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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308419972018-11-16T16:55:21.369+07:00update stuffproviding sidebar material of a more timely natureMr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-72936916759783645302009-04-28T22:44:00.002+07:002009-05-30T22:46:37.980+07:00Tuesday
Writing yesterday's update reminded me that traffic is a perfect subject for one of these "miss about Vietnam" entries. The odd thing is, I don't know which kind of entry to include it in. I feel pretty ambivalent about it. So I'm going to do both: what I will and also won't miss about Vietnam (volume five and five): traffic. Before coming here, we were warned. Maybe warned isn't hysterical enough. Everyone had plenty to say, usually in a wide-eyed and high-pitched aside. We usually laugh this sort of thing off, but arriving here we discovered the situation really is terrifying. It took months to get comfortable navigating around town by foot. The sidewalks are as dangerous as the streets. Nearly everyone has a Saigon Birthmark: an oval of waxy second-degree scar about muffler-high on the calf. Everybody knows someone with ten stitches in their brain or gravel embedded in their face. But that's Vietnam: its spaces constantly, maddeningly, numbingly, chaotically cram-packed, jacked-full, overwhelmed with endless, odorous, hot, heavy traffic. Twenty-four. Seven. Nineteen months later we still talk about it all the time. Everybody does. But this subject, fact of life, force of nature eventually does become understandable. Scooters are just metal pedestrians to me now. I feel as safe walking with them as I do with any crowd. I never look for traffic lights to cross the street anymore. I hardly look for traffic. (It's easier to cross between intersections because the scooters cross at crosswalks.) Once we've left Vietnam, I'm going to miss the adrenaline rush of walking around town, the relative safety of slow-moving traffic which might leave my leg burned. But I'll also enjoy coming home to pedestrian right-of-way and regulated crosswalks. And scaring the hell out of people who are coming to Vietnam. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-9831933822458414152009-04-27T21:42:00.000+07:002009-05-30T22:43:57.854+07:00Monday
Earlier the traffic was nuts. Well, it's always nuts, but this was the worst I've ever seen six o'clock traffic get: backed up from the light at Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai and Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa Streets--for as far as I could see from our front door. When traffic halts on these roads it's incredible. Scooters just pack so amazingly densely, thousands of colorful helmets wedged into everyplace, including sidewalks. Of course, we'd already asked the man to hail us a taxi, so he was out there trying to move heaven and earth to get one over to us. We couldn't walk through there, anyway. Eventually, a cab turned down the one-way road beside our building, so we were irritated about having to catch a metered ride in the wrong direction. Dinner, when we finally got there, was nice. Afterward, we decided to even the score by walking home, allowing us the illusion we'd gotten our money's worth for a round-trip ticket. It had rained in the meantime, and was breezy. One of Reunification Palace's sidewalk trees had blown across the road. Several men were breaking it apart with their hands, headlights streaming around them. Hopeless. The trunk was as round as a plate. No chance this was the earlier obstruction, though, certainly this had happened during the dinner storm. On around the corner onto Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, we came across a burnt-out car laying in the road. Probably a taxi. It was dark by then, and all that ash camouflaged everything until we were much too close. The doors and hood gaped, the rear fender and tank were scattered pieces across the road. It was a spooky thing, hard to see, wrong. How long did it sit there? The rest of the night felt weird. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-78091114027061949642009-04-24T23:36:00.000+07:002009-05-30T22:41:26.832+07:00Friday
What I won't miss about Vietnam (volume four): small things. Too-small things, actually. One of the reasons it's difficult for me to cook family-sized meals here is that I'm deeply lazy and also going out to eat is both easier and more exciting. Also, it's difficult to gather together the groceries I'll need, since the produce is across downtown, the fishes are in the market, and the dry goods are in a District Three Co-op. Even if I was dedicated enough to do all this running around, I'd still be buying tiny, one-day portions of each item from teensy shelves at minuscule stores. I stock the dinky larder and pint-sized refrigerator with half-sized things. Milk and juice come in stackable one-liter boxes. Rice and beans in sandwich bags. Cereal boxes are the size of hardback books. This makes it nearly impossible to buy enough groceries for several days at once. I can handle running weekly errands, but hitting three stores every day is too much. Luckily, restaurants are very affordable--but the plague of smallness persists. Not portion sizes, mind. This is a service town--portions are large and come on massive plates or in cavernous bowls. But restaurant tables are all unbelievably small so they can be wedged into the crannies of each tiny dining room. The size of coffee shop tables: the round ones like an extra-large pizza, the square ones a Scrabble board. These come littered with small things which nevertheless steal space from those huge plates and bowls: bamboo placemats, dishes of salt and pepper and chili, toothpicks, flower vases, sugar, fish sauce, chopstick blocks, soup spoon holders, cocktail menus, burning candles. Specialty restaurants have additional things. It took me weeks to realize this country doesn't have napkin dispensers. It came as a relief. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-43824704985825259772009-04-23T22:33:00.000+07:002009-05-30T22:36:36.290+07:00Thursday
Recently, I was mentioning how I've put off doing expected tourist things around town; but if I ever do want to get around to doing them, my deadline is fast approaching. With this in mind, I let Sunshine take me to the water puppet show tonight. It was a neat show, and I was surprised to find myself laughing out loud at times. The stage is a small pool bisected by a backdrop. In the semicircle behind this screen, puppeteers manipulate long submerged poles attached to the bottoms of two-foot puppets poking out of the water in the semicircle up front. In this way, water puppetry inverts my admittedly untutored expectation of the form, in which characters dangle from manipulators overreaching a curtain. During the show it occurred to me that water puppetry was a really excellent format for Vietnamese tradition. Obviously it's storytelling from four thousand years of seaside villages, paddy agriculture, and flooding; but also it's the nimble manipulation of fine details handed impeccably down from ancestral times. Not only does it take the crisp and full-bodied athleticism of a martial artist to push and pull the show along, but each of these puppets are hand carved. In a country that prides itself on the crystallized stasis of its creative output, a puppet show is like the jack of all trade shows. And yet I wonder what really has mutated since the eleventh century, as if it would be possible to navigate whatever grapevine Darwinism has escaped the best efforts of those powers dead set against the very idea. I presume the plastic sword the golden turtle god Kim Quy takes from Lê Lợi as he rows around Hoàn Kiếm Lake, for example, was not plastered with reflective metallic holographic stickers back in the old days. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-15158478287858417282009-04-22T22:31:00.002+07:002009-05-30T22:33:07.130+07:00Wednesday
Something I won't miss about Vietnam (volume three) is, yet again, a flipside to the positive article I posted yesterday. I've heard there are service classes in Vietnam, where people are actually taught how to wait on westerners. This is pretty important. There's a gulf of cultural nuance separating Vietnamese clerks from expatriate customers. Without guidance, things can fall quickly apart. I wouldn't hazard an example here. Being squarely expatriated, I have no idea how far the locals bend to interact with me. I imagine we meet rather closer than the middle. Xin cảm ơn, Việt Nam. As odd as life can be here, I cannot imagine how much more difficult it would be without so much effort being paid to making me comfortable. But as well as alleged public service classes have indeed softened bumpy intercultural relations in many respects, there's still a thing or two missing from the syllabus. One: western shoppers don't like the hard sell. I know things are difficult, and many vendors find themselves in direct competition for my money. When I'm glancing down the row of jackfruit vendors, for example, I can understand the impetus to be louder, reach farther, and attract my attention quicker than neighboring salesmen. But this has the opposite from the intended effect. I'm attracted to vendors who don't force my interaction. Two: western customers are uncomfortable making servers wait. It takes a long time to read a fifteen-page menu, even if there are large color pictures. I know it's important for you to be ready the moment I make my selection, but it makes me nervous when you hover behind me. Also, I know it might seem unlikely, but dogging me around your clothing store, muttering routine pitches for every noted item, is only driving me away. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-74673553636484466112009-04-21T23:27:00.000+07:002009-05-30T22:30:41.935+07:00Tuesday
Things I'll miss about Vietnam (volume four): service. I thought of this after rereading yesterday's "backpacker district" update. Probably that pestering of street vendors is the impression I'd have taken away with me back when I strapped all my belongings to my back and traveled for months at a time staying in septic four-to-a-room budget hostels. In that case, "service" might have appeared in an opposite kind of article. As it is, I live here. I travel through other areas staying in well-appointed medium- to slightly high-end accommodation, and eat in restaurants where people don't usually try to sell me drugs at my table. So my impression of Vietnam is one of wonderful service. Compared with the USA--where bored transient labor eyeballs any customer desultorily from the counter, where actively offensive representatives perpetrate heroic one-upmanship of inept unhelpfulness after keeping consumers on hold for hours, where big conglomerates bully paying customers into spending extra money to be targeted for invasive research practices and then go to court protesting complaints--there's little chance I'd bitch about any service falling short of battery. But in reality I'm faced daily with people who feel like it's their job to entice me to spend my money at their establishments. Hoteliers who check me in from the comfort of an overstuffed hotel lobby chair, putting a drink in my hand. Attendants who smilingly serve in-flight meals on merely forty-minute rides. It's a bittersweet revelation. I'm forced to remember that, in reality, I'm doing them a favor, keeping them in business with my customer interaction. I'm reminded that they have jobs because they are able to please customers. This would only be sweet, except that I'm returning home in two months, where I'll be expected to pay for the privilege of ingratitude again. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-76640813310214090912009-04-20T22:21:00.000+07:002009-05-30T22:27:48.103+07:00Monday
During our stay in the Vietnamese megalopolis of Hồ Chí Minh City, I've done almost nothing of a tourist nature. Two days ago marked the nineteenth month of my stay here, and time is getting short. But I've only been to two zoos, a water park, one pagoda, and an art gallery. In all that time, I haven't quite managed to visit the much ballyhooed history museum (located at the zoo), the supposedly fine City Museum, the harrowing War Remnants museum a block behind or the Reunification Palace across the street from our apartment--or any other thing that Lonely Planet lists to do in this city. Am I lazy? Or is this analogous to finding it difficult to select a book once I've arrived in a library? With everything available at all times, it's easy to these things next week, you know. This week is always booked. About a kilometer southwest of my house, there is an area Downtown, around Phạm Ngũ Lão Street, which is commonly referred to as the "backpacker district." This is either because of the high population of bars and hotels and luggage stores there, or perhaps vice-versa. I don't pretend to any causality. But either way, it is this part of Saigon that many travelers see foremost, and the impression they get of town. This is funny since, whenever I go there, I am surprised how the whole area bears little resemblance to the rest of Hồ Chí Minh City. Usually I'm there visiting art shows in closet-sized art galleries. But this weekend We met some friends at a little pan-global eatery that happens to include some pretty good, if not altogether accurate Mexican food. While we were eating, roving vendors pestered us to buy gum, travel guides, luggage, marijuana. Tableside service! [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-30122920702896701692009-04-17T23:30:00.002+07:002009-05-30T21:34:38.497+07:00Friday
It's been forever since I did a movie review here. I'm not doing one now, either. But I made time to watch a movie last night after Sunshine went to bed. I finished in the gym early so I'd be left the leeway. It's not usually this much fuss, but I wanted to watch There Will Be Blood,* which is long enough to require some planning ahead. So shortly after two, I made a half-sandwich and a bowl of cereal, plugged my earphones in so I wouldn't disturb my neighbors, and spun a DVD we'd borrowed from one of Sunshine's coworkers. The first thing I noticed: this movie was shockingly well filmed. I am not a fan of Paul Anderson's usually cruddy emo formalism--ugly is the new beauty!--but here the tone was naturalistic, even nostalgic, all golden sun and epic sweep. Attention to incidental details was obsessive, but throwaway. Far from being driven by a host of Anderson types--mores sleep in an environment where everybody sucks--the movie tracks the rise of an obsessive but direct gentleman who actually works to achieve his brutal success in the early oil trade, doing battle with hucksters and taking responsibility for his actions. ...oh hell, I don't know what all he does. After being unpredictably Merchant-Ivory--I didn't know Mr. Anderson had it in him--the probably pirated disc puttered-out, leaving me hanging only five hours into the movie. I imagine the denouement of There Will Be Blood, what with there having been very little blood up till then, throws the proceeding into a rather different light. Who knows? Will I sit through the whole thing again someday? Will I go to my grave never guessing what happens after the ham-fisted transition that heralds the movie's final act? [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-73303714425526833992009-04-16T23:27:00.002+07:002009-05-30T21:30:45.622+07:00Thursday
Let me put this out there right up front: currently, my life is pretty cushy. I live in a country where eating out every single night is actually cheaper than buying groceries back where I grew up. I live in an apartment that comes staffed with a full-time housekeeping crew. Since all of this actually saves us money--we don't even buy dish-washing detergent, we don't even own a broom--it means we can even afford to hire an incredibly cool woman to cook for us once a week. Frankly, we save a lot of money when she buys our groceries, too. There is still a little distasteful, but completely sanctioned, nationalist inequality going on around here. I would feel ridiculous snarking about any of this, so it is important that you understand that snarking is not what I'm doing here. I'm just talking. About how the cook's been making some pretty oddball food, lately. Here one recent two-course example: one rich and wonderful Italian or Creole type of soup, with spicy beans and a rich tomato base, that was served right beside a platter of wok-seared salt-and-pepper Asian squid, with nước mắm and lemon, that was supposed to be wrapped in lettuce and basil leaves. Both of these dishes were excellent, but they made a rather weird combination. This week she made us a wonderful clarified cracked pepper soup with vermicelli beside a heaping plate of hot, garlicky gnocchi glued into a mozzarella and tomato sauce mass--if I've made this sound a lot like a heaping plate of cheese tots, well, that wouldn't be incorrect. There have been times when Tuesday nights were a delight of restaurant-quality food served up on our very own coffee table. Lately they've been more of a delight of oddball cultural apophenia. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-65984425041375194982009-04-15T23:24:00.001+07:002009-05-30T21:27:47.898+07:00Wednesday
This is another side to yesterday's post. These are some things I'll not really miss about Vietnam (volume two) when it comes to restaurants. One: the excellent food occasionally comes with the addition of flavor-enhancing scoops of monosodium glutamate. While I'm convinced that the western demonization of MSG is completely based upon a slight allergic reaction suffered by a slim margin of the US population, it's hard to convince myself that I have not been poisoned with Borax whenever I eat phở or bún or some other bowlful of food brimming with this traditional chemical. About halfway through the meal, the skin on the back of my next starts heating up. Soon, the outer layers of my body seem to be rising off my musculature like Marilyn's white dress. Twenty minutes later it's over. Two: there is something about southeast Asian beer that gives me a headache. It's too bad. Nobody is about to confuse the local brands--Saigon, Tiger, 333--of being award winners, but I prefer them to most Mexican beers. They are light, drinkable, and surprisingly good with food. But every time I drink even one of these beers, within half an hour, my head feels like it's been blown full of cold talcum powder. This is not necessarily isolated to Asia. There are beers at home that do the same thing: Miller products, for example, most beers proclaiming themselves "cold filtered." But back home most beers do not give me a headache; and even here the situation is slowly improving. Sometime around this latest Tết, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam began allowing the importation and sale of American Budweiser beer, one brand I have no trouble drinking. But it's weird when the universally accepted and costly premium quality ideal is Bud in a can. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-850476163794581492009-04-14T22:01:00.000+07:002009-05-30T21:23:59.846+07:00Tuesday
After talking about Mexican food yesterday, it's time for more of what I'll miss about Vietnam (volume three): restaurant food. It's perfectly reasonable to suppose that I cannot get better Vietnamese food anywhere on Earth than I can right here in Hồ Chí Minh City. It's never been my favorite kind of food, actually. At home I liked Vietnamese okay, but I preferred more Indo-Asian traditions like Thai food to the Sino-Asian likes of China and Vietnam. Not that I have minded being trapped here with the best Vietnamese food in the world, of course. Not one bit. When I do eat Vietnamese, it's always impressive as hell and I get things I'd never even heard of back in North Carolina: crispy fried turmeric pancakes packed with seafood and onions, grilled shrimp paste wrapped around sugarcane, salt and pepper squids resting in a delicate web of white noodles ladled with acute fish sauce, spicy grated salads with boiled quail eggs. But it's important to point out that I don't eat Vietnamese food even every week here. The fact is, all the local restaurants are very good. It's a great food city. The same care and attention, the same high quality ingredients and impeccable cooking expertise, is evident in any old place. The Vietnamese are known for industrialized repetition. Sadly, this can mean the shifty handicrafts practices: thousands of hands trained to perfectly replicate the same lacquered bowl or marble statue over and over again. This makes for pretty crappy cookie-cutter souvenirs, but a very stable garment industry and a whoppingly impressive series of impeccable kitchens. So the Italian and the Mediterranean and the Spanish food here is great. And since the proper eastern ingredients are on hand, the Indian and Thai and Japanese and Korean food is exquisite. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-80143730687599371412009-04-13T23:19:00.002+07:002009-05-30T21:21:46.873+07:00Monday
Saturday the CDC threw a Burrito Night party. This sounds like a story that should really end with a punch line, but no. Everything went exceptionally well considering the difficulty finding Mexican staples here. No black beans, no chilis arbol, no jack cheese. Vietnamese Mexican food isn't right: often so laden with chopped mangoes it smacks of a luau. But given these odds, the CDC party was mighty successful. I was immediately strong-armed into making the margaritas. There's no triple sec here, so I had to experiment. It turned out okay, I guess. I certainly drank a bunch of margaritas, even if nobody else did. Here's the recipe I lit upon: pour six ounces of tequila for every two ounces of fresh lime juice and one oddly-shaped spoonful of sugar into a blender. Splash in orange juice like last time. Toss in some ice cubes just to cut it. Blend till it stops rattling. Pour over ice and make a face when you drink it. Mmm. I walked out of there upright, but I totally blew the nightcap. We'd been invited to stick around for gin and tonics. All the tequila was gone already. I made the drinks. I poured escalating amounts of gin into each glass, over ice. Then I added a little of the remaining lime juice to each. Perfectly. Then I was asked a question I've totally forgotten now, which I answered. Then I topped each glass off with gin and gave 'em a stir. I thankfully realized what I'd done before serving them, none of these drinks being at all fizzy. Hopefully no one else noticed, but a lot of gin went surreptitiously down the drain in fixing it. Nobody complained. I wonder if the CDC will ever invite me to another party? Rimshot. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-77120689588818664102009-04-10T22:12:00.002+07:002009-05-30T21:15:13.532+07:00Friday
The flip-side of yesterday's Update: what I won't miss about Vietnam (volume one). It turns out not to be the temperature so much as the tilt. Yesterday I talked about how I've fallen in anticipated love with the rotating system of rainy and hot seasons. Before coming to Vietnam, I assumed rain would be my reward for toughing though a climate that never really cools. And it's true. I used to hate any day above x degrees--and almost every day here is that. I knew, going into this thing, that I'd desperately miss winters. But it turned out I missed seasons, instead. I managed to acclimate to the temperature fairly quickly and mostly forgot all about it. But the missing seasonal changes and attendant backward phenomena grated more as the months wore on. It was subtle, but it rankled anyway. Here it rains for months on end, but it does not usually rain when it should be spring back home. The month with the greatest combined humidity and heat is October, but the hottest month of the year is April. Everything begins to bloom at Christmas, continuing on through Tết in January or February. Some nasty and debilitating thing is always coming off the exotic flora here, rain or shine: several types of whirling pods--some the size and weight of golf balls--or something less evident which nevertheless makes my head and lungs close like a fist. But these things are nothing compared with the irritation I feel estranged from my own beloved spot on the tilt of the world. I cannot abide days that change by barely half a daylight hour over the course of a year, or twilights that pass in four minutes as a perpendicular sun flits around the corner of the equator. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-32148507428932934802009-04-09T23:09:00.000+07:002009-05-30T21:12:10.274+07:00Thursday
Things I'm going to miss about Vietnam (volume two). Rain. I sort of knew going into this that I'd like living in a country with a real rainy season. It has not disappointed. The weather is pretty predictable during the half-year monsoon, but I haven't grown tired of it yet. We arrived at the very end of the rains in 2007, so my first real understanding of the phenomenon is based on what happened from April to November in oh-eight: four or five thirty-minute showers each day. During the onset of each shower, the humidity is bumped down into the reasonable range by gusts of wind and cloudy darkness. After each shower the humidity rises with the sunlight, like boiling everything, until all of that recaptured moisture weighs down the atmosphere enough for it to fall again. When this happens right at nightfall, evening temperatures can hit the seventies and remain all night. It may be hot, but the showers are worth looking forward to. This ongoing routine, this definition of rain as a kaleidoscopic pattern covering months, rather than an isolated event, is an adjustment I've really loved making. And, interestingly, because hopefully, it is one I will retain after I am gone. Even the opposite season has its charms. Especially December and January, when evenings are breezy and often in the low seventies and days are sunny but dry. This year's rains began in fits and starts, earlier than last year. I don't know which is normal. There's plenty to like about the onset of the monsoon too, characterized as it is by big grandiose storms more reminiscent, but also more sustained, to the spring storms I am used to from home. These transitions can be unpredictable, with violently breathtaking hours of sustained science fiction lightning. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-60824629656273700892009-04-08T21:50:00.000+07:002009-05-30T20:57:14.892+07:00Wednesday
Extra! Extra! Man Bites Dog! This is no neat switcheroo. The title is usually employed analogously to demark a journalistic trend of headlining breathless and unlikely scoops in lieu of more mature news coverage. That's exactly what I'm doing, too. In Vietnam, especially in the north, men frequently cook and then bite dogs. Animals are considered animals, and while dogs are frequently pets they are just as frequently meat. The fact that this is inconceivable in my culture can be equally mystifying to people here. Can this old saw of journalism mean anything, then, where stories of men biting dogs are as utterly routine as their opposite? Here's an article, published in March by the Public Library of Science, that I just couldn't wait to breathlessly report for its bizarre qualities. In two separate cases, Vietnamese men were admitted into Hanoi medical facilities presenting with similar symptoms: hydro- and aerophobia, intermittent spasms and agitation without attendant elevated blood pressure or temperature. In both cases they were diagnosed with progressive classic encephalitic rabies. Both died within the week. In each case, the cause of infection seems to have been their butchering and consumption of rabies-endemic species: in one case a dog, the other a cat. It's hard to believe any living virus could survive getting cooked--indeed, in neither case did family members at the same table get sick. Each victim even paid some uneducated attention to rabies prevention--had a dog bitten a man in some attention-getting story?--one man actually pulled the teeth out of the dog's head before butchering it. But each man eventually removed and cooked the animal's raw and virulent brain for some traditional dish. The full article can be found here, unillustrated, or downloaded in .pdf format1 including a photo of cooked dogs. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-86162558522543704392009-04-07T22:47:00.000+07:002009-05-30T20:50:19.378+07:00Tuesday
Eventually I would like to write a little bit more about Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (I'll eventually link that here.) I found it to be an exceptional place. It seems small after HCMC. It's mildly crumbling, with vividly repurposed deco colonial architecture populated by every kind of person I can imagine. I was unprepared. I really thought KL would be much the same as Singapore, with handy post-British city planning, with overbearing cleanliness and stricture, with endless shopping malls--a sanitized melting pot. But this was much different: the Chinese and Indian populations of the Malay Peninsula seem far more integrated there. Also people who looked like they were maybe from the Middle East, the South Pacific, Mongolia, Mars. (Also people who looked like they were from varying necks of the economic woods, too.) The mix was more than merely spatial--ethnic neighborhoods blending into one another more aggressively, and perhaps sloppier, than in Singapore--but extended neatly into the features of the people themselves. Many Malaysians seem so delightfully multiethnic that unquilting them becomes immediately Quixotic. The long Indonesian history and predominately Islamic culture lends a unique and beautified air to the cultural stew. Music and food traditions hail from everywhere: the south Asian jungle, the Hindu Kush, the wide swath of the Eurasian Steppes, deserts both Persian and Mediterranean. The environment was delirious, the streets dirty, the markets congested. The head-scarves of professional women were part of official police or government or fast food uniforms (official McDonald's head-scarves. I had no idea). Off duty clothing was lively and colorful. I was surprised how much I liked this capital city, and how much I want to return for the rest of Malaysia someday. Then, I'll remember how much I really want to have a camera along with me. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-82703920390850737542009-04-06T23:43:00.000+07:002009-05-30T20:47:02.323+07:00Monday
Happy Hung Kings Day!* This year is only the third annual official observance of this newly-created national holiday. Since this meant we had a three-day weekend, we packed off to Kuala Lumpur and didn't have to return home until earlier this evening. That flight was a highlight of our weekend, maybe one of the most amazing things we've done during our stay here. We'd gotten off the ground forty minutes late due to a pounding storm which broke right as we were taxiing. And broke with the works: bright strobe lightning, porthole-rattling thunder, and blinding churns of opaque rain. "Heh heh," said the captain of that Malaysia Airlines seven-something-seven, even as I could feel wind actually shaking the parked aircraft, "we'll be sitting right here till this thing blows over." I sat there alright, refusing to look out the windows, but I could sense the storm hadn't more than slightly lessened when he'd crackled onto the intercom again and advised us we were taking off right now as he did just that. But it was somehow calming to shoot gracefully into the air after that, with nary a buffet or chop as we floated right through those flashing black clouds. Pretty impressive, Captain Malaysia. This calming effect became part of a confluence of events allowing me to do something I can't usually do: look out the windows. Also we were on the right side of the plane. Also, after all that, Captain Malaysia decided to cruise into town underneath the southern delta region's extensive cloud cover, affording some twenty minutes of dramatically-lit Mekong countryside crawling along beneath us just two to three thousand feet down, every boat and radio antenna and paddy and canal and conical hat clearly defined against one of the Earth's most iconic surfaces. Recommended. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-24893048147564200172009-04-03T20:39:00.002+07:002009-05-30T20:43:21.490+07:00Friday
We're a little under four months away from moving home again already. Our return date is not set in stone, but it'll probably be something like July twenty-fifth. I spend a lot of time swinging back and forth between opposite impressions of the length of time we've spent here. Sometimes it feels like that time has passed very quickly, but sometimes the sheer amount of activity over the last eighteen months makes it seem like we've been here a lot longer than that. Our approaching repatriation makes me think about all sorts of things. I think about all the hoops we'll have to jump through to move home. Much of this will be related here over the coming months. I think about all the things we haven't gotten around to doing yet, some of which we'll try to cram into our remaining time. This will also be a predictable topic from now on. Besides whatever actually happens, I'm already imagining what things I'm going to miss about living in Vietnam once I'm relocated elsewhere. Also, I'm thinking about the opposite things. Before moving home from México, I remember noting several months worth of "lasts". The last time I did x, went to a party with y, ate z, etc. I suspect there will be some of that mentioned this time, too. With very little room left in this update, what's on my mind must be short. Once we have moved home again, I am going to very much miss hopping onto a quick flight and spending the weekend in Malaysia, for example, for basically the same amount of money I might've spent on a New Orleans road trip six years ago. So, since it's Friday, my leather bag is packed again and I've got a cab to catch. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-10536407137703052602009-04-02T23:29:00.000+07:002009-04-08T01:34:54.634+07:00Thursday
Not last weekend, but the weekend before, we took a trip to Cát Tiên National Park. It's a national forest preserve about a hundred fifty kilometers north of Hồ Chí Minh City. We have friends up there studying black-shanked doucs, an endangered species of Old World monkey found only in Vietnam and Cambodia. We had a really good weekend hiking and hanging out with them. This is one of the things that happened to us there. We'd just hiked the last leg of a ten-kilometer round-trip into the forest; we were waiting for our prearranged rendezvous with a pickup truck to take us back to the research compound. Where that trail intersects with the road there are two concrete benches. Two people can sit on each. There is also a sign that says "Crocodile Lake, 5k." We'd just done the return hike in about sixty-five minutes, far faster than we'd managed the hike in. We'd been a little nervous about catching our ride, see. All four of us were tired and took a seat. The bench on the trailhead side of the road was clear, but the bench on the opposite side was occupied by a dense cloud of wheeling butterflies. I sat with one of our friends on that clear bench--we'd gotten to the intersection first. Sunshine and our other friend, coming off the trail a moment or two later, sat in the butterfly cloud. This story is instructive. Butterflies are harmless and pretty and tired hikers can see them from across the road, lazily swirling in the air around a concrete bench. This is not the case with dozens of droning sweat-hungry bees. The moral? Sit in the butterfly seat. Anyway, here you can read everything else that happened that weekend in Cát Tiên Park. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-37730236013721702912009-04-01T23:39:00.001+07:002009-04-03T03:49:08.717+07:00Wednesday
Here's an interesting item that came across the Update desk earlier this afternoon. It's a slideshow accompanying a BusinessWeek article1 examining the possibility that the current economic downturn might force global companies to reduce or discontinue the extra compensations provided to employees working in remote or dangerous locations. One generally understood term for this is hardship differential. Chic and intrepid MBA newshounds sometimes refer to it as sweeteners. In an article championing the necessity of bonuses for hardship positions, I take exception with that label. To me, a sweetener is just a gaudy sack of junket swag doled-out as a competitive thank you or a dealership trick. A hardship differential is a wage-based pay increase measured to somehow fix issues brought about by isolation from infrastructure, sanitation, education, protection, and familiarity. Anyway, what I've linked above is really only the illustration: a slideshow entitled "The World's Worst Places to Work" based on a report commissioned by BusinessWeek from US human resources data compilation firm ORC Worldwide. I do not "take exception" with these findings so much as "mock them," at least based on the skin-deep analysis offered in the article. The constraints limiting this top twenty list are: no actively war-torn cities and no cities in the US or Canada or Western Europe. I wonder if they weren't trying to be neighborly, too, since Bogota and the Dominican Republic are the only western hemisphere cities mentioned. The DR? That's where my cousin enjoyed his honeymoon, for Pete's sake. And never mind the ongoing drug violence tearing apart northern México,2 or that Haiti is plagued by gangs, poverty, and despair.3 The list seems to still be on-track at number one, after that it gets stupid fast. But you can almost see our house in the picture for number nine. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-19833325252870191952009-03-31T23:24:00.002+07:002009-04-03T03:26:47.652+07:00Tuesday
I had a five-week vacation, Tết holiday, wonderful guests, and jetlag. Then another vacation for good measure. These exciting things preempted blogging for awhile. I'm trying to get back into the habit. There was so much happening that I also put off returning to the gym. For months that gym and I had a steady thing going on, a midnight rendezvous. Our relationship verged on abusive, and I frequently felt battered. But I loved that gym! God help me, I even looked forward to seeing it every day. Then over our vacation estrangement I think we grew apart. During much of last year that place was like an addiction; but I've become addicted to other rooms, now. It's been a real pain in my butt making myself go through the motions again. I tell myself I'm doing it for the kids. We're trying to talk things through, of course, to work things out. But the problem is me: I've weakened our bonds during this trial. Every relationship takes work, but it's been really tough on me. Why? Over months of disuse I didn't suddenly atrophy or suffer a cardiovascular decline. But I did forget how to run. Running is not, apparently, like riding a bike. I think the human body likes to run; but it's requiring practice to convince my body of this. It also takes practice to be effective. Since going steady with the gym again, I've become frustrated because I want to perform like I did back in December. My legs are strong, my breath is good. But I've forgotten how to get my feet down quickly and correctly. I'm out of synch, so I keep hurting myself. Also, the resulting treadmill abuse produces a nasty burning rubber smell, something I'll avoid personifying with relationship terminology. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-70374957922032108142009-03-30T23:17:00.002+07:002009-04-03T03:20:46.629+07:00Monday
Sidewalks around town are slowly coming back together again. I haven't meant to harp on this, but it's been a daily struggle. Right after Tết, the powers that be decided to tear them all up and replace them again. They did it all at once. I suspect this has something to do with a grand municipal attempt to circum-schedule both the big New Year celebration and the coming rainy season, which might begin in May. I also suspect, under the rules of good luck and godspeed, that this very schedule is why it's been raining at least once every week. I have a pretty platonic relationship with superstition. I pick and choose my beliefs in the least sexy ways. And like washing the car, leaving big dirty troughs along congested downtown motorways is just begging for rain. I came away from last year with hard and fast rules about the Vietnamese weather. During all of that first hot season, discounting the mercurial transitions from the rainy season, well, it was bone dry. I remember one big storm and one little drizzle. That's it. For the rest of those six months it didn't rain. I even explained, in no uncertain terms, to everyone who would listen: half the year it rains, and half the year it doesn't--a perfect two-season delineation you can set your calendar by. While I firmly hold that it's possible my one year history in Vietnam doesn't quite afford me the authority to wax so certain about these things, it's hard not to believe, when slopping though gravelly mud in the scooter lanes, edging past long muddy pools and construction equipment and stacked sidewalk tiles and roadway crew tents hung with drying laundry, that this rain has not been a direct result of city planning. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-22500049071415601062009-03-20T23:37:00.001+07:002009-03-26T02:44:59.045+07:00Friday
(This is the fourth post in a week-long serial about our Valentine's Day vacation. This entry should conclude the run, so I can get on with more recent stuff come Monday.) We spent the last night of our vacation in Đà Nẵng instead of Hội An because I wanted to see the big city before heading home. Đà Nẵng is the largest town in central Vietnam. The funny thing is, it feels less cosmopolitan than any other place I've visited here. The nicer restaurants seemed pretty ho-hum, people were unused to travelers, and there was just very little flash. I didn't see much in the way of nightlife, traffic, or hipness. This is probably because the river bisecting town is pretty wide, and the old US Army base camp at Mỹ Khê, popularized by the television show China Beach, is on the opposite side from where we stayed. I guess that's where all the tourist dollars are spent, so all the attention is paid over there. This would also account for the lack of tourist-type services--cyclos for hire, roving juice vendors, shoe shiners; hell, the lack of tourists themselves--in our immediate vicinity. It was pretty refreshing. Đà Nẵng came off like a no-frills and workaday place, with an under-crowded Champa sculpture museum rescued Mỹ Sơn artifacts, a jungle coffee shop with caged myna birds, and an altruistic pizza shop staffed by the deaf. Our hotel was adjacent to the giant cement Sông Hàn swing bridge* spanning the Hàn River, and the night before we returned home I got to see it during operation, if not "watch" it "in action". It rotated slower than my eye could follow--about half the speed of my watch's minute hand. So that took about half an hour, I guess. Obviously. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-53555653650412754422009-03-19T02:35:00.000+07:002009-03-26T02:37:34.259+07:00Thursday
(This is the third in a series of daily posts covering our Valentine's holiday vacation to Hội An and Mỹ Sơn. Picking up mid-swim, now:) I shouldn't make light of visiting the Champa Indochinese Hindu temple site at Mỹ Sơn (which is pronounced mee sohn, by the way). It was very interesting. The temple complex there was probably begun sometime in the fourth century, even as the bustling Chinese seaport of Hội An was beginning to burgeon. It's interesting these two cultures thrived thirty-five kilometers apart. But Mỹ Sơn was protected in a fertile valley between converging mountain ranges, where it prospered, more or less, for ten centuries as the religious and cultural nerve center of a great southern kingdom before eventually being consumed by the emerging Việt culture. In Mỹ Sơn, each successive Cham king built greater temples and religious centers, had documentary artworks carved into the jagged brick walls, advanced civilization, etc., before each was then successively entombed there. Because of its longevity, it's possible to track the mutation of Champa religion from its roots to something more regionally synthesized. A thousand-year progression from nearly Hindu to budding Buddhism is illustrated. We only wandered around the site for about an hour, during which our guide advanced learned modern suspicions about the Cham people's everyday religious activities. Mỹ Sơn remains an awesome place. Time has ravaged it, ornate conical stupas have crumbled or toppled. Many of the structures were damaged during bombing runs in 'sixty-nine. What's left is gorgeous though: pink and gray brick draped with vines and spongy moss. Also it's under construction. Several larger outlying structures are hidden within towers of scaffolding. All that said, it was impossible not to feel it was somewhat anti-climactic after visiting the much grander Khmer temple city at Angkor. [Cavin]
Mr. Cavinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-30841997.post-15918932429650363692009-03-18T23:24:00.000+07:002009-03-26T02:27:04.553+07:00Wednesday
(I'm still talking about our recent Valentine's Day trip. This is a sequel to the post preceding it.) We flew into Đà Nẵng after sunset on Friday the thirteenth, and hailed a cab south to Hội An. The driver tried to take us to the wrong hotel, but in all fairness the wrong place really did have virtually the same name as the one we'd booked. Still being fair: he only very mildly overcharged us, too. The right hotel was a lush courtyard affair on the palm- and paddy-lined riverbank between the town and the beach. Since it was already late we didn't see either until the next day. Both are beautiful. We've discovered yet again that we are not altogether typical tourists. Or maybe we are just really bad at tourism. Hội An is dotted with two-hundred year old traditional Chinese houses, traditional Chinese and Japanese temples, Museums explaining the interesting history and long-arrested nature of the place. We didn't do any of that. We spent our few days buying handmade shoes and clothing, eating and drinking in interesting modern fusion joints inhabiting century-old buildings overlooking the muddy river, and just soaking in the kind of bizarre juxtapositions that occur when a genuine and modern population inhabits a fetchingly preposterous and frozen historical space. Well, we did rent a guided tour of the nearby Champa ruins at Mỹ Sơn on that very hot Sunday. An air conditioned car operated by the hotel whisked us away first thing in the morning to the site, through several of the small towns that dot the Quảng Nam Province countryside. At Mỹ Sơn we wandered around the crumbling remains of fourteen-hundred year old buildings before returning to Hội An for passion fruit martinis in a riverside Mexican restaurant later that afternoon. [Cavin]
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Australian Open - Men's singles final
Roger Federer (1) vs. Andy Murray (5) 0830 GMT, Sun 31 January
Who's excited about tomorrow morning's epic battle? I know I am. Murray's got the edge in head-to-heads (6 wins in 8 meetings) but Federer has always won when it's (really) mattered, looking unbeatable in his semi against Tsonga.
Expect Federer to win in 4, maybe 5 sets, but given both players current runs of form, it should be a cracking match.
Hopes? Thoughts? Ideas of any pubs likely to be opening their doors early for the match?
I'm hoping Federer
But I have a sneaking feeling that Murray might win this.
Federer in 4 for me.
It'll be nigh-on impossible for me to wake up in time to see it, but I'll give it a shot.
You reminded me to turn on my alarm. Cheers
I'll be willing Murray on from the depths of my hangover. I hope bamos remembered to put his bet on.
i'm an alcoholic
and the idea of going to a pub at 8 in the morning disgusts me. It's on telly you tramp
K-Fed will probably win, since Murray still can't serve for shit. And crumbles when he's not totally on top. And is a shithouse
Can't wait.
Am optimistic as i always am with Murray, on his day he can beat anyone but Federer's current form is scary and we know he always steps up to the big occasion when he needs to.
i hope murray trounces him
can't stand federer. anyone who supports him needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
murray in five.harman_kardon this'd this
A long, hard look at ourselves
Yeah, supporting one of the greatest tennis players ever really needs to look in the mirror. Has Federer become John Terry all of a sudden or something?
why support the best tennis player?
why not support the tennis player that represents our country, the one that will, if he wins this tournament, bring a spectrum of prestige to the sport that currently doesn't really exist. it's still quite a middle class sport. i play tennis, but it's tough to find places in london to do so affordably, especially out of season. if murray wins, i honestly believe kids will want to play and things will change. more kids will ask for tennis racquets for their birthday/christmas and more kids will play, increasing britain's chances in future tournaments.
also, federer is the greatest player of our generation, perhaps of all time, but he's a dick. never comes across well in interviews.
definitely, i completely agree with you
but it will help, it'll be a starting point, that's all i'm saying. for that reason, we should want murray to win...
but fair enough. i want murray to win, you guys want r-fed to. that's alright. i'm sure it'll be a great match.
In individual sports, I'll support all British competitors
It just so happens to be that, in tennis, Murray is the only one (to all intents and purposes).
Well I like Federer
I just mention the fact he's brilliant because he is. I don't want to support Murray just because he's British, I don't give two craps about nationality in sport. And Murray winning stuff is not likely to change the state of the sport in this country one iota frankly.
you don't think if murray wins
more kids will want to play tennis?
arrogant, smug twat
"I think he really needs it more than I do, so I think the pressure's big on him"
"But we'll see how he's going to handle it. It's not going to be easy for him, that's for sure."
completely easy to hate. murray is the saviour of tennis. him and del potro, anyway.charliepanayi and harman_kardon this'd this
Argh I did not want to press ^this
So you hate smug gits who play mind games? Must have loved having Mourinho as boss then. Must stop dragging football into this...
Murray the saviour of tennis?!
mourinho was our smug twat.
murray is our smug twat too.
unless he loses tomorrow, the scottish bastard.
Murray is a smug cunt
Fed is a smug cunt and arguably the greatest tennis player of all timecharliepanayi this'd this
People awake for this yeah?
Tight so far, not much between them in this opening set.
I am up
Its alright so far, first set could have gone either way. Murray needs to believe he can win. Currently looks a little timid.
having completely butt-fucked murray for a two set lead
federer has lost his way in the third and is 5-2 down to an invigorated murray; better serving, more powerful, more alive...
it has to be said though that for the first two sets were almost faultless from federer and a pleasure to watch, unless your AM that is.
^massive jinx
ffs murray.harman_kardon this'd this
oh come on murray
this set was yours.Ibzo this'd this
he looks so tired
looks all over to be honest... i think i'm gonna cry.
its so weird
he's usually not as laboured as this
i guess that is the curse of playing roger-i-dont-run, you-do-federer
he keeps bottling it...
incredible tennis from federer
murray, like verbal said, looked laboured, but never stopped trying. such a great athlete and he made federer work. so sad he didn't win but federer deserved it. didn't drop a set in the semi final and the final... ridiculous.
dad said judy murray looks pretty grim
and I said maybe she had an affair with wayne bridge's wife

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Nicky Butt is on 14 yellow cards for the season, and one more caution and Butt will miss the first 3 games of next season.
Butt is walking the proverbial disciplinary tightrope on Monday afternoon, but we don't think it will affect his performance against Chelsea. That certainly mustn't be the main thing on his mind, and if it is he shouldn't be played. We'll need all his combative capabilities to wrestle midfield from Chelsea's world class midfield players.
Nicky talked about the situation today to the Newcastle Journal:
"It's not really playing on my mind,†"I'm pleased the title race is still alive – especially for the neutrals that are watching the league unfold.â€â€œI think that for any game at St James' the fans wouldn't let us rest on our laurels anyway, but obviously Chelsea are still going for the title so it should be a good game. So there is always an incentive to get a result, especially when we're at home in front of our own fans.â€
"When you're up against one of the big teams you definitely want to show that you can go out and compete with them. But obviously I've got a lot of friends at United who I still speak to and so it would be an added bonus if I could do it for them as well.â€
We're sure Nicky would like nothing better then for this Newcastle team to beat Chelsea, and you just know he'll be getting phone calls and text messages galore from his Old Trafford mates – a Newcastle win would almost guarantee Man United the Premier title.
But Newcastle should be in the mood on Monday afternoon to give Chelsea all they can handle, and if we can do that, surely it's a pointe that next season will be a very good one for the team.
By our poll on Monday's result, 44% of our readers think the game will be a draw and 42% think we'll win. But that's only with 379 votes so if you haven't voted yet, please do.
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Tuesday, April 25th 2017
Today was alright.
I started with French, which made my morning very, very boring. Luckily, psychology came along and things began to be a little more interesting, because of my teacher. Can always count on him to kick you out of boredom.
At lunch I sat with my close friends and we talked about dreams shortly, then watched the events, which was pin the puck on the target, because of the hockey playoffs going on. One of them participated and won some candy.
In English we studied Lord of The Flies. Well, I was supposed to, but I only completed a paper, then talked on the server about French with one of the owners and players, then another came along and told me they live in the same city as mine, which is awesome! I kinda want to meet him, but he's out of school and probably lives a fair distance away. I might talk to him a bit first and we'll see.
I ended with art and we started the mural. We basically painted the part we needed grey, as well as the door, since the woman thought we were much more efficient than the other group, despite us never painting walls before (well, I used to a little when I was younger and we would repaint my room). I had backed up and got a grey spot on my butt, but it wasn't a big deal, since it was my factory working pants and my coat would later cover it up when I would walk home.
At home I went on the server, sold a few things on there, ate supper, studied Lord of The Flies, then went on the server again to sell some more things. I worked a tiny bit on the book. Brainstorming answers for now. I also plan on answering WindSailor's emails. I will soon, don't worry! I planned to tonight, but ran out of time. I will tomorrow instead, since I won't have a test to worry about. I answered 1/3 of your email so far. Had to do a bit of research myself, since a couple were topics we didn't discuss in class.
I'm gonna go watch Doctor Who or 13 reasons why, then go to bed. Not late this time, hopefully. Been going to bed at midnight.
That's all for today.


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March 18, 2018
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Registration & Welcome Reception
March 19, 2018
8:00 am to 4:30 pm
8:00 am to 4:15 pm
8:00 am to 9:00 am
9:00 am to 9:15 am
Registration Desk Open
Exhibit Hall Open
Breakfast sponsored by The Chicago Community Trust
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Speaker: Jodi Spataro, Chief Advancement Officer, Community Foundation of Elkhart County; CFUnited Conference Committee
9:15 am to 10:15 am
The Role of Community Foundations in Shaping the Nonprofit Sector of the Future
Speaker: Vu Le, Executive Director, Rainier Valley Corps
10:15 am to 10:45 am
10:45 am to 12:00 pm
Networking Break
Sponsored by Community Foundation of the Fox Valley Region
Concurrent Breakouts
Back to the Basics, Donor Services Day One
Speaker: Eric Anderson, Director of Stewardship, The Minneapolis Foundation
The PR North Star for Your Community Foundation
Speakers: Elyse Hammett, APR, Vice President, Marketing & Communications, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta; Louise Mulherin, Public Relations, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Community Foundations as Capacity Builders
Speakers: Monique Jones, President, Evanston Community Foundation; Colton Strawser, MS, CFRE, CNP, President, Colton Strawser Consulting
Amplifying Online Giving with DFX
Speakers: Cyndi McAtee, Vice President, Product Development, RenPSG; Virginia Cijntje, Consulting Product Specialist, RenPSG
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Lunch & Plenary Session: Community Foundations and Disaster Relief
Lunch sponsored by The Alford Group
Moderator: Emmett D. Carson, PhD, CEO & President, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Speakers: Elizabeth Brown, President & CEO, Community Foundation Sonoma County; Nelson I. Colon, President, Puerto Rico Community Foundation; Stephen D. Maislin, President & CEO, Greater Houston Community Foundation
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Concurrent Breakouts
Tiny CFs – How Do We Get It All Done?
Speaker: Julianne Buck, Executive Director, Community Foundation of Grundy County
All Hands on Deck: Aligning around Community Leadership
Facilitator: Deborah Ellwood, President & CEO, CFLeads; Emilie Rosenbluth, Giving Strategies Analyst,Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo; Richard Peck,Vice President of Development and Philanthropy Services, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Disaster Relief Panel Follow Up: Grantmaking
Speakers: Renee Wizig-Barrios, Greater Houston Community Foundation; Leslie Ann Jackson, North Carolina Community Foundation; Mari Ellen Loijens, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
This Is Us: When Advancement & Communications Come Together
Speakers: Michelle Fritz, Director of Development & Donor Communication, Cleveland Foundation; Michael Murphy, Chief Marketing Officer, Cleveland Foundation
Remedies for What Keeps You Up At Night
Panelists: Bradley Hurlburt, CEO, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties; Phillip Lanham, Vice President, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation; Fidelma McGinn, Vice President, Philanthropic Services, Seattle Foundation; Jamie Phillippe, CFRE, Vice President, The Alford Group; Sharon Tiknis, Executive Vice President, The Alford Group
2:45 pm to 3:00 pm
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Networking Break
Concurrent Breakouts
Cracking the Professional Advisor Nut: Building Relationships and a Referral Network for your Foundation
Speaker: Frank Horrell, Director of Professional Advisor Development, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis
Communications & Inclusion: Reaching & Engaging a Diverse Audience
Speakers: Genna Freed, Communications Officer, The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation; Eva Penar, Director of Marketing & Communications, Chicago Community Trust
Introduction to Grantmaking
Speaker: Colton Strawser, MS, CFRE, CNP, President, Colton Strawser Consulting
Top 10 Ways to Position Your Foundation to Serve Generous Families
Panelists: Kirsten Kilchenstein, Vice President of Donor Relations, The Oregon Community Foundation; Marisa Ogles, Vice President, Donor Services & Engagement, Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga; Katherine Scott, Program Director, National Center for Family Philanthropy; Jodi Spataro, Chief Advancement Officer, Community Foundation of Elkhart County
Legal Session
Session made possible with support from Council on Foundations
Speakers: Bryan Del Rosario, Legal Counsel, Legal Affairs, Council on Foundations; Brad Ward, Director of Community Philanthropy, Council on Foundations
4:15 pm to 4:30 pm
Day One Closing Remarks
Speaker: Eric Hozempa, Executive Director, Longmont Community Foundation
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
CFUnited Opening Reception
The Dolphin Bar at The Mirage
March 20, 2018
8:00 am to 3:30 pm
8:00 am to 3:15 pm
8:00 am to 8:30 am
Registration Desk Open
Exhibit Hall Open
Breakfast & Day Two Opening Remarks
Breakfast sponsored by Communities Foundation of Texas
Speaker: Carol Pierce Goglia, Senior Director of Marketing & Communications, Communities Foundation of Texas; CFUnited Conference Committee
8:30 am to 9:30 am
Plenary Panel Session: Internal Collaboration for Greater Impact
Panelists: Tim Bresnahan, Senior Director of Gift Planning, The Chicago Community Trust; Simon Delekta, Senior Program Officer, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation; Carol Pierce Goglia, Senior Dir. of Marketing & Communications, Communities Foundation of Texas; Carolyn Newham, Senior Dir. of Donor Relations & Fund Administration, Communities Foundation of Texas; Kristin Oliveri, Director of Communications, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation; Eva Penar, Director of Marketing & Communications, Chicago Community Trust
9:30 am to 10:45 am
Concurrent Breakouts
Impact Investing with Our CDFI
Speakers: Lisa Barr, Director of Philanthropic Entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley Community Foundation; Terri Lovelace, Senior Vice President, Virginia Community Capital; President, LOCUS Impact Investing; Lisa O'Mara, Vice President Donor Engagement, The Community Foundation Serving Richmond & Central Virginia
Communications Ideas That Worked
Moderator: Nicole Paquette, Marketing Manager, Communities Foundation of Texas
Re-inventing High-impact Grantmaking: Bringing Donors, Staff & Nonprofits Together
Speakers: Carolyn Desrosiers, Community Engagement Manager, Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region; Martha Hemwall, Vice President Community Engagement, Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region; Tammy Williams, Vice President Communications & Marketing, Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region
The Alternative Landscape: Monetizing Complex Assets as a Growth Strategy!
Session made possible by Council on Foundations
Moderator: Bryan Del Rosario, Legal Counsel, Council on Foundations
Panelists: Alex Eaton, CEO, Utah Community Foundation; Craig Showalter, President & CEO, Wyoming Community Foundation
Aligning Community Leadership with Foundation Strategy: Damn, This is Hard
Panelists: Steve Alley, Managing Partner, Ekstrom Alley Clontz & Associates; Tony Macklin, CAP, Associate, Ekstrom Alley Clontz & Associates; Richard Peck, CAP, CFP, ChFC, VP of Development and Philanthropy Services, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation; Sandi Vidal, Vice President, Community Strategies and Initiatives, Central Florida Foundation
10:45 am to 11:15 am
Networking Break
Sponsored by National Center for Family Philanthropy( NCFP)
11:15 am to 12:30 pm
Concurrent Breakouts
Building Your Team: Engaging Advisors & Their Clients
Panelists: David DelFiandra, Partner, Leech Tishman; Kate McKenzie, Assistant Director of Development, The Pittsburgh Foundation; Peter Strope, CAP, CFP, Managing Director, Wealth Management, UBS; Jennie Zioncheck, MFT, CAP, Director of Development, The Pittsburgh Foundation
Engaging Tomorrow's Philanthropists Today
Speakers: Erin Dreiling, Marketing & Communications Manager, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta; Elyse Hammett, Vice President, Marketing & Communications, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta; James Tobias, Gift Planning Officer, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Tales Gone Wrong
Speakers: Kelly Anoe, Vice President, Legacy Foundation; Caroline Rakar, Program Officer, Coastal Community Foundation
The Communications Capacity Conundrum: Creative Solutions
Speaker: Robin Miner-Swartz, Owner, Miner-Swartz Editing and Consulting
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Lunch sponsored by Bromelkamp Company LLC
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Lunch Keynote: The Loyalty Switch: How to Make Anyone Loyal to You, Your Organization, or Your Cause
Keynote sponsored by Network for Good
Introduction: Brian Lauterbach CFRE, VP of Programs, Impact, Sustainability, Network for Good
Speaker: James Kane, Speaker, Author, Researcher
2:00 pm to 3:15 pm
Concurrent Breakouts
Doing More with Family Foundations
Speakers: Phillip Lanham CAP, Vice President, Donor & Private Foundation Services, Greater Cincinnati Foundation; Ba Zan Lin, Program Officer, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
Collaboration for Collective Impact
Network for Good
Speakers: Brian Lauterbach CFRE, VP of Programs, Impact & Sustainability, Network For Good;
Bob Eichinger, Director of Donor Services, The Chicago Community Trust; Courtney Vletas, Director of Development & Donor Services for the Community Foundation of Abilene
Round Table Discussions
Moderator: Martha Hemwall, Vice President Community Engagement, Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc
Community Foundations as a Community Convener Facilitators: Ollie Wilder & Diego Zegarra
Anniversary Celebrations Facilitator: Tom Linfield
Giving Circles Facilitator: Joanne Cohen
Rural or Affiliate Work Facilitator: Trudy Hughes
Scholarships Facilitator: Caroline Rakar
Technology Facilitator: Shannon Oakes
Trends & Challenges in the Community Foundation World
Session made by possible by Council on Foundations
Moderator: Eric Hozempa, Executive Director, Longmont Community Foundation
Panelists: Jason Franklin, Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair, Johnson Center for Philanthropy; Brad Ward, Director of Community Philanthropy, Council on Foundations
3:15 pm to 4:30 pm
The Role of Community Foundations when Mass Violence Hits Home
Introduction: Eric Hozempa, Executive Director, Longmont Community Foundation
Speakers: Gian Brosco, Esq., President, Nevada Community Foundation; Jennifer Barahona, LCSW, Executive Director, Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation; Sandi Vidal, Vice President of Community Strategies & Initiatives, Central Florida Foundation
4:15 pm to 4:30 pm
Day Two Closing Remarks
Speaker: Martha Hemwall, VP Community Engagement, Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region
March 21, 2018
8:00 am to 11:30 am
8:00 am to 10:30 am
8:00 am to 9:15 am
Registration Desk Open
Exhibit Hall Open
Continental Breakfast Affinity Group Business Meetings
9:15 am to 10:30 am
Concurrent Breakouts
Giving Circles: Spinning Gold or Chasing Your Tail
Speaker: Joanne Cohen, Vice President Philanthropic Services, Community Foundation for Northeast Florida
So, You're Celebrating an Anniversary?
Speakers: David Koehler, Vice President of Donor Engagement, Madison Community Foundation; Tom Linfield, Vice President, Community Impact, Madison Community Foundation; Brennan Nardi, Director of Communications, Madison Community Foundation
Unrestricted Funding, What's Holding Philanthropy Back?
Speakers: Ophelia Bitanga-Isreal, Program Officer, Hawai'i Community Foundation; Simon Delekta, Senior Program Officer, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation; Priscilla Enriquez, Chief Strategy & Impact Officer, Sacramento Region Community Foundation; Erika Frank, Community Investments Officer, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
What's Happening in Washington: Legislative Updates & Field-Wide Efforts
Speakers: Jeff Hamond; Vice President & Director of the Philanthropy Practice, Van Scoyoc Associates; Peter Panepento, Philanthropic Practice Leader, Turn-Two Communications
10:30 am to 11:30 am
Plenary Session: Changing Trends in Community Philanthropy: Adapting & Growing Amid Changing Giving Pattern
Speaker: Jason Franklin, Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair, Johnson Center for Philanthropy
11:30 am
Closing Remarks
CFUnited Conference Committee
Carol Pierce Goglia, Senior Director of Marketing & Communications, Communities Foundation of Texas;
Eric Hozempa, Executive Director, Longmont Community Foundation;
Jackie Mahoney, Exec. Vice President, Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region;
Nicole Paquette, Marketing Manager, Communities Foundation of Texas;
Jodi Spataro, Chief Advancement Officer, Community Foundation of Elkhart County
11:30 am
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BMI is an inexpensive and easy-to-perform method of screening for weight categories that may lead to health problems.BMI is a fairly reliable indicator of body fatness for most people.It is calculated from your height and weight. The formula used is: weight (lb) / [height (in)]2 x 703. Often, your BMI score is determined by taking your weight and height and plotting them on a chart or by using a web-based BMI calculator.
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Why is it important?
The BMI ranges are based on the relationship between body weight and disease and death. Overweight and obese individuals are at increased risk for many diseases and health conditions, including the following: heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, type 2 diabetes, gallstones, breathing problems, osteoarthritis, and certain cancers.
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I love scents! Although many of you are familiar with my essential oil obsession, there is something extremely calming about burning a delicious smelling candle. Plus, we've been spending a lot of nights in with Kirra (no complaints!) and cherishing every extra second we have to relax, so candles have gained more significance in our household as of recently.
We are exhausted — yes — but we sometimes need a little help winding down after a chaotic day, and my candle collection has been a huge hit. Over time, I've found there are 5 scents that I can't resist when it is time for a little R&R! See below for 5 of my favorite candle scents for a relaxing night in:
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2. Eucalyptus: Healing
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4. Brown Sugar Candle: Comforting
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We've all heard of ballroom dancing, but the Absecon Lighthouse has a new twist in store — lighthouse dancing. The historic structure in Atlantic City presents "Dancing with the Stairs" this Saturday (Jan. 19). This high-stepping dance party will feature professional dance demonstrations and dance instruction by the Follow Me Ballroom Studio of Ocean City, and music to swing by provided by DJ Jack Fahey. Participants are encouraged to come dressed as a dancer from your favorite era. Whether it's the elegance of Fred and Ginger, or the energetic style of the Dirty Dancing years, express yourself on the dance floor. A $25 donation to the lighthouse includes admission, light refreshments and a climb up the 228 lighthouse stairs to see the Atlantic City skyline ablaze. When asked what was the inspiration for the event, Absecon Lighthouse's executive director, Jean Muchanic, noted that after celebrating the lighthouse's first 150 years in 2007, "We wanted to launch the next 150 years by showcasing the fun side of being at the lighthouse and participating in its history. We have these wonderful wooden floors and with the popularity of Dancing with the Stars on TV, we thought this was a great idea."
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>> Yeah. Oprah: Okay. Tyra's good friend supermodel, actress rebecca romijn-stamos also turned in her mom for a makeover. Rebecca, as you probably know, is a big-time model and actress who has graced the covers of many, many magazines and knows a thing or two about fashion but says her mom, too, needs help. Please welcome rebecca romijn-stamos.
[C hi, girl. Good to see you again.
>> How are you? Oprah: Oh, fine.
>> Hi.
>> This is so fun. Oprah: You girls
>> we have known each other for 10 years.
>> 10 years. Oprah: You called her and said i'm turning in my mom. You want to turn in
>> she was like heck, yeah.
>> She just got to give a pluggyloo to you guys to find the man of her mom's dreams. I'm sure the man of my mom's dreams is watching this show or some oprah: She said her mom was in sort of a rut kind of thing. Was your mom?
>> My mom is recently single, just over a year and a half ago, out of a 17-year relationship, and, like i said, single, looking to mingle.
[Laughter] oprah: Rebecca told us that her mom, elizabeth, is, as she just said, single, ready to mingle, but needs a little help with her look. Look at this.
>> This is my mom, elizabeth. She is the cutest thing in the whole world. We tease relentlessly and she's such a good sport. My sister and i keep telling her that she needs to dress up a little bit more because she's just so shlumpy all day.
>> This is my dog walking outfit.
>> She's are nice. They've got pockets. I can wear them to exercise. I can go from there, get my shopping done.
>> You use the pockets for --
>> poop bags, my keys.
>> She'll hang out in this all day, people! I wish you wouldn't run around with stains all over her sweatshirt like this. She's got them all over. She's got a big huge -- look at this big one right here. It looks like somebody put their coffee mug down on her sweatshirt. And she decided to buy some smart brown loafers.
>> I never had a pair of loafers before.
>> Okay. Here is where she goes wrong. She shoves her feet in there with her gym socks on. Like she's on her way and then, like i said, she goes down a bad road. Okay, oprah, this is where my mom comes almost every day. This is the dog park. What she wears to the dog park is exactly what she should be wearing to the dog park. It's the fact that she keeps it on for the rest of the day.
>> I never had my eyebrows plucked. I've never known how to wear makeup. I don't understand hair at all.
>> My mom and i are very, very close. She has taken the role of being a mom very, very seriously. We didn't have a whole lot of money growing up, but she never made it feel that way. She just understands whatis about and she's got a beautiful, spirit. She's always been really right there for me, but wanted to give me all the confidence in the world, and i'd like to give that back to her now. I'd like to see her look simple, makeup, not too many accessories, and she can look classy and beautiful. Oprah: Well, so let's see what happened when the whole team got together. This is your mom before. We saw her in those loafers. Ready to see your mom now? Come on out, elizabeth.
[Cheers and applause]
>> she's so beautiful. Oprah: I think elizabeth's feeling it herself. Really.
>> I feel smart. I feel brilliant. Oprah: Really, you look so incredibly different.
>> Yeah. Oprah: You really do.
>> Did your eyebrows hurt, mom?
>> No, she was very gentle.
>> She was? Did she wax them or pluck them?
>> Pluck them. Oprah: That was okay.
>> First time i had my eyebrows plucked -- oprah: I know. But she is -- you look good.
>> Sexy with your leather pants.
>> Look at that.
[Cheers and applause] oprah: That is so cool.
>> You have on valentino.
>> Is it valentino? Oprah: Rebecca's mom elizabeth was in the hands of oscar blandi, who has done many other people, including gwyneth paltrow. Her makeup was done from the expert team from laura mercier. Love their products. Her new outfit is courtesy of nordstrom. It's fabulous. Would you have worn leather before?
>> Not until very recently. Oprah: So you would have. Black leather pants, that's not out of --
>> well, it's new. I'm more worried about those boots. Look how high that heel is. I never thought -- oprah: That's high for a loafer girl. Smart brown loafer girl.
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Oprah: Fun. Elizabeth?
Well, i usually concentrated on beauty from the inside, and i'm just really happy to know that iat i can wear black leather pants and high heels.
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Bob Taylor, of Taylor guitars, built guitars out of pallets to prove that good guitars didn't need to be made out of exotic woods.
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There are few people to have accomplished as much in wrestling as Glenn 'Kane' Jacobs has. Jacobs debuted in 1992 in the St Louis, MO area before working at the USWA as Doomsday, winning their World Title within the first three years of his career. In 1995 he was signed by the then WWF as Dr Isaac Yankem, DDS, Jerry Lawler's personal dentist (that is so hilarious to type out!). He largely worked as a jobber in that role, before being repackaged as the fake Diesel after Kevin Nash and Scott Hall left the company. That gimmick went over like a lead balloon, probably the best thing that could have happened to Jacobs.
Off the air for a few months, he was then given the role of Kane, the Undertaker's lost brother. Managed by the late Paul Bearer, Kane had what many consider to be the best debut in wrestling history following months of creepy vignettes back in St Louis where his career began. During the first ever Hell in a Cell match between 'Taker and Shawn Michaels, the lights go out, then funereal music hits and under only red lights out walks Bearer and the masked Kane. On commentary, Vince McMahon shouts, "That's Paul Bearer! And that…that's gotta be…THAT'S GOTTA BE KANE! THAT'S GOTTA BE KANE!" Kane then tears the door off the cage and proceeds to destroy the Undertaker. My hairs are standing up on my arms just thinking about it.
And the character just worked and instantly caught on with the fans. His imposing look, his music, his pyro, it all seamlessly gelled together. After an extremely notable feud with the Undertaker the two would partner as the Brothers of Destruction, one of the most intimidating tag teams in history. He would go on in his career to win 18 different championships in the WWE, including the WWF Championship, the ECW Championship, and the World Championship, making him the first of only three men to have held all three of the company's world championships. He has also held the Intercontinental Championship, the Hardcore Championship, and 12 tag team championships. He is the company's third Grand Slam Champion, and holds the record for the fastest successful cashing in of the Money in the Bank contract (I was there for that one!). Other records he holds include the most eliminations at the Royal Rumble, the most consecutive appearances at the Rumble, and the fastest elimination of another competitor at 1.9 seconds. He also won the fastest ever Wrestlemania match ever in eight seconds when he won the ECW World Title (I was there for that one, too!).
He's been unmasked, which made him even creepier, and was then remasked and it still worked. He went from non-verbal, to using a voice box, to fully speaking and made each one work. He's now in a comedic role as one half of the Tag Team Champions with Daniel Bryan, and he even makes that not just work, but get way over with the crowd. He has made numerous new wrestlers step up to a new level while still keeping himself strong. He's simply one of the best ever.
About the piece: I kept this one simple. Really, the piece itself kept it simple. I had originally planned to do some fun collage work but once I had the face painted I felt it was unnecessary. I considered adding other painted elements, but those would have also overpowered the intensity of this. I decided to just follow the KISS rule: Keep It Simple, Stupid!


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(Reuters) - Osisko Mining Corp (OSK.TO) said on Tuesday a Quebec court has scheduled a hearing in early March to decide if its complaints against Goldcorp Inc (G.TO), which has made a C$2.6 billion ($2.35 billion) hostile bid for Osisko, have merit.
As a result, Goldcorp said it had extended its bid to March 10 from a previous expiry of February 19.
Osisko said last week it had sued Goldcorp in an attempt to foil the gold miner's bid, alleging that its suitor misused confidential information. Osisko has already advised its shareholders to reject the bid.
The hearing in the Quebec Superior Court has been set for March 3-5.
Goldcorp said in a statement that it had provided an undertaking to the court to not take up and pay for Osisko shares until the court's judgment was released.
Vancouver-based Goldcorp, the world's second-biggest miner based on market value, again denied Osisko's allegations and said it would vigorously defend its position.
"We are disappointed that Osisko has resorted to baseless legal claims that serve only to delay a proper bid process," Goldcorp President and Chief Executive Chuck Jeannes said.
Jeannes said that a "significant number" of Goldcorp and Osisko shareholders continued to express support for the transaction.
Goldcorp has also undertaken not to challenge Osisko's shareholder rights, or "poison pill", plan until March 6, Osisko said.
Lawsuits are a fairly common defensive measure used by companies facing hostile bids.
($1 = 1.1082 Canadian dollars)
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Stephen Coates


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Large 3 bedroom, 2 bath single story home. Additional office space plus two additional living rooms. Range, refrigerator, dishwasher. Gas heat. Attached storage garage. Approx 2584 sq. ft. No smoke/pet maybe. Yard Care Paid.
$1995/mo -- First + $1995 deposit -- Lease
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Visited the Developer Tools and ArcGis Mobile sessions this morning. The titles sounded promising, but as it is still the BPC, the main topic is to create more businesses and inenevitably make more money. Of course an important topic, but my focus is still on the cool – or as ESRI presentation guru John Calkin put it – rich features, I haven't figured out yet or even more important the answers to our questions.
Today I saw a couple of people wander around with some green badges. Meaning the developers are slowly streaming into the house. Even though most people here so far are in creating businesses not really developing, there is already a certain level of geekyness. I guess it will raise tremendously tomorrow when the dev summit officially starts.


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Monarchy is a duo from London that produces dreamy pop-music. Their first single Gold In The Fire / Black The Colour Of My Heart was released on Neon Gold Records on February 1st 2010. They have done remixes for Ellie Goulding, Kelis, Lady Gaga, Marina & the Diamonds, etc. Why no one is talking about this duo is beyond me; I have a feeling they'll be something special.
Gold In The Fire (Def Starr Remix) by brilliantlydifferent
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Prayer on the Hill Event Held at 2011 Inauguration
January 10, 2011, marked the inauguration of our new governor and of Prayer on the Hill, a non-stop prayer meeting within the walls of our statehouse. Worship and prayer began at 7 am and continued till 7 pm.
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2010 National Day of Prayer Observance at the Kansas Capitol
Pastor Polo Delacruz prays for the business community in the Old Supreme Court room of the Kansas statehouse.
Members of the Kansas legislature were among those in attendance.
Rev. Cecil and Audrey Washington of The New Beginning Baptist Church led the music and shared a duet.
Pastor Calley Russell of Higher Ground Church prayed for the area of healthcare.


text: We regret to inform you of the passing of Mrs. Faiga Borak, mother of Mrs. Devora Makovsky. The levaya will take place today, Wednedsay at 1:30 in Shomrei Hachomos Chapels, Fort Hamilton Pkwy & 43rd St. Shiva information is on the document which can be accessed by clicking on the link below (on the shul website). May we share only simchos.