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Capitalism Can't Give Us Meaningful Work
Jamie McCallum
The failure to provide meaningful work to the vast majority of the population is a powerful indictment of our economic system — one more promise capitalism makes but can't keep.
The failure to provide meaningful work to the vast majority of the population is a powerful indictment of our system — one more promise capitalism makes but can't keep.
Adapted from Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream, by Jamie K. McCallum (Basic Books, 2020).
In the mid-nineteenth century, socialist William Morris articulated a famous dilemma: "Meaningful work or useless toil?" He believed the working class performed a socially valuable function, but derided the notion that all work was meaningful, saying it was "a convenient belief to those who live on the labor of others."
Yet there was indeed work, he said, that was "not far removed from a blessing." The crucial difference was that some work came with the hope that it would bring well-deserved rest.
Quite a different conception prevails today. Meaningful work isn't the guarantor of hoped-for leisure, but rather a reason to work more. The hours of all wage and salary workers in the United States have increased by 13 percent since 1975, which is about five extra workweeks per year. And though we are inundated with stories of overworked professionals, the hours of low-wage workers, who are disproportionately women, have increased the most.
During that same time period of stagnating wages, rising hours, and declining union density, the elite invocation to "do what you love" became the "unofficial work mantra of our time." Why?
We all deserve meaningful work — and capitalism can't give it to us.
The most popular explanations for this phenomenon suggest that "company culture" has led us astray. In the New York Times, journalist Erin Griffiths says her generation "pretends" to love work. Lured by the vacuous promises of #hustleculture, her fellow millennials foolishly waste the best years of their lives "performing workaholism." Derek Thompson at the Atlantic argues that what he calls "workism" is "among the most potent new religions competing for congregants," a trend he says "defies economic logic."
But what if it affirms economic logic? What if hustle culture is simply a corollary to hustle economics?
The meaningful work discourse is easily deployed these days as a capitalist shibboleth because we have indulged for so long in the fantasy that hard work equals just rewards. We're right to be skeptical of that narrative, given how bosses cynically wield it to wring more work out of workers. But we shouldn't let such cynical rhetoric make us forget something basic: we all deserve meaningful work — and capitalism can't give it to us.
Blue-Collar Blues
In 1972 the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare convened a bizarre hearing on working-class alienation. The hearing addressed a countrywide crisis of worker discontent that involved a detailed study of what came to be called the blue-collar blues.
Workers were overworked and, according to the committee, "increasingly dissatisfied by working conditions even if they are satisfied by their paycheck." The country outside the factory was "mesmerized by the industrial machine and unable to see the man behind the machine," which led to a situation in which "the non-economic needs of the worker have been forgotten . . . producing a class of angry and rebellious workers."
The committee saw its job as to study this phenomenon and make recommendations that would "encourage the humanization of working conditions and the work itself," remedies that included more flexible schedules and a reduced workweek.
At some point, the committee heard testimony from Dan Clarke, an autoworker from Lordstown, Ohio, site of a famous wildcat strike against speedups, long hours, and industrial monotony. Clarke addressed his union official, who was present at the hearing, and said that the United Auto Workers (UAW) is "too concerned with wages and petty things. . . . They better start thinking of a man's mind and his relaxation."
Lordstown, Ohio strike, 1972.
Clarke's hope — and he was not alone — lay not just in more union power to transform the workplace, but an erosion of the dangerous and monotonous conditions of mid-century industrial work. An emerging trend toward white-collar service work might have seemed like a reasonable alternative. And it is exactly this transition that marks the second explanation for the meaningful work discourse.
Nonroutine analytical and interpersonal work, as a percentage of overall employment, surpassed manual routine jobs in the early 1970s. As a result, over the past four decades, work in general has required more human decision-making and cognitive input.
"The move to a high discretion workplace has elevated the work ethic to a position of strategic importance," Daniel Yankelovich and John Immerwahr write.
Their 1983 study found that increased job discretion — the degree of subjective input that workers have at work — meant that when the economy was dominated by jobs in which one person could simply replace another on an assembly line, there was little rationale for looking for deeper meaning at work. But tasks that require initiative will only be completed if workers have a degree of buy-in and will do them without constant supervision. The new work ethic, replete with internal significance, arose when individual effort to master a particular task began to matter more in the production process.
When a 1962 poll asked respondents to describe their "formula for success in today's America," a mere 6 percent cited a meaningful job. Twenty years later, a similar question elicited 49 percent. In the mid-eighties, Yankelovich found that "a significant number of jobholders now see self-development as their primary motivation for working." In 1968, 58 percent of the public agreed that "hard work always pays off," but only one-third of workers endorsed this view on a similar survey in the early eighties. As the economic bargain began to break down, so did the culture that connected work solely to money.
But white-collar workplaces only redesigned the flaws of industrial work. They were maddening and boring and uninspiring, too, and provoked a similar backlash: the white-collar woes.
White-Collar Woes
The scions of tech launched a revolt against the relentless conformity of cubicle life, a movement to overcome the sense of alienation and discontent plaguing so many offices across the country. Jobs were boring, hours were long, life was short, and a critical mass of young computer geeks thought there was a better way. Offices — once full of lofty hopes about a more sociable future of work, the refuge of those spared the indignity of factory labor — had become partitioned wastelands of broken promises and dreams deferred. Indeed, by the late 1970s, they had begun to feel much like factories themselves.
Central to that pushback was Silicon Valley, where the sixties counterculture went to cash in. The valley's new businesses were built by couriers of this new Zeitgeist, who proselytized that hard work and long hours were their own reward.
Douglas Coupland captured that consummate passion for tech world work in his prophetic 1995 novel Microserfs, in which a group of nerdy engineers who hate their jobs at a fictional buttoned-down IBM move from Redmond, Washington to Silicon Valley in search of more self-actualizing work. Their new home is literally the light of their life, constructed with just the right illumination streaming through plate-glass facades and spatial harmony to create beauty and intimacy.
As they grow tired of chasing venture capital, which always seems just out of reach, one programmer has a startling revelation: "I would have come here for nothing. I never had to get paid. . . . It's never been the money. It rarely ever is. It wasn't with any of us — was it?"
For a while, it seemed these complaints about meaningless work reflected not only the exploitative nature of work, but also the prophetic demands of the New Left. Campus activists, feminists, and even young technologists sought to rescue work from its alienating quality — or to abolish it altogether.
If hard work was so important," the AFL-CIO's Lane Kirkland told a reporter, "the rich would keep it all for themselves.
This seductive possibility calls to mind Marx's remark about human nature, which he explains by noting the difference between the worst of architects and the best of bees: the former erects the structure first in the mind, the latter builds on instinct. The creative imagination at work is, in other words, the most fundamental hallmark of our humanity.
But history is cunning. What has become known as the "new spirit of capitalism" meant that the demands for more creative and fulfilling work dovetailed with the needs of a business class to regain their power and profitability during the crises of the late seventies.
An expanding class of managers, supervisors, business leaders, advertisers, writers, gurus, and others intercepted these new demands for meaningful jobs and repackaged them as a new ideology of work. The result was the popular discourse on meaningful work we have today, which encourages finding personal worth and fulfillment in one's job as a part of the job itself. This managerial revolution was successful because it seemed to deliver something we already desired.
Nonetheless, maybe those for whom jobs seem the least meaningful hold the key to reforming our working lives. The phenomenon of meaningless work illuminates the contradiction at the heart of capitalism itself. Long hours at tedious jobs could have been avoided if we had prioritized policies that continued to reduce the workday and if workers were allowed greater control over their employment and schedules. Yet here we are.
Lane Kirkland, former president of the AFL-CIO, captured this resentment in one simple quip in 1979. "If hard work was so important," he told a reporter when asked about laziness on the job, "the rich would keep it all for themselves."
Meaningful Work and Shorter Hours
The widespread alienation that so many express today is an important critique of capitalism, making it unlikely that workers would be suddenly mollified by a raise in pay, despite how desperately needed such raises are. The Left should speak to the crisis of despair into which workers have fallen.
The failure to provide meaningful work to the vast majority of the population is a powerful indictment of our system — one more promise capitalism makes but can't keep. Discovering a type of work and workplace organization that is truly engaging and empowering need not be a cynical or futile project, nor should it be dismissed as superficial. Rather, it carries with it the potential for larger political and social change.
If we have to work to live, we should demand legitimately meaningful work as a fundamental right. Such work should challenge and inspire our collective mental and emotional faculties and make a clear contribution to a better world. And a demand for more engaging work can also accompany a demand for shorter hours. We deserve more meaningful work, but we also deserve more of our precious waking hours to do what we will, rather than serving our boss.
If some of our work is unable to be meaningful, we should demand it be well paid and reduced to a minimum amount of time. Bosses are peddling us "meaning" instead of money or free time. That's not good enough.
Jamie McCallum is associate professor of sociology at Middlebury College and the author, most recently, of Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream.
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—"When people do not succeed, it may be that the desire is not strong enough." To what extent do you agree with this statement?
—"Failure is proof that the desire was not strong enough." To what degree do you agree or disagree?
Many successful persons seem alike to have a very strong will called desire. It seems an uncommon common sense to make success happen. Probably no other human characteristic is more outstanding than the will to plan carefully and to work patientl.
As a saying goes: "Success favors the prepared mind." For this reason, preparing one's career with details is like seriously mapping life's routes toward achievements. Only by so doing with a consistent mind can one prevent desire from becoming blind ambition seeking accidently to strike it rich or downright to be particularly lucky in life. In other words, a successful person is capable of setting goals and paving the way against all odds. Of course, important to success are also such human qualities as honesty, intelligence, a sense of humor, among other virtues. However, these characteristics must be considered as only advantages which do not alone guarantee success in life.
Few would doubt that working with patience is an expression of desire. Nothing worthwhile comes easily and good work takes pains. This means that a successful person is one who can make the best of education and talents, if any. Unfortunately, an educated person would remain only an educated person unless possessing passion to do more. Likewise, it would be a waste of talents if gifts from heaven are abandoned in idleness. So it is work, continuous work that can accomplish results that last.
As a conclusion, it is easier said than done to be able to plan and to work in such a way that the way to success can be ensured. A motto may apply: "Where there is a will; there is a way." When people do not succeed, it might be either that the desire is not strong enough, or that it might be the absence of desire in the first place.


LIVERPOOL chairman Tom Werner wants to give Luis Suarez Champions League football to keep him away from Arsenal.
The Uruguayan was keen to leave over the summer but he ultimately stayed put, despite two bids from the Gunners.
Werner said: "There was interest in him from other clubs throughout the summer but it was important for us to try to keep him.
"He is one of the great players of the world and we felt that we would be a stronger club with him than without him.
"That does not mean I don't respect his intense desire to play in the Champions League.
"But it would be a very happy day next May if and when we get to the Champions League by finishing in the top four and he is part of it."
Suarez's current deal runs out in 2016 but Liverpool are set to offer him an improved contract to extend his stay.
"It is our intention to keep him for a while," told a national newspaper.
"Our intention is to build a winning club and he is integral to that. The past is the past and I have great affection for him personally."


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Bunga Bunga have two restaurants in London, located in Battersea and Covent Garden. In addition to their delicious pizzas, they are known for their vibrant party atmosphere. The décor is made up of classic Italian icons such as mopeds, flags, wicker baskets, hanging garlic bulbs and other interesting nick knacks. Enjoy the fine Italian fayre, with a sip or two from a fantastic selection of quality gins and vodkas, or take advantage of the two for one deal on cocktails every Wednesday.
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Visit a Bunga Bunga restaurant before the spring and get your taste buds dancing with slices of Nutty Italian Pizza! Go on, be adventurous and try something new. Leave a review or comments below.


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The Forced Redundancy Film Club
It's a horrible surprise for high-flying career girl, Katherine Casey when she loses her job on the same day as 180 other people in her company. But it's even a bigger surprise when she finds herself agreeing to join a film club with five of her ex-colleagues, none of whom she quite likes.
There's shabby, devil-may-care Martin, who she had regrets kissing at the office Christmas party a year ago; harried and desperate-to-be-liked mother-of-three, Lisa; office loner and oddball, Alice; and Jamie, a handsome gay man who can't stop cheating on his devoted boyfriend.
Over a year, and ten classic movie nights in each other's houses, from Thelma and Louise to Breakfast at Tiffany's via The Wizard of Oz and Casablanca, the lives of Katherine and her four unlikely film club friends change in ways none of them could have ever imagined.
Described by The Sunday Times as, "Marian Keyes meets Nick Hornby", The Forced Redundancy Film Club is a funny, moving page-turner that will leave you feeling a little better about life by the final page.
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Knowing Me Knowing You
When Maggie Corcoran was 15 years old, she made a promise, along with the three other members of her ABBA fan club – that if ABBA ever reunited, they'd all go to see a concert together. Thirty years on, ABBA announce their reunion, and deciding to fulfill her teenage promise, Maggie begins searching for her old friends.
There's Maggie's first love, Daniel, now a reclusive ex-pop star reluctantly back in the super trouper limelight, but dealing with bigger problems closer to home. Wild child, Dee has grown into a powerful business-woman, but things in her marriage tell a different story. And for the once shy and retiring Charlie, life has changed in ways the four could never have imagined. But personal happiness has come at a heart-breaking price.
As the gang make their way to Stockholm for the concert of a lifetime, old memories are reawakened, good and bad, and each discovers that to lay the past to rest, sometimes you've got to take a chance on the future… together.
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The Next Book…
Brian's third novel will be published in Spring 2015. As yet untitled, it is the story of a very modern family. You can follow his daily writing diary on the home page of this blog.

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Q: Expected waiting time for a group of people to collect their jackets. I cannot find a satisfactory way to mathematically model the following situation.
When entering a restaurant, $n$ people leave their jackets at the entrance. After eating, they leave, and go to collect them. The member of the staff whose in charge to give back the jackets to the respective owners does that sloppily, according to the following procedure: he starts randomly (uniformly) permuting the $n$ jackets, and giving them back to the guests following the obtained order. This way, $L_1$ people get their own jacket, while the remaining $n-L_1$ don't. He then goes on the same way, randomly (uniformly) permuting the $n-L_1$ remaining jackets, and giving them back to the remaining $n-L_1$ guests following the obtained order. This way, $L_2$ more people get their own jacket, while $n-L_1-L_2$ don't.
We would like to find $\mathbb{E}(\tau)$, where $\tau$ is the random time necessary for all the guests to get their own jacket.
Is there maybe a way to find a martingale around there, and then use the Doob's optional stopping theorem?

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Throughout the year, we show films on such topics as the logging and mill working industries, the advent of the railroad and its impact on the local community, and the architecture of the region. Our film series offer rare glimpses into what life was like in the early and mid-20th century and we host a lively discussion period following the films and speaking presentations.
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Our historic walking and driving tours are a particular favorite with visitors, the most popular being our Graveyard Walks. Each year, we feature different local "heroes" from the past, who "arise" from their resting places to talk with visitors about how they lived, what they achieved, and what it was like to live and work in and around Warrensburgh during their lifetimes. Each year, the Graveyard Walks are held at a different historic location in the town and are followed by a "Dinner with the Dead. The Graveyard Walks were started in 2001 and have continued to be one of our most popular events, truly bringing history alive and into the present day.
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The seventh round started on time, in fact slightly ahead of the 9:00 starting time, on Saturday, May 30. This would be the last day of the tournament. The podium at the Ecopa Arena was flanked with flower arrangements in honor of the occasion. The starting signal was given by Seiken Takanashi, 8-dan, one of the three referees.
Going into this round, the top spots were still occupied by the group of far eastern countries and territories with professional go organizations: China (unbeaten) and Korea, Hong Kong China, Japan, and Chinese Taipei (one loss apiece). The folding pairing system produced only one clash within this group, pairing Moriei Kanazawa of Japan against Kang-ting Yeh of Chinese Taipei. This, naturally, was the game that attracted the largest audience, and it was also one of the longest games, lasting until noon. Kanazawa led for most of this three-hour dual, but Yeh battled back to win by half a point in the end, earning a chance to challenge the unbeaten leader in the final round.
The leader, Yuqing Hu of China had a comparatively quick and easy seventh-round game against Juyong Koh of Canada. The Canadian found himself slightly behind in the middle game and resigned early, saving his strength for the afternoon. Antti Tormanen of Finland also resigned against Shin-hwan Yoo of Korea. Jia-cheng Tan of Singapore, paired against Naisan Chan of Hong Kong China, played his game out to the end but lost by 9.5 points.
The players with two losses no longer had much hope of taking first place, but they were very much in competition for other places among the top ten, and this produced several games that were played just as intensely as the Kanazawa-Yeh game.
Thomas Debarre of France and Carl Johan Ragnarsson of Sweden and both built huge territories, on the same board. Ragnarsson, playing white, then tried to kill a black group, but the attacked group lived, leaving the attacking white stones headed for Valhalla. "Better to go down in flames," Ragnarsson said after he resigned.
Also winning by resignation were Gheorghe Cornel Burzo of Romania, Eric Lui of the U.S.A., Laurent Heiser of Luxembourg, and Merlijn Kuin of The Netherlands, while Csaba Mero of Hungary and David Wei He of Australia won their games by 8.5 points and Ondrej Silt of Czechia won by 11.5. These seven will join Debarre, Kanazawa, Koh, and Tan in the battle for a finish within the top ten.
In the other half of the arena, the local go players who had largely stayed away for the past two days reappeared in force for the Saturday side events, including an introductory course, an open tournament, and a ladies tournament. Quite a few youngsters were on hand. It was a refreshing sight to see a six-year old girl who had just started primary school being taught to play by an eight-year old third grader.


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Back in the eighties, NASA sent a time capsule up into space to connect with possible life forces on other planets. But when neighbouring aliens discover a feed of classic arcade games such as Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Centipede and Space Invaders, they interpret it is a threat of war. Fearing for the safety of their planet, they send pixelated monsters in the shape of beloved video game characters to Earth to destroy mankind, and the only people who can stop it are record-breaking gamers Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff and Eddie "The Fire Blaster" Plant. Lt. Col. Violet Van Patten is also on the team, providing a set of creative weapons to defeat the characters. But can this group of gaming experts really stop Pac Man eating up the city?
'Pixels' is a forthcoming action comedy which takes eighties gaming to a whole new level. Directed by the Oscar nominated Chris Columbus ('Home Alone', 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'), the movie's screenplay has been taken on by Timothy Dowling ('Role Models'), Tim Herlihy ('Happy Gilmore'), Patrick Jean and Adam Sandler, the latter of whom also stars in the flick. It is scheduled for UK release on August 12th 2015.
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I only need one station repaired and it is on the same side as the control panel and the water meter. Is this something I can do myself?
Station 6 is not needed because that's were the pool is.
Station 7 is the one that I want to reconnect.
Power: If I am reading the schematic correctly it looks like my wiring ran across the back wall and down the sides so it could have survived unscathed. When I manually set Station 7 to run, I can can hear is a small buzzing sound like I am getting current and I can feel a slight vibration at the connections. I have not used a voltmeter to confirm current.
Water: If I tie into the current system, am I safe in assuming I have to locate the main pipe off the main water and then run that to the control?
I work for a national equipment rental company so I have access to any tools I would need for through my work so tools are not an issue.
Let me understand your goals correctly, are you just looking to reconnect/reinstall station 7?
When you say you "hear a small buzzing sound at the connetions" I am assuming that is at the valve location. Which is good news, this means that your valve is working and most likly the line is capped off.
What I would do is try to locate a sprinkler head on zone 7, dig it up and attach a water supply to it. This can be done with a fitting to go from GHT (garden hose threads) to SPT (standard Pipe Threads) would be the easist, unscrew the sprinkler head and attache a garden hose to the fitting. Depending on the head it will either be 1/2" threads or 3/4" threads.
If you cant locate a head, dig arossthe area that is known to have heads and attempt to locate the pipe, at which point you will need to cut in a tee or another fitting to connect to.
Then look for leaks, cap them off or repair them as necisary.
Once that is done you can hook the end of the pipe from zone 7 to the valve that is humming and buzzing.
How to determine which valve to tie in too.
You can do one of 2 things, verify the wire colors or turn the valve on manually and see what happens. To turn the valve on manually, simply turn the solenoid (part with the wires coming out of it) to the left and loosen it slightly until you hear water go by, then tighten it to turn it off.
Caution-Do not unscrew the solenoid completely it is a pain to get back on in a dirty cramped valve box. If the line is capped you will not hear the water rush by.
The next thing you can do is open up the controller and take a look at what color wires they are using, in 90% of all residential multistrand wire is used. Meaning multiple wires in 1 cable, take a look at the color of zone 7 and match that up to the valves located in the field.
Unless the wires have been cut and repaired with disregaurd for the system they wires shoud match.
If the heads are the same type as another zone and share the same traits such as, all shade, all sun and no big change in terrain. I would just wire it with another zone.
Unfortuneatley I was unable to see what your picture you attached was feel free to let me know if you have any more questions.


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Digging Deep at Leadville; 2011 Leadville 100 Race Report
"Ken (Chlouber, Leadville 100 founder) had never run a marathon himself, but if some California hippie (Gordy Ainsleigh, Western States 100 founder) could go one hundred miles, how hard could it be? Besides, a normal race wouldn't cut it; if (the town of) Leadville was going to survive, it needed an event with serious holy-shit power, something to set it apart from all the identical, ho-hum, done-one-done-'em-all 26.2 milers out there. So instead of a marathon, Ken created a monster. To get a sense of what he came up with, try running the Boston Marathon two times in a row with a sock stuffed in your mouth and then hike to the top of Pikes Peak. Done? Great. Now do it all again, this time with your eyes closed. That's pretty much what the Leadville Trail 100 boils down to."
--Born to Run
Running 100 miles is really hard. Running 100 miles in the Colorado Rockies, with every step between elevations of 9,200 feet and 12,600 feet and with four mountain passes and 32,000 feet of combined elevation change sprinkled in, is just downright epic and beyond "really hard." The Leadville Trail 100 Mile Run takes every ounce of your energy and resolve and pushes you to the edge. If you are to finish the Leadville 100, you have to believe in the race's motto deep in your heart, with no reservations:
"You are better than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can."
If you don't believe in those words and what they mean, you are never going to make it. If Hope Pass doesn't do you in, Powerline will break you in half. Believing in those words is your only way through the dark moments and your only ticket to the finish.
Anne and me at the pre-race meeting
I kept saying those words to myself when I was climbing Powerline with about 80 miles on my legs, and when I was digging deep in the last 10 miles, barely able to keep my eyes open and my legs functioning. I crossed in 22:35 and in 29th place overall. This was a marked improvement over last year's 24:47 and 92nd-place finish, but I'm still not satisfied. I believe in my heart I can still break 20 hours at Leadville...and I will!
First Half Goes as Planned
The first half of the race was mostly fantastic! I got to Mayqueen (13.5 miles) in 1:48, a 12-minute improvement over last year, and felt really good. For the first 7-8 miles, I was running with guys like Ryan Sandes (winner), Timmy Parr (previous LT100 winner), Duncan Callahan (previous two-time LT100 winner), Dylan Bowman, Neal Gorman (2010 Grand Slam winner), Michael Arnstein (Vermont 100 winner) and Jeff Browning. Finally, I asked myself, "Should I be up here with these fast guys so early in the race?" Realizing I had no business up front with these high-altitude studs, I backed off a bit and wound up running into Mayqueen with Brandon Fuller and another guy, but still clocked a very respectable 1:48.
Fish Hatchery (23.5 miles) came in 3:34, with some nice climbing up Hagerman Pass and, of course, the famous Powerline descent mixed in. As I entered Fish Hatchery, I was greeted by Anne with Noah on her shoulders. They ran after me as I made my way up the driveway and into the tent. Seeing them and my parents for the first time in the race was wonderful. This day would bring us all closer. I am so grateful for their support and send my heartfelt thanks.
Leaving Fish Hatchery outbound
The Half Pipe aid station (~29) came in 4:43, with a brief stop at Pipeline (a crew-only point). The big goal splits I had were for Twin Lakes (39.5 miles) and Winfield (50 miles) and I nailed them both. I got into Twin Lakes in 6:15, cruising pretty much the whole way and just feeling amazing. The trail and jeep road dropping into Twin Lakes, with spectacular views of the lakes, are just incredible. You can really fly on this stretch. From Twin Lakes, I got to Winfield in 9:15. Having crunched the numbers for a sub-20-hour finish, I knew that 9:15 into Winfield was critical.
Leaving Pipeline outbound
Wrong Shoes on Hope Pass
Unfortunately, I forgot to change into my Salomon Crossmax trail shoes after Twin Lakes outbound, when you cross the Arkansas River and climb and descend 12,600-foot Hope Pass. It's a 3,400-foot climb followed by a 2,600-foot drop into Winfield. So I was forced to run Hope Pass, which has some rocky, steep sections, in my Hoka One One Bondi B's. The Bondi's, while excellent shoes, offer very little (read: no) lateral support. As I was descending the mountain, my feet were shifting around and my toes were pressed against the front. I was in agony. And, of course, as almost any LT100 runner would attest, Winfield Road, which connects the Hope Pass trailhead with the turnaround aid station in Winfield (a ghost town), just sucks with all its dust and traffic. When I arrived in Winfield (mile 50), my crew went right to work on my feet and I got into my Salomon Crossmax trail shoes. I was in Winfield for about 9 minutes--a very long stop.
Llamas at the Hope Pass aid station
Descending Hope Pass.
With my pal Lance, an accomplished runner and mountain biker, pacing me (he also paced me in 2010), we climbed the very challenging backside of Hope Pass, not far behind Lynette Clemons, the eventual women's winner. From Winfield to the summit of Hope Pass, you're climbing 2,600 feet of steep trail with hundreds of runners coming down the mountain in the other direction. I had a few bad moments going up Hope and told Lance not to worry about me; once at the summit it would all be downhill into Twin lakes (60.5 miles). Unfortunately, the descent wasn't much better. My legs were really tired and non-responsive and I had a difficult time navigating a few rocky sections. This was probably due to the fact that I didn't train enough at 10,000+ feet this summer. But I never feared a DNF as I knew once I got back "down" to 9,200 feet (Twin Lakes), I would feel better.
When I arrived at Winfield my feet were really messed up.
Here's a photo of Jane helping me get some new shoes on.
Leaving Winfield new and improved...and with Lance by my side.
Sure enough, by the time we got into Twin Lakes, I was feeling much better. I was strong as we crossed the meadow, the river and the five or six "puddles," though the dark clouds forming above were indeed a concern. Unfortunately, my time into Twin Lakes was about 12:20 (4:20 p.m.), which meant a sub-20-hour finish was now doubtful. Simply put, my Hope Pass double-crossing time (about 6 hours flat) put me in a hole that would be tough to get out of. My goal all along had been a double-crossing of about 5:40. I didn't let it discourage me. I changed shirts and got into my Salomon XA Pros. My crew made me leave with my North Face rain jacket, which I tied around my waist. I didn't have a pacer for Twin Lakes to Pipeline, but that was OK.
Lance with his girlfriend, Debbie, at Twin Lakes.
Strong Leaving Twin Lakes
Leaving Twin Lakes, you have a pretty hefty, but gradual, climb and then get onto beautifully smooth, single-track trail under heavy tree cover with a gradual drop into the Half Pipe aid station. This was one of my better sections, though I had to make a pitstop about 3 miles out of Twin Lakes and got passed by two runners (who I was able to catch up with after my stop). I arrived at Half Pipe (~70 miles) in 14:34 feeling mentally upbeat and physically strong. Just a few more miles and I'd once again meet up with my crew at Pipeline (~mile 73) and also pick up Jane, an Ironman triathlete who would pace me to Mayqueen.
By the time I was closing in on Pipeline, it was about 7:15 and sunset was coming. I'd forgotten to take a precautionary headlamp at Twin Lakes and was hoping the daylight would hold until I got to the crew truck at Pipeline, which is a crew-access-only point (not an aid station). I was also hoping the dry weather would hold. At a few spots between Twin Lakes and Pipeline I felt some drops of rain and a few gusts that signaled an approaching storm, but a downpour never came, thank God. The night before, we'd gotten a horrendous thunderstorm that kept me up (more on that below), and as I was making my way to Pipeline I hoped and prayed for dry conditions as the temperature would surely drop with darkness, creating a nasty combination of cold and wet.
At last, Pipeline...where I got my headlamp, put on a light vest and my sleeves, and met up with Jane. Anne and Noah weren't there--she'd taken him back to the cabin for bed, and so my crew consisted of my mom and dad, who took care of all of my needs. The next segment would be a short one; from Pipeline to Fish Hatchery you're on dirt and paved roads that are mostly flat. It can be a grueling section for many, but I welcomed the change of scenery, even if it meant an annoying game of leapfrog with a really impressive female runner who I *think* finished fourth in the women's division. She wasn't concerned about me, though. Bearing down on her was a gal who was also a Hardrock 100 finisher. They were duking it out for the third woman spot. The last person you want to duke it out with is a Hardrock finisher; they're as tough as they come.
By the time Jane and I arrived at Fish Hatchery (mile 76.5), it was fairly dark and my mood was decent. The time was about 7:55. I got a second headlamp and refueled (with some awesome potato soup my mom made), and off Jane and I went with the Powerline climb looming. My mom was going to head back to the cabin to relieve Anne, who was watching Noah while he slept, and then Anne and Dad would be there at Mayqueen to help get me to the finish.
Powerline...what else to say about it except it's really hard mentally. It was here about 17 years ago that Juan Herrara passed Ann Trason en route to his incredible win (as told in Born to Run). Last year I missed the turn into Powerline, adding an extra two miles to my race that mentally crushed me. This year I nailed the turn, which still wasn't marked quite the way it should have been, and we got right to work on the ~3-mile Powerline climb, which comes at a time in the race when you're just wasted. This is when you have to tell yourself you can do it. Bad thoughts swirled through my head, and when I saw the 20-miles-to-go sign I about lost it. Here I am trekking up this steep bitch of a climb, in the pitch-black dark, when I get a reminder that I have 20 more miles to go. Talk about a slap in the face. Jane heard me utter all kinds of negative words and did her best to keep me positive, even as we were running low on water and my Perpetuem had long-ago started to taste pretty awful. She'd run Powerline only a few weeks before and remembered all the false summits, and so she was able to coach me up the climb.
After Powerline, you descend Hagerman Pass and then enter a ~2-mile section of fairly technical single-track trail that never freaking ends. It was here that we caught up with Oz Pearlman and his pacer. I hate this section of the course so I wasn't in the greatest of moods. The best that could be said of me was that I was quiet. Really quiet. Actually pretty introspective. Oz, a really good runner from New York with a sub-20 at the 2010 Western States 100 on his resume, was fairly talkative and upbeat. I really admired his spirit.
Nausea at Mayqueen
Nausea set in as we approached the Mayqueen aid station (mile 86.5). Last year at Mayqueen I started puking and wound up in a cot for 40 minutes with a serious case of the chills--while several dozen runners passed through. With my stomach churning as we got near Mayqueen, I felt like it was deva-ju all over again, as they say. We entered Mayqueen at around 18:45, or 10:45 at night. I sat down in a chair while my crew refueled my bottles and attended to my needs. My dad stood in front of me, encouraging me to battle through the final 13.5 miles. I was so nauseous that I told Dad to move or else he might get ralphed on. So he moved to the side a bit and I began drinking this incredibly salty broth that about did me in. The watermelon at Mayqueen was far more enjoyable. Luckily, I didn't puke (yet). Lance and I then headed out of Mayqueen, with the finish being our next stop unless I needed to take a break at the Tabor Boat Ramp (93), where Anne and Dad would be waiting for me.
Fighting to Stay Awake
From Mayqueen to the finish, I mostly walked and fought hard to stay awake despite Lance's fantastic motivational techniques and friendly needling. I've never had such a difficult time staying awake late in a 100. I think the storms on Friday night, which literally shook our cabin and kept me up until past midnight, did me in. I got maybe three hours of sleep despite the fact that I was in bed by 8:30. The storms were that nasty, and I admit they freaked me out because I kept wondering what the trails would look like the next day and what I'd do if it stormed while I was out there. By the time I really fell asleep, my alarm clock went off at 2:50. Unlike many 100s, Leadville starts at 4:00 a.m., not the usual 5:00 a.m.
Things got a little nasty at Tabor Boat Ramp. I was in desperate need of caffeine and asked Anne to fetch me some Coca Cola from the truck. As she ran off, I leaned against the gate and literally fell asleep. Somehow I woke myself up and we left with me sipping on the Coke. Within seconds, it all came back up when I started barfing and dry-heeving. All kinds of stuff came up--from watermelon and Coke to gel, etc. It was a nasty mess, and after a sip of water there I was again dry-heeving as I walked down the trail along Turquoise Lake. Lance took the Coke from me and I was glad to give it up regardless of how much I needed carffeine. Yeah, even though Turquoise Lake is amazingly beautiful, this section of the race sucks. The trail is just technical enough to really slow you down when you've just run over 87 miles at 10,000 feet.
From Tabor Board Ramp on, the story was simple: I fought hard and dug deep to stay awake and keep moving forward. I wanted desperately to lay down on the side of the trail and, later, the side of the road, but with temperatures now in the 30s, that was just a really bad idea. Lance and I were both very cold.
At last, the finish line at 6th and Harrison was in sight, but I was so tired that very little joy came over me until I literally crossed the red carpet and broke the tape. About an eighth of a mile before the finish, Jane joined Lance and me and we ran to the finish together. Dad and Anne were there cheering me on. After crossing, I walked up to a man I thought was my dad but couldn't figure out why he wasn't hugging me. In my foggy state, I looked closely at him and realized he wasn't my dad. I also couldn't find Anne. Finally, there they appeared and we all embraced. Dad walked me over the medical tent for my final weigh-in.
I forgot to hit my watch as I crossed but someone told me my time was 22 hours and 35 minutes--an improvement of 2 hours and 12 minutes over the 2010 race. The next morning I learned of my 29th-place finish--an improvement of 63 places over 2010.
Another Leadville 100 in the books!
Bottom line: This is a really hard race. When we lived in Cleveland, any run was good training for my 100s (Burning River, Mohican, North Coast). When you're training for the Leadville 100, the runs that really matter are the ones on mountain trails at high altitude, with monster climbs and descents. It's not enough to put in mega mileage around the 'burb, even if you live at 6,100 feet like we do in tame Parker, Colorado, which lacks anything resembling a hardcore trail. As I learned in May after the Jemez 50 miler, you have to train in the mountains to perform well in the mountains. Mega mileage isn't going to mask sub-par mountain trail fitness. With a full-time job, family and house that is 45 minutes from the mountains, mountain training isn't easy for me schedule-wise, but I did my best (got to the mountains usually twice a week) and am proud of my finish. I will once again gun for a time under 20 hours next year and will once again make it a point to get to the mountains as much as possible.
You are better than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can!
Lessons learned to come!
Labels: Leadville 100, Race reports
Congrats!!!!You did an outstanding job and all of your hard work and smart training paid off!
I could hardly wait to read your race report, so when able, please add more details....
So,without any indication from you, other than doing Leadville faster, what is next ?.
Wyatt Hornsby August 22, 2011 at 6:05 PM
Hi Sarah:
I appreciate all of your encouragement!
Leadville went fairly well. I learned a lot and made some mistakes hopefully I won't repeat. I feel like I left at least an hour on the course I could have made up with some better strategy. I will continue my race report--I was going to write it all today but got pretty tired. My brain isn't quite at full power right now.
My next race will likely be either the California International Marathon in Sacramento or the Moab Marathon. I'd like to go for a marathon PR but it's so intense training for a marathon PR and I need to decide if I'm ready to take on that challenge so soon after Leadville. So Moab it may be!
Lance August 23, 2011 at 9:54 AM
Awesome Job Wyatt!!!
Thanks again for allowing me to be part of your amazing accomplishment.
Brandon Fuller August 24, 2011 at 8:43 AM
Congrats on yet another solid finish at Leadville. You keep demonstrating how to get it done there. Encouraging to see you continue to want to whittle the time down too.
Since you ran with me to May Queen, all the comments on my blog indicate that we are idiots for running that split into May Queen. I have been debating it but the crowd seems to believe it was wrong. So maybe conserve there a bit next year and pick up more time later in the day.
Interesting comment on the Hokas. Was unsure how that was going to go for you since it was new. Saw a ton of them out there though this year.
Maybe next year we can train a bit together...I got a place...
Wyatt Hornsby August 24, 2011 at 9:45 AM
Lance: You once again rocked it as an all-star pacer! I value our friendship greatly and hope we can spend some time together when I'm not in agony trying to get to the LT100 finish! That said, I'm going back in 2012 and would like to put in an early request for your services....
Brandon: Yes, I think 1:48 into Mayqueen was a tad fast, even as it felt good. I realized quickly that running with Duncan, Timmy et al was a mistake. But I still ran to Mayqueen too fast and I kind of wish my split had been more like 1:55. Anyway, for next year there is no getting around the fact that I need to make time to get to Leadville for some runs. I really need to get my Hope Pass split down to about 5:40. I will keep in touch with you and would love to do some runs with you.
Janet Edwards August 24, 2011 at 1:55 PM
Congratulation Wyatt on your huge accomplishment! Sounds so incredibly daunting!
Enjoyed the race report and wish you continued success!
Lisa Hayen May 4, 2012 at 1:14 PM
I decided to make the LT100 in 2011 my first 100. I live about the same distance you do from the mountains, and did my best to hit elevations and gnarly trails each week. Hope Pass nearly did me in, and I mentally gave up on Powerline. I definitely lost time because of this. If I'd kept strong mentally, I believe I wouldn't have been cut due to time at May Queen. I'll be back to finish what I began, but it'll have to be in the next few years. Thanks for a good race recap!
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This article and its dates and figures were correct at time of publishing in May 2016.
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Cost: Art Trail Presentation: £7 for entry (the only available ticket - information on the website). More details will be posted in June.
The annual Wirksworth festival offers a wide variety of events, such as music, food, arts and poetry. The festival first started 20 years ago, and it has become one of the most exciting UK events of the year. Wirksworth also contains a "Pick of the Past" feature, for people of all ages and enables you to come along and view various drama, jazz and dance shows.
This festival is an "outdoor art spectacular", with circus, dance and art performances, as well as international open-air concerts. The festival first started in August 1988 and this will be its 27th year. You will be able to explore a diverse culture of carnivals and arts.
Location: Carnival: Church Road to Stockton High Street, Stockton-on-Tees, County of Durham.
The biggest celebration of rural life in England; come along to the Bath and West showground to experience a day of food and drink excellence, as well as a good showing of the countries livestock. A great mix of food, fun and art.
Experience true 1940's life with entertainment, food and games all inspired by this wonderful period. Expect a really fun day and evening - and you won't be out of place if you dress up in the period.
The annual Horse of War festival will be held at the Beamish Open Air Museum. The show will give you the chance to see the 16th Lancers cavalry and horse-pulled First World War vehicles.
The Harrogate Spring Flower Show is regarded as the UK's biggest and most prestigious independent gardening event. This festival is perfect for garden lovers, as the Spring Flower show will include more than 1,000 flower types, garden shop and the "Dig it" Theatre Company. The event will also have gift shops, a live cookery theatre and a feast of food for you to enjoy!
A brand new festival that celebrates the beautiful North Eastern coast line. Expect to take part in organised themed walks and kayaking trips, followed by events in the afternoon and evening, ranging from barn dances to mini beast hunts to rock pool rambles.


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Gusties get vaccinated as worries about Johnson & Johnson vaccine spreads
Emily VanGorder – Staff Writer
Gustavus held its first COVID-19 vaccination clinic, offering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, on Thursday, April 8 in the Don Roberts Ice Arena. Another clinic was offered on Thursday, April 22, which offered the Pfizer vaccine. Local pharmacies and health and medical clinics are also offering the vaccine to anyone 18 and older.
Pharmacies are given vaccines through a federal allocation, while hospitals and clinics receive them through a state allocation. Minnesota is distributing the vaccine to health coalitions, including the South Central Care Coalition, which Gustavus is a part of. The Coalition receives a certain number of vaccines every week and decides how to distribute them among the nine counties it serves.
"A few weeks ago they gave the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to Gustavus, and to MSU. The following week there were no extra vaccines to give to us. This week we are getting the Pfizer vaccine" Director of Health Services Heather Dale said.
The second dose of the Pfizer vaccine has to be administered within 17 to 24 days of the first vaccine, and will be available on May 20-21.
"It's a little extra challenging because school is ending… and many students won't be on campus any more. It really is important if you get your first vaccine to get your second vaccine. If we don't match up first and second doses, then we're at risk for not getting allocated vaccines in the future. They will give it to places that do it well, so we want to do it really well" Dale said.
Currently, three vaccines have been given emergency use authorization in the U.S.: the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is also known as Janesson, the Moderna vaccine, and the Pfizer vaccine. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is on pause while FDA committees meet to decide what to do with the vaccine after people who received it developed rare blood clotting disorders, some of which led to stroke or were fatal.
"Initially, we [Gustavus] along with a lot of other colleges and universities thought the Johnson and Johnson was such a great option because it was one dose, and we wouldn't have to get people to come back. They would be immunized within two weeks instead of five or six. It had the potential to be such a great option… I really appreciate that scientists and medical professionals want to make sure that we're making really good decisions and are being very thorough in vetting what the risks are" Dale said.
While the potential side effects of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine could be the most dangerous, most COVID- 19 vaccines have relatively mild side effects as the body's immune system works to create antibodies.
Junior Oaklee Ringeisen received the Johnson and Johnson vaccine during the vaccination clinic on April 8.
"I threw up twice, had a headache, body pains, and severe chills" Ringeisen said.
"I got the Pfizer vaccine. I had some mild side effects from my first dose, including a fever and stuffy nose. I don't have a lot of concerns about getting the second dose since I got sick from the first dose. Usually only one of the doses will elicit such a robust immune response, so my white blood cells are more than ready for round two" Junior Korinna Hylen said.
"People use the argument that COVID-19 doesn't cause bad symptoms in most college students… I would say, "nor does the vaccine", so why not do something for the good of our community and for the greater good of humanity that will help slow something down that has killed millions of people" Dale said.
According to an article in the New York Times, getting into a car is more dangerous than getting a COVID-19 vaccine. The article also mentions that humans are often more worried about small risks, like shark attacks or side effects from vaccines, despite the fact that they are much less likely to happen than large and common dangers, like car accidents.
"Historically, we know that vaccines have saved our society. Vaccines eradicated smallpox. Nothing else. Polio was eradicated in this country by vaccines. Unfortunately, it has started to emerge in other parts of the world, because they don't have vaccines" Dale said.
Conspiracy theories have surrounded the COVID-19 vaccine since the beginning of the pandemic. Some believe that mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 vaccine alter DNA, or contin microchips that the government uses to track individuals. Some have even gone so far as to call the entire pandemic a hoax. This level of misinformation and conspiracy can make it difficult to decide what risks are acceptable, or even what is true and false.
"I want to recognize that, especially for students, it can be challenging if your parents are apprehensive about you getting the vaccine or themselves getting the vaccine. I do want to acknowledge that depending on who you talk with and the people whom you love and are surrounded by, the messaging can be very confusing. I would encourage people to ask questions and do their own research. I don't even want anyone to feel bad about questioning how they should proceed. I do want to emphasize that the science and the evidence is very, very clear that vaccination is very safe and is very helpful, and will be very helpful in getting us out of this pandemic" Dale said.
Gustavian Weekly April 24, 2021
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Maryhope Howland Rutherford conducts quantitative and behavioral observation research on close relationships and health.
She has her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Minnesota and is currently the Director of Research for the UConn-Office of Early Childhood Research Partnership and providing UX Research expertise for the digital transformation efforts for the State of Connecticut.
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> Identification guide for ticks found in Québec
Other tick species found in Québec
The different species of ticks are grouped into three large families commonly known as hard ticks, soft ticks and a third, intermediate family. In Québec, 12 tick species have been identified so far and all belong to the family of hard ticks.
This identification guide presents the different tick species that are most commonly found in Québec and that bite humans and their pets. These different tick species belong to the following five genera: Amblyomma, Dermacentor, Ixodes, Rhipicephalus and Haemaphysalis. It is worth noting that there are a lot of other tick genera and species that can come into contact with humans around the world, but information about these lies beyond the scope of this identification guide.
Different species of female ticks not engorged with blood: (1) Ixodes scapularis, (2) Ixodes cookei, (3) Dermacentor variabilis, (4) Amblyomma americanum, (5) Rhipicephalus sanguineus and (6) Haemaphysalis leporispalustris. Distance between each line on the scale: 1 millimetre.
Review of the morphological characteristics of ticks
Dorsal surface (left) and ventral surface (right) of the Dermacentor variabilis tick.
Positioning of the eyes of ticks (red dots).
Note that they are found on the tick's abdomen and not on its head.
Comparison of different morphological criteria of the 5 genera of ticks most commonly found in Québec
Dorsal Shield
Length of palps relative to basis capituli
Festoons
anal Groove
Ixodes
Inornate
Varies according to species
Above the anus
Dermacentor
Similar to the basis capituli
Below the anus
Amblyomma
Longer than basis capituli
Rhipicephalus
Similar in length to basis capituli
Haemaphysalis
Ixodes cookei, or groundhog tick
Dermacentor variabilis, or the American dog tick
Amblyomma americanum, or the lone star tick
Rhipicephalus sanguineus, or kennel tick or brown dog tick
Haemaphysalis leporispalustris, or rabbit tick
‹ Detailed description of the Ixodes scapularis, or black-legged tick or deer tick up Ixodes cookei, or groundhog tick ›
How to examine the specimen
Is it a tick?
Detailed description of the Ixodes scapularis, or black-legged tick or deer tick
What to do with the tick collected


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The website www.salebvd.com, which goes by the name "Outlet Shop", is a fraudulent online website claiming to sell watches, sunglasses, handbags, clothing, shoes and other accessories. Online users are advised to stay away from the fraudulent website, and those who have shopped from it, run the risk of their personal, credit card and other payment processing information getting stolen by cyber-criminals and used fraudulently. They also run the risk of receiving counterfeit goods, or poor quality goods that look nothing like what was advertised. Therefore, we do not recommend purchasing from the website: salebvd.com.
The owner of the website is using a service to hide their identity via their website domain registration. And, the Trustwave and other website seals on salebvd.com are fakes.
A Trustwave website seal confirms that a website has passed an extensive validation process, which proves that the website has a valid business. Visitors to a website can click on its Trustwave seal, which will bring to them to Trustwave's website, where their business can be verified. But, on salebvd.com, the seal is not clickable, which means it is a fake and placed on the website to trick visitors into believing the website has been verified as trustworthy by Trustwave.
$10,000 Rolex offered for $189! When a deal is THAT good, you have to assume it is not as it seems. Be safe!!
I also clicked on the sponsored Facebook advertisement for Fashions-Joy, which is the same Outlet Shop, and lucky for me, my bank cancelled the transaction.
it was canceled because the watches are not real, they just have your information...u are screwed.
Saw an ad for the website on Instagram. Sounded too good to be true. Turns out I was correct. Thank you for this notification.


When I heard that one of my dream jewelers, Dean Harris, had designed a collection for Target, I checked it out.
First, just so you know the talent he brings to this project, here's high-end Harris, the Shoji Screen earring, with brilliant and briolette diamonds, set in platinum, $9,750. The detail on this photo isn't great, but click on his site to drool.
Below, three standout Target pieces: A sterling silver and quartz 36" necklace, 18k gold plate (over sterling); pearl earrings, 18K plate over sterling; dot-pierced hoops, also 18K over sterling. For forty dollars an item, a style coup.
Available online, with shipping to US only, which pretty much breaks my heart.
let me know if ever you want anything shipped from here. Happy to oblige.
you can send me the money later when you get it-if you like it -I could also do returns if you weren't happy.
I think I will have to check these out myself.
OH I keep learning about more covetable jewelry from you. The good stuff is certainly drool-worthy but these Target collections are also fun and quite wearable. Between you and Belette, who has me perusing the J Crew site, I am thinking that my costume jewelry coffers may be prospering.
i was going to make the same offer as anjela -- ship 'em here, and i'll ship 'em there!
anjela and bonnie-ann: Thank you for your kind offer; the only thing holding me back is the matter of returns... I so appreciate you offering a way to get some of these goodies!


On the final day of the Advanced Training, focus was placed on future GFP programmes. The Pioneers took turn raising and discussing possible obstacles to the implementation of successful programmes. Examples of such obstacles included insufficient human resources, collective action problems, and external circumstances such as national unrest.
Simultaneously, the Pioneers also discussed how these challenges could be overcome. Examples of such solutions included mentoring support, partnering with different types of local stakeholders, interdependent mentoring, and improved practices for inclusion and communication.
Following this, the Pioneers presented the next steps for their programmes. Some of them are looking to diversify and use new vehicles, such as sport or advocacy, while others are aiming to include different Target Groups, such as children. Therefore, 2015 means charting new and exiting territories for our Pioneers!
Aside from focusing on their future programmes, the day was captivating in other ways. For example, the Pioneers attended a press conference at the GFP Headquarters, featuring GFP founder His Royal Highness Prince Feisal bin Al Hussein and Mr Fadi Awni Abu Shamat, Samsung Corporate Marketing Director. The Pioneers were able to listen to His Royal Highness and Mr Abu Shamat discuss the future direction of GFP and ask questions. Some Pioneers asked Mr. Abu Sharmat about future funding for their GFP programmes, while others wanted to know when His Royal Highness will be visiting their country next.
In a few hours, the Pioneers will attend the final part of Advanced Training: The Samsung Generations For Peace Awards Dinner. During the evening, Mr Abu Shamat will hand out the Samsung Generations For Peace Awards, based on programme progress towards the four drivers of change (Innovation, Quality, Impact, Sustainability). This evening will truly be a worthy ending to five days of learning, sharing and experiencing for out Pioneers.
Want to know who won the awards? Check out our social media channels!


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Forget Carrying This Out with your Indian Brides, Do This
Google Drive is similar to Dropbox, the place you'll be able to retailer information, and share information. Google Docs lets you modify the documents and share them in real time. You can create a master doc and then share that together with anonymous your fiancee and anybody else who's serving to to plan the wedding. I couldn't stay without Google docs & Google Drive for our marriage ceremony planning – it's so easy to use and you should use it for so many parts of planning.
Sometimes the type of the gown is changed slightly with new embroidery or embellishment.
Be it festivals, weddings, or any other non secular occasions, every thing has its own uniqueness and with it comes its distinctive colour, flavour, and style.
The kalire are small golden or silver trinkets which function a blessing to the bride and are tied to the bride's chooda by her mama.
Her chooda may comprise of white, pink, pink, peach, and so on. bangles, that are given by her maternal uncle and aunt.
Some ladies might choose to put on their mother's or grandmother's wedding ceremony sari or robe.
North, East, South or West, varied rituals and customs around the nation are deeply loved and revered.
The bride usually opts for a purple silk saree or a western robe, or wears the gown for the church ceremony and modifications into the saree for some or all of the reception. The bride wears a standard half-moon shaped nath, matching the crescent formed bindi with a purple dot and her jewellery is comprised of white pearls and gold.
The Indian Brides Game
Be it festivals, weddings, or any other spiritual events, every little thing has its own uniqueness and with it comes its distinctive color, flavour, and taste. Some girls could choose to wear their mother's or grandmother's wedding sari or robe. Sometimes the type of the robe is modified barely with new embroidery or embellishment. For instance, when my older sister, Dr. Deepali Maheshwari, traveled to Jaipur, India, ahead of her wedding ceremony in July 2016, there was a strike that shuttered each jeweler within the nation. I managed to order my marriage ceremony lehenga just earlier than protests over a contentious citizenship regulation made it nearly inconceivable for my parents to entry Chandni Chowk. Many shops in India, from designers to regular boutiques, require no less than 30 days to customise lehengas, and may not ship items.
Their bridal looks are all about about dainty South Indian bridal jewellery, gentle make-up and a simple but elegant Kanjeevaram saree with a South Indian bridal Hairstyle. While such seems are more appropriate for a day marriage ceremony, however after looking at these photographs we can not deny that our brides know tips on how to bring out their greatest at anytime of the day! The bride wears a wedding sari or lehenga according to the area. Red is taken into account to be probably the most auspicious color among Hindus. A conventional Marwari bride has a heavily embellished lehenga or saree with embroidered silk and gold work. Her jewellery stands equal in competitors along with her bridal outfit, and is extremly heavy.
Not just the couple, but the friends attending the family and the relatives are sometimes seen dressed to the teeth. The bride is normally dressed up in auspicious colours, whereas the bridegroom is dressed to exude a regal aura. The bridesmaids and greatest men are sometimes dressed on a par with the bride and the groom, but not as elaborately because the bride and groom. All the folks attending the marriage are decked out with gold jewellery including the bride and sometimes the groom.
Same goes with different bridal makeup seems that flood the social media daily. But you have to ensure of the way you need to look on your greatest day earlier than choosing your bridal look. They say a lady's largest dream is to not just become a bride but to look essentially the most breath-taking bride ever.
Maximize of One's Indian Brides
The first elementary color, pink is the shade of affection and warfare, ardour and energy, of desire and hazard. The bridal trousseau is nearly invariably pink or some shade of it. And irrespective of how many new colors appear within the marriage ceremony wardrobe now, I assume the bride nonetheless looks the most effective in pink, which is why I went for it with none doubt. My lehenga was a Shyamal & Bhumika design – a whole pink lehenga with vintage work. While shopping for my trousseau, I was advised that the color selling essentially the most nowadays is coke wine . It's the most effective colour to indicate passion, love and commitment, in spite of everything. Red and pink are favoured colors for the bridal saree throughout a Bengali wedding.
Choose your life associate from tens of thousands of matrimonial profiles and footage of eligible singles. This bride wore a vibrant Orange saree with chunky gold jewelry. Also, to not miss how as an alternative of a jada she sported a big bun on her special day. No matter how modern the brides of at present become, in relation to south Indian weddings gold can by no means exit of development. Weddings appear legit incomplete with this valuable metal or colour! Christian marriage in India is generally an adaptation of western wedding ceremony ceremonies.
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But, I settled for the navy blue one as I wish to stand out and be the centre of all attention on my D-day. Since this colour has non secular and cultural significance, this choice is likely to stay in vogue for the foreseeable future. However, newer and softer shades of red are slowly but certainly making their way into the Indian bridal lexicon. Also, designers are offering a higher choice of Indian marriage ceremony dresses and jewelry with a more delicate design. Another interesting trend is the fusion of Western fashion with traditional bridal themes. Some fashionable brides are selecting to pair cleaner strains with the standard elaborate type of earlier generations. For Indian ladies living abroad, the wedding may be all about mixing native traditions with their very own cultural heritage.
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61.540 indian brides inventory photos, vectors, and illustrations are available royalty-free. A Ladakhi Buddhist bride on her wedding ceremony day wears the traditional costume, a Goncha. It is made of a thick woollen fabric that is supported by belt tied around the waist. The bride wears the Goncha with a unfastened trouser skirt and intricately embroidered kamarbandh. The headgear, a Perak is coated with black lamb and adorned with turquoise stones, which is to wish the bride a wonderful life forward.
Henna artist making use of henna on the palms of the bride's maid.Henna artist applying henna on the palms of the bride's maid. Street scene; pedestrians passing beneath an business for 'Picture Perfect Brides' in English with a pink and yellow check in Punjabi underneath.Amritsar, Punjab, India. This makes it far more obscure and recognise it. Life grew to turn into a gradual wrestle to deal with her alcoholic husband whereas taking part with strenuous home chores and work within the fields. For many of the ladies I met, it was powerful for them to recollect their age because of how young they've been after they obtained married . But the age distinction between her and her husband was over 30 years. As a researcher from abroad, the locals had been interested in my presence and Mahira and different ladies willingly shared tales about their marital journeys.
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It's hard for kids to learn just from a sermon in "Big Church," so we have a fun children's church. While the grown-ups worship in their service, kids age 3 to 5th grade enjoy an interactive learning experience of their own. Bring the kids for lots of fun, songs, games, stories, prizes and more! They are sure to learn from the Bible and grown in their faith with Jesus.


Cobbs Creek is a historic west Philadelphia neighborhood that is just a short subway ride from downtown, making the workday commute very manageable. However, most Cobbs Creek residents choose to take the bus to work. Bordered by Market Street to the north and U.S. Route 13 to the south, Cobbs Creek is perfectly situated for residents to travel in and out of the city if they so choose.
Real estate in the neighborhood is primarily composed of small homes and apartment buildings. Residents with kids love having The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Primary Care Center and Mercy Philadelphia Hospital in the area.
Malcolm X Park is just one of several green spaces in the neighborhood. Cobbs Creek Park, which runs along the neighborhood's western border, covers more than 700 acres of creek, forest and trails – all within the urban metropolis of Philadelphia. Each fall, the Cobbs Creek 5K is held in the park. The Cobbs Creek Golf Course is also a popular destination.
There are numerous churches within the borders of Cobbs Creek. There are also several schools, so children living in the neighborhood don't have to walk far to go to class.


Royal couple Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan were spotted this night as they attended the 2019 Endeavour Fund Awards.
The event was held at Drapers' Hall in London, England.
For the event, the stylish Meghan Markle was wearing a Givenchy look by Clare Keller Wright with a Givenchy clutch and Aquazzura shoes.


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Class is in Session at the Afghan/Uzbek Border!
by Calvin Sun | Jun 29, 2019 | Afghanistan, Border Crossing, June 2019: Afghanistan, Summer 2019: Unknown UAE, Afghanistan, Rwanda, & Uganda, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
Given the Taliban bombing of the mosque at where we were supposed to have lunch at yesterday, we decided to not go to Balkh and instead visit the Uzbek/Afghan border at Hairatan for our last day in the region. We stopped at an intersection to say hi to a local...
Khujand: From Uzbekistan To Tajikistan
by Calvin Sun | Jan 5, 2016 | Border Crossing, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Winter 2015: The Silk Road
After 2 days in Samarkand, the group arrived in Tashkent in the afternoon and we did a leisurely walk through Independence Park, observing some national monuments and a public fair. By the memorial to veterans, there are gold plated books listing...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 3, 2016 | How Did You Do That?, How's the weather?, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Uzbekistan, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2015: The Silk Road
We travel not for trafficking alone: By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known We make the Golden Journey to Samarkand. – James Elroy Flecker, 1913 The mysticism surrounding The Silk...
New Year's Eve In Bukhara
by Calvin Sun | Jan 1, 2016 | Fit for Foodies, The Nightlife, Uzbekistan, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2015: The Silk Road
The next morning, the group boarded our 9 hour bus ride from 8am-5pm (with an hour lunch break in between at a rest stop) from Khiva to Bukhara. The drive isn't as pretty as I would expect, as it's endless barren fields of the Kyzylkum Desert. ...
Khiva: A Journey Through Time
by Calvin Sun | Dec 31, 2015 | Fit for Foodies, Uzbekistan, Walking Tours, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2015: The Silk Road
The next morning the group got up at a horrific 4am in the morning for a 5am bus ride to the airport. We embarked on a 7am flight to Urgench, capital of the Khorazem region. Urgench has been regarded as a missable stopover city a stone's throw...