It's officially become my default. If no coats I own fit the outfit I had in mind, raid mum's side of the wardrobe because her coat choices seem to fill a lot of my gaps! I asked if she had any trench coats, she produced 3 in different shades and lengths. She's such a secret coat fiend.
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Photo credit: Beckett Fine Art Ltd. and John Coburn, Healing Hearts Collection
Accession Number: C.2019.9.13
Dimensions: 20 in X 24 in
Dimensions (Metric): 50.8 cm X 60.96 cm
Source: Thomas Beckett
Credit Line: Gift of Canadian artist, John Coburn and Thomas G. Beckett, Beckett Fine Art Ltd.
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Framed pen and ink drawing by John Coburn titled Chaplain Taylor depicting American Red Cross Chaplain Thomas Taylor. He is wearing a hard hat with a cross on it and holding a respirator mask. "Thomas Taylor | Chaplain | Ground Zero" is written at the bottom in the center and "Sunday Feb. 24 02 | New York | St. Paul's Chapel" is written in the lower left corner below the artist signature. The drawing is water damaged, singed on the left side and bottom, and has soot stains.
After watching television news coverage of the September 11, 2001 attacks at home in Toronto, artist John Coburn felt compelled to witness the devastation firsthand and to see whether his artwork might be of some emotional support to the recovery effort. He arrived in the U.S. in late fall 2001 and made his way to Ground Zero, carrying a copy of a drawing he had made of the Twin Towers and the lower Manhattan skyline years earlier. The drawing warmed the hearts of personnel at the perimeter of the World Trade Center site and aided Coburn in bypassing various barricades. Using pen and ink, he sketched the valor, generosity, and warmth that he witnessed on the streets of lower Manhattan in the fall and winter following the attacks. Of special note are drawings of the wrought iron fence ringing St. Paul's Chapel and its graveyard, as well as those of people paying their respects and leaving tributes at the fence and around Ground Zero. Coburn became friendly with many recovery workers and volunteers at the Chapel during that time.
Coburn eventually returned to Canada and resumed his life and work there. Working with partners, he published his drawings along with inspirational quotations in the form of a book titled Healing Hearts. His goal was to present a copy to the families of the nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11, 2001.
Several years later, a fire ravaged Coburn's home, destroying many of his belongings. However, the drawings he had made in New York in 2001 and 2002 survived. Many are damaged or burned at the edges but the subject matter of each remains clear.

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Forget consumers, gigabit networks are ready for business!
Stacey Higginbotham Feb 7, 2012 - 11:13 AM CST
Consumer applications have driven the rapid take up of faster broadband services in the U.S. in the last decade as people downloaded iTunes (s aapl) songs and apps and watched streaming movies via Netflix(s nflx). But as Google and others build gigabit networks to see what can be done with them, maybe it's time to bring businesses back into the innovation cycle.
In Chattanooga, Tenn. the creation of a gigabit network has led to the formation of an incubator that wants to attract startups to the city this summer to play around with the nation's first gigabit network. I spoke with Jack Studer, the managing partner at Lamp Post Group, which is the incubator hosting the contest, on what kinds of applications might drive people to get a gig.
Studer explained that while consumer applications were fun, the lack of other gigabit networks around the country made it a bit difficult to justify building a startup or business that needs a gigabit connection. Even if Studer has the bandwidth to receive a massively fat 3-D holographic image of me for a video conference, I couldn't reciprocate on my 60 Mbps cable connection (that really delivers 30 Mbps) so building a consumer 3-D holographic web conferencing business is probably a long shot. Other similarly bandwidth-intensive ideas are also out … for now.
"Startups that require a gig — well, that business plan would suck. It's like building up a business based on teleportation. It doesn't exist yet," said Studer.
Where the gigabit network really shines is business productivity says Studer. He points out that he can do things between his offices in Chattanooga that are truly business-changing such as real-time and continual data backups and replication. And that's just the beginning. Studer has ideas around connecting distributed compute nodes around the city that could essentially turn Chattanooga into a giant supercomputer.
Gigabit speed, and the fact that no applications today require such speeds, mean a variety of services that now run on the computer might run in the network instead without it affecting the end-user. That has implications for data processing and the creation of new services based on an intelligent network. Such services might even become necessary as we connect more devices to the network.
For example, if we have a smart home where our computers, CE devices and even our lighting or appliances are connected to the network, we have to think about securing all of those endpoints. The current model of having antivirus software sitting on a PC no longer makes sense, but what about putting it on the network? A fast network means one could run services such as antivirus on the network without the user noticing.
But to bring the future to life, Studer needs students, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to come to Chattanooga to play around with the network. Who's up for the challenge?
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Eric Lampland February 12, 2012
It is a fundamental misunderstanding of networks to say the justification for a gigabit connection is because "one" application needs it. Or even with less insight, to ask what is that application that needs a gigabit speed? That is like saying that we build a 6 lane, high-speed, freeway so that "one" car that is six lanes wide can shoot down the road without any other cars getting in its way. How absurd!
zachelrath February 9, 2012
What if for every dollar spent on inviting developers TO Chattanooga, Studer and other VC's spent spent a dollar investing in growing developers WITHIN Chattanooga? The current generation of developers may live in Silicon Valley or NYC, but what about students in middle and high school and Chattanooga who are going to be looking for jobs and careers in just a few years and (1) Are already in Chattanooga (2) Already love Chattanooga ?


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RIM Extends Support to iPhone, Android With BlackBerry Mobile Fusion
RIM's upcoming BlackBerry Mobile Fusion management platform supports not only BlackBerry but also Apple's iPhone and Google Android.
Research In Motion has long touted enterprise-level security and management as a selling point of its BlackBerry devices, a key differentiator from the Apple iPhones and Google Android smartphones flooding both the business and consumer market.
Now, it seems, RIM has decided to extend its branded management capabilities to platforms beyond BlackBerry, in what could represent a significant strategy change for the company.
RIM's upcoming BlackBerry Mobile Fusion is designed, in the words of the company's Nov. 29 press release, to simplify the management of smartphones and tablets running BlackBerry, Google Android and Apple iOS operating systems. In other words, IT administrators and CIOs will have the ability to control all those devices via a Web-based console, from instituting security policies to managing applications. For those shops continuing to support BlackBerry devices, RIM will include BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.3, which offers features such as over-the-air app and software installation.
With BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, RIM has acknowledged the increasingly heterogeneous nature of enterprise mobility, which in turn has threatened the BlackBerry's longstanding lock on many companies' IT infrastructure. As the recession slashed corporate budgets for massive smartphone buys, and as the increased popularity of smartphones put more Google Android devices and Apple iPhones in executives hands, both small companies and large enterprises saw an influx of personal devices retrofitted for business use.
In turn, that helped erode the BlackBerry's corporate market share--but as with many an institution in similar straits, RIM decided the best strategy was to push back, hard, against its rivals. Now, it seems, that strategy may have taken something of a turn, with RIM offering a major product targeted at heterogeneous environments. BlackBerry Mobile Fusion is currently in early beta testing, with general availability expected in late March 2012.
Certainly RIM faces challenges from analysts and pundits who see the company as beleaguered in the face of significant competition from Apple's iOS and Google Android. "Looking in retrospect, we should have downgraded in mid-October," read a Nov. 28 research note from Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, "when the stock was $24 and our supply chain checks indicated that while its new flagship BlackBerry Bold 9900 was doing decently, the rest of its product line was lagging."
In a Nov. 17 research note, Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley suggested that Apple's launch of the iPhone 4S had impacted sales of BlackBerry devices: "While our September/October checks indicated solid sales of new BlackBerry OS 7 models, especially the Bold 9000 series as an upgrade enterprise sale, our recent checks indicate slowing sales trends post the launch of the iPhone 4S and price reductions of the iPhone 4 and 3GS."


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NEW BOOK – Offerings
My first monograph has been published by Datz Press in Seoul, South Korea. Offerings features five series of mixed media photography created from 1996 to 2018. Designed with an innovative structure by Datz Press, the book features two white sections that act as "wings" holding a black center. The white pages contain Evocations and Mapping the Body – accented by pages with lightly printed historic maps (often used in my collages). The black pages feature three series – Invocation, Sanctuary and Milagros. All the sections are hand-bound together with exposed thread, referencing the use of stitching in my work. The softcover book is wrapped in a thick paper cover with text and maps printed in gold. To see more pictures, click here.
There will be a Book Signing & Artist Talk at my studio on Sunday, February 9 from 1-3pm, with the artist talk at 2pm. Come by for tea and treats and learn more about this new book.
This monograph was designed by Younghea Kim, Sangyon Joo and Kwan Hoon Lee at Datz Press with a text by curator Anne Veh. Measuring 18.5 x 22 cm, it has 100 pages featuring 49 artworks. It has been published as a limited edition of 300. Copies are available at Datz Press. And at my studio for $65. Books can be shipped for a fee. To order a copy, please email me.
Spring Open Studio
April 25 & 26, 2020, 10am – 4pm each day
Come visit my studio in Muir Beach, CA, learn more about my creative process and view a wide selection of my mixed media collages, prints and bottle sculptures. My new monograph, Offerings, has just been published by Datz Press, and I will have a signed copies available for sale. In addition, there will be copies of Gitz: Process & Attitude, the South Korean publication created in conjunction with my exhibit there earlier this year, and signed copies of the children's book, The Wolf Who Ate the Sky. And there will be notecards, local honey and lavender, and my next door neighbors, Wendy Johnson & Peter Rudnick, will open up their Dragon Coast Nursery, where you can find beautiful perennials, vegie starts, fruit trees, succulents and more. This family-friendly event also includes art activities and tea and treats.
The address is 1815 Shoreline Hwy, Muir Beach, CA. To receive an invitation to this and other art events, please contact me or subscribe to my e-newsletter (by using the box on the right).
Datz Museum – Exhibition & Publication
October 2018 – February 2019
Over 20 pieces from Sanctuary and Invocation, were included in a four-person exhibition at the Datz Museum in Seoul, South Korea. Titled "Journey of Transformation," the exhibit included photographic work by myself, Minny Lee, Bryant Austin, and Hendrik Paul.
In addition, Datz Press in Seoul produced a publication, called Gitz: Process and Attititude, featuring the nine artists who have shown their work at Datz Museum this past year. It includes a wide selection of my work, plus a very thoughtful interview with me by Anne Veh. I have a few copies for sale at my studio. Please contact me for more information.
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Desserts That Take the Cake
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Story By: Jaimie Kim | Photos by: Lawrence Tabudlo
You should never have to justify indulging in sweets. Sugar makes everything better, after all.
It's the proverbial cherry on top when whatever confection you're eating is just as appealing to look at.
At Fendu Boulangerie, located in the Manoa Marketplace, you not only get all those things, but the bakery ensures that you treat yourself to natural ingredients as well.
"Everything is all natural," says owner Niel Koep. "There are no chemicals and there's no shortening in everything here."
He also doesn't use corn syrup, and although you may get a sugar high, Koep assures that Fendu doesn't go heavy on the sugar.
"In the European style, there is not a lot of sugar in everything," he says.
Spiced Cappuccino Slice ($5.25)
Dark Chocolate Financier ($3.75 per slice)
Buttermilk and Fresh Berry Panna Cotta ($4.75)
The Dark Chocolate Financier ($3.75 per slice) is not overly sweet, and instead features subtle flavors of dark chocolate, candied orange and chocolate chunks. Its texture is similar to a brownie, but this tiny pound cake isn't thick with chocolate, something Koep says is because of the almond meal (flour) that is made with finely ground almonds.
Fendu's newest item — Spiced Cappuccino Slice ($5.25 per slice) — will help you celebrate the Fall season. A thin layer of dark chocolate is at the bottom, and is topped with a flourless chocolate cake, a layer of spiced chiffon cake and vanilla mousseline. It is decorated with a chocolate-covered coffee bean and sliver of white and dark chocolate.
If you're really looking for something to indulge in, one of Fendu's most popular desserts is the Buttermilk and Fresh Berry Panna Cotta ($4.75). The bottom features a raspberry puree, topped with sponge cake and a final layer of the panna cotta that is made with heavy cream and buttermilk. Fresh berries on top pair well with the acidity of the buttermilk.
It's not just desserts Fendu offers either. Stop in to enjoy the bakery's wide assortment of sandwiches, pizza and fresh breads.
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2752 Woodlawn Drive
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Guangdong firms reap World Cup windfall
By QIU QUANLIN in Guangzhou | China Daily Global | Updated: 2022-11-23 09:39
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Shipping containers are already filled with official products of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, with companies in the manufacturing powerhouse of Guangdong province in South China ready to reap the financial rewards.
In the warehouses of Bowker Yee Sing Garment Factory, based in Heyuan, boxes of jerseys sit ready for transportation to Qatar. The company produces sports and leisure clothing for major sporting goods brands, with its products mainly exported to Europe, the United States and Japan.
"Fast customs clearance has made our products more competitive in the international market since we have become a senior certified enterprise," said Zeng Shisheng, general manager of the company.
According to Zeng, the company has orders for 678,000 jerseys of international soccer teams for the 2022 World Cup.
Customs officials have helped sporting goods exporters by improving clearance, quality inspections and certification, said Wu Wenjun, deputy commissioner of Heyuan Customs.
Heyuan exported 3.28 million jerseys and 4.65 million pairs of sports shoes, an increase of 15 percent and 12 percent year-on-year, respectively, from January to October, with the total value of sporting goods exports exceeding 1.2 billion yuan ($170 million) over the period, according to customs statistics.
The tournament in Qatar has boosted the growth of the global sporting goods economy and is creating business opportunities for a large number of Chinese exporters.
Cheche Cultural Development, a company based in Dongguan, a traditional manufacturing hub in Guangdong, has obtained authorization to manufacture and globally distribute the official mascot and other products for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar. The goods include plush toys and hats, as well as 3D crystal key chains, torches and resin lamps.
It took the company eight revisions of its products' submission to win the approval of the organizing committee and FIFA to design and manufacture the mascot, La'eeb, an Arabic word meaning a highly skilled soccer player.
"The approval was based on cooperation among industrial players in Dongguan, which has a relatively complete industrial chain ranging from design, 3D modeling and proofing to production," said Chen Leigang, general manager of the company.
According to Chen, all participants in the second development phase of mascot-related products are based in Dongguan. "After receiving the graphic design drawing of the mascot from the organizing committee, we started to design and model the shape of the plush toys, and then submit these to factories for 3D printing," he said.
The 3D prints were optimized in accordance with the design model, before being submitted to another factory for proofing and production of samples in accordance with the manufacturing process for plush toys.
"Winning the approval for manufacturing the soccer event's mascot feels like we secured the rights of organizing the FIFA World Cup," Chen said.
Dongguan manufacturing companies have contributed a number of products to the world's largest sports events. For the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 10 Dongguan companies won orders from the organizers, providing products including badges, footwear, clothing and power supply systems.
Dongguan's export of toys, including team mascots, increased 20.5 percent year-on-year to reach 29.4 billion yuan in the first three quarters of 2022, while the export of sporting goods and equipment hit 6.77 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.6 percent, according to local customs data.
Nearly 200 products related to the 2022 World Cup have been made in Dongguan, showing the city's manufacturing strength, according to the local government.
In addition to producing trophy replicas of the World Cup, Dongguan Wagon Giftware is also making souvenirs, including accessories such as keychains that feature the official logo.
The company made 50 products for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, generating about 200 million yuan in revenue, and expects strong returns from the 2022 World Cup.
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How Meek Mill Became the Face of Criminal Justice Reform
Rapper Meek Mill before Game 5 of the 76ers' first-round series in Philadelphia on Apr. 24, 2018, in Philadelphia
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By Melissa Chan
April 27, 2018 4:17 PM EDT
When Meek Mill walked out of prison this week, it was much more than just a victory for the rapper and his legal team.
His months-long legal battle, which included star-studded endorsements and a #FreeMeekMill social media campaign, has turned the 30-year-old into a symbol of what activists say is systemic racism and abuse in the criminal justice system, in the U.S. in general and in Philadelphia in particular.
A Philadelphia judge sentenced Mill to two to four years in prison last year for a series of probation violations following his 2008 conviction for drug and weapons charges. Civil rights advocates say they have been fighting for years to bring attention to a problem with massive scale: Millions of convicts, many of them black, live in fear of being sent back to prison for years for minor violations.
"The silver lining in Meek's incarceration — and it's hard to find one when anyone goes to prison — is the amount of attention he has shone on this issue," said Jessica Jackson Sloan, the national director of the #Cut50, a group co-founded by Van Jones to reduce crime and incarceration rates. "It's so much more than Meek. It's more than hip-hop and rap."
More than 4.6 million people are subject to probation or on parole in the United States, according to newly released figures from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Advocates say about one third of these parolees and probationers are black.
A general view of a rally protesting the imprisonment of Meek Mill outside the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center during the rapper's status hearing on April 16, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Additionally, about 40% of the people sent to jail or prison every year were on probation or parole at the time of their incarceration, according to Vincent Schiraldi, a senior research scientist at Columbia University's Justice Lab.
Judges and parole boards often order that those convicted of crimes must undergo years of court-ordered supervision, and even small violations can result in lengthy sentences.
In Mill's case, it was five minor, non-violent violations, including an arrest last August for performing a motorcycle stunt in a music video in New York, his advocates say. In November, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Genece Brinkley sentenced Mill to two to four years in prison over the violations. The decision triggered a public outcry from many who believed the punishment was overly severe and rendered in part because Mill is black.
"A lot of people saw what was happening to Meek Mill, and they saw not just one egregious situation, but a mirror of the thousands of egregious cases just like this," said Clarise McCants, criminal justice campaign director for Color of Change, a national racial-justice group that has been advocating for Mill in Philadelphia.
Even while Mill was still sitting behind bars just two weeks ago, his hometown city again erupted with anger after Philadelphia police arrested two black men for allegedly trespassing at a Starbucks. The two friends, who said they were there for a business meeting, were hauled away in handcuffs. A video of the April 12 encounter was widely condemned as discriminatory, prompting apologies from Philadelphia's police commissioner and the CEO of Starbucks.
"Yet again, we see how it's so easy for black folks to get caught up in the system and get caught up in the trap," McCants said.
It's little surprise then that Mill came to embody injustice and racism in his city as well as the rest of the country, civil rights activists say. After his sentencing, hundreds of thousands of people protested in Philadelphia and signed online petitions to free him. His name regularly trended on social media. Civil rights activists, NFL executives and celebrities stood by Mill. Among his loudest champions were fellow rapper Jay-Z, actor and fellow Philadelphia native Kevin Hart and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
"People saw Meek as a symbol," said Sloan, whose group has been working with Mill. "They saw him as a beacon through which their stories could get told."
For months, Mill's lawyers and national racial-justice groups had fought to free the "Levels" rapper, arguing that his initial trial, which resulted in gun and drug convictions a decade ago was flawed. On Tuesday, Mill was granted an immediate release on unsecured bail after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania intervened.
Brinkley, the judge who sentenced Mill in November, did not respond to a request for comment. She said in an opinion earlier this month that the court "has impartially and without prejudice presided over numerous proceedings in this matter since 2008," according to the Associated Press.
Since his release, Mill has embraced his new role as he continues to fight for an appeal. "Although I'm blessed to have the resources to fight this unjust situation, I understand that many people of color across the country don't have that luxury and I plan to use my platform to shine a light on those issues," he said in a statement this week.
Advocates say this is only the start of a movement to reform the criminal justice system. Their plan includes pushing Pennsylvania legislators to change probation laws in the state, which they say has the highest incarceration rate in the Northeast.
"The energy is swelling in Philadelphia right now," said McCants, the activist. "This is just the beginning. Now we're starting to see people's eyes opening to the way things are not working. With what's happened at Starbucks and Meek Mill, people who were not concerned about the criminal justice system before are now."
On April 12, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf expressed support for reform in a news release that highlighted eight initiatives, including one that aims to "create uniformity in probation revocation procedures" and prevent unnecessarily long probation periods. The governor also pressured the state's legislature to pass reforms.
"We have the opportunity to take this even further," McCants said. "All we've done is expose what is not working. Now we have to actually change it."
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A divine dream. A dead boy who won't stop talking. And a goddess called Saint Ann, whose undead shrines make the grapes grow. Béata kel Kakiaretë, a curious traveller with a taste for the macabre, has plenty of reasons to visit the Tirannin Isles. But visiting's not the hard part – leaving, it seems, just might be…
Now Béata has big problems. Is the finest vintage in the world really worth the life of the occasional human sacrifice? And if Saint Ann's enemies come visiting, will it be wise to run the goddess's errands? Just how much will Béata or anyone else have to pay for Saint Ann's excellent wine?
In Another Country
WHEN Ann was nine, she buried herself alive.
It was late in the summer, only a few days before her tenth birthday. She crept out into the ghostly dawn, lightheaded from sleeplessness and excitement. Below the temple, the town lay dreaming; the air was pale and hazed with mist. The mountains slept. (She'd told her mother that once. Her mother had smiled and told everyone that children said such charming things, and Ann had said she wasn't being charming, it was true. No one had believed her. Only Grandfather Jael, who was really Grandmother's father because Grandfather was dead, understood.)
A narrow gully overhung with purple foxgloves lay near the trail the goatherds used when they didn't want to go the long way round through the pass. Ann wriggled into the deepest cranny she could find, heaped stones and bracken and gathered moss over herself so that she was as nearly buried as she could manage, and waited for the magic to find her.
Grass tickled her face. The morning was warm now and would be warmer. Somewhere close by, water spilled over stone.
After a while, she fell asleep.
It was dark when Ann woke and a babble of concerned voices blotted out the nearby stream. "Here she is," someone was saying, and Papa was calling her name and she was too cramped and cold to protest as hands cleared away the stones and bracken and lifted her out of the gully. By moonlight the foxgloves were grey and a band of stars sprayed across the night sky. Far to the north, glimmering on snow-capped peaks and valleys walled up with ice, she saw reflected the greenish glow of the river of burning dreams.
Papa's arms were tight around her. "Ann," he was saying, "oh my darling, are you all right? Who did this to you? How could this happen, here? Who could even think –"
Over his shoulder, Grandfather Jael was frowning. Ann almost burst into tears.
"I did." Her voice was wobbly. "I wanted my magic to come…"
"I think," said Grandfather Jael, "we should take her back to the temple and talk about it there."
It was later.
Ann had been hugged and kissed and scolded by her mother, and thoroughly washed and checked for ticks after her father mentioned the bracken, and now she was curled up under her blankets in the interests of a good night's sleep. She wasn't particularly sleepy, of course. She'd slept all day. But Grandfather Jael had said she should be put to bed, because it was late and there was no point in upsetting the child and he didn't think there was anything to worry about, after all. She could hear bits of the grownup conversation going on in the next room, just now and then, when voices were raised. That didn't happen very often. Grandmother was there and Grandmother didn't like people shouting at each other.
The talking had stopped by the time Grandfather Jael came in quietly. He must have been worried, because he'd forgotten to open the door.
"Ann," he said, which was her cue to stop pretending to be asleep and sit up blinking in the soft light surrounding him like moonlight on mist. It silvered his hair and his eyes and bleached even the slightest colour from his already pale face. Ann clutched her blankets and managed an unsteady smile.
He sat down on the end of her bed. He was frowning again.
"Sweetheart," he said, "when I told you how they find mages in Khivrenté, I didn't mean you to take a lesson from it! What were you thinking?"
"I wanted my magic," said Ann again, forlornly now. "I thought it would work…"
"Oh, Ann," said Grandfather Jael. "What they do in Khivrenté is barbaric. They kill half the children they test, fledglings or not. It only works by fear and pain, and that's just the start. And there's no need anyway, which is the worst thing of all, because if a child's talented, they'll find their magic in their own time. There's no need to force it. Just a little patience, that's all you need."
She watched his fingers pleating the blankets. "So I will be a mage?"
"All in good time." He sounded resigned. "And then you ought to go to Sepharvain for training, or maybe Sela, but your grandmother wants me to see to it myself when the time comes. Though it would be better to find an earthmage to teach you, really. How you knew you were an earthmage – well, maybe you've inherited your grandmother's foresight…"
Ann couldn't imagine being anything else. She snuggled down in bed and let Grandfather Jael tell his tales of Sepharvain and the witch-cities of Tyria and even asked the odd question to make it look like she was listening, although in her head she was far away: a mage full-grown and very powerful, shaking mountains with every stride, bearing vengefully down on Khivrenté where they buried children alive and threw them bound into rivers or fires or over cliffs to force the magic out of them. When she was a grownup and had her own magic (this she thought drowsily, while Grandfather Jael drew pictures in the dim air of airy towers and ample temples), she would put a stop to that.
Patience was hard. Ann wasn't very good at it.
She was good at disappearing when the whisper of the mountains singing summoned her away to wind and stone and running water, which upset her parents, because only Grandfather Jael could find her and she was usually meant to be in lessons anyway. It took Grandfather Jael telling her that she had to be able to read if she wanted to use spellbooks to keep her in the classroom. She couldn't see why it mattered that this warlord had once attacked that city, or which territory was claimed by what country, or that a poet had once compared a lady's eyes to lavender. The mountains didn't care.
When Ann was twelve, the bleeding started and her mother said she was a woman now. After some consideration, Ann dismissed this as a piece of grownup silliness, because she certainly didn't feel like one. She only told her grandmother, who laughed and said she was probably right, in that case. She should have told Grandfather Jael as well, or so Grandfather Jael said later, crossly, and was not mollified when Grandmother told him that women preferred to keep some mysteries to themselves.
The mountains were singing very loudly as Ann left the sanctuary. She was pretty sure even her mother hadn't expected her to turn up for lessons afterwards, so she didn't. It was a bright and breezy day. Beneath a frothing waterfall beyond the pass, Ann found what was left of a raven that must have been dead for some time, and since she was in a more than usually odd mood just then, she fished it out of the pool with a stick.
The grass was springy when she sat down. She stretched out the dead bird's wing in a scatter of feathers. It was brittle between her fingers, and wet, and the head that was almost a skull stared sightless downwards, because its eyes were gone. She could taste decay.
Her fingertips tingled.
She took a breath and the world changed. The bird was dead and dying a thousand deaths in every moment – Ann knew this suddenly, as clearly as she could hear the mountains singing – and every tiny death breathed out a flamelike breath beneath bedraggled feathers. She breathed in and filled her throat with fire. She closed her eyes and could still see through every exposed inch of skin.
She breathed out again and brought the bird to life.
A kind of life, anyway. It strutted in the grass and clacked its beak and twisted its eyeless head as if to look around, while Ann stared fascinated and a little frightened, her breath still burning. Her mouth was full of rot and metal. She reached out and shuddered all over when it came to sit in her hands, a dead thing of bone and feathers, its feet shrivelled and knotted against her palms.
She wanted to run back to the temple, but then she might have fallen. She walked back carefully with the bird cupped in her hands and tried to ignore the nagging conviction that she could fly if she would only spread her wings.
Grandmother was still in the sanctuary, arranging white lilies round the angel's lily-sceptre in its alabaster vase. "Ann," she said and looked surprised when Ann held out the bird, not saying anything, because if she'd opened her mouth just then, her life might have escaped. It made an ungainly leap from her fingertips and would have swooped up through the air to perch on Grandmother's shoulder, only half its wing feathers were lost, so instead it hit the clean marble in a clatter of beak and bones.
It scrabbled at the stone. Grandmother was staring.
"What," she said, "is that?"
She said it in her grownup voice, the one she used when people came up from the town to tell her all their problems, or when they were quarrelling with each other and she wanted them to stop it, now. Her eyes were very blue. Ann hadn't noticed that before, or how much Grandmother looked like Grandfather Jael, only much older. The milky ribbon of her hair lay twisted down her back.
"You're dying," said Ann, because she could taste the tiny deaths exploding under Grandmother's skin. The bird had clawed itself across the sanctuary floor and was trying to climb Grandmother's skirt. Ann said, "You're dying, but not really. I mean, you're only dying inside. You're not really dying. I think."
Grandmother unhooked the bird from her hem and held it at arm's length. "What's this?"
"It's dying," said Ann. "I mean, it's dead already. But it's still dying inside. I made it live."
There was death under the drowsy sweetness of the lilies as well, and leaking from Ann's lips and nostrils whenever she spoke or breathed out. Everything was so vivid. She was jolted by every feather that hit the ground.
The bird spasmed in Grandmother's hand. "Oh, Ann," said Grandmother in the dry, dark voice of her foresight. She seemed at once very far away and very close, and her blue eyes blazed like torches. "You shouldn't have done that, child. My father is going to be very unhappy."
She opened her hand. The bird and the sanctuary tumbled lifeless away.
… blue eyes became sky. Ann was lying on her back in the grass. She could smell only flowers and the richness of newly dug earth.
She sat up. Grandfather Jael was there, his expression forbidding.
"You're not dying at all," she said, blankly. "I mean –"
"I know what you mean," said Grandfather Jael. "You're right. I'm not."
"Lie down," he said. "You've fledged. Sometimes it takes people oddly. I should have been there, but I wasn't, and there's nothing we can do about it. Concentrate on earth and stone. Forget about death. Forget about the bird. Don't ever do that again."
After that, there was no more disappearing among the crags and cliffs. Grandfather Jael could always find her and Grandfather Jael always did find her, and was not amused to have his time wasted like that. If she didn't want him to teach her, he would happily take her to the Tower school at Sepharvain, thousands of miles away, and find a proper earthmage to teach her there. A little witch who could hear the mountains singing (are you listening to me, Ann?) needed to learn some discipline.
All the same, he almost always took her out of the temple when she fidgeted too noticeably. Sometimes magic was best learned out of lessons, he said, so instead of tedious theory-work or any of the other boring lessons that must still be learned, they went down to the meadows where the sheep grazed and Ann curled up in the living cradle of earth and grass and slow-voiced stone and listened to the mountains while Grandfather Jael listened to her.
She didn't ask him why he wasn't dying inside, like everybody else. She knew better than to ask him about death. The mountains were alive and the earth was alive and the grass and plants and trees were alive, and because she was an earthmage, said Grandfather Jael, all this life could be magic for her. That was fine. The sort of magic that came from death, especially the death of the living, was not fine at all. Some things were forbidden, even to mages. This was one of them. Ann, are you listening? Because death magic is very bad for the mage and even worse for whoever it comes from, that's why. And don't let me catch you playing with dead things.
There was no keeping secrets from Grandfather Jael. Ann tried to forget breathing a dead bird to life and almost convinced herself to dislike the tang of death that clung to living people.
Freedom returned for most of her sixteenth summer, since Grandmother slipped on the sanctuary's marble steps and broke several bones and Grandfather Jael was too busy worrying about her to give Ann too many lessons. Ann spent her time beneath the peaks and the open sky, despite everything her parents said about using it wisely. She managed to acquire a companion, though, which was new. She'd never had much in common with the children who came up from the town to learn their letters, or bothered to befriend them, but among a party of pilgrims recently arrived to consult the temple's oracle-books was a straw-haired boy a few years older than Ann. The boy, whose name Ann never troubled to remember, was employed to manage their horses and therefore at liberty to attach himself to Ann for the duration of his stay. Ann wasn't used to this sort of behaviour, so she let him trail in the wake of her wanderings, although she didn't have anything in common with him either.
"You have nice hair," he told her. "It's so fair."
He was sprawled out nearby, having followed Ann up to the pass that morning, sweating in the sun. Ann lay with her head resting in the hammock of her interlaced fingers and stared up into the blue. Overhead soared the shadow of a black kite's wings.
"I'm a mage," she said. "My grandfather's teaching me."
The boy inched closer through the clover.
"You're so pretty," he said. "I heard an angel guards this place and I bet it's you…"
Ann said, "I can hear the mountains singing. I can make illusions and witchlights and shields and witchfire. I can make the earth shake by stamping my feet. When I'm grown up, I'm going to be as powerful as anyone alive. My grandfather says so."
The boy stroked a wayward curl. "You don't need magic. Just your pretty smile."
He was close now. She could feel the warmth of his body. He lifted himself up on an elbow and leaned in and pressed his lips against Ann's mouth. It wasn't surprise that made Ann breathe his death out, although it should have been.
She breathed it back a moment later, so she thought no harm was done. And anyway, she liked the boy better this way. He was quieter, for one thing. He didn't talk about her smile or fondle her hair or try to kiss her. He still followed her around, but she didn't really mind that. Sometimes, when she concentrated, she could see herself refracted through his blank brown eyes.
She didn't realise he'd stopped eating for several days. He was drying out as well. His skin tore like paper when he bruised himself, without blood.
Grandfather Jael was furious.
It would have been bad enough if Ann had told him straight away. She waited to see what would happen to the boy instead. By the time Grandfather Jael crossed their path, the boy's tongue was dry in his throat. Grandfather Jael's expression gave Ann all the warning she could have wanted. She almost backed away.
"I didn't mean to!" she said. "It just happened…"
Grandfather Jael looked at the boy. The boy looked blankly back with yellowed eyes. When Grandfather Jael laid a hand on one gaunt shoulder, the life went out of him and he folded up: dropping first to his knees and then, slowly, falling forwards into the grass. He didn't move.
Ann stared. "You killed him!"
"No," said Grandfather Jael. "You did."
"But – I only – he wasn't –"
"Ann," he said. "Did you think I told you not to play with death magic on a whim?"
Now she did back away. He seemed very tall, suddenly, and very white beneath the towering walls of stone. There was light in his hair and glowing in his face, brilliant with anger.
"I didn't mean –" she said uncertainly.
"What you meant doesn't matter," said Grandfather Jael. "The boy is dead anyway. Because you disobeyed me. Because you took his life and gave it back to him as magic, and magic doesn't keep people alive, Ann, it only keeps them moving when they're dead. Don't think I'm speaking to you as a mage now. You won't hear anyone teaching this in Tyria. They punish death magic there with death. The boy is dead and you killed him just as if you'd cut his throat! Don't tell me you didn't mean to do it. He's just as dead whatever you meant to do!"
The boy's body slumped between them. He wasn't even dying inside. He was as dead as the marble steps outside the sanctuary. Ann bit her lip. "Can't I bring him back –"
"No!" said Grandfather Jael, so forcefully that Ann jerked away in shock. "Don't even touch him! Haven't you learned anything? The dead should stay dead!"
She fled.
Grandmother was propped up in bed with one of the old oracle-books, her eyes dark with hindsight. "'The city Tethys tests will sink' –" she was saying "– ha! so much for the Rissalans and their succession problem – oh Ann, how nice – Ann, dear, whatever's wrong?"
Her bedclothes smelled of lilies and dust and death. Ann was crying too hard to notice how frail Grandmother had become since her fall. She buried herself deep in Grandmother's pillows and wished the world away: Grandfather Jael's harshness and his incandescent anger and the finality of the boy falling dead in the grass.
Grandmother's warmth was reassuring. "Ann," came her voice, "have you been quarrelling with that boy…"
"He's dead!" blurted Ann. "Grandfather Jael said – Grandmother, I didn't mean to!"
She felt Grandmother go still. "Of course you didn't," said Grandmother, after a long moment. "Tell me, child – what have you done?"
It was past sunset when Grandfather Jael came in. Ann had almost calmed down by then; she was curled up beside Grandmother reading old oracles, while Grandmother told her which ones had been true and what they had meant and which ones were only nonsense after all. The curtains had been drawn and the corridor was dark, so the pallid glow preceding him under the door gave Ann a little warning. All the same, he still looked grim enough to make her quail.
"Now you won't shout at the child," said Grandmother, not looking up from the oracle-book. Her arm was protective around Ann's shoulders. "She was very silly, but I think she's already sorry enough. She didn't mean any harm. She knows what she did was wrong."
"It was," said Grandfather Jael. "I should have taken her with me to tell the boy's parents how he died."
He spoke glacially. Grandmother sighed.
"She's only a girl," she said, "and only mortal. She's your great-granddaughter. You can't blame her for wanting to steal your fire."
Grandfather Jael stood looking at her under his pale brows, while Ann held her breath.
"Another time, there will be a reckoning," he said at last, gently, and went out.
Grandmother died eighteen months later in her sleep. She died in everyone else's sleep as well. Ann woke up to a crazed white world and knew something was wrong even before she heard the news. It did snow sometimes, just enough to frost over the temple steps and glitter on the slate roofs down in the valley, but Ann had never seen such a blizzard before. The wind whipped the ice into such bizarre flurries that Ann thought she could see people walking out there, and almost recognised a couple, until the blurred forms came apart into gusts of swirling snow. She was staring out of the window when her father came in, his eyes still wet, and said she should probably sit down.
The temple was oddly quiet all morning. The sound of the bell tolling blew away in the white of the storm. At what would have been midday if anyone could have made out the sun, some of the townsfolk struggled up to ask Grandmother about the ominous weather and stood dripping shock and ice as the omen was explained to them. The news must have spread fast, because even though the snow went on falling people kept on turning up in ones and twos to pay their respects.
Ann had never known Grandmother not to be there. She couldn't imagine the temple without Grandmother. She didn't think anyone else could either. People clustered in corners talking quietly or sat looking dazed. The temple had never been so cold. Ann's father went out and stood on the temple steps with a candle-lantern in the snow, even though he only had his slippers on and Ann could have witched him a proper light. He seemed terribly lost. Ann supposed he would be the temple priest now, although they would probably have to wait until Grandfather Jael showed up again to be sure.
Nothing was happening, so Ann ended up in the library with the oracle-books. The last page of the latest one was still blank. Grandmother's notes were all over the table. Ann looked at them for a while and wondered whether she was meant to cry now. Then she gathered up the scattered sheets and stacked them in the middle of the table, because it seemed the right thing to do.
Grandmother had been laid out on a quilt in the sanctuary, blue-lit by witchlights glowing in bowls of enchanted water. The temple's treasures had been brought out and lay gleaming around her. She was dressed in her most ornate festival robes, her hair combed loose over her shoulders, and the sacred lily-sceptre shone in her hand. On her breast lay the angel's crown of white lilies. She looked as if she was only asleep.
She was still dying inside. Ann knew just how little that meant. And she was very cold, like everything else just then.
Ann remembered the raven.
It wasn't a good idea. Ann knew that. She remembered the boy as well. But Grandmother was already dead and soon she would be buried and that would be that. Ann would never be able to talk to her again. She would never be able to say goodbye.
She wouldn't be left alone with a dead person again, either. Grandfather Jael would never be so distracted again.
It was very dark outside now. No one had come into the sanctuary for some time.
Three breaths.
The first made Ann's head spin. She hadn't realised how cold Grandmother was. It felt like breathing icy fog. The second was warmer, a little. When Ann breathed out, Grandmother's eyelashes fluttered.
On the third breath, Grandmother opened her eyes. She did not look happy.
It hadn't occurred to Ann that Grandmother might not want to be brought back to life. It hadn't occurred to her that Grandmother might not be under her control, either. She had breathed Grandmother's death back into her, after all. She had controlled the raven and the boy, even if she hadn't really known what she was doing then. She was the mage, not Grandmother.
In the bluish light, Grandmother's face was grey. Her lips were bloodless and her joints creaked when she sat up. She wasn't breathing. Ann took a step back.
"You stupid child!" Grandmother said. Her voice was dust-dry, rough with anger. "You stupid child, Ann. I'm dead! As if it wasn't enough to have my father begging me to go on living, and he can go where the dead go whenever he wants! Why won't any of you let me rest?"
"But Grandmother –"
"Ann," said Grandmother, "shut up."
She got creakily to her feet. The lily-crown, which had fallen into her lap when she sat up, tumbled to the cold marble floor. She kicked it away.
"I am tired," she said, in that dust-dry voice. "I am old and tired and if I'd wanted to see my family crying for me, I wouldn't have died in the night. And now you want to drag me back to this cold, dead body! You're my granddaughter and I love you, but you shouldn't have done it. I'm dead, you stupid child! I can't protect you any more."
She was terrible in her festal finery, her hair spilling white over elaborate patterns picked out in gold and silver and shining crystals. At her feet, the temple treasures gleamed. Condensation bled from the sanctuary's stone and crawled glistening down the white walls, leaving sluggish trails. The witchlights flared blue.
And Grandfather Jael was there.
He stepped out of Grandmother's shadow. A ragged corona clung to him momentarily, light and dark bleeding together; then it was gone and he stood pale as a chalk scrawl on black slate, the lily-crown bright against his fair hair. His arms came around Grandmother from behind, so that when the life went out of her, as cold and terrible as it was, her body sagged lifeless back into his embrace.
Her old head fell slack against his shoulder, smiling. He laid her down on the quilt, so very gently. "Ann," he said, kneeling there cradling Grandmother's head. "The last time you did this, I promised you a reckoning. And here you are witching my dead Lily. What made you think I'd forgotten?"
His gentleness was more frightening than his rage would have been. "I wanted to say goodbye!" Ann said. "I didn't mean –"
She wanted to run to Grandmother, but Grandmother lay dead in his arms. She didn't think it would accomplish anything.
The kiss he pressed to Grandmother's dead forehead was tender. "Of course you didn't," he said and rose as he released her. His crown of lilies glowed white. "You never mean it. But you do it anyway. Even to your grandmother. Come here, Ann."
She came. It would have been impossible not to.
Where the dead go.
There were shadows and the edges of outlines and hints of a real, solid world somewhere just out of sight. Suggestions of movement stirred deep in the dark, and sighed, although there was no breeze at all. Ann couldn't tell how long she followed Grandfather Jael through that gloomy place. In the light under his feet, a faint tracery of gilded mesh became grey grass and disappeared into shadow as they moved on. His hand on her wrist was the only thing that kept it from being a dream.
Grandmother had flickered flamelike, pale in the gloom. She was so much younger than Ann had ever known her, so young and so fair, and she turned her face away. She did not follow. Ann was very scared now. She didn't think Grandfather Jael was trying to scare her, either, which made it worse. She tugged against him. "Grandfather, what –"
The dark dreamworld gave way to ordinary darkness, and only the texture of the air changed. It was cold again, suddenly, and musty, and she could hear stone singing. She would have been comforted, only she had never heard this song before, and she knew very well what the mountains sounded like around the temple. This was sandstone. There wasn't any of that anywhere nearby.
Grandfather Jael let go of her wrist. There was sandstone all around, craggy and clammy and oddly ruddy, the shallow hollows of a crack through red cliffs filling up with his glow. He had never looked less human, which was something of an achievement.
"I promised you a reckoning," he said, and said it gently. "I meant it. And you chose a bad day to try my patience. My daughter is dead. You are my daughter's granddaughter and I love you, Ann, and one day I may even forgive you, but don't hold your breath. Don't go anywhere. I'll come back when I feel like talking to you again."
"But Grandfather –!"
"Find your magic here," he said, and left.
There wasn't anywhere to go but deeper into the stone.
The crack narrowed with every step Ann took, which would have been a problem if she hadn't been able to set her hands flat against the stone and sing the sandstone's song until it gave way, the seams parting and the particles coming apart into sand, sanguine at her feet. She wasn't really thinking about it. She thought she should probably have been crying and wasn't sure why she wasn't doing that either. Her head was full of stone and magic. If Grandfather Jael had come back then and scolded her for not staying put, she would not have heard him. She wasn't ready for it when her fingers broke through into air, and daylight, and a green so vivid her eyes filled up with tears.
It was grass. There was a stream nearby, and foxgloves. The path was well-trodden, so there must be a village somewhere nearby. Ann was still washing the sand away when a young man came whistling through the trees and looked surprised to find her there. She couldn't understand what he said, although it was probably a greeting. His hair was dark and his smile was friendly, but he was dying inside, like everybody else. All the little wispy breaths breathed from every pore.
Ann was angry suddenly: with her father for crying and Grandmother for dying so easily and Grandfather Jael for not keeping Grandmother alive. For being angry himself. She was angry with the temple and everyone in it. Grandmother was dead and would not be coming back. Ann wasn't going back either.
Don't hold your breath, Grandfather Jael had said. She didn't.
J. August © 2013
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So here we are. Little Lee six month old already. Super wild and a whole lot of fun. Especially during meal time, he's beyond cute (and messy).
It's incredibly amazing watching him experiencing food for the first time. I always try to imagine, how it felt tasting something for the first time.
Eating like baby do is actually so simple and so plain. Something so back to the roots, back to the origine. No additives, no sugar, just fruit or veggies - exactly how it was planed at the beginning. Little by little and not too many things at ones. The baby puree phase just reminded me of something I wanna go back to. Back to black - just maybe with a little more spices and herbs!
So what's important to me?
I try to get organic (but rather regional) ingredients. I want him to start with the best food he can get. I want him to enjoy meal time>> it surely takes time, but I love gathering around the table, so I just started having lunch dates with my boy .
- feeding takes time, so plan it well. we do 12pm and 5:30pm at the moment.
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Even If You Are Really Tired of Politics, There's Still Some Humor To Be Found! by The Elephant's Child
Filed under: Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Domestic Policy, Economics, Economy, Health Care, The United States | Tags: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, The Voters of Kentucky
Polls apparently told Hillary that voters, besides finding her untrustworthy, doubted her ability to grow the economy. So, in Kentucky, wooing a crowd, she promised that she and her husband would restore the economic prosperity of the 1990s. She has an assignment for her husband, she said, if they return to the White House. The former president, she told voters, will be "in charge of revitalizing the economy."
"Because, you know, he knows how to do it," she said. "Especially in places like coal country and inner-cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out."
Mrs. Clinton mentioned her idea for her husband while speaking at a rally outside a home in northern Kentucky. Earlier this month, she said she had told Mr. Clinton that he would need to "come out of retirement" to help put people back to work.
It has been 24 (almost) years since the newly elected Clintons moved into the White House, so Hillary can probably be excused a lapse of memory. They came to Washington D.C. with a plan that they would be co-presidents, and the American people would get a wonderful two-for-one deal. The American people wasted no time in letting the Clintons know that they did not elect Hillary to be a co-president, and that simply was not going to happen.
Hillary made a lot of noise about not staying home to bake cookies, and other 'don't try to make me the "little woman" comments,' but she fell in line. First Ladies usually have a cause they support — Laura Bush supported Libraries and reading, Ladybird Johnson espoused highway beautification, and wildflowers, Michelle has attempted to change what school kids have for lunch. I had to consult Google to find out what Hillary's cause was — silly me, it was HillaryCare! One might consider that as food for thought. Besides, it was a Republican Congress that forced Bill Clinton to go along with their efforts to fix the economy, he just bowed to the inevitable.
Also interesting is that at the same time that Obama is out talking about the success of his tenure in office and his revitalization of the economy, the two Democrat candidates are talking about how awful the economy is and how the American people have suffered.
Bill Clinton Wants to Censor and Monitor the Internet! by The Elephant's Child
Filed under: Freedom, Media Bias, Politics, The Constitution | Tags: Bill Clinton, Censor the Internet, Freedom of Speech
Bill Clinton doesn't like all the rumors and misinformation that seem to be floating around on the internet. He thinks the United Nations or the U.S. Government should create an agency to police the loose talk.
The agency, Clinton said, would "have to be totally transparent about where the money came from" and would have to be "independent" because "if it's a government agency in a traditional sense, it would have no credibility whatever, particularly with a lot of the people who are most active on the internet."
Let's say the U.S. did it, it would have to be an independent federal agency that no president could countermand or anything else because people wouldn't think you were just censoring the news and giving a different falsehood out.That is, it would be like, I don't know, National Public Radio or BBC or something like that, except it would have to be really independent and they would not express opinions, and their mandate would be narrowly confined to identifying relevant factual errors. And also, they would also have to have citations so that they could be checked in case they made a mistake. Somebody needs to be doing it, and maybe it's a worthy expenditure of taxpayer money.
There is some suggestion in the Politico article that Mr. Clinton may have had Wikileaks in mind, but still—for a former president, fully aware of the ability of government to violate the rights of citizens, to suggest such a thing is appalling. And as paragons of truth and virtue to offer up the very liberal NPR and the very far left BBC as judges of what is true on the internet is simply absurd.
Perhaps it does not seem so to the former president, for liberals see every conservative fact as a lie and only liberal claims as true. We once shared facts, at least, and differed on the policies the facts suggested. Now we no longer even share facts. All is politics and politics is all.
The Clinton Legacy: by American Elephant
Filed under: Liberalism, Politics, Pop Culture | Tags: Bill Clinton
Young adults think oral sex isn't sex.
Bill Clinton Endorses Scott Brown? by American Elephant
Filed under: Democrat Corruption, News, Politics | Tags: Bill Clinton, Martha Coakley, Scott Brown
No one seems to have told Bill Clinton, the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, of the horrifying earth quake that has devastated that nation, because instead of helping Haitians, Bill Clinton was in Massachusetts yesterday, campaigning for Martha Coakley.
Or was he? Because as he stood before a crowd of hundreds of Democrat activists in the ornate Copley Square Hotel ballroom in Boston, he almost seemed to be endorsing Scott Brown, as he unwittingly reminded Bay Staters of the corruption that has plagued the Democrat party in Massachusetts and Washington. "Do you really want to put Massachusetts, which gave birth to accountable government in this country and stood up against the abuse of power, in the hands of power abusers?" he asked.
It already is, Bill. It already is.
That's why they desperately need to elect Scott Brown and defeat Martha Coakley.
(h/t Ace)
Democrats on the Economy — Then and Now by American Elephant
Filed under: Domestic Policy, News, Politics | Tags: Bill Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Debunking Liberal Lies, Democrat lies, Economy
Just another example of how completely full of "it" the Democrat party really is via David Freddoso:
Democrats on the Economy in 1996:
"Our economy is the healthiest it has been in three decades."
~ Bill Clinton (State of the Union Address, January 23, 1996)
"The bottom line is that this administration is the owner of the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover."
~ Senator Charles Schumer (Press Release, March 7, 2008)
The problem, as Freddoso points out, every single key labor market statistic is better now than they were prior to the 1996 election when Democrats were praising the economy as the best in 30 years:
Key Labor Market Statistics in 1996 and 2008
March 1996 March 2008
1. U.S. Unemployment Rate 5.5% 5.1%
2. Number of Long-Term Unemployed 1.33 million 1.28 million
3. Average Weeks Unemployed 17.3 weeks 16.2 weeks
4. Median Weeks Unemployed 8.3 weeks 8.1 weeks
5. Not in Labor Force because discouraged over job prospects 451,000 401,000
6. Democrats calling for Extended Unemployment Benefits? No Yes
7. President's Party Affiliation Democrat Republican
The Company Democrats Keep by American Elephant
Filed under: Politics | Tags: Bill Clinton, Crime/Law Enforcement, Culture War, Democrat Lies/Dirty Tricks, Hillary Clinton, Judiciary
The treasonous Sandy Berger (Bill Clinton's former National Security Adviser, and John Kerry's former campaign adviser), who stole national security documents and destroyed them to prevent the American people from ever learning the truth about the Clinton administration's negligence and incompetence in dealing with terrorism, is once again advising top Democrats:
WASHINGTON – Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Berger, who was fired from John Kerry's presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton's campaign, even though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008. This is raising eyebrows even among Clinton's admirers.
"It shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger's serious misdeeds," said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless called Clinton "by far the most impressive candidate in the Democratic field." [read more]
Without even getting into the non-stop orgy of corruption that marked the previous Clinton administration, this is the same Hillary Clinton who recently appointed the criminal Alcee Hastings as the co-chair of her national campaign.
Lest you forget, Alcee Hastings was a federal judge impeached by the House of Representatives in a nearly-unanimous 413-3 vote for soliciting bribes from the federal bench and for perjury. Hastings was convicted by the Senate on 8 counts — only the 6th federal judge in American history to be impeached.
Naturally Democrats did the only thing they could do with such a heinously corrupt man — they elected him to congress — where he is a member of the Democratic leadership to this day.
They say you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. I couldn't agree more. Republicans kick corrupt members out, Democrats elect them, re-elect them, promote them to leadership, hire them as advisers and elect them president.
Republicans lost power in 2006 for the corruption of a few members, all of whom they immediately kicked out. Democrats lost power in 1992 for widespread corruption and almost all the same Democrats are still in power today, only now they have titles like Chairman, Leader and Speaker.
Thats why Democrats are the masters of corruption, and why it has long been said that Americans get the leaders they deserve.
President Bush Cleans-up After Another Clinton Mess by American Elephant
Filed under: Foreign Policy, News, Politics | Tags: Asia, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Homeland Security, President Bush, Terrorism
Iraq, Iran, North Korea, al Qaeda — Bill Clinton was a popular president precisely because he did nothing serious to address the gathering threats of the world.
He thought regime change in Iraq so essential that he made it the official policy of the United States — and then did nothing. Al Qaeda attacked US interests, including the first attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, on average at least every two years throughout the Clinton presidency and Osama Bin Laden declared war on the United States.
Yet despite Sandy Berger's best attempts to destroy the evidence, we now know the Clinton administration never took al Qaeda seriously and passed on several opportunities to kill or take custody of Osama bin Laden for fear of paying a political price (much like the one President Bush is paying now).
It's easy to be popular when you don't rock any boats.
As the historical record shows, some of the most unpopular presidents in our nation's history — Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan for example — have also turned out to be among the greatest. No matter which direction you lead, you will always ruffle the feathers of those who want to go in the other direction.
But as the Clinton presidency has proven, ignoring the world's dangers does not make them go away — it only allows them to gather strength and become more dangerous.
Unfortunately, Bill Clinton's presidency also shows the danger of addressing the world's dangers with feckless, toothless policy.
Clinton's "Agreed Framework" with North Korea was just such a feckless, toothless policy. Under the bi-lateral agreement, North Korea would agree to stop enrichment of uranium, while the US would provide billions in oil and humanitarian aid and would convert NK's weapons-capable graphite moderated reactors to light-water reactors (not capable of plutonium production.)
We now know the agreement was a complete farce, and that Pyongyang kept right on working on their nuclear weapons program under the Clinton administration's nose.
Clinton made the agreement directly with Pyongyang, with no involvement or additional pressure from North Korea's neighbors. His agreement also required no verification that North Korea was meeting its obligations.
Democrats have insisted ever since that President Bush follow in the footsteps of Clinton's failed policy and negotiate with Kim Jong Il one on one.
But President Bush knew that the way forward was not to repeat Clinton's failures. He has insisted from the beginning that North Korea's neighbors, particularly China, participate in multi-nation talks and add their formidable influence to the mix. Bush knew that North Korea's neighbors, particularly China (on which Pyongyang is most dependent), were essential to forcing an agreement that would stick and that could be verified.
Now President Bush has achieved just such an accord:
North Korean Nuclear Accord Reached
North Korea will disable key nuclear facilities by the end of the year and start disclosing details of its nuclear programs under a six-nation agreement released today in China. The deal appears to have been aided by a "side understanding" between Washington and Pyongyang that could accelerate the removal of North Korea from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The United States also appeared willing to accept, initially, more limited action than it originally sought to disable three key nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, with the understanding that additional work to incapacitate the facilities would occur later. In exchange, North Korea is expected to disclose the extent of its weapons-grade plutonium, including how much was used in a nuclear test last year.
According to the text of the document, released by China's official Xinhua news agency, North Korea agreed to disable the 5 megawatt experimental reactor at Yongbyon, a fuel reprocessing plant, and a nuclear fuel rod facility by Dec. 31. The work will be paid for and overseen by the U.S. [read more]
It doesn't accomplish everything, but it's a major step, its verifiable and it's certainly more meaningful than all of Madeline Albright's dancing with Korean children and champagne sipping with Kim Il Sung and Clinton's empty self-congratulations put together.
Has anybody seen this man? by American Elephant
Filed under: News, Politics | Tags: Bill Clinton, Crime/Law Enforcement, Democrat Lies/Dirty Tricks, Europe, Hillary Clinton
Entire 6,000 page Diana dossier 'disappears' from Paris archives
Have their been any Sandy Berger sightings in Paris lately? I'm just sayin!
Another murderous dictator endorses Democrats by Emerald City Elephant
Filed under: Foreign Policy, News, Politics | Tags: Bill Clinton, Debunking Liberal Lies, Hillary Clinton, Homeland Security, Iran, Iraq, Obama, Socialism, Terrorism
Why is it that, without fail, every evil tyrant, thug, and murderous regime on Earth lines up squarely in favor of the Democratic party? Mahmoud Amedinejad, Osama Bin Laden, Muqtada el Sadr, al Qaeda, Kim Jong Il, Hugo Chavez, and now Fidel Castro:
HAVANA (Reuters) – Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election…
"The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate," he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba's Communist Party newspaper, Granma. [more]
Castro blasted Bush and lavished praise on both Bill and Hillary Clinton, Obama and his old friend, Jimmy Carter.
When the most evil men on Earth aren't directly endorsing the Democrat candidates, they're making speeches that sound as if they come straight from DNC talking points.
Democrat supporters: when evil is endorsing your party, don't you think its time you re-evaluate your vote? I'm just saying
Standard operating procedure… by American Elephant
Filed under: Domestic Policy, Economy, Foreign Policy, Politics | Tags: Bill Clinton, Debunking Liberal Lies, Democrat Lies/Dirty Tricks, Economy
Upcoming election? check!
Republican administration? check!
Clinton administration hacks overseas predicting doom and gloom? check!
I love this! Pay no attention to those positive economic indicators and housing market growth!:
"It would be far too premature to judge this crisis over," Mr Summers said. "I would say the risks of recession are now greater than they've been any time since the period in the aftermath of 9/11."[emphasis added]
Just like Iraq, pay no attention to the good news, everything's going to hell!
Democrats: the MASTERS of Corruption by American Elephant
Filed under: Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Politics | Tags: Bill Clinton, Debunking Liberal Lies, Democrat Corruption, Democrat Demagogues, Democrat Lies/Dirty Tricks, Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, John Murtha
It looks like Dianne Feinstein is guilty of corruption far worse than anything Republicans have been accused of, let alone done. I'm certainly not saying Republicans guilty of corruption should not pay the consequences—they absolutely should, and most importantly, they have—but where are the libtards calling for investigations into Dianne Feinstein's alleged criminal misdeeds??
This is precisely how you tell which party is more corrupt. Corruption exists in both parties, but only Republicans do anything about it—they don't tolerate it and force anyone guilty of it out of the party.
Democrats on the other hand cover it up, refuse to investigate, circle the wagons to defend their corrupt members, and then promote them.
William Jefferson was caught red-handed with $90,000 cash in his freezer—he is still in congress, he was re-elected for crying out loud.
Jack Murtha was video taped meeting to discuss taking a bribe. The FBI has identified him as an "unindicted co-conspiritor" in the ABSCAM scandal. He still sits in congress, also re-elected even after the video came out.
Jim McDermott was found guilty in civil court of violating the civil rights of Rep. John Boehner and ordered to pay $800,000 in fines—Democrats refuse to allow his case to come before the ethics committee, and of course he still sits in congress (re-elected).
Hillary Clinton's campaign was found guilty in court of illegally hiding millions in donations. Having not disclosed these donations as they are required to do by federal law, Hillary was able to cheat in the election by flooding the airwaves with ads at the last minute, paid for by money the Republicans had no idea she had, and so had spent all their legally reported money. In other words, Hillary committed big time campaign-finance fraud to cheat in an election—and yet not only does she still sit in the Senate, she is the front-runner for the Democrat presidential nomination.
And in the interest of brevity, I wont go into the non-stop corruption that defined Bill and Hillary's tenure in the White House (not to mention the Governors mansion in Arkansas.) I'm sure I will cover it all in detail in some future post.
And that is only the very tip of the tip of the iceberg of Democrat corruption. Lets stick with the latest revelation, that Dianne Feinstein is quite possibly the biggest war profiteer in congressional history—and other than the Hill, the mainstream media has been deafeningly silent on the matter, and the Democrat led congress won't even mention it, let alone investigate it.
And thats precisely because, while Republicans may have a few corrupt members here and there that they have drummed out, the Democrat party is deeply corrupt to its core.
It makes perfect sense that Democrats are so thoroughly corrupt: What else do you expect from a party that never holds its corrupt members accountable, but instead keeps them, defends them, re-elects and promotes them?
Feinstein's Cardinal shenanigans
If the inferences finally coming out about what she did while on Milcon prove true, she may be on the way to morphing from a respected senior Democrat into another poster child for congressional corruption.
The problems stem from her subcommittee activities from 2001 to late 2005, when she quit. During that period the public record suggests she knowingly took part in decisions that eventually put millions of dollars into her husband's pocket — the classic conflict of interest that exploited her position and power to channel money to her husband's companies.
In other words, it appears Sen. Feinstein was up to her ears in the same sort of shenanigans that landed California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R) in the slammer. Indeed, it may be that the primary difference between the two is basically that Cunningham was a minor leaguer and a lot dumber than his state's senior senator.
Investigate Feinstein.


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Flinders Research Publications
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Joost Daalder
b) Renaissance Drama
Review of "Tragic conditions in Shakespeare: disinheriting the globe" by Paul A Kottman
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dc.description This article is available for purchase or by subscription from the Oxford University Press website. Please note that no print copy is held in the Special Collections at Flinders University. en
dc.description.abstract Professor Kottman has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking book. It addresses very major issues, in what is for the most part quite an original way, and I found much of what I read illuminating. His main concern is accurately described on the dust jacket: 'According to Kottman, the lives of Shakespeare's protagonists are conditioned by social bonds—kinship ties, civic relations, economic dependencies, political allegiances—that unravel irreparably.' As a generalisation this seems rather strong: there are, of course, also plays which work towards harmony after what seemed tragic difficulties, or which in general aspire towards happy endings without much suffering en route. Indeed, even in the case of a bleak tragedy like King Lear surely Lear is reconciled to Cordelia at the end even though she is murdered, and social order will be re-established by Edgar. Nevertheless, there are, in Shakespeare, indeed many instances of bonds which do unravel. en
dc.identifier.citation Daalder, J., 2010. Review of "Tragic conditions in Shakespeare: disinheriting the globe" by Paul A Kottman. Review of English Studies, 61(250), 470-472. en
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dc.subject English Literature en
dc.subject Poetry en
dc.subject English en
dc.subject Drama en
dc.subject Renaissance en
dc.title Review of "Tragic conditions in Shakespeare: disinheriting the globe" by Paul A Kottman en
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The ājñācakra is the subtle centre of consciousness situated between the eye-brows. When consciousness is raised to this level and meditation practised, ājñā or command is directly received from Lord Śiva. Hence the name.


Mumbai, April 13 It was a good toss to lose for Mumbai Indians (MI) at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday as they piled up 187/5 against Rajasthan Royals (RR) after being put into bat in their Indian Premier League (IPL) clash on Saturday.
Quinton de Kock stole the show with the bat as he hit a 52-ball 81 (4×6, 6×4) to set the tone for the home team. While de Kock was dismissed in the 19th over, Hardik Pandya carried forward the onslaught to finish with an unbeaten 28 off just 11 balls (4×1, 6×3).
But Archer had something to celebrate when he dismissed Rohit for a 32-ball 47 (4×6, 6×1). Looking to up the ante after reaching a comfortable 92/0 after 10 overs, Rohit perished as he looked to hit Archer out of the park in the 11th over. Jos Buttler completed an easy catch at long-on as Sanju Samson wore the wicketkeeping gloves again.


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Dr. Jefferey Sammons
Jeffrey T. Sammons is a professor of history at New York University, where he has taught since 1989. He earned his B.A. in history from Rutgers College where he was graduated magna cum laude and elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. He earned a Masters' degree in history from Tufts University in 1974 and earned a PhD in American History from the University of North Carolina in 1982. From there, he took a position as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston. In 1987, Sammons was named a Henry Rutgers Research Fellow and director of African-American Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. Further, he has also taught at Princeton University and at Hollins University (Roanoke, Va.) as a Jessie Ball DuPont Scholar.
In 2001 Sammons was awarded a scholar-in-residence fellowship by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and History and soon after received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2002-2003 in support of Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the Quest for African American Equality
Sammons recently collaborated with the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs of the Government of Bermuda on a recently aired film project on the history of golf and race in Bermuda, the United States, and Canada through the experience of a singular individual.
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JS-2 Royal Gazette Article "Golf Expert Due" 4 Oct 1920
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JS-4 Bermuda African Methodist Episcopal Church Act 1921
JS-5 The Bermuda Development Act (No. 2) 1920
JS-6 Royal Gazette Article "C.D. Wetmore on Tuckers Town Plan" 6 Apr 1920
JS-7 Royal Gazette Article "MacDonald Tells Plan" 26 Feb 1920
JS-8 Royal Gazette Article "MacDonald tells of Development Work" 20 Nov 1920
JS-9 Royal Gazette Article "Plan to Develop: Withy Petition House" 24 Feb 1920
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Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2018 Jun 1;10(6). pii: a033274. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a033274.
Zinski J1, Tajer B1, Mullins MC1.
Proc Biol Sci. 2017 Feb 8;284(1848). pii: 20162416. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2416.
Urban DJ1, Anthwal N2, Luo ZX3, Maier JA1, Sadier A1, Tucker AS2, Sears KE4,5.
Sherwood RI, Maehr R, Mazzoni EO, Melton DA. SourceBrigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, NRB Room 468, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Wnt signaling has been implicated in many developmental processes, but its role in early endoderm development is not well understood. Wnt signaling is active in posterior endoderm as early as E7.5. Genetic and chemical activation show that the Wnt pathway acts directly on endoderm to induce the intestinal master regulator Cdx2, shifting global gene away from anterior endoderm and toward a posterior, intestinal program. In a mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation platform that yields pure populations of definitive endoderm, Wnt signaling induces intestinal gene expression in all cells. We have identified a set of genes specific to the anterior small intestine, posterior small intestine, and large intestine during early development, and show that Wnt, through Cdx2, activates large intestinal gene expression at high doses and small intestinal gene expression at lower doses. These findings shed light on the mechanism of embryonic intestinal induction and provide a method to manipulate intestinal development from embryonic stem cells.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Nov 7;103(45):16806-11. Epub 2006 Oct 31.
Gadue P, Huber TL, Paddison PJ, Keller GM. SourceDepartment of Gene and Cell Medicine, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave Levy Place, Box 1496, New York, NY 10029, USA.
The establishment of the primitive streak and its derivative germ layers, mesoderm and endoderm, are prerequisite steps in the formation of many tissues. To model these developmental stages in vitro, an ES cell line was established that expresses CD4 from the foxa2 locus in addition to GFP from the brachyury locus. A GFP-Bry(+) population expressing variable levels of CD4-Foxa2 developed upon differentiation of this ES cell line. Analysis of gene-expression patterns and developmental potential revealed that the CD4-Foxa2(hi)GFP-Bry(+) population displays characteristics of the anterior primitive streak, whereas the CD4-Foxa2(lo)GFP-Bry(+) cells resemble the posterior streak. Using this model, we were able to demonstrate that Wnt and TGF-beta/nodal/activin signaling simultaneously were required for the generation of the CD4-Foxa2(+)GFP-Bry(+) population. Wnt or low levels of activin-induced a posterior primitive streak population, whereas high levels of activin resulted in an anterior streak fate. Finally, sustained activin signaling was found to stimulate endoderm commitment from the CD4-Foxa2(+)GFP-Bry(+) ES cell population. These findings demonstrate that the early developmental events involved in germ-layer induction in the embryo are recapitulated in the ES cell model and uncover insights into the signaling pathways involved in the establishment of mesoderm and endoderm.
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Villas-Boas pleased with Tottenham win over Swansea
December 17, 2012 May 15, 2015 Andrew Tuft
Andre Villas-Boas believes his side deserved their win over Swansea City, with a Jan Vertonghen goal enough to take Tottenham Hotspur back to fourth place in the Premier League, Sky Sports has reported.
Vertonghen struck in the 75th minute with the only goal of the game, delivering three points that, by virtue of Everton's draw with Stoke City on Saturday, took the White Hart Lane side back into the Champions League qualification places. The result was also only Tottenham's third league clean sheet of the season, with Spurs recording blanks against Fulham and Aston Villa.
After a week earlier losing a one-goal lead in the final minutes against Everton, Villas-Boas admitted he was particularly happy with his side's concentration, but also praised Spurs' ability to create chances in what the Head Coach felt was a well-earned victory.
Villas-Boas said: "It was a good, good win and I think we deserved to win today. We did everything right today. We had so many chances, so many opportunities to put the game to bed even earlier.
"We concentrated, we were responsible and it would have been very unfair if we had not won today. Obviously the season is long and we will continue to suffer goals in the last minute, that is the nature of the game. But we acknowledge the mistakes we made at Everton and today we did it well."
The victory means Tottenham have a two-point cushion from fifth-placed Everton, who are level on points with West Bromwich Albion after the Baggies drew against West Ham. Arsenal could join West Brom and Everton on 27 points if they beat Reading on Monday evening.
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UPDATE: The A-B Bike tour is still on!
Common Boston and Unbound Visual Arts (UVA) are pleased to debut its first tour of the arts across Allston and Brighton… by bike!
Join us on two wheels as we explore the vast array of artwork, landscape designs, and outdoor sculptures across these two adjoining neighborhoods, guided by UVA Director, local art expert, and historian, John Quatrale.
Come see the latest exhibitions by UVA artists and get a first-hand account of their new collection, discover A-B's distinguishing landmarks and architecture, and meet fellow art and cycling enthusiasts while exploring the rich history and creative culture of these two unique and vibrant towns. We'll loop back and stop for a quick ice cream social at Athan's Café to relax and reflect before heading on our own ways.
Don't have a bike? Not to worry! We'll be meeting by the New Balance Hubway station; please bring a helmet, water and wear comfortable clothing. Make sure your bike is in working order to avoid any maintenance issues along the way. Street parking is also available along Market Street.
This event is FREE and open to the public; the tour is limited to 20 participants age 18+ only. Please register by Wednesday, October 1st to reserve your space. Notify us of cancellations before Wednesday, October 8th.
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