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Why You Need to Clear Your Energy Field With Breath Work
Most people are not breathing consciously and end up with depleted amounts of oxygen in their bodies. As shallow breathers, we also have low energy because prana (known as chi or life force) also comes into the body with the oxygen.
When we condition our muscles to breathe deeper, we bring more life force into our body and can quickly expand our consciousness. Breathing unlocks our potential to be happy and inspired.
What Is Breathwork?
It is a term that refers to the conscious control of breath to help you physically, mentally and emotionally. There are many different types of breathwork from different cultures. In the yogic tradition, breathwork is called pranayama.
Breathwork oxygenates the blood to improve your health and clears the subtle energetic body which holds the electromagnetic charges from our subconscious thoughts. If you are around negative people, breathwork helps you let go of the emotional state that comes into your field from them.
But why do you need to clear your energy field with breathwork? Breathwork brings prana into your nervous system and strengthens your energy field while clearing dense energy that comes from your own low vibration emotions.
Your energy field is the impression you give to other people when you meet them and it is the lens through which you experience other people. Breathwork allows you to be free of negative thought patterns developed as a child from your experiences and activate the intuitive capabilities of your sixth sense to help you know what is good to do with your life and what to avoid.
Benefits of Breathwork
Breathwork is a very practical habit to pick up, it can quite possibly help in all important areas of your life. We can attract more positive experiences and opportunities when we are not walking around with negative emotions in our subtle energy field.
When you feel positive, people enjoy your company, you see possibilities, are willing to take risks and propose new ideas, and feeling confident can help you get a promotion or be willing to start a career you're passionate about.
You may become a better leader, have healthier more positive relationships as well an easier time parenting because you'll have more patience, a naturally more loving perspective, more energy and intuition.
Breathwork helps you balance your hormones which control your emotions by improving the health of your glandular system.
There are huge mental and emotional benefits of conscious breathing such as improved mental clarity and ability to quickly organize a lot of information, increased energy, relief from depression, confidence raises and it can even break bad habits.
The nervous system will be strengthened allowing you to handle stress better and oxygen sent to your muscles and organs with the blood will improve digestion, reduce inflammation and improve circulation. Your body has a subtle energy field around it that interacts with your nervous system and stores emotional energy as electromagnetic imprints.
Breathwork is thousands of years old and can open you to spiritual powers and a strong connection to higher consciousness by stimulating your pineal and pituitary gland function.
How To Do Breathwork
Breathwork can take as little as a minute and could build up to a more in-depth practice. The lungs will develop greater capacity over time and with practice to allow you to be able to do more advanced breathwork. Breathwork is not something you will master in a day.
It takes time to understand and experience the different ways breathwork can help you. To the devout yogi, breathwork can help them develop siddhis (spiritual powers over the elements).
Breathwork involves paying attention to how your ribs move when you breathe and intentionally expanding them to take in more air. Some breathwork involves only breathing through your nose while some combine powerful breathing through your nose and mouth.
Often yogic breathwork will also include a certain posture to sit in so the energy in your body can flow properly. Yogic breathing also often includes using the locks (called bandhas) which help hold the energy in your body in certain places and creates internal pressure to strengthen your nerves.
Breathwork Techniques
There are quick techniques to lower anxiety that you can use anytime you feel impatient. Just practice breathing in for seven seconds, holding your breath for seven seconds and breathing out for seven seconds. Repeat that process three times and your nervous system will feel more relaxed.
If you feel tired you can do breath of fire which is through your nose only. You focus on pushing air out of your nose quickly and pulling your stomach in at the same time. You allow the inhale to happen naturally and then again force the air out quickly.
Just 50 seconds of breath of fire will change your entire blood chemistry. If you want to increase creativity and energy work up to 11 minutes daily and eventually 31 minutes. This simple technique is used by advanced yogis and strengthens your energy field so people cannot manipulate you or impose their emotional state into your psyche.
To detoxify your body you can curl your tongue, stick it out as far as possible or stick it out and bite it to hold it. Practice breathing intense long deep breaths like this for a few minutes.
This helps remove toxins from your blood and you may get a metallic taste in your mouth. Intense breathing where you are pumping your navel point should be avoided if you're on your period, pregnant or just ate a big meal.
Types of Breathwork
Just as there are many forms of martial arts and 22 main branches of yoga, there are many types of breathwork. Qi gong, tai chi, hatha yoga and kundalini yoga each have their own breathing techniques and words to describe it.
Some of the common types of breathwork include practicing long deep breathing, practicing alternate nostril breathing, ujjayi breathing during movement or breath of fire. Ujjayi breathing is an audible type of breathing that constricts the back of the throat slowing the rate at which your air passes in and out so you can expand your breath capacity and calm your nerves.
This can help reduce anxiousness and is used by people in recovery from substance abuse.
Qi gong breathing techniques can involve the warrior breath where you will lay on the ground with a skilled instructor who will teach you the specific positions and intense breathing that will clear many years of suppressed emotional experiences and make you feel as if energy is in every cell of your body.
Breathing techniques should always be learned from a skilled teacher and directions should always be adhered to.
Conscious breathing all the time can help us control our reactions, raise the energy in a room quickly, give us endurance and even prolong our life. Breathwork clears the energy field so efficiently that people find it helps them overcome depression and substance abuse.
The far-reaching implications of daily breathwork as free therapy is vast. Many of the psychological and physical issues in our society can be helped with this knowledge. Many yoga teachers are teaching teens breathing techniques that make them feel high as an alternative to drugs.
With breathwork, things are looking up and the future is bright with prana!
Breathwork is spreading to many cities through yoga studios, online classes, and educational programs. Breathwork is a technique that creates more peace in our societies.
Some yogic traditions practice retaining the breath in our out while using the bandhas (locks) and this moves energy from the lower chakras which are associate with our primal animalistic desires to the upper chakras that naturally activate empathy, compassion, and altruistic awareness.
As more people learn to control their emotions, we will have less violence in our community and more caring cultures.


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Wright Twp. officials have filed a federal racketeering lawsuit against dozens of opioid manufacturers and distributors, alleging the businesses engaged in a prolific scheme to conceal the drugs' dangers and drive up profits.
The complaint alleges the defendants "aggressively sought to bolster their revenue, increase profit, and grow their share of the prescription painkiller market by unlawfully and surreptitiously increasing the volume of opioids they sold."
As part of a scheme to defraud federal and state regulators, the defendants engaged in mail and wire fraud to downplay the danger of opioids to the public, the complaint alleges.
"The defendants knowingly and intentionally furnished false or fraudulent information in their reports to the (Drug Enforcement Administration) about suspicious orders, and omitted material information from reports, records, and other documents required to be filed with the DEA," the complaint alleges. "The defendants were aware of suspicious orders of prescription opioids and the diversion of their prescription opioids into the illicit market, and failed to report this information to the DEA in their mandatory reports."
The lawsuit, filed by several firms including Plains Twp. law firm Wetzel, Phillips, Rodgers & Falcone, targets OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma, L.P., fentanyl manufacturer Cephalon, Inc. and other major drug manufacturers. The lawsuit also names pharmacies including Rite Aid, Walgreen, Walmart and CVS.
The complaint, which was filed June 5, adds Wright Twp. to a growing list of municipalities that are trying to hold drug manufacturers and distributors accountable for the opioid epidemic that is plaguing the nation.
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In November 2017, Luzerne County filed a similar suit, citing the cost to the county of paying for services needed to address the epidemic.
Wright Twp.'s complaint similarly cites the cost of police and emergency medical services it must provide to cope with a "healthcare crisis with far-reaching financial, social, and deadly consequences."
The lawsuit alleges the defendants falsely downplayed the risk of addiction, claimed opioid withdrawal is easily managed and denied the risks of higher opioid doses. The defendants spread their misleading message through sales representatives, paid-off doctors and third-party "front groups," according to the complaint.
The result of the "wildly successful" scheme was making opioids the most prescribed class of drugs, generating $11 billion in revenue in 2014 alone, the lawsuit alleges.
"Our citizens are now awash in opioids and engulfed in a public health crisis the likes of which have never been seen before," the complaint says. "The result of (the) opioid crisis within the borders of Wright Twp. has been catastrophic. Opioids have become the main source of unintentional drug overdose in the state and county. Due to the vast supply of opioids, the number of annual deaths attributable to unitentional drug overdoses has rapidly increased."
The lawsuit, which also levels public nuisance and negligence accusations against the companies, is seeking punitive and treble damages to compensate Wright Twp. for addiction treatment, law enforcement and other costs it has borne in coping with the crisis.
The companies have previously downplayed their roles in the crisis. In a statement earlier this year, Purdue Pharma noted the U.S. Food & Drug Administration continues to approve opioids for long-term, chronic pain use when alternative treatments don't work.
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"Purdue recognizes that the opioid addiction crisis is a significant public health challenge, and we are deeply concerned about the impact it is having on families across the country," the statement said. "We are proud of the actions we have taken to ensure opioids are prescribed appropriately which includes efforts to widely disseminate the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, increase access to naloxone, support the use of prescription drug monitoring programs and their interoperability, and fund youth education programs warning of the dangers of opioids."
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If your business isn't making the money you would like it to make, maybe it's time for a fresh marketing blitz, and Facebook is a great venue for that. You can use the infinite power of social media to help your company become the most successful it has ever been. Learn what you can do in the article that follows and use the tips it contains.
Talk with fans regularly to see what they want. Make sure you take notice when people post on your page. You can gain valuable ideas from these posts. Don't ignore the fans you have because they're the ones that have gotten you to where you are at this point.
Having a contest is a good way to glean fans. Offer prizes or special deals to those who like your page. Be sure that you do give people the prize or you may end up losing a few customers for not being honest.
Using Facebook Offers, you can quickly promote a contest or freebie which you are offering on your website. You just need to set the offer up and then convert it to something known as a Promoted Post via your wall. If you are offering something great, it may be worth promoting it more broadly, including non-fans.
Always be sure that you're answering things when people ask you questions or leave you comments. Thank the person for taking the time to contact you, and do your best to provide a helpful answer to their question. Always be willing to provide a link to a relevant section of your website if there is information there that will answer the question.
Custom tabs can help you make your Facebook marketing strategies more efficient. Such tabs let you arrange information on the Facebook page in a manner that works well for your visitors. For instance, if you have contests, you can create a contest tab with information about them.
If you're looking to make good changes to your business, you may feel pressured to come up with a good marketing campaign. The sooner you start using Facebook as a marketing platform, the sooner you will see great results. Take advantage of the useful tips included in this article and gain a great advantage.


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Benise will heat up Packard Music Hall with ŌĆśFuego!ŌĆÖ
As a street musician in Los Angeles, Benise got immediate feedback on what caught a listener's attention.
"If you don't get someone to stop as they're walking by, you're not making money, you're not eating, you're not paying rent," he said during a telephone interview. "You have to write music that captures people and captures them right away."
Benise has turned that knowledge into a career that has included more than a dozen CDs, several concert DVDs that have become PBS specials and a book ("The Notes Less Traveled"). He brings his latest production, "Fuego!," to Packard Music Hall on Tuesday as part of the Warren Civic Music Association's 2018-19 season.
Benise plays a Spanish guitar, but that's not how he he started. He was born in that hotbed of Latin culture — Nebraska — and got his first guitar at age 11.
"I grew up playing rock guitar," he said. "My guitar idols were Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix. I moved to Los Angeles to pursue music there. I ran across Spanish guitar there and knew that's what I should be doing. I switched to Spanish guitar and started performing on the street because no club or bar was paying for a Spanish guitarist."
Benise built a large enough following as a street musician that he put together his first theater show, which caught the attention of PBS and launched his current touring career.
The other performers he met as a street musician — Cirque du Soleil-style performers, ballet dancers, African drummers — helped shape the shows he took to theaters.
"I thought I'd put them all together to perform around my music," Benise said.
"Fuego!" features 12 performers (seven dancers and five musicians) drawing from a variety of cultures and musical styles.
"There's Spanish guitar and flamenco dancers, but they also do salsa, waltzes and sambas," he said. "It's a journey of music from around the world."
And he hasn't abandoned his first musical passions. The show also includes a bit of Led Zeppelin and AC/DC as well.
"With this one, I really wanted to celebrate what got me into Spanish guitar and the beauty of flamenco and do a fusion of styles with a little rock 'n' roll," Benise said. "The audience loves that. It's something fresh, something new."
One number in "Fuego!" features a dancer wearing a dress of 1,000 red roses. Another carnival-inspired segment bring the dancers out into the crowd and throwing beads to the audience members.
When Benise started, the music came first, and the live shows involved creating the best way to complement them visually. After creating several shows, Benise sometimes comes up with visual ideas first then creates the music to accompany them.
"I'll create a beautiful vignette and compose the music around it," he said. "It's really like writing the soundtrack for a movie. You're telling a story. Every song tells a story, and the music has to have highs and lows, same as the show."


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I was browsing through the lovely and talented Kristina Werner's blog the other day and I came across a post about spotlight coloring. I loved how it looked and since I was bedridden at the time, I thought coloring would help me pass the time. I broke my doctor's rules and sat down for a few minutes to stamp a couple of panels randomly with some images and then immediately got back in bed and pretended like it never happened! I was right, coloring in bed definitely made the time pass a little faster!
The next day, I broke some more rules and put the cards together. It only took a few minutes, so I don't think it really counts! The good news is, I'm not on bed rest anymore, so I should be back to normal for a little bit.
Kristina used watercoloring for her card, but I didn't really have the ability to use watercoloring at the time, so I used my copics. I'm not sure I like my result as much as hers, but it still turned out pretty cute.
My gray areas turned out much darker than hers, so next time I'd probably just use maybe 2 light markers and not try to put so much contrast in them.
I used a heart instead of the typical circle for this one and I kind of like the effect. I definitely think this is something I'll try again later.
Stamps: Let's Roll & Baked with Love (Lawn Fawn)
Paper: Whisper White, Wisteria Wonder, Strawberry Slush
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Assorted Copics, Versamark
Dies: Stitched Rectangles (SSS)
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In manufacturing, the'resource-product-waste' cycle has its limits, mainly because there is not an infinite supply of raw materials. The transition to a circular economy could simultaneously solve both issues: the lack of materials and waste disposal.
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As the environmental situation continues to deteriorate and is listed as one of the main threats to global stability, the importance of green issues is growing, according to this year's World Economic Forum report on global risks. Russian companies' sometimes-successful attempts to intensify the green movement, could serve as the answer.
The second life of waste products
A scandal about a waste landfill in Balashikha in the Moscow region, which broke out this summer after a live 'Direct Line' conference with President Putin, drew attention to a question that was long overdue a good answer – what to do with Russia's ever-growing waste? Recycling can be a solution. But Russia is only making its first steps in this direction.
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Industry is moving further away from its original paradigm. The trend now is towards a circular economy – a system that drives the restoration and regeneration of resources through high-tech facilities, the sharing of end products and the reduction of waste.
A View Into the Future
Digital technology has become an essential part our lives, and has solved many of our issues; however, technology has also created new threats.
Arctic exploration, the development of Siberian deposits and the expansion of industry in the Ural region – this all sounds very modern...
Land of infinite opportunitiesIt is widely known that Russia is the largest
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Cookie is coming to "Springfield!"
"Empire" actress Taraji P. Henson is guest starring on the first ever one-hour episode of "The Simpsons." The show airs in January on FOX.
According to the press release, the special episode is titled "The Great Phatsby," and will feature Henson as Praline, the ex-wife of a music mogul that causes Mr. Burns (Harry Shearer) to file for bankruptcy. Burns also enlists the help of Homer, Bart and rapper Jazzy James voiced by Keegan-Michael Key. Also in the episode, Lisa (Yeardley Smith) is courted by the richest kid in town, Smithers (Shearer) begins a perilous journey and Marge (Julie Kavner) opens an obscure boutique store.
Premiering Sunday, Sept. 25 at 8 p.m., Season 28 kicks off with the all-new episode "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus," in which Springfield is burned to the ground, and the Simpsons beg Mr. Burns (Shearer) to fund its rebuilding. Burns agrees – with one condition: he gets to put on a variety show at the Springfield Bowl.
Additionally, the series' record-setting 600th episode will air Sunday, Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. , with a classic "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" episode. In it, Mr. Burns introduces a "Hunger Games"-style contest in which Springfield's children must fight each other; and Lisa's imaginary best friend becomes jealous of Lisa's real best friends.
"The Simpsons" continues to strike a chord with viewers for irreverently poking fun at anything and everything. As the longest-running scripted series in television history, "The Simpsons" has become one of the most consistently groundbreaking, innovative and recognizable entertainment franchises throughout the world. With its subversive humor and delightful wit, the series has made an indelible imprint on American pop culture, and its family members – HOMER (Dan Castellaneta), MARGE (Julie Kavner), BART (Nancy Cartwright), LISA (Yeardley Smith) and MAGGIE – are television icons.
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A lot of critical attention has been focused recently on how to adapt education to encompass new digital technologies and modes of receiving information. There's no question that today's students are living in—and interacting with—a media- and technology-rich environment. But do the ways they communicate outside of school connect at all with what they're learning in the classroom? Organizations such as the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) have been examining ways to approach literacy to ensure that students learn both how to use and think critically about new media. According to NCTE's Definition of 21st Century Literacies, "Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies." Perhaps not coincidentally, NCTE has also been featuring an explosion of programming on the graphic format over the last couple of years. We talked with comics and media literacy educator and NCTE spokesperson Peter Gutiérrez about how graphic novels fit into the discussion on new media and new literacies.
BookShelf: When we think of emerging literacies, we think of Web 2.0 and other tech-based platforms. How does a low-tech medium such as the graphic novel fit into the conversation?
Peter Gutierrez: That's a great question, and maybe we can use it to point out a possible pitfall when it comes to thinking about new literacies. Yes, new technologies encourage non-traditional, often non-linear ways of engaging with text, but there's a danger in supposing that what makes the new literacies "new" is the technology per se—it's the literacies that are new, and even those often aren't so much new as they are more prominent. After all, yes, people read short stories linearly, but do they read newspapers that way? Or do they navigate them according to their own interests—a tendency that hypertext in online newspapers only facilitates or extends? Similarly, comics have certainly been around for a long time but the strategies and skills through which we extract meaning from them as texts map perfectly to the literacies required by more recent platforms.
BookShelf: You're referring to visual literacy?
Peter Gutierrez: Yes, exactly, and media and critical literacy and conventional print literacy as well—all of these can be supported by teaching with the graphic format. The working definition of "21st Century Literacies" adopted by NCTE earlier this year includes analyzing and synthesizing "multiple streams of simultaneous information." Few media could be used to this end more effectively than graphic novels. By their nature they force readers to get information from the art within a panel, from the progression of images from panel to panel, from the printed text of speech balloons and captions, and often from the in-art "audio" text of sound effects—all at the same time. You must synthesize as you go.
BookShelf: Since these new literacies embrace so many different areas, what would you say is the key commonality they share?
Peter Gutierrez: There are many ways to answer that question, but on a gut level, I'd say that what they share is that they speak to the idea of "participatory culture." This is a notion that MIT's groundbreaking Project New Media Literacies is focusing on. NCTE, in its way, echoes this idea when its leaders in this area speak about moving away from "submission" to text and toward "participation." The interesting thing to note is that kids have always done this in terms of comics. Think about it—it doesn't mean that there have always been wikis to share data about comics. It means that kids have always reacted to what they read because it was highly meaningful to them, and often they had—and have—the impulse to share that expressive response with others. That means arguments over the lunchroom table, or recommending comics to each in a summer camp bunk. I was probably five or six years old when I first attempted my own mini-comic, and the same holds true for my own Generation Z kids. This impulse to create and share might not seem remarkable until you realize that this is not so true of other media and genres, for better or worse. Very few kids read their first novels and then try to write one, although of course now video technology has enabled youth media to flourish when it comes to the moving image. The point is, the graphic format—perhaps by virtue of being low-tech—inherently seems to encourage participation. And the role of fandom, which in comics has a long, organized, and highly "literate" history, is another place you can find this participatory aspect present in a powerful way.
BookShelf: It seems like much of the work being done in the new literacies concerns, as one would expect, "new media." But comics are certainly not new, so are they actually part of an older model of literacy that teachers shouldn't leave behind?
Peter Gutierrez: Yes and no—it's a hard question to answer because semantically many of these words hold different meanings for different people. For example, Gina Gagliano at First Second pointed out to me that in some sense graphic novels are a new medium in that only recently have they been used widely in direct instruction and included formally in some curricula. So they constitute a new medium because students and educators are interacting with them in new ways—and it is this meaning-making function that readers bring to reading that really completes any text.
In terms of an older model of literacy, I think the crucial idea is in the second part of the question—the notion of not leaving skills behind, not leaving print-on-paper literacy behind. Actually, nothing should be "left behind." It's not as if those advocating for education in new literacies feel that they should supplant fluency and composition and all the other important skill sets that ELA teachers are charged with developing. Rather, it means looking for overlap and synergies between the so-called new and the so-called old—it means drilling down into both the curriculum and the new media themselves until you find them. Again, it comes back to the first question you asked. As part of an older generation, we experience all the new media—and this is true of those fully conversant in them—as if they're coming at us in forms that are all-new, all-the-time. It has to do with our frame of reference, I think. Elementary students who walk into libraries can access the Web, search databases for titles or information, or browse print books and magazines on the shelves—and of course now graphic novels, too. To these students, that's just the way it is. That's the media environment in the library, and the one at home may not be too different. They're not really experiencing these items as "new" and I suspect we lose something if we focus on newness all the time. Instead, let's observe how young people are communicating and expressing themselves and so try to learn how they're employing the wide range of interconnected competencies they possess.
BookShelf: Are teachers in the 21st century more likely to use pop culture in the classroom? What are some of the concerns in doing so, and what are the advantages?
Peter Gutierrez: An obvious advantage is the motivation factor. A less obvious one concerns activating prior knowledge—students know pop culture, so you have a chance to build on that knowledge base and, more importantly, engage with it critically. "Critically" meaning evaluating content, yes, but also self-critically, reflecting on one's own literacy skills and goals. And there's an even bigger opportunity here. By definition, "popular" culture is one that's widely shared. That gives students a chance not only to respond to texts, but also to respond in an informed way to each other's responses. After all, that's what their outside-of-school literacies look like anyway—take blog comments as an example. So while today's youth are accustomed to that kind of discourse, as educators we can help them become more aware of their own modes of participation, their own thought processes. Clearly these are skills that can enhance their use of academic language, support them when it comes to writing critical or persuasive pieces, or prepare them for speaking-and-listening activities such as debating.
All right, but what about content? At the recent NCTE Institute for 21st Century Literacies Ernest Morrell raised what I think is a really optimal way for teachers to think about pop cultural material, including comics. I guess here we're examining the other half of the phrase "pop culture"—culture. In other words, to use pop culture solely for engagement is to miss the boat. Morrell gave the example of how he contextualizes hip-hop lyrics within a curriculum strand on the poetry of social resistance and thus connects them to Elizabethan and Romantic poetry, the Harlem Renaissance, and so on. Suddenly the canon becomes less remote and more relevant. In comics there are a number of ways to take this approach. Clearly superheroes fit into both a heroic tradition in literature and a mythological one, and they can be leveraged in genre studies, too, as examples of science-fiction or fantasy. By the same token, one can see where many of the great graphic novels of the past two decades fit squarely in the tradition of confessional fiction or non-fiction such as memoir, and/or work as contemporary versions of the classic coming-of-age story. The point is not to graft the graphic format onto the curriculum and hope it sticks through sheer engagement, but to dig deeper. And talented teachers everywhere are doing exactly this. Also, I just realized this, but American Born Chinese arguably has thematic "membership" in all the literary modes I just mentioned, which could be why it's so widely used in schools. And the other two graphic titles that I'm finding are becoming canonical at higher grade levels, Persepolis and Watchmen, also fit nicely into these very conventional and accepted ways of studying literature.
BookShelf: Another big issue when it comes to new literacies is student production. How are kids who make graphic works demonstrating mastery of these literacies?
Peter Gutierrez: The important thing to keep in mind is that student-generated work is always part of being literate in any sense. It's where young people can stop being receptive and start exploring and "making meaning" on their own, which is really one of the overarching goals of education, not just English. To learn about poetry, but to not take a stab at writing it, or to learn scientific facts without ever experimenting, that doesn't really make sense. The difference now, with new media, is that students are producing texts on their own in much more visible and public ways, so the perception is that there's a huge outpouring of student-produced media. In other words, students have always written songs, but they weren't launched automatically when you visited their MySpace pages. Maybe having that outlet in turn encourages them to write more songs, I don't know. But any time you produce something original you're demonstrating the extent to which you've internalized the particular communicative codes of that medium as well as the practical or technical skills necessary to creating an artifact in it.
BookShelf: How might you approach comics production in a classroom setting?
Peter Gutierrez: Aside from all the multi-modal understandings kids need to draw upon to create comics, in the classroom we also have a chance to exercise one of the fundamental "21st skills" —collaboration. That is, any given professional creator may pencil, ink, write, and letter a single graphic title but in a learning environment we can divvy up these jobs, perhaps even reassign them from page to page. The enthusiasm with which students communicate while making mini-comics is astounding to anyone who's ever tried it—students may be unsure of how to work as a team at first, but that's where you step in as coach. And along the way another basic 21st century skill will inevitably get addressed: real-world problem-solving. "How are we going to tell this whole story in only eight pages?"—well, that's what breakdowns are for. Or, "How are we going to fit all of those words in this panel when the penciler has left so little room?"—well, that's what an eraser is for. Students may not always like the solutions that are arrived at, but that makes the problem-solving authentic and also motivates them to improve their team-based communication.
BookShelf: Can producing comics provide learning experiences that translate into other types of writing or forms of communication?
Peter Gutierrez: Yes, which is one of the reasons that we are featuring the Stanford Graphic Novel Project as part of the media gallery at NCTE's annual convention this year. Producing comics can not only be a vital part of a creative writing unit, but also can be used for expository or persuasive purposes, too—think of the research that can go into nonfiction graphic works or even fact-based dramatizations of history. The nice thing is that teachers have the option of how implicit or explicit they want to make these connections. In some cases they probably need to make them more explicit for the simple reason of providing a curricular rationale for supervisors and department heads. As far as specific writing products are concerned, there are probably too many to mention into which you could translate the core skills in making comics. One of the projects I'm working on now with Frank W. Baker is on leveraging scriptwriting in the classroom. I discovered that my own work in scripting comics, both in terms of learning the format and "thinking visually," was invaluable when I was later hired to write movie scripts based upon them. I don't want to get overly vocational here, but what careers are we preparing students for? If they're interested in being TV producers or, increasingly, Web producers or videogame developers, then the form of practical writing known as the script is something they should be familiar with—not to mention if they want to be literate consumers of these media.
The important thing is that students can apply the same potent combination of print and visual literacy to a variety of other contexts. The graphic format allows you to teach these concepts in a more granular, slowed-down, step-by-step way. I'm not saying that film and moving-image media are inherently more "complex" than comics—those arguments always strike me as kind of silly—but just that in an educational environment there are advantages to being able to parse concepts and skills as discretely as possible. You can then layer on other elements such as audio, as in a TV script, or interactivity, as on the Web. The point is, comics can provide a foundation in developing such multimedia texts. Besides, they're nice to have around even if you want to focus on high-tech "literacies"—after all, what happens if the system crashes that day? In my experience, teachers always like to have back-up plans.
In addition to his work with NCTE, Peter is Education Development Director of SPLAT!, the graphic novel symposium, and is also a member of the International Reading Association's Special Interest Group on Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Graphic Novels. He regularly develops and delivers professional development around the use of high-interest media in schools and can be reached at email@example.com.


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House Blackfyre is an extinct noble house of King's Landing, formerly holding fealty to the King on the Iron Throne. A direct off-shoot of House Targaryen, it was founded by Daemon Blackfyre, the legitimised bastard son of King Aegon IV. Their sigil was a black three-headed dragon, breathing black fire on red, the Targaryen sigil with the colours reversed.
House Blackfyre is named for the sword of the same name.
King Aegon IV Targaryen was infamous for siring many bastards, the most famous of whom were the Great Bastards: Daemon Waters, Aegor Rivers (known as Bittersteel), Brynden Rivers (known as Bloodraven) and Shiera Seastar.
Daemon was the eldest and took primacy as he was the son of Aegon by his cousin Daena Targaryen, the sister and briefly wife of King Baelor I Targaryen. She was locked with her sisters in the Maidenvault in the Red Keep so the sight of them would not tempt Baelor to carnal thoughts. Despite this isolation, she fell pregnant and refused to divulge the identity of the father. For this, she became known as Daena the Defiant. Her son Daemon became a skilled and canny fighter whilst still a boy, and at the age of twelve King Aegon IV acknowledged Daemon as his own. Shockingly, he gave Daemon his sword, the Valyrian steel blade Blackfyre. After this, he seemed to favour the martial, skilled warrior Daemon and disdained his legitimate eldest son, Daeron.
Towards the end of his life in 184 AL, it appears that Aegon IV may have been considering making Daemon his heir, although this would have been highly legally problematic. Aegon IV died before he could make this happen, but he did legitimise all four of his 'great bastards' (those born by noble blood) on his deathbed. Daemon took the house name 'Blackfyre' and wore the colours of House Targaryen reversed. Daeron II took the throne.
Over the next decade the realm began to splinter between the two men. Daemon was a skilled and brave warrior, fearless in battle, highly charasmatic and attractive to women. He was honourable and the soul of chivalry. His half-brother Daeron was less attractive and had a tendency towards fat, but he was also a peacemaker and a diplomat of tremendous skill, keeping the realm out of war, solving internal divisions and establishing closer ties with Dorne. He was already married to Princess Myriah Martell and announced a major coup when Prince Moran Martell of Dorne agreed to marry his sister Daenerys.
A number of factors contributed to the falling out of Daemon and Daeron. Daemon was said to be in love with Daenerys and wished to marry her himself. Daemon was also concerned, as many in the realm were, with the prevalent 'Dornish flavour' of the court in King's Landing, and felt that the Dornish had far too much influence over the king. However, the final straw seems to have been the presentation of evidence that Daeron II was actually the result of an illegitimate union between his mother Naerys and uncle Aemon, and was thus not the rightful heir to the Iron Throne.
In 195 AL Daemon Blackfyre claimed the Iron Throne in his own right, splintering the realm almost in half. Great knights and armies flocked to both banners and the First Blackfyre Rebellion was the result, more than a year of fire and fury that ended in the Battle of Redgrass Field, where Daemon Blackfyre and his two eldest sons, Aegon and Aemon, were slain by his half-brother Bloodraven, who had sided with Daeron. Bittersteel, who had sided with Daemon, managed to escape the field with Daemon's younger sons.
House Blackfyre was outlawed and its lands confiscated by order of King Daeron II.
In exileEdit
House Blackfyre continued through Daemon's five younger sons, who lived in exile in the Free Cities. Their uncle, Bittersteel, founded a mercenary company known as the Golden Company, which supported their claim to the Iron Throne. Four times after the Redgrass Field, the Blackfyres attempted to prosecute a claim to the throne, thrice aided by Bittersteel and the Golden Company, each time being defeated or driven off.
The last of the Blackfyre Pretenders was Maelys the Monstrous, so-named as he was misshapen and disturbing to look upon. It was said he had consumed his own twin in the womb, for he had a second, malformed head growing out of his shoulder. Maelys made alliance with the Band of Nine, a group of eastern nobles seeking to help one another achieve what they could not do by themselves. The Band based themselves on the Stepstones in preperation for an invasion of Westeros, unaware that King Aegon V had already learned of their plans. The Band was attacked and destroyed by a Westerosi army, and Maelys was slain in combat by a young knight named Ser Barristan Selmy. This conflict became known as the War of the Ninepenny Kings.
House Blackfyre was considered the greatest threat to the Targaryen rule until the rebellion of Robert Baratheon, since it came so close to unseating the ruling dynasty. After this occasion, the Targaryens were wary over legitimising any future bastards born to their kings.
Although House Blackfyre was apparently extinguished upon Maelys' death, rumours persist of other descendants still living in the Free Cities. Whilst that is unproven, the Golden Company certainly still exists and has a reputation for competence and skill at arms in the Free Cities that is second to none. They would likely remain implacable foes of any surviving scions of House Targaryen.
Historical Blackfyre charactersEdit
- Daemon I Blackfyre, born as Daemon Waters, founder of House Blackfyre, married to Rohanne of Tyrosh. Started the First Blackfyre Rebellion.
- Aegon Blackfyre, his first born son. His fathers heir and squire. Twin to Aemon.
- Aemon Blackfyre, his second son. A squire to his father and twin to Aegon.
- Daemon II Blackfyre, his third son.
- Haegon I Blackfyre, his fourth son. Heir to his older brother Daemon II.
- Daemon III Blackfyre, Haegon's eldest son,.
- Aenys Blackfyre, his fifth son.
- Calla Blackfyre, his daughter, married to Ser Aegor Rivers before the First Blackfyre Rebellion.
- Two other sons and at least one daughter.
- Daemon Blackfyre, a cousin to Maelys I, of unknown exact descent.
- Maelys I Blackfyre, Captain-General of the Golden Company, last of the Blackfyres. Of unknown exact descent. Fought in the Fifh Blackfyre Rebellion, the War of the Ninepenny Kings.
Related to House BlackfyreEdit
- Aegor Rivers, known as Bittersteel
- Brynden Rivers, known as Bloodraven
- Shiera Seastar
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|Houses from the Crownlands
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Follard | Gaunt | Harte | Hayford | Mallery | Massey | Rosby | Rykker | Staunton
Stokeworth | Thorne
Narrow Sea: Baratheon of Dragonstone | Bar Emmon | Celtigar | Farring
Rambton | Sunglass | Velaryon
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I'm not an expert at this matter but one thing I'm sure of is that there are a lot of sufferings that are happening in this world. How we suffer may vary from personal experiences and degree. Someone who is bored may consider it to be suffering already, for some it may be the death of a loved one while for a few it may be about injustices done to them. I don't know.
Another thing that is for sure is that no one likes to suffer. Do you want to suffer? The problem is suffering is inevitable. So since suffering is inevitable, the question now shifts from "How do I remove suffering in my life?" to "How do I cope with my sufferings?"
As I was reading my Bible earlier, I read Isaiah 53. It talks about the sufferings of Christ:
Isaiah 53:3 (NIV)
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain…
Isaiah 53:4 (NIV)
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
If there was any person who suffered the most in this life then that would be Christ. Also, the noteworthy thing about him was he didn't deserve any of the sufferings he had to go through. Isaiah 53:4 says he BORE our sufferings. As I look upon the sufferings of Jesus, then any kind of suffering that I may complain about easily diminishes. Especially the ones where I'm just inconvenienced.
Now I may not know what you are going through right now but I hope and pray that even as life gives you the biggest trials there is, then you would look to Jesus and his sufferings because Isaiah also says this:
Isaiah 53:5 (NIV)
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
We are healed because of his wounds and by looking at his wounds and sufferings then that will help you cope with all the sufferings life may bring.
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Canadian human rights commissions and tribunals are under fire from many quarters these days. Anyone who wonders whether this is just or fair need only read Ezra Levant's bestseller, Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy In The Name Of Human Rights.
Now—after rejecting recommendations made in a report by Prof. Richard Moon who her own organization commissioned for $50,000, and instead submitting a self-serving report of her own to parliament—Jennifer Lynch, chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), apparently, has decided to go on the offense. And the results are not pretty.
The thrust of her rebuttal seems to be to ignore valid points raised in dozens of articles in the mainstream media and zero in on the most derisive phrases used by her critics.
Ms. Lynch gave a speech on Monday at the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies (CASHRA) 2009 Annual Conference. Here are excerpts:
The debate moved to one of discrediting Commissions' processes, professionalism and staff. Much of what was written was inaccurate, unfair, and at times scary:
Articles described human rights commissions and their employees in this way:
- 'Gestapo'
- 'human rights racket'
- 'welcome to the whaky world of Canadian human rights.'
- '...(i)t sounds like a fetish club for servants of the Crown'
- 'a secretive and decadent institution'
In addition to this mounting discredit for our institution:
- blogs worked to destroy our investigators and litigators' reputations and credibility with untrue accusations;
- groundless complaints were lodged with the law societies; and
- a Commission employee's life was threatened.
Some human rights experts tried to respond and correct this misinformation. One human rights expert who wrote a letter to a major daily paper faced an accusation in a response letter by a journalist the next day asking, 'is (name of person) a drunken "pedophile?'
We should not be surprised at her tactics, of course, because, in the view of the CHRC, comments that hurt ones feelings are tantamount to criminal offences. You can read her sophomoric screed here, however, I should warn you it is filled with vindictive sounding charges against the mainstream media, and almost devoid of any "context" or actual proof that the statements and personal attacks were false.
There is one element of Ms. Lynch's recent report to parliament that I find especially bothering: it suggests that truth as a defence in cases of so-called "hate speech" be removed from the Criminal Code. Should she and her agency get their way, Canadians would lose the section that protects anyone who is telling the truth, or believes what he or she was saying to be true. Here is the section as it currently stands:
Section 319(3) of the the Criminal Code identifies acceptable defences as follows: No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2)
(a) if he establishes that the statements communicated were true;
(b) if, in good faith, he expressed or attempted to establish by argument an opinion on a religious subject;
(c) if the statements were relevant to any subject of public interest, the discussion of which was for the public benefit, and if on reasonable grounds he believed them to be true; or
(d) if, in good faith, he intended to point out, for the purpose of removal, matters producing or tending to produce feelings of hatred toward an identifiable group in Canada.
This is a vitally important section of the Criminal Code. So long as we Canadians insist on identifying certain types of so-called "hate speech" as criminal offences, we need this defence. Telling the truth should not be a crime, regardless of its offensiveness.
As to Ms. Lynch's assertions that "blogs worked to destroy our [CHRC] investigators and litigators' reputations and credibility with untrue accusations…", I submit that those in charge of these commissions—like Jennifer Lynch in Ottawa and Barbara Hall in Ontario—are the ones who are destroying their own credibility.
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A late fight back wasn't enough to help Carshalton Athletic avoid a second league defeat on Monday night, writes James Barrett-Sterling.
After a disappointing 2-0 loss at Potters Bar Town last weekend, a game in which defender Daniel Pappoe has to don the goalkeeper gloves for over an hour, the Robins next faced early pacesetters East Thurrock United.
But, despite an energetic start, Carshalton found themselves 2-0 down at half-time as the visitors were more clinical in front of goal than their hosts.
The Robins gradually became the more dominate side in the second-half and Omar Koroma's close range strike on 83 minutes gave the home fans hope, but United were indebted to keeper Jack Giddens whom then made two important saves before the final whistle.
"We had them on the ropes for a lot of the second-half but we let ourselves down in the first," said Robins skipper Paris Hamilton-Downes.
"We made two mistakes and got punished, so we need to improve and make sure everyone is concentrating for 90 minutes.
"It's good to get our first goal of the season but we weren't worried about breaking that duck as we know we have goals in this squad.
"But we need to start converting more of our chances as that has cost us both on Monday and at Potters Bar."
Carshalton Athletic's next match is at home against Bishop's Stortford on Saturday 17th August (kick-off 3pm).
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Earlier today, the Fourth Circuit dismissed Virginia's challenge to the individual mandate on standing grounds. According to the three-judge panel, the state of Virginia does not have a "sovereign interest in challenging" the individual mandate simply because it enacted a law that memorialized its disapproval of a federal law.
This is a largely uneventful opinion, authored by a Clinton appointee and joined by two Obama appointees (this same panel also dismissed a challenge to the law by Liberty University on jurisdictional grounds). Towards the end of the opinion, however, the following observation caught my eye:
Thus, if we were to adopt Virginia's standing theory, each state could become a roving constitutional watchdog of sorts; no issue, no matter how generalized or quintessentially political, would fall beyond a state's power to litigate in federal court. . . . We cannot accept a theory of standing that so contravenes settled jurisdictional constraints.
Think for a moment about what this means. Were a state allowed to challenge a federal law simply by passing a statute in conflict with it, federal judges would have no way to become embroiled in any issue, "no matter how generalized nor quintessentially political."
That simply makes no sense.
If you don't believe me, think only about the Bush v. Gore litigation, and how long the standing question occupied the justices' time. (In case you don't remember, the answer is, not one second). Instead, justice Scalia was fond of reminding his adulating audiences that there was nothing the justices could do other than accept the case. As he recently said in an interview:
Nobody on the Court liked to wade into that controversy. But there was certainly no way that we could turn down the petition for certiorari. What are you going to say? The case isn't important enough?
Well, how about, nobody had standing to bring suit; or maybe this was a political question best left for the political branches; or maybe federal law placed this controversy within the explicit purview of the Congress? Would any of those work?
The point is not whether a litigant has standing, or whether a question is political or not. The only question is whether a court wishes to decide the question or whether it wishes to duck the issue. This is another way of saying, had the Fourth Circuit panel wished to decide the question, there is simply no way that standing doctrine or jurisdictional hurdles would have stood in the way.


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We can confirm the re-arranged Coral Challenge Cup third round tie between Workington Town and Siddal will be played on Sunday, March 17 at Derwent Park.
This means Workington's game at Coventry Bears on Sunday will be played at a later date.
The Rugby Football League would like to thank Coventry Bears for their co-operation in this matter.
Workington Town added: "Workington would like to thank the RFL, Siddal ARLFC and Coventry for their assistance over the last few days.
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This is not a learning experience. A Connecticut mother has filed a complaint alleging her African-American daughter was forced to play an escaped slave and called the N-word during a reenactment of the Underground Railroad as part of a field trip to Nature's Classroom. The program's director, John Santos (who is white), said the exercise involved pretending to pick cotton, be in a slave ship, and be owned by slave masters, but denied condoning use of racial slurs, adding, "Of course it can happen." Santos further defended the program: "It's a very, very heartfelt understanding of an underclassed group ... a personal reaction to the historical event, bringing it to bear on day-to-day living." Um, no.


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Join the CPS Office of Student Health and Wellness for the next Eat What You Grow Training on June 11, 2019 from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m at Waters Elementary, 4540 N Campbell Ave. This is a workshop for CPS teachers and staff who would like their school to be certified to serve students produce that is grown in their school garden. The Eat What You Grow program covers key aspects of food safety so schools can take students on the full journey from seed to salad!
Once a CPS employed representative from your school has attended the training, you will complete a Personalized Food Safety Plan submitted via Google Form to Harold Chapman, the School Garden Specialist for the CPS Office of Student Health and Wellness. The whole process will be outlined in this workshop and participants will leave with the resources and knowledge to eat what you grow this spring. Big Green Garden Educators are trained and able to support every step of the process from Garden to Cafeteria.
All garden leads are encouraged to attend. This is a great opportunity to ask questions, share stories and get a refresher on the EWYG framework.
There is no cost for attending and registration is limited to 40 participants (first come, first serve). CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!
We hope to see you there!


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19 Feb 2019
Research into new technologies that could pioneer breakthroughs in the biomedical and agriculture sectors has received a significant boost, with the NSW Government investing $2.5 million to support the establishment of a synthetic biology 'Biofoundry' at Macquarie University.
Synthetic biology is an emerging multidisciplinary field of science which involves the deliberate design and manufacture of new biological structures, parts, devices and systems. These become the key components in a number of potentially revolutionary applications. This new field draws on biology, biochemistry, engineering, biophysics and computer science.
Minister for Finance, Services and Property Victor Dominello said the technology offers truly exciting potential applications, particularly in the biomedical and agricultural domains.
"Synthetic biology could enable the creation of new biological structures to help in the treatment of genetic or infectious diseases, the production and delivery of novel vaccines and antibiotics, the development of highly productive, resilient crops and biologically produced biodegradable pesticides that are gentle on the environment," Mr Dominello said.
"It may lead to sources of bioenergy that can safely replace fossil fuels. The technology also has the potential to break down unwanted materials or chemicals for waste management or the remediation of contaminated environments."
Macquarie University possesses Australia's leading capabilities in synthetic biology and its work, in collaboration with the NSW Department of Industry on the Yeast 2.0 International Project, has already seen it accepted into the group of 13 internationally recognised biofoundries known as the Synthetic Biology BioFoundry Network, despite not yet being a fully resourced facility.
"This funding will accelerate the progress of Macquarie University's biofoundry and greatly enhance its research capability. It will become a flagship facility for Macquarie University and a resource for other universities and research organisations in New South Wales," Mr Dominello said.
NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer, Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte said: "In the US and Europe, this technology is already approaching commercial reality."
"It's been projected that the economic impact of synthetic biology technology in the agricultural, healthcare, biofuels and chemicals sectors alone could be between US$700 billion to US$6 trillion per year by 2025. Supporting technical infrastructure like this biofoundry will ensure that NSW is well placed to gain some of this economic benefit."
The funding is provided through the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer's Research Attraction and Acceleration Program.
William Sparling | Minister Dominello | 0408 576 636


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Willard wrestler comes home from the hospital after months-long battle with the flu
The Willard High School student athlete who fought for his life after getting the flu is finally home. He spent nearly five months in the hospital.
Life is different now for Michael Finley, Jr.
"It's harder to do things like walk around, walk to my room, go to the bathroom, breathe harder. I don't have much stamina to do things," Michael said. "Just normal stuff that everyone takes for granted is a lot harder to do."
He's been on an difficult journey, one his mom never imagined. In March, Michael was diagnosed with the flu. Then he had a collapsed lung, pneumonia and a staph infection.
"We've seen things no parent should have to see their child go through," Kathy Finley, Michael's mom, said.
His body relied on machines to help him breathe and keep him alive. In April, Michael got a lung transplant.
"I just keep saying it, by the grace of God, we're here and we've made it," Kathy said. "There's no way that he'd still be here if God wasn't real. I mean there's just no way."
It's faith that's gotten the Finley family through.
"There's a purpose for Michael's life. There's a reason that he's gone through all this," Kathy said.
Five months of fighting. Now, Michael is home.
Michael: "I feel better, like I have more energy, eating more, getting stronger."
Getting stronger with a goal in mind.
"'Cause I want to wrestle again," Michael said.
Mike's fight is not over.
"Maybe have another try at a state championship again," he said. "It's gonna be hard but it's not impossible."
The heart of a champion, indeed.
The Finley's want to say "thank you" the staff at St. Louis Children's Hospital and the community here in the Ozarks for the never-ending support during this whole experience.
Michael will go to St. Louis every three months to see his doctors, but he hopes to be back at wrestling practice in January.


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TPR Cinema Tuesdays series – Oscar Shorts
Jul 8, 2014 @ 7:30 pm
Suggested donations of $10 for members and $15 for non-members will get you in for these one-time only showings!
To reserve seats for an individual show, visit
You can also call 614-8977, or 1-800-622-8977, during regular business hours, to make advance reservations. All proceeds from the Cinema Tuesdays series benefit Texas Public Radio. Advance reservations close at noon the day of the show, so don't wait!


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YTWO 2018 Annual Review: Moving Forward on the Digital and Industrial Transformation Journey
2018 was the breakout year of digital and industrial technologies in the building and housing industries. Digital management, big data, artificial intelligence, prefabricated buildings, etc., have been the hot topics of the year. At the beginning of the new transforming year, let's take a look back at some YTWO's incredible highlights in 2018.
YTWO Formative Signs the Sixth Contract Globally with Berlin-based Belle Époque Group for the Usage of the YTWO Platform
YTWO Formative today announced the conclusion of a contract with the Belle Époque Group. Belle Époque is the sixth customer YTWO has won globally and the second customer in Europe after CG Gruppe. The cooperation with YTWO Formative enables the Belle Époque Group to link and manage all stakeholders and projects in a "Single Source of Truth". The goal of Belle Époque is to achieve future savings and increases in the value of up to 30% in both the construction process and project management through the use of YTWO technology.
Transforming the Real Estate Industry through Digitalization and Industrialization at Expo Real 2018
YTWO Formative successfully established its presence by participating in Europe's largest international real estate and investment trade fair, Expo Real which was held in Munich, Germany on October 8 to 10. During the three-day exhibition, YTWO Formative conducted productive conversations with top real estate industry leaders, and the transformative YTWO solution attracted guests' attention and received high recognition.
Myhome Announces Go-Live Implementation of YTWO's Enterprise Management Platform
In August 2018, Myhome Prefabricated, the leading Chinese prefabricated construction enterprise, successfully launched YTWO Formative's cloud-based 5D BIM enterprise platform, and it has now become an integral part of their business operations. Through the completion of YTWO's certification process and implementation of the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) documents, Myhome has sent out optimized business operation blueprints across all their departments. This has also enabled Myhome to setup 3D modeling and quantity survey (QS) rules geared for enterprise-wide operation sustainability.
YTWO Formative Will Debut at EXPO REAL 2018 with Digital Innovation
On October 8 – 10, 2018, YTWO Formative will be exhibiting at EXPO REAL 2018 in Munich, Germany. During the three-day fair, the YTWO team will host live demos and information sessions from the booth (Hall C2, Booth 011) on the advantages of implementing digital innovation in the real estate industry.
YTWO Formative Expands its Supply Chain Ecosystem Internationally
YTWO Formative is successfully expanding its supply chain ecosystem. Recently, two of the global clients have placed orders through YTWO Formative's expanding material catalog. It is the first step in proving homes can be manufactured through lean processes under a single consolidated technology platform providing transparency to all stakeholders. Through mutual trust, client collaboration, agile methods, and cross-industry supply chain expertise, YTWO Formative is addressing client challenges and helping them strengthen their core business practices and competitive advantages.
YTWO Formative Guested at the GdW WohnZukunftsTag (Living Future) 2018
YTWO Formative Guested at the GdW WohnZukunftsTag (Living Future) 2018 and had the opportunity to contribute in the "BIM Me Up" panel and presented an inspiring lecture titled "From Concept to Completion – Building the Future" to an energetic audience.
YTWO Formative Delivers a BIM Focused Speech at the 2018 Alliance Innovation Summit
In the 2018 Alliance Innovation Summit hosted by the Housing Innovation Alliance in New Orleans, Louisiana, the team of YTWO Formative delivered an educational speech centered on Building Information Modeling's (BIM) prominent and rising role in project management to key homebuilding stakeholders, thought leaders, and decision-making executives. The Summit is a unique event where housing innovators and disruptors freely exchange best business practices on sustainability and discuss the future of the housing industry.


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Irish Weekend
June 9, 2017 - June 11, 2017
PROGRAM FOR VIRGINIA CITY's
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
June 9th, 10th & 11th
Annual Event presented by the Thomas Francis Meagher Division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) from Helena MT and the Virginia City Chamber of Commerce, the Bale of Hay Saloon and the Businesses and People of Virginia City Montana
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The overall Theme this year will be Thomas Francis Meagher・who he was, where he came from and what he meant to Ireland, Virginia City, the State of Montana and America.
FRIDAY Afternoon ・June 9th
♣1pm—5:00pm AOH Community Service–Annual Clean-up at Meagher Cabin on west Idaho Street by the Helena AOH– A free family event.
Time for Lunch or Dinner on own at the various eating places in Virginia City and Nevada City
♣5pm—6:45pm Live Celtic music by the Dillon Fiddlers at the Historic Bale of Hay Saloon on west Wallace St– A free-will donation family event
♣7pm—8pm lying of the Irish green stripe down the center of Wallace Street (the main street in Virginia City) – A free family event—Everyone can participate
♣8pm—9:30pm Cultural Exhibit Presentation and live 1860's and live Music tying Irish Music to Montana at the Fellowship Hall at St.Paul's Episcopal Church on Idaho St. consisting of an Exhibition of illustrated panels prepared by the Irish Studies Program at the University of Montana in Missoula, depicting
the Background and Life & Times of Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish Hero and American Civil War General and Acting Territorial Governor of the Montana territory. Also live Celtic Fiddle music linking Ireland to territorial Montana by Tom Robison & Richard Burke from Bozeman Mt. This event is a free family event.
SATURDAY・June 10th
♣9 am Welcome Speeches & Irish Flag Raising at the Historical
Madison County Courthouse— A free family event
♣ 10:00 am Outdoor Catholic Irish Mass at the AOH Mass Rock at the
Meagher Cabin on west Idaho St.—a free family event.
♣11:00-1:00pm Lunch (Baked Montana/Irish Potato Bar) Camaraderie
at the Bale of Hat Saloon-A small free will donation family event.
♣1:00pm—1:30pm Annual AOH Parade St following the path of Irish green stripe on Wallace St—everyone welcome to Participate in this Parade—a free family event.
2:00pm—4:pm Tiernan Irish Dancers—Irish Dancing exhibition at the Community Center on Van Buren ST. A free family event
2:00pm—2:45pm Repeated event presented 3 times during the day. Live
4:00pm—4:45pm music "Songs of the Civil War" by a trio from Bozeman
7:00pm—7:45pm (Alice Hanks Allen, Fiddle & vocals, Jim McMillan, guitar and Phil Schladweiler, banjo) focusing on the 1860's era When Thomas Francis Meagher was a Union General in the U.S. Civil War and then Territorial Governor of the Montana Territo. A free family event at the Followship Hall on the lower level of St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Van Buren St.
♣6:30pm—9pm Free time for Dinner & Camaraderie in/around Virginia City
♣9pm—11:30pm Live music with a tint of Irish by Diblin Gulch from Butte Mt. at the Bale of Hay Saloon–A free family event
SUNDAY ・ June 11th
♣10:30am Catholic Mass at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish—at Laurin MT—A family event
Note: The Ternan Irish Dancers from Helena and Butte will be performing at the Community Center, the Bale of Hay Saloon and various business locations in Virginia City throughout the day on Saturday.


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The idea of the Tamarack Moot is to invite like minded people to set camp, practice Bushcraft, hone their outdoor skills and spend some precious time in the outdoors.
The Weekend Is Yours
The Moot is not a course, but Mike from Tamarack will be on hand to give ideas and advice over the weekend. You can practice knife and fire skills, cooking techniques, refine your camping rig, help out with camp chores or just simply chill out, the choice is yours.
Brief Itinerary
After meeting at Tamarack Outdoors, we will load our vehicles and equipment and drive 30 minutes to the woodland. From here we will walk 500m from the vehicles into the wood and pitch camp.
Dates & Booking Details
Spring Moot
Meet at Tamarack Outdoors at 16:00 on the Friday, the Moot finishes at around 16:00 on the Sunday.
Cost: £20 per person
Additional Information
Maximum Places: 20 people
There is a minimum age limit of 18 for the Moot.
Water will be provided on-site, each person must provide their own food and snacks for the duration of the weekend.
For more information on this event or to be added to the reserve list, contact the Tamarack Team on 01995 601011 or via email at [email protected]
Meet at Tamarack Outdoors.
Directions from the South
- From M6 North bound take junction 32 M55 signposted Fleetwood, Preston North.
- Follow signs for A6 Preston and Garstang.
- At roundabout take the third exit signposted A6 Garstang.
- After 5.5 miles turn right on the B6430, sign posted Garstang Country Hotel and Golf Club.
- Follow signs for Ray Lane and the Creamery Industrial Estate.
- Pass Garstang Country Hotel and Golf Club.
- Turn right onto Calder House Lane, sign posted Ray Lane Industrial Estate.
- Stay on Calder House Lane, after several bends this turns into Bruna Hill, then into Ray Lane.
- Follow Ray Lane over humped back bridge and under railway bridge.
- Pass under railway bridge and turn immediately left passing the Kenlis Arms on the right.
- Head for signs for the Creamery Industrial Estate.
- On entering the estate, straight in front you, you will find Tamarack Outdoors.
Directions from the North
- From M6 South bound take Junction 33, signposted A6 Garstang and Fleetwood.
- At the roundabout take first exit, signposted Garstang, Blackpool and Fleetwood.
- After 7.8 miles turn left onto Cock Robin Lane, signed Garstang Country Hotel & Golf Club
- At the end of Cock Robin Lane turn left onto B6430.
- All other directions as from the South.
Recommended Course Kit List
The idea of the Woodland Moot is full self-sufficiency and that you have the freedom to camp your way - whether that is hammock, tent or bivvy or whether you travel superlight or fully kitted out. With that in mind we don't prescribe a formal kit list and only offer the following guidelines:
- You will need food and snacks for the duration of the Moot
- Stove (Gas, Woodgas or Ethanol), a lighter or strikesteel and cooking pots
- A shelter of your choice (tent, hammock or tarp etc)
- Sleeping mat and sleeping bag
- Waterproof and warm clothing, hat, gloves, scarf along with boots or similar
- Toiletries including toilet roll, wash kit and towel
- Head torch, sit mat, camera, mosquito repellent, binoculars, cutting tools, a note book and pencil can also be useful
- Spare clothing for when you get back to the car on the Sunday afternoon can sometimes be an advantage
This equipment will need to fit inside a rucksack or grip, for example you may have to carry all your equipment into the woodland.
Q: When I arrive at Tamarack, what happens to my vehicle?
If you have a 4x4 this is an advantage to get within 500 meters of the site. If not, there will be some car sharing to get to site and change over of equipment into other vehicles. If a non 4x4 needs to go to site, the vehicle will be parked in the nearby farmyard which is secure. Some vehicles will remain at Tamarack and parked adjacent to the shop, where there is CCTV in operation and the estate is locked at night.
Q: Do I need to be fit ?
You need to be of fair fitness, for example the hardest part of the Woodland Moot is the walk to and from the vehicles. Mountain Moots are by their nature more strenuous but remember the weekend is your own, you can do as much or as little as you want.
Q: What do I need to bring?
You will need food and snacks for the duration of the Moot, stove (gas, wood gas or Ethanol) and cooking pots, tent, tarp or similar shelter, sleeping mat and sleeping bag. Waterproof and warm clothing, hat, gloves, scarf along with walking boots or similar. Toiletries including toilet roll, wash kit and towel. Head torch, note book and pencil, foam mat to sit on, camera, mosquito repellent, binoculars and any spare clothing for when you get back to the car on the Sunday afternoon.
Depending upon the Moot, this equipment may need to fit inside a rucksack or grip, for example you will have to carry all your equipment into the woodland.
All cutting tools you will have to provide.
Q: Can I bring my dog ?
Sorry, no dogs or pets allowed on site.
Q: Can I bring alcohol ?
Alcohol is allowed but only at the end of the day. As soon as you think you need a swig of beer all cutting tools are put away. Please drink responsibly. Any recreational drugs are not allowed on site for the duration of the Moot. Anyone found abusing these rules will be asked to leave.
Q: What are the toilet facilities like ?
The Moot is a wildcamp, therefore there are no formal facilites on site. For personal hygiene you will have to wash in a bowl, Billy can or use body wipes. There will be a camp toilet on site, consisting of a hole/latrine in the ground. This is in a discreet area on site and will have been pre-prepared.
Q: How do I get rid of my rubbish ?
That's easy, you brought it in, so you take it out.
Q: What if the weather is bad ?
Don't worry about this, the Moot will go ahead whatever the weather.
Q: What about first aid and anyone having an accident?
All Tamarack staff are trained and qualified in first aid, with a full comprehensive first aid kit on site. However, to give the feel and authenticity of wild camping, try and take care of minor issues yourself.
Q: I can't make the Saturday, but can I come on the Sunday ?
Sorry, full attendance of the Moot is necessary, even if you have attended a Moot previously.
Q: What about insurance ?
Tamarack hold the relevant insurance to carry out this type of activity. However, it would be an advantage to all who attend to have their own travel insurance.
Q: What happens now that I have booked and paid for a Moot ?
After you have booked and paid to attend the Moot you will find most of the information you will need within the FAQ or on this page. Here you will find dates, timings, meeting point, what kit and food provision you need etc.
Q: If I have booked and paid for a course and I need to cancel, do I get my money back?
If you need to cancel the Moot at any point you can either turn the fee into a credit note in our store or request a refund at any point. However, a refund or credit note is not available if you don't attend and request a refund after the Moot date.
If you know you won't be able to attend prior to the Moot, please let us know as soon as possible as we have a reserve list on every Moot.
Q: I booked on the Moot and you have now cancelled it, do I get my money back?
If Tamarack have to cancel the Moot for any reason, you can either turn the fee into a credit note in our store or request a refund.
" Mike and Sally,
Thank you so much for a fabulous weekend. It was absolutely perfect and no improvements needed. It gave me the opportunity to to look at kit and make adaptations, ask any questions (which there were lots of and were always answered!). Demo of the hammock set up was great and the walk was fab. It was great to meet other like minded people and just relax in such a beautiful woodland.
Thank you both so much. Emma.x "