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The Second Book of Job

Most people are acquainted with the beginning and the end of the Biblical story of Job. They know about God letting the Accuser, Satan, test Job’s devotion through all manner of calamities. (The book reflects an earlier Hebrew understanding of Satan as a servant of God, before influences from cultures that conquered Israel turned it into an adversarial relationship.) Job passes the test and has all he’s lost restored to him plus more beside. In between, though, there are 36 chapters of dialogue between Job and three of his friends – though with friends like these you don’t need enemies. They’re convinced that Job has sinned, because why else would all these calamities happen to him, and they basically tag-team Job to get him to confess. Job resists and keeps his faith in God. In the end God re-enters the scene, puts everyone in their place, and honors Job’s faithfulness. In a way, you could think of the new movie The Shack, and the book on which it’s based, as a different version of Job. In this case the calamities have broken Job’s faith, and instead of facing unhelpful friends, Job goes directly to an encounter with the Trinitarian God to gain understanding of suffering and grace.

Mack Phillips (Sam Worthington) grew up in the church, but it was a toxic relationship. His father, a church elder, was a closet drunk and wife-beater. Mack breaks his silence in the church to help his mother, but instead of receiving help he ends up being beaten himself by his father. A couple of decades later, the adult Mack is living in Oregon. He’s married to a wonderful woman, Nan (Radha Mitchell), and they have three beautiful children: Kate (Megan Charpentier), Josh (Gage Munroe), and Missy (Amelie Eve). They attend church with their neighbor Willie (Tim McGraw), and Nan and the children have a close relationship with God, who Missy calls Papa. Then, while the kids are camping with Mack, Missy is kidnapped. The FBI believes she’s been taken by a predator who’s struck five times before. While canvassing the area, they find Missy’s dress and blood on the floor of a dilapidated shack, but her body’s never found.

By that winter, Mack is a shell of a man, devoured by his grief. Then a note appears in his mailbox, addressed to Mack only by name. It says they haven’t talked for a long time and if he’d like to meet, then come to the shack the next weekend. It’s signed Papa. Mack goes to the shack, wondering if it’s a ploy by the man who took Missy. Instead as he approaches the building he steps from winter into a beautiful summer day and finds the shack changed into a lakefront cottage. Inside are Papa (Octavia Spencer), Jesus (Avraham Aviv Alush), and Sarayu (Sumire Matsubara).

It took ten years for this bestseller to make it to the screen. At one point Lionsgate was the primary production company, and Forest Whitaker was attached as director. Summit Entertainment took over for Lionsgate, though they’re still a distributor. Whitaker dropped out and Stuart Hazeldine was selected instead. Hazeldine was known mostly as a script doctor, having done uncredited rewrites for Knowing and The Day the Earth Stood Still, but he’d also received good reviews for his debut feature, a psychological thriller entitled Exam. The Shack had a modest budget for a major US feature these days – $20 million – and Hazeldine makes it look like he had five times the money with which to work. The screenwriters – John Fusco (Hidalgo), Destin Daniel Cretton, and Andrew Lanham – created an adaptation that is remarkably faithful to the original book.

Worthington, Spencer, Mitchell, and McGraw are all well-known and bring a competency to the movie that is too often missing from what’s identified as Christian film. Often that’s used as an excuse: “It’s a good film for a Christian movie.” The Shack doesn’t need that qualifier; it’s a good film that happens to deal with Christianity (more on that later). Spencer is wonderful as the personification of God throughout most of the film, in particular for her ability to deliver witty zingers to Mack while still communicating deep love. I will note two minor quibbles with Worthington: early in the film, he shows Mack’s depression by speaking so softly you can hardly hear him; later, when emotions come out, so does a trace of his Australian accent. Otherwise, he was effective in a challenging role.

The film also features Graham Greene and Alice Braga in smaller roles, though they are integral to the story. A pleasant surprise was the performances of Avraham Aviv Alush and Sumire Matsubara as Jesus and the Holy Spirit respectively. (Sarayu, the name used for Matsubara’s character, is the Sanskrit word for “wind,” which is how the Spirit is described in the Bible.) Alush is an Israeli actor who’s blessedly natural in the role. He’s also not blond or blue-eyed, which is a large step toward authenticity in my humble opinion. Matsubara comes across at first as delicate and ephemeral, but later we also see her strength. Megan Charpentier is also excellent as the daughter who comes close to following her father’s path.

Usually films dealing with Christianity or the Bible wind up at two ends of the spectrum:  faithful but amateur, or high-end mush. This can be seen in a couple recent releases. On the faithful amateur side there’s God’s Not Dead, with its stiff acting, cardboard characters, and a script that had the subtlety of a 2×4 to the head. (You could also include any film that Kirk Cameron’s done in the last two decades.) On the other side you have high-budget Hollywood pictures that make a complete mess of the story, like the Russell Crowe Noah or Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings. The satirical site the Babylon Bee recently ran a story that the Oscars would hand out an award for the least-offensive Christian movie this year. “Academy members reportedly sat through hours of grueling Christian films in an effort to select the one that was the least offensive in terms of quality, production value, writing, and acting.” As with all satire, it’s just a little bit past reality.

The Shack charts a different course by dealing realistically with problems that so many people face – problems that have driven people away from God. The old question that sums up the stumbling block for many people is, “How can God be a God of Love when He lets these horrible things happen?” The Shack confronts that question straight on, in a way that is both spiritually valid, and emotionally raw. The author has said that the shack is a metaphor for the soul.

The book was written by William P. Young as a way back from his own spiritual nadir. He’d been a missionary kid in Papua New Guinea, living among the cannibal tribes until he was six and sent off to boarding school. At the school there was systematic abuse, a Protestant version of the Catholic priest scandals, and Young was a victim. While he was outwardly okay with a wife and family, inside he was broken and reached bottom after having an affair with one of this wife’s friends. He wrote “The Shack” over the course of six years as he struggled with the nature of God in light of what had happened to him. When he finished, he printed copies and gave them to his family as a literary mea culpa. Following that, he tried to get it published. Twenty-six publishers rejected it, so Young self-published. Word of mouth pushed it to the top of the New York Times bestseller list for trade paperback novels, with it selling over 4 million copies in a little over a year. Young now has an arrangement with the major publishing house Hachette.

While many have embraced the story, there has also been a strong negative reaction to it among Evangelical Christians. Some object to its portrayal of God as a black woman and the Holy Spirit as a mysterious asian woman; they claim it promotes feminism, or a form of goddess worship. Others say it’s just a novel or just a movie but it shouldn’t be taken in a theological way. A professor at a conservative Christian college in Portland wrote an article about the book calling it “the greatest deception foisted on the church in the last 200 years.” His main problem with it is termed “universalism” which is the idea that all humanity can be saved by God. (It’s the same controversy that caused the Evangelical church to disown Rob Bell when he published “Love Wins.”)

There is a strong strain of paternalism in some branches of Christianity. The thought that God could exhibit female traits strikes them as heresy, even though in the gospel of Matthew Jesus says of the people of Jerusalem, “…how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings.” This insistence on the dominant male God has become a stumbling block for many today who, because of abuse or other family problems, cannot relate to the idea of God as a loving father. In fact, Papa explains to Mack that that’s the reason for her form. (Later in the movie, Octavia is replaced by Graham Greene for a sequence because, as Papa then tells Mack, “For what you face now you need a father.”) For me, my answer for this is: If you proclaim God as omnipotent – all powerful – then why limit God by your own prejudices?

While The Shack is written as a novel and presented as a film entertainment, that doesn’t negate it as a source of theological thought and reflection. For many, the novels of C.S. Lewis, such as the Narnia series or “The Screwtape Letters,” are as much theological commentary on life as they are novels. And it should be remembered that almost all of the popular imagery of heaven and hell comes not from the Bible but from Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” written in 1320.

Universalism flies in the face of conservative Christianity because of their strong focus on sin and repentance. It has its seed in the Protestant Reformation, which was partially the result of the Renaissance Popes monetarizing grace through the selling of indulgences – basically “Get out of Hell Free” cards. As happens, reactions can go far to the other side of the spectrum. Later in the Reformation some put forward the idea of predestination, that a person is formed as righteous or fallen before birth and there’s nothing they can do about it. That teaching has pretty much gone the way of the dodo, but some believers are offended at the idea that people they consider horrible sinners could still receive grace from God.

The Shack, though, features a sparkling explanation of grace and redemption through the course of the film. The answers it gives aren’t easy or simple, since the questions aren’t easy or simple either. But for those who bring up universalism as their complaint against the film, they should remember that after the rich young ruler went sorrowfully away in the gospel, the disciples wondered how anyone could be saved. Jesus’ response was. “For man some things are impossible, but for God all things are possible.” Again, we shouldn’t let our human understanding and prejudices shrink God down to our size.

So some Christians will be upset that The Shack doesn’t fit their notion of God. I heard someone created a meme with a picture of the shack along with every heresy they believe the story contains. Other Christians will find it illuminating and affirming (I’m one of those). The focus is on restoration and renewal of the relationship between Mack and Papa, and through that the restoration of the reader/viewer’s concept of God. Throughout the movie, the dialogue gives you plenty to think about, but it goes down like a cup of fresh, cold water.

But what if you feel like you are a Job, burdened and broken? What if you’ve lost any belief in God, or have turned away because God now seems to be the mascot of politics and of those who put condemnation before love or grace? What if you know your own shack is run down and hardly habitable, but you see no way to repair it? Then please do see this movie.

Hidden No More

I’m a history buff, and I love to discover history that has been lost or missed for decades. It often makes a good movie, as we’ve recently seen with Louis Zamperini (Unbroken) and Desmond Doss (Hacksaw Ridge). Now we can add the names Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson to that list, the triumvirate at the center of Hidden Figures. I’d been looking forward to this film from the first time I saw a trailer; I was not disappointed.

Katherine (Taraji P. Henson) was a child prodigy in mathematics who grew up to work for NASA during the early days of the space race. She was a human computer, checking calculations made by scientists. This was at a time when prejudice held that science wasn’t suitable for either blacks or women. There was a full contingent of black women working at the main NASA facility at Langley, Virginia, before its later move to Houston. They were segregated into the West Building – the only place where there were “colored” bathrooms – under the de facto supervision of Dorothy (Octavia Spencer). It was de facto since the bureaucracy, embodied in the character of Vivian Mitchell (Kristen Dunst), refused to give her the designation and the commensurate pay raise. Mary (Janelle Monae) was permanently assigned to the engineering group, a discipline in which she had distinct talent.

The movie chronicles the racism they faced even as they sought to help the country make the leap into space. It could be systemic, like the roadblocks in Mary’s way to prevent her from getting the education credit to be recognized as an engineer. It could be personal, like the engineer played by Jim Parsons who redacts much of his work before turning it over to Katherine, even though the redactions make proper checking impossible. Or it could be technological advancement like the IBM computer that stands to replace the West Building group, if the computer engineers can get it to work.

What makes the movie a winner is the wit and determination the women utilize to overcome the obstacles. In particular Henson knows how to deliver a devastating comeback with the sweetest smile, though she does also have one scene where Katherine’s frustrations explode in volcanic fury. Sitting in the audience, I wanted to cry out “You go, girl!”

Octavia Spencer is fantastic as always, especially in her scenes with Dunst that are a masterclass for actors. Next month she’ll be back on the screen in The Shack, playing God. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Almighty lobbied for her to be cast. A delightful surprise is singer Janelle Monae, who’d only done a couple of voice acting jobs before a double debut with Figures and Moonlight. She’s perfect as the sassy and smart Mary, holding her own with both Spencer and Henson like an experienced pro. The film also features Kevin Costner as NASA administrator Al Harrison. Costner has developed into a fine character actor, proving there is life after stardom.

Director/Producer/Screenwriter Theodore Melfi was known mostly for the Bill Murray film from 2014, St. Vincent. He collaborated with Allison Schroeder on adapting Margot Lee Shetterly’s book for the screen, and they did a stellar job of it. The dialog crackles, but this is also a movie where silent looks speak paragraphs. Particular kudos to Production Designer Wynn Thomas, Set Decorator Missy Parker, and Costume Designer Renee Ehrlich Kalfus, who nail the look of the early sixties.

It’s wonderful timing that Hidden Figures is being released now. It gives a very strong reminder that the “good old days” were not good for everyone, and lets us see not only how far we’ve come but how necessary it was that we made those changes. The movie ends with footage of the real Katherine Johnson, now in her 90s, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama.

These figures should never be hidden again.

A Day To The Death

Movies have the power to change people’s hearts and minds, because they give you the chance to experience life from another person’s perspective. Among the many examples of this: Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, which led to the elimination of chain gangs; Sidney Poitier’s early films, which changed attitudes about race relations (The Defiant Ones, Raisin in the Sun, Lilies of the Field, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night – take your pick); or Tom Hanks giving a face to the AIDS crisis in Philadelphia. In light of the recent incidents in Ferguson and Staten Island, I watched a movie from 2013 that I’d missed during its theatrical release – Fruitvale Station.

During the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009, 22-year-old Oscar Grant III was shot in the back while being restrained face-down by San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police on the platform at Fruitvale Station in Oakland. He died later that morning. The police had responded to reports of a fight on the train that was crowded with people returning from ringing in the New Year in San Francisco. They held the train in the station, so several passengers recorded what took place on their cell phones. That footage is what starts the film, though the screen goes black just before the fatal shot is heard.

The film then jumps back 24 hours to show Oscar’s last day. Oscar (Michael B. Jordan) is living with his girlfriend Sophina Mesa (Melonie Diaz) and their 4-year-old daughter Tatiana (Ariana Neal). The main focus of their day is preparing for the birthday party of Oscar’s mother, Wanda (Octavia Spencer) that will take place that night. While he hides it from others, Oscar is in a rough place. He’s recently lost his job at a market, and the rent is due in a couple of days. Oscar had made bad choices when he was still a teenager, which led to him being sent to jail. The day becomes a personal odyssey for him as he decides to make changes in his life that honor Sophina, who he loves, and Tatiana, whom his adores.

Writer/Director Ryan Coogler had access to the principles involved in the story and crafted an excellent film that presents Oscar as neither saint nor sinner, but as human with whom you can identify in spite of any cultural differences. Coogler took some liberties with the story for the sake of the movie, but they were minor changes or the events happened at another time. For instance, early on in the film Oscar is in the market where he use to work, getting supplies for his mother’s birthday dinner (which did actually take place on that day), when he sees a young woman having trouble at the meat counter. She wants to fry fish since that’s a meal her husband loves, but she’s never done it before and doesn’t know what she’s doing. Oscar calls his grandmother and puts the woman on the phone with her so his grannie can teach her how to fry fish. While it didn’t happen that day, Oscar did do that earlier when he worked at the market. Slate magazine did an article that breaks down the accuracy of the film, though of course that means the article does contain spoilers.

When the film gets to the climactic scene at the Fruitvale Station, Coogler is meticulous in recreating the incident. He obtained permission from BART to film the scene on the platform of the actual station, and he pulled dialogue for the scene from the cellphone footage. The footage has been posted on YouTube along with contemporary news reports about the incident. This was the first feature film made by Coogler, and it is a stunning achievement.

It helps that Michael B. Jordan gives a mesmerizing performance as Oscar. Jordan started acting when he was twelve, with early credits on shows like “The Sopranos” and “The Wire.” After extended roles on “All My Children,” “Friday Night Lights,” and “Parenthood” Jordan had a break-out role in the sci-fi sleeper hit Chronicle. Several scenes in Fruitvale Station have little or no dialogue, but the emotions that play out of Jordan’s eyes speak volumes. He will be an actor to watch in the future, in the mode of Don Cheadle and Terrence Howard. Matching him is Octavia Spencer. She portrays Oscar’s mother Wanda as a clear-eyed realist who gives tough love when necessary. It makes the end of the movie all the more heartwrenching.

It’s become a bit hackneyed to say you can’t judge a man until you have walked in his shoes, but that doesn’t negate the truth of the words. Fruitvale Station slips Oscar Grant’s shoes onto your feet and laces them up tight, and you’ll still feel them there long after the movie is over.


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10 Things I Wish I Could Hire Someone to Do

This week I heard about this company, Fiverr, where you can hire someone to do random things for just $5. I perused the site for a view minutes in search of a service I might actually want to hire. The most tempting was the guy who would make a tough decision for you for just $5. Where has he been all my life?

Naturally, being an entrepreneur at heart, I started wondering if there were any services I could hire out for $5. Everything I thought of–like personal shopper, food critic, personal opinion giver–I wanted more than just a Abe Lincoln for it.

However, I did think of some things I would love to hire someone to do for me. Here they are in no specific order:

  • Wake up the hubs before his snoring peaks at its rapturous crescendo. I might even go to $10 on that one.
  • Tell me when something green or gross is lodged between my pearly whites
  • Cover my eyes for me during a scary movie. {Must know when said scary parts are going to happen.}
  • Decide what to make for dinner based on items already present in fridge and pantry
  • Spy on my kid who is two states away { I know, that’s creepy. But I worry about him.}
  • Tell me when a pair of pants have optically enlarged the diameter of my anatomical posterior
  • Provide continuous Costco Crowd Density reports
  • Deliver my coffee to my bedside each morning when my hubby is out of town
  • Train my dogs to honor the later sleeping time of Saturday mornings…maybe train the dogs to make the coffee too. Now we’re talking.
  • Arrive ahead of me at a restaurant to screen and select the best waiter/waitress for my dining experience

How about you? What do you wish you could hire someone to do for you?

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  1. I like the list. If you could come up with an app for crowd density at Costco you could retire to the beach of your choice and pay top dollar for all those other jobs on your list.

    • Right? There is no place that strikes such fear in me as does Costco…you just never know when that place is going to be a sanctifying experience. Wait. It’s always that for me…if it’s not the crowds, it’s the temptation to buy something I don’t need. I like your thinking and love the idea of beach-side retirement!

  2. Hahahaa, your list put a smile on my face. We actually have maids here in Jakarta to do some of the things on your list. I am thinking of writing about it now that I read your list. Enjoy your Sunday or what’s left of it…

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Who are you? Online identity comes in many different personas

February 16, 2017

What makes each of us unique is not one specific characteristic. And so it’s not surprising that as the idea of an online identity continues to evolve, we all have different virtual personas that represent us, in varying levels of detail.

“Most definitions of identities have to be used in the context of the application,” Jose Caldera, IdentityMind vice president of marketing and product, explained on the State of Identity podcast. “So what your identity says for a dating site might be different than what it is for a banking application.”

Those identities can be based on a number of factors, including what users are willing to share on the web versus what service providers need to know in order to conduct business.

To that end, Caldera gave the example of e-commerce transactions — a type of online business where users don’t share a lot of information about themselves.

Apple may not have a significant need to invest money into identifying who is buying a song on iTunes. But for a bank reviewing a loan application, the need to verify identity is obviously much greater.

And so identity can be defined online as a collection of attributes, whether they encompass something as impersonal as a mobile device or as specific as a fingerprint. Risk level will help determine how much an institution needs to know about the customer and their identity, while customers too can vote with their dollars — or in some cases the level of personal information they are willing to provide.

Because just as you wouldn’t put your Social Security number on your Tinder profile, you probably wouldn’t want your mortgage broker to see photos from your 2013 trip to Las Vegas.

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Resolutions of the Coulomb operator: VIII. Parallel implementation using the modern programming language X10

Limpanuparb, Taweetham; Milthorpe, Josh; Rendell, Alistair P.

Use of the modern parallel programming language X10 for computing long-range Coulomb and exchange interactions is presented. By using X10, a partitioned global address space language with support for task parallelism and the explicit representation of data locality, the resolution of the Ewald operator can be parallelized in a straightforward manner including use of both intranode and internode parallelism. We evaluate four different schemes for dynamic load balancing of integral calculation...[Show more]

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Ancient jades map 3,000 years of prehistoric exchange in Southeast Asia

Hung, Hsiao-Chun; Iizuka, Yoshiyuki; Bellwood, Peter; Nguyen, Kim Dung; Bellina, Berenice; Silapanth, Praon; Dizon, Eusebio Z; Santiago, Rey; Datan, Ipoi; Manton, Jonathan

We have used electron probe microanalysis to examine Southeast Asian nephrite (jade) artifacts, many archeologically excavated, dating from 3000 B.C. through the first millennium A.D. The research has revealed the existence of one of the most extensive sea-based trade networks of a single geological material in the prehistoric world. Green nephrite from a source in eastern Taiwan was used to make two very specific forms of ear pendant that were distributed, between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D.,...[Show more]

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Is the value added tax a useful macroeconomic stabilization instrument?

Claus, Iris

The value added tax (VAT) has been proposed as a macroeconomic stabilization instrument. This paper considers some practical implications of a variable VAT rate. It then develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to assess its usefulness as a stabilization instrument. A variable rate VAT would no longer be less distortionary than other taxes. It would distort between current and future consumption, i.e. savings and investment decisions, and hence raise the economic costs of taxation....[Show more]

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Protecting the integrity of the greatest game.

NFL Ops: Honoring the Game

It's our responsibility to strengthen the sport.

League Governance

Ensuring a consistent and fair game that is decided on the field, by the players.

NFL Rules Enforcement

Ensuring that players conduct themselves in a way that honors the sport and respects the game.

NFL Way to Play

Knees Bent. Pads Down. Head Up.

The NFL and HBCUs

The NFL is proud of the HBCU professional football legacy.

Economic & Social Impact

Honoring the league’s commitment to serve the communities where the game is played.

The NFL Ops Team

Meet the people behind NFL Operations.

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The Game

Learn about the people, the jobs and the technology that deliver the best game possible to NFL fans across the U.S. and around the world.

Gameday: Behind the Scenes

Countdown to kickoff: how NFL games happen.

In the NFL, balancing technology with tradition.

Impact of Television

How television has changed the game.

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Creating the NFL Schedule

It takes hundreds of computers and four NFL executives to create the NFL’s 256-game masterpiece.

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Learn how NFL players have changed over time, how they’re developed and drafted and how the league works with them after their playing days are over.

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Creating an NFL player: from “everyman” to “superman.”

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Supporting the next generation of players and fans.

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Preparing players of all ages for success at football’s highest level.

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Introducing the next wave of NFL superstars.

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NFL clubs hold voluntary offseason workout programs to train, teach and condition their players for the upcoming season.

Article 21 of the NFL-NFLPA CBA states that each club’s official, voluntary nine-week offseason program is conducted in three phases:

  • Phase One: In the first two weeks of the program, activities are limited to strength and conditioning and physical rehabilitation.
  • Phase Two: Over the next three weeks of the program, on-field workouts may include individual player instruction and drills and team practices conducted on a “separates” basis. No live contact or offense vs. defense drills are permitted.
  • Phase Three: Over the next four weeks of the program, teams may conduct a total of 10 days of organized team practice activity, or OTAs. No live contact is permitted, but 7-on-7, 9-on-7, and 11-on-11 drills are permitted.

Article 22 of the CBA stipulates that clubs may hold one mandatory minicamp for veteran players during phase three of the offseason program.

New head coaches may conduct an additional voluntary veteran minicamp conducted before the NFL Draft (April 26-28), but no earlier than week three of the club’s offseason workouts and at least one week into phase one activities. This year, seven clubs will hold voluntary veteran minicamps.

Each club may hold a rookie football development program for seven weeks beginning on May 14. During this period, no activities may be held on weekends, except one rookie minicamp, which may be held on either the first or second weekend after the NFL Draft.

For specific information and detailed offseason program rules, please see Articles 21 and 22 of the CBA (beginning on page 131).

See the full 2018 NFL Offseason Workout Program calendar.


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On the spot learning through social media

A recent article by Moorley & Chinn (2014) highlights the increasing use of Twitter as a knowledge sharing platform. Whilst more usually associated with social connectivity, it is interesting to see how more and more professional disciplines and groups are now using Twitter for sharing evidence. Recently, OPSWISE joined Twitter, and it is already apparent how extraordinary and useful this service can be. Through forming virtual links with people and groups with shared interests, there are so many opportunities for on the spot learning. For OPSWISE, this means a great way to capture important, relevant snippets of information about what’s current, and what works, in developments for the assistant care workforce or in older people’s care services, which have the potential to contribute to our review. It also means extending our networking and sharing activities across to groups and disciplines, so that learning is mutual and exciting. OPSWISE will soon be taking part in a “WeNurses” (Twitter nursing community) chat, and we look forward to what this will generate, and what the discussions will bring to our work. Follow us at @opswisestudy

Titles and roles -capturing terms/key words

Saks and Allsop (2007) define the health and social care assistant workforce as those “who provide face to face care or support of a personal or confidential nature to service users in a clinical or therapeutic setting, community facilities or domiciliary, but who do not hold a qualification accredited by a professional association and are not formally regulated by a statutory body”. From our literature searching to date and in conversations with our project and advisory groups we have come across a long list of terms used to describe this role in the UK and internationally. Here’s our list. Have you come across others? posted by Beth Hall
• Aide
• Allied health assistant
• Assistant
• Assistant care worker
• Assistant care workforce
• Assistant nurse
• Assistant practitioner
• Care assistant
• Care attendant
• Care practitioner
• Care provider
• Care worker
• Carer
• Clinical support worker
• Community health worker
• community nursing assistant
• Community rehabilitation team therapist
• Community support worker
• Direct care worker
• Generic worker
• Health advisor
• Health aide
• Health care aide
• Health care assistant
• Health care support worker
• Health care worker
• Health trainer
• Health worker
• Healthcare aide
• Healthcare assistant (HCA)
• Healthcare support staff
• Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW)
• Healthcare worker
• Helper
• Home care support worker
• Hybrid worker
• In-home aide
• Intermediate Care
• Medical assistant
• Mentor
• Multidisciplinary healthcare support worker
• Nurse aide
• Nursing Assistant
• Nursing support worker
• Officer
• Outreach worker
• Paraprofessional
• Peer support
• Peer worker
• Personal assistant
• Personal care aide
• Personal care assistant
• Personal support worker
• Physical therapy assistant
• Physiotherapy assistant
• Rehabilitation assistant
• Rehabilitation assistant
• Rehabilitation support worker
• Rehabilitation worker
• Support Staff
• Support worker
• Support workforce
• Technician
• Therapy aide
• Therapy assistant
• Therapy support worker
• Unlicensed worker
• Unregulated worker

Saks, M., & Allsop, J., (2007), Social Policy, Professional Regulation and Health Support Work in the UK. Social Policy and Society, 6 (2), pp. 165-177

Support workers skills -what is important? for whom?

A recent report, ‘Better Care for frail older people’ highlights the situation which currently exists, whereby to meet the health and social care requirements for older people, “low skilled homecare workers, care home staff and healthcare assistants provide the most contact hours, but have limited training or supervision and the lowest pay rates” (Deloite LLP, 2014) . What jumps to mind is the broad definition of skill as demonstrating the ability to do things well through training and practical experience. However, it could be argued that support workers who demonstrate commendable personal qualities that people identify with and appreciate have high level skills which should be nurtured and developed throughout their work and career pathways. In this context, understanding what works, and what makes the support worker a true people’s person is so important.

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Top Ten Stories of 2017 Patriot Season

 DATELINE: Countdown to Madness

We almost decided not to tell the story of the Patriots this year.

You may have not noticed, but since 2011, we have been putting out an annual, and sometimes twice-yearly book of collected observations, based on our hither and yon blog.

So, we thought we ought to skip this year: there would never be another Super Bowl run like the last one.

How lucky we stayed the course. How wrong we were.

If we had not done this year’s catalogue, we’d have missed ten big stories. Here they are, ascending or descending, it doesn’t matter.

  1. The Patriots bought not one, but two, 747 jets to travel in style around the world—as far away as Mexico and as near as Buffalo. The Two Jet Krafts rivaled the AirForce One of the President.
    1. Bad pennies kept coming back: stories about Aaron Hernandez, Martellus Bennett, and James Harrison, meant vampires lived in the Patriot mythology.

    1. Tom Brady declined to go to the White House in the mode of Trump’s best pal, and the snub was returned when Trump started golfing with Peyton Manning. Tom & Trump never spoke again.
  1. The continuing soap opera about Tom Brady’s stolen blouse, taken by a culprit in the fake news media who parlayed his access to the Pats locker room whilst Tom collected awards at the Super Bowl LI, became a memorabilia nightmare. A young fan from Seattle saved the day by fingering the crook and locating the lucky and unlucky stolen blouse.
  1. Tom’s incredible vanishing backups shocked the football world. Two highly prized young quarterbacks were in destiny’s path to replace Brady in the near or distant future. A funny thing happened on the way to the Super Bowl… Jimmy G and Jacoby B were gone with the wind.

  1. The Mirror Crack’d was once an Agatha Christie murder mystery, but Tom Brady usurped the idea when he deliberately smashed a mirror to prove there is no such thing as bad luck. Immediately, people around him started dropping like the Bubonic Plague hit Boston.

  1. There were many victims of the TB12 Method that looked like a strategy out of the Lady Macbeth/Bill Belichick playbook. However, it was not Giselle who had a Merlin-style magic hold on Brady. It was his masseur and business partner, godfather Alex Guerrero.

  1. Tom Brady never gives up when he is losing in the fourth quarter. From amazing Super Bowl comebacks to weekly games that fans gave up on: Tom came back and won them all, making it a risky business to shut off the Pats on TV in the third quarter if they are losing badly.

  1. Cold War within Patriots would have been the top story in any other year. Belichick, Kraft, and Brady were feuding and fighting, sick and tired of each other after 17 years of championships. Imagine how quickly they would have ended their business acumen & agreements if they lost all those seasons.

  1. *** We suspected it for a long time, but Tom’s complete Insanity came to the forefront, whether it was joining up with Tony Robbins, or pontificating like Rasputin on a 6-part TV series, smashing mirrors, or insisting he was a pleasant person (sort of like his pal Trump claiming he is a stable genius). This year Tom Brady proved he was a true nutcase and kookoo bird.

What a season. What a year.  And, the Super Bowl is still ahead.


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Real-estate race begins for Ontario pot shop locations

Company CEO Trevor Fencott, of Fire and Flower, a cannabis retail company based in Edmonton, has built a model store in Edmonton that is typical of the stores it hopes to open across Canada. The company has been granted a licence to operate a store in Saskatchewan, has applied for 37 store licences in Alberta, and welcomes the opportunity to open stores in Ontario, too. OTTwp

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With the move to allow private businesses to operate cannabis stores in Ontario, the race is on to secure storefronts.

Actually, it began before the Conservative government announced Monday that it was abandoning plans to sell pot at stores run by a subsidiary of the LCBO.

Officials at four major cannabis companies contacted by this newspaper say they anticipated the possibility of a policy shift to privately run pot shops and had already begun scouting locations. The companies are now building cannabis stores in Western Canada and say they will be ready to jump into Ontario with multiple locations.

Three of the companies have Ottawa-area connections. Canopy Growth Corp. is in Smiths Falls, National Access Cannabis has headquarters in Ottawa and Fire & Flower is partly owned by Gatineau cannabis grower Hexo (formerly Hydropothecary). The fourth is Aurora Cannabis based in Western Canada, one of the country’s largest cannabis growers.

All four companies have a shot at becoming the “Starbuds” of Ontario pot.

But it’s still early. Industry experts expect there will be a huge demand to operate stores, from both from big companies and small entrepreneurs.

Ontario is the country’s largest market, said Jeffrey Lizotte, chief executive of Next Wave Brands, a cannabis consulting company.

“Ontario will become the premier target, the primary battleground for cannabis retail.”

Lizotte predicted that major retailers will also want to set up franchises in Ontario, noting that food giant Loblaw has already won the right to set up stores in Newfoundland and Calgary.

Which companies might dominate also depends on the rules — which haven’t been decided — governing the operation of private stores. The provincial government has promised wide consultations before introducing new legislation. Lizotte said he expects that will begin next week.

An artist conception of the Aurora Cannabis stores the company plans to set up with Alcanna. OTTwp

Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli said the province will also learn from the experiences of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, which have adopted private-store models.

Alberta plans to issue about 250 store licences in the first year of legalization but has limited the number that can be awarded to any one company to 15 per cent of the total to prevent market domination. Saskatchewan held lotteries to award licences.

In Ontario, municipalities will also have a key role. Councils elected during the fall municipal elections will have a one-time chance to opt out of having cannabis stores in their jurisdictions.

Municipalities will also probably have a say in where private stores are located. It’s likely that stores will not be welcome close to schools, parks, community centres or other places where young people gather. Depending on the municipality, that may also limit the possible locations.

That all creates multiple layers of uncertainty.

But entrepreneurs who want a piece of the retail market aren’t waiting to lock down locations.

Alcanna, a huge private liquor store operator in Western Canada and Alaska, has already identified more than 100 potential retail locations throughout Ontario, said a spokesperson for Aurora, which has a licensing deal with Alcanna. The stores would operate under the Aurora name.

Aurora’s chief corporate officer, Cam Battley, declined to say whether the company has signed any leases, saying he didn’t want to give his competitors an edge.

At Ottawa’s National Access Cannabis, CEO Mark Goliger said the company is working with a real estate broker but also declined to say whether any leases had been signed. His company plans to apply for the maximum number of stores allowed in Ontario.

National Access Cannabis is opening at least 10 stores in Manitoba, has applications pending for 37 stores in Alberta, and applications for another eight stores in B.C. Most will be under the Meta Cannabis Supply Company brand. The company plans a second brand name for stores in rural areas, which will be smaller and have a less flashy design, he said.

If the company gets the nod to set up in Ontario, some stores might be in former Second Cup cafés, he said. The company has a deal with the coffee chain to convert some shops into cannabis stores.

There are 130 Second Cup outlets in Ontario, and some would be prime candidates for conversion, said Goliger.

He estimated that Ontario needs between 700 and 1,400 cannabis stores to compete with the black market.

The subsidiary of the LCBO the former Liberal government created had planned to open 40 stores initially and 150 stores by 2020.

The Conservative government has not decided how many privately-run stores it will allow.

Private operators will be able to build stores quickly and offer more variety, said Goliger.

“Why do we have so many different burger joints, and so many different pizza joints, and so many different coffee cafés? Consumers want diversity, and if you don’t give it to them, they are likely to seek it elsewhere.”

Meta Cannabis Supply Co concept OTTwp

However, governments are trying to balance competing goals. They want legal stores to be attractive enough to lure people way from dealers and illegal dispensaries, while at the same time not promoting the use of pot, especially among young people.

Canopy is also well situated to be a major store operator in Ontario. It recently bought Hiku, the parent company of Tokyo Smoke, which runs five hip coffee and cannabis accessory cafés in Toronto. Canopy also has several Tweed Main Street information and education outlets that might be converted to stores.

Canopy CEO Bruce Linton has long said he would like to operate a store at the headquarter plant in Smiths Falls.

Bruce Linton Darren Brown / Ottawa Citizen

The company will operate stores under the brand name Tweed.

Linton said he thought Canopy had already signed some conditional leases for storefront property in Ontario, but company officials could not be reached on Tuesday to confirm.

As for what privately operated stores will look like, consider the examples from Fire & Flower, which has a prototype store built  in Edmonton, and artist renderings provided by National Access Cannabis and Aurora.

The stores are modern, hip and hooked up with electronics such as iPads so customers can research the products.

They won’t be like liquor stores, though. The merchandise will be sold in plainish packages from behind the counter, and no one under 19 will be allowed in.

The MedMen cannabis store in West Hollywood has a boutique feel. OTTwp

MedMen, a boutique cannabis chain in the U.S., is also interested in expanding into Ontario.
“That’s a priority for us,” said Mike Gorenstein, CEO of The Cronos Group, a Canadian cannabis grower that has created a joint venture with MedMen Enterprises called MedMen Canada.

“It’s the largest market in Canada. It’s something we are very, very excited about,” said Gorenstein.

MedMen Canada plans to open a few premium stores in provinces that allow private shops, he said.
“We are more focused on fewer, bigger, better. We are looking for a few key locations.”

MedMen Enterprises, based in L.A., has 14 upscale stores in California, New York and Nevada, including outlets in West Hollywood and on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The chain has helped bust stereotypes of pot being sold in “a dark room with a guy with a gun at the front,” said Gorenstein.

“When people go to L.A. or New York, they don’t say ‘I went to a dispensary.’ They say, ‘I went to MedMen.’ “

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I thought it might be a good idea, given recent updates, to list all that we know in relation to my great grandmother, Frances Eleanor Chapman.

Frances was born on the 18th November 1905, the address listed on the birth certificate was “Back of Woodclose Cottage Bembridge R.D.”, on the Isle of Wight.

Her parents were Henry Chapman, a “marine stoker”, and Eleanor Isabella Chapman nee Coxhead.  The birth was registered on the 22nd December 1905.

On the 14th January 1906, she was baptised at the Holy Trinity Church of England Church in Bembridge.

By 1911, Henry, Eleanor Isabella and Frances Eleanor had moved up to Preston, Lancashire.  They appeared on the 1911 census at 96 Wellfield Road with Eleanor Isabella’s mother, Mary Coxhead nee Holmes, who had been born at Hazel Ridge, near Cartmel in 1852, her husband John had died that year, and Mary would die the following year, and be buried with him at Preston cemetery.

On the census, Henry Chapman is stated as working as a second engineer on a Preston corporation dredger, while Eleanor Isabella is listed as a weaver at a cotton mill.

The records of employees working on the dredgers are very delicate, however, it could be established that in 1911 Henry was working on the “Gilbertson” dredger.

On the 25th September 1912, Frances Eleanor was admitted to St. Matthew’s C of E school in Preston, the address they were living at was 11 Cavendish Road.  Henry appeared in Barrett’s directory of Preston in 1917 at the same address, listed as an “engnr.”

But, Frances wouldn’t be staying at that school for very long, indeed, under “Remarks”, the word “Removed” is given.

The family had moved to Edinburgh at some point between being listed in the trade directory in 1917, and “Harry Chapman” appearing on the 1920 valuation roll at 61 Home Street, Edinburgh.  Frances would have been 15 in 1920.

Frances, a restaurant waitress, had met somebody in the latter part of 1924, and had a baby girl, my grandmother, Beatrice Eleanor Chapman on the 8th August 1925 at the Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital not far from Holyrood. The address given on the birth certificate was 61 Home Street.

According to the Lothian Health Service archives entry for the birth, Frances intended to marry the father, but no father’s name is given anywhere.

It must have been tragic for the family to hear the news from workmates who’d travelled with Henry on the ship “Borthwick”, that he’d died of acute sepsis at a hospital in Rotterdam on the 20th August 1928.

It is most likely that Henry, the second child that we know of, of Frances Eleanor, then in domestic service, gave birth to in Edinburgh towards the end of 1930, was named after her dad.  She gave 5 Gibb’s Entry, Edinburgh as her address.  In 1930 her mum, Eleanor Isabella, was listed on the valuation roll at 17 West Richmond Street, Edinburgh.

Beatrice was placed in an orphanage in about 1932, as i’ve mentioned before, and Henry told me that he was fostered to a family in Scotland.

This is all that we know of Frances Eleanor Chapman to date.

Searches of marriages and deaths after 1930 for Frances in England, Wales and Scotland have not produced the right result.

UPDATE – 7/6/2016 – Frances Eleanor Chapman born 1905 does not appear on the 1939 Scottish National Register.

If you recognise any of the above, please do get in touch by clicking here, would be pleased to hear from you.

UPDATE – 4th July 2016 – Rechecked through all Frances E Chapmans who marred in England and Wales, cross checking birth dates with 1939 England and Wales national register.  No matches.

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Why John Norris is Wrong About the World Humanitarian Summit

In a recent issue of the journal Foreign Policy, John Norris (executive director of the sustainable security and peacebuilding initiative at the Center for American Progress) characterises the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit as “a train wreck”. UNU-GCM Research Fellow Valeria Bello has a different opinion, and offers a rebuttal to his three main criticisms.

The journal Foreign Policy recently published a harsh criticism by John Norris of the forthcoming World Humanitarian Summit. In an article titled “The U.N.’s World Humanitarian Summit Is a Total Mess”, Norris argues that although “launched with the best of intentions”, the summit is “shaping up as something of a train wreck”. He seems to take this for granted when, indeed, the World Humanitarian Summit is yet to start. I’d rather wait for the summit’s conclusion before expressing such a strong judgment.

I would, however, like to address the three reasons that Norris considers the World Humanitarian Summit process to have “gone so wrong”.

First, he disparages its organisation. Norris complains that, unlike previous successful summits, the World Humanitarian Summit has not already produced, through closed-door meetings, “major agreements” between influential individuals in the world of politics and economics, thus “allowing beaming world leaders a chance to stand on the stage and talk about all the hard work, compromise, and the spirit of unity that brought them to that day”.

In other words, Norris says the reason that the UN will fail with the World Humanitarian Summit is because the process has been truly democratic and transparent, as global citizens are requesting.

I very well understand that, for some, the wishes of global citizens are not as important as the desires of world leaders. World leaders have to deal with complex, interconnected issues that are particularly difficult — as, for instance, the so-called refugee crisis.

However (though the expectation may be a bit naïve), the first commitment that governments have is to their citizens. It is clear from scientific data that in many countries of the world (including a vast majority of European countries), most of their citizens are positive towards migrants. The real issue is not that the refugee crisis is too hard to deal with, but rather that governments do not seem willing to listen to either the rational arguments of scientists and experts or the positive attitudes of the majority of their citizens.

A second problem with the summit, according to Norris, is its location: Turkey — where (he says) the “government increasingly resembles the kind of autocracy that triggers humanitarian emergencies in the first place”. I would argue, instead, that this is exactly why this place will benefit from a transparent, democratic UN process of gathering world leaders and civil society to discuss humanitarian emergencies.

In the same paragraph, Norris mentions the real trigger for his concern: fear of terrorism. Turkey is “a particularly difficult spot for the summit because of ongoing security concerns”, he cautions, and “the summit makes an appealing target”. Peaceful global relations and international security are certainly among the main targets of terrorist activities, and the security field and the humanitarian sector are evidently intertwined. But more integrated and inclusive societies, as espoused by the World Humanitarian Summit, will make it more difficult for terrorist to swell their ranks, and will weaken their arguments that are fed by hate, violence, and social divisions.

Norris cites as his third reason the fact that Médicines Sans Frontières (MSF) recently announced its decision to pull out of the summit. I understand the basis of MSF’s criticism. I can understand that those in the field, who daily witness a total lack of humanity in one part of the world, are disappointed when they also observe a lack of solidarity in the part of the world that is supposedly the most equipped in terms of welfare, economic resources, and rights.

Clearly, those countries that can, should feel a moral responsibility to provide assistance. But how are the big powers of the world responding to the ongoing huge humanitarian crisis? Are they making all possible efforts to ensure peaceful international relations, or are they stuck between fear and divisiveness?

In any case, this is not the fault of the UN and its agencies, which have tried hard, with extremely scant funds, to provide support. The failure comes from governments who are reluctant to provide needed assistance. Even among  governments who are responding to the situation by providing funds, too often those who receive the funds, and the conditions on which they receive the funds, are not the most appropriate.

As an example, it is not a strategically clever idea to fund other governments to stop migration. First, migration cannot simply be stopped — desperate people will always try to flee because of violence, hunger, or fear. Asking other governments to stop migration will only lead to more violence. Further, states do not really know the desires of their own societies. The vast majority of citizens of many countries are open to a different world, one that is inclusive and interconnected.

If the World Humanitarian Summit is a mess, who made it? Not the United Nations. This world can work much better together if everyone is brave enough to stop those who try to divide through fear-mongering.

Norris is right, though, when he says that the summit “should be seen as the beginning of a process, not its culmination”. Far from being a “train wreck”, the World Humanitarian Summit has the potential to be a real success, one that we can build on, and we all (including the MSF) should participate to make this happen.

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Snaukollen Hiking Trail

Hike to one of Finnemarka's lesser known viewpoints

  • Snaukollen viewpoint

    Snaukollen viewpoint Photo: Espen Oldeman Lund

  • Snaukollen as see from northwest

    Snaukollen as see from northwest Photo: Espen Oldeman Lund

  • Typical area along this trail

    Typical area along this trail Photo: Espen Oldeman Lund

  • The entire trail is marked with blue markers

    The entire trail is marked with blue markers Photo: Espen Oldeman Lund

Essential info

  • Season: May–October
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Distance: 11.3 kilometers (out‑and‑back)
  • Elevation Gain: 300 meters
  • Duration: 4–6 hours

About Snaukollen

Snaukollen is one of a handful of peaks in the Finnemarka forest with great views of the surrounding area. The peak is quite flat but on the northeastern side you have good views towards Glitre and all the other small lakes throughout this area.

Getting there

The hike to Snaukollen starts at Urdevann outside of Drammen. From Drammen drive for about 10 km along road 283 westbound towards Hokksund. Here you will get to a round-a-bout right by the Drammenselva river. Taking left will take you across the river to Mjøndalen, but taking the right will take you into Krokstadelva. Take a right and after only 200 meters take another right onto Gamle Riksvei. After another 200 meters take a left onto Nordlysveien.

Continue on Nordlysveien up the hill and further on until the road ends and you need to take a right to get to Årbogen. Driving through Årbogen you will get to the road taking you up to Urdevann. This is a paid road and costs 60 NOK. You can pay by cash or by Vipps(Norwegian app).

Follow this gravel road all the way up to the parking lot at Urdevann. The drive up from Årbogen is about 8 km.

Trail description

From the parking lot at Urdevann start hiking the gravel road that starts from the northern end of the lot. Follow this road for some hundred meters until the blue marked trail starts on the left side of the road. The trail immediately starts climbing up a bit and then down again on the northern end of Øyvannet.

After passing Vellingen lake the trail moves a bit up and down and there are no steep hills until you reach the foot of Snaukollen. From the foot and up there is a pretty steep the trail moving up about 100 meters before it flattens out. Then hike the last 300 meters out to the viewpoint.

  • No restrooms along this trail

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Storseterfossen Hiking Trail

A waterfall you can walk behind

Essential info

  • Destination: Sunnmøre
  • Season: May–September
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Distance: 3.1 kilometers (loop)
  • Elevation Gain: 340 meters
  • Duration: 2–3 hours

About Storseterfossen

The Storseterfossen waterfall is one of the most known waterfalls in the Geiranger area, and is part of the trail to the Storesetra farm. A well-prepared path with a railing takes you behind the waterfall without getting wet. The hike is fairly short, but has some steep sections - overall a great afternoon adventure.

Getting there

By car

From Geiranger, follow road 63 south through Gerianger centre towards Hole for about 4 km. Make a left at the sign towards Vesterås. Pass the cabins on your left and head right onto a gravel road that takes you to the parking at Vesterås.

Trail description

The trailhead is located at the parking at Vesterås farm. From the parking, follow the trail along the outbuilding at the end of the parking lot. Continue uphill until you reach the path paved by stones, made by Sherpas in 2014. From here, the incline is even all the way until you reach the top marked by signs. Head down to the waterfall and make sure you follow the guidelines at the sign. Passing behind the roaring waterfall is quite the experience, but be cautious on the wet slippery parts of the path.

You now have the option to follow the trail even further into the valley, to Storesetra farm, or head back to the parking.

There is a stand at the parking with walking sticks for loan on the trip. If you want to retain the sticks after your hike, put NOK 50 in cash in the box on the stand.

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Sea World and has been a family favourite theme park for over 35 years. Sea World has more than exciting rides, attractions and shows. It is also committed to marine research and rescue, and a place where visitors can learn about and make contact with a variety of marine animals. See the delightful Dolphin Discovery show; polar bears and penguins swimming underwater; and get up close to a fearsome shark. Linked by monorail to Sea World theme park, Sea World Resort and Water Resort is Australia’s only theme park hotel.

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Newest Action Attraction. Enjoy day on the lake then relax and enjoy lunch or dinner at the restaurant. Fun for young and old. Less than 5 minutes.

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Booking your own studio session

GardenTilesGallery20140302_0177 If you would like a chance to make your own tile or have already signed up but not been able to take advantage of the studio options offered so far, please gather a group of six to eight people and contact me. We will craft a studio schedule that will work for everyone. In addition to individual tiles, some groups are designing and creating a table-top for a cement outdoor table that will offer seating in the centre of our raised bed configuration.Groups work out a single design together and execute it in tile. Fees for the tile experience, which includes clay, glaze, firing and instruction, are $30 for an individual and $80 for a family. The fee for a group table-top would be $300 which includes all of the materials, instruction and installation of your design as well as group or individual names displayed in the edge tile.

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Your tiles will become part of an installation in the community built garden. Our build date is the weekend of June 6, 7 and 8. There are a host of ways that you can be involved and we would love to have you. Please see the article on the build which invites all of the various kinds of involvement we will need. We look forward to you joining us! Audrey Smith Director/Garden Chair/Ceramic Artist

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Many people seem to be willing to try almost anything if it means they will be able to get a good night’s rest on a regular basis and wake up feeling revitalized and free of any aches and pains in their muscles and joints. Unfortunately for many people, the sleep aid products they choose to buy do not always live up to their promises of a great night’s sleep. Before you waste another dime on ineffective sleep aids, you might consider taking advantage of the tried and tested sleep aid technology that contains the remarkable Celliant fibre.

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My central research agenda is situated at the intersection of law and politics, and explores crucial venues of political contestation that initially appear to involve technical legal issues but are actually rich areas of American political development. My work on state attorneys general, for example, examines how these actors have pursued legal changes that initially seem divorced from politics – such using fraud prosecutions to redefine the meaning of “average wholesale prices” concerning government drug reimbursements or “New Source Review” in federal environmental statutes – but are actually major venues of political conflict with billions of dollars and important constitutional principles at stake.

Likewise, my new project examines how elites in the legal profession have contributed to contemporary American political development through legalistic channels — for example, by seeking to change lawyer ethics rules and advocating for changes in plaintiffs’ attorneys fees in federal statutory litigation. While initially appearing to concern issues of “law” and not “politics,” these changes involve very real political conflicts with important consequences for American politics.

The broader observation guiding my research trajectory is that in an era in which typical policymaking venues often seem dysfunctional – and institutions with less of a connection to democratic politics, such as courts and bureaucracies, have picked up the policymaking slack – attention to alternative venues of political change become all the more important. In short, what occurs in places such as litigation settlement negotiating rooms and the American Bar Association annual meeting is important not only for narrow subsets of lawyers but to the broader polity as well.

Nolette, Paul. 2015. Federalism on Trial: State Attorneys General and National Policymaking in Contemporary America (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas) (forthcoming).

Nolette, Paul. 2014. “Law Enforcement as Legal Mobilization: Reforming the Pharmaceutical Industry through Government Litigation.” Law & Social Inquiry (forthcoming).

Nolette, Paul. 2014. “State Litigation during the Obama Administration: Diverging Agendas in an Era of Polarized Politics.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 44(3): 451-474.

Nolette, Paul. 2013. “Gubernatorial Power and the Nationalization of State Politics.” Tulsa Law Review 49(2): 279-289 (review essay).

Nolette, Paul. 2012. “Litigating the Public Interest in the Gilded Age: Common Law Business Regulation by Nineteenth-Century State Attorneys General.” Polity 44(3): 373-399.

Nolette, Paul. 2003. “Lessons Learned From South Africa’s Constitutional Court: Towards a Third Way of Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights.” Michigan State Journal of International Law 12(1): 91-119.

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