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Confederate Memorial Day in the 1940s
Confederate Memorial Day will be this Thursday, April the 26th.
The pictures are of the Confederate Cemetery in Marietta. I am told it is the largest Confederate Cemetery in the South, and I'm willing to bet, anywhere outside the south also. It has 3000 residences. One of the residences is black. That will be for a future blog.
Back when I was in grammar school at Waterman Street School in the late 1940s each year on Confederate Memorial Day our teachers would herd us and all our other fellow students of the school out of the building and into the street where we would walk single file, or maybe two abreast, on the sidewalk the three or four blocks to the Square in downtown Marietta. There, we became part of a sea of other white grammar school students from all over Marietta.
White grammar school students? Yes, this was a "white only" activity. That was during the days of segregation. The Supreme Court ruled that Segregation was fine providing it was "separate but equal". So, the black school children had a march to the National Cemetery, which had Yankees buried in it on Memorial Day, or also known here in Marietta then as "Yankee Memorial Day".
We were each given a small Rebel flag with a small little staff. After we marched to the Confederate Cemetery we were to find a grave not yet stuck and stick the flag in it, near the headstone. Then we would have to stand in the hot sun and listen to politicians, Daughters of the Confederacy, and whoever else give speech after speech. Well, even though we didn't give things like that much thought at that age, we were a captivated crowd, just what speakers need.
Or, the more I think about it, we probably listened to the speakers first then scattered to stick the flags and scattered on out of there.
In the first grade my mother was worried that I would get lost in the crowd and somebody snatch me up. She gave my sister, who was probably in the 5th grade, strict orders to keep an eye on me and hold my hand after the meeting broke up and we were to go home.
My sister recalls that after it broke up she looked for me and couldn't find me. She frantically looked and looked and I was no place. She had to walk home alone and dreaded having to tell my mother that she had missed me, now I was lost.
When she got home I was playing in the yard.
I knew the downtown streets more than they realized.
Yes, I know these pictures are pictures I taken in a Fall season and I am talking about a Spring event, but its the best I can come up with.
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If you build it, cups will come….
Thought I'd peruse the internets and condense what's beeing said regarding the arena vote that passed last night. Read on for the details.
An 8-5 council vote passed last night based on a 17 part motion passed in April by the city regarding it's desires for the project.
- Maximum construction cost: $450 million
- $100 million – Daryl Katz
- $125 million – ticket fee
- $125 million – taxes/city funds
- $100 million – provincial/federal funding (not established)
The two sides will jointly work on a design. Not sure if one has absolute power or if an agreement must be made.
The city will own the 18,500-seat building
Katz will operate it, receiving all the revenues and covering all the costs.
Any cash made from naming rights go to Katz.
35 year agreement.

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Career Coaching in Brussels – is there a Coach for everything in Brussels?
There are many career coaching services offered in Brussels. In fact, in my opinion, there is a surplus of "career coaching in Brussels", which negatively affects our profession and more seriously, hundreds of thousands of young people and adults.
In Brussels you can see the word 'Coach' applied to any activity you could imagine: not only career coaches, but a wide range that covers everything from 'bicycle coach' to 'food coach'. And what about 'shopping coaching'? I'm not joking, all this exists and is promoted!


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According to the New Statesman, when the new UKIP MP, Douglas Carswell, sat in the spot in the Commons normally occupied by Steve Rotheram, the Walton MP said to him "Eff off out of my seat."
Does Mr Rotheram not know that it is an offence under Sections 4 and 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 to use "threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour" within the hearing or sight of someone who could feel harassed of threatened by them?
When a town councillor, one of my constituents was convicted under this provision simply for saying to the police "Don't come near me, I'm a ninja." Equally, Internet troll Liam Stacey was convicted under this Act for saying racist remarks on Twitter.
Why does Steve Rotheram appear to think the law offline should be more lenient than online, and members of parliament should get less stern treatment than anyone else?


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Sypnosis from Goodreads: Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad's finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot's coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding.
But change is looming on the horizon. And while Lara Jean is having fun and keeping busy helping plan her father's wedding, she can't ignore the big life decisions she has to make. Most pressingly, where she wants to go to college and what that means for her relationship with Peter. She watched her sister Margot go through these growing pains. Now Lara Jean's the one who'll be graduating high school and leaving for college and leaving her family—and possibly the boy she loves—behind.
When your heart and your head are saying two different things, which one should you listen to?
rating: 5/5 stars.
Whether you're one of my readers, or you follow my Instagram, you know that I'm absolutely smitten with this series. Once I found out Jenny Han was releasing Always and Forever, Lara Jean, I was over the moon with excitement. This was my most anticipated read of the year, by far.
First thing's first, I have to say: I'm so sad its over. This series has been a favorite of mine since the night I binge-read To All The Boys I've Loved Before in one sitting. I fell in love with the characters, the writing, and the story so quickly. Lara Jean holds such a special place in my heart, because in certain ways, she reminds me of myself.
Now, let's get into what I thought of this book! Spoiler free, of course. Not as fun for those who've read it, I know. There's so much to talk about!
Always and Forever, Lara Jean revolves around a lot of change. The main character, Lara Jean, is in her senior year of high school. She's head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter. She has all of her future plans figured out, until she receives news that changes everything. It's her final year at home, and there's a lot happening.
Quite a bit of time has passed since P.S, I Still Love You, and we get to see how Lara Jean and Peter are like in a serious relationship. There were plenty of cute little moments shared between them. Personally, I'm a huge Peter fan, so I was all about it!
As always, Han kept the amazing bond between the Song sisters in this story. As far as siblings go, their relationship is my favorite. It's realistic, yet adorable and hilarious to read. Kitty, the youngest Song sister, always makes me laugh. I'm going to miss her sassy remarks. You can't help but love her.
A lot happens in this book. We get to see how Lara Jean handles all of the struggles that come her way, and the huge decisions she has to make for her future. We watch her grow up, and mature throughout her final year at home, and some major high school events, such as prom. Margot comes home to visit, and we find out what she's been up to. Along with the exciting news that her dad is getting married!
And of course, we find out what happens between Lara Jean and Peter…
Overall, I'm happy with how this series ended. Were there a couple of moments I thought were unnecessary? Yes. Are there any things I would add to this book, and characters I wish we saw more of? Yes. That being said, I still loved every page.
I'm going to miss Lara Jean, Peter, and the rest of the Song family. This story will forever be one of my favorites, and it's the perfect YA contemporary read that never fails to put a smile on my face. Thank you, Jenny Han, for writing an amazing series that so many of us fell in love with.
And with that, I'll leave you with a quote from this book that I love:
"Never say no when you really want to say yes."


text: Anderson's mind is a very strange place, and this almost indescribable wackiness is further proof. In a grand send-up of all that is series books, it echoes Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and those with cliffhanger chapter endings; references Godzilla movies and offspring; talks to, at and around the reader and is generally awfully funny (and we do mean awfully). Our heroine is ten-year old Lily, whose dad works in an abandoned warehouse making stilts for whales. His boss, Larry, seems to be blue and kind of whale-like, although he has a lot in common with Dilbert's boss, too. It's pretty obvious that there's a nefarious plan at work, so Lily enlists her two best friends, Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut, and Katie Mulligan of Horror Hollow, who, like Jasper, already has a book series chronicling her adventures. The three figure out that the whales are about to take over the world, and they save it amid many explosions, catastrophes and asides from the author. Promises—or threatens—to be a series of its own. It doesn't get any better than this. (Fiction. 9-12)


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I recently had a very large 50 year old pine in my yard and had it chopped up into 3 foot sections for handling. I would like to season the wood properly and am not exactly sure how to get started other than coating the ends with an oil based poly urethane or other sealer.
I was able to seal the pieces which range from 4 inches across to nearly 3 feet across using said polyurethane w/in 36 hours. I do have some minor checking at one end of some of the sections
I was wondering should cut off some of the length where the checking has taken place?
Should I use a different sealer?
Should I split into halves?
I have some sections of this 50 year old pine with wonderful rings and I'd like to make a small end table out of it should I cut a disk from it and season that separately?
Should I… should I. I purchased some books and figured this would be as good a time as any to start on a basic project with relatively free wood and it would be a shame to let an old friend of 50 years just rot away.
Thanks for the pointers in advance I really appreciate it.
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This week the creatures made a new friend - Doo Doo Pickle - an extremely excitable young critter from Torquay, Victoria. Seeing as it was Doo Doo Pickle's first time in Sydney (and because of his contagious excitement), Milla the raccoon and Theodore the wombat took it upon themselves to show Doo Doo Pickle the sights of Sydney.
They started at the opera house, which was clearly not a disappointment! Then continued on to the botanical gardens.
Once they were inside the botanical gardens they consulted a map - mostly because Doo Doo Pickle wanted to, Milla and Theodore know it's almost positively impossible to get lost in the gardens.
They took turns scanning the horizon.
Then they came across the most cimbable tree they'd ever seen in their lives! It wasn't until they were halfway up the tree that they noticed this sign! Feeling a little bad they debated whether or not the sign applied to critters as well as humans - they decided it was definitely aimed just at humans.
After their climb they stumbling upon the prettiest tulips they had ever seen (Doo Doo Pickle was particularly pleased they were pretty much the same colour as him).
Then there was the best view they'd ever seen! This would definitely be a photo for the mantlepiece! After marvelling at the view for an extended period of time, the critters felt all the excitement had left them a little exhausted so it was time to head homewards.
These three critters plus many more will be available to buy at a lovely new shop in Torquay called Oishi-m.
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In ancient times, men tried to foresee the future by looking at the movement of birds. Decode the way they rose and fell on the wind, the Greeks thought, and one could get a glimpse into the mind of the Gods.
Out at the Little Rock National Airport these days, they're still doing something akin to that. Instead of trying anything as simple as seeing into the fates of men, however, the Little Rock Airport Commission and a group of paid consultants are after a peek into much cloudier waters: the future of the notoriously unpredictable airline industry. Their goal: update the Little Rock National Airport's aging terminal with an eye toward where Little Rock's travel demands will be five, 10, or even 20 years hence.
Sound daunting? Add to that skyrocketing fuel costs that might never come down; airlines merging, going belly up, or jumping ship on smaller airports like Little Rock (Frontier, one of eight carriers that had served Little Rock, pulled out of the market as of June 1, and the potential for international flights from Latin American carriers Aeromexico and Mexicana seems to have evaporated as well); security concerns we could have only dreamed of 10 years ago, and a potential price tag that could head well into the $100 million range before the project is finished, and it's easy to start thinking those old fellas in togas, squinting at their finches and wrens, had it good.
Whatever the case, say airport officials, Little Rock can't afford to wait for calmer seas. When the dust clears, they insist, the city will have a shining new doorstep (or at least one so vastly refurbished and expanded that you'll never recognize it) to greet the travelers of the new millennium.
If an airport is like a pump — pulling in arrivals, filtering them through security and baggage claim, gushing out departures — the terminal and gate complex at Little Rock National Airport long ago became too small for its fish bowl. Completed in 1972, the current terminal features only 12 gates; six of them staggered along a narrow concourse and the rest huddled around a circular rotunda at the end. Waiting areas at the gates are notoriously cramped. The truck-sized baggage X-ray machines squat in the lobby, next to the ticketing counters — which almost everyone involved agrees might be the most unattractive place possible to situate the noisy, grunt-work contraptions that scan luggage. Security — 1972 was long before anybody had ever heard of shoe bombs, remember — is confined to the throat of the corridor that leads to the gates, creating a textbook bottleneck. On some days, the line for security screening snakes through the terminal, past airport shops and restaurants, and down the escalator to the lobby.
One doesn't have to have a degree in engineering to know that almost all the major problems at the Little Rock National Airport terminal can be traced back to volume. Today, arrivals and departures at the airport are easily double what the terminal was designed to handle when new. According to figures collected by Jacobs Consultancy — the Boston-based firm hired to help make suggestions for what an expanded and refurbished terminal should look like — in 2008, there were an average of just over 8,000 arrivals and departures daily at the airport. By 2028, Jacobs projects, that figure will have risen to almost 13,000 passengers a day.
Jimmy Moses is the chair of the Little Rock Airport Commission's three-person Terminal Task Force. He admits that trying to plan for a new terminal when the airline industry is virtually seasick from recent financial ups and downs is "a very complex puzzle."
"It makes it very difficult," Moses said. "We're talking about long-term capital investment of millions and millions of dollars, and we're trying to work with airlines who are one week announcing non-stop service to one city and the next week terminating service to two others. It makes it very confusing and difficult to plan."
The Airport Commission started looking at expanding the terminal two and a half years ago, and Moses said that there has been some erroneous reporting about the terminal project in the past.
"We're not talking about do we build a new terminal or not build a new terminal," Moses said. "We're talking about, how do we create a better facility and do it in phases?" The current plan is a phased approach that will take the old structure down to the bones, piece by piece, and build back something totally new.
"Getting it done could take three, five, seven or even 10 years, depending," he said. "But we can't just sit still when we have to enhance our baggage claim or our screening area, or provide more ticket counters. We're not in the position where we can just sit around and wait on those things."
At the moment, Moses said, things are in the very early planning stages. Back in May, Jacobs Consultancy came to town and presented four possible layouts for a new terminal. The Airport Commission has yet to take up discussions on those possibilities as of this writing. While those four options have some major differences — whether or not to include a station that would serve as the terminus for a proposed 3.4-mile track extension to bring River Rail streetcars to the airport, for instance — there are enough similarities that one can see what amounts to a rough outline of the future.
In all the potential refits, every major area of the terminal will get a vast space upgrade, from a multi-lane security checkpoint to almost doubling the width of the concourse. Baggage X-ray and inspection machines will be moved to a more out-of-the way area, opening up the lobby and ticket counters. In three of the proposed plans, the rotunda at the end of the concourse is replaced with a more modern "hammerhead" configuration that can accommodate more planes. All the proposals would up the number of gates to 16 or 17.
Ronald Mathieu is the interim director of the Little Rock National Airport. He said Jacobs Consultancy has been vital in helping the commission sort through some of the more difficult issues involved in terminal renovation.
"What they've come back and said, which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, is that given the state of volatility of the airline industry … the far more reasoned approach is to say, well, how do we adjust the facilities at the airport for the future and not spend a lump sum at one time?" The answer, Mathieu said, is the phased approach, in which areas of the terminal are closed, refurbished and expanded, and then brought back online. Even with the current volatility in the airline business, Mathieu said, one thing is for sure: Planes will fly in and out of Little Rock National Airport in the future, and the terminal has to be ready for that.
"The reality that we're facing today is the incredibly high cost of fuel," he said. "I don't believe for a moment that the federal government will allow all the airlines to go out of business and put everybody in cars. I think the airlines are going to exercise some self-help with the consolidation and mergers, but at the end of the day, if it really tends to get worse … I think you're going to see the government step in and take some steps to protect their air transportation system."
Whichever of Jacobs' recommendations the commission decides to take to heart, Jimmy Moses said renovation and expansion will start where the need is greatest: enlarging the passenger screening area and getting the X-ray and baggage inspection equipment out of the ticketing lobby. Even before the recommendations from Jacobs came in, the commission had secured $16 million to accomplish those goals.
"Those are projects that we already have dollars allocated [for] through our TSA funds and had planned to spend money on this year and next," Moses said. "I think that we'll probably be looking at a refinement of our early plans and possibly even expanding what we do initially over our original thoughts of a year and a half ago."
Tom Schueck is a member of the Terminal Task Force. While he said the terminal makes a good impression for the city now – bright, clean and well appointed — it's just too small. When it comes to expanding, he said, he's all about space.
"The more space you can give me, the better," Schueck said. "Up there where security is, you go up that escalator and it's all jammed up. We want to get a lot more space in that area, and it's going to be kind of combined with the inline baggage [systems] in the remodel. We're trying to make up our minds on what to do there."
Schueck's desire for space extends to the size of the planes he'd like to see flying out of Little Rock in the future. He said that the Airport Commission is always negotiating with the airlines to fly bigger airplanes into Little Rock, as opposed to the smaller turboprops and regional jets. Currently, regional jets and turboprops make up around 70 percent of the traffic in and out of the airport.
"We could probably sell more tickets if we had bigger airplanes," Schueck said. "But getting the airlines to listen — you have to sell Little Rock to the airlines. You'd think they'd want to keep us happy, but it's the other way around."
So, what's it all going to cost, both in money and inconvenience for travelers? The easiest answer for now is, nobody really knows. All agree, however, that there will be some degree of inconvenience for travelers during the building phase. While that could have been avoided by building a new terminal elsewhere and keeping the old one online until a changeover, Airport Commissioner Bob East said financial factors made that impossible.
"With a new terminal," East said, "you build it, start using it, and then tear down the other one. But we're talking $250, $300 million dollars." A lump sum like that makes a phased approach, with its much smaller checks to write over 10 years, preferable.
While Moses said the price tag for the terminal expansion could "run well upward of $100 million," he stressed that the commission likely won't know about a final price tag until all proposals are in and the commission talks to the groups that will be involved in the decision making. Moses said he wishes the airport could simply approach local taxpayers to bankroll the bulk of the cost, but added, "We're not contemplating any sort of tax or overall request from the public to fund anything here. I'd be all for it, but I think one thing that Central Arkansas and Arkansas in general is a little short sighted on is public transit and how we fund that for the good of the state."
Instead, Moses said, funding will most likely come from more "traditional sources," such as the FAA, possibly upping the $4.50 per passenger TSA charge the airport collects, or "some novel ways to renegotiate airline agreements."
Airport Commissioner Virgil Miller, a banker at Metropolitan Bank, agrees that going to the public with a hand out would be the wrong way to accomplish the airport's goals. "The first thought is always, 'Go to the people,' " Miller said. "But I don't think you can afford to have that kind of thinking. We need to be creative and out of the box. I think we'll have to take a look at options we haven't discussed before."
Like his fellow commissioners, Miller said that it's probably inevitable that airport travelers will be subject to some amount of inconvenience during the reconstruction process. The payoff will be quicker trips through the airport in the future. "You can't have an omelet without cracking some eggs," Miller said. "I think it goes without saying that when we change up, there's going to be some inconvenience. But I think most people are going to understand and be patient. They understand that you have to put up with certain things to get your end goal."
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|Our Young Lady
A graduate
In winter garb
A student
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|Our grandchildren.
Russel, Helen, John.
John D. Jr.
|The whole family.
Jessie, Helen, Darkey, Coon, Biddie & her brood (top)
Jessie, Bob, Mother (bottom left)
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Hello ladies,
as promised here is the video how I create these backgrounds. The image is colored with Copics and the background is done with inks.
As fast as the background is colored in…
you can go very artsy here, there are not really mistakes you can make except loading your brush with too much water.
The coloring with the Copics on this paper is very time consuming and in my opinion rather difficult.
I have made cards using this technique for more than a year and I do have 2 packs paper at home but I rarely make these kind of cards because I do not find much pleasure coloring the main image in, if you know what I mean. However once it is done it does look nice and different.
A few notes I have made while I colored in and I want to mention here are
- Copics are kind of difficult to blend because the ink rather sticks to the surface
- my most and trusted colors appear on this paper totally different than on x-press cs
- I have to adjust my coloring technique in a different way than when I use Copics. I usually color from light to dark.
- Copic dry time is much longer – smudges therefore easily.. be careful with hands
- ink sticks to front and dries there – as mentioned.. it needs to be worked with the very tip of your brush Copic to smooth the ink out.
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It's becoming increasingly clear that the FBI "investigation" of Hillary and company in connection with her unsecure, homemade server was a sham from the beginning.
A tremendous disservice to the concept of justice, and a colossal waste of taxpayer money.
Sunday, September 25, 2016
3 comments:
- RebeccaH said...
I say reserve a cell next to Hillary's for James Comey.
- September 25, 2016 at 11:06 AM
- Veeshir said...
Most transparent administration ever!
You can see right through them.
- September 25, 2016 at 3:21 PM
- Isophorone said...
See also here:
- September 26, 2016 at 5:12 PM
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30 ottobre 2008
To my American friends
Just take a look at European countries under a socialist governement....
And before you vote, ask yourself this question: Who do you think is the most capable to protect you and fix the economy? Really....
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It looks like not many people listened to your sound piece of advice.
- 11 novembre, 2008 02:33
- Anton Sherwood ha detto...
There are no non-socialists in Washington. Nobody for President!
- 22 novembre, 2008 03:28
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The group, funded by the developer, contractor and architect for the 134-unit development, needs only 9,702 valid signatures to qualify their measure for the Nov. 5 ballot. A spokesman for the effort said he was "absolutely" confident they had met that mark.
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A referendum on the Board of Supervisors' June 2012 approval of a special height-limit increase for the project already qualified for the ballot after 8 Washington opponents turned in more than 31,000 signatures a year ago.
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The dive site Sandy Cove is a shallow sheltered cove in the north Oudekraal area on the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Information is provided which may assist in planning Recreational and Research Scuba diving at this site, and links to photographs of marine organisms that have been found there.
The site is popular for open water training exercises, refresher courses and testing equipment when you don't need depth. For some purposes it may be considered confined water. It is also the entry area for some really good dives. (see Geldkis, Geldkis Blinder, Strawberry Rocks, Mushroom Pinnacle and Het Huis te Kraaiestein)
Name "Sandy Cove"
The site name is a simple description of the site. It is a small sand bottomed cove protected by large boulders on the seaward sides.
On the north side of the point at north Oudekraal.
This site is in a Marine Protected Area (2009)
This site is a shore dive. Park at the side of the road on the outside of the bend on the north side of the Twelve Apostles Hotel. The path starts near the signpost and after a steep descent curves round to the north between some trees and a granite boulder. It continues north-eastwards and then splits in several directions. The first branch is to the left to the entry for Justin's Caves, The second continues more or less straight down a slope to a shallow gully between big boulders. There is an old piece of rail and small boulders in this north west entry point for Sandy Cove and the other North Oudekraal dives. The third branch is to the right, uphill slightly and through between some bushes, then down over the rocks to a shallow sandy gully, with a small beach at low tide. This south-east (closer to the road) entry point has a sand bottom with large granite boulders on both sides. The boulder on the right is convenient resting place for fins, camera etc when making final preparations for entry. The access at both these points is very protected and safe in almost any conditions you might consider diving.
None. Security is no better than other raodside parking areas in the area.
Often good during or after south easterly winds. The cove is exposed to north westerly swells, which could produce poor visibility and uncomfortable or hazardous conditions.
The site is usually at it's best in summer but there are also occasional opportunities during autumb and early winter.
The bottom is generally shallow, with a maximum depth of about 4m on the sand.
Sand bottom with surrounding boulders of Pre-Cambrian granite of the Peninsula pluton
The cove is almost surrounded by large number of granite corestones of various sizes, and has a flat sand bottom. The surrounding rocks provide protection from the seas and as the site is close inshore, it does not get the worst of the south easter. There are several small caves and swimthroughs under the group of large rocks directly opposite the sandy gully.
Cold water, hot sunshine.
Skill level
The site is very popular as an entry level training venue because it is so well protected, and getting lost takes some effort. It is suitable for checkout dives and would be considered confined water for training purposes by some agencies. It is also a suitable site for snorkelling and night dives.
Not recommended as a photographic destination, but who knows, you may be lucky.
No special equipment recommended, but a good site to test new equipment.
Marine life
Most of the marine life seen in this cove is on the rocks around it and in the rocky areas to the west. Shoals of small fish occasionally enter the cove, but are usually very shy. The small caves and swimthroughs under the rocks opposite the sandy gully shelter a colourful and fairly diverse range of invertebrates, and the rocks outside the lagoon area are covered by a profusion of red and brown seaweeds, with a few greens.
Suggested Routes
No particular routes recommended.
Views of the site from the shore.
Sandy cove from near the parking area. In the background are the rocks of Geldkis and Strawberry Rocks. In the foreground is the entry gully.
The south east entry point at Sandy Cove at low tide.
Sandy Cove seen from the side of the road from the Camp's Bay side, looking towards the west. The cove is in the middle of the photo and is obviously well protected from the south west swell.


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The influenza season is upon us in earnest. As of 1/9/16, the Health District had received reports of only four influenza-related hospitalizations and no influenza-related deaths, heightened school absenteeism, or outbreaks in long term care facilities. However, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett has reported more influenza-related hospitalizations in the past week and The Everett Clinic has reported marked increase in testing and positive results for influenza. Nationally, rates remained low as of last week, but reports are increasing. Public health laboratories have most frequently reported influenza A, with influenza A (H1N1) viruses predominating.
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Action requested: Consider Zika virus infection in patients with acute fever, rash, arthralgia, or conjunctivitis, and who have traveled to areas with ongoing transmission in the two weeks prior to illness onset.
Background: Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus. Outbreaks of Zika virus disease have been reported previously in Africa, Asia, and some Pacific islands. As of 15 JAN 2016, local transmission of Zika virus had been identified in at least 14 countries or territories in the Americas, including Puerto Rico, other Caribbean islands, and Mexico. (see http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_topics&view=article&id=427&Itemid=41484&lang=en). Spread to other countries in the region is expected. Although local transmission of Zika virus has not been documented in the continental US, Zika infections have been reported in travelers returning to the US and the number will likely increase. Imported cases may result in local spread of the virus in the continental US via human-to-mosquito-to-human transmission.
About one in five people infected with Zika become symptomatic. Clinical illness usually is mild with symptoms lasting for several days to a week; severe disease requiring hospitalization is uncommon and fatalities are rare. During the current outbreak in Brazil, Zika virus RNA has been identified in tissues from infants with microcephaly and from fetal losses in women infected during pregnancy, and Brazil has reported a marked increase in the number of babies born with microcephaly. However, it is not known how many of the microcephaly cases are associated with Zika infection and what factors increase risk to the fetus. Guillain-Barré syndrome also has been reported following suspected Zika virus infection.
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Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange NYSE Industry Prepackaged software Sub-IndustryN/A SectorComputer and Technology Current SymbolNYSE:SQ Previous Symbol CUSIPN/A Webwww.squareup.com Phone415-375-3176Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio0.80 Current Ratio1.54 Quick Ratio1.54Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio-678.50 Forward P/E Ratio-3,392.50 P/E Growth35.38 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$2.21 billion Price / Sales12.67 Cash FlowN/A Price / Cash FlowN/A Book Value$1.99 per share Price / Book34.10Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)($0.10) Net Income$-62,810,000.00 Net Margins-0.87% Return on Equity-1.11% Return on Assets-0.35%Miscellaneous Employees2,338 Outstanding Shares413,500,000Market Cap$28.06 billion OptionableOptionable Square (NYSE:SQ) Frequently Asked Questions What is Square's stock symbol? Square trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SQ." How were Square's earnings last quarter? Square, Inc. 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The company provided EPS guidance of $0.12-0.13 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.15. The company issued revenue guidance of $446-451 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $438.54 million.Square also updated its FY 2018 guidance to $0.45-0.46 EPS. What price target have analysts set for SQ? 33 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Square's shares. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $115.00. On average, they anticipate Square's share price to reach $85.2414 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 25.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Square. What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Square? 33 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Square in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 12 hold ratings and 19 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Square. What are Wall Street analysts saying about Square stock? Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Square stock: 1. According to Zacks Investment Research, "Square continues to benefit from its growing gross payments volume. Further, contributions from Weebly and Zesty buyouts remain major positives. Additionally, strong product lines such as Virtual Terminal, Instant Deposits, Cash Card, Square Register and Caviar are performing well. Hence, these are aiding the company's top-line growth. Also, improving business loan processing via Square Capital is a tailwind. Further, growing adoption of Cash App in the bitcoin space remains positive for Square's business growth. Notably, the stock has outperformed the industry it belongs to over a year. However, higher investments and increasing product development expenses might hurt margins. Further, intensifying competition and foreign exchange fluctuations remain headwinds." (1/9/2019) 2. Cantor Fitzgerald analysts commented, ": We maintain our Overweight rating on Square and raise our 12-month PT to $91 from $76. We are attracted to the company's increasing market penetration, end user growth and improving margin profile, driven by SG&A leverage and an increasing margin contribution from other services. Square reported results above expectations and raised 2018 revenue guidance, while providing color regarding 2019. Gross Payment Volumes continued to see out-sized growth in the period. We expect rapid growth to continue and foresee further margin expansion going forward, although our expectations have moderated, driving stock performance." (11/8/2018) 3. Stifel Nicolaus analysts commented, "We are raising our intermediate and long-term revenue forecasts and increasing our price target to $100 from $76 as we believe the ongoing penetration of larger merchants, Square's new partnership efforts, and the company's emerging financial services offerings (Cash App) will lead to higher levels of growth than previously forecasted. Partially offsetting our higher revenue estimates are a reduction in our FY:19 adj. EBITDA margin reflecting a higher level of investment in key strategic investment areas (omni-channel, financial services, and international) than previously modeled. We continue to believe Square is building a uniquely positioned omni- channel retail ecosystem and is effectively expanding its total addressable market with new products / features. Below we outline a few of the key areas that we believe will drive growth over the intermediate term." (9/19/2018) Has Square been receiving favorable news coverage? News stories about SQ stock have been trending very positive on Tuesday, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Square earned a news impact score of 3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the technology company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. Who are some of Square's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Square include salesforce.com (CRM), VMware (VMW), Intuit (INTU), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), ServiceNow (NOW), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Autodesk (ADSK), Electronic Arts (EA), CA (CA), Splunk (SPLK), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Shopify (SHOP), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Citrix Systems (CTXS) and Synopsys (SNPS). Who are Square's key executives? Square's management team includes the folowing people: Mr. Jack Dorsey, Chairman, Pres & CEO (Age 41)Mr. James Morgan McKelvey Jr., Co-Founder (Age 53)Ms. Sarah Friar, Chief Financial Officer (Age 45)Ms. Hillary B. Smith, Gen. Counsel and Corp. Sec. (Age 51)Ms. Alyssa Henry, Seller Lead (Age 48) When did Square IPO? (SQ) raised $324 million in an IPO on Thursday, November 19th 2015. The company issued 27,000,000 shares at a price of $11.00-$13.00 per share. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan served as the underwriters for the IPO and Barclays, Deutsche Bank Securities, Jefferies, RBC Capital Markets, Stifel, LOYAL3 Securities and SMBC Nikko were co-managers. Who are Square's major shareholders? Square's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Scout Investments Inc. (0.05%), Daiwa SB Investments Ltd. (0.03%), Regents of The University of California (0.03%), Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc. (0.02%), Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.02%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.01%). Company insiders that own Square stock include Ajmere Dale, Alyssa Henry, Hillary B Smith, Jack Dorsey, Jacqueline D Reses, James Morgan Jr Mckelvey, Mary G Meeker, Sarah Friar, Sivan Whiteley and Ventures Iii LP Khosla. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Square. Which major investors are selling Square stock? SQ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Scout Investments Inc., Eagle Capital Management LLC, Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, Arlington Financial Advisors LLC, Oakbrook Investments LLC, Intl Fcstone Inc., HMS Capital Management LLC and Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC. Company insiders that have sold Square company stock in the last year include Ajmere Dale, Alyssa Henry, Hillary B Smith, Jack Dorsey, Jacqueline D Reses, James Morgan Jr Mckelvey, Mary G Meeker, Sarah Friar and Sivan Whiteley. View Insider Buying and Selling for Square. Which major investors are buying Square stock? SQ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Regents of The University of California, Daiwa SB Investments Ltd., CMH Wealth Management LLC, Sterling Investment Advisors Ltd., Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc., Hershey Trust Co., Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management UK Ltd. and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Square. How do I buy shares of Square? Shares of SQ can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. What is Square's stock price today? One share of SQ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $67.84. How big of a company is Square? Square has a market capitalization of $28.05 billion and generates $2.21 billion in revenue each year. 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Friday, April 04, 2008
Seeing Ghosts*
By Meron Rapoport
Author Alon Hilu remembers the moment when the Tel Aviv landscape changed before his eyes. "I was sitting in a cafe near Dizengoff Center, a totally Tel Aviv landscape, and suddenly I saw how this landscape could be different - orchards, an Arab landscape. Like a glimpse into the past." We are sitting in a Herzliya cafe, in a high-tech landscape. Hilu's successful new book "The House of Dajani" (in Hebrew) takes place in Arab Jaffa just before the Jews established Tel Aviv and 50 years before the Arabs abandoned the orchards there. He continues: "A while later I was sitting with my wife in a cafe in the Tel Aviv port, and this past was haunting me, like a ghost. I thought that I could see before me the Muslim cemetery next to the sea, suddenly even the sea looked Arab to me; I don't know how a sea can look Arab."
Author Alon Hilu remembers the moment when the Tel Aviv landscape changed before his eyes. "I was sitting in a cafe near Dizengoff Center, a totally Tel Aviv landscape, and suddenly I saw how this landscape could be different - orchards, an Arab landscape. Like a glimpse into the past." We are sitting in a Herzliya cafe, in a high-tech landscape. Hilu's successful new book "The House of Dajani" (in Hebrew) takes place in Arab Jaffa just before the Jews established Tel Aviv and 50 years before the Arabs abandoned the orchards there. He continues: "A while later I was sitting with my wife in a cafe in the Tel Aviv port, and this past was haunting me, like a ghost. I thought that I could see before me the Muslim cemetery next to the sea, suddenly even the sea looked Arab to me; I don't know how a sea can look Arab."
Eshkol Nevo is the same age as Hilu, 36, and was a classmate of his at a Jerusalem school for a while. For him, the discovery of the Arab past of this country was slower and more incidental. When he began to write "Homesick," which became one of the biggest best-sellers of recent years, he knew that the story would take place in Maoz Zion, a small community near Jerusalem where he had lived in the past. Every time he drove to Jerusalem he stopped in Maoz Zion.
"During these forays, I saw all kinds of ruins that I hadn't noticed when I lived there," he says. These were the ruins of the Palestinian village of Castel, on which Maoz Zion was built. "I began to ask questions, I began to read, to meet with people," says Nevo. His book was supposed to deal with the Israeli longing for a home, for a stable place. "And I understood that I couldn't write about longing for a home without writing about the longing of the original owner for his home," he says.
Uri Balter, 25, a student in the School of Architecture at Tel Aviv University, arrived at Jaffa's past not out of choice, but as part of his class work. Balter was given the assignment of planning a preservation project for an Arab "well house" in Jaffa, one of the dozens of magnificent homes that were built above wells in the center of the orchards that once surrounded the city. The house now lies in ruins in the heart of Tel Aviv, a reminder of a lost civilization.
"Just as I researched the origin of the house's flooring," says Balter, who produced the exhibition "Well Houses" that was displayed at the Bashdera Gallery in Tel Aviv last month, "I looked for the person who created this house." The meeting with the Palestinian owner, who lives today in a community near Kiryat Malachi and longs for the house he built and the orchard he cultivated, left Balter saddened and with a clear sense that "it's impossible to confront the future if you are unfamiliar with the past."
Without our noticing it, the taboo regarding the Palestinian past of this country has been broken. The past has entered the mainstream, including the best-seller list. In A.B. Yehoshua's short story "Facing the Forests," the Palestinian who burns the forest that was planted on the ruins of his village is mute. In Hilu's book, "The House of Dajani," the Arab child Salah, who predicts in 1895 that the Jews will exile the Arabs from their homes and that on the lands of his estate on the banks of Wadi Musrara three towers will rise - one square, one triangular and one round - never stops talking. The longing of Saddiq, the Palestinian handyman in "Homesick," who rediscovers the home of his birth in Castel-Maoz Zion, is stronger than the inconsistent longings of the Jewish families who live in his house at present. He is the silent hero, even when they throw him into prison because he tried to take the gold chain his mother left behind in the house when she fled 60 years earlier.
"Homesick" sold tens of thousands of copies in the original Hebrew. "The House of Dajani" is high on the best-seller list, and was published by Yedioth Books, a pillar of the cultural establishment. Nevo and Hilu have just returned from France, where they were sent by the Foreign Ministry to participate in the Israeli pavilion at the Paris International Book Fair. The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality sponsored the "Well Houses" exhibit.
"We are always getting inquiries from journalists, researchers, script-writers," says Eitan Bronstein, CEO of the non-governmental organization Zochrot (Remembering - http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/index.php) which works to commemorate the Nakba ("catastrophe," the Palestinian term for the Israeli War of Independence). "We cannot respond to all of them. The inquiries do not come from members of [the far-left organization] Matzpen. These are Israelis who identify themselves totally as patriots. Look how many articles there were about the construction project in Sumail (the remains of a Palestinian village on Ibn Gvirol Street in Tel Aviv), and it's only a small and not very important village."
Hilu says that the initial desire to deal with the Palestinian past came from his Mizrahi identity (Jews of North African or Middle Eastern origin). "My parents were born in Damascus, they spoke Arabic at home, but they were ashamed. Instead of saying 'Damascus' they would say 'abroad,'" he says. He himself, a gifted child, grew up among the Ashkenazi (Jews of European origin) elite, and always felt he didn't belong. In his first book, "Death of a Monk," he explores Damascus, the culture of his forefathers.
He considers "The House of Dajani" a direct continuation of "Death of a Monk," because "I wanted to remind myself that we are living in a European enclave within a Muslim space; I wanted to restore to the Israeli landscape its Mizrahi character. It was easy for me because I myself am Mizrahi." Hilu reread S.Y. Agnon's book "Tmol shilshom" ("Only Yesterday"), which takes place during the days of the Second Aliyah (wave of immigration, 1904-14). "Agnon arrives in Jaffa and sees the ground of Eretz Israel. He doesn't see the Arabs. He de-Arabizes the landscape. I Arabized the landscape, perhaps I countered his de-Arabization."
Hilu knew in advance that the hero of this book would be a Palestinian boy who sees the future, who knows that soon the entire situation will be different. Afterward, Salah, the boy who sees the future, joined Haim Margaliot Kalvarisky, a (real) participant in the First Aliyah, who purchased land in Eretz Israel. "I knew in advance that I would situate the story in Tel Aviv," says Hilu, who himself was born in the Dajani Hospital in Jaffa. "Tel Aviv is the holy of holies of Zionism, it was born from the sands, I wanted to touch the most painful point."
Hilu deliberately uses the Arab names of the places so familiar to every Tel Avivian. The Ayalon River is Wadi Musrara, the Yarkon River is Nahal al-Uja, the Hilton Hotel is the Muslim cemetery. And all the space between them is covered with orchards cultivated by Palestinians, long before a single Jew set foot in this place.
Hilu began to visit Jaffa and Tel Aviv, accompanied by people from Zochrot and alone, and soon learned to identify Jaffa's past by peering through Tel Aviv's present. "I developed a special eye," he says. "When I see parking lots, I know that there are Arab traces: Menashiya has become one big parking lot; the vestiges of Sheikh Munis are concealed between the university parking lots. All that remains of the Palestinian presence are houses, and ghosts emerge from these houses and echo in our ears. In order to get rid of them, you have to embrace them. The same way you get rid of a dybbuk."
A book like "The House of Dajani," which tells the Palestinian story, should have been written 20 or 40 years ago, says Hilu. But on second thought, he adds, perhaps it could be written only now. "Eshkol and I are the same age, and it's possible that the ability to write about these things without fear is something that belongs to our generation," he says. "Our generation is more inquisitive, freer of personal blame and more interested in knowing what happened. The past is less threatening to us." In his opinion, Israel's acceptance of "Mizrahiness" also helps young Israelis to deal with the Arab past.
Hilu believes that another reason for the preoccupation with this past is the realization that "the conflict with the Palestinian is a chronic disease. Like a mortgage, it's for your entire life." He doesn't think that the right of return is a solution. "I'm the good Zionist, precisely because I'm aware of the injustice. It's because I want the State of Israel to continue to exist that I think we have to find creative solutions. Israeli society must be aware of the past in order to save itself."
Eshkol Nevo comes from a different background. His grandfather was prime minister Levy Eshkol, one of the pioneers of the Second Aliyah who settled on the lands that people of Kalvarisky's ilk "redeemed" by expelling the tenant farmers who lived on them. While doing research for the book, Nevo met Palestinian refugees for the first time. "I would return from those meetings profoundly depressed," he says. "It's hard to reconcile their narrative with ours. I felt the extent to which the myth of return is still alive among them, and I said to myself: If they haven't given up, then how is it at all possible to reach an agreement with them?"
And nevertheless, Nevo felt some kind of identification with the Palestinian Nakba stories, and therefore was not afraid to center his book around the handyman Saddiq. "Alon (Hilu) and I were born in 1971," says Nevo. "During the Yom Kippur War we were 2 years old. For our generation, the question of whether or not Israel would survive did not exist. We grew up with confidence in our place, confidence that there is a state. Therefore I can hear another story. I don't adopt it, but I listen to it. I can give room to the Palestinian story without fear that it will burn me, as is the case with A.B. Yehoshua."
When he wrote "Homesick," Nevo felt that he was doing something new, something cool that had not been done before, and therefore he was surprised by the ease with which the book was received. In meetings with readers, which he has been holding since the book was published in 2004, the question of the Palestinian refugees always comes up, especially on the part of the "generation of grandparents." But even there, he did not encounter hostility. In his opinion, that is also a sign of the new atmosphere surrounding this topic.
Even Hilu, in spite of the more biting content of his book, did not encounter hostile reactions. "They even recommended it on (the religious station) Radio Kol Hai; they only asked me not to talk about the romance between Kalvarisky and Salah's mother."
"The thousands of people who read Alon's book will look at the Azrieli Towers differently," says Nevo, "and this awareness will extend to broader circles." "Homesick" is already being studied for the matriculation exams, so that Saddiq's dilemmas are being studied today in many schools. Nevo declares that he is a member of Zochrot, but at the same time he is a loyal Zionist and he utterly rejects the idea of the right of return as a political solution.
"There is emotional justice in the Palestinian narrative, and it is important that it be studied and heard. The challenge is how to deal with it without ceasing to be a Zionist, without losing the meaning of our existence here."
Balter also feels that this approach due to the new generation. He comes from a right-wing religious home. "Had my father received the project of preserving these houses, he would have related to them differently," he says. "He would have said: 'We won, and we earned these palaces honestly. They are ours.' I didn't see Jaffa prior to the War of Independence; I don't have the fear of my parents' generation that it's them or us." The project changed his view of Tel Aviv: "Suddenly I understood that the orchards in the paintings of [Nahum] Guttman and [Reuven] Rubin are Arab orchards; suddenly I understood that Tel Aviv rose from the sands because that was the cheapest land, because the Arabs didn't want to sell their orchard lands."
Balter feels an obligation to preserve these houses, just as in Berlin they are preserving the Jewish past of his family. He, too, is a Zionist. He, too, is opposed to the right of return. But he thinks it is impossible to ignore what was here beforehand. The well houses that have remained in the area of the Central Bus Station, in Abu Kabir, in Jaffa, he says, "are the ghosts that force us to deal with reality. It's strange that they taught us that it's possible to forget. Truth is the basis for a solution."
"Forgive us, land. Forgive us, beloved country," writes artist Danny Karavan in the "Well Houses" catalogue, "because we were too young, because we didn't know how to ask and didn't know how to see, because we were brainwashed." Karavan, who is much older than Hilu, Nevo and Balter, does not think that what his generation did during the War of Independence was a crime. He himself sustained a foot injury from a bullet fired from Jaffa to Hayarkon Street. And still he begs forgiveness.
"I am begging forgiveness for not treating the Arab culture as a culture," says Karavan in a telephone conversation from his studio in Paris. "Forgiveness for destroying this culture, its homes, its landscapes. We wanted to erase the past, but the past cannot be erased, and no culture exists without its past.
* http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/971506.html, Thu., April 03, 2008.
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