If my inbox is anything to go by, SEO is a huge growth market because I'm now getting around 10-15 mails a day (across my mailboxes) promising me better rankings from various service providers. Where are all these companies coming from? I guess it's because technically, there's almost no barrier to entry when it comes to SEO. Anyone can claim to be an SEO because the core activity of link building isn't technically hard to do.
As I highlighted earlier, a lot of these service providers who want me to get better rankings seem to be already suffering from lazy marketing syndrome - I just find it hard to distinguish one sales pitch from the other, and one gmail address from the other.
But this isn't to say SEO is just full of these "unknowns" who have no proof of their work, nor even a website to show for, or even a non-free email address. SEO is a real industry, and the best companies can be worth their weight in gold.
They outsource some or all of their work - this one's a real killer if they're outsourcing to non-native English speakers and they end up writing gibberish articles about your company. You normally won't know this until you get your first link report. Quality control is very hard to maintain if you outsource.
They offer absolute guarantees for positions, and if they don't achieve them, they promise they'll keep link building for free until you do get your positions. No they won't - strangely you'll never quite get those rankings months - even years after your final payment - because they never engaged in that free link building in the first place. You already paid them and they got what they wanted.
They talk about rankings without mentioning keywords. Talking about rankings without mentioning for which specific keywords is meaningless. "we can get you top 10 in Google" is a meaningless phrase. For what keywords?
They won't give you a "starter" package - all the prices are costly and you must commit to 6 months+ link building. With a "starter" package of even a single month - you can see results if they optimise for longtail keywords. This is often enough for them to win your trust (that's a tip for SEOs).
They over emphasise the bureaucracy of the proposed SEO campaign - you'll get 100 reports, all detailed, all this all that. Be careful because these reports shouldn't be in lieu of good rankings. In fact you don't need over-analysis to know your rankings have improved as you'll see that through increased visitor stats. Remember that's what their core service should be, not presenting elaborate reports (which are often generated quite easily, but make it look like they've done a lot of work).
These are just things that come to mind that often crop up in the email/phone conversations between client and SEO company. There are very good SEOs out there but they're in an extremely saturated industry that has a terrible reputation for ripping people off.


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Published March 3, 2021 • Updated on March 4, 2021 at 12:50 am
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced the United States will have enough coronavirus vaccine doses to inoculate the nation's entire adult population by May. To help with the effort, drugmaker Merck will produce rival Johnson & Johnson's newly approved one-shot vaccine.
Meanwhile, Texas and Mississippi officials said they plan to ease virus restrictions, including ending mask mandates. Top health officials, including the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, responded by begging people not to risk another deadly wave of contagion just when the nation is making progress in vaccinating people and victory over the outbreak is in sight.
The U.S. has reported more than 518,000 deaths and 28 million coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, according to a tally by NBC News.
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Biden Slams Texas, Mississippi After They Scrap Mask Mandates
President Joe Biden on Wednesday condemned both Texas and Mississippi's plans to end their mask mandates and reopen as officials try to contain new strains of the coronavirus.
"We are on the cusp of fundamentally changing the nature of this disease… and the last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime, everything is fine, take off your masks," Biden said. "It still matters."
President Joe Biden condemned the news that both Texas and Mississippi were ending their mask mandates and reopening as officials try to contain new strains of the coronavirus. "We are on the cusp of fundamentally changing the nature of this disease… and the last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime, everything is fine, take off your masks," Biden said. "It still matters."
Biden Stands by May Timeline for Vaccines for All US Adults
On Wednesday, White House adviser Andy Slavitt defended President Joe Biden's updated timeline for inoculating the U.S. adult population, saying the administration is preparing for all contingencies to speed the vaccine supply.
"We are not in the habit of overpromising," he said.
Biden announced Tuesday he expects the U.S. will have enough coronavirus vaccine doses for all adults by the end of May — two months earlier than anticipated. He's also pushing states to give teachers at least the first shot by the end of March to hasten school reopenings.
President Joe Biden announced the Johnson & Johnson vaccine would allow the United States to have enough doses for 300 million Americans by the end of May, two months earlier than previously projected.
Drugmaker Merck will help produce rival Johnson & Johnson's newly approved one-shot vaccine. The White House said Merck would devote two plants to the production process. One would make the vaccine and the other would handle inserting the vaccine into vials and ensuring strict quality controls. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration was using its powers under the Defense Production Act to help Merck retool to work on the production.
CDC Chief: Wear Masks, Follow Federal Guidelines
The Biden administration is warning against virus fatigue and encouraging Americans to continue to wear a mask and practice social distancing despite many states easing restrictions.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the nation is "at a critical nexus in the pandemic," and the next two months are "pivotal" in determining the remaining course of the pandemic.
While vaccinations are set to rapidly ramp up, Walensky warned deaths and new infections have plateaued at a "troubling" level after falling off their January highs.
She says: "Fatigue is winning and the exact measures we have taken to stop the pandemic are now too often being flagrantly ignored."
Walensky says the CDC has been clear in opposing states' moves to lift restrictions and encouraged Americans to follow federal guidelines.
Detroit Mayor Expands Vaccine Eligibility to All Factory Workers, Regardless of Age
This week, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is expanding vaccinations to any resident factory worker, no matter their age or where they work.
Non-Detroit residents can also get a shot if they work in manufacturing in the city.
"We've had some illness in our plants and deaths. This is incredibly important. ... It's going to give them some peace of mind," said Cindy Estrada, a vice president at the United Auto Workers, who bared her arm for a shot at the news conference.
More than 2.3 million vaccine doses have been administered so far in Michigan, mostly in the Detroit area, according to the state health department.
'Vaccine, Vaccine': Dolly Parton Gets COVID Shot and Sings 'Jolene' Rewrite
Dolly Parton rewrote the lyrics to "Jolene" as "Vaccine, vaccine," as she got her COVID-19 shot. The Grammy-winning singer, actor and humanitarian posted a video on Tuesday of her singing just before getting her vaccine.
Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, for coronavirus research.
The 75-year-old put on a typical show in the video, laughing and cracking jokes and making sure her hair was looking good. She wore a purple shirt with shoulder cutouts just for the occasion and then smiled at the camera, proclaiming, "I did it!"
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— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) March 2, 2021
Pennsylvania Teachers, School Staff to Get First Dose of Vaccine
With growing emphasis on getting students back in schools, teachers and school staff will receive the first doses delivered to Pennsylvania of the newly approved one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
That's according to Gov. Tom Wolf's plan being released Wednesday. State officials expect 94,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to arrive this week. Wolf's office says giving the vaccine to teachers and other school staff will "help protect school communities and get more students back into classrooms." The state is still in Phase 1A of its vaccine plan. That's health care workers, people age 65 and over and younger people with high-risk medical conditions.
California Clinics: More Vaccines Going to Rich Over at-Risk
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called equity his "North Star" for vaccinating a diverse state of nearly 40 million. He partnered with the federal government to set up mass vaccination sites in working-class neighborhoods in Oakland and Los Angeles. And it's a big part of why he tasked insurer Blue Shield with centralizing California's patchwork vaccine system, asking the hospital chain Kaiser Permanente to assist.
Yet officials at community health centers that are considered the backbone of the safety net for the poor in the U.S., focused on health equity, say they are not receiving enough doses for their patients — the very at-risk residents the state needs to vaccinate.
In California, nearly 1,400 such centers offer free or low-cost services to about 7 million people, many in communities with a higher concentration of low-income families and few providers who take Medicaid, which is known in California as Medi-Cal. Many of their clients speak a language other than English, work long hours, lack transportation and want to go to the medical care professionals they trust.
Dr. Efrain Talamantes, chief operating officer for AltaMed Health Services, said it was disheartening to watch initial doses go elsewhere while his patients continued to test positive for the virus.
"There is a clear disparity every single time there's a resource that's limited," he said.
As California has ramped up vaccination efforts through mobile and pop-up clinics at churches, work sites and schools, state data show how relatively few shots have gone to Latinos and Black candidates compared to their populations.
African American people have received 3% of vaccine doses while they make up 6% of the state. Latinos, who make up 39% of the state, have received 17% of doses.
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Nocturnes & Noir: A Juried Night Photography Exhibit
Harvey Milk Photo Center
Michael Kenna served as a juror for Nocturnes & Noir, a night photography exhibit at the Harvey Milk Photo Center.
Nocturnes & Noir runs from February 11 to April 2, 2017.
Curator's Statement:
The title of this exhibit reflects our hope to shine some light on two schools of thought re: Night Photography (NPy). The first, a romanticized landscape photography of Nocturnes traces its origins to the late 19th century, the Pictorialism movement, and later on, the efforts of the Photo-Secessionists. It is noteworthy that a number of the photographers practicing within the Pictorialism / Secessionist ethos (Steichen, Struss et al.), a decade – maybe even a few years – later, can be found showing work that falls thematically or stylistically within the purview of a new Modernist aesthetic, as promoted by the Group f/64. So, even at this early date we find a fluidity of intent, as the lines of distinction were being drawn.
The second style of NPy – Noir – was heavily influenced by German Expressionism, Surrealism, and associated, as early as the 1920s and 1930s, with the newly formed cinema, which attained its apex in the Classic Film Noir period of the 1940s and 1950s. In an intensely urban, between-the-wars period of angst and uncertainty, photographers like Bill Brandt and Brassai echoed the dark vision of the Film Noir tradition with surrealistic content; punchy, "contrasty" scenes; and heavy darkroom manipulation.
Of course, for the post-modern-day Somnambulist, things are not so cut and dry. There are artists producing work that might well be described as Nocturnes or Noir, or something – Neo-noir? – in between – an ambiguous "grey area" of focus. We are reminded that it was that way, even in the days of Stieglitz, Steichen, and Struss. These days, Crewdson, Kenna, and Keimig roam freely in a nocturnal milieu of their own making, carrying the "torch" forward into the Night.


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Surprise! Deadwood: The Movie teaser trailer dropped today and we get our first (fast) glimpse of what the movie is going to be. Lots of quick shots of people shooting guns, getting shot, and quick shots of the surviving characters (and actors) from the show.
For those that don't know, Deadwood was a show on HBO for 3 seasons and one of the best shows on there, and then it ended. For the past decade, there's been discussions if this movie was going to happen but it was always on and off again. But it's back with a movie now, years after the third season ended. I'm liking what I'm seeing so far!
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Hydria (work of art)
Attributed to the Workshop of the Patera Painter
South Italian (Apulian)
circa 320 B.C.E.-
circa 320 B.C.E.
H. 31 x Max. Diam 18 1/4 in.
W. (including handles) 22 in.
The hydria, a type of vessel generally used for collecting and pouring water, has here been adapted as a monumental grave marker. Mourners could pour liquid offerings such as wine directly into the soil through the vase and a hole at its base. The decoration follows the funerary theme. The central figures stand in an elaborately adorned Ionic naiskos, a tombstone in the shape of an entrance to a shrine. Two women, possibly a mother and daughter, are attended by a servant holding a fan. Objects of everyday life complete the scene: a stool, a basket of yarn on a casket, and personal accessories, including a jewel box, ribbons, festoons, a necklace, and a stringed musical instrument. The white used to portray the figures and objects within the naiskos may have been the painter's way of indicating that these are relief sculptures decorating the shrine. It is also possible that white was used to emphasize these important figures and provide a decorative contrast to the red used for the four mourners—three women and a man—outside the naiskos. They carry offerings: a covered dish, a flat offering dish, a jewelry box, and a brazier.
Work attributed to the Patera Painter, named for his frequent use of pateras (braziers), is characterized by broad, relaxed figures, delineated by fine, fluid strokes.
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Highland Co. shows expanding advocacy network tricky
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The chart with a blank map of Virginia shows any counties colored in if they have a Children's Advocacy Center or a satellite office. There's not much color on the map.
It's hard to get your state fully covered with forensic interview and support offices for children in abuse cases. Many states are fully provisioned with the centers — a key piece of the response to child abuse, experts say — but it takes years raising money and evangelizing about a topic most people don't care to think about.
Virginia is making headway. Most counties do not have a CAC, but the number of centers has grown by half in a decade, to 15 now. It's growing as fast as advocates can make it happen, they say.
In nearby Rockbridge County, there's progress.
Workers at Valley CAC are helping the Rockbridge group get started, with the hope that a Lexington-area center can be established. Staunton's CAC already has been serving children from Rockbridge County, working with county law enforcement.
The story in Highland County is a bit different.
Virginia CAC network officials had been working with Highland. A CPS staffer attended a training last year and was excited by the possibilities, said Wanda Ostrander, Virginia CAC executive director, speaking to us last fall.
The CPS staffer went back and talked about the experience, so one of Highland's two deputies came to a later training.
Ostrander spoke to the sheriff, she told us a few months ago. "He was just thrilled at how it worked… even though they don't have a CAC there, they are putting this collaborative model in place," she said.
Could a new satellite center be in the offing? Data shows that rural Highland County consistently is one of the worst counties in Virginia for child abuse and neglect, per 1,000 kids.
Often, Highland County is in the top 5 for highest rate of abuse, up there with problematic places in southwestern parts of the state.
After the fall election, though, a new sheriff took office.
Sheriff David Neil, the new officeholder, said he was interested in getting a type of "interview room." His social services coordinator told him he could take it a step further with a Children's Advocacy Center.
Neil said he so far has seen no sex complaints. "We're so remote here in Highland County," Neil said. "We have very few cases."
He's not sure about funding such a venture either, which is preventing him from pushing the matter any further for now. "It's all on hold."
Tim Duff, now-retired sheriff, said the county could use its own center.
"And they provide good training, difficult training," he said. If Highland got its own CAC satellite, "I would be absolutely thrilled.""We're three to four mountains away from Staunton, so in the event (we need them) in the middle of winter it could become quite an endeavor getting out of the county," he said, reached by telephone at his mountain sugar camp.
— William Ramsey contributed reporting to this article.


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J.J. Watt wins Walter Payton Man of the Year Award
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Houston Texans star defensive end J.J. Watt won the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year Award on Saturday night.
The award recognizes a player's contribution in his community and to society in general. It was given out at NFL Honors, when The Associated Press announced its individual NFL awards.
Tight ends Benjamin Watson of the Baltimore Ravens and Greg Olsen of the Carolina Panthers also were finalists.
Watt, in his seventh NFL season and a three-time Defensive Player of the Year, had the goal of raising $200,000 for Hurricane Harvey relief in Houston. His fundraising did a whole lot more, bringing in an incredible $37 million in 19 days.
Watt has dedicated himself to finding organizations that will apply the funds in a fair and effective manner.
"I cannot express how humbled and honored that I am to be mentioned in the same sentence as Walter Payton, a man who did everything right not only on the field but off of it," Watt said in his acceptance speech. "And I'm going to continue to try to live that legacy and make that family proud.
"This award is called The Man of the Year Award, but I promise you it is so much bigger than that. This award is about the inherent good that lies within humanity. It is about the city of Houston and its ability to overcome adversity at a time when it all seemed lost. It is about the hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country and all over the world that donated to a city they may never have been to, to people they may never meet. But they donated simply because they saw their fellow human going through a difficult time and they wanted to help out."
Peyton Manning presented the award to Watt.
"Whether we realize it or not, we are affecting everyone around us with our every move," Watt added. "The more than we can shine a light on the positivity and the good that we are in this world, the better off we're going to be. We all have to go through this crazy journey together, so why not help each other out and make it as great of a journey as possible.
"I'm incredibly grateful, I'm incredibly thankful to receive this award and I will cherish it for the rest of my life. The only thing that I ask of you is to join me in trying to carry on the legacy that Walter Payton left behind of leaving this world better than we found it. Take a moment, ask yourself, 'How can I make a difference? No matter how big, no matter how small, how can I make a difference?' And when you have your answer, go out and do it."
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Singapore Tax More Attractive Than Malaysia, According To a Recent Study
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A recent report of taxes in Singapore vs Malaysia indicates that Malaysian based companies and entrepreneurs can achieve substantial tax savings by relocating to Singapore.
The report highlights the significant difference between the corporate income tax rates of Singapore and Malaysia. Singapore's corporate income tax rate is less than 9% for profits up to S$300,000 and flat 17% above S$300,000. In comparison, Malaysia resident companies are subject to a significantly higher corporate tax rate of 25%.
According to the report, Singapore offers more attractive incentives to support entrepreneurship and foster the growth of SMEs as compared to Malaysia. In Singapore, a newly incorporated company that satisfies certain qualifying conditions enjoys full tax exemption (i.e. 0% tax rate) on the first S$100,000 of taxable income for each of its first three tax filing years. In Malaysia, SMEs with a paid-up capital of RM 2.5 million or less are subject to a corporate tax rate of 20% for the first RM 500,000 of taxable income and 25% on the remaining taxable income.
The report also contrasts Singapore's Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Malaysia's sales tax and services tax. Singapore resident companies must register for GST when the annual turnover is above or expected to be above 1 million SGD. The GST rate in Singapore stands only at 7%. Malaysia on the other hand currently imposes a service tax and sales tax on certain prescribed goods and services. Malaysia resident companies with an annual turnover of more than RM 100,000 must register for sales tax. Sales tax presently stands at 10% and the service tax (imposed on F&B, tobacco, health services, provision of accommodation and most professional and consultancy services) is currently 5%.
Singapore and Malaysia follow a single-tier corporate income tax system, whereby tax paid by a company on its profits is the final tax and all dividends paid to its shareholders are exempt from further taxation. With the development of international trade and MNCs, double taxation is an area that has gained importance. Both Singapore and Malaysia currently have more than 50 DTAs providing specific guidelines for double taxation relief.
According to Andrew Chen, a spokesperson from the Singapore information portal that released the tax report, "we find more foreign entrepreneurs and investors turning to low tax countries to set up or relocate their business operations, especially in the current economic environment. Singapore is emerging as a preferred destination due to its low corporate tax rates and highly attractive incentives for start-ups. Businesses are also taking notice of its GST rate which is significantly low and well below the Asia-Pacific average of 10.5%. Although Malaysia may qualify as a reasonably tax friendly jurisdiction, many foreign entrepreneurs and investors find it unattractive due its high corporate income tax rates and complex indirect tax system."
The report reaffirms Singapore's position as a tax friendly jurisdiction for Malaysian based companies and business professionals.
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Supplements containing enzymes such as bromelain and papain speed up muscle recovery after exertion, write sports scientists from Baylor University in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. In the study the researchers did a trial with 29 male students who exercised regularly in their free time.
After training, protease enzymes break down damaged tissues. If you help the muscles by taking oral protease supplements, then maybe the muscles will recover more quickly – was the researchers' reasoning. This was the theory they wanted to test in their experiment.
The researchers got half of their test subjects to take about 6 g proteases every day for 24 days. For this they used a product manufactured by the sponsor of the research, the Transformation Enzyme Corporation. The Transformation Enzyme Corporation produces enzyme supplements. "The protease supplement consisted of 47.7 mg of papain, 99.9 mg of bromelain, 5.593 g of fungal enzymes and 86.4 mg of calcium citrate", wrote the researchers about the product they used. The other half of the test subjects were given a placebo.
After 21 days the test subjects had to run on a treadmill, which was programmed in such a way that the subjects got seriously sore muscles. For the remaining 3 days of the trial, the test subjects kept taking their supplements and the researchers tested their strength. The figure below shows that the supplement users regained their strength more quickly.
Moreover, the supplement users had fewer inflammatory factors in their blood. The effects of the supplement on the interleukin-6 concentration are shown below.
The concentration of interleukin-12 was also lower in the supplement takers.
After exercise, immune cells clear up broken muscle fibres. The figure below shows that the supplements users had fewer eosinophils circulating in their body. When the researchers looked at the basophils – another kind of immune cells – they found a similar relationship.
We are not about to run off and buy a stack of protease supplement though. From fundament research on the effect of some anti-catabolic substances we know that it's inhibiting the protease that stimulates muscle growth. The jury's still out on this one.
Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2009 Sep 2. [Epub ahead of print].


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Bach Goldberg Variations (arranged for string trio by D. Sitkovetsky)
The Goldberg Variations were "composed for connoisseurs, for the refreshment of their spirits" according to the title page of Bach's fourth volume of Clavier-Übung (keyboard practice) published in 1741. It is believed that Bach wrote this piece for Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may have given the first performance. The work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form.
Goldberg Variations is framed at the beginning and end by the aria, and there are ten groups of three variations. Each group features two variations in increasing difficulty and a canon. The canons begin in unison, and progress in an ascending pattern, ending at the ninth. The final canon combines the aria with two melodies that were popular in Bach's time: "Cabbage and beets have driven me away" and "I have been away from you for so long."
Originally written for harpsichord, in 1984, Russian violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky transcribed Bach's Goldberg Variations for string trio after being inspired by the 1981 Glen Gould recording of the same piece.


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G-7 foreign ministers spar over coronavirus amid pandemic
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department on Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in Washington. Pompeo said Wednesday that the Group of Seven members were all aware of China's "disinformation campaign" regarding the coronavirus outbreak, as the two countries dispute the origins of the disease. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign ministers from the Group of 7 leading industrialized democracies sparred Wednesday over whether to call out China as the source of the coronavirus pandemic.
Meeting by video conference because of the outbreak, the ministers agreed on the need for joint efforts to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus, which causes a disease being called COVID-19. But U.S. and European diplomats said the ministers were unable to agree on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's call for the virus to be identified by name as the "Wuhan virus."
As a result, just a day after G-7 finance ministers and central bankers issued a joint communique referring to the COVID-19 virus, the foreign ministers opted against releasing a group statement. U.S, officials pointed to Tuesday's finance ministers' statement to reject suggestions of G-7 disunity and said the foreign ministers had never intended to release their own communique.
European officials said Pompeo had insisted on identifying the COVID-19 virus as the "Wuhan virus" even though the World Health Organization and others have cautioned against giving it a geographic name because of its global nature. In recent weeks, Pompeo has stepped up his use of "Wuhan virus," accusing China of putting the world at risk by not revealing more details about the outbreak, which was first reported in the city of Wuhan.
President Donald Trump had until very recently frequently referred to the novel coronavirus as the "China virus" or the "Chinese virus," but since the beginning of this week has steered away from those terms as critics have said they foster discriminatory sentiments and behavior against Asians and Asian Americans.
In a solo news conference after the meeting, Pompeo again referred to the "Wuhan virus," saying it was "the most pressing agenda item." He said all the foreign ministers had "committed to fighting (it) with transparency, as is necessary all around the world." He did not deny there had been disagreements over what to call the virus, but said all the ministers had acknowledged that China had not been forthcoming about its details early on and was now trying to shift the narrative about it.
"Every one of the nations that was at that meeting this morning was deeply aware of the disinformation campaign that the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in to try and deflect from what has really taken place here," Pompeo said.
Other foreign ministers were not nearly as emphatic in their own comments about the meeting, with at least one leaving open the suggestion that China is not the only country trying to use the outbreak to advance political points.
French Foreign Minister Yves Le Drian said in a statement that he had "underscored the need to combat any attempt to exploit the crisis for political purposes and expressed the view that the unity of all in order to effectively combat the pandemic must now take precedence over any other considerations."
The disagreement over the virus terminology was first reported by the German publication Der Spiegel. German officials said they were more concerned about what would come from a virtual summit of the Group of 20 nations leaders that is supposed to be held on Thursday at the request of Saudi Arabia.
U.S. officials meanwhile downplayed the disagreement among the foreign ministers and pointed to the G-7 finance ministers' statement from Tuesday that did not mention either "Wuhan" or "China" in relation to the virus and instead referred to it repeatedly as the COVID-19 virus.


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Q: installing xlrd in virtualenv? I cant' install xlrd in a virtualenv. As it seems, it fails, as it tries to install in the system python path:
But: a pip install -r requirements.txt installs some packages into the environment, before failing on this one.
(env)[steffi]$ pip install xlrd
Collecting xlrd
  Using cached xlrd-0.9.4.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: xlrd
   Running setup.py install for xlrd
   < .. lots a chat that is ok -->
running install_lib
creating /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlrd
error: could not create '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlrd': Permission denied

Have i missed something?

A: It seems the installation is done with your system pip, but not the one in your virtualenv dir. Check if you setup virtualenv correctly, not using sudo at any step. By the way, a similar question is asked here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21961024/5253807.

A: Looks like the reason was some incompatibilities between different versions of virtualenv. I did not dig deeper, but removing the old environment dir, and recreating it solved the issue.
Versions involved:
Creation of the env: virtualenv 13.0.3, got into trouble using it with 13.1.2

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"Fade Into A Dream Tour"
Sunday 6/19/2022
Door Open 7:00 PM
(From all Music.com- Andy Kellman) Swedish singer LÉON made a splash in 2015 with a softly glowing contemporary pop sound that evoked classic sounds of the 1960s and '80s without being entrenched in the past. A trio of EPs paved the way for her eponymous 2019 debut and its breakout hit, "You and I." LÉON has continued to deepen her synthy, atmospheric sound, as on 2020's Apart and 2022's Circles.
LÉON - You And I
The Stockholm native -- a daughter of musicians -- fronted a band as a teenager and watched her career accelerate as a solo artist after she began to work with producer Agrin Rahmani. In 2015, at the age of 21, she made her proper debut with "Tired of Talking," a single with a sweet melodic hook that belied the lyrics' assertive character. The more uptempo "Nobody Cares," a song in which LÉON sang of having trouble letting go of a relationship, followed shortly after that and led the way to an EP, Treasure, which contained both of the singles and two new songs. (Read more @All Music.com)
DJ Envy's Drive Your Dreams Car Show
@NRG Center
Sunday 6/19/2022 Noon
One of the biggest Car Shows of the year is coming to HOUSTON!!!
Celebrity Cars, Exotic cars, old-school cars, amusement rides, carnival games, monster trucks, and so much more… NASCAR, Jumpees… Family Fun!!!
This event will be held in Hall B.
Emancipation Park's 150th Juneteenth Celebration presented by Kinder Foundation Celebrating our Legacy: Bridging Generations (June 18 – 19, 2022), Featuring local vendors, a resource fair and national recording artists, the event will commemorate Emancipation Park's 150th anniversary and the June 19, 1865, abolition of slavery in Texas. The park was founded in 1872 by four local freedmen and the community as a place for unity, empowerment, remembrance and the celebration of emancipation and Juneteenth. (Read more Click Here)
"USA Tour"
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Artist(s) at this event
Atreyu, Asking Alexandria,
Nothing More, Eva Under Fire
Everyone leaves a legacy behind. No matter how big or small, our words and actions echo forever and make a lasting imprint.
Two decades since their 1999 formation in Southern California, that truth weighed heavy on the members of gold-selling metal mavericks Atreyu—Alex Varkatzas [vocals], Brandon Saller [drums/vocals], "BIG" Dan Jacobs [guitar], Travis Miguel [guitar], and Porter McKnight [bass].
Of course, their musical legacy speaks for itself. 2002's Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses established them as an influential force, while 2004 follow-up The Curse sold 450,000-plus copies as the group rose to global renown. A Deathgrip on Yesterday and 2007's Lead Sails Paper Anchor both bowed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Top 200 with the latter garnering a gold certification from the RIAA—a highly rare accomplishment for a 21st century rock band.
Following a hiatus post-Congregation of the Damned in 2009, the musicians returned firing on all cylinders with Long Live during 2015. It crashed the Top 30 of the Billboard Top 200 and earned widespread acclaim from Revolver, Loudwire, AXS, and Kerrang! who dubbed it "a hell of a return." Along the way, the boys sold out countless headline shows in addition to sharing the stage with everyone from Slipknot and Linkin Park to Chris Cornell and Avenged Sevenfold.
The Journey to Freedom
@Miller Outdoor Theatre
A brilliant performance filled with dramatic visuals, live music, narrations, and dance that tells the story of African Americans from 1865 to today and their journey to the celebration of freedom. Presented in partnership with Miller Outdoor Theatre, Houston First, KTSU 90.9 FM and City of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner.
Weekend Commentary
Juneteenth America
Juneteenth is now a holiday and is part of America's lexicon as "apple pie". Right.
I have a buddy and many years ago I persuaded him to check-out with me the Juneteenth holiday celebration at Miller Outdoor Theatre. I was new to Houston and had only been to Miller a couple times. I admitted to him I was not a big Juneteenth fan, frankly, growing up in New Orleans, La. I didn't hear about it. It was not taught in history lessons in Louisiana. Let's face it Juneteenth for a long time was celebrated only in Texas.
The concert featured Louisiana's Rockin' Dopsie. Dopsie plays music for dancing while assimilating R&B influences into zydeco and sometimes covering R&B hits in a zydeco style.
"I think it's great that Juneteenth is now more familiar to most Americans and that it is a federal holiday,"
Varselles Cummings
University of Houston's Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI)
This buddy who happened to be Latino who really liked old school R&B music, had never experienced zydeco and immediately fell for the performance of this zydeco singer and accordion player. I told him Dopsie was part of Louisiana's Creole French culture. He started calling his friends to tell them of his excitement for this music man. And since then every year this buddy usually calls to see if I am going to Juneteenth at Miller Outdoor Theatre.
On another note, I think the agony of this holiday, yes I said "agony" is "essential". Are African-Americans really "free"? Systemic racism has not been eradicated and when we think systemic racism has been resolved something else takes its place.
Maybe this day should be celebrated, besides with a party, be a day when America's businesses put Blacks first. Discounts on affordable housing, free educational opportunities or seed monies to start businesses. WOW, would that be a freedom celebration! And this would be done every June 19 . . .humm
I 'm part African American I'll take that win, but with all that is going on right now, we still have a way to go.
Okay besides all the entertainment of this national holiday (President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law last year) recognizing America freeing its Black slaves, let's turn to academia.
This year, the University of Houston's Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) will begin its Juneteenth celebration a few days early in the Student Center. A gallery with historical facts and information on Juneteenth will be set up just outside of CDI (Suite B12 in the Student Center) starting June 16 and will remain on display through June 19. Commemorative Juneteenth shirts also will be handed out from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 16.
For Varselles Cummings, director of CDI, Juneteenth has always been a special day. As a child growing up in Fresno, California, he remembers the numerous events honoring this day. The upcoming gallery hosted by CDI will provide a platform to help members of the Cougar Community recognize the significance of this special day.
"I think it's great that Juneteenth is now more familiar to most Americans and that it is a federal holiday," he said. "It's also important to talk about this day and to understand that while Juneteenth is symbolic of the end of slavery, there were many challenges ahead for enslaved populations."
Linda Reed, director of UH's African American Studies Program, agrees. She added that Juneteenth offers an opportunity to pause and contemplate the concept of freedom. Just as important, the day should also be observed with a festive spirit.
"Just because we still have work to do with regard to race and other issues, doesn't mean we should not celebrate," she said. "We, as a University community, celebrate diversity and each other. Juneteenth is an extension of that. It offers an opportunity to truly recognize and appreciate this moment in history and its impact on African Americans in our country."
Reed, who also serves an associate professor of history, recommended a few ways to become more familiar with the story of Juneteenth. The book "On Juneteenth" by Annette Gordon-Reed is a must-read, she said. A number of books on the topic also are available through UH Libraries.
Finally, for all my non-Black readers and followers, Juneteenth a national holiday is American as President's Day or Memorial Day. It is American history, please try not to feel any other way.
Race Is A "Bitch"
HUH !!!
It is obvious in this 24-hour news cycle business the obsession with stories about "race and racism" are at top of the list for television producers and their assignment editors .
It was the murder of ten Black people for being Black in the Niagara-Buffalo area of New York state that has us all thinking. What the "#!*%"?
It's still being determined if this young man was deranged or just a hate monger that wanted to be a catalyst for social unrest regarding race.
I have to note here, the planning guide is curated over a two-to-three-day period most of the time by me sitting in a Chic-fil-a, Starbucks or sometimes a Popeyes. (I grew up in New Orleans, La)
I review what is happening in the four-county area, check e-mails for event submissions and just curate and re-write.
During this process I occasionally talk to people at these locations about current events. I'm usually in Houston's "East End" of town a Latino section of our Bayou City.
If you haven't noticed yet, I put my picture at the end of the Home page (scroll down) of (Weekend Houston) Houston's Weekend Planning Guide. I say this to tell you, I am "Black," no not Latino with a name like Menendez---Black. Okay my grandfather's dad was from Cuba.
My dad's mother was "Black" from the Louisiana delta of Plaquemine Parish, Louisiana. I mean she had a very dark complexion. His dad, my grandfather was from a "creole" neighborhood of New Orleans, La. He looked "White." They married.
I remember times complaining to my dad about being "Black" working in radio and television. He would say, "What you're wining about? I had a Black and White one (his parents) and in school we (his three brothers) were teased about their mother and father many times. This was pre-WWII . The 40's and 50's. This was when it was illegal for "White people" and Black people" to marry in Louisiana. But was grandfather "White," no he just looked it.
Race is a "bitch" huh!
But this is the rub everybody White and non-White, I am "Jeffery" first. Always Jeffery first. When I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. I see Jeffery looking back at me. Oh, Jeffery is "Black." Okay. I like that too.
Interestingly, when I was a talk radio producer I was "Jeffery" too. This was during the late 70's and throughout the 80's, being the only Black (Oh Jeffery) in charge of radio broadcasts was impressive.
Hell. I attended the University of New Orleans they well prepared me to take on the responsibilities as a producer. Thank you May Jones, PhD in the Mass Communications Department UNO!
Let me explain here. It was my co-workers who would remind me I was "Black". I would say in my head "okay." I would also think sometimes. What does that mean when they would say this to me? Oh, it meant I was in the tribe, you know . . ."Black", if I was with Black co-workers. If I were with White co-workers. I would think. Are they trying to complement me, since there were so few "Black" talk radio producer? Hmm…. It was exhausting. I "Jeffery", just wanted to do good talk radio.
Let me move on to how exhausting it was to be "Jeffery." Oh. "Black Jeffery."
It was over 35-years ago I use to produce a popular talk magazine show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "Mid-Day Magazine with Don Grady". I had to know everything to make this show work every weekday.
So, as we head into this weekend think about it everybody. Are we headed back to the 60's?
I used my mom's birth name during that time, "Jeff White" as the producer of the show. The Program Director, Dave Prince insisted the host of the show acknowledged on-air "Jeff White" produced the program. So, at the end of the two-hour broadcast every day the host of the show, would say, "Mid-Day Magazine is produced by Jeff White, Thank you Jeffery." The host would occasionally talk to me in the control room, but like many producers, I would say "we" (producers) are not part of the on-air banter. As talk radio matured that changed. Every talk show host was talking to their producer on air with the producer responding.
This was around 1985 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana the audience of this news/talk radio station assumed I was "White". Let me say why. One day I was encouraged to join the show from a remote broadcast I had set up with an audience. Dave Prince, Program Director who hired me insisted I produce the show from the remote location instead from the station's control room.
He also insisted on introducing me to our listeners. He started before the "live" broadcast introducing the host with applause, then he said this is our show producer "Jeff White." The audience all "White" just stop applauding. I don't think they were being disrespect full; they were surprised I was a "Black" man. Hell, I most likely spoke to some of them on the phone when they called went I had to screen possible air calls. They were shocked not because I was Jeff White, because I was Black. But I have to say I was still Jeffery.
When are some White people going to stop all this nonsense? We are all Americans. Lincoln said the south would never accept Black (slaves) people as equals. But have we not progressed since 1865? We have progressed since the 60's, remember the city's burning north and south of the Mason Dixon Line.
Why is it some White people think they are being discriminated? Why do some White people think they are going to be replaced?
So, as we head into this weekend think about it everybody. Are we headed back to the 60's? When George Floyd was killed two years ago I thought we were. Now ten Black people are dead because they were Black.
Is this a slow burning pot?
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The Last Thing
He Told Me
by Laura Dave
A "gripping" (Entertainment Weekly) mystery about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life—until he disappears.
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.
Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realize they're also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated.
As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn't who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen's true identity—and why he really disappeared.
With its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn.
Renegades Born
by Barack Obama (Author)
Bruce Springsteen (Author)
Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid, revealing, and entertaining dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to our country's polarized politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality.
Filled with full-color photographs and rare archival material, it is a compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders—one Black and one white—looking for a way to connect their unconventional searches for meaning, identity, and community with the American story itself.
• Original introductions by President Obama and Bruce Springsteen
• Exclusive new material from the Renegades podcast recording sessions
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• Springsteen's handwritten lyrics for songs spanning his 50-year-long career
• Rare and exclusive photographs from the authors' personal archives
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In a recording studio stocked with dozens of guitars, and on at least one Corvette ride, Obama and Springsteen discuss marriage and fatherhood, race and masculinity, the lure of the open road and the call back to home.
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Tom Duax the owner of Central City Liquors has been an entrepreneur since 1984. His first venture was the Maidrite on the corner of 10th and Locust in downtown Des Moines. The First location for Central City Liquors was next door and was originally a "Whirl Whip" with a walk up window. On March 1, 1987, the State of Iowa went out of the liquor business and allowed it to be sold privately. Tom did his research and realized that opening a liquor store was profitable venture. In 1987 he closed the ice cream shop and opened Central City Liquors. In 1995 there was a fire at the location and moved the store to its current location on 2nd Ave.
Tom has two sons and six grandchildren, his son Brian currently manages the wholesale department. His wife has owned a salon with four stations since 1986. It is Creative Cutters in Urbandale. Tom's biggest accomplishment is that he has kept is business going for so long. It could be due to many things including providing insurance and retirement for his employees. Currently there are 12 employees and seven delivery trucks and recently expanded his wholesale space for the growing market.
Central City Liquors is best known for its ability for special orders. Special orders, allows Central City Liquors to purchase over 170 single malt scotches. There are always tastings at the store. The store has a large selection of Tequila, Whiskey and Bourbon. You can also find specialty products like Premium Pickled Garlic & Spiced Beans & Asparagus Spears.
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We took the week off cause Thanksgiving. We didn't want to leave your ear balls unattended. So we cut and pasted one of our Patreon only podcasts into this weeks show format. If you are a patron already you have heard it. If you are not I hope this encourages you to become one. Either way enjoy the show!


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22 April 2018 on Travel, Technology, Stationery, Gadgets, Books
Editorial: ELIA Frames.
Travel: Vostok Space Beer.
Technology: Facebook Container.
Stationery: Ephemerid Playing Cards.
Gadgets and Gear: Anywhere Tools.
Books and Writing: The Signing Machine.
Miscellaneous: To achieve goals, find purpose.
EDITORIAL: ELIA Frames
Louis Braille, who lost his sight in a childhood accident, developed a tactile system using raised dots to enable blind people to read. His eponymous system was first published in 1829. The system, based on raised dots, has to be learned from scratch, not an easy task. It is like learning a new alphabet altogether.
[Photograph: Lrcg2012 Wikipedia]
The people behind ELIA Frames have been working on an intuitive new system that is easy to learn, as it builds on knowledge that people already have. Each letter simply consists of the main elements of the common Roman letter within a frame. In addition, unlike Braille, this system is scalable, so that it can be printed and read using various sizes of letters. This chart compares ELIA frames with the corresponding Roman and Braille letters:
PD thinks that this is a worthwhile project which will help the blind.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1693918890/eliathe-worlds-most-intuitive-tactile-reading-syst/description
TRAVEL: Vostok Space Beer
Do you enjoy a drink when you fly? If you buy a ticket on the first Virgin Galactic flight into outer space, would you still go if it did not have on board bar service? This is not a trivial question, as the young Australian entrepreneurs from Vostok Space Beer explain:
The first problem is with taste; you need just enough bubbles for the taste but not too many to make you uncomfortable. If you burp on earth only the gas comes up but in space both the liquid and gas come out. Messy. Secondly, you cannot pour a beer in space, as there is no gravity. The guys at Vostok have come up with a special bottle designed to bring the beer to your mouth when you tilt the bottle.
In the renowned Australian spirit of innovation, these guys from 4Pines Brewery got together with the guys from Sabre Aeronautics and have solved this problem. And yes, the beer must taste good as it has won awards. The beer is in the style of Irish stout and is 5.1% Alc/Vol. It is brewed in Sydney, Australia.
If you want to stock up on the world's first Space Beer, go here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/vostok-space-beer/x/1798414#/
https://vostokspacebeer.com/
Following the recent revelations about Facebook the people at Mozilla, the not-for-profit organisation behind the Firefox browser, have been working hard. Their activities have included organising petitions, giving advice on how to adjust your privacy settings on facebook, and have now released the Facebook Container.
The Facebook container is an easy to download extension for Facebook that prevents Facebook from tracking most of your web activity and tying it to your Facebook identity. Put simply, in Mozilla's own words, "the Facebook Container extension isolates your identity into a separate container tab, making it harder for Facebook to track you on the web outside of Facebook".
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mih-04-17-18&utm_content=more-good-stuff
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/
STATIONERY: Ephemerid Playing Cards
Mr Cup, the design and studio of Fabien Barral, has been featured previously in PD: Cool Things, namely for its Letterpress Calendar. Now he has turned his hand to producing these letterpress typographical playing cards based on ephemera.
For those who love old fashioned design cues, this is the deck to enjoy and perhaps frame (yes, you can buy an uncut sheet as an add-on to your pledge).
There is even a set of coasters which are, in PD's opinion, too nice to use as such. Just frame them and hang them on the wall to enjoy the beautiful designs.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1495552219/ephemerid-playing-cards/description
GADGETS AND GEAR: Anywhere Tools
Keyport started life as a key organiser and morphed into a modular key carrier and pocket tool system. The system has now had a major upgrade with Anywhere Tools.
These are high quality tools that can be used separately or attached together. The modular design allows them to form a neat package that will not shred pockets. There is even an attachable pocket clip.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyport/anywhere-tools-the-ultimate-modular-everyday-carry
BOOKS AND WRITING: The Signing Machine
Pierre Jaquet-Droz was a watchmaker in late 18th century Europe who built automata, mechanical dolls.
[Photograph by Rama, Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr]
One of the best known and most complex of these is "The Writer", which can write any custom text up to forty characters in length.
He began watchmaking in 1738 and the company that bears his name continues to flourish. Four years in the making, the signing machine commemorates the 280th anniversary of the company.
Like its predecessors, the machine is purely mechanical. It contains 585 parts and is hand-assembled. It is also programmed by hand. The Signing Machine comes with a travel pouch. There is a four-digit security code to help prevent someone misusing your signature. The pen comes with the machine. Follow the link to see it in action.
http://www.jaquet-droz.com/en/news/the-signing-machine-jaquet-droz-the-art-mechanical-astonishment
MISCELLANEOUS: To achieve goals, find purpose
In previous articles PD has given hints that hopefully will help you achieve your goals, however have you found purpose in your life that makes the goals meaningful? Deciding what you want to accomplish in your life will help give meaning to your goals and will help to give you the motivation to achieve those goals. In particular, this will help you to get through the hiccups that occur when trying to achieve those goals. To do this, write down why you want to achieve your goal or why you must achieve your goal.
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We do a 25% retainer (or 50% when booking combined services) to hold the date and a signed contract. The remaining balance is due 4 weeks prior to your wedding.
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Cabin Leaders wake up the campers for cabin capers and then lead the cabin in personal devotional and quiet time. We then head up to main campus where we have a deliciously cooked breakfast. One of our favorite camp traditions follows with Morning Celebration! This is a time designed to wake up the camp with energetic worship and camp songs. Each morning a Cabin Leader leads us in a short devotional and then we are off to Camper's Choice!
On the very first day of camp, campers watch the creative commercials that their cabin leaders have prepared for them in order to help them decide on their Camper's Choice activities. There are 9-12 different options for campers to choose from each summer. After the performances, campers then pick their three top favorites, create their own schedule and sign up for activities. This teaches our campers the art of prioritizing, problem solving and decision making. Campers grow in independence as they set their own schedule. Cabin Leaders are always on hand for any campers who need a little help organizing their activities.
Camper's Choice activity options change each summer so stay tuned to the blog (www.worldsongdailynew.wordpress.org) each spring to get a jump start on your decisions! Some of our most popular choices include Outdoor Cooking, Archery, Canoeing, Expedition, and Arts & Craft. Campers go to the same three activities three days in a row. The goal is for them to leave camp with a new skill. Each Camper's Choice curriculum is designed to show campers how they can use this new skill to create relationships and fulfill the Great Commission.
Chicken fingers, biscuits and gravy, and big-as-your-face chocolate chip cookies are some of our favorite foods at WorldSong! Campers eat at with their cabin at every meal. After lunch, everyone will head back to their cabin for Bible study and S.O.S. (see below). During this time the cabin is lead by their Cabin Leader in Bible study. Questions and discussion are highly encouraged during this smaller study time. Activities catered to the camper's age are included to make the Bible study come alive.
S.O.S. stands for sit or sleep. This is our rest time. With full bellies, our campers enjoy some down time after a busy morning. Many campers use this time to take a nap. Some campers choose to spend this time reading or writing letters home.
During the afternoon, campers stay together in their units (age divisions) and travel to the three different afternoon rotations.
Culture Camp – This is where our missionaries hang out. At Culture Camp, campers hear stories from missionaries, participate in cultural activities, taste foreign foods and learn how life is different in other countries. Every summer we choose a new country as our theme. Each year campers discover the uniqueness of the theme country and how they can pray for its people and missionaries.
Adventure Recreation – "Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us." – Ephesians 3:20 teaches us that through God's work within us we are capable of so much more than we think we are. Living out a missional lifestyle definitely requires stepping outside of our comfort zone and that's exactly what Adventure Recreation is designed to help us do. Our youngest campers get the opportunity to go off the zipline and participate fun field games. These activities are designed to instill confidence, teamwork and problem-solving skills.
As camper's age up, they have opportunity to participate in rock climbing, rappelling, low ropes team-building challenges, v-swing, and our oldest campers have the opportunity to try the high ropes challenge course. All activities are "Challenge by Choice" and while a camper may be encouraged to try something new, it is their decision alone to participate in these activities. Our facilitators go through intense training and specialize in certain elements. This means that our staff are prepared not only take care of a camper's physical safety, but emotional safety as well.
Pool – What day at camp is complete without a trip to the pool? The whole unit enjoys some chill hangout time at the pool with water games lead by the lifeguards. We have lifeguards both on stands and in the pool to keep everyone safe and make sure that everyone is having fun! We even have lifeguards available to teach campers how to swim (we also offer a Camper's Choice swimming lessons for any camper who wants to learn how to swim or improve their technique)!
Free Time – Before dinner campers get 30 minutes of free time on main campus where they can choose from activities such as four square in the air, tetherball, basketball, giant checkers, ladder ball, spike ball and more. Cabin leaders are available to lead games or sit with a camper that wants to talk. They also get to visit the gift shop during this time.
Vespers – After dinner the whole camp lines up at the chapel and walks in silence to our outdoor worship center. This is our more serious time of worship where campers hear from missionaries, cabin leaders or a member of the admin team.
Feature Night – Each night at camp is a little bit different. Mondays we have Cabin Bonding Night where the entire cabin participates in an activity their cabin leaders designed exclusively for them. It's really important to us that campers become friends with their cabin mates and develop relationships with each other. This is why we designed this night to be fun and interactive. In the past we've seen campfire s'mores, tie dying, paper airplane contests, capture the flag, and talent shows just to name a few.
On Tuesdays we have Color Wars. Each summer the campers are divided into one of three teams (Orange, Purple and Blue). All week long, campers compete for points for their team in order to win the Spirit Stick. Campers can earn points by having the cleanest cabin, earning the clean table award, participating in archery or fishing competitions and demonstrating good character. One of the biggest ways to earn points for your team is at Color Wars. This is a campwide competition game that changes every year. So far we've seen games like Zonkers, Color Dash and Lost and Found.
Wednesdays are for Unit Nights! Each unit has their own activity designed by their Unit Leader designed to give them some bonding time with campers their own age. Our oldest, unit 1 campers, go on the campout on this night where they will canoe across Eagle Lake, set up camp, cook their own food and enjoy campfire vespers.
Thursday nights are special because that night is set aside for Banquet and Candle Light. We wrap up our afternoon activities a little early and head back to the cabin, get cleaned up and head to the dinning hall. Main campus is covered with campers in dresses and polos posing for cabin photos. We eat Banquet family style and each camper is served by their Cabin Leader. After Banquet we head to the chapel for a candlelight service, worship and presentation of the Gospel. Each cabin then returns to their unit for Encounter where they will hear a testimony or devotion from a cabin leader. Cabin Leaders spend the rest of the night praying over each camper individually. Campers are encouraged to continue asking questions and we see many salvations on this special night.
If you have any questions about our schedule or camp in general, please contact Kaley Stephens at kstephens@alsbom.org!