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July 7 – China’s commitment to football has been reinforced in the women’s game with Alipay committing to a $145 million 10-year investment in the women’s game in the country.
The aim of making the sport more sustainable and accessible to young girls. China’s women’s team – unlike its men’s team – qualified for the just completed World Cup, exiting the tournament in the first knock-out round.
The funding is coming primarily from the charity Alipay Foundation, supported by a number of other foundations including those of Alibaba co-founders Jack Ma and Joe Tsai.
The money will be jointly managed by them and the Chinese FA and targeted across four main areas: performance improvement of China’s national women’s team; injury prevention and treatment, and career development of retired players; technical development and coach education; and youth development.
“We are very grateful for Alipay’s unprecedented, ten-year commitment to women’s football in China,” added Cai Yong, executive committee member of the CFA. “Women’s football is not just a sport, but also a powerful social cause that encourages girls and women to pursue their dreams and ambitions.”
Alipay has been running a programme to support young girls in Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County, Hainan Province.
“Over the past two years, I’ve seen from the girls in Qiongzhong that football has brought them more than just physical fitness and technical skills. It has also opened doors for them to more life options and opportunities, as well as tenacity and fighting spirit,” said Eric Jing, chairman and chief executive of Ant Financial Services Group, an affiliate of Alibaba Group and the operator of Alipay.
“This has strengthened our determination to expand our support and enable more development and innovation in women’s and girls’ football in China.”
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Nigeria’s 2020 Olympics medal hopes, sprint hurdler Tobi Amusan and shot putter, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi were beaten to the top spot in their respective events Tuesday night at the PSD meeting in Dusseldorf, Germany where the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Tour made its third stop,sportingrave.com reports.

Amusan was the pre-race favourite in the 60m hurdles following her incredible 7.84 seconds run last Friday in Karlsruhe, also in Germany.
The time puts the petite Nigerian second on the Nigerian nay African all-time list, as well as second on the 2020 world list.

Wishes however refuse to be horses at the Dusseldorf Athletics Hall and the reigning Commonwealth Games 100m hurdles champion failed to fulfil expectations.

She ran 7.96 seconds to place third behind Christina Clemons (7.91 seconds) whom the Nigerian defeated five days ago and home girl, Cindy Roleder who came in third (7.94 seconds).

Amusan (15 points) is second behind Clemons (24 points) in the 60m hurdles standings after three stops while reigning world champion, Nia Alli is third with 10 points.

Amusan will be hoping to restore ‘normal’ order when the tour train makes its fourth of seven stops at the Orlen Copernicus Cup at the Arena Torun in Torun,Poland on Saturday.

Also Read: Manchester United’s January signings Named In Europa League Squad

The hugely talented Nigerian has been confirmed for the meeting with Jamaica’s Megan Tapper, also a finalist as the Nigerian in Doha last year at the outdoor world championships expected to give Amusan a good fight for the 10 maximum points on offer.

Also on the night, reigning African Games Shot Put king, Enekwechi made his 2020 tour debut with what naturally will be a season’s best as he threw a distance of 20.37m to place fourth.

The Nigerian’s effort was worth three points which placed him fourth in the standings after just one stop.

Enekwechi holds a 21.09m personal best in the event which he set in February 2019 in Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

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photo from ap file photo: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has warned NFL personnel not to say anything against holding the draft in April or face the consequences

Headline Sports podcast with Marko Ukalovic:

#1 NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is receiving lots of criticism for moving forward to with the NFL draft

#2 Goodell also said anyone from any NFL team has been warned not to criticize his decision to move forward with the draft as planned between Apr 23-25

#3 The Bay Area Sports Salmon will not be opening Apr 11th as the season will be canceled however commercial fishing which is considered essential will be back and will provide to the stores and wholesalers to feed the masses.

#4 Marko, How much of a hit will NHL teams take if the rest of the season is wiped out and this would be the second time since the 2005 lockout that their will not be Stanley Cup Playoffs and Finals.

#5 The San Jose Barracuda hope to come back for more AHL action, they may not be a cup contender but the team would like to return on a high note once they get the O.K. to return from the Governor’s office maybe in May.

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I like the game – Clint Eastwood, By Adrienne Papp

By Adrienne Papp

Clint Eastwood

“It could be a great example in our crazy world for politicians and countries to use a little creativity along with leadership.” Clint Eastwood

“ Il buono, Il brutto, Il cattivo” alias The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, was a big hit movie in 1966 that started Clint Eastwood’s career as an instant International star, but it wasn’t the only role that found him second fiddle to Richard Burton in those days. A tough-guy action hero with an offbeat humor, an exceptional talent, and later on, a brilliant director, Clint Eastwood has made his mark in the World as a living legend and a never-before icon who has set a standard in Hollywood that is truly unmatched by anyone else.

Nominated for an Oscar, six wins and six nominations, The Bridges of Madison County, which he not only directed but also starred in opposite Meryl Streep, was the most successful romantic drama of our generation.

This kind of love happens once in a lifetime if one is lucky, but expressing this on the big screen with seemingly little or no action to go on makes Eastwood the ultimate director of all times. Playing away from typecast, he proves himself diverse yet again with only one of the exact same ingredience as before: Excellence.

Charting onto tougher life-lessons, Eastwood then acted and directed arguably the best picture of his life, Million Dollar Baby, expressing the everlasting sorrow produced by a painful estrangement from love by blood, – which then translates into a lost, but “tough” soul that has been seeking forgiveness for the past 25 years, despite the façade of a “Hell, do I care…” attitude. A critical and commercial triumph, the movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as earning Eastwood a nomination for Best Actor and a win for Best Director.

Both these movies linger with the soul for a lifetime. And, in one word, that is the trademark of Clint Eastwood.

The fact that he directed 9 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances just speaks about the magnetism and charisma he has on or off screen. Not a huge surprise then, that Clint Eastwood has again directed a new film that is vastly different from any other previous work.

This time the main character is Nelson Mandela in a breathtaking true story given life by such exquisite actors as Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in Invictus where the story is wrapped around rugby, a very popular sport in South Africa.

“This project wasn’t approached because of rugby, like Million Dollar Baby was not approached because of female boxing either. It is the story of the use of the game, – that’s what attracted me to the project and rugby. I like the game. The point however is that I try to tell about rugby as accurately as possible, but at the same token, the story is about the use of the game for reconciliation in a country that was on the verge of civil war when Mandela took office.”

As obvious as history shows us, there must have been traps and possible held backs  with such a task, which must have posed a need for a delicate balance for him as a director.

“Mandela knew that the white population still controlled the army, the economy and the police, – so he made the statement ‘We need every brick to build the country, regardless of what color it is.’ – and he did do. Yet, he did not strip a lot of the government offices, which is what politicians usually do, in which he is obviously a superior person, despite that he was in prison for 27 years.  The normal human emotion would have been to come in and be vengeful, – I think,” he says.  “Come in and strip everything down, – like we do it in this country, – but Mandela sort of looked at the bigger picture of everything. That is what attracted me to the story, and in fact it was almost one of the biggest obstacles to not make him too Christ-like, – but he is,” Clint concludes with a laugh-like smile. That famous one that supports what he means, yet charms you to your core, topping it with a voice that resonates with just the right decibel of authority and kind, unimposing intelligence. In other words, the qualities that make someone powerfully charismatic, yet deeply humble.

There is an understanding in Clint Eastwood that bubbles to the surface, but is hidden enough for the audience to discover layer after layer about the message unfolding in his films, unexpectedly reaching the deepest level of emotions in viewers. It’s a little bit like he seems in real life: starting a sentence, but then giving it up because there is just too much to say all at once and it is almost better to drop it and start anew scattering it all at once until one big painting becomes a Picasso. That is where genius is born.

When discussing the success of Mandela we touch on various points as to whether or not he was the ultimate success. “He wasn’t successful in his marriage,” Clint says, “in his relationship with his daughter, and other children he had. And, I think he has, I am told, a lot of regrets about that, but he also came in and said, he was going to serve one term and that is it. And, I know how that feels.”

While religion and culture separates people, this famous ’95 rugby event really did bring people together in a way that sport seldom does. They were dancing in the streets together and everybody was having a great time. You had not seen blacks playing rugby before 1995, but now you do in the fields everywhere, although not always in uniforms.  It is something people continue do to this day, thanks to the events of 1995.

Whether or not it is more difficult to portray a real story on screen than fiction depends on how well written the script is and whom one works with. On this film all of Clint’s actors were professional rugby players with just a few exceptions.

To the question as to whether or not he will play another role in one of his upcoming movies, which there is yet another one in the making right now, the answer is, “ Oh, I do not know. I never know what the last one is going to be, but I am at the age where they do not write a lot of great roles for people and I am happy in the back of the camera where I do not have to wear a tie and nobody is coming in saying ‘this won’t match,’ so there is a lot of advantages.”

What would he want the audience to capture from this latest movie?

“I would like the audience to understand this very unique kind of mentality that Nelson Mandela had… and think about it in terms of the whole world, – if we could solve a lot of problems in a non-military way, this would be a great example.”

Clint Eastwood, a five-time Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and People’s Choice Award winner, continues to fascinate through his movies, always conveying a message that touches us deeply with lingering thoughts that only an artist with the deepest understanding can create. He is someone who continues to write entertainment history with every role he plays and every film he directs.

About the Writer: Adrienne Papp is a recognized journalist who has written for many publications including Savoir, Beverly Hills 90210, Malibu Beach, Santa Monica Sun, The Beverly Hills Times, Brentwood News, Bel-Air View, Celebrity Society, Celeb Staff, It Magazine, Chic Today, LA2DAY, among many others. She is the President and CEO of Los Angeles/New York-based publicity companies, Atlantic Publicity andAtlantic Publisher. Adrienne writes about world trends, Quantum Physics, entertainment and interviews celebrities and world leaders. She also owns Spotlight News Magazine.

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In the beginning the Internet was just an experimental network for packet transmission. It was interesting because it made possible to combine computers of different types but it did not have practical meaning thereat. Later, in 1975, the experimental network turned into an actual network. It took almost another twenty years to the World Wide Web service appeared in 1993. Then the magic began. Internet became visual, it could be seen by users with browsers. HTML-technology created a new type of documents. The first of HTML pages were very simple and they were only texts and links. But the technology developed very quickly. Images, complicated design, sound and video appeared on the computer screen. Very soon, the Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s creation has learned to represent all the diversity and beauty of the contents of the World Wide Web.

But you need someone or something to manage HTML-pages. You need a Content Management System (CMS). This is a computer application that allow you to create and modify digital content. Usually, CMS features vary widely. Most CMSs include Web-based publishing, format management, history editing and version control, indexing, search, and retrieval.

Basically CMS is a blog-system, it can manage the endless growing feed. This is quite convenient and interesting, but not for all tasks suitable. But a few types of CMS use a tree data structure. A tree structure is a hierarchical model of data representation. It looks like an upside down tree, with the "leaves" at the bottom and "root" at the top. The web-sites with a complex hierarchic structure need the tree structure. Smart Mess exactly is based on the tree data structure and can manage it without difficulty.

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Suffolk Rape Crisis provides support to women and girls aged 14 and above who have experienced any form of sexual violence.

Suffolk Rape Crisis (SRC) is a feminist organisation, working to support survivors of sexual violence and to challenging the underlying attitudes that allow Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) to continue. SRC provides support to all self-identified women and girls aged 14 and above who have experienced any form of sexual violence, at any point in their lives.

Counselling – free, specialist service across Suffolk and online

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In light of the uncertainty we all face in our daily lives with the outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), we want to keep you informed of the steps that Suffolk Rape Crisis (SRC) are taking to ensure that we effectively manage the services we provide and the health and wellbeing of all of us.

At SRC we are working hard to provide much-needed services while ensuring the safety of all of our service users and the SRC team. In order to do that we have decided that from Monday 23rd March all face-to-face support has been suspended. Instead, it will be delivered through our specialist online counselling rooms or by phone. SRC staff will be in contact with all current service users to discuss what option is best for them. You can find out more about online counselling on our website. We would like to assure all women accessing support that we are completely committed to providing the same specialist, needs-led support during this period.

SRC understands the real potential for the current situation with COVID-19 to cause anxiety and concern for many, not least of all those processing trauma and living with the impacts of sexual violence and abuse. We are particularly mindful of the increased risk of social isolation and detrimental impacts on mental health of the necessary current social distancing and infection control measures. Over the next few weeks we will be launching a number of new and exciting ways of accessing and engaging with SRC online. At the moment, we have temporarily closed our Helpline whilst we work on ways to deliver this remotely.

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Oxfam works to mobilize the power of the people around the world to against poverty and injustice. Oxfam in Sri Lanka is a part of the Oxfam International Confederation.

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In Sri Lanka, we picture a nation where everyone, especially women, girls and vulnerable groups, can make their own choices and take charge of their lives. They will live in peace with respect for themselves and others, free from injustice and poverty.

We recognize the opportunity available in Sri Lanka to achieve lasting peace, sustainable development and social justice for all its citizens, especially to improve the living conditions of the poorest and most vulnerable.

We have worked in Sri Lanka for over three decades supporting the country through a variety of humanitarian and development programs.  Presently, our programs are focused on achieving economic justice and gender justice. We work to make communities safer against disaster and step in to provide humanitarian aid. Building peace and promoting the citizen’s right to speak and be heard are two important themes that inspire all our work.

Oxfam works with civil society, international and local development partners, the Government of Sri Lanka and the private sector to promote pro-poor development, equitable access to services and resources, and to remove the causes of division and conflict permanently.


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The Gita’s Solution–The Secret of Action

In this final chapter of the Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo provides us a systematic summary and recap of the primary concepts presented in the Bhagavad Gita.

The fundamental point from which the Gita starts is to emphasize that our normal human standpoint does not fully comprehend the significance or meaning of life, and thus, our interpretation about what needs to be done, and why, is necessarily incomplete and inaccurate.

Sri Aurobindo takes up the basic points: “Existence is not merely a machinery of Nature, a wheel of law in which the soul is entangled for a moment or for ages; it is a constant manifestation of the Spirit. Life is not for the sake of life alone, but for God, and the living soul of man is an eternal portion of the Godhead.”

With this understanding, our action in the world can no longer be seen as solely a satisfaction of desires or material gratifications of a separate individual fragmented and separated from the rest of creation. The individual has a true role, not in opposition to the rest of existence, but as a nexus and part of that larger creation. The individual finds his true fulfilment when he takes on the divine standpoint and recognizes that the “self” is not this ego-personality with which we normal tend to identify ourselves. “Action is for self-finding, for self-fulfilment, for self-realisation and not only for its own external and apparent fruits of the moment or the future.”

While we evolve through a series of steps of increasing self-awareness and a widening of our standpoint, accompanying a successive abandonment of material and vital aims and goals in favor of a recognition of our position in the wider Divine manifestation, eventually we find our ultimate fulfilment through leaving behind all the human-developed customs, traditions, rules, laws, dharmas and social contracts to embrace our divine existence fully, completely and without reservation.

“It is only by discovering your true self and living according to its true truth, its real reality that the problem can be finally solved, the difficulty and struggle overpassed and your doings perfected in the security of the discovered self and spirit turn into a divinely authentic action. Know then your self; know your true self to be God and one with the self of all others; know your soul to be a portion of God. Live in what you know; live in the self, live in your supreme spiritual nature, be united with God and Godlike.”

Doing so, action takes on the form of total offering of all one is and does to the Supreme, transcendent, universal and individual at once. Then the Supreme takes up and performs the action through the nexus of the individual form.

Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, Second Series, Part II, Chapter 24, The Message of the Gita, pp. 553-554


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I developed a flashcard program a while back for learning Japanese. I've been considering porting it to a cell-phone. What is a good target platfrom? I'm thinking about iPhone, HTC Touch HD (system software: Windows Mobile) or a Nokia (system software: Symbian). Since I know a bit of JavaME, something that runs that would also be cool.

Here's the most recent market share data. Have you considered building a web-based product consumable by all smartphones with decent web browsers? Sites like x.facebook.com are not OS-specific but are app-like enough to provide a good user experience. Building such a site and charging a subscription would be one approach to serve all markets.

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  • +1 for web. If done right, the experience isn't much different, such as Gmail. – Darryl Hein May 2 '09 at 19:24
  • @tonylo: It's truee--but I think you're missing my actual suggestion. I wasn't implying that any particular OS should be targeted, but rather that due to the diversity of platforms the best approach would be to build a website that all smartphones (with decent browsers) could access and charge a subscription. – STW May 20 '09 at 14:22

Well the Apple store just celibrated its 1,000,000,000 download the other day, so I would say that the iPhone is the largest and easiest phone market to target. Also the Apple store makes it extremely easy to sell your application (they keep part of the revenue of course).

Perhaps you might like to ask which phone has the largest market share in Japan?

Also I understand Microsoft has plans to start an app store for Windows Mobile.

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  • you make a good point; while the other mobile OS'es have more market share than Apple, apple is still at the forefront of pushing application development. The downside is the quick slide to obscurity, and Apple's notoriously late payments to developers. – STW May 4 '09 at 15:35

Since you know JavaME, take a look at developing for Android. It doesn't have a large market share, but at least you'll be able to leverage your existing skills.

You won't be able to find a common language and development environment that works on the majority of phone platforms. Once you select a platform, you're kind of committed to it unless you want to port your app to an entirely different language.

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  • Android doesn't have a large market share yet. Considering it was released in an "in-development" state on a single homely handset and has still managed to pick up 1 million users in fairly decent time I think it's probably going to get quite large. – STW May 3 '09 at 2:14

Nokia has started heavily pushing a mobile development platform based on Qt. Nokia sells a LOT more phones than Apple does.

Why write iPhone app #1,000,001 when you'd be lucky to get $500 for your investment?

There's a huge craze around iPhone apps... at this point it's totally unjustified from a developer point of view. (It's great for the users)

Qt is a really amazingly well done C++ platform (Nokia bought it, obviously :). I'm having a good time writing PC apps with it... I plan on buying a Nokia phone I can write Qt apps for soon. At that point, I'll be ditching my old iPhone (original unit, not 3G).

When the SDK came out, I thought the world of the iPhone. I even bought Apple stock. However, no Java & no Flash because Jobs is a control freak is just plain stupid. GPL incompatibility really hurts, too. I'm also not buying a Mac just to develop software for the thing.

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  • Maemo is a pretty sweet system, and if I'm not mistaken Nokia is reworking it from a side-project to the forerunner of their applciations. It's a limited platform right now (mostly just on Nokia N800, N810 if I'm not mistaken) but if Nokia phases out symbian for maemo then it would be a great thing to have a head-start on. – STW May 4 '09 at 15:36

A few weeks ago I was reading an article about a product called "rohmobile" that was a custom Ruby framework that run's on a micro ruby web server. It allows you to compile your application against all the popular mobile phones (Apple, Microsoft, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian). It seemed like a very cool idea and it's open source actively under development. The framework comes with a sync soltuion, so you can persist data to the local device using REST/SOAP. As I explored the product a bit more, the only thing that seemed like it would be a pain is the setup of the enviroment(s) needed to compile the code for the various device.... if you could make it past this, then you'd have a solution where you could support a bunch of difference devices with a single code base!

** I've never programmed in Ruby but the syntax and the demo made it look really simple, since it's really just a local web page running on the micro web server installed on the device! The UI is HTML/CSS based. I think the product is still in Beta...

Just my 2cents~

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Well I would start to find a system / programing language which is available for the top phones on the market.

I think a good go is python for that. Which makes it easy to use large portions of the same code on all of the phones which are going to be supported.

Then I would probably start with the iPhone, because I believe its userbase is still demanding for new toys :)

Creating a webapplication would be another way... but that would mean you need to be online. if you are not using flash or some other possibilities of persistent storage.

P.S.: I would not use javame :) .. I still don't like anything java at all

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    Do any phones use Python as a supported programming language? If you're doing to develop for the iPhone, your choices are: Objective C, Objective C, or Objective C. Pick one. – Barry Brown May 2 '09 at 19:41
  • That's pretty cool, but its legality is in doubt. Apple doesn't allow the installation of third-party libraries or interpreters. It works on jailbroken iPhones, but a Python app is unlikely to get accepted into the store. – Barry Brown May 2 '09 at 19:49
  • Ok... this makes it pretty unusable for selling legit software. To bad... maybe later... – OderWat May 2 '09 at 20:13

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The Middle Kingdom, the centre of the Earth. Dragon-danced, red lanterned festivals lit by fireworks. Yin and yang, astrology, feng shui, acupuncture. Communism and capitalism.

Its capital and political centre is bureaucratic Beijing, but its commercial heart is crowded, noisy and vibrant Shanghai.

Thousands of years in the making, China continues to surprise visitors, and continues to make an impact on the world culturally, politically and financially. With a recorded history of almost 4,000 years through 70 imperial dynasties, China has contributed so much to world civilization: an extraordinary number of discoveries, inventions and technologies.

China has also given the world Confucius and his secular, humanistic ideas on political and personal morality. Many Chinese values also derive from the spirituality of Taoism and Buddhism. Another great influence is Communism, which came to the fore in China during Mao Zedong’s leadership.

China is the third largest country in the world, with a total land area of 9.6 million square kilometres. It borders 15 countries and has the highest peak in the world. With an average of 130 persons per square kilometre, China is the world’s most populated country, with 22% of the world’s total population—1.2 billion people and counting.

China’s changes have been so rapid, so immense, that the world has taken notice. It is the world’s fastest growing economy, and soon it will be its biggest market. A sleeping giant recently woken, China got out of bed hungry. Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s when it opened its once-closed doors, its people poured into business, the banking system, the stock market. Now, in electronics, aeronautics, textiles, energy, iron, steel, machinery and chemicals, China is on the verge of leading the world.

China’s cultural contributions include its variety of cuisines, which have made their way around the world; its distinctive architecture, with its emphasis on width and symmetry; and the acclaimed and long-popular film and television industries of the mainland and Hong Kong. Their movies and television programs have entertained millions worldwide and helped shape outsiders’ views of the great country.

China has not forgotten its roots, but it is very much in the modern world.

East China Region

China’s eastern region consists of the six neighbouring provinces of Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian as well as the eastern city of Shanghai.

The east region of China is relatively flat, with fewer hills and basins than other areas of China. This makes it relatively easy to settle in, which is why no less than 368 million of China’s 1.2 billion people live here. This region is fertile, as its monsoon weather is subtropical and humid.

Those looking to be near the benefits of the modern world should keep this region in mind as it is relatively well-developed as compared to the rest of the country. Rich in natural resources, this region is a gold mine for China’s economy as it leads in very many industries including light industry, electronics and machinery. This areas transportation network is also progressive, with relatively modern roads, waterways, air traffic and railways.

North China Region

The North Region is cradled between four of Mother Nature’s great creations: the vast Mongolian Steppe to the north, marked by the iconic Great Wall, the famous Yangtze River Basin to the south, the great Tibetan Plateau to the east, and finally, the deep Yellow Sea to the west.

Agriculturally abundant, the North China Region has been China’s bread basket for thousands of years, as its rich landscapes were cultivated and terraced. The rich yellow soil allows the cultivation of tobacco, peanuts, wheat and sesame, as well as maize and cotton. The vast plains and elegant mountain terrains also provide natural gas, coal, oil and iron.

North China’s geography has had a large impact on China’s political history. Its mountains and rivers mostly border the region, as opposed to running through it, as in the other regions of China. Its vast plains allowed rapid communication by horse. Because of this, most of its people speak a relatively uniform Mandarin, unlike the dialect-divided south. This gave it cultural mass, making it unsurprising that it became the home of China’s political capital, Beijing.

The lack of natural barriers made the area vulnerable to attacks, both by man and by nature. The invasions from Manchuria and Central Asia propelled the erection of the Great Wall of China. Unpredictable weather, plus flat ground, caused both floods and droughts, prompting the Chinese to construct granaries and hydraulic structures.

Divisions between the north and south of China, have long been ingrained in Chinese history. A local from north China is stereotypically described as a rugged-faced individual, bigger and taller than his southern cousin, with smaller, more slanted, single-lidded eyes. He is prone to intense displays of emotion, such as anger, but he is also warm-hearted, faithful and noisy.

The majority of the population in the North Region’s 1,255,000 square kilometres are Han Chinese, with Hui, Mongol and Manchu nationalities following closely behind.

North China Region includes the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the provinces of Hebei, Shanxi and Tianjin.

Northwest China Region

China’s northwest region is locked in by some monumental landscapes. Its north is sealed off by the Kunlun, Altun and Qilian mountain ranges. The Great Xing’an Mountains patrol the west. Northwest China is bordered by Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

In this sparsely populated area, which has 30% of China’s land area but only 7% of its population, there are numerous ethnic minorities, including the Kazaks, Huis, and Mongol and Uygur groups. The Northwest provinces are among the poorest in the People’s Republic. Agriculture, mining and heavy industry are the biggest contributors to its economy.

This region is made up of Gansu, Qinghai and Shaanxi and the autonomous Ningxia and Xinjiang.

Northeast China Region

Sometimes considered part of Inner Mongolia, the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning make up the North East Region of China.

Forestry and agriculture are the region’s most important economic activities. The area is also very rich in coal and oil. The heavy industries date back to the 1930s, and were built to exploit the area’s abundant natural resources.

Due to China’s relationship to the former Soviet Union, companies such as Liaoning Anshan Iron and Steel Plant and Daqing Oilfield were able to thrive.

This region has long winters, lasting sometimes for more than six months. Summers, which are usually dry and blazingly hot in other regions of China, see a lot of rainfall in the Northeast Region.

South Central China Region

The provinces of Guangdong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Hainan and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region make up China’s South Central Region, which borders Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. The region has a coast on the South China Sea. The special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau are in the area but not considered part of the region.

As it is near the equator, its climate is more tropical than any other Chinese region, and very rainy. Typhoons hit the area in the summer. The lands are fertile, with marshes and lakes. Rice paddies cover the region, and vegetables and tropical fruits are in abundance. The region’s cities, foremost among them Guangzhou, are bustling centres of commerce, trade and culture.

This is one of China’s best-developed regions. With resources such as gas, water and minerals at its fingertips, it has developed rapidly.

Southwest China Region

The Southwest China Region includes Congqing, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, as well as the Autonomous Region of Tibet. Its sharp mountains, lazy hills and deep basins are home to over 180 million people. Dominated by Han Chinese, the minorities in this area are the Yi, Dai, Bai, Dai, Miao, Zhuang and Tibetan ethnicities.

Compared to the rest of China, this region is relatively poor. While other regions have caught the development fever, it has moved forward little. Yet its resources, not only in tourism, but in chemicals, machinery and hydropower, give it the potential to become a giant.

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CASS COUNTY, Mo. (KMOX) — There were an estimated 400 people at a house party on 4th of July weekend in Missouri and at least five people who were at that party have reportedly tested positive for COVID.

The Cass County Health Department announced the new cluster of cases on Friday, hoping "any individuals who attended this gathering quarantine at home for 14 days and monitor for symptoms."

The man who shot and posted the video told the Star he helped promote the party on social media. He also says that he and at least 10 others who were at the party are showing symptoms of coronavirus.

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fall-leaves-250Not feeling it this Thanksgiving season? I get that. Me neither. But stay with me here and together we’ll work through it, because gratitude is more than just being thankful for getting what we want or things being perfect. It’s a practice that brings us solace. So let’s give it a go.

The simplest most obvious form of gratitude is to list the people and conditions we are grateful for, and that’s a fine place to start. But, let’s face it, what all these have in common is not just that we appreciate them, but that they are temporal. In fact, most likely we have already experienced the loss of people we used to be able to put on our list of loved ones whose presence we value. We may also have lost other things: health, financial security, abilities, looks, energy, and the list goes on. Because we know all too well how fleeting what we are grateful for can be, we tend to hold them with fear. We cling to them. That alters the way we relate to them, and can have the effect of pushing them away.

In gratitude we need to learn how to hold all that we value lightly, in an open loving embrace. The fleeting nature can be the gift that makes us pay more attention to the present moment. Can we pause to notice and appreciate the antics of a small child who is growing up before our eyes? Or listen to an oft-told story of an elder with deeper attention knowing there will come a day we will want to remember it and that person will no longer be there to share it? Celebrating each moment in our lives knowing it is fleeting is one way of living our gratitude. There is a Zen saying to live as if you are already dead. Quite the opposite of becoming a zombie, this advice reminds us to be fully alive right now, full of gratitude for every moment, whatever it brings.

The American holiday of Thanksgiving where we are asked to express gratitude on demand may feel unreasonable. Many are finding the social demands challenging. One of the checkers at my grocery store announces every year that she will not be participating, that her family has done enough damage, thank you very much. As adults we have the freedom to do what’s right for us. But let’s make sure we are not establishing such hard and fast traditions of reactivity that we exclude the possibility of feeling differently from one year to the next. Can we nourish ourselves in the ways we need right now? And if we feel locked in, can we reach out?

I am grateful for all my many blessings, yet this year I am feeling particularly challenged to celebrate Thanksgiving wholeheartedly. Tears are very close to the surface from a combined set of losses and memories of other losses that come up in relationship to them. Practicing Buddhism and meditation does not make us immune to emotions. Instead it makes us more able to hold them, to allow them space and compassion, to not get angry at ourselves for feeling whatever we’re feeling.

So I am sitting with these feelings, allowing them to pass through my field of experience. When I find myself stuck to the point of dwelling on them, I focus on the physical sensations that accompany the emotions. I can soften these sensations by relaxing and releasing, and this helps to soften and loosen the emotions. Not rushing anything, but attending them. At the same time, to bring balance and equanimity, I purposely notice all else that is going on in this moment: the beauty of the world around me and the pleasure of being alive, even as pain is present. That is the practice. And it works. And then some little thing happens: I wake to find ants in my pillbox, for example, and my feeling of ‘doing well’ crumbles to pieces. Humor helps. Will and I wonder why the ants are attracted to my thyroid pills, and he speculates on how ‘bug-eyed’ they will become. Laughter helps. Always.

I had a lot of laughter over the past few decades with my beloved aunt, my mother’s baby sister, the last of her generation in our family. A few weeks ago she died after a brief illness. I will miss her so. She was the last person able to share stories with me about my mother and grandparents and about me as a child so I mourn not just her person but also that link to the past. How I enjoyed our lengthy bi-coastal phone discussions. She was such an inspiration to me: Blind for the last decade, her last years were also some of her happiest, as when, newly sightless, she met a man who had been blind since birth. He showed her the ropes of how to live well while blind…and a few other things! They lived together lovingly until she entered the hospital for the last time. Ah, my dear Frannie. In the midst of mourning, I recognize how grateful I am that I had her in my life. I’m grateful she lived fully and that her dying was easy. My cousin told me that in their last conversation, her mother said, ‘I know I’m supposed to ask forgiveness for my sins, but I can’t think what they are.’ Aw. Sounds like a woman at peace with herself. And for that I am very grateful.

And for so much else! My list is long as I’m sure yours is too when you take a moment to ponder it. But beyond the finite blessings in our lives there is gratitude that is infinite, for being present in this moment to savor what is, for the fluidity and interconnection of all life, and the consciousness to experience it to whatever degree we are able.

I have written about gratitude in numerous past posts, so if you feel so inspired, take the time to check out these links. I think you will find them more nourishing than the current news or social media postings!

I wish you every joy on Thanksgiving and every day. I am very grateful for all of you, (especially for those of you who take the time to comment here on this blog, as it adds so much more meaning and gives me needed feedback.) Blessings to all.

  1. Dearest Stephanie, Thank you for this lovely writing. My gratitude seems to bring me grief, hooking them up together. When I feel open, good and connected, I can be sure that within 24 hours I will be subject to the emotional drama of one of my family members. I fear feeling grateful, fear feeling happy these days…….because the phone will ring and either my 94 yr old mom will be crying or my daughter will be in a crisis of some sort…….Samsara sucks.

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  2. Thanks for your comment, Laurel. I am sure many of us can relate. Really good noticing of the mental patterns and entanglements!
    May you be able to cultivate enough spaciousness to hold whatever arises with equanimity. And to be reminded that this too shall pass.

  3. Dear Stephanie, Many thanks for another inspiring post that touched my heart and soul. Although I don’t often respond, I love reading your blog on a regular basis and I’m so grateful for the effort, wisdom, and encouragements you put into your entries. So often you break through my tough outer shell to reach, sooth, and uplift the vulnerable core of me. It happened again today, when you shared so much of your own history, emotions, and vulnerabilities surrounding the subjects of giving thanks, loss of loved ones, and the seemingly paradoxical notion that appreciation of beauty and the pleasure of being alive can coexist with pain and/or grief. Happy Thanksgiving Day to you and Will – I am very grateful that you are in my life. Marita.

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  4. Dear Stephanie,
    your thoughts, as always, are profound, and so timely in this time of national turmoil. I am so sorry for your loss of your beloved aunt Frannie who sounds like a truly remarkable woman. We are at an age when loss is becoming a frequent event. In the face of this I am even more grateful for the daily blessings that Curt and I enjoy. We hope your Thanksgiving day was delightful. We celebrated in Bucerias with a margerita and guacamole….not the traditional turkey and family gathering that I love, but a lovely experience in its own way. Hugs to you and Will. We so miss being able to see you more frequently.

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    1. Dear Stephanie,
      Such a beautifully written essay! I wish I had read this before Thanksgiving dinner. I should have asked you more about your aunt who meant so much to you. You are lucky to have had such a close connection with her and that she was able to share memories of your mother with you. The older I get, the more I appreciate such things.

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Savannah Storch graduated in December 2018 with a B.A. in Ecology and minor in Climate Justice. We are grateful for Savannah’s permission to publish this essay about her Summer 2018 internship in Colorado from the Writing & Communications course with Dr. Carol Dickson.

Unexpected Relationships In Wilderness

Over the summer of 2018 I lived in the La Garita Wilderness in southern Colorado working as a wilderness inventory intern for the Gunnison National Forest and Ranger District. I worked alongside one other intern, Nina Loutchko, and together we had the responsibility of performing a baseline assessment for a long-term study on the impacts of recreational sites on the 129,626 acres of land that comprise the La Garita Wilderness. The La Garita Wilderness is a remote public lands area located in the Southern Rocky Mountains with varying and challenging topography and exquisite views from the Continental Divide and other high-elevation peaks. It offers a breathtaking show of wildflowers.

Over the span of the nearly three months that Nina and I lived in the La Garitas Wilderness we saw hardly anyone but each other – only the remainders and signs of past travelers. Nina and I hiked over 230 miles and every trail in the La Garita Wilderness. While assessing and collecting data on the 246 campsites that we found along those trails, I could not help but to wonder what kind of experience people had with the land. What made someone choose a spot to build and light a fire? What made them leave trash in one site and not another? How long has it been since someone has traveled this trail? I spent the summer observing decisions, interactions, locations and reciprocity between people and the environment over a vast and seemingly “untouched” land.

On our first hitch of the season we hiked a total of 20 miles and spent three days and two nights out in the wilderness. This was our first time in the field collecting data on the recreation impacts in the La Garita, and little did I know that the signs we would find on this trip would change the way that I viewed our work for the remainder of our internship. On our second day of the hitch we hiked off trail five miles east along Nutras Creek from a starting elevation of 10,600 feet up to 12,000 feet elevation. About three and a half miles in, the weather began to change for the worse, and so we decided to take a break to set up camp for the night before it began to pour, and finish the remainder of the hike after being sure we would have a dry and warm night’s rest. About two and a half miles east of the headwaters to Nutras Creek there is a small unnamed valley that we decided to hike into to look for campsites because the topography on our map showed ideal campsite characteristics. After weed whacking uphill through sprouting willow shrubs and rocky mountain irises, racing against time and the weather, we entered into an alpine meadow with low-growing grasses and phlox flowers that was surrounded by a plateau-like ridgeline. Our supervisor explained to us that elk tend to move through areas like these and that we might find hunting campsites in areas with such characteristics. Snow began to fall on us just as the clouds darkened the sky and moved into the valley. We scrambled to search for signs of human impact and use and managed to find four campsites, most of which had central fire rings that looked aged and overgrown with clover and tall grasses.

As we began our hurried descent back to camp, I stopped to fill my water bottle from a cold stream that was flowing through the meadow. As I crouched down to the water I noticed a few shards of jasper stone on the bank, and as I stood up hundreds more caught my eye. The jasper appeared to be in the shape of hand worked shavings and reminded me of carved obsidian shards I saw the previous summer at Ireland Lake, a high alpine lake, in Yosemite National Park, while on a natural history field course of the Sierra Nevada. We took a waypoint on our GPS unit and a few photos to share with the archaeologist on the Gunnison Ranger District. We spent the day intently following the minimum recreation site protocol, training our eyes to notice the negative impacts of people on the wilderness, and in doing so we lost the ability to be in tune with alternative human presences on the land.

On the following day, as we hiked out and away from Nutras Creek, I thought to myself how thankful I was that Nina and I had an “itch” for that unnamed valley, and for finding campsites in its high alpine meadow, because it would mean that in five years, when inventory is needed again, two interns following a map of our GPS units would come to this meadow, and they too may or may not notice some jasper stones and wonder about the relationships people had with the location. I do know for certain that they too will touch the ground there in that valley and will feel the unavoidable age old aching of the land, and that, in the words of Robin Wall Kimmerer, “if we allow traditions to die and relationships to fade, the land will suffer.” (Braiding Sweetgrass.)

Midway through June, Nina and I planned a four day and three night hitch that would include a day of off-trail backpacking to a plateau just under 11,000 feet elevation, and a campsite that would forever remind me that we do not all foster in our minds or show in practice the same nourishment of wilderness. The off-trail location was pointed out to us by a forest ranger who knew of a ranch just downhill of the plateau that was situated along the perimeter of the wilderness, suggesting that people may ride and or herd cattle up to the plateau’s flat top. On the day of our off-trail trek, we followed and meandered through an extremely steep and dried-out creek with thousands of dead and fallen interlocking spruce trees to the top of the plateau. When we finally reached the flat contour of the plateau, I was out of breath and halfway through the water in my liter bottle that I was hoping to refill in the now visibly barren and drought-stricken pond on the southwest end of the plateau. I swear my lips cracked when I saw the arid and scorched scenery in front of us. It was noon and the sun was above our heads. With my hand clenched to what was left of my water we began to proceed with scanning the land for signs of campsites.

As we walked over dried and stiff golden grasses we came across the pale chalk-white bones of cattle hips, rib cages and skulls, and the few times that I looked down to hide the sun from my face I noticed that the ground was covered in bright warm-colored spearleaf stonecrop succulents. As we approached the eastern edge of the plateau, just as I was considering giving up, we came across a stand of quaking aspen trees, the first sight of shade and the first and only evidence of human impacts that we would come across all day. Under the canopy of the quaking aspen, chewing tobacco cans were nailed into the trees, along with hand carvings of people’s initials and dates marking their presence. The ground beneath our feet was bare and thoroughly compacted and throughout the site candy wrappers, Halloween decorations and fire scars were scattered all around. In between a pair of trees a hitch rail was raised, indicating that at the least a horse outfitter guide or rancher had stopped at this site. This was by far the site with the greatest impact, damage and amount of trash of all the sites we came across during the summer.

When I first started my position I remember picking out a sticker from the Gunnison ranger district office that had a forget-me-not flower design and the slogan “National Forests, It’s All Yours!” The phrase on the sticker was part of a 2015 USFS and National Forest Foundation campaign to encourage environmental stewardship of our national forests and to highlight their recreational opportunities. The people who trashed the recreation site we came across on that scorching hot and parched June day were certainly not considering the “Leave No Trace” principles that are posted at every trailhead sign in the section on stewardship – though they may have had a sense of the land being “all theirs”. They were not respecting the idea of legal definition of wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain” (Wilderness Act 1964).

La Garita Wilderness

In the middle of July, Nina and I planned a three day and two-night hitch that our minds, spirits and bodies would never forget. It was the beginning of the summer storm season in Colorado which means that in the high mountains, above 11,000 feet elevation, you could have clear bright-blue skies in the morning and inescapably monstrous dark and heavy thunderstorms by the afternoon that roll well into the evening. Knowing the weather patterns common for the time of year, on our second day out on trail we woke up as soon as the morning sun had tapped on our eyelids, around 6:00 am, to begin our seven mile trek west across Palmer Mesa, a high-elevation plateau within the La Garita Mountains, to avoid hiking in the weather that was bound to come. It was quite the ordeal to get to the top of the mesa that morning; we had camped on the north facing side of the plateau and so it was cold and glistening frost had clung on to the tall grasses that chilled my knuckles as we gained 1,500 feet in elevation in just one mile. When we got to the top of the east side of Palmer Mesa at 12,400 feet elevation it was about 8:30 a.m. Below our feet grey and iron colored bare mineral soil was present, as was stunted grasses and some rosette growing shrubs characteristic of high alpine ecosystems; we were the tallest things on that plateau where we could see out to countless mountain peaks that resembled jagged sharks teeth, and down 4,000 feet into the distance tens of miles to the Rio Grande Valley and River.

By the time it was 11:00 o’clock we still had two miles left to hike before we could descend the plateau via Half Moon Pass to a safe elevation for camping. We knew we were crunched for time when thunderous clouds seemed to appear out of nowhere wisping towards us from the south carrying scents of charred wood from a 12-day old wildfire 120 miles away in Durango, Colorado. In what seemed liked seconds, the storm had domineered over us and from it penny sized hail fell on our bodies leaving pink and painful imprints in our skin. As I hastily tore my rain jacket out from my pack the metallic and mechanical booming sounds being orchestrated just above my hair overtook my attention, and then suddenly, in sink with the rhythm of the thunder, an electric blue flash of lightning dotted across the sky and nearly every muscles in my body gave out causing me to fall helplessly to the ground.

Ironically, the day before we took off for this life altering hitch our supervisor warned us of the danger and probability of lightning strikes above tree line, and explained to us that “when you’re above 10,000 feet in elevation your chances of being hit go from being one in-a-million to one-in-ten-thousand”. Luckily neither I or Nina were that one-in-ten-thousand, but never have I felt so clearly my own diminutive nature in the face and scale of Mother Earth. It was the first time in my life that I had ever spoken out loud and begged of the Earth and universe to keep me alive; up on Palmer Mesa in this storm I felt as though Nina and I could die and no one would ever know or find us, there would be no sign of our presence to find. From this experience I gained a new relationship with nature; one that would forever impact me and remind me of what it truly means to be present.

During our first few hitches, when the flowers were not yet in bloom and we had little clue as to which green stalk and stem would produce which wildflower, I recognized the short growing ovate and tooth-margined leaves characteristic of wild strawberries. I excitedly wondered if we would get to enjoy their fruit before the end of the season, but as time passed on, and more than 200 miles were behind us, the fruiting bodies of strawberries never appeared and it seemed as though our chances were becoming unlikely.

On the last hitch of our internship in the La Garita Wilderness we took inventory on just a handful of various recreation sites, but gratefully took several handfuls of an unexpected gift. At this point in the internship we were hiking at elevations of 11,000 feet or lower and under the canopy of tall and mostly dead standing spruce trees. The paths that we took were narrow and overgrown with now wilting mountain bluebells and other wildflowers. The weather was much hotter and so we took it upon ourselves to take as many of our lunch breaks near streams flowing with cold water from their high alpine headwaters hoping to sneak in a few swims.

On our second to last day out on trail we were assessing the impacts of a site near the bank of a stream when we noticed the sweet aroma of the tiny blushing red wild strawberries that were hiding in the fireweed flowers and grasses below our feet. After collecting data for the site we put our packs down, got on our knees, and started picking for strawberries. The small heart shaped bodies of the strawberries heated by the sun were warm in my hands as I brought them to my mouth to taste their outrageously sweet and delicious flavor. For the rest of the day as we hiked we noticed many clusters of wild strawberries that dotted the landscape and sometimes caved to fill our hands with their juicy goodness once again.

The timing of the ripening of the wild strawberries couldn’t have been more perfect, and that is why I cannot help but to think of them as a gift. As Kimmerer describes, “Gifts from the earth … establish a particular relationship, an obligation of sorts to give, to receive, and to reciprocate” (Braiding Sweetgrass, page 25). For three months in the summer of 2018 I was able to give the La Garita Wilderness a long overdue check-up on the various impacts that it had been receiving and had no idea that in doing so I would also be building a relationship of reciprocity with the wilderness.

The work that my internship partner and I were able to accomplish in the La Garita Wilderness in the summer of 2018 will help wilderness land managers better understand the impact trends occurring in the wilderness overtime, has helped to identify recreation sites and trails that are in need of rehabilitation, and has also allowed for stories, such as the ones I have shared in this paper, of the stewardship and relationships only found in wilderness, to be experienced and told again.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2015.

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Back in the Game

My last post was seven months ago! Shameful! Life took a major swerve and much of what was anticipated in my last post did not happen, least of all the Portfolio course. I was so sad to have to postpone it but my deteriorating hip meant I could not even climb the stairs to the sewing room and my planned-for operation in August was brought forwards to May. Holidays were cancelled, plans put on hold while I embraced a ceramic hip and trips to the gym. We are all still together!

So delight of delights I am back into focusing on my sewing and more importantly thinking about how to make the most of my fabrics, my sewing skills and the space I work in.

in this post, I am going to review my plans from seven months ago and then will post separately about the forthcoming plans and projects not least for my sewing room which is having a major makeover.

In the last post I wrote about things I intended to make. Some of those have been finished some have been shelved and some are still on track.

So here is the previous list:

• A Classic Blazer

• Fitted LBD with a devoré and silk evening coat

• A Marfy pattern dress – more of which later

• A dress and coat for a wedding

• A Chanel style jacket for wearing with trousers. (This will probably be made after the course has finished)

The Classic Blazer never materialised.😢. It was scheduled to be part of the course and I just could not manage to make it to the class. Something for another day perhaps? Actually a jeans jacket would be higher up the list. More my style and equally challenging in its way although a little short on tailoring!😁

The Marfy dress is still in the pipeline.

The LBD is on course for this winter. Fortunately the dress and coat for a wedding was made and having made a toile and re-cut the pattern, I am going to use the same for the LBD.

The patterns I used were:

Butterick 6299

I did not make the short jacket but the dress was lovely and after all the fitting work, was perfect. It was made in burgundy dupion silk fromThe Silk Route. I underlined it in silk organza and lined it with bremsilk from MacCulloch and Wallis. It has a beautiful weight to it and feels heavenly to wear.

I made a Sculptural Bucket Coat from Sew Different using Denim Lace from Marcy Tilton. I bought this a couple of years ago when I just loved the fabric and had no idea what I could use it for.

In the end it made a great wedding outfit and I was thrilled.

I really recommend Tree’s sculptural bucket coat it is lovely and can be made in all sorts of fabrics.

So in the interests of brevity, here are a few more makes of the summer. Less challenging but still having their “moments”.😁

The next challenges are the Chanel Jacket next week (more of that later).

In the meantime my finger has twitched over some fabric purchases. Ideas still in the pipeline for them but some are beginning to form.

Good to be back! See you very soon.

It’s a wrap!

My first post is about this dress.  It is a Very Easy Vogue pattern: Vogue V8784.

The dress was made for my mum who no longer finds it easy to buy clothes.  She has arthritic shoulders and despite shopping for a new dress, none could be found to suit her.  I decided to make her one which would be able to be fitted to her shape and also address the problem of needing to fasten at the front for ease.

I will post a photo of her wearing it in the fulness of time but it is for a special occasion so will wait until that takes place.

The pattern is a lovely shape.  The fitted pleats/darts at the waist give it a beautifully fitting shape.

Mum chose to have the three-quarter length sleeves and collar with the full skirt.

The fabric is John Kaldor from John Lewis and is a linen and cotton mixture.  The dress is fully lined (as per the pattern) except for the sleeves. I used the standard John Lewis lining and sewed using Gutermann thread.

What size did I make?  I cut a size 16 but added extra to the waist as mum is short waisted and always needs extra added at that point for comfort.

Did I make any major pattern adjustments?  Yes.  I added  an extra 7 cm at the top of the arm.  I adjusted the pattern so that the sleeve-head and cuffs remained the same.

Where there any difficult stages in the making of the dress? No.  It went together very well and I am pleased with the outcome – as is Mum!!!

Any thoughts for next time? Yes. The pattern can be made in a knit and I shall make it again for her in a knit for the winter.


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Events Saint Lucia Gives The Gift Of Music

Press Release:- From Wednesday, May 8th to Saturday May 11th, 2019, Events Company of St. Lucia Inc. (ECSL) in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center hosted a series of music workshops at the Golden Palm Conference Center in Rodney Heights, Rodney Bay, as part of an ongoing student outreach programme initiated by ECSL in 2017.

To celebrate the culmination of the 2019 Saint Lucia Jazz Music Programme, Events Saint Lucia and Mr. Doug Thiel, employee of longstanding sponsor of the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival Steinway and Sons, have partnered to gift participants in the programme with two musical instruments, a Jean Paul Acoustic Electric Guitar 40” complete with a Jupiter Classic Guitar Bag and a Roland Fantom X-8, 88 note Weighted Key, Action Keyboard with a Travel Case.

The recipients of these gifts are the Marchand Sacred Heart Youth Orchestra and St. Lucia School of Music respectively, both entities having participated fully in the 2019 Saint Lucia Jazz Music Education Programme.

The four (4) part music education series was hosted by four of the headline acts who performed at the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival this year. Etienne Charles who is Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at Michigan State University hosted day one on the topics, The Role the Caribbean had in the Birth of Jazz and The Links Between the Caribbean and Jazz.  On day two (2) Six-time GRAMMY®-winning jazz bassist Christian McBride addressed a school of seventy (70) music students.

Using the St. Lucia School of Music ensemble as a case study, Christian McBride coached the class providing valuable technical guidance on How to Improve Ensemble Cohesion. He also focused on How to Improve Solo Work and Musicianship as a solo artiste and in groups.

On day three (3) of the Programme, Grammy and Emmy nominated bassist, singer, composer Russell Hall along with his band, served up a spirited music master class that focused on the work of Thelonious Monk, one of the most recorded Jazz composers of all time and the inspiration behind Russell Hall’s music.

Hall along with his vocalist South African Vuyolwethu Sotashe also carried out a vocal master class, which left them astounded by the local vocal talents who participated. The ages of the participants ranged from eight (8) years to thirty-five (35) years old.

Grammy-nominated saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Patrick Bartley, Jr presented the final day of the music education programme addressing the topic, What is Jazz…The Origin, History and Evolution

of Jazz. This in-depth education music master class was a resounding success and provided a pitch perfect end to the Saint Lucia Jazz Music Education Programme for 2019.

The Marchand Sacred Heart Youth Orchestra and the St. Lucia School of Music are also being recognized for their participation in Saint Lucia Jazz in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center, each having appeared at major venues for this year’s festival.

Sen. Hon. Cathelina Fortuna Belrose Minister in the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries with responsibility for Culture and Creative Industries was on hand to assist with the presentation.

“We are thrilled that Events Company of St. Lucia has spearheaded this initiative which is in line with one of our ministry’s core objectives to develop the creative arts, jazz music being one such focal point. Our aim is to get the youth and the public excited about jazz by creating opportunities to showcase them and reward them for their efforts. We congratulate the St. Lucia School of Music and that Marchand Sacred Heart Youth Orchestra on their achievements.”

Thomas Leonce, Chief Executive Officer of Events St. Lucia commented, “We encourage the young musicians to avail themselves of the opportunities that exist throughout the year and at various national events such as Saint Lucia Jazz. These opportunities are limitless as they now extend beyond our shores through partnerships with world class music bodies like Jazz at Lincoln Center”.

 “We commend the Marchand Sacred Heart Youth Orchestra and the St. Lucia School of Music for an excellent job at their respective performances for West Coast Jazz and IGY Rodney Bay Marina and we look forward to showcasing them again and others who rise to the occasion” he concluded.


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Innotab Demand Outstrips Supply

Posted 07 November 2011 - By Mike Green

VTech InnoTab Stock News

With Christmas looming over the horizon, stock shortages of the VTech Innotab are progressively getting worse as demand continues to outstrip supply, leaving many parents asking 'where can I find an InnoTab?'

Last Wednesday (2nd Nov) saw the John Lewis website sell out of over 170 Innotab's in under 19 hours and today saw Amazon take orders for only 4 hours for delivery in a few weeks time. The Tesco website was showing stock earlier today, however rather frustratingly didn't allow any purchases past the final checkout stage.

VTech insist they are continuing to supply UK retailers with regular stock, however this is not yet reflected in stock being made available online and the last few days has seen a significant increase of traffic to the Stock Informer website of new Innotab hunters.

Argos are the only official UK retailer for the Innotab Pink. We have found out that stock is next due into the Argos warehouses on the 16th November with stores getting stock soon after this date.

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