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If you think you may be going bananas, think again because the health benefits of bananas are no laughing matter. Bananas come packed with potassium, and that's a good thing because bananas can help decrease the risk of strokes. They also lower blood pressure, relieve heartburn, prevent ulcers and speed recovery from diarrhoea.
You'll want to take the fruit more seriously because they can do wonders for your health. Bananas are one of nature's best sources of potassium with each fruit providing about 400 milligrams which in turn is about 11 per cent of the Daily Value (D.V.) of this mineral.
If you eat foods rich in potassium, you'll have a significantly lower risk of high blood pressure and related diseases like heart attack and stroke. Even if you already have high blood pressure, eating plenty of bananas may significantly reduce or also eliminate your need for blood pressure medication.
One of the best ways that bananas keep blood pressure down is by helping to prevent plaque from sticking to artery walls. They do this by holding off the "bad" low-density lipoprotein cholesterol from oxidising, a chemical process that makes it more likely to accumulate. That's why bananas may be a good defence against atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, another contributor to high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke.
And the best part is that you don't have to eat a boatload of bananas to get these health benefits. Just a couple of bananas will do the trick. My advice would be to think of potassium-rich foods like love and money. You can never get too much.
Though more research needs finalising, the health benefits of bananas may replace antacids in your medicine cabinet as an effective way to quell the inner flames of heartburn and indigestion. Although experts don't know why they work, bananas seem to act as a natural antacid. Also, bananas may help prevent and treat ulcers. However, more research needs some conclusion before we will know for sure.
Scientists suspect that bananas may guard against stomach damage in two ways. First, a chemical in bananas called protease inhibitor appears to be able to kill off harmful, ulcer-causing bacteria before they do their dirty work. Second, bananas seem to stimulate the production of protective mucus, the layer that helps prevent harsh acids from coming into contact with the tender stomach lining.
When you've been run ragged by a case of the runs, it's vital that you replenish all the essential fluids and nutrients that diarrhoea depletes. And a banana is just the food to do it. Bananas are an excellent source of electrolytes, like potassium, which you lose when you become dehydrated.
Electrolytes are minerals that turn into electrically charged particles in the body, helping to control almost everything that happens inside from mucus contractions and fluid balance to the beating of the heart. Also, bananas contain some pectin, a soluble fibre that acts like a sponge in the digestive tract, absorbing fluids and helping to keep diarrhoea in check.
Broaden your horizons. Even if you're not that fond of bananas as a snack, there are many other ways to get the healing goodness. In Caribbean countries and Central and South America, for example, people frequently add bananas to everyday recipes. Because of there mild sweet taste, bananas work well in almost any recipe. They are also a great addition to pizzas. And because I love pizza, I always make sure to place plenty of sliced banana as one of the ingredients.
Buy a bunch. One reason that people don't eat a lot of bananas is that they tend to get soft and mushy before you get around to eating them. Here's a trick for keeping them fresh. When bananas are getting dull too quickly, please put them in the refrigerator. It will promptly stop the ripening process. And don't be also alarmed when the cold turns the skin black - the fruit inside will still be fresh and tasty
On the other hand, when you're waiting for that bunch of green bananas to ripen, it's easy to speed up the process. Please put them in a brown paper bag at room temperature. The ethylene gas that bananas produce naturally will speed up the ripening. Ever thought of eating a fried banana? Just before the banana turns yellow, this is when they are ready to be fried. They need to be nice and firm and not mushy for frying. Best way to fry them is to slice them lengthways and place them in a pan with some extra virgin organic coconut oil. They are yummy.
And if you should ever be in Thailand towards the end of the rainy season (late September/early October), Thai's celebrate a week or so of vegetarianism and have market stalls displaying small yellow triangular flags. All the food on these stalls sells vegetarian food. Don't be shy; the cuisine is excellent in quality and great for your health too.
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MIAMI — This week, Boeing has released a video of an amazing display of the 737 MAX flight, which will take place at the 2016 EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
The short film exhibits the highlights from the MAX’s aircraft characteristics, as well as short field takeoff capability and high-banking turns.
The video was recorded at Moses Lake, Washington and Captains Mike Bryan, Greg McCann and Chris Dobb, Boeing test pilots, who were responsible for the spectacular flight demonstration, which was also performed at the Farnborough International Airshow earlier July.
The 737 MAX will “fly farther, increase revenue and provide the lowest seat mile cost of any airplane in its class,” Boeing claims. “The airplane will open new markets and provide exceptional performance for high elevation airports and opens new opportunities for low-cost carrier airlines.”
By the time the MAX enters service with Southwest, the Boeing 737 program will be over 50 years old, making it the longest running and best selling airliner of all time. To date, more than 8,888 737s have been built since it took to the skies for the first time in 1967.
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Jose Prakash (14 April 1925 – 24 March 2012) was an Indian actor and singer who worked in Malayalam cinema. He was a singer turned actor who had appeared in more than 300 films mostly in antagonist roles. He was awarded with the J. C. Daniel Award for 2011 a day before he died aged 87.
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He dominated the Malayalam film industry in the role of villain for around 40 years. Later, he switched to character roles in the mid 90s.
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He was the eldest of 8 children of Kunnel K.J.Joseph & Eliyamma Joseph on 14 April 1925 at Changanassery, Kottayam. He has a younger brother Prem Prakash who is also an actor. He had his primary education from Sacred Heart Public School, Kottayam. He was settled around 30 years in Madras and later moved to Cochin. In 2003 his right leg had to be amputated due to Diabetes. He has 6 children, 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived with his youngest son in Cochin till his death on 24 March 2012.His grandchildren are Jose,Tresa,Priya and Sachin.
Script writers Bobby-Sanjay and Malayalam movie director Dennis Joseph are his nephews.
Jose Prakash was in the British Indian army before entering the film industry. While in the army he had the rare distinction to serve as the body guard of Mahatma Gandhi during the time of partition. Like other actors of that age he was not a theatre or stage artist. He had served for British Indian army for 8 years. He later left army and return to his homeland and start small business. Having interest in cinema and music from childhood he started a small club with his friends called Kottayam Arts Club in which he was the lead singer. Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair once saw his performance and called him as a singer for his debut directorial film Sheriyo Thetto. It was Thikkurissy who gave him the name Jose Prakash.
Jose Prakash started his early career as a singer who lend his voice for Prem Nazir, Sathyaneshan Nadar etc. Malayalam industry was not professional at early 1950s usually actors sing for themselves. Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair introduced him to V. Dakshinamoorthy who liked his voice and lend his voice for the film Sheriyo Thetto in 1953 directed by Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair. In this film philosophical number "Paadu pettu paadangalil" sung by Jose Prakash introduced a new trend in Malayan cinema. He also did a small role in the movie. He was not at all a professional singer and does not attend any musical class. In the early 1960s Malayalam film industry became professional and the introduction of talented singers like A. M. Rajah, K. J. Yesudas ended the careers of all non professional singers. Up to 1960's he had sung around 60 songs for various actors like Prem Nazir etc.
During his singing career he had done small roles and cameos for films. His first break as an actor was Bhakta Kuchela in 1961.But his major break as a villain was Olavum Theravum in 1969 and he later went on to do many films mostly in villain roles. In 1971, he acted in the first ever investigative sequel C.I.D. Nazir (1971) directed by P. Venu. Later he worked with P. Venu in many of his films. He and K. P. Ummer dominated Malayalam film industry in the role of Antagonist and was a hard target for Heroes. Up to date he had acted for more than 350 films in Malayalam language. He retired from film industry in 2003 due to health reasons. His last film was Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum directed by Sibi Malayil. After a long gap of 8 years he did a small cameo role in Traffic.

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The Elaphite Islands are great spot for making a daily escape from Dubrovnik during hot summer days. This archipelago situated northwest of Dubrovnik consists of a group of island and only Kolocep, Sipan and Lopud are inhabited
The islands are dotted with small fisherman villages and have beautiful beaches and pine forests. The islands of Lopud and Kolocep are entirely car-free. You can visit the island just for a day, or maybe spend the night or a few days and explore them a little bit more.
The Elaphite islands are easily reachable from Dubrovnik ferry port by boat operating between the islands throughout the day. This makes a day trip from Dubrovnik easy, just take the early departure from Dubrovnik and the last one from the islands.
Of course, if you want to avoid using public transport, you can always book an organised tour. Travellers really love this full-day boat tour that departs from Gruz port.
Or for something a bit different, choose this speed-boat tour which will take you straight to Sunj beach, followed by a visit to a beautiful sea caves on the island of Kolocep.
Taking a private boat trip to the Elaphites would be the highlight of your Dubrovnik summer holidays. You will enjoy swimming and snorkeling in secluded bays, exploring sea caves or just sunbathing on the boat. People love this half-day private boat trip to the Elaphites which allows you to make your own itinerary.
We are sure you'll love this private sailing boat tour on which you will explore Elaphites islands, swim at secluded beaches and even learn how to sail (half-day and full-day options).
There is no better way to see the islands then by kayak. You can do this by joining one of many sea-kayaking tours available. Explore hidden beaches, caves and other secret island spots. Main activity kayaking is combined with island walking, swimming and snorkeling. Note that no previous paddling experience is necessary.
This small group guided kayaking tour to Lopud and Sipan and this tour that combines kayaking, biking and exploring the island of Sipan are among the most popular ones.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As gas prices skyrocket, more drivers are holding off filling up their tanks.
“I’m at 20 miles to ‘E’ right now,” said driver Alice Gordon.
“If you look right now, I’m below the red. I would have run out of gas another 2 miles,” said driver Scott Marquis.
Many people are now changing their lifestyles to afford roughly $5 a gallon.
“I rarely go out socially anymore and I’m about to go do Uber Eats right now so I can make extra money, for gas,” said Gordon.
“We own a painting company. It’s a family business, and we’ve lost 40% of business because of gas prices,” said Marquis.
Avoiding the pump is also landing more drivers stranded on the side of the road.
AAA said it responded to 200,000 out-of-gas calls from January to April. That is 150,000 more than the same time last year.
Aaron Nelson with Aaron’s Car Care said keeping your fuel pump cool is key.
“What it does is it exposes the pump to high temperatures because it’s not submerged so if you chronically run your car low, let’s say under a quarter of a tank, it definitely reduces the life of the pump because the pump is constantly overheating,” said Nelson.
Waiting to the last minute to fill up at the gas station could actually cost you more money than filling up in the first place.
“To replace a pump on a lot of these cars, you could spend $600, $800 sometimes $1,000 to replace a pump,” said Nelson.
To maximize your miles per gallon, AAA suggests:
- Cleaning your air filter
- Changing your oil routinely
- Having air in your tires
Marquis said paying for a full tank of gas is not common anymore.
“I’m only getting $15 today and I have plenty of money to get more, but I have to use it for food and other bills,” said Marquis.
To keep your car healthy, Nelson suggests filling up before the gas light comes on.
AAA said high gas prices aren’t the only blame for more stranded drivers. Experts said it can also be a sign that current traffic volumes have returned to pre-pandemic levels.

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Auburn City Council on Thursday night will take the first reading of a bond ordinance to cover the increasing cost of reconstructing the city’s water distribution system.
One of the major projects on the table is the reconstruction and improvement of the aging North Street water main. The scope of that project has grown and the price tag has more than doubled from just over $1 Million dollars to $2.2 Million since Council authorized a bond in April 2016. The total project cost will be financed through $627,000 in grant funds and just over $1.5 Million in bond proceeds.
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Welcome to the 4th installment of Letters to our Children! Don’t forget to follow our little circle by clicking on the link at the bottom of my page that will take you to another story. Thanks so much 🙂 To my boys, … Continue reading
I went back down to Rawlins a few weeks ago for an adorable young man’s 1st birthday party. While there, Miss Slater’s mom asked if I could do her 3 year portraits. Umm, yeah! I have wanted to take her photos for so long, but things just never seemed to work out. Slater has the most beautiful eyes…mesmerizing is the only word that I can think to describe them.
I asked Mom if she wouldn’t mind doing an in home, lifestyle session. She was up for whatever I suggested, as long as we could get some posed shots for the grandparents. And boy, did we! I delivered one of my largest galleries to date. Miss Slater rocked in front of my camera.
That’s what I love about in home sessions. Slater was so relaxed and eager to show me around her home, her favorite games, and how she loved walking up the mountain in their backyard. Kids are much more laid back when in their own environment and their true personalities just shine.
Sometimes it’s the ordinary moment, one you live every day, that turns into a cherished memory. A family photo session doesn’t necessarily involve a pretty field, blanket, and coordinated outfits. I asked a friend if she would volunteer her family for a little project of mine, and she bravely invited me into her home to photograph their Sunday breakfast.
We kept it simple, pancakes and bacon. Pajamas, bed head, a cuddle on the couch. These things are every day occurrences that I was able to make into lasting memories. Big brother often helps the little guy out of the crib right after he and Mom spend a few minutes watching cartoons and chatting while everyone else sleeps. Dad got to sleep in a little bit, so I hung out in the kitchen while Mom and the boys whipped up some pancakes. After the session, Mom mentioned that I was there to witness the first pancake flip for both boys! Big bro handled that spatula like a pro.
With breakfast cooked, it was time to wake Dad up (as usual) by a shout from the stairs, and then it was family time. Little boys always love their Mommy, but it feels so special to see the bonds with their Dad. They don’t stay little for long, so I’m glad I was there to save that moment for them. After lots of laughs, a few strawberry stems ingested, and many funny faces made, it was time for Jenga and some books. I love how every family turns an event that occurs in most homes into a comedy routine. And yes, the 2-year-old knows what the fox says 😉 A pillow fight rounded out the morning. Everyone had a blast tossing pillows at each other. I think…the little guy wasn’t quite sure what was going on!
It was a relaxed photo session where I was able to just sit back and let the family be themselves. We are already making plans to capture the everyday beauty of their backyard when Spring decides to visit Wyoming. I’m excited to see what fun activities they do in their own backyard and to document the everyday beauty!
This little guy has a pair of the most stunning blue eyes I’ve ever seen. I’ve been lucky enough to photograph he and his family quite a few times. Mom has been super patient with me, booking session whenever I make the trek south to visit. Sometimes we have to work extra hard to squeeze the time into a packed travel schedule. We shot this session in about 35 minutes, right before a sweet little girl’s birthday party. But, honestly, with the wind and the snow that’s about all any of us could handle! I love that I’ve been able to watch him grow up through my lens and am hoping that soon I’ll have the chance to photograph his little brother (or sister). Mom and Dad are doing what I never could and not finding out the gender of baby #2!
To my Sean-Sean and Con Man~
There are so many things that each of you do that fill my heart with joy and pride. Too many things to brag about and I know that people get tired of hearing all the amazing things that you do. Every time that you pick up a crayon, Sean, I remember the boy who refused to draw a line. Connor, when you grab my hand and tell me to tum on, tum wif me, Monny; I follow. Every single time. Because you don’t often request play time with me.
But, what makes me smile most often, sometimes with a tear following, is when I see you play together. Not play side by side, or in the same room, or on the same couch, but together. Sean, you ask Connor to play transformers or puppy with you. And, 9 times out of 10 Connor, you do it. Connor, I see you look up to Sean with a question in your eyes, and it’s almost like the question “ok, brother, now what?” doesn’t even have to be asked. Sean guides you to the next step. Sometimes you resist, but often you follow.
Connor, if I tell you to ask brother to find a toy for you, he does. But only after he makes you say please at least twice. All he has to do is say “Connor, what do you need to say?” and it pops right out of your mouth. And, if you really want it, you throw in a little sign language, too
There were many times that your 3 year age difference worried me. I worried that you wouldn’t be able to understand each other and that this would lead to fights. It does, a lot, but they are short-lived. The biggest fight right now is over Chase and the fact that he isn’t allowed out of your sight, Connor. I was worried that you wouldn’t have anything in common. That you would always be seeking out different toys, books, cartoons….not so much. Connor, at times I often wonder if you only like Superman, and Batman, and the Rescuebots, because Sean does. I now wonder what would consume your life if you could “choose” your own likes.
I wish with all my heart that I could freeze time. I love where you are right now, who you are. You enjoy spending time with each other and seek each other out as playmates. I see this both and home and at your school. Sean’s friends are Connor’s friends. I can only hope and pray that this bond is never severed. I love our home days together, even when they’re just spent cuddling on the couch watching DinoSquad for the umpteenth time. However, I know that there will be many more moments to come. And I feel blessed that I have discovered the passion for photography so that we will never forget this life that we get to call ours.
Every day I feel so very blessed that God saw fit to give you to me. You have taught me so much about myself. Through you I have learned love, patience, forgiveness, and how to play with swords. I understand now what it truly means to love someone and have that love returned. When you see us across the room and towards me, or your dad, the love and joy that you feel is shared with everyone in the room. It often takes my breath away. I hope that the love you feel for us never diminishes. You open my eyes to a new world every day. I truly love you to the moon and back. About 10 times, in fact!
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Every once in a while you meet a person that becomes a friend for life. Not only did I gain a best friend in this family, but so did Sean. He speaks of his bestie often and I’m pretty sure that Connor is going to have a friend in little sister as well. This may be the hardest mini session to blog because I miss my friend so much. I feel very lucky, though, to have met this family and to carry the connection across hundreds of miles.
It’s funny how easily we can get attached to people. This is another family I met early in my career in Rawlins. First I knew them through volleyball. Then in the classroom. Mom gave me one of the best compliments any teacher can receive when she followed me as I transferred to another school. They helped me survive a very challenging year and are now facing one themselves. Little sister has just been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Please say a little prayer for all of them tonight.
As a “new” photographer, I feel like I am constantly on the search to find my unique style. As a photographer, I know the type of photos I want to take. I know that I want to capture my clients, my children, my family in those honest and true moments. Those moments when everyone lets their guard down and shows their true spirit. I want those unposed, unscripted moments, memories, to be written down as history. Their history. And mine. BUT, as a client, I want those posed photos on my walls. I want the, “hey, everyone look at the camera and smile!” pictures. I KNOW I can incorporate both types into a session. That’s what I know.
What I don’t know, where I struggle, where I search, is the end game. Do I like my photos dark and mood? Light and airy? True to the moment, slightly enhanced, or Photo Shopped? Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes and NO. So, here’s the question, is that ok? Is it ok that each session is not quite cohesive. That my editing style shifts, albeit slightly, from location to location. I know there is no right answer and that I need to, at the end of the day, be happy with the product in front of me.
The pictures below are edited mostly clean, slightly creative, and today I love them. I love that I can see the personalities of my boys shining through. You can see where I live, where my heart is. This is me, and from now on, this is what you’ll see.
What I love about this job is that there is no right answer. I find inspiration in almost every photograph I see. While I will probably never have a studio, backdrops, lighting, themed sessions, props, or a super consistent editing style. What I will have is my heart in every photo I deliver. I will honestly love each frame that my clients see. And in that respect, unfortunately, some of my posts will be disappearing. Simply because of the fact that I don’t want to misrepresent myself and my style. So, is my search over? Maybe. For today at least.
Sean was so excited when I picked him up yesterday “Mommy, Mommy, Mommy!” he shouted (screamed, really) “I get Clifford!!!” It was our night to take the big red bag home for our night of family fun 🙂
Sean’s teacher often sends home family projects meant to encourage families to interact and do something, er, educational shall I say, rather than sit around the boob tube all night! Sean is more excited about some than others. Cutting and coloring are not really his deal but give this kid a stuffed animal or a guessing box and he’s over. the. moon.
So, last night we got to read a book, work on some patterns with dinos, put together a puzzle (which, I must brag, Sean is pretty good at!), and then draw a picture and journal about Clifford’s night. I, of course, forgot to take a picture of Sean’s drawing. He drew! TWO pictures!!!! Proud Mama right here.
Here he is working on the patterns. He loved working on them, especially since Connor didn’t have much interested and stayed outta the way.
This mom came to me for family pictures and said that her family wanted something a little “different”. Not the traditional sit in a row, smile at the camera, everybody say “cheese” type of session. I told her to bring. it. on. That’s the kind of style I love. A little life style-ish, a little improv, a little true to them. We had a blast on one of the last cool, Indian Summer evenings on their home football field. They were a blast to hang out with and before I knew it the sun was setting and we had to wrap it up. I feel like I captured all their personalities and still managed to get a somewhat traditional family shot in the mix~enjoy!


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Like all presidents, Donald Trump took office expecting to change things quickly. While there are new people in power, some of his well hyped shake up efforts have stalled. Obamacare has not been repealed, the wall with Mexico has not been built, and his proposed ban on visitors from Muslim countries was stalled by the courts.
Yet at the same time, there are positives despite Trump's setbacks. The economy is not doing bad, and confidence is still relatively high. In fact, it might even be better for small businesses in search of capital that Trump has had setbacks. Too much disruption is not good for the financial markets. Trump creates noise, which tends to cause jitters.
The overall mood on the economy leans toward positive, even though his heralded tax cut might not go through. Recession is not a cause for concern at the moment.
Small business loan volumes lowed a little in March and early April. My take is that if people want to borrow to expand their companies, doing it now would be advantageous. The economy isn't growing as much as people hoped before Trump took over the White House. Inflation may no longer be looming, and that could slow anticipated Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.
Loan approval rates at institutional investors and small banks improved in March 2017, according to the latest Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index™, the monthly analysis of more than 1,000 small business loan applications on Biz2Credit.com. Big banks’ ($10 billion-plus in assets) loan approval were stagnant in the last month, but remained at an all-time Index high. Meanwhile, loan approval rates at credit unions and alternative lenders continues to falter.
Small business loan approval rates at big banks remained at 24.1% in March 2017, ending seven consecutive months of increases. However, funding approval rates at small banks bounced back in March, improving by one-tenth of a percent to 48.9% as the category of lenders continues to approach that 50% mark, which has eluded them for the last two and a half years.
We are seeing more small businesses taking advantage of SBA loan programs. SBA-backed loans are popular with small borrowers and lenders because of the mitigated risk involved for those financing the loan products. Trump's modest cut in the SBA budget will have little negative impact on SBA loans.
Meanwhile, institutional lenders’ loan approval rates improved to 63.6%, reaching a new high mark on Biz2Credit's analysis. It marked the third time in the last four months that this category of lenders experienced an uptick in their funding approval percentages. The strong values of the stock market and U.S. dollar continue to attract a high volume of investors from all over the world.
While Trump is unpredictable, he also knows that markets don't typically react well to radical changes. He is a businessman, not a policy wonk, and like any other president, he has made some rookie mistakes. The question remains whether his political opponents (and there are many) will be able to sabotage his efforts. Additionally, foreign challenges are not taking his attention away from pressing domestic issues. Finding the right balance will be critical to the success of the economy and his presidency as a whole.


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8th and 9th May, 1993
Bruce Easton and I started from Sydney early on Saturday morning. It was a sunny day. Mackeral scales and mares tails streaked the upper levels of the sky. With eyes raised to the heavens, partly in supplication, I hazarded a guess in Bruce’s direction.
“High winds,” he replied, as we tied my Greenlander to the top of his car.
Too late for a change of mind. We were off on my biggest aqua-adventure to date. Out to Broughton Island. An unknown. A trip “offshore”.
The car trip was, as car trips often are, uneventful, and we soon saw Alex Preema’s kayak sitting on top of his car in Port Stephens. Alex directed us to a launching spot and we detoured for pie and chips and Bruce’s vegetarian something, arriving as Alex finished loading his boat.
I’d never loaded a kayak with camping gear before but felt instinctively that heavier things should go in the middle. A few goatskins of water would I thought, be helpful and soon we were on the water.
Alex, in his eagerness, had forgotten to batten down his back hatch. Fortunately we discovered that before we ventured off and we fixed it.
Nervousness and excitement jostled for lead position as I warmed up my paddling muscles. We passed through the twin headlands of Port Stephens and out through the islands scattered around the entrance. The sea was taking on a special colour, an omen for the trip. It was like green liquid glass. A deep succulent emerald.
Boondelbah and Little Island lay ahead of us and we shouted queries at each other. Should we go around Cabbage Tree Island or between it and North Head? We decided to go out around the island named for the palms that grow all over it. As we swung around to the north, we saw Broughton Island as a faint smudge ahead.
Above: Michael Maleedy discovering Sea-Caving (Photo: Bruce Easton)
“Doesn’t seem too far”, I thought, “something like Manly to Long Reef, maybe a bit more”. Off we paddled, a south-west wind blowing spray off choppy waves of about half a metre. We’d gone for about an hour and the grey smudge of the island was no less of a smudge. Looking back, Cabbage Tree and the Headland still stood out clearly. We’d hardly moved. I felt much more tired than hours of paddling usually makes me feel. The idea of being offshore and committed to a long paddle was obviously draining me more than I would have expected.
It was at about this point that the first dolphin leapt from the water. He was about an oars length away on the right of my boat and made me gasp with shock. Much more than the dolphins of film or photo, this creature was solid and abrupt. For all the world like a dog. A sea-cur. They weren’t there for long, these delightful creatures. Just enough to cause our three craft to move instinctively closer together, for we humans to exchange appreciative looks and mouth appropriate sentiments and then they were gone; leaving us to paddle on, lost in our own worlds of wonder and delight. A world I’m sure you fellow ocean-canoers also inhabit.
It took us about two and a half hours to reach the island and we entered a long, thin bay which sheltered a sprinkling of fisher folks huts. We pulled ashore just north of this little village and quickly set up camp. There was just enough light to allow for a quick exploration of the island so off we set again to hug the coast to the north. Bruce is an adventurous soul. He poked his way through all the nooks and crannies while Alex and I stood off wondering at the bravery or stupidity of Bruce’s confidence. I didn’t actually see the wave which almost wiped Bruce out but turned at the shouts, to see him metres away from a cliff, cresting a breaking wave. His Klepper and skill had saved him again.
We continued around a large bay and then headed south to investigate a sea-cave we’d noticed on the way to the island. We approached the cave as close as we dared to see the swell disappear into it and explode against the walls and spray create magnificent plumes of energy. “No! Not today. “Not any day”, I thought, as I tried to imagine manoeuvring my unwieldy Greenlander in such a confined space.
Night was falling, so we went back to camp for a hasty meal. The food was barely eaten when I was overcome by sheer exhaustion. I crawled into my sleeping bag and was instantly asleep.
I woke suddenly with an aching back. The muffled sound of the sea reminding me were I was and my stomach an empty pit. I had to eat! I looked at my watch. It was 11 pm as I stuck my head out to see that the leaden sky was weighing down the night, hiding a sky I’d hoped to see white with stars.
My clattering and banging in the cooking lean-to that Alex had provided brought him questioning into the night. What was I doing? Eating!? At two o clock in the morning? I was never to live this down. Alex to this day is convinced that I’m an eccentric night-nibbler. For the rest of the trip I had to endure taunts and jokes about my nocturnal peculiarities. True, there was nothing edible on the entire beach the next morning but, hey, a guy’s gotta eat!
The following day, Alex decided to climb to the highest point on the island while Bruce and I paddled. We headed off toward the sea-cave we’d investigated the night before. On the way to it we discovered a rock garden which would allow us passage to the south of the island and enable us to approach the cave from the side opposite to the one we’d looked at the day before. Cautious, as usual, I led the way through the jumble of rocks, pausing to let waves pass before paddling furiously to get to the open water beyond. As we left the rocks and cliffs and came out into clear water we saw the first of about twenty soft drink cans floating about, scattered, together with plastic bags full of rubbish over a huge area. We collected them, piling our kayaks high and took them across to a dive boat which had arrived to take advantage of the delightful, crystal waters. The divers agreed to take rubbish away for us and then watched as we edged our way toward the sea cave. From this side the explosions of water against the cliff walls seemed even more dramatic and dangerous. A two metre swell, crashing through a channel about four metres across was something not even Bruce was game to enter. We agreed to move around to the north entrance again and twenty minutes found us following the swell into the mouth of the cave. Strangely, once we’d committed ourselves to the lunacy of entering and once we were inside, all the movement and spray were no worse than a moderately windy day off a headland. Bruce led the way through the passage and hesitated just before the exit. I was picked up and hurtled forward by a following wave. I screamed, “We’ve made it. Go! Go!”. Bruce gave a quick look back, a couple of paddle strokes and we burst out of the gap to the applause of the divers on the boat beyond.
Once we’d been through and realised how safe the exercise was in reality we returned through the cave. The photos Bruce took of this show what seem to be almost calm, flat water. they don’t show the dynamism of the sea in that confined space.
Above: Michael Maleedy leaving Broughton in his wake (Photo: Bruce Easton)
The adrenalin buzz we received from that adventure gave us the energy then to paddle north to investigate the rest of the island’s shoreline. Broughton Island is a pretty featureless heath, but the cliffs and rock formations which ring it, are stunning. The bubbles and flows of once molten rock seem caught in time. I don’t know the origin of the island but looking around from the ocean, at certain points, you can imagine yourself in the bowl of an extinct volcano.
We travelled as far around the island as time would allow and found another cave which led through the cliffs. A quieter cave this time but with it’s own peculiarities. It was very shallow, so had to be navigated on the rise of a wave. An interesting experience and not for those with precious kayaks.
On our way back to the camp site we passed close to a rock outcrop. Fortunately we were not hugging the shoreline as we had previously. A sudden rogue wave leapt out of a completely calm sea. As we watched in awe, it smashed against the jagged rocks, metres from our fragile boats. I can’t imagine how we would have dealt with the situation of being caught between those cruel rocks and that cunning wave. Perhaps a quick capsize to create enough drag to let the wave pass over, then a roll and a fear-filled dash for safety. That wave lived in my memory and dreams for days.
Back at the tents we found Alex sheltering from the rain that had started to fall. He’d had a great time. We envied him what must have been magnificent views from the top of the island.
After lunch we packed and headed north. Rather than paddle round the whole of the island we used the second cave we’d discovered to make the trip a bit shorter. The day was getting on and we had a way to travel so we moved south onto a remarkable sea.
The sky overhead was leaden and heavy and the ocean as flat and featureless as I’ve ever seen it. Every now and then the swell would move through from the south west like a huge creature turning in its sleep. It was sheer pleasure to slink along its surface through a profound silence. Far in the distance was a faint groan I took to be traffic on a highway. The others told me it was the sound of breaking waves on the shore kilometres to the east. Every now and then we’d stop and listen, to virtually nothing. No wind, no water movement. Complete silence, almost. Once or twice on the journey, a light squall would pass over us. If we stopped then, I’d lie back on my boat and listen to the clinking glass sound of raindrops hitting the sea surface.
Eventually the headlands of Port Stephens were immediately ahead of us and we slowed down to luxuriate in the magnificent aqua’s and purples of the shallows around the islands.
As we passed through the twin sentinels of the bay we were met by a a pod of dolphins moving like one animal as they broke the surface. We moved towards them but they disappeared to reappear a hundred metres behind us, then off again in the distance. We were too tired to pursue them and headed for a landing, a quick pack-up and a welcome dinner at Alex’s In-laws.
If this becomes an annual event, as I suspect it will, I recommend it to any competent paddler. It’s a trip that will live in your memory for a long time.

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With the National Football League’s (NFL) 57th instalment of the Super Bowl less than a month away – there’s a sense of excitement and anticipation that exists for American football’s preeminent fixture that many other sports fail to replicate. Whether it be the half-time entertainment, famed commercials or the numerous A-list celebrities in attendance, there’s no other annual sporting event that transcends culture quite like the Super Bowl.
That’s away from the gridiron – on it – winning a Super Bowl is a defining moment for both a franchise and particularly a player. It is where history is created and legacies are carved – and with that in mind – read on as we take a look at some of the best individual performances in Super Bowls over the past two decades.
Tom Brady – Super Bowl LI
With a staggering seven Super Bowl rings to his name, there’s no surprise that Tom Brady makes this list. After finishing the 2016/17 regular season with a strong 14-2 record, the New England Patriots defeated the Houston Texans and the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Divisional Playoff and AFC Championship respectively en route to their seventh Super Bowl appearance in 15 years.
Despite entering as the Super Bowl betting favourites, Brady and company had a tall task awaiting them in the big dance, with the 11-5 Atlanta Falcons and regular season Most Valuable Player (MVP) Matt Ryan finding exceptional form in their convincing playoff wins against the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers.
Both outfits had high-powered offences – however – with the Falcons boasting the likes of Julio Jones at wide receiver, dual running back threats in Tevin Coleman and Devonta Freeman in the backfield, and the in-form Ryan under centre – the Falcons had arguably the deeper team with ball in hand. That proved to be the case throughout the majority of the game, with the Falcons shooting out to a seemingly insurmountable 28-3 lead with less than nine minutes remaining in the third quarter.
If the Patriots were to overcome the biggest deficit in Super Bowl history, they needed to be flawless from that point on. They did just that – and unsurprisingly – it was Brady who was the standout performer. He completed nearly 70% of his pass attempts, threw for 466 yards and laid on two touchdown passes to help New England somehow tie the score at 28-28 at the end of regulation – sending Super Bowl LVI into overtime.
After winning the toss and electing to receive, the end result appeared to be written in the stars. Like he had done on so many occasions beforehand, Brady led an 80-yard drive down the field in overtime to put the Patriots in their opposition’s red zone. Running back James White would ultimately score the decisive touchdown as the Patriots went on to win 34-28.
Not only did the Patriots’ win mark the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history – we also witnessed Bradysolidify his standing as the greatest quarterback of all time.
Von Miller – Super Bowl 50
While the Super Bowl MVP award is traditionally reserved for the quarterback from the winning team – occasionally there’s a performance from a player in a different position that warrants the honour. Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller did just that in Super Bowl 50, putting forth a game for the ages as his side upset the NFL odds to defeat Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers 24-10.
Panthers quarterback Newton was the regular season MVP, and made opposition defences look helpless as his forever-improving arm made him a threat in the pocket – whilehis 6’5 frame andincredible speed also made him a nightmare outside of it. However, Miller is an exceptional athlete in his own right, and it was clear from the outset that he intended on making an impact.
He did just that, recording six tackles, 2.5 sacks, two forced fumbles and two quarterback hurries to help his team upset the favoured Carolina outfit. As mentioned earlier, Miller was named Super Bowl MVP, becoming just the fourth linebacker to achieve the feat.
Aaron Rodgers – Super Bowl XLV
While Green Bay Packers superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers is oftentimes criticised for his relatively poor playoff record – there’s no doubting that he’s one of the greatest players to ever lace up the cleats. With four regular season MVP awards to his name – his resume speaks for itself, however, it’s his victory in Super Bowl XLV that stands out as the highlight.
Not only because it’s his only Super Bowl triumph to date, but because his performance was sublime. In what was mistake-free outing for Rodgers, the then 27-year-old threw for three touchdowns and accounted for 338 of his team’s total yards as the Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25.
Although Rodgers has been unable to secure a Super Bowl victory since – that night at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas in 2011 still remains one of the best individual performances in the sport’s major fixture of the past 20 years.


Premier Brian Pallister lays out his 100-Day Plan to media, which includes further job cuts and selling off public assets.
“The meth crisis is taking our city and our province hostage, and we can’t wait any longer.” ― Michelle Gawronsky, MGEU President
Correctional officers from adult and youth facilities have been sounding the alarm for months on the growing number of violent incidents inside these jails.
"These people had a collective agreement in place that was ignored. They weren’t provided with proper notice. They weren't even able to remove all of their personal effects from the workplace." — Michelle Gawronsky, MGEU President
The Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union (MGEU/NUPGE) is holding an information picket/rally in support of members working at Selkirk Laundry.
MGEU/NUPGE works to rectify members' issues after employers violate collective agreements.
“It’s strange that on the one hand, the government is asking MLL to generate more profit, while on the other hand taking away the corporation’s ability to do that by sending more profit to private retailers."— Michelle Gawrornsky, MGEU President
The agreement includes wage increases, improved holiday entitlements, modified hours of work, flex time, a streamlined step-advancement process, and additional personal leave allowances.
“There’s more to it than just providing an affordable place to live. If you take away the consistency that Manitoba Housing provides by offering these other supports, people may no longer have what they need to get by." — Michelle Gawronsky, MGEU President
The MGEU/NUPGE is largest union in the province, with over 40,000 members — 17,000 of whom work within the health care system.


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Congenital dyserythropoietic anemias (CDAs) are a group of hereditary disorders characterized by ineffective erythropoiesis and distinct morphological abnormalities of erythroblasts in the bone marrow. Most cases of CDA, caused by a wide spectrum of mutations, have been reported from Europe and Mediterranean countries, while a few cases have been described in China. Here, we present three cases of CDA, one from one family and two from a second unrelated family, with typical morphologic features and clinical presentations. Sequence analysis of CDA-related genes revealed that the proband with CDA Ι in the first family was a compound heterozygote of CDAN1 with mutation IVS-12+2T>C and c. 3389C>T, while both probands with CDA ΙΙ in the second family were a homozygote of the SEC23B gene with mutation c.938G>A (R313H). This study suggests that more patients with CDA, sharing a phenotype and genetic background like those of European and Mediterranean origin, remain to be diagnosed and reported in China.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta has launched a locally assembled Euro 4 Mitsubishi L200 pick up at state house Nairobi.
During the launch, president Kenyatta has said that his government will commit to create an enabling environment for the growth of the automotive industry in the country.
“I take note of the issue of getting the council established and that is something we shall see if we can do before we leave office to ensure that we create that enabling environment for the necessary institutions that will see this particular industry continue on its growth trajectory and becomes once again predominant part of the Kenyan economy,” Kenyatta said.
Kenyatta also encouraged stakeholders in the sector to work with the government to ensure that they achieve their objectives to revive the automative sector.
“I really appreciate the partnership that we have had that has led to a revival of this industry that was once-moribund and for me to give you my assurance and my commitment that we shall continue to work together to reach the targets that we envisioned way back in 2019.” Kenyatta added.
Speaking at the same event industrialization Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) David Osiany said that the assembly factories are currently producing a pitiful 6,000 units, or less than 25% of the industry’s production potential, he lamented. The industry has the capacity to build 30,000 automobiles annually.
“The industry has been able to provide 100,000 direct and indirect jobs to Kenyans. The industry also contributes about 30 billion per annum to the government through taxation,” the CAS said.
Yasuhisa Kitagawa, the deputy ambassador of Japan to Kenya, stated that his nation is committed to its cooperation with Kenya and will make sure that all planned initiatives are carried out for the benefit of the people of the two nations.
“Mombasa city where the L200 is assembled is an area that Japan has very strong commitment through giant projects such as the expansion of port facilities and development of Special Economic Zones,“ Mr. Kitagawa said.


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MEDFORD, Ore-- With some students in the Rogue Valley getting set to return to the class in less than a week, the Medford School District has informed NewsWatch 12 that quarantine guidelines have changed with the institution of the new mask mandate.
According to Dr. Bret Champion, MSD's Superintendent, students who are wearing masks properly and were social distanced while next to someone who later is confirmed to have COVID-19 will no longer have to quarantine.
A 'huge win' as Dr. Champion described the change.
"Its the quarantining that is shutting schools down," said Dr. Champion. "Because they're aren't kids in school. If folks are properly wearing masks and social distanced, for kids, then the quarantine won't be required. That is a huge win for not only us but for our kids."
This is a big change compared to last year, where multiple schools had their students wearing masks and social distancing, but still had to quarantine them if possibly exposed to coronavirus.
Even though COVID-19 cases are surging to new heights across the Rogue Valley-- educators in the Medford School District say they're grateful that students will be able to return to the classroom full time, even if it's with masks.
"We as adults have the opportunity to say hey we were planning this but now we are doing this," Dr. Champion said. It's great that we are back in person and we are planning great things for our students starting on Monday."

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A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged exploration of the psychological condition of being Asian American, by an award-winning poet and essayist
How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition—if such a thing exists?
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. Binding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity.
With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth.
About the Author
Cathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, The New York Times, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The Boston Review, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of the New Republic and full professor at the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program in poetry.
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Atlus has released some more information on the highly anticipated Persona 5 Royal, the upcoming re-release of Persona 5, during a recent livestream. To start, the company released the second official trailer for the game: watch it down below!
In Persona 5 Royal, Akechi's Confidant route will be leveled up by the player's own accord, rather than automatically over the course of the story. The player will be able to receive new abilities through Akechi's Confidant route, including the ability to scout enemy weaknesses when a battle begins. Atlus also released a new "Morgana Report" that unveils Jose, a brand-new character who resided in Mementos and is collecting "flowers" in order to study humans. Mementos in general has received a lot of new additions: players can bring Jose collectible stamps to "change the perception of Mementos itself" and earn bonuses like more money or experience. Players can also trade the "Ishi" found in palaces for rare accessories, or the flowers found in Mementos for items. Players will also encounter a new mission type where they will have to utilize information gathered in the city and from the Phansite in order to negotiate with a target.
Akechi's character trailer and Morgana Report #4 can be viewed below.
As confirmed prior to this livestream, DLC purchased for Persona 5 must be repurchased for 10 yen in order to be used in Persona 5 Royal. Persona 5 Royal will feature a new Palace, which will be explored during the all-new third semester scenario. Other details mentioned in the livestream is that the "f" on the Orpheus & Orpheus Picaro (f) Set included with the Digital Deluxe version of the game stands for "female," and the Share function on the PS4 will be freely usable up until the player reaches December. Lastly, Ryuji's instant-kill ability has been modified slightly so that it can only be triggered when foes are approached with a dash: however, money and experience can now be gained from using the ability.
Check out some brand-new gameplay from Persona 5 Royal down below (from roughly around the 46-minute mark)! The game will hit Japanese PS4s on October 31st in Japan, and is set to arrive in the West sometime next year. Stay tuned to RPGFan for more info on Persona 5 Royal.


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The Howling Wolf™ Pendant Necklace 925 Sterling Silver
Regular price$139.99 USDSale price$79.99 USD
The Howling Wolf™ Pendant that you can't see in any store! This is an exclusive handmade item by our artist Noah from Texas US.
Comes with 925 sterling silver chain "My jewelry has a Native American look to it, as my father spent a lot of time with Navajo Indians throughout his adolescence. Since I coveted what he has made throughout his time as a silversmith, I developed a southwestern style with its own uniqueness." - Noah
This is a handmade jewelry, we need 3 weeks to produce your pendant. All orders will be shipped out by Sept. 03.
A remarkable and distinctive Sterling Silver sleeping beauty pendant that captures the realistic carvings of a hand-carved arrowhead. This piece is sure to get compliments as the light and shadows bring it to life in every setting. It measures
1-1/4 inches tall, by 3/4’s of an inch wide. Featuring The Howling Wolf Turquoise inlay. Native Americans have long believed that wearing a hand-carved arrowhead, as a talisman around your neck, was a symbol of protection, courage, and strength. They also believed that the arrowhead protected them from illness and acted as a guard against the Evil Eye. It would deflect any negative energy, protect them from their enemies and absorb their power.


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GKN says automotive arm will deliver £153m of annual benefits by 2020
GKN has outlined its plans for the future of its automotive division in its latest attempt to scupper its hostile takeover by turnaround specialist Melrose.
The foundation of the plans is the so-called Project Boost reorganisation strategy, which underlines the aim of delivering significantly improved margins and cash flows for the business.
By implementing Project Boost within the Driveline business, GKN expects to deliver £153m of recurring annual cash benefits from the end of 2020.
In line with the overall group strategy, savings are expected to be realised through four key levers – manufacturing excellence (representing £55m of the total cash benefit), functional excellence (£30m), direct procurement cost savings (£35m) and indirect procurement cost savings (£33m).
In a presentation today, the GKN Driveline team will outline how the acceleration of Industry 4.0, including both automation and digitisation, will drive improvements in productivity, quality and safety across Driveline’s global manufacturing footprint, which includes a strong presence in China and Eastern Europe.
Through its Chinese joint venture – Shanghai GKN Huayu Driveline Systems (SDS) – GKN has a market leading position in driveshafts and all-wheel drive modules in China and will be implementing a separate SDS Boost programme focused on maintaining its strong margins.
The SDS joint venture, which has recently received a 50-year extension agreement, will be GKN’s route to market for eDrive Systems (electronic axles).
GKN said that with a £2bn order book from global OEMs, Driveline was leading the way in contemporary and electrified drivelines. The eDrive Systems operation is expected to deliver revenues of approximately £500m by 2022.
The presentation comes amid speculation that the Driveline operation could be sold to US-based Dana, a long tome collaborator with GKN.
If such a deal was to take place it would seriously undermine Melrose’s £7.4bn plan to acquire the Redditch-based group.
Commenting, Anne Stevens, chief executive of GKN, said: “Our Driveline business is perfectly positioned to take advantage of the changing automotive market.
“With our world leading technology we have successfully pre-empted the needs of our customers and we will continue to do so.
“We will continue to develop and deliver the technologies that will enable our customers to succeed while realising the full value of our business.”
Meanwhile, Unite members from Jaguar Land Rover and other car makers joined workers at GKN Driveline in Erdington to protest against the Melrose approach and urge the Government to block the takeover.
The union said workers at Driveline, along with their colleagues in the aerospace and defence divisions, were fearful that a takeover by Melrose could jeopardise their pensions and lead to the business being sold off, with jobs shipped abroad.

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God had a good convention: The
Almighty's name was mentioned (albeit at the last minute) in the
Democratic platform. And He was invoked no less than 12 times in the
Republican platform, in case He is keeping score.
But the real news is that God is having a strong millennium,
according to some fascinating recent poll results gathered by the Pew
Research Center. The data shows that even as the developing world is
getting more modern, it is also getting more religious, with especially
sharp gains for both Christians and Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa.
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A Conversation with Dr. Theodore Richards on Urban Social Justice for the Reimagining Podcast
After the insurrection of the United States Capitol building, leaders across the country have called for unity. But how can we be unified when our cities are still segregated and Black Americans suffer the most from continuing racial and economic disparities? In this very special podcast, Dr. Theodore Richards speaks with Tonika Johnson, a brilliant, Chicago-based Black woman artist-activist whose work gives us hope for true unity.
Tonika Johnson is a photographer/social justice artist and life-long resident of Chicago’s South Side neighborhood of Englewood. She is also co-founder of two community-based organizations, Englewood Arts Collective and Resident Association of Greater Englewood, that seek to reframe the narrative of South Side communities and mobilize people and resources for positive change. Within her artistic practice, Tonika often explores urban segregation and documents the nuance and richness of the black community, countering pervasive media depictions of Chicago’s violence and crime. As a trained photojournalist and former teaching artist, she has been engaged in building an artistic legacy that has gained citywide recognition in the last four years. In 2017, she was recognized by Chicago Magazine as a Chicagoan of the Year for her photography of Englewood’s everyday beauty. Her Englewood-based photography projects “From the INside,” and “Everyday Rituals,” were exhibited at Rootwork Gallery in Pilsen, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Harold Washington Library Center and at Loyola University’s Museum of Art (LUMA). Her Folded Map project, visually investigates disparities among Chicago residents who are “map twins” living on opposite ends of streets that span the city’s racial and economic divides, and brings them together to have a conversation, was also exhibited at LUMA in 2018. Now, an excerpt of the project is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art as part of The Long Dream exhibition. Since 2018, Tonika has transformed Folded Map into an advocacy and policy-influencing tool that invites audiences to open a dialogue and question how we are all socially impacted by racial and institutional conditions that segregate the city. In 2020, she formalized Folded Map project into a non-profit organization where she serves as Executive Director. In 2019, she was named one of Field Foundation’s Leaders for a New Chicago and most recently, she was appointed as a member of the Cultural Advisory Council of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events by the Chicago City Council.
Dr. Theodore Richards, an award-winning author, philosopher, and educator, is the Founder and Director (CEO) of the Chicago Wisdom Project and the Co-Director (Co-CEO) of Wisdom Projects, Inc. Click here to learn more about his work for the Wisdom Community.


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I am wondering about the top piece of lace above. Is it handmade? What kind of lace is it? The second piece is a nice filet lace. The third is hand crocheted. The 4th and 5th are both handmade Irish lace. I just love Irish lace. The bottom piece is attached to some hand embroidered netting lace. The photo doesn't show it, but these are healthy lengths of lace.
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I went to an estate sale in Denver recently because they had a big bin marked "Lace". When I went they had several $3 bags of which I picked up "several". (-; But, my favorite bag was marked 50 cents. Here is the contents. Do you think they mispriced it? I LOVE the Irish crocheted lace, especially the narrow ones in the 2nd photo since I didn't have any before I picked up this baggie.


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The Indian government has drawn up a detailed questionnaire for the publishers of the 59 Chinese apps that were banned in the country last month. The list of 77 questions reportedly include queries about their data security policies, as well as the content they serve to their users in India. According to Reuters, the publishers have been asked whether they censor content or work on behalf of foreign governments. They’ll also have to reveal whether they lobby influencers to promote their products and services.
India’s Information Technology Ministry has given the companies three weeks to respond to the queries. There’s no word, however, on whether the ban on some of these apps could be lifted based on their answers. The 59 banned apps include the likes of TikTok, UC Browser, ShareIt, ES File Explorer, SHEIN, and more.
The report suggests that the government is concerned about censorship of news by the Chinese government. One of the questions is apparently about whether the app censored any content related to the Pulwama Attack of 2019. The government is apparently also seeking answers on whether these companies are in communication with movie stars, journalists and other celebrities in the country to promote any of their products or services.
Other queries were around advertisers, business structures, taxation practices and privacy policies, said the report. Finally, the government also wants to know whether they’ve faced investigations in the US, Europe or elsewhere for data-harvesting. The questionnaire has been send to the publishers of all 59 apps.
TikTok responded to Reuters’ request for a comment, saying that it was working on its response to the ministry’s queries. It also claimed that its service complies with all Indian laws and reiterated that data privacy is its top priority.

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The Georgia Department of Driver Services has opened its new Fayette County office at 749 W. Lanier Avenue, Suite 102, on the north side of Ga. Hwy. 54 between Gingercake Road and Grady Avenue.
The former site at the corner of McDonough Road and McElroy Road has been closed. The new larger and more computerized office is open 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday. Forms, information and some related services for obtaining or renewing a driver’s license are available at www.dds.ga.gov.


Pitcher Manuel Barrios has returned to the Marlins. The right-hander was claimed off waivers from the Dodgers on Monday and optioned to the Marlins' triple-A team. Barrios, 23, pitched in only one game for the Dodgers, and was 1-3 with a 6.00 earned-run average in 20 games for triple-A Albuquerque.
Barrios was among five players the Marlins sent to the Dodgers in the seven-player Mike Piazza trade May 15. He was designated for assignment July 31 to make room on the 40-man roster after the Dodgers acquired left-hander Carlos Perez and shortstop Mark Grudzielanek in a seven-player deal.
In two stints with the Marlins in the majors this season, Barrios had a 3.38 ERA without a decision. He was 2-0 with a 3.71 ERA in 12 games for Florida's triple-A team.
"We like him, and we don't have a lot of pitchers on our [40-man] roster right now who are close to the majors," Marlin General Manager Dave Dombrowski told the Palm Beach Post.


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Do you still keep those memories
we once held dear, now that we have
nothing else to share? The one thing
we could not divide between us
dwindled away for me, once we went
our separate ways, leaving nothing
but faint memories of memories.
This is my response to Quadrille #91 – Keep — the prompt from Kim at dVerse, which is to use the word keep in a 44-word poem that does not require meter or rhyme.
Which color is more true,
the rust of leaves that turn
their back on gaudy display
as they cling to an oak in October,
or the vibrancy reflected
in the stream below, shouting
the grandeur of its passing?
The sun will set on both, before long.
This is my response to Quadrille #89 – Are You Set? — the prompt from Merril at dVerse, which is to use the word set in a 44-word poem that does not require meter or rhyme.
Image: Sunset on the Missouri River at St. Thomas, Missouri
This Bitter Pill
That the cure is our demise
lies between hope and fear,
dear though we hold our home.
Are we the plague,
the ague that chills all hope,
the dope that drains all life?
To achieve tranquility,
must we become dust?
Must we be gone?
This second quadrille for the prompt from Lillian at dVerse … the most beautiful words are … (to write a quadrille [a 44-word poem that does not require meter or rhyme] using tranquility) – came to me after Merril’s comment on Till There Is Nothing – “I hope Earth will live as the Blue Planet, even if we make it uninhabitable for ourselves.”
Image source: Wikimedia Commons (Earth seen from Apollo 17)
Till There Is Nothing
Must it be, to find tranquility,
our search must be beyond
the reach of hands that spoil
the land till there is nothing
more than barren waste?
We hasten our demise, the seas
and forests soon like the moon,
little more than a dream.
My mind immediately turned to the Sea of Tranquility when I saw the prompt from Lillian at dVerse … the most beautiful words are … which is to write a quadrille (a 44-word poem that does not require meter or rhyme) using tranquility.
Image: full moon, 22 November 2018
You hear the beat,
but do not follow,
your voice your own,
in a world where too many
let others speak without
questioning the merits
of a drumbeat too often
carried to extremes,
out of step with reality,
right to the end.
This is a response to Quadrille #85 – Raising our Poetic Voices, the prompt from De Jackson at dVerse, which is to use the word voice in a 44-word poem that does not require meter or rhyme.
Image source: YouTube (USC Trojan Marching Band performing “Tusk”)
I stop for a moment,
even as I begin, fingers pressing
strings, and fret over the possibilities,
take note of the heartbeat sounding
through the delicate wood
pressed closely against me.
What better music could come
from a beginner with a life already lived?
This is a response to Quadrille #82 – Fretboard of Poetry, the prompt from Kim at dVerse, which is to use the word fret in a 44-word poem that does not require meter or rhyme.
Theirs is a flaming brilliance.
Not wildfires, nor dragons.
Two stars blazing. Embracing,
yet orbiting each other.
Two hearts bathing
in the warmth of their passion.
Each heart knowing, needing,
the pull of the other.
Their love burning without
consuming, yet quenching their desire.
This is a response to Quadrille #81 – Here there be dragons, the prompt from De Jackson at dVerse, which is to use the word dragon in a 44-word poem that does not require meter or rhyme.
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A month of launches in Temple Bar
To celebrate the launch of the new Charlie Parker thriller, John Connolly will be joined by musicians Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell in the Smock Alley Theatre on March 20th. Photograph: Alan Betson
The Gutter Bookshop in Dublin’s Temple Bar has another packed programme of events for March. Next Tuesday, March 4th, at 8pm, Colin Barrett launches A Model Partner, the debut novel by Irish writer and playwright Daniel Seery, published by Liberties Press. A winner in the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair Competition, this is the strange story of Tom Stacey and his quest to meet the love of his life.
The following night sees another launch, Spin: Taking Your Creativity To The Nth Degree by Claire Burge, a lively memoir by a productivity expert is filled with surprising, thoughtful and often amusing stories of how you can inspire and fulfill your own creativity.
Extremities, the new crime thriller by C A Devine, is launched on March 12th, at6.30pm. Disgraced NYPD Lieutenant Mac Ryan escapes the limelight on a Mediterranean yacht. MI5 agent Lizzie “Lucky” McKenzie is on a personal crusade of revenge. As pressure builds, both must face their enemies, and their own pasts.
To celebrate the launch of the new Charlie Parker thriller, John Connolly will be joined by musicians Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell in what promises to be a unique and thrilling evening in the Smock Alley Theatre on March 20th, at 6.30pm. Free tickets are available from the Smock Alley Theatre or The Gutter Bookshop.
Finally, In the Rosary Garden by Nicola White is launched on March 25th, at 6.30pm. The debut thriller by the winner of the Dundee international book prize is set in the aftermath of the 1983 pro-life referendum, when two school leavers discover a baby’s body in the garden shed of convent school. Detective Vincent Swan investigates in this impressive and intriguing debut.


It has taken me some time to finally complete this table.I designed it on Google SketchUp. I had to figure out how to use that program first. There are quite a few pictures that were taken during this process, however these are from the completion of the table to the installation of the new nomax gaskets and assembly of the eggs.
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State lawmakers opened deliberations Wednesday on a bill to cut cost-of-living allowances for 1 million members of Ohio's largest pension system.
House Bill 413 by Rep. Gary Scherer, R-Circleville, would implement recommendations in October by the Ohio Public Employee Retirement System designed to shore up the $90 billion fund and maintain future benefits.
Testifying before the House Aging and Long Term Care Committee, Scherer said, "This legislation is intended to strengthen the financial status of the Ohio Public Employee Retirement System. Although financially strong today, OPERS continues to explore ways to ensure that the retirement system is able to weather economic downturns that are an inevitable part of the life cycle of long-term institutional investors like OPERS."
Critics have questioned the need for cuts given the pension system's stable financial condition.
"Why now? Are there any specific indicators currently that cause you or others in support of this bill to think now is the time to do this as compared to five years ago or five years from now?" asked committee member Rep. Richard Brown, D-Canal Winchester.
Scherer said, "I'm putting this on the tee ... I'm very anxious to listening to the pros and cons."
The plan would reduce cost-of-living adjustments to match the Consumer Price Index, subject to a 2.5 percent cap, to save about $3 billion.
Rep Kirk Schuring, R-Canton, told fellow committee members that the retirement system's financial forecast may be overly optimistic and the fund could be in trouble if returns come in lower than expected.
"To suggest that this is premature and not needed loses the fact that we're trying to do something proactively that will make sure all current members and current retirees will be protected for the entire length of their retirement," he said. "We're trying to get out ahead of this."
The fund has provided annual cost-of-living adjustments since 1970. The benefit amount has changed several times but is now fixed at 3 percent for those who retired before January 2013. Those who retired after that date have their annual increases matched to the Consumer Price Index, not to exceed 3 percent, beginning in 2019.
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World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified the new COVID-19 variant B.1.1.529 as Omicron India. New COVID-19 variant B.1.1.529 was first reported to WHO from South Africa on 24 November 2021. According to WHO, the strain may spread more quickly than other forms. It has a large number of mutations. WHO said that preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant as compared to other variants. WHO also said that current PCR tests continue to successfully detect the variant.
About the Omicron:
- The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling category of COVID-19 variants, along with the globally-dominant Delta, plus its weaker rivals Alpha, Beta and Gamma.
- Apart from South Africa, Omicron has been detected in Israel in a person coming from Malawi; Botswana; Belgium and Hong Kong.
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Workers in Myanmar have demonstrated that trade unions and collective power are critical in defending and advancing democracy. Join us in showing our solidarity to the workers of Myanmar. Please make contributions to our emergency fund.
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For Steven Dahlberg, owner of the Paradise Cove Mobile Home Park, decades of allowing polluted runoff and leaking sewage into the Pacific Ocean paid off with an early Christmas present. In a season of shopping for discounts, Dahlberg just got a sweet markdown from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointees on the Southern California Regional Water Quality Control Board: about 97 percent.
Paradise Cove is one of the most scenic waterfront sites in California, a relatively undeveloped gem tucked away on the Malibu coastline, which is perfect for swimming, surfing and filming. Thousands of films and ads have been shot there, from Gidget in the 1960s to The Rockford Files in the ’70s and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
But Paradise Cove also has a dirty secret: Locals have for decades called it “Parasite Cove,” with its chronic problem, which they attribute mainly to mobile home–park owner Dahlberg’s Kissel Co. and the environmental impact of the firm’s properties. Surfers, swimmers and others talk about getting chronic coughs, runny noses and staph infections after braving the Paradise Cove waters.
Dahlberg’s bluff-side mobile-home development has 257 units, some of which are old and primitive, with some located just 300 feet from the water’s edge, and many offering stunning million-dollar views.
According to water board officials, the development has caused a long history of pollution problems — specifically, raw fecal matter — that spill into the ocean and nearby creeks.
It has also been a frequent contributor to the infamous “Malibu stink” that locals know as the result of leaking septic tanks, upstream runoff and other pollution problems up and down the hilly coast. Last spring, 38 Malibu businesses were notified by the regional water board that they were violating wastewater-discharge permit requirements — failing, like Dahlberg, to control leaking septic tanks and other untreated runoff.
Dahlberg inherited the “resort” from his parents and runs what appears to be a highly lucrative family business. Its slogan: “Paradise without the airfare.”
But documents filed by the water board state that Kissel Co. allowed 17 raw-sewage spills, totaling 2,000 gallons, into Ramirez Creek and the ocean between April 2007 and July 2008, disregarded board orders to construct and operate an effective wastewater-treatment plant according to prescribed schedules, and failed to submit groundwater-monitoring reports.
Those troubles followed years of resistance by Dahlberg to repeated efforts by his tenants, former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti and environmental groups that fought to make him clean things up during the 1990s.
In 2001, he finally agreed to build a modern wastewater-treatment system within three years — but this proved to be a delaying tactic. Dahlberg has spent most of this decade resisting, as tenants and environmental groups pushed him step after step to fulfill agreements he had made to resolve criminal charges of pollution and to settle a class-action civil lawsuit filed by a group of his tenants. Dahlberg did not return a succession of phone calls and e-mails from L.A. Weekly requesting his comment over several days.
Dahlberg’s strategy of ignoring pressure from the government, the environmentalists and the locals seemed to be paying off — until 2007, when The Malibu Times ran a picture of raw sewage running down the central path of the mobile-home park.
The photo quickly went viral on the Internet. Pollution as an abstract concept is one thing, but to see it up close and raw, as if world-famous Malibu were a Third World country lacking modern plumbing, is a hot topic with online viewers.
Last spring, with the new, $5.7 million treatment plant Dahlberg was forced to build finally up and running years later than scheduled, and after years of environmental damage, the water board finally seemed to show some grit: It tentatively ruled that Kissel Co. would have to pay a fine of $1.65 million because it had failed to meet compliance deadlines in the water board’s time-schedule order.
Environmentalists say Dahlberg has more than sufficient resources to pay such a fine: The mobile-home park sits on a 72-acre expanse of extremely valuable coastal property, with more than 200 units paying lease charges to Dahlberg.
“Raw sewage has flowed down driveways and streets, threatening human health and water quality,” says Deborah Smith, chief deputy executive officer for the water board. “Not meeting deadlines for constructing and effectively operating new facilities to protect water quality is unacceptable.”
Heal the Bay President Mark Gold was “ecstatic” at the news this year of the stiff proposed fine. “I’ve been with Heal the Bay for 20 years, and this issue has been discussed for over a dozen of them,” Gold says. “People make mistakes and you can be lenient, but when you have a chronic pollution problem that’s not addressed and has the potential to harm public health, a strong message needs to be sent.”
But six months after the enforcement hammer was raised, the governor’s appointees on the regional water board — Mary Ann Lutz, Madelyn Glickfield, Steve Blois, Francine Diamond and Maria Mehranian — blinked at a November hearing. Local surfers, swimmers and environmentalists were outraged when board members voted to whittle down the proposed fine of $1.65 million to a modest $54,000 and change.