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Our Insurgency Sandstorm Server Hosting Features

We back your server up every 15 minutes. Your backed up files are sent to our offsite backup system and should you ever want to restore them we have a simple tool. Choose the backup and click restore button, choose just the world or all files.

We have your standard text editor, but for novice users, we have a carefully designed "easy configurator" which makes changing your server settings as easy as possible. Drop down menus and text input areas, click save and you are done.

With our mod workshop tool you can easily download thousands of Insurgency Sandstorm mods straight to your server, gone are the days where you must upload large files via FTP. Simply put the mod id in and click download.

We have fully trained staff working around the clock so should you need us for anything we are always waiting for you. Tickets are answered on average in 20 minutes and resolved fast.

Install Beyond Api via 1 click Install button inside our Mod Manager. Request in support ticket from our client area for DLL access to upload your plugins via the File Manager.

We support all maps, even custom built maps. You simply use the drop-down menu to select which map you would like and click save. Our system does the rest.

We have the latest 2018 DDOS protection in place to make sure that no disgruntled players can aim an attack at your server and cause damage to your player base.

No expense has been spared on the development of our control panel which is an industry leader. With full FTP, built in file manager, built in MySQL manager, easy to use configurators, PID, stop, start, scheduled tasks, a glossy modern look and much more.

We have 15 data centers throughout the world. Including Dallas, New York, Oregon, Los Angeles, Charlotte, Montreal, Sydney, Paris, London, Frankfurt and many more. We have got the globe covered.

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Our control panel makes it amazingly easy to change your Insurgency Sandstorm server settings.

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Absolutely outstanding service for any survival servers you need, their customer service is fast and effective. Prices are extremely competitive.

I have used them for the best part of a year, across a total of three games and they have always done their absolute best to fix any issues that have occurred in a very short period of time.

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I've had my Ark server for 3 months and I love it, I'm setting up a crossark this Friday, so I am super excited. I wouldn't dream of hosting with anyone else. I've had NO issues with lag at all, and we have a MASSIVE 20x20x20 underwater tek base. They offer great gameplay for the price. It IS the cheapest when you compare to $/slot. Their customer service is always kind and friendly. Tickets are answered within a few hours and they are willing to help and explain things for you. With the shut down of all my official servers, I can absolutely say that I am so glad my tribe moved to a CAS server. We will now have a cross ark to meet all our needs!

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Frequently Asked Questions

We set up servers instantly, as soon as you order you can log in via our 'My Services' tab in the client area. As soon as you place an order, our automated system will create your server, and we will send you an email with the login details, so you have a record.

If you want to cancel its a very simple process. You can cancel anytime and from the moment you tell us you do not want the server anymore you will not be charged another penny. We have a no quibble cancellation policy.

We stand by the quality of our Insurgency Sandstorm hosting and the only reason you would want to cancel is that you were no longer playing Insurgency Sandstorm.

Yes. Your server will be online 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Always online. This is the main reason that clans and communities want to host a Insurgency Sandstorm server with a hosting provider. It means they can go about their daily lives and the server continues to run. Power and network are all provided inclusive in the monthly fee, there are no hidden extras.

Our support team is available to you 24 hours a day seven days a week, even on public holidays.  All you need to do is log into the client area and click support tickets. You can also email us; all of the information is on our contact us page.

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Insurgency Sandstorm is a hardcore first-person shooter. This is the newest game that New World Interactive has developed. This is the sequel to the highly popular Insurgency which was the apitamy of hardcore gameplay with the minimalist HUD.

Insurgency Sandstorm is very realistic in fact this is the closest you can get to real firefight that doesn't involve you to sign up to the armed forces.

Very beautiful graphics and game movement and shooting is extremely realistic. This game is all about teamwork and because without it you will just die so grab a few of your friends get on your own server and have a blast while blasting your enemies back to hell.

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For years I have written about this cartoon show runner and his pedo ideas and videos and the people that make excuses for him or how none of us understand his vision. The guy is a predator. This time the wave is going to be too much and suck him under.

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Day 5: Apple Clips with Live Titles

I had a completely different blog post written for today but saw a bunch of tweets about Apple Clips that were mentioning VoiceOver, Live Titles, and Captions that piqued my interest and had to try it out myself.

What is Clips and how can it Create Accessibility?

Clips is a new app from Apple that is available for download on iPhone and iPads. It is a video creation tool with different filters, graphics, music, and text available. It was the captioning feature, that is referred to as Live Titles that intrigued me. Live Titles will transcribe or auto-caption what is said in real-time, not after the fact. You even have choices on the appearance of the Live Titles. Clips allows you to create a video, see the captions in real-time, and then edit those captions prior to sharing to different platforms.

How it Works with Live Titles.

  1.  Download the Clips app from iTunes. It's free though I did have to upgrade to 10.3 first.
  2. Click on the Speech Bubble at the top and Choose how you want Live Titles to Appear.

  3.  Begin Recording by pressing the Hold to Record Button at the Bottom.
  4.  Release Button when recording complete.
Just 4 steps to record with Live Titles! The auto-transcriptions were pretty accurate on my first several attempts. However, I tested this at home and was in a quiet environment.  I imagine that environmental factors, articulation, and audio quality will influence the accuracy of Live Titles. There's plenty of other features such as the filters, graphics, and text that can be added to your video though I did not explore those much. You can even mute the microphone icon and Live Titles, if enabled, will still appear without any audio.

When I made this screen cast demonstrating Clips, I had errors in the captions which led me to investigate the editing process.

Sadly, while the recording and enabling of Live Titles in Clips was super easy and intuitive to figure out, the editing process was not!  Following the recording of your video in Clips, you can play it and when you pause, an audio icon, editing icon (scissors), and a trash can appear on your screen. In my mind, I thought the scissors would be about editing but no amount of pressing the scissors and then tapping the on-screen captions proved helpful. The 5 steps below is what I eventually figured out.

How to edit Live Titles.

  1. Play your Video
  2. Pause your Video
  3. Click on the Captions, not the scissors. Lesson learned. They are unhelpful unless you want to clip your video.
  4. ALL the Captions appear on a screen separate from your video that resembles a basic text editor.  Make your edits here.
  5. Click Apply
This is only 5 steps but the interface leaves a lot to be desired! Since the text exists away from your video you don't have a way to pair the audio and the text together easily while editing. It would require going back and forth and repeating these 5 steps multiple times to ensure accuracy. The interface lends itself to correcting spelling errors or adding punctuation. But, it's not user-friendly to ensure accuracy or to insert text that Live Titles failed to transcribe as I demonstrated as I attempted to edit the Live Titles.

I think Clips has promise in creating more accessible media with the addition of Live Titles. I love that the captioning is live and creators can get that instant feedback during the creation process. My fear is that with the editing not being streamlined to make necessary corrections to these Live Titles, media produced using Clips with Live Titles will be inaccurate and frustrating for caption users. Or, creators will just not use Live Titles to begin with. On the bright side, it's nice to see these technologies evolve and continue to improve over time.

If you try out Clips with Live Titles, I'd be curious to hear more about your experience. How accurate were your LiveTitles? Did you try editing? How did it go? And if students create using Clips with Live Titles, how was their experience?

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An Invitation

You can create a life you love… right here, right now.

You’re going to work with the raw material of your life… exactly as it is.

Start with a willingness to practice creating moments of
Peace, Joy, Empowerment, And love… in each day.

What would that look like?
What is peace? Joy? Empowerment? Love?
How does one live those qualities?

Peace is a deep inner quiet we each have within us, that can be accessed anywhere, any
time, by briefly pausing, breathing deeply and allowing one’s self to be still.

Joy is the exuberant feeling that comes from being aware and awake to the small miracles
and wonder of life in each moment.

Empowerment is recognizing one’s ability to take action, and taking action.

Love is making a choice in this moment to support one’s divine potential or that of
another with kindness and compassion. Love is not an adjective, it is a verb.

You can create a life you love by bringing these qualities to the circumstances of your life
as they are now. All you need is a sincere “yes” to yourself… and a daybook…

A daybook can be on your phone, I-pad, computer. It can be a big beautiful journal or a
little notepad that can be carried easily in a pocket or purse. It can be a graphic journal
where you draw instead of write.

Each day just take a moment to record:

When today did I create a moment of peace?
When today did I create a moment of joy?
When today did I create a moment of empowerment?
When today did I create a moment of love?

As you begin doing this right here, right now… your life will change and you will begin
creating a life you love.

Ever-Blossoming Potential

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 “There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” — Anais Nin, writer

I awoke this morning to the sound of author Harriet Lerner’s voice in my head.

“Every woman needs a life plan,” her voice was reminding me.

$_35I met Harriet in 1985 when her first book, The Dance of Anger, came out. At that time I was raising five daughters (Rose hadn’t been born yet) and wrote a weekly column for women in This Week Magazine in Portland, Oregon.

I interviewed Harriet about her book for my column and a sweet and brief friendship developed. Besides being an author, Harriet was a staff psychologist at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas and a wife and mother.

An important influence in my life, she offered ongoing motivation to my personal development as a woman through her books, lectures, and some precious personal time we had in Portland and Topeka. Much of my life was focused on our five darling daughters. Harriet helped me see I could be a priority too and that my voice was important both privately and publicly.

Honoring my selfhood, while mothering my then five daughters, was always a creative challenge.x_aa48b716 I went running at sun up while they still slept. I wrote my columns while they watched Sesame Street.

Now, six weeks shy of 62, I am realizing the narrative I had about this stage of life is pure fiction in real time. I am as busy and engaged with life as I was then, just in different ways. And, my potential feels as vital as ever. I have a vision of writing more books, mentoring my daughters, nurturing grandchildren, exploring the world and my place in it. Life can be a continual unfolding and fulfilling for each of us.

spring-blossom-trees-alley_tn2In the beautiful words of poet Emma Lou Thayne, “my arrival is as ongoing as prayer.” There is no arrival; there is only more opportunity to blossom in an ever-unfolding possibility.

So you might be wondering as you read, “When? How? Has she lost her mind?”

I used to believe I needed hours of uninterrupted prime time to write. Actually on the rare occasions those hours miraculously appear, I may find myself immobilized. The task is to ‘just start.’ I can put any string of words together and after five minutes of just writing anything that pops onto the page, I catch the wave of my own creativity.

Our challenge is to pick 30 minutes and start. You fill in the blank. What are your dreams? Are
there visions of art, crafts, pottery, education, writing, starting a business, learning to ski, trying Yoga, serving in a soup kitchen, volunteering in the schools, running for office?

Daughter's Sarah and Suzette completing a marathon

Daughter’s Sarah and Suzette completing a marathon

A marathon is accomplished one step at a time, a degree is obtained one class at a time, political office is won one vote at a time.

And as my older sister Brenda has taught me, there are many lives in a life!

As the last of her children were leaving home to start life on their own, she had an impression she needed to go back to college and get a degree in teaching. She and her husband and last daughter moved to Hawaii for the first leg of her continued education. Not only was she learning, she explored the islands in her down time with her now small family.

Sister, Brenda and daughter, Annie

Sadly her husband passed away shortly before she completed her degree. And thankfully, she had a life plan and was prepared. Most importantly, she had listened to and trusted her inner knowing.

When the last of my daughters were in high school, I felt an unexpected impression get graduate degree in counseling. My only experience with that field had been as a client! The idea was daunting financially, intellectually, and hardly seemed practical. There still was a lot to balance in life. But my husband and daughters encouraged me. And so I started with just one class. That class, taught by Professor Greg Crosby, changed my life. I knew I had found my next calling and threw myself with a passion into my preparation.

Daughter, Rose, selling goods at Pike Place Market

By the time my girls were starting college I was working and could assist them financially in carrying out their life plans—each plan unique. Some of the things they have done include helping run a farm-to-table restaurant (and working on the farm); teaching English in China; studying yoga in India; taking a road trip all around the United States; managing a quaint hotel on an island where whales could be seen from the porch; working in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in the shadow of the Grand Tetons; becoming a mother; becoming a therapist . . .

And, I just have to also give my husband a shout out; he bravely changed careers and got his graduate degree in his fifties. He brings not only his training to his new counseling career, but a life-time of experience including helping to raise six girls! (It’s no small task to be the only boy in the house!) He and I share a practice.

Just listen! Just notice! Let your inner-knowing tell you the story of your longings and desire. Then trust! Follow up with pen to paper or fingers on screen . . . Create your next life plan!

Reader Challenge: What dreams would you like to bring to life? What potential do you have that could be nurtured? What is a small and practical step to begin?

Come join me on the journey to continually nurturing our potential! Feel free to post about this on my FB page, Creating a Life You Love.

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Twenty Five Blessings

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.”
— Melody Beattie

Morning finds me in the woods, walking out my troubles.

It has been a year with many blessings, but also a flock of burdens. And that is the nature of life . . .

Somewhere in the swirl of it all, I started a new practice of naming 25 blessings as I walk. I don’t know why I picked 25. I do know that coming up with that many blessings caused me to dig a little deeper, to focus on the unrecognized and ignored.

My sister’s hands by Rute Pascoal

Take ‘fingers’ for example. How often do we consider our fingers – how they make it possible to touch, type, unbutton, stroke, undo, grasp, tie . . . .If my fingers were suddenly gone I would be saturated with sadness and loss, and yet . . . I hardly consider these true treasures.

I have discovered that while I exercise my body, I can exercise my outlook . Counting my blessings changes my focus from lack to abundance, from difficulty to possibility.

In her life-changing book, Simple Abundance, A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, written 20 years ago, Sarah Ban Breathnach challenged her millions of readers to start a gratitude journal that would be the blank canvas to capture five blessings a day. She promised that practice would be life changing.

She would know.

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By Antipodeuse on Flickr

Sitting in a restaurant many years ago, a heavy ceiling tile fell on her head causing serious injury. Her vision was affected and her eyes could not tolerate much light. She sat in her darkened bedroom in despair.

One day, she made a decision to go to her kitchen table and sit there until she had written 100 things for which she was grateful.

Not only did she eventually recover from her injury, but it lead to the writing her best-selling book which changed her life and the lives of her readers. In it she advocates creating a gratitude journal in which blessings are recorded daily.

I don’t know how many times I have read her book, but it is outlined in enough different colors of ink to remind me of the importance of adopting a daily spiritual practice of gratitude whether with pen in a journal, on our knees in prayer, or in the woods in contemplation.

autumn-beauty-river-imageThe title of a country song, Standing knee-Deep in a River, (Dying of Thirst), by Don Williams reminds me of the importance of becoming more conscious in life. I am surrounded by blessings I take for granted.

I am learning anew that gratitude is a well we can draw from when our emotional life is parched. As we drink from gratitude’s waters we begin to glimpse a bigger picture that holds the promise of possibility. What we focus on expands.

The conscious contemplation of what is working in life allows the fragmented activity of our mind to slow down, giving way to trust in the unseen. A glimpse of the light is caught despite the shadow.

This happens when we release resistance to our difficulties by accepting what is. We then come toAutomnRayoflight realize we have choices, even if it’s just the choice to do the best we can and let go of the rest . . .

Melody Beattie, the author of Codependent No More, learned for herself — in her difficult recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction — the importance of gratitude in healing.

“It turns what we have into enough . . . denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity,” she writes. “It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

As I consider all that I have, the natural inclination is to give thanks. As I do, my heart is filled again.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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The Quest for Answers

Photo by Maria Allred

Photo by Maria Allred

“This ‘you’ that sometimes feels inadequate, sometimes becomes afraid or angry or depressed, that searches on and on for fulfillment, contains within itself the very fulfillment it seeks, and to a supreme degree.”– Eknath Easwaran, Yoga Journal, Dec. 2008

It’s early October and Brian and I are embracing the unexpected good fortune of a day off from work. It’s sunny and our decision is immediate: we want 24 hours on the Oregon coast!

Autumn-Leaves-Forest-Road-PictureA two-hour drive through Oregon’s fiery fall foliage, chatting and reading (he drives, I read out-loud) and we can see the brilliant blue vastness of the Pacific Ocean. We quickly find an ocean view motel, have a bowl of Clam Chowder at Mo’s, and head onto the beach.

Sea air filling our nostrils, a slight breeze blowing through our open jackets, we walk. The freedom from work and ‘the tyranny of the urgent’ allows suppressed feelings and thoughts to rise.

“I’ve come to realize that all my life I’ve been looking for an answer,” I say to my husband.

“An answer to what,” he asks curiosity in his voice.Cannon Beach Flames

“That’s what’s odd,” I reply, “I don’t know. But I think it’s one of the reasons I’m a voracious reader. I keep expecting to one day open a book and suddenly all of life will make sense, the missing puzzle pieces will be there and will fit together.”

Brian listens attentively, occasionally asking a question that prompts me to go a little deeper. The conversation is really just a reflection on the mysteries of life: why life’s current at times pulls us down paths that don’t make sense; why some years are smooth sailing and others a near constant challenge; why some people endure great tragedy or poverty while others enjoy privilege and have relatively trauma-free lives. . .

There is no big true answer, despite what some would argue.

Mesmerising-shoreAs the waves of the ocean rush in with loud shushing sounds, only to recede again, our conversation explores the ebb and flow of life, the sea of human suffering that covers the planet. This is a sea that wets our feet in our own journey in life occasionally. But we are also immersed in it in our work as mental health counselors. (Our daughter Sarah frequently encourages us to make sure we put on our life jackets before we start work.)

‘Life is difficult’ is the first sentence in M. Scott Peck’s multi-million-best-seller, The Road Less Traveled, A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth.

‘Life is desire,’ says Rod Stryker a pre-eminent yoga and meditation teacher and the author of The Four Desires, Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom.

And Stephen Covey, author of another international bestseller, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, taught that if we want to change any situation we have to change ourselves and our perceptions.

After a time, my conversation with Brian gives way to a game of kicking a ball back and forth between us as we quietly walk the beach.

Meditation by the Beach

But at 4 a.m. the next morning when I can sleep no longer, I turn to a magazine article from an old edition of Yoga Journal called Uncover Your True Self by Eknath Easwaran. In the pre-dawn darkness I feel like she is speaking to me. ‘I invite you to step back and look with your artist’s eye at your own life. Consider it amorphous material, not yet deliberately crafted. Reflect upon what it is, and what it could be. Imagine how you will feel, and what those around you will lose, if it does not become what it could be.’

She reminds the reader that our ‘higher-self’ does not need to be brought into existence, because it already exists within us. In other words, I don’t have to search so far. Any answer we need can be found by attending to that higher knowing within each of us.

I once asked Sue Bender, author of Everyday Sacred, A Woman’s Journey Home, how we find ‘the answer.’

Everyday-Sacred“You get quiet,” she said.

Perhaps my questioning nature is about my ongoing journey home to myself, the life I have been given, and my purpose.

As I write this morning, Sue’s book is open to the personal inscription she wrote to me after we had spent some time together many years ago: “Seeing you again, feeling your spirit – I am struck with . . . the complex purity of your search . . .”

A few tears form in my eyes. She saw me. She honored my need to look for an answer when I didn’t even know the question.

After all, a question wasn’t the purpose. The purpose was the quest itself –and ultimately a journey to the knowing within and the fulfillment that follows.

Photo by Marcin Jagiellicz

Photo by Marcin Jagiellicz

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The School of Life

“My opportunity for growth and learning is always present.”
— Liz McNaughton, wife, mother, blogger, life-long student

A lazy last day of summer finds me wading in the shallow waters of the Huron River in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with my daughter Sarah and her three children: Edwin, 7, Leland, 5, and Amelia, 2.

10612896_10152973072495746_7340654167737065132_nSarah, age 31, is our 4th daughter. She is married to Grant, who is working on a PhD at the University of Michigan. Sarah, who has finished her college education for now, is a committed student in the school of life!

She is the resident assistant in family housing – a large sprawling community of families from all over the world who have given her a more global perspective. She is part of a book group. She is reading her way through all the pre-school children’s books from the library with her children.

Sarah, a few of her friends, and I had a girl’s-night-out while I was in 535f03e851ab7f636de0506d2c61ff05Ann Arbor. We ate rosemary infused strawberry ice cream under an orange moon in a periwinkle sky. Mostly we feasted on the conversation.

These were women who have degrees of their own. But, by choice have put their careers and continued academic education on hold as they take their posts on the home-front launching their young children into life in a deliberate and focused way. And, as they do, their own growth process continues. They have become students in the school of life.

Liz McNaughton, a mother of three, has a master’s degree in women’s studies. “The theme of the university I attended, was ‘Learning Lives Forever,’” she told me. “They frequently talked about continually nurturing the life of your mind. One visiting lecturer told a story (probably apocryphal) of Socrates and Plato, when Plato first asked Socrates to mentor him. Socrates took Plato to a river and held his head under water. Plato, obviously needing to breathe, started struggling, eventually breaking free from Socrates’ grip. Plato was obviously curious why Socrates had taken such a severe action with him. Socrates told him that when he wanted to learn as much as he wanted to breathe, he wouldn’t need a mentor.

quote-Albert-Einstein-learning-is-experience-everything-else-is-just-254510_2“That principle stuck with me,” she told me. “I remember thinking that I never wanted to stop learning, and would never use lack of access to a formal education as an excuse to stop. What I’m most learning now is how realistic that goal turned out to be. I have continued a rigorous exploration of women’s studies since graduation. In fact, I’m embarrassed to read my thesis now, because the understanding I demonstrated of feminist theory was so shallow compared to what I know now.”

Her hunger for knowledge has also led to an exploration of politics, parenting, and social issues. “I continue to search out ways to challenge my knowledge and help it grow.”

Liz shares some of the spiritual lessons she is learning in her blog, Remembering Women, at

1280px-Karuzi_Burundi_goatsKate, the mother of two sons, was asked to help get a school up and running in her native Burundi, Africa. When the invitation came she said to herself, “OK, I’ve got some learning to do!”

As part of a grassroots effort, a school serving 34 children has been started in a home in Burundi. Her learning has come through community activism.

Zusana, a mother of two, left behind her career as an inspector in a large oil company in Slovakia. “I am learning so much being a mother to my two children Lea, 7, and Viliam, 15 months,” she told me. “I also read, and I learn so much just from listening to people.”

Woman-in-LibrarySpending time with my daughter, son-in-law, grandchildren, and these fascinating women was inspiring and revitalizing. I knew I was ready to write again. A desire to write a memoir arose. I began taking steps to learn all I can about memoir writing.

Those of you who have been following Creating a Life You Love may have wondered where I disappeared to since my last article, “Claiming Our True Essence,” posted June 9th.

During that time I was struggling with a health issue, which lasted a few months. I was able to function in my work as a mental health therapist, in fact, work helped take my mind off my own challenges. But I had to let go of some things – sadly, other than my journal, I stopped writing.

At times life has plans for us that are different than the plans we have. It took time, but I gave way to life’s tutoring. Acceptance helped me replace struggle with surrender. As I did, I found the hallowed ground where I could discover the lessons life was trying to teach me:

  • 1246770-1440x900-[]Though we have a voice and a choice in life, there is wisdom in trusting the unexpected detours our path takes.
  • Times of illness, low energy, and depression can be a slowing down of the body and mind as they recalibrate.
  • What we resist persists.
  • There is always a greater ‘knowing’ within us, which has much to reveal if we are willing to surrender.

The past months have been an important reminder that we always have the opportunity to be students. There is more than one way to get an advanced degree!

I am happy to be back to Creating A Life You Love. I will be posting regularly again, but I can’t guarantee that it will be weekly since I am also writing my memoir. If you sign up to be a registered user, which is free, you will be notified every time I post. You can also follow me on my Face Book page, Creating a Life You Love, for daily quotes, inspiration, and the articles posted.

Here’s hoping that with the start of school for our children and grandchildren, you will join me in learning from the school of life!

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Thoughts on Port Huron
 — Bob Zellner

[This was written after the effort to recall rightwing, anti-labor Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin failed in early June of 2012. The Port Huron Statement was adopted in 1962 by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at its first convention held at the UAW conference center near Port Huron, MI.]

I was there and the most important thing was not to require a loyalty oath of movement participants. The energy saved by refusing to red-bait went right into action for freedom, or organizing.

It's important what a person believes, so tell me what you think, but more importantly, tell me what you do and have done. In Alabama I saw folks chanting affirmations of faith, knowing they did not mean it. My quest became why people's actions and beliefs were so far apart. I was fascinated with why so few white Southerners risked life and limb or even ostracism and poverty in the struggle against segregation and racial oppression.

Searching for authenticity, commitment and risk, as well as harmony between belief and action, I sought people doing things challenging and exciting to me. The second of five boys with a schoolteacher mother and preacher father, it was unlikely I would meet Dr. Martin Luther King and Ms Rosa Parks as a college student in Montgomery and become part of America's most exciting History — the Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps it was providential that my Methodist College, Huntingdon, was located in Montgomery, the cradle of the modern civil rights struggle.

My odyssey from KKK to MLK was a stretch. Dad, James Abraham Zellner, a Methodist minister was once a Klan organizer, a Kleagle. He and Mom, Ruby Hardy Zellner, graduated from Bob Jones College now located in Greenville, SC Even though it is now called a "university," it is not widely known as a hot bed of Southern Liberalism. What's worse, I was named for Dr. Bob Jones after he performed the marriage of Mom and Dad. In 2012-speak, that means I come from a line of Fundamentalist Terrorist. I must have been a disappointment to Godfather Dr. Bob. Have you ever noticed how fundamentalism and terrorism go together?

The nexus is ubiquitous throughout history. A fundamentalist, Muslim, Christian, or any other can be peace loving and protect those inside his circle. As a fundamentalist, however, his ability and willingness to harm those outside his circle, i.e. infidels, is altered. Not only is the fundamentalist allowed to harm others, his creed may even require him to do so. Presently a fundamentalist, then, depending on circumstances, voila, a terrorist is born. My father, grandfather and uncles in Birmingham were Klan activists. A more ruthless gaggle of terrorist is hard to imagine. Was their Klavern responsible for killing four little girls guilty of nothing more than going to Sunday school at the 16th Avenue Church one September morning in1963?

Telling stories about "deadheading" across the country while working on the railroad, Granddaddy Zellner worked as a telegrapher and later a dispatcher for Gulf Mobile and Ohio. I never thought of his bustling metropolis as the "Johannesburg" of America.

With this wrenching background, then, it's not surprising my outlook became that of an existential Marxist attempting to follow Jesus — schools of thought and action clearly at odds with one another. When one believes in dialectics and uses the philosophy to learn about the universe, one becomes comfortable with uncertainty and discomfort. Some early mentors advocated the adoption of an attitude of "creative insecurity." Democracy itself, they pointed out, is an exercise in dialectics or creative insecurity. To maintain our civil liberties we must allow those who would take away our civil liberties the right to speak. The Klan can rally, the neo-Nazis can advocate and the ignoramuses of the Tea Party are free to bloviate. Progressives, countering with better organizing, bigger marches, and debate rather than trying to outlaw rightwing first amendment rights, will win every time.

In time of war, like the present one with terrorists of various types around the world, we must fight fiercely to maintain our civil liberties. It's nonsensical to say our freedoms are under attack by fundamentalist terrorists; therefore we must give up a corner stone of democracy — the right to be safe in our persons. Sad to say, since 9/11 Americans have given up habeas corpus, the right to a fair trial through due process, without a whimper in the name of national security.

Spirituality, more important to me than religiosity, allows me to take the best from all religions and paths of enlightenment. Fundamentalist Muslims, I find, are just as capable of misconstruing the concept of jihad as Christian fundamentalists are of misinterpreting the concept of crusade. Looking back, trying to unravel the threads woven into this spiritual, philosophical fabric, my personal trope continues to be towards action. We are products of all we experience, therefore the above caveat — "now tends to be," warns that this current outlook could change.

I discovered a new intellectual universe in 1957 when Rev. Charles Prestwood, a newly minted Doctor of Divinity just returned from Boston University, encouraged us college freshmen to "break our cups." On fire with the social gospel, Dr. Prestwood, in a deliberate act of subversive teaching, advocated breaking our cups, even though they run over with goodness and abundance. He wanted us to actually question all the things we had been taught in church.

I was able to sit at the feet of Dr. Prestwood and other progressive ministers only through the miracle of Dad's conversion from KKK to the inclusive social gospel. Breaking with family and the Klan, he worked with Dr. King, Rev. Joe Lowery in Mobile, Prestwood, Thomas Lane Butts, and others attracted to the work being done by SNCC and SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Council.

Dr. Butts, my early mentor, is currently pastor emeritus of First United Methodist Church in Monroeville, Alabama serves as the main helper to Harper Lee, author of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

My interest in race and justice, kick-started by Charles Prestwood was aided and abetted by Dr. Tom Butts. My generation of Methodist youth was fortunate to have several young ministers in segregated Alabama spreading subversion quietly among my cohort of the teenage faithful. I found a blog, which brings Doctors Prestwood and Butts together in one paragraph. It is typical of both that they emphasis the organizer's responsibility to avoid hubris in their work. Tom Butts recently reported: "A friend and colleague, the late Dr. Charles M. Prestwood, who had unusual insight into the games people play in order to gain power without taking responsibility, wrote: 'The divisions of our day in part grow out of the fact that as slaves we begin by demanding justice and end by wanting to wear a crown.' There are some who never quite understand that we cannot wear the crown of thorns and also have the thirty pieces of silver. The truth is that our inclination to comment with authority and casually offer serious advice on every condition we encounter should be accompanied by an equally serious willingness to become actively involved in affecting the solutions we suggest."

Thomas Butts, in his eighties, continues to break cups, violate mores and he bends toward freedom. Prestwood's concern with divisions between people, and Butt's insistence that prescription and advice is meaningless in the absence of action toward solving problems, was the basis of my activism. Activist wasn't a word we used in SNCC in the 1960s, calling ourselves civil rights workers or "organizers."

My involvment, similar to that of many church-bred young southerners black and white, is mirrored by Casey Hayden, who recently wrote a luminous and haunting memory that speaks to my coming of age in the south. Casey and I, along with our cohort of movement adventurers, including Jane Stembridge, Connie Curry, Dorothy and Rob Burlage, Joan Browning, Anne and Howard Romaine, Ed Hamlett, Sam Shirah and other white shoutherners, understood each other and where we came from so well that we seldom felt the need to speak or write about the experience. Along with other white Southerners who rose up for freedom now and always, we are currently writing about growing up white and southern. In Casey's case, her piece was written for her former husband Tom Hayden's book on SDS and the history of the Port Huron statement. That declaration along with SNCC's statement of purpose (drafted by Rev. Dr. James Lawson) became twin manifestos of a legendary generation in American history. "ONLY LOVE," she wrote, "IS RADICAL."

I was a child of small town Texas, and of a single parent mom, a feminist. We were poor closet liberals. Austin was my Mecca. I [became] an existentialist at a residential community of learning alongside The University, the only integrated housing on campus, both by gender and by race. We met in rigorous seminars with a collegium of renegade Christian ministers, headed by a chaplain from WWII who'd seen the carnage, demythologizing the church fathers and scriptures; The collegium attempted to create a language of experience: Surrendering illusions through honesty, one was opened to creating meaning: an authentic life, freedom. This surrender into reality was "the Christ event". Our freedom, our commonality in receiving it, and our common task of passing it on, were realized in community through rituals of confession, forgiveness, surrender, and gratitude. We found a remnant of the social gospel, the campus YM-YWCA, as our outpost. I served at the Y's national conference. Men and women led workgroups as equals: Peace; Race Relations; the World of Work; The Changing Roles of Men and Women. Consciously breaking out of the silent postwar generation, we vowed to realize our values, a politics of authenticity. The 50's unfolded into the 60's, the sit-in movement their exalted opening.

Casey Hayden reminds me that it is a wondrous thing when southerners change. Her memory of being a stifled southerner hungry for change evokes my evolving consciousness more eloquently than I can write. Shakespeare said the play is the thing. My movement generation came to believe the ACT was the thing. Authentic politics compelled us to ACT against the evils around us — evils crying out for action. Emerging from the silent generation, we found ourselves surrounded by poisonous snakes inching closer and closer to our bare feet. Too long had foremothers and fathers talked of making change, we would actually make change. We accomplished a lot. By 1965 the public accommodations and voting acts had passed setting the stage for a social and economic revolution. The national liberal consensus, which had allowed the movement to succeed up to this point, broke down.

When serious change, like that advocated by Ms Ella J. Baker, was on the agenda, liberals ran for high ground. Ending de jure segregation and black voter exclusion certainly completed the bourgeois revolution, which was left unfinished following the civil war. That was okay, but moving to full social and economic equality in the sense Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Dubois and Ms Baker understood it, was not all right. No broad left national consensus moving toward socialist revolution existed. This was the end of the civil right movement.

Dr. King's assassination sealed the deal. When he worked to unionize garbage workers in Memphis while planning a poor peoples' march on the nation's capitol, it was over. The movement was changing. In 1966, SNCC had become an all black organization; so many of the white staff began working with SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund. We answered the call to organize among and with white Southerners. We started to reach poor and working class white Southerners, bringing them into coalitions with already organized grass roots black folk. We formed GROW, Grass Roots Organizing Work, also called Get Rid of Wallace. I remember the joy and amazement we felt on finding former Klansmen in Mississippi willing to switch sides and join the human race. One, M. O. McCarty, a member of Local 5-443 of the International Woodworkers of America, walked off the job, at Masonite Corporation after a shop steward was fired for supporting two workers who refused to do work not included in their job descriptions, had been a Klan enforcer.

Masonite, located in Laurel, Mississippi, was at that time the largest hardboard plant in the world. The union could easily have prevailed in the resulting wildcat strike had the union members been able to remain unified. The problem was the racial division between white and black workers. M.O. became a great friend, helping in the effort to bring white and black workers together. When criticized for having been in the Klan, M.O. said, "Yes, I'll admit I was in the KKK, even though I am not supposed to say so. I have always been a joiner. Whenever I go to church, if they open the doors to membership, I join. So far I'm a Methodist, a Baptist, a Presbyterian, and a Holiness, and yes, I was a Klansman, but now I have joined the civil rights."

Only later, much later, in fact twenty or thirty years on down the line, did we begin to view human nature as a hard thing to change. Had we known early on, we may never have attempted to do what we did in the GROW Project. As it was, we were lucky to stumble on a philosophy of working class organizing that was successful. Large numbers of poor and working class folks from the Deep South could best be reached on a material basis. All who could be reached with the basic movement idealistic message of Christian love, brother and sisterhood had been reached. The majority would have to see that their material wellbeing depended on them changing racist behavior like separate seniority lists at the plant which kept blacks from advancing in skill level and pay. A strike would pit black and white workers against each other rather than being together, strong in unity.

While contemplating the difficulty of making basic social change in the south I used all the psychology, sociology and history learned in several bouts with college and graduate school. I began to work on a social change theory called the shrunken heart syndrome.

Briefly stated it means that centuries of standing on the necks of fellow human beings inevitably shrinks the hearts of those doing the oppressing. Evolution apparently works on the mental and spiritual body as well as the physical one. I reasoned that during slavery, whites in North America, especially the south, maintained the institution through force, violence and terror. Enslaving a human is an act of war against that person. To make war against a person or a people, it becomes necessary to learn to hate "those people". To own a human, unlike owning a mule, the slaveholder must deny the humanity of that man, woman or child. So, growing up in south Alabama among a people who had, for centuries, practiced treating people like objects or mules, I was expected to go and do likewise. To accomplish such a degree of dehumanization, individuals in the owning group inevitably suffer a shriveling of their souls and spirit.

A small example of this process can be seen in farm children, trying to get over their tender heartedness when killing chickens, rabbits, pigs and other livestock. They manage somehow to harden their hearts. In the same way, southerners get over their innate dislike of mistreating others. They teach themselves and their children that, "Blacks aren't the same as you and I, and therefore you may mistreat them".

Imagine an entire region of people mistreating African Americans (a mild and profoundly understated way of describing slavery from 1617 to 1865) for over two hundred years. These same southern people re-enslaved black people under Jim Crow, the sharecropper and prisoners-for-purchase systems for the hundred years leading up to the voting act of 1965.

If you think it would be terrifying to grow up this way, you have some understanding of my early experience. That was the region of my childhood and adolescence; those were the people — friends, fellow church members, family, and acquaintances — I grew up around. They were steeped in racism and self-hatred to the point that nothing was as it seemed. Wouldn't they of necessity have shriveled hearts? Small hearts leave no room for the milk of human kindness. These are the people I grew up with. Has human kindness dried up in southern white people?

The South today continues to be a bottomland with acidic puddles of racist poison still stagnating. Old black women and men in Mississippi taught me that hate is an acid that corrodes the bucket it is carried in. This is especially true among older white people. Only 11% of whites voting in Alabama pulled the lever for our first black president, Barack Obama. Southerners call him "the foreigner," rejecting the legitimacy of a black President. During the current Republican primary, the entire roster of candidates referred to him as "Obama," never President Obama. They have done their best to intimidate this president from exercising leadership, ready to pounce on him for being an angry young black man. But he has shown leadership, most recently on the right to love the one you chose. Thank you President Obama for showing political courage, rare these days.

Growing up in lower Alabama, I learned that my Great-Granddaddy thought he could not do without slavery. Then Granddaddy Zellner thought he could not get along without segregation. My father's generation of southerners was sure they simply could not get along without opposite sex marriage.

Well I get along fine without slavery and I don't have a personal need for segregation. As for marriage, I have tried it twice without success and hope I am done with it. For those who like it, however, I am happy for them to have at it anyway they want it. Opposite sex, same sex, no sex, it is all the same for me.

Wait! Someone brought up bestiality. Was it Republican candidate, Santorum? Man on dog? That might actually give me pause, especially if the man wants to marry his best friend. Well it only gave me a pause, and a short one at that. If a woman wants to marry her dog and a man wants to marry his horse, who's to say it is not the right thing for them? No skin off my teeth, no harm no foul. Right?

I remember when Chuck McDew, former SNCC Chairman, and I visited my brother David and sister-in-law Ruth in a small town near Knoxville, Tenn. McDew, an African-American born in Massillon, Ohio, was fascinated by the jobs being held down, clung to actually, by my young nephews and their wives, all white southerners, born and bred. It was in the time of the Bush vs. Gore presidential race. We were eating in a Chinese buffet near the airport while waiting for our flight, surrounded by all these rural southerners so quite naturally Chuck asked whom everybody was voting for. Bush was their man one of my nephews proclaimed vigorously.

McDew allowed as how that did not seem right, given the bleak picture they had painted of employment in Knoxville. Looking perplexed, he questioned, "Didn't you say there no good paying jobs and you make hardly enough to pay for gas to and from work? You work at Jiffy Lube, minimum wage and you at Burger King, same wage, one wife at the dry cleaners and another at Wall Mart, and Grandma Ruth has to take care of the babies? Why on earth would you vote for Texan George Bush over Tennessean Gore?"

"Because," my kinfolk fairly shouted in unison, "Bush is going to protect us from gay marriage!" Chuck, completely flabbergasted by now, asked, "Do you know any gay people? Do you know any gay people who are getting married?"

They all agreed that they didn't know any gay people and didn't know if any of them were getting married.

Later at the airport McDew ruefully told me he had often worried about my poor white kinfolks, hoping they would be able to do better. "Now," he exclaimed, "After what I heard today from your poor nieces and nephews, I will never again worry about poor white people." Amen. So living with others continues to be a challenge in the South. In some ways young southerners are more open to change and less homophobic than their parents. But if the older generations continue to teach their prejudices to their offspring how long will it take.

Failure to embrace diversity has allowed a bastion of reaction to invade our entire body politic and I fear the infestation will continue until my region undergoes a thorough change. Many thought the process of integrating the solid south with the rest of the nation was well underway by the end of the sixties — that the south would never go back to its old ways. FDR and his redoubtable wife Eleanor tried mightily to change the politics of my region coming out of the last Great Depression, declaring the South to be the nation's number one economic problem.

Struggling to come out of this one, we find ourselves faced with the same problem. During Reconstruction, fair-minded people thought the south could never, would never, return to the all white courthouse and ballot box. In less than a generation, however, former slave owners using violence, ended reconstruction, reclaiming the south while disfranchising Negros and their poor white allies. Similarly nobody thought the gains of women, blacks and other oppressed people during the civil rights movement could be taken away again in this country. Currently the GOP, having been hijacked by Tea Party racists and shills for corporate fascism, is doing just that.

Will the tiny shrunken hearts of my fellow Southerners be able once again to stave off a concerted assault on its backwardness? Time will tell but there is hope. Challenges exist to be sure, but new and exciting promises are also present. Younger southerners like most young Americans are no longer as cowed by racism, paternalism, and homophobia as their parents and grandparents. More importantly there is a new respect for community organizing and positive social change. Our debonair young President Obama, after all, was a community organizer before trying his hand at leading the "free" world.

My region functions today as a safe rear for rightwing extremism and it anchors Tea Party white nationalism. Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law center warns of widespread arming and training of paramilitary extremists. He says that bullying and hatred of gays and immigrants is fueling impending violence on a grand scale. I think the ultra right is gearing up for a serious attempt to foment a new civil war in this country. The progressives and liberals on the left are woefully unprepared. This makes it imperative that progressives unite once and for all to bring the South into the national fold. And there is historical precedent for organizing the South as a way of liberalizing the body politic.

The south and other pockets of reaction in the West, skews our national politics violently rightward. A basic change in the South will change the politics of the whole country, making American democracy safe for the world. Even a small change could make the country and therefore the world a healthier, safer place. Long-term community organizing seems to be the best solution to the Southern problem. Operation Dixie, Wikipedia explains, once attempted to unionize industry in the Southern United States. From 1946 to 1953 in 12 Southern states, labor tried to consolidate gains made by the trade union movement in the Northern United States during the war. Organized labor needed to block the status of the South as a "non-union" low-wage haven to which businesses could relocate. Failure of Operation Dixie to end the South's status as a low-wage, non-union haven impeded the ability of the union movement to maintain its strength in North and contributed to the decline of the American union movement in the second half of the twentieth century. Unions were unable to prevent businesses from holding back wage increases by either moving to the South or threatening to do so. The non-union South holds the nation back economically and has always impeded the fulfillment of civil and human rights. Presently there is no difference between organized labor and the civil rights movement.

My job as a scholar and activist, then, is to propose solutions, make plans and take action, so I am returning to the south after living and teaching in the north for many years. I moved to Wilson, North Carolina where Barton College is located at the end of my short street. A series of miracles landed me here. SNCC and movement people, being angels, will understand. I'm in an old house at the top of a hill near some woods where a bear reputedly lives. Ancient trees from the farm's pecan orchard shade our lot, which anchored vegetable fields along this ridge. I call it Seven Trees Farm. A downpour is drumming on the old roof, the first rain since I moved here April 13th, a Friday. Recently my old organizing friend, Al McSurely, introduced me to the remarkable Rev. Dr. William Barber, leader of a powerful and diverse coalition of fired up progressive southerners here in NC. Also I want to help focus national attention on the North Carolina Plan and the black power it represents, as well as assist John McNeil, wrongly convicted in Newt G's district of GA.

Wilson is also the home of John McNeil, an African-American basketball star sentenced to life for the death of a white attacker a mirror image to Travon Martin. I helped his wife, Anita, who is battling a recurrence of breast cancer; draft a letter to Kerry Kennedy for defense funds.

My new home at Seven Trees Farm, with offices, freedom house and organizing school will serve the eastern black belt region of NC. Our work plan for the next four or five years is outlined in the following resolution being presented to the NAACP Convention this July in Houston, attempting to bring organized labor and the NAACP together in a new Operation Dixie. Titled, HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM! The plan includes the following ideas:

"In the 1960s and 1970s, national forces violently opposed to labor and civil rights, adopted a southern strategy to destroy civil rights organizations providing practical support for southern labor and human rights movements. For 40 years we've trod vineyards where the grapes of wrath are stored, waging local and state battles against powerful national forces with unlimited funds for their long-range plan to reinstate segregation, voter ID's, and the whole bag of old tricks of division and hatred.

A conference will convene in the Southern Regions, the 11 former confederate states where anti-labor and anti-civil rights practices continue to plague our neighborhoods, our work-places, our churches and other institutions where we live, work, worship and play; A proposal to be debated in the NAACP should emerge calling for a NAACP-Labor summit to negotiate a Southern Check-Off where One Nation Organizing Fund members can collect $2 monthly to finance labor and civil rights organizers in 11 confederate states. $2 of each NAACP member's dues will be set aside to rebuild the southern civil and labor rights movement.

Martin Halpern, professor of history at Henderson State University in Arkansas, and other labor scholars, wonders if organized labor can even survive in the U.S. In an article written for Portside, comparing and contrasting the policies and actions of Presidents Kennedy and Obama, both seen as pro-labor, and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, an ultra rightwing one per center out to destroy the last vestiges of collective bargaining. Unions have declined in the private sector, Halpern points out, and they are under assault in the public sector, the strongest part of the labor movement today.

It is scary to me that the future of organized labor is so precarious. Mark Halpern sums up the situation: "Should Wisconsin voters June 5 retire Scott Walker for his anti-democratic actions, it will contribute to the movement to rescue our country fromdomination by the one percent. Likewise, by voting for Barack Obama in November, voters across the country will express their optimism that the president will continue to move in the direction of listening to the movements for peace and justice and support efforts fordemocratic workplaces. It is a good time to honor the legacy of John Kennedy: to listen to social and economic protest movements, respect unions for the goodthey do, and to promote the idea that government serves the people."

So Wisconsin voters and the NAACP/Labor organizing push may go a long way in saving collective bargaining. Such a joint plan could change the South from a bastion of the ultra right wing into a progressive region, making American democracy safe for the world, ending our skewed political spectrum which ranges now from far right to the ultra center.

NAACP and National Labor, establishing a National Organizing Committee will also plan the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice in front of the Lincoln Memorial honoring Dr. King and others of the Moses Generation. The NAACP and labor will then announce the funding and joint sponsorship of the One Nation Organizing Fund.

The North Carolina Conference of NAACP Branches is blazing the trail for a new era of organizing in the south and the rest of the nation. Rev. Dr. Barber and his cadre of organizers are also challenging the national NAACP to rededicate itself to grassroots organizing, honoring its glorious past. I was blessed to meet Ms Rosa Parks as a college student doing research for a sociology paper on the movement. She became a mentor to me and other students at all white Huntingdon College. Once, when trapped in a Montgomery church, Ms. Parks helped five students escape arrest, but not before saying to me, "Bob, when you see something wrong you have to do something about it. You must take action — you can't study injustice forever."

Don't morn Wisconsin, organize!

Bob Zellner June 12, 2012

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Toshiba is considering a US$20 billion offer from private equity firm CVC Capital Partners to take it private, a person familiar with the matter said, as the Japanese industrial conglomerate faces pressure from activist shareholders to improve governance.

The proposed deal, which comes three weeks after shareholders approved an independent probe into the scandal-hit company, could shield management, particularly chief executive Nobuaki Kurumatani, from that scrutiny. It would, however, invite regulatory review given its government work.

“Toshiba received an initial proposal yesterday, and will ask for further clarification and give it careful consideration,” Toshiba said in a statement, without providing further details.

Toshiba’s board, which includes Kurumatani who joined Toshiba from CVC, and Yoshiaki Fujimori, a senior adviser at the private equity firm, discussed the proposal on Wednesday, the source with knowledge of the proposal said.

Shares in Toshiba soared 18 percent to their daily-limit on Wednesday.

CVC is considering a 30 percent premium over Toshiba’s current share price in a tender offer, putting the value of the deal at nearly 2.3 trillion yen ($27.6 billion) based on Tuesday’s closing share price of 3,830 yen, said the source, who declined to be identified as the matter is private.

LightStream Research analyst Mio Kato, who publishes on investment research platform Smartkarma, described that offer price as too low.

“We believe that current shareholders, especially activists, will want a rather steep price,” he said in research note.

If they accepted the current offer it would still be the biggest private equity-led deal in Asia Pacific this year, surpassing Blackstone’s US$6 billion offer for Crown Resorts Ltd in Australia, according to Refinitiv data. It would also be CVC’s biggest foray into the region so far.

For CVC, which declined to comment, the proposal represents another chance to expand in Japan where large companies are under pressure to sell non-core assets and improve returns to shareholders. Other deals by the private equity firm include the US$1.5 billion purchase of Shiseido’s lower-priced skincare and shampoo brands.

Any approval by Toshiba’s board will face regulatory review, because Toshiba, which makes products ranging from escalators to sewerage plants, is one of only a handful of companies able to build nuclear reactors and manufactures other sensitive equipment, including lithium-ion batteries for Japan’s military submarines.

Japan’s government would want to ensure that Toshiba’s work on infrastructure was not disrupted, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said in a press briefing.

“Even though it faced bankruptcy Toshiba is still one of Japan’s leading companies. It also has many businesses linked to government policies, so it seems a little unrealistic for it to become a foreign-owned private company,” said Takuro Hayashi, an analyst at Iwai Cosmo Securities.

Under pressure

Toshiba’s management has been under pressure from activist funds since it sold 600 billion yen of stock to dozens of foreign hedge funds during a crisis stemming from the bankruptcy of its US nuclear power unit in 2017.

That battle is seen as a test case for whether Japan’s established corporate giants will respond to calls for better governance.

On March 18, Toshiba’s shareholders, led by Singapore-based Effissimo Capital Management, voted in favour of an independent probe, opposed by management, into allegations that investors were pressured to agree with management proposals.

That pressure included contacts from a government adviser and Japan’s trade ministry, sources previously told Reuters.

“The incentives for management would be to have a friendly shareholder who would keep them in place. There is the government to consider as well for Toshiba as they seem to have been heavily involved behind the scenes,” said LightStream Research’s Kato.

Reporting by Makiko Yamazaki in Tokyo; Additional reporting by Anshuman Daga in Singapore, Mayu Sakoda in Tokyo, Kane Wu in Hong Kong, Nilanjana Basu and Manojna Maddipatla in Bengaluru; Writing by Tim Kelly; Editing by Stephen Coates and Mark Potter

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FC Barcelona To Have Its Own Cryptocurrency Token

Spain’s soccer club FC Barcelona will to have its own token that will give voting power to fans.

The club has partnered with blockchain startup Chiliz for the initiative, and the token will be available in Q2 of this year.

The deal took 17 months to close, and the token will give voting power to its over 300 million global fans.

FC Barcelona and sports-focused blockchain startup Chiliz will launch what they are calling the Barca Fan Token (BAR) for the voting.

In an interview with The Block Josep Pont, board member and head of commercial area at FC Barcelona said, “This agreement will give us the chance to set up innovative marketing and partnership activations with a clear focus on the digital realm to take the Club closer to our fans around the world".

The BAR token will be initially priced at €2 (~$2.15) apiece, with a total supply of 40 million. Fans can purchase the token via Socios and Chiliz apps. The BAR token holders will be able to cast votes for certain club decisions, which will be announced when the token launches, Dreyfus told The Block. “It is all about fan engagement and how to offer a voice, an influence to 99.9% of fans that are NOT in the stadium/arena,” he said when further speaking with The Block.

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The Swiss melodic hard rock/metal outfit CRYSTAL BALL is celebrating the band’s 20th anniversary with the release of “2020” – their first ever best-of album – relesed on August 2nd 2019 via Massacre Records!

The album includes a total of 20 tracks on 2 CDs – there are 10 re-recorded and newly interpreted songs from the band’s first decade, and 10 melodic metal tracks from the band’s second decade, which were either re-recorded, newly arranged and/or enhanced with additional recordings. All songs were chosen based on results of fan polls and streaming analyses.

Stefan Kaufmann is once again responsible for the production, recordings and mastering – and along with Mattes for the mixing at ROXX Studio. Thomas Ewerhard is responsible for the cover artwork.

2020” is an album for die-hard fans that are around since the band’s early days but also for those who have barely heard of the band before. Needless to say that this album should be part of every record collection!

The band started in 1995 as a cover band named «Cherry Pie» and they played countless concerts. These years of stage experiences became the foundation of CRYSTAL BALL, under whose banner the band became one of Europe´s major forces in the hard rock genre. With «In The Beginning» CRYSTAL BALL started their crusade in 1999. The first album was very successful, but topped with ease from the follow-up «Hard Impact», hailed as “Album Of The Months” in several magazines. Followed by a successful tour with PRETTY MAIDS. Nobody was able to hide from CRYSTAL BALL anymore. The result: a new record contract with Nuclear Blast.

With «Virtual Empire» (2002) CRYSTAL BALL toured massively Europe, together first with DOKKEN and then with U.D.O., DORO and KROKUS. In 2003 the fourth album «HELLvetia, produced by former U.D.O./ ACCEPT member Stefan Kaufmann, became a more edgy effort and increased the success of CRYSTAL BALL enormously. Successful tours with AXXIS, PINK CREAM 69 and KROKUS saw CRYSTAL BALL increase their fan base following again. «Timewalker», once more produced by Kaufmann, delivered great catchy songs, full of freshness and power The band´s very first headliner tour with then-labelmates THUNDERSTONE followed the release in 2005. In 2007 CRYSTAL BALL inked a new record deal with AFM Records. «Secrets» was their sixth album, a great piece of Hard Rock, produced by Michael Bormann.

2013 CRYSTAL BALL came back after a longer break, with the album «Dawnbreaker». Stronger than ever! The original members Scott Leach and Marcel Sardella reformed CRYSTAL BALL with fresh blood and a great new frontman, Steven Mageney from Wuppertal, Germany. The boys signed a new record deal with Massacre Records. The band played 40 shows in six countries. Their successful tours with Krokus and The Poodles made it clear for all the show attendants: The Balls are back … for good!

2015 CRYSTAL BALL strikes again with „LifeRider“. The album received very positive reviews all over the world and was titled as the best CRYSTAL BALL album so far from fans and journalists. With „LifeRiderCRYSTAL BALL manages the balancing act between classical hard rock and modern metal. The guest appearance of BATTLE BEAST singer Noora Louhimo (duet „Eye to Eye“) tops off the excellent production by Stefan Kaufmann. Tony „T.C.“ Castell (ex-KROKUS) joins the band. Successful shows with the SCORPIONS and THUNDER followed. Also a collaboration with musicians of the Sinphony Orchestra Wuppertal who joined Crystal Ball live on stage.

„Déjà-Voodoo“ was released on the 22.09.2016. A tour through Switzerland and Germany together with SHAKRA left rock fans with a lasting impression. In 2017 CRYSTAL BALL rocked their French fans on a mini tour together with FREEDOM CALL. In addition to their own headlining shows CRYSTAL BALL also shared the stages not only with PRIMAL FEAR, PRETTY MAIDS but also with the guitar hero AXEL RUDI PELL. In the summer of 2017 CRYSTAL BALL has played at various festivals, peaking at the Rock the Ring festival (Hinwil, Switzerland) together with DEEP PURPLE, GOTTHARD and KROKUS.

With the critical acclaims for the last album still going on, the bustling Swiss melodic rocker strike again. CRYSTAL BALLs 10th studio album Crystallizer was released  in April 2018 subsequently supported by a common tour with AXEL RUDI PELLCrystallizer hit the German charts on #61 and rank #18 in Switzerland. Followed by headliner shows in Switzerland and appearances at festivals like Rock of Ages or Pyraser Classic Rock. In Autmn 2018 CRYSTAL BALL successfully  completed their first headliner tour through Germany.


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Crystal Clinic - Montrose

3925 and 3975 Embassy Parkway
Akron, OH 44333

Crystal Clinic – Montrose offers the following services: orthopedic care, outpatient surgery center, walk-in orthopedic care, hand and upper extremity care, and plastic and reconstructive care.  These offices are located on Embassy Parkway, just off Medina Road in two adjacent buildings in a convenient location to serve our orthopedic patients’ needs.

Outpatient Surgery, Outpatient Clinic, QuickCare Ortho Clinic, Physical Therapy, Hand Therapy, Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

Imaging: X-ray, DXA (bone density), MRI, Flouroscopic C-arms, Portable Imaging

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Watch our new, state-of-the-art hospital—and the future of advanced orthopaedic and reconstructive care—become a reality. Watch the construction of the new Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center hospital right here, live and in real time.

This innovative new facility is one more example of how Crystal Clinic is delivering nationally-renowned orthopaedic care.

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New world‐class Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center Hospital coming to Fairlawn

Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center will break ground on its much anticipated flagship orthopedic hospital this Spring of 2019. The announcement was made following the Fairlawn City Planning Commission’s unanimous approval of the final site plan for the replacement orthopedic hospital on Embassy Parkway.

Construction of the new hospital represents a major advancement for the region, providing access to truly world‐class orthopedic and reconstructive care right here in the community. The hospital will feature 12 operating rooms, 60 inpatient beds, advanced medical technologies, imaging, and other essential patient support services including Crystal Clinic QuickCare where patients can be seen the same day for orthopedic and sports injuries.

Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center CEO, Dr. Ron Suntken and hospital architects HGA and IKM presented comprehensive plans and drawings of the new state‐of‐the‐art hospital to the Planning Commission at its regularly scheduled Thursday, March 14 evening meeting. Plans thoughtfully captured valuable community input that had been collected over several months.  “On behalf of Crystal Clinic’s more than 1,000 outstanding medical care professionals, we are excited to bring this advanced, state‐of‐the‐art new hospital to the local communities and to the greater region we serve. Our unwavering commitment to provide world‐class orthopedic care, renowned surgeons, top medical professionals, and advanced procedures and technology continues to earn Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center national ranking and distinction. We are grateful for the mutually supportive and collaborative relationships with the communities we
serve and we thank the Fairlawn Planning Commission,” stated Dr. Suntken.

Chief Nursing and Operations Officer Holli Cholley, RN, BSN, M.B.A. expanded on the distinctions of this new facility. “Our mission is to provide the quality of care that people have come to expect from our physicians and clinical staff in an environment that is designed around the needs of our patients and the loved ones who care for them. This new hospital will be a destination facility like no other in Northeast Ohio. Family waiting rooms and patient rooms will feel more like a comfortable hotel than a traditional hospital. This new facility will bring true ‘hospitality’ to the hospital experience for patients and their families.”

Specific to the hospital’s clinical enhancements, Ms. Cholley added, “In our surgical and imaging areas, we will have state‐of‐the‐art technology and equipment to complement our physicians’ ability to diagnose and perform surgical procedures. The impressive facilities and advancements found in this new hospital design further demonstrate our commitment to providing exceptional care for those in the community, while also growing as one of the top orthopedic health systems in the nation.”

Expected completion date for the new hospital is summer 2021.


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CSAM acquires MediWare Oy

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

CSAM acquires MediWare Oy

Oslo, Norway

Norwegian based eHealth company CSAM is pleased to announce that it has acquired Finnish Maternity software company MediWare Oy.

Through this acquisition, CSAM becomes the leading dedicated eHealth specialist within the Maternity field in the Nordics.”, says Sverre Flatby, Chief Executive Officer of CSAM. “Customers and employees of both companies will all gain from the unique team that is being created as a result of combining these experienced Maternity software businesses.

Customers in the Nordics want strong and viable niche players.  Joining forces with CSAM is an important step in creating a long term, robust platform and position for MediWare’s customers and employees“, says Mika Niemelä, Chief Executive Officer of MediWare Oy.

ABOUT MediWare Oy

MediWare Oy is an IT corporation specializing in healthcare information systems.

We provide the Finnish healthcare industry with software products, ITIL compliant maintenance and control services as well as expert services.

Our clientele comprises a considerable number of healthcare professionals representing state-of-the-art knowledge in the industry. MediWare Oy is a vibrant and growing corporation aiming to maintain its position as a reliable, flexible and agile partner to various health operators. For us, customer satisfaction is a matter of honour.

CSAM is an eHealth company based in Norway, focusing on software solutions enabling healthcare providers to access relevant clinical information at the point of care. CSAM is the leading eHealth company in the Nordics, with customers in all Nordic countries as well as the UK, providing integrated specialist solutions across many healthcare disciplines.

CSAM is headquartered in Oslo, and has a fully owned software engineering subsidiary in the Philippines and offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oulu and London.

Chief Executive Officer of CSAM Health AS
Mr. Sverre Flatby
+47 9159 9159
Chief Executive Officer of MediWare Oy
Mr. Mika Niemelä
+358 40 750 7676

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About CSB & SJU

Traditions at CSB/SJU

SJU Athletics Festival of Cultures CSB Christmas Tree Lighting Holiday Dinners Candle Lighting Ceremonies Mom Prom Weekend Pines CSB Athletics CSB Athletics Pines SJU Athletics SJU Christmas Tree Lighting Festival of Cultures Bennie Ball and Brunch Fruit at the Finish Triathlon Holiday Dinners Maple Syrup Festival Hot Bread Night

Music festivals, holiday dinners, triathlons – these are just some of the campus traditions that unite the Bennie and Johnnie communities for life.

Bennie and Johnnie

College of Saint Benedict students are known as Bennies and Saint John’s University students are known as Johnnies. These monikers are a source of pride that students and alums carry for a lifetime.

CSB/SJU students win on and off the field. Our teams have a strong history of winning conference titles and competing for national championships. Leadership training and community involvement are also critical components of our athletic programs.

Bennie Ball and Brunch/Mom Prom Weekend

We're not sure who has more fun! Each spring, seniors and their parents enjoy dinner together and dance late into the night.

Candle Lighting Ceremonies

CSB's candle lightening ceremonies represent the Saint Ben’s motto “Let your light shine” and mark the first and last dinner Bennies share together as a class. This tradition even happens every year at Reunion, celebrating Bennie alumnae continuing to let their lights shine in the world.

Festival of Cultures

The annual Festival of Cultures celebrates and recognizes cultural diversity at CSB/SJU through student performances, food sampling and a fashion show. Some of the cultures regularly represented include The Bahamas, Ireland, China, Ethiopia, Japan, Poland, Native American nations and Mexico.

Fruit at the Finish Triathlon

The name says it all. Fruit-at-the-Finish Triathlon is an annual, springtime tradition that promotes physical/mental health, friendly competition…and funny fruit puns. “PrePEAR to Win: Pearsistance is key” and “Rind over Matter” are a few fruity themes from recent years.

Holiday Dinners

Before students leave for holiday breaks, CSB/SJU host their own Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Students dress up for these family-style feasts and enjoy traditions like turkey carving and a chocolate fountain.

Christmas Tree Lighting

Annual Christmas tree lighting ceremonies at Saint Ben’s and Saint John’s kickoff the holiday season. Students and community members gather for seasonal programming, hot chocolate and all the joy and Christmas spirit that comes with seeing a Christmas tree light up for the first time.

Hot Bread Night

Let the aroma of freshly baked Johnnie Bread lure you to Hot Bread Night. Johnnies can enjoy a study break with their floor mates while deciding which tasty toppings to spread on their bread.

Maple Syrup Festival

Maple syruping has been a tradition at Saint John's since the 1940s. The end of the syrup tapping season is marked by a festival, which includes horse-drawn rides, syrup sundaes, local music and a chance for everyone to participate in tree tapping.

Dating back to 1979, Pines (formerly Pinestock) has been a lasting end-of-year memory for the CSB/SJU community. During Pines weekend, students participate in a wide range of activities that have included obstacle courses, bubble soccer and graffiti art. The weekend ends with a signature concert featuring a popular artist.


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Whine & Dine

Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Join us and USU Programs for this BRAND NEW program with our special guest Trevor Wallace. We know this year have been rough and it's time to Whine & Dine together! Read more

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This smart-casual shirt is crafted from timeless cotton twill – a durable weave known for being both supple and super-strong. We've carefully washed the fabric to make it even softer, then added our much-appreciated non-iron finish. Cut to our new contemporary style, this shirt is shorter, slimmer and designed to be equally stylish when worn tucked in or loose over chinos. A button-down collar gives a nod to classic detailing.

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