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Naming: The mountain takes its name from Ribbon Creek. Unofficial name. Other names The Perch. First ascended in 1957 by Crickard, F.W.; Higgins, R., guided by Hans Gmoser. (from peakfinder.com)
On Saturday, August 4, 2012 I was joined by the illustrious Sonny Bou for a jaunt up Ribbon Peak and hopefully Bogart Tower. Ribbon Peak has been on my radar for a few years already, mainly due to a trip report from Andrew Nugara and consequently it's appearance in his scrambles book. For some reason or another I really like the Memorial Lakes area and I'd been up there 2 or 3 times previous and never realized the scrambling objectives that are in the area.
One thing we may have underestimated was the length of the trip - especially when combined with Bogart Tower. We were smart enough to bring our bikes for the first 3.4km along Ribbon Creek and by 08:00 we were biking up the easy road / trail with a brilliant blue sky above and fresh mountain air filling our lungs. It felt great to be out of the city again - I sincerely wished I was camping all weekend on such a great weather forecast for the Rockies! The bike ride went by quickly and within 20 minutes we were stashing our bikes in the trees and preparing for the hike to Memorial Lakes.
[The peaceful waters of the second Memorial Lake as we work our way up the headwall to the third one.]
I have done so many hikes and scrambles but it still surprises me how much quicker the same length of trail goes by in the morning than the evening on the way back. You'd think that since the way back is mostly downhill that it would seem much quicker but usually the opposite is true - the way back always seems much longer than you remember the morning trek taking... Time and distance went by at a good pace as Sonny and I chatted about life - we haven't scrambled together since our accomplishment on Vaux last year so there was plenty to talk about. For more photos and a detailed trip report of the Memorial Lakes approach hike, see my separate hiking trip report.
[A gorgeous view of the third, and final, Memorial Lake with Bogart Tower (L) and Ribbon Peak (R) standing guard over it. ++]
After approaching and admiring the tranquil Memorial Lakes, Sonny and I started a traverse high above the third Memorial Lake around a scree bench on the west side, underneath the towering cliffs of Mount Bogart heading towards the headwall cliffs guarding Ribbon Peak. I was a bit skeptical looking ahead at the cliff band we were supposed to get through to access Ribbon, it looked rater impenetrable from our vantage point with waterfalls coursing down steep rocky cliffs. As usual in the Rockies, it takes close inspection before you can spot a route through seemingly impossible terrain!
[We traversed this bench to the back of the scree bowl and bottom of the headwall.]
[Looking back at Sonny on the bench traverse with the third Memorial Lake at lower right.]
[The cliff band ahead is finally starting to look like there might be a scramble route through it.]
[We went up the snow in the foreground and traversed climbers left of the small stream to find a weakness in the upper part of the band.]
[We traversed this bench before finding a reasonable route up to the right.]
We used a handy patch of snow to avoid some miserable scree up to the cliffs and from there we traversed climber's left along an obvious scree bench, crossing two or three small melt water streams before angling back up to climber's right and breaking through the cliff band. I was initially attracted to the same difficult section as the Nugara brother's first attempt, but I think in the end our route was probably a bit easier than the one they settled for - but we didn't have a rope either! ;-)
[Part way through the cliff band, the third memorial lake is just visible. Mount Bogart at upper left.]
[Sonny comes up through the headwall - as you can see the terrain is huge and loose here.]
[Telephoto over the third Memorial Lake and Bogart Tower towards Sparrowhawk. Apparently there is a scramble route up Sparrowhawk from this side.]
[Another view down the headwall showing why you don't want a large group above you on it!]
[A panorama from the top of the cliff band looking back at Mount Bogart (L) and Sparrowhawk (R). ++]
After breaking through the cliff band we found ourselves in one of those places in the Rockies that is pure magic. Somewhat similar to the beautiful upper valley on Lougheed II and III, except much more barren and lonely - this place is very rarely visited by humans. Ribbon Peak looked quite imposing with it's impressive slabby west face rising up to our left. I knew from Andrew's report that we could start up a series of ledges along the west face rather than going all the way to the col so I started up an obvious ledge / crack system in the west face, angling upwards toward the south ridge. I found the ledges on the west face to be moderate scrambling at most - not too bad but loose and somewhat exposed.
[The upper scree valley is a quiet and magical place that few humans set foot on. Ribbon Peak's west slabs rise dramatically to the left.]
[Sonny is a tiny dot at center in the midst of the impressive landscape between Ribbon (R) and Bogart (L).]
[Gazing east towards Mount Kidd with The Fortress visible just left of center. Note the steepness of the slabs I'm on at far left.]
[The scree covered ledges and slabs were straightforward - but you still had to concentrate on your footing or you'd slip off the west face!]
[The views are improving as I gain height on the west face. This is looking east to Mount Kidd North and South. ++]
[Looking back down my ascent route up the slabs - Sonny visible at bottom just starting up.]
Upon reaching the south ridge the terrain became much more difficult. Nugara almost makes it sound like the ledges bypass all of the difficult scrambling on the south ridge but I couldn't find a ledge system any higher than the one I took (that would be only 'moderate' scrambling anyway) and there's no way that the section of south ridge we had to take was "wide" or "easy" either. Looking down at the section of ridge that our route avoided, it looked exposed but not nearly as steep as the section we still had to negotiate. We popped out on the south ridge just as it takes a dramatically steeper angle.
[The angle of the south ridge takes a dramatic upturn where we met it. You can see the angled crack that I didn't take on the way up because the rock that would be my hand hold looked (and felt) too loose!]
[Looking east from the spot where I intersected the ridge - Kidd South with Fortress area peaks to the right.]
[Impressive slab terrain, looking back from where I hit the south ridge. Sonny barely visible at the bottom of the slab.]
[This is the ridge I butt-shuffled over on ascent.]
I started up the ridge, immediately finding myself balancing very delicately on my tush across a very exposed and loose rock fin. There was a crack running underneath this fin, but I didn't trust the fin enough to use the crack and pull hard on the rock - rather choosing to shuffle my way along the top of it, reasoning that if it crumbled at least I'd fall onto more solid rock underneath the loose stuff! :-) (On the way back I took the crack but it didn't feel any safer due to the crappy rock I had to hold onto...)
[Looking to the south off the ridge at Mount Kidd - north peak with the lookout at left.]
It's been a while since I scrambled in difficult terrain and it took me a few minutes to adjust. There's so much more concentration needed when you can't afford the tiniest little slip or misstep. When I got to the crux on the ridge I had to spend some time on it before committing to go further.
The crux (for me) was a rock step / crack just off the ridge on climber's left, hanging over the west face and slightly over hanging. Going up wasn't a big issue (I love being 6 feet tall) but I knew right away that descending the step was going to be tricky. Because of the slight overhang and loose holds above the crux it was really unnerving for me to descend it. I had to back up to the overhang, go down on my left knee and then try to find a tiny down sloping ledge with my right foot while clinging to some unreliable holds. All of this is performed over the west face - a slip would certainly be fatal! I really didn't like it and spent more time than usual on this section, practicing going down it until I was sure that I could do it properly. Finally I heaved myself over the crux and continued on.
[The crux is right above me in the photo. You can see the angled crack running up to the left before the crux which goes back to climber's right near the top of the photo.]
As usual, everything after the crux felt pretty straightforward, but there was still a high degree of concentration needed until I finally spotted the summit block ahead. "Summit tower" might be a better description! The scrambling wasn't as hard as it looked and eventually I was walking the final ridge to the true summit.
[The terrain after the crux seems pretty tame in comparison. Thank goodness!]
[The summit tower looks fun from this vantage point! Allan and Collembolla in the background with their startling green and brown slopes. ++]
[The final summit ridge stretches out in front of me on a glorious day to be scrambling.]
The views from Ribbon Peak were better than I was expecting. The weather was also fantastic - warm and no wind, so I spent a good half hour relaxing, eating and taking photos. The summit register has gotten busier since Nugara's book, but still only 1 or 2 ascents per year on this obscure mountain. Only true peak baggers would consider this trip, I think!! There are so many easier and more accessible mountains out there, but of course that's what attracted me to this one in the first place.
[Fantastic views back south along the summit ridge towards Kidd North and South. Bogart at center and even Mount Assiniboine just peaking out to the right of Bogart's summit. ++]
[Serious exposure down to the third Memorial Lake and tiny Bogart Tower far below me.]
[Summit panorama looking at Bogart, Sparrowhawk, Wind, Allan (L to R) and even the third Memorial Lake and Bogart Tower are visible far below at lower left. Further right, looking west towards Kananaskis Village, Olympic Summit, Baldy and Wasootch Mountain. ++]
[Sparrowhawk Mountain]
[Wind Mountain with Lougheed II rising behind.]
[I'm sure Mount Allan is a busy place today.]
[Fisher Peak brings back great memories - it's a difficult Kane scramble.]
[Panorama of the Kananaskis Range to the west including James Walker, Fortress, Gusty and Galatea (L to R). ++]
[The Opal Range lies to the south.]
[The Ribbon Creek Valley and environs are green and lush on this summer day. ++]
[Looking over Olympic Summit's ascent ridge over Mount Baldy towards the Trans Canada Highway.]
[Wasootch looks tiny from here!]
[Not a lot of ascents in the past 6 years - maybe 1-2 / year at most.]
[Some famous scramblers have made it up here.]
[More interesting names in the old register.]
After 40 minutes I began to get itchy feet. The weather was perfect and I could have stayed up there for hours, but I wanted to get the crux down climb over and done with. Sonny hadn't shown up yet, but Sonny and I have a lot of experience and when we scramble together we don't really worry too much about sticking right with each other. I knew he wouldn't be offended if I started down and waited for him in the upper valley before the headwall so I started down.
[Leaving the summit, traversing back down the south ridge.]
[Can you spot Sonny on the ridge? Trust me - he's there somewhere. ;)]
I met Sonny on the upper ridge and as I suspected, he didn't mind having the summit to himself for a while so I continued down. The crux was tricky to descend just as I thought, but thanks to my practice moves on it I managed it fine. As I sat perched on a particularly exposed fin on the ridge I meditated why it feels so good to have nothing but air on either side of me with a cool breeze and cool rock against my skin and warm sunshine on my neck. I don't think I'll ever get the answer to that question - but it is rather addictive. ;-)
[Looking back up steep, loose terrain on the descent.]
[Sublime views off the south ridge.]
[Some serious exposure looking back along the slabs / descent crack.]
[Looking down a narrow ledge on the west face that I descended.]
[One more look up the narrow ridge section with the ledge bypass.]
[I enjoyed the views along Ribbon Creek from this 'resting perch' on the south ridge where I dangled my legs for a bit and contemplated life. ++]
Eventually I made it down to the rock valley before the headwall descent and spent an hour or so napping there and drinking copious amounts of fresh water from the stream nearby. I watched as Sonny slowly descended Ribbon's ridge and west face before he joined me and we descended the headwall - following the line of cairns I had erected on the ascent.
[Finally off the west face / south ridge of Ribbon and back in the sublime valley between Ribbon and Bogart.]
[I napped here for over an hour - I love the greenery around the waterfall! The water was so good I must have had over 2 liters of it due to the heat. Third Memorial Lake in the valley bottom.]
[Extra points if you can spot Sonny picking his way down the west face of Ribbon. Hint: look at upper right.]
Once Sonny joined me, we sat a while longer while he rehydrated and gave his legs a break. After roughly 30 minutes we started the loose descent down the headwall towards our next objective for the day. The day was getting much later than I had anticipated but we decided that since we were "in the area anyway", we might as well try Bogart Tower and check out the memorial at the third lake.
[Sonny follows me down the steep / loose headwall.]
[The lovely waterfall coming down the headwall is a relief in the unrelenting heat.]
[Sonny follows me across a ledge traverse on the headwall as late afternoon shadows already start to creep over the Memorial Lakes valley below. ++]
[Sonny exits the lower headwall behind me as we hit the scree bowl underneath it and continue on to Bogart Tower.]
Overall I would agree with Nugara that Ribbon is a difficult scramble and worthwhile if you like doing more obscure peaks with more route finding challenges than others in the Kananaskis area. For me the south ridge felt harder than other difficult scrambles such as Fisher or even Mount Smuts - but that could be due to me being out of practice or the heat or who knows what? Ratings are always subjective but this is certainly no easy hike, put it that way.
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Developers last week ditched a proposal by Benoy to redevelop the 1950s Broadmead shopping centre in Bristol and handed the £500 million scheme to Chapman Taylor.
The two architects had been in head-to-head competition for the masterplan until last week when Benoy's client, Hammerson, agreed to co-manage the scheme with Land Securities and picked Land Securities' architect, Chapman Taylor, ahead ofBenoy.
'The Benoy plan is out of the window in general terms, ' said Land Securities project manager Tim Seddon.
The rejection is a blow to Benoy but it is now hoping to pick up commissions for 'one or two' buildings within the masterplan when the developer appoints architects, according to design director Simon Bloor.The developers said that additional 'local, national and international' architects will be appointed to design individual elements of the scheme to 'reflect Bristol's architectural heritage'. Seddon added that parts of the Benoy scheme may still be used where they had won particular approval from the public.
The town centre scheme will be dominated by retail, with a net increase of 32,000 m 2in shopping space. It also includes 280 new homes, three new streets, a major new department store and a 2,000-space car park.Most of the development will take place on existing surface car parks although there will be some demolition involved.
Local architect George Ferguson warned that the scheme might fail unless developers ensure the expansion is well integrated with the remainder of the city centre.
'The only gain will be if the developers take a broader view, ' he said.
The city council approved the selection of the consortium, dubbed the Bristol Alliance, at a special meeting last week.
The consortium is also working on the regeneration of Birmingham city centre. It claims that Bristol is not pulling its weight as a retail centre and says that the expansion is essential for it to provide for its catchment area of 1.5 million people. Bristol is the UK's e i g h t h largest city but is outside the top 15 in terms of its provision of retail. Work is due to start in 2002 and finish by 2006 and the developer will submit a planning application in the middle of next year.
Chapman Taylor's Centre Commercial International - Val d'Europe, a new shopping centre near Disneyland Paris, opens next week. The regional centre includes 75,000m2 of retail and restaurant buildings with a 15,000m2 open-air shopping village. The main buildings are inspired by nineteenth century Parisian architecture by Victor Baltard, Baron Haussmann, Gustav Eiffel and contemporaries.
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I have to admit I've been a bad blogger lately. I have been neglecting my blog which makes me super sad, but life gets busy so what can you do.
I want to thank everyone who continues to read my blog and comments on my posts. It keeps me going with this blog! It also makes me feel less like I'm talking to a wall!
I grew a lot with my blog, even if I ended up lagging in the last few months. Lots of exciting things happened this year for me! This year I'm revving up to finish my last semester of college! I might not graduate with the highest GPA, so far just a 2.9 but who else can say they held down two different jobs (more than a 40 hour week) and college at the same time? Not many, and I'm damn proud of myself. Honestly I feel like I would have done a lot better if I wasn't forced to take any Calc or Stat classes. Those Math class just killed my GPA!!
I have to say I am beyond happy and blessed to have found the one I want to spend the rest of my life with. Mr. J and I got engaged back in July. It was an extremely private moment and I will cherish it for the rest of my life. I hope 2015 is just as good to us as 2014 was!
I have just a few goals this 2015, and pretty attainable in my eyes.
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Following Apple's launch of iCloud, a wireless service that allows users to access their content from any device connected to the Internet, CNBC.com gathered some facts and figures on the growth of the company in recent years.
Led by legendary CEO Steve Jobs, the company's market cap value has gone from $4.8 billion back in the year 2000 to $312.6 billion today, an increase of about 6,413 percent in the past 11 years.
Apple was founded in 1976 by Jobs and partners Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Less than a year later, Wayne sold his stake to Jobs and Wozniak for only $800.
Since then, Apple has redefined the computer, music, and consumer electronics industries, with products that include the Macintosh, iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and most recently, the iPad.
When Apple went public in 1980, its initial public offering was the most successful since Ford in 1956. The company has been singled out for innovation and brand loyality among consumers and is also known for a very secretive corporate culture.
here are some key facts and figures about Apple:
Stock Performance & Valuation
- Close on June 6, 2011: $338.04
- Median Price Target: $450 (Source: Thomson One)
- All-time intraday high: $364.9 on February 16, 2011
- All-time closing high: $363.13 on February 16, 2011
- Apple's P/E: 16.11
- S&P Tech Sector Average P/E: 29.9
- Price / Book: 5.31x
- TEV / EBITDA (Latest Twelve Months): 11.30x
Percent Change
- 1-Year: 32%
- 3-Year: 82%
- 5-Year: 466%
- 10-Year: 3,161%
- 20-Year: 2,800%
- Revenue LTM (Mar-26-11) : $87.5 billion
- Revenue Growth Against the Same 12-Month Period Last Year: 71%
- Latest Qtr: $24.5 billion (Q3 2011)
- Forecast 2011 Revenue: $103.4 billion
- EPS Growth (2009-10): 141%
- Latest Qtr: $6.40 (Q3 2011)
- Forecast 2011 EPS: $24.74
Analysts' Recommendations:
- Strong Buy: 24
- Buy: 22
- Hold: 3
- Sell: 1
- Underperform: 0
Three Highest Paid Executives
- Timothy Cook
- Chief Operating Officer since October 2005
- Joined Apple Computer Inc. in 1998 as Senior Vice President of worldwide operations
- Total Calculated Compensation*: $59.1M
- Peter Oppenheimer, Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President
- Total Annual Compensation: $29.8M
- Ronald Johnson, Senior Vice President of Retail
- Total Annual Compensation: $29.8M
*Total Calculated compensation figures from Capital IQ include salary, bonuses, estimated stock options and other incentives.
Note: Steve Jobs was reappointed as Chief Executive Officer, Director of Apple Inc. in June 2009. He has been the Director of Apple since 1997. Since 2004, however, Mr. Jobs total annual compensation stands at $1.
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Willard Andre Allen is a self-taught artist from New England. Born in 1965, he is a graduate of the Art Institute of America where he received his Associate Degree in Advertising and Marketing . Andre never knew that he had talent in fine art. Although he had been exposed to the performing arts from an early age, travelling on tour with family and other prolific artists and working in advertising and marketing in the music industry, becoming an artist himself was not something he had ever contemplated. But one day, he went to an African-American Exposition where he saw exquisite African motifs, intricately painted on glassware: It was then that he received his Muse to embark on his journey to create fine art. Instantly inspired, he went out and bought ten, clear glass plates and enrolled in his first painting class at the South Florida Art Center in 2000. He diligently learned to work with acrylics and studied the complexity of figurative painting and soon after, he realized his tremendous affinity for color and design. He perfected his craft on glass and further experimented with African ornamental design and portraits at home, incorporating glass plates as his template. He continued to reference myriad books on African masks and motifs and through trial and error, he discovered a unique style and voice of his own. Andre is a visionary: His pieces are intricate, provocative and imaginative, both in design and execution. By painting on the opposite side of clear glass, he demonstrates an intuitive understanding and appreciation of myriad shape and texture where each design results in a cornucopia of colors that incorporate and reflect light once the glass is turned over to its rightful side. His designs aren't contrite or pre-planned. Instead they are evoked through his emotions and instincts whereby each piece induces a different feeling, a certain softness and compassion, emerging as a one-of-a kind work of art that captivates the inspiration of the moment. Andre continues to truly break grounds. Functional, decorative and modern, his variously shaped glass artworks have garnished him instant recognition as one of the most outstanding new talent among Miami's artistic community. His works can presently be seen at American Glass Art Work Gallery in SoHo New York as well as the Bergman Collection in Washington DC. He currently has a studio at 810 Lincoln Road at The Art Center South Florida Studio #206 and resides in South Beach, Florida
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ThePigSite Quick Disease Guide
M-Hyo (Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae) Infection
EP always attacks the lower areas of each lung lobe causing consolidation. The extent of this consolidation in each lobe is scored out of either 5 or 10 depending upon the lobe affected. Thus a severely affected pig with all lobes involved would score 55. This scoring system can be used to assess the severity of disease and its effects on the pig.
If more than 15% of lungs are affected it is highly probable that EP is present in the population. Herds that do not carry M. hyopneumoniae rarely show consolidated lesions in more than 1 % and even then they are very small.
If EP is not present in the growing population then the effects of the other respiratory pathogens are greatly reduced. It is therefore considered a primary pathogen that opens up the lung to other infections.
Clinical signs of enzootic pneumonia only occur in the lactating sow and piglets when the disease has been introduced into a fully susceptible herd for the first time. The breakdown of disease usually takes place over 6 to 8 weeks with sows coming into the farrowing house continuing to be affected.
There is a widely held but erroneous belief that sows and gilts will become carriers and pass this infection to their next litters. They may do so early on and their piglets may cough but by the time they farrow again 4 to 5 months later they will have eliminated the infection and will provide a solid immunity to their piglets via colostrum. If weaning is at 3 to 4 weeks, subsequent litters are not likely to become infected until after weaning.
SymptomsAll pigs
It usually has an incubation period of two to eight weeks before clinical signs are seen but may be longer. Acute disease is normally only seen in new break-downs of disease.
Over the first six to eight weeks after it enters there may be: (This picture however is extremely variable).
- Severe acute pneumonia.
- Dehydration.
- Heavy breathing.
- Coughing, prolonged.
- Respiratory distress.
- Fever.
- High mortality across all ages of stock.
- Chronic disease is the normal picture when the organism has been present in the herd for some considerable time.
- A prolonged non-productive cough, at least seven to eight coughs per episode, is a common sign around this time, with some pigs breathing heavily ("thumps").
- 30 to 70% of pigs will have lung lesions at slaughter.
Causes / Contributing factors
- It is commonly transmitted through the movement of carrier pigs.
- Wind-borne infection for up to 3km (2 miles) if the climatic conditions are right. The organism dies quickly outside the pig, particularly when dried.
- Incoming pigs.
- Overcrowding and large group sizes.
- Less than 3 cu.m.air space per pig and 0.7 sq.m. floor space per pig.
- Houses that are too wide for good air flow control.
- Variable temperatures and poor insulation.
- Variable wind speeds and chilling.
- Low temperature, low humidity environments.
- High levels of carbon dioxide and ammonia.
- High dust and bacteria levels in the air.
- Pig movement, stress and mixing.
- Housing with a continuous throughput of pigs.
- Other concurrent diseases particularly PRRS, App, flu, and aujeszky's disease.
- Poor nutrition and dietary changes at susceptible times.
DiagnosisThis is based on the clinical picture and examination of the lungs at post-mortem examination or at slaughter, combined sometimes with histology of the lesions. However, these do not provide a specific diagnosis and in the herds supplying breeding stock or in special cases (e.g. litigation) it may be necessary to confirm the diagnosis by carrying out one or more of the following tests: Serological (ELISA) tests, microscopic examination of stained touch preparations (TPs) of the cut surface of the lungs, fluorescent antibody tests (FATs), polymerase chain reaction (PCRs) tests and finally culture and identification of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae.
These tests are becoming more widely available and some diagnostic laboratories cannot do them. The PCR is probably the most sensitive. FAT, serology and cultures are used in Denmark, but only FATs are available in many laboratories.
EP must be differentiated from Flu, PRRS, Hps and other mycoplasma infections. Laboratory tests are required to differentiate them. Furthermore, all or some of these may occur as mixed infections together with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae.


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When I first stood in front of an audience like this 30 years ago, I was barely into my 20s, had no idea of where I stood with my own sexuality (even though I thought I did), had very little sexual experience, and could not possibly have foreseen the challenges that raising children with or without disability or chronic illness would introduce into my life. Yet I was passionate about working with children and young people who had severe intellectual disabilities and, coming from an activist family, I was determined that all was not right in a world which at best treated people with intellectual disabilities as "eternal children," or at worst, locked them up in institutions and forgot about them. When I started working with Dorothy Cornelius in Westbury, Coronationville and Eldorado Park some years later, another world opened to me. Here people with disabilities were deeply affected by poverty, racism and the exclusion from both white privilege and black activism. They were, on the whole, however, not regarded by their families or their community as "eternal children', nor were they put into institutions and forgotten. They were simply part of the fabric of the life of a marginalized society.
Since then I have grown up. I moved from Eldorado Park to the turbulent townships of Katlehong and Thokoza and now having the title of "clinical psychologist" to add in brackets behind my name, I founded and for many years ran a community mental health service based at Natalspruit Hospital, with a special focus on youth at risk, gender violence and HIV/AIDS. Children and adults with intellectual disabilities were part of the programmes we implemented around these core issues. A few were assessed and formally labeled, and less than a handful of the most profoundly disabled or severely neglected could be placed in residential care. The vast majority somehow survived in the community, for better or for worse. They fell in love, had sex, fell pregnant, got infected with HIV/AIDS, were abused, abandoned, picked themselves up again, got drunk, fought with their mothers, came for counselling, wept, raged and somehow carried on surviving.
I have grown up in other ways too. I discovered my own sexuality and the complex emotional maze of intimacy. I loved and was loved, I experienced closeness and rejection, the seemingly endless pain of the broken heart and its gradual healing, and the re-discovery of the joy and the cycle of togetherness and separation that comes with a committed relationship. Equally important, I had children. Being adopted my children were different- in colour, in background, and in the challenges they had in growing up in a society that despite political liberation remains highly polarized. The youngest child introduced us all to the very personal realities of living with AIDS. As a family we constantly have to negotiate our differentness across a range of economic and cultural boundaries.
Perhaps it is the life long experience of navigating different-ness and all the social and emotional vulnerabilities that come with it, that continues to bring me back to where I stood many years ago as a young white woman with little experience but a passion to speak for those whose voices had been locked up, forgotten, or simply ignored. The human right issues related to sexuality and disability simply do not seem to go away.
This presentation does not attempt to provide any answers, but rather seeks to raise questions which we as responsible service providers, carers and activists need to constantly engage with. We are dealing with issues related to our very human-ness, our inherent need for closeness, our longing for belonging. When we confront the sexual behavior and expression of disabled people in our care, we have to in the final instance confront our selves- our identities, our relationships, our sexualities, and our assumptions about other-ness and the social contexts that shape them.
The first step we may need to take is to consider the assumptions that underlie the very language we use when referring to the sexual behavior of people with intellectual disabilities.
The title of this presentation refers to "management" of sexual behavior, with "acting out" seemingly referring to the assumption that much sexual behavior among people with disabilities represents in fact some sort of abnormality.
As the mother of three growing daughters, I know and understand the reference of "acting out". The oldest, now a young woman, returns night-long "clubbing" when a relationship as broken down and she is desperate to find a replacement. It is a behavior which I, as a mother, consider "acting out". The 16 year old's energies go into finding out who she is as a sexual being, and the fact that it does not go into her school work, perturbs me so much that I could also label her behavior as "acting out". My ten year old daughter who lives with HIV has read in the popular youth magazines that lie around any NGO that HIV+ women should not have babies. Now she is obsessed about having a baby, which leads to all kinds of other "acting out" behavior.
"Acting out" behavior needs to be "managed"- which seems to imply that we as responsible adults have to be in charge and in control of our children, adult or otherwise, at all times. It assumes that such control is possible and that if a person in our care continues to "act out" we have somehow failed and need to be held accountable. The question I need to ask myself as a responsible adult, is to what extent I am always in control of my own behavior? What mistakes have I made in my life? What learning has taken place as a result of my mistakes. What example am I to the young or disabled people in my care? If my daughter, or the disabled resident in my care falls pregnant or gets infected with HIV, have I failed? When does behavior become a shared responsibility? Does the accountability for behavior always lie with the individual, in this case the carer who has failed to "manage", or do we have a collective responsibility- one that is shared between the carer and the person she cares for, between mother and child, between family or care centre and society at large?
Mothers have long been the scapegoats for the failure of their children to conform to socially prescribed standards of behavior. So have care workers at all levels in residential care centres. There is another assumption that comes into play, especially in middle-class environments. This is the assumption of the sexual innocence of children, and of adults with intellectual disabilities, who continue to be regarded as "eternal children". We assume that children and adults with intellectual disabilities have no sexual feelings and therefore will not display any sexual behavior unless they are somehow misled by into such behavior by ignorant or malicious carers.
The fact is that all human beings, regardless of age or severity of disability are sexual beings. Most children will engage in some form of sexual behavior while they are still being regarded as sexually innocent, and so will most people with intellectual disabilities. So-called "able" adults tend to project their understanding of mature adult sexuality on children and on people at various levels of intellectual functioning, and maybe this is where we tend to make our most serious mistakes. To a young child, exploring the genitals of a peer of the opposite sex is a matter of curiosity rather than mature adult sexual interest. An abused child will "act out" sexually to try to understand what has happened to her and master the complex feelings aroused by forced sexual act, rather than seek sexual fulfillment in the way we understand it. While such behavior is no doubt sexual it does not have the same meaning for the child as it has for the adult. For people with intellectual disabilities, as for many of us, sexual behavior may have a range of meanings too. They may seek sexual fulfillment in an intimate relationship like their able brothers and sisters. Or they may look for the social acknowledgement and affirmation that comes from "being married". They may want to understand and master feelings for which they have no words. Or they may simply want to explore their bodies and the different sensations it contains.
Our social and cultural context profoundly influences how we perceive our own sexuality and that of others, and none of us, no matter how young or disabled, are immune to this. In modern society all of us are exposed to multiple and often contradictory messages about sexuality and sexual behavior. People with intellectual disabilities absorb these messages as much as their able peers. How they interpret these messages and counter their negative impact depends not only on the level of cognitive development but also on the ability of the environment (not only mothers and carers) to critically and appropriately mediate them.
As parents and carers we can safely assume that there is no sexual innocence in the way we would like to think about it. What sexual behavior means needs to be understood in terms of the individual's developmental history and needs, in terms of the social and cultural context in which he/she continues to grow and learn, and in terms of the collective efforts made to support and encourage healthy and developmentally appropriate ways of expressing sexuality.
Over the years I have become more and more acutely aware of the role played by social class and socio-economic status in shaping our personal, and collective responses to different-ness. Because power and influence inevitably lies with the more affluent sectors of society, our professional paradigms of conceptualization are much more likely to be drawn from the experiences of these sectors than from the realities of the poor and economically disadvantaged.
The value of human life as defined by the dominant ideology lies in its potential for economic productivity. We raise our children to become economically productive members of the middle class, and as such we teach them to work towards ideals such as independence, individualism, self-actualization and personal autonomy. People who are not able to be economically productive embody some definition or other of deviance, which need to be eliminated or at least controlled through the various ideological mechanisms which have evolved over time.
The disability sector has for many years been dominated by the Western medical approach to deviance.. Disability is seen as something we need to be at dis-ease with, something that is not normal, not acceptable to our idea of what the world should be like, and therefore something that, if it cannot be cured, must at least be managed within the realm of medical science. The dis-abled person is a burden to the family, and we generally agree that it is critical to "diagnose" as early as possible in order to intervene and facilitate as much normality as we can. Children with disabilities are sent for various therapy, treatment, stimulation and education programmes from early on and a whole professional culture has developed around their "special" needs. These programmes are generally costly and add to the sense of being burdened by a child with special needs. As the child becomes an adult, the cost increases because, not having succeeded in becoming an economically independent adult, he needs to be placed in residential care when his ageing parents are no longer able to look after him.
In this paradigm the adult person with an intellectual disability is regarded as an "eternal child" because somehow providing ongoing care for a child is more acceptable than confronting the reality of an economically un-productive adult. The reality of a developing sexuality needs to be suppressed because its acknowledgement makes us uncomfortably aware of the disjuncture between what the real person we have in front of us, and the ideal of the independent, autonomous adult we have been taught to value above all. Moreover, the sexuality of the disabled person brings us face to face with the risks we see associated with his reproductive capacity- another handicapped child, another burden to the economy.
Poor communities too are profoundly influenced by the ideology of the economically dominant classes. However, poverty shapes it own realities and therefore also its own responses to different-ness. In poor communities, the ideology of individualism cannot hold water. The young adult who cannot get a job remains dependent on his parents and extended family and his search for personal autonomy needs to find different forms. The collective is often his only means of survival, and this collective often includes people with disabilities. In South Africa, we have the unique situation that children and adults with disabilities often become breadwinners in their families, because through care dependency or disability grants they are the only ones who have access to any form of income.
In poor communities children with intellectual disabilities, especially when these are not overtly visible, are often not diagnosed until they are well into their school going years, and many are not diagnosed at all. Although this makes them vulnerable in many ways, it does protect them from the stigmatization associated with labeling, and allows them to lead relatively normal lives, as defined by their immediate social context. Often the only difference they and their families perceive and acknowledge between them and their peers is the fact that they are "slow" or not able to learn at school. They are expected to engage in sexual activity as are their able peers, and unless severely and visibly disabled, they are more often than not also expected to produce children.
The apartheid system entrenched these divergent social constructions of disability by reserving access to early intervention, treatment, and education programmes to whites only. As these discriminatory practices are gradually being broken down, more black disabled children are beginning to access the services and the issues related to class as opposed to race are becoming increasingly evident.
Most of us in this room, I am sure, have come to embrace a developmental approach to both sexuality and disability. Most of us will acknowledge that adults with intellectual disabilities firstly have the need for companionship, belonging and intimacy (including sexual intimacy); and secondly have the right to have these needs met in a socially and developmentally appropriate manner. However, this acknowledgement in itself confronts us with a number of ethical dilemmas- dilemmas which arise in part out of our own struggles with the other-ness of the other when it involves sexuality (and this is evident not only in relation to people with disabilities, but also to those who choose same sex partners and those who live with HIV); and in part out of clashes of expectations resulting from the different class- and culture based perspectives on sexuality and disability.
1. Rights versus vulnerabilities
While we acknowledge the right of people with disabilities to express their sexuality, we are also acutely aware of their vulnerability to abuse.
This awareness of vulnerability has led many middle class parents whose adult children are in residential care settings to expect care staff to prevent any opportunities of any kind of sexual encounter arising in the first place. The assumption held by these parents is that their adult children are sexually "innocent" and need to be protected at all costs. When it emerges that a resident has been involved in some kind of sexual activity with another resident, it almost inevitably results in an intense emotional exchange between family members and care givers.
It is perhaps ironic that most instances of the sexual abuse that I have had to deal with involved able adults who are in some position of power over the disabled person- workshop managers, care staff, security guards and the like.
Disabled adults living in the community are equally vulnerable. Serial abusers may seek them out, because lacking the cognitive skills to give credible evidence in court, they make easy victims, especially if they are already neglected within the family system or have nobody to who can help them interpret clues and negotiate unwanted sexual advances.
Generally intellectually disabled people living in poor communities are expected to have sexual relationships and are much more street-wise than their disabled peers who have grown up and been protected in special facilities all of their lives. When for some reason or other they do make it into a protective workshop or residential facility, their sexual experience can pose a threat to care staff who have been primed at to at all costs protect their more privileged clients from any kind of sexual encounters. I believe that this is one of reasons why residential centres are reluctant to take even consider referrals from poor communities. Failure to address this issue in all its complex ramifications in the end threatens to further entrench racial and class prejudice.
Issues of consent, I believe, are much more than a matter of legal definition. They involve the complex interplay of cognitive ability, emotional intelligence, social and familial modeling and support, and the way the economic and cultural structuring of power relationships between individuals, both within the micro-context of the family or care centre, and in the broader society.
2. The reality of HIV/AIDS
In poor communities HIV/AIDS is a reality. It is still associated with stigma, but being so common place it is rarely a surprise. HIV/AIDS has moved into many poverty-stricken homes and become part of the staple diet of life, as has death and the endless stream of social and economic demands it comes with.
In more affluent homes, on the other hand, HIV/AIDS is associated with dread and horror. It is a disease marked by the assumptions of poverty, dirtiness, promiscuity, and uncontrolled "acting out".
When special schools, workshops and residential centres still served primarily the privileged white community, it was easy to ignore the threat of HIV/AIDS. The adults in these facilities were in any way not expected to be sexually active and the function of staff was to protect them from sexual knowledge and experience. Moreover the belief persisted that HIV/AIDS is primarily a disease of population groups whose lives were no threat to the reality of those holding the strings of economic and political power.
This situation has changed over time, as families and professionals like myself, living or working in the townships on the edge of mainstream society started claiming the right of their children to special education and care. Again we have young adults who have not been prevented from expressing their sexuality, or protected from various forms of sexual exploitation invading the realm of those who presumed to be sexually innocent. The fact that most of these young adults are black, street wise, and possibly HIV positive introduces a new melting pot of prejudices.
If we are to take the right to sexual expression seriously we need to face, as parents, and as carers, the risk and the reality of HIV/AIDS. No matter how well we prepare our children, able or disabled, for the responsibilities associated with an active sexual life, no matter how much we try to protect them from unwanted advances and abuse, no matter how carefully we try to monitor their relationships and behavior, in the final instance we cannot presume to have the right to invade a person's most private and intimate moments. In the final instance, we have to allow them to make their choices, and stand by them if they (or we) have made a mistake. HIV/AIDS is a possibility we all need to be able to live with.
3. The value of life: who decides who may and who may not be born
Although most of us as carers for people with intellectual disabilities are deeply committed not only to their care and protection, but also to their development as human beings, it is unlikely that a significant number of carers in this room would advocate for the reproductive rights of adults with intellectual disabilities. The risks we argue are too big and cannot be controlled. Mostly we refer to the risks of a disabled person producing yet another disabled child, another potential burden to family and community, another unproductive member of society.
And even if a child is born without a detectable disability- who will take care of her? Where are the resources that intellectually disabled adults will need to support them in managing the complex tasks of parenthood? Where will the money come from to feed, house, educate and protect a family which is not able to make any contribution to the economy?
As valid as these questions are in our current reality, there are deeper issues which we need to confront. Who decides about the value of life? Who determines the worthiness of a life? What do such decisions about the (un)worthiness of life do to our humanity?
I have a child who lives with AIDS and who in all likelihood will not have a long and productive life. She is already an economic burden to our family and to society- the ARVs, the repeated hospitalizations, the special educational needs which require expensive additional programmes. The burden goes beyond the physical care. An entire family suffers under the stress of having a child whose needs seem to push aside all else.
Would we have it any other way? Despite the anger, the resentment, the sibling rivalry, the behavior problems, the huge drain on our material and emotional resources, not one member of our family would in the end have it any other way. Because her life has an intrinsic value, because this value enriches ours in ways we could never have anticipated, because she brings into our world an appreciation of each day as it comes and a love which we value above all else.
Parents and brothers and sisters of disabled children will know what I am talking about. What the world loses in economic productivity it gains in humanity. This is not to deny the very real suffering that disabilities, illness, disease and death bring into our lives. In fact we have a personal and collective responsibility to reduce suffering as much as possible so that more people can live life to the full. The question that remains is how we define suffering and what we attribute as its causes.
Poverty, deprivation, neglect, violence, forced displacement, and the systemic and widespread abuse of power are, in my view, the real causes of suffering we need to address. The tragedy is not that my child is HIV+ or that yours is disabled. The tragedy is that the vast majority of our children, able or disabled, ill or healthy, are growing up in extreme poverty, with no access to even the most basic resources and services they need to develop their gifts and talents, their unique contributions to our world.
If we commit our energies to remedying the gross social and economic injustices we see all around us, we will come much closer to embracing not only the humanity of the intellectually disabled (or gay, or foreign, or HIV+) person, but also our own.
As promised I have raised more questions and answered none. With getting older I have come to realize that there are no answers to the deep questions of life, and that our quest for solutions often leads us only to further problems. In fact it seems to me that the value of professional discourses such as this lies not in the recipes for the management or control of life's many mysteries but in the conversations we have in the here and now; in the reflections they give rise to within us; and in the way they encourage us to constantly re-consider and re-humanize our relationships with the people who have been entrusted into our care. As much as I would once and for all like to finish with the issue of sexuality and disability, we all need to realize and accept that human sexuality always has been and always will be associated with intense emotions and powerful taboos, especially in relation to the more visible forms of "other-ness". So, I suppose the best I can hope for is that somebody else will take over the baton and run the race that has no finishing line.
Johanna Kistner
Sophiatown Community Psychological Services
SAASSMH, 7 September 2010


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Speaking of my mom, we spent our first Mother's Day apart this year. :( It was so hard to be without her, but I'm glad that she was able to spend some time with my Nani (her mom) and I've already promised some quality time when I'm in Salt Lake at the end of her month since I will also be missing her BIRTHDAY this weekend. I love you, mom, and not a day goes by that I don't think about you! :)
2. My job sitch- I have two jobs and will FINALLY have a day off tomorrow... for the first time in 21 days! We have plans to sleep in, go for a run, eat brunch, and go to a graduation party tomorrow afternoon and attend an Aces baseball game on Sunday!! Keeping my fingers crossed that the weather holds up for my weekend without work...
3. LA- we were there for Easter. To hear more read my previous post regarding this subject.
4. Fancy Shmancy- Fidelity sponsored a table at the Junior Diabetes Research Foundation Gala and we got to have an awesome night on the town at this event! There were performers, auctions, delicious food options, and lots of black dresses. Not to mention that a LOT of money was poured into research for kids with diabetes and it was a smash success of a night.
5. Pool- It's 80+ degrees here this week and I laid out this afternoon after job 1. It was glorious and I look forward to many more afternoons poolside. That is the one nice thing about getting off at 1:00 and not starting again until 5:00.
6. Summer Hair- My hair is now strawberry blonder. Please see previous post for more deets.
7. Summer Plans- Right now we're experiencing the 'calm before the storm', but I'm ready for the storm. I leave for SLC on May 31st/come home on June 6th for Dani's wedding, leave for OKC on June 10th/come home June 13th for Sara's birthday, host Aron's parents on June 21st for 4 days, host Andy/Candace during the weekend of July 4th, and head up to Tahoe with our small group(ies) from SLC on July 7th for 5 days! My mom comes out at the end of July for a long weekend, and we'll wait to make more plans for the rest of the year once we know how much longer we'll be in Reno.
I couldn't be more ready to spend such a large amount of our summer with those we are closest to, as I've REALLY struggled emotionally with being in Reno lately. Thank God for his Wod, Aron's stability and willingness to talk with me, and my fantastic female friends who haven't quit being my biggest cheerleaders and support team since moving. I look forward to the day where we reflect on our time in Reno and understand why a lot of the things we're experiencing have turned out the way they have.
...Off to glam up with 6+ accessories and head to job 2. Have a wonderful weekend!


text: Accenture to Help FirstEnergy Deploy Smart Meters for Two Million Customers in Pennsylvania Accenture to Help FirstEnergy Deploy Smart Meters for Two Million Customers in Pennsylvania Smart Metering SHARE Accenture April 2, 2014 Accenture has been selected by FirstEnergy, a leading U.S. diversified energy company, to manage the roll-out of approximately two million smart meters to its customers across its four Pennsylvania-based utilities, including Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power and West Penn Power.This represents one of the largest new Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) deployments in North America and the contract signing follows approval from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.FirstEnergy will install more than two million smart meters over the next several years, meeting all the functional and business requirements outlined in Act 129 passed by the Pennsylvania legislature in 2008.Under a multi-year contract, Accenture Smart Grid Services will advise FirstEnergy on managing its AMI program by providing services in areas such as program management, business process design, change impact and communications, vendor management, solution architecture, testing and smart metering network operations.The new AMI platform will deliver significant operational efficiencies, support new and existing customer services programs, and enable FirstEnergy to gain actionable business insights through better visibility into real-time data."Smart meters will ultimately create a two-way communication between us and our customers that will help us better understand their energy needs, improve our service, and balance supply and demand more efficiently," said John Dargie from FirstEnergy. "After a rigorous selection process, we chose Accenture due to its extensive experience in smart metering deployments and we look forward to leveraging this experience to help us de-risk the implementation and allow us to meet our timeline.""We are excited to be working with FirstEnergy, one of the country's largest utilities, on this important and transformational project", said Jack Azagury, global managing director for Accenture Smart Grid Services. "Smart metering provides a critical and foundational capability as utilities undertake the journey towards a smarter, more resilient digital grid. Our research has shown that utilities are successfully leveraging the data from smart metering solutions through advanced analytics to drive innovative customer propositions, improved reliability, and reduced cost of operations."


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Today, I spent some time looking at the game Little Big Planet. I love the idea behind this game. User-created content really makes it easy for game developers to sit back and enjoy watching other people enjoying their game. I haven't had a chance to dig into the controls and look "under the hood," but I'm pretty confident that I'll enjoy it.
I think the thing that makes me like it so much is that unlike Löve, I don't have to know a programing language in order to take advantage of this system's level development package. Also, it harkens back to the days of 2D scrollers, which anyone my age has a soft spot in their heart for. I'll reserve my final judgement until I get my grubby mitts on a copy and make a few levels and such myself, but I think this is a good jumping-off point for further studies in game "balance" for me – if there is such a thing.


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lakerevolution wrote:I had Thaddeus and Victor on my Fantasy squad their rookie season, and I loved it. Glad to see them doing well -- I coveted them for the Lakers but now we seem to have our own young core
Yeah imagine if you had Dipo this season, you are currently in 1st place as it is. Who has Dipo, I don't even know?


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Human League are best known for "Don't You Want Me", a great piece of psychotic eighties synth pop far more threatening and insidious than "Every Breath You Take". Listening to it in context on the new compilation, Human League: A Very British Synthesizer Group, its interesting to note how that hit tent-polled the band's career. At the beginning of the double-disc collection, Human League is decidedly unpoppy, experimenting with pure Gothic dourness on the foreboding debut "Being Boiled" and spiraling off into pure electronic textures on "The Dignity of Labour (Part 3)". This is daring stuff, and certainly not the makings of a group destined for Atlantic-spanning number one hits. Yet the group gradually gets more traditional, through the melodic "Empire State Human" and a cover of Iggy Pop's "Nightclubbing" before landing on the crossover sound with the dance-floor natural "The Sound of the Crowd" and all the other tracks from their breakthrough LP, Dare, which includes such sparkling fusions of frosty synths and singing and sing-long pop on "Love Action", "Open Your Heart", and of course, "Don't You Want Me".
After this point, the edge starts getting worn off for good. There are fine singles to come by way of "Mirror Man", "The Lebanon", and "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", but by the time Human League gets to their next massive hit, "Human", there is more than a whiff of sell-out. "Human" has its cheesy nostalgic appeal, but you definitely might find yourself reaching for the "next" button on your CD player a lot more often while listening to Disc 2. Who would have thought that the band that terrified pseudo synth vampires with "Being Boiled" in 1979 could be soothing dental patients a mere seven years later? Still, the first disc of A Very British Synthesizer Group is more than deserving of regular rotation.


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15 April 2010
Australian population reaches 22 million thanks in part to skilled migration
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released an update on the nation's population, which reached 22,066,000 on September 30, 2009.
Australia saw an increase of 451,900 people during 2009, a very high of 2.1 per cent, with the majority of the growth, 66 per cent, was due to Australian immigration.
The remainder of the population growth, 34 per cent, was due to natural increase.
Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he saw the problem of population growth in terms of planning for future demand.
The intake of migrants had been scaled back as the economic crisis hit and would continue to be dictated by workforce needs. For the period ahead we've got to be very mindful of where the pressures still exist in the economy for more skills," Mr Rudd said.
"This is always a year-by-year proposition depending on where we're at, what skills we need, and what we aren't able to generate locally."
In 2009, 297,400 people emigrated to Australia, 3.1 per cent or 9000 more people than the previous year.
The Australian Visa Bureau is an independent consulting company specialising in helping people lodge their Australia Visa applications with the Australian Embassy.


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Frequently Asked Questions of CEF
Claremont Educational Foundation is a local non-profit educational foundation devoted to raising money for all Claremont Unified School District (CUSD) schools. CEF collaborates with the school district and the community to assist in providing all students the best education possible. CEF is the district and school's primary partner in providing support and enrichment opportunities that help every student receive an impactful and achievement-filled education from CUSD. We distribute funds to each school throughout the district with a focus on art, music and technology enhancements.
CEF is a non-profit educational foundation run by a group of board members including dedicated parent volunteers with professional expertise in a variety of areas, including education, finance, development, business, the law, and marketing. CEF employs two part-time staff members – Director of Development, Liz Weigand, and Administrative Assistant, Brianna Miller. Please feel free to submit questions for the board by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
CEF's goal for the 2017-2018 academic year campaign is to raise the funds needed to support critical art, and music programs, along with technological improvements in all Claremont schools. CEF plans to raise $200,000 for the Claremont Unified School District. In addition to our primary grant to the district, CEF looks forward to continuing our offering of $10,000 in teacher innovation grants, another $10,000 in community partner grants and scholarships for SLICE of Summer classes.
Community contributions to CEF are instrumental to preserving an exceptional Claremont Unified School District education. CEF provides flexible funding that school principals can spend at their schools for art and music programs and technology not otherwise provided by the district.
CEF and PFA are both crucial parts of the funding mix that the district must assemble every year to keep CUSD schools strong. CEF is committed to an equitable distribution of funds across CUSD per school level, so that all students benefit. CEF supports program focused on art and music at the elementary level that would otherwise not be available without the additional funding. In addition, CEF gifts hardware and software to individual school sites offering additional support for the district's Common Core commitment.
The PFA supports materials, programs and events at individual school sites. PFA funds such things as classroom enrichment and supplies, school site improvements, playground equipment, student scholarships for field trips, and site-specific programs such as assemblies and parent-run community-building activities.
Since CEF provides an equitable disbursement of funds across district schools per level (elementary, middle and high school), all students benefit. CEF supplements each school's district funding for key enrichment programs and technology needed to accommodate new Common Core curricular requirements.
Each semester, CEF solicits applications from teachers for the Innovation Grant program, which supports creative projects that engage students in high-impact learning opportunities. The focus of the grants is innovation, offering teachers and principals the opportunity and incentive to experiment with promising new ideas. The grant proposals ideally align with CEF's areas of focus – art, music and technology.
CEF is the primary sponsor of the SLICE program. All coordination and administration of the SLICE program is under direct supervision of the CEF board. The SLICE summer program continues to address a need in Claremont by providing courses specifically designed to support enrichment, remediation and advancement. Due to CEF's commitment to the district's education priorities, no student is turned away from a SLICE class based upon ability to pay. Scholarships are made possible through critical community and business partner CEF donations.
The local business community is instrumental to CEF's successful annual gifting. Annually, over 40 businesses and professionals contributed over $100,000 in gifts and in-kind donations. If you are interested in learning more about the Business Partner program, please come to the CEF table or visit our website www.claremonteducationalfoundation.org


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Wake up
Wake up, Qaletaqa.
"Hrmmffgggrr...." Rustling.
The earth is breaking, Qaletaqa. It's time.
Finally, ancient eyes slowly opened from behind the trunk's gnarled bark, then closed again as a gaping maw opened to let out a huge yawn.
"The sleeper... has..."
He bent a branch town to scratch the left side of his trunk.
"... Yes yes, I am awakened."
As he slowly opened his eyes, an aftershock rattled the ground, loosening the soil beneath him... his roots gave way and he tumbled off the ledge where he had been sleeping and plummeted towards the ground, fifteen feet straight down. He flailed his limbs and in a shimmering light transformed into a stormcrow just in time to land chest first with his beak unceremoniously buried in the sand, next to the bonfire's ashes not twenty paces from the Den's entrance.
He flapped there for a moment kicking up dust, then stopped, pulled his beak out of the soil and shimmered once more as he retook his Tauren form.
"A rude awakening, at that..."
he muttered, just as another tremor knocked him off-balance and down to one knee.
"What in blazes?!"
A new day awaits, young one. Powerful forces stir and if you wish to face them you have much to learn.
"Spirits preserve me,"
Qaletaqa groaned as he got back to his feet.
"'Young'?! I am already nearly
. You once called me to be Plainsrunner to the Bloodhoofs for a generation, then once more to be Preserver to four tribes before this one. I'm
now, Earthmother... what more could you possibly want me to learn?"
Learn to shine!
He squinted as the sun broke through the trees. He brought up his hand to shield his eyes. He stepped forward to try to get back into the shade, only to find that at just the same moment, the branches gave way allowing the sunbeam to pour down on him again.
he murmured.
"Oh, you have GOT to be kidding me."
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Qaletaqa loped across the great plains of Mulgore. It had been months since he had been and warm, soft grass under his paws was a great comfort. He stopped at the edge of Stonebull Lake and shimmered back to his true form for a moment, dove into the water and exploded into bubbles. They cleared to reveal his sea lion form. He streaked across the lake floor, then lept out of the water and landed on the beach as a cheetah once more, then tore across the grass. The fresh air and communion with his homeland was reinvigorating.
He paused to drink at a well, ignoring the Venture Company thugs who whispered and pointed at him. Just then, another earthquake shook the ground and he lost his footing and fell sprawling into the water.
These earthquakes are conspiring to rob me of my dignity, it seems.
" he grumbled as he lapped at his wet fur.
He stepped inside the elder's tent, though the air buzzed with activity and no one seemed to notice him until Tahu noticed his arrival.
" Tahu beamed. "
You scoundrel! Would it kill you to write a letter every so often?
I've spent years trying to distance my reputation from yours, why would I go and throw all that away!
" Qaletaqa roared as he embraced his old friend.
Tahu smiled for a moment, then pulled away and became more serious. "
It was good of you to come. I think that you will appreciate what I have found.
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So in the various contexts, the message could be some sort of surrender, or a positive outcome being relayed to "Higher Ones".
"Gehenna" is much easier...."hell".
Source: Gaia Portal
Silents are empowered as Cosmics arise.
Florentines deliver the message to the Higher Ones.
Ecstatic communications are tempered with Joy.
Flowers are observed in Gehenna.


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These are like a Cheese-it but better and with a kick from some added seasoning!
Chili and Cheese Crackers
1 cup white whole wheat flour
4 tbs cold butter, cut into small squares
1 cup shredded sharp cheddar
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1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp chili powder
Coarse sea salt to sprinkle
With a pastry blender cut in your butter and flour until you have pea sized bits.
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I am back from my weekend in DC. I was honored by being invited to attend the 2nd annual Honoring the Promise for Susan G. Komen. It was held last Friday at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
I debated long and hard about whether I could go. After all I had just been in DC for the 3 day walk. It would mean buying a gown, buying tickets, re-organizing my calendar and business. Finally I thought about these past few years. I thought about the adventures I have had when I started to believe I COULD do the impossible. After Glenn stepped up and gave me some miles (so I could fly free....) I was committed and immediately knew it was the right thing.
Of course last minute Allison and Chris did the best they could to squeeze me into their busy lives. Allison was in a leadership conference and would be around until an hour or so before the event. I knew I wanted her to be my date. She scrambled and got home just in time and threw on her dress grabbed her pink shawl and loaded her be-jeweled Mom into the car and got us to DC just in plenty of time to sip a blini before going into the event.
We stood on the red carpet - looked at the beautiful lights - and the beautiful people while we waited for the doors to open.
The Master/Mistress of Ceremonies was Hoda Kotb, co-host of the Today show and by far the best, most real, delightful person I have ever seen in that capacity. Oh, and by the way she is a Breast Cancer Survivor.
The awards went to Dandra Swain MD, for her work in the DC community bringing quality care to the under privileged. The Scientific and Medical Award to Charles Perou, PHD whose research into genomic studies allowed these genoms to be analyzed in breast tumors and determine the likelihood of recurrence and there by help tailor make treatment and for example avoid chemo when not warranted. Sarah Brown won the award for Global leadership for her work in not only the UK but in other countries in particular Israel. And finally a lifetime achievement award given to Susan Ford Bales the daughter of Betty Ford, in her honor. I don't need to tell you what Betty Ford did. Before she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, people didn't say those words out loud. She single handley shattered the stigma of breast cancer.
Each of these awards had significance. All were moving. But for me the award to Dr. Perou and the award to Betty Ford were especially moving.
When I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer I didn't have choices. To this day I am not sure if I needed to do the kind of destructive treatment that I followed at the time. I only knew, I had no other choice. As a result of my chemo I have scaring in my heart and damaged cells in a part of my brain. One of the survivors in the circle with me at DC benefitted from Dr. Perou's research. They determined she didn't have to have chemotherapy because of the type of Breast Cancer she had, recurrence would be a unlikely possibility.
But when Susan Ford Bales accepted the award on the behalf of her mother, I was moved to tears and was grateful I made a friend of the woman sitting next to me who gave me a Kleenex. Ms. Bales spoke with love and loss for her mother who at 93 passed away this past July. It reminded me how hard it is to lose someone we love, no matter what the age. But Betty Ford had changed many stigmas and we are all better for it. Breast Cancer is now openly discussed, as is addiction. She fearlessly worked on her past demons until she had power over them and thereby empowered all of us to do the same.
The performances were incredible; Miri Ben-Ari who is a Grammy winning violinist who has created her own unique blend of jazz, R&B and hip=hop from her classical training (with Issac Stern no less!) Afro Blue from Howard University who have been featured on the NBC show "Sing Off". But for me the one performance that spoke to me was Natasha Bedingfield. She sang Pocketful of Sunshine which sold over 3 million copies and melted into Unwritten which for me spoke about why I came on this trip in the first place. Read the lyrics (sing along if you know the words) and imagine me sitting in the balcony in the Kennedy Center smiling knowing, for me, I am writing my own story... and I love rain on my skin.
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something
in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open *****
Today is where your book begins
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open *****
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
The rest is still unwritten
Often in life we are stuck with what we know. We don't explore what is outside our window. We don't open our arms wide to grab life. We don't speak the words on our lips. We don't feel the rain on our skin.... That to some degree had been me. Each and every day I feel I see the road in front of me clearer, and I am less afraid of what is around the corner. I look forward to writing the rest of my story.
The event ended with a celebration and then a photoshoot.
They took photos while the rest of us headed to the elevator to go to the party upstairs on the Terrace level. Allison and I rode up the elevator with Wolf Blitzer. When the doors opened for the elevator we were flooded with a pink glow. I said "Wow it's pink!" One person said what did you expect laughing... I answered... "well I supposed I would disappointed if it was blue."
Food was laid out in at least four different rooms for the 1000 guests. Many of the guests were sponsors of the event. Those sponsors and donors brought in 2 million dollars on this one night. That isn't too bad! I have had people ask me why Susan G Komen? They are so large...they think it is better to support things that are more local. One thing that someone said on this night struck very true, They (Susan G Komen) are big enough to matter. They are big enough to wield power and make a difference. They fund research others won't touch. And from those have come some of the biggest advancements. Big is not always bad. In the world of Cancer big is GREAT if its an organization like Susan G Komen. They have invested over 2 BILLION in groundbreaking research and life saving communitiy health and advocacy initiatives. Cancer needs every big gun we can pull together to find a cure. AND we will find a cure.
Allison and I found a table to eat with two open chairs. I asked a beautiful young woman if we could sit down and she said sure. She was sitting next to another beautiful woman, more like my age. As we spoke I found out the woman was the Ambassador from Cape Verde. I told them how much I loved the music from there and they invited me to an event the Embassies are putting on, where there would be music from Cape Verde. I thought, shoot another DC party and I can't come! But I exchanged cards with her and told them they were welcome to come to SF and take a ride on our boat on the Bay.
As Allison and I wandered about I heard a voice "Cathy!" It was Kirk Hammond who was one of the survivors in the circle with me. Kirk walked in the DC 3 day walk in 2011 but in 2010 there was a team walking for her, she was going through treatment. She is a bright light, a Mom with a husband who looks like an anchorman you may know, but is an attorney. It was exciting to see her. She told me Leslie Kerns was also there another survivor from the circle and we hunted her down. It was a little harder finding her than it would have been in the 3 day where her hair was striking bright pink, but we found her anyway.
Allison and I left to drive back to Falls Church feeling so treated and so glad to have been able to go to this event.
Chris and the dog met us and we had one more glass of wine before bed.
The next day Allison had off, so despite the forecast for snow we headed out for an adventure. First stop lunch at a place feature on Diner Drive-ins and Dives. La Caraqueia in Falls Church, is a Bolivian restaurant and it was good!
After lunch we headed toward West Virginia and Loudon County, Va. The snow started shortly after leaving and got steadily heavier the further we went.
Looks like a wintry scene to me! We tried a couple of wineries, one was closed for an event, the other was just closed.
But we found a couple that were open and these people were very friendly and the tasting room was full of people who believe in adventure like Allison and me.
Corked Cellars was like going to the living room of an old friend. The owner used to be from Sausalito and his wine was good and reasonably priced. he also had local cheese, eggs and beef! We grabbed some of each and headed home.


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Down led by three points after 69 minutes but Jonathon Crowe's goal and Dermot McCabe's point then put Cavan in front before Ronan Murtagh's equaliser.
Ronan Sexton and Benny Coulter hit Down goals while Larry Reilly replied as Down led 2-3 to 1-5 at half-time.
Sexton hit Down's third goal early in the second half as they seemed set for victory before Cavan's late fightback.
For the most part it was a frantic contest although both defences will have major room for improvement ahead of next Sunday's replay at Newry (1615 BST).
Down had two great goal chances in the opening five minutes but both Coulter and Daniel Hughes were off target.
However, after Larry Reilly had opened the scoring with a Cavan point in the eighth minute, Down did rattle the net seconds later with Sexton producing a neat finish after Coulter had won possession ahead of Paul Brady.
Cavan regrouped to level by the 17th minute with Larry Reilly, Gerald Pierson and Dermot McCabe on target.
It could have been ever better for Cavan at that stage as Jason O'Reilly had missed a great goal chance.
Down then showed the Cavan forwards how to finish when Coulter hammered to the net after great work by Dan Gordon and Aidan Carr.
A point from substitute Martin Cole extended Down's lead to 2-1 to 0-4 and the Mournemen then went close to a third goal when James Reilly superbly diverted Dan Gordon's shot wide.
However, the sides were level again when Larry Reilly palmed the ball to the net as Jason O'Reilly and Seanie Johnston had ripped the Down defence apart with astonishing ease.
Down replied to lead 2-3 to 1-5 at the interval although Cavan made the better start to the second half with Seanie Johnston and Jason O'Reilly hitting immediate scores.
But within seconds, the Cavan defence was marked absent yet again and Coulter won possession 30 yards out and set up Sexton for his second goal of the day.
Pierson's third point of the match reduced Down's lead to the minimum by the 47th minute only for Coulter's terrific score five minutes later to double to the Mourne lead.
A glorious score from substitute Paul McComiskey and Ronan Murtagh's superb point seemed to have Down on their way to victory as they led by three with four minutes of normal time left.
Perhaps, the crucial moment of the match came a minute later when Coulter, uncharacteristically, wasted a great chance to hit an insurance score.
Given the defending that had been on show, there was always the likelihood that Cavan would get a goal chance but Down goalkeeper Michael McVeigh will have nightmares about failing to hold on to Jonathan Crowe's shot which squirmed out of his grasp and into the net, off a post.
Incredibly, Cavan then took the lead a minute into injury-time after a massive free from the superb Dermot McCabe.
It looked as though the Mournemen had been mugged but to their credit, they worked the ball downfield and Murtagh delivered a fine equaliser from 35 metres.
Cavan: J Reilly; P Brady. E O?Reilly, M Cahill; M Hannon, A Ford, R Flanagan; D McCabe 0-2, L Mulvey; R Cullivan, M McKeever, L Reilly 1-2; J O?Reilly 0-2, G Pierson 0-3, S Johnston 0-1. Subs: M Lyng for Cullivan (42 mins), C Mackey for Johnston (50), N Walsh for Mulvey (55), S Brady 0-1 for Pierson ( 61), J Crowe 1-0 for Brady (63).
Down: M McVeigh; D McCartan, D Rooney, K McGuigan; R Murtagh 0-2, B Grant, J Clarke; D Gordan 0-1, J Lynch; J McGovern 0-1, A Carr, R Sexton 2-0; D Hughes, P Downey, B Coulter 1-1. Subs: M Cole 0-2 for Clarke (19 mins), S Kearney for McGovern (48), P Murphy for Lynch (52), P McComiskey 0-1 for Hughes (60).
Referee: D Fahy (Longford).


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