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The Inspector General of the Liberia National Police Col. Clarence C. Massaquoi has reaffirmed the commitment of the LNP in maintaining law and order in Liberia, which he said is the statutory mandate of the Liberia National Police.

Speaking at the First graduation ceremony of the Liberia National Police College graduates, Director Massaquoi said the induction of College graduates into the LNP was a significant milestone in the history of the police force, to enlist individuals who are all college graduates specializing primarily in Criminal Justice and other related disciplines.

The LNP Boss said the implementation of the program was a clear indication that the LNP is on its way to becoming a high class and fully professional Police Organization that all Liberians can be proud of.

Director Massaquoi maintained that the recruitment, vetting and training of only college graduates, especially those trained in Criminal Justice for enlistment into the Liberia National Police is a pilot program for the provision of jobs for young and qualified Liberians in the field of law enforcement.

He lauded the President of Liberia Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and the Minister of Justice Cur, Christiana Tah for what he described as their tireless effort in ensuring the success of the program. The Police Chief stressed that the vision of the President is intended not only to improve the quality of those making up the NEW LNP, but to also enhance the ability of those who have chosen law Enforcement as a profession.

He described the enlistment of the new college graduates into the LNP as an unprecedented milestone in the history of the Liberia National Police in the wake of UNMIL drawdown and called on the government to ensure that the project will continue so as to attain the desire result of transforming the LNP in terms of the quality of service they provide to the people of Liberia.

The Special Corps project is an experiment aimed at shortening the time in preparing one from the stage of recruitment to that of a middle manager or to the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP).

He called on the young college graduates to be dutiful and loyal to the country and its people as much is expected of them by President Sirleaf whose vision the project is.

For her part the Deputy Minister of Justice for Codification Cllr. Victoria Sherman Lang who deputized for Justice Minister Christina Tah admonished the Special Corps of the many challenges ahead of them as law enforcers , but called on them to exhibit good character at all times. “ Good character will draw others to you as they seek to follow your example and measure up to your standards, it will allow you to admit when you made a mistake and will give you the resolve to stand against the improper influences that could damage you or the police force”, the Deputy Minister Lang said.

“You graduates are about to embark on a career that is filled with so many great and unique possibilities for you to serve your country with honor and distinction. Cherish this time; make the most of the opportunities that lie ahead of you. Commit yourselves to make a positive difference in the Liberia National Police and the communities you will serve” the Minister said through a proxy.

Ninety Five college graduates over the weekend with difference professional background received certificates of enrollment into the Liberia National Police at a program held at the Liberia National Police Training Academy in Paynesville City outside Monrovia.


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School Calendar and Newsletter now on Parent Portal

Over the last few years, the school has provided parents with a paper copy of the term calendar. The feedback received from this has been quite positive as parents have had a ‘heads-up’ on upcoming activities. Today, the school has made the term calendar available via the Parent Portal. The advantage of this is that you can hover the mouse over an event to find out much more detail about it than can be provided on a sheet of A4. As we move away from a paper -based information model, to reflect our commitment towards respecting our environment, we will be adding more of the traditional paper resources to the Parent Portal.

The school Newsletter is also being provided via the Prent Portal as from this term. Previously, the school has emailed the newsletter, provided a paper copy and put it on the website. The copy on the Parent Portal is replacing the website copy and the emailed copy. The paper copy of the Newsletter will cease at the end of 2015.

To access the calendar, log on to the Parent Portal, click on the Applications tab, click Sentral Dashboard and the calendar will appear. Hover the mouse over an event to read more detail.

To access the Newsletter, log on to the Parent Portal and the Newsletter link is on the right of screen.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Season of Change

I have several portrait orders lined up right now, which is sooo great. I had a bit of a dry spell last year after I stopped really promoting myself. I got a bit burnt out to be honest and wanted to have longer in between portraits and I got it. I went from having done 30+ portraits in a year to, oh..10 or less? But I also had plenty of time to paint my own paintings and experiment with my style a little. Now I have a lot of paintings, and a several prints, and a bunch of ready-to-ship pillow pets sitting around. Oh ya, and I'm moving. Where to...I don't know. This is not an unhappy move, but it's come at a slightly bad time. And since I HATE moving stuff. especially stuff that I realize (when I'm packing it) I haven't used for years, I'm going to be having my first ever garage sale. Soon. I have stuff listed on Craigslist and will surely end up donating lots of stuff to the Luther Service Center. But on top of all that I would like to just sell a lot of my inventory of pillow pets and prints. So. I'm having a huge sale in my Etsy shop right now (Coupon code HAPPYCUSTOMER gets you 50% off.) I have deactivated several listings, things like paintings I'm not willing to part with for less than the original price, and custom portraits. But will probably be adding more prints as I figure out my inventory.

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Updates and Alabama Blog Meet-Up

Well It's been so very long since I've visited bloggy land... so I have many many updates.

First of all... I am no longer working night shift at the hospital. I am now on "normal people" hours and working in a Neurosurgery clinic. More money, better hours, and much more time to spend time with my sweet husband and cute fur baby Jordie, to do school work, and most importantly blog!

Secondly... My husband and I recently moved and we are absolutely loving our new home! We are closer to both his family and mine. We have much more space here and.... it is sooooo QUIET! Loving it!

So that's enough about me. How is everyone else? I am so excited to be jumping back in and continuing to learn the trick of the trade from the BEST! What better way to do it then attend my very first blog meet up. I am so excited to be meeting some of my favorite bloggers!

If you live in the area or don't and just want to make the trip... come on down!! We'd love to have you! Just shoot Jennifer over at First Grade Blue Skies an email at and join the par-tay!

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Can't wait! I sent you an email earlier, but then I remembered your blog on my own, I have been crazy lately with all this professional development...I feel like I am losing my mind! lol
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This weekend's projects..

Turning my old letter tray into a jewelery display board.

Printing my own vintage richmond subway sign and framing it.

origami rose ball ornaments/pomanders. yes, i am.

photos to come!

still trying to figure out the canvas photo thing..i have the paper but our printer doesn't agree with it..more to come on that.

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Sunday, August 23, 2009

for the parents and the teachers

Anyone can use this list of great dinner questions. I got this from Will Richardson.

What did you make today that was meaningful?

What did you learn about the world?

Who are you working with?

What surprised you?

What did your teachers make with you?

What did you teach others?

What unanswered questions are you struggling with?

How did you change the world in some small (or big) way?

What’s something your teachers learned today?

What did you share with the world?

What do you want to know more about?

What did you love about today?

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How Embracing My Flaws Helped Me Find My Confidence

There is a lot of buzz around this word. You need ‘confidence’ to succeed. Confidence matters as much as competence”. Research shows that women have less of it than men. Mindy Kaling talks about ‘earning’ it in her memoir. There is a book called The Confidence Code. Forbes, Fast Company, Life Hacker, and every self help site in the known universe explores and exploits the word — it’s the golden ticket to success — a psychological mind set that will give you a leg up over the competition in this ever shifting job landscape. (A brutal version of it got a certain billionaire his place in the political spotlight.)

So if it’s just mind over matter (‘you say something enough times with confidence and people will believe it’), why is confidence so hard to have? (And why do so many people, women especially, have the opposite experience called the imposter syndrome?)

I’ve been thinking a lot about it as I’ve been back on the audition track both in LA and Vancouver. It’s tough out there. Making a living as an actor is an uphill battle. Getting auditions are more difficult than ever. And when you do, you better kill it — because you are up against names, picture perfect models, social media stars, friends of the director. So from where does one then pull this confidence? From talent and experience? From the quality of the work we bring in? Yes, that would seem to be the case. You have confidence that you will deliver the very best work showing your deep talent and passion.

But reality rarely serves this theory. For example, the part is a supporting role, meant to serve the main character with little to sink your actor teeth into. And your work? You barely had enough time to digest the 6 pages let alone work and coach it to camera-ready brilliance. Or on the flip side, the part is so awesome that your rational brain tells you that you would have to deliver an Academy Award quality performance to beat all the names and established actors you’re up against (not to mention meet the Hollywood standard of celebrity age-defying looks). So that confidence inner pep talk you muster — that you’re super talented so it’s going to go great, that you’ll own it, that they would be lucky to have you — is empty and fake, false blustery bravado that doesn’t produce the magic result you were looking for. (And I’m sure these examples apply to a plethora of careers, anything where you are putting your work forward for judgment). But you hear it, all the time, about that guy who walked into the room, completely confident, out of no where, killed it and got the job. So what was THAT? A genetic lottery ticket?

The thing is never about the thing…

In the irony of all ironies I was reading a TV pilot about Hollywood, when out of the blue, this unicorn question was answered. The script said (and I paraphrase): To get a seat at the table, it’s about having complete and utter confidence in who you are.

IT WAS LIKE A 1000W LIGHT BULB EXPLODED IN MY BRAIN. Such a simple idea, right? And maybe you already know this (and if so, you’re awesome and you can stop reading this post). But I realized that I’ve been looking at confidence all wrong. Confidence, to me, has always been about what I am about to do, not about who I am. It has been this psychological state tied to perfection, to achievement, to success through performing at my highest state. But this idea of confidence stemming from who I am, as a human being, as an artist, as a woman, as a HUMAN BEING — WHICH IN AND OF ITSELF MEANS FLAWED AND FALLIBLE — this idea turned everything on its head.

Digging in(side)…

I took a lot inside and a lot of things suddenly became very clear.

For one, I realized that I had a problematic inner narrative playing: That unless I was perfect — which meant in an audition that I was off-book word perfect, emotionally connected, in the moment, having a surprising authentic experience as the character — that I wouldn’t be good enough to book it. This high standard was killing me — my confidence was intrinsically tied to this idea of perfection. If I found that I had ‘lost’ a line in the middle of an audition, an alarm bell would go off in my head: abort abort, perfection fail, all is lost.” And then those lovely times when I did check off all those perfection boxes and I would leave fully elated, the reality of most often not booking (because of things beyond my control) would take its silent toll.

So it was time to take stock if I was going to look at confidence differently: If I’m going to be utterly confident in who I am, then Who Am I? I’ve lived enough, gone through enough self-exploration (and acting classes) to know this. I’m a big dreamer, deep thinker, punctuality challenged, emotional and intelligent woman who can cry as easily as she can fight. I am a chameleon, quick to bore, easy to inspire, a frustrated perfectionist who is overwhelmed with the beauty of existence, and shy to show affection. I am dreamer who questions everything, a procrastinator who loves the human connection and dares to unite science and entertainment. I am a human being that is exquisitely grateful to be alive and awed by the universe. Theses are all things that I know that I am. Imperfect, multi-dimensional, real. The good, the bad, the flawed, the soft, the sharp.

So what if I took stock of all those things that I know that I am — both the good and the flawed — and loved them into one cohesive messy thing: my confidence core. The essence of me as an individual human being on this planet, as unique as my DNA. Where, I can own that little pocket of spacetime that I occupy. I will be as dense and present, creating gravity, pulling matter and energy towards me. What if I didn’t try to hide my weaknesses? Because that might be fucking compelling.

Female perfectionism and the interwebz…

Tara Sophia Mohr, (creator of the Playing Big course), speaks to the good girl /good student syndrome, how girls are prone to better grades because of their tendencies for rule following and diligence. I know I was. I was top in my class because I studied the hardest and delivered what I knew the teachers wanted. There was a brilliant guy in my English class who would constantly ask ‘why’, and challenge the teachers. I couldn’t fathom why he would do that. Be the perfect student and everything else falls in place. But the real world has no such formula or guarantee. It has no guidelines, syllabus or teachers to please with an award or a college acceptance letter at the end of the year.

But as much as life is not a high school test to ace, the cruel teen politics of the cafeteria has digitally mutated and followed us into adult life — Social Media. Let’s be honest, for most of us, our self-confidence is affected by every site that we dare to digitally implement ourselves into. It’s a two dimensional filtered and photoshopped world governed by likes, comments and followers. More than we would like to admit, our sense of self has become defined by the screen, by our feeds, by digital comparisons to our friends and colleagues. (For us actors and models, jobs can be based on social media numbers) There is always a digital persona that is ‘better’ than ours — Happier, sexier, more famous. These digital communities are set up to encourage neighbor envy. Being confident in who you are and what you have is not encouraged because the online consumerist ecosystem only works if you are coveting someone’s else’ life. Our confidence is constantly tested by every post, either in how the e-community judges our media through their likes and comments or by what theirs makes us feel in comparison.

So it’s easy to see how our ideas of success through confidence are wrapped up in external achievements, perceived image and perfectionism. Thus it makes this idea that embracing yourself, flaws and all, is more potent and powerful than this perfect idealized version of yourself, revolutionary.

Do the (messy) work…

But here’s the thing Mindy Kaling made me realize. You have to work hard to earn that inner confidence of self. All those descriptives that I listed? It took me more than a decade to unearth them. The meme of ‘I’m fabulous and just woke up like this’ is bullshit. The truth is that I have never met a highly confident successful person who isn’t a workaholic.” Those are Mindy’s words and she speaks the truth. Going against the grain, against expectations, treading out into unknown waters with only a burning desire in your heart and only your gut telling your brain to trust it. And from there working, exploring, challenging, never taken rejection as a reason to stop and settle. Sound familiar? I have written thousands of pages of script pages, gone on hundreds of auditions, logged mind bending numbers of hours in class, gone through emotional gauntlets to prod the deepest recesses of my psyche, studied every crazy subject of science, locked myself in my office until all hours of the night because I’ve had ‘an idea’. There is nothing pretty or perfect about that work — and there are no school awards at the end of it. Just a deeper sense of self along my chosen journey with tiny victories along the way.

It’s messy, tough and dirty.

And so should our confidence be. Because it’s part and parcel with our all-nighters and our tears and our frustrations, vulnerabilities and our car that doubles as a catering truck and a changing room. This confidence that I’m talking about may be also known as authenticity or self esteem, but it’s also something that is greater than the sum of all those parts.

It’s our core. It’s our truth, our essence. It’s our raison d’etre

Our reason to be.

Next steps…

So how has this affected my own work as an actor in the audition process? I have stopped fixating about what I am ‘going to do’ in the audition room, but instead embraced what I am bringing in — the work I’ve done and who I am. I no longer need the marriage between the two to be perfect, I want it to be meaningful and real, embracing the things I would have considered ‘mistakes’ before. And the oddest thing? I no longer feel the extreme high or low after an audition. Just that I went in there and got to do something that I love: bring a character to life. Into messy real life.

So I challenge you to start this journey of finding utter and complete confidence in who you are. Dig inside and unearth every part of yourself that you have worked hard to become, and embrace it ALL with zeal. Marvel in the weird and the wacky, the painful and the powerful. Rejoice in the unique human being that you have become (and respect that uniqueness in every other person). This is a new path in my own personal journey and I am unsure what changes it will bring. But I know that if I stay true to my core, my confidence core, that there will be some momentous ones. Let’s see what comes next.

Taryn O'Neill

About Taryn O'Neill

TARYN is an actress, writer and new media producer originally from Vancouver, Canada. A competitive figure skater for 12 years, she graduated from Duke University. She has appeared on the TV shows ‘Vegas’, ‘Navy N.C.I.S.’, ‘The Inside’ ‘Lie to Me’ and plays a recurring role on the BYUTV family drama ‘Granite Flats’. She has acted in over 20 webseries (winning Best Supporting Actress at the Indie Soap awards for her work on ‘Compulsions’) as well as producing two series (including the Streamy nominated scifi series ‘After Judgment’.) She added writing to her repertoire after starting a blog in 2009, and in 2010, her first comedy script, “The Very True Adventures of the Madoff Girls,” was a Finalist in the NYTVFest FOX Comedy Pilot Contest. She has since written a full length series for ‘Stan Lee’s World of Heroes’ and has numerous web and tv projects in development, scifi being her genre of choice. In her spare time she studies all things science and trains in martial arts. Her quest to be an onscreen badass was first chronicled at her tumblr Operation BABE (Badass Alien-Fighting Body Endeavor), and has evolved into being a blog about being an inspired badass in all areas of life.


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U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.

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History of the Filipino Community in the Netherlands

Orquidia Flores-Valenzuela
The Netherlands
August 31, 2007

Originally published in Munting Nayon 125
(December 1999.)

Every story has a beginning and our story begins when a Cavitena accompanied her aunt to sail to another continent. The year was 1947, two years after the end of World War II.

When the ship dropped anchor in The Netherlands, ESTER TALA decided to stay behind and reach for her Tala (Pilipino for star) in the land of windmills.

Determined and full of conviction she will find her fortune in a far-distant land, she took a job as seamstress. Ten years later, she met and married Rinus Jagtenberg.

Tante Ester 1947 and 1997
The arrival of the first groups of Filipinas in 1964, changed the social life of the couple. Their week-ends were spent visiting and accompanying them to various places. The newcomers in turn, looked up to Tante Ester as their aunt and sought her comfort and advice.

With the passing away of Oom Rinus, Tante Ester is now surrounded by her Filipina friends who attend to her with the same love and kindness she showed them in their early years.

In 1996, 50 years after she set foot in Holland, they surprised her with a party and a testimonial plaque for humanitarian service. She maintains an active life, socializes and attends community activities and when not at home could be seen enjoying a stroll on the flea market of Amsterdam.

10 YEARS LATER CONCHITA GASTON who had carved out a career for herself in the United States as mezzo soprano, came to Europe to join the roster of an opera company in Antwerp.
Carmencita Lozada and Conchita Gaston

Philippine ambassadors in The Netherlands and other European countries proudly presented her in many diplomatic functions. Gaston, took these occasions as opportunity for foreigners to hear her native music and her usual final number was "Ay Kalisud," which she sang with gusto and deep feelings of an Ilonga.
She was married to the Dutch director of a concert theater and resided in The Hague until her death.

CARMENCITA LOZADA after graduating from the Music School in Vienna with the highest honours took up residence in The Netherlands in January 1964. The demands of her musical career , however, necessitated her immigration to Germany in 1975,and in the span of more than 30 years she performed in the finest concert halls of Europe, United States, Canada and Asia.
Carmencita Lozada with Prof. Ricardo Odnopossoff in Salzburg

This violinist considers The Netherlands as her second home and continues concertizing in the country: in 1994, for Samahan, a migrant workers' association; in 1997 she inspired the young music students by opening and closing the programme of Munting Nayon's "Afternoon of Music"; and a few months later in a solo concert in the Concert Theatre in Amsterdam.

Three generations of the Buman-Geronimo family. Eleanor (2nd-left came to Holland in 1962 with her husband Frits Buman(3rd left)
She and Conchita Gaston played solo or together on different occasions for the Philippine embassies, every performance a showcase of Philippine culture.

NEWLY-MARRIED BRIDES during this period, arrived with their Dutch husbands: ELEANOR GERONIMO, with her husband Frits Buman and their one-year-old daughter from New Guinea where her husband was assigned by Shell; another bride was an Ilonga and the third was from a prominent family in Manila.

Orquid Valenzuela and Eddie Flores - The Hague 1966
In DECEMBER 1965, a young couple, EDDIE FLORES and ORQUIDIA VALENZUELA, left the Philippines for The Netherlands where the wife was assigned by the Department of Foreign Affairs as secretary in the Philippine Embassy in The Hague. Upon arrival, Flores went to the Labour Bureau and was warmly received by an officer. It turned out he had a long list of vacancies to fill. The country’s manpower was not enough to cope up with the industrial acceleration and the poor guy was practically at the end of his wits, when Flores appeared. He could not care less who or where this brown guy came from, he had an applicant, that was enough. He served him coffee and in the course of the interview told Flores he may be the first Filipino to join the labour force of the country. He chose for him an American multinational company.

Ten years later, Valenzuela was recalled to the Home Office but the political turmoil in the Philippines and the deteriorating economic condition, plus the fact that the family was separated, convinced the couple that it was in their best interest that the family settle in The Netherlands.

As the years passed, the couple noted the population of Filipinos in this country was rapidly growing but there was lack of sufficient information from home and that which affects their own countrymen in Holland and nearby countries. In 1988, the couple, (together with Jorge Carreon) pioneered the publication of the first Filipino community news-information magazine, Munting Nayon. In 1991, Jorge left Munting Nayon.

When the then Princess Beatrix visited the Philippines she noted the high percentage of graduates in the medical field. Returning home from her trip she told the Dutch hospital authorities of the great number of English-speaking nurses which the Philippines can supply. Among the sectors that lacked personnel were the hospitals and contract-nurses from another country may be the solution. Without much ado, the proposal to employ Philippine nurses was approved.
First group of nurses arrives in the Netherlands-October 1964

Two groups of Philippine nurses with an employment contract for three years arrived in 1964. All nurses were assigned in the university hospital in Utrecht.
Twenty-nine more nurses were recruited in 1965 for Leiden university hosptal. Many of these nurses had specialized in certain areas and held responsible positions in various hospitals in the United States, Canada and even in the Philippines but they were lured by the beauty of Europe which they have only seen in movies and the thrilling adventures in another continent.
Nurses for Leiden-arrived 1965

A few days after they arrived, the nurses' excitement turned to shock when told serving coffee, cleaning and dusting their wards were included in their work. Resentments and disagreements ensued.

In the negotiations in Manila, no one among the concerned parties, officials and the nurses themselves, foresaw a major problem to come up. Never did it cross their minds that there may be differences in the standard of the nursing profession in their countries. The signing went off without a hitch, in good faith and friendly atmosphere.

To prevent further escalation of the problem, hospital officials and the Philippine Ambassador Delfin R. Garcia and Minister Petronilo Dulay met and in the discussions, the diplomats proposed the employment of midwives to do practical nurse work.

The registered nurses were given the option to break or finish their contract. Half of them left for the United States and Canada before their term ended.
The Dutch hospital authorities again went to the Philippines, this time to recruit midwives.

AROUND THIS TIME, three doctors arrived, Dr. Elizabeth Malonga, surgeon; Dr. Erlinda Villanueva from her specialization in obstetrics-gynecology at Mt. Sinai in the United States; and Dr. Zenaida Manago, anesthesiologist who had to stop working early due to illness. All three started at St. Lukas Ziekenhuis.

Dr. Malonga was later connected with Academisch Medisch Centrum until her retirement.
Dr. Linda Kars-Villanueva

Dr. Villanueva upon arrival, was designated Chief of Polyclinic at St. Lukas and held this position until her transfer to Zeeweg hospital in Ijmuiden where she headed the Obstetric-Gynecology Department. Married to Dr. Peter Kars, she retired recently before reaching pension age and now gives time to activities that help her countrymen.

Dr. Malong and Dr. Villanueva, have been recognized top specialists in their respective fields not only in Holland but also abroad.

Dr. Angela Lauchengo, an anesthesiologist arrived from her specialization in Denmark but left in 1977. Other doctors also did not stay long. Dr. Eduardo Cruz arrived from his practice in Netherlands Antilles some years ago and is presently connected with the Heart Center in Rotterdam.

They arrived on August 2, 1967 accompanied by Dr. Hattinga Vershure, followed a week later by a group of 25 guided by Sr. Doorenbosch to work in St. Lucas hospital in Amsterdam. Onze Lieve Vrouw hospital in Amsterdam also welcomed its first midwives and after a week another batch arrived..
First group of Midwives for OLV-Amsterdam (1967)

Midwife doing the job of a practical nurse was undoubtedly the satisfactory solution. Both hospital and the Filipina midwives were happy. No problem arose after this. Other hospitals like Binnenziekenhuis in Eindhoven, Lutherse Diaconessen, Majella in Bussum, in Haarlem, etc., sent their representatives to contract Philippine midwives, and the recruitment continued up to 1971. A few registered nurses and medical technologists applied and joined the midwives.
St. Lukas midwives

In their first year, there were miscommunications between the Filipinas and the patients because of the language to the amusement of their Dutch colleagues and even the patients themselves. The nurses were challenged, they were to show the Dutch the high quality of their performance, they took orientation and language courses seriously. To the surprise of the hospital authorities, in no time they could carry on conversations with the patients and remarkably adjusting to their new environment.
Eindhoven group -Binnenziekenhuis - March 1970

Their stories were carried by newspapers all over the country, the petite lasses who came from a country near Indonesia, the Dutch patients' praises for their tenderness and happy disposition, and positive comments of the doctors for their efficiency and good camaraderie.

Unlike the nurses, a great number of the midwives extended their contract and married Dutch men, eventually acquiring Dutch citizenship. There were also those who met Filipino sailors on foreign-flag carriers plying between Asia and Europe. Those who left boyfriends in the Philippines petitioned for them so they can come.

Princess Beatrix's trip further strengthened the friendly relations between the nations, the Philippines, a developing country rich in medical professionals and The Netherlands, a developed nation in dire need of manpower.

The Philippine government which was represented only by a legation, was elevated into an embassy before 1965.

In the late 90’s , The Netherlands’ health sector sounded alarm in their shortage of personnel thereby initiating recruitments of nurses from outside their border.
Amb. Eloy Bello III welcomes the first group of Filipino nurses (The Hague & Hilversum)-January 2001
Third group to come: Venlo/Venray - July 2001

In the January 2001, the first batch of 19 nurses from the Philippines arrived to work in The Hague and Hilversum. Since then, 2 groups followed and the latest arrival was last July when 9 Filipino nurses came to start their work in Venlo and Venray.

SCHOLARS - When a bilateral agreement was signed by the Netherlands and the Philippines, about 30 years ago, Filipino professionals working with the government and in the private sectors have been given the opportunity to further or advance their studies at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, International Training Center Delft (ITC) in Delft, in Wageningen for agriculture, Housing Institute in Rotterdam, in Enschede, etc. Because of the unstable condition prevailing in the Philippines during the Marcos regime, there were some who paid back their offices for the expenses incurred for them and stayed in this country.

FILIPINA SEAMSTRESSES for the Berghaus factory in Gendringen, the idea struck Verius Croonen, Personnel Manager of Berghaus, when he came across a newspaper article on the new nurses from the Philippines.
Croonen sought his brother's help, a Catholic missionary in Guimba, Nueva Ecija. Fr. Croonen had no difficulty looking for applicants. He was immediately swarmed by the lasses from the town when he broke the news that a garment factory in Holland wanted to employ seamstresses. Another Dutch priest, Fr. Lagerwey, head of the Social Communications Center in Manila, provided office space for the applicants’ registration and staff to supervise the aptitude test.
First group-Berghaus seamstresses -1966

In March 1966, the first group of around 60 arrived and were housed in a row of apartments in Gendringen. Though they had no previous sewing experience, they proved to be efficient workers which encouraged the company to recruit additional seamstresses providing them with living quarters in Ulft and Wehl. Every year, from 1966, a group of about 60 came headed by a Filipina social worker and was replaced at end of the three-year-contract. Berghaus provided the food and lodging, the costs deducted from the seamstresses' salary.

A Richard Burton-look-alike Catholic priest in his early 40s, Fr. Josef van Dooren was assigned to be the spiritual counselor of all the groups in Achterhoek. When he learnt the "girls" as he called them, had only a net of about 60 guilders a week and from the amount deducted support to their families, he appointed himself the girls' "chauffeur", packing five or six of them in his beetle and drove them around the country and nearby Germany. Often, he did errands for them.
As its business prospered Berghaus decided to employ Filipinas for their factory and office in Amsterdam. Again, they arrived in groups, each group with a social worker, and placed in the newly-built apartments in Bijlmermeer.

Unlike the nurses and midwives, those hired by Berghaus had very little in common with each other. Their ages ranged from 18 to 29 years, many came from the countryside, others from the metropolis with different educational and social backgrounds. Seven to nine occupied one apartment sharing the kitchen, toilet and bathroom. To say that there were no frictions and clashes, especially in their first year will be dishonest, yet every group finished its contract without major injuries or disaster, a miracle of ingenuity of Filipinas.

In 1972 Berghaus recruited for the last time.
One Dutch couple who played a big role in the lives of many workers in Berghaus were Ateng van de Worm and her husband Kaka. Their warm friendship and generosity have touched the hearts of the Filipinas.
Marriages of Filipinas and Dutch took place in the Achterhoek and Amsterdam at the end of their Berghaus' contract. A big number in Amsterdam married countrymen whose ships docked in Rottedam and Amsterdam.
A group of au pairs, on a week-end trip to Volendam

In 1967 ENTERTAINERS were recruited by Conti Productions for a nightclub in Amsterdam. These were professional artists who danced native numbers in modern Philippine costumes. As the economic situation in the Philippines deteriorated, the number of applicants for the job increased, many came contracted by clubs for several months, a number took the chance of coming without a job but somehow found employment. These entertainers have eventually integrated into the Dutch society.

DUTCH VOLUNTEERS for The Netherlands Technical Assistance Program to developing countries were sent to the Philippines and were assigned to various parts of the nation to give technical training to young Filipinos. The fair-skin bachelors fell in love with charming and witty Filipinas and when their term ended, the volunteers came back with their brides.

As Marcos continued to take the law into his hands, suspend the writ of habeas corpus and persecuted and tortured his opponents, The Netherlands, which has been internationally known and respected as a champion of human rights, started to receive appeals for political asylum.
In 1976, Luis Jalandoni and his wife Cony Ledesma, with their infant son, were the first Filipino political refugees to come to The Netherlands.

For Filipinos, The Netherlands 30 years ago was not considered a priority land for migration. The nurses, midwives and seamstresses left after their contract extract for the United States and Canada., with the exception of a few hundreds who opted to remain. Suddenly, these Filipinos realized they were bumping into new faces in the open markets, shopping malls, even in streets. Family members or friends came with the hope of getting employment, a big number of them were hired in the service of diplomats, others in rigs, ships, hotels and the very lucky landed office positions.

Some young people who corresponded with foreigners as hobby ended marrying their pen-pals and so by word of mouth, pen-pal gained popularity. It must have been this that gave Koos van der Kaay and his wife Conchita Talaga the idea to establish the first match-making agency in the early 80s which they named "Conchita Pen-Pal Club."

The number of couples who availed of the services of Conchita's club and other agencies with the same business that followed in later years, and the success of such a marriage, is anyone's guess but it is a fact that many inter-marriages between Dutch and Filipinas were the result of Conchita Pen-Pal club.

In the 90s another means of earning money for young Filipinas was found, through the au pair program. Au pair agencies began to blossom. Dutch families welcome Filipina au pairs because of their knowledge of English and reliability.

It is estimated that since the program started, approximately 2000 came to the Netherlands. A number of them have married and settled here while others transferred to other European countries.

In 1995 the Philippine government placed a ban on the au pair program, but The Netherlands government recognizes the program and imposes no restrictions, Filipinas who are under 25 years old, still come although now, in lesser number.

The influx of countrymen in all walks of life in Holland had reached a new level.

With the increase in their population, Filipinos formed their respective religious group and service. Filipino Catholics who used to attend Dutch mass, have organized themselves and were able to get either a Filipino or English-speaking priest to say mass at least one Sunday in the month in their respective areas. Other religious groups, for example, Iglesia ni Kristo which started its worship service in October 1983, Word International Ministries, Jesus is Lord, hold their own services.
Damayan celebrates its 10th anniversary

In the beginning associations and clubs were for cultural and social purposes only. In the case of the Philippine Nurses Association of the Academisch Ziekenhuis in Leiden formed in 1965, it had an exclusive membership. The first Dutch and Filipino club, the Dutch-Philippine Club was established in Gendringen in 1973. Six years later, Dutch-Philippine Association (DPA) in Utrecht was formed. DPA, however, is not an offshoot of the Dutch-Philippine Club of 1973. Some of the major sports and/or cultural associations are Barangay , United Filipino-Dutch Association and Filipino Sports Club.

The changes in immigration laws and labour market in the European Community, not to mention the adjustments to a new environment and family life more so in inter-racial marriage, are some of the problems Filipino(a)s, have to cope with. There are several associations and foundations geared for such cases, like Samahan ng Manggagawang Pilipino, Damayan, United Filipino Seafarers, Migrante, Bayanihan, Pinay sa Holland, Kababaihang Pilipina, etc.

At present, there are more than 20 associations of Filipinos and Dutch and Filipinos, with at least one in every province.
Community's biggest crowd-getter event, The Philippine Independence day Picnic (June 9, 2001), organized for the last 14 years by the umbrella group, THE COALITION with organisation members: BSH / UFDA / SAMAHAN and FSC.

The population of Filipinos in The Netherlands has grown by leaps and bounds over the years, no one can be sure of the actual number, some give an educated guess of 12,000.

They have assimilated to the culture and system of the country and majority has acquired its nationality, but at heart they remain Filipinos, no document can change that.

Their sterling qualities: the readiness to help not only their families but any country(wo)man in need, and respect and tolerance for each other’s religious beliefs and political ideologies. The Filipinos in The Netherlands have a cohesive Community

Munting Nayon-Special Issue History of the Filipino Community in the Netherlands October 15, 2001

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Linda Nietes
Sat 22nd November 2014
California, USA
Hello, Eddie and Orquidia.

Due to recent interest in the history of Filipinos in the diaspora, your account of the History of the Filipino Community in the Netherlands should be updated and expanded and be published as a book. Include more photographs, too. This is your challenge for 2015. Hope it will come to fruition and wish you lots of luck. Am not sure if your adopted country celebrates Thanksgiving as we do here in the US on the last Thursday of November .. here's to a very Happy Thanksgiving to you all there in the Netherlands!

Linda Nietes
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PO Box 4201, Palos Verdes Peninsula
CA 90275-2006, USA
Tel 310-514-9139
Sis. ching
Mon 17th November 2014
The Netherlands
Thank you for always updating us with is happening in the Filipino community here and in other parts of the world. I like the article of Orquid about the History of the Filipino community in the Netherlands, it gave an overview of the waves of Filipino migrants.

More power to Munting Nayon and good health to you and Orquid.

Sis. ching
The Netherlands
November 17, 2014
Marilyn Paed-Rayray
Sat 22nd May 2010
asnieres, france
This historical feature is an excellent film material. Tracing the roots of a once small Filipino community is such a hard task. "Felicitations"

Truly we, Filipinos, are globally competitive in all fields. THEN AND NOW.
rhino oblas
Wed 30th September 2009
Dear ALL,

Well done history of it kind - of Filipino "Workers Abroad" esp.there in Netherlands.We are just neighbors at times,only now I got this informations,say-from the early beginning about Filipinos coming to Holand. Great in numbers of Nurses who came and then continued to USA and Canada.

While, I only arrived here in Germany in 1991,after the Gulf War I,ended my job in Saudi Arabia after 6 yrs there,then having already my small family,...we came back to Germany. Landed in small Hospital and started working as a Nurse after 3 mos.with - out full knowledge of German Langauge.But first, I knew that there were Filipino Nurses working in most Hospitals here and the early butch came in the year,1970.That suprised me until now,they remained as "KPH"-helpers or Nursing aids only and was not given the full salary as a Nurse before,but it seems to me,"we"- are happy to be here and are satisfied.

Thank you so much,as always of being informed.

Auf Wiederhoren,[ hear from you again],

Priscila E. Kalevar
Sun 20th September 2009
Toronto, Canada

Nice to read about the history of the Filipino community in the Netherlands.

I'm looking for a friend who, I believed, moved to the Netherlands. Her name is Auring Galindo. That is her maiden name. Would you by any chance have met her? If so, please pass on my e-mail address to her. We were co-researchers at U.P School of Economics/IEDR in the 1960s.

Thanks a lot.
Priscila Eugenio-Kalevar
Jun Saturay
Fri 18th September 2009
Napakagandang material ito para sa isang stage production!
Tue 14th April 2009
Maybe its time to revisit this article by including the modern skilled migrants now populating the NXP semiconductor (founded by Philips) not only in Nijmegen but as well as in Einhoven. Now-adays skilled filipino migrants has expanded from Nurses, midwives, seamstresses, doctors to engineers.

Coming 2009 Independence day, our filipino semiconductor engrs/community are planning to visit the event in group. Getting to know other kababayans and their chosen field would be a nice thing to do and we new comers will be inspired by the stories of the batikans.
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Be Not Nobody

Vanessa Carlton

Release Date: 04.30.02
Record label: A&M
Genre(s): Pop

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With her debut single, "A Thousand Miles" Vanessa Carlton was predestined to pop stardom. The success of R&B starlet Alicia Keys was reason enough for this prediction; here we had a young, attractive (read: MTV-friendly), musician who made it big. It only makes perfect business sense to build upon this phenomenon with a white girl playing the piano (building on Keys' rebirth of piano kitsch), singing pure pop songs. Basically the idea is to take the bubblegum pop marketing approach and mix it with real instruments.

And while this may appear what the whole Vanessa Carlton "phenomenon" stemmed from; don't be fooled into thinking this is nothing more than a hugely successful marketing ploy. Be Not Nobody is, surprisingly, a fairly-strong debut.

While the generaly rarity of this style in music may lead one to believe Carlton is headed for one-hit-wonderdom, what's amazing here is the general strength throughout the album. While far from being the next Fiona Apple, or a female Billy Joel there are definitely connections to be made to an early Tori Amos - or an early Jewel (where the guitar is simply traded in for a piano).

The majority of Be Not Nobody, just as "A Thousand Miles" focuses primarily on Carlton's piano and vocals, with a healthy dose of orchestration and near over-production (a radio programmer's dream come true). Yet the strongest points on the disc come through when Carlton is left on her own with only her piano to aid her. This is most evident in "Wanted" and the album's closer, "Twilight" which slowly builds into sparse orchestration closing the disc nicely.

Her weakest points, however, are those where the orchestration gets ahead of her and she's forced to rely more heavily on her vocals - which are sadly the most grating part of the disc. With a similar singing style to Jewel, her forced syllables begin to burden the songs ultimately ending up with either a feeling of repetiveness or annoyance (dependent upon personal preference).

Still, the greatest horrors are the ballad "Pretty Baby" (a required staple in any truly balanced pop album) and the horrendous cover of The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black." Perhaps Carlton felt obliged to prove her "rock 'n' roll" roots, but it's a move best tapped as a live show rarity - not as a song to actually listen to more than once.

"A Thousand Miles" has already proven Carlton has star power, and the rest of the album will undoubtedly follow in this vein. It's produced perfectly for fans of "skilled" pop musicians, and it's destined to be a radio treasure chest - great for the masses but not so great for the general music-enthusiast. 02-May-2002 10:30 PM


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Speaking to 3D World magazine (via ahead of his dates in Australia, Doom said, “We’re working on some duets. It’s just preliminary shit but we will probably end up doing a whole record together.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Gracie and Eye Surgery

Gracie was adopted last year. She is a beautiful girl! She is very loved by her mom!
She usually lays by the front door in her bed-- sometimes resting, but most of the time keeping watch over the street and the neighborhood.
Gracie scratched her cornea in her eye several weeks ago-- Pekingese are so low to the ground and it's easy for this to happen. Her mom has no idea what she did-- but she immediately took her to the vet, who referred her to the vet opthalmologist. Gracie needed immediate surgery to fix this injury. She has to wear an e-collar while she heals. Dogs usually hate these collars! Poor Gracie!
Gracie has to have eye drops and she can recognize the bottles. When she sees her mom get one she shuts that eye very tightly and looks at her with the other eye. With a bit of cajoling, she finally gets the drop in. Gracie is recovering well-- of course, this means a lot of rest. She can rest anywhere-- on a couch, on the floor......
But, "her chair" is the best place to rest!
Gracie feels better and is now back to her job as street monitor and house protector. This is a serious job and she could only take a few days of sick leave! She has sat at the door and barked as folks went by and when a friend came to visit, she flew to the door and jumped in her lap as if to say, "It's about time you came to see me."
Gracie seems to be coming right along. She got a thorough check up and she is less resistant to the drops since she feels better. The surgeon thinks once the healing is complete, Gracie should still see with her eye-- maybe not as well, but still see things. It's amazing what surgeons can do for these dogs' eyes! Her eye will look more normal as she heals. Right now, it looks much worse than it feels.
Gracie thinks that collar is a HALO thus qualifying her for the head ANGEL. That's our girl. Here's a hug, Gracie!!!

Love, "Aunt Linda"

lady jicky said...

Poor Gracie! Never mind the "cone of silence" as we call it here at our house, will be off soon!

Mary Elizabeth said...

There is something about Gracie-girls and their wanting to own their neighborhoods! :-) She deserves all the love and pampering her mom is giving her. Best wishes for good healing.

claudine hellmuth said...

yay Gracie! feeling all better.She wears that collar very fashionably!

Berlin Deluxxe said...

Wishing gorgeous Gracie get well soon wishes :)

Karin said...

Gracie is a tough little peke. I'm thankful she is feeling better.


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Isaiah 43:1

"But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Isreal, "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!"

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The Free Gift

2 Corinthians 3:17-18
17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

I feel that a veil has been removed in my life, in regards to the freedom that Christ offers.

I grew up thinking that forgiveness was not something given, but something earned. At some point I began applying this to my relationship with God.
Even though...

Romans 6:22-23
22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Within the last couple months, God has been showing me over and over again that I cannot earn forgiveness. My works will not make righteous nor keep me on a path of righteousness. By thinking this way, I am negating the power of God in my life, and rejecting His grace.

The work that God has been doing on my heart.
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Isaiah 61:1-3
1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,

2 to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,

3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown of beauty
instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness
instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
a planting of the LORD
for the display of his splendor.

I was recently asked why I worship God, am I Lemming, or is there really purpose to my worship. I worship because of the freedom that Christ has bestowed on me. I worship because of the love that God has shown me. I worship because of the free gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus.

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I love hearing how God is molding you. You are beautiful.


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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Yes, Max is still doing well.

Blogger Sam here with the latest Max update.  I don't know if he will sleep for a month or not. He is sleeping pretty hard at night as it is. I think he misses his family. :)

a. it won't stop raining.

b. I give up trying to keep Max out of the puddles.

Max hasn't stole any of my food in a couple of days but did mysteriously chew on a roll of toilet paper when I left him alone for a few hours. I have no idea why; but tonight he comes to class with me. I caught him yesterday with his head under a pillow at my house and a cat nearby. I believe for Max that is coping. Unfortunately I never have a camera around for most of the cat interactions because some are pretty funny.

We have been walking a little bit most of days but this rain is pretty discouraging. Today we did spend a lot more time at another gate on the North Fork that he actually knows really well. He did a lot of circles through the woods and was thrilled at the size of the puddles. I actually have never experienced a dog that loves water this makes him so incredibly happy. :)

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Buddhist spiritual leader reaffirms support for Rohingya Muslim cause

March 3, 2017

The Dalai Lama has once again spoken out against atrocities against the Rohingya Muslims, and said he had personally approached de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to use her influence to end ethnic cleansing against the minority community.

"All the world's major religions convey a message of peace and compassion, so it is especially saddening when we hear of violence being used in the name of religion like the very unfortunate events concerning the Muslim community in Burma,” he wrote in comments that will be read at the first hearing of the Permanent People's Tribunal on Myanmar at London's Queen Mary University on March 6 and 7.

Dalai Lama joined an increasingly louder chorus of voices including Pope Francis, calling for an end to atrocities against the Muslim community.

The Buddhist spiritual leader has always voiced his sympathies for the Rohingyas, and decried the use of a version of Buddhist nationalism to mobilise popular hatred against the Rohingyas.


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Celebrate the Small Things

Celebrate the Small Things is a weekly bloghop now hosted by Lexa Cain. The idea is to post anything you want to celebrate from the last week, no matter how small.

This week I'm celebrating:

- I'm doing well at my Camp NaNo, and as long as I continue to stick to my plan, I'll have hit 50,000 words by the end of the month. I can't believe it's August next week! As much as I've enjoyed the challenge, I'm looking forward to a couple of days off writing when I'm done!

- I've watched Beauty and the Beast twice in the last week, and I've been listening to the soundtrack pretty much non stop, and I'm still not bored of it! Definitely my current obsession.

  1. Glad you'r doing well with your writing project and enjoying the music too. That sound track does have very nice music.

  2. Way to go with NaNo! Keep up the good work. I loved Beauty and the Beast, so I don't blame you. It's worth seeing over and over again.

  3. Great job with Camp NaNo! That's an impressive feat. I hope you're having a great weekend!

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Leila Otadi is one of the most beautiful and famous actresses . She has played both in business and art movies and the interest point is that She get the most expensive wages among the actresses . We have an interview with her and a variety of questions have been asked , You can see in the following article . She was asked , How do you define the profession of acting in Cinema ? She answered ” Action is an opportunity for experience conditions of life that a person may not be able to experience them in normal life . Certainly the career of acting is sensitive and it’s the center of attention and judgment of people ”

She was asked , How much beauty of face can be effective in achieving success for a player ? She answered ” 100 %  percent , I think each harmony and beauty is  lovely and favorable . Beauty , strong acting , influence of the face and character , are the important points . But we know the artists that despite of lacking the beauty , but they are the successful artists , therefore I think the impact of beauty is relative . ” What is your opinion about the  new generation of artists who would be entered in Cinema ? She answered Cinema needs to young and new artists everywhere in the world , and the field is open for all , and this case is depended on the talent and effort of everybody . ” What is your opinion about the lasting of an artist ? She answered ” Lasting is that you would be known as a real artists for the next years . The right selection of roles acting well and the other conditions cause to lasting in Cinema .

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Finding Harmony Through Humor

Super snowstorms. Subzero temperatures. Sad skies. The weather has been pretty depressing lately. Many people tried to find hope a few weeks ago when the famous groundhog, Phil, emerged from his safe haven to make his annual meteorological prediction. Others spent time finding hope through a little discussion and a lot of laughter at this month’s Children of Abraham program. The topic was “Humor” and featured speakers Dalia Abdel Rahim, Donnie Wood and Stacia McDermott. They represented the Islamic, Jewish and Christian perspectives on humor, respectively.

Nuns in habits, mothers in hijabs, men in yarmulkes—the room was full of diverse peoples seeking a common purpose: a harmonious community based on relationships of understanding and mutual respect. These dialogue-hungry people from all over the Dubuque braved the cold to listen to the speakers share jokes that touched their funny bones and discuss how to engage respectfully in humor across religions and cultures. They also touched on the common ground we can find as humans in our shared experiences of the hilarity of everyday life.

“I thought it was cool that all three religions felt very similarly about humor,” said first-year Caitlin Hansen. “All of the faith traditions were able to point to their own holy books and find references to humor.”

Blair Ernest, also a first year student, said that the event was “a great way to really get in touch with and better understand religious communities other than the one I’m most familiar with.”

The children present at the event even got involved by answering questions and offering stories of their own experiences with engaging in respectful humor. One young boy used a Spongebob episode to illustrate the lessons Spongebob learned about making respectful squirrel jokes to his friend, Sandy.

The mission of Children of Abraham is to create “an atmosphere in civic life that builds inter-religious solidarity, cooperation, and friendship. It does so through regular monthly topical conversations, service activities, educational outreach, the creative use of sacred space, and expressions of cross-cultural hospitality.” The world today, especially in light of recent events involving violence against Muslims, Jews and Christians needs programs like these more than ever.

If you’d like to join the conversation, mark your calendars for March 5, 2015 when internationally recognized Muslim comedian Azhar Usman will be visiting campus. The event will take place in the ACC Ballrooms at 7 p.m. Other upcoming Children of Abraham events can be found at Anyone interested in Loras’ own interfaith student organization, Better Together, can contact

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Journey Into Imagination with Figment!
Join Figment and let your imagination soar on a journey through all your senses.

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Figment, a small purple dragon, occasionally seen sporting a yellow sweater, is the mascot of the Imagination! pavilion at the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World Resort. He is extensively seen in Epcot merchandise.
The Journey Into Imagination pavilion opened with the rest of EPCOT Center on October 1, 1982, but the Journey Into Imagination dark ride did not open until March 5, 1983. In the original attraction, Dreamfinder, a jolly wizard-like scientist, teaches Figment how to use his imagination. Figment is meant to be the literal embodiment of the phrase "figment of the imagination". He is composed of various elements Dreamfinder found in his travels including two tiny wings, large yellow eyes, the horns of a steer (or dilemma, according to a 1983 appearance on the Today Show), a crocodile's snout, and the childish delight found at a birthday party. Figment is described in detail in the Dreamfinder's song "One Little Spark" (by the Sherman Brothers).

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NC restaurant makes list of ’10 best restaurants in the South’

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Asheville, North Carolina

A North Carolina restaurant has been named one of the top 10 restaurants in the South.

Southern Living magazine named Rhubarb in Asheville number five in its list of best Southern restaurants.

The restaurant describes itself as “upscale dining with Chef John Fleer.”

Southern Living recommends the restaurant’s Brick Oven Prince Edward Island Mussels in a Celery-Fennel Broth with Benton’s Bacon and Grilled Chapata Bread.

“Benton’s bacon shows up in a bowl of mussels in a silken celery-fennel broth,” according to the magazine. “The roasted whole trout bathes in wood smoke before joining a crisp potato-celeriac latke.”

The Kimball House in Decatur, Ga. topped Southern Living’s best restaurant list, followed by Rose’s Luxury in Washington, D.C. and the 404 Kitchen in Nashville.

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› Workshop on BigData & SAS at EPOCH | November 2014
Got the chance to be part of the workshop on big data analytics conducted by epoch research institute which was one of good learning experience.
› To ISRO Scientist in The Oxford | October 2014
Feeling proud of INDIA, saying congratulations to MOM (Mangalyaan) one of the scientist from ISRO, P.Sura had visited to my college and shared the experience. For this, I would like to extend my heartly thanks to college.
› Awareness program in Gov. School | September 2014
Teaching technology to kids at Govt. First Grade School,Agara,Bangalore. wow !!, awesome moment in my life. I was taken to government school, and had to give the basic idealogy of computers and some new technologies we are into.
› Techno Event'14 | September 2014
A great opportunity came in my way to conduct Techno Event'14 in my college with all collegemates, and I enjoyed the fest thorougly.
› TechMindz - IT FIESTA'14 | April 2014
Acharya Institute of Graduate Studies had organized this National level IT fest. I enjoyed two days of fest. I travelled to this college in train from my place.
› Shells'14 | April 2014
A perfectly organized college National level IT fest conducted by Kristu Jayanthi College, Bangalore. Here, I appreciate the dedication and effort of the KJC students. Hospitality was extremely good and I got to learn about managing qualities.
› A Small Satisfaction | March 2014
The quote "Small ocean make a ocean" inspires every individual to lend their hands. I donated the prize money which I won in the web designing competition to the Samarthanam Handicap School and this will continue as long as my breath ends.
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National IT fest organized by The Oxford College of Engineering, Bangalore. I had a homely experience as the college is branch of my college. I thoroughly enjoyed the fest and I even got an opportunity to meet a multimedia person who gave me suggestions on web designing field.
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National conference on Current trends in computer science 2014 was organized in my college The Oxford college of Science. The conference, where all highly educated people met and discussed on current technologies. Many students including me presented projects and it was completely informative meet.
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There was a unexpected gift for my birthday from my friends who took me to the Handicap school and donated some groceries for those lovely kids.
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Oxygem is a college E-Magazine. It was a chance for me to design a magazine for my college and a different learning experience as it was first time designing a magazine.
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"As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others". I got a golden opportunity to help the children with full of life. These children were deaf and dumb but the enthusiasm they had was enormous. I and my friends as a team representing pawanismmedia helped these kids by providing study materials.
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Should burping at school be a criminal offense?

A lawyer representing a 13-year-old student who was arrested for burping in class says there’s a nationwide problem of schools handing off discipline to police.

“They’re calling it the public schools to prison pipeline,” says civil rights attorney Shannon Kennedy. “They’re criminalizing these delinquent acts instead of the traditional where you have a principal who disciplines children.”

Kennedy is representing a 13-year-old student that she says was handcuffed and charged with a crime for burping in his P.E. class.

“A seventh grade boy burped once, a bunch of other boys laughed, maybe other people burped. It disrupted the P.E. class to the chagrin of this female teacher who called a school resource officer and had this boy handcuffed and charged with a crime in Albuquerque which is called Interfering with Public Education, a petty misdemeanor.”

Kennedy tells 97.3 KIRO FM’s Ross and Burbank Show that the boy, reportedly an excellent baseball player who got an F in P.E. as a result of the incident, had no prior criminal history.

“It’s awful doing this to a child. It’s terrifying for a 13-year-old boy who has never been in trouble before, who’s not a gang member, who’s not a drug dealer, he’s facing tough, tough mean kids in the juvenile detention center.”

Listen to Attorney Shannon Kennedy:Boy handcuffed for burping in class

Instead of leaving it to authorities to punish the boy, Kennedy says this was something that should have been left to the principal.

“They’re sort of leap-frogging over due process by putting these kids in handcuffs and taking them from school.”

97.3 KIRO FM host Dave Ross says in his day, school officials provided ample authority for in-school enforcement.

“When I was going to school. That guy was the vice principal. He was usually the scariest adult in the school. Ours had actually a withered arm so we were doubly frightened of him. And all it took was one look from him and you would immediately stop burping even if you had to.”

“The principal should be the one handling these situations,” says Kennedy. “It’s a failure of leadership.”

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Ordering tests

1. Move to the Lab tab.

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2. Select the test to order.

You can choose a test from the right-hand lists, or by entering it manually.

Different tests are available under the tabs for LabOther Lab or Indications. Under the Indications tab, you can select a group of tests based on what you are checking for.

Ordering test 2Under the Lab tab, you can visit the Lab or RCPA website by clicking on the links.

To manually enter the test, search using the orange Search box on the left. Type in part of the name and press [Enter].

Investigaton by indicationAny tests you order will appear in your “Actions” box. You can delete a test by clicking on it and pressing [Delete].

3. Specify the Lab.

In the orange Venue box, type part of the organisation’s name and press [Enter]. You can then search your address book for the correct details.

If you do not specify a venue, the tests will be sent to your practice’s default Lab.

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Clicking on the left-hand links will add your consultation notes.

e.g. If you click “Hist”, the notes you have written in the History box  for this complaint will be imported as a note.

Clicking on X Testsafe will prevent these results from being shared through Testsafe.

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In the orange Copy To box, enter the name or code of any other recipients and press [Enter]. You can then search for practitioners or organisations in your address book.

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The Most Famous in the History of Curses

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cursesThe belief in omens and spirits, or far left as a child, or expressed in over the left shoulder and three-time rapping on wood, no more. But sometimes happens is that you begin to understand that everything in the world, there is something from which fails to protect or call the police, or traumatic gun under the pillow or communications in the higher echelons of power.

1. Curse of Otzi

In 1991, a group of climbers went to conquer one of the Alpine peaks in the Otztal Valley, found in the ice half vmerzshie human remains. Deciding that it was one of the victims of avalanches and blizzards, climbers have learned body with ice axes and sent to the morgue. Examining the corpse, pathologists concluded: the man was a resident of the Bronze Age and lay in the mountains at least 5300 years.

Ice prisoner named Otzi, and scientists came to the conclusion that he was killed by a blow to the head, which caused him to unknown pursuers, and, when found, Otzi still clutched in the hands of a flint knife.

After some time, the people involved in this incident, suddenly began to die: Rainer Henn, the medical examiner who examined the body, was killed in a car accident a year after the events shortly thereafter avalanche claimed the life of Kurt Fritz – a guide who led the transportation of the body. Mountaineer Helmut Simon, first discovered Otzi died in 2004, roughly in the same area, fell into the abyss.

Almost immediately after the funeral of Simon, died of a heart attack, the head of the rescue team, look for it – Dieter Warnecke. In April 2005, died of a stroke, Professor Konrad Spindler of Innsbruck University, who led the team of scientists who have examined the ECR.

Can be regarded as a series of deaths coincidence, but in general, if we consider that this story had a ratio of hundreds of people in the death of several of them for 20 years cannot be anything supernatural.

2. Curse of the Pharaohs

According to some reports, at the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun was found a stone with the inscription Death on swift wings overtake the one who disturbed the peace of the Pharaoh, but possessed Egyptologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon that did not stop: in 1922 it was officially announced the sensational discovery . Shortly visited the tomb began to die one after another.

Lord Carnarvon died from the bite of a mosquito that caused blood poisoning and pneumonia, four months after he first entered the crypt. I must say, in the last months of his life he did not differ good health. A few hours after his death in England, yelp, gave up the ghost pet dog Lord – Susie.

American financier George Gould, who visited the tomb, caught a fever and died six months after his visit to the Tutankhamen. Millionaire Joel Wolfe, came by to look at the interior of the tomb of the Pharaoh was killed a few months after the visit. Just a few days after the death of Lord Carnarvon was poisoned with arsenic member of the archaeological team Carter Arthur Mace. Not escaped death and personal secretary to Carter, who was found strangled in his bed in 1929.

Whatever it was, many of the members of the expedition Carter opened the tomb lived a long and happy life, and a number of possible causes of death of the other scientists called toxic mold and bacteria that lived in the tomb for thousands of years before the archaeologists have violated their privacy.

3. The Curse of Tamerlane

The legendary Central Asian conqueror Tamerlane and commander (Timur) was the initiator of the military campaigns, which killed a total of about 17 million. People.

In 1941, the year Stalin sent to Samarkand, a group of archaeologists who had to open the tomb of Tamerlane, that was seriously alarmed local residents and Muslim clergy. According to unconfirmed reports, at the opening of the tomb of Timur was found the inscription: Who disturb my grave, will pave the way for a more fearsome invaders than I am. Everyone knows what happened next – June 22, Adolf Hitler’s army invaded the Soviet Union.

By the way, when in 1942, Stalin ordered to return the remains of the tomb of Tamerlane and buried with all due rites, German forces surrendered at Stalingrad, which was one of the turning points in World War II.

4. The Curse of the Hope Diamond

According to one legend, a French merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier pulled the 115-carat blue diamond from the Indian temple, after which he was hounded to death by dogs. But in fact, hunter diamond jewelry purchased in the Sultanate of Golconda, Central India, smuggled him out of the country, and then in 1669, the year brought the stone to the French court, where he bought the Sun King Louis XIV.

Stone is not made itself felt, until I got into the hands of Louis XVI and his wife Marie-Antoinette, who were beheaded during the French Revolution, after which the diamond was stolen and then floated only in 1812 at a London merchant since the other facet.

Hope Diamond was named after one of the first known owners – British Lord Henry Philip Hope, who bought the stone in 1830 at auction.

Until the end of XIX-th century the family owned the Hope diamond, but at the time of financial difficulties, it was decided to sell. Stone while walking on his hands, and in 1912 went to Evelyn Walsh McLean – daughter of the owner of the Washington Post newspaper. Soon after her son was killed in a car accident, daughter committed suicide, and her husband left for another woman, Evelyn.

After the death of Walsh McLean diamond by paying its debt was transferred to the jeweler Harry Winston, who in 1958 presented it to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, where the Hope Diamond and is still. The postman who delivered the package to the museum with a stone, was hit by a truck, but survived, but died soon after his wife and beloved dog, and the house burned down the postman.

Coincidence? Curse? Unknown…

5. Curse of Tippecanoe

XIX-th century in American history is marked by numerous conflicts and clashes with government forces the indigenous Indian population.

In one of the largest local wars of this kind was killed Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh. Dying, the proud son of Indian people cursed future US presidents, who are elected or re-elected in a year divisible by 20. Tecumseh foretold that the rulers of the United States will die or be killed before the end of the presidential term.

Argued that the curse acted to the seventh generation. The first victim was the leader of the posthumous wishes of President William Henry Harrison, elected in 1840 – he died of pneumonia a month after the inauguration. It was Harrison, being the first governor of Indiana, defeated the troops of Tecumseh in Battle of Tippecanoe, which became fatal for the Indians.

Another damned became Abraham Lincoln was elected to his first term in 1860, re-elected in 1864, and he was killed in 1865 shot in the head.

Third in the black list Tecumseh was destined to become James A. Garfield: elected in 1880, the year after his inauguration in March 1881 he stayed in office less than six months, died from complications after being shot in the back, made a psychopath Charles Guiteau.

Fourth proved William McKinley, who became president in 1896 and re-elected in 1900. The cause of death McKinley September 14, 1901 was the first year gangrene internal organs develop after a gunshot wound in the stomach.

Number five – Warren Harding, who took the presidency in 1920, died in 1923, according to some versions, of a heart attack or a brain hemorrhage.

The sixth was Franklin Roosevelt, during his fourth term as president of the United States who died from a stroke. Of course, among Roosevelt’s re-election was a multiple of 20 – 1940-th year.

Closes the list of well-known John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who led the United States in 1960 and fell victim bullets Lee Harvey Oswald November 22, 1963-year.

Elected in 1980, Ronald Reagan broke the law, having survived an assassination attempt in 1981, and safely left the presidency in 1989, the year.

George W. Bush was also impervious to the curse of an Indian chief: he became president in 2000, he survived several assassination attempts, but not killed, after which it became clear – the term authority Tecumseh expired.

6. Curse Billy Goat

In 1945 the owner of the tavern Billy Goat Sianis Bill came to a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers, drag with a goat. Peculiar smell of animal prevented the audience, so Billy asked to leave. Indignant Sianis leaving, said: The Cubs will never win!

That game really was for Chicago Cubs fatal: since then the team has never reached the final of the World Series, fans also tried various ways to remove the curse, but to no avail. One of the games, Cubs even came nephew Billy Sam Sianis, of course, taking with him a goat, but it did not give results.

The story of the goat, he took from baseball club success, seen by many as a joke, but true fans of baseball’s no laughing matter. In April this year in Cook County Illinois found headless corpse goat tied to a tree near the golf course, and a few days later, the current head of the club Chicago Cubs Tom Ricketts came parcel, which was partly decomposed goat head.

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Beth Groundwater, Guest Blogger, May 6

I'm excited to announce that I'll host my first guest blogger, mystery author Beth Groundwater, on Wednesday, May 6. Beth's first mystery A Real Basket Case, was nominated for an Agatha Award. The second in the Claire Hanover gift basket designer series, To Hell in a Handbasket, will be released this month. It is set in Breckenridge, Colorado and opens with a death on the ski slope. As Kirkus Review said, "Groundwater's second leaves the bunny slope behind, offering some genuine black-diamond thrills." To prepare for Wednesday's visit, you may want to check out her website.

In any case, please join us on Wednesday.

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And I'm excited about my upcoming visit to Meritorious Mysteries! I'll be checking in throughout the day to answer whatever questions readers throw my way, so be thinking of what you want to ask me. ;)
- Beth

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Your book sounds great! Wishing you much success on your blog tour.

All the best,

Jacqueline Seewald
latest release: THE DROWNING POOL, Five Star/Gale

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We are planning to have a yard sale this Saturday and Sunday, September 28th and 29th, from 9am - 3pm. So if you're in the East Point area of Atlanta and want to catch some great bargains, PM me and I'll let you know the address!

We'll be selling books, DVDs, CDs, some furniture and small appliances, as well as knick-knacks and and an assortment of other things.

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Poems XII

White kettled rose hips
and tea's insipid sips --
vapor dispels my halcyon skin,

I sit in the center of the sun,
still and thoughtful,
and drawn upon
like weighted curtains,
but I am too warm and bright
to be oblivious bleak.

I am, in fact, a sultry furnace,
my carapace sears -- even you;
you are too close by yards
to my conspicuous
licking flames.

I engulf you and you know it;
it's why you impugn me
over and over,
and over again;
loneliness reigns
in this place where you hate,
because you don't fathom
fully me.

Forget you ever knew me,
forget that I am yours,
and continue to pretend
for your mindless hours' end
that your axiom is real --
an axis blinded out.

Intrinsic beams, now absolved,
coruscate, then steep
this vestige left of truth --

a limpid candle snuffed
whispers up,
like the steam coming off a teacup
at the kitchen table,
in the middle of a wintry afternoon.

The Kiss

Isn't it true that you love me like
Ahab loved Moby?  You want to destroy me but
you can't get enough of me.  You aim your harpoons and arrows
in my direction, you want to hook me and reel me and call me your own.
You will never.
I am the universe's now and forever.  I always have been.
You are big and tough and, you know, man.
But I am of nature and you can never touch me.
Just kill me, OK?  I'm yours, already.
But don't even think that once I'm dead you'll omit me.
And if you ever do finally stop my heart (which you won't), you will regret it.
You will realize your hatred was, really, obsession's lusty verdict: love.
Sink your thirsty Pequod, but don't ever call me sunk.

We throw our bodies on top of one another
and breathe through our communal gills.
Kiss me, you fucking hungry trapper.
Deliver me your prey.

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