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Not So Far Afield is a bimonthly publication of the Maryknoll Affiliates. The name is a play on the title of the original Maryknoll Magazine: The Field Afar.
You may subscribe to Not So Far Afield by email or to be notified when it is posted on our website.
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One of the twice yearly Board meetings includes the Regional Coordinators, to contribute their wisdom to the Board discussions and also to confer on how best to coordinate in their regions. The November meeting agenda includes:
• Discern how to best guide the Affiliate movement, utilizing:
~ Group discussion of questions sent out previously
~ Reflection on how Pope Francis's book Go Forth applies to individuals and the Affiliate movement
~ Artistic rendition of conclusions for group interpretation.
• Open space discussion: Where do we go from here? Turning ideas into concrete actions.
• Special topics: Call with Renate Schneider on Haiti, Covenant working group, Quo Vadis, MAC2020, Website redo.
• Regional Coordinators meet separately.
Coming Soon – Appealing Fish Story
Manny Hotchkiss, of the Affiliate Board Finance Committee, will be sharing a whopper of a fish story that relates to the sustainability of the Affiliate Movement as we follow the Fisher of All.
Be watching your mailbox for the annual
Maryknoll Affiliates Appeal Letter
to be mailed November 15th.
Praise to God with all the creatures,
Especially Brother Sun,
Who is the day that gives us light.
And the sun is beautiful and radiant with great
Bearing God's likeness.
Praise for our Sister moon and the stars
In the heavens bright, precious, and fair.
Praise for our Brothers Wind and Air,
And fair and stormy, all weather's moods,
That cherish all creation.
Praise for our Sister Water,
So useful, humble, precious and pure.
Praise for our Brother Fire,
Who lights the nights and is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
Praise for our Sister,
Mother Earth,
Who sustains and governs us,
Producing varied fruits with colored flowers and
Praise for those who grant pardon out of love.
Blessed are those who endure in peace.
Action is one of the pillars of the Affiliate Movement, along with spirituality, community, and global vision. We can count on Affiliates to respond to opportunities and to find ways to take action, to be of service. In this issue, Bob Doyle shares his odyssey in Arizona, mourning the deaths of migrants in the desert and serving the survivors. The North Bay Affiliates were captivated by returned Maryknoll Lay Missioner Vicki Simon's reflections after she volunteered at a migrant refuge in El Paso.
Vicki also lists some opportunities for service to immigrants. Dick Horstman describes a short-term mission opportunity for aiding migrants in Eagle Pass, Texas.
While we Affiliates are usually eager to do service, this issue also tells of 71 Catholics who recently chose another path, civil disobedience at the US Capitol, to protest the inhumanity of detaining children at the Border. Maryknoll encourages us to contemplate before and during our actions.
Whether we choose service, peaceful contemplation, or civil disobedience, we know that "Apathy is not an option."
Articles in this issue:
Migration in the Nogales-Tucson Area – "While asylum seekers are being assisted at shelters in Tucson, some 800 others in Nogales, Sonora, are waiting to present their credible fear claim in hopes of being allowed to seek asylum in the United States." - Bob Doyle
MAC 2020 – The theme is: Witnessing Love in the Interim Time.
Vicki Simon at the Border – "One had to be ready for a "fluid reality," as Vicki described it, and try to hold onto paying personal attention and listening to each migrant while attending to their immediate needs..." – Marie Wren
Sharing with our Chapter Companion – "Our Affiliate group was also happy to learn of Maryknoll's program which sponsors men and women to come to the United States to study for the religious life." – Shelby Miller & Mary Williams
Is a Lay Missioner Coming to Your City? – "We saw that Affiliates could be helpful to the Maryknoll Lay Missioners in their promotional efforts..." – Paula Schaffner
Catholics Protest Immigrant Child Detention – It was "a privilege to participate in civil disobedience, to be arrested, to stand with detained families…" – Dan Moriarty
A Visit with Albany Affiliates – "I know our Northeast Florida Chapter will try hard to extend Maryknoll hospitality to any of you who come our way!" – Mary Moritz
Border Actions to Consider – "If you cannot travel or volunteer at this time, get involved "in organizations working with recently arrived refugees and migrants." – Vicki Simon
Hospitality – In addition to the practical benefits of this hospitality, it provides an opportunity to get to know other members of the Maryknoll family.
Learn more about your Maryknoll Affiliate Board and Executive Coordinator in these articles:
John Moritz: Our Newest Board Member
And be sure to enjoy the Features in this issue:
Short-Term Mission Opportunity
If you are more comfortable reading the Not So Far Afield in its print form, you may download a pdf of the September/October issue.
The Benedictine Sisters of Boerne have a mission house in Eagle Pass, Texas, across the Rio Grande from Piedras Negras, Mexico. Sister Ursula Herrera is the only Sister at the house. Last December, the Sisters converted the house to a migrant respite shelter.
The migrants are delivered to the house around 7:00 in the evening. Sister feeds them dinner, gives them a change of clothes, and they sleep one night at the house. Sister feeds them breakfast the next morning, and they are then picked up at 9:00 AM to travel to San Antonio. Sister needs help cooking, washing bedding, making beds, cleaning and sorting clothes, buying groceries, etc. She averages approximately 28 migrants a night.
Sister does not have room for a group of volunteers. She has a very nice apartment with a full bath in a detached garage for two volunteers. It is an ideal setup for a couple.
Some chapters already had a special relationship with a Maryknoll Priest, Brother, Sister, or Lay Missioner when the Chapter Companions Initiative began. Others have requested a companion and are now enjoying getting to know their Maryknoll missioner.
This Question of the Month (QTM) was suggested by Tom McGuire, Chicago Chapter.
To answer this question, go to QTM #5.
If you haven't seen the Affiliates' answers to the previous Questions of the Month, you'll also find a link to them on that page.
We look forward to hearing your views on this and future Questions of The Month.
We have begun a "Pope Francis Reading Club" in the New Orleans area to encourage Affiliates and as many people as possible to be in touch with the creative, visionary, and challenging thinking of our wonderful Pope Francis. We will only occasionally read a book by the Pope. Most of the time we will read copies of recent talks, homilies or excerpts from interviews he has given.
A highly enthusiastic group of 20 people helped develop the plan for the reading club. We will meet once a month at the Archdiocesan Retreat Center (the Cenacle), in Metairie, LA, on Monday evenings from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM. There is no fee but we may make an occasional small free-will offering for the use of the Cenacle, the copy machine, etc.
For the month of August we are asking members to read The Joy of the Gospel, written in 2013, in which Pope Francis gives his fundamental vision for the church and society and includes most if not all of the issues he will deal with in more depth during his following years as Pope. We will discuss The Joy of the Gospel Monday, August 26. Our September meeting will be Monday, September 30.
The text is also available online: "Evangelii Gaudium".
We hope you will join us for what we believe will be a most fulfilling and enriching experience. If you don't live in the New Orleans area and want to read along with the us you could email your comments or questions on the readings to Matt who might be able use them at their meeting.
A pilgrimage in the desert. The desert should not be a death sentence, but the government knows the southwestern border is dangerous for migrants—and wants it that way. Some 8,000 people attempting to enter the United States have died in this region since the 1990s.
We invite you to the always engaging and often transformative international Maryknoll Affiliate Conference. It will be held June 25-28, 2020, at the Graymoor Spiritual Life Center in Garrison, NY – 17 miles north of the Maryknoll Center in Ossining. The theme is: Witnessing Love in the Interim Time. $350 covers tuition and room & board (a $20 reduction from the previous MAC!). Travel grants will be available as in past years.
The MAC 2020 Planning Committee has made great advances in designing the theme, content, and flow of this 3½ day event. The Keynote speaker is Nancy Sylvester, IHM, very sought after in the conference world, and most of the workshop facilitators have already been confirmed. We are also planning a first-time, unique segment to include young adults (18- to 39-year-olds).
A MAC website is being constructed; we anticipate that it should be ready in mid-September. It will provide an online registration form, travel grant application, schedule, and information you'll need to know about the conference. Please mark the date and plan to be with Affiliates and other members of the Maryknoll family from throughout our global home.
On May 23, the North Bay Chapter hosted Vicki Simon, returned Maryknoll Lay Missioner to Kenya, to speak about her recent experience at the US – Mexico border.
Vicki spent two weeks volunteering in El Paso, Texas, at an Annunciation shelter in a La Quinta Inn. She told how she prepared for that experience by taking a Jesuit-sponsored five-day border immersion trip called The Encuentro Project. In addition, she took a Just Matters study module on migration, which brought home to her that migration is very extensive around the world even though we experience it mainly on the US - Mexico border.
We were captivated by her description of how the shelters are completely run and staffed by volunteers, how those two weeks were physically and emotionally demanding. She explained that between 50 and 120 asylum seekers would be referred to the shelter each day by ICE after having been processed as they came across the border. Generally, they were one parent and one or more children. When they arrived hungry, dirty, and often sick, they would be offered clean clothes, showers, meals , beds, and medical help. They would stay just long enough to have the volunteers contact their sponsor, who would buy a plane, bus or train ticket for them, and then the volunteers would accompany them to the airport or bus/train station. They were given provisions for the journey and a placard that said they didn't speak English and asked for help finding their connections.
A couple years ago, my husband, David, and I were contacted by Maryknoll Lay Missioner Sam Stanton and his wife Cecelia Espinosa, to see if we could help her with a church date in northern Santa Barbara County while he covered a church farther south. We had a wonderful visit with Cecelia while offering not only bed and board, but also transportation to a couple different Masses.
We saw that Affiliates could be helpful to the Maryknoll Lay Missioners in their promotional efforts, and the Hospitality Initiative suggested to Ted Miles, current Executive Director of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners, that we may be able to offer Maryknoll Lay Missioners a place to sleep, possibly local transportation, and support at the churches where they are speaking. In late July, Ted shared the list of 2019 dates on which Lay Missioners will speak at churches to raise awareness and funds for all their mission needs. Offering this hospitality not only expresses our charism of welcoming, but it is a local short-term volunteer opportunity—a way to be of service to the Maryknoll Lay Missioners in their missionary efforts.
Please check the list of 2019 Church Dates and see if a Maryknoll Lay Missioner will be speaking near your home. Your hospitality will not only help further their efforts; you'll probably make a lasting connection with a fellow missioner.
Father Bob Carleton, our Northeast Florida Affiliate Chapter Companion, met with us via Skype on May 9th. We had requested that he speak to us about the Church in China. Fr. Bob has been on the board of the US–China Catholic Association for many years and lived in China for three years teaching English. The Association's website includes a video with a brief history of the Catholic Church in China and vividly describes the deep and continuing faith of the people. China was one of the first mission fields for Maryknoll priests, dating back to 1911.
Our group gathered around the dining room table in the home of Mary and Bryan Williams; we used Skype to see and hear Fr. Bob. He spoke to us from his room at the Maryknoll retirement home in Los Altos, CA. During his time teaching English in China, Fr. Bob taught a class on, "Who was Jesus Christ?" He did this as students might continue their studies or work in the West and should know about Christianity. However, he was not in China to make converts. We could tell that Fr. Bob remembered his students and his time in China with much fondness as he told us about his ongoing correspondence with some of his students from that time.
Rose Marie Berger, peace activist and member of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, wrote in Sojourners magazine, July 25, 2019 (https://sojo.net/articles/cross-human-bodies),
I spent five hours as a guest of the US Capitol Police last week. It was hot, really hot. And those plastic handcuffs leave bruises.
I was one of 71 Catholics arrested by the US Capitol Police in the rotunda of the Russell Senate building in Washington, DC, for "crowding, obstructing, or incommoding," while praying the rosary. My prayer was—and is—to end the warehousing of immigrant children in cages—63,624 of whom have been apprehended by border patrol at the southwestern border between October 2018 and June 2019, and seven of whom have died after being in federal custody since September. More than a dozen Catholic orders and organizations sponsored the event. Seven Catholic bishops sent letters of support.
Dan Moriarty's article for the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, "Building a Movement to End Child Detention," tells of his and other religious leaders' involvement, describing it as "a privilege to participate in civil disobedience, to be arrested, to stand with detained families…" Others from the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, the Westchester Affiliates, and other Maryknollers also participated. Pax Christi USA was one of the organizers and had distributed colorful flyers nationwide, that said,
Rose Marie closed her article with a challenge:
I spent five hours as a guest of the Capitol Police. Detained migrant children are spending five weeks or five months in Border Patrol camps. What increased risk will you take to say "no"?
As we struggle to make appropriate responses to the situations in our families, in our neighborhoods, and in the world, Cultivating Nonviolence offers alternatives. Affiliates are invited to learn more online and in person about nonviolence. The Cultivating Nonviolence program was developed for JustFaith in conjunction with Maryknoll and Pax Christi. It will help us to:
The eight-week October/November session consists of:
Each week we will share our thoughts and learnings through conference calls, emails, and Facebook.
We will read key sections of the engaging book, Personal Nonviolence, A Practical Spirituality for Peacemakers, by Gerhard A. Vandehaar. Copies can be ordered through Amazon, or we will email copies of short sections.


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You're pregnant with your first and checking out all your options. Or it's your second or third baby, and you're wanting a different experience than the last time around. Maybe no epidural, definitely not that awful Pitocin.
Where do you start, and how do you get the experience you're looking for?
A lot of things about birth are out of our control, but one very important thing is not – your choice of provider. My number one piece of advice is to find a provider whom you trust implicitly and who is on the same page.
Based on your insurance situation and your state regulations (ex: Certified Nurse Midwives, CNMs, are illegal in my home state), you may be limited. Regardless, I encourage you to interview prospective providers. If you are a low-risk pregnant woman, here are some questions to ask and, maybe more importantly, answers to look for.
1. What is your policy for induction in regards to late-term pregnancy (after 41 weeks), macrosomia (big baby), and PROM (premature rupture of membranes, or water breaking before contractions start)?
In my experience, this is the most important question. Why?
Evidence. We have evidence that says that "big" babies are not helped by being born early (and ACOG now says the same!), and we have evidence that says that induction is not necessarily helpful immediately after water breaks. And we the evidence we have for induction in the 41st week is so thin that the risks of inductions need to be weighed against the "risk" of waiting.
If your provider does these things routinely, absent of other indications, she/he is not practicing based on evidence. Over and over again, I have seen women scared into unnecessary inductions. If you really want a natural birth, find a provider whose induction protocol matches evidence.
The key is to really listen to the provider's answer. Does she skirt the question? Does he just say, "Well, it all depends on your baby. After all, we want a healthy baby, health mom." Honestly, this answer is insulting. Obviously, you want your baby to born healthy and safe.
When you're asking your provider these questions, you're looking for evidenced-based, information-filled answers. You want your provider to act as a member of the team (of which you are captain!) and welcome you into the process of informed-decision making. For any intervention, the provider should use evidence to describe to you the risks, the benefits, and the alternatives. If he shames you for asking such questions, move on to the next interview.
2. Can you describe your philosophy of birth?
This is an open-ended question that might catch the provider off-guard, but the answer will be informing. Does he think that birth is a natural, physiological process, and he is a helper, almost a guide or a safe-keeper? Or does he think that birth is an accident waiting to happen? Something to be managed, almost like an illness. Listen carefully.
3. Do the other providers in your group share your philosophies and practice?
I've mentioned this before, but your provider's group matters as much as the primary doctor or midwife herself. You never know who will show up when you're in labor. Do the other doctors or midwives have the same philosophy of birth?'
4. How do you help women laboring without medications achieve their goals?
A provider comfortable and experienced with natural birth should be able to describe the ways the staff and hospital are equipped to help you labor. Listen for the provider to feel totally comfortable and glad to offer you these options – things like walking around, using the shower and tub, eating and drinking as you want, being monitored intermittently, etc. If she seems hesitant or talks about "allowing" you to do these things, it's probably a sign that it's not the norm in her practice.
Bottom line – look for someone you can trust without reservation. You know that they believe in normal, physiological birth and are on your team, keeping watch over you as you experience one of life's toughest and most transforming moments.
Ladies, would you add anything to this list?
Lindsey lives on and loves the west side of Chicago with her husband Mike and her kids – Caleb, 4 and Lily, 3. She works part time as a doula and childbirth educator and is fascinated by birth. In winter she likes to bake with sourdough, and in summer she likes everything. In all things, she is covered with God's grace.

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Hack: To find a quicker, easier and more effective method for achieving a goal.
Here's a fat loss hack: HIIT training
HIIT/High Intensity Interval Training is a form of cardiovascular exercise that varies from 4 – 30 minutes. (Note you can get an effective HIIT workout in 4 minutes.) It's composed of a short, intense workout period followed by a rest period. This workout provides improved athletic capacity and conditioning, improved glucose metabolism and IMPROVED FAT BURNING (Wikipedia).
What I love about HIIT training is that 30 minutes HIITing is probably as effective if not more so than 60 minutes of aerobics, step, lifting, running, line dancing, walking, etc.
What I also love about HIIT training is that you can make up your own exercise routines to do whenever for however long you can. It's a great home workout because it doesn't require any equipment or lots of space.
Here's one I made up as I was writing this blog:
Group 1: Jumping Jacks, Sumo Squats, Pushups, Mountain Climbers
Active Rest: Marching in Place
Group 2: Triceps Dips, Plank, Burpees- no push up, Wall Squat
Active Rest: Speed Skaters
Group 3: Russian Twists, Fire Hydrants, Jumping Jacks, Double Leg Raises
Active Rest: Front kicks
Download a HIIT timer from your app store and set the intervals for 20 seconds work, 10 seconds rest. The total workout time depends upon how many intervals you'll do.
Join The Boot Camp Girl for effective and creative HITT workouts in 30 minutes. You'll drop fat fast, and never get bored because no two workouts are ever the same. I've been going to her sessions for three years and I can attest to that.
Exercise smarter and harder in a shorter period of time. People, HIIT It Real Good.


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When I was a kid, I used to wonder a lot about what I would do if I were ever in the position of having to fight oppression. I knew–deep down–that I would have been a freedom rider when I read about Rosa Parks. After I read The Diary of Anne Frank, I knew that I would have hidden Jews in my attic. I wished I could have marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. or stood arm and arm with the hippies protesting the Vietnam War that ended as I was born.
I was a sensitive kid who read–a lot–and who was also white, middle-class, protestant and disability-free. I was, in elementary school, bullied to the point of needing therapy as an adult. But, once I left Kettering Elementary, I was not part of any oppressed class, with the exception of being female.
So when I thought about standing up and fighting the good fight, it was always about standing up in defense of someone else.
But now there are billboards like these going up in Georgia:
And doctor's supporting this kind of thing. And the first lady standing up against bullying, except against fat kids who I guess deserve it? And daytime talk show hosts running to fight against fat kids.
And I'm wondering if maybe this unbelievable lashing out against obesity–in kids, but also in adults who are not only ridiculed for their bodies, but blamed for having fat kids, too–is the place where I can do what I thought about as a kid. Where I can stand up and scream, with my fist raised, this is wrong! This is wrong, yo. It just is.
It is not okay to stigmatize people. It was not okay in Nazi Germany, it was not okay in the Jim Crow south, it isn't okay in the places around the world were genocide happens and it is not okay for fat people.
In her book Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry, Laura Fraser says, talking about the shift from fat to thin as a cultural ideal in the late 1800s:
Food became more accessible and convenient to all but the poorest families. People who once had too little to eat now had plenty, and those who had a tendency to put on weight began to do so. When it became possible for people of modest means to become plump, being fat no longer was seen as a sign of prestige. Well-to-do Americans of Northern European extraction wanted to be able to distinguish themselves, physically and racially, from stockier immigrants. The status symbols flipped: It became chic to be thin and all too ordinary to be overweight.
The late 1800s were a long time ago, right? How many people today realize that we are still using fat vs. thin as a way for the most privileged of classes to lift themselves higher, while the rest scramble and scrape to follow suit?
It's even more pronounced today. The very poor are often resigned by a lack of money and transportation to eating from dollar menus and convenience stores, while the privileged shop at high-end organic markets and declare that the fat poor could be thin if only they didn't eat so much crap and weren't so damned lazy.
Despite evidence that even the very wealthy, if they are not genetically wired for thinness are unlikely to remain so for very long (Oprah, anyone?), we are made to believe that all we need is more will power, the right diet, the right exercise, the right determination–and we, too, can be thin.
Not just thin. Healthy.
The thin are healthy, or so it goes. The rest of us are on death's doorstep.
And even if a fat person has low cholesterol and normal sugar levels and blood pressure–then these anti-obesity zealots only nod and say knowingly that it's only a matter of time. Because it's only the BMI that counts.
A person who jumps off a Empire State building might insist that they won't die when they are only half-way down, but that doesn't change the inevitable, right?
Thin people, just by virtue of being thin, are assumed to be healthy, even though they can also have diabetes, heart disease and a myriad of other ailments. Some are healthy, some are not. The same as some fat people are healthy and some are not.
The current war on fat kids suggests that thin kids are thin because they aren't sitting in front of computers or playing video games. That they are thin because they don't eat McDonald's or potato chips or chocolate whenever they can get their hands on it. This is blatant bullshit.
Everyone–every human being–benefits from exercise and eating nutritious food. Thin people don't magically extract health from a hamburger just because their bodies don't store the calories as efficiently as mine. They don't somehow build muscle and stamina and lung capacity from watching TV, just because a lack of it doesn't result in fat for them.
That hamburger has nutrition and is not inherently bad. Food is morally neutral. Food is food, no matter the size of the person eating it. And exercise is exercise, no matter the size of the person doing it.
It is absurd to have a huge, wide spread campaign against fat people. As absurd as it was to drain a pool because a black person swam in it.
It is as absurd to have our president put his young daughters on a public diet, and his wife campaigning for a war on fat kids, as it was for the Arkansas National Guard to have been called out to keep the Little Rock Nine from integrating a white school.
It is as absurd to believe it's okay to publicly humiliate fat kids (or adults) as it was for America's leaders to put the three-fifths compromise in the United States Constitution.
I truly believe that my grandchildren will look back at this time and ask themselves, and maybe me, how it could have happened. How could anyone have thought this was okay?
I want to be able to tell them that I stood up against it.


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The best way to light up the night! The ultimate party fun run! But most importantly, it's the freakin' awesome foam-pits-fluorescent-colors-blacklights-glowing-warpaint-dance-moves night you'll never forget!
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ARCHIVED RACE: Moving Toward a Cure 5K Run/Walk – St. Louis 2012 @ Tilles County Park, St. Louis, MO, United States on 29 September 2012
Miles For Hope will hold its Moving Towards a Cure® Brain Tumor 5K Run and Fun Walk on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 9 am at Tilles Park in St. Louis, MO. Proceeds will fund brain tumor research and provide travel assistance to brain cancer patients.
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Latics pair play in Euro qualifierCarl Winchester and Kirk Millar won caps for Northern Ireland who lost 1-0 to Belgium in their UEFA under-21 Championship qualifier in Lurgan.
Winchester played the whole match while Millar (pictured) came on as a 54th minute substitute.
Northern Ireland have lost all five of their qualifiers and any hope of progressing has long since disappeared.


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Understanding how the ocean acts and reacts to climate and other changes is one of our major research goals. These changes potentially affect the biological diversity and function of the ocean at a wide range of scales:
- In space - from local ecosystems to the whole planet;
- In time - from short-term responses to evolutionary time scales;
- In biological organization - from molecules and genes to entire ecosystems.
We aim to infer and understand processes and patterns of the past and present and to use those to raise likely hypotheses for the future. To achieve this, we develop interdisciplinary research across sub-disciplines of ocean science, including oceanography, marine ecology, evolutionary biology and bioinformatics. This research divides into three work packages:
- Coastal and Open Ocean Processes, in which we infer physical, chemical and biological processes and interactions, past oceanic processes and climate conditions, carbon and other bioelemental cycles, and ecosystem functions and services.
- Effects of Ocean Changes in Space and Time, in which we test ecophysiological responses, discover and predict biogeographical and evolutionary dynamics along species ranges, and causes and effects of direct anthropogenic ocean changes.
- Evolution in Changing Environments, where we develop approaches and discover consequences of Ocean changes on phylogenomic relationships in the Tree of Life, speciation, hybridization, and mating systems, genomics and genetics in shifting environments, host/microbiome interactions, and computational biology and bioinformatics in an age of marine genomic science.
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Over the years, NAHB has periodically conducted "construction cost surveys" to collect information from builders on the various components that go into the price of a typical single-family home. NAHB's most recent construction cost survey (conducted in August and September of 2013) shows that although lot sizes are shrinking, both the cost and size of the home are on the rise. The average home in our survey was built on 14,359 square feet (about a third of an acre) of land, had 2,607 square feet of finished area, and sold for $399,532. The average share of the home's sales price which goes to construction cost jumped from 59 percent in both 2009 and 2011 to 62 percent in 2013. Finished lot costs, accounting for the second largest share of the sales price, dropped from 22 percent in 2011 to 19 percent in 2013. Builder profits account for, on average, 9.3 percent of the sales price. The following sections describe the methodology of the survey and discuss the results in more detail.
NAHB's 2013 construction cost survey was conducted by emailing a questionnaire to a representative sample of 3,019 home builders. The sample was stratified by size of the builder (based on number of starts) and region of the country (the sample being proportional to housing starts in each of the four principal Census regions).
Over the years NAHB has modified the survey and its methodology. In 2009, the survey methodology changed to provide a better, more representative sample of single-family construction across the country. In 2013, NAHB developed a different construction cost breakdown that more closely resembles the steps which builders take when building a home. Prior to 2013, the breakdown had 29 sections. In 2013, we created eight subcategories for each of the major stages of construction, with a total of 36 sections grouped under the appropriate construction stage. The new format simplified data collection, greatly reducing the number of follow-up calls needed to clarify and verify builder responses.
Respondents were asked to provide information about the average home built by their firms during 2013. Usable responses were received from 39 builders. Table 1 shows the detailed results of the 2013 construction cost survey.
These results are national averages; the survey sample is not large enough for a geographic breakdown. Building practices, the cost of labor, the cost of land, and to some extent the cost of the materials can vary from place to place and depend on the nature of the particular home being built. Although the NAHB construction cost survey can provide a broad idea of construction costs for an average home, it is not a perfect tool for estimating costs for a particular house. Companies that provide more specific cost estimating, usually for a fee, include RSMeans and Marshall & Swift. The costs include all the costs paid by a builder that go into a particular item, including labor costs paid directly by the general contractor, the cost of hiring subcontractors, and the cost of materials however they are purchased.
Home Size and Lot
The average size of the home in the 2013 construction cost survey was 2,607 square feet, which is about 300 square feet more than the average size of the homes reported in the 2011 construction cost survey, but still about 100 square feet less than the peak reported in the 2009survey. The Census Bureau's "Characteristics of New Single-Family Homes Completed" contains annual data on the floor area of a single-family home. According to the Census Bureau's annual report, the average floor area of single-family homes completed followed a pattern similar to that of our respondents. The average floor area peaked at 2,521 square feet in 2007, followed by a steady decrease to 2,392 square feet in 2010, and subsequent increase to 2,505 square feet in 2012. According to a recent NAHB study on the Characteristics of Home Buyers, first-time home buyers purchase smaller homes, on average, than trade-up buyers. In recent years, tighter underwriting standards have eliminated some first-time home buyers from the market. This could explain the increase in average home size.
The average lot size in the 2013 construction cost survey was 14,359 square feet—about a third of an acre (14,520 square feet). The average lot size has declined from about half an acre (21,780 square feet) in both 2009 and 2011 (21,879 square feet, and 20,614 square feet, respectively). The Census Bureau's data on new residential construction shows that the average lot size for new homes sold peaked at 18,433 square feet in 2008, and hit a two decade long low of 15,634 square feet in 2012. In recent years, lots have been harder for builders to acquire. Responding to special questions on the survey for the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index in August 2013, 59 percent of builders reported that the supply of lots in their markets was low or very low—up from 43 percent in September of 2012, and the largest low supply percentage since NAHB began periodically asking builders the question in 1997. The low supply of lots could be driving up lot costs. Lot costs were $3.5 per square foot and $3.3 per square foot in 2009 and 2011, respectively, but $5.2 per square foot in 2013.
Sales Price
The average price of the new single-family home in the 2013 construction cost survey was $399,532, up more than 25 percent from $310,619 in 2011, but still below the peak of $454,906 in 2007. The Census Bureau's data on new residential construction follows a similar pattern for the average sales price of a single-family home sold. According to the Census Bureau, the average sales price peaked at $313,600 in 2007, hit a post 2007 low of $267,900 in 2011, and then increased to $292,200 in 2012.
Respondents were asked to breakdown the sales price of an average single-family home built by their firm into seven categories: finished lot cost; total construction cost; financing cost; overhead and general expenses; marketing costs; sales commission; and profit. Table 2 contains historical information on the sales price breakdown of a single-family home. The total construction cost of a home accounts for 61.7 percent of the sales price in 2013. Although the cost of constructing a home always accounts for the biggest share of sales price, this is the highest the share has been since 1995. Higher construction costs could contribute to the jump in total sales price. Finished lot costs always capture the second largest share of the sales price, but at only 18.6 percent, is at an all time low. This drop can be attributed to smaller lots, as discussed in the previous section.
Table 2 also shows that builder profits are beginning to rebound. Builders were instructed that the seven items in the table should sum to the total sales price, so profit is essentially the residual of the price minus the other six items. Builders were not given a specific definition of profit beyond that.
As shown in the table, profits hit an all time low of 6.8 percent in 2011, but have rebounded to 9.3 percent in 2013. During the down turn many builders had to tighten their budgets. Although homes are beginning to sell, and prices are beginning to rise, builders remain very cautious. This could be why overhead and general expenses, which were 5.4 percent and 5.2 percent of the sales price in 2009 and 2011 respectively, hit an all time low of 4.3 percent in 2013. The remainder of the sales price is divided between overhead sales commission (3.6 percent), financing cost (1.4 percent) and marketing cost (1.1 percent). Each of these shares is similar to the breakdown in 2011.
In addition to the Construction Cost survey, NAHB's Business Management Department sponsors the Builders' Cost of Doing Business (CODB) survey in even numbered years. The CODB is based on the income statements for a firm, rather than the price of an average house. Although the surveys are not perfectly comparable, the sales price breakdown in the Cost of Construction Survey is generally consistent with the results of the CODB. Table 3 contains the comparable parts of the Cost of Construction Survey and the Cost of Doing Business Survey. One noticeable difference is between the Cost of Construction's profit (9.3 percent) and the sum of CODB owner's compensation and net income before taxes (5.7 percent). Profit in the construction cost survey is based on an average single-family home built by the firm, whereas the net income share in the CODB is a percentage of the firm's total annual revenue and therefore takes into account all the homes built by the firm, both sold and unsold.
Construction Cost
The average construction cost of a single-family home in the 2013 survey is $246,453. This average is significantly higher than the 2011 average construction cost of $184,125, and is the highest it has been since 1998. Although the cost of construction per square foot remained relatively stable in 2009 and 2011 ($82 per square foot, and $80 per square foot, respectively), it jumped to $95 per square foot in 2013. Since framing and trusses always account for the largest share of construction costs, this is potentially the result of increasing lumber costs. The share of construction costs going to framing and trusses jumped from 13.5 percent in 2011 to 17.0 percent in 2013. The price per square foot of framing and trusses increased from $11 per square foot in 2011 ($24,904 average cost of framing and trusses divided by 2,311 square feet of average finished area) to $16 per square foot in 2013 ($36,438 average cost of framing plus $5,461 average cost of trusses divided by 2,607 square feet of average finished area). NAHB builders have been reporting increases in the cost of lumber. Responding to special questions on the survey for the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) in May 2013, 80 percent of builders reported that the price of trusses has increased over the last 6 months, and 92 percent reported that the price of framing lumber increased over the last 6 months. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Index the cost of softwood lumber increased 22 percent between September 2011, and September 2013, and 40 percent between April 2011, and April 2013. Many of NAHB builders have also run into labor shortages. Responding to special questions on the HMI given in March 2013, framing crews are the least available of all types of labor needed to construct a home—48 percent of builders reported a shortage of framing crews (directly employed by their firm), and 51 percent report a shortage of subcontractor framing crews. The rising cost of construction can be attributed to both the increase in price of lumber and the shortage of framing crews.
This year we broke the cost of construction into 8 major stages of construction. Interior finishes, at 29.3 percent, accounts for the largest share of construction costs, followed by framing (19.1 percent), exterior finishes (14.4 percent), major system rough-ins (13.4 percent), foundations (9.5 percent), site work (6.8 percent), final steps (6.6 percent), and other costs (0.9 percent). See Table 1 for a full breakdown.
Although there were major changes to the construction cost breakdown in 2013, some of the categories either remained the same or were similar to past years. In Table 4 the previous year's category title is captured in parentheses next to 2013's title. If there is nothing in parentheses, the titles are identical.
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THE Senate confirmed John O. Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Thursday after a nearly 13-hour filibuster by the libertarian senator Rand Paul, who before the vote received a somewhat odd letter from the attorney general.
"It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: 'Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?' " the attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., wrote to Mr. Paul. "The answer to that question is no."
The senator, whose filibuster had become a social-media sensation, elating Tea Party members, human-rights groups and pacifists alike, said he was "quite happy with the answer." But Mr. Holder's letter raises more questions than it answers — and, indeed, more important and more serious questions than the senator posed.
What, exactly, does the Obama administration mean by "engaged in combat"? The extraordinary secrecy of this White House makes the answer difficult to know. We have some clues, and they are troubling.
If you put together the pieces of publicly available information, it seems that the Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, has acted with an overly broad definition of what it means to be engaged in combat. Back in 2004, the Pentagon released a list of the types of people it was holding at Guantánamo Bay as "enemy combatants" — a list that included people who were "involved in terrorist financing."
One could argue that that definition applied solely to prolonged detention, not to targeting for a drone strike. But who's to say if the administration believes in such a distinction?
American generals in Afghanistan said the laws of war "have been interpreted to allow" American forces to include "drug traffickers with proven links to the insurgency on a kill list," according to a report released in 2009 by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then led by John Kerry, now the secretary of state.
The report went on to say that there were about 50 major traffickers "who contribute funds to the insurgency on the target list." The Pentagon later said that it was "important to clarify that we are targeting terrorists with links to the drug trade, rather than targeting drug traffickers with links to terrorism."
That statement, however, was not very clarifying, and did not seem to appease NATO allies who raised serious legal concerns about the American targeting program. The explanation soon gave way to more clues, and this time it was not simply a question of who had been placed on a list.
In a 2010 Fox News interview, under pressure to explain whether the Obama administration was any closer to capturing or killing Osama bin Laden, Mr. Kerry's predecessor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, said that "we have gotten closer because we have been able to kill a number of their trainers, their operational people, their financiers." That revelation — killing financiers — appears not to have been noticed very widely.
As I have written, sweeping financiers into the group of people who can be killed in armed conflict stretches the laws of war beyond recognition. But this is not the only stretch the Obama administration seems to have made. The administration still hasn't disavowed its stance, disclosed last May in a New York Times article, that military-age males killed in a strike zone are counted as combatants absent explicit posthumous evidence proving otherwise.
Mr. Holder's one-word answer — "no" — is not a step toward the greater transparency that President Obama pledged when he came into office, but has not delivered, in the realm of national security.
By declining to specify what it means to be "engaged in combat," the letter does not foreclose the possible scenario — however hypothetical — of a military drone strike, against a United States citizen, on American soil. It also raises anew questions about the standards the administration has used in deciding to use drone strikes to kill Americans suspected of terrorist involvement overseas — notably Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
Is there any reason to believe that military drones will soon be hovering over Manhattan, aiming to kill Americans believed to be involved in terrorist financing? No.
But is it well past time for the United States government to specify, precisely, its views on whom it thinks it can kill in the struggle against Al Qaeda and other terrorist forces? The answer is yes.
The Obama administration's continued refusal to do so should alarm any American concerned about the constitutional right of our citizens — no matter what evil they may or may not be engaged in — to due process under the law. For those Americans, Mr. Holder's seemingly simple but maddeningly vague letter offers no reassurance.


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DOVER — Improper disposal of smoking material was found to be the cause of a 2-alarm fire that left a man in critical condition Wednesday night.
According to Dover Fire Chief Richard Driscoll, an investigation was conducted by Dover Police, Dover Fire and the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal's office late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.
The team determined the fire at the 33 Third St. apartment building originated from a couch in the victim's apartment and was caused by the improper disposal of a smoking material.
The single male occupant of the ground floor apartment was the only one in the home during the duration of the fire.
Shortly before 10 p.m., departments responded to the apartment building for a report of fire. When they arrived, they found one building resident pulling another resident, who was unconscious, through an open ground floor window.
The unconscious man was transported to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital.
Driscoll declined to comment on the type of injuries the victim received. No one else was injured in the incident.
The victim's name and status of his medical condition were unavailable Thursday afternoon.
On Wednesday evening, other residents of the building were told by Dover police they could not stay in their apartments for the night. They were allowed to briefly enter the building to retrieve some of their belongings before having to find an alternative place to stay for the night.
By Thursday, they were allowed to return to their apartments.
According to Driscoll, the apartment belonging to the unconscious resident was left uninhabitable, while the other apartments sustained smoke damage.
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DOVER — Improper disposal of smoking material was found to be the cause of a 2-alarm fire that left a man in critical condition Wednesday night.


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Three Timberwolves wrestle into finals in White Salmon
December 13, 2017
Goldendale head coach Matt Dumolt knew his team would have a much better showing at Saturday's White Salmon Tournament than the week before in Yakima.
After all, it was a much smaller tournament with teams where all the teams were around the same size as Goldendale.
The Timberwolves did do much better though, with three advancing to the championship round with freshman Dusty Dodge emerging as the top wrestler in the 152 pound class.
Dodge, along with fellow freshmen Ivan Cazares and Dane O'Leary, all grappled their way into the finals matches of their respective weight classes at the five-team tournament with eight man brackets for each weight class.
Cazares advanced to the finals in the 113 pound bracket but fell in a 17-4 decision to a Stevenson wrestler while O'Leary was pinned by a White Salmon grappler shortly into the first round of the 126 pound championship bout.
It wasn't just those three who enjoyed success on Saturday though. Many other Goldendale kids won bouts but came up just short of advancing to the finals.
Freshman Mason Conroy fell to a Stevenson wrestler in the third/fourth place bout in the 126 pound bracket, freshman Blane Waddell recorded a pin in the third/fourth place match in the 132 pound bracket, and junior Corbin Riley pinned his man with time running low in the first round for the third place showing in the 138 pound matchup. Junior Brian Waddell also placed for the Wolves with a fourth place mark in the 152 pound bracket, winning by pin in his first bout, falling by points in his second, and falling 8-2 after three tough rounds.
For the girls, who wrestled in a round robin format against three others in each group, sophomores Faith Hastings and TC Read each took third in their respective groups.
Junior Lucas Anderson grappled to a winning decision in his first bout, but fell in both his second and third contests to just miss the medal rounds.
Highland double dual
Two days before they were in White Salmon, Goldendale wrestled in its first South Central Athletic Conference double dual meet on Thursday in Highland. They were joined by fellow league schools Highland, Naches, and Cle Elum.
The Timberwolves wrestled against the Scotties, who recorded 48 points to Goldendale's 24.
Goldendale lost to forfeits on five bouts and won via forfeit in three matches.
106: No match. 113: Ivan Cazares won by f. 120: Micheal Wehnes (H) p. Faith Hastings. 126: Dane O'Leary won by f. 132: Ken Cisneros (H) d. Blane Waddell. 138: Corbin Riley won by f. 145: Fernando Santa Cruz (H) d. Lucas Anderson. 152: Gabriel Westerguard (H) d. Brian Waddell. 160: Dusty Dodge p. Antonio Garcia. 170: Kevin Perez (H) won by f. 182: Anthony Nehls (H) won by f. 195: Juan Perez (H) won by f. 220: Jorge Villafan (H) won by f. 285: Christian Trujillo (H) won by f.
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Goldendale is here Thursday for the first of its two scheduled home meets this season.
They host a double dual at 6 p.m. with Cle Elum, Granger, and Zillah in attendance.
They have another double dual next Monday, traveling to Warden along with Cle Elum and Connell. That match starts at 6 p.m.


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England initiate to accept as true with 'football's Coming home' after sweeping previous Sweden
SAMARA – Three brief points from Sweden 0-2 England on this planet Cup quarterfinals.
1. Three Lions reach historical semifinal
Are fifty two years of damage coming to an in depth? England are two wins away from an exquisite World Cup prefer after reaching their first semifinal because 1990, and this 2-0 victory over Sweden turned into deserved.
Headers from Harry Maguire and Dele Alli tipped the scales on an afternoon short of anxiety, and that they now wait for a latest-four tie in Moscow on Wednesday.
within the now-time-honored heat of Samara, it became little shock that court cases began at handiest a fraction above going for walks pace. The only outstanding action of the first 20 minutes saw both sides leave out the goal, Viktor Claesson firing over for Sweden from range earlier than Harry Kane skewed huge after a promising Raheem Sterling wreck. These were rare sparkles of mild exhilaration, and at that stage, nobody would had been too shocked if this tie had long past the gap.
Then, on the half-hour, England scored from their first nook of the online game. It seemed such a simple move however was clearly straight from the training floor, Ashley younger arrowing in a straight, deep start from the left and Maguire getting a run on Christian Forsberg before crashing an unstoppable header previous Robin Olsen.
Had Sterling made it two on half time, beating the defence to Jordan Henderson's lengthy circulate however trying and failing to grasp the ball circular Olsen, England could were just about home and dry.
as a substitute they had been pretty much pegged lower back two minutes after the interval from Sweden's first moment of actual hazard, with Jordan Pickford making a superb one-exceeded save from Marcus Berg.
They risked punishment for sitting on their lead however stepped up a equipment, and when Alli scored the critical 2nd, the tie looked over. once more the aim changed into incredibly essential, Alli finding space to transform a free header from Jesse Lingard's imperfect, and now all England had to do become see out the final half hour.
Claesson might directly have made that more tricky, but Pickford made a further wonderful cease, plunging low to his correct to tip the winger's placed effort away. Nineteen minutes from time he tipped over an in depth-range power from Berg; it turned into Sweden's ultimate colossal salvo, and the joy at full-time confirmed simply how a whole lot this supposed.
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2. what is England's id — and does it be counted?
do we recognize precisely what this England crew are, and does it even remember? This turned into essentially the most low-key of progressions to the last four, and if we're being important, England have received this a long way with none discernible fashion that sets them aside.
Maguire's goal was their fourth from a nook in this World Cup, and Alli, nodding his first principal contribution of the match past Olsen, transformed simplest their third from start play. all of them count as a great deal as a 25-yard screamer or an difficult crew goal, in particular when working inside the pleasing margins of event soccer, however England now have a superb opportunity of making the last regardless of rarely searching fluent.
At a big event, though, it is all about getting the job accomplished. Portugal, a group and not using a identification beyond their celebrity talisman, showed that in Euro 2016; England have no icon like Cristiano Ronaldo, but they are successful games in an identical style by way of small, incredibly humdrum moments instead of sustained bursts of exceptional.
there were sparkles from England's attack here, and it become clear, for example, that Southgate wanted his side to unencumber Sterling early and turn Sweden's centre-backs round. The plan had moderate success, and Sterling may still have scored in the first half; Lingard confirmed some penetration, too, and continues to be a greater productive player than he is given credit for, nonetheless it become an additional collected day for Harry Kane, who is still starved of professional service far from those set-items.
The megastar on the day was arguably Pickford, who's in line to be part of the magnificent Maguire in emerging from this tournament with enormously higher stock. His three 2d-half saves allowed England to run the clock down while also sparkling a lightweight on their personal lack of ability to create. subject can be minimal, however should England meet Belgium or France within the ultimate, they may wish their attackers to click in a manner they haven't yet counseled.
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3. Sweden beaten at their personal video game
The large frustration for Sweden might be that they had been overwhelmed at their own game. Set-items and crosses are imagined to be a strong point for Janne Anderson's facet, so the prematch situation for England become that they would want greater than corners and free kicks to cause them exact problem. however they were undone from the first nook they had to shield, while failing to make equivalent inroads on the different conclusion, and it delivered up to a picture by which their limitations had been brutally exposed.
Sweden can also be a nightmare to play against, although you nevertheless feel that have been they a membership facet, the most reliable groups in any of the main leagues would swat them aside with ease. They install precisely as England knew they would: two banks of four, two hardworking centre-forwards, defending their penalty enviornment in numbers while making an attempt to hit their opponents' with direct balls when viable. They started marginally the brighter facet but are not set up to concede first: they had no longer achieved so of their previous four games, and when Maguire climbed excessive to score, their video game plan went out of the window.
That stated, they posed a danger within the 2d duration and if Pickford had no longer been on accurate of his video game then the latter levels, at both 1-1 or 2-1, would have taken on a wholly different appearance. The intellect went again to Sweden's 3-0 acquire over Mexico, once they went for his or her opponents' throats and at last blew them away. right here they have been too cautious except the game begun getting away from them and have been punished for uncharacteristic blunders. it'll go down as a pretty good campaign when the grime has settled, but this turned into the day Sweden hit their ceiling.


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Chris Soll is graphic designer, blogger, business owner, and creative powerhouse with his hand in a variety of unique projects. I linked up with Chris after stumbling upon his amazing Instagram account. In this exclusive interview, Chris discusses the positive role cannabis has played in his life, and specifically how it has unlocked his creative potential.
Give me a little background; where are you from and where do you live?
I'm originally from Germany, though I've spent 20 years living in Sydney Australia now. I speak both languages fluently and feel like I'm returning home whenever I fly out to either place.
All it takes is one look at your Instagram to recognize your pension for design and creativity; when did this all start?
I've been drawing since I can remember. Most of my school life was spent by me covering my arms, desks & bags with intricate little patterns. My grades naturally reflected that; and although they weren't great, I always maintained a solid 'A+' in Art. This was a very early sign that I'd end up in some kind of creative industry. With the advent of computers, I managed to merge my passion with technology and decided to become a graphic designer. I studied for 3 years at college, then spent 6 years working for various big brands in their design departments, before finally going freelance about 5 years ago. I've never looked back.
At what point did you recognize that cannabis played a positive role in your creative abilities?
Well, it took a while. In Australia, cannabis still has quite a bad reputation; many people think it will destroy your life, make you fat & lazy, and all those other silly outdated stereotypes. I had personally tried cannabis about 10 times over roughly 10 years (starting at 16). Every time it had the same effect, I'd laugh, my eyes would get droopy, then I'd get hungry, and soon I'd be asleep. I thought this was all there was to it, so I never gravitated towards it very much, instead sticking to alcohol like everyone else.
It wasn't until I visited some friends in Germany in 2012 that things changed. At a party someone was passing a joint around, and I had a few drags – expecting the usual response. However, I noticed that 15 minutes after, my eyes were still wide apart, no drowsiness or droopiness. Thinking it was a weak strain, I had more, and soon realized that I was completely high…but without the usual associated lethargy. Asking the guys at the party, they assured me that I must just have been smoking the wrong shit (Indica vs Sativa)…which was news to me. The next morning I woke up, a little dazed, trying to remember the last hours of the night before. Walking to my work desk, I noticed a crossed out "to-do" list of most of my outstanding freelance design jobs. It suddenly came back to me that I had stayed up once I'd come home, still stoned, feeling creatively invigorated. After proofing the work, I was amazed to discover that it was all great, very meticulous, very creative, and completely on point.
Can you tell me a bit more about why it helps your design process?
Sure, after returning to Australia it took me quite a bit of searching to find someone who could supply cannabis sativa, so that I could replicate the effects I experienced in Germany. Since then, it's been a great tool in my creative tool belt. Whenever I need to brainstorm ideas or have a design job that takes meticulous attention to detail, this wonder plant helps me temporarily bridge the low level of ADD I feel I now have from all phones, TV's & social media.
Without it, I'm certain my life would look a lot different right now – probably not as creative, interesting, free and spiritually connected
I used to never contemplate working on projects that would take me longer than a day to finish, but while under the influence of cannabis, I'm more than happy to take my time, slow-flow, and really put in those hours needed to create highly detailed work. It also lifts my mood, which plays a huge role in wanting to stick at a certain project that I might otherwise try to rush through or put off.
What advice do you have for anyone interested in a creative, design, or photography role?
When everyone goes right, go left 🙂
But seriously, I would recommend anyone who makes a living off their ideas or their hand craft to at least give cannabis an open minded try. But be aware, I didn't start smoking until I was 27, which is 2 years after my brain's frontal lobe completed construction. Because I was already older, I'm finding it easier to control my intake, whereas I feel a lot of younger people tend to overindulge and then burn themselves out. My common practice is to roll a nice joint, in a calm & meditative fashion. It's a ritual for me, and I have respect for the plant.
I've found it's made me infinitely more interested in subjects I would usually not spend any time exploring
I will then take just 3-5 inhales, before I put the joint back in my little tube and put it aside for at least 2-4 hours. Doing this allows me to get into the state, but without going so far to create any mental confusion, which can sometimes happen for a little while when first coming up. I will do this 2-3 times over a work day, and I tend to only use it 2-3 days a week, in particular on my content creation & creative thinking days. This allows me to stay clear & focused, using the plant to it's maximum capacity without any negative/scattered/lethargic side effects. In the future, I'll be adding a vaporizer into the mix, since I know that inhaling smoke isn't healthy, even though it's still a long way away from the damaging effects of commercial tobacco.
Since I began working from home and adding cannabis to my weekly working schedule I've found it's made me infinitely more interested in subjects I would usually not spend any time exploring. As a result of this added interest, in the last 4 years I've practically stopped drinking alcohol, I've learned meditation (life upgrade!), I've overhauled my diet (which is now giving me the energy levels of a 15 year old), and I've stopped watching TV and instead started reading books. The end result; I've learned to build a passive income business that makes money while I sleep. I'm not saying one can't do these things without cannabis. What I am saying is that if I hadn't been high a couple of times a week over the last few years, I'm certain my life would look a lot different right now – probably not as creative, interesting, free and spiritually connected as it currently is 🙂
What other special projects are you involved in?
Well, I launched a merchandise brand focused on metallic tattoos just over a year ago named iamucollective.
I noticed there was a gap in the market, since I thought I could create better looking designs than what was already out there. I then spent many focused hours creating 7x different tattoo collections, of which we've sold over 10,000 units in the first year.
This has enabled me to quit working freelance for other people, and I'm now completely focused on my own projects. I also have a travel blog with my partner where we produce content through our travels. On the horizon are more product lines for iamu, a new charity contribution scheme, and some information products to share the things I've learned over these last 4 years of being unusually interested in everything from diet, the mind, online business, philosophy and many other topics. Things are looking very good, and I'm incredibly grateful for the turn my life has taken during the later years of my 20's.
You have traveled all across the world, what is the one place everyone should visit?
Some of my favorite places on this earth of ours are Fiji (in particular Qamea Island), the Greek Islands (special mention: Crete), and my favorite city Berlin: a place where creativity & individuality is praised. You know what they say, life is a book and those who don't travel read only the first page.


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At least eight dead in independence protest
CAMEROON-Soldiers in Cameroon shot dead at least eight people during independence protests in the English-speaking parts of the country.
Rallies were held on the 56th anniversary of the incorporation of the regions into Cameroon.
The mayor of the town of Kumbo said that five of the dead were prisoners shot after a jail caught fire.
Activists had called for the release of prisoners who had been arrested in a series of protests over the last year.
Cameroon is split between English and French-speaking regions after colonisation by Britain and France following World War One.
The country was unified in 1961 - but English-speakers accuse the Francophone majority of discrimination.
The mayor of Kumbo, Donatus Njong Fonyuy, told the BBC the flag of a secessionist movement had been put up in symbolic places in the town.
There were several other demonstrations in other parts of English-speaking Cameroon.


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X-Men: Days of Future Past, Film Review.
Brian Singer make a welcome return to the X-Men franchise with a film that units the original X-Men trilogy with X-Men: First Class and the Wolverine spin off films. This film that units these films so that they are all set in one universe. It also try to fix a number of continuity errors in the franchise.
X-Men: Days of Future Past starts in the near future in which both mutants and most of the human race have decimated by the deadly killing machines known as The Sentinels. In this apoplectic world Professor X (Sir Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Sir Ian McKellen) have put their difference a side and battling to save what left of mutants and humans. But they are losing the war, so have gathered the last remains of the X-Men for a last-ditch attempt to stop the Sentinel war from ever happing and change their present so it is no longer the nightmare they are living.
Based on the X-Men story of the same name, Brian Singer has had to make some changes so that it will fit with the film franchise and unit them. In the original story it is Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) mind that goes back in time into her own body to make the change. However this would not work here as the past setting is 1970's, in which she would be -20 years old.
To solve this problem Singer has picked Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to go back as he is ageless.
X-Men: Days of Future Past is by far the most ambitious film in the franchise to date. But not just with story but also sorting all the notorious continuity errors of the other films.
This make X-Men: Days of Future Past a soft reboot of the franchise. With this in mind Brian Singer has gone out and delivered the best movie to date. It also show that the X-Men franchise is best served when it is in Singer hands.
X-Men: Days of Future past is an entraining film from start to finished, all the Character get to grow a little weather it is in the future or the past. Once again James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are excellent as the young Charles Xavier & Erik Lehnsherr respectively. Re-joining them from X-Men: First Class is Nicholas Hoult as Beast and Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique. Also along for the ride from the original trilogy are Halle Berry as Strom. Her role was cut down due to her pregnancy, Shawn Ashmore as Ice Man, Daniel Cudmore as Colossus. Of course there are a few more actor from the original trilogy that appear in the film but they are just cameo and I won't spoil who they are if you have not seen the film.
With the exception of X-Men: First Class, every X-Men film has been pretty much the Wolverine show, this not surprising given that Wolverine has to be one of the most popular Mutants from the X-Men line of comics. It is refreshing to see that in this film he has taken on the role of the team player and is the bridge between the future and the past. It is also fun to see that he has become the mentor to the man that will later become his mentor.
X-Men: Days of Future Past, has some great action scene, but the one stand out moment is with Quicksliver (Evan Peters), when he helps break out Erik Lehnsherr from prison. The scene was filmed with a high speed camera then played at normal speed to given the sense of speed that this Character move at. Both the future and past have different look with the future being dark, while Singer has captured 70's with bright colour to show the difference between the two. The Sentinels of the 70's look right at home and have a retro yet futuristic look for the period look to them. While the ones of the future look similar to the Destroyer from Thor, but a pick more menacing.
X-Men: Days of Future Past is the best X-Men film to date and while it sort out most of the continuity errors, it does not manage to fix them all, and even creates one or two. But they are easy to overlook. In my mind Singer has been the best thing to happen to the X-Men franchise and it should not really leave his hands as a producer or director. (He did not serve as producer on X-Men: The Last Stand and is an uncredited producer on X-Men Origins: Wolverine.) Like Marvel Studios, Fox has started to add post credit scene to their Marvel films so keep and open for one that will lead into X-Men: Apocalypse.
I give this film 4.5 out of 5.
Logan: So, you always were an asshole.
Marvel Cinematic Universe Chronological Timeline
Chris Martin from Evil Starship Factory, asked me in my review of Age of Ultron. "Do you need to see Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D to know what going on in the movies?"
To put it simply the answer is a big fat No!
After all the movie have to be done in a way that anyone that does not follow all the movies let alone the TV shows as well. Needs to be able to sit down and watch them and enjoy them without seeing everything else in the MCU. (Marvel Cinematic Universe.)
After looking online to see if there was an official one form Marvel. I could not find anything.
Marvel did produce one for Phase 1 after the Avengers came out. If you look for anything after this you just get the releases dates for Phase 3 films.
So I have decided to put together a timeline that show all the major events and how they affect each movie and the TV shows. There was no real dates stated in the Phase 1 films and the official Marvel timeline. So when I started putting this together I used Tony Stark announcing to the word "I am Iron Man" as point Zero. So everything before is marked as ___ Years BIAIM (Before I am Iron Man).
Everything after is marked as ___ Years AIAM (After I am Iron Man.)
When Guardians of the Galaxy came out we know that Peter Quill was abducted in 1988 and the main story take place 26 years later. (2014) with that I was able to determine what year events took place. This allowed me to put in the year of the event.
**Edit 26/05/15, Correction made for Iron Man 3.**
Here is the MCU timeline to date.
Eons ago – Bor, father of Odin, clashes with the Dark Elf Malekith, who seeks to destroy the universe using a weapon known as the Aether. After conquering Malekith's forces, including enhanced warriors called the Kursed, on their home world of Svartalfheim, Bor safeguards the Aether within a stone column. (Thor: The Dark World)
(1009) 1000 years BIAIM – Jotunheim invades Midgard/ Earth (Tonsberg, Norway). Odin defeats Laufey and Jotuns and captures the Casket of Ancient Winters (Thor)
(1409) 600 years BIAIM – Odin leaves the Tesseract on Earth.
(1942) 67 years BIAIM –
Johann Schmidt invades Tonsberg, Norway and steals the Tesseract. (Captain America: The Frist Avenger.)
Steve Rodgers becomes the first and only successful Super-Solider from Project Rebirth. (Captain America: The Frist Avenger.)
(1944) 65 Years BIAIM- during a Mission Bucky Barnes is believed to be killed. He is rescued by Hydra and later the Russians (Captain America: The Frist Avenger & Captain America: The Winter Solider)
(1945) 64 years BIAIM – Captain America defeats Johann Schmidt (The red Skull) and crashes the suborbital bomber into the Artic. (Captain America: The Frist Avenger.)
(1946) 63 Years BIAIM – Season 1 of Agent Carter. (Marvel's Agent Carter)
(1964) 45 Years BIAIM – Howard Stark works with Anton Vanko on development of the Arc Reactor (Iron Man 2)
(1976) 33 Years BIAIM – Stark Industries unveils the first Arc Reactor.
(1988) 21 Years BIAIM – Peter Quill is abducted from Earth by the Ravagers. (Guardians of the Galaxy)
(2004) 5 years BIAIM – Bruce Banner working on recreating the Super-Solider is bombarded with Gamma Radiation, changes into the Hulk and escapes.
(2009) 9 months BIAIM – Tony Stark is kidnapped by the Ten Rings, he invents a miniaturized Arc Reactor to keep Shrapnel out of his hart and the Iron Man Mark 1 armor to escape. (Iron Man)
(2009) 1 day BIAIM – Iron Man battles the Iron Monger on the Howard Stark Memorial Freeway. (Iron Man)
(2009) I am Iron Man –
Tony Stack announces to the world he is Iron Man. (Iron Man)
Nick Fury approaches Tony Stark about the Avengers Initiative. (Iron Man)
(2010) 6 months and after AIAIM –
Banner "Hulks" out at a bottling planet While chased by General Ross and Emil Blonsky in Rochina, Rio De Janerio.(The Incredible Hulk)
Tony Stack is attacked by Ivan Vanko at the Monaco Historical Grand Prix and defeats him using the Mark V Armor. (Iron Man 2)
Tony Stack Build the Mark IV Armor and Rhodey Mark II Battle Armor, after a fight between the two Rhodey delivers the Mark II Battle Armor to US Air Force. (Iron Man 2)
Thor is banished from Asgard to Midgard/Earth. (Thor)
Banner goes to Culver U (The Incredible Hulk)
Agent Coulson travels from Malibu to Roswell (Iron Man 2 / Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's)
Iron Man and War Machine save Stark Expo from Ivan Vanko (Iron Man 2)
Blonsky becomes a Super-Solider (The Incredible Hulk)
Fury meets with Tony Stark and offers him a consultant role with S.H.E.I.L.D (Iron Man 2)
Thor returns to Asgard and Battles Loki, the Bifrost is destroyed during the battle and Loki falls into void of space. (Thor)
Banner is captured by General Ross, Blonsky becomes the Abomination. Banner is airdropped into Harlem, New York to take down the Abomination. After the Battle Hulk goes back on the run and Abomination is taken into custody by General Ross. (The Incredible Hulk)
Dr Erik Selvig is hired by S.H.E.I.L.D to work with the Tesseract at Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S (Thor)
Tony Stack Visits General Ross. (The Incredible Hulk & Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant)
(2011) 1 year AIAM – Captain America is found in the artic and taken to New York to recover (Captain America: The Frist Avenger.)
(2012) 2 years AIAM –
The Events of The Avengers
Two kids have been able to get a Chitauri weapon to work and are hired by S.H.E.I.L.D (Marvel One-Shot: Item 47)
Agent Coulson has been brought back to life using Project T.A.H.I.T.I. (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D)
(Christmas 2012) 2 Years and 6 Months AIAIM – The Events of Iron Man 3
(2013) 3 years AIAM – Trevor Slattery is broken out of prison by agents working for the real Mandarin who is not please with Trevor Slattery. (Marvel One-Shot: All Hail The King)
(2013) 3 Years and 6 Months AIAIM –
Events from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Season 1 episode 1 (Pilot) to 7 (The Hub)
The Events of Thor: The Dark World.
(2013-2014) Events from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Season 1 episode 8 (The Well) to 16 (End of the Beginning)
(2014) 4 Years AIAIM –
The Events of Captain America: The Winter Solider. The events shown in Marvels Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. episode 16 End of the Beginning. Happen at the same time. (Captain America: The Winter Solider and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D)
The Events of Guardians of the Galaxy.
Events of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Season 1 episode 17 (Turn Turn Turn) to 22 (Beginning of the End)
(2015) 5 Years AIAIM –
Events from Marvel's Daredevil Season 1.
Events from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Season 2, episode 1 (Shadows) to 19 (The Dirty Half Dozen)
Events from Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Events from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Season 2, episode 20 (Scars) to 22 (S.O.S Part 2)
Events from Ant-Man
So there it is the MCU timeline to date. I could go into more details but that would take a lot longer to put together. With the exception of Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk & Captain America: The Frist Avenger all films take place in the year of their release.
Daredevil has not been given a date (I sure it on one of the newspapers.) but following the films and Agent of S.H.E.I.L.D taking place in the year of release it will be the same for this.
We do know that it take place after the Battle of New York. Given the damage New York took it not hard to believe that time for building to be knocked down start of construction of new ones. Daredevil season 1 happening in 2015 would fit.
Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron, Film Review
Age of Ultron brings Marvel's Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 2 to a close, even though Ant-Man is the official last film. But that is a standalone film and the events of Phase 2 will not affect what will happen in Ant-Man.
Age of Ultron is set roughly a year after the events of Captain America: The Winter Solider, S.H.E.I.L.D is gone and the world thinks Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) is dead. Over the last year the Avengers have banned back together to bring Hydra down for good and reclaim Loki sceptre.
Unknown to them Agent Coulson has found its location and given the information to Maria Hill (Cobbie Smulders) who then forwards the information to the Avengers. (This event does not happen in the film but in the TV show Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D season two episode "The Dirty Half Dozen.") This brings us to the action pack opening of Age of Ultron.
From the get go Whedon, does not disappoints, with lot of action and humour. We get introduced to two Enhanced Humans that was briefly scene in the post credit scene from Captain America: The Winter Solider and also a closure to the Hydra storyline started in that film. (Though I will not be surprised if we see more of Hydra in later episodes of Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D.)
With the help of Dr Banner (Mark Ruffalo), Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) attempts to build an A.I that will help save the world from extra terrestrial threats, using his Iron Legion. This is where the creation of Ultron (James Spader) happens. From this point on the Avengers go after Ultron to stop him at any cost.
The film has lots of drama with a budding romance between Banner and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson.) and we get to see Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) personal life away from the Avengers.
This gives Renner a lot more to work with this time around instead of being a mind-wash drone like he was in the first film. Spader is excellent as Ultron and brings a lot of comedy to the role which you not expect for someone trying to wipe out all life on Earth. Ultron has been flesh out better than past villains in the MCU, which is a good thing as so far all they have seem to be is just progress the story along.
We finally get to see Paul Bettany on Screen as Vision and the roll really suit him. But it also looks to be the last we hear him as J.A.V.R.I.S.
Newcomers Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) fit in well. It a shame we don't get their real heritage, being the children of Magneto. But this is down to the rights issue that Marvel has with FOX, who currently own the film rights. So don't expect any mutants appearing in the MCU.
As for the rest of the main cast, this is their forth time or more playing their roles. So they all know what they are doing.
Age of Ultron is a dark film; one of the reasons for this is that Joss Whedon has states that The Godfather Part 2 was inspiration for the film. But Whedon does not go to dark making sure to lighten some of the darker moments with comedy that we come to expect from him. While some of these did make me laugh, there where not as many laugh out load moment as there was in The Avengers.
The action is fast and you are able to follow what is going on screen, and there is lot going on screen with the hundreds of Ultron drones.
Age of Ultron has the most effects in a Marvel film to date, and it stunning. It looks like Marvels did not waste a penny in this area. One the highlights form the CGI. Is Iron Man fight with the Hulk in the Hulkbuster suit. This fight bring everything fans have wanted to see when these two go up angst each other on the big screen.
As with Marvel other films there are lots of hidden Easter eggs for fans of the comics with find and quite a few references to up coming films in Phase 3.
Joss Whedon has been very busy since he wrapped up work on the Avengers, with kick-off Marvels TV show Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D (which is part of the MCU) and working behind the scene of Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Solider. So that they will set up events that will lead into Age of Ultron. With all of this he has managed to pull it off again and deliver a very enjoyable film. After I watched it I thought the film was missing something and I could not put my finger on what it could be. But now that I had a few days to think about it, I would put it down to the fact that even though he has brought so many elements together it's no longer new like it was with the first film. Add to it the hype that was been created it all adds up.
As I have stated, Whedon has delivered once again. After five years working at Marvel he has earned a well deserved break. (Joss Whedon dose have the option to come back to the MCU and do another film.) For Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, they have some very large shoes to fill, as they are currently set to direct Captain America: Civil War and then start work on bring everything together for Avengers: Infinity War Part One & Two, which could also include a fair few of the Marvel TV shows that are part of the MCU.
I give Avengers: Age of Ultron a 4.5 out of 5.
Tony Stark: What's the vibranium for?
Ultron: I'm glad you asked that, because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan… [blasts Stark]


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By: Jonathan Simmons and Paige Wilson
What should you do if there's an active shooting at your workplace or your school?
"Run, hide, fight," according to the Sheriff's Office's incident survival presentation before a packed audience of school district staff members at the Flagler Auditorium Aug. 7.
"It might be up to you to save your own life," Flagler County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Michael Lutz said. Lutz was making the presentation alongside Cmdr. Mark Carman, who leads the Sheriff's Office's Palm Coast precinct. (The PowerPoint presentation from the event can be viewed here.)
The Sheriff's Office's response time is faster than the national average 5-6 minutes: FCSO deputies can arrive in 4 minutes, according to the presentation.
People who can leave an active shooting scene should do so immediately, and should keep their hands visible as they do so, so that arriving deputies can tell they're not a threat. They should not attempt to move wounded people, and should call 9-1-1 as soon as they can, according to the presentation.
But if you're in that situation, don't run through a long hallway to get to an exit: That might put you face to face with the gunman, according to the presentation. Instead, duck inside a room along the hallway and lock the door. Turn your phone to "silent" and turn off any radios or TVs, block the window and close the blinds, and get behind a large item. And if you're hiding in a room with other people, don't bunch together.
Fighting should be a last resort, undertaken only if your life is in immediate danger. If you have to do it, according to the presentation, "act as aggressively as possible," throw items and use improvised weapons like a chair, pen, stapler or fire extinguisher.
Target the head, neck, groin and eyes.
There are things people can do to help prevent shootings, Carman said, including avoiding bullying — school shooters tended to have been bullied — and reporting suspicious behavior.
"If you see something, say something," Lutz said. The training presented to district staff at the auditorium fulfills requirements for Florida's new Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which requires active shooter training in schools at least once per semester, according to an FCSO news release.
"Unfortunately the times that we live in call for this presentation to be given to our teachers and school faculty. This training, along with our School Resource Deputies, is vital to protect our schools where these active killers target our children," Sheriff Rick Staly said in the news release.


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The New York Times has an obituary today on Clint Ballard, Jr., who died on December 23. 2008.
Ballard, a longtime Dallas and Denton resident, wrote a number of hit songs, including Linda Ronstadt's No. 1 hit single, "You're No Good." His death comes two and a half years after he suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered.
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Ae Fond Kiss
Casim is a second generation Pakistani from Glasgow. Working as a DJ in Glasgow's coolest venues, Casim dreams of buying his own club. His parents Tariq and Sadia are devout Muslims and plan for him to marry his beautiful cousin Jasmine, who is soon to arrive in the UK. Plans go awry when Casim meets Roisin. A teacher at his sister Tahara's school, Roisin is different from any girl he's ever met. She's gorgeous, intelligent and definitely possesses a mind of her own. She and Casim soon fall deeply in love. But Casim knows all too well that, even if he wasn't due to marry, his parents would never accept a 'goree' - a white girl. As a Catholic, Roisin finds that her own community isn't very supportive either. When their relationship is discovered, the repercussions of the scandal reach far and wide and sparks fly as cultures clash and personalities collide.
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