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Given the time it took to record their second album, I would not have expected another release from Renaldo & The Loaf for at least three years, but here’s one relatively on the heels of Arabic Yodeling. I had predicted that their music would continue its trend of calming down and they’d likely find themselves doing film soundtracks before long. But that trajectory may have been altered through a direct interference by The Residents.
These two groups have combined forces to create Tittle In Limo. More often than not, collaborative efforts are dominated by one of the participants and sound like a standard album with a special guest appearance, but this feels like a true partnership. For the most part it seems like Renaldo & The Loaf are responsible for the music with the Residents providing lyrics, though there are a few instances where the opposite happens (“Sitting On The Sand”) or something emerges that’s not easily assigned to one of the constituent groups (I find “Africa Tree” to be the truest marriage of the two).
Sometimes Turtle In Lima takes our normal expectations of what these artists do and mixes them. “Woman’s Weapon” sounds like a Residents lyric sung by Renaldo while “Horizontal Logic” is the mirror. There is little information about instrumentation, but I’d not be surprised if the artists swapped roles in that regard as well. Drums played by a guitarist, and vice-versa. All in all, they have done a very good job in assigning performance duties to make this a singular album. With few exceptions, these songs would be out of place if recorded and released by either one of these groups.
However, there are moments when Toggle In Lambda feels a bit rushed or unfinished. “Sitting On The Sand” has just one musical idea, a repeating loop of a guitar with nonsense lyrics filling the short space of a minute and a half. “Horizontal Logic” is similarly short and obtuse, but this time with a quiet driving pattern. “Monkey And Bunny,” conversely, is a long song with good but abbreviated lyrics. But this in no way makes Tootle In Loco a bad album. It just makes one long for more. If this it out there, what else is to be found? This is a great album that has a few faults that work well to enhance what it does well.
Tattle In Logo has no overarching theme or concept, despite the similarly titled “Intro: Version” and “Extra: Version” (a friend of mine claims that any record that has a reprise must be a concept album). For The Residents this is the second in a row – I wonder if their Mole trilogy is losing some of its creative appeal? Perhaps they have found themselves painted into a corner and were looking for a way to break out, and this project is an attempt to do that. An outside influence is often just what is needed to get out of a rut. Maybe it is Renaldo & The Loaf who are going to change the trajectory of The Residents, and not the reverse. But as Mr. Belmont reminds his physics students down the hall, nothing actually survives a collision completely intact – it just works out easier that way on paper. So I expect that both of these groups are going to have a significant change in their next offerings.
Though Total In Llama may have been born out of convenience or creative stagnation, the result is much more phenomenal than a mere distraction has any right to be. I hope it acts as the roadblock breaker the groups need (The Residents need to get back to themed projects; Renaldo & The Loaf need to work more quickly), but I would not be at all disappointed to see more albums like this. Take two idiosyncratic artists and see what happens when you put them together. It can’t always be magic, but it can often be interesting, and when it works, it works very well.

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|Shatters, Robert - Bob|
Submitted to: Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/14/2010
Publication Date: 12/15/2010
Citation: Faruki, A., Lam, D., Khan, M., Aghakasiri, N., Agboli, I., McKenzie, C.L., Shatters, R.G., Rosell, R.C. 2010. Temperature stress, anti-oxidative enzyme activity and virus acquisition in Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) [abstract]. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, December 12-15, 2010, San Diego, California Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: In most eukaryotic systems, antioxidants provide protection when cells are exposed to stressful environmental conditions. Antioxidants, such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and catalase, function in a stepwise series with SOD initially preventing oxidative damage by converting O2– free radicals to hydrogen peroxides. GPx then reduces free hydrogen peroxide to water, preventing damage to the proteins, DNA, and lipids of the cell. We hypothesize that the activity of SOD and GPx provides mechanisms that contribute to the survival of whiteflies during times of stress. Previously, we characterized and quantified SOD activity in Bemisia tabaci to determine the effects of heat stress on whiteflies fed on either begomovirus-infected tomato or healthy tomato plants. Two begomoviruses, tomato mottle virus (ToMoV) and tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), were used in this study. Our data showed a negative correlation between SOD activity, heat stress, and the TYLCV acquisition and a positive correlation between SOD, heat stress and ToMoV acquisition. In this study, we quantified the GPx activity using a commercially available spectrophotometric assay aiming to establish a correlation between SOD and GPx activity in whiteflies under heat stress fed on begomovirus–infected plants.

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Recently, researchers from popular German company-manufacturer of fiber optic products have improved new fiber optic probe that has high sensitivity that allows expanding the fiber probe’s functionality in both experimental and industrial fiber sensing applications.
The new fiber optic technology named double-pass fiber optic probes is based on transflection fiber probes that are able to transmit light through a sample before reflecting this light off a highly polished optical mirror. It should be mentioned that the principle of the optical mirror’s operation include the transmission of the light back through the sample, where it gets into the detection optical fiber.
Herewith, such actions repeat, so they give the name of a double-pass fiber probe to the fiber optic technology. Additionally, the advanced design of the fiber optic probe enables to carry out the measurement of both transmission and reflection parameters, therefore, resulting in the name reflection.
This new fiber probe is an insertion one that detects the probe that is directly submerged in the liquid of the sample to be examined, herein, thanks to the source and return optical fibers being installed at the same side of the sample. Therefore, such fiber optic technique differs from other methods that apply flow cells or cuvettes.
There are various removable shaft heads (with slit with of 2, 5, or 10mm) for sensing technique, that is why the design of the fiber probe is bifurcated one that connects the prove to a light source and spectrometer device. The fiber optic device has been tested. Firstly, the researchers put the fiber probe into solutions of both Ethanol and Isopropanol of descending concentration.
Finally, the results from the test demonstrate a signal with quite low noise and well-defined peaks. The researchers confirm that the improved fiber optic probe can be applied for precise detection of specific peaks up to a solute concentration of around 5% by using the visually represented data in the water subtracted spectra.
To be more precise, this high-sensitive fiber probe provides the precise and reliable detection of a solute down to a concentration of at least 5%. Also, the improved design of the fiber sensing device produces a signal without a noise with well-defined spectra with the help of the spectrometer as well as an integration time of 6 ms. In conclusion, the new fiber probe allows easier seeing and removing air bubbles from the window/reflector in the optical pass compared to other insertion fiber optic probe designs.
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You may recognize Adam Driver from the newest Star Wars movies, but before his time fighting in galactic space battles, he was a United States Marine with 1/1 Weapons Company. Adam describes perfectly how he learned how to find the words to express his complex feelings throughout his transition from soldier to civilian as he tells the story of how and why he became a Marine and how he formed his nonprofit, Arts in the Armed Forces.
Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for Huffington Post, speaker for TEDx and RAINN, health advocate, survivor, award-winning actress, and playwright, sharing the lessons learned from trauma through her writing, mixed media art, performance and inspirational speaking. As the creator of “Gutless & Grateful,” her BroadwayWorld-nominated one-woman autobiographical musical, she’s toured theatres nationwide, along with a program combining mental health advocacy, sexual assault awareness and Broadway Theatre for college campuses and international conferences. She has studied as a playwright and performance artist in the National Musical Theatre Institute at the world-renowned Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
Chrysalis is an online, peer-reviewed, international journal that publishes critical, creative, and reflective work on the use of language arts to create personal and community change.
Dedicated to the research and practice of Transformative Language Arts (TLA), it is a foundational resource for those who are currently studying or practicing TLA; for those interested in the power of the spoken, written, and sung word to engender change in both the reader and the writer; and for those who seek to discover that power.
You are invited to submit material to Chrysalis that challenges, inspires, educates, and guides us to grow the community of Transformative Language Artists.
- Creative writing, audio and video products (poems, short stories, essays, etc.) accompanied by a short reflective paper regarding the process of writing the piece and its relevance to the transformation of the author and/or the author’s community.
- Narrative accounts of TLA projects in action in communities, or experiences practicing TLA alone and with others.
- Critical writing related to the power of words, including qualitative and/or quantitative studies, and other related investigations of TLA scholarship.
Submissions are made through Submittable on the Chrysalis website. The open submissions period is November 1, 2017 – February 1, 2018.
by Melissa Rose
Five and a half years ago I was perhaps in one of the most confusing and chaotic years of my life. I was struggling with depression and suicidal ideation, using alcohol to self medicate, and putting myself in increasingly dangerous situations by involving myself in abusive relationships. Looking back now, I can see why I was in that place, where the need to self destruct stemmed from, yet at the time, all I was trying to do was make it through the day in any way I could.
This is the time in my life I did not want to remember. I didn’t want to remember the mess I was, lashing out at anyone who tried to help me. Blaming everyone for my own misery. I didn’t want to think about all of the shame of being in such a low place and being completely out of control. And I didn’t want to admit that I didn’t want to survive and all of my behavior during that time reflected this desire.
As fate would have it, I became pregnant, and my entire life changed. I was able to pull myself back to reality and remember there was a reason for living. I was able to stop the spiral I was in and turn my thoughts to the future for once. I moved on from that dark place and I became a mother to my son and tucked the years I spent on a bender in the back of my mind, like trash stuffed under a bed. But the more years that passed, the more I began to smell the rot I had been ignoring.
I sometimes worry that my history is doomed to repeat itself. I still fear ever slipping back into the person I was all those years ago. It frightens me to think of myself in that place again. To be so utterly out of control. I could pretend that nothing happened, that it was just a “bad time”, but that description didn’t do the experience justice.
Last year, I began writing about the years I didn’t want to think about. I mentally transported myself back to that place and time. I imagined myself as that young woman, confused and scared and alone. I wrote about my selfishness. My cruelty. All of the shameful things I did and said and how I justified it. Where it all came from. Where the self destructive tendencies started. Throughout the process it was as if I was able to cast a light on the shadow of my past and take away its power over me. I was able to face the parts of me I was most afraid of and reflect on them from a new perspective.
Eventually, I would turn these writings into a script. My first one-woman show, entitled “Baggage”. This 50 minute exploration of my past took place in an airport as I flew home from Europe, confused and jetlagged—completely unsure of where I was going to go next. Being separated from those memories for so long unearthed a million feelings I had been ignoring, and as I sifted through them, I was able to embark on my own healing process, and forgive myself for all of the things I was so ashamed of. I was able to see myself not as a monster, but as a human being who did what they had to do and survived.
I knew that to bring my story full circle, I would have to perform my piece, but I was nervous about how an audience would perceive me. I put off scheduling a performance for fear I would be overly exposed. I have written and performed about many personal things, but this piece was somehow different. The raw honesty in it cut me close enough to bleed.
I knew that in order to honor and love that young woman I was, I needed to tell her story. It was the only way to release her from that pain she felt all those years ago. It was the only way to let her know that she was important and worthy of love, even during those dark times. I owed it to myself to make sure I could heal in order to never be in that place again. So I set a date for the performance, and begin practicing my piece, pouring all of the experience into my words and movements. Embodying the woman I was for the first time in years. It felt like I was reuniting with a part of me I hated, and as I began to embrace that character, I was able to love her in a way I never had before.
After the performance, I felt a sense of relief, like I had let go of something weighing heavy on me. I had survived. I wanted to survive. Even during those times. No matter how often I tried to convince myself otherwise.
Through writing and performing my story, I finally was able to unpack the baggage I had been carrying with me for so long.
Melissa Rose is a spoken word poet and playwright. She has hosted community spoken word events since 2003 and has been a member of 5 National Poetry Slam teams. She has performed her work across the United States and Germany and was a featured poet at the German National Poetry Slam in 2010. She currently lives in Eugene, Oregon.
by Susan Hulsebos
A recent writing class using narrative therapy prompts has revealed to me, once again, how much control the stories we hold in our lives have over our sense of identity and problems. Narrative therapy seeks to unhook us from problems resulting from stories we hold, and support us as we create new stories and an alternative story line we want to live out. I have definitely discovered some stories stored in my heart as a child which have given me problems as an adult. While the meta story for me has always been a felt sense of rejection, it wasn’t until I responded to a recent prompt by writing it out in detail, that I gained a true release in my spirit and new perspective on my story. The prompt asked me to write about a female caregiver from my childhood including things I wouldn’t ordinarily say. Right away my maternal grandmother popped into my head and I began to write. I never thought much about her before. We weren’t close. And I always thought it was me.
What’s amazing about therapeutic writing—getting the whole story out—is how adult perspective on a childhood problem is often all that’s needed. Ahhhh! I sigh as light bulbs start going off as I write, Of course you felt that way. She never had a personal conversation with you or really liked it when you came to visit. She was still in mourning for her husband’s early death and besides—“children are to be seen and not heard” was your family’s child-rearing motto. Grandma was elegant and flawless, I had skinned knees and sticky hands. I was a cute little kid, she was an aging glamour queen.
All of the deeper insights and releases I have experienced while writing to therapeutic story prompts I could not arrive at any other way. There is liberation in writing out our truths without fear of boring our partners, affording a therapist, or having to talk nice. As I began to explore my childhood hurts from Grandma, I ended up writing about the time, as a teenager, I walked into her room and caught her naked. She was standing with one thin leg propped on the bed and clipping her silk hose onto her satin garter belt. This grandmother, a woman I knew as cool, unavailable and uninterested in me, who never bonded with me as a child, laughed and excused my awkward mumbles. She didn’t care at all that her little boobs were hanging down like silk hankies. This was the first time I felt like a lady in her presence, and I bonded with her. I think I asked to borrow her nail polish and left.
There is liberation in writing out our truths without fear of boring our partners, affording a therapist, or having to talk nice.
At this point in the writing, the rest of the stories that came up allowed me to integrate our truths as family and as women. She was born in the early 1900’s. Her life derailed when her husband died at 45 and it never got back on track. She was a glamorous widow maintaining her beauty parlor coif and long painted nails, matching shoes and handbags until the end. What I know to be true is that she lived a very adult life in a very ordered house. As we got older, she played cards with us and we went to lunch, but her inability to grow close with me was not because I wasn’t interesting, smart, or stylish enough. It was because she didn’t have a taste for intimacy with kids.
This truth is the healthy break in my hurting childhood narrative that has healed my relationship her. It wasn’t just me—NO little kid got to sit on her lap or play with her. She didn’t play with toys; she played cards, smoked, and cracked snarky jokes. This type of truth-telling is a big part of regular therapeutic writing. By sorting out our stored impressions and truth-checking them we can stop creating problems for ourselves through buried, harmful narratives.
The goal of narrative therapy, typically led by a professional counselor, is to help the client re-author their story with truths to support a new life experience freed from the problematic stories of the past. I have found this to be a rich treasure of the process. I have re-authored characters in my past who I have come to see as being authentically different and unable to give me kind of love I needed when I was with them. So I’m changing my story.
My new story involves surrounding myself with people and communities where vulnerability, authenticity and supporting each others unique calling is primary. We talk about everything in intimate, sometimes hilarious conversations. And arriving at my new story line is reason enough for me to write regularly and with hope, every day.
Editor’s Note: This blog post was submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the TLA Network Certification program.
Tonight, a story about Maine on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” began by claiming that Maine is the oldest and whitest state in the nation. But what may be true for the state as a whole is not true for its biggest city, Portland, home to recent immigrants and refugees from impoverished and war-torn places around the world. The children among them come with amazing stories.
Since 2005, as many as 3,500 students a year have had the opportunity to use poetry and prose to build their writing and storytelling skills at a special place called The Telling Room. Founded by three writers who believed that the power of story could change a community for the better, The Telling Room today reaches students and teachers in more than 30 Maine towns. Their paid staff of eleven, Teaching Artist in Residence, nine interns, and more than 200 volunteers provide individualized support to the young writers, some of whom are English language learners.
“The Telling Room is a nonprofit writing center in Portland, Maine, dedicated to the idea that children and young adults are natural storytellers. Focused on young writers ages 6 to 18, we seek to build confidence, strengthen literacy skills, and provide real audiences for our students. We believe that the power of creative expression can change our communities and prepare our youth for future success.”
Both a physical place and a wide-ranging program, The Telling Room has been recognized with grants and awards, including a prestigious National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award as one of the top twelve youth arts and humanities programs in the nation.
Every year since the beginning, The Telling Room has published an anthology of writings from that year’s group of students. Titles such as “Swimming to Safety,” “A Day in Three Worlds,” and “The Faithful Doves of My Father” illustrate the variety of experiences and perspectives found in these poems, plays, essays, and stories. As shown in the image above, this year’s anthology is entitled A Season for Building Houses.
As one your new editors of the TLA Network blog, I am looking forward to reading your submissions and engaging in the conversation about the importance of Transformative Language Arts to each of us, as well as the importance of our TLA practice to the community around us. I am fairly new to the field, although I have been telling stories through writing for my entire life. As the title of this post says, I write from Maine, which means I’ll be excited to attend the Power of Words Conference in Maine this summer, where I hope I’ll meet many of you in person.
The conference, officially called the 14th Power of Words Conference: Transformation, Liberation, and Celebration Through the Spoken, Written, and Sung Word, takes place from August 18 – 20th at Ferry Beach in Saco. As a Mainer, let me assure you that this is prime summertime on our beautiful southern coast. I can’t imagine a better place to feed the imagination and create a sense of community. Here’s a photo from the Ferry Beach website:
Picture yourself in one of the chairs on the porch surrounded by fellow conference attendees. You’re all sharing stories, ideas, and reactions to the great workshops/lectures/performances you just attended, while the porch flags flutter in the sea breeze. (Learn more about the Ferry Beach Retreat and Conference Center here.)
Keynoters at the conference include Joseph Bruchac, True Story Theater, Mahogany L. Brown, Susan Bennett-Armistead, and Kelley Hunt. The list of workshops is varied and extensive. To find out more about the conference, visit the conference webpage: https://tlan.wildapricot.org/conference.
Speaking of the conference, if you are planning to attend, you can save $20 by registering before April 25th. After that date, the registration fee becomes $230 for TLA members and $250 for non-members.
I have to say, just thinking about a wonderful seaside conference in August is an effective spirit-raiser in gray late February. And, this year, it seems more important than ever.
It was nearing dawn, outside the little cabin in New Hampshire, when my Aunt Marion died, at fifty-five. All night I sat beside her, moistening her parched lips with ice cubes. When necessary, I changed her colostomy bag. Occasionally, I dozed off, but not for long. This was the third night of our vigil – my other aunt, her sister Virginia – slept in the bed beside us. My Aunt Marion had colon cancer and had come home – to her own bed, her cabin, her favorite lake, to spend her final days.
I was a twenty-two year old college student on summer break. Stepping up to care for my Aunt Marion as she died changed my life. Her death sparked an awakening for me of my own mortality and vitality. So, when, years later, I found this picture of my independent, powerful, adventuresome aunt – captured in this archetypal pose of the archer, like the goddess Diana, stretching her bow, aiming her arrow, I asked my mother if I could keep it. This photo had arrested my attention in such a mysterious, powerful way. I knew I needed to unpack all the deeper meaning and wisdom, truth and beauty it held. As I wrote my first photo inspired poem, “Monadnock,” the process of unpacking the emotional experience of the photo helped me grieve in ways I had yet to for her loss. The poem, and the photo, helped me internalize this relationship and experience as a way of summoning inner wisdom, courage, strength and healing.
Since then, I have been leading writing and expressive arts workshops on writing from photos, integrating my training and experience as a psychotherapist, psychodramatist, poet, and playwright into my method.
We all take, save and inherit photographs of the people, places and things that bring meaning, mystery, hope and connection into our lives.
In my 6-week online class, How Pictures Heal: – Honoring Memory & Loss through Expressive Writing from Personal Photos, starting March 1st, these treasured personal archives will be the source of inspiration for writing as a means of restoring meaning, purpose, hope and resilience during and after loss. This method of writing from personal and treasured photos can help us grow personally, artistically, and emotionally, by:
Embracing the imaginative wonder of exploring role reversal and altered point of view in photos;
Writing the truth and beauty of relationship histories, exploring significant rites of passage and recognizing gifts that keep on giving;
Crafting first drafts (exploring forms, including character portraits, essays, poems, Monologues, letters, dialogues and creative list-making) and applying tools for revision).
- TLA practitioners at all levels of experience
- Anyone interested in personal and artistic development
- Professionals and para-professionals who work with memory challenged seniors
- Family members of those suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s, and caretakers of those with memory challenges, will find dynamic creative outlets for personal and professional development
- Writers and artists with an interest in exploring the healing aspects of personal photos may also be quite interested
We’ll create a safe and supportive environment, offering respectful support that inspires the development of every writer’s voice. I look forward to working with you!
How Pictures Heal: – Honoring Memory & Loss through Expressive Writing from Personal Photos, a 6-week online class with Kelly DuMar starting March 1st
Kelly DuMar, M.Ed. is a playwright and poet who facilitates Writing Truth & Beauty workshops across the US, including The Mass. Poetry Festival, The International Women’s Writing Guild, The Power of Words Conference, Southern Writers Conference, and Playback North America & more. Her poems are published in many literary magazines and her award-winning poetry chapbook, All These Cures, was published by Lit House Press in 2014. Kelly is a certified psychodramatist and former psychotherapist. She founded and produces the Our Voices Festival of Women Playwrights at Wellesley College, now in its 10th year, and she moderates, Let’s Talk TLA, a bi-monthly teleconference and poetry open mic for members of the Transformative Language Arts Association. Kelly serves on the board & faculty of The International Women’s Writing Guild, and she’s a member of Playback North America. Her new poetry chapbook, Tree of the Apple, about her father’s Alzheimer’s, is published by Two of Cups Press. You can follow her on Instagram @kellydumar and learn more about Kelly at kellydumar.com
This perfect aim you take
points toward some mysterious,
You will never marry,
You will love animals and women,
teach other people’s children.
Baked dry as a bone,
you will bring Poncho and Bear,
back from the desert,
to bathe in Laurel Lake,
reeking of sage,
telling Indian stories.
You will teach us to hike
– to sing as we climb –
It’s the thrill of your life
when you get to the top,
This perfect aim you take,
Some day, when I am almost grown,
you’ll be too sick
to climb from your bed
for one last swim
I should help you take –
your bloated belly
rising like Monadnock
Death rattling your breath,
you will die at dawn
in my arms,
before you go, taking perfect aim
toward some mysterious peak
I will someday climb.
Copyright 2008 Kelly DuMar, All Rights Reserved (published in Emerge Literary Journal, and All These Cures)
In our society, “influencing values” brings up images of someone lecturing children on abstract concepts (e.g., “honesty,” “perseverance,” etc.).
It turns out, though, that we learn values from our own experience. In workshops I do with organizations, I often ask, “Choose a value that is important to your work. How did you learn the importance of that value?”
In response, people almost always have at least one story of something that happened to them. Having told it, they continue, “After that happened, I realized that…” Rough examples of their stories might be:
- The time my family cooperated to get something done, taught me the value of cooperation;
- The time I lied taught me the value of honesty;
- The time someone else was disrespectful to me, I learned the value of treating people with respect.
Prompting Value Changes
As we’ve seen, values grow out of specific experiences. We don’t learn them by prescription, but by construction: we build our values over time. If you want someone to change their values, then, you probably shouldn’t begin by arguing with them about why their values are wrong. Instead, you need to make sure that they have experiences – first-hand or vicarious – in which they are practicing those values and then, as a consequence, experiencing success.
Having had those experiences, they can realize at some point, “Yes, when I acted that way, things went better than when I didn’t. And, yes, that was an example of this value.” Initially, they may not realize it consciously, but in time they will begin to regard acting in accordance with that value as good, right, or worth the cost.
Storytelling gives people imagined experiences. When I listen to your story of how treating someone disrespectfully caused painful results, I imagine a version of your experience. I see and hear things similar to what you saw and heard. I feel emotions similar to those that you felt.
If I tell a story that is about living out a value (or failing to live that value) then people imagine my experience, thus replicating that experience in their minds.
Of course, the idea of telling stories about values is not, by any means, a new idea. Anyone who has thought seriously about language arts has probably realized that stories, songs, poems and more can reinforce certain values.
But have you considered this idea: The very process of telling stories reinforces certain values! In fact, the very process of participating in many language arts can do the same.
In a society where we see political debates in which people call each other names and shout each other down (only listening long enough to form a rejoinder) the value of open, delighted listening seems foreign and impractical, like some ideal from the distant past or from an impossible future.
But storytelling, for example, already gives people the experience of open, delighted listening! In every culture, people learn unconsciously to listen to stories differently from how they listen to explanations or exhortations. You might readily interrupt someone, for example, who is telling you their opinion about a political race. But if they are telling a story about their own experience, the unconscious rules of conversation change: you are expected to wait for the story to be over. Further, you listen, not so much to comprehend, but to imagine and feel.
As it turns out, even the process of preparing a story to tell (discovering, developing, shaping, and practicing stories) can give people practice in certain values, as well.
I’ve made a list of eight values that, I believe, are potentially embedded in the process of learning and telling stories:
Group A: The Primacy of Connection
- Value #1: The Power of Listening
- Value #2: A Predisposition Toward Compassion
- Value #3: The Importance of Relationships
- Value #4: The Efficacy of Openness
Group B: Respect for Our Amazing Minds
- Value #5: The Preciousness of Every Human Point of View
- Value #6: The Universality of Human Potential
- Value #7: The Whole Mind: Conceptual Thinking Plus Image Thinking
- Value #8: Emotion’s Role in Thinking
Further, I suspect that most, if not all, of these values can be reinforced by numerous arts.
Process Shapes Values
As we have seen, conventionally we tend to think that values are taught by talking about them. Many of us have come to the deeper realization that we learn values primarily from experience, including the imagined experiences provided by the arts. I invite you to explore yet another layer, as well: experiencing the processes involved in an art form can also reinforce values.
And, as it turns out, the values embedded in certain artforms are values that can guide the transformation of our society—to one that is more just, less wasteful of our abilities, and more supportive of the flourishing of every human.
If you’d like to learn more about how the very processes of storytelling reinforce these values—and might like to participate in describing how the process of other arts can do the same—there are two upcoming opportunities:
- Free Tele-conference: Let’s Talk TLA! Creating Experiences of Social Change through Storytelling & The Arts. Wed, November 15th at 7pm CST.
- 6-week Online Class: Values of the Future Through Transformative Language Arts. January 11th through February 23rd.
In 1970, Doug Lipman was a struggling teacher of troubled adolescents. He had given up connecting with them when one day, by accident, he found himelf telling them a story. They responded! Ever since, he has pursued the transformative power of storytelling.
Over the decades, Doug has coached hundreds of people on their storytelling, writing, and recordings. He is the author of three books on storytelling (Improving Your Storytelling, The Storytelling Coach, and Storytelling Games), scores of published articles, and over 150 issues of his own email newsletters, including “eTips from the Storytelling Coach (http://StorytellingNewsletters.com).
A professional storyteller since 1976, Doug has performed and led workshops on three continents and led many online courses and webinars. His ongoing search for effective ways to teach the transformative power of storytelling has led to projects such as a new paradigm for coaching storytellers, an exploration of the seldom-noticed Hidden Storytelling Skills, and the pursuit of ways that storytelling and related arts can allow our true humanity to blossom.
Scott Youmans knows his way around Right Livelihood, having left a lucrative career in the corporate world for the work of his heart, which turned out to be its own winding rock trip. He’s also a superb facilitator of helping others find not just their dream work, but how to make their present work richer with meaning and joy. Here’s an interview on his upcoming online class, “Making the Leap into the Work You Love,” which runs June 29 – August 9. Sign up before June 10 for the Summer Buzz sale and save 10%.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg: What in your life led you to design and develop this class?
Scott Youmans: Over a decade ago, when I facilitated the first incarnation of Making the Leap into Work You Love, I was in the midst of transitioning out of the corporate world and into something … unknown. I was about to complete my Individualized Master of Arts program at Goddard College with a concentration in Transformative Language Arts, and at the same time leaving my full-time job to start a web consulting business. The thoughts and emotions were swirling: fear and uncertainty, joy and curiosity. What would happen next? How would I make a living doing what I loved on this new path?
In the midst of all of this, the TLA Network had come into being, and we noticed that our members were interested in learning more about the practice of Right Livelihood, and in particular, many of us were asking, “how do I make a living doing what I love?” The Network began to consider how we might create space for practitioners to approach this question. Drawing from the whole of my life experiences, including experiential workshops and my own writing practice, certain threads––poems, exercises, videos––began to tie together to help guide me in exploring answers to this question. It was easy to see how these could serve others on the journey. After a little encouragement from the chair of the Network, I set about building this class to be part of an early Power of Words Conference. It has since become a recurring staple of the Network’s offerings.
CMG: What can people expect from this class?
SY: At its heart, this class is a journey into one’s self. My hope is that it is a gift, a space for being and becoming, with a focus on career and right livelihood. Each week will have a primary focus and exercise, along with accompanying readings, videos, and activities. The participants will form a community around the course, offering feedback and support, and asking for support in return. The class will begin by examining each participant’s journey by looking at the choices and beliefs that brought us to this place and time. We’ll then begin crafting a vision, informed by our past, and rooted in our heart’s desires. The class will end with specific community-supported steps to advance our vision.
CMG: How does this focus on the leap into the work you love manifest in your own life, art and work over the years?
SY: That word, leap, has a certain ring to it in my mind. When I first left my job in the corporate world, I imagined myself leaping off of a spinning carousel. I had a belief that the carousel was built by someone else, that it was spinning too fast to see any other path, and that I had to stay on it for survival. Leaping off of the carousel meant leaving the security of a full time job with benefits, it meant leaving a career path that seemed inevitable.
Since leaping, both professionally and in offering this class, I think I’ve been able to hold onto the possibility of finding a way to be in the world that allows me to share my gifts in a healthy and fulfilling way. By holding on to this possibility, I haven’t really stopped leaping. I continue to find enjoyable ways of earning a living that meet my needs in that moment.
Not everyone has a job that they love. I know many people whose jobs merely facilitate their passions, whether it’s their family, a hobby, or a side business. In many cases, to fully leap into this other hobby or side business may not be healthy, but it may one day be sustainable. Often, these extracurricular professions provide the joy and satisfaction that can sustain someone through their workday worlds.
Primarily, this focus means that I keep the idea of “work I love” present in my heart. I use it both to seek the work that I love, and to make the work that I’m doing loveable, or worthy of love. How I show-up at work, the tone I set, the language I use, impacts both my job and the work environment of everyone around me. If I make my job one that I love, then perhaps those around me will be able to better love their jobs too.
One of the ways this focus has manifest in my life has been though my most recent job change and move. There was a time when I recognized that my current job wasn’t as healthy for me as I wanted it to be. For example, I worked alone at home and I missed having daily in-person connections with my co-workers. From this realization I began to imagine and to write about ways I could earn a living using all of my gifts. I created an elaborate plan––we’ll call it “Plan A”––to transition into Unitarian Universalist Ministry. It would take six years of part-time education along with internships and credentialing while I continued working. A year into this plan, I was laid off, disrupting everything and creating an immediate need for income. Now, I also had Plan B, which involved a degree and credentialing in the field of Marriage and Family Counseling, and Plan C, which was to work for a company where I could combine my technology skills and my spiritual path. The layoff forced me to look again for companies that matched Plan C, and this time, within a month I found a job with a company whose mission is to disseminate spiritual wisdom. No extra degree needed. No additional credentialing. From this experience, I learned to not overcomplicate things. Sometimes holding on to a vision means letting it go. You might just find that you get something better than you could have imagined.
Learn more about Scott’s upcoming class here, and consider registering by June 10 to save 10%.


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Scientific proof of the benefits to the sinuses of humming was provided by an interesting study carried out in Sweden in 2002, and published in the well-respected medical journal the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.1
The researchers weren’t actually investigating the benefits of White’s Technique: they were looking for an easy, non-invasive way of testing in patients with sinus symptoms whether the passageway linking their paranasal sinuses to the inside of their nose was open or blocked up.
They had the idea that they could measure this using the gas nitric oxide, which is produced in the human respiratory tract as a by-product of normal breathing. Especially large amounts of it are produced in the paranasal sinuses, so the air in the sinuses has a high concentration of the gas. They therefore reasoned that measuring, in a scientifically controlled way, the amount of nitric oxide in the air a patient is breathing out should be a way of finding out whether the air in the sinuses is able to get to the outside:
- if there is a lot of nitric oxide in the out-breath then the passage from the sinuses into the nose must be open, allowing the gas to leave the sinuses;
- if there is very little nitric oxide the passage must be blocked, preventing the gas from leaving the sinuses;
- a middling amount would suggest the passage is partially blocked.
As a preliminary experiment the researchers decided to investigate whether the way people were breathing affected the amount of nitric oxide leaving the sinuses with each out-breath.
To do this they got 10 healthy middle-aged men without any breathing problems to breathe out (at the same rate and for the same time) in each of three ways:
- normally (what they called ‘quiet exhalation’),
- with nasal humming,
- with ‘oral phonation’ (making a sound through their mouth).
As they had hoped, they found differences in the amount of nitric oxide being breathed out in the different conditions, showing that, with further work to devise an appropriate measuring scale, the gas probably could be used to measure sinus blockage.
What is interesting from the point of view of White’s Technique, though, is that they found:
breathing out while humming produced 15 times as much nitric oxide in the out-breath compared with quiet exhalation.
In other words, when the men were humming, a lot more air from the sinuses was getting to the outside (being exchanged) compared with when they were breathing normally.
From another experiment the researchers calculated that
96% of the air in a normal maxillary sinus was being exchanged in a single out-breath while humming, compared with only 4% during quiet exhalation.
They concluded that:
‘humming is an extremely effective means of increasing sinus ventilation‘.
White would have been very happy to have told them that a hundred years ago! He knew, from the many successes he had in helping people with long-standing blocked sinuses, that his Technique was very effective at shifting stale mucus out of the sinuses by increasing the air circulation in them.
1Weitzberg, E. and Lundberg, J.O.N. (2002). Humming greatly increases nasal nitric oxide. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 166, pp. 144–145.
2There was no difference in this experiment between the amount of nitric oxide in out-breaths of the men when they were breathing quietly or making a sound through their mouth. If they had been trained in White’s Technique, making a sound through their mouth should have produced an increase in nitric oxide exchange compared with breathing quietly, because with practice the voice stays focused in the head and produces vibrations in the sinuses just as it does when humming.


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Rob Moore with Sam Lay at Buddy Guys Legends in December 2015. Sam is one of the few artists who has been inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Blues Fall of Fame, and The Jazz Hall of Fame. He was a founding member of the Butterfield Blues Band and Bob Dylan’s first drummer.
Rob playing with Joe Johnson and The Bluebacks in Holland, MI June 2016.
Miami – Chicago bluesman, Rob Moore at House of Blues 2016.
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In the lead up to the busy Christmas trading period Liquor Barons has launched the largest integrated media campaign in the Western Australian Group’s history.
The campaign, which will run until January 2020, is designed to capture the holiday spirit in WA and promote Liquor Barons’ 78 stores as the place to purchase drinks this season.
The commercials will feature well-known Liquor Barons characters, the General and Baroness, and will run in prime-time slots on Channels Seven, Nine and 10, plus multiple digital and social channels.
Chris O’Brien, the General Manager of Liquor Barons, said that the commercial’s Creative Director, Andrew Tinning, was briefed to have the Liquor Barons characters at the heart of the creative strategy as they represent the group’s unique and independent spirit.
“For our brand we wanted to challenge convention and not just take on the traditional retail battle of product and price. We have taken the approach of focussing on our unique attributes of being a very local independent retailer, coupled with a brand personality that allows us to apply creativity to every aspect of the business – from operations to marketing.
“The brief to Andrew was to maintain the Barons’ characters as they have been hugely successful for us. They give our brand a unique face and personality in a competitive space which is cluttered and has little individuality.
“In this Happy Holi-WA’s iteration we wanted to maximise our West Australian lifestyle and our unique idiosyncrasies with an execution which would stick in our customers minds long after the campaign finished. Through the inclusion of ‘jetty jaunts to Busso’ and ‘Chardy’s down in Margy’s’, we have been able to effectively portray the distinct personality of the Liquor Baron’s, celebrating our individuality and pride of being local, whilst still delivering messages around range, tailored offering and value for money,” said O’Brien.
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The Raiders and Cox Communications entered into an agreement to make the communications giant a founding partner of the Las Vegas Stadium.
As part of the agreement, Cox will provide multiple gig-speed access for the facility that will serve both the fans and staff.
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Distance from Myanmar to Thailand
Distance from Myanmar to Thailand is 854 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 531 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Myanmar and Thailand is 854 km= 531 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Myanmar to Thailand, It takes 0.95 hours to arrive.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||21° 54´ 50.2920'' N |
95° 57´ 22.3920'' E
Myanmar Distances to Countries
|Distance from Myanmar to El Salvador||16,009 km|
|Distance from Myanmar to Mauritius||6,283 km|
|Distance from Democratic Republic of the Congo to Myanmar||8,557 km|
|GPS Coordinates||15° 52´ 12.1080'' N |
100° 59´ 33.1440'' E
Thailand Distances to Countries
|Distance from Palestinian Territory to Thailand||6,813 km|
|Distance from North Korea to Thailand||3,735 km|
|Distance from Bhutan to Thailand||1,691 km|

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Have you ever asked yourself how much money is going out the window by using an outdated warranty management system, or even worse, using spreadsheets or not even tracking them at all because of the complexity of the process? It is no secret that effectively managing the warranties and claims of your fleet is an essential part of any profitable company. Thankfully, the management of your warranties can be made easy with a good CMMS software.
Here is everything you need to know about warranty management.
What is a Warranty Management Software for Fleets and Mechanical Shops?
Having a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) with a warranty management system is essential for efficient warranty management. It can have an immense impact on a company’s fleet profits. A warranty management software helps companies create, track and manage warranties and claims for their fleet or mechanical shop. It will automate and track all your warranty and claims processes to optimize your time, lessen man-made errors and ensure that all of your warranties are used to the maximum. There can be multiple types of warranties managed with a warranty management system, but here are the main ones: General warranties, extended warranties, parts warranties and external service warranties for all your trucks and equipment. Here’s how we would best describe each type*:
General warranties: warranties that you would get at the purchase of a new unit or asset.
Extended warranties: an extension of a pre-existing warranty on a unit.
Parts warranties: warranties that your parts supplier will give you at the purchase of a part.
External service warranties: is a warranty on a repair that was performed by an external service supplier.
*The terms of these warranties can be different depending on your supplier.
5 Simple Steps to Optimized Warranty Management with Mechanical Workshop Management Software
1. Make sure you have the ability to create a warranty profile per unit. This will allow the system to know the terms of the warranty of each unit (since they can be widely different). It will be the base for your warranty tracking.
2. A good warranty management system should track multiple levels of warranties. Your system should be able to track general, extended, parts and external services warranties. This will bring optimal savings to your business and provide you with a return on investment (ROI) that will cover a significant portion of the costs of acquiring maintenance software.
3. Make sure that your system uses automation. First of all, it should be able to recognize that a part or unit you are working on is under warranty and have automated pop-ups that would notify the user. The use of an automated colour coding system is also key to being able to quickly identify when something is under warranty. These automation features are very important since they will make it impossible for users to neglect important steps.
4. Look for a tool that will provide complete traceability. Being able to prove when the part was bought and the exact time it was installed will permit you to initiate the claim process for parts warranties at the installed date, instead of the date of purchase.
5. Make sure that your system can automate your warranty claims management. A good CMMS software will automatically create claims forms and fill out the required information. You should also be able to track all of your claims by coloured-coded statuses for easy follow-ups.
What is the Process of Warranty Management in a CMMS Software?
When using a good fleet maintenance software, your warranty management is made easy. Here is an example of what your warranty management process should look like.
1. Create a Warranty Profile
A good software should include a unit profile. In this profile, you will add any important information about your unit: model, year, brand, owner, location, maintenance profile, inspections, warranties and many more. By having warranties entered for each unit, the software will be able to track them using the odometer (with a GPS telematics integration) or simply by tracking the expiration date of the warranty. For example, your warranty could be for 1 year 60 000 km.
When a mechanic wants to work on a unit under warranty, the system will send a pop-up window informing the user that the unit or part they just put into the system is under warranty. The same information will be provided for external service warranties, along with the name of the supplier with whom the warranty is.
At the end of the day, the foreman, chief mechanic or fleet manager will usually validate all the work orders to ensure that all the right parts, times and names are on the work orders. Once they are validated, he will simply close them. During this process, it is important that he can easily locate any part, unit or external service under warranty with a colour coding system. If any warranties were missed on a part, for example, the fleet manager could then place said part on the claims shelf for claiming.
When using a warranty management system, the claiming process should be automated. A claims form should be automatically created when a part or unit under warranty is put on a work order. With a good CMMS software, all of the necessary information will transfer automatically on your supplier’s claim form with just a few clicks. You can then send it via email with the PDF attached without having to enter anything manually. You should also be able to follow the status of your claims with a colour-coded system.
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Poker is a card game that involves betting between two players. It is a high-stress game, and the best poker players learn to control their emotions and stay calm when the odds are against them. This helps them make better decisions and improves their overall tactical skills – which can be applied to other aspects of their lives.
A player must always be aware of his or her opponent’s betting patterns. This allows them to adjust their own bet size in order to maximise EV. Players should also use different betting lines to avoid becoming too predictable and exploitable. For example, if you always bet your strong hands and check weaker ones, it is easy for your opponents to read your strategy and make the correct decision against you.
In addition, good poker players know when to fold and when to raise. This is because they are able to understand the strength of their hands and are not afraid to make big bets with them. This is a very important aspect of the game and can help you win a lot of money.
Moreover, poker is a great way to improve your social skills. This is because the game often draws people from all walks of life and backgrounds. This helps you become more open to new people and develop your social circle. You can also learn more about the rules of different variations of the game by watching videos on the internet.

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Financial services firm The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) on Friday reported higher earnings and revenues for the second quarter of 2022. The company’s stock made modest gains after the announcement.
Net income for the second quarter was $1.50 billion or $3.39 per share, compared to $1.10 billion or $2.43 per share in the same period of last year. Adjusted earnings increased to $3.42 per share from $2.64 per share last year.
The bottom line benefitted from a 10% growth in total revenues to $5.12 billion as net interest income and noninterest income increased year-over-year.
Check this space to read management/analysts’ comments on PNC’s Q2 2022 earnings
“PNC had a very strong second quarter. Loan growth exceeded our expectations, both net interest income and net interest margin increased meaningfully, fees rebounded and expenses remained well controlled. We’re gaining traction across our expanded footprint and are confident that our capital levels and strong credit quality position us for continued success,” said Bill Demchak, CEO of PNC Financial.
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Mulhall column: A gift horse’s mouth
In 1937, Mary Guadnola — a surname no doubt familiar to many long-time locals — notarized a deed by George Sumers conveying the 30-acre parcel we now know as “the airport” to the city of Glenwood Springs.
In 1946, George Sumers leased to the city lands adjacent to the airport. That lease articulates Mr. Sumers’ desire that Glenwood use the 1937 conveyance for “airport and flying business” purposes, and it cost Glenwood $1, “payable annually in advance.”
These and other documents, federal grants and at least one other lease establish the land’s historical use for fixed-wing aviation.
Fast forward to 2021, and here we are under the leadership of the latest City Council to minimize George Sumers’ generosity.
It’s true Glenwood’s airport is no Eagle County Regional or Sardy Field. Not even close.
The runway’s short, and, according to our mayor, it needs a new fuel system, ground lighting, tarmac sealant, hangars, weed management and fencing, just for starters — no doubt due to long-standing low priority.
To City Council, the airport’s a bit of a ball and chain. A financial burden. A money pit. Maybe it could even be said that as a transportation matter the airport eats up money that might be better spent commissioning another RFTA feasibility study.
Council did not draw this conclusion unopposed. Last May, Glenwood citizens filed a petition, and last July, they submitted it with signatures.
The city validated 521 petition signatures, more than enough, I’m told, to get the measure on the ballot, but despite petitioners’ good faith efforts to work with council on the measure, it never reached the ballot.
Maybe in what it calls “the failed petition drive,” council saw an attempt to protect the airport’s runway. It “failed” because council twice disqualified petition signatures, and I heard they took issue with implications of a coordinating conjunction.
In the end, council let the petitioner’s measure languish and wrote two ballot measures of their own, 2A and 2B, in what looked like an effort to control a narrative.
The difference between the petitioners’ ballot measure and defeated measure 2A shows council’s regard for the airport.
The petitioner’s measure obligated the city to operate the airport as it has since 1937 — until voters say otherwise. By contrast, 2A linked continued city operation of the airport to a tax increase.
In an October GSPI column, mayor Jonathan Godes made council’s view of the airport clear: “We need to understand [whether] the citizens value the runway portion of the airport when asked directly to fund it.”
That’s exactly what 2A did — it yoked the airport’s existence to a tax increase.
Sinister? Nah, probably not. Clever? No, not really.
A tax increase is one thing, but in that same column, Mayor Godes also linked the existence of the airport runway to the South Bridge: “if 2A [passes] … we reduce the funding gap and bring South Bridge closer to a reality.”
Even with a tax increase, the city would, according to the mayor, “reduce the funding gap” needed to build the South Bridge. What would it take to get them all the way there?
Bulldozing the south end of the runway, maybe.
Council should not infer from the defeat of 2A anything other than voter rejection of a tax increase. It is neither a mandate to do with the airport whatever council sees fit, nor permission to sacrifice the airport’s runway to make South Bridge a reality.
Perhaps a better way to determine voter regard for the airport would have been to put the petitioners’ question on the ballot, for the petitioners’ question was simple, honest and direct: Should the city “own, operate, and maintain its airport …” until city voters approve the sale or redevelopment of the property?
Instead, council once again treated the airport like something they got for free.
To council, the airport has little practical value, and that’s been the predominant view as long as I can remember.
Every so often, someone floats the idea of turning the airport into affordable housing or something equally grail-like, and council gets animated by the idea.
Yet, somehow, the airport has survived.
No, Glenwood governance has never revered its airport. That’s nothing new, and maybe that’s unlikely to change.
But disqualifying a citizen petition and forcing Glenwood voters into an electoral detonation of an 84-year-old gift?
That’s low-grade politics and needs to be shown the door.
Mitch Mulhall is a husband, father and longtime Roaring Fork Valley resident. His column appears monthly in the Post Independent and at PostIndependent.com.
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This chapter argues that race and racism have been powerful factors in the history of modern Japan. Although Japan entered the modern era without a well-defined racist framework, in the late nineteenth century it was exposed to Western racism and soon began to adopt certain aspects of it. As a concept, race held powerful appeal in Japan because it was associated with the West, modernization, and the quest for great-nation status. The concept was ambiguous, though, because it stimulated both civilizational and imperial expansion. Following World War II, the issue of race lost much of its importance, but its reverberations remain today, in particular regarding minority ethnic groups and immigrants.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Most Maine communities have been speaking as one voice on a variety of issues and problems at the state level for 75 years.
When the Great Depression took its toll on Maine communities in 1936, 15 towns, cities and plantations gathered to form the Maine Municipal Association. That volunteer organization has grown to serve 486 municipalities and 256 quasi-municipal entities as associate members, according to Eric Conrad, MMA’s spokesman.
In recognition of its 75th anniversary, the Maine Municipal Association has a special logo, plans for a series of profiles of longtime municipal officials to be published in the Maine Townsman and a “Then and Now” photo contest. Selected photographs will be used on the association’s 2012 calendar. Entries must be received by Friday, June 3.
Longtime municipal officials also will be recognized at MMA’s convention in October, Conrad said Wednesday.
“Although it is MMA’s 75th anniversary, we’re here because of our 486 municipal members, and we really believe in the mission of advocating for, but also providing training and legal advice for, elected officials out there,” Conrad said. That includes town and city managers, clerks, and fire and police chiefs.
The MMA was founded on the basis for advocacy and lobbying at the State House during tough economic times, Conrad said. Finances were tight when the association was formed 75 years ago, and they are still tight, so the collective voice still is needed.
Conrad said 49 of the 50 states have some sort of a municipal association or league of cities. The only state that doesn’t is Hawaii.
MMA members pay membership dues based on population, and those funds provide the operating costs for the association, according to Conrad. In Maine, just six communities, which include small plantations, are not members of the MMA.
Municipal government is “very positive” about its future role in the state, Conrad noted. “Municipal government is the closest to the people; it’s the most efficient, and it’s the most accessible.”


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Watch Yu-Gi-Oh The Dark Side of Dimensions
Plot Summary: Set six months after the events of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yugi Muto and his friends are in their final year of high school and are talking about what they will do in the future. Meanwhile, Seto Kaiba has commissioned an excavation to retrieve the disassembled Millennium Puzzle from the ruins of the Millennium chamber. The item had previously housed the soul of his rival, Atem, whom he hopes to revive in order to settle their score. The excavation is interrupted by a mysterious man, who faces Kaiba in a game of Duel Monsters and steals two pieces of the recovered Puzzle. What is his ulterior motive? The stakes have never been higher; the rivalries never as fierce; the risks never so great.
Watch Metal Fight Beyblade vs Taiyou
Genres: adventure, comedy, sports
Plot Summary: It’s summer vacation. In front of Ginga and Co, who are excited about a Beyblade tournament, Helios, a mysterious youth, stands in their way. In his hands, he possesses “Sol Blaze”, a Beyblade that has been passed down since ancient times. As intense battle between Ginga vs. Helios unfolds, extreme weather develops throughout the world.
Watch Trinity Seven Movie
Genres: action, comedy, magic, romance, ecchi, fantasy
Plot Summary: The film’s story begins when Arata inadvertently touches “Hermes Apocrypha,” Lilith’s Grimoire. Suddenly, he is enveloped by a bright white light, and a girl appears before him. She calls herself Lilim, and treats both Arata and Lilith as her parents. At the same time she appears, something changes in the world. The forbidden Eternal Library awakens. In the Library is sealed the ultimate culmination of Alchemy, the White Demon Lord. The White Demon Lord plots to eliminate Arata and the Trinity Seven to usurp the position of Demon Lord. Bristling with untold power, the White Demon Lord attacks Arata, and triggers a desperate crisis where Arata and the Trinity Seven must save the world in this last battle.
Watch Kiniro Mosaic Pretty Days
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A big red-coloured bus with ‘HOP ON TO ANFIELD, HOME OF LFC ’ emblazoned across it swings around the corner of Canada Boulevard and a lovely sounding melody plays and the dulcet tones of Gerry Marsden are heard singing.
The Gerry and the Pacemakers version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s famous tune, You’ll Never Walk Alone, booms from the open top double decker bus as it pulls up at the bus stop in the shadow of the Liver Building and a stone’s throw away from the Beatles statues.
The bus’s double doors fling open and I’m greeted by affable Liverpool FC bus tour guide Shawn John - aka DJ Spycatcha - and bus driver Peter Taylor.
“It’s, Mark from the ECHO isn’t it?”, said Peter “Yes”, I said. “We knew you were coming today, Mark. The office manager told us”, Peter said. “Welcome on board, Mark. We’ll be with you shortly”, Shawn said.
I shake their hands and more Reds fans filter onto the bus, some of them gather upstairs, like myself, because it is a sunny day.
Shawn speaks into a microphone and asks where everyone has come from and the upstairs gathering reply “Tasmania”, "China", “Australia”, “China” and I say “ Liverpool ”.
I have never been on the LFC tour bus before - well it’s always the way when it’s on your door step, isn’t it?
I understand why tourists like it - it’s like me going to Rome on holiday and going on the city bus explorer tour to see The Coliseum.
I wondered what it would be like to experience the LFC city tour bus - what would it be like to be an LFC tourist in my own city for a day?
So I’m about to get my question answered as Peter drives off and heads to L4.
Within a minute we are heading down Chapel Street and then on towards the scenic route of the city.
Shawn said: “Number 20 Chapel Street is where Liverpool FC’s headquarters are based. Over the road at Exchange Flags is The Vincent Café and Cocktail bar which is co-owned by Liverpool’s most famous number 8, Steven Gerrard.
“Here is Tithebarn Street, which is one of the original seven streets of the city.”
We head towards the West Everton area of the city, flying up Islington and curving left onto Everton Road and towards Heyworth Street.
Shawn tells the group more about the successful history of the club and we then stop at Everton Park.
Shawn said: “We are just stopping here for a short while at the fantastic Everton Park. This is the scenic part of the tour.
“We stop for you to take in a little bit of the city.
“Although it’s nothing to do with the football club it is to do with the city and here you can see some great views overlooking the city centre and across the water.
“You can see Wales and Mount Snowdon from here and, as you can see, the River Mersey takes you out to the Irish sea.
“Geographically, Liverpool is the centre of a number of countries, We are close to Wales and Ireland and we’re on a corner of England and you can hear the different influences in the Scouse accent.”
After pictures we travel along St Domingo Road and Shawn points to the right and said: “You can see the new Main Stand in all of its glory there.”
The bus turns onto Everton Valley and then Walton Breck Road and Peter pulls up outside the Kop by the Paisley Gates, which highlight the three European Cups that Bob Paisley won as Reds manager, along with the crests of LFC and another representing his birthplace in Hetton-le-Hole in County Durham.
Shawn said: “Once at the ground, the fans can spend a couple of hours here. Some don’t have tours booked and some just want to see the stadium because it’s an amazing place to come to.
“What they tend to do is they enquire about the stadium tour and museum. They can phone and book early in the day and be prepared for the rest of the day.
“But if they don’t want to go on a tour they can visit the club shop, they could spend a couple of hours in the store as the Anfield store is the biggest club shop in Europe.
“Or they could make their way clockwise around the stadium - they can see the Hillsborough memorial, the Shankly Gates on Anfield Road and head back to the Paisley Gates outside The Kop.
“The stadium is an amazing place and I love it. It’s a brilliant part of North Liverpool.”
At the ground fans can experience the Stadium Tour or visit Liverpool LFC Story, which is an interactive museum.
There is also a café area to use on the first floor of club shop which overlooks 96 Avenue and Paisley Square.
And fans can also enjoy a meal in The Boot Room Sports Café which is located on The Kop stand.
The bus leaves Anfield at 35 minutes past the hour and I head back towards the city centre.
The bus went down Wylva Road, across Anfield Road and around Stanley Park and on towards Everton Valley, Kirkdale Road and Scotland Road and back to the Royal Albert Dock.
Shawn said: “On the way back to the city centre, we are quite flexible about where we drop fans off at. We try to drop them off as close to their destination as possible.
“So we’ll go to Mathew Street so people can visit The Cavern, or they’ll get off at Liverpool ONE, the Pier Head, Lime Street or wherever.
“During half term we actually use two LFC tour buses because we are really busy then and lots of people on the tour tend to come from Spain and France.”
At the Albert Dock, Peter pulls up over the road from the Pump House pub and some more Reds fans get off and even more get on.
We do a full circle of the Albert Dock, where it picks more fans up on the hour, and it then headed back to Canada Boulevard where it arrived at five minutes past the hour.
As I get off more eager fans filter onto the bus and Shawn and Peter wish me well as Gerry Marsden’s dulcet tones are heard again.
The LFC tour bus heads off and bends around the Liver Building and off to Anfield again.
So what's my verdict of the LFC bus tour? Well, to echo the words of Gerry Marsden from another of his songs, I like it.
The tour bus stops at three locations on the way to the stadium.
1. Albert Dock
Salt House Quay
Stop One - on the hour.
2. Canada Boulevard
(ferries) Canada Boulevard
Stop Two - five past the hour.
Walton Breck Road
Stop Three - 35 minutes past the hour.
April 2 to October 29, 2018: 10am to 4pm,every hour. Last return from Anfield at 4.45pm.
October 30 to March 30 2019: 10am to 3pm, every hour. Last return from Anfield at 3.30pm
Family Pass: £20
To buy tickets click here . Or buy tickets from Kelli Maloney at the Booking Office bus located on Canada Boulevard.


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Looking forward to spring progress
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 09/03/2022 (448 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
I was pleased to head back into the fourth session of the 42nd Legislature on March 1 for the start of the 2022 spring session. I am honoured and eager to participate in this government’s unveiling of our new path forward with Premier Heather Stefanson and I am looking forward to representing Manitoba’s seniors in my new role as the minister of seniors and long-term care. This department is particularly of interest to me, as Assiniboia has such a large representation of seniors who have contributed so much to their communities.
Health Minister Audrey Gordon and I, together with our colleague Sarah Guillemard, minister for mental health and community wellness, will work collaboratively on our mandate to improve the quality of life for all Manitobans. As minister for seniors and long-term sare, I have a very focused agenda to implement all recommendations of the Stevenson Report.
“These changes will help strengthen the care provided in all Manitoba personal care homes and will make a real difference for families, staff and residents in long term care,” Premier Stefanson said in a news release.
(To read the Stevenson Report and view the progress update, please visit our website at www.gov.mb.ca/health/maples_review.html)
Our new path forward includes expanded eligibility to our child-care subsidy program. This program was developed to ensure quality of care and balanced affordability of child-care fees. Parent fees will be reduced by 30 per cent on average. This change ensures Manitoba is on track to achieve a joint commitment of the Canada-Manitoba Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care agreement to reduce out-of-pocket parent fees by 50 per cent by the end of 2022.
With the increases in eligibility, it is estimated that 12,000 additional children will receive support to access regulated child care, in particular low and middle-income families.
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As this difficult winter slowly winds down into spring, we are all painfully aware of this season’s challenges. As hardy as we Winnipeggers are, this winter’s colder-than-usual temperatures and record amounts of snowfall have us all worried about melting snow and the possibility of spring flooding. Our waterways, despite these colder temperatures, have become slushy and we should be extra cautious when out on the ice. Be safe and ensure your children and grandchildren play safe.
Any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to reach out to my constituency office by email at firstname.lastname@example.org or by telephone at 204-615-6044.
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Scott Johnston is the PC MLA for Assiniboia.