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BATON ROUGE — As public hospitals learn more about federal Medicaid cuts, the Louisiana League of Women Voters has joined the chorus of interests calling for a special session of the Legislature.
BATON ROUGE — As public hospitals learn more about federal Medicaid cuts, the Louisiana League of Women Voters has joined the chorus of interests calling for a special session of the Legislature.
The concept of a broader decision-making process has been floated occasionally since the regular session ended in June. But the administration has said it has no plans for a special session, and many lawmakers are willing to wait and see what the coming weeks and months will bring.
Thetis Cusimano, president of the voters league, said additional oversight is needed as state governmental services continue to be transferred to the private sector to deal with the federal money shortage.
The state learned about six weeks ago that Congress is going to require cuts to its Medicaid program, and $276 million was eventually levied against the public hospitals ran by the LSU Health Care Services Division.
Through administrative changes and plans at other hospitals, the impact was whittled down to $43 million, of which $3.7 million has to be shouldered by Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma.
But more cuts are expected, and public-private partnerships are only one of the potential solutions being discussed by the LSU hospital system and Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration.
If this line of thinking continues, Cusimano said, "final decisions to privatize an area of government service should be made only after an informed transparent planning process and thorough analysis of the implications."
While the League of Women Voters wants a special session to discuss the situation, it may be easier said than done.
The governor would have to call a special session or lawmakers could do it themselves, and neither option seems to have traction right now.
Rep. Truck Gisclair, D-Larose, who opposed many of Jindal's budget priorities during this year's regular session, said he wanted to give the governor a chance to get a hold of the situation.
"I'm hoping the administration can take care of it itself," he said. "They wanted a budget a certain way, and they got it. We handed it to them. Now they have to deal with it."
As for the Medicaid funding shortage, Gisclair said he wasn't sure a special session could solve those problems. "It's not like a session could help us create more money," he added. "This Medicaid cut from the federal government was a surprise to everyone. But it's not solely a state issue. That is a federal issue, and I'm starting to think we better get used to what's coming down from Washington."
Cusimano said lawmakers could provide oversight of what the administration is doing, even if there are no immediate money solutions.
"The move to quickly revamp many health care operations using state internal organization mechanisms through private contractors has occurred with minimal oversight from the Legislature," Cusimano said.
Sen. Bret Allain, R-Franklin, who serves as part of the legislative leadership and often votes with the administration, said "the ball is still in the air," and lawmakers may have to get more involved depending on how events unfold in the near future.
"A lot of these things are being vetted right now, and it's going to take some time. But it's on all of our minds right now," Allain said. "We're all trying to get our minds around it, and we're waiting on the administration to bring forth a road map for where we're going."
A two-day meeting of the Joint Budget Committee is scheduled for next week, and Allain said the gathering should give lawmakers a better idea of where everything stands.
"Hopefully a plan will be brought forward then," he said.
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The title of this has to have a disclaimer. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be to pick out one photograph as my favorite. So for the record the one below is my favorite right now (10:00 pm, 10 August 2008). Even after saying that I am including the 2nd place picture and will post several others that were considered in the near future.
My favorite picture
Taken August 27, 2004 in El Reno, OK at my son Rick's wedding. It was be an "eye-catching" picture just from the content, but the expression on my daughter's face in the background makes it priceless. This was the first wedding we had had in the family in thirteen years. It was in a beautiful, old Catholic church with an old, Irish priest presiding. Perhaps the most memorable part of the wedding experience was at the rehearsal when the priest said, (and I can't reproduce the Irish brogue) "No matter what happens during the service tomorrow at the end of it you will be married. If you fall flat on your face as you walk down the aisle, just kiss the floor, say it was and act of contrition and get up and walk on." Fortunately, no one fell on their face and most everything went as planned. It was afterward that I caught this picture. For those of you who can't figure out what's going on, it really is very innocent and they are newly married. The train of Erin's wedding gown was made to hook up inside the skirt and her new husband Rick was the only way who knew how to fix it. The look of consternation on my daughter's face is purely a coincidence that the camera just happened to catch.
A very, very close second
I don't know if this fits in the rules since this is actually two pictures. But they have always been an inseparable pair in our family. They are a before school shot on the left and an after school shot on the right of me and my brother, (he's the tall one, I'm the cute one) taken in the Philippines in 1948. It has always been one of my favorites and a standard shot in our family to represent the way we were. My mother worked very hard to make sure we were always neatly dressed no matter what the occasion, and yet it never seemed to fail that as soon as we were out the door, all of her hard work was for naught.


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LaBeouf pleaded nolo contendere, or no contest, during a Thursday court appearance. Nolo contendere serves as a guilty plea without LaBeouf admitting guilt.
Judge Claire Cornell-Williams ordered LaBeouf to undergo anger management counseling and alcohol evaluation as part of the plea.
LaBeouf was arrested for not complying with officer's request to leave an open air market in the early morning hours of July 8th. Savannah-Chatham Metro police say LaBeouf was asking around for a cigarette and when no one had one, he became aggressive.
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NEW YORK Helen Mirren and Anthony Hopkins established a mutual admiration society while making the biopic Hitchcock, their first film together.
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Mirren and Hopkins, who both have one Oscar from four past Academy Awards nominations, engage one another in intensely dramatic scenes in Hitchcock. The story is set in Hollywood in 1959 60.
Together, Alma and Alfred enjoyed a tumultuous six decade love story, helped revolutionize filmmaking techniques and left behind a legacy of great work, including Vertigo, Rear Window, North by Northwest, The Birds, Suspicion and Psycho. The biopic chronicles how they triumphed with Psycho, despite resistance from studios and the media.
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The first Hope Hoops Club luncheon of the Hope College basketball season will be held Monday, Jan. 9, beginning at noon in the Maas Center on the Hope campus.
The Hoops Club luncheons have become a Hope College basketball tradition featuring coaches Matt Neil and Brian Morehouse, their staffs and members of the teams.
Video highlights are shown of the previous week's action and upcoming opponents are previewed.
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Thursday's Child: Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
22 comments:
- Jess said...
Love the salmon analogy :) It looks completely charming and quaint based on your pictures. Straight out of a storybook. Thanks for sharing another lovely trip!
- July 14, 2011 at 9:10 AM
My neighbor is from the Czech Republic.. I don't know why she would ever want to leave there ;) it is gorgeous!
- July 14, 2011 at 9:25 AM
- Angela Felsted said...
Very beautiful. Hey, I still have Fools Girl by my computer. Email me your address and I'll send it to you.
- July 14, 2011 at 10:38 AM
- Pacheco Patty said...
It's nice that you mention those 500 people as best friends, why let the crowds spoil your experience! I love the villages as well, one amazing photo opportunity after another with a few good meals thrown in for good measure!
- July 14, 2011 at 11:29 AM
- Sue said...
Well, I can see why a crowd showed up. Such an idyllic little village:)
- July 14, 2011 at 11:33 AM
- Barbara Kloss said...
Oh, this is gorgeous! (and I never like traveling with my 500 best friends :D )
- July 14, 2011 at 12:15 PM
- Belinda said...
Your photos definitely make this a must visit, crowds and all!
- July 14, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- Gloria said...
Beth absolutely beauty pictures love them!! gloria
- July 14, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- Sweet And Crumby said...
What a gorgeous, gorgeous place to visit.
- July 14, 2011 at 3:45 PM
- Carol said...
Looks like a fairy tale place from your pictures, just wonderful!
- July 14, 2011 at 5:07 PM
- Valerie said...
The fact that a city's beauty can shine through despite large crowds is a testament to how amazing it must be to see in person. :-)
- July 14, 2011 at 5:36 PM
- Ruth said...
Just like Dubrovnik, only more greenery. It too was swamped with tourists when I was there... I would love to see more of that country! Have you ever been to Tallinn? It has a similar look - just beautiful.
- July 14, 2011 at 7:13 PM
Oh, the curse of the Day Trip. We have all been there.
Separately, that view off of the terrace was kind of reminiscent of Heidelberg for me. I'm not sure if it's the roofs, the water or what but what a lovely little jolt back.
- July 14, 2011 at 10:16 PM
- Barbara said...
Beautiful, Beth. And every photo does look peaceful...no crowds in sight. Isn't it annoying when you get that "crushed" feeling with other toursits? We always want to be able to explore feeling as though we are the first to discover everything.
- July 15, 2011 at 7:05 AM
It sure looks like a sleepy village in your photos. Crowds are disappointing, but it's hard to avoid them sometimes!
- July 15, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- Raina said...
What a beautiful place! I am not a fan of big crowds. That must have been frustrating. Sounds like a wonderful time despite the crowds, though:)
- July 15, 2011 at 9:37 PM
- Claudia said...
I've always wanted to go there. And I've had my share of travelling in a pack of salmon! But you know - better to have experienced than not. The post proves that.
- July 15, 2011 at 10:00 PM
- shaz said...
Wow, it does look very charming and how you managed to take photos that calm and serene even with the crowds amazes me. Hubby and I both dislike crowds, and tend to try and take holidays outside of "proper" holiday seasons, stealing time off school just so we can visit places when the rest of the world is (hopefully) not there.
- July 16, 2011 at 3:09 AM
What a beautiful country side! Crowds and all. :)
- July 16, 2011 at 3:30 PM
- The Golden Eagle said...
It looks like a beautiful place! :)
- July 16, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- Deniz Bevan said...
Wow. That looks like something from a sweet fantasy novel. Must... visit... Czech Republic...
- July 17, 2011 at 9:02 PM
- Amie Kaufman said...
Oh, I know the feeling, I've learned that lesson too! Sometimes, though, it's all you can manage--and on those days you can definitely make the most of what you've got, just as you guys did. Looks beautiful! I hoped to visit, but I was so deeply into the off season that they were snowed in!
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INDIANAPOLIS -- A Indiana man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on federal firearms charges stemming from a 2011 raid in which police found about 175 firearms and more than 59,000 rounds of ammunition, U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett announced Tuesday.
Jackie Richardson, 49, Coatsville, was sentenced April 17 on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of unlawfully possessing a machine gun, according to a release from Hogsett's office.
Richardson was arrested Dec. 17, 2011, by Hendricks County sheriff's deputies responding to a 911 call about domestic violence at his home, according to the release. Deputies found evidence of an illegal firearms manufacturing operation and contacted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the release said.
"Never in the 3 1/2 years that I have served as the United States attorney have we prosecuted a felony possession case more egregious and dangerous than this," Hogsett said in a statement.
Hogsett said Richardson had no legal right to possess firearms or ammunition because of prior felony convictions for battery, theft, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and felony intimidation stemming from multiple incidents dating at least to the late 1990s. It was unclear Tuesday what Richardson did with the weapons he made.
Thirty-five of the guns possessed by Richardson were fully automatic machine guns, authorities said. Under U.S. law, a person may own a fully automatic machine gun with the proper permit, said Patrick Hand, an ATF spokesman in Indianapolis. Richardson's machine guns were not registered, Hand said.
"As long as it has been properly registered as a machine gun with the ATF prior to May 1986, you may own such a gun," Hand said. "The only manufacturing that currently takes place is for military or law enforcement."
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CEO Blog
I am somewhat late in generating this letter but that is due to immediately being immersed in other areas of responsibilities awaiting my return to the national office from Las Vegas and the U.S. Open and Americas Challenge. Not all of the dust has settled yet but I wanted to take just a moment to reflect on all that we attempted to do. BTW – whenever you start to thank folks you invariably leave some very deserving person(s) out and that is a pity but it is the human condition.
We started out before most of the participants arrived in Las Vegas with taking on the responsibility of conducting an IR Course. Roman Tinyszin did all the lifting for staging this event and we did it for two reasons – to give some US folks the opportunity to take and test through the course and also to possibly attract a few more IUs to stay on and work our Open and Americas Challenge! Michael Zwipp from the ITTF URC was the Course Conductor and he was gracious enough to stay and serve as Deputy Referee for the Americas Challenge. We were fortunate to have him with us from the start to the finish.
The U.S. Open drew a near record level of entries and trust me that Joyce Grooms and Deborah Gray were pushed to new levels of performance in managing the entries, preparing player packets, t-shirt coupons, athlete water tickets, fee processes and hotel accommodations for officials, staff and volunteers. NATT too had to react to increased scheduling and increased equipment demands and all that entails. We learned some very valuable lessons in managing the crush of registration that we experienced the first morning. Less experienced staff and volunteers would have been overwhelmed but the comments I heard were mostly that those staff members involved (Deborah Gray, Joyce Grooms and Andrew Horn, along with key volunteers), calmly and methodically worked through to manage the situation as effectively and humanly possible.
Then, as you know we took on the ITTF Americas Challenge. Lest we forget the primary purpose of taking on this event was for our US players to participate in that level of competitive experience on our 'home turf'. It was gratifying to see many of them enjoying the experience with some impressive results. This event was unusual because of the increased technical demands made by the ITTF - lighting had to be at or above 1,000 lux, we had to have a wooden sub-floor beneath our floor mats, we had a directive for reserved practice tables, increased demands for sponsor exposure through barriers, floor decals, sponsor backdrops, athlete lounge with minimal refreshments and on and on. The ITTF Directive called for one day of broadcast production with streaming and we were able to produce four full days of streaming on two courts with multiple cameras, live scoring and graphics and expert commentating – the HEROES of this aspect of the operation were David Del Vecchio and Sean O'Neill. Sean was able to recruit additional commentating expertise through the services of Han Xiao, Jim Butler, Richard McAfee, Larry Bavly, Matt Winkler and Alex Figueroa. Adam Bobrow managed the announcing and spectator enhancement music in an upbeat, balanced and professional fashion.
The ITTF Competition Division sent us Didier Leroy (BEL) to serve as our Competition Manager. Didier represents a small group of professional competition managers who help raise the bar in terms of how the competition is managed, raising the presentation of the competition and serving as a point person to the athletes who are regulars on the tour to assure them that technical expectations are being met to certain standards around the world. Didier was a patient task master with us and we were grateful to have his expertise and guidance. Ian Marshall of the ITTF provided outstanding press updates around the clock throughout the championships.
I can't say enough about the performance of Greg Cox. He was there for the first three days when the air conditioning was not on because there were so many truck deliveries and forklift work that needed to be done to set up the venue using the large open doors – all amidst near record heat in the Las Vegas area. Greg was nearly always the first one at the venue in the morning and nearly always one of the last to leave. He also managed the venue tear down and shipping needed after the event. During the event he was there to put out fires and make adjustments as needed. There were challenges for sure but they were met with professional attention promptly.
Doru remains a quiet HERO as well managing all venue service contracts, security, printer / computer rentals, electricity, custodian, internet, water and food services, vendor booth arrangements, fork lift rental, delivery scheduling - all while managing our national team coaches and coaching our NT athletes in their matches!
NATT's Richard Lee, John Miller and Marynes Parra along with a corps of volunteers managed the Open and AC in a very competent and professional manner. NATT folks were also amongst those who were the first to arrive and last to leave on any given night!
BTW – we also tacked on a 2014 Youth Olympic Games trials event to add to the heavy workload for our National Team coaches throughout the AC and YOG events!
Also, on July 6 we observed Olympic Day in the venue as part of the U.S. Olympic Committee's effort to recognize a nationwide observance as part of a worldwide recognition of Olympism. The USOC provide temporary tattoos that featured the Olympic Rings and Olympic Day on them and these went like 'hot cakes' at the registration area especially with our young players. I anticipate a photo in the next USATT magazine that depicts USATT Olympians that spanned several generations all wearing Olympic Day shirts near courtside at the Americas Challenge.
Our referee and umpire leadership and corps, along with racket control officials included Azmy Ibrahim (Open Referee), Joseph Yick (Open – Deputy Referee), Stephen Banko (Open – Chief Umpire), Scott Ryan (Open, Deputy Chief Umpire) , Wendell Dillon (Open Evaluator), Bill Walk (Referee – AC), Kagin Lee (Deputy Referee – AC), Michael Wetzel (Chief Umpire – AC) , Lee Kondo (Deputy Chief Umpire – AC) and Larry Kessler (Racket Control) all rose to the occasion and contributed their professionalism as they always do – we couldn't have done it without them. In fact, there were so many moving parts to the entire operation that "couldn't have done it with you" applies to virtually everyone. Ideally our event photographer, Steve Hopkins, will be able to provide photos that capture the essence of the overall events in the next issue of the magazine. He always seems to come through with an all-encompassing coverage.
It was also touching to see the Men's and Women's Singles winners posing for photographers with their individual trophy and medals flanked on either side by the large perpetual trophies made available through the USATT Hall of Fame / the US Table Tennis Foundation and USATT and named after the Thal Sisters for the Women's Open Champion and Sol Schiff for the Men's Open Champion.
Ideally we favorably impressed our ITTF officials who worked with us throughout the events. ITTF President Adham Sharara was not with us as he hoped to be due an IOC meeting he needed to attend in Switzerland. However, he sent me a note that said he was following the event streaming every chance that he had. These were clearly learning experiences at many different levels but for me all I can say is that you all made USATT very proud of your efforts and I simply wanted to express my heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you!


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Abel Sanchez said not long ago that his fighter – middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin – ranks behind Sugar Ray Robinson and Bernard Hopkins as far as all-time great middleweights are concerned.
Sanchez is not known for hyperbole, but this is boxing and a little bit of that seems to always be in the air. Still, Golovkin is 29-0 with 26 knockouts and is 10-0 in world-title fights, 11-0 if you count one interim championship bout.
The problem is he hasn't yet fought the best in the division, through no fault of his own. He's been saying for some time he wants to fight the other champions, but politics, and fear of Golovkin, have resulted in that not happening.
Alas, Golovkin, of Kazakhstan, on Saturday figures to be in his toughest fight when he defends his belt against former champion Daniel Geale of Australia at Madison Square Garden in New York City (on HBO).
Sanchez is hopeful this is the start of Golovkin being able to prove him right.
"Ranking him behind the two people that you just mentioned, we hope to get the kind of fights that would showcase him to prove that statement that I made," said Sanchez, a West Covina native who trains Golovkin at Sanchez's sprawling camp in Big Bear. "He definitely needs to fight Daniel in the same manner as some of the past opponents.
"But Danny possesses the ability to go 12 rounds and I think that is going to be the big issue – to see if he can control a man and dominate a man that is used to going 12 rounds. For Daniel (Geale) to go to Germany to win those two world titles says a lot about Daniel, and we've got a fight on our hands to propel him to that level that I told you about."
Geale won a middleweight world title when in May 2011 he won a split-decision over Sebastian Sylvester in Sylvester's native Germany. In Geale's third defense, he defended that title and took Felix Sturm's when in September 2012 he won a split-decision over Sturm in Germany, also Sturm's homeland.
Make no mistake, neither Sylvester nor Sturm can crack like Golovkin, who is as heavy-handed as they come. Geale seems to understand what he's up against in that regard.
During a recent conference call, he was asked how he goes about preparing for such a hard puncher.
"That's a good question," Geale said. "Mentally, I have been preparing for the toughest fight of my life. It's going to be a tough fight against a very tough fighter.
"I put in a very difficult training camp. … I have been confident throughout and I have been wanting to fight Gennady for a while."
Easy to say, until he takes one of those hammers on the chin.
"Geale will get hit somewhere, and that will change his aggressiveness," Sanchez said.
But none other than Sanchez himself has said many times this will be Golovkin's toughest test. This assessment of Geale by Sanchez speaks volumes.
"We prepare for 12 (rounds) in every fight," Sanchez said. "Our game plan has to be a little modified so as to not let Daniel get comfortable in the early rounds because Daniel is a volume puncher. Of course, we are aware of the fact that Daniel is used to going 12 rounds and is used to throwing a lot of punches in every round. We know his conditioning is going to be great."
Even Golovkin knows it will likely be more difficult for him to come away with a victory than in any other previous fight.
"Yes, absolutely, because he has a specific style," Golovkin said, alluding to Geale's busy nature. "He has proved that in his fights and it will be difficult to solve."
Furthermore, Golovkin said, "Daniel is a great fighter."
Well, not sure about that. Geale (30-2, 16 KOs) is darn good, but he's not great. Golovkin is, however, and Geale will more than have his work cut out for him. It sounds like he's got some fire in his belly, though, so it could be interesting.
"Golovkin is one of the best fighters in the world," Geale said, "but I can beat him."
Huge fight for Perez, Jennings
The semi-main event to Golovkin-Geale could be a good one when heavyweight contenders Mike "The Rebel" Perez of Cuba and Bryant Jennings collide in a title-elimination fight. Promoter Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions has been pumping this as a fight that could have stood on its own merit as a main event.
Perez, 28, is 20-0-1 with 12 knockouts. Jennings, of Philadelphia, is 18-0 with 10 knockouts. He's 29. This fight will also be televised by HBO.
Perez, who defected from Cuba to Ireland in 2007, seems to understand the history of being a heavyweight fighting at Madison Square Garden, where Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier had two of their three fights.
"Yes, it's a big deal fighting as a heavyweight at Madison Square Garden," Perez said. "I want to add my name to the champions who have fought there."
Perez is coming off a somewhat surprising 10-round draw with Carlos Takam in January in Canada. Perez was expected to win, but he had all he could handle – and then some. Jennings isn't sure what happened that night with Perez, and doesn't care.
"I can't speak about why Perez looked different against Takam, maybe he had a bad day," Jennings said. "I don't worry about Perez. I'm focused on being the best I can be."
Both are forecasting victory.
"Not sure how, but I'm going to win," Jennings said.
"My prediction is that I'm going to win," Perez said.
Brandon "Bam Bam" Rios (31-2-1, 23 KOs) of Oxnard on Aug. 2 will be in the ring for the first time since he fought and lost to Manny Pacquiao in November when he takes on Diego Gabriel Chaves of Argentina in the welterweight main event at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas (on HBO). Rios, 28, is a former lightweight world champion. He has lost his past two fights – to Mike Alvarado in March 2013 and to Pacquiao. Chaves, also 28, is 23-1 with 19 knockouts. … HBO will also televise the semi-main underneath Rios and Chaves. That will feature Jesse Vargas (24-0, 9 KOs) of Las Vegas defending his junior welterweight belt against Anton "The Pick Hammer" Novikov (29-0, 10 KOs) of Russia. … Also that night, via split feed, HBO will televise the light heavyweight title fight between Sergey Kovalev (24-0-1, 22 KOs) of Russia and Blake Caparello (19-0-1, 6 KOs) of Australia from Atlantic City.


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Evoking the sounds of the Deep South, the blues harmonica is more than just a musical instrument. In Harmonica Harmony participants are guided through a series of fun exercises that culminate in a mass harmonica jam session that will blow the blues away and be long remembered.
Depending on your budget, you can choose from our Master Class option presented by an experienced, talented blues player. Much more than just a conference energiser, Harmonica Harmony delivered by "the most remarkable blues man of his generation", Eddie Martin has incredible, lasting results. Eddie is renowned as one of the world's leading blues guitarists, vocalists and harmonica players in the world.
Starting with breathing exercises, Eddie introduces the team to their instruments and moves on to the basics of blues harp. The exercise picks up speed as your people become more and more proficient. Soon they are playing blues together as one and are chugging away with the infectious rhythms of an unstoppable freight train speeding south through the Mississippi Delta. By the time they hit the buffers the team will be energised and exhilarated – they can now play the blues.
Alternatively, our in-house facilitators will invigorate and energise your group as they guide them through a series of activities and utilise music notation to teach them to harmonise and play the blues in a simple yet effective way.
As a souvenir of the session the team members get to take their harmonica home with them – these can be branded with your company logo or conference theme.
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This thread is in the 'Polite FS Discussion' part of the forums -it should NOT be used as an excuse to flame or troll other players!
Namers-and-shamers should have GOOD REASONS for naming-and-shaming someone, and the named-and-shamed should respond by finishing their match(es)!
So, if you have games in your active game list which you are sure have been abandoned by your opponent because they're about to lose, post the following details, in this thread:
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- A screen shot of the game showing that you are in a, clear, winning position, and that your opponent can not avoid a loss (this is most important - without this your claim is unsubstantiated, and you should be pilloried, and otherwisely duly shamed)


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Diacritics Input Tools
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While the latest computers can handle the display of Unicode character, inputting characters with diacritics that are not found on the standard American keyboard can be difficult. Over the years, we have tried several methods for inputting the diacritic characters needed in Asian Studies. The following list of diacritic entry methods are for Windows. Each method has different advantages and weaknesses.
Unicode Diacritics Macro for MS Word
This is a template that contains macros which enable certain key combinations to enter diacritics. The mnemonic keystroke combinations generally follow the pattern of Alt plus a prefix key followed by the base letter. These Word macros have all the combinations listed in the THL diacritic chart, but they only works within Microsoft Word on Windows.
Unicode Diacritics Macro for OpenOffice
This is a set of macros for entering Unicode diacritics into word-processing document in Open Office. It is very similar to the Word macros above, using the same keystroke combinations. However, one cannot enter the full list of diacritics as in the Word macro.
Unicode Diacritics System Keyboard
This is a system keyboard and registry files to assign it to the Icelandic language slot. By switching to the Icelandic language using the language tab, one can enter diacritics in any Unicode-enabled program through a series of keystroke combinations. The prefix for most diacritics begins with Ctrl+Alt in this system. This only works in Windows systems and does not appear to work in 64-bit systems.
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This is also a template with macros. It enables one to enter both Tibetan and diacritics into a Word document. It works only within certain versions of Word and Windows.
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One Man Against a MonolithWritten by kmetko story
One Man Against a Monolith
This is the story of struggle and survival in post-communist Europe. It is about one
man, Marek Kmetko. In England or France or Italy or Germany or the United States he
would be hailed as a business hero. With only his wits, his boundless energy, and his
strength in bulldozing through obstacles he has built up business after business that has
helped make Poland, his native country, richer.
He comes from Wroclaw which before 1939 was pait ofthe German Reich and
known as Breslaw.
Poles were not allowed economic or democratic freedoms under the Kaiser or the
Nazis. They were allowed to become bureaucrats and work in the police and judicial system
because their German overlords wanted to ensure that the Poles were kept forever subjugated
and respectful to hierarchy and to authority.
Kmetko, born in I952, grew up under the oppression of communist politics. In this
era, Poland was run by Poles but on behalf oftheir ultimate masters in the Kremlin. The
same bureaucracy oftax collectors, police and obedient judges and journalists made sure that
the Poles of Wroclaw did as they were told.
The arrival of Polish Solidarity — the mass trade union and national democratic
movement, NSZZ Solidarnosc - in I980 when Marek Kmetko was still in his twenties
changed everything. There were new openings but also new brutalities. The local
bureaucracy did not know where their future was to be found.
Quickly it became clear in the 1980s that communism was not going to last much
longer. Networks of economic actors interlinked with the local bureaucracy, police, media
and state apparatus were created.
Marek was outside this charmed circle getting ready for the end of communism. He
was seeking to create small business possibilities for himself and his wife. Market gardening,
refuse disposal, some small house building, anything that was possible in the dying days of
When at the end of 1989 a democratic parliament was elected and Poland had
sloughed off the outward appearances of communist bureaucracy to start its progress to the
community of democratic European nations in NATO and the European Union Marek
Kmetko assumed that his dynamic entrepreneurial energy would find not just a place but
some recognition and reward for turning Poland into a modern market economy.
Market economies are made by men not saints. They are about the hunger to create
and simultaneously make money not as an end in itself but as proof of achievement. The
author wants to see his book published, the pop star wants to see the stadium full of his fans,
the politician wants to get as many votes as possible, the editor wants as many readers as
exist and the businessman wants to fill his bank account with money. And to get to the top
corners are cut, risks are taken, and regulations are ingnored. In the words of the great British
entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin empire "I have never seen a rule
books which I have not broken." Critics of Branson point to his early days when allegations
abounded about tax irregularities. Whatever the truth the British authorities preferred to seehis
dynamism and energy create jobs and wealth in Britain, first and foremost, and come to
agreements about tax and other payments in due course.
There is no doubt that Marek Kmetko was a rule breaker. He borrowed money and
bought a fleet of three hundred trucks in Germany and rode them like a conquering convoy of
the new single market Europe into Poland in order to transport goods backwards and
forwards between his native country and the rest of Europe.
He installed an office in Berlin but found quickly that back home in Poland, as in
southern Italy, unless the right payments were made, the right contacts were organised, the
right politicians and members of the judicial and tax bureaucracy were entertained and looked
after things could go wrong.
He was not confident in the new government of Poland even though it had illustrious
names from the era of solidarity in its ranks and at its head. These were important figures in
Polish history but they too had to make historic compromises within the state and with the
bureaucrats who under German rule or communist rule or now capitalist rule knew how to
keep their power and make sure they and their families were adequately rewarded.
Many obstacles were put in his place, accusations made and even moments of
detention and the despair of being placed in prison awaiting trials faced Marek Kmetko.
But he refused to give up. Yes he wanted to make money and yes he felt as many
successful businessmen who have made a good profit feel. He knew how to make money and
overcome obstacles.
His next venture was to open an employment agency. These are commonplace
especially in Great Britain and the United States so that one firm becomes the employer of
workers who are then allocated to smaller businesses who cease to bother themselves with
payroll bureaucracy or being responsible for the tax and social insurance ofthe employees.
One may question whether this is a good practice but it is one Tony Blair certainly
supported as Britain's Labour Prime Minister when he fought to resist any rules from Europe
that might lessen the ability of employment and outsourcing agencies in Britain to carry on
their business. Rightly or wrongly, the ten years of Blair's premiership in Britain saw the
longest period of economic growth and job creation in Britain's post-war history. Why
should Poland be any different?
However, for the bureaucrat wanting to catch out an entrepreneur the fact that Kmetko
had his head office registered in Berlin and was living there with the full knowledge,
permission and approval ofthe German authorities was a suspicion in itself. In Britain, just
to stay with that parallel, there are plenty of American and European firms headquartered far
away from England which nonetheless are encouraged to carry out economic activity inside
the UK and are treated on the whole with fairness and the same respect that any British firm
would enjoy.
Instead of celebrating this dynamic entrepreneur the Polish judicial and tax authorities
in Wroclaw kept accusing him of breaking the law. They insisted that he was guilty of
money laundering. This because the money he earned from the hundreds of employees he
sent to work for different firms in Poland was put into a Polish bank and then transferred to a
2German bank. Kmetko had received serious threats of violence and even death from his
rivals and people who did not like his refusal to operate within the bureaucratic tax and
political system of networks in south-west Poland. He decided to live in Germany just to
have that little bit of extra protection. After all, in the 1990s he had befriended politicians
and TV journalists who had died under mysterious circumstances without any explanation.
He remembered from his brief time working with Polish communist security police just how
vicious and violent they could be if given orders from above and told their actions would be
covered by superiors.
Better not to take the risk and not place himself too obviously within the reach of any
enemies he might have in Poland.
But still the Polish tax police, which is notorious in Poland for taking a cut of 8 to
10% of any money it obtains from those found guilty of not paying their taxes, kept going for
They opened one investigation accusing his wife of money laundering but in truth this
was just a political attack against him.
In September 2010 the Wroclaw Prosecutor's Office asked the German police to
investigate Mr and Mrs Kmetko and their schoolgirl daughter for alleged money laundering.
The German police did as requested and ordered searches of all the Kmetko accounts
and paper held at the head office in Berlin. But they found nothing and wrote saying the case
had simply been discontinued. The Wroclaw State Prosecutor also dropped the case.
One might have thought that would have been the end ofthe matter. But inside the
Polish state system in Wroclaw there were officials who had Kmetko in their sights. There is
no explanation of why this should be the case. He is a robust corner-cutting businessman
seeking new ventures and like any businessman arranging his affairs so as to pay as little tax
as possible. But he knew that to operate in Poland he had to be within the law. As the
Wroclaw lawyer, Zbigniew Cieslak wrote, "the allegations had been orchestrated" against
Kmetko using communist era tax legislation of I966. The tax and prosecution authorities had
not obeyed the law, they had not sent the information as the law stipulated within the required
time to Kmetko saying what he owed and how he might pay it.
The highly respected law firm of Witold Modzelewski told Kmetko very clearly that
"he should not acknowledge the decision of the Wroclaw tax office as the decision has no
legal, nor administrative grounds. Should, however, the tax office be persistent in this matter,
it ought to present evidence other than orchestrated so far, that is tangible and solid."
And as the Modzelewski law firm stated, "further illegal persistence" of the Wroclaw
tax office will only increase the damage caused to the firm.
So here by the start of 2013 Mr Kmetko and his firm based in Berlin had been
investigated by the Polish authorities and cleared. They had been investigated by the Berlin
judicial authorities and cleared. They had been told at the highest legal authority that there
was nothing that could be laid as a charge against them and on the contrary it was the Polish
Wroclaw tax office that had "orchestrated" false allegations against them.
3All of this over the years had cost Kmetko a great deal of money running into tens of
millions of euros, hundreds of millions of Zlotys. Like any aggrieved businessman who felt
the state was trying to force him out of business and that the tax police were behaving
illegally as they searched to get their share of any money that might be recovered he was
angry and said that the Polish state should compensate him. He was also bitter at how so
many politicians at a senior level had allowed this state of affairs to continue.
Every organisation, like the Council of Europe or Transparency International that has
investigated the Polish tax police system has agreed that it acts beyond the rules of normal
European Union law and order. Businessmen can be held in preventive detention for months
at a time without any charges laid so that their businesses are utterly destroyed while the
executives are rotting in prison. The object is very clear to force money out of businesses
whether legally or not and to ensure that the tax police get their own private cut.
There are certainly many businesses and individuals not paying all their tax in Poland
as they should but that is commonplace in other countries. But to the west of Poland it is not
a knee-j erk reflex action to throw such men into prison, close down their businesses so
neither they nor the state nor the tax police get any benefit at all when after months and
months the case is closed often without any judicial proceedings or convictions.
The Wroclaw authorities continued to insist to their colleagues in Berlin that improper
money laundering was taking place. But the accounts examined in German bank accounts
simply did not provide any evidence to that effect. He was a successful businessman and he
was being paid for the employees he was sending on an agency basis to many different firms
that required flexible employment contracts in Wroclaw and other towns in Poland.
The latest accusation was that Mr Kmetko and his Berlin holding company, K.u.K.
had failed to pay the social insurance contributions for the workers he had sent out to be
employed. The Polish authorities claimed he owed 62 million Zlotys — about €l 5 million.
There is some dispute as to whether the holding company in Berlin or the firms the workers
were being employed by in Poland should pay this money and there is little doubt that as with
much bigger companies like Amazon and Google which seek to avoid paying any tax on their
operations in the UK and other European countries Kmetko was never, like any businessman,
going to be in a big hurry to pay any outstanding taxes or social charges.
Nonetheless he made clear that he was willing to pay any owed amounts after
negotiation between the relevant authorities including the ZUS, the Polish National Insurance
system and his company. The office of the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, wrote early
in 2014 confirming that this offer had been received.
But this made no difference to the Wroclaw tax police and prosecuting authorities
who moved dramatically against Kmetko. They raided all his offices in Wroclaw and
elsewhere in Poland and arrested key executives they could lay their hands on there. Mr
Kmetko himself had prudently decided to stay living outside the reach of his enemies in
Poland and there was no ground for any warrant that could involve his arrest or detention and
extradition back to Poland. The companies' operations came to a standstill as the managers
were held over Christmas and the New Year into the spring of 2014.
A lawyer from Berlin was despatched and a journalist from Brussels where there was
growing concern in European circles about the harassment of this Polish businessman. They
4arrived in Wroclaw but were not allowed to meet with those detained and were treated with
scant courtesy as foreigners by the Wroclaw prosecuting authorities even though the Berlin
lawyer comes from a distinguished German legal firm. This could be put down to bad
manners and a failure to observe the norms of legal operations within the European Union.
But the prosecution authorities in Wroclaw also seem to be bullies. One of the women they
arrested late in 2013 is Dagmara Natkaniec. She lives in Berlin with her fourteen year old
daughter, Sandra, who goes to a local German school. She works for Mr Kmetko but has no
executive responsibility or knowledge of his operations in Poland. Nonetheless she was
detained and her daughter has been without a mother for several months. She is willing to
post bail and report to the relevant police authorities and return to her duties as a mother but
the Wroclaw Prosecutor refuses this humanitarian gesture.
This has to be set in a wider context of reports coming in from many different sources
in Poland about the behaviour of the tax police and their denial of the normal rules of natural
justice. The New Zealand writer, John Borrell, who has been working as a businessman near
Gdansk has written a book, "The White Lake" which sets out many examples and there has
even been a motion picture film made exposing the Polish prosecution and tax police
authorities and how their practices and way ofthinking have changed little since the
communist era.
This is an unfinished story and the newly elected European Parliament will be asked
to look into the Kmetko case. There have been reports in international business magazines
and a very successful website set up which exposes how he has been abused and mistreated.
Now we will see what the next stages of this story tum out to be. One thing is certain, that
having survived the pressure of communist bureaucracy and then some of the more corrupt
and disreputable political-bureaucratic practices that were on display in Poland in the first
period after the end of communism in the 1990s Mr Kmetko is determined not to give in.
There is a wider interest at stake. The whole ofthe rest of Europe needs to see
Poland's economy flourish and grow. Millions of Poles had to seek work in western
European countries and their arrival en masse because the business atmosphere in their own
country is so hostile to dynamic entrepreneurs has provoked great tension and resentment in
other EU member states whose citizens object to so many foreigners arriving and flooding the
labour market with cheaper workers. This has given rise to what the German Finance
Minister calls "fascism" in France and to a new xenophobic and anti-European political
movement in Britain that may yet succeed in organising a referendum which will take the UK
out of the EU.
The Polish authorities need to ensure that Poland stops being seen as the enemy of its
entrepreneurs. Of course taxes and social insurance must be paid but these are matters for
negotiation not for closing down whole businesses just in order to allow the tax police tolrake
in extra money that stays in their hands and isn't given to the Polish people for genera
improvement of the quality of life.
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Getting that first driver's license is a huge milestone for your teen and making sure she stays safe behind the wheel is your number one priority.
Start Driver's Education early with your teen. Establish a diabetes management routine before the big day arrives to get a permit or license. Be sure to talk about rules and responsibilities that come with a driver's license.
Driving Safely with Diabetes
Here are some rules of the road to pass on to your teen:
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- Stop for a diabetes red light. Treat low blood glucose and then recheck in 15 minutes. Do not get behind the wheel until blood glucose is in the target range.
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In a letter to Standpoint, published in the latest issue of the magazine, Nigel Lawson reveals the Cabinet's unanimous support for Special Branch protection of Salman Rushdie when, in 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwa against the Satanic Verses author and offered a bounty for his death.
The decision to protect Rushdie was taken "at no little diplomatic cost and public expense," writes Lawson who says he "actively participated in the Cabinet meeting which decided, nem con, that this must be done". Lord Lawson, who sits on Standpoint's advisory board and was Chancellor of the Exchequer when the fatwa was issued, was writing in response to a review by Nick Cohen of Rushdie's new memoir, Joseph Anton. Here is the letter in full:
Masquerading as a review of Salman Rushdie's autobiography, Nick Cohen's odiously self-satisfied diatribe ("The Dreyfus Affair of our Age", November) takes the opportunity to heap abuse on, inter alios, Margaret Thatcher and a number of her Cabinet colleagues-as indeed did Rushdie himself, in the years leading up to the publication of The Satanic Verses.
He concludes in these words: "Rushdie's autobiography has two sets of heroes, who look all the more heroic when set against the politicians and intellectuals of Left and Right. The liberal chattering classes, who are the butt of so much mockery, behaved impeccably . . . The other heroes are the protection officers of the 'A Squad' of the Metropolitan Police's Special Branch, who worked on the Rushdie 'prot' and maintained their honourable record of keeping their charges alive.'
Who on earth does he (and, indeed, Rushdie) think was responsible for taking the decision to instruct the Special Branch to do just this, at no little diplomatic cost and public expense? I write as one who actively participated in the Cabinet meeting which decided, nem con, that this must be done.
Nigel Lawson, House of Lords, London SW1
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Steering the redevelopment of downtown's east side. Negotiating a Target Center renovation. Trying to regain lost state aid. Rebuilding streets. Changing the police culture. Addressing the city's racial employment gap.
Those are some of the challenges facing the next mayor of Minneapolis, now that R.T. Rybak has announced he won't run next year after a dozen years in office. A growing number of candidates are lining up for the job, which will pay about $103,000 annually, to lead a city of nearly 400,000 people.
That winner will first need to address the unprecedented challenge for a Minneapolis mayoral candidate: accumulating the most votes in the first highly competitive race using ranked-choice voting.
"Rybak may need to stay in office while they count the votes," said Brian Rice, a politically active lobbyist and lawyer.
Council Member Betsy Hodges and former Council President Jackie Cherryhomes have declared their candidacies. Council Members Gary Schiff and Don Samuels, school board member Hussein Samatar, theater executive Tom Hoch and Park Commissioner Bob Fine say they're considering a run.
On Thursday, Rybak himself sketched out an agenda for the next year that may well outlast him, including police department reform, reducing gun and youth violence, reducing the achievement gap in schools, expanding youth opportunities, assisting North Side redevelopment and renovating Target Center.
Hodges and Schiff are veterans at shaping the city budget while Fine has voted on park budgets and city levies. Fine said he'd cut taxes and preserve core services. Hodges said overseeing budget approval gave her a firsthand knowledge of the city. Schiff is considered a zoning and land-use expert.
Budget strains
The next mayor will need to keep the strained city budget solvent. Although Rybak made considerable progress in paying off accumulated internal and outside debt and put pension costs on a more stable footing, pressures remain.
One will be the expiration of a two-year wage freeze that's bound to prompt demands from city employees for catchup increases. That will come as a public backlash has forced City Hall to throttle back property tax increases that more than doubled the city's levy collections during Rybak's three terms. There's also the new reality of state aid payments that are $20 million or more a year less than what state law authorized but the state couldn't afford.
While that's happening, the city will be scrambling to assemble capital to prime development around the new Vikings stadium, both public improvements and potentially subsidies for developers who want to remake the area with new housing or offices. The new mayor may also inherit the job of negotiating the cost split for renovation of Target Center made possible by the stadium deal.
Development is nothing new to Hoch, a former city development project manager, or Samatar, whose nonprofit helps finance small businesses. Cherryhomes engineered some controversial development deals during her tenure.
But those development dollars also will be needed to help the remaking the city's 38-acre upper riverfront, where conversion of a city dock and storage area is gaining momentum as a key place to start redeveloping the river corridor. Money is needed to clean soil, build streets and install trails to link new housing or commercial uses with the rest of the city. Another key area that will require potentially heavy aid to recycle polluted soil is the Bassett Creek Valley, where developer Ryan Cos. holds first rights to make a proposal. Some help may also be sought by developer Sherman Associates if it proposes redevelopment that reopens Nicollet Avenue at Lake Street, a key change needed for a proposed streetcar down Nicollet.
That is just one of several transportation projects affecting the city that could require a local share, whether financed by the city or Hennepin County or beyond. That list includes completion of the Southwest light-rail corridor, the Bottineau rail or bus line to the northwest, and new connections between Lake Street and Interstate 35W.
The next mayor also needs to lay out a plan to address the problem of the city's streets deteriorating faster than they are repaved, despite increased paving investment under Rybak.
Changing population
But many of the challenges the new mayor faces involve people, not projects. The city the next mayor inherits will be vastly different than the one Rybak was sworn to serve. Roughly one in seven city residents people was born abroad. The city's racial disparities in employment and income remain among the highest in the nation, especially for American-born blacks and American Indians.
Samuels is a Jamaican immigrant, and Samatar is the first Somali-American elected official.
"If I do campaign, you will be seeing me campaigning in Spanish," Samatar said.
Other candidates will count on their deeper roots. "It's been my home forever," Cherryhomes said. "I could provide strong leadership."
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Saints Jason and Maurus were the sons of Saints Claudius and Hilaria, and suffered martyrdom with Saints Chrysanthus and Daria.
The tribune Claudius himself came to believe in Christ and accepted holy Baptism together with his wife Hilaria, their sons Jason and Maurus, and all his household and soldiers. When news of this reached the emperor Numerian (283-284), he commanded them all to be executed. The Martyr Claudius was drowned in the sea, and his sons and soldiers were beheaded. Christians buried the bodies of the holy martyrs in a nearby cave, and Saint Hilaria constantly went there to pray. Once, they followed her and led her off for torture. The saint asked that they give her a few moments to pray, and as soon as she finished, she gave up her soul to God. A servant buried the saint in the cave beside her sons.


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I've been reading quite a bit about knitting culture and history. I love how the government was pressuring women to knit for men during WWI as if it were their patriotic duty. What a great idea. "Well, you're sitting at home without your husband, you might as well be helping him over seas stay warm." I'm wrestling with the question of whether or not this is super sexist. Did this propaganda condemn knitting to always be synonymous with matronly women? Is there something wrong with that? If my boyfriend was fighting in WWII I know, propaganda or not, I would be knitting, mostly because know that it would brighten up his hard times.
Let's face it, knitting and crocheting is dominated by women. But why? Men are creative, why don't they want to knit themselves a nice sweater? I know I have the impulse to do wood work and jump at the opportunity to work with power tools but why doesn't my boyfriend want to learn to knit?
I rejected the idea of learning to knit for a long time because I did not want to become Suzy Q homemaker or June Cleaver. I already like cooking, gardening, and having a clean house, I didn't want to add knitting to this. I might as well start wearing white pearls and heals! But I saw how much fun people, like Julia were having with it. Julia got commissioned by someone to knit male and female genitalia, which turned out bad ass. Once I learned that people were using knitting and crocheting for street art and not just knitting socks for their boyfriends overseas, I figured why not. I don't have to be this stereotypical picture of "The Perfect Wife", I can still be me and like what I like. I'm still a feminist. I'm still the type of girl that likes doing things that are stereotypically associated with male interests and that's okay.
Magda Sayeg once told me that "We knit out of love, we don't knit out of hate." and this phrase keeps circling in my head. When I make something, there is usually someone in mind. I knit a scarf for my sister's boyfriend because he lives in freezing Cold Boston and I want him to feel like he's welcome in our family. I need to keep telling myself I knit for me; I knit for love. I don't knit for my country and I don't knit to embody some role that society thinks I should be.
FYI Wikipedia's Knitting History...
The word is derived from knot, thought to originate from the Dutch verb knutten, which is similar to the Old English cnyttan, to knot.[13]
One of the earliest known examples of knitting was cotton socks with stranded knit color patterns, found in Egypt from the end of the first millennium AD.[14] Originally a male-only occupation, the first knitting trade guild was started in Paris in 1527.[15] With the invention of the knitting machine, however, knitting "by hand" became a useful but non-essential craft. Similar to quilting, spinning, and needlepoint, knitting became a social activity.
Hand-knitting has gone into and out of fashion many times in the last two centuries, and at the turn of the 21st century it is enjoying a revival. According to the industry group Craft Yarn Council of America, the number of women knitters in the United States age 25–35 increased 150% in the two years between 2002 and 2004.[16] The latest incarnation is less about the "make-do and mend" attitude of the 1940s and early 50s and more about making a statement about individuality as well as developing an innate sense of community.
Within the 1940s, English knitting rose in popularity while Continental knitting fell. This is due to the fact that continental knitting originated within Germany and was spread by immigrants. During World War II, continental knitting fell out of style due to its relationship with Germany. It wasn't until Elizabeth Zimmermann publicized continental knitting in the 1980s that it again was popularized.[17]
Additionally, many contemporary knitters have an interest in blogging about their knitting, patterns, and techniques,[18] or joining a virtual community focused on knitting,[19] such as Ravelry, affectionately known as Rav to fiber-lovers around the world. There are also a number of popular knitting podcasts, such as the Manic Purl Podcast and the Savvy Girls Podcast. Contemporary knitting groups may be referred to in the U.S. as a "Stitch 'N Bitch" where a group of knitters get together to work on projects, discuss patterns, troubleshoot their work and just socialize.[20] In the UK, the term has been "knitting circle" since the early 20th century.


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