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Ethiopian Airlines sticks to B787 order

Ethiopian Airlines has confirmed it will take delivery of all ten B787s scheduled for delivery between Jul-2010 and 2013 (subject to revision by Boeing), and it is considering purchasing more Boeing or Airbus widebodies from 2014, to meet its medium-term growth targets. An order could be placed as early as next year.

Ethiopian was one of the first airlines to order B787s and is reportedly planning to fund the order through internal cash flows after a financing arrangement reportedly fell through.

The airline also plans to increase its domestic network and service quality with the addition of eight new Bombardiar Q-400s from Mar-2010 to replace ageing Fokker regional jets. The new aircraft will be deployed on services from Addis Ababa to Humera, Metema, Warder, Shilabo Mizan, Teferi, Jinka, Warder, Denbi- dolo, Semera and Dessie. The carrier has also hinted at ordering four more Q-400s, with an order likely to be made in 2010.

Expanding network, ambitious revenue and tourism targets

The airline added one leased B737-800W and one B757-200 to its fleet in early Jun-2009 to add frequencies this Summer on key routes to Harare, Douala, Abuja and N’djamena. The carrier is also planning to increase frequencies with widebody equipment to Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Guangzhou this Summer.

Earlier in 2009, the airline cut weekly frequencies to the US from six to four and to China from 14 to 12, in response to slowing demand. But 33 of Ethiopian’s 53 destinations are within Africa, which has not been hit as hard by the global economic crisis.

The airline has set an ambitious target of 6% revenue growth this year, to USD1 billion. This reflects the Ethiopian Government’s efforts to grow its tourism industry and exports. Tourism accounts for approximately 2.5% of Ethiopia's GDP, with the government hoping to attract 1 million foreign visitors p/a by 2010, quadrupling the 2008 figure.

On 02-Jun-2009, the carrier launched three times weekly service to Malabo (Equatorial Guinea) with a mix of B767-300 and B757-200 aircraft. Ethiopian also launched three times weekly service to Riyadh on 02-Jun-2009 with a mix of B737-800 and B737-700 aircraft.

As part of its preparation for membership of the Star Alliance, Ethiopian has also signed codeshare agreements with Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways and United Airlines.

Investment in training

Ethiopian Airlines and IATA meanwhile signed an agreement in Jun-2009 to make the Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Academy an authorised IATA training centre. This will give the Academy the opportunity to host standardised IATA aviation courses to regional aviation communities. Ethiopian Airlines established its own training centre in 1957.

Ethiopian is also working to upgrade its pilot training institution at a cost of USD45 million with the support of loans from a French bank.

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Type of persecution:
Female Genital Cutting (FGC) / other mutilation
Female Genital Cutting - Fears FGC to a child
Female Genital Cutting - Past FGC
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Immigration Judge
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Bennett, Michael H.
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Case Summary

IJ granted asylum on December 2007. Following the BIA's decisions in In re A-T- and In re A-K-, an Immigration Judge grants asylum to a woman based on past female genital cutting (FGC), as well as her fear that either her U.S. citizen daughter would be subjected to FGC if the family were forced to return to Ethiopia, or that she (and her family) would face ostracism rising to the level of persecution for rejecting the genital cutting of her daughter.

Date Submitted

Monday, August 16, 2004 - 00:00

Outcome for Case #2994

Immigration Judge
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The Judge held that Mohammed v. Gonzales controls in the 9th Circuit, despite the BIA's decision in A-T- (ruling that past FGC is not a basis for asylum). Under Mohammed, he found the Petitioner eligible for asylum based on the ongoing medical, psychological, and sexual harm she suffers as a result of her FGC, which he ruled was on account of her membership in the social group of "Ethiopian females." He also ruled that the Petitioner qualified for humanitarian asylum based on the severe and atrocious nature of FGC, as well as the reasonable possibility that she would face other serious harm in Ethiopia - her daughter's FGC. Finally, the IJ held that the applicant had a well founded fear of persecution (her daughter's FGC) based on her anti-FGC opinion and her social group membership. Distinguishing the case factually and legally from In re A-K- (where the BIA had denied protection to a father who feared his daughter's FGC) the Judge also granted the parent-child claim. He held that the genital cutting of the Petitioner's daughter would cause her agony sufficient to constitute persecution under 9th Circuit caselaw. The Judge also found that the ostracism the Petitioner would face for attempting to protect her daughter from FGC was so profound as to rise to the level of persecution. Either form of persecution, the Judge held, would be based on the Petitioner's anti-FGC political opinion, or her membership in the particular social group of "parents of Ethiopian females who oppose genital cutting and are from ethnic groups that practice it."
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Ancient Human Admixture

From The Seattle Times: (full article under Origins Category)

Neanderthals may have died out 30,000 years ago, but new analyses from the University of Washington and Harvard confirm that genetic traces of the stocky cave-dwellers live on in most of us.

Working separately, two research teams probed the genomes of nearly 1,700 people from Europe and east Asia in the most comprehensive survey for DNA passed down from Neanderthals who mated with early Homo sapiens


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Coming Clean: Australia’s Art Gallery of New South Wales Releases Kapoor Documents

imgresThe Art Gallery of New South Wales has released provenance information for one of the six objects it purchased from Subhash Kapoor, the New York antiquities dealer currently facing trial in India for trafficking in looted art. (Past coverage here.)

UPDATE 8/18/14: Indian authorities have concluded the Ardhanarishvara sculpture described below was stolen from the Vridhdhagiriswarar Temple in Tamil Nadu India in 2002. The thieves have not been identified, but two years later Kapoor sold the sculpture to AGNSW for $400,000 with a false ownership history.

The release comes in the wake of our revelations about looted objects at the National Gallery of Australia, which acquired 21 objects from Kapoor, including a $5 million sculpture of Shiva that was stolen from an Indian temple not long before it was offered to the museum with bogus ownership history. The NGA has refused multiple requests to release provenance information on any of the objects in its collection, despite compelling evidence several of those objects were looted.

We made similar requests to Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales, which has acknowledged acquiring six objects from Kapoor between 1994 and 2004. Last week, the museum posted information about the Kapoor objects on the provenance research section of its website, which had previously been dedicated to European paintings. After consulting with his board, museum director Michael Brand released on Tuesday the ownership history provided by Kapoor for one of those objects.

In 2004, the Gallery purchased this Chola-period sculpture from Kapoor for more than $300,000. The 44-inch stone figure represents Ardhanarishvara, the androgynous form of Shiva and Parvati. It comes from Tamil Nadu, home to some 2500 important temples to Shiva. The image of Ardhanarishvara was likely in a niche on an external wall.

Kapoor provided two documents with the sculpture.

One is a receipt dated 1970, purportedly from Uttam Singh and Sons, the Delhi “copper and brass palace” that sold the sculpture to a private collector.

Ardhanarishvara receipt

The second document purports to be a 2003 “Letter of Provenance” on letterhead from Art of the Past, Kapoor’s Madison Ave. gallery. It is signed by “Raj Mehgoub,” who claims to be the wife of a diplomat who lived in Delhi from 1968 to 1971.

Aradhanareshwara prov

It is unclear whether the documents are genuine. Uttam Singh and Sons appears to be a real business in Delhi, but we could not reach the owners and did not find record of a Raj or Abdulla Mehgoub.

The documents bear a striking resemblance to other ownership records provided by Kapoor that appear to have been falsified. See, for example, this receipt from a Calcutta gallery for a pair of statues that photos show were in India recently:

Dwarapalas receipt

The Art Gallery of New South Wales acknowledges it did not obtain provenance information for the other five objects acquired from Kapoor, whose total value was about $100,000. The museum says it has not yet been contacted by Indian or American authorities investigating Kapoor.

Michael Brand

Despite lapses in the past, the Gallery should be congratulated for its transparent approach in the current case. Clearly Michael Brand learned from his experience at the Getty Museum, where — as we recount in Chasing Aphrodite — his predecessors’ stonewalling of Italian investigators prolonged the Getty’s troubles for years.

Other museums should follow the Gallery’s lead and use their provenance websites to publish all relevant information about antiquities obtained from Kapoor.

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MLA Convention
Philadephia, PA
January 5-8, 2017

“The ‘Divine Service’ of Astronomy: Cotton Mather’s Almanac”

Cotton Mather’s New England sat on the cusp of the North American Enlightenment, a period of transition from a medieval understanding of the world as held within God’s firm and perhaps wrathful grasp, to a new conception of the world as a place that man might better understand through the so-called “new science,” which embraced astronomical study as a means of predicting weather for agricultural purposes. Recent scholarship on Mather examines his reconciliation of his Puritan beliefs with his interest in Enlightened science by looking to his sermons alongside his involvement in the Boston Philosophical Society. Yet Mather’s first and only published almanac, the 1683 Boston Ephemeris, has been overlooked by Mather scholars because of its use of astronomy. While the Boston Philosophical Society promoted and even anticipated Enlightenment modes of thought, it focused on natural history and the use of the compass and microscope; in other words, the society focused on knowing more about the fallen human world and did not dare to comprehend the heavenly realms. Yet, as Mather explains in his almanac, astronomical understanding was not a heathenish turn away from submission to God’s ultimate authority, but instead led to a fuller understanding of His glory and design beyond the realm of the earth. The almanac thus did not take away God’s agency, but instead rendered Him more spectacular. Mather’s almanac deserves attention because it provides solid evidence for his early implementation of Enlightenment tendencies by combining a learned understanding of astronomical patterns with Christian Puritanism. I argue that Mather’s early interest in astronomically charting and cataloguing the weather in his almanac displays his premonitory understanding of the coming Enlightenment movement, an understanding that he reproduces and develops throughout his later writing. In this early publication, Mather successfully renders his “sorry Almanack” an item of “Divine Service,” demonstrating that there was not some great divide between religious modes of thought and the budding new science.

Sixteenth Century Society Conference
Bruges, Belgium
August 18-21, 2016

“Feral Speech in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

Spenser’s knights are bad speakers. This may seem an odd statement to make about a poem as poetically masterful as The Faerie Queene, especially in light of critics who view the poem’s knights as rhetorical instructors to Spenser’s student-readers. But, to cite only a few examples, Britomart ultimately chooses silence over speech whenever she cannot comprehend the trickiness of language, and Calidore never completes his quest of taming the Blatant Beast (the poem’s allegorical embodiment of rampant slander). These two knights often do not learn how to read or use language; their attempts prove ineffectual. They learn to cope, rather than conquer, in the rhetorical language funhouse of Faerieland. The poem does not attempt to teach its readers how to tame language. Instead, its lesson parallels its ending: language, like the Blatant Beast, always elides capture and stability. Performative speech runs rampant through Spenser’s poem; these knights must navigate a minefield of performative language. Furthermore, I argue that their journey often mirrors the experience of early modern individuals after the English Protestant Reformation, when language’s role in personal spirituality was newly scrutinized. Public prayers or testimonies were increasingly distrusted and viewed as performative rather than authentic. Sacraments and the words of a ceremony could be construed as false and suspicious. Early modern individuals, like Spenser’s knights, could not hope to stabilize or fully know language; like the Blatant Beast, language remains feral.

MLA Convention
Austin, TX
January 7-10, 2014

“Erasing the Self in George Herbert’s Poetry”

This paper discusses salvation and self-suspicion in Herbert’s Temple, arguing that Herbert attempts to erase himself from his own poetic creations in order to reconcile the roles of action and language when relying on God’s grace for provision. Herbert often questions the purity of his motives in devotion, coming to the conclusion that he cannot trust his words to be an authentic display of his aspired holy self. Herbert’s answer to the problem of trusting the self is to simply remove it from his poetry. Instead, Herbert often channels communal prayers as the most authentic expressions of devotion, ending many of his poems with lines from Scripture or The Book of Common Prayer. Herbert realizes the futility of his actions and words, relinquishes any sense of self and instead finds himself and his salvation by losing himself within the larger Church community.


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What we witnessed at the Republican National Convention the end of August was certainly an interesting story.

Monday evening, Oklahoma’s National Committeewoman, Carolyn McClarty spoke at our county meeting.

The issues that happened at our National Convention can be a hard situation to talk about, because it wasn’t all pretty. But, I believe Dr. McClarty did an excellent job of laying the facts out for people to understand what happened. I will do my best to share what she went over.

Dr. McClarty was on the platform committee at the RNC, so she had to go down to Tampa a week before the Convention. She was pleased with the platform that was put together. She said a plank was put in against Obamacare. It is one of the most conservative platforms the Republican Party has had.

Then Carolyn went on to talk about the rules changes. She talked about how the RNC Standing Rules committee has put lots of thought and work into the rules presented to the RNC Convention Rules Committee. The Convention Rules committee doesn’t have as much time to address rule changes. So, that made it easy for Ben Ginsberg, who Carolyn noted is Romney’s attorney, to push through a large amount of new rule changes.

Carolyn noted that Mr. Ginsberg came well prepared to shove through all these new rules. She was not happy with the rule changes – both Rule 15/16 and Rule 12. She said it was “egregious” to have a rule that would allow a presidential candidate to unseat duly elected delegates. This, therefore removes the will of the people of each state. She also noted that the rule changes completely run over the grassroots.

Dr. McClarty worked quickly to try to change these rules while in Tampa. Within a short amount of time, she was able to work to get an emergency meeting together of the RNC Standing Rules committee to address these issues. Ultimately it took them a few days to address these issues, and Carolyn was glad that the Convention was postponed for a day due to the storm, so that they could address the rule changes.

She noted that Rule 16 was changed, although it was still not the greatest rule. But, Rule 12 was not changed.

Carolyn spoke of Morton Blackwell, from Virginia, who had the Minority Reports. She talked about the bus transportation issues and how he was unable to present the Minority Report. Mr. Blackwell stated in his letter, which Dr. McClarty quoted on Monday evening, “One should not attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by incompetence.” She read that quote and really left it up to the audience to decide for themselves why exactly his bus had such major transportation issues.

She spent much of the time discussing the rule problems and how that went down. She also noted the vote on the rules at the Convention and how the chairman had read a teleprompter.

Because she said it was “egregious” to have a rule which would allow a campaign unseat duly elected delegates, I asked her what she thought of what happened in Maine. By her answer I could tell she was not well educated or informed on the case, and she just answered with what she had heard while in Tampa.

Overall, Carolyn gave a very fair and unbiased report about what happened at the National Convention. I appreciated her openness on discussing the rules issues and who pushed those bad new rules through. As I told her Monday night, thank you for giving a good report & simply stating the facts, about what happened at the Convention.

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Chocolaterie De Monaco was founded in Monaco since 1920. It is located at Place De La Visitation, Monaco Ville, near the Cathedral and Royal Palace. The company aims to make high quality chocolates right there in Monaco. Beside chocolates, it also offers Tea. The Shop offers a sitting place to enjoy their tea and chocolates. It was truly a fun place to discover in Monaco.

Chocolaterie De Monaco Loose Leaf Tea collection

Cafe behind the store for enjoying a drink of Tea and try some chocolates.

Shop also offer Tea pots for sale.

Also coffee mugs for sale.

The Chocolaterie De Monaco is worth a visit when you get a chance to visit Monaco. The chocolates are sumptuous! It would  be nice to have an afternoon Tea in the shop. Then bring home some chocolates to savour yourself and give away as gifts. Also purchase the Tea leafs, Tea pots and mugs as  souvenirs from Monaco.

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Chinese Protesters Return to Streets After Olympics

Jonathan Watts from TheObserver reports on the recent protest against a Beijing landfill site.

In a sign that the Olympics feelgood factor has already begun to evaporate, protesters took to the streets of Beijing yesterday in an escalating campaign against the city’s biggest dump site, which they claimed was polluting the air with a foul stench and dangerous dioxins.

Wearing surgical masks and carrying umbrellas, the mostly young, middle-class campaigners blocked roads, chanted anti-pollution slogans and refused to allow rubbish trucks to pass as dozens of police filmed them and appealed for calm.

Residents of the affluent Changying district of east Beijing have complained for more than three years about the nearby Gaoantun landfill and waste incineration facility.

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Friday Favorite: Color in the Garden

April 25th, 2014

The grass is just starting to turn green, but brown is still the dominant color in the garden.  I’m always happy to see the Johnny Jump Ups blooming, they’re such a cheery sight even when things are still brown.
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They’re edible as well, so when the salad greens are ready to harvest I’ll be harvesting these little beauties to add color to our meals.

What’s the first thing to bloom in your garden?

Ornamentals for the Garden

April 24th, 2014

It’s finally time to start adding a few ornamentals to the garden. I’ve finally lived through an entire gardening year here, watching where the water runs and pools, watching where the sun rises and falls and taking note of where the wind comes from. I’m finally starting to add ornamental plants.
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I purchased two ‘Anabelle’ hydrangeas, this variety is my all time favorite flowering shrub. I also purchased a ‘Limelight’ hydrangea which is another one of my favorites. Both of these varieties of hydrangeas produce food for pollinators. Back in Ohio I had one type of beetle that loved my ‘Annabelle’ blossoms. I never saw it on any other plant.
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I also purchased a climbing hydrangea, which I have wanted to add to my garden for many years. Right now I’m trying to decide which part of the house I want to have it climb, I’m thinking perhaps on one of the walls of the back porch. A lovely clematis ‘Alpina’ also made it into my basket, along with a false indigo. Most of these will go in a few flowerbed I’m adding up by the garage.
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Yesterday I headed out to one of the local greenhouses and purchased a few of my favorite plants that I had to leave behind in Ohio. Plants aren’t cheap, thankfully I have a lot of starts from plants from my previous garden and I can get a lot from my mom as well. I did have to purchase a few replacements. I usually don’t mind spending money on plants, I know they’ll last in the garden and give me years of joy.

What’s your favorite ornamental shrub?

Get Those Hands Dirty

April 23rd, 2014

When I first started gardening I didn’t like to get my hands dirty.  Granted, I have sensory issues, so there are lots of things I have a hard time doing, gardening without gloves was one of them.  I’m working on this and I garden more and more without gloves.  Unless I’m digging for a long time and using long handled gardening tools I will often not wear gloves.
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Getting your hands dirty gives gardening a whole new dimension.  It also gives you a much better feel for your soil – the moisture level, composition, etc. I highly recommend gardening with gloves at least every now and then.

Do you wear gardening gloves?

Here We Grow Again

April 22nd, 2014

I’ve spent a lot of time this past week expanding the little potager behind the house.
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Last fall I laid down cardboard around the permitter and topped it with compost. I’m working on smothering ridding the garden of it’s couch grass infestation. One of the ways to do that is to keep the grass mown short around the garden. The problem is, two sides of the garden are difficult to mow because they are so steep.
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I’m planning on digging the soil back a bit and building a rock wall to level the garden and keep the soil in place. It’s a BIG task, but I’m up for the challenge. Before all this can be completed I’m trying to keep the majority of the couch grass that’s in this location. In the are that the grass was smothered, I’m digging up buckets and buckets of rhizomes. In the area that is still in sod, I’m turning it over and the chickens are scratching it up exposing the roots.
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As a result I’m adding roughly 400 more square feet of gardening space. Most of this will be take up with rock walls and hedges. One of the reasons for expansion is to plant a few low windbreak hedges to protect the plants within the garden.
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In the next few weeks I’m hoping to get Mr Chiots in there with his tractor to dig down for the base of the rock walls. I may have a strong back, but that’s not something I want to do with my shovel.

Any garden expansion happening outside your window?

Celebrating Our Pigs

April 21st, 2014

Yesterday we celebrated Easter with our neighbors and their family.  Both of our families are a long ways away in Ohio, so we are thankful to be included in their celebration.  This year, we provided the ham, which came from one of our pigs.
Since we slaughtered them ourselves here on the farm, I was in charge of curing the hams myself, which was a little scary to say the last. I used the Cider Cured Ham recipe from the The River Cottage Meat Book. Our hams all weighed in at 25lbs or higher (our scale only went to 25 lbs and some topped it off).
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It’s been hanging on our back porch since I took it out of the brine back in January (one went into the freezer for later). We took it out and boiled it on Saturday night for a few hours to reduce the saltiness, then we coated it with brown sugar and cider reduction and hot smoked it for 4 hours with apple and cherry wood. Needless to say, it was AMAZING. If you’re lucky enough to raise and slaughter your own pigs, I highly recommend this recipe, it’s not cheap, but it’s FANTASTIC and so easy.
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We were super nervous as we took the ham to it’s final destination. I had never cured a ham before, we had never smoked a ham before, we had no idea what it would taste like. The yearly Easter meal isn’t really one you want to mess up with a bad ham. We had faith in the recipe, but were still nervous. That was until Mr Chiots tried the first bite when they were carving it.  Needless to say, it was a hit and I’ll definitely be using this recipe for future hams.  We’re scheduled to pick up piglets in about a month.

Do you celebrate Easter? What foods do you use to celebrate?

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St John’s Road application – My speech to Medway Council’s planning committee

UPDATE: I am delighted to advise residents that, following my speech to the planning committee, the application was rejected, although it was disappointing to see that the Conservative members were split, with a number of Tories, including the Chairman, Cllr Mrs Diane Chambers, voting in favour of allowing the development to proceed.

Thank you Madam Chairman, Councillors

Before I start may I advise the committee of the objection to this application by Mark Reckless MP.

The application before you this evening, or should I say applications as there are a number of similar applications this evening from MHS Homes to demolish garages in favour of building rabbit hutches, because that is what they really are, should not be countenanced whatsoever by this authority.

I would like to refer members to the substantive objection which was circulated to members yesterday by Jonet Dell of 7 Kingshill Drive whose property backs onto the garages which are earmarked for demolition.

Concerns have been raised by a number of residents with regards to the proposal before you this evening. Most particularly residents are concerned about the unacceptable loss of amenity, the unacceptable loss of visual amenity, of light, privacy, and the overbearing impact which this development would have on surrounding properties and residents.

The access and egress onto the site is a matter of particular concern given its location and the narrow point of access thereof. Indeed, it is my understanding that a similar application a number of years ago for this site was ruled out on safety grounds and I do not see that the revised proposals adequately address the safety issues which this site presents. St John’s Road is a busy thoroughfare, it is on the local bus route, and the displacement of vehicles currently using the garages onto the public highway is not, in my opinion or in the opinion of residents locally, adequately addressed in the report before you this evening, particularly given that the parking survey of the site was undertaken at 1o’clock in the morning. Not exactly indicative of the impact which increased parking in the area would have on daily traffic flow and the buses and pedestrians which use the route, most particularly children walking to school.

Now, looking at the current occupancy rate of the garages the report states that of the 37 garages on the site only 8 are untenanted. What the report doesn’t tell you is that it appears, according to the information which I have been provided with, that there may have been a concerted effort by MHS Homes to hold back on granting new tenancies for at least a year prior to this application in order to get the numbers down. Now I don’t have any proof that that is the case, but it certainly rings true because, let’s be honest, MHS Homes haven’t brought this application forward as some magnanimous gesture in the best interest of local residents in Hoo or Medway. They aren’t doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. We all know how MHS Homes operates. It’s not about people or the community, it’s about profit. That’s the bottom line. That is the primary driver of MHS.

Personally, given the amount of complaints which I have had to deal with on behalf of current MHS tenants who are forced to live in squalid, damp, dirty properties, I do not see how or why MHS should be permitted to expand its empire further without first bringing its current property portfolio up to a decent, habitable level. MHS literally should be forced to put its houses in order first before being permitted to build further properties anywhere in Medway, let alone in Hoo St Werburgh.

This application, and indeed the ones which follow this evening, is in my opinion cynical in the extreme which will add nothing but misery to the local community and the residents of Hoo who for years have seen an onslaught of widespread development without seeing a commensurate increase in local infrastructure. Only this morning I received yet another complaint from a local resident in Hoo who cannot get their child into the local school and who is being forced to travel to Strood twice a day to access the nearest school place which was available. To build further dwellings within the Parish of Hoo St Werburgh, particularly when the application does not attract any sort of developer contribution whatsoever is just plain wrong and it should be rejected.

The idea that this development may somehow benefit local people living in the Parish of Hoo St Werburgh in need of housing is, quite frankly, laughable. As I said before, we all know how MHS Homes operate and they will have no compulsion in turning this development into yet another backland ghetto, placing anyone they see fit to occupy the properties regardless of whether they are local or not, and regardless of the further pressure it will put on school places, local GP waiting lists and other woefully inadequate infrastructure on the Hoo Peninsula. It is most likely that the tenants placed in the properties will have no ties to or respect for the local community, no support network which they may require, and would not be suited to living in a semi-rural area. We unfortunately see that all too often with MHS Homes.

The decision you make this evening will be noted. This isn’t about just this development and the further MHS applications to be considered, it is about the long-term vision of Medway which we want to build. Do we really want to see the creation of more sub-standard boxes with people forced into increasingly cramped conditions, or do we want a better, bolder housing strategy for Medway  where the opinions of local communities are respected and people have houses which are fit to be called homes.

I therefore urge members to do the right thing and reject this application.

Thank you.

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Forgotten 80s 2

Another batch of some classic songs of the 80s that got away… Enjoy!

The Alarm – Sold Me Down A River

Dead Or Alive – In Too Deep

Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Rage Hard

Godley and Creme – Wedding Bells

BA Robertson and Maggie Bell – Hold Me

Glass Tiger – Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone

The Outfield – Voices Of Babylon

Wax – Right Between The Eyes

Breathe – How Can I Fall

Go West – The King Is Dead

Forgotten 80s

Inspired by the Sunday evening Absolute 80s radio show presented by Matthew Rudd, I thought it was high time that I started my own ‘Forgotten 80s’ blog for friends, family and regular correspondents. Enjoy!

Noiseworks – Take Me Back

Chaka Khan – Love Of A Lifetime

Mr Mister – Healing Waters

Chicago – Along Comes A Woman

Kreamcicle – No News Is News

Depeche Mode – Everything Counts

Sylvian and Sakakmoto – Forbidden Colours

Bardo – One Step Further

1927 – That’s When I Think Of You

Drum Theatre – Living In The Past

Paloma Faith: Only Love Can Hurt Like This

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, my song of the year to date. Just wonderful.

Rochester Castle in the sun

Toto – I’ll Be Over You

A beautiful and poignant song from Toto’s Fahrenheit album, featuring backing vocals from the sublime Michael McDonald

Gallery: Sweeps Festival 2014 (Updated)

Rochester Castle Concerts 2014

After an exceptionally crowd-pleasing Rochester Castle Concerts last year which included artists such as Go West, Tony Hadley and Status Quo, this year’s line-up of artists has finally been confirmed with the announcement today that Level 42, supported by Shakatak, will be kicking off the series of shows on Wednesday 16th July.

For those who have never yet had the opportunity to attend one of the Rochester Castle Concerts in Medway, I would strongly urge you to consider doing so this year. Whilst the UB40 concert is already a sell-out, tickets are now on general sale for Westlife’s Shane Filan, Level 42 (announced today), and Saturday night’s traditional classical spectacular The Proms. A warm welcome is guaranteed in one of the most spectacular and special concert venues in the whole of the UK.

L42_DVD-134This year’s line-up:

Weds 16th July – Level 42 with Shakatak

Thurs 17th July – Shane Filan with Jamie Johnson

Fri 18th July – UB40

Sat 19th July – Castle Proms

Sun 20th July – Under Siege

For tickets and information, visit the official Castle Concerts website – click here

A fine day in Medway…

The view over the river Medway from St Margaret’s Church, Rochester sure is hard to beat on a lovely Spring day. Taken with my Nokia Lumia 925.

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Questions on 40 day Fasting

Moses was able to do it on the mountain of Mt. Sinai when recieving the first & second round of written commandments on the tablets from the Lord ( Exodus 24 & 34 )

Jesus did it in the wilderness before His ministry began and where He was ‘tempted’ by Satan ( Matthew 4 )

I have only been able to fast without water or food for one full day.  What type of Power did these two men have to sustain them during this time?  What kind of Power did they recieve afterwards?  If I am able to do so, will my face shine like Moses’ did from continously staying in the Presence of the Lord?  Could I intercede for a people that disrepect God through their actions like he did?  Will I be a life-altering person that defys mainstream opinions of the highly educated who can change a nation and every single life that will meet me, like Jesus did?

More information may be given at the encouragement of Mr Prayer 77 on YouTube regarding fasts.

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Sinner’s Prayer:

Dear Lord & Father, You are the Creator of all things and I know you created me. But I recognize I am a sinner through Adam's Fall and you sent your only Son, Jesus Christ to live, die and be raised from the dead for me. I repent of my sins and renounce all evil works and serving of other, lower, and lesser gods before thee. Come into me life and cleanse me by your Blood. Make me whole and well by your Holy Spirit. I now desire to live for you. Let your Holy Spirit guide me in all things. In the Name of Jesus Christ, AMEN!

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Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.

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BCCI to renew tender rights in January 2018

BCCI will bring out the tender for Indian cricket media rights in January 2018

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BCCI to bring out a new tender of media rights next year. (Getty)

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) are expecting more than that they got from the media rights of the Indian Premier League (IPL) when the national governing body will bring out the tender for Indian cricket media rights in January 2018.

After seeing such big amount for media rights of IPL, some cricket industry executives believe that the forthcoming tender for Indian cricket media rights will present a fresh canvas for the game of cricket at both the international and domestic level, which will run over the next four years from 2018.

According to Cricbuzz, ‘Those tracking developments suggest that an aggressive bid for these rights will have a huge effect on the following trends: A) BCCI will get to determine on a fresh note how player remunerations - at international and domestic level - need to be worked out. B) A new broadcast deal will have a major impact on how India's 'home season' needs to shape up in the backdrop of the new International Cricket Council (ICC) league structure. C) Aggressive bidding for these rights will have the potential to wipe out broadcast markets in the weaker cricket nations.’

Read More: BCCI demands four months of window from ICC for home season

Star India bought the five-year IPL rights for Rs 16,347 crore, and with this deal, the BCCI will get Rs 43 cr per game, which played in India, from Star India for all international matches. And the market experts reckon that the Indian cricket board could expect this figure to get higher (per match) about between 20-25% at a minimum when BCCI will bring out the tender next year.

As per Cricbuzz, a cricket industry executive said, “It is on the basis of this income that BCCI will have to address the issue of player remuneration. At the moment, a first-class cricketer ends up earning around Rs 12 lakh per year, which is ridiculously low. That amount needs to go up.”

He further added on the same, “Alternately, there are cricketers who don't play the IPL or may not wish to in the future, simply to keep their prospects in the longer version intact. A separate corpus needs to be created for them. That is, if you want India to have more Cheteshwar Pujaras.”

Read More: BCCI may bar commentators from writing in newspapers and appearing on TV as experts

It is also learned that the Committee of Administrators (CoA) recently opined internally that 26% of the Indian Cricket Board's revenue needs to be reserved for the cricketers. But, there are some arguing, “the CoA first needs to figure what is the 100% in the first place, from which it's calculating the 26.”

Although, the cricket industry reckons that it will only be clear when the fresh sale of Indian cricket rights takes place next year in January.


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Holiday Parties and Sock Puppets.

October 25, 2010

What do you remember about your last Holiday Party?

The last couple years were a blur, but I clearly remember my 2007 party (I was a schoolteacher; we had no budget–creativity was a necessity!)  There was some great food, adult beverages, kibitzing, and while it was a lot of fun, it wasn’t extraordinary…until we rolled out the games.

Now the crew was sufficiently lubricated, so whatever inhibitions existed had been obliterated by about 8 pm.  The 35 of us split into teams of 7, and we were given 15 minutes, a book of classic holiday stories, and some sock puppets.

Yes, sock puppets.

Now this could have gone a number of different ways, but everyone decided to take it seriously and compete for the grand prize (gift certificates to a local bookstore…English Teachers’ paradise!)  My group chose Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas, and we had to adapt a scene from the movie and act it out with our little puppets.  If you’ve seen that movie, you know that there are a number of awesome scenes to choose from.  We went with the “Oogie Boogie vs. Jack the Pumpkin King Battle” towards then end of the film.  Suffice it to say, hilarity ensued.  At one point, I remember Jack slowly unraveling the thread of the Oogie Boogie puppet to reveal a naked twitching hand.  Good times!  I can’t describe what happened next (this is a family blog), but your imagination should get you where you need to go…

We have a version of this at City Beach called A Holiday Story.    I guarantee our version is better than a bunch of teachers in an ad hoc game of puppets…you wouldn’t believe the time and effort that has gone into the production of this event.  It is not your everyday, run-of-the-mill party that you can’t wait to leave…you don’t want to miss your colleagues acting out a scene from one of your favorite holiday flicks.  With a superb, cost-effective menu and fun, not over-the-top cheesy décor, City Beach Holiday Parties are undefeated!

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Deadly Fire In PA

A tragic fire happened in Pottsville, PA that killed a husband, 4 kids, and sister-in-law. The wife can only watch as she was outside when the house was engulfed in flames. Kelly Brown (the wife) started screaming to emergency personnel keeping her back, “What do you mean I can’t go in? My kids are in there, my husband is in there, my sister is in there. I’ve got to get them,” according to Purcell. Brown got weak after that and had to be walked down the street because she couldn’t stand, Purcell said. Five firefighters suffered minor injuries trying to rescue the family and put out the fire. Two remained hospitalized Monday morning. I think this was a tragic event that happened unexpected and couldn’t be helped. What do you think that can happen to avoid fires like these houses ?

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Great Character Actors of Today #3

July 5, 2011

Name: Zeljko Ivanek.

Best Known As: The courtly, corrupt, and ultimately tragic high-powered lawyer Ray Fiske on Damages, a very affecting performance despite the shakiness of Ivanek’s Southern accent.

Trademarks: Hiding behind an unpronounceable Slovenian name, this very American stage actor has a dimunitive frame, a prominent forehead, and a crooked, sardonic mouth, all of which tilt his casting toward the debauched or the demonic.

First Glimpsed In: The cult horror film The Sender, with our friend Shirley Knight.

First Big TV Exposure: Part of the Tom Fontana repertory, Ivanek played a prosecutor on Homicide and the governor on Oz.

High Art Moment: Ivanek was part of the amazing ensemble in Dogville, Lars Von Trier’s best film, and its disastrous sequel, Manderlay.

Ivanek the Terrible: Lately he’s been overexposed as TV’s go-to guy for generic villainy: miscast as a rogue military operative in Heroes, miscast as a deranged redneck on Big Love, nothing to do as a vampire judge in True Blood.  Somebody should use Ivanek against type as a nice guy, before I get tired of him.

One Response to “Great Character Actors of Today #3”

  1. Terry Johnson Says:

    He made quite an impression on The Edge of Night. The show offered him a contract which would have insured a certain number of appearences, but he declined.

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Scales at a Glance (music theory)

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Forget about memorization and discover an incredibly simple visual approach that will enable you to master the structure of even the most complex scale quite literally with a single glance! (click on the image to purchase)

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Stop Digging & Start Building – Manage Your Money

When times are hard and you  “run out of money” before “running out of month,”  we tend to feel a little strained.  When this happens month after month things can get pretty ugly.  This may not be the best time to  “go with the flow.”  Sometimes you have to fight your way out of a difficult financial situation to reclaim your equilibrium.

Shift your mind set from worry to wonder.  Go from thinking about poverty to thinking about prosperity.  Consider new partnerships and new possibilities.  Consult with successful people and competent professionals who can offer strategies, resources and perspectives to improve your situation.  If you are in a hole you do not want to be in, STOP DIGGING.  Begin to minimize outgo (spend less) and begin to maximize income (Earn more).  Image

You can begin reclaim control by creating a budget.  Check with your financial institution for tools you can use.  Presently (at the time of this post), there is an engaging video to help you get started on making a budget (The url was long so just click making a budget), sponsored by Bank of America.

You can employ a business idea, sell good stuff you no longer need online on sites like craigslist or in a yard sale.  It doesn’t have to be sexy.  Consider taking on a part-time job or business. Be resourceful. Do some research .  The following is an excerpt from IF YOU CAN’T CALM THE WATERS LEARN TO RIDE THE WAVES- HOW TO SUCCEED IN TURBULENT TIMES.

“Many resources and possibilities are at your fingertips to help you get started.   Visit the websites and blogs of business magazines like Entrepreneur Magazine and Black Enterprise Magazine.  [Check your library or borrow a copy of the magazine from a friend.  If you decide to buy, consider sharing subscriptions and costs, at least in the beginning.]  Business and finance are green; don’t be dissuaded if you are not Black or African American.  Great information and inspiration can be found there.  Visit other specialty sites as well.  Visit government websites like www.sba.gov  and http://business.gov/start/index.html .  Visit another of my blogs, http://www.harebrainedebusinesses.blogspot.com .  It is “freakin’ amazing” what is available.  Start today.”

You can do this.  Role up your sleeves.  Employ your self and/or your resources where you can.  Create, acquire assets and stop wasteful consumption.  Temporary reductions in spending while increasing avenues for generating income can reap impressive results.  “Inch by inch, everything’s a cinch.”  You can do this.  You CAN DO THIS. #prosperity #partnership

– Clifton McKnight is an author, educator, counselor, personal coach and keynote speaker. Clifton author’s a resource for students on Blogger .  Follow him on FacebookTwitter and other (social) media. Visit his site at motivision.net

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For 11 years, the Tax EZ program, offered by Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County has helped clients prepare nearly 15,000 returns, generating millions of dollars in refunds.

For the 2016 tax season, Steve Hicken, Division Director of Economic Development Services, shifted the location of services from the Catholic Charities offices to parishes. This approach encourages interactions between newcomers and the people of their new hometowns, epitomizing immigrant integration on the local level. Ultimately, it may also result in higher numbers of tax returns being filed.

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Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center (KIAC) fulfills a dire need for immigration legal services in the West Puget Sound, a lowland area west of Seattle characterized by saltwater bays, islands, and peninsulas.  In this area, there are no other community-based organizations providing services to immigrants.  The West Puget Sound has an almost invisible immigrant population that largely goes unnoticed by service providers.  KIAC was founded in 2004 and since then has been working to assist immigrants in the West Puget Sound better their lives.

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So far, we’ve explored the rapid demographic shift of the Southeast region and the emergence of the New Latino South, demonstrating the need for more immigration legal service providers and resources.  But if the growth and impact of this community is evident and felt throughout the region, why aren’t there more legal service providers for immigrants in the Southeast in the first place?


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“Indian Point leak of radioactive element spreads” by Greg Clary

“BUCHANAN — Radioactive strontium 90 has spread to a third well at Indian Point and has been found at levels three times the amount allowed in drinking water — within 150 feet of the Hudson River.

Officials for Entergy Nuclear Northeast, which owns Indian Point, released the test results late yesterday, noting a strong likelihood that the radioactive isotope is reaching the Hudson River.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission confirmed the findings, adding that Indian Point is the only nuclear power plant in the nation that is leaking strontium 90. The agency oversees 103 plants in the United States.

“Clearly, these are different findings than we’ve seen, but they’re not near any drinking water supplies,” said Jim Steets, a spokesman for Entergy Nuclear Northeast. “It still remains that there’s no public health threat here.”

Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, confirmed the numbers late yesterday as well as the lack of a threat to public health at the levels found.

The leak is coming from a spent-fuel pool about 300 feet from the river, company engineers have said. The 400,000-gallon pool uses water to cool spent fuel rods waiting for disposal.

Scientists also identified in the samples from Feb. 27 elevated levels of tritium and nickel 63, both of which emit low levels of radiation, company officials said. Commission tests showed similar results.

David Lochbaum, a nuclear safety engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, said yesterday that the concentrations of strontium raise health concerns despite still being contained to the nuclear plant’s grounds and not showing up in any drinking water wells.

“The clue to the health concerns is in the (Environmental Protection Agency’s) limits,” Lochbaum said. “For tritium, it’s 20,000 picocuries per liter of water, versus strontium, which is only 8 picocuries per liter.”

The latest test results show that well No. 37, the testing area closest to the Hudson River on a straight line west from the spent-fuel pool, showed strontium levels ranging as high 26.4 picocuries per liter of water. Amounts of strontium at other wells were less than 2 picocuries per liter.

Lochbaum said once strontium 90 levels get above allowable drinking water levels, the risk for cancer and other health problems rises.

“At three times the amount allowed for drinking water, you’re not in danger of cancer, but you’re at higher risk,” Lochbaum said. “It will cause different damage to different people. Tritium doesn’t reside in the body that long, so it does less damage. Strontium tends to get absorbed in the bones and teeth and resides in the body for a very long time.”

Lochbaum said both isotopes are unstable and throw off radiation trying to achieve stability, destroying nearby cells.

The nuclear safety engineer said strontium does much more serious damage to living tissue. For comparison purposes, tritium would hit like a pingpong ball, strontium like a bowling ball.

Their atomic weights back that up. Tritium’s is 3, while strontium 90 is called that because its atomic weight is 90. Plutonium’s atomic weight ranges as high as 240. Atomic weight is defined as the average weight of an atom of an element — the total mass of protons and neutrons in an atom.

Lochbaum said the volume of water of the Hudson River diminishes the impact on water in the area because it dilutes whatever comes into it. He did acknowledge that there is potential for the strontium to settle into the river’s bottom, which would harm the environment.

Riverkeeper, the environmental organization that works to protect the health of the Hudson River, said the unmonitored releases were unacceptable, regardless of the river’s ability to clean itself.

“Clearly the NRC, Entergy and the state have grossly underestimated the gravity of the radioactive contamination at Indian Point,” said Lisa Rainwater van Suntum, Riverkeeper’s Indian Point campaign director. “If this were a safely operating nuclear facility, it wouldn’t be polluting the Hudson River and our environment with one of the most deadly toxins on Earth. Isn’t it time the NRC and Entergy stop trying to defend this leaky, decaying plant?”

Top county officials within the plants’ shadow also expressed their concerns.

Susan Tolchin, chief adviser to Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano, said the daily releases of information has the public on a bit of a roller-coaster ride.

“First there is (strontium 90), then there isn’t, then there is,” Tolchin said. “Who do you believe? What’s wrong with this picture? Who’s watching the store?”

Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef was equally upset.

“That’s very disturbing,” Vanderhoef said yesterday after learning the new results. “I’m not a scientist, but it seems that it’s been leaking for a while. What else are we going to find? This stuff is complicated enough that you have to be able to understand the science of it all, but this is not good news.””

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His Dark Materials: Northern Lights

Lyra is no ordinary child. Plucky, wild, feisty and fey, she leads a wild and carefree life tramping the roofs of Jordan College, Oxford, and fighting with the Gyptian youngsters on the canal. But now children are mysteriously disappearing. A reign of terror is coming. And when Lyra’s friend Roger disappears, she sets off on a mission to save him. It’s a journey into an Arctic wilderness of ice and snow, where witch-queens ride the skies, armoured bears roam the snow… and scientists conduct experiments of unspeakable terror. Does one girl have the courage and cunning to stop them? Winner of the Carnegie Medal, this is the classic story of Lyra’s incredible journey to the frozen north – and the very edge of her world.

“Rarely, if ever, have readers been offered such a casket of wonders.” Independent

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    The Amber Spyglass won WHSmith Children’s Book of the Year 2000 at the British Book Awards, was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal and was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2001. Philip Pullman was voted Whitaker Author of the Year by the Booksellers Association. The Amber Spyglass went on to win both Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year and Whitbread Book of the Year 2001 and in doing so became the first children’s book to win the main prize in the award’s history.

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Introductory OpenGL tutorials continued

Just a short notice, the second part of my “introduction to 3D graphics with OpenGL” series should be available as we speak. This time, we’ll perform the full set of transformations that we described while discussing the rendering pipeline in the previous issue. We’ll use the matrix stack to separate the model from the view parts of the modelview matrix, and render multiple objects properly. And finally we’re going to explain the mathematical model of shading and illumination, and we’ll apply lighting to our object in order to increase the realism of our simple 3D environment tremendously.

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Friday, September 24, 2010

Pianos 'Round Town: Wild Pianos Roam the Streets of Ypsilanti Until October 11

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If you live anywhere near the Ann Arbor-Detroit corridor in eastern Michigan, you'll want to check out Pianos 'Round Town in downtown Ypsilanti. Based on the Play Me I'm Yours concept, this is an opportunity for anyone to just sit down at one of these urban pianos and start playing. I particularly like the way that the Pianos 'Round Town project is bringing the arts, academia, and community businesses together. From Jenn McKee's article:
Steinway Gallery offered the use of recent trade-in practice pianos from Western Michigan University for the event, and the Depot Town Association got involved as a sponsor. Participating local businesses — which will wheel out a piano each morning during the event and wheel it back indoors at night — are motorcycle shop Café Racer; Nelson Amos Studio, where there will be one piano indoors and one outdoors; Clover Computers; Ypsi Food Co-op; The Mix; LezleyAnne/David Austin Studio; and the Ypsi Convention Business Bureau.

But in addition to playing these outdoor pianos, passersby will also be invited to decorate the piano stationed outside the Nelson Amos Studio, at 23 E. Cross St. Paint and brushes will be provided, and a sign will invite you to “Paint Me, Play Me.” (The piano will be coated in Kilz, a white primer; and because Hancherlian-Amos’ husband is an artist, she suspects that he will be among the first to participate.)

“This is about getting people together,” said Hancherlian-Amos. “Getting people to get off their couches and come out, with the whole family or on your own, and play. … And it’s not just a soloist thing. If you play the saxophone, get a pianist to come out with you. … I just want the streets filled with music.”
You can see some of these pianos in action over the next few weeks on the Pianos 'Round Town YouTube channel.

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Fight with Eagle Claw

Fight with Eagle Claw

On the north side of the Platte River there was a distance of three hundred miles where there were no roads or settlements. There was plenty of good grass on the north side, owing to there being no travel, and for that reason Arthur Lewis went down the north side and camped, June 3, 1867, across from the Spring Hill ranch, twelve miles below Mr. Coburn’s ranch. Mr. Coburn tells the following story about their fight with Chief Eagle Claw:

One of our cows had run away, and I went down to the Spring Hill ranch after it. I stayed for dinner, then immediately afterwards started home. I had gone about three miles when I rode over a ridge, and looking across the river, I saw nine horsemen riding towards Lewis’ wagon and oxen. I rode back to the ranch and asked Mr Freal: “Are there any soldiers out from the fort?” He said he did not know of any. I got my glasses and looked at the horsemen and discovered that they were Indians, coming down from the bluffs toward the wagons, and we realized at once there was going to be an attack. Arthur Lewis had left the wagon and was somewhere around the ranch. I found him and showed the Indians to him and asked if there was any one with the wagons. He said, “Yes, I left a young fellow, George Teal, over there.”

“Did you leave any guns or ammunition in the wagon?” I asked him.
“Yes, seven guns and plenty of ammunition.”

There were eight men and myself at the ranch, and I suggested that we take the boat and cross over to Teal’s assistance. The others all hesitated, and then began to make excuses. They couldn’t all leave the ranch, and some couldn’t swim, in case the boat should tip over, were some of their excuses.

By this time I was getting vexed with them and said, “I believe you fellows are all cowards and afraid to go. I know it is a risky business and all that, but we can’t stand here and watch the Indians get that man without us taking a chance to help him. I am going; is anyone coming with me?”

Tom Fought, who used to work for me and was in several hard fights with me, and Henry Freal spoke up, “Take the lead, Coburn; we will follow you.”

The river was high and running swift, so we towed the boat up stream quit a distance, that we might be able to land on the opposite bank with the wagon between us and the Indians. Tom rowed the boat, Henry steered it, and I sat with my rifle ready in case it would be necessary to use it.

In the meantime, Teal had seen the Indians approaching and got in the covered wagon, tied the canvass sheets together at both ends, loaded up his seven guns and waited for them. When they began to fire at the wagons, Teal just peppered it back into them. The Indians, seeing that they had a harder proposition than they expected, sent a runner back to their camp for more warriors.

The current was so swift, it was taking us below the wagon, and before long the Indians caught sight of us and left the wagon and ran down the bank, waiting for us to get in rifle range, then fire into us. When we were nearing the bank, I saw an Indian with a rifle, that looked about nine feet long to me just then, and he was leveling it in our direction, so I told the boys to drop flat in the boat, and just as I started to drop, crack! went that rifle, and the bullet grazed across my temple. I dropped into the river. I was stunned several minutes and when I gradually came to myself, I was standing in water waist deep and holding onto my rifle, which was also standing in the water. I looked around and saw the boat drifting down stream, and as I was collecting my thoughts as to how I got there, the accident came to my mind and I said to myself, “Well, you have been shot, but where?” and while looking for the bullet hole, I happened to look up and saw an Indian hiding behind a rock, loading a gun. I thought, “Old fellow, I’ll just beat you to it.” I took my gun out of the river, poured the water out of it and had it ready, so just as I saw the Indian edge around the rock and that nine-foot gun aimed at me, I fired. The Indian turned a somersault and limped away. The boys in the boat looked around and I motioned them to pull ashore. One of them landed and the other came back after me. We then got under the bank and taking the boat with us, started toward the wagon. As the Indians saw they could not get to us while we were under the bank, they hurried back to the wagon, intending to get Teal and raid the wagon before we got there. By this time fourteen more Indians had come down from their camp, and a runner had been sent for still more, so their number was increased to fifty-eight, while there were only four of us.

Teal could not imagine what the commotion was outside, as he could not see out, and never once thought that it was someone coming to his aid, since he knew there was no white man for a hundred miles on that side of the river, and he did not think anyone would dare to cross the river when it was so high, and a mob of Indians waiting for them to land. When he heard the Indians returning to the wagon he peeped out and saw us back of him near the bank. He jumped from his hiding place and joined us. We had got there just in time, for he had only three cartridges left, and in another five minutes the Indians would have had him.

We kept up a pitched fight for quite a while, when it died down a little and we had time to look around, we noticed one Indian with the long rifle, making his way to the bank. He was out of rifle reach, so all we could do was to keep watch on him. I surmised that his intention was to get under the bank, crawl up and let our boat downstream and leave us without any means of getting back to the ranch, then while the others held our attention in front, he would pick us off one at a time. While we were watching the Indian and talking about his intentions the other Indians had fallen back to council. Suddenly they charged down on us, yelling and shooting. For ten or fifteen minutes they took our entire attention and when we had a chance to look for the Indian whom we had seen making his way to the river, he had disappeared. About two hundred yards below us was a sharp bend in the bank. I thought he might be hiding back of that until the others could make another charge, then he could get up back of us. I said, “Boys, watch in the grass below here for him and keep an eye on the others; I am going to get under the bank, take my chances and meet that Indian at the turn and see if I can’t head him off.”

I managed to drop over the bank unseen, and crawled to the turn. I then stopped to load my gun, and crouched down, ready to spring, but he did not come, and as I did not want to waste any time, I leaped around the turn, thinking that I would take him at a disadvantage and get the drop on him. But he wasn’t there. I cautiously peeped up over the bank and saw a black head raised up out of a buffalo wallow (a place where the buffalo have pawed out a hole to catch rain water in) a short distance away. Before I could shoot, it dropped out of sight. Again it raised up and took a glance toward the wagon, as though measuring the distance, then dropped down in the grass. I leveled my rifle over the bank and waited. Suddenly he sprang out of the wallow with his gun to his shoulder, aimed at one of the boys back of the wagon, who was unaware of his danger and busy watching the Indians in front. By the time the Indian was on his feet, I fired and he fell. To be sure that he was dead, I leaped up the bank with knife in my hand, and started for him. At the same time Tom came running from the wagon and said, “That is my Indian.” We looked for the bullets and mine struck him square and went clear through, while Tom’s hit him on the left wrist just where it was bent in holding the barrel of the rifle, and as the Indian was turned sideways toward Tom, the bullet went on into the left side of his chest and lodged against the skin on the right shoulder. The boys had followed my advice, and Tom watched in the grass, while George and Henry stood off those in front.

The Indian we killed was Eagle Claw, and when the others saw that their chief was dead, refused to fight any more and went to their camp. The Indian camp was about a half mile from the wagon and I watched them through my glasses, and saw they had three dead and eight wounded. Fearing they might come down in the night and attack again, we decided to make them leave entirely.

George Teal and Henry Freal remained at the wagon, so if the Indians should surround us they could break the ring. Tom Fought and I went toward the camp and on the way we picked up two buffalo heads and took them with us. When we got within rifle range, we laid down in a wallow and placed the heads in front of us and opened fire into the camp. The Indians would not return the shots, but threw their dead and wounded across the ponies and left camp just as it was. We got all the buffalo robes, blankets and trinkets that the boat would hold. We took a large eagle claw, that was on a string of beads, from around the chief’s neck, two five cent pieces that were fastened in his ears with brass rings and a large brass ring out of his nose. He had a bag on a string around his neck that they called a medicine bag, and believed that it would protect him from all harm. We opened the bag just to see what was in it, and found it full of a baby’s hair. We loaded the boat and crossed back to the Spring Hill ranch just at sunset.

The stage route passed the ranch and on this day the stage was going by as we were fighting, and stopped for four hours watching us. The passengers not being used to such sights, were awfully excited. Among them was a son of Jefferson C. Davis, and he wrote back to his father a description of the fight and termed the frontiersmen as barbarians and called the Indians those poor abused people. There was good excuse for him, for at that time he was what we called a tenderfoot, and if he stayed out west very long he would soon learn. But his lesson came sooner than we had expected. The morning following our fight, as the stage was going on to Moore’s place, it was attacked by the Indians and one of the leaders of the six horse team was killed and Davis’ son was shot in the groin, and for two months we did not expect to see him get well. The Indians changed his mind for him concerning themselves, and he wrote another letter to his father about the cruel savages and the brave frontiersmen. A letter entirely different from the first.

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Source: True History of some of the Pioneers of Colorado, by Miss Luella Shaw, Press of Carson Harper Co, Denver, Colorado, 1909


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thriving in winter

This last week has been gorgeous in Minnesota, a striking contrast to last week’s -15 actual temperatures. After what had seemed like months of harsh weather and overcast days, even the heartiest among us had begun to falter.

One evening when the wind was especially cruel, I had the opportunity to hear a famous Chinese musician, Zhao Jiazhen, perform at the Loring Theater in Minneapolis. She plays the guqin, a 3,000 year old instrument, enriched in its reflection of Chinese culture and history. One song that was fittingly added to the set list was inspired by the plum flower which is known to thrive in winter.  To think that such a seemingly “delicate” plant has the fortitude to not only withstand the cold, but also has the courage to produce flowers in the midst of a snow storm is breathtaking. Coincidentally, that same week a good friend called to share a quote that just so happens to parallel the beauty of the plum flower:

While the difficulties we face might be chilling and overwhelming and while we may want to give up, somewhere hidden within us lies our resiliency ready to bloom.

***For some truly incredible photos of the plum flower blooming under a blanket of snow, check out photographer Shi Chen.***

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    Wow you have just increased my ELK, and those pics are breathtaking!

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    That was such a fun night! I felt like we soaked up so much culture in such a short period of time.

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Find your COLOUR

I took a test to find my style personality on  Apparently, my style personality is Artsy, and I need to embrace more blues and greens.  I think I can handle that….

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  1. Melissa says:

    Haha! Really? you? Wow, that’s dead on!

    Mine said I should wear natural colors, like taupe and white! My mother would approve, but clearly they both have no idea that I’m an interpreter!

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    I tried to go & take the quiz, but it takes me somewhere else on my iPhone. Hmm, I’ll try later on a real computer, then report back.

  3. Sarah says:

    Okay, I’m a Classic style… understated sophistication with black stilettos is supposed to be my thing. I’ll take it!

  4. Jim says:

    Mine came up as “Lanky” and said that I should wear more skinny jeans.

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Characters interacting, colliding, loving, fucking, cheating throwing everything up in the air and picking up the pieces etc. It’s just I haven’t lived enough yet to tell that story. I don’t know the people I want to write about. It would be disingenuous to try.

I comfort myself with the fact that I’m always on the lookout. I like to look at people and imagine in my head how I would describe them. How would I actually describe this living thing in front of me with all manner of idiosyncrasies in a way that would adequately capture the essence of what I’m seeing but at the same time do it in a way that is engaging, lively and interesting on a purely semantic and aesthetic level to the reader.

The skeleton’s done and some of the meat is there but it still needs work. Writers take months on short stories. This is why I sometimes feel I’m not doing it right. I just write, correct the spelling and grammar that I see, and publish it.

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