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1983 Ma Jian, a photographer, painter, poet, and writer, set out for the most remote and roughest parts of China. Dispirited and fearful, accused at work of having "a sluggish mentality," confronted with a failed marriage, an estranged young daughter, and a girlfriend involved with another man, he abandons Beijing and a life he can no longer endure. Red Dust is the account of his travels, a remarkably written and subtly moving journey toward understanding. A dropout, a fugitive from the police, a Buddhist in search of enlightenment, Ma Jian embarks on a three-year trek that takes him from the deepest south to the western provinces and Tibet, journeying across deserts, over mountains, through icy rivers. And as he travels to increasingly remote areas, his circumstances become increasingly straitened: He stays in filthy inns, sleeping four to a plank bed, learning to wait until his companions fall asleep and then lying on top of them. To support himself, he buys a pair of scissors and becomes a roadside barber, sells scouring powder as tooth whitener, lives by his wits posing as an enlightened religious man. His sense of humor and sanity keep him intact--"Danger is not exciting," he tells a friend, "it's just proof of your incompetence." The greatest hardship he faces is disappointment--or perhaps his own honesty. Tibet offers no enlightenment ("Is Buddha saving man or is man saving Buddha?" he asks); his own restlessness undermines his yearning for love. Ma Jian's portrait of his country provides no understanding of its enigmas, no neat generalizations, no sweeping predictions. It simply reminds us of China's scale, its shadows, and, ultimately, its otherness.
Author Notes
Ma Jian was born in 1953 in Qingdoo, China. In 1986 he moved to Hong Kong, where he published novels, essays, short stories & collections of poetry & reportage; edited political & cultural magazines & founded a publishing company. He currently lives in London.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Booklist Review
Chinese-born Ma, a journalist and novelist in China and now a resident of London, tells the saga of his elusive years in China as he attempted to maintain his own freedom of thought and expression amid an ambience of total state control. Faced with imprisonment, he fled to the countryside, eventually making his way to Tibet. His journey, undertaken during the first few post-Mao years, is presented as a combination travelogue and a narrative of sheer poetry and spirituality. Prior to his trek, he was constantly under surveillance and often called in for questioning. Ma was told, "Don't look so pleased with yourself. If we want to, we can make you slowly disappear." Instead, he disappeared before they could carry out their threat. Traveling through the large scale of China's geography, Ma girds himself for his return to Beijing. "There are still many white mountains to cross but I am on my way home. They cannot hurt me now. I have changed." So will the reader after encountering this brave new book. --Allen Weakland
Publisher's Weekly Review
In 1983, squirming under constant government scrutiny and mourning a failed marriage, writer and photographer Jian abandons his home in Beijing to journey to China's western border with little more than a change of clothes, two bars of soap, a notebook, a camera and Whitman's Leaves of Grass. It is the beginning of an arduous three-year voyage that takes him not only through little-traveled regions of China, Myanmar and Tibet, but through a careful examination of what it means to be a Buddhist, to live in post-Mao China and to exist in his own skin. A skilled storyteller, Jian narrates in prose that is spare and often beautiful his encounters with people who live in a region that "even today... is a place of banishment, populated by political prisoners, descendents of Turkic migrants, and the ghosts of buried cities." From the night he spends crammed under a bus seat next to a pile of dirty socks and clucking hens to his escape from Chinese militiamen who mistake him for a Burmese spy, Jian tells a powerful story that is no mere travelogue. Indeed, his journey exposes him to so many risks getting bitten by sheepdogs in the grasslands along the Yellow River, drinking foul lake water that knocks him unconscious that the sheer number of life-threatening incidents begins to dull their impact. Still, Jian offers a revealing, riveting portrait of a Chinese citizen who seeks truth and honesty in a society in which such a quest can be grounds for punishment. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Library Journal Review
Although billed as a travelog, this perceptive memoir represents a spiritual as much as a geographical journey. In the early 1980s, Jian, a writer, poet, painter, and photographer, became dispirited with his work and personal life in Beijing and set out on a three-year voyage across some of China's most remote areas in an attempt to learn about himself by learning more about his homeland. On the journey through China to Tibet, he visited mountains, deserts, lakes, Buddhist monasteries, a leprosy camp, overpopulated cities, and small villages, encountering unusual as well as straightforward characters along the way. This book, which has not been published in China, is an attempt to portray post-Mao China as seen through the eyes of a wandering man. And the one-man viewpoint interwoven throughout is certainly an important part of its appeal. Clearly not a conventional travel book for tourists contemplating a trip to China, this insightful and heartfelt rendition of China's far-flung landscapes is recommended for all libraries, especially those with specialized collections on China and Asia. Melinda Stivers Leach, Precision Editorial Svcs., Wondervu, CO (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
|A Note on Names
|p. vii
|1. Red Walls
|p. 1
|53 Nanxiao Lane
|The Frozen Blue Sky
|A Man of Thirty
|Men in the Dark
|Writing My Self-Criticism
|Mixing Blood and Urine
|Launch of the Campaign Against Spiritual Pollution
|Back in the Public Security Bureau
|Leaving Nanxiao Lane
|2. Dust Storm
|p. 59
|Emerging from the Gate of Hell
|First Steps
|Living in the Night
|The Gold-Digger
|Stuck in Suoyang
|Resting in the Gale
|The Living and the Dead
|Lure of the Distance
|3. Drifting Through the West
|p. 103
|Hairdressing in Golmud
|Fishing on Qinghai Lake
|Racing Down the Ravine
|Meeting Ma Youshan
|The Girl in the Red Blouse
|4. A Country in Ferment
|p. 133
|Back to the City
|Night Sprinkler
|River of Ghosts
|5. The Wind-Blown Soil
|p. 167
|City of Tombs
|Lost in the Wastes
|Flies in Scrambled Eggs
|6. Wandering Down the Coast
|p. 203
|House of Memories
|Time Is Money
|Day and Night
|Building a Park Within a Park
|The Opening Ceremony Becomes the Closing Ceremony
|Walking to the End of the World
|7. The Abandoned Valleys
|p. 231
|The Silent Beat of the Drum
|Entering a Strange Circle
|Abyss of Desire
|Rain Over the Leprosy Camp
|Mountains Behind Mountains
|8. Life at the Border
|p. 261
|Old Shabalu
|Into the Jungle
|From Traveller to Fugitive
|Selling Chiffon Scarves in a Traffic Jam
|9. A Land with No Home
|p. 289
|Buddha and the City
|Same Path, Different Directions
|The Woman and the Blue Sky
|In the Sky, on the Road
|Road and Direction


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Jacksonville State was picked to repeat as the Ohio Valley Conference softball champion, it was revealed Thursday.
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|2 Sword
Flint & Steel in Salt and Sanctuary is a Sword type weapon.
A single-edged broadsword with a wheellock revolver ingeniously grafted into the hilt. Devised by the Choir of the Dome of Light and perhaps testament to their sin, its design draws heavily upon influences from Kar'hi legends in which descriptions of similar weapons are relatively common. Owing to its considerable recoil when firing, two hands are required to steady the blade while operating the trigger.
Press [Triangle] while wielding this weapon in both hands to fire equipped ammunition.
Notes and Tips:
- At 50 Dexterity this weapon has an Attack of 92.7 at tier VII.
- Unlike regular pistols or crossbows, you can equip a charm along with the Sword/bullets since the sword itself is also the pistol. Has massive ranged damage potential if built properly. (200+ dmg per shot)
- Gun shots with this weapon have a significantly slower rate of fire than off-hand gun weapons.
- Like other gun weapons, this weapon has a 1.5x damage multipler on its gun shots (but not on its melee attacks).
- Melee attacks with this weapon deal purely Slash damage while the damage of its gun shots is split into 50% Slash and 50% Strike damage.
Location/Where to Find
- Can be acquired by Transmuting certain Swords with Whisperlady's Ashes, an Amber Idol and 3,500 Salt. Not every sword can be transmuted into it. The Varangian Spatha, which can be purchased from Blacksmiths, can be used.
Several bugs have been reported while using this weapon:
- Equiping Flint & Steel and a pistol in your off hand, and then firing the pistol may cause the pistol to permanently disappear from your inventory.
- The following actions may crash the game while Flint & Steel is equipped (may also require that you have ammo equipped as well): Doing a 'stomp' finishing move on a downed enemy; changing rings; using magic
- Equiping a charm while using Flint & Steel can randomly cause the charm to be permanently removed from your inventory.
Moveset and Videos
- Videos go here
Flint & Steel Upgrade Table
|Dex Scale
|Lock of Hair x1
|Lock of Hair x2
|A Soldier's Poem x1
|A Soldier's Poem x2
|A Lord's Orders x1
Flint & Steel VI
|A Lord's Orders x2
Flint & Steel VII
|A King's Orders x1
- This weapon is likely drawing its inspiration from Final Fantasy VIII where the main Character Squall Leonhart wields a so-called "Revolver" that is also a two-handed Sword with a built-in revolver handle. The icon of Flint & Steel also shares a similar look like Squall's Gunblade.
- Anonymous
09 Jan 2019 22:44
Nice name.
- Anonymous
25 May 2017 00:53
using the revolver at the end of a three hit combo doesn't use ammo. GG.ReplyReplies (1)
- Anonymous
21 Apr 2017 07:00
is there any way to speak to the devs about this weapon? i'd love for them to add a feature of pressing triangle while swinging it to use ammo to increase damage of the swing. paying homage to the timed attack of FFVIII. also would it make it unbalanced to have it as strength and dexterity scaling, maybe if you lower the grade a little?ReplyReplies (0)
- Anonymous
16 Apr 2017 16:20
There were some scary bugs in the past with this thing, but I just beat my first run on the Vita with a mix of this and the Glaive, it feels more like a really fast sword with a built in shotgun than a pistol. The DPS was pretty insane, far more practical than I expected.ReplyReplies (0)
- Anonymous
10 Jan 2017 21:06
You can still right click attack with this even if you're not able to wield it. But it's just a normal swing instead of a shot and can't combo.ReplyReplies (0)
- Anonymous
don't lose the equipped charm unless you die14 Aug 2016 15:23
Must die with charm equipped to lose itReplyReplies (0)
- Anonymous
Ammo?09 Aug 2016 14:15
I'm unable to even equip ammunition for it, nor do I honestly know how as there's no explanation at all from what I've seen, seeing as it will only let me equip a charm.ReplyReplies (1)
- Anonymous
Only PS version got bugs?08 Jun 2016 00:13
The PC version definitely has no bugs.ReplyReplies (0)
- Anonymous
It is fixed yet?01 Jun 2016 17:15
Been wanting to main this weapon for a long time, but seeing all these bugs I am afraid to use this.ReplyReplies (0)
- Anonymous
It's quite worth it!29 May 2016 00:52
This weapon is definitely worth it. It is in my opinion the most fun weapon in the game due to it's versatility and the sheer fun and badassness (that's a word now) of finishing something off in a blaze of fire and bullets... Or electricity or poison, whatever type of bullets you prefer, everything is compatible with it. As for the bugs, I haven't experienced any of them. You should probably know that I am playing this game on pc, I don't know if this also goes for PS4. I've just got this weapon for two days, but I've been spamming ring/charm swaps to check for the bugs and the stomp animation also didn't give me any issues. I guess this response to the question "Is it worth it" kind of turned into a review of this weapon, so let me take the opportunity to tell everyone reading this that this is a unique weapon which actually blew me away when I finally got my hands on it. It is worth noting that the sword must be handled with both hands to be able to fire it. Also, the shooting option takes away the ability to perform a heavy attack, but uppercuts are still possible. Every bullet is compatible, there is the option to equip this beast with whatever charm you like and it has a decent A-scaling in dexterity. So is it worth it? If the bugs are affecting your game, you can easily work around it by swapping to your secondary loadout and swap rings/charms or stomp on people's faces. I can imagine it's a bit of a bother and it might cause it to be not #wurf. If you are, like me, presumably bugless, then do give this a shot (heh, get it?)! Happy hunting!ReplyReplies (0)
- Anonymous
Is it worth it?02 Apr 2016 18:32
So, is this weapon really any good? It seems really awesome, but also really buggy. Is it worth it?
- Anonymous
Bug...26 Mar 2016 16:36
Everytime I shoot the Flint and steel my charms disappear.... WTF WHY?!?!ReplyReplies (2)
- Anonymous
Bugs23 Mar 2016 18:45
Do not equip a pistol with this weapon. Shooting the gun in your off hand will delete the gun.
- Anonymous
More nasty bugs.19 Mar 2016 20:34
Do not STOMP an enemy while two-handing this weapon. Similar to the ring switching crash, it will also crash your game. The weapon is so awesome it crashes the game in several ways...
- Anonymous
Nasty Bug18 Mar 2016 03:55
Warning: Do not change rings if you have ammo with this blade on with a charm, it crashes me a LOT. (my character is Female)
Transmutation17 Mar 2016 22:19
I've found that I can't transmute the Arming Sword or Tachi into this, but the Virulent Scimitar works fine. It looks like Flint & Steel is a class 2 Flintrazor, and I'm thinking maybe it can only be transmuted from class 3 or higher swords? I'm not sure what's going on, but this is just my experience.ReplyReplies (2)


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"There is something I need to talk to you about." Alex was being a bit more mysterious than usual. This usually wasn't the first thing Alex talked about when they met up for lunch on campus.
"Like what?" Logan squinted as he shifted his heavy back pack while they waited in line at the cafeteria.
"Its-its about Sami." Alex was even lipped, without expression as he spoke of her. "I-I might have said some things I-I shouldn't have."
"You, saying something, you shouldn't have?" Logan thought it funny. Alex didn't.
"She's not over you." Alex informed him.
"Hold up," Logan shook his head. "What are you talking about?"
"I think she still wishes..that.."
"No. Not Sami. She's-" Logan sighed.
"She's messed up." Alex said. "What happened to her? Was it bad parenting? The divorce?" Alex looked away. "Maybe she can't help but be unhappy. But I can't have her, making you feel bad."
"About what?" Logan didn't really need to know the answer. "I'll talk to her."
"Do you have to?" Now Alex sound a bit jealous, Logan hadn't expected that.
"Look, she's-she's still my friend." Logan guessed even if they hadn't really talked. Had they ever? Logan bit his bottom lip. Maybe, they really needed to talk.
Monday, September 19, 2011
its not easy being green
Posted by Unknown at 3:26 AM
8 comments:
- ivy said...
I'm glad Alex was honest.
- September 19, 2011 at 6:57 AM
- Cafe Fashionista said...
At least Alex is trying to help. :/
- September 19, 2011 at 7:08 AM
- ellie's desk said...
I think Alex cares.
- September 19, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- Lux and Stan said...
Alex is a good boyfriend.
- September 19, 2011 at 2:59 PM
- molly said...
I'm glad Logan has Alex.
- September 19, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- Natalie said...
I am glad to see Alex admitted that, secrets just get worse the longer you keep them.
- September 19, 2011 at 7:30 PM
- She is Sara said...
Maybe he can get her to talk and she might be a happier person?
- September 19, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- Josie said...
I hope he can get her to open up...
xo Josie
- September 21, 2011 at 2:17 AM
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From suits to prison greens - disgraced former NSW minister Eddie Obeid has spent his first night behind bars after being jailed for corruption.
His Silverwater cell is a far cry from the lavish multi-million dollar Hunters Hill mansion Obeid woke up in on Thursday.
Hours later the one-time Labor kingmaker, credited with the rise and fall of three NSW premiers, was sentenced to a minimum three years' jail for wilful misconduct in public office.
His spectacular fall from grace comes after Obeid was found guilty in July of lobbying a senior public servant, in a 2007 phone call about a series of lucrative Circular Quay leases without revealing his family's stake in them.
His offence was not failure to disclose those interests but in communicating with the public servant for the purpose of advancing his or his family's pecuniary interests, Justice Robert Beech-Jones said in handing down the maximum five-year sentence.
Premier Mike Baird says his government will move to amend legislation next year to ensure the former Labor kingpin is stripped of his $120,000 a year parliamentary pension.
The corruption scandal, which has plagued NSW politics for years, had made "everyone sick to the stomach", Mr Baird said on Thursday.
"My hope is it never happens again," he said.
Former Labor premier Kristina Keneally, who was dogged by the accusation she was Obeid's puppet throughout her leadership, welcomed the sentencing saying "justice has been done".
While her predecessor Nathan Rees, who was rolled in 2009 after losing Obeid's support, was one of several to slam the Labor playmaker for undermining the public's confidence of NSW parliament and politicians.
The Baird government says it will recover about $280,000 worth of taxpayer-funded legal assistance given to the former MP to fight his court case.
Obeid's barrister has indicated he will appeal the conviction and sentence.
The 73-year-old, who has nine children and 33 grandchildren, has a "constellation" of medical issues and in August suffered a mild stroke.
While the judge accepted he would receive superior medical treatment in the community, he said his treatment would be "adequate" in jail.
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The SME from Kyiv (Ukraine) offers an air-heater for reducing the energy consumption in ventilation systems and increasing the coefficient of transformation heat pump (HP) of air-air or air-water type at temperatures below minus 5 °C using the heat of crystallization of water. Installed power of HP is reduced. The organization is looking for partners to implement this offer in the form of a commercial agreement with technical assistance or technical cooperation agreement.
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In the northern countries of Europe, Asia and America, the amount of frosty days is from 70 to 200 per year. Such conditions in winter make it possible to heat the air before the evaporator of the heat pump (HP) to -3 – 0 ºС. This increases the coefficient of transformation (COP) by 25-35%. At the same time HP can work at temperatures -20 – -50ºС. The developed technology also provides up to 50% energy savings for ventilation in winter and is especially advantageous for rooms with a large ventilation rate. With simultaneous application of this technology for HP (before the evaporator) and for ventilation systems (in front of the air coolers) in frosts, up to 60% of energy can be saved. Due to the high heat of crystallization (334 kJ / kg), the water consumption is insignificant. The resulting ice can be accumulated for summer cooling (storage of products, air conditioning, cooling of data centre rooms).
The organization is looking for partners - SMEs working in the field of heat supply for industrial enterprises and utilities sectors to participate in the joint design and production of new air heaters. The preferred form of cooperation is a commercial agreement with technical assistance or technical cooperation agreement.
This technology leads to:
- reduction of installed capacity and power consumption in HP and traditional preheaters of ventilation systems,
- allows HP operate in frosts without the use of expensive ground heat exchangers,
- decrease investment,
- decrease of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. The technology is ecologically absolutely clean.
Three types of air heaters were developed using the heat of crystallization of water, one of them was made as a pilot sample, with sufficient capacity for ventilation of a cottage. In 2016, in Kyiv it underwent tests. At the time, the air was heated from minus 11ºС to minus 4-5ºС and its consumption was sufficient for ventilation of the building with an area of 100 sq. m (the first degree of preheating in front of a traditional air heater).
9 patents of Ukraine for the utility model
Engineering organizations - for the purpose of joint designing in the form of technical cooperation agreement, representatives of manufacturers of heat pumps of air-air, air-to-water types, manufacturers of ventilation equipment and communal organizations - for the implementation in the form of a commercial agreement with technical assistance.


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Museum Piece - Richard Wilbur
Patrol the halls on spongy shoes,
Impartially protective, though
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Here dozes one against the wall,
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A Degas dancer pirouettes
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See how she spins! The grace is there,
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Edgar Degas purchased once
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Richard Wilbur (b.1921) was born in New York City and grew up in my home town of North Caldwell, New Jersey. He has twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, once in 1957 and again in 1989. It was a poem of his called Running which initially inspired this poem project. I did not post it until last year. You can read it here.
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Before we get into the drama and goings-on of Tuesday's episode of RHONY, I need to get this out of my system: Carole Radziwill is 50?! Who knew?! Not only does the woman look great, she just doesn't seem 50. I can't be the only person who thinks this, right? She definitely seems younger than a 50-year-old woman. Man, good for her! Okay, moving on ...
The main event of the show was Carole's very well-planned, very thought-out birthday party, which had a lovely Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil theme and, naturally, was chock-full of drama. First, we had LuAnn de Lesseps crying and confessing to the girls that she and Jacques called it quits after four years of European bliss. Then we had Harry Dubin giving Sonja Morgan a promise ring. Then we had Harry Dubin leaving with LuAnn de Lesseps moments after placing the ring on Sonja's finger.
As we all know, Harry has made his rounds in the Housewives of New York crew. He was married to Aviva Drescher and dated both Sonja and LuAnn in the past. But this season, Harry's been all about Sonja, and likewise, Sonja's been all about Harry. Though it never really seemed like they were necessarily the ones for each other, they had a cute thing going on. They were kind of like your rich, nutty aunt and uncle from Bethesda or something. It's safe to assume that many people were behind their odd and unconventional romance, and when Harry presented Sonja with a beautiful ring that symbolized an eventual proposal, we all thought it was a nice moment, right?
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So how in the hell did he wind up leaving with LuAnn?
Things seemed to be going great at the party with Harry and Sonja. They were laughing, talking, kissing, and making plans for the future. But all of a sudden, when Sonja went over to Ramona Singer to show her her finger party, Harry walked over to LuAnn; talked to her for a minute; then said, "Let's get out of here"; and the two made off in a cab -- without even looking at Sonja! It was truly one of the oddest things ever. Was a giant piece of footage edited out? It's hard to understand how the hell that even happened? And how could either of them do that to Sonja?
Presumably, we'll get the full story next week during the final episode, but if she hasn't already, I'd advise Sonja to stay away from Harry. Clearly, once and cheater, always a cheater. And she may want to think about getting some new friends while she's at it.
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Fest bestows Special Achievement Award for second timeChristoph Waltz, who plays the evil Hans Landa in "Inglourious Basterds," will receive a Special Achievement Award at the 12th annual eDIT Filmmaker's Festival, running Oct. 4-6 in Frankfurst, Germany.
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Waltz won the best actor award at the 2009 Festival de Cannes for his performance.
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Waltz will receive the award during the Oct. 4 opening gala, hosted by Roland Koch, minister president of the State of Hessen.
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Legitimate Horse Racing betting sites in Australia
by SportingFreak.com • July 25, 2016 • Horse Racing
Of the international horse racing bookmakers that are licensed in the Northern Territory, you would most likely find elite bookmakers like Ladbrokes, William Hill and bet365 at the top of the list. All three of the powerful gaming conglomerates operate a core business over in the U.K. It was only in the past 4-5 years that these particular bookmakers have been able to establish operations directed specifically for the benefit of Australian punters. This notion raises the question, "How does one go about find legitimate horse racing betting sites located down under."
Defining Legitimate
Before you begins the search for an online bookmaker that provides punting services on horse racing, you need to understand exactly what defines a legitimate horse racing betting site. There are three criteria that make an online bookmaker a legitimate site in Australia. First and foremost, they must be licensed and regulated by the government. For the provinces in Australia that have legalized online gambling laws, the primary a licensing authority is the government in the Northern Territory. You will need to make the appropriate queries to determine your eligibility to wager online.
Next, a legitimate horse racing site will provide access to as many international horse racing venues as possible, even if the primary focus is put on horse racing in Australia and New Zealand. You should be wary of bookmakers that only provide access to punting on a few tracks. Why would you settle on a bookmaker with a limited product when so many top-level bookmakers offer wagering on the top race tracks from all over the world.
Finally, betting options and odds should be considered a major factor when choosing a site. Legitimate bookmakers are usually looking for ways to give its customers the maximum amount of value for their wagering dollars. This is accomplished by offering a complete menu of betting options as well as access to multiple tote services where the best fixed odds and pari-mutuel odds can be compared and found.
Other Important Criteria
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Next, information is king in the horse racing industry. By providing horse racing picks and a relevant horse racing tips blog free of charge, bookmakers can give you a little something extra to think about while you are trying to make your selections. It will be up to you to read the horse racing tips blog to determine which horse racing picks you want to use.
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Based on the above criteria, it should be infinitely easier for you to isolate 3-4 legitimate bookmakers that are worth using. Australian punters are lucky because they not only have access to a nice selection of Australian-based bookmakers, but they can also gain access to some of the top bookmakers with historical ties to the U.K.
Of the current Australian-based bookmakers that seem to check all the boxes based on its ability to provide quality services with extra value, CrownBet, Luxbet and Sportsbet would certainly have to be considered the top three on any experts list. They all provide great access to horse racing venues from all over the world, along with a nice selection of promos that can keep you in the game long enough to make that coveted big hit.
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Jamie Wood
grew up in Natchez, Mississippi, about 170 miles from New Orleans. She eventually moved to California, where she has spent most of her adult life. In 1988 Jamie formed the Roadhouse Rockets, and while her sound has evolved over the years to include Chicago, Kansas City and West Coast blues, today her sound is very much her own. Her style is firmly rooted in blues, with a rhythm section reminiscent of the small swing combos of the 30's and 40's. One might say it's a marriage of blues, 40's jazz and post-war swing. Jamie's southern heritage, together with her performing arts background and stage charisma, make her a natural at blues and all its dialects. Her influences include Ella Mae Morse, Ernestine Anderson, Anita O'Day,
Big Mama Thornton
Memphis Minnie
Dinah Washington
Helen Humes
Julia Lee
Jimmy Rushing
, Fats Waller and
Louis Jordan
, just to name a few. In 1996, Jamie was invited to BB Kings in Universal City, California as one of the three women representing female vocalists in the blues genre at the
Willie Dixon
Foundation event, organized by the Southern California Blues Society, and was honored for her outstanding performance at this event. She is featured on a Pacific Blues Recording Co. compilation entitled "That Left Coast Is Swingin" released in 1999.
Other artists on this compilation include
Kid Ramos
Lynwood Slim
, Rick Holmstrom and
San Pedro Slim
. In 2001 the Jamie Wood Band, featuring Johnny Rover, played the 13th annual Battle of the Blues Harps, Southern California's premiere blues harp show, where Jamie had the distinction of being the first female to front a band in that venue. Concurrently, "Flyin' High" was released on Bluestime Records in Brazil, where it was kicked off by a very successful 3 week promotional tour which covered several Brazilian states, including Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Fortaleza. During this tour Jamie and Johnny Rover were the headliners at the International Blues Harmonica Festival in Sao Paulo. They returned to South America in 2002, and regularly thereafter, where they are always received with great enthusiasm. "Ain't No Doubt About It" was released in the U.S. in April 2003 on the Pacific Blues record label, and it is also available in Europe through Crosscut Records, Red Lick, El Toro and Bertus. This CD received critical acclaim around the world. It was the number 4 CD of the year on the European "Collectif des Radios Blues", and was in the Top 10 on U.S. charts such as "Blues Bytes," a monthly online magazine of blues CD reviews.
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Buddy Guy
John Hammond
Jonny Lang
Jimmie Vaughan
Dr. John
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Rod Piazza
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Eric Sardinas
Kid Ramos
) and the 15th Annual Battle of the Blues Harps (with
Rod Piazza
& The Mighty Flyers,
Gary Primich
Johnny Dyer
James Harmon
), along with regular club dates. Jamie's most recent CD, "Hollywood Confidential," released on Pacific Blues, features her usual dynamite line-up and she stays true to her authentic retro sound, but kicks it up a notch with horns added ..ed tracks. Jamie has just returned to the U.S. after two years in Quebec, where her band is comprised of Martin Gagnon (piano), Colin Perry (guitar), Ben Caissie (drums), and
Mike Reilly
(stand-up bass). Notably, she recently appeared in the Grandes Dames du Blues Tour, the Heritage Jazz Festival and the Mont-Tremblant Blues Festival, and was nominated for the distinctive Lis Blues Award in 2007.
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Choosing the Right Technology Stack for your Startup
There are many technology stacks available out there (from WAMP, LAMP to MEAN stack), and choosing the right stack for your startup might come off as a hassle. Up until you decide the right stack that suits your purpose, experimenting or trial and error approach might take a lot of your resources, be it funding, energy or time.
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Peter Irniq
Peter first attended Residential School in Chesterfield Inlet, NU in 1958. Like many young Inuit who went through the Residential School System, Peter was later sent to the Churchill Vocational Centre in Churchill, MB.
"I have always maintained that southern Canadians have a right to know what we went through at the Residential School. Health care givers have a right to know what we went through at the Residential Schools. You see, with the Residential School my generation of Inuit went through quite a lot. We were sexually abused. We were physically abused. We were mentally abused."
Born in 1947 in Naujaat/ Repulse Bay, Nunavut, Peter Irniq began attending the Sir Joseph Bernier Federal Day School in Chesterfield Inlet in 1958. Peter also attended Sir John Franklin School in Yellowknife 1963 – 64 and was later sent to the Churchill Vocational Centre in Manitoba with many other Inuit to receive training in a southern trade. Today, Peter is an Inuit cultural teacher, a consultant, and an accomplished public speaker who has held several political offices, including serving as the Deputy Minister of the Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth in 1998 and 1999 and Commissioner of Nunavut between 2000 and 2005. Having been brought up by the residential school system to learn the Qablunaat way of life, Peter has since campaigned successfully to have Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, or IQ (Inuit traditional knowledge), incorporated into the Nunavut and Canadian systems of government, as well as to have Inuit language and cultural programs integrated into Northern classrooms.
I remember my very happy times when I was a little boy prior to going to the Residential School in Chesterfield Inlet. I lived much like my parents as a very traditional Inuit, the Inuit lifestyle. I was always dressed in Caribou clothing in the winter time and switched to store-bought clothing in the spring and summer time. We already had Hudson's Bay Company traders trading with the Inuit for furs and sealskins and carvings and things like that when I was just a little boy. I grew up as a seal hunter, as well as caribou hunter, and a trapper in Naujaat/Repulse Bay.
We noticed one summer day in August 1958, a boat was coming up to our outpost camp. As Inuit we lived in a tent at this particular outpost camp where we used to fish every spring when the fish were swimming downstream, Arctic Char. In August of that particular year we noticed a boat coming to our outpost camp in Naujaat/Repulse Bay. So as usual my mother started to boil tea outside, with heather. She was making tea for the visitors that were coming into our outpost camp.
When the boat got there the Priest came off, the Oblate Priest came off the boat first and said to my father that he came to pick up Peter Irniq and that I was going to school in Chesterfield Inlet. Well, there was a bit of commotion at that point because my parents were not consulted about the fact that I was going to be going to school. So here I was going into a boat leaving my parents for the first time in my life in 1958 and I was going to school in Chesterfield Inlet.
In a few days I was going to fly for the first time on a Beaver, a one-engine Beaver airplane on my way from Naujaat to Chesterfield Inlet to go to school. There was no consultation prior to the departure, which was the way we were picked up by Roman Catholic Priests whether you were in Naujaat/Repulse Bay or whether you were in Igloolik or in Gjoa Haven or Pelly Bay. There was no prior consultation with my parents.
So when we got to Chesterfield Inlet we were met by Grey Nuns and a number of people. A year before I had learned a little bit of English words here and there from Roman Catholic Priests, two of them, who were In Naujaat/Repulse Bay. So I learned a few words like "seal" and "caribou" and "box" and "fish" and things like that, and we learned how to say "what is your name?"
So when we got off the plane I noticed this very small Oblate member of the Staff standing next to me and he said, "What is your name?" And I said, "Peter", almost whispering because I was really, really shy to learn to speak English. So he said, "Peter?" Yeah, "Peter." So he was one of the people who met us and he was part of the Roman Catholic Staff. He was a Brother within that group of the organization. They brought us to this big Turquetil Hall residence. There they took our clothes, our traditional clothing. I was wearing sealskin boots. They took all of our traditional clothing and for the first time I saw and wore shoes. For the first time I saw a pair of jeans. For the first time I saw a short-sleeved shirt and that's what we were wearing.
We had overnight become White men and White women, little children. We were beginning to be taught to become like a European at this particular school. It was very strange to me when I first went to this school because I just wasn't used to going to school. There was a blackboard. Actually, it was a green board and our teacher was a Grey Nun. There were a, b, c at the school and a few pictures of the world, a map of the world, and pictures of the Pope on the side of the wall and a picture of the first Grey Nun, or a Nun some hundred or couple of hundred years before. So that was the first thing I noticed in that particular classroom when we were brought into this classroom.
We had a very large dormitory where they had about forty beds, or maybe a little bit more. The beds were all lined up. We had a huge, huge dormitory for the young boys, and young ladies upstairs. I was used to a 14 x 12 tent, which housed six members of my family, seven members of my family. I was used to that, or a 20-foot in diameter snow house in the wintertime. So getting into this huge, huge place was a huge cultural shock for me, and I'm sure for many other young people, children, who went to Residential School that particular year or the years before, or the years after.
We had to wash the walls and we had to wash the floors. Along with the other boy from Igloolik I was a garbage boy, carrying the pail that the Grey Nuns had thrown away after they ate, you know, oranges and things like that. So we threw out orange peelings in a pail from the Nun's meal into the ocean. That's what we were told to do so those were part of our responsibilities. So I became a garbage boy when I got to Chesterfield Inlet.
The food was terrible. I have to say the food was terrible. Once a week or every two weeks we had muktuk, which is whale blubber, or whale skin. That's something I'm used to at home. They fed us frozen cow beef, cow beef from southern Canada. That's something that I wasn't used to. And I think the reason why they fed us that was because we're used to eating Caribou meat, raw, frozen, or fish frozen, or things like that but I wasn't used to eating frozen cow beef. I never ever got used to eating that raw frozen. And the other one that was very horrible eating was they would boil the Arctic Char, which is something that I'm used to at home. But they left the guts in the Arctic Char so that food just tasted horrible. And yet we had to eat it. We had no other choice but to eat the Arctic Char with guts, you know.
The one I used to look forward to during the week, especially at dinner, was eating corned beef. That was something that I got used to fairly quickly and I still like it to this day. The other one that I used to look forward to was Saturday mornings when we would eat corn flakes. They had a really big box of corn flakes. That was about the only time we had corn flakes, every Saturday morning. So the food was to begin with very horrible. But there were some nice little parts to it when we would have corned beef and corn flakes and things like that. We never had any sweets at that hostel. We had two cookies Saturday afternoon with milk and that was the other thing that I remember very well at that particular time.
In the spring time when we were going home, about two weeks or a month before we would be going home, when the days got long and we had no more dark nights, that was something else that I would look forward to, because at that particular school we were severely punished by our teachers when we couldn't add arithmetic or we didn't know anything about Social Studies or anything like that, or even science. After all, we were not used to learning about southern culture. We learned about our own culture at home, the Inuit language, Inuit culture, as a hunting society.
We were expected to know all about camels in Saudi Arabia. Those were the kind of things that we learned at that particular school. We were expected to know all about the fishery in eastern Canada and forestry in western Canada in British Columbia. We didn't know anything about these very strange parts of our world.
Inuit learn by observing our fathers and our mothers sewing clothes and hunting and building an igloo or anything like that, so we learn by observing. We are very adaptable people. We adapted overnight. I wasn't used to reading Dick and Jane. I learned about Inuit legends, for example, so I wasn't used to southern European culture. So, particularly that first year I don't have many memories of happy times because we were always severely punished by the Staff at the Residential School as well as our teachers at Sir Joseph Bernier Federal Day School.
We were not allowed to speak our own language. When they caught me speaking with one of the people in that particular picture in the classroom, a Grey Nun teacher told me to open my hand and she took a yardstick and really hit me so hard I can still feel the pain today, you know. She said, "Don't ever let me hear you speak that language again in this classroom. You're here to learn to speak and write English and arithmetic. Forget about your culture. Forget about your language and forget about your Inuit spirituality." Those were the things that the Grey Nuns, both the Staff at the residence as well as at the school used to tell us. So I don't have any memories of really good times throughout that particular year.
When we were about to go home, say, a couple of weeks before, we had quite a bit of fun because we would go out and play football out on the sea ice. As people who are extremely free on the land, free to do whatever we wanted to do, we enjoyed outside activities like playing football and things like that. The other thing, too, the Sisters both the supervisors and the teachers, used to get extremely nice to you just before we went home. I remember this particular Sister who used to come to me and say, "Peter, when you get home tell your parents that you had an extremely wonderful time this year at this hostel and at school, and make sure you tell your parents in the summer time that you're coming back." Those are the kinds of things I remember so well.
In previous years Naujaat only had five wooden buildings. Three belonged to the Hudson's Bay Company and two belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. And as I said, the rest of us stayed in tents and igloos in the wintertime, or in an occasional sod house in the wintertime, which was warmer than a snow house.
So when I got back home that first year in May of 1959, I was already twelve years old because I left home at the age of eleven and my sister and my brother-in-law were waiting for me at the village of Naujaat. My parents were living — we always lived away from the community. They were living about fifteen kilometers away from the settlement, a small settlement. As I said, the place only had about five buildings all together. So they came to pick me up by dog team and that was the only transportation system that we had in those days. I noticed out in the distance my mother and father were coming to meet us.
I was so happy to see my parents I ran over and kissed my parents and my little brother. He had learned to speak at that point because he was only two or three years old when I left. So I got on their komatik, their sleigh, and we went back to our camp, the spring camp that afternoon. I was really, really happy to be back home with my family and familiar surroundings where I was free to speak my own language again and learn a great deal about my culture and language. That was a very big excitement for me to get back to Naujaat and to my parents again. I had a happy return to my home and had a happy reunion with my family that particular spring, particularly that spring of 1959 when I returned home for the first time after a year.
And the reason why it was so hard was because we weren't able to communicate with our parents for the entire nine months that we were in Chesterfield Inlet. We just didn't have communication facilities, no telephones. I remember I got two letters from my mother that particular year in 1958 and 1959.
So the entire summer I spent at home was like being in heaven again, a place of happiness, where I was free to go out, to go out hunting, to go out fishing, to go out seal hunting with my parents, free to speak my own language, free to do whatever I wanted to do for the next few months. So I had a really wonderful time being back at home with my parents and my relatives free to go back to the community that I grew up in, free to do the kinds of things that I have always done as a little boy in Naujaat/Repulse Bay with my friends in Naujaat.
We paid a very high price for going to Turguetil Hall Residential School. Because the whole idea of Residential School, as presented to us by the Canadian Government was to assimilate Inuit, assimilate Aboriginal people of Canada to become like White men and White women. So when we first got to school we were expected to speak English. As I said, we were not allowed to speak Inuktitut in the classrooms.
The year 1958, whether I knew anything about it at the time or not, was the beginning of the end of my own culture and my own language and of my own Inuit spirituality. We started to read Dick and Jane schoolbooks, which were extremely foreign to the way we were brought up. The way I was brought up was listening to my father or my mother telling me stories about Kiviuq, for example. Kiviuq is an Inuit legend that I learned about as a little boy. Those kinds of things were non-existent at that particular school, at the residence. So we lost our culture. We lost our language. I still speak my language. I still know about my own culture but we lost a great deal about many different aspects of our culture and language, as well as our Inuit spirituality.
Also we lost parenting. A lot of people who went to a Residential School lost a great deal in terms of parenting skills because for nine months, ten months of the year we had these surrogate mothers and fathers. The Grey Nuns, the Christian Brothers, the Christian Fathers, Roman Catholic Priests who were supposed to be our parents didn't know anything about parenting. After all, they weren't married. They didn't know anything about marriage so the only thing they knew, how to discipline us, was to give us severe punishments for little things that we wouldn't have got punishment for when we were in our own community at home.
So in terms of relating to my adult life I missed out a great deal about parenting skills. I am not as good as my parents were. I am not as good as my parents were in terms of bringing up my own children, for example. So we lost a great deal in terms of the most important aspect of our life and that is parenting skills.
My parents had a difficult time. They lost their children. They lost their child that they were bringing up to believe that he was going to grow like a true Inuk with abilities to hunt, abilities to speak, ability to know the land, the environment that I walk on. They were going to bring me up exactly the same way as we have always been brought up, like the traditional way of life from 10,000 years ago in Nunavut, or within Inuit homelands. But they missed out on that. They no longer knew anything about me after I had been to a Residential School.
As a matter fact, my life changed drastically after I had been to a Residential School and their life changed drastically also. I was going to be their helper growing up in Naujaat to become a good family provider, a good husband, a good Caribou hunter, a good seal hunter. They missed out on that after I was brought to Residential School. So they missed out on a lot as well in terms of bringing me up to be a good member of the Inuit community, as a good hunter and as a productive member of the society.
As a matter of fact in 1963 and 1964, particularly 1964, when the government sent me to the Churchill Vocational Centre —You see, in the 1960s in particular the Government of Canada was sending Inuit to southern centers all over the place. They sent Inuit to take on mechanics and heavy equipment courses in the 1960s. So they got to know the Eskimo as a good mechanic. That's the expression the Government used to have about the Inuit. "Oh, you Eskimos are so good with your hands", they say. "You're very good mechanics."
So in 1964 they established the Churchill Vocational Centre for Inuit only from the Northwest Territories, well, Nunavut and Nunavik in northern Quebec. So they brought those of us who had gone to Residential Schools together so the Inuit could be together and they brought us to Churchill Vocational Centre.
So in 1964 I attended Churchill Vocational Centre and never got back to my home community. It's something that I'm sorry about. It's something I feel pretty bad about over the course of my past years. But this is the way I was now brought up by the Residential School system. So I never did come home to live again in Naujaat/Repulse Bay.
I returned home in later years but I never did go back to the community to live like many other young boys and young girls who had gone to Residential School. I was a very changed person. In 1965, the Government of Canada, Indian Affairs, brought me to Kitchener, Ontario. The District Education Superintendent at the time came to Churchill Vocational Centre in the fall of 1965, after I had been attending that particular Vocational Centre for a year. He came over and started looking around for what he called a smart young Eskimo and he found me. I guess I was a smart young Eskimo, so he found me!
He said that we're going to send you to Kitchener, Ontario and we're going to get you a job there working in a furniture factory. Here I am wiping furniture coming straight out of the igloo. Now I'm wiping furniture in 1965 at the age of eighteen years old. That's something that changed my life quite a lot as well. The whole idea of that particular period of time for me and the Government of Canada was we were samples, examples, for the Canadian Government. We were guinea pigs for the Canadian Government because they said that if you do a good job in Kitchener then the other Eskimos will have an easier time getting a job in southern Canada. So we were examples for the Canadian Government, guinea pigs in the 1960s.
So after living this life do you think I could go back to Naujaat and live in an igloo again, or live in a tent in the summer time?
At the age of eighteen or nineteen I had now other opportunities that I have seen. One good thing about southern Canada to me was that I learned southern Canadians, no matter who they were, were free to speak. They had a freedom of speech. They were free to criticize their government. They were free to criticize the Prime Minister of Canada. They elected their people, they elected their leaders and things like that.
At home in 1965-66, throughout the years following a few years anyway, we were still living under colonial government, the Canadian Government, the RCMP, and even
the Hudson's Bay Company and the Roman Catholic Church. If there's one thing southern Canada taught me in the 1960s was that I learned that I was a Canadian. I have freedom of speech. I can speak any how I wanted to. That's how much I was changed.
In the early 1970s, we saw the formation of The Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, the Inuit Brotherhood of Canada, and regional associations that were established in various Inuit homelands in the Arctic, so there were lots of changes. We started to talk about the creation of Nunavut, which means "our land" in my language. We started to see the development of political structures for Inuit in the 1970s. Some of the changes that we saw in the 1970s were the changes that I myself helped to make those changes in regard to the creation of Nunavut, for example.
I am someone who was brought up by the Church, the school system, Residential School system, to forget about my own language and about my own culture. One of the things I've been doing was to introduce Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, which is Inuit traditional knowledge, to my fellow Inuit in the government organizations, whether they be Government of Canada or the Government of Nunavut or Inuit in general, southern Canadians, through various universities, such as Acadia University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Manitoba, you know, organizations like that.
I've been doing a lot of work helping to preserve and protect and promote Inuit culture. I do this through various lectures, various travels throughout the country. When I was a young man because of the colonialism I became very shy of my own culture. I became very embarrassed about my own culture because that's how we were brought up to be by the Canadian Government colonialism in our communities. We were always laughed at because we lived in igloos. We were laughed at because we dressed in Caribou clothing and because Inuit traditionally kiss by kissing with your noses. That's how the society knew us at that time and they made fun out of these things.
For my part, for myself, I became extremely embarrassed to be an Eskimo throughout the years when I was going to southern schools like Yellowknife and Churchill and southern Canada, but in the 1970s I started to want to take my culture back. As I said, there was a freedom of speech in southern Canada that we didn't enjoy when I was a young man in Naujaat/Repulse Bay that I used to start promoting to my fellow Inuit in the early 1970s. So I entered politics to do that. I entered politics and became a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories and spoke about more Inuit involvement, Inuit cultural programs in the classrooms. I spoke about a need to have more Inuit cultural inclusion programs for Inuit, you know, young people as part of the education system so that young men for example can learn how to build an igloo.
I have always maintained that southern Canadians have a right to know what we went through at the Residential School. Health care givers have a right to know what we went through at the Residential Schools. You see, with the Residential School my generation of Inuit went through quite a lot. We were sexually abused. We were physically abused. We were mentally abused.
Canadians should be asking more about what happened to us at various Residential Schools throughout Canada. That's what they should be asking. They should be taking more interest about these Inuit who moved from an igloo to the microwaves in less that forty-five years, so that's what they should be asking more about us, about the experiences of Residential Schools, the legacy of Indian and Inuit Residential Schools in Canada.
I have told my fellow Inuit in the last couple of years that they should speak out; they should speak out more about their experiences at the Residential School. This will form part of the history, Canadian history, particularly the Inuit. It's something even though that we were abused by the members of the Church at that time, we don't hold grudges against the people who did these things to us. It embarrassed us. It embarrassed me.
Over the course of many years I got into drinking to hide the kind of shame that I was put through by the church members, particularly a Grey Nun at the Residential School. When she was doing this, this is the person that had authority. She had a cross, a crucifix of Jesus Christ in one hand. She represented God. She represented the Roman Catholic Church. So she had a lot of authority. What can you do? Who can you go and tell? Even if you were to complain about things that were happening to somebody in Chesterfield Inlet, nobody would have believed us anyway.
I would like to see that Sister again and ask her why she did that to me for an entire year, and the year after. I would like to be able to ask her why she did that to me. It's something that our parents would never do to us. It's something that no one in Inuit society would have thought about doing. It's not right. It is not fair when so many of our Survivors were so young, as young as six years old. They were really just barely out of their mother's back, from their amauti, the amauti that Inuit women carry their babies with.
One of the things that I would like to state clearly, and I would like to be understood clearly, is that my generation of Inuit who went to Turquetil Hall at Sir Joseph Bernier Federal Day School have never said anything negative about the education system that we got. If anything, we have said the school that we attended, the education system that we got in English was a top-notch education system. We all became leaders in the end. We endured a lot. We had a commitment. As much as that particular teacher used to call us bloody dodos and no good for nothing, a bunch of hounds of iniquity, he taught us pretty good in terms of English. But those were the pretty good things that happened to us in terms of getting our education system. The education system that we got was top notch in Chesterfield Inlet.
But the abuses —
We want to make sure that these kinds of things never happen to young people again, little children, in the future. We don't hold grudges against those people, but we want to make sure that these things never happen to young people again, little children, never again. Never!
I go back to that very first year that we were at Turquetil Hall Residential School, Sir Joseph Bernier Federal Day School where we told not to speak our own language, Inuktitut language. But you know those of us that were told not to speak our own language in that classroom today, we have become big supporters of more Inuktitut courses in the classroom. We don't want our language to disappear so we want the education system to supplement what we already know and teach Inuit language and Inuit culture from kindergarten to Grade 12. My generation of Inuit who were taught never to speak their language again in the classroom, we're the ones who have put up a big argument, very big time, to include more Inuit language instruction in the Inuit language.


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I am writing this post from San Juan, Puerto Rico, where I have been for the past four days spending the first part of my Spring Break. The trip was a surprise from my parents and older sister I am overwhelmed with joy and gratitude for the experience. It is last day here. I head to the airport in a couple of hours. I plan to write to do another post on the trip, but for now I leave you with my soundtrack for the last few day.
I came across the song 'Dasi Ko' by the late, oh-so great Togolese singer Bella Bellow a couple of days ago and have been jamming to it since. Being in Puerto Rico has been quite reminiscent of being in Ghana for me, from the climate to the food to the rhythms I have heard around me. This song tapped right into that Ghana-longing and was the perfect theme for a tropical vacation. Ms. Bellow is legend of African music (and the music industry, in general), so please, give her a listen. You won't regret it. Have a wonderful Wednesday, all!


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My cousin received this alert and retraction a short time ago.
Any thoughts ?
In a conversation with my cousin who lives there, I learned the alert should have stated that there was a missile test. All residents were tuned to their TV's waiting for MSM information. The information they received was that someone from the new emergency alert system sent the wrong message and that it was only a test.
Also, he said very few were not in a panic but was not aware of any injuries.


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[NOTE: This is not the only community in Kansas named Mission. For links to other places called Mission, KS, see the Duplicate Names box at right.]
The latitude of Mission is 39.027N. The longitude is -94.655W.It is in the Central Standard time zone. Elevation is 1,017 feet.
The estimated population, in 2003, was 9,559.
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27% of Mission residents report German ancestry, and 14% report Irish. For more info on local ancestry groups, see the Mission ancestry & family history guide.
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At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Mission was $27,870, compared with $21,587 nationally.
45% of Mission residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree.
Median rent in Mission, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $586. Monthly homeowner costs, for people with mortgages, were $926.
Johnson County supported George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election. For more information, see our Mission political report.
Mission restaurants taking online reservations include MelBee's Bar & Restaurant ... View restaurants
The average commute time for Mission workers is 19 minutes, compared with 26 minutes nationwide.
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