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The day I lost my father: Remembering Dad on Father's Day and always
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My Dad
The day I lost my father: Remembering Dad on Father's Day and always
The day I lost my father: Remmbering Dad on Father's Day and always
May 12th
Five years ago, my father passed away on this day at age 74. He had lung cancer, which later spread to his brain. I used to think it was so unfair since my father had never smoked a day in his life! But then what part of anyone's life is ever fair? Certainly not mine. I do wonder, though, if it might have been from all that second hand smoking he'd had to suffer throughout the years because my mom was a smoker or maybe it was the result of having served in two wars (Korean and Vietnam) where he was probably exposed to asbestos, Agent Orange, depleted uranium or other radioactive materials (recent studies show that veterans have a 25-75% higher chance of developing lung cancer than those who never served). Guess I would never know.
I had always been daddy's little girl or at least I thought I was. I can't really be sure anymore because things had changed so much since my parents divorced and my dad remarried when I was 13. Thirteen. Tough age. My mom was never a very good mom and I never felt close or loved by her, so the divorce itself wasn't what was so hard on me. What really messed me up was my father remarrying. Of course, I didn't have a say. Turned out my stepmother and I never really got along. There was one time when we had a fight and stopped talking for months and my poor dad, being the middle person, had to endure our cold, silent battle of will.
But then my dad and I also had our differences. Loads of differences. First, there was the huge age gap. He had me when he was 43, old enough to be my grandfather. He came from a very different background -- born during the great depression, came from a poor, working class family (I believe he mentioned he had his first job at 6 years old delivering newspapers), dropped out of high school at 17 when his mom died, and joined the Air Force where he served for 25 years during which time he got his GED, his BA and later MA. I think his life experiences and background made him a strict disciplinarian and sometimes bitter and resentful (being married to my mom, an alcoholic who abused him nearly daily for 13 years didn't help). Unfortunately, those qualities in a father didn't satisfy my emotional needs at that age. Needless to say, I believe my teenage years caused him lots of pain and heartache as they did me.
When I went off to college, things improved. I was officially an adult and I could pretty much do whatever I wanted, but the biggest reason was probably because we weren't living under the same roof anymore. I graduated, got a job, moved to Japan and life went on pretty much the way it should. But then I had to go out and completely ruin everything.
My dad and me
High School graduation
It was spring of 2003. I had been dating and living with my then-boyfriend (now husband) for 5 years at that time. I was 28 and my boyfriend was 34. Basically, I thought it was time we were married and started thinking about having kids. My now-husband at that time wasn't quite ready. There were a couple of other problems in our relationship as well, but I won't go into them here. And so it happened that during that very confusing and emotionally turbulent time, someone showed an interest in me. I was flattered by his attention and got distracted. Who knew that also at that very same time, my dad had also developed a chronic illness (he had kept it a secret from me). I decided then to break it off with my boyfriend of 5 years and started going out with the new guy, who of course, turned out to be a complete loser (served me right). In the span of those two very horrible and painful years of my life that followed, as I jumped in and out of bad and unhealthy relationships, my dad's cancer got worse and worse. In the spring of 2004 (I was in yet another relationship that wasn't going anywhere), my stepmother e-mailed me that my dad had cancer and that it's affecting his brain so much that he started talking nonsense and incoherently at times, going to toilet on himself and couldn't type very well anymore. Incidentally, at that time, I was having too many problems of my own and was way too self-absorbed, and I think I was in denial about my father, to even think that he really might not have much time anymore.
I went home for a month in May 2004 to be with my dad, or at least that was the plan, but as I have mentioned, I was too self-absorbed to really BE there for my dad. He didn't seem all that bad to me then. Yes, he was weak and wobbly and sometimes seemed to be lost in his own thoughts, but other than that, he just looked and acted like any other 73-year-old. After I got back to Japan, I managed somehow to make my stepmother mad at me, and all of a sudden, I got an e-mail from my dad that he wasn't going to talk to me anymore and that I shouldn't be emailing him anymore. He signed his email "John", not his usual "love, dad".
I cannot begin to describe the hurt and pain I felt. Even if I could, I doubt that words could do my feelings justice. I continued to email him and would still get a reply, though they were often curt and cold. And the name was always "John".
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I went back to the States again from March-May, 2005. I didn't go home, but stayed at a friend's house in the next town. I didn't have courage to go see my dad. What if they threw me out? What would I even say when I see my dad? I did finally work up enough guts to call the house. My stepmother answered the phone and when I asked to talk to my dad, she just said, "He won't talk." I made up an excuse about wanting to stop by to pick up some of my things since I'm back in town and she just said come on over. So, I went there, not knowing really what to expect. I was in for the most shocking, heartbreaking sight of my life.
When I rang the doorbell and the door opened, what I saw was my dad sitting in a chair, facing the other door that looks out into our back yard. I don't really remember what happened much after that, but my dad was pretty much in a vegetative state. He couldn't move or speak and seeing him that way, neither could I. I didn't cry. I just sat down and massaged his feet. I don't know what kind of expression I had on my face nor did I know if my dad was mentally conscious of who I was or of my existence, but I did feel his eyes looking at me. My stepmother told me to talk to him since he still understands, but I was literally choked up that I couldn't say a word. I don't think I even said, "Hi" or "I'm home" or what I had really wanted to say the most, which was "I'm sorry for everything and I love you." That was May 11, 2005.
I left much later than I thought I would and told them that I would come back the next day. I went back the next day, May 12th, in the early afternoon. I arrived at an empty house with a note on the front door. The note was from one of our neighbors saying that my dad was rushed to the hospital in the morning and to phone them. Since I couldn't get into the house, I went to the neighbors (or maybe they found me, I don't remember), borrowed their phone and called the hospital. I think it was the hospital that informed me that my dad had passed away earlier and that he had been transferred over to a funeral home. Not long after, my stepmother arrived back in a car with another neighbor. She told me that my dad was rushed to the hospital early in the morning and that he passed away at 11:55 AM. We burst out crying together. I was about a little over an hour too late.
The funeral was held on May 17th, 2005 at a national cemetery in our state. It was a military funeral with honor guards, Taps, a 3-volley salute, the folding and presenting of the flag (which was draped over his casket) to my stepmother, and he was then buried in the suit outfit he had had tailored with the same fabric for the three of us some 14 years ago. It was a very dignified and honorable funeral, just like his life had been.
A few nights after his death, I had a very vivid dream of him. He came with a personal message for me and one for my stepmother. I have never been one with any kind of psychic potential or any extrasensory perceptions, but there was one time when, for a fleeting moment, I strongly felt his presence. It was the night I gave birth to my daughter. I "saw" him standing at the foot of my hospital bed. It might have helped that it was a Friday the thirteenth and that I was still a little drugged from my c-section.
My dad once asked me a rhetorical question: "if you still love and miss someone even if that person is dead, is that person really dead?" So, perhaps my dad is still not really dead because I still love and miss him everyday.
I like to think that his passing away just one day after he saw me holds implications that he had forgiven me and that he was just hanging on all that time only to see me one more time. One of my best friends wrote me a very short but sweet message after I told her about my dad's death that I should be happy to know that he waited to see me before he let go. Even my stepmother saw the significance of the timing of his passing and mentioned something similar.
My biggest regret is that I never did get to tell him that I was sorry and that I love him. I'm sure he knows so in his heart, but I still wish I had said it. My other regret is that my daughter will never get to know her Grandpa. My daughter is at the age (3 and a half) where she starts asking questions about family and I tell her some simple things about him like what food Grandpa likes (I use the present tense) or what songs Grandpa used to sing to mommy when she was a little girl (and I would sing those same songs). She enjoys hearing about him and that makes me happy. There is so much more about Grandpa's life that I would like to tell her when she gets older. I still can't help but wish my dad were here, though. He would have been so very proud of my sweet little girl.
thank you for this, my dad and i are always fighting. he lost his job 3 years ago and i am bitter he never took my advices seriously, that he shouldve saved up during the time he was still working..he still doesn't take my advice and all of that has caused bitterness and resentment. but im willing to see through it. time is precious.
This is very touching and I can relate to this story so much in many different ways. Thank you for sharing. I am moved by this. Best wishes.
Very touching father-daughter relationship.
"My biggest regret is that I never did get to tell him that I was sorry and that I love him." Even without your telling that he would have known you. Tell your daughter about your good old days with your Dad and the stories he used to tell you, and she will grow knowing her gradpa better.
Anolinde this is a moving account. I just wanted to say to you that, try not to be so hard on yourself. - Sitting at his feet as you did - that action probably spoke louder than words, you revealed of your true feelings by sitting there like that.
I too had regrets, I believe it is part of bereavement to feel like this. Look at the lovley photos of you together. My regards to you.
Thanks for sharing. I also wrote a tribute to my father who is fortunately still around. Sorry to hear about your father's passing, but you can remember the good times you had and forget the bad.
This is a touching story. I'm sure your father loved you & yes, it sounds like he forgave you. Even when we cause pain to our parents, deep down inside they still love us with an unfailing love. I'm sure your dad was just waiting for his girl to come home one last time.


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|Dawn Chappell
|Griffin, Georgia
|Dispatch Supervisor/Crime Analyst
|Year started riding
|First bike
|Suzuki SV650
|How I got into riding?
|Decided to try something that I was afraid of while going through a separation. Took the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) course and fell in love with being on 2 wheels. I haven't looked back since.
|# of rallies and years attended
|All but the first event in 2006.
|SV650S and DRZ400SM
|Hobbies beyond riding
|Photography, archery, geocaching, hiking and working out
|Astrological sign
|Stuff I like
|Chocolate, bears, motorcycles, bears, photography and bears. LOL
|Stuff I can't stand
|Drama and lies
|Chicks I dig
|Strong, independent, drama free women
|Some of the most important things I've learned in life so far
|That which does not kill you does indeed make you stronger. When you face your worst fears, they get easier. Be honest with everyone. The pain of being lied to is far worse than the pain that would come from whatever was lied about.
|Some of the things I've learned by attending the rally
|There are a lot of great ladies out there who share the same passion. I have learned to interact with people a little more (be more social). I have learned that I have a lot of great friends that I get to see once a year, but it's worth it. I enjoy spending time with people who enjoy the same hobbies that I do. I have definitely learned how to market the rally and communicate with different companies, etc to get more support for the rally.
|Live life to the fullest.
|Favorite Quotes
|"Carpe Diem" and "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." (James Dean)

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Hi! Time for intro, and questions
(taking a bow) I'm Johanna, nice to meet y'all!
I'm living proof that TFL is great for any baker at any point in the learning curve. Your creativity encourages me on so many levels!
I use a Breadman Ultimate when I'm being lazy, but currently my only other baking appliance is a countertop 1.5 cu. ft GE micro-convection oven, used in convection mode. It does a decent job for basic breads, remembering that I can't do 500 degF in it, or use a baking stone, or my light bill would be thru the roof and I'd probably kill the oven. I'll start posting some results, if only to show others with limited equipment that it can be done.
The thought just occurred to me... has anyone here tried baking bread in a crock-pot on high? Think I might try. I found on a site called Holy Scrap Hot Springs http://blog.holyscraphotsprings.com/2010/05/clay-pot-sun-oven-bread.html descriptions of baking bread in a solar oven, I know I can build one easy.
I'm considering adding a gas burner to the smoker my dad built ca. 1977, so I can bake in a Dutch oven, though I s'pose I could build a limestone oven around it and use my abundant cedar (Ashe juniper) for fuel. I wonder if I could eventually build my house around it?
The other thing I might contribute to the group is some perspective on domestic appliances. I made my living as an appliance tech in the '70's, and remain an appliance geek to this day.
Anyone else in Central Texas/Hill Country? I'm on the south side of Canyon Lake.


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text: Carita Beach is one of the tourism object in Padeglang, Banten. This beach has been designated as Natural Park on July 15, 1978. In addition to the beautiful white sand, the beach is also presenting the exoticism of Mount Krakatau in the background. Carita Beach also has supporting facilities such as hotels and inns which are very indulgent for travelers. There are wide selections of lodging and hotel class available, from cheap hotel to five-star class hotel.


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|Project by NíccoloJosé
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J-Bench (February 7-22, 2011)
Dimensions: 66'' x 37'' x 16''
Weight: 90lbs
So I decided to take my "Wave Bench" and the "Tornado Floor Lamp" to the next level by adding a sharp curve on on the wave like a winding road. This took a lot planning with the measurements of the cuts. I have to admit some cuts I did were too thin that they ended up snapping the wood when I added brad nails. I was pushing the idea of on recycling the smaller pieces of wood in a different way.
I had to make my own guide for my table saw that I would end up with 85degree angle cults on my wood. Some small came flying that I wore a chest plate. I spent a lot of time sanding each piece to the right size. I would say this a prototype of what I else I could do with small pieces of old wood. Using the techniques I learned in this furniture, I believe I can actually make all the letters of the alphabet… But would probably be suicide. hehe.
It sits nicely by the way and it is very strong. I chose the letter "J" because of my last name Jose. =)
(1)Cedar, (2)Tamarind, (3)Narra, (4)Kamagong, (5) Ipil, (6) Dungon, (7) Kalantas or Philippines Cedar, (8) Molave, (9)Bakan, (10) Palo de China, (11)Palo de Ropa, and (12) Avocado Wood
-- Niccolo Jose; Filipino Artist, www.niccolojose.com
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#1 posted 04-25-2011 02:04 AM
That is awesome! Love the shape, lines, and intentional gaps in the design!
-- Bill
#2 posted 04-25-2011 02:08 AM
very nice, lots of dedication
#3 posted 04-25-2011 02:11 AM
Your hands must be as big as hams from spending that much time sanding. Dedication to the max. I bow to you. In the end a work of art!
-- Flaws are only in the eye of the artisan!
#4 posted 04-25-2011 03:38 AM
Nico, great job! I never heard of most the wood you mentioned. The bench is very colorful. Are they all in their natural color? You have a tremendous range of colors at your disposal. Are they all native Philippine wood?
-- LittlePAW - The sweetest sound in my shop, next to Mozart, is what a hand plane makes slicing a ribbon.
#5 posted 04-25-2011 03:47 AM
#6 posted 04-25-2011 03:52 AM
Wonderful piece. The organic curves require a level of planning and detail that I've never attempted. Impressive indeed.
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#7 posted 04-25-2011 05:29 AM
Very cool! Very different which is a good thing!
-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"
#8 posted 04-25-2011 05:41 AM
Absolutely cool!!!
-- Scott "Some days you are the big dog, some days you are the fire hydrant"
#9 posted 04-25-2011 07:04 AM
Wow. Awesome.
-- " 'woodworker'.....it's a good word, an honest word." - Sam Maloof
#10 posted 04-25-2011 07:33 AM
too-o-o much!!
-- ~christine @ used2btrees
#11 posted 04-25-2011 08:22 AM
one more time you have outdone your self
#12 posted 04-25-2011 11:41 AM
Now that is "Real" sweet.
#13 posted 04-25-2011 02:13 PM
Well, it's a darn good thing that woodworking isn't a competition, otherwise I would have sold all my accumulated tools and found a new hobby when faced with work like yours! Fortunately, this is a hobby where we're all, in one fashion or another, standing on the shoulders of giants. Super nice work, really enjoy seeing what you come up with!
-- I don't know what this is going to be like, but there's only one way to find out..........
#14 posted 04-25-2011 04:40 PM
Absolutely incredible!!!!!! I couldn't have even dreamed it, much less built it.
-- --God bless! Brandon
#15 posted 04-25-2011 05:38 PM
This work is amazing! I hate to think of all the glue ups.
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Dendritic Nanotechnologies Inc. (DNT) and Starpharma Holdings Limited (ASX:SPL, USOTC:SPHRY), today signed an agreement for Starpharma to acquire the outstanding equity of U.S.-based DNT for $6.97 million, payable through the issue of Starpharma shares. Starpharma currently owns 33% of DNT, and The Dow Chemical Company is the other major shareholder, with a 30% equity stake.
The transaction is subject to DNT shareholder approval, which is expected to be obtained in the next two weeks. DNT will retain its corporate identity, remain a U.S. corporation based in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and will become a wholly owned operating subsidiary of Starpharma.
The resulting company will be positioned as the global leader in dendrimers, holding a dominant IP portfolio in the field of dendrimer-based nanotechnology. More here.
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9 Aug (Sat): Reef Celebrations!
The marine community celebrates our nation's priceless reefs this National Day with the Singapore launch of International Year of the Reef!
Everyone is invited!
With a slew of activities for all, come find out about Singapore's living shores and how you can make a difference for them.
A shore fun day for the entire family! Kids' games and activities so even the youngest ones (aged 4-8 years) can learn about our marine life and what we can do to help.
Be a Star! Adopt a unique Singapore star and learn more about Cyrene Reef, a major Knobbly Nursery.
Our reefs revealed! As volunteers share about our reefs and shores and the work they have been doing. A rare opportunity to meet ALL major marine groups active on our shores and find out how you too can make a difference.
Exciting exhibits! See Singapore's living shores without getting your feet wet. Find out about the latest marine projects, and threats to and work done for our shores. Come see rarely seen specimens, including a baby dugong by the Toddycats!
Special talks throughout the day! Come find out if there are any reefs left in Singapore and about diving Singapore's wild reefs at Pulau Hantu. Learn more about our Knobbly sea stars; how is Chek Jawa doing after the mass deaths in 2007?; and about our wild and wacky seagrass meadows. Film clips about our amazing marine life will also be shown throughout the day.
More details on the Singapore Celebrates our Reefs blog
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2nd Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung
EUROFAN: New Directions of the European Fantastic After the Cold War
Second Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF)
to be held at the University of Salzburg from 29 September to 1 October 2011
Since the end of the Cold War a significant number of fantastic texts, films, artworks and new media practices across Europe have raised social and political questions. We understand the fantastic to mean a dynamic process rather than a finished product and a distinctive mode of engagement with the real. It typically works to disrupt the mimetic through supernatural, magical and visionary means. In this sense it breaks through boundaries of genre, space and identity. It fosters new kinds of dialogue across time, space and communities, informing contemporary technologies of cultural production and their use by increasing numbers of Europeans in their everyday lives. The rich European cultural context offers unique opportunities to look into how the contemporary fantastic as a truly global cultural phenomenon is being locally created and reinterpreted in active, trans-national dialogue. Through transformed networks of publishing, audiovisual industries, digital media, online communities, visitor attractions and cultural tourism, the fantastic has reached new dimensions. Pervading a wide range of literary genres, cultural practices and infrastructures, it plays a crucial role in the exchange of ideas and concerns across national and political boundaries. The fall of the Berlin Wall signalled the start of a period of profound changes and reconfigurations in Europe. These involved a rethinking not only of capitalism and communism, East and West, but also of the national and trans-national, the indigenous and migrant, borders and flows, histories and futures, identities and communities. Simultaneously, across high and popular culture new fantastic forms and practices have emerged.
This conference will explore how the fantastic has responded to and how it is shaping Europe's dynamic cultural contexts, and how it contributes to cognitive and affective dimensions of European identity. The aim is to define the share of the fantastic in the cultural traffic between European societies and communities after the Cold War. We are particularly interested in transformations of the fantastic in literature, life-writing, film, folklore, gaming, cultural infrastructures such as museums and museum-like venues, multi-sensory events and social practices. For this purpose we invite papers dealing with:
• Genre Shifts: how have post-Cold War realities changed conceptions of fantastic genres and what new terminologies have emerged since 1989? What are the political implications of the genre shifts according to locale? How has the growing cultural acceptance impacted conceptions of high and low culture and how has it become a privileged site for negotiating cultural identities?
• Fantastic Film and New Media: what is the role of the fantastic in European cinema? How has the latter articulated and negotiated the relationships that have emerged since the end of the Cold War between nation, Europe and international capital? What impact have contemporary forms of media had on the fantastic and, conversely, how have the cultures of fantasy paved the way for contemporary media cultures to emerge (participatory media culture, 'media convergence' and 'fan fiction')?
• Cultural Infrastructures and Social Practices: What is the role of cultural infrastructures in constructing history and communicating cultural value through narrative and multi-sensory experience? How have sites of cultural memory, history and trauma, museums and visitor attractions been narrativised, emotionalised and theatricalised by fantastic tropes and strategies? What role does the fantastic play in the construction and reconfiguration of different identity categories in the new Europe (re-tellings of myth and folklore, festivals, events)?
If you are interested in this conference and wish to offer a paper, please send an abstract of 350 words describing your project and bearing your name and institutional affiliation by 15 January 2011 to
Prof. Dr. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner
University of Salzburg
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Summit Entertainment has picked up the film rights to Julie Cross' upcoming time travel novel "Tempest" reports Variety.
The first in a trilogy, the story follows a 19-year-old time traveler who witnesses his girlfriend's murder and inadvertently jumps back in time by two years.
While stuck there, he's recruited by a shadowy government agency run by the man he thought was his father and vows to save his girlfriend. Sonny Mallhi will produce.


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When Shari and Garen Staglin's son, Brandon, was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1990, they realized that advancements in scientific research were vital to understanding mental illness. Rather than wait for a miracle, they started a non-profit organization on their own to raise funds for mental health research. With treatment and family support, Brandon was able to recover and since 1995 the Staglin family has been "changing the landscape from the Napa Valley to Washington, D.C. with sensational fundraisers on behalf of national mental health research."
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The premier soccer club of Richmond, Indiana and the surrounding areas.
Registration for the Fall 2019 Soccer Season is closed.
Rec. Game Schedules can be viewed on the Rec. League page.
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Recreational League
Players must be born in 2009-2016
Rec Soccer is for children from 4 to 10 years old who want to have fun learning and playing soccer. In the rec league, teams usually practice one night per week and play a game on Saturday afternoon at our RPSC fields at the fields between the Wayne County Fairgrounds and the State Hospital, off NW L Street in Richmond. Players are welcome from all communities!
Players get a jersey, shorts, and socks for the games. You will need soccer cleats (not the same as baseball cleats), and shin guards.
Select Soccer League
Players must be born in 2005-2012
Select Soccer (formerly Rec+) is for children from 8 years old and up, who want to have fun learning and playing soccer with a little more competition. In the rec league+, teams play on Saturdays and Sundays at him at the Richmond Premier Soccer fields located at the State Hospital, off NW L Street in Richmond. Away games are played no more than 45 minutes away, in places like Connersville, Liberty, New Castle, etc. Players are welcome from all communities!
You will need soccer cleats (not the same as baseball cleats), shin guards, and black shorts.
Travel League
For the Fall 2019 season, we have registered a Girls 12U team, Boys 12U team, and Boys/Coed 14U team in the Indiana Travel Soccer League. Please check with the club for the registration link, if your child will be on one of these teams.
RPSC strives to provide our players with coaches who:
1. Make soccer fun
2. Teach skills and provide opportunities that produce good soccer players
These two important objectives require that coaches prepare, provide positive, constructive feedback, and understand concepts of coaching as well as rules and skills involved in soccer.
If you want to be a better coach, we can help point you in the right direction. Just say the word.
We are looking for good coaches so please contact us if you are interested.
Our fields are located between the Richmond State Hospital and Wayne County Fairgrounds, at N.W. L and Grove Road on the west side of Richmond. Travel fields are visible from N.W. L Street. Rec. fields are behind that to the south.
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"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." The Declaration of Independence
Do we fully grasp the concept of this famous line from our nation's call to freedom? Americans bemoan the government's unconstitutional practices but the reality is that we chose the leaders of the past and will choose the future's. It is the men WE chose that are causing oppression and stealing our freedoms.
We have been given the great privilege of electing those who will rule over us. Are we exercising our freedoms as well as choosing wisely? It begins with our responsibility to understand the purpose of government, to understand the meaning of our constitution, and then to fervently pray and act accordingly.
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." Jefferson
"We learn from the Declaration that the purposes of government are the protections of our rights, our safety, and our happiness...these goods depend on certain qualities in us that can be trusted with power and on the ascendance of those abilities as we exercise power...In political terms, the operation of self-interest helps to lay the basis for the kind of liberal society established in all the major laws following from the american revolution. for there to be representative government, there must be an independent society to be represented. What happens in this society is private, not public, and yet it has profound public significance." From The Founders' Key by Larry P. Arnn
It is our duty to study our nation's history. For we cannot know where we are headed or what pitfalls are to be avoided without a thorough knowledge of where we have been. History informs us, instructs us and prepares us, which is why a concerted effort has been made to discredit much of true history, as it obstructs socialism's objectives.
Without a mooring, we drift into dangerous territory. We must cling to our mooring, embrace our privilege and hold on to what we love.


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Vegetables and Fruits:Enriched with vitamins, antioxidants and fiber. Not only are they low in calories they are a terrific source of nutrients and vital for a healthy life.
• Try to add a portion in every meal. If it's snacking you are after, then they should be the first choice.• A minimum of the five portions a day will go a long way.• Antioxidants in these foods will keep ailments away.• Dark leafy green vegetables are a vital part of a healthy diet since they are packed with nutrients such as calcium, nesium, iron, potassium, zinc, and vitamins A, C, E and K. Greens help to strengthen the blood and respiratory systems. Be adventurous in your choice of greens: kale, mustard greens, broccoli, Chinese cabbage are just a few of the many options.• Naturally sweet vegetables are an excellent way to add healthy sweetness to your meals and reduce your cravings for other sweets. Some examples of sweet vegetables are corn, carrots, beets, sweet potatoes or yams, winter squash, and onions.• Eating a wide variety of fruit is another very healthy part of any diet. They provide us with beneficial properties such as natural sugars, fiber, Vitamins and antioxidants. Choose fresh or frozen, and focus on variety. Berries are cancer-fighting, apples provide fiber, oranges and mangos offer vitamin C, and so on.• The brighter, deeper colored fruits and vegetables contain higher concentrations of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
Avoid: Fruit juices can contain up to 10 teaspoons of sugar per cup; avoid or dilute with water. Canned fruit often contains sugary syrup, and dried fruit, while an excellent source of fiber, can be high in calories. Avoid fried veggies or ones smothered in dressings or sauces – you may still get the vitamins, but you'll be getting a lot of unhealthy fat and extra calories as well.
Protein:• Our bodies need protein to maintain our cells, tissues and organs. A lack of protein in our diets can result in slow growth, reduced muscle mass, lower immunity, and weaken the heart and respiratory system.• During digestion, protein in food is broken down into the 20 amino acids that are the basic building blocks our bodies use to create its own protein.• Protein gives us the energy to get up and go –and keep going. Keep in mind that it is vital to eat healthy protein that is free of hormones and antibiotics.• Focus more on getting higher quality versus more quantity. Each person is individual and may need different amounts of protein depending on their body and activity level.• A complete protein source is one that provides all of the essential amino acids. Examples are animal-based foods such as meat, poultry, fish, milk, eggs, and cheese.• Complementary proteins are two or more incomplete protein sources that together provide adequate amounts of all the essential amino acids. For example, rice and dry beans. Similarly, dry beans each are incomplete proteins, but together, these two foods can provide adequate amounts of all the essential amino acids your body needs.• Nuts, Seeds, Beans, and Tofu: alternative sources for healthy proteins• Choose: Black beans, navy beans, garbanzos, lentils, and other beans. Nuts like almonds, walnuts and pecans. Soy products like tofu, soymilk, and veggie burgers. All of these are great sources of protein for vegetarians.
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Whole grain:• Make sure you're really getting whole grains. Focus on including grains that are in their whole form, such as whole grain brown rice, millet, quinoa, and barley in your meals.• When you want to eat healthy grains in the form of breads or cereals be aware that the words stone-ground, multi-grain, 100% wheat, or bran, don't necessarily mean that a product is whole grain. Look for the new Whole Grain Stamp from the Whole Grains Council.• If there is no stamp look for the words "whole grain" or "100% whole wheat," and check the ingredients to make sure each grain listed is specified as whole grain. Some good sources are dark breads and toasted wheat cereals.
Avoid: Refined grains such as breads, pastas, and breakfast cereals that are not whole grain.
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Dr. Minesh Zaveri Only Doctor in Phoenix to Provide 'Last-Chance' Pain Management Therapy
PHOENIX (Sept. 9, 2016) – Patients suffering from lifelong chronic pain, especially those who have been told that no other pain management tools exist to provide relief, now have a new treatment option at St. Luke's Medical Center and Sonoran Pain Management.
Newly approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a neurostimulation device for chronic pain therapy allows doctors to target their efforts using electricity to change the way the brain perceives pain. The device, known as the St. Jude Medical Axium™ Neurostimulator System for dorsal root ganglion (DRG) stimulation, was used by pain management specialist, Dr. Minesh Zaveri , medical director at St. Luke's Medical Center and Sonoran Pain Management, to treat a 64-year-old patient of Phoenix, Ariz. suffering from Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome.
"For the first time, we have a device that gives physicians the ability to effectively provide pain relief to wide array of patients with neuropathic conditions that are otherwise underserved by traditional pain management options including prescription medications i.e. opiods as well as surgery," said Dr. Zaveri.
Chronic pain, moderate to severe pain that persists for one or more months longer than would generally be expected for recovery to a specific disease, injury or surgery, is a largely under-treated and misunderstood condition.
According to the Institute of Medicine, chronic pain affects more than 100 million Americans, an incidence rate which outpaces heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined. Research suggests that, in total, the condition costs the American population an estimated 515 million workdays annually and generates upwards of 40 million visits to physicians each year both at a combined a cost of approximately $100 billion per year, as estimated by The American Pain Foundation.
Unlike traditional neurostimulation devices, the St. Jude Medical Axium system targets the DRG, a spinal structure densely populated with sensory nerves that transmit information to the brain via the spinal cord.
This first-of-its-kind device delivers a form of spinal stimulation that can target specific areas of the body where pain occurs. In many cases, DRG provides significant pain relief to a target pain area, without causing a patient to feel a paresthesia/tingling sensation associated with traditional neurostimulation. If the patient does experience a light tingle, it is usually confined to the local area.
Previously, common treatments included prescription painkillers and traditional spinal cord stimulators, which are implanted devices that send electrical pulses to the spinal cord to interrupt the pain signals' pathways by delivering low intensity electrical pulses to trigger selective nerve fibers along the spinal cord. Researchers theorize that stimulating these nerve fibers diminishes or blocks the intensity of the pain message being transmitted to the brain, replacing feelings of pain with a more pleasant tingling sensation called paresthesia.
"As the only hospital in Phoenix offering the St. Jude Medical Axium system, St. Luke's Medical Center is offering thousands of Arizonans a game-changing treatment," said Zaveri. "Vickie Dietz is a shining example of how well the DRG stimulation works to improve pain levels and increase function through patients' daily lives and routines."
For Dietz, living with chronic pain meant living a life of agony. She was prescribed significant amounts of Percocet as well as other medications which only gave side effects without significant reduction in pain or increase in function. She saw multiple providers prior who thought only medications were an option. She and Dr. Zaveri saw the DRG implant as a last resort to manage her debilitating chronic pain. Despite a total knee replacement in 2014, Dietz's pain has continued to get progressively worse. In fact, after the knee replacement and months of physical therapy, the pain and accompanying symptoms continued to worsen to the point where she developed intense tightening, muscle hardness and extreme heat in the area, which would become unbearable. Many days, Dietz's resting pain on a scale of 0 to 10, sat at an 8 or 9.
"It's hard to explain the level of pain I felt day-in, day-out. Even common things like walking through the grocery store or having a bed sheet brush up against my knee in bed would be excruciating," said Dietz.
The turnaround came during her trial evaluation period, in which she was fitted with a temporary device that worked like an implanted system, but could be removed. She was able to determine the level of pain relief she would feel with a permanently implanted system. During the first three days of the evaluation, she noticed a 60-70 percent improvement in pain level. By the last four days, she reported 100 percent relief.
"The results were unbelievable," said Dietz. "I couldn't remember the last time I didn't feel pain or have a "fever" in my knee. I finally felt normal and knew I needed to move forward with a permanent implant."
After Dietz's surgery to place a permanent implant on Aug. 25, her pain has not only significantly subsided, but her mobility has significantly improved, as has the heat and hardening she felt. In fact, the pain that was at an 8 or 9 is now at a pain level 2. Given that full surgical recovery takes approximately six weeks, Zaveri is optimistic that her prognosis will only improve as she continues her recovery and begins enjoying aspects of her daily life that she has had to put on hold due to chronic pain.
Long term data from the ACCURATE clinical trial have shown significantly more patients receiving DRG stimulation achieved meaningful pain relief and greater treatment success when compared to patients receiving traditional SCS (74.2 percent vs. 53 percent). Study findings also demonstrated patients receiving DRG stimulation reported no differences in paresthesia (tingling) intensity due to changes in body position (known as postural effects) when compared to traditional SCS. After 12-months, nearly all patients receiving DRG stimulation reported better stimulation targeting in their area of pain without extraneous paresthesia than patients receiving traditional SCS (94.5 percent vs. 61.2 percent).
For more information about Dr. Zaveri's use of the Axium Neurostimulator System for chronic pain management, patients can call 602-795-PAIN (7246) or visit sonoranpain.com.
About St. Luke's Medical Center
Serving Metropolitan Phoenix for more than 100 years, St. Luke's Medical Center is a 200-bed tertiary care hospital part of IASIS Healthcare offering a full range of medical services, including emergency care, orthopedics, cardiac care, bariatrics, physical rehabilitation, pain management and wound care. St. Luke's has a long history of innovation as the first hospital in Arizona to open a cardiac catheterization lab, and the first in the Valley to perform open heart surgery. With a focus on serving the diverse health care needs of the community, experienced professionals provide high quality care with the latest technology, in a caring environment. St. Luke's Medical Center is an Official Healthcare Partner of the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury. For more information, visit stlukesmedcenter.com or call 1-877-351-WELL (9355).Find St. Luke's Medical Center on Facebook and follow the hospital on Twitter.


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text: Done and done. I wound up scaling back from my original plan (the proposed recipient of size-13 men's socks didn't want 'em, so plan B was to make them for my brother who has size 10 feet). There's a picture on my blog, and I'll try to post one here later today (or, more likely, sometime this week).


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MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. — Nearly every day, a teenager is missing from Hawthorne Cedar Knolls, a rehabilitation center for emotionally troubled children that sits on a sprawling campus in this Westchester County town.
Home to many young people who have been trafficked for sex, Hawthorne is supposed to help heal them and head off their return to prostitution and exploitation. But the center, run by a nonprofit group and intended to be a relatively open facility, has seen girl after girl, most of them from New York City, go missing.
People who have worked in child welfare in and around New York City say there is a pipeline from centers like the ones here back to the streets, where children fall prey to the abuse that they were supposed to escape. Over the last 18 months, the state, which oversees residential treatment centers like Hawthorne, stopped sending children to Hawthorne and to the nearby Pleasantville Cottage School. Among the 51 centers statewide, Hawthorne and Pleasantville are the only ones to have faced such severe sanctions over missing children in recent years.
By design and by law, conditions at residential treatment centers are less restrictive than those at many of the other programs for children with severe mental health problems. Residential treatment centers are not juvenile detention centers, and they are supposed to provide a homelike experience. Children cannot be locked down, and older children are encouraged to attend programs outside the campus and hold part-time jobs as part of their rehabilitation. But people who work with the residents said that a lack of rigorous, engaging programs, especially for victims of sex trafficking, had made their open atmosphere a liability.
Hawthorne was recently drawn into a trafficking investigation after a teenage girl who went missing from Hawthorne ended up in the Bronx with a 25-year-old man.
The man has been charged with sex trafficking, rape, prostitution and other crimes in a state case involving the girl, and he has been charged as a conspirator in a federal investigation of a Bronx drug-trafficking ring.
Prosecutors have not accused Hawthorne or its staff of any wrongdoing in connection with sex trafficking. But the involvement of a runaway from Hawthorne in the Bronx case underscored the challenges confronting such programs and the risks faced by some of the girls who are in them.
The investigation offers a glimpse into an underworld in which exploitation is hard to document and prosecute. Victims often fear retribution or are wary of law enforcement and refuse to cooperate with investigations, according to lawyers and social workers. But the exploitation is real, said Paul Oliva, the police chief in Mount Pleasant. "We had these girls leaving campus, hooking up with their pimps," he said.
Instead of escaping sexual exploitation, some teenagers are recruited by their peers inside centers and group homes, said Ed Gavin, a former acting chief of staff at the Administration for Children's Services in New York City. A piece of the pipeline in the region flows north to south, from the leafy, idyllic surroundings here to gritty "trap houses" run by twentysomething drug dealers, Mr. Gavin said. "People think of human trafficking as foreign. Human trafficking goes on right in the neighborhood. It goes on in the Bronx," said Mr. Gavin, who now works as a private investigator and specializes in finding missing children.
The girls at Hawthorne, who range in age from 12 to 21, have been sent there through the recommendations of child welfare agencies, Family Court judges and a special education panel.
The majority of the children return to their homes or are sent to a foster home or other setting closer to their families in less than a year, said David Rivel, the chief executive of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, which operates Hawthorne.
Many children continue to run until they feel safe at the center, he said. "Kids are not running away from the campus, they are running away from the trauma and abuse they have experienced, which we are encouraging them to face," Mr. Rivel said.
To prevent children from regressing, there must be a balance between tough love and tolerance of behavioral problems that stem from deep-seated pain, said Jonathan McLean, the director of Hawthorne.
The town of Mount Pleasant has long been home to Hawthorne and Pleasantville, which is run by the J.C.C.A., formerly known as the Jewish Child Care Association.
About two miles apart, the campuses opened more than a century ago to take in the orphaned children of Jewish immigrants.
About 80 young people children live at Pleasantville, while about 50 live at Hawthorne. The overwhelming majority of the residents there are black and Hispanic children from New York City.
In an interview, an 18-year-old at Gateways, a program on Pleasantville's campus for trafficked children, said she "sold her body for money," new clothes, trips to the nail salon and food.
"I always have this thing where I bounce my way into stuff and bounce my way into this," the teenager said. "It's hard to explain why people do it or why you do it."
The teenager said she had enjoyed a visit by local volunteers who brought Jamaican food, cupcakes and pumpkins, but she said she wished some of the staff members were more empathetic. "Be more open and understanding of behaviors. Don't shut us out," she said.
Making children feel wanted is key to preventing them from going missing, said Jim Purcell, the chief executive of the Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies, an advocacy group. "For some of these kids, it's showing that someone cares," he said. "Some of these kids AWOL to see if somebody is going to stop them."
Chief Oliva said his department, which has 45 officers, was stretched thin by helping to investigate sex trafficking cases involving missing girls, and by responding to calls from the centers and complaints from residents.
To push the nonprofits to improve security, the town began charging them a fine of $250 last year for calls about missing children, he said. (As of October, the town had issued the fine 15 times.) The fines were instituted in part because residents had complained about crimes committed by children from the centers, but Mr. Oliva said it was important to remember that the children were being hurt or put in harm's way.
From July 2016 though June, about 73 percent of the 188 New York City children at Hawthorne were reported missing, a rate that was significantly higher than those for similar programs.
Mr. Rivel said the numbers at Hawthorne had been skewed by the "overreporting" of cases in which children had gone missing for just a few hours, but he did not dispute that the numbers reflected a crisis and that elected officials needed to help. "We have a real problem here, a real challenge here," he said.
Last year, the Jewish Board and J.C.C.A. hired directors of security, new positions for both nonprofits.
At Pleasantville, the J.C.C.A. added more cameras, new lighting and new two-way radios. At Hawthorne, the Jewish Board began following children in a van on the 20-minute walk from the campus to the nearby Metro-North Railroad station. The board also installed a six-foot-high fence that stretches 200 feet through trees and brush.
The tactics have reduced the number of children who go missing, though the figure remains strikingly high at Hawthorne. Since the state allowed Hawthorne to begin accepting new residents in August, about 54 percent of the 79 New York City children living there have been absent at some point, according to city data.
But the idea of using highly restrictive security measures is at odds with a strong belief by many experts that emotionally damaged children should not be criminalized.
"Honestly, their goal is to protect these kids," said Staca Shehan, the executive director of the case analysis division at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. "But at the end of the day, there hasn't been a way to force services upon them," she said. "The field as a whole really doesn't have a consensus because running away from services is so prevalent."
Advocates said there was a need for more state funding for programs that engage children. "Those are the things that get lost in the shuffle when there's no money," Mr. Purcell said.
Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, a Queens Democrat who is the chairman of the social services committee, said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, has cut the operating budgets of the agencies that oversee troubled children by nearly 17 percent since fiscal 2012 to keep a vow to curb state spending.
The state described the cuts as "cost savings" unrelated to the direct funding of treatment centers.
The state provides money to local districts that negotiate annual rates with the nonprofit organizations that run the centers — the Jewish Board receives $419.78 per day for each child, and the J.C.C.A. receives $431.36. The state could set higher rates for the next fiscal year because of the cost of the new security measures at Hawthorne and Pleasantville, state officials said.


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Growers across the southern tier of Minnesota have finished planting corn or anticipate being done within the week—in a more typical year many would just be starting to plant the third week in April.
"This is the second year in row that it's been early," said corn producer Jerry Demmer, a member of the Minnesota Corn Promotion Council who farms in Clarks Grove, about 90 miles directly south of the Twin Cities. "In a typical year, if you can get in and get started by the 25th it's fantastic—this year a lot of people will be done by the 25th."
Further to the east, Lori Feltis reported that she and her husband, Clifton were finishing corn planting Monday (April 19) on their farm near Stewartville in Olmsted County. Their seed dealership business gives them a good idea when most of the planting in the vicinity is taking place.
"We have folks in the neighborhood who have 2,500 acres in the ground—it's been great planting conditions," said Feltis, who is secretary of Minnesota Corn Research and Promotion Council. "We're expecting to see the corn poking out by Friday (the 22nd), for sure. It's been dry, almost too dry—we could use a shot of rain. In a typical year we'd be starting on the 20th and hope to have all the corn in by May 1."
Feltis noted that they waited until April 12 to plant, to assure full crop insurance coverage. Some in the neighborhood didn't wait, because of the ideal planting conditions, she said. Soil temperatures measured 48 degrees Fahrenheit on the 12th and everything has germinated. On Monday they got readings of 56 degrees at two inches—where the seed sits, and 52 degrees at four inches, showing that the tap root can begin to grow down already. Activity takes place above 50 degrees.
Heading west across the southern tier, in Redwood County, DeVonna Zeug reported being two-thirds finished with corn planting early last week, with excellent conditions to get things finished quickly. Zeug, who is president of Minnesota Corn Growers Association, was able to break away to speak at the University of Minnesota Ag Awareness Day last Tuesday, because things were so well in hand on their farm in Walnut Grove.
Also in the western part of the southern tier, Myron "Mickey" Peterson, who farms in Sacred Heart, Renville County, reported he would be finished planting corn Tuesday morning, April 20. Peterson is chairman of Minnesota Corn Research & Promotion Council Perhaps he would have been finished Monday afternoon, except he and his wife Janice decided to take a break to go and visit their grandchild, born on Monday.
"We were going to finish two weeks ago, but we had to wait because of all the wind, so we didn't want to do fertilizer," said Peterson. "We've had beautiful planting conditions, but we'd like to get half an inch of rain shortly. In western Renville, I'd say we're about 80 percent done planting corn. Now, we've got some 1/8-inch sprouts on what we planted two weeks ago—shows it was warm enough. A year ago we started on the 16th—it was dry last year too. This year, we started on the 12th, and it was the earliest we've ever started."
In Lincoln County, by the South Dakota border, Tim Dritz reported getting started April 16, and was about halfway through about four days into planting his corn. Dritz is vice president of Minnesota Corn Growers Association.
"This is a week or two earlier than normal for corn planting here," said Dritz. "Things are drying out nicely and starting to look good. Everyone's gotten a good start. Just a few more days and everyone should be done."


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Archive for the 'Aesthetics' Category
Talk in Istanbul: Zoltán Somhegyi (Izmir) on " Places and Concepts of Art Collecting " 21/06/2014
Art collections at Akbank Sanat Beyoglu, tomorrow, Saturday, 21 June at 14:30. Details can be found here.
Places and Concepts of Art Collecting
Dr. Zoltán Somhegyi (Art Historian, İzmir University)
In the second lecture of the two-session series on the ways of collecting, the focus is on the places of acquiring artworks and on the concepts of building a collection. Why some prefer buying in a gallery, on an art fair or directly from the artist in the studio? Besides these questions, the possible concepts of a collection are also analysed: potential guidelines that can be helpful for both establishing a new art collection and for giving a characteristic profile to an already existing one. What are the advantages and disadvantages of focusing only on a certain period, on a group of artists, on a specific topic or on one medium?
The lecture is in English, and it is the continuation of the one on 24 May, it can be followed without attending the previous one.
No charge for admission
Series of Workshops in Istanbul organised by the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations.
There is a series of workshops organised by the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, in Istanbul. Some of these may be of interest to philosophers. The first workshop is on 28/02/2014, and is on "Identity Construction through Materiality". Details can be found here.
CFA: Call for Abstracts for Workshop on Gezi Protests, in Kassel (Germany)
June–Uprising in Turkey: Background, Dynamics and Perspectives
Workshop at University of Kassel, 16 May 2014
Abstracts (max. 500 words, in English or German) to be submitted by February 7, 2014 to firstname.lastname@example.com
Details can be found here.
Deleuze conference and summer school in Istanbul in July 2014.
7th International Deleuze Studies Conference
Models, Machines and Memories
Istanbul, July, 14-16th 2014
Details can be found here.
MonoKL Conference in Istanbul with Jacques Rancière on 'Equality and Aesthetics', December 7th-8th, 2013
There will be a conference organised by MonoKL in Istanbul from Decemebr 7-8th, 2013, on:
Equality and Aesthetics
with Jacques Rancière, Bernard Aspe, Zeynep Gambeti, Nami Başer, Ahmet Soysal and Volkan Çelebi talking place at Bakırköy Belediyesi Atatürk Spor ve Yaşam Köyü Osmaniye Mahallesi from December 7-8th 2013. Details can be found here.
Conference in Istanbul on Aesthetics and Politics, December 6th-8th 2013
- There will be a 3 day conference from 6-8 December, 2013, on
Aesthetics and Politics in Turkey: Art, Film, and Literature
organised by Sabancı University and taking place in Karaköy at the Minerva Palas. Details can be found here.


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I may have mentioned before that I'm a teacher now. I teach English here in Italy, in a private language school. I'm a pretty shitty teacher, probably. My didactic skills are OK, and students love me, that's not the point. The point is the contents of my lessons. I'm not necessarily teaching what I should be teaching.
Most of my students are bankers, or managers, or business people of some description, and many of them are being subjected to the embarrassment of taking an English course by their superiors. The times they are a-changing, and now that everyone has to work more or less internationally, demand for decent English speakers has gone up. These people are meant to be doing business English, which means talking about the economy, investment banking, meetings, time management – soul-crushingly boring topics. That's where it all goes horribly wrong.
You see, it's to be expected that I don't give a crap about investment banking, but strangely enough, most of my students don't really seem to care about it, either. Some of them do, and with those I'll make the effort to struggle through chapter after chapter about fictional enterprises and their business strategies. With the others, in order to make the experience somewhat less traumatic for all parties involved, I'll do whatever.
My lesson materials have ranged from articles about the legalisation of marijuana in Jamaica to podcasts about coffee addiction to musical gap-fill activities to The Ace of Spades by Motörhead. Once I brought in an article with comprehension questions about the right way to eat crisps, and I still recall it as one of my better lessons. This is the trick: finding something that interests your students, and basing your programme on that.
As we're in Italy, almost all of my students love to talk about food. It's that one magical subject that gets everybody chatting. And sometimes, it works out to my advantage, and I manage to pick up a secret recipe. Like the time that two of my students insisted I go to the Salone del Gusto, and I told them after I'd gone about how I bought some bergamotto there. We discussed the various uses I could put them to, and one of them gave me a recipe for salmon with lemon, invented by her father. It calls for lemons rather than bergamot, and in the end that's what I ended up using, because I finished my bergamots for bergamot tarte before I ever had the chance to flavour my salmon with it. Either way, it was good!
For two, use:
- Two big fat slices of salmon
- one lemon
- some white wine, about a glass full
- three carrots
- one onion
- some celery
- some parsley
- 3 cloves of garlic (optional – I like garlic)
This recipe is kinda easy. Peel the vegetables that need peeling, then chop everything up in medium sized chunks, the lemon into thick slices (go for half moons, they look cute that way), and halve the garlic cloves. Clean the parsley, get rid of the hardest parts of the stems, chop very roughly. Throw it all in an oven dish together with the salmon and the white wine. Mix, and leave in the fridge to marinade for an hour or so.
Drain about half the wine, arrange the vegetables and lemon so that the salmon is lying on top of them, slightly higher than what's left of the wine. Now put it in the oven on 200 degrees for about 15, maybe 20 minutes.


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This is an old photo I found of my Dad and Aunt when they were growing up.
I imagine it was taken sometime around the 1950's range.
I love everything about this photo.
From the boys carrying the old (probably Coleman) lanterns,
to the homemade super hero cape wrapped around Dads neck.
These were the days before "texting" and video games came along.
These bare footed kids have stolen my heart in this image
and I cherish and love it so.


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The Weekender: 3 Things to Make, Try and Do
TGIF! As with every Friday, Adriane and Claudia Kiss of TheKissters.com, the sisters' website, which features entertaining tips and tricks to help you "live large on small change," give us fun ideas to try, make and do over the weekend. You know, those fun days. Get ready to start filling up your calendar -- fast.
Got 20 minutes to spare this Friday evening? Before you head out for the night, try Adriane's homespun honey and lemon mask, which treats dark spots and acne. The lemon juice lightens dark spots and tames acne flair-ups, and the honey is antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. So simple!
Simply cut a lemon in half and drizzle it with a bit of honey. Squeeze the concoction over your face and let set for 20 minutes before rinsing off.
Voila! Your skin is refreshed and repaired, and you barely had to spend a dime.
Tailgating with friends is one of the best parts of the fall football season. We love this recipe for spiked brandy apple punch because it's meant to be whipped up in a big batch -- perfect to serve to your group at the big game!
- 1 cup cranberries (about 4 ounces), thawed if frozen
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 3 cups apple cider
- 3 cups brandy
- 1 1/2 cups freshly squeezed lemon juice (from about 15 lemons)
- 3/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 large Granny Smith apple, thinly sliced, for garnish
- Ice
Place cranberries, 1/4 cup of the water, and the brown sugar in a large bowl and mash with a potato masher until the cranberries are completely smashed and the brown sugar has dissolved slightly. (If you have a food processor or juicing machine, those work as well.)
Add the remaining 1 1/4 cups water, apple cider, brandy, lemon juice, and maple syrup and stir vigorously until well combined and the sugar has completely dissolved. Pour the mixture through a strainer set over a 10-cup pitcher. Discard the solids left in the strainer. Chill for at least 1 hour, or until cold.
Pour into cups filled with ice, and garnish with a thin slice of apple.
Mindy Kaling's book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me is truly hilarious. Claudia read it in less than two days and has been quoting it ever since. If you're in need of a little me time grab this book, head to an outdoor cafe, and prepare to laugh your butt off! Mindy, we love you so!
Image Credit: Sisters: nysphoto; Mask: Getty Images; Drink: Courtesy of Celebrations; Book: Claudia & Adriane Kiss


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text: news Contributing to the ASEAN Para Games through Gift-A-NILA 14 October 2015 , By Sport Singapore Share Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Email As part of its community outreach programmes, the Singapore ASEAN Para Games Organising Committee (SAPGOC) introduced the Gift-A-NILA initiative, one of several to include and involve Singaporeans in the lead up to the Games, at Bendemeer Secondary School on Tuesday. Grace Fu, who took over the reins from Lawrence Wong, graced the event in her new capacity as Minister for Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY). She was accompanied by Sim Ann, Senior Minister of State at MCCY, alongside Team Singapore athletes. (From L-R) Bendemeer Secondary School principal Ling Khoon Chow; Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, Sim Ann; and Team Singapore powerlifter Kalai Vanen pose for a photo with their completed heart-shaped mini cushions. Photo: Sport Singapore This initiative aims to provide the community with opportunities to contribute to the Games in a small but purposeful way through the sewing and decorating of heart-shaped mini cushions. These cushions will then be stitched on to NILA plush toys which will be included in the welcome pack for all 3000 participating athletes and officials at the upcoming Games in December. "It's a good thing that the school is organising this, and events like this give us an idea about the Games and help us experience what it's like for the athletes," said 14-year-old Kottaithambi Harini, who tried her hand out in making the cushion. Students from Bendemeer Secondary School sewing the heart-shaped mini cushions. Photo: Sport Singapore Schoolmate Nur Rafiqah Bte Rafi echoed similar sentiments. "I was a little bit scared at first because I'm not good at sewing, and while these athletes are less fortunate than me, they don't look like it at all," she said. "If they can do something like sewing, I can do it too." Bendemeer Secondary School principal Ling Khoon Chow, who made a cushion as well, had nothing but praises for the Gift-A-NILA initiative. "It's very meaningful for the students and for myself as well as it brings the community closer to the athletes. This is just a small something that we are very happy to give – a heart, from our heart," the 42-year-old said. Members of the public who are interested in contributing to this initiative need not fret as they will be able to do so at Marina Square's central atrium on October 24 and 25.


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– To read the condition of your trees
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The Floating World
Burlington City Arts & Shelburne Farms, Vermont
Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Invited by DJ Hellerman, curator, to create a commissioned body of work that would enable me to continue my future-focused, environmental art in and around Burlington, Vermont in conjunction with Of Land + Local 2014 exhibition. The shoreline of Lake Champlain at Shelburne Farms, a historic Vanderbilt estate designed by Frederick Olmsted, gone literally to ruin by the 1970s and resurrected as an inspired eco-farm teaching by example sustainable farming and conservation. This became the site to imagine the future, illuminate the present while creating visual and verbal dialogues regarding the environmental issues currently at play in the region.
The water's edge is packed with fragile ecosystems that in order to thrive depend upon our custodial attention to its maintenance. Burlington's beloved recreational areas, sunset beaches, nostalgic campfire gatherings, local, sustainable farming practices and sunken ships, are juxtaposed with blue-green algae blooms, excess phosphorus run-off and poor water quality, invasive species, local farming run off, and loss of biodiversity, all of which represent perfect binaries where past, present and future collide.
My creative practice is defined by in-depth research, reading, looking and making. While researching information for my work, I came across this quote by David Nix: "when the thin veneer of civilization is stripped away, and all hope is lost, what remains is a true glimpse of humanity at its worst and best, and the question "what makes us human" leaps to the forefront of existence."
This kernel, this "glimpse of humanity" is at the very core of my art practice, my "mission". How does art find hope through awareness, knowledge, social engagement, and our own humanity? The question "what makes us human" is a constant, nagging, question that is ever present in my work. I enjoy the collision of odd intersections of humor with controversy, while deciphering areas of inquiry that are potentially deemed too wacky, too improbable, and too speculative to be "real" science. It is in this creative space of the unknowable, that my work resonates.
Photographs are all about the here and now. They locate the who, what, where, why, when, for a viewer. However, I design my work to do just the opposite…to displace the viewer rather than place them, and invite them to ask, "where am I, why am I here, and how will my life change?" In the book Artists Reclaim the Commons Suzaan Boettger (p 40) writes "For many social and environmental problems what is lacking is not scientific research or technical knowledge, it is social imagination and the ethical will to envision and enact changes in our ways of living." I make the most compelling images I can make that engage and invite the viewer to contemplate our relationship with the natural world while seeing ourselves as part of the network of living things not segregated from them. For better or for worse we have established ourselves at the top of the natural world, and carry the responsibility of stewardship for it. I photograph nature as it is today, inseparable from us and like us, in turmoil.
A photograph has a remarkable ability to describe the surface of the scene that is in front of the lens. My role as artist is more the role of weaver of a tapestry than singular thread, weaving together a variety of genres of photography – landscape, portrait, still life – as well as video, sculpture, collage and sound, to allude to the complexities and inter-relationships of subject and content, like the ecosystem illustrations in National Geographic that I loved as a child. These cross sections depict slices of life systems that become perfect metaphors for my work, as I aspire to reveal both the forces that shape the surface of the earth that we can't see and only imagine, while beautifully depicting fragile and threatened landscapes that we can see. For me, making a photograph is more creating an act of interpretation than a document of what is in front of the lens.
I am often asked if my photographs are manipulated, digital constructions, but they are not, since I truly believe life is stranger than fiction.
Water is many things at once, sacred and profane, creative and destructive, long associated with the magical, the mysterious, and the divine.
The relationship between farming and water became the crux of my work for the exhibition Of Land and Local. Without water, nothing would or could grow, thrive, or reproduce; an obvious but profound realization. With too much water, we would not survive either, as Vermont knows all too well from experiencing flooding that resulted from Hurricane Irene. The earth, our survival, all living things, literally teeters in the balance between flood and drought. We "float" on this fundamental element of water and depend upon nature's perfect balance of ebb and flow, of constant change and the continuous movement between rain, snow, wind, evaporation, rivers, lakes, tides, oceans, sky, and groundwater. The natural world is constantly in flux; nothing is fixed in time and like Hokusai's profound work of art The Great Wave, finds beauty in the impermanent.
The title The Floating World directly references a Japanese concept Ukiyo-e, which literally translates to "floating world". This defined 17th-19th century prints and paintings of the merchant class who found themselves beneficiaries of rapid economic growth, and the term came to describe their hedonistic lifestyle which seems a unique parallel to today's economic status in America. This concept was central to forming the West's perception of Japanese art. Ukiyo-e also translates as the sorrowful world and this duality seems an appropriate one as America expands and contracts between great wealth and poverty, and the tides of displaced cultural anxiety is at its highest point since the World Wars. I've been equally inspired by the London designer John Warwicker's book The Floating World Ukiyo-E, that also plays with flux and flow of ideas that defines his creative insights.
The process of making art creates a world from the world, by transforming and transcending the naturally experienced, the artist maps his or her world as their document of this symbiotic process.
John Warwicker
The Floating World – Ukiyo-e
Creating a suite of portraits where all things – people, objects, and animals – float in water, specifically Lake Chaplain on the shores of Shelburne Farms, celebrating both the workers of Shelburne Farms, with appropriate, meaningful, and metaphorical "props", and the products/ produce/animals that are planted, harvested, and raised at Shelburne Farms, I portray our fragility and uncertainty while emphasizing our humanity and hopefulness to enact change. Referencing the many interpretations of water – from the biblical and the mythic, to the contemporary and the humorous, I explore all aspects of the floating world.
Lake Champlain, as I have come to know and observe at Shelburne Farms Bay, has many moods. Calm, serene, inviting one moment, angry, choppy white capped the next. But by day's end, the waters still, usually finding equilibrium, lyrically flushed pink with glowing hues of florescent orange.
By placing humans in water, and a chilly body of water at that, I literally take humanity out of its comfort zone, out of our element of firm ground, and subject my collaborators to the constant flux of movement, tides, currents, waves, wind and rain, clouds, and ever changing light, to contemplate together the ever changing impermanence of the world, and how we find meaning in that space.
Photographically, I explore the sites where land and water are engaged in a tug of war, of domination and reclamation, fascinated by the many intersections of dry and wet as they "ebb and flow", though not in response to any gravitational tidal pull, but rather as interpretations of the profound human struggle to adapt to this ever changing spongy territory, to provoke and engage in conversations about global warming and climate change to locate humans on decidedly firmer ground of sustainability and social change.
I want to acknowledge first the support of Burlington City Arts and its entire full time and volunteer staff; in particular Executive Director Doreen Kraft and Assistant Curator Ashley Landers, who have all been generous, enthusiastic and welcoming. I am indebted to Curator DJ Hellerman, whose glorious invitation sparked more than I possibly imagined at the start of this project and whose intelligence and "art smarts" I have come to rely on and trust.
Shelburne Farms has been the perfect, hospitable, and willing partner, both providing housing and the site of incredible inspiration! In particular I would like to thank Tre McCarney, who has been a fantastic partner and constant source of information regarding the history, the programs, and the people who thrive at Shelburne Farms. O Bread Bakery generously donated their delicious loaves of bread for a photograph, and believe me, it pained me to put their delectable products in the water.
Lastly, I extend a heartfelt thanks to the individuals who volunteered to participate, ne collaborate with this crazy idea of mine to wade into the June coldness of Lake Champlain in the wee hours of many chilly mornings – some not once but twice – to produce these remarkable images. The creations of which seemed to have floated outside of time, space, and contemporary life; a gift of cosmic convergences that are born of being at the right place at the right time with the right people. Without them, this work would not exist and I am exquisitely grateful for their time and trust. This work is dedicated to the incredibly generosity of spirit my subjects gifted me:
Holly Brough Tre McCarney & family
Rachel Cadwallader-Staub Craig Newman
Josh Carter Gennifer Noble
Vera Chang Gina Pandolfo
Callie Douglass Bjorn Shulke
DJ Hellerman Martin Tierney
David Jonah Marshall Webb
Maura Linehan Cat Wright
Working Bibliography
The American Farmer: The Heart of Our Country
Paul Mobley (photographer), Katrina Fried (writer)
The Farmer in Us All: An American Portrait
Paul Harvey
The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love.
Kristin Kimball
The Last Farmer: An American Memoir
Howard Kohn
Ebb and Flow: Tides and Life on Our Once and Future Planet
Tom Koppel
Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s.
James Nisbet
Art + Science Now.
Stephen Wilson
Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews.
Donald Barthelme, Kim Herzinger, John Barth
Why the Tides Ebb and Flow
Joan Chase Bowden
Dickinson and Whitman: Ebb and Flow
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Lake Champlain: An Illustrated History
Adirondack Life
Lake Champlain: A Natural History
Mike Winslow, Glenn Novak, Libby Walker Davidson
Taking the Waters: Spirit Art Sensuality
Alev Lytle Croutier
Water: A Spiritual History
Ian Bradley
An Artist of the Floating World (A Novel)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity
Sandra Postel
Celebrating the Source: Water Festivities of Southeast Asia
Lindy Poh