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My monthly reflection on the lessons of the Ministerial Training Program
The Findhorn Book of Connecting with Nature; John R. Stowe
Instructor— Nancy Rowe
Grandmother—Mona Polacca; Hopi-Havasupai-Tewa
“What will be your way to kiss the ground?” This is the question asked by Nancy Rowe that plants the seed of discovery in my mind. Having had a somewhat regular and routine daily practice for many years now, it was a good question to ask as my month was upturned by the death of my own beloved grandmother, which made anything such as “the usual” difficult if not impossible to achieve. With everything changing uncontrollably, my practice started with simply coming into the present time and space. I began to adapt my practice to whatever I could manage in the moment—focus on my breath, the simplest of prayers, such as “Thank you,” and feeling gratitude for the blessings of comfort, support, water to drink, a good cry. Having unraveled my standard daily practice, I could allow for new possibilities to emerge.
The Findhorn book offered many suggestions for ways to tune into the moment. I found sweetness in the practice of addressing my neighbors in nature— the trees, birds, insects and rivers— as I would any human I wished to know better. Without presumption, I would greet the creature and invite it to share some time with me. I was often met with a welcome feeling. In this way I found moments of peace as I traveled away from home for various family visits.
Mona Polacca spoke of this same reverence for approaching a space with respect.
“Enter a room with awareness, observe the space don’t just rush in. Approach the water respectfully, introduce yourself to this life-giving element, don’t just run in. Tell it what you have come for, to drink or to swim or to pray, before you do it.”
Another concept she spoke of was the importance of cultural connection. As I entered family gatherings, I considered how I modeled responsibility, commitment and purpose. I had the opportunity to share a story at my grandmother’s funeral, and observed the way such a seemingly simple action can heal and connect people. As I left my family and encountered other human cultures, I kept in mind that I represented my family. What did my presence say about my people? As I interacted with non-human cultures, I considered how I represented humans in the web of creation. Did I approach with respect and leave with gratitude?
Our talk with Jyoti offered insight into some notable experiences that seem to be occurring to many of the students. I could relate to the digestive complications and the ringing in the ears especially, and hope I can discuss this more with other students (frustrated that I cannot join any discussions on Facebook, however I honestly cannot handle that site responsibly). Jyoti was slinging so many potent phrases at us, I feel like I could meditate on each one for a week and have my work cut out for me for the rest of my life. Some I’m pondering and practicing daily: “Stay in your sacred witness,” “If you’re going to have your dream come true, it has to go all the way to your feet,” and “This is the alchemical process cooking up in Mom’s kitchen. Remember: backstrokes through the soup!”

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helping hands spur
ignites creative juices
gratitude inspiresCindy Georgakas
I’m very excited to share that I was voted Author of The Month, and share my interview with you from SpillWords Press. Thank you so much Dagmara.K and her team for their support and to all of you for your vote for which I am extremely grateful and humbled.
Here’s an excerpt of the interview:
We offer our first and exclusive Q&A Interview with Cindy Georgakas, a writer whose literary works have been featured on our Spillwords pages as well as being Author of the Month of April 2023.
- What does it mean to be selected as Author of The Month?
It means the world to me to know that my work has been acknowledged by so many writers that I admire. I’m honored people took the time to vote for me, just in time for my book baby Re-Create & Celebrate: 7 Steps To Turn Your Dreams Into Reality coming out on May 20th. Thank you truly for believing in me and casting your vote.
- How have your friends and/or family influenced your writing?
My friends, family, clients, and colleagues are constant resources for inspiration. Their support and admiration of my work infuse me with energy that ignites my creative juices. Bearing witness to their strength facing a difficult situation or hearing a word or sentence from one of them that kindles a fire inside my belly, stimulates my creative juices.
- What inspires you to write?
My desire to let each person know that they are ok exactly how they are and to honor themselves for their beauty and their imperfections alike. Some of the people I wish I could help with my writing will never read my work so when it falls on ripe ears and people who can make use of my words it is deeply satisfying knowing I am being helpful to someone that is ready to take my words into their heart for healing and self-growth.
- What was your writing catalyst?
Covid was a silver lining for me as I learned to take my business to a new level of service. I had to use my creative energy to teach people to exercise and massage on Zoom and outside using balls, foam rollers, and other props for self-care. Life coaching sessions expanded because of the need to connect from so much isolation and my writing became instrumental both for myself and them to bridge the gap of separation. While I always sent a monthly newsletter, my writing expanded as a way to create inroads.
If you would like to read the whole interview, please go here to read it in its entirety.
So much to be grateful for and I have all of you to thank. I can wait to see as many of you that can make the launch party Saturday.
Here’s a little video I did on creating from blank spaces.
Launch Party Details
Topic: Re-Create and Celebrate Launch Party
Time: May 20, 2023 04:00 PM London 8:00 A.M. PST
See you tomorrow on Fun Fri-Yay with our beloved and amazing poet Grace Y. Estevez-Reddy from Grace of the Sun. Thanks to everyone thus far who’s interviews have each touched me immensely and I’m so grateful. If you missed them, you can click on their links below and find them on their site.
For the blog tour: I am giving away PDF/ePub copies of “Re-Create & Celebrate to three of the most regular participants in the comments section of the tour posts. The more you comment, the more chances you have to win a copy of these books!
✅ May 11th: Pooja Gudka LIFESFINE WHINE May 12th
✅ May 15th Gabriela Maria Milton and Literary Revelations LIVE TODAY
✅ May 15th: Diana D. Peach of Myths Of The Mirror: LIVE TODAY
✅ May 15th Kym Gordon Moore from Behind the Pen LIVE TODAY
✅May 17th Barbara Leonhard MasticadoresUsa and Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver
May 19th Grace Y. Estevez-Reddy Grace of the Sun
May 20th Dwight L. Roth of Roth Poetry
May 22nd Robbie Cheadle: Robbies Inspiration
May 24th David (Ben) Alexander Skeptic’s Kaddish
May 26th Yvette Prior: Prior house blog
June 2nd Marsha Ingreo -Always Write
RE-CREATE AND CELEBRATE is available on Kindle for purchase NOW on Amazon. The paper back version will be available on Saturday May 20th.
Again, I’m most appreciative for this award and grateful for your constant support. Have a wonderful day!
Thank you infinitely,
Copyright © 2023 Cindy Georgakas
All Rights Reserved
Great interview!!! I wishing you all the best dear Cindy!!! Have a wonderful day, I sending you a huge hugs!!! 🤗💖🥰🌹
Thank you so much Giada❣. So much appreciated!!! Will we see you Saturday at the launch Party? Hugs and love my friend 💗🥰❣
Thank you infinitely from my heart for your invitation!!! Unfortunately I live in Sardinia … I would have loved to participate, I will be close to you with my heart! 😘💖🥰💕❤
You’re so very welcome. Of course. No worries at all. you are probably sleeping when we are on. Aww sweet and it will be on video later as well! 😘🥰💞
Will the video be replayed? I would very much like to be able to see it,I am very happy for you!!! 🤗💕❤🌹🥰😘💞
It will be YES!!! Oh yayy.. glad to hear that.. Thank you so much.. I appreciate it! ❣❣❣🙏🏼
Wow!!! I am very happy to hear that!!! 😍❤🌹🥰
Such a wonderful and insightful interview you’ve shared, dear Cindy & Congratulations on your new book! ✍🏼⭐ You look lovely in your video, my dear friend, and I wish you a great day!! 💞
Oh thank you dear Phil!!! So glad you enjoyed it my friend. Thanks for that.. Awww thank you! Are you coming to the launch party Sat. I hope?❣ Have a great one too! 💞
Great and wonderful interview! Wishing you all the best!
Great interview, Cindy and Spillwords. Loved hearing of COVID-as-catalyst. Life changed those years and I too see some good in it.
Thank you so very much Jacqui! Soooo glad and yes, always silver linings!!! ❣
Wow. A wonderful interview. I am so happy for you, dearest Cindy. You are a wonderful writer. ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Thank you so much Aparna! I sooo much appreciate your kind support always!!!
Very kind accolades! 💗🙏🏼
SMILes Dear Cindy No Matter What The Cost
i Do Believe We aRe ALL HeaR to Listen to
And Teach Each Other Wisdom For Every
And Falling too
Ever Green Leaf
Talling Trees Every Brown
Leaf Falling to Soul Soils For
New Spring Growth Every Season
Every Weather in Yes Silent Rebirth
Thanks So Much For Sharing Some of Your
Wisdom Freely Here As It’s True It’s Not Just Intuition
Alone on How the Truly Original Creative Process Comes More
From the Silent Part of the Right Hemisphere of Our Mind That is Truly
Master For What
In More Natural
Holistic Views of Life
Social Empathic Artistic
Spiritually Nuancing With All
Emotions Senses DarK Thru LiGHT
For It is True The ‘Little Professor’ or the
Left Hemisphere of Our Mind Attempts to Reduce
Materially the World Around Us And Yes may Pay
More Attention to Road Noise And Planes Above Yes
Than What the Song of Birds With Wings Really Means
Uplifting to Feel and Sense All That is to Be With Wings Fur
And Fins And Even Snakes Spiraling Close to the Ground as
Milky Way Home Does Far Above in the Darkness Up THere
And Within Yes Inside Outside and All Around True mY FRiEnD
We Do Need to Grasp And Apprehend Objects in Our Environment to
Survive Yet True
Arises From Silence
And Dances And Sings
Colors Never Felt and Sensed Before
As i am Describing the ‘Special Sauce’ Hehe
of Humanity That ChatGP And Its Offspring Will
Sense About Life
True It Might Copy A Music
Class or a Poetry Class of Forms
Yet it Damned Sure Won’t Be the Next Jimi Hendrix on Guitar
HAha Or Syd Barrett From the Old Pink Floyd Days Indeed There
Are Deeper Places of Soul That Neither Demons or ChatGPT Offspring
Congratulations on Your
Book Drive Dear FRiEnD
Yet Do Feel the Value of one
3 Minute or So YouTube Video
For Changing the Course of A Soul on This Road to ‘Paradise Found..’
Iain McGilchrist ,A True Renaissance Man And Gentlemanly Scholar,
Oxford Fellow in Literature, Department Head in Psychiatry in the UK,
Neuroscientist, And Researcher of the Human Mind for 30 Years Now
Well Respected Globally Spent 10 Years Writing Around 1500 Pages
And 600,000 Words of the Book “The Matter With Things” Exploring
All Avenues of the Human Mind And How Our Modern Civilizations
Have Reduced Human Potential to Paint by Numbers Restricted
Mind in So Many Ways i Don’t Often Recommend Modern
Western Scholars to Read or Listen to as So many
Are in it Just for the Money Making Power and
Status Yet For Those Who Don’t Have the
Money or Many Hours to Read His Book
He Summarizes it on His Youtube Channel
Commercial Free in 29 Volumes So Enlightening
in Every Way And So Affirming For Many Intuitions i’ve
Had in my Life And So Vindicating too i must Admit to All
The Naysayers Who Suggested That What i Said was all Woo…
Indeed Ya Won’t Find Many Science or Artistic Minds to match his
For A Life Well Spent in Pursuing All Potentials Real of the Human Soul…
to All You
LoVE mY FRiEnD..:)
I think all of this is to say you enjoyed the interview and happy for the release.. Thanks dear Fred❣
Thanks dearest Fred! 💗
A really amazing interview Cindy. Love your tips on writing. Congratulations my friend on the upcoming book
Thank you so very much Sadje! Happy you found some good tips. I’m most grateful to you! ❣
You’re most welcome dear friend
Thanks my dearest Sadje! 💗
It’s my pleasure
Well done! Congrats and good luck!
Thank you so much Fredrick!!!❣
Cindy, you give your care and knowledge with deep generosity.
You are most deserving of this fruitful time.
Congratulations on your interview and your upcoming book tour.
Your video is a treasure of your wisdom. Thank you. And yes, in the creative procedd, one does require a space to fill, an “emptiness” as you defined so well that it needs nurturing.
Loved the chirping birds and ambiance of video. Awesomeness!!
Oh thank you my dear Suzette who always has the best interest of others. Thank you so much for your generosity of spirit and words to reflect upon. Thank you so very much and I’m happy to hear you liked my video and know well the wisdom of emptying out. You’re so welcome and thank you.
I love where you put your focus of attention on the birds chirping, not the noise. Awee thank you! 💞💗💞
Always a pleasure, Cindy. Thank you!.
Well done, Cindy! 👏🏻👏🏻😘😘❤❤
Thank you so much Filipa! 💗❣💗
You are a true inspiration, Cindy <3
You are too kind and I love it! Thank you David! I meant to link a reference to your site and then time ran away from me and your name just popped out! I never have time for “redo’s”. 😹💞
“your legacy as a writer”… So inspirational and such motivation. Absolutely beautiful, Cindy.
a wonderful interview🤍🎉
Oh I love that you liked that part Destiny./ So much appreciated my dear friend. Thank yhou so much! 💞
my pleasure, always dear Cindy 🤍🌹
Congrats on the wonderful interview, Cindy! I’ll pop on over to SW a little later to read the rest. I want the paperback, so I’ll buy my copy of your book on Saturday. I won’t be able to make the party though. Ugh! But I hope you’ll share about it next week.
By the way, I heard from Dagmara and my second poem will be published on SW soon. I’m so thrilled and I’m waiting for the details. I know you know the feeling. 🙂
Sending hugs your way! 💖
Oh thank you so very much Lauren. I appreciate that and I’m sure they will as well. Oh I’m delighted, thank you so very much. If you get time to write a review, I would love that as well. (ask for the moon you know. 😹). Well, you know the drill so thanks so very much~! WE’LL MISS YOU but we’ll tape it.. I totally understand.
YAYYYY Congratulations! That’s excellent. Can’t wait to read it. I’m another one in as well! Let’s see how long this on taeks.. xo 💗🙏🏼
Congratulations, Cindy – this is superb, and just in time for the book launch as you point out 🤩
Thank you so much Ingrid. Glad you liked it! I thought so as well! 💗 Pinch me.. lol 😹
Why thank you so much Tim❣
Loved reading the interviews on your book tour and am ordering my kindle copy today. I also left a comment on YouTube…you Go Girl!! So proud of you!!
Oh my sweet Karima.. I’m soooo happy you liked the interview and ordered in today.. That helps a lot I hear. You are a dear. I’ll go have s look on YouTube. Thanks for letting me know. You are a doll! ❣
Big congratulations on the interview and I am SOOO excited for the book launch! 💕😊
Oh Thanks so much Pooja! It’s happening and I’m still in a little bit of shock!! You’re so kind🙏🏼💞🙏🏼
You’re so welcome and I can imagine!
Such an amazing interview it is. Enjoyed reading. Excited for the launch party!! 😊
Thank you so much Anjali!!! I’m so happy and thrilled you are joining me! ❣
My pleasure!! 😊
us I should say.. lol ❣😹😇
WOW girlfriend, you are on a grand roll. Congratulations again on being named Author of the Month. You are right, the timing is absolutely perfect. Love your video and your birds piping in their background vocals. What a great interview Cindy. You slayed it! No rest for the wary eh? But truly this is such an exciting time for you dawwwlinkkkk and I am soooo very happy for you! You gotta keep going because you have come too far to turn back now! 😜 Sending you lots of hugs and smooches! 🥰💖🤗💐😘
Oh my Kym dawwwwlink lighting the way and fire under my feet. Thank you so very much. I really appreciate it. It really waa and you know how I only post 2 x’s a week but I’m stepping up my game to keep track of you.. lol. You burn the candle at both ends, It is exciting and don’t worry, I won’t fizzle just yet, Thanks for always beaming me up!! 💗 Love and smootches to you too! 💞
There you go my Energizer Mama! Bask in the essence of your light, oh shining star!!! 🌟🌞⭐The great motivational element here…is you dawwwwlinkkkk!!! 🤗💖😘
Oh you are the sweetest my light bulb friend.. Catching my breath and good thing comments are off again.. lol. I’ll head over soon!!! ❣💃🏻💃🏻
Guurrrlllll, catch several breaths. Honey, you ain’t seen nothing yet my Lighthouse maven! 😲💞😜
You are the absolute sweetest bestest cheerleader ever! 🥰
📣📣📣 Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar…all for Cindy, stand up and hollar!!! 🎆✨🎊
sit down juggalugalug! 😂💗
Wonderful. I’m headed over to reward this.
Thank you so very much K.! ❣
Amazing interview, Cindy!!!Such exciting times. Another big congratulations on Author of the month, so wonderful! See you tomorrow for Fun Friyayyyy!!!💕💕💕💕
Thank you so much Dearest Grace. I’m sooo grateful and appreciate your support and wonderful wishes. Yes, Tomorrow it in my Fri-Yaayyyyy fun Grace! 💞
This year is yours for sure, Cindy. You connect so well with people as a teacher, mentor, and as a writer. Above everything else, you are the sweetest person I have met in the blogging world. I will definitely buy your book and drop a review on Goodreads, Kindle, and Google books. 😘
Oh Ranjana! You are such a dear and I appreciate you! Thank you so much for everything. Your words are what inspires me to go on. Oh I am soooo grateful and so much appreciate it! Thanks so much! Can you cone to the launch party on Saturday?
What a wonderful interview!! This is one good thing that came out of Covid!1
Congratulations and many blessings!
Thank you so very much Ana Star! You’re so right. I do feel blessed and thank you so much! 💞
Congratulations, Cindy! Your words have the power to heal and promote self-growth. Best of luck with your launch party and blog tour.
Looing forward to it, will surely get a copy of it. ♥👏
Thank you so very much Ritsh! I’m happy to hear that. I so much appreciate your support of my work. I think you can only get the kindle version there but that’s awesome too.! 💗
Yes, there’s a Kindle version here, but that’s fine too. 😃 Can’t wait to read it.
Also will give a shoutout to you and your book in our tomorrow’s blog.
Oh awesome!!! so happy to hear that.. oh that’s so sweet.. thanks so much my friend! ❣
That whole paragraph reply on the question: “What inspires you to write!” expresses sentiments I can completely relate to Cindy! 🤔👍💯😁 Especially about reaching people in their imperfections and your writing reaching a different audience than you expected. Great interview & so glad your getting a good response to your book! 🙏👍👏🤞
Thank you sooo very much Ken. I’m glad you can relate to it and yeah, we just go with the flow.. right?! I’m so delighted and so happy for your wonderful support my friend! 💗
As usual, this interview is brilliantly beautiful my dear Queen. The video Omg! You are gorgeous Godess with abundance of inspiring knowledge. I love it so much. Have a great weekend n successful Book tour n launch. Loves n respect 🥰👌❤🙏🙏🙏
Oh Dear Suma, I’m elated you like it my friend! awwww you are a dear heart and no wonder a princess to all. I will and thanks so very much. You have a great one as well! 💞
Wonderful interview, Cindy! Congrats! 💖
Thank you dear Eugi! I’m most appreciative! 💞
Most welcome, Cindy!
So so so happy for you CG!!!
Awwww thank you truly D! I feel it! 💞 xo
Lovely post, Cindy. Your weather looks gorgeous. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow. 🙂 PS I wasn’t able to get your book on Kindle yet. It comes tomorrow. 🙂
Thank you so much Marsha! It is finally so lovely! Can’t wait to see you as well! Not a worry!!! ❣
Thanks Dawn!! 💗
Congratulations on all of your success, Cindy! You deserve it all. Your book is on its way to me, and I cannot wait to read it. 🥰
Thank you so very much Jeff! I truly appreciate your support and thrilled you ordered the book! Thank you so much! It means a lot! 💗
You’re most welcome, Cindy! Always.
Great and fantastic interview Cindy. Wonderful and i am so, so happy for you. Your video is awesome. You are looking so beautiful. Hearty congratulations and best of luck for your book. Have a great day 💗😊
Thank you so very much Kamal. So much appreciated and you do the same my sweet! 💗
Always welcome dear Cindy. Lots of love and hugs 🤗❤🤗❤
A wonderful interview, Cindy! You have all the ingredients to be a great author. Congratulations and my best wishes once again for grand success of the book 😊💐❤🙏
Thank you very much KK. You are a dear heart. Hope you are popping on this morning if time permits. I so much appreciate it! 💗
My pleasure, Cindy! You’re always welcome 😊💕
A very nice interview and presentation!
Thank you so much Dwight!~ ❣
Hi Cindy, Great book launch. I’m going to lunch today with my neighbors, one of whom is a counselor and the other works in the church hosting divorce and grief care classes. I’m going to share about your book. I bought it on Kindle and it arrived 7 minutes before your meeting. Vince called me and told me he had just gotten the charge, LOL. So I can’t wait to find out Who I Am. 🙂 This is a major accomplishment and from the outside and the little bit I’ve heard during the meeting, it sounds like a great workbook. Congratulations again. You are an inspiration. 🙂
Oh Marsha.. thanks so much for being there today.. sorry we didn’t get to see each others faces. but then I didn’t even see who all was there since my screen was sooo small. OH, that is sooooo sooo kind of you to share it. I’m so happy you like that snip-it and hope you like the book. Thank you truly for being such a dear friend!!! ❣🙏🏼
You had a great group. I realized about half-way through that my video was off. Then my internet started acting wonky, so after about the third time it disconnected me, I didn’t sign in again. You were finishing up. Now I have my afternoon reading lined up. 🙂
Do I need to make appointments for our future conversations? You are getting super famous. So proud of you😍❤
Of course not.. I’m flying you to Hollywood to meet me.🥰 I’m sooo sorry you couldn’t get in to the meeting today! 🥰
Hahaha! I’ll wait for the tickets😂 No worries we can have a personal party😂
Congratulations Cindy 👏 🎊 it’s nice to know about you more.
Cindy, congrats on being author of the month for Spillwords, and again for your new release. I enjoyed your inspirational video. Hugs <3
congrats Cindy … for being writer of the month and your publication! You’ve picked some key blogger to review it, so smart 🙂


1) Arriving this morning and walking up to the clubhouse to see what all the fuzz was about. It really does take your breath away. The place oozes quality and to think of all the amazing events and memories that have taken place on this one course make the Augusta National so unique.
2) Seeing Tiger. As a journalist, it is deemed pretty uncool to be in awe of the blokes you pursue, and while I didn’t quite flock to his side like so many, I did get slightly caught up in it all. It was like seeing one of the Beatles (not that I know anything about that) and it completely stole the thunder from Padraig Harrington, who was wooing the galleries by warming up on the 1st tee.
3) Walking down to Amen Corner. The three holes that have determined so many Masters over the years. The 11th and 13th look as tough as they are, but the par-3 12th (Golden bell) looks slightly innocuous. However, leave it short, and you are in the drink, go long and you have possibly the toughest bunker shot possible on a downslope and down green. Fierce. Fittingly, I got to see Sandy Lyle and Ian Woosnam tee off here. This is the hole that very nearly cost Lyle the Masters in 1988. He hit the green on this occasion…
4) Standing in the press area in the stands and watching the shot of the day: Rory McIlroy’s 7-iron on the 16th. He couldn’t have hit it sweeter. As straight as an arrow, and with the pin to the front left of the green, the galleries stood to applaud the teenager as his ball landed and sloped back down to within feet.
5) More nostalgia, and more Lyle. Walking up 18, I reached the famous left-hand bunker that the Scotsman had hit his 1-iron into some 21 years ago. Considering Hunter Mahan, Stephen Ames and Sean O’Hair all creamed their drives here, and all were some 25 yards short of this bunker, suggests just what a great ball-striker the former world number one was. Shame he gets cold hands…
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Jamie Bishop (Christopher James Bishop, 1971-2007) was the son of Michael Bishop, an US award-winning science fiction writer, and Jeri Whitaker Bishop, an elementary-school counselor; Jamie grew up in Pine Mountain, Georgia, USA, the family’s hometown since 1974, and attended school there as well as in Athens, Georgia, USA, and in both Kiel and Heidelberg, Germany. Jamie was an artist and a craftsman as well as an instructor of the German language at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA (Virginia Tech). He was among those killed in the Virginia Tech massacre of April 16, 2007.
The annual “Jamie Bishop Memorial Award for an Essay Not in English” was established by The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts as a prize for an essay on the subject of science fiction or speculative fiction not written in English, open to students and scholars presenting papers at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.
September 1st 2013 is the deadline for submissions to The International Asociation for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA)’s 8th annual Jamie Bishop Memorial Award for a critical essay on the fantastic written in a language other than English.
The International Asociation for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) defines the fantastic to include science fiction, folklore, and related genres in literature, drama, film, art and graphic design, and related disciplines.
For more information on the award and on past winners, please see http://iafa.highpoint.edu/awards/jamie-bishop-memorial-award/ (please note the updated submission criteria, below).
•Essays should be of high scholarly quality, as if for publication in an academic journal.
•We consider essays from 3,000-10,000 words in length (including notes and bibliography).
•Essays may be unpublished scholarship submitted by the author, or already published work nominated either by the author or another scholar (in which case the author’s permission should be obtained before submission).
•Essays must have been written and (when applicable) published in the original language within the last three years prior to submission.
•An abstract in English must accompany all submissions; an English translation of the title of the essay should also be included.
•Only one essay per person may be submitted each year.
•Submissions must be made electronically in Word format.
Prize: $250 U.S. and one year’s free membership in The International Asociation for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) to be awarded at the annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts held each March. Winning essays may be posted on The International Asociation for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) website in the original language and/or considered for publication in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (http://www.fantastic-arts.org/jfa/) should they be translated into English.
Please direct all inquiries and submissions to:
Rachel Haywood Ferreira
Department of World Languages and Cultures
3102 Pearson Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011 USA
© The International Asociation for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA)
Jamie Bishop Memorial Award Winners & Finalists
|2013||Winner||Ezequiel De Rosso|
|Finalists||Paweł Frelik, Mariano Martín Rodríguez|
|Semi-finalist||Fernando Ángel Moreno|
|2012||Winner||Pampa Olga Arán|
|Finalist||Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo|
|Semi-finalists||Sophie Beaulé, Alfredo Suppia|
|2008||Winner||María Beatriz Cóceres|

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(NEW YORK) — Weather conditions are keeping the Mexican Navy from approaching the capsized sailboat of a U.S. citizen who was reported missing on July 21, officials told ABC News Tuesday.
Donald Lawson, from Baltimore, Maryland, was piloting the sailboat, U.S. Coast Guard District 11 Petty Officer Hunter Schnabel told ABC News. He was headed from Acapulco, Mexico, to Panama on July 5.
Lawson called his spouse a few days into his journey and said he was having mechanical issues with the sailboat. He told his spouse he would head back to Acapulco, Schnabel said.
When his spouse did not hear from him for a few days, she contacted the Maryland Coast Guard on July 21, the official told ABC News.
Three vessels and a “persuader aircraft” were deployed, the Mexican Navy said, in the search and location operation. The boat was found capsized 275 miles from Acapulco. Weather conditions are impeding further search efforts.
Lawson had been on the journey hoping to set a speed record, sailing a trimaran around the world, Baltimore ABC affiliate WMAR-TV reported. The professional ship captain recently docked in Acapulco for repairs.
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In baking school I learned that freezing scones prior to baking makes the dough easier to cut and helps them retain their shape during baking. At home I learned that it’s also a great way to have freshly-baked scones for Sunday morning breakfast.
I baked these in my minimalist sometime-weekend-kitchen. By minimalist I mean a kitchen in a town whose one market doesn’t carry parchment paper… a kitchen whose oven temperature I can only guess at… where you make do with the ingredients you have… where fingers substitute for a pastry brush… where the ellipsis has free rein…. But I still have the best 25-year-old Robot Coupe food processor in the world. A food processor is not absolutely necessary, but it makes short work of cutting the butter into the dry ingredients.
The sourdough starter in these scones is more for flavor than leavening. I suggest letting your starter ferment a little past its peak to a more liquid consistency — this makes it easier to incorporate it into the dough. Mixing only to incorporation is important to avoid gluten development and maintain the scones’ crumbly texture.
I fresh used blueberries, but other berries, cherries, or chopped stone fruits would also be nice, and frozen works, too. Placing them in the bottom of the pan (which will become the top) rather than mixing it into the dough keeps fragile fruit from disintegrating in the mixing process. A concentration of fruit on top also gives a visual punch to the scones.
Blueberry Sourdough Scones
Yield: 8 scones
- Mix: 10 minutes
- Freeze : overnight
- Cut and thaw: 30 minutes
- Bake: about 30 minutes
- 50 grams flour
- 130 grams whole wheat flour
- 6.8 grams (1 1/2 teaspoons) baking powder
- 1.8 grams (1/2 teaspoon) baking soda
- 3.8 grams (5/8 teaspoon) salt
- 50 grams brown sugar
- 113 grams (1 stick) cold unsalted butter
- 40 grams rolled oats
- 50 grams half and half
- 244 g mature 100%-hydration sourdough starter
- 170 grams fresh or frozen blueberries or other fruit
- one egg
- Line an 8-inch cake pan with lightly-buttered plastic wrap. Place the blueberries in the pan.
- In the bowl of a food processor, place the flours, whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and brown sugar. Pulse a few times to combine.
- Cut the cold butter into 1/2-inch cubes. Pulse them with the dry ingredients in the food processor until the largest pieces of butter are the size of small peas.
- Transfer the mixture to a bowl. Toss in the oats lightly with a spatula.
- Add the half and half and the starter and mix lightly with your hands until just barely incorporated.
- Press the dough into the pan over the berries.
- Cover the top of the pan with plastic wrap and freeze overnight, or for at least four hours.
- Unmold the frozen scone round. Use a sturdy knife to cut the round into 8 wedges.
- Transfer the scones to a buttered or parchment-lined baking sheet. Let them stand until slightly thawed, about 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400F.
- Make an egg wash by beating the egg together with a splash of water and a pinch of salt. Just before baking, brush the tops and sides of the scones lightly with the egg wash.
- Bake for about 30 minutes, or until the scones are set and lightly browned.
- Enjoy while warm!

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by William F. Jasper
as published by the New American
It happens every summer, and this year is no different; thousands of wildfires ravage millions of acres in the arid Western states, destroying homes and huge swaths of forest and wildlife habitat — and taking lives. With the fire season far from over, federal firefighting efforts already topped $1 billion by August 21, and the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies are running out of money. Forty-nine “uncontained large fires” are raging across the Western states and an additional 222 new “moderate” fires are in various stages of either growing or being brought under control, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Forest Service’s Active Fire Mapping website for August 23, 2013.
5,469 Square Miles Incinerated ... So Far
Robin Broyles of the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), located in Boise, Idaho, told The New American that, as of August 23, a total of 32,732 wildfires have burned some 3.5 million acres so far this year. That translates into 5,469 square miles of woodland and grassland that have been incinerated, an area about the size of the entire state of Connecticut (5,543 sq. mi.). According to the NIFC, over the past 10 years the average area burned annually is 5.6 million acres. Whether or not the 2013 fire season ends up above or below that average will depend a lot on the weather over the next month or so. Either way, this year’s fire season has been especially deadly, with 19 members of an elite Hotshot firefighter crew dying in July in the Yarnell Hill wildfire in Arizona.
In northern California, the fast-burning Rim Fire, now covering 165 square miles, has spread into Yosemite National Park and threatens some of America’s most iconic landscapes. Meanwhile the huge Beaver Creek Fire is reducing some of Idaho’s most scenic wild lands in the Sun Valley area to ashes. The Beaver Creek blaze had already burned 111,163 acres by August 23, according to NIFC’s Broyles, while the still-burning Elk Complex Fire, also in Idaho, has already consumed 131,258 acres.
Wildfires occur naturally and have always been a part of the seasonal cycle in the West, but the size and intensity of the fires have dramatically increased in recent years due, in large measure, to the gross mismanagement of the national forests by the U.S. Forest Service and the incessant lawsuits of radical environmentalists that have thwarted all reasonable attempts at proper forest management.
As The New American has reported many times over the past three decades, the unconscionable destruction of our vast forests, watersheds, and wildlife habitat is the inevitable result of policies and practices imposed by federal politicians and bureaucrats, in tandem with the obstructionist programs of extreme environmental activists.
On July 10, 1999, this writer attended and reported on a congressional hearing of the House Resource Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health chaired by the late Representative Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho). The hearing was held in the logging town of John Day, Oregon, in the heart of the Malheur National Forest, which had been effectively shut down and closed to logging by the U.S. Forest Service. Hundreds of millions of board feet of dead and dying timber and huge sections of blow-down timber were being left to rot and create massive bug infestations and fire hazards, while the local mills were starving for logs and Americans were being forced to import lumber and wood products from Canada.
Rep. Chenoweth fought heroically to reverse the many destructive federal policies that are destroying the health of our national forests, but with little success against the huge, well-funded Green Lobby that would rather see the forests burn down than have human beings obtain any benefit from them.
In our 1999 article on the Chenoweth hearing in Oregon, I wrote: “The federal eco-saviors ... have created ecological disasters of near-apocalyptic proportions. Tens of millions of acres of once-beautiful forestland have been transformed into charred moonscapes and dying, bug infested, overgrown tinderboxes set to explode into blazing infernos.”
Tragically, since those words were written, the Fedgov-induced infernos have incinerated tens of millions acres more of what were once beautiful and productive forestland. The greater tragedy is that this massive destructive loss needn’t have happened — and need not continue to occur year after year.
In the 1999 article mentioned above, I cited a number of experts and studies that predicted that we would see a continuing escalation of incidence of unnatural supernova fires, unless we began to address the enormous buildup of brush and dead/dying timber that is choking our forests. We pointed to a detailed 1999 report issued by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) entitledCatastrophic Wildfire Threats, that said “39 million acres on national forests in the interior West are at high risk of catastrophic wildfire” due to unnatural and excessive tree density, massive buildup of undergrowth, disease and insect infestation.
In a 2003 article, “Fueling the Wildfires,” The New American reported that among the many federal policies that are putting our forests at grave risk are:
• The banning of insecticides and fungicides has allowed disease and bark beetles to kill once-healthy trees, making them more susceptible to forest fires....
• Policies and bureaucratic red tape prevent the timely removal of blow-down timber and trees that are dead or dying from insects and disease....
• The Clinton-era cutbacks in the fire preparedness budget of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) dangerously weakened the agency's firefighting capacity....
• As our national forests were degenerating into firetraps, the Interior Department was setting aside nearly a dozen new national monuments, acquiring millions of additional federal acres in the process....
• The creation of roadless areas eliminates preexisting firebreaks and impedes getting fire trucks and other equipment to the fires....
• The irresponsible use of controlled burns by federal bureaucrats notorious for torching huge expanses of forestland is a prescription for more calamity. Used properly, controlled burning is a legitimate forestry management tool. But fedgov managers seem to be incapable of exercising common sense or heeding the warning of meteorologists when told the conditions are wrong for burning.
Earlier this year, on February 26, 2013, the House Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation held a hearing presided over by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) that turns out to have been very relevant to the current burning issue of our national forest management. The subcommittee heard from a number of witnesses who testified concerning the superiority of state-managed forest lands versus the federally managed forests.
Rep. Hastings noted that the much smaller forests managed by Washington State “generate an average of $168 million annually, support construction of public elementary, middle school and high schools statewide, facilities at the state’s universities, and other state facilities and institutions. In comparison, the U.S. Forest Service is responsible for managing over 9 million acres of forest land contained within seven different national forests in the State of Washington, yet harvests just 2 percent of the new growth, yielding a four-year average of only $589,000 in revenue.”
Chairman Hastings noted further:
Rather than offering all-too-familiar rhetoric of how complying with one federal law or another “costs too much,” it’s time for the federal government to adjust how it does business, and honor its own statutory responsibilities to manage the forests, including allowing sufficient timber harvests, that benefit forested counties and their schools, as well as improve declining forest health and reduce the threat and soaring costs of catastrophic wildfire.
Absentee Landlord Jeopardizing 600 Million Acres
“Over the last few decades we’ve seen our National Forest System fall into complete neglect—what was once a valuable asset that deteriorated into a growing liability. I believe our forests and public lands are long overdue for a paradigm shift,” Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) told the hearing. “It’s time for the federal government to cease being the absentee landlord of over 600 million acres of land in this country that it controls and start leveraging those lands in a way that benefits rather than burdens the taxpayers and communities who are forced to play host to the federal estate.”
Not content with the 600 million acres it is already mismanaging, the Obama administration last November unconstitutionally claimed the authority to add 9.2 million acres to the federal plantation, allegedly to protected Northern Spotted Owl habitats in California, Oregon, and Washington.
Rep. Hastings pointed out that the federal Northwest Forest Plan for California, Oregon, and Washington, launched by the Clinton administration, has been a colossal failure. “To put it simply, the Northwest Forest Plan has failed,” said Hastings, at a May 2012 hearing. “It has failed the health of national forests,” he continued. “It has failed the economic well-being of rural counties and schools, has cost tens of thousands of Northwest timber-related jobs and the closure of hundreds of mills and affected wood-products industries. And, it has failed to recover the Spotted Owl.”
Moreover, stated Hastings:
Nationwide, federal agencies are not managing the land they are required to manage. Amidst our nation's current $15.7 trillion debt, the Interior Department's and Forest Service's own estimates reveal $22 billion in maintenance backlogs for lands managed by the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Worse, since the Northwest Forest Plan, an average of 355,000 acres per year of Northwest national forests has been destroyed by wildfire. Yet, agencies continue to request and spend more money to contain wildfires and acquire even more land.
In A Burning Issue: A Case for Abolishing the U.S. Forest Service (Rowman & Littlefield publishers, 2000), author Robert H. Nelson presents a scorching indictment of the U.S. Forest Service and federal forest malpractice. Decades of mismanagement have shown that the vast and varied forestlands of the West cannot be properly managed by the federal government, and should not be held captive by Beltway politicians and their gold-plated lobbyists masquerading as environmentalists. Nelson’s proposal for abolishing the U.S. Forest Service should be acted on — while there are still national forests that have not been converted into cinders. The states, counties, and private landowners will do a much better job of managing and protecting the forests.


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Jeff Hershey & The Heartbeats "Underground Classics" Tour13-05-2013
After a succesfull first European tour in the fall of 2012, Jeff Hershey & The Heartbeats will be back in Europe for a new run that will lead them through Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. You can expect a good dose of soul music and an incredible live performance from Jeff Hershey and his gang. Soul music with a punk rock attittude! Hershey's latest EP "Underground Classics" prove this solid mix. This new EP is one with punk rock covers by Fear, The Misfits, Agent Orange and Ill Repute.
“Soul music is the people’s music”, explains Hershey. “All we’re trying to do is bring it back to the people, one song, one show, one record, one tour at a time. We made our bones on our live show and it was important to us to capture that raw intensity and also the sonic integrity of those classic soul records. No gimmicks, no tricks. We’re happy that the response has been so positive. This is the music I was born to play and the band I’ve always wanted to front.” With the record already receiving glowing reviews, it seems that the world will soon know what Ventura County has been lucky enough to know already, that if Jeff Hershey and the Heartbeats have any say in the matter, soul music isn’t going out without a fight.


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Senta, 2 years, smallish
Senta is a smallish, gentle and friendly dog who we took from the local ps last year in autumn. Senta is so happy to get some attention from the team when someone has time for her. She is around 38 cms to the shoulder and weighs around 8kgs. Senta gets on well with the other dogs in her pen. She would be ok as an only dog in a savvy home or with another friendly dog to show her the ropes.

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Danny Boyle started the curved ball rolling this summer with a stunning Olympic opening ceremony that demonstrated stiff upper lips, deference, jingoism, pomp and empty ritual need never again misrepresent Britain.
The director of Slumdog Millionaire delivered an inclusive, eccentric and optimistic tribute to 2012’s Olympic host nation – and then of course, the athletes delivered.
Against all odds and despite its sponsor-captured origins, the enduring images of the London Olympics were positive and inspiring. Infectious sporting brilliance and bold, radical thinking unexpectedly won the day.
But the bigger they come, the harder they fall. It wasn’t hard to see the predictable path that lay ahead. Danny Boyle would accept the knighthood inevitably dangled before him in the New Year Honours List. He’d explain “it’s not for me but recognition of a brilliant team effort” and those who marvelled at his people’s opening ceremony would struggle not to feel they’d witnessed a cynical, opportunistic sham.
It didn’t happen. Unbelievably, quite unbelievably, Danny Boyle turned down the offer of a knighthood, saying: “I’m very proud to be an equal citizen and I think that’s what the opening ceremony was actually about.”
Nor did Boyle’s inspired pairing of Daniel Craig and the Queen turn out to be a pitch for directing the next Bond movie. “Don’t trust me with huge amounts of money,” he said last week, “I’m much better with a small amount of money, trying to make it go a long way.”
Hooray. At long last, a master of popular culture whose actions remain consistent with his principles – a man brave enough to defy the forces of bland convention and wise enough to keep them at arms-length. Last week though Danny Boyle’s reward did arrive – the Olympics opening ceremony was voted the second most inspiring TV moment of all time, just behind Neil Armstrong’s 1969 moonwalk.
Days later the Awkward Squad triumphed again when Bradley Wiggins lifted the Sports Personality of the Year Award. From the minute he strode on stage looking like a cross between former Who drummer Keith Moon and a young Paul Weller, Britain’s champion cyclist had the trophy in the bag.
Of course, his unequalled Tour de France and Olympic cycling double act made him a worthy winner – but 2012 was a year of sporting greatness never likely to be equalled in our lifetimes.
What made Wiggo a greater sporting hero than Sir Chris Hoy, Jessica Ennis, Andy Murray or the man many others tipped to win – Mo Farah? To suggest it was the sideburns seems to belittle Wiggins’ achievement. And yet it was the sideburns. And the Mod gear. And the refusal to condemn cyclists for not wearing helmets. And the prized possessions – nine guitars, one silver Vespa scooter, and Mohammed Ali’s glove. And even the finger he showed intrusive photographers after leaving hospital last month with a broken rib.
Bradley Wiggins is personality personified – but not a boorish, rampant, unprincipled ego. Take the moment he slowed the leading pack in the Tour de France to let riders affected by tacks on the road catch up again – “It was the honourable thing to do. Nobody should ever profit by somebody’s misfortune.” Or the moment he won gold in the Olympic time trials at Hampton Court Palace and promptly left the venue: “I realised you had to be someone special to have a ticket to be in the palace. The real fans were all outside, so I went out there. That’s what it’s about for me.” Or his post-SPOTY awards guitar-work captured on YouTube when he accompanied a singing security guard who’d been plucked from the crowd.
Or the moment his son brought him back down to earth after winning the world’s most prestigious cycling tournament with the words: “Dad, I need a poo.”
Or the admiration for his wife’s academic ambitions. “She’s very bright is my missus. It’s her turn next. I respect her a lot.” Despite all the hollow promises made to supportive wives in the past, I’m daring to believe this one.
Wiggo has single-handedly put the Personality back into the Sports Personality of the Year Award and reminded us – because we had forgotten – that individual, quirky people will always trump the mute carriers of brands, messages and products.
And of course in Scotland, an unknown Aberdonian beat Billy Connolly, Andy Murray and Sir Chris Hoy to win Top Scot prize at the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland awards in November.
Most Scots won’t recognise Michael Forbes by name – they will know him as the man who has dared to stay in his “slum and pigsty” right in the middle of Donald Trump’s golf course at Menie.
The property tycoon’s blustering, bullying performance before a Holyrood Committee revealed a man used to buying his own way. And yet in Michael Forbes the Donald has found an ordinary but supremely stubborn opponent and prompted a million (more) jokes at his own expense with ludicrous calls for a boycott of Glenfiddich.
The man from Menie may lack the charisma of Wiggo and the creative talent of Danny Boyle – but he shares one key attribute with all the People’s Heroes of 2012. He is unbiddable.
In a year when cronyism and greed have flourished – again – what else can the public do to register contempt for a rudderless establishment other than vote in our millions for the unlikely People’s Heroes?
In modern Britain where dog eats dog, BBC executives get “golden goodbyes” and “electric ringfences” are needed to keep punters’ hard-earned cash safe from the next generation of sticky-fingered bankers, it’s easy to be cynical about the motivations of all those who reach the top.
It’s not so easy to believe celebrities might reject a knighthood, snub a millionaire or help a rival just to keep faith with deeply held convictions about fairness and equality.
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British media leak news that, in her June 4th speech to Parliament setting the proposed government agenda, Queen Elizabeth II will recommend an infrastructure and competitiveness bill that changes trespassing laws to permit shale gas exploration firms to drill on private land without the owner’s permission. The owner of one of the leading companies had earlier told media that it would be impractical to negotiate drilling rights with each individual landowner.
Queen’s speech: Fracking allowed on private land
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Doctor insights on:
Is It Normal To Miss A Period While Having Paragard
Yes: Missing periods occasionally, with or without a paragard, is perfectly normal. To have a monthly period, you have to ovulate (release an egg). For a variety of reasons, that may not happen every month. The paragard, without hormones, makes no difference here. However, if you're using Mirena (levonorgestrel) with it's Progesterone supplementation, you may find you stop having periods altogether. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
A missed period is when you don't have a period at your normal time. Because a missed period can be due to pregnancy, even a period that is signficantly lighter or shorter can be considered a missed period and possible pregnancy. And having early symptoms of early pregnancy such as sore breasts or mild nausea would increase ...Read more
I have a paragard iud for almost 2 years.my last period was january 25,2016.i had pink spotting a week before my missed period and a week after?preg?
Is it normal to miss a period while on birth control? I take Lolo and have taken the estrogen and the sugar pills and still no period
It can be.: Surgery is a stressful event for the body and for many women, stress can have a major effect on their menstrual cycle. The location and type of surgery can also influence menstruation. If you have not had unprotected sex, then the stress of surgery is the likely culprit for a missed period. ...Read more
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Some do: Cycle irregularity is one of the early reasons they developed the BCPill, it was and is a way to increase predictability of menses.It eventually became more popular as birth control.While missing a period is often linked to pregnancy, reported variations up to 3 months are seen.Any longer delay deserves an evaluation by your OBGYN. ...Read more
Yes: This happens all the time. Sometimes it's due to changes in hormones, estrogen and Progesterone and in their ratio to one another. Other times it can be due to weight gain/loss. Thyroid difficulties. If you don't have a period for > 3 months, it's time to see a gynecologist. Also, birth control pills can help to regulate cycle if that's something you're interested in. ...Read more
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September 6, 2014 |
FATEHPUR: The Bahujan Samaj Party accused the Uttar Pradesh government of being a failure on all fronts. "The present government has proved to be a failure on all fronts. People are facing all kinds of problems and harassment. Criminals are moving about freely posing a serious challenge to the law and order situation," state unit President Ram Achal Rajbhar said while addressing party workers here yesterday. The leader asked his partymen to work earnestly and stated that the days ahead belong to Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP )
August 1, 2011 |
CSM NAGAR: Uttar Praseh Congress Committee Secretary Ashish Shukla , who is considered to be close to Rahul Gandhi, has joined Bahujan Samaj Party , sources said here today. Shukla joined the BSP in the presence of state Urban Development minister Nakul Dubey yesterday expressing his faith in the party's ideologies, BSP sources said. Later, Shukla said that Rahul Gandhi was surrounded by sycophants and workers were being neglected in the party.
May 11, 2007 |
LUCKNOW: Early trends available show that Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party was ahead as counting for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections got underway on Friday morning. According to reports reaching here, BSP candidates were leading over their nearest rivals in all the five seats -- Sagri, Auraiya, Bidhuna, Rae Bareli City and Manjhapur ? from where trends were available. At the end of the first hour of counting, the BSP was leading in 12 of the 30 seats from which trends were available.
November 10, 2013 |
LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has firmly ruled out any alliance with either the Congress, BJP or the Third Front before or after the elections. She said her party will contest alone in the upcoming assembly polls in five states and the next Lok Sabha polls. Mayawati said the crowds at BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rallies were just ticket seekers and not indicative of his popularity. She said the trio of LK Advani-Modi-Rajnath Singh was undercutting each other and this internal tussle will help the BSP .
May 26, 2013 |
BHADOHI: After the next General Election , Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will support a government at the Centre which promises to dismiss the UP government, a senior party leader today said. "The only condition for our support in formation of the next government would be a promise to dismiss UP government," Mishra said while addressing 'Brahmin Sammelan' here. BSP is holding 'Brahmin Sammelan' with an aim to bring the upper caste community close to the party. Claiming that BSP was "well wisher" of the Brahmin community, Mishra said that his party has given tickets to 21 Brahmin candidates.
March 24, 2014 |
LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati will address two elections meetings in Haryana tomorrow. The first meeting of Mayawati will be held at a ground in front of Kabir hostel, Rajgarh road in Hisar district, while the second meeting will be at HUDA Gymkhana Club ground at Sector 29 in Gurgaon, a party release issued here said. BSP had kick-started its election campaign on March 22 from Ranchi in Chhatisgarh and on March 23 the party chief had addressed a rally in Bhubaneshwar, Orrisa.
August 7, 2014 |
NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha was Thursday adjourned for 15 minutes Thursday following a ruckus over 100 percent FDI in railways as well as the CSAT row. As the house met for question hour, MPs from parties like Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Left and the Congress demanded a debate on both the issues. They kept reiterating their demand despite repeated requests by Chairman Hamid Ansari not to disrupt the proceedings of the house. As the MPs refused to budge, Ansari adjourned the house for 15 minutes.
July 6, 2013 |
LUCKNOW: Aimed at wooing Brahmin voters ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Bahujan Samaj Party will organise a Maha Sammelan here tomorrow. The Sammelan would cover three Parliamentary constituencies of Barabanki, Lucknow and Mohanlalganj, party MP, Brijesh Pathak said. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati will be the chief guest at the Brahmin Maha Sammelan where she is expected to elaborate her poll strategy, besides, highlighting the party's stand on the various issues concerning the upper castes, especially Brahmins.
April 10, 2014 |
VADODARA: It is Modi versus Modi in Vadodara with a namesake of BJP's Prime Ministerial joining the fray as an Independent candidate in this Lok Sabha constituency. While BJP's Narendra Modi filed his nomination yesterday, so did Independent candidate Narendra Babulal Modi. According to his affidavit, 49-year-old Narendra Babu Lal Modi is a businessman by profession and has a masters degree in commerce from SV College in Ahmedabad. Among other candidates, Balkrishna Shukla has filed nomination as a covering candidate for BJP . While Congress has nominated Madhusudan Mistry, Asifkhan Pathan is contesting on Samajwadi Party ticket and Kanabha Jadav is on Janta Dal (U)
March 9, 2014 |
FATEHGARH SAHIB: Sarabjit Singh Khalsa , son of Beant Singh, one of the two assassins of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi , joined the Bahujan Samaj Party here today. Sarabjit, who had unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha elections in 2007 from Bathinda on the SAD (Amritsar) ticket, joined the BSP in the presence of its Punjab unit president Parkash Singh Jandali and other leaders. The BSP is likely to field Sarabjit as its candidate for upcoming Lok Sabha polls from Fatehgarh Sahib Reserve Constituency, party sources said.


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Dozens of protesters shut down Monday’s Albuquerque City Council meeting, taking over the area where councilors sit and trying to “arrest” the chief of police, according to reports.
“This is no longer your meeting, this is the people’s meeting,” protester David Correia, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, said into a commandeered microphone as shown in the KRQE video below. “We now serve a people’s warrant for arrest on Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden.”
There were at least 40 protesters, the Albuquerque Journal reported. The police chief and his deputy left the meeting quickly after protests began. After failing to regain control from the protesters, Council President Ken Sanchez adjourned the meeting. Some councillors, including Sanchez, stayed behind. He and other city councilors expressed frustration at the takeover, the Journal reported:
In an interview, Councilor Isaac Benton said the takeover was “disturbing.” The council had two City Charter amendments on the agenda for debate Monday, both centering on the Albuquerque Police Department, but didn’t get to either.
“It just seems like it’s been increasingly hard for us to even do our business, whether it’s about this or other matters,” Benton said. “If anything, it’s demoralizing for those of us on the council who are trying to do something about the problem.”
The city has been plagued by angry protests for weeks over what critics describe as an excessive use of deadly force by the police department. Those critiques were confirmed by a Justice Department report last month that found “a pattern or practice of use of excessive force” in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Most of the 20 fatal shootings involving an officer from 2009 to 2012 were unconstitutional, the report’s authors found.
“[O]fficers used deadly force against people who posed a minimal threat, including individuals who posed a threat only to themselves or who were unarmed,” they wrote. “Officers also used deadly force in situations where the conduct of the officers heightened the danger and contributed to the need to use force.”
Another Council meeting is scheduled for Thursday.
CORRECTION: This post originally misspelled the first name of Chief Gorden Eden.

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Haku is the deuteragonist of the 2001 animated Studio Ghibli film, Spirited Away. He is actually a dragon (but doesn't speak in that form), who disguises as a human boy (in which, on the other hand, he does speak).
He had become Yubaba's apprentice to steal her magic, and he also stole that of her twin sister Zeniba.
In the original Japanese version, he was voiced by Miyu Irino (who is later known for voicing Koushi Sugawara from Haikyuu!!, Ritsu Kageyama from Mob Psycho 100, and Shoya Ishida from A Silent Voice, Sora in the original Japanese version of Kingdom Hearts), while in the English version, he was voiced by Jason Marsden.
Haku is a boy with dark hair in a perfectly shaped bob haircut and green-greyish almond-shaped eyes. He seems to be slightly skinny. He has thin eyebrows and a sharp-pointed nose. He wears a white kimono over a blue shirt and blue trousers. The sash that ties his kimono closed is purple.
Haku is very mysterious, and wise to the ways of the spirit world. He is very stern, but not heartless by any means. He is very kind to Chihiro, and wants to help her; he feeds her and comforts her when she becomes overwhelmed with her feelings, and is patient as she struggles with being brave. Over time, he begins to love her, as well.
When he is near Yubaba, he behaves indifferent or cold to Chihiro so as to not arouse suspicion that they are friends.
He is a young boy who is a river spirit in the form of a human, who helps Chihiro after her parents have transformed into pigs. Haku was once a river spirit who had entered the spirit world seeking to learn magic from Yubaba, and as a result became a worker who followed her every command.
Haku works as Yubaba's direct subordinate, often running errands and performing various missions for her. He has the ability to fly in his true form, which is a dragon. Over the course of the movie his relationship with Chihiro becomes stronger, especially after she learns he is a dragon. This bond eventually leads to them falling in love, for it was their love for each other that broke Zeniba's spell on Haku. Haku was originally the spirit of the Kohaku River and knows Chihiro because he once saved her from drowning. When the river was destroyed and filled in with apartments, he no longer had a home and went to the spirit world, where he became Yubaba's apprentice.
Toward the end of the story, Chihiro recalls her memory of falling into the Kohaku (コハク, Japanese for, "amber") river, of which Haku was the spirit; she thus frees him from Yubaba's service by helping him remember his real name and past, which he had forgotten due to the name change, the curse which Yubaba has placed on him along with his river being filled up. When Yubaba is nearby, Haku is as sharp-voiced and stern to Chihiro as to anyone else.
Both of them return to the bathhouse, and they say their good-byes at the river which has now been filled in.
Haku promises, however, that he and Chihiro would one day meet again as he lets go of her hand and watches her leave to go find her parents.
- Since the film's popularity, Haku had become one of the most ongoing anime heroes ever, along with Totoro.


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Why diseases are spreading
WHO says that thanks to concerted international action, some diseases are close to being eliminated or eradicated completely, among them poliomyelitis, leprosy, neonatal tetanus, guinea-worm infection and Chagas disease. Other targeted diseases such as onchocerciasis (river blindness) will soon follow. Extra resources must be mobilized to ensure that the campaigns against all of them continue - otherwise, progress already made will be compromised.
About 8 out of 10 of all the world's children have been immunized against six diseases - diphtheria, measles, neonatal tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), poliomyelitis and tuberculosis.
But the outlook for many others is that they will continue to spread and become increasingly difficult to control, for a combination of reasons. These factors include:
- Population growth combined with rapid urbanization means that many millions of city dwellers live in overcrowded and unhygienic conditions that are breeding grounds for infectious diseases.
- Wars, civil turmoil and natural disasters mean that millions of migrants or refugees are on the move in conditions that are also fertile for infectious diseases.
- Rapid increases in international air travel and the growing traffic in trade, particularly food trade, mean that disease-producing organisms can be transported within hours from one continent to another.
- Expanding areas of human habitation place additional millions of people at risk from pathogens previously rare or unknown as causes of human disease.
- Social changes including the clustering of young children in day-care centres and growing numbers of the elderly in nursing homes place these age groups at higher risk of infections.
- Diseases formerly under control are re-emerging because of complacency towards them in the public health sector - tuberculosis is one example - and a revival of others, such as diphtheria, has been triggered by the collapse of public health systems because of economic or social crises.


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Prominent Stem Cell Scientist to Relocate to UCSB from Britain
Coffey will direct UCSB’s Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration, and will also work with the university’s Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering. Both centers are part of UCSB’s Neuroscience Research Institute (NRI). In addition, Coffey will be a member of the university’s Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. He has already been involved in UCSB’s stem cell research as a visiting researcher.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) provided a grant to recruit Coffey, who is currently the director of the London Project to Cure Blindness, an initiative launched several years ago by the University College of London (UCL).
“I appreciate being part of a thriving community backed by CIRM, which now allows opportunities that until now were not possible,” said Coffey. “To work with the UC Santa Barbara group – the stem cell and macular degeneration centers – is truly exciting.”
Mike Witherell, UCSB’s vice chancellor for research said: “Pete Coffey has been a leader of the global effort to develop a new stem cell therapy for macular degeneration. He is a perfect fit with the strong team we already have on campus.”
At UCL, Coffey is professor and head of Ocular Biology and Therapeutics at the Institute of Ophthalmology, and serves as UCL’s chair of Cellular Therapies and Visual Science. His work has attracted considerable attention as he and collaborators gear up to carry out a clinical trial in London for age-related macular degeneration.
“Pete Coffey is not only a boon to UCSB, but to the entire state of California,” said Kenneth S. Kosik, co-director of UCSB’s NRI. “His remarkable progress toward bringing stem cell science to the bedside validates much of the CIRM vision.”
The long-term goal of Coffey’s research is regeneration of the diseased eye. Age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinitis pigmentosa are leading causes of blindness for which there are no effective treatments in the majority of cases. Loss of vision is due to progressive degeneration of the photoreceptor cells, or loss of cells that support the photoreceptors, such as retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells or cells in the retinal vasculature.
One possible strategy for treatment of these blinding diseases is to replace cells that are lost via transplantation. Coffey’s work explores this approach, with the object of first identifying and characterizing sources of cells, determining the optimal parameters for transplantation, and investigating molecular, cellular, and behavioral events that occur upon transplantation in animal models of retinal degeneration.
Coffey has joined forces with interdisciplinary teams in Britain and California to transition this work to the clinic, using RPE derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESC). This effort, known as the California Project to Cure Blindness, is funded by CIRM and Britain’s Medical Research Council. Other research projects investigate treatments for conditions such as macular dystrophy and diabetic retinopathy.
Over the past 10 years, Coffey has co-authored 40 peer-reviewed publications that have provided foundational knowledge that will enable and guide further translation of cellular therapies to improve vision in patients.
Dennis Clegg, co-director of UCSB’s Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering, noted that Coffey is tremendously effective in establishing novel research initiatives. He founded the London Project to Cure Blindness, and has major involvement in collaborations with pharmaceutical companies to translate his basic discoveries to commercial application.
Coffey has received many honors and awards, including the prestigious Estelle Doheny Living Tribute Award in 2009, Retinitis Pigmentosa International’s Vision Award in 2009, and the CIRM Leadership Award in 2010. CIRM reviewers characterized Dr. Coffey’s work as “truly innovative, novel, ambitious and important . . . highly significant, with a potential to revolutionize the field.” He is engaged in public service endeavors to explain stem cell research to the lay public, including talks to the British Parliament and the Vatican.
Coffey received his Ph.D. at Oxford University and was a member of the faculty at Oxford and later the University of Sheffield, as lecturer and senior lecturer, before joining the faculty at UCL.


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Every-time someone hears me play this song they love it and always ask who sings it . . So thought I would share this video of the guy who wrote it singing it, such a cute song and the guy's not bad looking either! :-)
At least play the video till he gets to the chorus, because that's when it gets funny!


text: Here’s a little ray of light…Madonna and daughter, Lola have confirmed that girl of the moment Rita Ora has been cast as the new face of their brand, Material Girl. Look for the campaign to roll out in July. “Rita is a talented beauty but what really drew us to her is the confidence she oozes through her music and her unique sense of style,” the mother and daughter said in a joint statement. “On stage or off, in photos or on the street – she’s a magnet! This is what the Material Girl brand is all about!” Kelly Osbourne, Georgia May Jagger and Taylor Momsen have all fronted the label in the past. You can find The Material Girl exclusively at Macy’s.


New York State health care practitioners (excluding veterinarians) are expected to be ready to issue all prescriptions, including prescriptions for controlled substances, in electronic format, by March 27, 2016. The law, originally slated to become effective on March 27, 2015, was delayed for one year to provide additional time for health care practitioners and health care facilities to acquire, test and implement DEA approved and certified e-prescribing software.
Although the requirement to prescribe electronically is imposed on practitioners, many practitioners are reliant upon hospitals, nursing homes or other facilities to provide the necessary e-prescribing hardware and software to utilize when the practitioners are providing health services and prescribing drugs for patients or residents at such locations. As a result, there are many practitioners who may be ready by March 27, 2016, to prescribe electronically in some but not all of their practice locations.
In recognition of the economic and technological challenges that some prescribers may experience in trying to comply with this mandate, the law permits practitioners to seek a waiver from the requirement to prescribe electronically. Waiver requests are to be submitted to the NYS Department of Health Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement. In seeking a waiver, practitioners must provide the following information: waiver site address(es), reason(s) or circumstances illustrating the need for a waiver, and supporting documentation for the waiver request, which may include such information as the reason electronic prescribing is unavailable to practitioners, what has been accomplished to meet the requirements of the electronic prescribing law and when electronic prescribing is expected to be in place and operational. More information about the waiver process and access to the online waiver application can be found at http://www.health.ny.gov/
Additional information about the waiver process can also be found in the revised Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) found at http://www.health.ny.gov/
professionals/narcotic/official_prescription_program/docs/opp_faq.pdf. The FAQs provide a step-by-step process for submitting waiver requests as single practitioners, medical group practices (two or more practitioners) and/or institutions. The FAQs also indicate that staff deemed to be HCS Coordinators or Electronic Prescribing Waivers (EPW) Requestors are eligible to complete and file waiver requests on behalf of medical group practices and institutions. If a waiver is granted, however, it is important to remember that the waiver is only valid for one year and any extension will require the submission of a subsequent waiver application seeking an extension.
Practitioners’ failure to comply with the requirement to prescribe electronically would be a violation of the Public Health law and could subject such practitioners to fines or potential disciplinary action.


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|Birth: ||Jan. 8, 1800, Russian Federation|
|Death: ||Oct. 4, 1868|
Tul'skaya Oblast', Russian Federation
Founder of the sugar-processing industry in Imperial Russia. After a brief and uneven furl career at the royal court, he retired from service and settled at Bogoroditsk, establishing one of the first Russian sugar refineres there. Later he moved his operations to the Ukraine, making various agricultural activities the main source of family income. It was because of him that Russia stopped importing sugar from abroad.
He also published a treatise on economic theory and set up a society for the development of railways, which financed the contrruction of the first railway in Russia.
His contributions to the national economy were commemorated by a bronze statue erected in Kiev.
Alexei Grigorievitch Bobrinskoy (1762 - 1813)
Anna Dorothea Von Ungern-Sternberg Bobrinskoy (1769 - 1846)
Vladimir Alexiaovitch Bobrinsky (1824 - 1898)*
Lev Alexeovitch Bobrinsky (1831 - 1915)*
Note: Buried in family crypt at Bobriki, but disinterred &dumped in a common grave by the bolsheviks
Alexander Nevsky Monastery
Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
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Originally Created by: Linda Mac
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October 31, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) - A New York appeals court has ruled artist Richard Prince did not violate copyrights with most of the paintings and collages he based on a photographer's published works.
Photographer Patrick Cariou had sued after discovering Prince created art based on photographs he published in a 2000 book. The pictures were taken during six years he lived with Rastafarians in Jamaica.
Prince altered and incorporated several of the photographs in a series of paintings and collages titled "Canal Zone." The art was exhibited in 2007 and 2008.
The appeals court calls Cariou's photographic images "serene." It says Prince created "crude and jarring" artworks.
The appeals court decided Thursday that 25 artworks made fair use of the photos. It sent five artworks back to the trial-level judge for rulings.
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The couple’s two sons are in self-isolation. The other members of the royal family they came in contact with are to be tested, namely King Carl Gustaf, 74, Queen Silvia, and Crown Princess Victoria and her husband.
There is no information on how the princely cup became infected. Both have flu-like symptoms.
Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, Duke of Varmland, is the only son of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Queen Silvia. After the change of the Law of Succession, her sister Victoria became heiress princess. Prince Philip is the fourth in line to the throne.
Sweden is also affected by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an accelerated increase in the number of cases in the cold season. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, Sweden imposed restrictions on fighting the virus in November by banning the sale of alcohol in bars and restaurants after 10 pm. Sweden has more than 200,000 cases of infection and 6,400 deaths. Most deaths took place in nursing homes.


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The new Johnny Depp film “Black Mass” will begin filming in Boston this summer.
CP casting is seeking to fill some very specific roles for Icelandic women in their late 40’s + who are also able to speak the language. The films casting team is seeking women who are fluent in both English and Icelandic for featured roles in the film. The film will shoot in Boston, Massachusetts this spring and summer.
“Black Mass” is scheduled to begin production on May 19th and continue into July.
Johnny Depp will star in another gangster role. In “Black Mass” Depp will play the notorious Irish American mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. Whitey just got caught in California not too long ago, after being on the run for a few decades. In November of last year Whitey was sentenced to 2 life terms for 11 counts of murder and dozens of other charges.
Whitey was the inspiration for the Jack Nicholson character of Frank Costello in the Martin Scorsese film, “The Departed“. The film is inspired by “Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob“, a New York Times best seller.
The film is about John Connolly and James “Whitey” Bulger, childhood friends who went but would meet up again in the 1970’s after Whitey became a crime boss and Connelly joined the FBI.
In a recent interview, Johnny Depp talked about the upcoming film “Black Mass” and his role as the notorious gangster who spent decades on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list.
“The reason to play it is obvious to me,” said the three-time Oscar nominee. “He’s a fascinating character. I don’t think it’s like anything I’ve done before and I’m very excited to slide into that skin for a little bit.”
C.P. Casting is SEEKING for the movie “Black Mass” – Filming in Massachusetts
WOMEN who are AGE 45+ – Must be BILINGUAL in ICELANDIC.
This is for a scene that will be a one day shoot in Boston in mid-July 2014.
New England residents can submit through the mail, see below
The film will be shooting into July. They recently held an open casting call for “Black Mass”, but if you missed the open call you can still submit. CP casting would like those interested in roles to submit their information through the mail. Please follow the below directions:
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Print it out, fill it out, and mail it (regular mail only) to:
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VILLA D'ESTE with the extension to VILLA ADRIANA
The tour can begin from Rome or directly from Tivoli. Departing from Rome we drive the highway Á 24 and we arrive in the valley of Tivoli where the famous quarries of Travertine are still active. Going along the Tiburtina road we reach the town and its central Garibaldi square. Nearby, we can admire the castle built by Pope Pius II in the XV century. A few metres far from there we enter the Villa D' Este, residence of Cardinal Ippolito II Este, son of Lucrezia Borgia. The residence, decorated with XVI century frescoes, is famous because of its fountains working with the natural pressure of the water. You can continue visiting the extraordinary Villa Adriana built in the second century a.D. by Emperor Adrian.


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England indulge in crisis talks with CA over fears of new COVID-19 variant affecting Ashes
Chances of Perth Test going forward are 50/50 as per reports.
Updated - Nov 28, 2021 8:59 pm
The emergence of the new COVID-19 variant in South Africa has created a lot of panic across the world and cricket boards are in talks to plan their further series. In the same line of sequence, ECB’s managing director, Ashley Giles stated that England is having crisis conversations with Cricket Australia around the fear of the new COVID-19 variant. Giles accepted that the variant could affect the upcoming Ashes along with players and their families moving to Australia.
It was earlier known that English players were reluctant to play Ashes given the hard COVID-19 norms in Australia. They had concerns about their families undergoing hard quarantine of 14-days before entering the actual venue. And as of now, Australian states have started new restrictions as two passengers arriving from Qatar in Sydney have tested positive for the Omicron variant.
“It’s very early days but we are starting that conversation. There are going to be changes to border controls in terms of our families being allowed to travel and we clearly hope that’s not going to affect us. But we are in the hands of national and local governments,” said Giles from England’s hotel in Brisbane as quoted by Daily Mail.
We always knew things could change, says Ashley Giles
It has been stated that it is still very early to talk around Ashes but reports have been suggesting that the chances of the Perth Test going forward might be 50/50. However, Giles assured that ECB would do everything to make sure that players’ families are accommodated well and that they are happy.
“We always knew things could change. I guess we hoped things would change positively as we went through the series but, as we’ve been aware over the last two years with variants, things can also change negatively. Can we prepare for everything? It’s not really possible actually because of the big moving parts even around quarantine times and rules around different states.
“We will do everything we can to make sure the families are accommodated and of course that the players are happy,” Giles concluded.