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22 September 2013updated 30 Oct 2013 6:20pm
How can we solve Britain's housing crisis?
Policymakers and experts from across the political spectrum each offer one suggestion.
By New Statesman
George Eaton writes: As well as enduring the slowest economic recovery in more than 100 years, Britain is suffering from a severe housing crisis. Housebuilding is at its lowest level since the 1920s, with just 98,280 registered starts in 2012, down 11 per cent on the previous year and far short of the 230,000 new households that were formed.
Private rents have increased by 37 per cent in the past five years and are forecast to rise by a further 35 per cent over the next six years. As a result, as many as five million people rely on state aid to remain in their homes. The government spent £23.8bn on subsidising landlords through housing benefit last year, more than 20 times as much as it spent on housebuilding.
Below, policymakers and experts from across the political spectrum each offer one suggestion to help solve the crisis.
John Cridland, CBI director-general
Make stamp duty more progressive
Clearly there is no one silver bullet that will solve the UK's housing crisis. But if there's one measure that could make a real difference in the long-term I would urge ministers to change the current system of stamp duty, which skews the market.
Under the current system, stamp duty is charged at a certain percentage based on thresholds linked to the value of the property. It means someone buying a property worth £251,000 is landed with a stamp duty bill of £7,530, while the buyer of a home worth just £1,000 less only pays £2,500.
We want the government to introduce a more progressive system where buyers crossing one of the stamp duty thresholds would only pay the higher rate on the portion of the property that falls within the higher bracket. This would be fairer and simpler for homebuyers and end the current distortion in one fell swoop.
But there's much more that needs to be done.
We've been falling woefully short of building the homes we need for years which is why the availability and affordability of housing has become one of the most pressing staff recruitment and retention issues facing business. Unsurprisingly, our most recent London member survey highlighted housing as one of the biggest drawbacks to doing business in the capital.
It is clear that there's huge pent-up demand from first-time buyers to second-steppers trading up the property ladder and the Help to Buy initiative is a brave scheme to try to meet this demand. And there are early signs that the first stage is working – with 10,000 reservations for new build homes in the last four months. That's helped lift consumer confidence by widening access to mortgages, getting orders onto developers' books and boosting the construction industry.
The second stage of the scheme around mortgage guarantees will offer a critical lifeline to trapped second-steppers and underpin the early signs of confidence returning to the housing market. But there are some serious questions ministers need to answer – specifically how the government intends to exit the mortgage market without a knock-on drop in prices; how it will minimise the risk to taxpayers of having to stump up for defaults and at what fee mortgage lenders will pay for government guarantees.
Help to Buy is only part of the jigsaw. House prices will continue to rise unless we take urgent action to increase supply. We need to make sure local councils are taking a proactive approach to planning reform to avoid lengthy delays in getting homes built and look to increase the number of properties available for the private rental sector.
Roger Harding, head of policy, Shelter
Build new garden cities
Each year we are failing to build the homes we need just to keep up with demand and Shelter is seeing the direct consequences of this shortfall, with families priced out of home ownership, soaring rents and thwarted family aspirations. The scale of the challenge is such that we need enough homes to fill Hemel Hempstead, Letchworth, Milton Keynes and more.
So the solution in effect needs to be, let's build Hemel Hempstead, Letchworth and Milton Keynes. After all, according to recent comprehensive analysis, 90% of England is not built on, with green belt land accounting for only 13% of this undeveloped total.
There is no silver bullet for our housing crisis – successive governments' failure to build has put pay to that – but the solutions are out there. They just need to go far further than our current piecemeal plans and step away from pushing more money, Help to Buy-style, into the housing shortage; something which can only lead to dangerously rising prices.
We know there are initiatives that can turn the situation around; this crisis isn't unprecedented and low levels of building don't have to be an inevitable consequence of the credit crunch. We tackled the slums and Blitz-induced post war crisis. France is currently managing to build three times the number of homes we are (with plans to hit five times).
So rather than tinkering around the edges, let's have a housing policy combining the vision and scale of the New Towns with more modern aspirations. The Prime Minister backs them in principle, but not yet in substantive plans.
New Market Towns for the 21st Century would combine infrastructure, housing, environmental and employment powers in a development corporation that would fund the scheme by borrowing against future land value increases, not the public debt. They could use Dutch and German-type land powers to bring together suitable sites. They could bring in small builders and self builders to deliver quality homes alongside the big players. They could introduce a new programme of shared ownership homes to provide the squeezed middle with the stable home we know they crave.
Choosing exactly where they would go isn't easy and, although better design would help, inevitably New Market Towns wouldn't please everyone and NIMBYism is a hurdle that would need to be overcome. But we have already seen the leadership this solution requires. The Olympic park was led by a single body with imagination as well as planning powers, financial autonomy and cross party political will, to deliver genuinely affordable homes in East London. Surely this is proof that new towns need not be confined to history, we can create new homes and communities that work in the 21st Century.
Jack Dromey, shadow housing minister
Make housebuilding a national priority
What one thing would change our housing system for the better? That was the question I was asked to answer when writing this article.
With the country in the midst of the biggest housing crisis in a generation and the number of homes we are building fewer than half those that we need, building more homes is the obvious answer. But that begs the next question, what one thing would I change about our housing system in order to build more homes?
There are a number of changes that can and should be made. Greater investment, public and private, is of course crucial. Reform of our land market, which acts as a barrier to expanding housing supply, is also essential. Increasing competition and the range of institutions that deliver new homes must also be a priority from revitalising the role of local government to build a new generation of council homes to increasing the output of small builders, custom-build and co-operative housing. A focus on building successful new communities, whether as part of urban regeneration or through new settlements is also fundamental. And the agenda must not just be about the number of homes we build but place-making and the building of high-quality, well designed and environmentally friendly mixed communities.
Which one would I choose to change our housing system for the better? On my desk lies a copy of the Labour Party's Post-War Policy "Housing and Planning After the War." It is a fascinating document which outlines the nature of the housing crisis and the need for a huge building programme to achieve the Labour Party's policy of providing "every family with a home of a decent modern standard." Aside from the need for a building programme, the document refers to a wide range of issues that the post-war Government would need to address.
But what is most striking is the final section entitled "Britain's Task", it says: "It must again be emphasised that the world as we visualise it after the war can only be gradually realised. Constant effort will be required to prevent its frustration by vested interests, but if a vigilant guard is maintained and we keep our objective clearly before us, with vision, energy and courage, its realisation will be achieved with ever-accelerating speed. Then, undoubtedly we shall have the satisfaction of knowing that we are playing our part towards the building of a New Britain."
Then, as now, the crucial thing needed to tackle the housing crisis is political will. The will to put fulfilling that basic human desire, that aspiration, for a decent home to buy or to rent at a price you can afford, providing a secure place to bring up a family, at the heart of our politics.
Then, as now, nobody should be in any doubt about the Labour Party's determination to rebuild this country and give families a chance of a decent home for their children just like their parents did before them.
And in Ed Miliband, we have a leader with the vision, courage and crucially, the political will, to succeed. Ultimately it is about political will. With that and the fact that David Cameron has presided over the lowest level of new homes built in peacetime since the 1920s in mind, the one thing that would change our housing system for the better seems rather obvious. At the 2015 general election, housing, will once again be a great national priority for Labour.
David Skelton, director of Renewal, a new campaign group aiming to broaden the appeal of the Conservative Party to working class and ethnic minority voters.
Devolve planning powers to the cities
The shortage of housing represents one of the biggest problems facing our country. There are around 1.8 million people on the social housing waiting list and the average age of the first time buyer is now 37. The cost of housing now makes a significant contribution to the squeeze in living standards that has been hitting working people since 2005, with private rent increasing by 37% in five years.
Against this backdrop of a housing shortage, the last government failed to meet their housing targets and the recession has meant that the number of housing starts is well below what the country needs. The first decade of the century was the first time in 60 years that home ownership has fallen, from 68% to 63%.
It's imperative that politicians address our housing shortage as a priority. Conservatives should position themselves squarely as the party of housebuilding, following in the footsteps of Noel Skelton and Anthony Eden's vision of a property owning democracy, Harold Macmillan's housebuilding programme and Margaret Thatcher's right to buy. Becoming the party of housebuilding would give the party an optimistic message of spreading home ownership and ensuring a decent home for all.
Removing bureaucracy that prevents use of brownfield land, converting empty properties and allowing shops to empty business premises to be used for residential purposes will all help, but they're not going to solve our housing crisis alone. That needs a more radical rethinking of our top-down planning laws, which continue to hold back housebuilding.
At the moment, housing goes where bureaucrats think people want to live rather than where people actually want to live. Government should be prepared to devolve power over planning to cities, so they can decide whether to be pioneers in adopting a more liberal approach to planning policy in order to build more homes and create more jobs.
Liberalising planning policy should include putting power in the hands of local people, including in deciding whether to build on the greenbelt. Whilst areas of outstanding natural beauty should, of course, be protected, some building on the greenbelt should be allowed, particularly in areas around cities, where there is local support and where the local community is adequately compensated
This will help ensure that development is both attractive and acceptable to local people, whilst also meaning that successful cities are able to grow and prosper and the housing shortage is tackled. This could be particularly powerful in helping Northern cities to prosper, following the example of Preston, which was one of the highest growth cities between 1998 and 2008 due to more liberal planning laws. If the South isn't prepared to build more houses that also gives Northern cities a chance to expand and encourage more people to live and work there.
Changing planning laws aren't going to get more houses built on their own. Government should act against the big business vested interests who are sitting on land with planning permission waiting for property prices to rise, so-called land banking. Providing a right to build, as is the case in much of Europe, where local people are encouraged to design their own homes for land that has already been granted could also help boost house building.
Housing is a vital challenge facing politicians. Tackling the housing shortage and spreading home ownership should be a real priority.
Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets
Increase grant funding to local authorities
London's dire housing crisis – the capital's woeful lack of social housing coupled with grossly inflated prices in the private housing sector – calls for immediate and radical measures. But there is no doubt that Britain's national housing crisis has been severely exacerbated by government policies driven partially by austerity. I would like to think that a future Labour government will make affordable housing one of their top priorities, but our situation is so serious we can't afford the wait. We need this government to change its policies now.
The government, in the shape of Grant Shapps and George Osborne, is conspiring to make it difficult for authorities such as mine to build new homes – although that has not stopped us from straining every possible sinew to build the most of any authority in Britain. Yet the 4,000 new affordable homes we will have completed during my first term as Mayor only go part of the way to providing homes for the 22,000 people now on our housing waiting lists.
Grant funding has been massively reduced for new build of affordable housing. Grant rates have reduced from over £100000 per home to nearer £25000, per home compared to the investment in the National Affordable Housing Programme which ran from 2008 to 2011. With the average cost of building a new home at £140,000 the new grant provides less than 14% of the total cost. In inner London, with far more expensive build and land costs the price per new social home is around £200,000, making any available HCA (now operated in London by the GLA) grant a tiny contributor to the overall cost. This has resulted in a massive reduction in the number of social homes provided nationally.
Even more damagingly, to be able to access Government Homes and Community Agency (now operated in London by the GLA) grants for new house building, housing providers have to commit to charge tenants up to 80% of the private market rate, and many are choosing to do so. This is the new 'affordable' rent. Yet we know that on average the people in our borough, who need housing can only pay, at maximum, around 65% of market rents and on the very smallest homes.
My priority is to campaign and persuade ministers to re-consider their deeply damaging housing policies. If I could have my way I would immediately remove the condition that HCA and GLA grants can only be made if tenants pay up to 80% of the market rate, since so few can possibly do so. Moreover, simply returning to the pre-2010 levels of grant per home would go a long way to solving our housing problems locally and nationally as well. But the question remains; is the Government really interested in providing housing that ordinary Londoners need?
Graeme Cooke, research director, IPPR
Switch spending from housing benefit to housebuilding
One big lesson from post-war housing policy is that we can't rely solely on the private sector to build the homes we need. The era when 300,000 plus new homes a year were regularly built, from the 1950s to the 1970s, was based on a partnership of public and private investment. A prominent reason for our current housing shortage is the collapse in public house building from the early 1980s, which reduced overall output and left the delivery of new homes dependent on a private house building sector which responds to market conditions not housing need.
This change was partly driven by Mrs Thatcher's aversion to social housing. But also a policy decision, of profound consequence, to shift the balance of public spending from capital grants for building homes to cash benefits for subsidising rents. In principle, this could extend choice and mobility for households. And, in the short term, Housing Benefit meets immediate need. But as a strategy for housing policy, the cycle of falling capital investment and a rising benefit bill into which we are locked makes no sense (especially when 40 per cent of rent subsidy now goes to private landlords).
This problem has not emerged overnight, but fiscal constraint casts it in an urgent light. During the Labour years, rising public spending covered up the structural problem. But capital and benefit spending on housing are now both being cut. This exposes the perversity of public spending on housing, 95 per cent of which now goes through the benefit system. This is bad policy and bad politics. Therefore the priority should be advancing institutional reforms which connect decisions about the housing market and the benefit system – and create a mechanism to re-balance public expenditure overtime.
This shift won't be unlocked in Whitehall given its blindness to the diversity of England 's many housing markets. Instead it requires the chronic and misguided centralisation of housing policy to be overcome. A new generation of city and council leaders, impatient to improve housing in their areas, find themselves in a policy and finance straightjacket. So the next spending review should mobilise their energy and leadership, through progressively greater control over public expenditure for housing, with the ability to strike the right balance between building homes and subsidising rents.
Alongside serious reform of our dysfunctional land market, this could offer a plausible route to improving affordability of housing for the majority and value for money for the taxpayer.
Mark Clare, Barratt Developments group chief executive
Double the land release target for house building
It's an uncomfortable truth that the UK's housing crisis is going to get worse before it gets better. It will affect every location and every tenure. Over the next two years or so, we can and will increase the number of homes we build by around 20% – as the mortgage market improves. We are buying more land and will be recruiting another 600 apprentices and graduates.
However, the yawning gap between demand and supply will continue to grow. We are already building homes on all the land where we have full and implementable planning permission, so we need to consider two issues to step up the number of homes. In the short term we have to speed up the planning process. Whilst the process is now a better one that is leading to a more constructive dialogue, it is still too slow. Even small, relatively uncontroversial sites can take well over a year to be fully approved. And it can be a lot slower than that.
But we also need to think about the longer term and how we make more land available for housing. Here, there is an urgent role for the public sector because it owns around one third of the land suitable for housing. The government has a target to release enough of its land for 100,000 new homes. I believe that should be doubled. Some may say sell it off to the highest bidder. That is not the approach I would like to see. As the public sector owns the land, it should play a major part in specifying the way it should be used – the required economic and social outcomes. In short, the public sector should act like a progressive land owner interested in long term value as well as short term price.
There are great examples already in progress. Former collieries are now being regenerated into thriving new communities. Old hospital sites derelict for years, are now on the verge of providing new housing and new employment. Active partnership between the private and public sector to build more homes will also mean that the housing sector has to change. We have to show that good design, high environmental standards and a real focus on quality are an integral part of what we do.
We have to do more to establish a lasting legacy of economic and social benefit. We have to win the debate about new homes and that means better as well as more housing. Only then can we address the issue that while people see that there is a housing crisis, they just don't support new housing in their community.
Owen Hatherley, author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
Create a universal public housing system
The obvious solution to the housing crisis is universal public housing. Or, as it was called in the UK, 'council housing'. That is, housing owned and controlled by democratically-elected public bodies, rented out at regulated low rents to those who need it. The term 'council' is important here – built by a body you can vote in or out, that you can stand for election to, that your council taxes pay for. It isn't 'social' housing, controlled by charities or basically profit-oriented Housing Associations; it isn't 'affordable' housing, where percentages of private speculative schemes are sold at a slightly subsidised price; and it isn't 'co-operative housing', where small elective groups manage to get themselves better housing. In contrast to all of these, council housing is a democratic, public and universal service, as much as the National Health Service is, or rather was.
Council housing is also bigger – Parker-Morris space standards still apply – it is usually better planned, with more green space; and it is, of course, cheaper. It's staggering how we've been conned into treating it as a grim residuum, and the shoddiest, pokiest private housing in Europe as somehow superior. Although there are an estimated 5 million people on the council waiting list, it is regularly claimed that there is no 'need' for it any more. It does not entail attaining a place on the property ladder. It will not make your children rich. It needs state subsidy – although so do many privately owned 'regeneration' schemes, so does Help to Buy, and so do bail-outs for delinquent Building Societies. It is associated with system-built blocks from the late '60s, although council housing has encompassed – and should encompass – everything from the semis of Wythenshawe to the grandiose futurism of the Trellick Tower.
But 'council' ought to mean 'universal'. Newham Council currently plan to build Richard Rogers-designed houses that will then be sold at 'affordable' (ie, 80% of market) rates; Labour councils are still dominated by dated neoliberal dogma. While London, Sheffield or Glasgow subject their estates to 'decanting' (or 'eviction', as it used to be called) the recent renovation of the Tour Bois-le-Petre in Paris entailed building new wings, making existing flats larger and retrofitting the entire block – without privatising or moving anyone out. This could be the future of council housing, but first we need a break both with austerity and New Labour inertia.
Alex Morton, head of housing, planning & urban policy, Policy Exchange
Transfer planning controls from Town Halls to local people
To get Britain building we need fundamental reform of our planning system. There are plenty of good ideas out there, (e.g. more custom-build, converting derelict shops to homes, to Garden Cities), but housing's core problems are deep and structural.
Many people do not grasp that new homes are effectively rationed, like post-war bananas. Up and down the country, local council officials decide what land and how much land we should devote to homes, what type of new homes are necessary, and then impose it on local people. It is no exaggeration to say it is a system straight out of 1940s wartime economics. It simply does not work.
All other problems, once you work out what created them, relate to this basic dysfunction that makes NIMBYism sensible and reduces planning permissions. So developers land bank as they are worried about obtaining planning permission and they think land will go up in value. The rising social housing waiting list fell in Right To Buy's heyday 1980-1997 as private housing was more affordable.
Our system is more inflexible than most other countries, and also has larger planning areas. Our 300 or so local planning authorities compare with thousands in places like Germany or France, meaning that decisions taken at a very remote level. Unlike most countries, there are limited benefits for communities that allow development. A planning system is necessary to protect our most beautiful areas from inappropriate development, and to let local people block unattractive housing.
But we need a system that does this without micro-managing everything, and gives a direct voice to local people on issues around quality and infrastructure. We need focused incentives for local development, clear quality control for local people, open public green space like parks and reserves if greenbelt is developed, and sensible brownfield redevelopment overseen by local people. Just 7% of England has been developed – we are not short of land.
Of course, a functioning planning system won't solve everything overnight. But without doing it we will be constantly running just to stand still. Planning is a political issue masquerading as a technical one. Until we treat its resolution as a political issue where both those who want to build homes and local people must both be satisfied, forcing them to negotiate with each other, rather than imposing new homes on local people either from Town Halls or Whitehall, we will not solve the housing crisis.


Research has indicated that environmental pollution may increase the risk of diabetes. Now, a new animal study from China has found that air pollution is linked to an increased risk of obesity, inflammation, and insulin resistance (a precursor of Type 2 diabetes). In the United States, an estimated 29 million people have Type 2 (roughly 9.1% of the population), and more than 78 million are obese (approximately 24%), while in China, approximately 114 million people have Type 2 diabetes (roughly 8.4 % of the population)and about 300 million are obese (approximately 22%).
Studies have suggested that air pollution plays a role in diet-associated weight gain, inflammation, and insulin resistance, but no evidence had existed directly showing a link between air pollution and increases in weight not caused by diet. To determine the effects of breathing polluted air on weight and various other health measures, scientists from Duke University and Peking University placed pregnant rats and their offspring in one of two types of chambers, either exposed to the polluted city air of Beijing or cleaned by an air filter that removed most of the pollutants.
At the end of 19 days, the rats living in the polluted air had lungs and livers that were heavier and showed signs of inflammation, as well as 50% higher LDL ("bad") cholesterol, 46% higher triglycerides (a type of blood fat), 97% higher total cholesterol, and increased insulin resistance. And although both sets of rats were fed the same diet, those that were exposed to the polluted air were heavier at the end of their pregnancies than those in the filtered compartments. Additionally, the offspring that lived in the air pollution were heavier at the end of eight weeks despite the same diets, with pollution-exposed male rats 18% heavier and pollution-exposed female rats 10% heavier than their counterparts living in filtered compartments.
He emphasized that further studies are needed to evaluate whether humans have a similar response to polluted air.
For more information, see the article "Exposure to air pollution increases the risk of obesity" or the study's abstract in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). And for strategies to reduce inflammation, see "Put Out the Fire of Diabetes Inflammation," by nurse David Spero.
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Florida Widow Becomes Permanent Cruise Resident Instead of Nursing Home Resident
Lee Wachtstetter, an 86-year-old Florida widow, took her daughter's advice. She sold her five bedroom Fort Lauderdale area home on 10 acres and became a permanent luxury cruise ship resident after her husband died.
Mama Lee, as she's known aboard the 11-year-old Crystal Serenity, has been living on the 1,070-passenger vessel longer than most of its 655 crew members — nearly seven years.
"My husband introduced me to cruising," she recalled. "Mason was a banker and real estate appraiser and taught me to love cruising. During our 50-year marriage we did 89 cruises. I've done nearly a hundred more and 15 world cruises."
Lee Wachtstetter became a permanent luxury cruise ship resident
How many visited countries does that add up to?
"I stopped counting after 100." she said. "Just say I've been to almost any country that has a port."
Most interesting have been the nations in Asia, she observed, because they're so different from America.
She rarely bothers going ashore nowadays because she's most likely already been there several times. "And when most everybody goes ashore it's so quiet, and I have almost the whole ship for myself."
Istanbul is an exception, though. "I can't resist the Grand Bazaar," Wachstetter said. "You can find gorgeously regal or glitzy outfits there, perfect for formal or casual wear and not terribly expensive. I have to restrain myself every time because of my limited cabin space."
What she misses most is her family, but manages to keep in touch with her three sons and seven grandchildren with her laptop computer. "I hear from one of them everyday, and visit with them whenever we dock in Miami. Last year we docked in Miami five times."
Her daughter has since passed away, and so have all her close friends in the Fort Lauderdale area, she said.
"When my children were all young, I took them on cruises many times. Now they have families of their own and do what's right for them.
"The day before my husband died of cancer in 1997, he told me, 'Don't stop cruising.' So here I am today living a stress-free, fairy-tale life."
She estimates living the good life on the Serenity this year will cost her $164,000. That'll cover costs of her single-occupancy seventh deck stateroom, regular and specialty restaurant meals with available lunch and dinner beverages, gratuities, nightly ballroom dancing with dance hosts and Broadway-caliber entertainment — as well as the captain's frequent cocktail parties, movies, lectures, plus other scheduled daily activities.
Crystal Cruise Line's reputation and its availability of dance hosts for passengers traveling alone are what sold her on the Crystal Serenity. Readers of Travel and Leisure and Conde Nast Traveler magazine almost annually vote it the world's best cruise line, and the Serenity is the newer of the Japanese-owned cruise line's two ships.
"I enjoy dancing, and this was the best of the remaining ships that still use dance hosts," Mama Lee explained. "My husband didn't dance, just didn't like to, and encouraged me to dance with the hosts.
"Before coming aboard this ship I lived on a Holland America liner for three years. The day they announced they were stopping the dance host program was the day I decided to leave.
"I dance every night for a couple hours after dinner, have been doing it for years. And I've also trained with the ship's dance instructors."
As for dinner, she said, "I do love to eat and regularly dine at a table for eight. You meet interesting passengers, and I've made lots of new friends that way."
She's put on 25 pounds since coming on board, she confides, and has been on a fruit and vegetable liquid diet, trying to shed them. "I'm happy to say I have only 10 more pounds to lose." she laughed.
Most days Mama Lee can be found in the Palm Court lounge doing needlepoint work.
"It's my second love, have been doing it for 50 years. I've even helped teach it to some passengers. Everything I make I give to crew members. Gives me great pleasure.
"The crew members bend over backwards to keep me happy. Some are almost like family now. If they don't have what I want, they get it. even if they have to buy it off the ship or make it to my specific needs."
She pointed to a framed cushion wall hanging in her stateroom that holds dozens of her earrings.
"Unique, isn't it? A crew member made it," she said.
Looking forward to her 87th birthday and seventh year aboard the Serenity, Wachtstetter, a former registered nurse, credits a good immune system for being able to steer clear of doctor offices.
"All the time I've been here I have never had a sick day," she said. "I'm so spoiled I doubt that I would ever be able to readjust to the real world again."
Three other women live on Crystal vessels but none nearly as long as Mama Lee, according to Hubert Buelacher, Serenity's hotel director. "She's just an amazing woman, one of a kind."

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Posted April 25, 2010, 11:55 p.m.
Another good day today. First we went to Mass at the nearby St. Patrick's Cathedral, which was pretty cool. It's a beautiful church with ornate shrines and statues and gorgeous architecture. I also had a pleasant and unexpected surprise; the Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine (which is in the St. Patrick's sanctuary) has relics from six Polish saints, including my patron: St. Maximilian Kolbe!
We also got some emergency umbrellas from a street vendor; stupid rain!
After changing out of church clothes, we made our way by subway to the ferry terminal in lower Manhattan for an afternoon out at Liberty and Ellis Islands. That was a lot of fun too. That's one big statue. Unfortunately we couldn't go up in the crown, but we were able to go up to the top of the base.


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Procrastination: a constant worry for students as midterms approach
By: Katelyn Freil
Midterm exams are quickly approaching, and students may be wondering how they got here so fast. For those who procrastinated and didn't keep up with their school work, this can be a very stressful time.
Many college students are familiar with the effects of procrastination. It can lead to late work, bad grades and terrible excuses as to why their work is not turned in.
While many may think that procrastination is just a way to avoid homework, it is actually a lot deeper.
Dr. Piers Steel, a blogger for Psychology Today, said that not expecting to succeed or not valuing the task intensifies our delays in productivity. According to Steel, these are not the cores of procrastination. The core is instead impulsivene
"We don't want to wait for rewards," he said. "If you had a choice between $1,000 now and $1,000 next year, you would want it now." Steel said that we tend to lean more toward the immediate rewards of a situation.
Steel said that people are like this because of our neurobiology, specifically two parts of the brain called the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system.
The prefrontal cortex is responsible for long-range thinking, while the limbic system searches for more immediate rewards.
Steel said the limbic system "overrides the prefrontal cortex," which can delay people, including college students who have a pile of homework.
Deidre Bullock, a professor at The University of Akron, tells her students at the beginning of each semester about the perils of procrastinating. Bullock is a discussion professor for the humanities classes and leads students through a discussion of the readings they have. There are more than 500 pages of reading to do each semester.
Bullock stresses the importance of keeping up with readings in her class since there is such a large amount of material to cover in a short amount of time. She said that she notices students regretting their decision to slack in the class work around the time of the first test.
James Durbin, who teaches in the communications department at the University of Akron, said he usually starts to see people regret their habits around the second test, halfway through the semester. He said he starts to show people their grades after the second or third test.
"And at that point, they really start regretting," he said.
Bullock said that as an educator, it is not only her job to teach the students the course material, but to teach them to be better people. This includes being honest about why their homework is not in on time or why they weren't prepared for a test.
Durbin said he tries to put the trust in the students until a certain point.
"I try to until it's where…the person's died three times in one semester," he said.
Miss Marm is a writer for Sparklife on sparknotes.com, a website that provides students with information about books and blogs about the Internet, books, fashion and more. In a post, she lists some tips on how to stop procrastinating.
One way she suggests to prevent procrastinating is turning off the computer.
"Yes, you need your computer to do research and use Microsoft Word. And yes, you no longer remember what handwriting is," she said. "But even if you factor in the time it takes to relearn how to use a pen (hint: take off the cap first), you're still saving hours you'd otherwise waste de-tagging photos and iChatting with Kylie."
Other ways include banning yourself from Facebook, making a to-do list and rewarding yourself for getting work done.
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Antonio Brown Dropped a New Song and People Have Thoughts About the Timing
ByBrenton Blanchet
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Antonio Brown released a new song just hours after storming off the field mid-game and being cut by Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The wide receiver's antics were already causing a stir on social media, but instead of addressing his actions, AB opted to drop a new two-minute track called "Pit Not The Palace," which he shared via a Twitter link to all music platforms.
The new song doesn't directly mention Sunday's incident, but instead addresses AB's lavish lifestyle. But that doesn't mean fans aren't wondering about the timing of the release. Sure, we've seen some interesting rollouts in 2021, from Satan Shoes to stadium-filling listening sessions, but some Twitter users are under the impression that Brown's decision to walk off the field at MetLife Stadium and toss his uniform into the crowd might have all been done in the name of promoting his new single.
Of course, after AB did what he did, Tampa coach Bruce Arians has since announced after the game that Brown was "no longer a Buc."
"He is no longer a Buc. That's the end of the story," he said when asked about what happened. "Let's talk about the guys who went out there and won the game."
Brown later took to Instagram and thanked the Bucs for giving him an opportunity.
Buc or not, people have plenty of theories about the latest release from the former player—who last dropped music in 2020 with his full-length project Himmothy. Check out some notable reactions to Brown's new track below.
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The Great Controversy for Kids!
Have your children ever asked questions about the Time of Trouble, or why we go to church on Sabbath when so many of their Christian friends go on Sunday? Did you wish you could share the issues raised in The Great Controversy with your child in a way that would make sense and not frighten them? Wish no more!
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Avoid pensioner poverty - start saving now
What are your plans in retirement? Whether you're 25 or 55, you should be thinking about how you're going to finance the lifestyle you want in retirement now. Most people will qualify for a State Pension from the government but this could be worth less than you think.
According to a survey out today, more than one in seven (15%) of people retiring this year are relying on the State Pension alone.
Almost two in five (37 per cent) believe the state pension is worth more than its current value and a further eight per cent admit to having no idea what it is worth, according to the findings by financial services group Prudential.
Pensions can seem complicated and it can be tempting to bury your head in the sand. But taking the time to think about your options now can make a massive difference to how much you retire on.
Here are our three reasons to think about your retirement income now.
1. State Pension may be less than you think
A single pensioner who qualifies for the full State Pension can currently expect to get £115.95 a week.
This represents an annual income of just over £6,000.
However not everyone will qualify for the full State Pension. This is because the amount you receive depends on the National Insurance payments you have paid (or are credited with) throughout your working life.
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2. Contributing into a pension may be easier than you think
Are you currently employed? Then you will probably have access to your employer's pension scheme.
This is likely to be a defined contribution pension scheme. These schemes build up a sum of money using your personal contributions, your employer's contributions (if applicable) and contributions from the government in the form of tax relief.
To increase the number of people saving into a pension, the government introduced auto-enrolment for workplace pensions, which is currently being rolled out in the UK and due to be completed in 2017.
Currently the total minimum contribution is set at 2% of earnings (0.8% from you, 1% from your employer, and 0.2% as tax relief).
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Q: Java/Eclipse: Export classes, interfaces AND REFERENCED LIBRARIES to a jar file I wrote several java-classes and -interfaces.
These classes are using a referenced library.
Without the referenced library, the classes won't work.
I want to export these classes/interfaces to a jar-File. Not a runnable jar, because i want to use this jar-File as a library later.
But it seems, after creating my jar-file, that my referenced library is not included.
Does anyone have an idea, what the problem might be?

A: If you have a project which uses an external jar, in order to execute it you need the library's classes to be in your classpath.
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*When executing your jar, add to the classpath the path to the referenced library

*Create a "lib" folder inside your project's structure and add it to your project. Inside Eclipse , right click on your project

*Use maven to compile and execute your jar, with the maven-dependency-plugin and the maven-jar-plugin. It will copy your jars and include them in the manifest.mf before executing your jar.

*Use maven-assembly-plugin to create a fat jar. It will open your referenced library jar and copy all the classes inside that library into your current project just before generating the jar. Thus, every class needed will be inside the jar.

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Lawrence Iquaibom (* 5. Februar 1965) ist ein nigerianischer Gewichtheber, Funktionär und Trainer.

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Lawrence Iquaibom stammt aus dem Bundesstaat Akwa Ibom.

Er nahm für Nigeria zweimal an Olympischen Spielen teil. 1984 in Los Angeles belegte er im Federgewicht den 14. Platz bei 21 Teilnehmern, 1988 in Seoul wurde er im Leichtgewicht 12. bei 29 Teilnehmern. Bei den Afrikaspielen 1987 in Nairobi gewann er mit einer Kombination von 245,0 kg die Goldmedaille in der Kategorie bis 60 kg Körpergewicht. Bei den Commonwealth Games 1990 in Auckland erhielt er im Leichtgewicht eine Silbermedaille für seine Kombination von 290,0 kg sowie eine Silbermedaille für seine 130,0 kg im Reißen und eine Silbermedaille für seine 160,0 kg im Stoßen.

Nach seiner aktiven Karriere wurde er Trainer des Verbandes des Bundesstaates Akwa Ibom sowie Vorsitzender des Sportausschusses der Local Government Area Mkpat-Enin und technischer Direktor des nigerianischen Gewichtheberverbandes. Dazu war er Trainer und ist Vorsitzender des Fußballvereines Ibom Youths FC, der in der Nigeria National League spielt, was der 2. Liga entspricht.

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Gewichtheber (Nigeria)
Fußballtrainer (Nigeria)
Olympiateilnehmer (Nigeria)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 1984
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 1988
Afrikaspielesieger (Gewichtheben)
Teilnehmer an den Afrikaspielen (Nigeria)
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Geboren 1965
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Katharina Weninger (* 4. April 1986) ist eine österreichische Politikerin der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Österreichs (SPÖ). Seit dem 24. November 2020 ist sie Abgeordnete zum Wiener Landtag und Mitglied des Wiener Gemeinderates.

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Katharina Weninger wuchs in Perchtoldsdorf auf, wo sie das Bundesgymnasium und Bundesrealgymnasium besuchte. Nach der Matura ging sie nach Wien und begann ein Studium der Politikwissenschaft, das sie als Bachelor of Arts abschloss.

Von 2011 bis 2013 war sie Bundessekretärin der Jungen Generation der SPÖ, der sie bis 2022 vier Jahre lang als Landesvorsitzende in Wien vorstand. 2016 wurde sie Bundesgeschäftsführerin im Sozialdemokratischen Wirtschaftsverband (SWV). Ab 2015 war sie als Bezirksrätin Mitglied der Bezirksvertretung im 12. Wiener Gemeindebezirk Meidling, wo sie im April 2019 Wilfried Zankl als Bezirksvorsteher-Stellvertreterin nachfolgte.

Am 24. November 2020 wurde sie in der konstituierenden Sitzung der 21. Wahlperiode als Abgeordnete zum Wiener Landtag und Mitglied des Wiener Gemeinderates angelobt, wo sie Mitglied im Gemeinderatsausschuss für Finanzen, Wirtschaft, Arbeit, Internationales und Wiener Stadtwerke wurde.

2022 folgte ihr Alexander Ackerl als Vorsitzender der Jungen Generation Wien nach.

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 Offizielle Website
 Katharina Weninger auf meineabgeordneten.at
 Katharina Weninger auf der Website der Stadt Wien
 Katharina Weninger auf der Website der SPÖ

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Landtagsabgeordneter (Wien)
Politiker (Meidling)
Politiker (21. Jahrhundert)
SPÖ-Mitglied
Österreicher
Geboren 1986
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Quite aside from being one of the most popular flavoring agents, the therapeutic value of Peppermint has its roots in herbal use from the beginning of man's first association with it. It has been sought out through the eons of time as a pleasant refreshment. Its leaves are chewed, teas are made from its leaves as well as the oil. The use of these brings an exhilarating aromatic sensation as well as fresh oxygen for well being. Mothers have long known a cup of the tea will relieve baby's colic. A touch of peppermint oil to the tongue of a baby or adult pushes distressful gas from the body and settles the stomach (especially good to calm morning sickness). The oil's modern, innovative use is part of the Herbal Adjustment explained under its own heading in this book. A partial list of Peppermint's additional corrective services is diarrhea, dizziness, convulsion, earache, fainting, fevers of all types, stomach and bowel gas, nausea, nervous headache, restlessness, motion sickness, spasms, toothache, vomiting and heart palpitations.* DOSAGE: 40 drops three times per day of the extract or as needed. 1 touch of the oil to the tongue or applied thinly but completely to area which is affected. (Do not put in eyes.) SOURCES: Dr. Eugene C. Watkins, "Get Well With Natural Remedies;" Alma R.Hutchens, "Indian Herbalogy of North America." Oxygenator; settles stomach; motion sickness; apply to headache area; refreshes breath; cooling; if fever, apply to temples, forehead, tongue and back of neck. 4 oz. Why do your oils have lids with a dropper on the side? If you leave the dropper in the oil, eventually the oil will eat away at the rubber stopper, possibly causing your oil to leak. So, please make sure to store your oil with your lid on and not your dropper. Use your dropper only when you need to use your oil. NOTE: Peppermint Oil from Pure Herbs is different from essential oils in that it is distilled several times. It is very pure, but not in the same way as essential oils.


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Ellen Bird - Titanic First Class Passenger
Miss Ellen Bird was a 31 year old, British, first class Passenger travelling to New York aboard Titanic as the maid of Mrs Ida Straus. Isidor and Ida Straus are amongst the most well-known of Titanic's passengers.
Along with Isidor Straus's servant, John Farthing, they boarded Titanic in Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912. She occupied first class cabin C97.
Ellen Bird, the daughter of Samuel and Maryann Bird, was born in Old Buckenham, Norfolk, UK on 8th April 1881.
While in Europe in 1912, Isidor and Ida Straus had been on the lookout for a new maid. After a maid they found left them at the last moment, they found and decided to employ Ellen Bird. Just two days after her 31st birthday she boarded Titanic.
On the night of the sinking she joined her employers on the boat deck. As has been reported in many newspapers, and has been seen in many Titanic films and documentaries, when her employer, Ida Straus, could have taken her place in Lifeboat 8, she decided to stay behind with her husband. It is said that when it was suggested that Isidor Straus, as an elderly gentlemen, be given a place in the boat, he refused, saying he will not go before the other men.
The Straus's encouraged Ellen to board the lifeboat, and before the boat was lowered Ida Straus gave Ellen her fur coat to wear. Ellen Bird survived the disaster; Isidor and Ida Straus and their other servant John Farthing were lost in the sinking.
After the sinking, she tried to return the fur coat to the Straus family; however, they told her that she could keep the coat as Ida Straus had given it to her. Also after the sinking, she was employed by the family of a fellow Titanic survivor, Frederic Spedden. She lived with them in New York.
At some point she married a Mr J Edward Beattie.
She died on Sunday 11th September 1949 in Rhode Island, USA. She was buried at Acushnet Cemetery, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Her husband joined her when he died in 1963.
In October 2011, a first class Titanic deck plan that had belonged to Ellen Bird was sold for £30,000 at an auction in Britain.
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The Chief Executive of the Royal Society for Public Health has recently said that food labels in Britain should state how long it would take to burn off that particular food or drink in order to fight the increasing obesity epidemic. Her explanation came on the back of a poll where over 50% of people said that they found food labels confusing and if they could see things spelled out more clearly it would affect their choices (I'm still not convinced of this, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt).
With obesity rates climbing at an alarming level (by 2025 40% of the population will be obese according to statistics), I'm all for doing whatever we can to combat this frightening health epidemic; be it educating the masses, writing things on labels, or putting up large neon signs in the supermarket that say 'IF you eat this you will regret it!' I will however admit that I still find it baffling that people are so unaware of how their food choices affect them. This poll went on to highlight that not only do people not really understand what it takes to burn off a candy bar, but that they have very little idea when it comes to portion control. In essence, when they scoff down a giant Indian takeaway four nights a week and then put on weight they are baffled they do not look like Giselle. Okay fine, I'm being a tad harsh, but the way I see it, it's always been very simple math. What we take in, vs. what we burn off - give or take. If you eat too much and move too little you're going to get fatter. And furthermore (for those of you that are still confused), if think your 35-year-old body can ingest copious amounts of Snickers bars like your 18-year-old body, you're going to have problems squeezing into those skinny jeans.
Recently we went to a restaurant where calories were on the menu beside every single dish. And trust me, it was sobering at best and made you reconsider what you ordered, or at least gasp in amazement at the tables that didn't give a hoot and ordered half the menu anyway. Whereas I don't always want to live by the site of a calorie count and believe a certain amount of indulgence is necessary, it is interesting how a calorie labeled menu influences your choices. Suddenly the taramasalata isn't such a must when you can opt for hummus instead. Like anything in life, it's about choice and the choice is up to you, scary as that sounds.
The bigger issue at play, in my opinion, is that we are not only a short cut culture – wanting things easy and fast – but we simply don't want to have to work that hard to stay in shape. People that look athletic and fit are, well, athletic and fit. They exercise and choose what goes into their body with careful precision. Don't get me wrong, you don't have to live like a church mouse and eat crackers that taste like carpet (although funny enough, being Californian, I've always liked crackers that taste like cardboard), but you do have to choose your moments and grasp the concept of moderation.
My advice to anyone that cares enough about their body and what goes into it is try it for a week, total up the calorie count of what you eat without taking anything out and see how much you are eating (and drinking!). Then try not to pass out from shock. Then in the next few weeks make small substitutions for things you can simply live without out. Not to mention, it is a big world out there in the food department and often humans get stuck on a myopic gastronomical path. Branch out, try something new and for god sakes, MOVE. You might surprise yourself and actually enjoy it.


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BY BRIANNA BAILEY THE JOURNAL RECORD EDMOND
– McCaleb Homes has purchased 45 acres of undeveloped land near N. Coltrane and E. Danforth roads for $1.6 million with plans to build a new single-family housing development called Town Square Commons.
Building off the success of Mccaleb Homes' Arbor Creek neighborhood off Interstate 35 in east Edmond, Town Square Commons will feature homes inspired by historic houses in Oklahoma City's older neighborhoods like Edgemere Park and Crown Heights.
The development will feature several man-made lakes and a pavilion surrounded by old-growth trees that McCaleb Homes will leave intact on the undeveloped land, owner Caleb McCaleb said.
"We're doing a lot of really nice amenities that are just really going to enhance the natural beauty of the area," McCaleb said.
With its Craftsman-inspired houses and streets named after the famous works of American authors, the Arbor Creek neighborhood has been a huge success in Edmond's housing market, McCaleb said.
McCaleb Homes has sold about 140 homes in Arbor Creek over the past four years and is in the process of building a second phase of the development with about 40 additional homes.
Homes in the Town Square Commons development will range from about 1,400 to 3,000 square feet. Prices will start in the low $200,000s and go up to about $400,000, McCaleb said. The average price for a home in the development will be about $250,000, he said.
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It all started back on Friday, March 7. I was very excited in my plans to go to Cleveland that weekend, both to see my half brothers and sisters (the Laurienzos) as well as to see my good friend Aaron Boone play football for the Utah Blaze. I had planned on this trip for about three weeks. Aaron had gotten me tickets and I had arranged for my visit with my half-sisters Nicole, Tina and Debbie. It would be a fun weekend...or so I thought.
As early as Wednesday there was talk of a huge winter storm that would hit the area around Saturday. By Friday the talk was that it would hit Friday night. Well, I was determined to make it to Cleveland and I had driven in the snow many times before. I decided that I would drive through Detroit as the brunt of the storm would be going through central Ohio later on in the evening. I figured if I left early enough that I could make it, so I left Woodstock at 1 PM and headed west. Generally, the weather was OK. There were occasional snow showers, but nothing too bad. I got onto I-90 (the Ohio Turnpike) and headed east. As it grew dark out, the weather also took a turn for the worst and it started getting bad about 50 miles west of Cleveland. Nonetheless, traffic was still flowing along at about 60 mph. I got behind two semis (on a three lane road) and was getting sprayed pretty badly, so I decided to hit the far left passing lane, which was a bit icier as it was less traveled on. As I got about halfway past the truck, all of a sudden I saw the truck veer to his left and next thing I knew, I was hit in the right front. My van went spinning out of control and I was horrified!! I really truly thought to myself "So, this is how it is gonna end". I could see that I was going to careen into the 10 foot tall cement dividing wall that divided the east and west bound lanes. And, indeed, I did...I smashed into it head on. The impact was so hard that the van bounced off the wall and back onto the highway, still spinning. It continued to head back towards the wall and this time smashed from the rear end and I ended up stopped at a 45 degree angle facing the oncoming traffic. After I realized that I was NOT dead and not even injured (and I was totally amazed by that) and I was also stunned that no other oncoming vehicle had hit me, I finally came to my senses and called 911. The semi continued on as did all other vehicles. I sat there, 2 feet away from the road, still fearing for my life as semis came blazing by in the far left lane. More than once I thought to myself...yeah, right, I survive this crash only to be smashed by a semi trailer that loses control. It was a very scary 20 minutes before the office arrived.
Finally, the tow truck (from Charlie's towing in Norwalk) arrived and took me back about 20 miles to the town of Norwalk. It took him about 45 minutes to get the van onto the truck and then we had to drive through blizzard conditions. Once there, I unloaded most of my belongings from the van (which had all been thrown to the back of the van) and he took me into town to a hotel.
Needless to say, I was devastated...no vehicle, no idea where I was and no idea how I would get out of there. I got checked in at about 1:30 AM at the All American Inn in Norwalk. The young gal at the desk was very helpful in assisting me get all of my stuff out of the tow truck and into the hotel. I had a pretty fitful night.
The next morning, I awoke to a massive blizzard in Norwalk. I tried and tried to get a rental car to get out and finally got hold of David at Enterprise Rentals. He was EXTREMELY kind and helpful and was able to get me a car...a PT Cruiser. I tried to drive it out to the hotel and got stuck three times in the half mile back to the hotel and the snow was blowing so badly that I passed the hotel up once as well.
Need I say more than the headline?
Fortunately, I-90 was pretty clear. There were huge piles of snow everywhere. It was amazing. I finally did make it into Cleveland and over to Mayfield Road in Little Italy, where Nicole's Mayfield Smoke Shop is located. The entire city of Cleveland was socked in. Only the major arteries were semi-clear while most of the roads were buried under almost 2 feet of snow.
I had a nice visit with Nicole. We went out to breakfast at this nice place near Little Italy and I did get a couple of photos. Unfortunately, Nicole was the only one who could even get out of the snow that morning. While visiting with Nicole, she gave me a little surprise...a baptismal certificate...mine. As Carmen David Laurienzo (my birth name before adoption) I was baptized in the Church of the Holy Rosary in Cleveland by Friar Ettore Patragnoni on November 18, 1956. She also gave me perhaps the earliest known photo of me. (I don't have a scanner here so I don't have the photo to post yet).
After the game, Aaron and I walked down the street from his hotel and had a nice dinner at the Flying Lizard. I then headed back to Ontario and drove straight through. It was an exhausting weekend.
March 10, 2008: I was back safely in Paris, ON, but this area had also been pounded by the same storm. During the previous Saturday I had called the Credit Union in Lexington numerous times trying to set up alone. Exasperated, I left numerous messages. The Branch Manager called me back first thing Monday morning and told me that all of the branches had been closed due to the storm (which had also hit Lexington pretty hard). She promised to make arrangements to set up a loan and by lunch time I had been approved for a loan to get a new vehicle. She also assured me that someone would be there on the following Saturday so that I could try to get a vehicle in Cleveland instead of going all the way back to Lexington. It would be a long worrisome week as I struggled to find a vehicle, but Linda at the Credit Union came to my rescue and by Friday, we had found a car through the Enterprise dealers in Lexington who had contacted the Enterprise dealers in Cleveland.
March 14, 2008: Friday afternoon and I was off to Cleveland again, this time to get a new (used) vehicle and also, hopefully, visit the Laurienzos more meaningfully. I drove back through Buffalo, NY and Erie, PA and finally made my way into Cleveland. I got to Enterprise around 6:30 PM and Michael, the salesman for Enterprise Sales, showed me the new vehicle...a 2002 Ford Explorer Sport (2 doors, 4WD, 48,000 miles). It looked great!! We took it for a spin and I was hooked. The next morning, it was mine (or at least mine with the Credit Union!!). The really exciting thing was that I have had wanted a pickup and this drives like one. It was comfortable and had all the things I wanted in a car.
After looking at the car on Friday night, I took a drive over to Tina's house. Snow was still quite deep everywhere, but the roads were all passable. It was so good to see Tina. For the Catholics, this was the season of Lent, so Tina was not having meat. She did make some dinner for me though...Pasta e Fagioli , a pasta dish with white beans. It was really really good. After a while, Tina's husband Jim showed up as well as their son Joey. I was glad to see them all.
There was lots of ice at the falls. It was really beautiful though.
March 20, 2008: After another grueling week at Toyota, yet a short one, I was finally ready to head home to Kentucky for the first time in nearly 6 weeks. I was so excited to go home that I went to bed on Wednesday night at 6 PM and got up to leave Paris at 3:30 AM. By 1:00 PM I was in Lexington and went straight to the Credit Union to sign the papers for my new Explorer. Then I was on to the car wash to get the filthy vehicle cleaned. The snow and mud up in Ontario had made a mess of the thing. After that I was off to a visit at Chelsea's where Marissa was also there with Joselyn. We had a nice visit and I got to play with Autumn and Jos as well. Chelsea made me a really yummy grilled Tuna sandwich and tomato soup. I feel so fortunate to have such wonderful children.
That evening we were all off to go see the new movie Horton Hears a Who. We all went, even Solomon, and had a great time. Julianne had gotten Horton elephants for both Autumn and Adam and Missy's niece Madeline, who was having a birthday.
That night it was wonderful to sleep in my own bed.
Friday I slept in as Julianne had to go to work. I also ran a number of errands. Chelsea accompanied me everywhere. We met Julianne for lunch and then later for dinner.
March 22, 2008: We celebrated Easter a day early. We set up for a nice brunch. Julianne made a breakfast casserole and we had fruit and waffles with REAL Canadian Maple Syrup. Click on the link at left to learn more about that. We also had a special visit from Julianne's brother Paul, who happened to be in Richmond that weekend on his truck driving job. His driving partner John also came along. We had a great brunch and Autumn loved the whipped cream!!
March 23, 2008: Sunday. We all went to church today. Even Shawn, Chelsea and Solomon. Julianne was one of the speakers (she gave a fabulous talk about her walks through the Lexington cemetery and then how these all related to the resurrection of Jesus Christ). Afterwards, we got together for some family photos. Autumn skipped out on these as she headed straight for Primary and her friends.
So, it can be seen that the last couple of weeks have been filled with terror, angst, excitement and unfettered joy in my family. I am glad that I am still on the Right Side of the Dirt and also that I have such a wonderful wife and family.
I am now back in Paris. The weekend went by so fast...like a dream. Next weekend I will back to visiting new and exciting places in and around Oxford and Brant counties in Ontario. Should be fun.


There is plenty of options how you can enjoy your tennis experience in Barcelona, one of the most visited and admired cities in Europe.
We strive to involve more individuals like you in a game of tennis by offering opportunities to learn the game, find similar players, play tennis tournaments and join tennis events in town.
We offer personal tennis trainings in different formats: private (one-on-one), semi-private (for two players) and group (for 4 to 5 players). Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced tennis player, you will find the right tennis coaching program for you. Our players are local residents, expats, students and travelers.
Barcelona should be your number one destination for intensive tennis holidays at any time of the year. Even in winter we play outdoors under the sun! You will learn to play Spanish tennis and enjoy the benefits of clay courts. Feel free to design your own camp if you are coming with a bunch of friends or join a fixed week-long or weekend camp.
If you are new in Barcelona and looking for buddies to play casual tennis with, we have tools to help you out. Our tennis players community website features more than 500 active tennis players of all levels, ready to have a hit with another passionate tennis player. We also show you the list of tennis centers where you can rent a court for an hourly fee.
Most tennis players in Barcelona are members of a tennis club. If you plan on training and playing tennis regularly, your most cost-effective and natural way to do that is to join a tennis club. We give you all the information you need in order to join our tennis club located in Les Corts district of Barcelona, 5-minute walk from famous Barça Football Stadium.
We run tennis training programs for kids aged between 3 and 18 years old. There is an annual Tennis School from September to June as well as Summer School from mid June till end of July. Your child will be training in small groups with other similar kids and enjoy extra activities such as swimming pool, fitness, padel, Spanish lessons and many more.
If you are a parent of an adolescent player whose aim is to become a professional tennis player you are in the right place. We design tennis and fitness training plans, set annual or monthly tournament calendar and coordinate registrations and travel arrangements, as well as accompany them to the tournaments in Spain and abroad.
Take a look at our complete guide to playing tournaments in Barcelona. We cover topics such as: types of tournaments (Interclubs, Ladders, Absoluts, ITF, etc.), requirements for registration, levels, gaining points, national and international rankings and all other things you need to know before you start playing tournaments.
We have been restrining tennis rackets for amateur and competition players for more than 20 years. We provide restringing service using our selected strings from Babolat, Head, Volkl and Luxilon; however, you are welcome to provide your own favourite strings to put on your tennis racket. We also provide racket customizations such as adding weight or changing a grip size.
During the years playing and coaching tennis, we have got to know a lot of tennis brands and their products. We have tested tens of rackets from Babolat, Head, Wilson, and other brands. Thanks to our experience we are well informed and ready to help our players choose the right tennis gear. We also provide discounts from various tennis stores in Barcelona.
If you are in Barcelona in April you can not miss the biggest tennis event in town, ATP 500 Barcelona Open tournament. Some of the best male professional tennis players arrive in Barcelona and you can watch them play from very close. Rafael Nadal is a must see. We can certainly help you get the tickets for this unforgettable tennis event.


The safe and effective response to a fire is based on a critical sequence of events.
This page details what should happen during the different stages in response to a fire in a school.
How schools should carry out a fire drill.
On hearing the fire alarm, pupils must be instructed to leave the building in single file and in a calm, orderly manner.
The person in charge of each class must indicate the exit route to be used and everyone must be directed to a predetermined assembly point.
Specific arrangements must be made for pupils with physical or mental disabilities to ensure that they are assisted during evacuation.
On staircases everyone must descend in single file. Overtaking of classes or individuals must not be permitted.
An area outside the school premises must be designated as an assembly point. It must be clearly marked and easily identified by anyone who may be on the school premises. It must be far enough away from the school premises to give protection from the heat and smoke given off by a fire. It should be in a position that does not put pupils and staff at risk by emergency vehicles responding to the incident.
The person in charge of the roll call must identify him/herself to the fire service on their arrival. This will allow the fire officer to decide the necessary actions to be carried out by the fire service.
Are there any hazardous substances involved in the fire or stored in the building (e.g chemicals, solvents, liquified petroleum gas or acetylene cylinders)?
During the first week of term or as soon as possible thereafter, all new entrants (pupils, staff and support staff) should be shown the primary escape routes of the school. They should also be informed of the school fire evacuation routine.
All members of staff should receive instruction and training appropriate to their responsibilities in the event of any emergency.
All members of staff should each receive a personal copy of written instructions. They should receive two periods of verbal instructions in each 12 month period. Such instruction should include details of how to call the fire service. In the case of new staff, instruction should be given as soon as possible after appointment.
Fire drills, which may be combined with the instruction given above, should be carried out at least once per term. The fire drill should simulate that one escape route is not available. Each fire drill should be started by a pre-determined signal and the whole premises checked as if any evacuation was in progress.
In large premises, a specific person should be made responsible for organising staff training and nominating one other person to co-ordinate the actions of the staff in the event of fire. Effective arrangements should be made for a deputy or deputies to carry out the above duties in the absence of the nominated people.
In smaller premises, one specific person should be made responsible for organising staff training and for co-ordinating the actions of the staff in the event of fire. Effective arrangements should be made for a nominated deputy to be available to carry out the above duties.


Lush is one of my all-time favourite brands; incredible ethics and incredible products, what more can you ask for? I'm a huge fan of their skincare, so when I noticed the Cup O' Coffee face mask in store I was rather intrigued. That's going straight in my basket.
The purpose of this mask is to awaken and cleanse the skin. So, pretty much what a cup of coffee does for the soul.
The texture of this mask is unlike any other I have tried before. As you can see from the picture below, it is a gloopy, sticky consistency. As odd as it may feel plunging your finger into this pot of goo, I actually really love the texture. Due to its tackiness, it binds all the ground coffee pieces together making it easily spreadable.
Smooth over face and body, leave for 10-15 minutes and rinse with warm water.
Smoothing on the mask is super simple – just make sure not to get it near the eyes! I'd also avoid the hairline as it's a pain to try to remove. As you can see from the picture, I have given these areas a wide berth. Past Steph was not so wise. Learn from my mistakes people.
One of my favourite things bout this mask is that when it sets, it doesn't actually dry down completely. I'm not a fan of that tight, frozen-face feeling that comes with other purifying masks so this one is a winner! When washing this off, make sure to soften the mask with warm water first. Then gently scrub off in circular motions til it's all gone!
Honestly, I'm pretty damn impressed. So impressed actually, that this is my third tub! It's one of the very few masks that I notice instant results from. The coffee grounds are perfectly scrubby, the kaolin removes any excess oil and the agave feels nicely moisturising. My skin is left smooth, cleansed and moisturised. It's true: this genuinely is like a shot of coffee for the face!
Have you tried this Cup O' Coffee face mask? What's your favourite mask?
Wow this sounds perfect for my skin! It's shot to the top of my must try list!