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Have you always wanted to work in a bike shop? Or are you just a naturally helpful person? Or do you like to make sure everything is Just So?
You could be just what we're looking for! We need regular volunteers to help out in our shops – particularly Byker and The Journey. We asked our Byker shop's manager, Jake, what sort of things people could help with, and here's his list:
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- Sorting through the stock of secondhand parts we generate, and putting them in the right places. Customers leave things in the wrong drawers, mechanics from the workshop do likewise, stuff gets damaged, etc. It all needs constant checking and appraising – we have a place for everything, but is everything in the right place?
- Taking payments, handling cash, card reader, etc. Again – we'll train you on how all this works.
- Anything else Jake asks of you.
What skills do you need for all this? Well, bearing in mind that we'll train you on the important bits, it's more about attitude than outright skills. You need to be friendly and approachable, with a positive attitude. You need to be interested in bikes, and support Recyke y'bike's aims. Finally, you need to be reliable and trustworthy.
What's in it for you? Well obviously, you get a sense of doing good, plus discounts at our shops. Most of our staff started out as volunteers, and many of our volunteers have gone on to work at other bike shops. So if you're looking to get into the bike business, this could be a great place to start. Similarly, if you're looking to build your CV, voluntary work is a great way to boost your experience, and show you're keen and willing. Around a quarter of our volunteers are retired – they volunteer because they still have a lot to contribute, and working with a charity is a great way to stay connected. So there's something for everyone!
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Time for a debrief after attending the Garden Writers annual shindig held in Buffalo this year – to the delight of anyone who's been there in the last decade or so and the apprehension of anyone who hasn't. Yeah, Buffalo had lots of doubters, but boy did that city shut them up!
As a Buffalo booster myself, I'm was not surprised but so pleased to hear the raves for the city's beauty, architecture, liveliness, private gardens and wild enthusiasm for gardening. For pure garden-viewing, everyone's favorite seemed to be Buffalo's famous Cottage District. Attendees are now flooding the Internet with images like these from one of my earlier visits.
But I heard at least as many raves for the Darwin Martin House Complex by Frank Lloyd Wright, possibly the best Prairie House of his in the U.S. One Facebook commenter called it "jaw-dropping" and that it was. So thanks to the organizers for including it our otherwise garden-focused visits around town. Its Tree of Life windows alone quality it for any garden tour. (We couldn't take photos inside but this video includes the interior.)
Another attraction for us and something new since my last visit to Buffalo in 2010 is the lively Canalside development, where I played hooky one morning to stroll the boardwalk and be awed by the confluence of so many bodies of water in one spot. (Lake Erie, the Buffalo and Niagara Rivers and the canal itself.)
Awards Night!
The highlight of the symposium for me was the awards banquet, for which we all dressed up – somewhat, given that gardeners are a decidedly wardrobe-challenged cohort.
I got to see my Seattle pal Linda Chalker-Scott receive GWA's first award for science-writing, here with Carol Michel, who had pushed for the award. Go, science! Nominating Linda was a natural for me. Another first-ever award was for sustainability, which went to lawn-care activist Paul Tukey. Both are great additions to the awards roster because they promote important values for us as a profession.
And that's me in hot pink with out-going GWA president Kirk Brown and the head of a buffalo. I was included in the photo line-up because my campaign to curate gardening on YouTube won an award and boy, did that make the evening fun for me! I'd never felt so included or so enthusiastic about GWA. (Go, awards!)
How to Survive a Conference
After years of gardening conferences I think I've finally figured out how to get the most out of one while being me – an introvert with short bursts of sociability.
- I never, ever share a room.
- The just-right duration for me is four days/three nights.
- It's okay to go rogue and wander off alone to see the city.
- It's also okay to sit alone on a bus, which frees you up to talk to everyone around you or, as the day wears on, no one.
- If you think you need the evening alone and change your mind, it's possible to ask total strangers if you can join them for dinner. I did that and had a fine time connecting with writers I'd never met.
- And carefully studying the agenda paid off for me. I heard the smartest people on topics of most interest to me and learned a lot. (Shout-out to Debra Prinzing and Nan Sterman, proven geniuses at creating communities online.)
The reviews are in and confirm my own impression that GWA/Buffalo was fabulous! Credit goes to too many people to name but at the top of the list are these folks.
Sally Cunningham, Buffalo's gardening maven and simply wonderful person, headed up the local organizing team. Kirk Brown's stewardship of GWA this past year has been outstanding. And the pink ladies now managing GWA are great at their jobs. Indeed, GWA's new management team has more than lived up to my hopes for them when I wrote "Why I Rejoined Garden Writers" back in January of 2016.
GWA's on a roll, folks, and with leadership like this for the coming year, I have no doubt the roll will continue. We got a hint of it when incoming president Becky Heath spoke, sang, and energized the crowd at the end of the awards banquet.
And next year, Chicago! I'll be there.


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The first on the scene was Baby Olivia.
She arrived weighing in at 7 lbs 12 oz and 21" long.
She is absolutely perfect and has stollen all of our hearts!!
She even has found her thumb :-)
She loves her mama :-)
A few days later came Baby Bennett
This little man weighed in at NINE lbs SIX oz! ...and 20.5"
He is GIGANTIC!!!
We love his squishy rolls of chub!
Here is Olivia all decked out in her first TuTu! Isn't she darling!
We love having these sweet angels in our family!!!
This is Olivia thinking about life ;-)
We love this picture. It really shows how different they are in size ;-)
I should return to quilting in a few weeks ;-). One of my daughters had an emergency c-section and the other had a few serious complications that make getting around a little rough :(.
I'm happy that my girls live next door to each other and not very far from me so I can help them out and love on these sweet angels!!!
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Violent Central Darfur weapons search continues
Searches for weapons have continued in the Central Darfur town of Nierteti, where sources reported that soldiers beat fourteen people during a raid. Two sheikhs have been arrested.
Members of the Military Intelligence continued the raids in the town on Thursday and arrested five people, including the sheikh of Tur, Abdelmutalab Abdallah, and the sheikhs of the southern Nierteti camp for displaced people: Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed.
The inspection of illegally held weapons was carried out by 50 vehicles, starting at 8am. Witnesses reported that Military Intelligence members beat fourteen people with whips, sticks, and rifle butts. The headmaster of the Tur basic school, named Ismael, is among the victims.
The soldiers also searched the local market for weapons, without finding any. They reportedly left the town at 8pm.
The previous day, three displaced people in the Nierteti camp were seriously wounded in house-to-house searches conducted by the Rapid Support Forces. Also Tur witnessed violent weapons searches that day.
During the past two weeks, the Military Intelligence unit in Nierteti detained 25 people, including a sheikh. A reason was not provided. On Wednesday the Military Intelligence released thirteen of the detainees.
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The Friends of Greville Janner
by Francis Carr Begbie
WITH THE CLAMOUR of protest over the decision not to prosecute one of Britain's most senior Jewish politicians over child rape allegations showing no sign of abating, it is worthwhile looking back at the career of the man at the centre.
Even without these lurid claims, Greville Janner (pictured) must rank as one of the most unpopular specimens to ooze his way onto Parliament's famous green benches.
With his pink carnation, clammy handshake and faint after burn of eau-de-cologne, his grinning approach was guaranteed to send a shiver down the spines of the toughest parliamentarians, even in his own Labour Party.
Nevertheless, this ingratiating, limp-wristed flatterer has prospered over the decades of his slithering along the corridors of power, not least due to his astute playing of the Jewish ethnic card.
His modus operandi was as a backroom operator, a Mr. Fix-it, a dispenser of favours and passer-on of messages. He was one of those types who would insist on doing someone a favour whether it was wanted or not. In his autobiography he says it was his mother who taught him his most important political lesson — there are few problems that could not be solved with a quiet word in the right ear.
Indeed, his own political career was launched by a backroom deal. The lifelong Londoner effectively inherited his Midlands constituency from his father after a dubious, secretive process which infuriated many local Labour Party members.
When it came to weaselling himself into the favour of a powerful figures, he displayed a sublime talent. A favoured tactic was to lobby some prominent figure for recognition for another one, especially in the Jewish community. Here, he lobbies the Archbishop of Canterbury for an honour for the Chief Rabbi. There, he buttonholes a passing government minister and suggests an honour for a Jewish businessman.
From the beginning of his career a number of distinct themes have dominated his working life. One of the least savoury as it turns out was his close interest in the welfare of young boys who fall into the care system, and to that end he is a longstanding member of the Boy Scouts Association.
But the main one is his overriding commitment to the Jewish people. That has been his main priority and he claims it stems from his experience as Britain's youngest war crime investigator when he was in Germany just after the war.
As far as his own constituency of Leicester West was concerned, Janner was clearly more concerned about the welfare of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent than he was about the native White community or, as he puts it in his book, the "battle against racism and anti-Semitism is at the core of my life's work".
From the moment he was elected in 1970, Janner set about making himself indispensible to the fast-growing Indian community. At the time Britain was in the middle of a refugee crisis when Ugandan dictator Idi Amin threw all the Indian immigrants out of his country.
Under Britain's Commonwealth and Nationality laws, a disastrous overhang from the days of Empire, these Indians were technically British subjects and entitled to come and stay in Britain. The laws had been drawn up as an administrative convenience and it had never been envisaged that Indians would ever leave their own country. But in the sixties they began arriving in Britain in vast numbers. Many converged on Leicester to the alarm of the town's native White population.
Leicester soon became the scene of racial discord and Whites took to the streets to vent their anger at being swamped by a foreign influx they had never been consulted about. Labour Party voters deserted for the assertive new nationalist party, the National Front.
For Janner this was an opportunity to show where his loyalties — such as they were — really lay. In his memoir he recalls inviting the Indian community to a meeting and telling them he stood "shoulder to shoulder" with them against the native White opposition.
"I am a Jew and half my family were destroyed by racists. I am an expert in discrimination." Said the privately-educated, Oxford and Harvard graduate who had inherited his father's parliamentary seat.
In a breathtaking passage aimed directly at the White people he was paid to represent, he describes a conversation with a non-Asian school head teacher. He claims that the unnamed head teacher said "They have raised the intelligence in my school." The sheer contempt for the native White population in that remark is unmistakable.
Gleefully, he remembered how he dismissed the objections of the native Whites. He writes "I was determined to battle against some of my indigenous constituents dislike of the unlike…" And enthusiastically he took up the fight against his own White constituents.
In 1971 Leicester council placed an advert in Kampala newspapers saying Leicester was full but this did nothing to stem the immigration flow. Janner recalls: "The Leicester Mercury and the local police were my allies in keeping the local National Front and the fascists at bay. In local elections in 1977 the National Front only missed gaining a seat in one of my housing estates by a few votes. 'Enough' I said to my Labour colleagues. We recognised that the estate was almost entirely white. They were afraid of people they had never met. The National Front seemed their natural ally. We must expose them. " he recalled.
His access to Jewish network of contacts and big money proved crucial, and it is here he reveals an episode of extremely dubious legality. "I consulted the (Jewish) Board of Deputies. They had recently produced a wonderful pamphlet with the bold slogan on the front. 'The National Front' is a Nazi front'. We put one into every letter box on the estate. The local fascists cringed and never received the same level of votes again." In fact a police prosecution of far-left activists did take place for circulating literature in contravention of election laws.
One of the NF candidates threatened to sue for libel, with the result that Janner took a Jewish high street retail millionaire called Stanley Kalms up to Leicester for a visit. Janner claims in his book that Kalms promised to underwrite any court action. Lord Kalms was later to become a huge contributor to the Conservative Party — a good example of how common Jewish interests override trifling party considerations.
With Janner's support, the Indian surge continued and by 1976 around 40,000 Asians from India and Pakistan had flooded into Leicester and comprised about 20% of the population. Janner freely admits he came to depend on the Indian community for his election majorities. National Front council votes were as high as 30% in local elections.
Janner repaid Stanley Kalms' support by lobbying furiously for him to receive first a knighthood and then a peerage. This finally paid off in 2004 when Kalms entered the House of Lords as Baron Kalms of Edgeware, better known as Lord Kalms.
As if so often the case with Jewish politicians, the diversity Janner was so keen to impose on his constituents did not extend to his own circle or even his private office. From his numerous business partners to the researchers he used throughout his parliamentary career, he seems to have hired or worked with only other Jews and used gentiles solely for admin and other menial roles.
It has been frequently pointed out in TOO that the Jewish community is forgiving of Jews who run afoul of the law. Disgraced Jewish businessmen frequently double-down on their ethnic identity by suddenly developing a deep interest in the cause of Israel and Jewish charities.
Janner has been able to turn this dubious and transparent tactic to great profit. Time and again he has provided his services as a political fig leaf to shady businessmen — for a price, of course.
One was the London casino magnate Cyril Stein who had his gaming licence revoked for disreputable practices in the 1970s when magistrates said he was not a "fit and proper" person. Janner was happy to accept a non-executive seat on the board of Stein's Ladbrokes betting shop chain which he boasted paid more than his parliamentary salary.
The second involved another millionaire businessman called Gerald Ronson who was jailed for a year for his part in a share-rigging scandal in 1990. Ronson was released from prison to a sumptuous "Welcome Home" party provided by the ever-forgiving Jewish community. It was presided over by the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and there too, ingratiating as ever, was Greville Janner.
Since then Ronson has wormed his way back to respectability of sorts with his chairmanship of the sinister Jewish security organisation, the CST, which is largely an offshoot of the Board of Jewish Deputies.
Janner's energetic lobbying helped ensure that Ronson's criminal record did not stop him being made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012 for his services to Jewish — and other — charities.
Another of Janner's close associates was Stuart Kuttner, a managing editor of the News of the World newspaper when bogus exposes of non-existent racist and neo-nazi plots was something of a staple at the paper. (A former News of the World journalist hack has written about this practice at length).
Other close associates have included the notorious fraudster Robert Maxwell ("Robert Maxwell, aka the Bouncing Czech, demonstrated that you can have a lot of fun in publishing … especially if you are using other people's money and are not inhibited by ethics or concern about legality") and Lord Goodman who was a solicitor for former British prime minister Harold Wilson and is said to have prevented many a scandal by threatening newspaper editors.
Janner was also close to other Jewish politicians such as Mrs Thatcher's former Home Secretary Leon Brittan, now deceased, who has been much in the news of late for his alleged involvement with a paedophile ring.
But it is Janner's role in the establishment of Britain's most moneyspinning holocaust charity that is his crowning glory. The Holocaust Education Trust has been rather silent about the debt they owe to Greville Janner, since it became public knowledge that he was a suspected child rapist. As I noted in an earlier article,
This huge organisation has embarked on one of the largest programmes of social engineering ever seen in Britain. Its main achievement has been in making Holocaust propaganda a central part of the core National Curriculum in England. Now every pupil between 11 and 14 must undergo mandatory Holocaust instruction. More than half of Britain's schools now take part in the HET's "Lessons from Auschwitz" programme while it has sent about 15,000 pupils to visit Auschwitz itself.
It directs an ambitious "Outreach" indoctrination programme and claims to have recruited 20,000 "Ambassadors" amongst Britain's young people to spread the word and diligently ensure that Holocaust enthusiasm does not drop to unacceptable levels.
The HET has impeccable cross-party political and business Jewish connections, including House of Commons Speaker John Bercow and Lord Browne, formerly the head of British Petroleum. But getting the Prime Minister to attend its annual appeal dinner and announce not only the latest cash boost [from the government to the tune of £2,400,000 per year] but that he would chair the new Holocaust Commission and visit Auschwitz himself next year, was a real coup.
Nevertheless they could never have cornered such a huge share of the Holocaust market without his connections, access to money or driving ambition. It is the achievement of which he is the most proud.
When not networking, Janner's main joy in life seemed to be to go on international junkets in which he would never miss an opportunity to oil himself up to local dignitaries.
Jewish causes were always what was closest to his heart, whether it was recovering looted wartime art or arranging for the Jews to leave the Eastern Europe for Israel during the Cold war.
Janner's love for his people has always helped him overcome his infirmities. Two years ago and four years after his diagnosis of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he was fit enough to travel to Israel to receive his ultimate accolade from his people — the opening of a kindergarten named after him, in a ceremony attended by the British Ambassador, in Israel.
The naming of the Lord Greville Janner Education Centre in Galilee was a thank you for both his lifelong interest in the welfare of children and commitment to Israel and the Jewish people.
As an indication of how great the public outcry is, eleven leading MPs from seven parties — at least two of them Jewish — have written to The Times asking that the Director of Public Prosecutions reconsider her decision not to prosecute him. They say she risks "damaging public confidence" with her position that the case not go any further.
Life has been good to Greville Janner, due in no small part to his ability for friendship and ethnic fealty. These are gifts, however, that finally seem to be deserting him.
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See also Francis Carr Begbie's "The Silence of Greville Janner"
Source: The Occidental Observer
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It appears that the national office is on a campaign to make me a very happy man. Again more good news!!! A hook-nosed, reptilian piece of filth is making a mockery of the cherished British legal system. Well so what – it has been happening for decades, but it is still good news. It highlights the obvious fact that the laws of any western democracy do not apply to god's little darlings – they are covered by the holocaust exemption clause. I hope some of the lemmings will wake up to this fact – their future survival depends on it.
THE CIA, GREVILLE JANNER, YURI GELLER AND OBAMA By http://aanirfan.blogspot.com.au Oct 8, 2014 – 9:26:19 AM Saturday, 4 October 2014 There is a belief that many of Britain's top people are controlled by pedophile rings run by the CIA, Mossad and MI5. In the 1990s, Labour Member of the UK Parliament Andrew Faulds was in possession of a leaflet entitled 'Concerned Leicester Parents' and a booklet on 'How people in high places covered-up for a Parliamentary paedophile'. The documents describe 'allegations of sexual abuse against a child' by the Labour Party's Greville Janner. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ Lord Janner was Member of Parliament for Leicester, he was president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, he is vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and he is friend of the CIA's Yuri Geller.… Read more »
LORD JANNER WAS A FAITHFUL TALMUDIC JEW THE TALMUD IS THE HEART'S BLOOD OF THE JEWISH RELIGION "The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe ~ whether we are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists ~ we follow the Talmud. It is our common law." ~ Herman Wouk We will legally define the Talmud as the basis of the Israeli legal system. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu SANHEDRIN, 55b-55a: "What is meant by this? – Rab said: Pederasty with a child below nine years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child above that. Samuel said: Pederasty with a child below three years is not treated as with a child above that (2) What is the… Read more »
HOW PEDOPHILIA CAME TO HOLLYWOOD BY BILLY WILDER Screenwriter and director, Billy Wilder, has had an enormous impact on the public, as substantiated by his numerous Oscars and other film awards. Responsible for famous films like Hold Back the Dawn, Five Graves to Cairo, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, Sabrina and The Apartment, Wilder's cinema successes were granted him as he was just another pawn who was utilized with satanic acumen to help abolish society's established code of ethics. His own authorized biographer who worked closely with him, Maurice Zolotow, wrote: "Of course, I did not know what I was getting into when I had started this. It became, as all such journeys have become, a journey to find out the secret springs of this most… Read more »
SEX ABUSE, SHONDA AND CONCEALMENT IN ORTHODOX JEWISH COMMUNITIES Michael Lesher, McFarland & Company, 287 pps. $45. By Steve Lipman March 3, 2015, 12:00 am 0 The disgrace of sexual abusers (nearly entirely men) who identify themselves as Orthodox Jews is a well-known subject, covered extensively in recent decades in the Jewish and general media. Lesher, an attorney whose specializes in this part of family law, is a longtime community activist on behalf of the victims of sexual abuse. He is an outspoken critic of what he sees as a failing of the Orthodox community he came to as an adult. His book concentrates on one disturbing aspect of the phenomenon – the propensity of Orthodox Judaism's leaders and rank-and-file members, in the United States and Israel, to defend and… Read more »
WHO RUNS HOLLYWOOD? C'MON December 19, 2008|JOEL STEIN I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood. How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive… Read more »


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The Navajo Notion of Justice--by Robert Yazzie , syndicated from Yes Magazine, Nov 01, 2016
In January 2000, the Navajo Nation Council decided to revamp the Navajo Nation Criminal Code. The Council eliminated jail time and fines for 79 offenses, required the use of peacemaking in criminal cases, and required that the courts see to the rights of victims. The Council also incorporated the traditional concept of nalyeeh into the criminal code. Nalyeeh refers to the process of confronting someone who hurts others with a demand that they talk out the action and the hurt it caused so that something positive will come of it.
This decision represents a serious challenge to the courts of the Navajo Nation, whose jurisdiction includes tribal members in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Navajo Nation judges had gotten used to the western revolving-door approach to wrongdoings — jailing, probation, new charges, revocation of probation, and the rest of it. Those hurt by crime were left out — the $1,000 restitution orders did not address the trauma caused by the crimes. But the Navajos now realize that the prison approach to crime does not work.
The western criminal justice system assumes that the problem is the actor, and imprisonment is primarily designed to work on convicted defendants. In contrast, traditional Navajo justice deals with people's actions. Western adjudication is a search for what happened and who did it; Navajo peacemaking is about the effects of what happened. Who got hurt? What do they feel about it? What can be done to repair the harm? The Navajo Nation courts get close to 28,000 criminal cases each year. The largest categories of crime are assaults and batteries (most often among family members), other crimes against family members,
driving while intoxicated and other alcohol-related crimes, and disorderly conduct. The judges have few sentencing options because there is jail space for only 220 people at any one time. Instead, the Navajo justice system is turning to peacemakers.
In Navajo peacemaking, offenders are brought in to a session involving the person accused of an offense and the person who suffered from it, along with the "tag-along" victims of the crime, namely the relatives of the accused and of the person hurt by the accused. (I am hesitant to use the term victim, because we know that in many situations such as fighting within the family, the roles and accompanying labels are not that simple. See page 38 for an example.)
The sessions are moderated by a community leader called a "peacemaker." The action is put on the table. People talk about what happened and how they feel about it.
A harmful act is "something that gets in the way of living your life," and Navajo peacemaking deals with such an act by identifying it, talking about it, and devising a plan to deal with it.
One factor especially leaps out that is part of Navajo traditional knowledge. Navajos know post-traumatic stress disorder as nayeeor "monster." What is the essence of the cycle of violence, in which children who are abused or neglected become offenders themselves?Nayee. Antisocial personality disorder? Nayee.
Peacemaking is based upon family therapy. As Philmer Bluehouse and James Zion of the Navajo peacemaker system have said, peacemaking is a ceremony that uses traditional practices now being "discovered" by the western world to kill or weaken "monsters." The act is the focus of peacemaking; you get it out, put it on the table, and look at it. The process is much the same as the ceremonial practice of turning abstract monsters into something tangible and concrete before you, and then dealing with them.
Traditional Navajo law requires families to take responsibility for their family members. It is not a
coerced responsibility, but one that comes from the respect and love people should have for their relatives. In peacemaking, the relatives of those who hurt someone else come forward to help with restitution and to watch over their relative to be sure he or she does not offend again.
Rewriting the script
Donald Nathanson, a psychiatrist in the restorative justice movement, tells us that the key to violence control is "affect modulation." He says that as we grow from childhood, we learn scripts — ways of responding to things that frighten or anger us. These scripts follow what he calls the "compass of shame," relying on withdrawal, avoidance, "hurting self," "hurting other," or some combination of these. If the script is an intense one, we see withdrawal into alcohol, avoidance by becoming a street person, literally hurting others, and hurting self in drug-dependence, suicide, and other self-destructive behaviors.
Those kinds of scripts are familiar. Harmful scripts cannot be addressed using suppression tactics. They are best addressed by showing people the harmful effects of their conduct and the fact there are better ways of dealing with the things that frighten or challenge them. Navajo peacemaking speaks precisely to "the compass of shame" by subduing harmful scripts and teaching people how to avoid hurting others.
In Navajo thinking, thought is the inner form of speech, and speech is the inner form of action. It's a simple enough concept — as you think, so will you speak, and as you speak, so will you do.
If your action is fueled by alcohol or drugs, it is going to hurt others. What does someone who hurts others think or reflect about that? In the Western system, there is nothing other than ineffective punishment to compel someone who hurts another to reflect on what he or she has done. There is nothing to make people face their actions and their effects. There is little to involve those who get hurt, including the tag-along victims — spouses, children, and relatives.
We say you should start your day with prayer and by seeking inspiration, and take that inner thinking and turn it into a plan. The plan then becomes action, following on what you thought, planned, and spoke. At the end of the day, you reflect on what you did so that you can do better tomorrow. That is the good way.
A symbol of healed relations
Some are surprised to learn that in traditional Navajo justice, restitution for a wrongdoing can be symbolic. It can be a piece of jewelry or some other item of little nominal value but great symbolic value. Horses are prized highly by Navajos, and they are a form of restitution for serious sexual insults.
How does symbolic restitution help someone who is hurt? Navajos are more interested in what the restitution means than its value. Does the item used for restitution say, "I'm sorry"? Does it say, "I honor your worth and dignity with this thing that we Navajos prize"? Does it say, "Let this be a symbol and something tangible to remind us that we have talked this hurt out and entered into good relations with each other"?
We know that peacemaking works. It has proven successful in problem areas such as driving while intoxicated, delinquency, family violence, and alcohol-related crime. It allows families to be involved in helping their relatives (whether they were the ones doing the hurting or the ones who got hurt), and it helps everyone look at the monster of the action and its effects.
Can Navajo peacemaking prevent harm in addition to dealing with crimes after they happen? About 25 percent of all Navajos are children nine and under — a huge youth cohort. If we know that a child who is abused or neglected is more likely to enter the cycle of violence, doesn't it make sense to put resources in place for children? Peacemaking supplements child protection programs to help both children and parents. Philmer Bluehouse left the Judicial Branch recently to take Navajo peacemaking into the schools, where he can reach out to the children who are hurt.
The peacemaking challenge
The Navajo Nation Council exercised a great deal of courage and foresight in declaring the system broken and making traditional Navajo justice the preferred criminal justice method.
Will this new approach work? It poses difficult logistical problems. There are now approximately 250 peacemakers; how can the Navajo Nation courts recruit and train enough peacemakers to handle 28,000 criminal cases a year?
If you can't build new prisons and fill them, what do you do? You leave the process of putting serious offenders in prison to the federal government under the Major Crimes Act (which punishes felonies committed in Indian Country), and you direct the Navajo Nation justice system to focus upon traditional Navajo justice.
This is a bold experiment, but if it works, it may offer lessons to an America that is beginning to recognize that you can't lock up a major portion of the population (usually people of color).
Perhaps there are other ways to deal with crime; the answers may lie in dealing with actions, not actors, allowing people to face and solve their own problems, using peacemaking for crime prevention by getting at the nayee early on, and rewriting old scripts.
We Navajos knew about all that stuff traditionally, and it is time for us to remember.
This Saturday join an Awakin Call with Robert Yazzie, Chief Justice Emeritus of the Navajo Nation. RSVP details and more here.
This article is shared here with permission from YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Robert Yazzie is a citizen of and Chief Justice Emeritus of the Navajo Nation. He served as Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation from 1992 through 2003.
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Dear Readers:
Happy Chanukah and welcome to Issue 13 of Asian Jewish Life. While this issue was initially meant to be a celebration of food and festivals, the recent disaster in the Philippines has turned it into something a bit different. We have put acouple of great food pieces on hold in order to bring the Philippines into the spotlight. In a later issue we will discuss,in depth, the incredible response from the Israeli/Jewish world to this disaster.
For now, we bring you a very different look at the Philippines in Jewish Refugee Rescue in the Philippines, The Cantor Joseph Cysner Story (Part 1) by Bonnie M. Harris. This is a very detailed account of the 'how' and 'why' Jewish refugees made their way to the Philippines during the Holocaust.
In a very different piece, we hear from Carl Hoffman his personal story of hisJewish-Filipino family's connection,or reconnection for Carl, with Judaism and their decision to make aliyah. Hispiece, originally appearing in Love taps, a collection of short stories by Hoffman,is entitled, An Accidental Israeli- A trip to Manila paves the way home.
We take another look at aliyah, a pieceof fiction by Sophie Judah entitled Tales of Grandpa Eli. In this issue we feature Part 1- The Story of My Parents. Other parts of this unpublished work will be featured in future issues of AJL. The Story of My Parents is a moving look at an Indian family's struggle to adapt to their new lives in Israel.
Also making aliyah, we look at the story of the Kaifeng community and their journey in a beautiful photo essay by Jason Jia, Fully Jewish-Fully Chinese. We have decided to highlight the photos that specifically highlight their life inI srael. See page 2 for a glimpse at their life in Kaifeng.
And since I do love a great Jewish journey story, we also hear from Liane Wakabayashi in our cover story, Becoming Observant in Tokyo – A Personal Shabbat Journey. The original artwork on the cover was also supplied by Liane.
Also related to a journey, in our Travel Diary we hear about Rabbi Judith Edelman-Green's trip to Mumbai in Spirituality as Spice to Life- My time with the Bene Israel.
In Film in Focus, we look at a journey to freedom following the liberation ofthe Ravensbruck Concentration Camp.We focus on one very small part of the film, Harbour of Hope, that explores the friendship between a Chinese woman and a Jewish mother and daughter while in the camp.
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We hope you have a very happy Chanukah.
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Heather is a stay-at-home mom who enjoys camping with family, tackling DIY projects with her husband, and watching her kids' soccer games.
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After purchasing our long-rented house from our landlord, there were so many projects we knew we wanted to tackle on our outdated house. So many, in fact, that we overwhelmed ourselves and just didn't know where to start.
I felt like I needed to do something—something that was a symbol to me that this was now our house. I wanted it to be something inexpensive, that I could do alone, and, of course, something that would be an almost immediate difference.
Like so many other things in our home, the appliance hood over the stove that houses lights and the exhaust fan is of 1970's coloring. I figured "how hard could this be?" and set off to get rid of the yellow and paint it to match our other appliances.
Getting Started
Upon inspection, I was pretty sure removal of the hood was not something that was in my realm of abilities, so I decided I would paint it while it was in place. I went to Wal-Mart and purchased some TSP alternative cleaner, some Rustoleum spray appliance epoxy, and some cheap garbage bags to use as covers. I came home and got down to business. Often, when I'm starting a project, I send my husband a warning text and let him know he may be coming home to chaos; however, this time I dove right in, hoping to finish before he arrived home from work.
This project was so easy and rather quick, that I'm not sure that the term project can really be used. If you have an ounce of confidence in your ability to wash, tape, and spray, this can be done very easily in a day- and most of that time is actually spent waiting for paint to dry.
- Following directions on package of TSP cleaner, wash down hood to remove grease and dirt accumulation from cooking. Remove filters and light covers as wash those as well. I soaked them in the kitchen sink in the cleaner while I worked on the hood itself. This took maybe 15 minutes.
- After hood was dry, I began taping up the garbage bags and making sure surrounding cabinets, appliances, and counters were covered. *See Picture* This step took another 10-15 minutes and I might have gone a little crazy with the coverage.
- Following directions on the can, I sprayed the appliance epoxy in even swipes until covered. I waited the recommended 30 minutes between coats, applied 2 more coats and allowed those to dry. Including drying time, this step took about 2 hours.
- Remove tape and garbage bags and let the drying process complete. The can says dry to touch in 2-4 hours, to handle in 5-9, and completely dry in 24 hours. I recommend (just to be safe) eating dinner out.
- After waiting 2 hours, I reinstalled the filter and light cover and the project was finished. Then, I sent my husband a picture of the finished project.
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While this project was super easy, there were some things that are worth noting.
- This paint/epoxy emits wicked fumes. I had windows and doors open and fans blowing and I still had to go outside a few times. Do not do this if you can't ventilate!
- The TSP alternative is a very strong cleaner, wear gloves. It can and will irritate your skin.
- When you send the after picture to your husband, he won't even notice the new paint and reply with "did you move the utensils beside the stove?" Ugh... I guess the outdated yellow only bothered me!
This article is accurate and true to the best of the author's knowledge. Content is for informational or entertainment purposes only and does not substitute for personal counsel or professional advice in business, financial, legal, or technical matters.
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Question: Did you paint the underside of your stove's hood?
Answer: Yes I did. Just take extra precaution and time to make sure everything is taped off. I removed the light panel and painted under there as well.
Question: Can you tell me what kind of cleaner you used to remove grease after you painted your stove's hood? I just want to make sure that the paint will resist the cleaning degreaser and not stay on my rag.
Answer: I just use my everyday cleaner: either hot soapy water or an all-purpose Lysol Cleaner diluted per instructions on the bottle.
bonnie from san francisco on July 10, 2019:
i saw that you sent your husband an "after" picture and my first thought was "my boyfriend wouldn't even notice"...man, they are ALL the same...lol


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We offer sea kayaking and paddle surf along the Coast del Sol, from the most famous beaches like the natural reserve Nerja Maro Cerro-Gordo with its "Cueva del Pirata" or even from the shore of the beautiful La Vinuela lake.
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679 Women at the IMF Protest New York Times Coverage
"We feel insulted by your description of our workplace," they write in a letter
On Friday, The New York Times published a scathing report titled "At I.M.F., Men on Prowl and Women on Guard," depicting the International Monetary Fund as hostile to women and "ruled by alpha male economists." The article said some women avoid wearing skirts in fear of drawing attention and that "sexual norms" left women "vulnerable to harassment."
Now, a group of 679 women at the IMF have signed and sent a letter to the Times saying the newspaper grossly misrepresented the organization, according to an IMF spokesman. "We--a group of women at the IMF ranging from administrative assistants to department heads--do not recognize the picture of the IMF painted in your article," reads the letter. "We feel insulted by your description of our workplace." The letter accuses the Times of cherry-picking a small number of incidents at the organization, which has a total staff of 2,421 employees, to make the entire institution look bad. The letter continues:
The organization we know is characterized instead, as our ethics adviser recently said, by "dedication to professional excellence and ethical integrity."
No, it is not perfect. We know that some of our female colleagues have been subjected to unwanted advances. We feel for them, we support them and we will fight for their right to be heard and protected. But these cases, unfortunately, occur in any place where human beings work together.
The I.M.F. recognizes the importance of respect for women in both its policies and practices. It has long had strict policies on sexual harassment; some of us worked to make them come about.
Contrary to your article, there is nothing unusual about recognizing that close personal relationships in the workplace do not automatically involve harassment. On May 6 — ironically, just shortly before the spotlight swung to these matters — the I.M.F. adopted strong reporting requirements to ensure that any ensuing conflicts of interest are addressed and resolved. That policy revision also strengthens protection against retaliation.
"The signatories are not saying that the IMF is perfect," said William Murray, an IMF spokesman. "They are saying that the New York Times story was offensive and a seriously distorted view of working conditions at the Fund." A small group of female economists who meet routinely and informally to chat about work-related issues first drafted the letter, Murray said. As word spread around the organization, the number of signatories ballooned to represent 28 percent of the entire IMF staff and 64 percent of the women at the organization. The Atlantic Wire inquired with the editor of the piece, Len Apcar, and a spokeswoman but we have not yet heard back. Update: "We stand by our story," said Eileen Murphy, vice president of corporate communications at the Times, in an e-mail conversation.
The Times article, written by Binyamin Appelbaum and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, ran on the front page of Friday's paper. It says it relied on "interviews and documents," which portrayed the fund as an institution "markedly different from those of Washington" where "romances often flourish" and "lines are sometimes crossed." It also featured statements from a former IMF employee, Carmen Reinhart, who said "it's sort of like 'Pirates of the Caribbean'; The rules are more like guidelines." Another former employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Times a senior manager would send her explicit emails seeking a relationship. She notified her boss but the employee "wasn't punished. Not at all."
The page one piece got a fair amount of attention when it was published, including a pickup from CBS News saying the IMF has "hazy sexual norms, leading to an unusually high number of intra-office romances and endemic sexual harassment and misconduct," as it cited the Times article. Foreign Policy also cited the article, with the banner headline "International Male Frathouse?" and American Spectator ran with the headline "The IMF: Lawless Cosmopolitanism." The article was also cited in The Atlantic Wire in conjunction with coverage of previous complaints about its former head Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
The IMF is currently searching for a new managing director following the resignation of Strauss-Kahn on Wednesday. Strauss-Kahn faces an indictment on sexual assault charges, an incident which followed a 2008 complaint against Strauss-Kahn related to his brief affair with Piroska Nagy, an IMF economist. In the complaint, Nagy said Strauss-Kahn "abused his position" to force her into a relationship. Though she warned that he was "ill-equipped" to work with women, the IMF dropped its internal probe of Strauss-Kahn concluding that the relationship was "consensual."


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"Kill your idols," said Paul Dano at the red carpet event for "Being Flynn." The Focus Features release, based on the autobiographical novel "Another Bullshit Night In Suck City" by Nick Flynn, focuses on Flynn's rocky relationship with his self-proclaimed tortured genius of a father. A homeless vagabond who insisted he was purposely seeking material for his unfinished manuscript, Jonathan was a stubborn old man who frustrated Nick in adulthood but was never present in Nick's childhood, leading to Nick having no idea what to think about this walking myth. A fairly different definition of an idol, but in the directionless young Nick's eyes, the next best thing.
Seeing his own father brought to life by a household name like Robert De Niro gave author Nick Flynn pause. He says that, "Character-wise, De Niro was able to embody my father in a creepy way. I might need some therapy!" As De Niro got behind the wheel of Jonathan's taxi, erasing all memories of Travis Bickle, Nick experienced, "The full range of emotions on the set, terror, but also being moved, seeing a great actor act out your life."
"The real Jonathan Flynn considers himself literally one of the great writers of the twentieth century," says director Paul Weitz. "He's extremely articulate, and would probably think of himself most akin to the Beat Generation, essentially classless, not necessarily thinking of himself as the underclass." In the film, Jonathan is seen as something of a disruptive force in Nick's chaotic life. But don't think this onscreen representation would make the real-life Jonathan think any less of himself. Paul recounts, "In real life, I went with De Niro to meet Jonathan, he looked at De Niro and asked, 'Do you think you can pull this off?' He was a delusional man. But his delusions have now been borne out, and he's being played by Robert De Niro."
Dano, who plays Nick in the film, thinks De Niro may have understood Jonathan a little bit better than he was letting on. He traveled to meet the real Jonathan and, "He opened the door in his bathrobe. Gave me a big hug, and was so nice, I was immediately disarmed. But the first time I meet him in the film, he's in the bathtub, and I don't think that was a conscious choice." As for the overwhelming task of playing a son to Robert De Niro, Dano was thrilled, but professional. "When you first get the part, you're super excited," he says, noting how big a fan he was of the Oscar-winning legend. "We had some meaty, good scenes together. But you sorta have to lock that away in your brain."
"Being Flynn" is a title far off from the explicit bluntness of "Another Bullshit Night In Suck City." But while Nick Flynn considers it a straightforward "Commercial decision," Weitz found a way to make logical of the change, even if it wasn't his first choice. "It was a consolation prize title," Weitz shrugs. "I was anxious about changing it. But Nick had told me he always had a very ambivalent feeling about his name, because a name is such a big part of you, but growing up without a dad he didn't feel on a visceral level where he came from. So that gave me the idea to use his name in the title." From here, it's onto "Admission," Weitz's next effort, a dramedy starring Tina Fey and possibly Owen Wilson, and while the film doesn't have a green light just yet, Weitz says, with a wink, "I'll know in the next couple of weeks."
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I had just started learning some skills of the bujinkan. I have done a few months of the basics as well as some weapons work. My instructor has experience in sword arts as well. I did enjoy some of the weapons work especially the hanbo and sword. So, with this quarantine I'm not obviously able to get out. So, any recommendations on books and or videos to get some basic instruction on sword (stances, swing/strike, etc. ) Yes, I did send a message to my instructor as well and look forward to his suggestions as well.
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44th Annual Pioneer Days Festival
Milford Myhre named Lake Wales Pioneer of the Year 2019
LAKE WALES, Florida – The Lake Wales History Museum hosts the 44th Annual Pioneer Days Festival on Saturday & Sunday, October 26 & 27, 2019 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. each day in Lake Wailes Park. This event is a heritage celebration for the whole family with free admission and free parking on both days. During the Pioneer of Year Celebration the museum will honor Milford Myhre as the 2019 Lake Wales Pioneer of the Year. The celebration will be held during the festival on Saturday, October 26 at 10 AM.
Milford Myhre is a carillonneur and organist and received his musical training at the University of Nebraska, (Bachelor of Music degree), the University of Michigan (Master of Music degree), and the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium. While studying at the University of Nebraska, he first began playing the carillon at the Plymouth Congregational Church in 1950. He served as carillonneur, organist, and music instructor at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana (1957-1967) before being appointed as Bok Tower Gardens' second carillonneur on January 1, 1968.
Mr. Myhre has been a resident of Lake Wales since 1968. He served as the carillonneur of Bok Tower Gardens for 36 years, until his retirement in 2004. During that time he played daily concerts at the tower, greeted thousands of visitors to the area, hosted world-renowned composers, established the first International Carillon Festival, the Carillon Fellows program, the Anton Brees Carillon Library, and the Music at Pinewood concert series. He is also a founding board member of the Lake Wales Arts Council, the Lake Wales Museum Commission, and founder and director of the Lake Wales Chorale. Mr. Myhre has been an active member of the First Presbyterian Church in Lake Wales, and consulted on the Rieger pipe organ installation in 1973. And, he is still involved today, even though he is retired, he continues to volunteer for the Lake Wales Arts Center and attends and promotes arts events around Lake Wales.
"Milford is one of the kindest gentlemen you will ever meet", states current carillonneur of Bok Tower Gardens, Geert D'hollander. "He has taught me, inspired me, and been a mentor for me and so many other musicians. And, while he has performed organ and carillon all over the world, the Lake Wales community is truly Milford's family."
"Milford has dedicated his life to teaching musicianship, and he taught me so many things about life in general. He is just a very unique person, and his support of the Lake Wales community goes beyond the Tower. He has helped the Lake Wales Arts Center, First Presbyterian Church and the history museum. Milford is always supportive of the arts, and I just admire him for all he does," states Bill De Turk, 3rd carillonneur of Bok Tower Gardens.
Mr. Myhre has received many awards including the Berkeley Medal in recognition of his distinguished contribution to the carillon art in 1983, and the Key to the City of Lake Wales. And this year, the City of Lake Wales issued a special proclamation declaring June 13, 2019 as Milford Myhre Recognition Day. Milford is an integral part of Lake Wales' community history. Please join the museum in honoring Mr. Milford Myhre on Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 10 AM in Lake Wailes Park.
Enjoy the below listed activities, entertainment, vendors, and food and beverage during Lake Wales 44th Annual Pioneer Days Festival.
Family-friendly heritage education activities offered throughout the weekend celebration include historic architecture tours of downtown Lake Wales, canoe carving, Florida Cabin Fever Quilters, Polk County Wood turners, SWEAT – Early American Trades, The Country Boutique – candle making, Thomas Geer Artisan – blacksmith, Civil War Camp – reenactors & cooking, Florida Citrus Hall of Fame with Miss Florida Citrus and citrus labels, Talako Indian Dancers, Lake Aurora Archery, Polk County Fiber Guild, a 1861 Cracker Chuck Wagon & Pioneer Camp, antique car show and parade at 12 PM on Saturday, October 26, Flywheelers antique tractor and engine exhibits, old-fashioned family games, pumpkin patch, face painting, and petting zoo.
More than 35 handmade & craft market vendors will have a range of be selling at our showcase a range of goods & services including handmade, gemstone and silver jewelry, home goods, kitchen items, gourds woven with natural materials, essential oils, organic & natural clothing & hats, handmade holiday home décor items & candles, organic health products, nail polish, handcrafted Native American flutes, pet supplies and treats, fiber art & crocheted home goods, hand spun & dyed yarn, reclaimed and recycled art and wood décor and home goods, hair accessories, Teddy bears, photography artwork, bath & body care products, greeting cards, children's items, repurposed furniture, gourmet and homemade culinary & food gifts
Community and business vendors will have information about local real estate, churches, social & service clubs, health products, home services, financial planning, child health and safety.
Food & beverage provided by Little Joe's Grille will have the following for sale – Pork or Chicken Kebabs, Fresh Garden & Greek Salad Bar, Mediterranean Rice, Falafels, Gyros, Pizza, Hamburgers, Corn Dogs, French Fries, Philly Cheese Steaks, Bratwurst, Italian & Polish Sausages, Funnel Cakes, Fresh Squeezed Lemonade, Beer, Wine, non-alcoholic beverage options.
Entertainment will feature live music and performances each day including Nat West & Pickin' In the Park, Lake Wales High School Highlander Band, Mountain Brew Trio, Adam Duss Experience, Studio 6 Dancers, Talako Indian Dancers, Jason Hobert on guitar, Utah Farris on flute, Bryan Rivers, Hank's Cracker Storytelling, Craig Singleton & the Big City Band, and a Kid's Costume Contest on Sunday, October 27 at 3 PM.
This year's Pioneer Days Festival is made possible by the City of Lake Wales, Visit Central Florida, Advent Health, Citizens Bank & Trust, Duke Energy, Edward Jones, Rickert Properties, SEMCO Construction, Gibson Law Firm, Forni Dental, Legacy Real Estate Center, Little Joe's Special Events, Jahna Industries, MAX 98.3, The Ledger Media Group, Haven Magazines, Polk News Sun, WUSF Public Media, 97.5 WPCV, 90.7 WMFE, Orlando Sentinel Media Group, McKibben Motorsports, Florida's Natural, IHOP Restaurants, and Babies2Bellies.
About the Lake Wales History Museum
The Lake Wales History Museum is open Tuesday – Saturday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Admission is free. Parking is free and the first floor is accessible for persons with disabilities, wheelchairs and strollers. For more information contact the Lake Wales History Museum, 325 S Scenic Highway, Lake Wales, Florida 33853; 863-676-1759 or visit www.lakewalesfl.gov/museum.


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Pokémon Go has had nothing but woe and trouble since it finally came to American shores. While it has caused more people than ever before to get out, be active and walk around to catch Pokémon, the servers have been down far more than up, due to overwhelming support and the sheer number of people attempting to log on. Me personally, I'm in at least three different social media groups involving Pokémon Go and every couple of minutes I see a new notification: "Pokémon Go servers are down oh no! :(" "Not for me!" "No, wait, there they are. Damnit." There is never any word that I've seen on when they'll be up or down. It's basically a crapshoot, with a 50/50 chance of the servers being up so you can play the game. It is our sincere hope that the servers will stabilize soon so we can resume not doing our jobs, and instead Catch 'em All.
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Inimitable Tanzania Safari 2019
Date 2019/04/23 02:09:59 PM by Shem Compion
How does one make a definitive safari to people who have been to Africa many times? In my view, the difference is twofold. You make it extra special and then you add in areas so special to yourself, that you only share these with very special clients. As such this is what we did on the most recent Inimitable Safari (IT) into Tanzania.
The first stop was Tarangire national park. Importantly, we use the Strand families exclusive tented camp in both Tarangire and Serengeti. This 30 year old family run camp is exactly like walking into someone's home after a day out on safari. we were welcomed back to familiar and friendly faces each day- making the safari a warm and comforting environment.
This promotes a wonderful esprit de corps between the whole safari operation and as such, the photography naturally flows!
An integral part of the IT safari is a visit to the reclusive Datoga tribe. Thanks to Hannah Strand, who introduced me to a wonderful group of Datoga people she knows well, I too have over time become very friendly with this tribe. Importantly this translates into the experience shared between the Datoga and this small group of visitors I bring along. It was an intimate experience of visits; sharing laughs, photographs, memories (we once landed a helicopter nearby that has become legend in the region) and importantly mutual connections between fellow human beings.
When you are traveling with clients who have travelled with you each year since 2007, you want to make sure that the experience is as rich as possible. The IT safari was a perfect enrichment. Wildlife sightings come and go, (and the images will attest to amazing photography) but making sure that the people you are sharing Africa with are having a blast a minute in addition to going home with a head and heart full of wonderful experiences, is what I love doing. Fortunately, now they also have memory cards full of top-class images with which to relive these experiences.
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EFCC, ICPC to quiz ex-CEOs of agencies
why they had to go
- Donation by a woman DG of N700m to PDP's presidential campaign in 2015
- Furnishing of an office at N800m
- Construction of a store at N240m instead of N40m
- Failure to account for revenue by a DG who diverted equipment to his private medium
- N15b found in a secret account in violation of TSA
- More than N6b debt in an agency generating at least N9b monthly
- Personal assistant remanded in prison for alleged N17m bribery but DG stayed on
- DG implicated in alleged N68b fraud
Of the 26 Directors-General and Heads of parastatals sacked yesterday, no fewer than 10 may be handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(ICPC) for investigation, a source said last night.
It was gathered that President Muhammadu Buhari opted to give some of the chief executives the push, following reports of large-scale fraud in their agencies. One allegedly spent N200 billion on last year's Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP's) presidential campaign.
Some of the former chief executives also awarded contracts to cronies.
The agencies under the searchlight of either the EFCC or the ICPC include National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), National Broadcasting Commission(NBC), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Bureau of Public Enterprises(BPE), National Women Development Centre(NWDC); Industrial Training Fund(ITF); Nigerian Investment Promotion Council; Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) and Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSIT), among others.
A source, who spoke in confidence, said: "At least 10 of those sacked chief executives will be handed over to the EFCC and the ICPC. The report on their misconduct is ready for these anti-graft agencies to act upon.
"All security agencies received the list of those affected about 24 hours before the formal announcement. They will all be placed on surveillance until cleared.
"Some of them have actually appeared before EFCC and ICPC in the last eight months. Their cases are under various stages of investigation.
"The revelations are mind-boggling and it is sad that some of these chief executives continued with the impunity even after a new government had taken over."
Responding to a question, the source added: "The President bid time to get intelligence report on the atrocities, recklessness and outright graft by some of these former CEOs before sending them packing."
The source gave an insight into some of the infractions.
He said one of the former chief executives allegedly withdrew N200 billion (using curious sub-heads) to fund the campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He cited the case of how a DG was implicated in a N68 billion fraud and other illegal expenditures and loans allegedly secured without proper approval.
The source also claimed that a former female chief executive was alleged to have donated N700million to the PDP's presidential campaign in January 2015; furnishing of an office at N800million which donor agencies can supply at no cost and the construction of a store at N240million instead of N40million.
In another instance, one of the heads of the media agencies could not account for all the advertisement cash raked in by his medium during the 2015 campaign.
Instead, about N5million was recorded as revenue from adverts during the 2015 polls.
The DG was said to have acquired a licence for an electronic medium and diverted the sophisticated equipment to the new private outfit after using public funds to procure them.
A DG of a sensitive agency was alleged to have hidden over N15billion in a secret account in violation of the extant regulations of Treasury Single Account(TSA).
One of the affected DGs presided over an agency which was generating about N9billion internally but as at the time he was sacked, he left more than N6billion debts for the agency.
Despite the remand of her Personal Assistant in prison over alleged N17million bribery, a DG waited till Monday for President Muhammadu Buhari to wield the big stick.
Besides, the award of some contracts before the inauguration of President Buhari led to the sack of some of DGs.
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How profound – you see what is right in front of your face. If what you want is off to the side – barely in your vision – and, what you have locked in front of your view is fear and anxiety, guess what, you have little hope of achieving your goals.
Getting rid of distractions and negative thought is not so easy. I have recently been working with James Murphy, an Executive Coach from Evolution For Success to develop a life plan. I needed improved life balance & career motivation. To be fair, I really just needed to focus on what I wanted. James helped me plow through distraction after distraction, while bringing into focus what I really wanted from career, relationships, fitness and so on.
So many good things have come from this effort. Not the least of which is the vast improvement toward one of my life goals, which is to behave fearlessly. That doesn't mean stupidly. It means without the distraction of fear. In my work life and in my relationships, the difference is amazing.
As a result, I am kicking ass again and significantly enjoying what I do. The plan is still baking a bit, but we are definitely on the right track here. One of my goals is to behave fearlessly and that is right in front of my face every single day.


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My friends Rachel Maines and Garrel Pottinger (both historians) have enlisted me in their campaign to add a much-needed new word to the English lexicon: "Iatromoric," or doctor-baffling. Garrel and Rachel were moved to coin the term when he was diagnosed with "idiopathic" – meaning self-caused – seizures, which struck Garrel as patient-blaming. Hence, the need for a more descriptive term. "Iatromoric" derives from the Greek roots for doctor (iatros) and fooled (moros, the opposite of sophos). Thus, an iatromoric diseases is one that fools, confounds, or baffles the doctors. It corresponds etymologically to the well-known category of iatrogenic illnesses, which are caused by hospitalization.
This all struck home for me. Although it hasn't happened to me, virtually every other ME/CFS patient has at some time been referred to a psychiatrist after a battery of tests failed to identify a known disease. In the most benign version, the doctor says something like, "There is nothing wrong with you that I can find. Would you like to see a psychiatrist?" In the more patronizing version, the doctor says, "You are experiencing 'false illness beliefs.' You need to see someone for psychotherapy." The latter is still the standard response in the U.K., although we are seeing it less and less in the U.S.
ME/CFS patients would be much better off if their physicians would simply admit that they do not know the cause of their symptoms. If the tests are all negative and the patient is obviously sick, the word "iatromoric" would provide a much needed term for a physician's current inability to provide a diagnosis.
The rush to declare ME/CFS a psycho-social or psychogenic illness – rather than admit bafflement – has caused incalculable harm to patients, including the decades-long delay of serious biomedical research. It is admittedly hard for doctors to say "I don't know," and it is understandable that they would search for a psychological diagnosis as a fall-back. In the mid-twentieth century, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis were all included in the "holy seven" of psychosomatic diseases, although they are now recognized as biomedical. As should be obvious, not all unexplained symptoms are psychological (nor are they caused by "ill-humors" or "unbalanced bile," as physicians thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries).
Fortunately, leading institutions in the American medical establishment -- including the Institute of Medicine and the National Institute of Health -- have been shaking off the regrettable influence of British psychiatry, and have now recognized ME/CFS as a biomedical disease. Progress on identifying biomarkers has been made at Stanford, Columbia, and other medical centers.
Still, there is much that is unknown, and "iatromoric" provides a good way to describe it.
UPDATE: In an email, a psychotherapist friend of mine added that "doctors need the legitimacy of a category like iatromoric to have a way to not just respond to but to think about the existence of medical conditions that aren't yet known or understood. [Most] doctors are trying to be helpful and have no construct to guide them. This new word is helpful not just to patients but to doctors as well."