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2012 BES Annual Meeting Presentation and Poster Abstracts
Governance of 21st Century Sustainable Cities: A Study of Stewardship Networks in Baltimore & Seattle
Romolini, Michele
Co-Authors: J. Morgan Grove
Abstract: The first decade of the 21st century has seen the proliferation of sustainability policies in cities across the US and the globe. It has become widely accepted that the success of these urban sustainability initiatives will require a form of adaptive governance, in which city agencies must partner with, and even cede authority to, organizations from other sectors and levels of government. Yet the resulting collaborative networks are often poorly understood, and the study of large whole networks has been a challenge for researchers. Through two citywide surveys in Baltimore and Seattle, we collected data on the attributes of environmental stewardship organizations and their network relationships. We applied missing data treatment approaches and conducted social network and comparative analyses to examine a) the organizational composition of the network, and b) how information and funding resources are shared and distributed throughout the network. We found similarities in the number of actors and their distribution across sectors, but we found considerable variation in the number and distribution of ties in the networks of Baltimore and Seattle. We discuss these findings and their implications for urban sustainability governance.


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I stood at a crossroads…literally…outside Costa at Warwick Uni campus, having just arrived at YMG. It was Thursday and I had come for respite and recuperation 'among friends'. YMG had been weighing up questions and paths about how we live our lives in the world today all week. And while I was standing there, my friend, Debbie, appeared and gave me a hug. Then, another friend, Mervyn, walked towards me without noticing and I made towards him and greeted him, smiling. As we caught up, Richard appeared out of the doorway, both a real friend and a friend on facebook. 'It's not the same as meeting in person, is it?', he asked. And we hugged too. I waved to someone else, and noticed still another dear friend across the plaza. Seemingly, all I had to do was stand still and I would meet all my friends. 'Yes, great, isn't it…like family…'
But I still wanted to take part in some of the serious and fun things on offer at YMG, so that's how I found myself singing…especially for two friends who could not be here this time and for whom we offered dear 20 second hugs and this song, if you have time to listen…'we hold you in our circle'.
Thirty years ago (was it really that long…yes, 1987), I found myself in my first and up to then only Turning the Tide workshop, which I thought was brilliant. TtT raise awareness and train people in non-violent direct action campaigning…and I've done absolutely nothing, well, very little since, as a result of that workshop. 'It's the group thing', I told Maureen. I joined avpb (alternatives to violence Britain) as a facilitator as it's more one-to-one or small groups. Large crowds have often made me feel anxious, a legacy perhaps of supporting Everton in the 1970s and '80s. Nevertheless, wouldn't it be great if avpb and TtT could work more closely together..? Being here made me ask what had I done with my life..? I stopped myself quickly and reminded myself that because I had been born, I had already changed the world, so just needed to get on with stuff, which I had. I breathed again.
And YMG was exploring faith and action through head, heart, hands and feet motifs. And I had arrived at the feet. We explored the campaign to abolish the Slave Trade in its stages over a significant period of time (decades). How it begins, who picks it up, supporters and opponents, successes and set backs…and ongoing support? We were asked to commit to one act of social action. I chose to replace my plastic drinking flask with a sustainable metal one, taking care it doesn't end up in landfill or worse in the sea, and explain why to people.
I wish I could join in great marches and campaigning more. Still, just the other day, a young stranger asked me as we drank coffee at a pavement café, do you mind if I smoke? When I wasn't sure, she decided to smoke a little distance away and when she returned, we started to discuss our mutual interest in education, as it turned out. She asked me if I'd heard of 'subtle activism'? 'It's about making individual choices to help bring about positive change for the good.'. 'That's me! I'm a subtle activist!' What a relief! Finally, I had my label.
And it was three days spent without 'WiFi', as I couldn't automatically connect and couldn't follow the guest instructions, so found myself making do with following swans in right ordering and geese, definitely or is that defiantly not so; marvelling at trees and a pin while also finding time for visiting Anna and her family to see how they were and receive their bounty without so many words needing saying. Gosh, it is hard to be without WiFi for three days!
I also attended a reunion of my Equipping for Ministry group. While Jan tried to interest us in a game (we played along…), each of us spoke in turn and without hurry of the stories in our lives now in a way and with such love and feeling that comes with prolonged, shared companionship. We spoke about the politics of the middle east and witness, speaking truth to power, of being an Agony Aunt in a journal, of writing another novel, of teachings and publications about the labyrinth, on simply being a Quaker, keeping our meetings; of prison chaplaincy and trusteeship and holding a wake for laying down a concern on 'dying and death' now that it has been incorporated into Quaker Life. Wow, do you think I can claim a vicarious connection with all of these gifts, lovingly given? And we chatted in the Woodbrooke tent, appropriately, drinking fizzy soft drinks and munching on stoned dates. I look forward to the next time we meet, dear friends, and don't forget to share your news and good works…like this gift from Jan…
Praise song for Epping Forest
This I can affirm: I am not owner of my soul
but am part of that great garden of which Gaia holds the whole:
and in nurturing the Spirit, I did, and weed, and sow,
I garden – and am gardened, to help the Spirit grow:
I garden and am gardened, and I help the Spirit grow.
In the glory of the forest, trees breathe out – and I breathe in;
The seed burrs on my jacket show the places I have been.
I travel – and am travelled; the seeds will drop and grow;
the squirrel plants an acorn for a future I won't know.
The squirrel plants an acorn for the future. That, I know.
It takes a million years to form this pebble on the path;
It takes a month, or three, before a baby learns to laugh.
The pebble and the laughter, the people and the tree,
the breath within the forest – a holy harmony:
the breath within the forest, a holy harmony.
Jan Sellars, Wanstead Quaker Meeting – within Epping Forest
While sharing together in the Woodbrooke tent, I noticed that the poet, Jill Slee Blackadder was sitting at the next table, so I started reading her moving poem, The Rainbow, out loud (I'd taken a photograph of it to take with me to YMG as my gift). And, do you know what..? She joined in, turn-taking. I read half a line and she spoke the other from memory and we read aloud together to everyone's delight, especially mine.
'I'm knackered already', I told Keith, heading towards the Quaky Duck for fish and chips and a pint for tea. What next..? Keith was going to see the drama performance by Three Acres and a Cow, so named because this is all we need to live well on the planet, apparently. They retold hundreds of years of Quaker and English history, setting it in context to music and text. And I nearly missed it. It was brilliant, starting with John Ball, I noticed. After each contribution, they pegged an A4 sheet onto a washing line, strung across the stage. As I left to go to epilogue, it was the 1880s.
Epilogue is a quiet 15 minute space at the end of the day where people meet to listen to a story or song or silence and think about the day. At the previous epilogue the night before, my friend, as she became, Thuli, had shared a story about an young woman accusing her mother. You have taken everything and left us with nothing. And the mother looked at her daughter before replying, 'Yes, you are right. When we were young, we had so much. We played out all day, running and climbing and eating fishpaste butties for lunch, running back to our friends and walking for miles… We were very lucky. We had everything.' And so it goes…
At the last epilogue, the elder read out a poem, 'Do not be dismayed…' , which led to ministry from a young teenager. He had received some bad news earlier in the week about his leukaemia. In hospital, he'd experienced the silence of being all alone and afraid. But here, he felt the gathered stillness and felt held and supported by everyone in the silence. I returned to Three Acres and a Cow in the 1950s.
There was a ceilidh still to go to. I love ceilidhs but they are not always easy to get into, especially if you arrive in full swing, as this one was. I'd experienced the misery at Canterbury YMG of not being able to join in, feeling like 'Billy No Mates'. I tried to breathe. Standing by the door at the far end of the packed room watching 70, 80 or more Quakers , young and old, whirling round the floor, I thought 'I'm not going to get in. Oh, well, it has been a great day and I'm ready for bed anyway.' There were two ways I could leave the room. Straight out of the nearest door and along the corridor, avoiding most people. I went that way last time. The other was to go along inside the room…and I chose this way and what a difference it made!
'Do you want to dance..?' I was asked almost straightaway, but then two men came and joined the group. 'Never mind, I'll find another set' but I didn't. I got to the far door and paused next to Rachel. Just one last look, I thought. Everyone is having such a good time! Rachel said, 'You off? Not stopping for a dance?' 'I can't get in, Rachel. I'd like to but I can't get in. I don't know how.' 'It's easy. You just put you hand up and people come and join you. Look!' And I could see, funny how I'd never noticed it before, people with their arms in the air, indicating they needed dancers. 'I can't do that, Rachel. I'd like to but I can't.' 'I can,' she said. 'Come with me. We'll dance with Roger. He knows what he's doing.' And we did. And we danced all night to the fiddle and the banjo…
Quakers joke about 10pm being 'Quaker midnight'. Everyone is usually in bed by then at Woodbrooke and other places. But when I turned the lights out to go to sleep, it was actually midnight. And the words of the 'Young Owl' (early teenagers), at her first YMG returned to me, 'I hope that every person in this room feels loved.' Ah, that's nice, I thought.
And then it was time to go home. Well, I was ready to. I shared a coffee with my good friend, Maureen, outside in the fresh air. You know, she told me, John Ball was the first Quaker.' 'Really..?' How do you know that?' 'Because of the song, you know the one Three Acres and a Cow sang last night…do you know it?' 'Something snagged at me but I could only think of John Bull and that that couldn't be right, surely?' 'I'll sing it to you.' And she did and I knew it instantly…one of my favourite songs…and while she sang the verses, I joined in, my eyes closed, with the chorus.
And we brought Thuli back to Liverpool to visit our meeting to say thank you for the financial support we have given to The Cape Town Peace Centre work for many years.
In meeting for worship that Sunday, the clerk read out the epistle from YMG. And it seemed it would be a quiet meeting after that. Till I thought I should sing the chorus from John Ball. Why not..? Why so..? Absolutely not, no way, am I singing. My voice is terrible. I've had a cold. I'll forget the words. I waited three times for the feeling to go away. It had gone or so I thought. Suddenly, I had an image of Barbara Whitehead, who used to sing all the time in ministry well into her 80s. She stood before me…I was on my feet and singing…
Sing John Ball
And tell it to them all.
Long be the day that is dawning.
You crow like a cock and carol like a lark
For the light that's coming in the morning…
For the light that is coming in the morning…
…for the light that's coming…
Phew, thank goodness it is three more years till the next YMG. I think I will just go for the day next time..!
Our community
One of the unexpected things I have learnt in my life as a Quaker is that religion is basically about relationships between people. This was an unexpected discovery, because I had been brought up to believe that religion was essentially about our relationship with God.
If we are sensitive, we find that everything that happens to us, good or bad, can help us to build a vision of the meaning of life. We can be helped to be sensitive by reading the Bible and being open to experience of nature, music, books, painting, sport or whatever our particular interest may be. It is in and through all things that we hear God speaking to us. But I do not think I am alone in my certainty that it's in my relationships with people that the deepest religious truths are most vividly disclosed.
George Gorman, 1982, Quaker Faith and Practice 20.10

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British Association Of Islamic Studies Conference (BRAIS) to be held at Exeter, 9-11 April 2018.
The Centre for the Study of Islam (CSI)
Director: Professor Robert Gleave
The Centre for the Study of Islam, based in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, brings together the core teaching staff in Islamic Studies, other staff who have an interest in Islamic culture and civilisation, and all interested postgraduate students (at MA and PhD level).
We sponsor visiting speakers in Islamic Studies, hold regular seminars and conferences, and convene the Islamic Arabic Texts group. All are welcome to our events, though those aiming to attend the Text group's session should be aware that competence in reading classical Arabic and Islamic texts in Arabic is assumed. To join the group and be on the mailing list, you should email Pam Navran. Attendees receive a copy of the Arabic text one week in advance of the class (by pdf email attachment). Participants are expected to have read the text before attending.
Professor Robert Gleave
(Specialisms: Islamic law and legal theory, Shīʿī jurisprudence and exegesis, violence and its justification in Islamic thought)
Islamic Studies teaching staff
(Specialisms: Islamic Law, Muslims living in non-Muslim contexts)
(Specialisms: late antiquity and early Islam, the role of the intellectual in Islamic civilisation, violence and heresy in early Islam)
(Specialisms: the history and doctrines of Sufism, Persian literature and civilisations, Persian mystical poetry)
Professor Emeritus Ian Netton
(Specialisms: history of Islamic philosophy and theology, ritual and Muslim practice, literature, orientalism and Islam)
Professor Sajjad Rizvi
(Specialisms: Islamic philosophy and theology, Quranic exegesis, Shīʿī thought and theories of authority in Shīʿī Islam)
Dr Suha Taji-Farouki
(Specialisms: Modern Islamic thought, political Islam and modern Muslim movements, Islamic mysticism in contemporary Islam)
Research Fellows
(Specialisms: Islamic social and political history and gender and sexuality in pre-modern Islam)
(Law and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam research fellow project; specialisms: early Islamic law and the formation of the law schools).
(Law and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam research fellow project; specialisms: medieval Islamic social history and the Druze).
Research projects
Current research projects
The CSI brings together existing research projects including:
- Understanding Shari'a: Past Perfect/Imperfect Present (www.usppip.eu) - This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649307. Postdoctoral research fellow: Dr Omar Anchassi
- Law and Learning in Imami Shi'ite Islam (LAWALISI) - A 5 year project funded by the European Research Council. Postdoctoral research fellow: Dr Paul Gledhill and Dr Wissam Halawi.
Past research projects
- Understanding Religion and Law: Fatwas Muftis and Law in British Islam (www.britishfatwas.co.uk) 2015-2017
- Islamic Reformulations project: Belief, Violence, Governance 2013-2016
- The Sharia Project (2011-2013)
- Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought (LIVITproject.net) 2010-2013
- Contextualising Islam in Britain (a joint project with Cambridge and Westminster universities)
- Executive Summary Part I
- Executive Summary Part II
- Full Report
- The Hawza project on culture and learning in Shi'ite Islam (2009-2013)
Events and activities
All are welcome to attend any of the events. If you have any questions contact the Centre's Director: Robert Gleave
BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF ISLAMIC STUDIES CONFERENCE (BRAIS) to be held at Exeter, 9-11 April 2018.
Spring Term Activities 2017-18
All lunchtime seminars (Classic Article in Islamic Studies Seminars and Arabic Texts Seminars) will last around one hour (1230-1300), in Seminar 1 unless otherwise stated. Please do bring a packed lunch so you don't feel hungry! The sessions are informal and we do not mind people tucking into their lunch during discussions. Visiting Speakers normally start at 5.15pm in Lecture Theatre 1.
Tuesday 9th January: Visiting Speaker: Professor Kecia Ali, " Sex, Enslavement and Consent in Islamic Law: Approaches, Aims and Audiences"
Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th January: "Islamic Law and Sexuality" Conference convened by the Understanding Shari'a project (USPPIP)
Visiting ERASMUS Fellow: Between 16th and 25th January, we will have our visiting ERASMUS fellow Professor Philipp Bruckmayr from the University of Vienna. Professor Bruckmayr will return for our termly research seminar on 23rd March.
Wednesday 17th January: Visiting Speaker: Philipp Bruckmayr (University of Vienna): "The Ash'ari creed in Southeast Asia across the centuries"
Wednesday 24th January: Arabic Texts Seminar: A Fatwa of Rashid Rida to Wan Musa on Talqin al-Mayyit (led by Professor Philipp Bruckmayr)
Wednesday 24th January: 3.30pm Early Islamic Law PhD Seminar: PhD students and staff will gather to discuss the early development of Islamic law with visiting scholar Dr Walte Edward Young (Bonn; author of The Dialectical Forge: Juridical Dispute and the Evolution of Islamic Law). Registration required via email@example.com. Places limited. IAIS, LT2
Wednesday 31st January: Visiting Speaker: Dr Musharraf (Independent Scholar): "The Challenge of Translating the Quran in Plain English"
Wednesday 7th February: Arabic Texts Seminar: al Qaysarī on Ibn al-Arabi (led by Abd al-Latif Finch)
Wednesday 7th February: Visiting Speaker: Dr Theresa Bernheimer (SOAS/LMU): "The Shīʿī imams as authors or why it matters what the imams are said to have written"
Wednesday 21st February: Arabic Texts Seminar: Text led by Professor Sajjad Rizvi
Wednesday 21st March: Lunchtime Seminar: Dr Emily Selove, "A Magical Mess: manuscripts of Siraj al-Din al-Sakkaki's Book of Completion"
Friday 23rd March: Research Seminar: "Centre and Periphery in Muslim Minority studies" with Philipp Bruckmayr (Knightley building) Centre and Periphery in Muslim Minority studies" with Philipp Bruckmayr
Wednesday 28th March: Arabic Texts Seminar: led by Dr Wissam Halawi (text to follow)
Autumn term activities 2017-18
All lunchtime seminars (Classic Article in Islamic Studies Seminars and Arabic Texts Seminars) will last around one hour (1230-1300), in Seminar 1 unless otherwise stated. Please do bring a packed lunch so you don't feel hungry! The sessions are informal and we do not mind people tucking into their lunch during discussions. Visiting Speakers normally start at 5.15pm in Lecture Theatre 1.
Wednesday 4th October: CSI welcome lunch (1230-1330): Come and meet the Islamic Studies teaching and research team and hear about the CSI activities. Please let Pam Navran know you are attending so we order sufficient food (email@example.com).
Tuesday 17th October: Visiting Speaker (1730-1900): Professor Ismail Poonawala of University of California, Los Angeles, will speak on "Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān: the founder of the Ismāʿīlī Shīʿī School of Law"
Wednesday 18th October: Arabic Texts Session: Led by Professor Ismail Poonawala Poonawala: al-Turath wa'l-tajdid
Wednesday 1st November: Arabic Texts: Led by Dr Omar Anchassi Anchassi: 1st November Arabic Reading (part 1) Anchassi: 1st November Arabic Reading (part 2)
Wednesday 1st November: Visiting Speaker (1730-1900): Dr Yafa Shanneik (Birmingham) will talk on "The Aestheticization of Politics and the Poetics of Shia Rituals in the Gulf"
Wednesday 15th November: Arabic Texts Session: led by Dr Paul Gledhill Gledhill: Short texts on Diyah
Wednesday 22nd November: Visiting Speaker: Dr Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh (Erfurt) "Sufism: An Outsider Perspective"
Friday 24th November: Governance and Violence in Islamic Law (USSPIP project workshop) – 0930-1700. (Knightley Building) Governance and Violence in Islamic Law Programme
Wednesday 29th November: Visiting Speaker and CSI Research Seminar "The Intellectual Dynamics of Post-Classical Islam": Professor Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California Berkeley) will give a lecture entitled "Palimpsests of Themselves: Commentaries in Post-Classical Islam", followed by research papers and roundtable discussion. 1200-1700 – programme to follow. Lecture Theatre 2 The Intellectual Dynamics of Post-Classical Islam
Thursday 14th December: CSI Research Workshop (1230-1730) – an afternoon of research reports, papers followed by us having a Christmas Meal together in the evening. CSI Christmas Research Workshop Programme 2017
To receive a copy of the texts please contact the CSI Administrator: Pam Navran (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Arabic texts sessions are open to everyone, regardless of your Arabic reading ability.
An archive of past events can be found here.
Postgraduate research
Academic staff within CSI supervise doctoral students with a diverse range of current research topics. If you are interested in applying for a place on our programme, this list will give you an indication of the areas we specialise in.
Master of Arts Programmes
MA in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Master of Research Programme
MRes in Humanities (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies)
CSI Reading Group
Postgraduate students meet on a fortnightly basis for the CSI Reading Group to discuss critical Islamic Studies research. To join the reading group, please email Pam Navran (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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ionization mass spectrometry and high-resolution
inductively coupled plasma source mass spectrometry, respectively (16). We measured the
238U/235U ratios of three CAIs from the reduced
CV chondrite Efremovka, three chondrules from
the oxidized CV chondrite Allende, and whole-rock chondrites and differentiated meteorites in
an attempt to understand the extent and origin
of 238U/235U variations in the early solar system
(Fig. 1 and Table 1). The Efremovka CAIs show
a range of 238U/235U ratios (Table 1), confirming the presence of U isotope variability in refractory inclusions. In contrast, our analyses of
meteorites derived from chondritic and differentiated asteroids as well as three individual chondrules from Allende show identical 238U/235U
ratios within analytical uncertainty (Fig. 1), defining a weighted mean of 137.786 T 0.013.
These observations indicate a uniform 238U/235U
ratio in the inner solar system outside the CAI-forming region. This is consistent with an earlier
study (17) but at odds with the solar system
initial 247Cm/235U value of ~1.1 × 10−4 inferred
from 238U/235U variability in Allende CAIs (15).
Moreover, our analyses of Efremovka CAIs show
significant departure from the apparent correlation between the 144Nd/238U [an assumed proxy
for Cm/U (18)] and 235U/238U ratios of Allende
CAIs (15), similarly to another recent study (19).
Thus, we infer that the 238U/235U variability in
CAIs largely reflects mass-dependent fractionation associated with the CAI-forming process
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Seven sevens
Seven things to do before I die:
1: Ride a horse again
2: Move to Shropshire or New England
3. Get an office bigger than a broom cupboard
4. Fire a gun
5. Learn to waltz
6. Learn to ski
7. Buy a two seater sports car
Seven things I cannot do:
1. Waltz (or perform any kind of dance, actually)
2. Sing
3. Ski
4. Shoot
5. Afford a private education for my children
6. Find time to take a holiday
7. Tolerate socialism
Seven things that attract me to...Argentina
1. Space
2. Horses
3. Space
4. Gauchos
5. Space
6. Asados
7. Space
Seven things I often say:
1. Do you need your nappy changed again?
2. I'll take a look at it and get back to you
3. Booze up?
4. Marvellous!
5. You've broken it
6. Where's my....?
7. Go and get dressed! Now!
Seven books I love
The History of the Countryside (Oliver Rackham)
Nature's Keepers (Stephen Budiansky)
Lord of the Rings
Atlas Shrugged
Liberty & Freedom (David Hackett Fisher)
The Road to Oxiana (Robert Byron)
Eat The Rich
Seven movies I watch over and over again
I very rarely watch movies more than once, but here goes...
1. Spirited Away
2. Princess Mononoke
3. Pirates of the Caribbean
4. Much Ado About Nothing
5. Rio Bravo
6. Moulin Rouge
7. Red Sorghum
Seven People to join in too:
1. Cicero
2. Shuggy
3. Snafu
4. Outside story
5. Louisa Willoughby
6. Bloggers4Labour
7. Dr Crippen
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A well-heeled Wall Streeter, generally considered a good guy, agrees to throw a bachelor party at his suburban Westchester house for his slightly sleazy younger brother. With his wife and daughter in the city for the night, he allows — despite his own uneasiness — strippers at the bash.
This will not end well.
But we can't predict just what a disastrous turn the party will take. Within the first few pages of The Guest Room, the latest novel by prolific author Chris Bohjalian, the booze-fueled bacchanalia that began as the fulfillment of men's fantasies turns into a Helter-Skelter-like nightmare.
Two Russian bodyguards are dead. Two strippers are on the lam in an Escalade. The partiers are left staring in wide-eyed disbelief at a widening pool of blood that is soaking into the beige brocade couch, spattering the wallpaper and dripping down a semi-valuable painting of the Hudson.
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Bohjalian, whose books often explore the contrast between surface lightness and the darkness that lies below, takes on upper-middle class America in this novel, ripping apart any illusion of safety or moral high ground in a headlong collision between the comforting rituals of suburbia and the viciousness of the Russian mob.
The two young women — or are they girls? — are sex slaves, the men later learn, as the implications of the night sink in. Kidnapped in Russia as young teens and brought to the U.S. illegally, they were captives, forced into prostitution. And they killed the two hulking men with shaved heads — who watch over them to keep them from fleeing — to escape the fate of another slave who was murdered.
As he has in previous work, Bohjalian creates scenes with a cinematic quality (three of his books have been made into movies). Using his words as a lens, Bohjalian gives us a close-up of one of the young women, clad only in a thong, as she leaps onto the back of a guard and deftly slits his throat with a kitchen knife she grabbed from the countertop. Then he turns the lens around so we see the responses of the men, who have become buffoons in various stages of undress and inebriation, as they cower behind furniture in the expansive living room. They're going to pay for this, he makes clear, some more deservedly than others.
For Richard Chapman, the mess of fear, blood, betrayal and sex may cost him everything: his marriage to Kristin, his relationship with his 8-year-old daughter, Melissa. His job, his friends, his standing in the community. How Richard and his wife deal with the fallout — and there is a lot of it, some from unexpected quarters — is a compelling story all on its own.
Though Bohjalian could have easily painted Kristin as the one-note, vengeful wife, he doesn't. Kristin sees her marriage in shades of gray, not black and white, which makes her credible and sympathetic as she struggles to decide how to react.
And their daughter, smarter and more aware than both parents know, quickly does what kids do, researching sex slavery online and then scrubbing the browser history on the computer her parents monitor. But she's also enough of a child to confess to her friends that she worries about the house being haunted by the ghosts of the two dead men.
Bohjalian also gives us an unfiltered dose of sex slavery through the eyes of dark-haired Alexandra, who recounts the way a Russian mobster chose her, singling her out as a preadolescent, systematically destroying her family, kidnapping and raping her into submission. Her deadened recitation of how she became a slave in the U.S. is hard to stomach, but it's necessary to explain just how this crime continues to be perpetuated despite governmental vows to crack down on it.
Bohjalian also accomplishes what seems unlikely at the start of the book: he makes most of the characters understandable and even likeable. Yet he isn't content simply to write a smartly plotted, page-turner. As he has in other books, such as Skeletons at the Feast (about the East Germans fleeing the oncoming Russian army) and The Sandcastle Girls (about the Armenian genocide), he also weaves social issues into his novels.
In The Guest Room, he has taken a tightly written suspense novel and used it as a stepping stone to discuss sex slavery. It is a problem, he writes, that exists in the shadows of society, exploiting the vulnerable and financed, sometimes unwittingly, by "regular guys" like Richard and his brother.
Step by step, Bohjalian brings us along on the education of Richard. As he begins to see beyond the lip-gloss sexuality that Alexandra exudes, he realizes that she looks closer to his daughter's age than his own, with thin, goosebump-covered legs. He sees the fear beneath her knowing smile and begins to recognize his own part in her victimization.
This is Bohjalian's goal, to teach while entertaining, to show us that every new day brings a new opportunity for climbing out of the dark and into the light. And he's at his best in The Guest Room, one of his most compelling books so far, combining an explosive premise, a timely social topic and fast-paced storytelling with a purpose.
Amy Driscoll is a Miami Herald editor.


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Lindsey Brown PhotographyLosing a child is one of the most devastating things that can happen to any parent. An Ohio couple, prepared to welcome boy-girl twins, learned early on that due to a heart complication, their son would most likely be stillborn. Defying science and reason, that beautiful boy -- William -- was not only born alive, but lived for 11 glorious days. During that special time -- which mom and dad Lyndsay and Matthew Brentlinger consider a precious gift -- family friend Lindsey Brown, of Lindsey Brown Photography, was able to capture gorgeous images of William and his twin sister, Reagan, which the Brentlinger family will always treasure.
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Many people from other countries especially the elder from Asian countries, will always and mistakenly call Netherlands as Holland, whereas Holland is not a country but just a name in common usage given to a region in the western part of Netherlands. As many know, Netherlands is famous for their windmill, clogs, cheese and of course Tulip ( but I didn't manage to witness a sea of beautiful Tulip before my eyes owing to Winter, hope I will have a chance to return to Netherlands once again during Spring time.). Nevertheless we still got the opportunity taking photos of Windmill and yet visiting the farm which has its own goods manufacturing of clogs and cheese. I really couldn't remember the actual place and name of the farm location, but I guarantee there are numerous of places like this in Netherlands which containing both cheese farm and clog factory in one to be opened to the visitors where visitors themselves can tour the production facilities and sample some of the traditional cheeses.
A grandeur Windmill stood still behind of us..the climate just perfectly great. As for tourist like me, I would merely know windmill is a beautiful and significant trademark of Netherlands. For Dutch, windmill was originally developed as a machine which converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes and as milling grain for foods, and was also adapted to many other industrial uses and not just a beautiful trademark.
We have entered to the first part of the factory facilities and started touring the whole system and manufacture of making cheese, it was awesome.
The handsome Dutch guy was giving the demonstration of making cheese.
Now we were about to observe the machines and processing of making the wooden clogs which was narrated by this funny Dutch guy.
There were various colors, shapes and sizes of the wooden clogs hanging and displayed on the wall..so lovely! ^^
This funny Dutch man is kinda horny, haha...because he has only allowed female guests standing at the front row and male guests were forbidden to do so..Anyway, he's a good looking guy :P
Various cheese sampling was given to every guest after all the demonstration, it tasted so good so natural..
Time for picking some of these authentic souvenirs- cheeses and clogs, there were numerous of them, kinda hard for making decision..haha.
Outlook of the cheese & clogs manufacturing factory, it just looks like a simple farmhouse, yet I love the atmosphere...
There were a giant wooden clog outside the factory, it's huge but lovely.
The cows were seemingly displeased when I was taking their photos, it stared directly on me..haha..
We were about to leave for another destination, there were many magnificent views along the way, the weather was great. ^^


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CINCINNATI—The number of sites in children's brains involved in language recognition decreases as the children age, according to a University of Cincinnati (UC) study.
The finding, says Jerzy Szaflarski, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of neurology at the UC Academic Health Center, suggests that as a child grows more language proficient, recalling words may involve less effort.
It also supports earlier explanations as to why young children who injure a large part of one side of the brain often recover completely, or almost completely.
Funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the study will be presented April 6 at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in San Diego. The paper will also appear in print in the April Annals of Neurology.
"The decrease in activity sites may mean that language areas in the brain are more flexible when children are younger and become more specialized as they mature," Dr. Szaflarski says.
"This raises hope for rehabilitation of brain function in children after stroke or traumatic brain injuries," he says.
Dr. Szaflarski and senior coauthor Scott Holland, PhD, a UC professor who also heads pediatric brain-imaging research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, led a study of 30 children, starting when they were aged 5, 6 and 7. For five years they monitored the children's responses using functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) brain imaging, a technique that shows what part of the brain "lights up" with activity during a specific exercise.
They concluded that more brain areas are involved during a language exercise in a 5-year-old than in an 11-year-old.
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To break the chain of thought associated with individual words, the children were told to tap their fingers after each one—giving researchers a control to separate each brain scan during verb generation.
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Dr. Szaflarski is a member of Cincinnati's Neuroscience Institute, a collaborative involving UC College of Medicine, University Hospital and independent physician practice groups. The institute is dedicated to patient care, research, education and the development of new medical technologies.


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But after these companies began to retract and relocate, the residents soon followed and now after years of job decline, industry relocation, and a diminished population, the city is left with an approximately 20 billion dollar debt load. Their obvious solution to the insurmountable liability was bankrupting the city and according to Governor Rick Snyder, in a letter approving the bankruptcy, "Only one feasible path offers a way out."
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Although neither the courts nor creditors can force them to sell assets, it might be a last ditch option after raising taxes and cutting services such as garbage, recreation, and the like. And it could be up to a year or more before any resolutions are arrived at as the proceedings, the negotiations, and the settlements drag on through a myriad of systems and regulations. Many pensioners are in jeopardy of losing their incomes as a Chapter 9 filing carries with it a provision called 'an automatic stay' that disallows the collection activities against Detroit and its assets after the filing.
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What are the pros? Everything
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Grew these in Toronto Ontario on a balcony in 5gl buckets. Hot full sun, water once a day, twice on heatwaves.
All items I grow are in containers and all my reviews are bias towards that.
Grew fantastic, great tomato smell, look, taste and feel. Fruit where compact and rippled, could use for stuffing, sandwiches, sauces or just fresh with salt n pepper. Did not fall off plant till I picked them, little to no cracking, bruising, rotting or pests. In my top 5 for medium sized tomatoes. classic tomato flavor and not to acidic like some are.
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What are the pros? Flavor, yields
What are the cons? Removing seed to process
Very productive indeterminate. Intense flavor. My experience is that these are best seeded prior to processing to reduce water content. Before processing it is best to cut this tomato in half laterally. After cutting in half use your thumb to push out the seeds. After the fruit is seeded these cook down nicely and the halves can be dried for great dried tomatoes. The fruits are usually small to medium, typically fit into your palm. However the plants produce loads of fruit(more than I have ever experienced).
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What are the pros? PROLIFIC, DELICIOUS, EASY
What are the cons? None
I grew these a few years back and have continued to do so ever since. These are EASY to take care of. In fact, I FORGOT ABOUT THEM the first year and thought they were marigolds in my garden! When I went out to that bed, there were HUNDREDS of tomatoes on my vines. Excellent-tasting, these little beauties are fabulous for canning tomato sauce and paste. We combined these with Old Italian Tomato variety and it was Heaven on top of our homemade pasta.
We noticed that these and Alma Paprika Peppers look almost identical when you pick them! Same size and same shape. My husband frequently mixed up the two when I'd harvested both at the same time! Made for some interesting recipes! ;) Alma Paprika Peppers, BTW, are AMAZING and one of my favorite little, sweet red peppers!
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What are the pros? Prolific and beautiful
What are the cons? Texture
The most productive tomato in my garden this Summer for sure and they look great to the eye. I didn't care for the texture of the flesh and would only grow this in the future for sauce or paste.
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What are the pros? great productivity
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Basically, LASIK eye surgery is the short-term for "Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis." Like its concrete equivalent, LASIK eye surgery is another kind of vision correction. The only distinction is that with this type of surgery, one's vision is fixed permanently.
With LASIK eye surgical treatment, the refractive mistakes in the cornea are completely changed. This can be done utilizing an "excimer laser."
The primary function of this surgical treatment is to produce a threadlike, rounded "flap" in the cornea utilizing a blade wikipedia reference understood as "microkeratome." In a series of unfolding and laser processing, the cornea is lastly reformed, enabling better the eye to direct more light into the retina.
Popularity vs. Disadvantages
Amidst the growing popularity of LASIK eye surgery, there are still disadvantages that people should know. Most likely, the primary reason this kind of eye surgery has actually ended up being well accepted is due to the fact that many of its cases had succeeded.
However, in spite of its success, there are still some downsides. Here is the list:
1. It is an operation used to the most sensitive part of the eye
Because LASIK eye surgical treatment involves the operation of the retina, which is one of the most delicate parts of the eye, many people state that the operation can be very risky.
Simply puts, a easy mistake could almost trigger an individual's life time blindness. It is essential to consider lots of factors prior to deciding whether find LASIK eye surgical treatment is the best restorative step one has to go through.
2. It is not a best procedure
LASIK eye surgery might fix your vision however it does not necessarily indicate that it can offer you a twenty-twenty. Even if statistical reports reveal that 70% of the clients may have 20/20 vision, this does not necessarily suggest they have ideal vision too.
Provided all these things, it can be deduced that, in spite of the appeal of the operation, LASIK may not always be the ideal eye surgical treatment the method many people view it
Conversely, the evaluation of the structural part of the eye might be made in several ways. It ought to be well kept in mind that a client with an eye issue may have other problems. Often other physical conditions are primary and affect the eye as a repercussion. The look of the eye can signal the patient and the physician to difficulties in some disturbances of other parts of the body even before other symptoms present themselves.
Like its tangible equivalent, LASIK eye surgical treatment is another kind of vision correction.


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As vice president of Subscriber Services for CareFirst & Columbia FreeState, you might imagine that for him success is the excitement of leadership. But to him, the sweet smell of success is having people who love you and who you love.
"I've learned over the course of my career that you must make time for your family. The most important part about life is the people you care about. It is my family that motivates me to achieve. My mother and father are the only heroes I've ever had. They taught me the value of the family unit. No matter how tough times have been, the strength and love of my family has always seen me through."


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The Department of Transportation has reopened the nation's airspace to IFR general aviation operations. VFR operations may be permitted later this weekend. The official notam from the FAA will be issued shortly and will be posted here when available. AOPA has learned that there will be some restrictions to IFR operations. ALL IFR flight plans must be from airport to airport. ATC will NOT accept "pop-ups" or air files. The pilot must call ATC on the ground before takeoff. No airborne cancellations will be permitted. Cancellations must be made on the ground, with an ATC facility. Pilots must check carefully for temporary flight restrictions (TFRs—listed as FDC notams).
AOPA President Phil Boyer thanked the secretary of Transportation for the open dialogue with the association that resulted in the following announcement and was particularly pleased that Mr. Mineta recognizes the importance of the next phase, VFR flight.
Following is the text of the press release from the Department of Transportation:
September 14, 2001
Secretary Mineta Re-opens Skies to General Aviation
Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta has approved restoration of the next phase of national air service, allowing certain general aviation flights back into the air effective at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time today.
"Effective today, general aviation—that important segment of aviation consisting of privately owned and operated aircraft—will be allowed to resume flights operating under Instrument Flight Rules, or IFR," Secretary Mineta said. "Under IFR, certified pilots operate under direction from air traffic controllers, after filing specific flight plans with the FAA."
Temporarily, however, general aviation flights will not be allowed to fly within 25 nautical miles of New York City and Washington, D.C. Those restrictions will be kept in place until further notice as officials continue to assess the recovery situation in those cities over the near term.
The secretary's decision today also permits the FAA to allow private aircraft owners to evacuate their aircraft under visual flight rules from harm's way during the predicted approach of Tropical Storm Gabrielle within the states of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama.
Secretary Mineta said he is hopeful that the remaining general aviation flights, those operating under visual flight rules, can resume flying later this weekend. Commercial flights were allowed to resume on Thursday, contingent upon airline and airport compliance with heightened security standards established by the Federal Aviation Administration.
"We are restoring the National Airspace System in a phased mariner, after careful evaluation of the safety and security issues in each sector," the secretary said. "Again, I ask the patience of the flying public. Please remember that we are recovering from a massive disruption and widespread shock. But very soon we will work our way back to full recovery."
There are more than 200,000 privately owned and operated aircraft registered in the United States.


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Annette & Gabe are a couple who work as Relationship Counsellors in Sydney. They are like that best friend you go to, that you trust implicitly and feel safe to open up to and share all of yourself with. Their combined life experiences have taught them how to hold people without judgement, and with absolute love and much compassion. Click here to find out more about Annette & Gabe.
In this audio Annette & Gabe lightly explore what is traditionally a very heavy subject matter, difficulties in relationships. You can't help but feel like you can change the quality of your current relationships be that with a partner, with family, friends or work colleagues.
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In this interview Lucy Dahill from Stay in the Loop with Lucy (a Sydney morning radio show) interviews Annette & Gabe. They talk about how we can spend our lives being boxed in, pedantic, pedestrian with our communication, which leads to the quality of our relationships sufferring. They share openly how to move from protection to being able to express in a way that feels loving and healing. A truly gorgeous interview.
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Snowboarding is all about strapping your feet to a plank of wooden, then using down and round a snowy mountain, sometimes jumping off things. Speed entry bindings look comparable but additionally have a highback part to them which reclines to will let you slide your boot out easily. The stiffness of a snowboard impacts each how straightforward it is to show in addition to how properly it will maintain an edge on arduous snow. Point your snowboard down the incline, put your weight on your front foot and start to glide down toward the flat area.
Then I had the good fortune of stumbling throughout a magazine article about getting ready for the upcoming ski season by cross training. Snowboard Coach deliver quite a lot of UK primarily based using and Instructor courses all yr spherical in many of the indoor snow centres. Your level of experience doesn't matter, as long as you go along and participate, you will achieve lots from it, and you'll undoubtedly have a superb time in the course of. In the halfpipe you may be changing your entrance foot now and again so it is very important be capable of snowboard each instructions.
Short of Jake Burton flying to your house and providing you with a personal snowboard lessom, the Burton Ripcord is one of the best strategy to ease into snowboarding and can have you ripping very quickly. Looking round i've seen the Salomon Sight 2016 for an excellent price and it has the most important requisits for beginer board (rocker-camber-rocker and a medium-gentle flex). Snowboarding is usually advertised as the higher sport for tips however actually in skiing we are able to just do as a lot.
On the downside, skiers won't be able to enjoy a peaceful run on the slopes, particularly because the programs as the decrease grounds shall be largely jammed with novices and instructors. The meals was excellent and the service was additionally superb and it did not value any more than any of the others. The best snowboard to be used on the halfpipe will have a couple key traits which are different from snowboard for freestyle. It is a good suggestion to buy a final season or older snowboard – you would save some huge cash (E-bay and Amazon are nice for this).


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Health and Medical Care in Germany,, War Department, Washington 1945, pages: 17. Similar pictures from the attack on
Hamburg appear on pages 16, 19, 20, 21, and 23. Can anyone seriously believe that the victims in these pictures were anything but totally innocent victims of Allied barbarism?
Even if they had cheered Hitler, they were still innocent--just as the victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also innocent. Just what does anyone, especially among all
those "moral Christian" Americans, imagine these people were guilty of?The true nature of America's war against Axis civilians is unimagined by the vast majority of Americans. To this day nearly sixty years after the war, Americans still think they were the "Good Guys." Tom Brokaw, an American TV anchorman, actually wrote a best-selling book entitled "The Greatest Generation. " The title referred to the perpetrators of the worst atrocities in all of human history. Shame on Brokaw and shame on America.
In 1978 I met a young Hungarian in New York City who told me about the American bombing of Budapest during the war. I had not even known that Budapest had been bombed by the Americans and I told him so. He assured me that Americans had, and that he had been there--but, then he also insisted that the bomber crews were extremely cowardly in their attacks. Rather than bomb the small but heavily defended military targets (defended with anti-aircraft guns), the American planes bombed the residential areas of Budapest instead.
Some American planes were shot down and Hungarian gendarmes then protected the downed American crewmen from the wrath of the locals who wanted to simply kill the Americans on the spot with pitchforks and clubs if nothing else.
He insisted that the gendarmes should not have protected the Americans at all; what they should have done instead was take the Americans to the scene of their crimes, where their bombs had actually fallen, tie them to stakes and burn them all alive!
I was shocked by his suggestion and I told him so. He looked straight into my eyes without blinking or hesitating and said that that was essentially what the Americans had done to them.
I have thought about that conversation many times over the years and that young Hungarian's horrible proposal.
An eye for an eye--and a tooth for a tooth. Why not? I know that I could not have lit the fire to incinerate those Americans but then, I had not witnessed the bombing either. If I had actually seen the horrors that those happy-go-lucky Americans had wrought, I might have behaved differently. In hindsight today after all I have learned about the war, my feelings have changed. The bomber crews were generally nothing more than ignorant slobs carrying out their orders--but, the high ranking generals and political leaders were something else.
Those generals and leaders should have been burned at the stake. Eisenhower, LeMay, "Bomber" Harris, Truman, Churchill, and so many more deserved to be burned alive at a stake. That would have been an educational experience for them--and a valuable lesson for future generations of their ilk. That would have been a valuable lesson which might help prevent the far, far greater disaster which awaits us all if we as a species do not come to our senses about the glories and "greatness' of modern war.
Today Americans are surprised that so many Iraqis are so eager to kill them--even when it means that they, the Iraqis, will themselves die in the process. The Americans just don't get it--and probably never will. They should get on their knees and pray there is no God.Friedrich Paul Berg
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When this illness started you were a highly driven person and pushed yourself to the limit, often more than your body could cope with. It started with one or more of the following; a viral infection, severe stress or a traumatic accident/incident (the trigger).
Several weeks later when you anticipate you should be feeling better from the initial trigger you now have the illness that gives you the chronic fatigue and pain. This continues for many years, if not for life, whilst you become more and more frustrated by lack of diagnosis, answers or remedies. You may even accumulate more illnesses as your immune system overloads. At some point you will feel so low for so long that your internal voice will keep repeating a phrase that reflects the terrible thought that you are never going to recover. As you rarely look poorly you also have the issue of not only feeling very ill but having to convince others that you are. Their comments are far from helpful and are in total opposition to the driven person you know you are. This adds to the pressure and continues the downward spiral. At times you may be lucky enough to feel a bit better but whilst playing catch up with life you find it is the fatigue and pain that catches up!
I am looking to see who does and who does not relate to this story, so replies either would be appreciated in analysing and furthering and appreciation of strategies. that may be helpful to you. I will share my feedback. If, like me, you only type with one finger a yes or no would be very helpful.
Wishing you all you would want to wish for yourself. Thanks, Steven


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Allentown City Council soon will decide the future of the water and sewer systems of our city. This will be the most monumental decision of our term in office.
Although Allentown's main objective would be to obtain a large concession fee to meet the pension costs by leasing the right to our water and sewer systems, the idea that the fee is low-cost or free money is based on a misconception. Any upfront payment that the city would receive is an expensive loan that the community will have to repay through their water bills.


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No 'Friday the 13th: Part 2'
Last week producer Brad Fuller broke the news that 'Friday the 13th Part 2' was dead and not happening. He commented further recently saying, "There's just no movement on it right now. Paramount and New Line are simply evaluating if they're going to make it and that's what's happening."
He also shared some details on where the script for the second film was heading stating, "Camp Crystal Lake was going to open, I can tell you that. And a portion of the movie did take place in the snow."
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They'll continue to milk the series. There'll be more.
I dunno, the first remake wasnt really that amazing, I don't think they should continue on. Though I do love horror scenes in the snow…


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From: Kenneth A. Stevens
Once again, the Howard County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland is impelled to question the legality and desirability of the Howard County superintendent of schools' budget request for transportation to non-public schools.
This year, with the addition of Glenelg Country School to the program of county taxpayer-funded busing, this budget item would go beyond parochial or religious schools for the first time. That, at least, permits the board to escape a potential charge of discrimination against non-religious privateschools. But the 1943 law on which this whole program is based is itself of dubious validity because (as the county Office of Law has said previously) it specifically confers rights only upon children who attend parochial schools.


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Just wanted to update everyone on how the process is going.
We are still waiting on a couple of dock company proposals. They promise they will have them to us shortly. Try not to get frustrated. The dock committee is on this, they will have recommendations to the board and we then will have a membership meeting. I am still thinking the weekend of the August 22 for the membership meeting.
Some good news, on the insurance front. We are still in the final stages of resolving the settlement amount for the docks. They have paid us for the money spent in our clean up efforts. They also paid us for hours members spent working at the club. Thanks to everyone for your time. Hang in there.
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Combining dance and fashion is not a new concept –in their long history they keep interacting and cooperating. Fashion has often inspired dance and dance –more than any other performative art- inspires fashion.
In 1924, Sergei Diaghilev assigned Coco Chanel to create the costumes for the performance Le Train Bleu -numerous designers have created dance costumes ever since. Conversely, in the last decade famous designers have invited dancers and choreographers to present their collections. This connection between fashion and dance is not incidental, as both art forms engage with the body, movement and the molding of one's identity, both keep evolving, experimenting, provoking and questioning.
MOVEment is a new project that investigates this long term relationship and attempts to depict it using film as a medium.
Jefferson Hack in collaboration with AnOther Magazine created a series of seven short films. Designers, dancers and directors have collaborated in order to create stories and imagery that expands our perceptions of bodies, clothes and dance.
Our favorites are the poetic Fallen, a collaboration between Prada and dancers of Wuppertal Dancetheater and the graphic and stylized Mangekyou. Which are your favorites?
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Local Attractions
If you're a movie or TV fan, you might be interested to know that several Hollywood productions have been filmed in this area. Numerous locations in Bradford County and Starke were used for scenes in the motion pictures "G.I. Jane" and Tigerland," and for the Fox network television reality series "Boot Camp," among others.
For history buffs, the Camp Blanding Museum, once a training center for nine U.S. Army divisions during World War II, includes a refurbished barracks building with photo exhibits and artifacts honoring the history of the base and those who trained there. The Florida Regimental Memorial lists Floridians who lost their lives in WWII. Memorial Park is a large area with monuments, displays of weapons and vehicles surrounding a lagoon, fountain and picnic area.
Those who appreciate nature might enjoy a behind the scenes tour of a working butterfly farm. The Butterfly Farm experience begins with an indoor presentation, then a leisurely walk through the butterfly gardens and then to the butterfly barn where free-flying butterflies are the stars.
If just-for-fun festivals are more to your taste, then explore the area all year-round. You can pick from a list including but not limited to: the Strawberry Festival, the Friday Festival, the Bike Festival, the Santa Fe Arts Festival, the Annual Bluegrass Festival, Labor Fest, the Great Pumpkin Escape, the Starke Fall Festival, the County Christmas Craft Show or the Bradford County Fair.


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All successful gardening endeavors, big or small, start with fertile soil. If you have a large plot, you can get away with having less-fertile soil by planting more and spacing out your crops. In a small space, however, that approach simply does not work. When preparing front yard garden, remember sifting sandy soil through fingers and realizing to improve it. Added lots of organic compost along with a little lime and bone meal, and add more organic matter each year.
A small space should not limit your garden or your imagination—hanging baskets, containers, window boxes, espaliered fruit trees. They are all great ways to made a big gardening impact – even on the most limited high rise balcony! Here are some considerations and expert techniques when planning your small garden. Small spaces for gardening may include apartments, town homes, condos, as well as rental homes, retirement homes, and community garden plots. However, a small garden space may also be a small space within a larger garden.
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