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Share Public Health Podcast Transcript: Staying relevant for public health 3.0. An Interview with Bobbie Berkowitz.

Season 1 Episode 14

Laurie Walkner Welcome to Share Public Health, the Midwestern Public Health Training Center’s podcast connecting you to public health topics, issues, and colleagues throughout our region and the country, highlighting that we all share in public health. Thank you for tuning into this series of interviews with public health leaders where we learn about different perspectives on current and emerging public health issues.

Suzanne Hawley Hi, welcome to our leadership series. My name is Suzanne Hawley and I’m from the Midwestern Public Health Training Center. Today we get to talk to a public health leader and learn about public health skills from a personal perspective, so Bobbie I’m really happy you’re here with us today and I would love it if you would just introduce yourself and share us- share with us a little bit about you and what got you into public health.

Bobbie Berkowitz Sure, well my name is Bobbie Berkowitz and I’ve been in public health and education and policy work for a very long time. I became a public health nurse, I hate to even tell you, but 1972- it was my first job out of nursing school- almost my first job out of nursing school and I just totally fell in love with the role. I’ve never been very far from either public health nursing or public health. My most recent- I worked at the State Health Department in, in Washington State and then was in a very- various local health departments. But recently I’ve been at Columbia University School of Nursing as the Dean there and just recently stepped out of that role and I’m looking for new- new adventures.

Hawley Great, great. So with all that you’ve done, I’m wondering: what excites you the most about public health now?

Berkowitz Well, public health, which is not new, public health is always in a state of constant flux and change and re-evaluation of what we do and what our role is, and that’s particularly so in public health nursing. And I think now there’s a- there’s a variety of new ways of thinking about our practice called Public Health 3.0, sort of a new variation of- of challenges that we’ve had for a very long time, which is you know in- in serving the public in terms of improving health status and, you know, reducing health disparities and improving health equity. The challenge has been at what point do we intervene in that work? Is it with individuals or is it whole communities and the globe? And what are the strategies we now use to do that- that’s both challenging and kind of scary, but I think it’s a very exciting time for both public health nursing but also for public health.

Hawley So, I love that you kind of threw in that idea of Public Health 3.0. I’m wondering if someone’s never heard that before and wondered just in a sentence- walking by down the street… what could you tell them about that?

Berkowitz Well, it- it really is sort of coalescing around a few basic premises of public health which we have always- we’ve always thought about and talked about. One is that our- our practice is really population-based. The idea is that if we spend all of our time downstream, in other words, working on problems that have already occurred, we can’t really improve the health of populations at large, so whole communities or cities or whatever, so big concept around population health big concepts around improving health equity and improving how people live and work. And, and, you know, gain access to- to what they need. So, the whole idea about determinants of health, but it also is- is wrapped around assessing the health status of communities at large, so not just you know one household at a time, but how healthy is a community and what parts of communities are not healthy and- and why, and intervening in that early. It also has a big policy component. Most of public health is a government-based process, and so, you know, what- what are the accountabilities and what are the processes? What’s the financing of public health? So, it’s a lot of fairly conceptual ideas, and I think our challenge with all the professions that are in public health, including public health nursing, is to see ourselves on that. So, what is it that- what is it exactly that I do with a community? Is it data, you know? Is it working with elected officials? Is it working with the primary care organizations? Is it working with a health system to bring the idea about health, and all to a point where we can actually imagine some interventions?

Hawley So, you know, you talked about some of 3.0 being- and not going downstream by going upstream, but I’m even thinking about the call to leadership of going upstream and- and really kind of moving past your organization, moving past your usual suspects, and in thinking about how to bring people together. So, I like how you said, you know, we’re just always in a state of flux right because, you know, we always think well this time- the, you know- when we think about the 21st century of public health issues coming, what do we need to do or what do public health professionals need to think about to handle change and to gain- engage in change management- as a kind of a strategic skill?

Berkowitz Well, all of this work for a very long time in public health- we have been wrestling with this idea of upstream thinking, but it’s been hard to get away from the day-to-day- the day-to-day challenges that occur in public health, so, you know, environmental health and food and water and air quality, and, you know, it’s a whole range of problems that public health, and then how healthy are people and what’s keeping them from being healthy? So, there’s all these all these challenges of public health people work with. So, the idea is to sort of try and get a different perspective on communities and populations- that’s one, but the, you know, the- the leadership around that… so there’s this- there’s this concept of the chief health strategist that’s part of this whole movement…

Hawley The 3.0.

Berkowitz In 3.0, and it’s actually been around for a while, but it’s- it’s becoming- more people are thinking a lot about it. I mean, that’s basically, you know, what we’ve called a health officer, you know, the way I think about that is that, so why couldn’t public health nurses be chief health strategists? I mean why can’t- why can’t we- why can’t we? So that’s a fun challenge- a fun challenge. I think that, I think one of the biggest challenges with all of this is, because we’re still trying to understand and define it, one of the big areas that were- we need to be working on is financing for all of this work. So, you know what is- it cost to really continue to evaluate a community’s health and then a set a set of strategies to intervene in assuring that health is a priority in communities? What do we do about health equity? I mean how do we approach that? What’s the fundamental process of improving the equity of people who live in this- in this country, and then do we have a global responsibility? Because, you know, the world is just not, you know, it’s- it’s- it’s the whole world now, whatever you talk about, it- it spreads, you know, it’s- it’s- it’s bigger than the U.S. anymore. So what do we do about that? So it’s all these complexities; all of that creates a real need for- for better financing of public health. We struggle with this forever- I think that- I think the data is that- if we did all the things that we’re talking about, it would be, you know, four point five billion dollars. Well, that sounds like a lot of money…

Hawley But that’s pretty achievable.

Berkowitz Actually, a lot.

Hawley I mean, we are pennies on the dollar, so a lot of money.

Berkowitz Yeah, so I think these are some of the, you know, around this rather conceptual thinking about health in the future and health now, and what we need to be doing. There’s a lot of challenges to put sort of the- the meat to the bone, and financing is a…

Hawley Finance, you’re right. Oh, I got to think about that- that idea of financing because, you know, you’re right. When you think about, okay, things are constantly changing. Are we really- need to rethink our role, and it’s just not local, but its global, and we need to have really- many ways of slicing and dicing how we conceptualize public health and- and that- that’s even managing all of that information is, in a way, change management, because it’s going to change tomorrow. Thinking about complexity- I’m now thinking about systems thinking and wondering, how do you feel like systems thinking is going to help our leaders kind of make progress on some of these daunting issues?

Berkowitz Well, you know, I think it’s critical, because if the literature that’s out there- not a lot of it- but that’s out there about this sort of challenge that we have about healthier- healthier populations, we need- we- we can’t- we can’t do it alone. I mean that’s clear. I think everybody agrees with that, so public health cannot do this challenge alone. We need all these partners, that’s one of the big premises of this- of this work, and each of these areas of sort of people’s key competencies. Public health has key competencies, health systems have key competencies, primary care has key competencies, government has key competencies. You know, communities, the way they- they organize and run, all have key competencies, but they’re all systems, you know, they’re all organized in systems, and that’s been one of our challenges is to get people to kind of break out and work together. So, systems thinking is, you know, if we line up all the actors in our interest in becoming health- a healthier planet, if you will, we have all these systems to draw from, but we have to be thinking about how you move a system to change, you know, to do things differently? To partner, which is different for some- some of the systems, it’s- it’s a different concept of partner, you know? We never used to think about public health and hospitals except with the- in the concept of the community benefit assessments that hospitals are required to do. There’s two very different systems that really you can’t do a community health assessment without a variety of- of partners, and so each of those systems need to really think differently about their contributions. So I think that’s a thing, that’s a big deal, and I think it’s a- it’s a set, you know, it’s a- it’s another competency to understand how systems work and- and how do you utilize them and how they learn, you know, how systems learn.

Hawley So, so you’re saying, you know, what I’m hearing is that, you know, it depends on the system that you’re working at in terms of who you partner with. But in terms of just, I’d say generally speaking to public health professionals, what are some of the partnerships that you think can help us, as a profession, to further a real conversation to move and progress public health?

Berkowitz Well, because I’ve been an educator for a long time, I think academic environments are an absolutely essential partner and system. They educate, that’s the- they’ve been tasked with educating the future workforce in public health, and as- academia has always lined up with practice and vice versa, but there’s a lot out there going on in terms of partnerships between the practice environment, including public health, but- but mostly in health systems partnering with academic institutions to create the kind of workforce that we need. And that’s that doesn’t seem like a hard thing to do, but it hasn’t been something that has come easily either for health systems or- or academia, but it’s not just health systems that need to do that. I mean, if we- if we look at the- the literature on what it takes to do the Public Health 3.0, it’s not just health systems or public health, you know, it’s all these other areas in a competency or workforce that needs to come to the table. So, you know, informatics and data science and all of that- that’s a- that needs to be a public health major public health competency because it’s something that we bring to- this we bring to the table. So I think there’s- I think there’s a, you know, a real opportunity here. I mean, I see that as- as a very positive to move forward to. I talked to primary care people about their responsibilities or role in public health. I hear a lot of enthusiasm, you know, I think they see that they’re a hub of a community. As well, hospitals see themselves as hubs of communities. So, you know, we’ve go-t probably got more in common than we don’t, but it’s been tough to bring people to the table and…

Hawley Yeah, I mean, you- you know, you talk about academia, which seems like you know a partner that would be, you know, kind of easy to think about or consider, but, you know, here I’m sitting- I’m in academia in public health, you’re in academia in the School of Nursing, and yet there still is that challenge for us to stay relevant within the practice community so they can really keep us-

Berkowitz Yeah.

Hawley -up-to-date and, and then how we kind of cross pollinate together I mean it’s- it’s hard to- to do that because each of us are working with the community, but sometimes, you know, we could always do a better job of talking to each other.

Berkowitz Right, right.

Hawley Well obviously not us.

Berkowitz But, you know, I mean the challenge in education is that we have, just as other organizations, we have key competencies that we educate- to- and those are- those are what you might consider such a certain amount of regulatory to get the workforce to the place where they can pass their exams and- and these safe clinicians and practitioners, and, you know, there’s a whole bunch of stuff that academics have to do and, and it, you know, when you educate nurses- let’s take nurses, for example. You’re not just educating nurses to be public health specialists, you’re educating for this whole realm of things to do, and now we’re really educating to be sort of population health ambassadors, so global- in my own university- global is a big deal. Global is a big deal because we see the necessity of working across- across countries and across continents, but we also see the value of culture, of bringing cultures together, so, you know, and for in- in public health nursing, I think there are other countries that are doing some really significant and innovative things and utilizing public health nurses that we know, we’re not- we’re not always doing. So bringing people together in a global context, I think is, you know, it’s not one of the core competencies, but it’s- it’s I think it’s essential and academia, I think has recognized that it doesn’t- does a lot of that global work, but that could be something that the health systems could do as well.

Hawley So, you know, thinking about connecting with global initiatives, learning from other countries, other models certainly beyond our local community, but all of that is going to take effective communication.

Berkowitz Oh, yeah.

Hawley You know, to make those partnerships happen, and I think about cultures and building trust. So what are some of your thoughts on what you feel are important communication skills and bridging those connections?

Berkowitz Well I’ll give you an example, this is something that we’ve been doing at Columbia Nursing. So we received a grant, the- Columbia University has global centers all over the- the world, and the- the purpose of those centers is really to create environments where people could come together from across cultures. It’s not workshops, it’s not, but it’s it’s a venue for- for really getting to know getting- to know other cultures- it’s really wonderful idea so we- we received a grant to bring- to get- and one of it in nursing, and this is an all professions, I think, but in our profession to sort of raise the bar for everybody about the ability to- to express research findings in- in journals. So it’s a skill, you know, writing a manuscript to get published is- it’s a big skill, and in the U.S. we just take it for granted that you do that, but that’s not ubiquitous. So, we were doing some work in- in Jordan and- and the Arabs, Arab countries, and in Africa, and this was an area that the nursing leaders in these areas expressed that they were interested in sort of learning that art and learning the art of getting published about key issues that they were working on. So we got this grant, went over there and met with- we convened in- in Jordan where we have a center and worked on manuscript development. We did these workshops and, you know, they would tell their stories and then we, you know, we’d help them and- and some of them- not all of them- got their papers published, and so that’s a, you know, that’s- and we learned probably more from them about the challenges that- that they were facing to just- to do, you know, to do day-to-day work. I mean we had one representative from- from Mosul whose School of Nursing got destroyed in the- got bombed and they have no school, but they were still- they were still doing what they could to prepare nurses, so that’s why I think global- sort of having a global mindset, it’s so critical to this working in public health.

Hawley Well, what you’re saying goes really beyond what I was even thinking, you know, and thinking about just mine- how narrow my thought was with okay what are just basic communication skills to be persuasive for your own, you know, for the gain of public health? But, you know, giving somebody else a voice through empowering them with communication skills, not that we have to give that story or say that story, but really what are these countries doing, and maybe some actually very innovative work with low resources. And have a story that they want to disseminate which we can do –

Berkowitz Yes.

Hawley Or we can help them, which is exciting today I want to do that!

Berkowitz Yeah, no it was, I mean, I was really more of an observer. It was our research folks that were that- were they were really doing the work and- and it went on for awhile, and there was a lot of consultation, and- but I would say from a lot of things we’ve done globally, this was such a such a wonderful experience in terms of working across cultures and for us, for a similar purpose, to transmit knowledge and information that could be utilized by- by more people. But just having a- needing a little sort of… showing the way a little bit- a little bit.

Hawley So, I appreciate how you’re elevating today, the idea of, you know, a global community and really opening up to other ways of thinking and learning through that. What are some other skills that maybe we haven’t talked about that you think about that could be important for people who really want to make progress on these public health issues?

Berkowitz Well I think, you know, the- again, this is a both a challenge and a skill. So, if we look at the Public Health 3.0, these are- these are concepts, but what we expect people to do is then to put them into action so then- then we’re talking about the practice of Public Health. So, it’s one thing to sort of conceptually think about assessing a community, it’s another thing to- to do it and then it’s even another thing to say who- who is sort of suited? What- how do we put together a team? Who is on that team? And then we have the complexities of the- of the disciplines. So 3.0 doesn’t talk about the disciplines, just talks about the concepts, but once we think about the workforce for public health, we have to think about, so who are these people? Say, do you have any thoughts about that? Or, you know, I well I have a lot of thoughts about it, but I think that- I think one of- the way forward is to- is to really, I mean, I think part of it is in education: to educate, to a role, and to think about. So in nursing, where are our skills would be best utilized in this sort of this idea about 3.0, I think, you know, the public health schools are certainly thinking about what- what do they need to educate – it certainly doesn’t look like it used to, so I think education is a big part of this, but I think, you know, the beauty of this and the challenge of this is that this is engaging- it’s way beyond the workforce. It’s really expecting communities to embrace what we have to offer to solve and prevent problems. So, I think the one that I think is for me personally and I think is- that’s the most challenging, is to really think about- is to really get a grip on the notion of health equity. Knowing that we serve, let’s just say we serve the globe, so when we think about health equity, what is the- what is the intervention there that belongs to public health? I mean it’s a rhetorical question because I’m not sure I know the answer, but I think that’s the kind of challenge we need to really be thinking through at a community level given every community has health equity challenges, but it’s not the only challenge we have. So I think the critical sort of nature of our work which in- in some ways has been defined through the through the 3.0, to understand how we educate to that- how we do research related to that for new innovation and to always keep our mind on the idea that we’re trying to prevent- we’re trying to prevent inequity.

Hawley So when you when you take those- those concepts and, you know, you build a team and then let’s just say it’s a team that- that sounds pretty good with academia and practice and perhaps even a business in a local community I’m wondering what that team needs to kind of try something, you know, together with their collective knowledge of the community and what they all bring to the table. If, you know, a new public health person is kind of on that team and thinking, “what do I do?” Would you have any advice for that- for?

Berkowitz I think, I mean, the- my sort of my sense of this notion of the chief health strategist, so this is my kind of interpretation of that- this- I see this is the person in communities who will get the get the people to the table and it’s a- it’s a big leadership role it’s- to get the people to the table to begin to work through those… what do we, you know, what in our community do we where can we be healthier? What do we need to change? What does our community look like? What does our population look like, you know? Who do we have that we can bring together, you know? That’s the community’s job, and I see this chief health strategist who is really the public health leader. I think it could be a nurse.

Hawley Yes, I think I’ve said that, but let’s say it one more time-

Berkowitz But I think- I see that is sort of the, you know, the- creating the- the synergy and the, you know, the dance that we’re all going to do together. Somebody has to create the excitement and the vision, and I think that’s what this person, what their responsibility is and, you know, if- if, that’s a- maybe that’s a role we need to begin to educate- to, but I think it’s basic, you know, it’s basic leadership stuff. It’s- it’s getting people together and- and, you know, hammering out a way forward.

Hawley Sure, sure. So are there any final thoughts that you have that you’d want to share about anything we’ve talked about today or?

Berkowitz Well, I’ll share with ya- share with you- yeah, my cat’s- I’m herding cats as my husband says, I’m on the glide path to retirement and one of the things I’ve taken on us his new kittens- literally, literally. You know, I think I’m very excited about public health nursing in the future, but I also have concerns because the ranks of public health nurses are shrinking, so where we used to have lots and lots of them in local health departments and in state health departments, the numbers of them are- are shrinking, and I think that it is big- this is my, you know, my sense of this is when we have slowly moved from a public health nurse having a role with individual families and their individual challenges and working with them on a day to day basis, you know, the all “going out into the community,” working in schools and working with families? We don’t do that much anymore, and that was- been a big role for public health nurses and I think the- the bringing public health nurses into the sort of new space, I don’t think it’s public health nurses. I don’t want to go there, but I just think it’s the- creating this new vision for the role that I’m not sure, I mean, this conference is talking- this is what this conference is about- is talking about, and there’s lots of examples throughout the conference about how public health nurses are doing that, but the fact is our ranks have shrunk and- and we’re still educating to the role, but I think a lot more of that is going on in schools of Public Health rather than schools of Nursing. So I think, you know, that’s a- that’s not a doom story, but I think we need to really think- think through the role which is why I’m so pleased that the conference is about public health nursing 3.0 to get people thinking about, you know, what do- what is our way forward and how do we stay relevant? And what is our, you know, what is our, you know, mission in public health?

Hawley And I love that we can be together today; that I could actually hear some of your ideas. So I know you’re maybe slight preference to a public health nurse being a chief strategist-

Berkowitz Absolutely.

Hawley [inaudible] sarcasm, so I would- thank you so much for your time today. I really enjoyed this time, Bobbie. And thank you so much, I hope you gain some insights with this leadership discussion, and we hope you will join us in a future leadership series.

Laurie Walkner Thank you for joining us today. Special thanks to our guests, Shirley Orr, executive director of the Association for Public Health Nurses, Suzanne Hawley, Roger Hileman, Melissa Richlen, Hannah Shultz, and Laurie Walkner.

Funding for this webinar is provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration. Please see the podcast notes for an evaluation and transcript.

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A mummy emailed to ask me the ingredients of a laundry detergents, ending her email with a pinge of guilt:

i have regretted buying a lot of unsafe product all this while. sigh, just to think that i have exposed my girl to so much chemical without knowing it makes me feel like such a bad mum. 🙁

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There’s a lot of misinformation or articles trying to scare us on the Internet. Just try what’s within your means and reach… Believe that you’re a wonderful mum. All the very best!”

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  1. Dear mummy,

    I would like to ask you how do you manage to persuade Vee to stay in bed from 2-4pm even though he is not napping? I am trying to get him on bed during 3-4pm and read or play quietly without success

    1. During quiet time, I’d draw all the curtains. I’ve added a “blackout” layer to block out most of the light, so the entire house / room becomes very dim. Vee tunes down better in a dark and peaceful environment.

      For a period of time, he enjoyed listening to audio books. (He’s an audio boy.) We have a pair Crayola headphones, I play a soothing story at low volume. Then he lay on the bed to listen. Many times, he fell asleep!

      Sometimes he prefers classical music. As long as they’re soothing, that’s fine.

      Sometimes, he just wants to laze on the sofa / bed with a toy car, which is fine too.

      During that time, I’d only read or use the computer to do quiet work. Or quiet cleaning of the house. Nothing to make him seem like he’s missing out much fun.

      All the best! 🙂

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There were standing ovations, roars of exultation, tears of achievement, rushes of emotion an outpourings of praise for Bryan Flynn’s stunning production of his own musical Michael Collins; a Musical Drama at Cork Opera House last week. Such was the success of the work that I expect that the venue will bring it back again by gathering public demand, later in the year.

Being in the audience, at home in The Theatre Royal, for the premiere was such a powerful and memorable experience, late last year but the surge of emotion I felt last Friday in Cork was something else – a different kind of special. The work seemed larger, more historic and more mythic on the much larger and wider stage. I felt I knew the words to such anthemic songs as Price To Be Paid, Flag Of Freedom, Every Heart Awaken and the love and tenderness of The Moment Sublime, was a revelation.

Once again I was impressed by the way Bryan Flynn understands and uses musical theatre and drama to tell a complex story and keep the audience rapt with attention. The device of a play with a play, using Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan as a powerful metaphor for the struggle for Irish freedom and the four green fields of the mythic Cathleen/Mother Ireland.

The performers in the Yeats drama became the Greek chorus who advanced the storyline and told Michael Collins early life (the back story) and in a very contemporary theatrical way, asked many of the hard and contradictory questions of the period. As the story unfolded, I again felt great pride to be Irish and I felt great pride for Waterford and Bryan Flynn. At the Opera House I met lots of Waterford and Carrick people, who spoke, often excitedly, about their hopes and dreams as fulfilled by Bryan Flynn.

Perhaps it is not just fulfilment but hopefully just another step in not just Bryan Flynn’s career as a writer/composer, but in the musical and theatrical history of Waterford. Sometimes, we think there are no big stories to be told anymore or that history has no fan club or contemporary relevance anymore but experiencing the power of this musical shows that cannot be the case.

It was an immense achievement to bring any creative work to fruition and to a wider audience and Bryan Flynn was well served by a strong, devoted and dedicated cast and crew. Trevor Knight’s beautiful orchestrations of Flynn’s music adds so much to the heart-stopping impact and Flaithri Neff recorded Uileann Pipes were so uplifting. Emer Maycock’s Whistles/Flutes carried the heart along as Blanaid McCann’s costume design and Richard O’Neill’s lighting design gave the work relevance and impact.

Young cast from The Performer’s Academy filled out the crowd scenes and gave the work added poignancy and shape. Conor Murphy was Young Michael Collins, Therese O’Sullivan was Katie and Laura Cahill was Helena. Andrew Holden, David Flynn and Michael Sands were powerful in The Ensemble with Sarah Burke, Bridget Nolan, Carol-Anne Ryan, Jill Casey, Michelle Fitzgerald and Claire Mansfield.

Michael Sands was particularly effective as Cathal Brugha. The backbone of the production was he multi-functional multi-role Players. Liam Butler was awesome in an array of excellent characterisations, Lynda Gough was powerful as Mother Ireland and Michael Quinlan was a joy to see in a variety of roles. Rebecca Smith was excellent and Eimear McCarthy similarly.

Robert Vickers adds much to the veracity of the experience as Joe Emmet. Derek Collins, as Harry Boland, is masterful in establishing the love hate confusion at the heart of the personal story in Trio. Irene Warren is luminous and beautiful as Kitty Kiernan and Michael Grennell is accomplished and chilling as Eamon DeValera.

Killian Donnelly inhabits the role, the person of Michael Collins, in a powerful and believable way and his work and passion drives home the dramatic and historic position. He is at once, hero and executioner; lover and terrorist. His work is unflinching and memorable and on the big stage, in a large auditorium, he looks like and is Michael Collins.


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All Ireland Minor ‘A’ Camogie Championship
Cork 0-14
Waterford 2-5
Waterford’s minors gave a plucky second half display in Mahon on Saturday afternoon but it wasn’t enough as the hosts stood their ground in a hectic finish.
Captain Beth Carton scored 1-5 from frees and her 64th minute goal left only two points between the sides. Cork went up the other end however and player of the match Keeva McCarthy steadied the ship with her ninth point of the hour.
Waterford kept plugging away and a foul on Kate McMahon saw wing back Maeve Lynch receive a second yellow. In the ninth added minute, McMahon’s floated in the free but the ball was cleared out the field and the final whistle sounded.
The hosts decided to double mark Carton but the De La Salle forward still managed to inspire her colleagues by driving at the red shirts. She powered beyond the entire Cork defence midway through the second half but her shot whizzed past the right hand upright.
Wind assisted Cork were all over Waterford during the first quarter. Rachel Harty’s opener was followed by two Keeva McCarthy efforts.
The Déise girls responded on 15 minutes with a Carton free and she drove over another following a foul on Madigan.
The pressure continued to build on the defence. Cork rattled off the next four points courtesy of Michaela Buckley (free), Cliona Healy, Harty and McCarthy (0-7 to 0-2).
Megan Dunford relieved the pressure when she earned a free in front of the posts that Carton easily dispatched. The home team ended the half with points from Buckley and McCarthy to make their way off the field six in front (0-9 to 0-3).
On 33 minutes, Aisling Madigan’s delivery was batted down by Siobhan Morrissey and Aisling Power whipped the loose ball to the back of the net.
Referee John Dolan penalised goalkeeper Brianna O’Regan for lying on the ball and McCarthy converted the subsequent free. A trip on Megan Dunford gave Carton the chance to close the gap to three once again (0-10 to 1-4).
McCarthy sent over another free before Carton set off on that defence splitting run only to narrowly miss the target. A serious injury to Cork corner forward Rachel Harty held up the game for six minutes.
She was carried from the field by two team mentors and two umpires. Two more McCarthy singles appeared to put Cork out of sight (0-13 to 1-4).
Waterford arrived with a late surge. Carton shook the roof of the net with a fiercely struck injury time free bit they couldn’t get any nearer than two points however as McCarthy rubberstamped Cork’s second win of the campaign.
Cork: M Hurley; E Lonergan, N O’Leary, A Hennessy; K O’Connor, K McCarthy, M Lynch; L Kelly, M Buckley; C Healy, N O’Leary, C Hughes; R Harty, K McCarthy, S O’Leary.
Scorers: K McCarthy (0-9; 0-6f, 0-1 45’), R Harty (0-2), M Buckley (0-2; 0-1f) and C Healy (0-1).
Substitutes: C Ryan for N O’Leary and S Mills for Harty.
Waterford: B O’Regan; S Cunningham, S O’Brien, C Griffin; C Healy, K McMahon, C Drohan; S Harney, M Dunford; S Bonnar, B Carton, A Madigan; S Morrissey, A Power, C Jackman.
Substitutes: N Murphy for Morrissey and SM Rowe for Jackman.
Scorers for Waterford: B Carton (1-5f) and A Power (1-0).
Referee: J Dolan (Clare)


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The brook trout will start spawning this month and this can usually last until December. Most of you already know that I do not fish the native brook trout steams in October, November, or December while the fish are spawning.  Most people do not recognize a spawning bed and one foot step can kill hundreds of eggs.  Therefore, I stay away from these streams in the fall so that I can enjoy the brookie fishing in the spring when the water levels and hatches are ideal.

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Luke Bryan scooped the coveted Entertainer of the Year award at the 2021 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards on Sunday (18.04.21).

The 44-year-old singer wasn't able to attend the ceremony in Nashville or give his performance as planned after revealing last week he had contracted coronavirus but was still thrilled to have been recognised with the prestigious accolade for the third time.

The 'American Idol' judge said in a video message: "I'm in L.A., oh my God. Y'all got me. I'm amazingly surprised. What an honour. To the ACM, I'm so sorry I could not be there. I missed certainly being able to do my song. And all the winners tonight, congratulations. Oh my God. Y'all got me!"

After praising hosts Mickey Guyton and Keith Urban and thanking his wife Caroline and their two sons, Luke - who was shortlisted for the award alongside Eric Church, Luke Combs, Thomas Rhett and Chris Stapleton - sent a message to his fans.

He said: "And to all my fans out there and country radio. We've missed touring, we've missed being on the road with everybody that makes me an entertainer. What a challenging year, but to all the fans and everybody, we'll be back out on the road doing what we love.

"What an amazing honour. I love you guys."

Elsewhere at the ceremony, Maren Morris picked up two awards including Song of the Year for 'The Bones' and Female Artist of the Year for the second year in a row.

Accepting the Female Artist prize, Maren paid tribute to her fellow nominees Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, Kelsea Ballerini and Miranda Lambert in her speech.

She said: "Thank you so much. Me and the ladies were just laughing our butts off during the commercial break, so I feel just really, really happy to be in a category with women who were not able to tour this year but brought so much heat to the game, to country music this year.

"You've inspired me so much, to no end. Even in a year where no one has gotten to play shows, I have heard some of the best music out of all of you this past year. So thank you so much for inspiring me.

"This category is not about who can sing their ass off or entertains the best, even.

"I kind of considered this category to be who tried their best in a year where it was very weird and no one could really do what they were made to do, but I really appreciate all of my peers for voting for me, it means so much ... I love you country music, thank y'all."

Carly Pearce and Lee Brice also scooped two prizes, with their collaboration 'I Hope You're Happy Now' named Single of the Year and Music Event of the Year.

Carly fought back tears as she accepted Single of the Year with Lee.

She said: "I'm going to try really hard not to cry. I love country music more than anything in the whole world. I want to thank my cowriters — Luke Combs, Jonathan Singleton and Randy Montana — we wrote this song about my story, and I guess it resonated with everybody."

Thomas Rhett beat off competition from his "heroes", Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, Luke Combs and Chris Stapleton, to be named Male Artist of the Year.

He gushed: "It just feels incredible to be in this category, to be honest with you. It's literally my heroes, sitting right here in these seats. So thank you Lord, we love you."

Chris Stapleton had tied with Maren for the evening's most nominations but went home with just one award, the prestigious Album of the Year for 'Starting Over'.

Thanking his wife Morgane and his collaborators on the record, he said: "We worked really hard to make music. And we think a lot about it. It means a lot. It really does."

2021 ACM Awards full list of winners:

Entertainer of the Year:

Luke Bryan

Female Artist of the Year:

Maren Morris

Male Artist of the Year:

Thomas Rhett

Duo of the Year:

Dan + Shay

Group of the Year:

Old Dominion

New Female Artist of the Year:

Gabby Barrett

New Male Artist of the Year:

Jimmie Allen

Album of the Year:

‘Starting Over’ – Chris Stapleton

Single of the Year:

‘I Hope You’re Happy Now’ – Carly Pearce & Lee Brice

Song of the Year:

‘The Bones’ – Maren Morris

Video of the Year:

Worldwide Beautiful’ – Kane Brown

Music Event of the Year:

‘I Hope You're Happy Now’ – Carly Pearce & Lee Brice


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On Open Formats and Closed Minds: A Love Story

Published June 21st, 2006

Ancient storage formatsWith growing interest and amazement, I read the back-and-forth argument between two long-time, highly respected Mac nerds yesterday on the subject of Mark Pilgrim’s decision to abandon Mac OS X for Ubuntu Linux. John Gruber is simply one of the best Mac writers there is, and regardless of what he has to say on a particular subject, you have to admire the elegance, precision, and logic of his writing. So when Gruber raised questions about the wisdom of Pilgrim’s move in a recent blog post, his large readership weighed in, and Pilgrim responded, you can be sure that a great many Mac users like me paid attention.

As usual, I agreed with nearly everything Gruber had to say, and the couple of niggles I have are not worth mentioning here since they would distract from the purpose of this article. And what is that purpose, you are wondering? Before I get to that, let me briefly summarize (if I dare) the exchange so far between Gruber and Pilgrim.

  1. Pilgrim has become fed up with Apple’s “closed”-edness. After 22 years as a sophisticated, high-end user, he’s decided Apple’s “closed” ecosystem of software and hardware is too closed for him. His primary concern is that the integrity of the data he stores in that ecosystem is at risk, because Apple doesn’t always document its data formats and doesn’t respect for long the proprietary formats it develops for storage. Pilgrim feels jerked around from one closed format to another and is tired of the data conversions and consequent data loss they inevitably entail.
  2. Gruber is surprised and a bit incredulous that Pilgrim would have suddenly been bitten by this bug. He agrees that closed formats aren’t good for long-term archival purposes, but questions whether losing his iTunes metadata and other format problems is worth chucking his expertise with the Mac operating system for something completely different. He points out that a good backup strategy is part of the solution to preserving precious content. He also devotes a large part of his response to criticizing the Mac blog writers who had knee-jerk reactions against Pilgrim’s decision, and who cited old “Mac is better than Windows because…” arguments without realizing the advances Windows has made since Windows XP (or 95, or whatever). Gruber argues against black-and-white thinking in general and for the very reasonable position of respecting other people’s choices even if you don’t agree with them.
  3. Pilgrim replies that Gruber missed his point and reemphasizes that his feeling “closed in” by proprietary formats has been coming on for a long time. Apple’s decision to abandon the widely used and understood mbox format for Mail was just the last straw. He feels betrayed that Apple switched formats in Tiger without informing its users, without providing them a way to back out, and without documenting the new format.

So why do I want to wander into this disagreement between two Macintosh heavyweights I don’t know, but greatly admire and respect? As I read their separate articles, I saw something with my Martian eyes that may not be clear to them. What I saw wasn’t an OS switch story, but rather a love story.

I’m coming to believe that the human brain just isn’t very reliable. Long ago I concluded that humans would never understand their own behavior, simply because they’re not capable of analyzing behavior without affecting it. The mind is too complex, there are too many variables that define behavior, and how can you stand outside human-ness and study it without reflecting your own beliefs and preconceptions? It just can’t be done, which is why we’ve made so little progress in psychotherapy and instead are becoming more and more dependent on the “objective” injection of drugs (which we also don’t fully understand).

So the prospect of someone as intelligent and knowledgeable (those are different things) as Mark Pilgrim abandoning an OS as highly evolved as Mac OS X over a file format issue is incredible. This is clearly an emotional response, and that’s the only way I can understand it. As a heavily invested Apple user myself, I have become incensed at the way Apple often treats its customer base. I’ve only been a Mac user for 10 years–less than half of Pilgrim’s 22–but I definitely feel Apple “owes me” something for my “loyalty”, especially after not abandoning the platform in the sad years of the late 1990’s when Apple lost its way. Like Pilgrim–and Gruber–I have many criticisms of the Apple platform and software, and if that Automator action interrupts my work one more time I’m gonna scream! (Why can’t it work in the background when it doesn’t require any input from me?) I have tried–and abandoned–and tried–and abandoned–using a local iDisk with .Mac so many times it’s not at all funny. Each time Apple says they’re improving webdav for .Mac, my hopes go up, and I try again. I’m currently trying again, in fact… we’ll see how long it lasts.

One of the advantages of being a Martian, though, is that I do have the ability to stand outside myself and see when I’m being silly. (It’s the antennae.) So I would recognize when my “fed-up”-ness was wresting control of my good judgment and rein it in. In this case, I think Pilgrim has failed to recognize that his beef isn’t with Mac OS X or the physical entity he calls his Mac, but rather it’s with the faceless corporate entity called Apple, run by its arrogant and righteous managers and programmers.

As Gruber points out, the question isn’t whether Apple is open or not, but whether they’re open enough. One of the things I value about Apple and its products is the new ideas they bring to computing and their willingness to take risks with new approaches. I’m a “love new stuff” kind of guy, so I welcome anything new with open arms. This can be a problem when the new thing turns out to be a skunk in disguise, but with Apple that’s pretty rare. As a New-loving guy, though, I realize that nothing lasts forever. New things always displace old things, and they’re only new for a short time.

As I reminded a web developer colleague of mine recently, when you’re in the business of building websites, you simply have to accept the fact that whatever you think you know today is not going to be sufficient 2 years from now. API’s change, languages change, programming techniques change, graphics technology changes, browser technology changes, hardware capabilities change… you name it! It’s all malleable, and you have to be able to roll with it.

This constant “newness” in computing means that if you want to play and create in the digital world, you have to be prepared to convert from one format to another many times over in the course of your lifetime, or risk leaving valuable creations behind, locked in some old file format (or hardware format) nothing can read anymore. (The alternative, of course, is to stick with easels and canvas and pencil and paper.) I can easily identify with Pilgrim’s concern here… all creative individuals can. What we make we want to keep (the good stuff, anyway), and we want to be able to enjoy it again 5 years from now, or whenever the mood strikes. (I better do something about that large reel of magnetic tape with the original copies of my 1978 recordings on it before it’s too late!) Like Pilgrim, this is a constant worry. I try not to go into any new technology or tool without understanding how I’ll get my content out again. If I find I can’t, I abandon the technology before I’ve invested more of myself than can be easily migrated manually.

A couple of recent examples from my world… Bloglines is a great RSS service, and after having used NetNewsWire for about a year, I switched because Bloglines had this very cool “clip” function. In Bloglines, you can easily “clip” an article and assign it to a folder. Sounds like a great way to archive content you’re interested in, no? No. It turns out Bloglines provides no way either to present that content except through their administrative interface, and no way to export the metadata the clips represent. So, bye bye Bloglines. is another terrific service for Web 2.0, and I still use it. But when a series of service interruptions meant I had no access to my bookmarks a few days last fall, I panicked. I used a free plugin to Wordpress called Mysqlicious to import all of my content and metadata into a MySQL database, and I now keep a mirror of all my bookmarks there.

In fact, these two conversions are what led to the evolution of Musings from Mars. The “library” of News, Resources, and Software I keep here is nothing more than my bookmarks, all grown up with a great deal more content and metadata than I could store in or Bloglines. I’m completely at ease now, because relational databases and SQL are standard, well understood data stores and methods of retrieval. The content itself is simply Unicode text, in some cases tagged with HTML. As a web guy, I’m very comfortable with HTML as an archival storage method, and with standard graphics formats like GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF to store the images.

So, what about some of the conversions Pilgrim has had trouble with? Mail, for example? I’ve had lots of fun with mail formats over the years, but it’s possible that the solutions that work for me just wouldn’t do it for him. First, regarding Apple’s new “closed” format that replaces mbox. Is this such a tragedy? I’m of the mind that the engineers at Apple are a lot smarter than me about this kind of thing, and if they felt the need to change mbox in order to optimize Spotlight, I say, go for it! Being able to search across all of my past email is the most important thing anyway, isn’t it? What’s the good of having your mail in an “open” format, if it’s not easy to search? Pilgrim’s beef seems very strange to me, especially after I did a couple of quick experiments this morning with the .emlx format. (Actually, it looks to me like Apple still uses mbox for the mailboxes themselves, and emlx for the individual mail items. In any case, .emlx refers to the mail items, not to the mailboxes.)

File Juicer directory

First, I tried a new (to me) piece of shareware called File Juicer just to see what would happen when I fed it a folder-full of .emlx files. I was pleasantly surprised to find that everything converted very neatly to .txt, .html, .gif, .jpg, etc files. File Juicer put each file type in its own folder at the end. Lo and behold, all those ads I’d trashed still had their HTML files gloriously preserved! All of the attachments were neatly dumped out for me. Now, this isn’t an email archive, but if it’s the content you want to get at, it’s certainly an easy way to do that.

Second, I used a tried-and-true piece of shareware called Emailchemy, which I had previously used when archiving my Exchange mail to Apple Mail last year. Emailchemy makes it wonderfully easy to convert from just about any email format to another. You just point it at your Mail folder, and Emailchemy will preserve the directory structure, setting up mbox files, Eudora files, Thunderbird files, and more, which you can then import into another mail program. If you want to use a Mail client interface for accessing your archived mail, this is a very easy way to do that. It didn’t take long to import my Apple Mail mail into the terrific Opera mail client this way.

MHonArc HTML PageThird, I went ahead and tried a piece of freeware I’d downloaded earlier this year called MHonArc, which is specifically designed to convert from email formats to HTML as an archival utility. Now, this is thinking outside the box, folks! MHonArc is a command-line utility, but there’s a Mac OS X interface (also free) that makes it easy to use without having to learn the command syntax. You just point the software at your mail files, and it converts them to linked HTML. After I combined my “sent” and “inbox” folder in the same archive, I really saw the wisdom of this approach. Since the software preserves threads, now I could easily find my replies and my receipts in the same thread! And honestly, I think data in HTML is pretty darn safe!

Matrix for MailStewardA last option I didn’t bother to try, but which I find also very compelling is a tool like MailSteward, which converts your email to a relational database. Now honestly, Mark, doesn’t this sound better than switching to Linux? For $50, you can sock your email in a safe database from which you can output text files, SQL files, mbox files (yes!), and print (PDF) files, and which you can search much more flexibly than any Mail client can.

See, Mark… it’s not Mail, and it’s not iTunes, and it’s not AppleWriter, or whatever. Slowly, over many years of frustrations, you’ve developed a negative attitude toward Apple, and the bough has now broken. Apple is a lucky company in that they instill intense loyalty, verging on worship, in their users. But like love, loyalty has a dark side. Like someone we love who has betrayed us, Apple has a way of pissing off its loyal customers through neglect and indifference. Everyone who has used the Apple support forums has found them useful, but also quite cold. I have never ever seen an Apple employee step in to one of them to help people out. In fact, they seem to deliberately avoid doing so. Not good PR, in my view.

Apple and PR

A lot of Windows tech writers think Apple is great at PR, and that we all love Apple products because we love the packaging, or the advertising, or whatever. But Apple is actually pretty lousy at PR, except the very quiet kind at a very safe distance. Their website is wonderful… easy to use, inviting, attractive, informative, filled with tutorials and videos, and other fun stuff. The support site is great, too, but you never sense there’s anyone at Apple actually at home when you visit.

As an introvert personality, I can understand this: I like to provide interesting things and hope people enjoy them or find them stimulating. But I don’t want to shake hands with anybody or stand in a room filled with readers and give a talk. Still, you gotta admit it’s not a great PR approach.

When Apple does get noticed–its latest TV commercials, for example–they’re flashy and interesting and well made, but they aren’t going to change anyone’s minds. I don’t think the iPod ads ever sold an iPod, actually. What sold the iPod was friends meeting friends who showed them their iPod. It’s such a great product it “advertises itself.” If iPods were priced like PC’s, this would not have happened, but once Apple got the iTunes music store going on Windows, and an iPod for under $300, that’s when the gates really opened up for the iPod economy.

After having spent $7,000 in one year at my local Apple store, I became livid at a manager there who refused to give me my Federal employee discount, simply because I’d forgot to bring it to the store with me. I said, “Just look me up in your database.” He said, “We don’t have access to that information.” “What!? How can you provide top-notch customer service when you have no way of getting to know your customers?” He just shrugged his shoulders and acted like he didn’t know, didn’t care.

If Apple’s customers sometimes feel like they have a personal relationship with the company, then it can be a particularly bruising relationship for guys like Pilgrim who are digitally gifted and technologically savvy. It would be like being married to a spouse who you admire because they’re a little bit smarter than you. The spouse does many wonderful things and makes many fine decisions. But lots of decisions get made without consulting you. You argue about this, and she promises to get your opinion the next time before going off in a different direction. But then she doesn’t. Never does, in fact. Even when you think she’s brilliant, you bristle at her superior attitude. Finally, it’s too much for your ego, and off you go.

For “the rest of us,” Apple is simply brilliant so much of the time that we just forgive the few blunders. I personally stand in awe of so much about Mac OS X that I could give a rat’s ass about the mailbox format it uses. My issue is, “Make Mail play nice with Exchange 2000!” I’m delighted that Apple uses XML as a core data format, including the format for my iTunes metadata. I’m in love with QuickTime because it’s completely interoperable with open video and audio standards, and it’s extremely easy to convert from one format to another. Unlike Microsoft, Apple hasn’t tried to develop its own formats for the sake of controlling the standard and locking up the market. At least, I don’t believe that’s their motivation. This is why there is no Apple video codec, or audio “codec,” or graphics “codec.” Apple uses PostScript (PDF) as the basis for its graphics engine rather than developing one of its own. Isn’t that pretty darn open?

No, the beef isn’t with Apple’s openness or about conversion issues, which are generally very easy to work out. Actually, one of the risk factors for data that Pilgrim leaves out is the degree of support the format has from developers. To that extent, as Gruber says, the era of being at risk by using a Mac is now over, and if anything the pendulum is swinging the other way. There are so many developers building quality Mac OS X applications nowadays, that Cocoa is well on its way to being a factor that converts users to the Mac all by itself.

On the other hand, a format like mbox is used less often nowadays. Thunderbird doesn’t use it, and neither does Outlook, or Opera mail. Eudora has a shrinking slice of the pie, and Apple Mail’s slice is rising. I’m not saying mbox is at risk, but I wouldn’t count on it being around forever. It’ll be around only so long as there are developers willing to support it, which requires customers who are demanding it. Moving from one minority platform to an OS with even smaller support–especially when the platform you’re leaving supports everything the minority platform does–seems a little odd. Especially when the platform you’re leaving is more open than it has ever been before, as Gruber points out.

So odd, in fact, that I think it can’t be explained logically. None of the reasons Pilgrim gives make any sense. I’m not arguing for Mac OS X or against Linux here, I’m just saying a switch like this takes a great deal of effort, and why turn your world upside down over a change in mail formats? Especially when all you really have to do is switch mail clients. That, I could understand. I’ve done it often enough myself.

No, what we are witnessing is the end of a love affair. And when someone falls “out of love” with a company like Apple, there are no counselors the couple can turn to for help. So they do the only thing possible… a clean break, get away from everything that reminds you of the great things you accomplished with that beautiful spouse over the last 20 years.

You write up your reasons for breaking up, and everyone but you realizes you can’t see the full picture. But certainly I, like many Mac users in a similar position vis a vis Apple, mourn the breakup and wish it didn’t have to be so. Powerful emotions can close minds as surely as any proprietary format. And unlike that closed format, prying open a closed mind is nearly impossible.

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Golfer's Elbow, also known as medial epicondylitis, commonly affects those that experience repetitive stress on the inner aspect of the elbow. This can happen with swinging a club hundreds of times or if you're like me - if you chunk the ball and hit the ground first more than few times. That being said, medial epicondylitis can be brought on in other ways besides golf and often shows up in people who perform repetitive tasks. From my experience in treating those with Golfer's Elbow, pain is typically influenced by a few main variables - speed, force, and tolerance to repeated movement.

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Due to the continued mistreatment of the slave populations in the South and the 1807 act to prohibit the importation of slaves to the U.S., starting in the post-Revolutionary era, many slaves began to escape by running to Spanish Florida, near the colony of St. Augustine.

While there, slaves were adopted into the Native culture by the Seminole people. Seminole Negros (as they called themselves) created villages, adopted Seminole customs, and were given the ability to grow their own crops and dictate their own lives, futures, culture, and language.

Most Black Seminoles lived separately from the Indians in their own villages, although the two groups intermarried to some extent, and some Black Seminoles adopted Indian customs. Both groups wore similar dress, ate similar foods, and lived in similar houses. Both groups worked the land communally and shared the harvest. The Black Seminoles, however, practiced a religion that was a blend of African and Christian rituals, to which traditional Seminole Indian dances were added, and their language was an English Creole similar to Gullah and sometimes called Afro-Seminole Creole. Some of their leaders who were fluent speakers of Creek were readily admitted to Seminole society, but most remained separate.

When slavery finally ended in the United States, Black Seminoles were tempted to leave Mexico. In 1870 the U.S. government offered them money and land to return to the United States and work as scouts for the army. Many did return and serve as scouts, but the government never made good on its promise of land. Small communities of descendants of the Black Seminoles continue to live in Texas, Oklahoma, and Mexico.

"We found these negroes in possession of large fields of the finest land, producing large crops of corn, beans, melons, pumpkins, and other esculent vegetables. ... I saw, while riding along the borders of the ponds, fine rice growing; and in the village large corn-cribs were filled, while the houses were larger and more comfortable than those of the Indians themselves."

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Am I falling in love?

Q: How can I tell if I am falling in love with my partner?

Are you thinking about him/her most of the day, everyday?

Does your heart beat a little bit faster when you see them? Do your palms get sweaty?

Does time fly by when you are with them?

Do you enjoy being with them more often than not, and would rather spend time together than with other people?

This feeling is awesome, am I right? It is transcendent, powerful, and the reason why we can resonate with all of the love songs on the radio. “Oooohhh, this makes sense!” we finally say with a smile on our faces. And it is good. It is really, really, good.

It is also temporary and hormone-driven.

My hope is that you would both enjoy and steward your heightened attraction state in a healthy manner. How?

  1. Call for backup: Keep people around that are able to celebrate you and offer you truth when you need to hear it (because it’s hard to hear very much outside of the love songs playing constantly in the background of your mind).

  2. Remember all of you: Sometimes the excitement can get too powerful and consume every area of our lives. Pretty soon, we’re happy newlyweds - but we look around and there are no friends or hobbies in our new life. We forgot to continue watering and investing in those areas. Control the excitement’s impact on your life by keeping in mind the other things that were (and are still) important to you: friendships, family, career goals, hobbies. If you need to set up boundaries (i.e. Fridays are specifically for friends - not for date nights or hanging out with your significant other), then do so! It’s healthy and good and frees you to enjoy your time together.


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Former President Goodluck Jonathan and United Nations Special Envoy on Crisis Management, has said that electronic voting was the only way to get credible elections in Nigeria and the rest of Africa.

Speaking on the presidential panel of The Osasu Show Symposium 2020, Jonathan said the outcome of elections should be decided by the ballots, not by any other means, not even the courts.

“To me, if Africa especially will move forward, it is not just be about routine conducts of elections. This year alone in West Africa made up of 15 states, we have five states that had elections.

“So, in terms of regular elections, we are progressing, but are these elections credible? If they are representing a constitutional democratic setting is the issue.

“Regular elections, fine, but elections per se is not democracy. If the votes of the citizens don’t count, then it is as good as a military dictatorship. So for me, the reforms should first make votes count.

“And taking a critical examination at the way elections are conducted across the continent at least from the once I’ve observed, I’ve seen that the only way that we can get there is through electronic voting.

“People may feel, yes, someone could manipulate the system, get smart boys who can hack into the system and do all kinds of things, yes, but still people use electronic system to move hundreds of millions of dollars across the world. So, I still believe very sincerely that that is the way to go.”

Jonathan signed Nigeria’s electoral act in 2010, pushing several reforms, including the overhaul of voter’s register.

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"Does Congress ruled Delhi Sultanate not consider Gujarat to be a part of India?"
"Instead of accepting the contribution of Gujarat in the development of India, why is the Centre treating Gujarat like an enemy?"
"Gujarat Ministers question the misinformation spread by Congress on the development of Gujarat "
"Does Delhi Sultanate of UPA not consider Gujarat to be a part of India?"
"Instead of accepting the contribution of Gujarat in the development of India, why is UPA treating Gujarat like an enemy state? "
"After keeping the nation under darkness for 60 years, Congress has no right to speak about education "
"After giving the slogan of Garibi Hatao to winning power, Congress is getting impatient over giving a food security bill! Such a party has no right to speak about the poor "
"Lakhs of tonnes of grains are rotting in FCI godowns. Despite orders of Hon’ble Supreme Court to give the grains to the poor, the Centre gave the grains to alcohol manufacturers. Such a party has no right to speak about mid-day meals "
"Just recently Gujarat won the Prime Minister’s Award for its initiatives in Skill Development. It has won several national and international awards as well. Silence of Shri Ajay Maken and the Congress on this is an attempt to mislead the nation"

  • Congress spokespersons are making a determined effort to paint an incorrect and negative picture of Gujarat’s development journey. Such was the mess created by 45 years of Congress rule in Gujarat that it took a long time for the BJP government to fill the ditches. Rather than accepting their own mistakes and misgovernance in Gujarat, the Congress spokespersons are blaming the BJP government, under whom unprecedented development has taken place in Gujarat during the last decade.
  • Due to hardwork and efforts of the Gujarat Government in the last 12 years,  school enrollment in Gujarat stands at a commendable 99.25%. At the same time, dropout rate for Class VII has dropped from 37% to 7% and for Class V the dropout rate is only 2%.
  • Due to the Kanya Kelavani drive of the state government female literacy in Gujarat stood at 71% in 2011 as opposed to 58% in 2001. This is an improvement of 13%. During the same period, female literacy rate in India has risen from 54% to 65%.
  • According to Shri Ajay Maken, the number of universities in the nation under the UPA have increased from 17 to 44 but in the last ten years the number of universities in Gujarat have increased from 11 to 42.
  • Gujarat has made immense strides in tourism. What did not happen during 45 years of Congress rule in Gujarat has happened in the last ten years.
  • Due to the importance given to the tourism sector Gujarat has drawn tourists from all over the world.
  • Before stating facts about Gujarat’s progress on tourism, Mr. Maken should have asked his own Government’s departments. As recently as February 2013, the tourism ministry of the Government of India gave as many as 3 awards to Gujarat in tourism. This includes awards for best marketing, usage of technology to promote tourism. Prior to that, PATA has also awarded Gujarat tourism for their campaign to promote tourism.
  • The statistics shared by Mr. Maken are absolutely incorrect and misleading. As per a report of the Government of India dated March 2013, the number of working days for mid day meals in Gujarat stand around 94-95%. In the same way, in terms of utilization of food grains in Gujarat stands at 87% whereas the national average is 84%. In primary schools, as far as cooking gas facilities, drinking water and technology utilization is concerned the national average is 91% whereas Gujarat’s average is 96%. Before speaking about Gujarat, Mr. Maken should have checked with the report of his own government’s ministry of human resource development.
  • Gujarat have given great importance to sports in the last decade. In the SGFI games, in 1996-1997 Gujarat won 25 medals and in 1998-1999 26 medals. In contrast, due to efforts such as Khel Mahakumbh, Gujarat has won 154 medals in 2011-12 and 139 medals in 2012-2013.
  • A team of women athletes who won in the Khel  Mahakumbh hail from Sarakhdi village in Junagadh. Due to extensive coaching from the Centre of Excellence, they became the national champions. Similarly the Gujarat Volleyball team has won Bronze Medal at the national level.
  • Gujarat is a champion in skating, volleyball and Yoga. Gujarat is a champion in Yoga at the international level.
  • Gujarat has also established a Swarnim Gujarat Sports University which will provide a platform for coaching and training of the sportsmen, the results of which will become evident in the coming years.
  • Here are some of Gujarat’s sportspersons who have won laurels at the national and international level
  • In the individual games, Gujarat has champion players at the national level in Swimming, Shooting, Tennis, Table Tennis, Athletics and Billiards.
  • The Khel Mahakumbh initiated during the Swarnim Jayanti celebrations have instilled an atmosphere of sports in the entire state. In the first year 2010 there were 13.5 lakh participants, in 2011 there were 15 lakh participants and in 2012 there were 17.62 lakh participants.
  • Additionally special Centres of Excellence have been started for Archery, Kabaddi and Volleyball. Due to coaching being made available in the tribal areas of Gujarat, sportsmen like Dinesh Bhil have become national champions.
  • For the game of chess, Gujarat has arranged for extensive computerised coaching in 8000 schools. Even today Gujarat holds the Guinness World Record for maximum participants in a game of chess at one place, which is 20017 participants. Similarly, Gujarat holds the Limca Record for the Vivekanandwomens chess event where 34000 women participated.
  • Gujarat also holds a special Khel Mahakumbh for the specially abled. In 2011, 58000 and in 2012, 98000 specially abled sportsmen participated in it, which is also a world record. Recently, a specially abled sportsperson from Gujarat, Maya Devipujak won at the World Level in Hockey.
  • Neel Contactor- Winner at the National Junior level in 50, 100 metres free style and back stroke. He also represented India at the Asian Youth Championship.
  • Anshul Kothari- National Gold Medal winner in 50 metres free style and back stroke
  • Maana Patel- This 13 year old girl in the Junior Category has broken   the national record of 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke in the senior category.
  • Rahul Choksi- Winner of National Gold Medal in 200m and 400m butterfly.
  • Shooting- Gujarat’s LajjaGoswami has won the Silver Medal at the recently organised ISSP World Championship and made India proud.
  • Tennis- AnkitaRainais currently India’s no 1 player and is a member of the Indian team.
  • Table Tennis-Harmit Desai is a member of India’s national table tennisand a source of pride for Gujarat.
  • Athletics- Babubhai Panecha is the national champion in the 20kms walk.
  • Triathlon- Puja Choksi represents India in triathlon.
  • Billiards- Rupesh Shah is the current world champion in Billiards.

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I believe I will think if this poem often during those quiet morning hours when I am able to enjoy my bird-feeders. I love this idea.

Working the black keys, elegant particulars of the dark, pulse! Gratefully.

Nothing extraneous. A succinct relating of a lovely concept.

There it is, as if painted on a canvas. I write poetry and wish I could do it like this! Thanks.

Beautifully crisp and shining. A seed of thought cast out for us to notice and reflect.

Joe sees beauty in the tiniest things, and often others miss what they need to see. Look up at the stars, look down at the drunken bee at your feet! Precision and heart on the page.

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