win-win."
With their luggage loaded into the mission vehicle that the Richardses had brought that Monday morning to the airport parking lot, Elder and Sister Duersch drive off to resume their missionary service on the islands.
Ty Johnson and Julio Acosta finish their last partner visit in Charlotte Amalie, visiting the St. Thomas office of the American Red Cross before flying back to San Juan and then on the next day to St. Maarten in a series of similar partner visits throughout the area.
And after dropping their visitors off at the airport, the Richardses return to family, work, and Church service—as much of a normal life as possible on a Caribbean island on the road to recovery from pair a of devastating hurricanes.
With the branch back at the restored meetinghouse, several member families have returned and there's a noticeable uptick in attendance. The branch even visited the Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple recently to make up for a temple trip scrapped by last fall's hurricanes.
"I was wondering if I was called to preside over the dissolution of our branch—but the Lord had other ideas and we now are getting back to a flourishing state where we are doing rather well," said Steve Richards.
"The members are strong here, no doubt about it. They are helping each other and those around them. We have a good reputation in the neighborhoods where our members live because of the good works, donations, time, and money spent helping get things back to normal."
Members of the St. Thomas Branch gather on the steps of the Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple in late February 2018. September 2017 hurricanes and resulting damages scrubbed a planned branch temple trip in the fall of 2017. Photo courtesy of Steve Richards.
Scott Bradley, founder of My Brother's Workshop, talks with LDS Church officials on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News.
St. Thomas Branch President Steve Richards and Julio Acosta, the area welfare manager for the Church's Caribbean Area and an Area Seventy from the Dominican Republic, look out over a hillside of damaged homes. Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News.
St. Thomas Branch President Steve Richards and his wife, Kim Richards, join Ty Johnson, LDS Charities director of emergency response, and Julio Acosta, the area welfare manager for the Church's Caribbean Area and an Area Seventy from the Dominican Republic, as they talk with Scott Bradley, the founder of My Brother's Workshop. Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News.
Jonathan Tuel, site manager for My Brother's Workshop on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, gives information about the work they do as he talks with St. Thomas Branch President Steve Richards and his wife, Kim Richards. Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News.
St. Thomas Branch President Steve Richards shows the newly repaired Church meetinghouse. Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News.
Storm-damaged homes on a hillside on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News.
A severely damaged church on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News.
A damaged home on St. Thomas from Hurricane Irma in September 2017. Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News.
Newly planted palm trees line Magens Bay Beach on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News.
President Henry B. Eyring flew into San Juan, Puerto Rico, to meet with and comfort Latter-day Saints and survey the damage caused by Hurricane Irma. Photo by Scott Taylor.


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Researchers from South Australia, Texas and Ethiopia exploited 3D printing technology to bring a solution to leishmaniasis, a disease that infects a million people every year.
The Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI) in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), the Austin-based infectious disease virtual incubator PandemicTech and the New Venture Institute (NVI) at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia are the three institutes that joined forces to develop a 3D printed field test kit.
According to the Lead, "Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease spread through the bites of sandflies. The World Health Organisation estimates that up to 1 million new cases and 30,000 deaths occur annually, usually among malnourished people living in poverty and or unsanitary conditions. Although it can lead to ulcers and death, leishmanias is curable if diagnosed and treated early."
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We are finally here! The end of December and the end of 2017. I am so excited for the start of 2018. I have a ton of goals that I want to achieve and I love that a New Year feels like a new start with a clean slate. For the month of December, I managed to read 8 books. 7 physical books and 1 comic book. I feel pretty good about that considering how busy I was for the holiday's. So here are the list of books that I read and feel free to read any of the reviews that I wrote.
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
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Nerve by Jeanne Ryan
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes
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Blood of Wonderland by Colleen Oakes
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War of the Cards by Colleen Oakes
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Skin & Earth #6 by Lights
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My favorite read this month was by far, Wonder. As soon as I finished it, I went to the movie theater to watch the movie and I pretty much cried during the entire movie. I thought it was very good and it stuck to the book very well. I also was very impressed with the ending of the Skin & Earth comic series. I highly recommend that series to everyone who likes dystopia and some mystery. What did you read this month? Any new favorites?


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Sedan, a small, historic town in The French Ardennes, is one of several locations in Belgium and Northern France used in the filming of BBC TV's adaptation of Les Misérables.
Victor Hugo's novel is already well-known to modern day audiences thanks to the record-breaking musical, which has been on stage in the West End for more than 30 years and was adapted into an Oscar winning film in 2012 starring Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.
Andrew Davies's adaptation, however, will feature no signing, or dancing, and will focus on the original novel to tell the tale of Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert's cat-and-mouse chase against the epic backdrop of 19th century France at a time of civil unrest.
Starring British actors Dominic West, David Oyelowo and Lily Collins in the lead roles, filming began in February. Brussels, Enghien, Namur and Ecaussines were amongst the towns and cities used as locations in Belgium, along with Limburg in The Netherlands, and Sedan in The French Ardennes.
Sedan, it was said, had been selected as one of the key locations for filming because its historic centre looks like 19thcentury Paris. Rue de l'Horloge and the castle of Sedan – the largest fortress in Northern Europe (https://www.chateau-fort-sedan.fr/en/)– were both used in the filming of the six-part series, which is being described as a "centrepiece" of BBC TV's Christmas schedule (https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-12-03/heres-the-first-trailer-for-bbcs-les-miserables/).
Founded in 1424, the town is situated around 125 miles from Paris, and a little over 5 miles south of the border with Belgium. During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 the French Emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner at the first Battle of Sedan along with 100,000 of his soldiers, which also resulted in the unification of Germany.
Sedan was occupied by the Germans throughout World War One; and at the outbreak of the Second World War, German troops invaded neutral Belgium before crossing the Meuse and winning the Second Battle of Sedan, which lasted from May 12-15 in 1940. This battle was key in Germany's invasion of France, as they not only bypassed the French fortification system, The Maginot Line, but also enabled them to trap the Allied Forces that were advancing east into Belgium.
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June and Jean Millington were playing five sets a night in clubs as teenagers. In this photo taken at Whiskey a Go Go in the early '70s, Jean (second from right) still has her first bass, a Framus that she later stepped on and broke while dancing. June (right) is playing a blonde ES-335. Photo by Linda Wolf — lindawolf.net
But you got your first electrics before that, correct?
June: Believe it or not, I must've talked about it so much that, one Sunday, my dad and I walked to a pawnshop in Sacramento and he bought me a little Sears Roebuck rig. I had a small amp and a guitar, but I have no idea what happened to that. I was playing that before we started the band. And when we started the band, I got—because now we werelistening to the Beatles—I got a Gretsch Country Gentleman. And both Jean and I got Vox amps. I also had a Fender Mustang.
Jean: My first bass was a Framus. It was pretty primitive. I think what happened to it was there were times when we would take off our instruments and dance around and sing. Apparently, I was dancing around so much I stepped backwards and cracked the neck. That's what happened to my first bass [laughs].
That first band was the Svelts—which eventually became Wild Honey and was signed to Reprise, right?
June: Yes. It took about four years, from late '64 to '68. That's a long time. We were already a real band—we knew how to set up a PA, we booked our own gigs, we could do everything except record. We played so many gigs between '64 and '68. Rock 'n' roll doesn't have child labor laws! Jean was 16 and I was 17 when we started at the Itching Post, a little bar in Sacramento. In the summer of '66, which was when I graduated from high school, we played six weeks at a club outside of Reno and that was definitely five sets a night.
Were those sets all covers?
June: Yes. Let's face it, the music coming out then was the cornerstone of everything we're playing today. We played [Wilson Pickett's] "In the Midnight Hour," we played [Mack Rice's] "Mustang Sally"—which is an amazing song to play every single night on a six-month gig. My book called Land of a Thousand Bridgesis because of the [Chris Kenner] song "Land of a Thousand Dances"—we played that a million times. We had to get the people up dancing!
You must've been pretty tight and able to read each other really well by that point, too.
June: We had already changed personnel several times. Jean and I were always at the center of the band, but people came in and out—it was kind of like musical chairs. We had become Wild Honey about two or three months before we went to L.A. for our last attempt to try to get a deal, and after we signed the contract we were a set band. But then our lead guitar player left a few months later and I had to learn how to play lead guitar.
I went from zero to "Badge" in about a year! It's amazing when I think about it now, but we were raised in the Philippines and we knew how to study. I knew I had to find out how to play, so I just went about it methodically. I would go to other people's gigs and ask, "How did you do that?" The nice ones shared with me. They'd come over to the house and show me a couple of things. So I learned how to apply myself—from the second I woke up in the morning, I had an agenda and that was to learn.
What did you focus on?
June: Everything. One really nice guy I saw play in a club showed me a couple of exercises. He cautioned me to play them slowly at the beginning. That was a great tip—move up in tempo incrementally. He suggested I use a small pick, which I did. I used a small pick and had fingerpicks on at least one, maybe two other fingers.
Did you start playing slide around that time?
June: No, I learned slide from [Little Feat guitarist] Lowell George. My other guy was Jeff "Skunk" Baxter [Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers]. He's a really good friend, even now.
Were you still playing your Gretsch when Wild Honey got signed?
June: Yes. I played the Gretsch through the first album. But then, it was kind of awful, but Kent Henry—the guitar player in Blues Image and then Steppenwolf—called me. I was on the road. He found me in New York and said, "Would you buy my guitar?" I said, "What?" I couldn't understand why he would sell his guitar. But he was broke. It was a 1957 Les Paul. I said, "I'll ask our accountant and if he says okay, then sure." It was 500 bucks. Jeff [Baxter] did all the mods.
Like what?
June: He talked me into the master volume, which is critical to my musical playpen, you could say. He also put bass frets on my Strat. He said, "If you put these frets on there, you'll be able to play a lot faster." I was really dubious, but he was right.
Jean, when did you get your P bass?
Jean: We were at a photographer's and I was sitting on the sofa. I kicked something, and it was a case. I opened it up and said, "Oh you have a P bass here." It was puke green. He said, "Somebody owed me money. If you want to buy it, go ahead." So I bought my bass for $125.
Did you do mod it at all?
Jean: I had it stripped to the plain wood. Years later I had another guitar player friend who did the sunburst finish that's on it now—and he modified it a bit, too. Some of the pickups had been changed, and he modified it back to whatever the P bass had. I put the pickup cover back on, too, but that was after [session and Late Show with David Letterman bassist] Will Lee taught me about slapping with my thumb. He said he uses a pickup cover because he wants someplace solid to rest his hand while he's slapping.
Photo by Linda Wolf — lindawolf.net
June, how did you get your distortion—did you use pedals or ride that master volume?
June: I would change the settings on my amp practically between every song. That's number one, and people don't do that anymore. I had a distortion unit—I think some guy in L.A. made it, to tell you the truth, because I didn't go into the store and buy it—but we used to pick up police radio on it. I remember many soundchecks where I'd be playing and then all of a sudden [mimics sound of static] you'd hear the dispatcher talking to the car. It was horrible! We would do all sorts of stuff to try and circumvent that. I didn't really get into effects too much, but I did have that one pedal. I also had an Echoplex that I used, for example, on "Last Night I Had a Dream," that song by Randy Newman.
Jean, how did you get your tone?
Jean: My amp was an Acoustic 360 with a folded horn. That was my favorite back then—the big amp. I'm not a tech-head. I was happy. The bass sounded the way I wanted it to sound. I loved on/off,bass, treble, and mid—that was my concern. I tried playing with a wah-wah pedal, I tried playing with a fuzz and all that stuff. But I am a plain Jane: I like the straight sound.
Just a bass and an amp.
Jean: That was it. I adjusted the tone. For a while they had me experiment with fuzz bass. They had me experiment with an octave pedal. But I didn't get into that stuff. I just liked a good old bass sound, though it had to be a certain thing. It couldn't be low and boomy. I can't stand the low and boomy—thatall-over-the-place sound. I like a tight sound, but it has to have a good amount of bass and mid to it, so it cuts through.
June, you had a Gibson ES-355, too, didn't you?
June: When we recorded at [the Beatles'] Apple Studio, I had both the Les Paul and the 355. But after that I sold the ES-355—which was the stereo version—to Nickey's ex-husband.
Did you use the stereo feature at all?
June: I tried to for about a year—I had two amps on either side of the stage. But I am legitimately deaf in my left ear. A lot of people don't know that. I've never heard in my left ear, so I don't know anything different. So I tried stereo, but I couldn't really hear the one on the left and after a while I just gave up. I'll tell you what was really great for me, though: I had a Leslie speaker and—especially on "Badge"—I would hit it, turn it on, and change the speed. That was really an incredible sound. That mod—to control the Leslie—was made for me by the roadies. I could turn it on and off. It was a separate amp.


text: Miami history 'Our History Was Muddled': A Conversation About Juneteenth In South Florida By Leslie Ovalle • Jun 19, 2020 NADEGE GREEN / WLRN NEWS Juneteenth commemorates the day emancipation reached enslaved people in the deepest parts of the South. It wasn't until June 19, 1865, two months after the end of the Civil War and more than two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, that Union Gen. Gordon Granger and more than a thousand U.S. troops went into Galveston, Texas and shared the news of freedom with the 250,000 enslaved people in the state. Julia Tuttle May Not Be The Only Mother Of Miami. Could Mary Brickell Be One, Too? By Katie Lepri • Mar 7, 2019 History Miami At Bayfront Park in the City of Miami, a 10-foot tall bronze statue stands in honor of Julia Tuttle. She holds oranges in one hand and branches with tiny flowers in the other. Tuttle has long been recognized as the "Mother of Miami" — the only woman to found a major city in the United States. The original story, as told by local South Florida historians for decades, says it was her and her alone that founded the City of Miami. Home of Miami's First Black Millionaire, Dana A. Dorsey, Now Open To Public By Nadege Green • Mar 7, 2019 Nadege Green The home of Miami's first black millionaire is now open to the public. Dana A. Dorsey was what today would be considered a real estate mogul. He was also a civic leader philanthropist in Miami's black community. The Black Archives History and Research Foundation of South Florida restored his 1920s era home and will use it as a museum to document Dorsey's life and to host cultural events. Timothy Barber, executive director of the Black Archives, spoke to WLRN's Nadege Green about Dorsey's legacy. 'Moonlight' Writer Will Help Young Liberty City Artists Tell Story Of Segregation Wall By Odalis Garcia & Nadege Green • Dec 7, 2017 WLRN News A yellow wall divides Northwest 12th Ave along the east side of the Liberty Square housing projects. The wall is no more than three feet tall at it's highest point and on the other side is a raised street making the wall only visible if you're in the housing projects. The Congressman, The Sailfish And Other Stories: Event Highlights History Of Biscayne National Park By Kate Stein • Dec 1, 2017 Michal Kranz / WLRN They call it "the fish that saved Biscayne." In the 1970s, conservationists were pushing for federal legislation to protect a portion of Biscayne Bay that's home to rare coral reefs, sea turtles and wood storks. As part of their campaign, they took Pennsylvania Congressman John Saylor out on a fishing trip. "He caught a sailfish... and after he went back to Washington, they took his sailfish and they smoked the fish," says park ranger Gary Bremen. "The story is that he served the smoked fish in committee while they discussed the bill creating Biscayne National Monument." Miami's Conch Food Entrepreneurs Serve Daily Dose Of Deliciousness By Nadege Green • Mar 17, 2017 Instagram Dee Conchman Derrick Prater is "Dee Conchman." Every day he sets up in various parts of Miami hawking his specialty: conch. Miami, The Beginning Of Muhammad Ali's Myth By WLRN • Jun 4, 2016 Boxing legend Muhammad Ali, 74, passed away Friday night in a Phoenix hospital, miles away from Miami, the city that cemented his glory. But very few can forget that momentous night in 1964, at the Miami Beach Convention Center, when the boxer then known as Cassius Clay made history by defeating reining heavyweight Sonny Liston. "I am the king of the world!", screamed the boxer that night after the fight, in what ended up being a prophetic statement at least in the world of professional boxing. Local Bar Tobacco Road Finds A New Home By Julia Duba • Apr 23, 2015 Michael Scott Sheerin Tobacco Road, known as the oldest bar in Miami, has secured a new home. The iconic bar had its last call in October, and since then patrons have been waiting to hear where Tobacco Road would take up residence. The bar is expected to reopen in January 2016 at 69 Southwest Seventh Street. A lot of the old pieces of Tobacco Road will become decorative memorabilia along the walls of the new location, like handbills, fliers from past events and photos. The bartop and the neon sign also made it out of the old place. A History Of The Biltmore, Miami's Best Known Creepy Hotel By Julia Duba • Oct 30, 2014 State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/24482 The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables wasn't always a hotel. It was built in 1926 by a young developer named George Merrick, who's known as the founder of Coral Gables. The hotel became a place to host glamorous fashion shows, galas, golf tournaments and water shows in what was then the largest pool in the world. At a loud party on the 13th floor of the hotel, a gangster named Thomas "Fatty" Walsh was shot and killed by another gangster. That murder yielded a lot of ghost rumors over the years. Thirty Years Later, Miami Vice's Impact Still Resonates By Karen Rundlet • Oct 1, 2014 Miami Herald In the 1980s, Miami was a crime capital. Dade County -- that's what it was called then -- had the highest murder rate in the country, and nearly three quarters of all the cocaine and marijuana that made it into the U.S. passed through South Florida. Dade Voters Will Decide In November Whether To Replace Old Courthouse By Rick Stone • Sep 4, 2014 Elisa Rolle via Wikimedia Commons Disgusted, embarrassed and vaguely threatened by their decrepit 90-year old courthouse on Flagler Street, Miami Dade commissioners have decided to ask the voters to pay for a new one. Downtown workers have been seeing the nets and fence around the courthouse for at least 12 years, and they are in no doubt about the condition of the historic building. But those who have to work there know even better. Like Glenn Sheldon, whose office is on the 22nd floor. Shake Your Hips: Remembering TK Records Boss Henry Stone By Tom Hudson • Aug 15, 2014 Henry Stone had soul. Henry Stone had rhythm. Henry Stone had beats. Henry Stone had an ear for what music people wanted to listen to, dance to and buy. He died August 7 in Miami. He was 93. Stone came to Miami in the late 1940s, recording musicians and releasing their music, including that of a young Ray Charles. In the 1960s he founded TK Records.


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Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) recorded May income of $2.3bn from sales of crude oil and derived products, in addition to taxes and royalties received from concession contracts - a monthly increase of approximately $448mn, or 24%.
Revenue figures were bolstered by sustained global oil prices, in addition to a busy crude loading schedule at the end of April resulting in cargo receipts both arriving and clearing in May's revenue statement.
"These figures showcase the importance of a unified oil sector and its contribution to the economy," said NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla. "Our focus on crude production, despite ongoing security challenges, continues to bring success with over $725mn having been spent on exploration and drilling since 2018.
"Oil revenues are the lifeblood of the Libyan economy. Any forced interruption of our work will undoubtedly impact our ability to maintain production and finance essential basic services. Despite repeated warnings, corporation facilities and operations are being directly targeted by conflict. NOC condemns all attempts to militarise national energy infrastructure."


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Health and Safety Executive figures report that 9.5 million working days are lost each year to musculoskeletal issues in the UK alone. Osteopaths have clinical training in identifying musculoskeletal disorders, with a thorough understanding of the causes of an ailment, how to treat them and, if necessary, when to refer you to a GP for further investigation.
Many people who are on long-term sick leave say that the reasons they cannot work are due to problems with their muscles, bones, ligaments and nerves (musculoskeletal problems). Habitual poor posture can contribute to daily aches and discomfort in the workplace and beyond. Whether you work at a desk or have a more manual occupation, your job may expose you to stresses and strains that can cause you pain.


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"I never meant to hurt anyone. There was no malice. In a way I was reckless, but there were mitigating circumstances," he said. Stamper moved to South Carolina a year ago to run for Graham's seat, and despite his history, he said he has found most people welcoming.
The state of South Carolina pays more than $16,000 annually to incarcerate a single prisoner. We spend more each year on a prisoner than we do on a student. Think of the savings we'll realize if we aren't constantly welcoming back behind bars those prisoners who finish out their initial terms. And think of the cultural impact. It's immeasurable.
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Automation in licensing can help screen responsible drivers
MANILA, Philippines – The April 18 bus crash in Nueva Ecija that claimed the lives of at least 31 people is the latest deadly road incident in recent months. (READ: IN NUMBERS: Road crashes in the Philippines)
To prevent more road crashes from happening, what can government agencies do?
For Jason Salvador, former spokesperson of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and now the manager of a global road safety project of the Ateneo School of Government, automating processes in regulatory agencies is needed to help ensure road safety standards are met and followed.
In the case of the LTO, which oversees the issuance of drivers' licenses, automating this process can weed out unfit drivers.
"If you automate everything, then you would eliminate the possibility of [missing out on] something, especially in the issuance of license or the permits to operate a vehicle," he said in a Rappler Talk interview on Thursday, April 20.
"Lives are lost here, so they should be stricter in issuing permits, especially to drivers," he added.
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Salvador explained that there are several contributing factors behind the cause of a road crash, including the conditions of the road, the vehicle, and the driver.
To operate a public utility vehicle, a driver must have a professional driver's license. To get this, he must have passed a practical exam and possess either a valid non-professional driver's license or student permit.
But Salvador acknowledges that there are still problems in the process of acquiring driver's licenses at the LTO, notorious for the many fixers that offer applicants an easier way to get a license for a fee. (READ: Corruption at LTO, LTFRB: Unfit drivers, vehicles on the road)
Salvador said streamlining the process and automation can curb this problem, because it would take out the discretionary factor among employees screening driver's license applicants.
"You automate, so that you don't give a certain employee or certain group of people the authority to pass or fail anyone who wants to secure a license," he said.
"If you eliminate this, you automate this, then you can be rest assured that only all those who are qualified will get to be given a driver's license," he added. – Rappler.com
In the Philippines, an average of more than 600 children died from road crash incidents from 2006 to 2015. Seat belts can save lives but infants and children need a more specific type of car seats for them in case of a road mishap.
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Nutrition and mealtimes
We provide children with a variety of healthy foods, and cater for children with allergies and intolerances
SDN Marrickville is a 57-place centre in the heart of Sydney's inner west, offering early childhood education and child care for children from birth to school age.
Our experienced and qualified team of early childhood teachers and educators focus on each child's individual interests. Strong, respectful relationships underpin our practices and we nurture those relationships from the moment a family joins the SDN community.
SDN Marrickville is within easy walking distance of Marrickville Station, the police station, fire brigade, library, parks, restaurants and shops. We take advantage of being part of this vibrant community, organising many excursions into our local community, including to the Salvation Army store to donate items that the children are happy to give away, participating in story time at the local library, and stretching our legs at the local parks.
The NSW Department of Education has assessed SDN Marrickville against the National Quality Standard, and our centre is rated as 'Exceeding the National Quality Standard'.
Our families say…
"I love the family and community feel; the intelligent, engaged and responsible staff; the beautiful gardens and the fact that our son is so happy there."
"The environment is great. The outdoor area helped us to decide to enrol our child here."
The traditional owners of the Marrickville area are the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation.
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The holistic care of children at SDN Marrickville was a priority. The guiding principle was that, in order to fulfil their potential, children needed nourishing food, proper rest and a program of exercise with free and guided play by trained staff. More than 70 years later, SDN Marrickville continues to provide quality child care and education for local children.
Since its beginnings, SDN Marrickville has reflected a strong connection with local families in a diverse, vibrant and multicultural community, and has supported SDN's vision and commitment to enhance the wellbeing and development of all children.


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Name a Park
The City of Frisco invites citizens to participate in the naming of Frisco Parks and Recreation parks, trails and facilities. Locations that are up for naming will be listed here along with deadlines.
Current Park & Trail Sites up for Naming Consideration
Deadline for citizen submission is February 21, 2020 at 5 p.m.
Park & Trail Descriptions:
1. Located near the southwest corner of Preston at Eldorado, this is a 3.5-acre undeveloped site in a residential area. See map.
2. The "Frisco Square Park Site" is located in the southeast section of Frisco Square and is a 2.3 acre undeveloped site. See map.
3. Known as the "Gartner South Park Site," this 6.6-acre undeveloped site is located in The Grove residential development bordered by Independence Parkway and Main Street. See map.
4. Known as the "Hollyhock Park Site", this 3-acre undeveloped site is adjacent to a residential area, located at the southwest corner of Rockhill Parkway and Teel Parkway. See map.
5. Known as the "1135 Hike & Bike Trail," this developed, unpaved trail runs south and west of B.F. Phillips Sports Complex to Lewisville Lake at FM 423. Property along this trail totals 194 acres of restored wetlands. See map.
6. Known as the "Sonntag Trail Project," this linear, 114-acre site runs along Steward Creek from the future Grand Park site, westward to B.F. Phillips Sports Complex. See map.
How to propose a name for a park, trail, facility or facility asset:
1. Read the City of Frisco Park Naming Policy (PDF)
2. Fill out and submit the online application form, or download a copy in PDF format. Printed applications may be mailed or hand-delivered to Frisco Parks & Recreation, Rick Wieland, 6726 Walnut Street Frisco, TX 75034, or emailed to Rick Wieland.
3. Email supporting documents (letters of support, articles, commendations, etc.) to Rick Wieland, Frisco Parks & Recreation Assistant Director, or mail/deliver to address above.
Applications that are complete (including any supporting documents) and submitted by the deadline will be considered by the Park Naming Committee. The Park Naming Committee reviews applications and makes recommendations to the City Council for approval.
The Park Naming Committee is comprised of:
- Parks & Recreation Board (two members)
- City Council (two members)
- Frisco Community Development Corporation (two members)
- Frisco Heritage Association (one member)
Need more information? Please email Rick Wieland or call 972-292-6500.