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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Then at the right time and place He created you.
The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.

From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.

God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ (Acts 17:24-28)

Christianity is not just a religion; True Christians experience a deep personal relationship with the Creator God of the universe. All other religions of the world have one thing in common they are attempting to reach God by their own efforts and traditions.

Only the God of the Bible reaches out to people in love. He has provided a way for you to be united with Him. The way is through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Jesus says to you, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) Jesus the Christ is the only true path for unity with God. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)

The gospel (good news) message recorded in the Holy Bible is that Jesus Christ came down from heaven to rescue people and restore their relationship to God. Jesus was born from a virgin woman and He lived in a human body. Jesus lived a perfect life without sin.

When Jesus died a painful death on a cross He did not deserve it. He did not die for Himself, He died for you. Jesus paid the penalty for sin so that whoever enters into Him will have their sins covered by His blood. Jesus rose from the dead and later ascended back into heaven.

Jesus is Truth.

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:9-10)

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him!

For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

(Romans 5:8-11)

When you accept God’s plan of salvation the blood that Jesus shed on the cross is applied to you. Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. (John 6:53-56) When Jesus said these words some of His followers were offended but He later explained that He was speaking spiritually not physically.

The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. (John 6:63)

To receive Jesus’ flesh and blood means that you accept the sacrifice He made for you as the atonement of your sins. You receive the blood of Jesus by faith, by believing the gospel message. When you accept that the blood of Jesus paid the price for your sins you become reconciled to God. You will enter into Jesus and He will enter into you. You will become part of God’s family, a blood relative.

The God of the Holy Bible offers us His grace; grace is a free gift, a gift that we do not deserve. We do not work to receive God’s gift of salvation, but when we receive salvation by faith then our faith will be proven by doing the works of God which He has prepared for us to do.

When you accept God’s grace through faith you then enter into the destiny that God has planned for your life. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:8-10)

The scene of Jesus dying on the cross was the ultimate proof of God’s love for you. Our love for God is proven by believing Him and obeying Him. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

You are my friends if you do what I command. (John 15:13-14) Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. (John 14:23)

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James Baldwin: Sonny’s Blues

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For Week 46 of my Deal Me In 2014 short story project, I drew my final wild card.  I selected another story from The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”.  My Deal Me In 2014 list can be seen here.  DMI is sponsored by Jay at Bibliophilopolis.

To me, this story is one of the more emotional ones I’ve come across in a while.  I read Baldwin’s novel Go Tell It On The Mountain earlier this year and was blown away by the gut-wrenching passion in his style.  That same passion comes through loud and clear in “Sonny’s Blues”.

The story starts with the narrator reading in the newspaper about an incident involving drugs and his younger brother, Sonny.  It doesn’t take long for the reader to determine that the older brother is the “responsible” one, an algebra teacher, and the younger one is the musician and perhaps not so “responsible”.  Baldwin perfectly captures the complexity of the brothers’ relationship and the older brother’s distress over the newspaper article:

I was scared, scared for Sonny.  He became real to me again.  A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there slowly all day long, while I taught my classes algebra.  It was a special kind of ice.  It kept melting, sending trickles of ice water all up and down my veins, but it never got less.  Sometimes it hardened and seemed to expand until I felt my guts were going to come spilling out or that I was going to choke or scream.

The story contains some of the more devastating aspects of the brothers’ family background. Most of it, though, revolves around the older brother’s frustration with the choices of the younger brother.  In some cases, the choices could just be bad choices.  In other cases, they could be the result of Sonny’s artistic temperament or maybe the lack of understanding on the part of his family for that temperament.  What does it cost Sonny to be an artist? His health, his sanity, his soul?

“It’s terrible sometimes, inside,” he said, “that’s what’s the trouble.  You walk these streets, black and funky and cold, and there’s not really a living ass to talk to, and there’s nothing shaking, and there’s no way of getting it out – that storm inside.  You can’t talk it and you can’t make love with it, and when you finally try to get with it and play it, you realize nobody’s listening.  So you’ve got to listen.  You got to find a way to listen.”

An amazing aspect of this story is Baldwin’s ability to get inside the heads of both of these brothers.  It makes me wonder which character Baldwin related to the most.  The mind of an artist and the struggles that take place within that mind is a fascinating topic to me.  I think this story has now taken the spot of favorite for the year.

8 thoughts on “James Baldwin: Sonny’s Blues

    1. I think it’s been anthologized a lot, but I’ve just now gotten around to reading it. I’m really glad I finally did! It’s one of my favorites, now, too!

  1. My Nora Library Great Books Foundation group read this for a discussion not too long ago. I had read it once before – maybe twenty years ago – and totally didn’t appreciate it as I did the second time around. Agreed it’s a great story.

    1. I think you can probably find other good stories with similar themes as “Sonny’s Blues”, but I think Baldwin’s writing takes everything up a notch – or maybe several notches.

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Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories by Ron Rash (Part 3)

…I’m beginning to believe that even in a fallen world things can sometimes look up.

– from “The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth”

And now here are my thoughts on the final 11 stories from Ron Rash’s Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories:

A Servant of History – A darkly funny take on the feuds that have occurred over the centuries in Appalachia – and Scotland.

Twenty-Six Days – A touching story about parents looking forward to their daughter’s return from Afghanistan.

Last Rite – Don’t expect this one to be a happy story and that brings up the question about which of these stories would one consider happy. Not many of them. The ones that are funny come the closest so far. This one’s not.

Blackberries in June – In this story, Rash succeeds in making me loathe one character. I get angry just like Matt after every comment his sister-in-law makes.

Chemistry – What a great story! I gave it a post of its own right here. And I take back my previous comment – this one comes the closest to being a happy story (so far) but its difficult to say it has a happy ending.

The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth – OK, this is the happiest story so far and its the funniest! If I had read just a little faster, this might have been my Easter story. Unfortunately, this is not far off the mark based on my church experience. But it’s still hilarious!

The Harvest – Short, poignant, sad. That hardness shows up again even among helpful neighbors. The neighbors understand this, though.

Badeye – Snakes show up again in this one as a result of the curiosity of an eight-year-old boy instead of religious purposes. The child as the narrator gives this story a certain charm as he tells of his mother’s great lengths to get him to see the errors of his ways.

Love and Pain in the New South – Very short and wonderful humor and it involves a monkey:

She had loved the monkey, and at first even loved me again. It was the Indian Summer of our marriage.

Shiloh – Already posted about this one here.

Outlaws – An author tells the story he wrote and then tells the real story and then meets one of the characters involved 40 years later. Not really a happy story.

Favorites from this group? Chemistry and The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth. I can’t pick one over the other. It depends on my mood.

There are some excellent stories in this group and I have to say it’s been a while since I’ve read so many enjoyable stories in one collection. I am a little sad that I’m finished. I’m pretty sure this collection will rank up there as a favorite this year.

Here are the posts for the rest of the stories:

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Lesley can pick off heroes from a farther range with absurd damage and escape from basic attack heroes with her invisibility, making her the best assassinator!

Yi Sun Shin can reveal enemies and double as a fighter (His passive makes him have AoE melee attack that deals more damage) when necessary, making him the best at small fights.

Irithel has huge normal hit AoE when her ult is on with AoE defense reduction and slow, making her the best at team fights.
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About Montana Engels
MONTANA ENGELS is a contemporary artist, born in Belgium in 1993.

She studied at the Antwerp International School. Where she claimed to have discovered that the most difficult field in art; portraits, was something she was fairly good at. She won the IB Art award in 2011, organized her own exhibition and graduated that same year with a full grade of 100% for Fine Arts. Montana then went to Paris, where she studied Art History & Marketing in French at IESA.

With her eye for detail and sense for emotions she continued to perfect her art while drawing portraits inspired by feelings or the beautiful city she lived in at that time.

Art style
Montana loves to change up the portraits she paints by experimenting with different media ranging from glue & diamond dust, to cherry juice, uv-paint and she even painted portraits with a paintball gun. "Not even the sky is the limit". Montana likes an exciting challenge, where people have asked her not only to paint canvas, but also, windows, shoes, jackets, walls, tables, bikes, cars, tshirts, banners, and much more... She "tattoos" objects with her Art.

Contrast plays a very important role in her art work, not only visually but also in the meanings and emotions of her work. Her style mixes abstract with realism. She therefore likes to call her style “abstract realism”. Combining 2 opposites in the fine arts field, into one painting.

Art as entertainment
Montana discovered a way to make Art very accessible to a large public. In a few minutes she can transform a large empty canvas into a masterpiece. The whole audience is her witness when she creates one of her original speed painting acts. Special about her acts is that she does not only use paint on canvas. She invented different ways to surprise her audience, time and time again.

"Art should always stay a skill"
"The thing I like about the use of abstract in my paintings is that it allows you to feel with your eyes. The reason I always combine this with realism is because Art should stay a skill." Montana says. She believes strongly that the 'trend' of all abstract and the 'shocking value' of it is very 'today'. The art of tomorrow is fed up with incompetence and will go back to the true meaning of Art: which is beauty, quality and skill.


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Moon Ritual Bath Bomb Kit

An inclusive kit that cultivates inner wellness throughout the four phases of the lunar cycle. Each bomb contains natural oils that make your skin feel soft and nourished while you’re taking a bath and leave behind smoothness, wellness and femininity that stays with you after. The scents and oils in each bomb vary to complement the moon in its current phase.

Handmade in Miami, FL

Product Details
  • 4 bath bombs: Release, Manifest, Transform and Receive.
  • 4 guides for creating bathing rituals that will lead you to inner bliss all cycle long.

Aromatics and oils vary with each cycle, but the intention remains the same: to work with the moon to make you feel amazing.

White Crust:

  • Citric Acid
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  • Jojoba butter
  • Cocoa Butter
  • Grape Seed Oil

  • Basic White Soap Base & Foaming Bath Whip
  • Essential oils and herbs
  • Food-Grade Color
How To Use

Even though it smells amazing, do not drink - external use only

Fill a bathtub with warm water. Drop a bomb and notice how it changes colors and fills your bathroom with aroma. Soak in your bath for at least 10 minutes until your fingers get wrinkled - or you get sleepy. Most effective when used during the corresponding moon phase.

Some of our products may contain essential oils that are not suitable for pregnant women.

Moon Phase Benefits of this Product

Release During The Waning Moon

This is the phase to let go of those energies and issues that no longer serve you so you can heal your mind, body and soul.

Transform During The New Moon

This phase helps you reset and set your visions for the future. It will help you set the right intentions for a new cycle.

Manifest During The Waxing Moon

This phase gives you the time you need to articulate the things you want in your life. Being clear and descriptive in what you want is helpful when trying to launch something new.

Receive During the Full Moon

This phase will remind you to be grateful and find joy in the present. It will help you see everything as it is now and what you should continue working on.

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Edo State has now recorded over 4,000 beneficiaries of the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, GEEP. This was revealed on Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the State’s edition of Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprise (MSME) Clinic. GEEP is one of the National Social Intervention Programmes (NSIP) of the current administration, providing interest-loans of between N10,000 and N100,000 to market women, farmers, artisans and enterprising youths nationwide. The Bank of Industry are executing it. Speaking at the event, the Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo said “the policy of the Federal Government is to support businesses, not just big business but particularly small, medium-sized businesses and microbusinesses. The whole idea is that we want to ensure that we give wha...[Read More]

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As a consumer-centric regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission has noted with great displeasure the unacceptably high level of consumer complaints in respect of forceful subscriptions to Value-Added Services (VAS), as well as airtime deductions for these subscriptions. The Commission mandated several initiatives to tackle the menace.These include the institution of a comprehensive investigation and resolution process, the Do-not-Disturb (DND) facility, and the imposition of sanctions for breach. Disturbed by the persistent occurrence of the menace despite these measures, the Commission carried out a long and comprehensive investigative audit into VAS subscriptions across all MNO and VAS platforms. The investigative audit was led by the Compliance Monitoring & Enforcement Depar...[Read More]

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria SMEDAN has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU with the Nigeria Export and Import Bank NEXIM to enable MSMEs benefit from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). The signing ceremony took place on the sidelines of the Exporter Enlightenment Forum for North West Zone held in Katsina State on Monday. The MOU would see SMEDAN providing entrepreneurship trainings and capacity building for exporters while NEXIM would provide the funding. In his address, the Director General of SMEDAN Dr. Dikko Umaru Radda, said the signing of the MOU was a demonstration of the Agency’s desire to promote synergy among agencies of government and expressed hope that the MOU would be beneficial to MSMEs considering the fact that the present...[Read More]

Nigeria’s internet users hit 111.6m in December — NCC

Internet users in Nigeria increased marginally to more than 111.6 million in December 2018, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said. The NCC made this known on Monday in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data for December posted on its website. The data showed that overall internet users increased to 111,632,516 in December 2018 from the 108,457,051 recorded in November 2018, showing an increase of 3,175,465 new subscribers. According to the data, Airtel, MTN and Globacom gained more internet subscribers during the month under review, while 9mobile was the big loser. The breakdown revealed that MTN gained the more with 2,221,153 new internet users in December 2018, increasing its subscription to 43,899,957 as against 41,678,804 in November 2018. It further showed that Airtel w...[Read More]

Virtual Top Up (VTU) Airtime Business

Virtual Top Up (VTU) is an electronic recharge card. Selling or Vending Virtual Top Up Airtime(VTU) or mobile Top Up Airtime of major telecommunication companies such as MTN, Airtel, Glo and Etisalat is now easy and anyone who is serious can make money from it. Analysis by NCC shows that we have over 149 million active GSM lines in Nigeria as at June 2016. The telecoms average revenue per user in Nigeria is N2,000 per month. Monthly airtime usage per month is N260 billion. VTU (Virtual Top Up) vending is a HIGHLY LUCRATIVE Business and smart Nigerians like us have joined because it is easy. BECOME A VTU DISTRIBUTOR/AGENT AND MAKE MILLION LIKE THE BANKS AND QUICK TELLERS Let me ask you a question, “Where and how do you buy airtime for your phone?” Probably through recharge cards, through a ...[Read More]


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Richard Morgan, Morgan and DiSalvo.

This topic is on special needs beneficiaries. So if you have a close family member that you would like to benefit at your passing and they have an inability to earn a living, they’re disabled in some manner, the question is how do we provide assets to go to them? So this is not talking about the disabled individual’s own assets. These are your assets that you want to provide so that they benefit from them. How do you do that?

Well, number one, you do not give those assets to that beneficiary outright. You do not put them in their name. There’s nothing good coming from that other than simplicity. But there’s a lot of negative and a lot of bad things are going to be happening. Don’t do it. The key here is government benefits. If this person cannot, doesn’t have the ability to earn a living and take care of themselves, might have significant medical expenses, other needs, then we would like to take advantage of what the government provides us. And we call those means-tested benefits.

You have to be poor enough on paper so the government then comes in and provides this low level, or these basic parts of life to take care of you, the medical issues, the assistance, whatever it is you need, transportation, those kinds of things to take care of your life. So how do you give someone the ability to benefit from assets, but you don’t give it to them outright? The way you do it is you put it into some type of special needs or supplemental needs trust. There are several different kinds.

Number one, you’d have your own trust, and that would be normally called a supplemental needs trust. Your assets go into this trust on behalf of that beneficiary. You appoint a trustee. And it has certain provisions. It says that the trustee has full discretion to make distributions to or on behalf of the beneficiary, usually it will be on behalf of the beneficiary, and that the funds cannot be used to pay for things the government would have provided with these means-tested benefits.

There are exceptions. So, for example, you can provide housing, but there’s certain rules about it. So you just need to be very careful about how you do it. And that will be a trustee administration issue. But the trust itself, full discretion, has some limitations on it.

And then what we like to do is make the trust flexible. Because we don’t know what the situation will be with the laws. We don’t know what the situation will be with your beneficiary later. So we put power in the trustee so that, number one, if the the beneficiary would not have received any means-tested benefits without considering the trust benefits, they just have too much, whatever the rules are, then we don’t need these extra restrictions so we can remove the restrictions. Number two, it may be the government benefits are so minuscule compared to the hassle and the cost to get them, it isn’t worth it. So we give the trustee some flexibility to either use those rules or not when it doesn’t make any sense.

So that’s creating your own trust terms in your own estate planning documents. That’s for a decent amount of wealth. But what if it’s a smaller amount that you’re providing for this person? It may not be worthwhile having an own separate trustee with your own separate trust. In that case you can go to what’s called a community pooled trust. There are different nonprofit organizations that have these trusts set up. Your beneficiary will have a separate account. And you’ll have… They will be the trustee of that account, and then you’ll have someone normally that will kind of assist them, who knows your beneficiary. Either a sibling or someone else that can kind of help them out. And then they deal with all of the government regulations and all those kinds of rules.

Third, and this is for really small amounts. There’s something now called the Able Act. Which I think the maximum you can have in there is a $100,000 or so. Talking about smaller numbers. But you’re now, as of a law that was only created a few years ago, we can now create an account for that individual and put in relatively small amounts of money, and it won’t destroy their access to these benefits.

Richard Morgan, Morgan and DiSalvo.

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Land Transport

Over the past few years, Qatar has witnessed rapid population growth together with strong economic growth. These developments have required further enhancements to the land transport infrastructure to support the expansion in the industrial, commercial and service sectors.

Land transport has become a key enabler of the Qatari economy and a cornerstoneof its growth, and the Land Transport Sector continues its efforts to develop a state-of-the-art transport network in line with the goals of the Qatar National Vision 2030.

To this end, the State of Qatar is investing massively in land transport infrastructure projects which will see the highways network expanded to 8,500km by 2020, including the building of some 200 new bridges and 30 new tunnels.

The mission of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MOTC) consists of
building an integrated and effective transport system that uses advanced technologies serving all local sectors while linking Qatar to the wider regional and international economy.

MOTC continues its extensive efforts to develop reliable, efficient and sustainable transport planning and ensure a safe and effective nationwide network of roads and highways constructed according to international standards and best practices.


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Five Minutes With… Alice @notebksglasses #Blogging #ChronicPain

Welcome to Five Minutes With… a new feature where I invite bloggers of all genres to tell us a little about themselves and their blogging journey.
Today’s blogger is Alice who blogs at Notebooks and Glasses.
Chronic Pain Blog
Q1: When and why did you start blogging? Which platform do you use?
I started blogging in September 2017. I started blogging for two reasons: 1) to share some of my experiences of coping with chronic pain to help other people, and 2) to help myself cope with my chronic pain, using it a bit like a journal. I want to show that you can still live your life despite having chronic pain. I have my own website, but I use a WordPress theme to help make things easier.
Q2: What topics/themes do you blog about? Do you ever deviate from that theme?
The main theme of my blog is linked to my chronic pain. My main topics include ‘my pain and me’, ‘advice and tips’ and occasionally I’ll do a blog post about what I’ve been up to that week and how I’ve coped with my pain. I’m also starting to write some posts about blogging. The aim of these is to help others if they are thinking about staring a blog of their own.
Q3: Which of your blog posts is your favourite and why do you like this one so much?
My favourite blog post so far is 10 ways to cope with chronic pain I’ve had some really positive comments and feedback on this post saying that it has really helped others manage their pain. This make me happy and it’s great knowing that my blog is helping other people, which is one of my aims.
Q4: Do you have a top tip to share for any new bloggers that might be reading?
Focus on progression, not perfection. Don’t put pressure on yourself to make your blog perfect. The important thing is to progress with it and do a little and learn a little every day, or as much as you can. You don’t have to know it all or get everything perfect before you start or before you publish each of your posts.
Q5: What’s your favourite social media platform?
I’m torn between Instagram and Twitter. The power of Twitter and hashtags is incredible. I looked at my blog stats one day and saw that one of my posts had over 200 views in one day, which was huge to say I was fairly new to blogging at the time. One retweet really got my blog noticed.
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Irish One-Hit Wonders: Here Comes the Night

Deputy Entertainment Editor Julie Crowley continues the retrospective series of Irish One Hit Wonders with a sixties hit:  Here Comes the Night by Them

“I could see her closing her eyes

And tellin’ him lies,

Exactly like she told me too.

Yeah yeah yeah,

Well, here it comes,

Here comes the night,

The long, the long and lonely night”

Them were an R&B band formed in Northern Ireland in 1964. The founding members were Alan Henderson, Ronnie Milling, Billy Harrison, Eric Wrixon, and frontman Van Morrison. Their mysterious, enigmatic name was chosen after the 1954 sci-fi horror film Them!, which featured giant radioactive ants attacking an American city. The band combined garage rock with blues music. They had a proto-punk sound. They signed to the British label Decca Records, who marketed them as part of the British Invasion of the 60s. They had one hit in Ireland: Here Comes the Night.

Here Comes the Night was written by American songwriter and producer Bert Berns, who produced Them’s first album. The song had been recorded previously by Scottish singer Lulu, but her version was a failure, dropping out of the UK charts at no. 50. Session musician Jimmy Page (later of Led Zeppelin fame) played rhythm guitar on Them’s recording. Derry-born musician and songwriter Phil Coulter played keyboards. The song chronicles an obsessive man who follows his ex-girlfriend who is in a new relationship. Van Morrison’ powerful voice ensures its memorability. It’s a great song that still sounds distinctive. Morrison was only 19 when the song was recorded. According to, Here Comes the Night reached number 2 on the Irish Charts in 1965 and stayed in the charts for 7 weeks. They had slightly more success in the UK: Here Comes the Night was a number 2 hit there as well, and their cover of blues classic Baby Please Don’t Go, and its B-side Gloria (a Morrison original) reached no.10.

Possible factors that hindered their success were anti-Irish sentiment in the UK at the time and the young band’s surly demeanour during interviews. Rolling Stone described Morrison as “a tough man to talk to.” Morrison’s independent spirit clashed with the record company’s aims for the band. He disliked Decca’s insistence that the band appear on Top of the Pops, feeling that it compromised their musical integrity. According to, Morrison regretted that Them were compromised by “image-conscious record company politics” and the use of session musicians in their studio recordings. Morrison left in 1966, feeling frustrated with what he saw as the band’s increasing commerciality and conformity. He sought greater independence in his subsequent recording career (he still doesn’t like interviews).

Van Morrison only recorded two albums with Them: The Angry Young Them and Them Again. They were highly influential despite the brevity of their career. Although the Morrison-led band proved short-lived, they had an influence on subsequent music. Them were a talented band that didn’t quite achieve the success they deserved, but they left behind some memorable songs. Although it was initially a B-side, Gloria continues to be a highly popular garage rock classic. It is now more famous than Here Comes the Night. Notable musicians who have covered it include David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Patti Smith, The Doors and AC/DC.

Them fractured and continued under shifting line-ups with different members after Morrison left. The group split into various splinter groups: The Other Them/Belfast Gypsies, the Truth, and the Belfast Blues Band. They recorded several albums that veered into other genres such as psychedelia. Them are mainly remembered today for their most popular singles and for launching Van Morrison’s solo career.

After leaving the band, Morrison went on to have an incredibly successful and long-lasting career as a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His most famous albums are Moondance and Astral Weeks. He has had success with singles like Brown-Eyed Girl, Moondance, Crazy Love, Into the Mystic, Domino and Days Like This.  The later career of “Van the Man” has far outstripped his early success with Them. In 2016 he was knighted for services to the music and tourism industries in Northern Ireland. His success can be traced back to his early days with Them. Despite the brevity of Morrison’s career with Them, they secured a place in rock history.


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Working Farm Vacations

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Ashley, Isaac, Ken & Sally Hassinger

Are you looking for a unique family vacation, family reunion or just overnight lodging? Relax and enjoy a farm stay vacation at Mountain Dale Farm! It’s a unique, family-run working farm that’s been our “labor of love” for more than three decades. We’ve handled most of the construction and on-going improvements ourselves, and it’s been a wonderful experience watching the Farm blossom and thrive around us. We’ve put our all into making Mountain Dale the perfect getaway for you.

Our location in rural Central Pennsylvania offers guests gorgeous surroundings, peace and quiet, and a relaxing change of pace. Take a break from your busy lifestyle and discover our simple country pleasures!

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Services restored and gearing up for a release

By Byrne Reese
Posted July 24, 2007, in News.

Today at approximately 1:40pm PST this web site along with all of Six Apart's web sites and services suffered a major interruption of service due to a power outage that affected our entire hosting facility. Power was restored to the facility by 4:00pm but it took several hours to restore all of our services to full capacity. But we are now back.

It was our intent to release a new version of Movable Type 4.0 today, but under the circumstances we decided to delay the release 24 hours. Looking on the bright side, however, this outage may have given us just enough time to close out some of the last remaining known issues in the application, and may very well have helped us to reach the important milestone of releasing our first official release candidate of Movable Type 4.0.

So as we work through the night to verify the most recent builds, we will be going through the usual process of updating the change log and our list of known issues. We will also be working on compiling our final set of release notes to provide users with as much knowledge and information about the upcoming release as we can.

Before we sign off for the evening, I wanted to thank all of our users for their patience, support and understanding through this very trying day. And finally, I wanted to send a special shout out to all of the Six Apart ops personnel, as well as all of the system administrators who have been working tirelessly to restore services to some of the Internet's most beloved web sites, blogs and services affected by this outage. Thank you!

Syca on July 25, 2007, 7:35 a.m. 返信

Welcome back. :)

I don’t know if you guys noticed during this outage but I think before you move into RC you should re-think the dashboard “MT News” feed block. It seems that while you where down it would take ages for my dashboard to load. It would sit on a blank page as it tried to reach your server for that information. Once it timed out it would finally load.

Maybe it should be changed so that it either loads last, or uses an iframe or something that would load it seperatly from the dashboard just in case this happens again. Not saying that it will, but just my 2 cents.

Clrak on July 11, 2012, 11:40 a.m. 返信

I am not so sure what you have done, but “MT News” feed is absolutely OK now.

baldric on August 4, 2012, 5:20 a.m. 返信

Haven’t you seen the post is 5 years old. It is quite normal that the feed is OK :)

Theo Barton

Theo Barton on August 30, 2012, 10:13 p.m. 返信

How often such problem occurs with Moveable Type?

eduardo t.

eduardo t. on September 21, 2012, 9:22 a.m. 返信

Clrak - This was funny, I admit it :)

Per Gerrel

Per Gerrel on September 26, 2012, 9:23 p.m. 返信

I wonder you guys haven’t you heard about UPS and other options for back up plan when a problem occurs?

Charles NK

Charles NK on September 26, 2012, 9:44 p.m. 返信

The option to see and choose from a list with styles is really good. I haven’t see such thing in other CMS.

Alesandro Del Piero

Alesandro Del Piero on October 21, 2012, 10:27 p.m. 返信

I have always wondered how many people work behind Moveable type project. Does anybody know? I believe they are not so many, according to the style of this message of Byrne.

Craig Chopra

Craig Chopra on October 24, 2012, 3:19 a.m. 返信

If you try cloud services you never are going to have such problems. This is what I like most in cloud hosting services.

Steven Jonson

Steven Jonson on November 6, 2012, 5:53 a.m. 返信

The function HTTPTimeout is really interesting. How should I set in for best results from a users point of view. Should it be longer in attempt to finally load the application or I should make it faster not losing my readers time? I believe the second option is better, but I would like a more professional opinion about the topic.

dany v.

dany v. on November 16, 2012, 1:30 a.m. 返信

Craig, don’t you think that Byrne and the other members of Six Apart team don’t know better than you and me about the cloud hosting options? Even more, if you have a closer look you would see that this message has been written 5 years ago and I am no so sure about the cloud hosting options back then.

Rosica Robinson

Rosica Robinson on December 20, 2012, 2:16 a.m. 返信

Wow, all sites hosted by Movable Type were down at that day. That must have been terrible news for lots of webmasters. About cloud servers, well, that message is from 2007. Do you think we knew what cloud servers is about back then?

Byrne Reese

Byrne Reese was previously the Product Manager of Movable Type at Six Apart, where he had also held positions as the Manager of Platform Technology and Product Manager for TypePad. Byrne is a huge supporter of the Movable Type user and developer community. He dedicates much of his time to promoting and educating people about Movable Type as well as building the tools and plugins for Movable Type that are showcased on Majordojo. He contributes regularly to open source; and he is an advocate for open protocols and standards like Atom and OpenID.


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Body Breakers: Why Riding Waves In Their Purest Form Is The Ultimate Ride

Bodysurfing Will Make You Feel Like A Kid Again, Here’s Why…

Credit: Philip Kitamura

Words by Sam Haddad

My parents recently unearthed some footage of me in the sea, aged 3. It’s shaky and grainy and awesome. My dad is holding my hand and my face is all smiles and glee as I jump the waves, clearing some, running through the rest. Then a bigger one comes along and knocks me down flat.

My body disappears under a wash of whitewater. When my dad plucks me out, I come up laughing so hard I can barely stand. Was that the first time I saw the inside of a wave? I don’t know. But that rare moment of video matches the tone of many of my childhood memories, that is, my dad and me, playing in the surf.

In most of the fragments I remember, he’s bodysurfing, and I’m trying to copy him, without much success. He’d learnt in Nigeria in the 1970s, while visiting his sister who lived there at the time. There the waves were wedge-shaped, which, it turns out, are the best kind for bodysurfing. His style was smooth and his rides seemed long. To me at least. I could barely harness more than a couple of seconds of ride. It was fun but always left me wanting more.

Later, I’d bodyboard a few times then fall for surfing, with its longer though often equally elusive rides. Well, as much as you can fall for surfing when you live in London and are limited to wave-chasing in holidays and the odd weekend. I never thought about bodysurfing. I didn’t even know it was a thing, beyond a way of playing in breaking waves, which I never seemed to do anymore. If I came to the sea it was with a board.

Then a few years back, I watched Come Hell Or High Water, a film directed by the pro surfer Keith Malloy, and realised how wrong I was. It turns out there is a subculture of humans for whom bodysurfing is a really big deal. A serious sport even, though more in terms of the possible consequences of the size of waves they ride on the North Shore or at Teahupoo or Cloudbreak, rather than their approach to the sport, if the tight Speedo-style trunks on view in the film (and trailer, above left) are anything to go by.

In fact, their comical lack of hipness actually bestows upon them a kind of ultra-hipness, as Rory Parker, when writing for Beach Grit, said: “Bodysurfing is the greatest thing ever. It’s fun, it’s easy, and because its biggest devotees are hairy middle-aged men, it’s inherently uncool. So uncool, in fact, that it transcends its own uncoolosity, and circles back around to become extra cool.”

Malloy’s film, shot in 16mm, is a beautiful paean to bodysurfing. In an era of high-performance and hyper-progressive surfing, which can sometimes look a bit samey and aggressive, he celebrates the simplicity and pure, rootsy vibe of bodysurfing, describing it as merely: “taking a breath and kicking your feet in the big blue sea.”

Around the film’s release, Chris Nelson of the London Surf Film Festival, asked him why he made the film. He told him he loved bodysurfing as: “It’s some of the time I enjoy most in the ocean because you don’t have to worry about performing.

“Surfing on a board can sometimes feel like more of a job. Bodysurfing you can just enjoy the ocean.”

The film also quotes an ‘old lifeguard’ (his words to describe himself!) who says: “It’s not so much riding the perfect wave but being out in the ocean and enjoying it.”

Enjoyment is paramount though there is of course an art to bodysurfing. The best technique is to clench your fist and hold your lead arm out in front of you rigidly, Superman-style. Then you try and ride across a green wave as you would on a surfboard. The steeper the face the easier it will be but catching waves can also be tough if you don’t have giant hands and a Phelps-esque leg kick, so lots of bodysurfers use handplanes and fins, as an extension of their limbs to make waveriding easier.

The Extreme Academy at Watergate Bay in Cornwall even does handplaning lessons, which I tried out a couple of summers ago for a story and found it immense. Not only was it far easier to catch and ride across waves, but it also lets you get inside the waves, at their core, albeit momentarily, which was a pretty mind-blowing experience. Especially as I’m not a good enough surfer to ever get truly barrelled in real life.

If you’re a decent swimmer you don’t need lessons, you just need a handplane. Plastic versions that look like shrunken lifeguard aids are widely available but there are also some wooden beauties on sale, such as those made by Otter Surfboards. I ask the company’s founder, James Otter, who also runs handplane-making workshops, what he likes about bodysurfing. He says:

“The simplicity. You can travel with everything you need in a backpack. No faff, just get in amongst the waves and have fun! Then there’s the intimacy. You are much closer to the water, having to be much more reactive as you only see one wave at a time with your head just bobbing above the surface…you simply begin to feel much more attuned to the dynamic environment you’re playing in.”

“When you catch a wave, every single one gives you such an incredible view along the water’s surface and most will offer up the opportunity to get covered up by the lip of the breaking wave.”

“The final thing I like is the one that I can’t quite explain – you laugh like a child rather uncontrollably whenever you catch a wave…. I think it’s because you sacrifice an element of control to the waves and let them move you as they please… you’re just along for the ride.”

He’s right. There’s something funny but also super-liberating about just messing about in the waves and trying to share their power in the most simple way. It’s freeing not having to worry about your board clonking you on the head the next time a big set rolls through, or your fin etching a deep groove on your cheek, it makes you feel really at one with the ocean (man…) and best of all like a kid again. And with that I’m off to south west France to go and play in some waves.

And in case you’re wondering, this is how the pros do it…

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Delhi Air Pollution – How is the way we think about it so so wrong?

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The prestigious medical journal, The Lancet recently reported that air pollution is associated with 6.5 million deaths annually, and as the Lancet rather poetically puts it, is a “killer indifferent to political agendas and that cannot be contained by borders”.

Don’t we know it?

Because pollution is a silent and slow killer, we, like the proverbial frogs in a boiling pot, are indifferent to problem until too late.

Besides pollution is such an abstract monster – like trying to grasp at air.

So let’s break it down.

First, air pollution falls into two types – indoor and outdoor. These differ in both where they occur and why they occur. Let us focus on outdoor pollution for now.

Premature deaths from outdoor pollution total about 3 million annually, and, in a bit of worse news, are projected to rise to 4.5 million deaths by 2040.

Closer to home, India loses about a million people prematurely each year to outdoor pollution.

This is a lot.

There is a climate angle as well – some of the particles that cause the pollution also warm the climate. Black carbon, as the soot particles are called, is thought to be the second largest warming force after carbon dioxide – though there is considerable uncertainty over this.

Winter is coming…to Delhi

A traffic policeman wears a mask to protect himself from dust and air pollution as he signals to drivers in New Delhi

Figure 1: Traffic Cop in Delhi (Courtesy Reuters)

New Delhi, whose winters are infamous, not for the arrival of the White Walkers but for the smog, presents a great place to understand what to do, and equally importantly, what not to do.

How bad is the winter in Delhi?

Very Bad. My friends in Delhi all have air purifiers running indoors and some wear masks as they step outside – they are fortunate, as they can afford to do so. Many can’t.

I used to pride myself on the ability to snort dirt and not get any allergies. A visit to Delhi in the winter, broke this arrogance with an asthmatic attack.

This is anecdotal evidence. What about the hard facts?

Delhi routinely tops the most polluted city in the world rankings.

Between 3000 to 30,000 deaths in Delhi annually (Oh, the state of data!) are attributable to air pollution, with the damaged lung capacity of children adding a far more permanent cast to the problem.

Can we solve this problem?

Treating cancer with water

Let’s start with a medical analogy.

Suppose you had a fever. When you visited the doctor, the doctor would ask you a set of questions and perhaps order some blood tests to understand the cause of the fever. Paracetamol might ease the symptoms, but it is important to understand the cause of the fever. A bacterial infection needs antibiotics, cancer needs an entirely different treatment regime, while a viral flu needs plentiful hydration and rest. Treating cancer with hydration won’t work.

But puzzlingly our leaders seem to be doing precisely that. Hold that thought. We’ll come back to it.

The dynamics of pollution

Pollution is a catch-all term: among its constituents ranks Carbon Monoxide, Sulphur dioxide, Ammonia, and importantly particulate matter, or PM. They each come from different sources or causes – the exhaust fumes from our vehicles, the burning of solid waste in cities, the burning of agricultural waste in the faraway fields of other states, the dust from construction sites to name just a few.

Let us narrow our focus on PM, or particulate matter. These are tiny particles, many many times smaller than the thickness of a human hair, which wreak havoc in our lungs when we breathe in air that contains them. PM is further classified into two broad classes: PM 10 is about 5 times smaller than a human hair, while the much smaller PM 2.5, whose smaller size allows it to penetrate that much farther and stay there, damages our lungs and has been linked to both cancer and heart disease.

It is important to recognize that PM is also a catch-all term. Individual particles have a chemical signature that suggests their origin. For example, a presence of a compound called levoglucosan suggest biomass burning, while the presence of another compound called hopane suggests the pollution had a vehicular cause.

Perhaps the most important pattern to recognize about PM-levels is that the causes vary by season. Given that the problem we are most interested in is winter pollution, we need to see what are the main drivers of that. We are fortunate that we have several studies which have provided us with some data on how to proceed.

What does the data say?

For starters, PM levels tend to be significantly higher in winter than in the summer.

Secondly and as mentioned earlier, the main contributors to PM pollution differ by season. In the summer, road and construction dust play a big role. The contribution of biomass burning tends to be about three times higher in the winter than in the summer, and is the single largest cause of winter PM pollution. This is not to say the role played by transportation is a small one. Indeed, emissions from diesel and petrol vehicles and diesel generators are large, but fairly constant drivers of pollution throughout the year. This means that while we should certainly address them to bring down year-round pollution, they are not central to reducing the winter pollution spike. Also pertinent to note is the small contribution to pollution of the burning of municipal solid waste, which spikes in the winter as the poorest use these fires to keep warm.

The pollution levels are worsened by another phenomenon: the reduction of vertical mixing of the air in winter.

Normally, temperature decreases as we move higher in the atmosphere until we get to a height where the higher we go, it gets warmer not cooler – this point is called the inversion point. Now consider this: as a packet of warm air containing a lot of pollutants rises, it will keep rising until the inversion point, thereby diluting the concentration of the pollutants in the air. The problem is in Delhi, the inversion heights are about half in winter as they are in summer, so the pollutants are essentially mixed in a substantially smaller volume of air.

How to act (and not to act)

It is understandable that our leaders will want to act (and be seen as acting decisively)– especially when they are in the middle of such a serious problem. However, such actions would be more effective if we considered the data a little more closely and understood the dynamics of the sources a little better.

If only our leaders understood what any parent of a teenager knows: unilateral bans rarely work. Firstly, our implementation of such bans is uneven, and second, bans without alternatives can be deemed unfair, and lastly, bans of less significant causes of winter pollution such as cracker bans, or odd-even schemes can be irritating and worse still, ineffective.

Which means this: If solving the winter air pollution issue of Delhi is your goal, a good place to start the solution would be to ask how can we stop biomass burning?

Predictably, we have started by banning agricultural burning.

As you may have guessed (or read), this has not worked.

One young farmer from Punjab said this: “The farmers are in a state of depression. The government gave us no options of what to do with the straw.”

Bharati Chaturvedi, of Chintan in Delhi, presents an interesting analogy: If you don’t want open defecation, you don’t impose a ban without giving them a toilet –a working toilet that women want to use and where they don’t feel that they will be raped or molested. If you don’t want farmers to burn, give them an option.”

Farmers are protesting because they see the straw as a waste that prevents them sowing the winter crop, and the easiest (and cheapest) way to get rid of it is to burn it.

So, the farmers burn.

Figure 2: Farmer burning field in Punjab (Picture from The Hindu)

And the citizens of Delhi and much of the Indo-Gangetic plains suffer.

Waste as a Resource

Contrast this with what happens inside a cotton spinning mill.

Since I help manage one of these, I can tell you that, surviving in a cyclical, low profit industry, management of waste is central to a factory’s profitability. If you were to take a walk on our shop floor, you would see the “waste” from each process collected, stored separately, weighed and later sold. Records are meticulous, and we understand what machine generates how much of what type of waste in each shift. Our mill is not special – almost every mill in the cotton spinning industry will do so. We do so, not because we are a neurotic lot, but because we make money by doing this. The prices we get more than compensate us for the effort of collection, storage, management and transport. This is because this waste has spawned an entire industry – called open end spinning – employing thousands and probably led to the yarn that went into your favourite pair of jeans.

There it is – the power of treating “waste” as a resource.

The question then becomes, how can we get the farmers to look at their waste as a resource – something that can get them returns and thus stop them from burning it?

Next time, we will take a deep dive into the fields of Punjab and the start-ups in Bangalore to see just that.

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Heal the Hidden Wounds of Epidemics

Heal the Hidden Wounds of Epidemics

A health worker fills in a child’s immunization booklet during an immunization clinic at Phebe Hospital in central Bong County, Liberia. (Cindy Shiner/MSH)

After losing both her parents to Ebola, Liberian nurse Salome Karwah recovered from the virus herself. Protected by her new immunity, she returned to work to care for countless other victims. Time Magazine recognized her as a 2014 Person of the Year for her compassion and tirelessness. In February of this year, Nurse Karwah was rushed to the hospital with seizures following a cesarean delivery of her son. Her garish symptoms frightened the hospital staff that knew she had survived Ebola. They would not touch her. They let her die without treatment.

That is what stigma looks like.

Even after being declared free of Ebola, many survivors found themselves alone, as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reported. A chilling new normal replaced the terror and death in the isolation wards: rejection by family, friends, and neighbors, even by their places of worship. Employers fired them. Customers abandoned them. There was no carrying on with the lives they knew before Ebola. There was only more loss.

Ebola's yield of mass casualties devastated the natural coping abilities of many who were left to carry on. Whole communities struggled. After watching loved ones suffer severe headaches and pain, hemorrhagic bleeding, diarrhea, vomiting, and fever, and taken away to hospitals, never to be seen again, their nightmarish memories have outlived the epidemic.

For those who kept their hearts open, there have been orphaned children to raise and bereaved husbands, daughters, siblings, and friends to heal. Heroes have emerged.

Ebola by no means is the only disease to tear apart the social fabric. Young mothers of Zika-affected babies have faced desertion by their husbands. People with HIV have faced cruel ostracism and discrimination. Chinese businesses were unnecessarily boycotted during SARS. TB, plague, and leprosy, all have leaked psychosocial sequelae throughout human history—pulsing terror, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and heart-crushing abandonment and isolation.

There is very little data available about how best to serve individuals and communities that have survived Ebola or other large-scale epidemics. But there is shocking evidence from the World Health Organization on depressive illness overall. According to the latest estimates from WHO, depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide with more than 300 million people affected, and the numbers are rising. WHO's "Depression: Let's Talk" campaign calls on countries to strengthen their approaches to mental health, and to treat it with the "urgency that it deserves."

Mental illness has inextricable links to poverty and communicable diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, yet little attention has been paid to mental health services in resource-constrained countries. The health systems of Ebola-affected West Africa were already makeshift and lacking mental health services. At one point, Liberia and Sierra Leone each had only one practicing psychiatrist and a bare smattering of trained mental health nurses and paraprofessionals to diagnose and treat mental disorders.

Psychosocial response mechanisms support resiliency in people and their nations, in both times of crisis and stability, helping people move forward together. As countries and the global community engage in preparedness planning for health emergencies, mental health must not be a sidebar, but a primary focus.

Many people with mental illness do not seek help. They and their loved ones suffer the effects of psychosis, depression, and alcohol and drug use, or the PTSD of Ebola without the support of qualified professionals. Integrating psychosocial services as a mainstay of health systems and continuum of care will raise awareness of mental illness, reduce stigma for people with mental disorders, and improve detection and treatment. Everyone will be stronger for it.

Since the emergency ended in West Africa, local, national, and international governments and partners have been seeking ways to provide comprehensive mental health strategies to people and communities that survived Ebola. In 2015, for example, The Carter Center kicked off its initiative, "Supporting Psychosocial Health and Resilience in Liberia," which is funded by Japan through the Japanese Social Development Fund, administered by the World Bank. The International Medical Corps continues to support Ebola recovery and provide guidance on strengthening mental health capacity.

With the help of local NGOs and health officials, Ebola survivors themselves have formed support groups to buoy one another and to hold healing dialogues with communities. They reach out in an attempt to banish fear and rebuild understanding, connection. The circle of healing may be infinitesimally widening, but grief and loss, dread and shame, anger and trauma reverberate. Nurse Karwah died from the blows of neglect, by people not yet healed.

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Mountain Trails Gallery

Phill Nethercott

In Phill’s early years, Jackson Hole’s art community was very influential and encouraging to Phill. Several well-known artists living in the valley, including Conrad Schwiering, John Clymer, and Jim Wilcox showed him that you could actually make a living as an artist.

Becoming an artist was Phill’s ultimate goal, yet he realized it would take time to develop his talents and find his unique style of expression. He learned and studied many art techniques and enjoyed painting in various medias such as watercolor and acrylic. Ultimately, he found that he excelled and enjoyed working in he “king of media”, oil paint. Phill’s impressionistic approach to painting became his forte because he loved exploring the play of light in landscapes. His interest and flare for impressionism is primarily sparked by his study of the early French impressionists such as Claude Monet and the illustrative art of Thomas Moran. Their influence on his style is still evidenced in his paintings.

Today, Phill Nethercott has mastered his own style and skills. His paintings are hanging in many homes, businesses, and art galleries. He now paints full time, fulfilling his dream of making a living as an artist. Looking back on many of his life experiences, Phill realizes he has learned many things about himself as a person, and as an artist.

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Head over to the Blast! Festival website to keep up to date with exhibitions and events taking place during the second half of the festival. You can also download the Blast! Festival brochure here. Blast! Festival of Photography, Talks and Walks is taking place throughout the six towns of Sandwell until 29 June 2019. Join […]


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‘Livin’ On a Pear’ Out Now – The Fancy Pears Update

I’ve been working a lot with my band The Fancy Pears so I haven’t had the opportunity to organize myself into magical thoughts of penned realization BUT we released our first album “Livin’ On a Pear” this past Saturday. We’ve been working on it for almost a year, learning how to mix it ourselves before finishing it up. The album is set to be available for streaming on Spotify in a week or so but in the meantime, we’ve posted it on our website: www.thefancypears.com

The Fancy Pears | High Noon Saloon | 11/19/17

This song is loosely based on the Pacific Northwest Stories Podcast series ‘Tanis.’ Tim and I binged listened to the Podcast when we first found out about it and as it consumed our thoughts, we succumbed to its magic and came up with the melody and lyrics.

Somewhere, in the atomic ocean

Floating in a sideways motion

The fisherman had lost his bet

His story, told across the land

Spinning, some new age logic

Stolen from ancient knowledge

Seventeen upon his head

The bookman finally met his match

Holy, you know I feel so holy

If only, the sky would hold me

Arms outstretched and smiling proud

The gambler fell straight to the ground

Beauty, you know I’ve seen true beauty

Flowing right straight through me

The runner cried and shook his head

I’ll never see that place again

I wrote the lyrics and the melody to this during my first winter in Wisconsin. Most of the story is true other than me dreaming about it being hot; perhaps it was all a mirage.

I was sitting on the front porch today

Feeling alone and kind of lame

Sunsweat dripped down my face

Cold sheen on the water’s glass

A clown on a bike, passed me by

With two others riding behind

A barking dog chased them all

They were there and then they weren’t

Do you feel the sun today?

Am I going crazy?

I stumbled coming out the door

And scraped my face along the earth

Light blinds, something burns my eyes

Sunsweat and blood trickle down

Field of Hearts

The lyrics for this song were based off of a piece I wrote several years ago. The Fancy Pears filmed it at a haunted house in Madison, Wisconsin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFuZ9c5bCJ4

I could feel the cracks

Like I was a thin piece of glass

Fragile fingers enclose the frame

Bright eyes follow through the pane

In the field of hearts

There is a queen above us all

Shading the light with her advertised wisdom

In the field of hearts

There is a queen standing tall

She assumed the battle won

With all her fiends around us

Led by the wordsmith in a hat

Guided by thoughts that drive us mad

White rabbit whiskers lead the path

Counting time as it turns back

In the field of hearts

There is a queen above us all

Shading the light with her advertised wisdom

In the field of hearts

There is a queen standing tall

She assumed the battle won

With all her fiends around us

Off with her head, singing

Off with her head

To lay above our bed

Off with her head

Off with her head, singing

Off with her head

To lay above our bed

Off with her head

As Told by the Owl

We live in a fucked up society.

Bluebird across the water

Come and play with me

Let me have one song to sing

Underneath your tree

Old red tail hawk flew by

Shadow in the leaves

A belly hunting to satisfy

Hovering over me

In the graylight of the hour

Will you follow me?

A devil’s waiting for you here

To take you in your sleep

Go on and don’t look back

Cry away your fears

The wind will keep your feathers dry

All throughout the years

Up above the treetops

Here you sit with me

The darkness keeps us closer

The stars within our reach

Look up now little one

Pay no mind to me

The moon will greet your spirit home

Follow the light to see

Shine on

I am grateful for inspiration ❤

Soul of Martyr

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Unknown Artist

Oh, phantom memories in their ever-haunting ways

Seeping colorful dreams that paint the chance of escape

I surrender this skin, burnt flesh reformed into something pleasant

A soul of martyr to remain a lost lover for centuries

Thin layers of time have folded in this simple state of mind

Senses attacked by fables now threatening to embalm hindsight

Since when did we decide to accept fate as bestowed by the heavens?

I forfeit my role in consciousness to prove my dedication

For thy heart, erase these foreign layers of today

We are one in the same as we were yesterday

No wiser in understanding the common assemblage

Forever incomplete in the art of mental association

Consume this World, learn to inwardly imbibe

There’s poison in the feelings thickening our minds

Only a few need to forget so the rest will survive

You must continue, I choose action in sacrifice

I am grateful for you ❤

Only a “Creative”

Decisions, decisions

Another day for questions

Because others demand responses

As to, do you:

Want to become successful

Follow your passions?

Like it’s that simple

Or, that only one option

Determines the outcome

Of what is destined

And who I’m meant to be

Sacrifices, compromises

Another day for keeping silent

Told my future could* be bright

As in, if I:

Give up self to the Business

Continue as a “creative”

Like no one artistic has

Ever been effective in

Any type of leadership…ever

Must yield to remain in position

To thrive as one of the corporation

I am grateful for music ❤

Dear Child

My tears fall down

Draining my soul

as I think it does

What can be said about

the monsters of this land;

From a time before we were

promised the mystical “everything”

and nothing but a happy ending?

My tongue’s cut out and

wrapped up in bloodstained linen

My eyes sewn shut while

my wrists are bound tight together

I tried, Dear Child

to stay alive long enough

to fight

But there are those who

choose to be the wiser

of this world

Sacrificing it all for the

perfect escape from truth

Blinded by expectations of brightness

while we all drown in the light;

begging for blackness

The power lies within the

weight of our pockets and

not within the weightlessness

of our minds.

I am grateful for the many faces of humility ❤

Dreamer of My Heart

There is enough hate
So, I would rather be kind
Wouldn’t you agree?
It’s not hard to change
Love is, and will always be:
A powerful tool
My heart is open
Unlocked and warm, defrosted;
Welcoming new friends

But what happens when
I can’t hear the music here?
Do you see the truth?
A muse of my own
A wanderer of the sky
A man of all words
The profound message
From a boy in a rose shirt,
With a crooked smile
Dreamer of my heart
Guardian of an old soul
Save my restless mind

I am grateful for all of the noise that drowns out the constant chatter. ❤


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Observation 3977: Stereum Hill ex Pers.

When: 2006-09-15

Collection location: Oakdale Dr., Cornelia, Georgia, USA [Click for map]

Who: William Tanneberger (William)

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I’d say Stereum not Grifola
By: Nathan Wilson (nathan)
2007-08-24 10:57:06 MST (-0700)

The thin, zoned, orangish ruffles are typical of several Stereum species. Stereum complicatum is a widely used name for Stereums like this one. However, getting a truly accurate species id in this group requires a fair amount of work.

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