The Watauga County Board of Commissioners held a regular meeting on Tuesday, June 29, 2010, at 6:00 P.M. in the Commissioners' Board Room of the Watauga County Administration Building.
Chairman Deal called for additions and/or corrections to the June 7, 2010, regular meeting and closed session minutes.
Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Commissioner Futrelle, moved to approve the June 7, 2010, closed session minutes as presented.
Chairman Deal called for additions and/or corrections to the June 29, 2010, agenda.
Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Commissioner Kinsey, moved to approve the June 29, 2010, agenda as amended.
Town of Boone Mayor Loretta Clawson, Town of Boone Manager Greg Young, and Town of Boone Director of Development Services Jim Byrne, requested an easement on County-owned property at the corner of Hwy 105 and Wilson Drive for the purpose of constructing and extending an existing culvert under Wilson Drive and onto the County's property across from the Sagebrush restaurant. This was to allow the Town to extend the Greenway for walking and biking along the perimeter of Wilson Drive. The requested easement was for 0.115 of an acre.
After discussion, Commissioner Futrelle, seconded by Vice-Chairman Winkler, moved to grant an easement to the Town of Boone on the County's property at the intersection of Hwy 105 and Wilson Drive for extension of an existing culvert and the construction of a headwall, contingent upon the County Attorney and County Manager determining an area for a construction easement and a permanent easement in an area as small as necessary to complete the project.
A. Presentation of Draft Watauga County Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Plan – Mr. Brian Chatham, Soil and Water Conservation Technician, and Mr. Denny Norris, Chairman of the Soil and Water Conservation District, presented the draft Watauga County Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Plan. Mr. Chatham requested that the Board review the draft Plan and submit any comments to the Soil and Water Conservation Office where citizens' comments were also being accepted. Mr. Chatham stated that an updated draft, based on comments received, was to be presented at the July 20, 2010, Board of Commissioners meeting for consideration. Mr. Norris stated that several area farmers had given input on the plan. Mr. Chatham stated that Watauga County was to be the seventh County in North Carolina to complete the Plan and stated that the Plan included an Ordinance (Appendix II) which was recommended for adoption as well.
After discussion, Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Commissioner Kinsey, moved to schedule a public hearing at the July 20, 2010, Board meeting at 6:00 P.M. to allow citizen comment on the Draft Watauga County Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Plan.
B. Grant Extension Request – Mr. Chatham stated that, due to invoicing deadlines conflicting with the comment period for the Watauga County Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Plan, an extension was needed from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in order to properly complete the project.
Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Vice-Chairman Winkler, moved to authorize the time extension request to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as presented by Mr. Chatham.
County Manager Nelson presented a proposed agreement, as prepared by the County Attorney, in which Watauga County's Child Support Enforcement Services Office was to provide services for Avery County. Avery County was to pay Watauga County for the costs of services provided to Avery County residents as well as an additional $5,000 for non-reimbursable administrative costs incurred by Watauga County. The $5,000 was to be folded into four payments and adjusted at the end of the year.
Commissioner Kinsey, seconded by Vice-Chairman Winkler, moved to approve the Child Support Enforcement Service Agreement with Avery County to be effective July 1, 2010, as presented by the County Manager.
Mr. Steve Sudderth, Fire Marshal/Emergency Management Coordinator, requested that he and Mr. David Hancock be designated as primary and secondary agents, respectively, for Watauga County for the purposes of processing Watauga County disaster claims that were incurred during the winter storm of 2009.
Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Commissioner Kinsey, move to adopt the resolution designating Steve Sudderth, as the primary agent, and David Hancock, as the secondary agent, for disaster relief assistance from the NC Division of Emergency Management as related to the winter storm of 2009.
Mr. Potter recommended that the lumber be declared as surplus and sold at the rate of $265 per 1,000 feet to William Byrd Lumber.
County Manager Nelson requested that all cut wood be declared surplus and that the wood not suitable for sale be donated to the Hunger Coalition for use as firewood through their assistance program.
· donate unusable timber to the Hunger Coalition to be used as firewood through their assistance program.
B. Request for Additional Contingency Funds for Landfill Gas to Energy Project – Ms. Lisa Doty requested use of additional funds for the Landfill Gas to Energy Project. The project budget was originally authorized in an amount up to $200,000. At previous meetings, contracts in the amount of $160,268 and a contingency fund in the amount of $15,000 were approved. During the actual installation, it was determined that an additional $25,000 in electrical work was required to complete the project. Therefore, Ms. Doty requested that the remaining amount of $39,732 be denoted as contingency with approximately $25,000 to be contracted with Larry Greer Electrical for the additional electric work needed and the balance of $14,732 left as contingency which was to remain unused unless necessary to complete the project.
Commissioner Futrelle, seconded by Commissioner Cooper, moved to authorize $39,732 (which was to be allocated from retained earnings in a future budget amendment) as contingency for the Landfill Gas to Energy Project and approve a contract for electrical services with Larry Greer Electrical in the amount of approximately $25,000 with the total project budget not to exceed the originally authorized $200,000.
C. School Recycling Grant Award Request – Ms. Doty reported that the County had been awarded a Community Waste Reduction Recycling Grant from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the amount of $20,980 to be used for recycling in the County's schools. The grant required a 20% local match, of which 10% was to be funded by the County and 10% by the Watauga County Board of Education.
Vice-Chairman Winkler, seconded by Commissioner Cooper, moved to accept the grant award in the amount of $20,980 and approve the County's portion of the local match (10%) to be allocated from the retained earnings account.
D. Rigid Plastic Recycling Update – Ms. Doty reported that the County now accepted non-bottle rigid plastics through the recycling program at the Old Landfill Convenience Center only. The new recyclable non-bottle rigid plastics included: plastic toys (no metal, wood, wires, nor batteries included); plastic buckets (no metal handles included); plastic milk/soda crates; plastic laundry baskets; plastic lawn furniture; plastic landscape items, such as edging; microwave trays and yogurt containers; plastic totes (no metal included); plastic drums (food grade only; no chemical containers); plastic pet carriers (no metal included); plastic pallets; plastic coolers; plastic shelving; plastic closet organizers; plastic dish drainers; plastic flower pots (no soil included); empty garbage cans (no metal included); plastic waste baskets; and 5 gallon water bottles. Items that were not considered recyclable at this time included: PVC pipe/tubing; vinyl siding; plastic film (grocery bags & stretch film); Styrofoam; flexible water hoses; hazardous material; and medical waste. Ms. Doty stated that public service announcements were being made to make the public aware of this program.
The amendment recognized funds from the Qualified School Construction Bond Loan.
The amendment recognized federal funds awarded for food and nutrition services. This service was approved at the April 20, 2010, Board of Commissioners meeting. Additional funds were to be recognized in the next fiscal year.
The amendment recognized additional revenue and expenditures due to changes in DSS state accounting practices on foster care housing and transportation. The state now reimburses the County for split costs in lieu of paying vendors directly for state portions of expenditures. These funds are returned to the County on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
The amendment recognized additional revenue and expenditures for Alcohol Beverage Control funds.
Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Commissioner Kinsey, moved to approve the budget amendments as presented by Ms. Pierce.
Vice-Chairman Winkler, seconded by Commissioner Cooper, moved to approve Construction Management Contingency Change Orders #s 55-64 for a total amount of $57,289.92 as presented by the County Manager.
B. Requested CSI, Inc., Contract Amendment – County Manager Nelson stated that the Watauga County Board of Education had requested that the contract for laptops for the new high school with Computer Software Innovations (CSI), Inc., be reduced by $400,000. The new contract amount was to be $1,110,738.46. CSI was to bill the Board of Education $400,000 directly which was to free funds from the Board of Education's Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment budget line for the new high school.
Commissioner Kinsey, seconded by Commissioner Cooper, moved to amend the contract with Computer Software Innovations (CSI), Inc., for laptops for the new high school by reducing the contract amount by $400,000 for a new total of $1,110,738.46.
*Requests a time extension of (55) calendar days from the previously established completion date of June 3, 2010, on or before July 28, 2010. The duration of the time extension is based upon the additional work encompassed in CM COP # 46 as well as in assisting the owner in coordinating owner supplied scope and receiving certificate of occupancy from Town of Boone Inspections Department.
Discussion was held regarding the requested addition of 55 days to the contract.
Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Vice-Chairman Winkler, moved to approve the amount, $332,304, of Change Order # 48 with funds to be allocated from the Watauga County Board of Education's Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment (FF&E) budget line.
Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Commissioner Kinsey, moved to grant the time extension of 55 days to the general contract with the new completion date set on or before July 28, 2010.
A. Board of Elections Grant Request – County Manager Nelson stated that the Watauga County Board of Elections requested to submit an application for a HAVA (Help America Vote Act) federal grant to help offset the cost of two One-Stop sites for the November 2, 2010, general election. Grant funds, if received, were to cover the cost of salaries and computers and equipment for One-Stop workers at the Appalachian State University Student Union and the Agricultural Extension Center sites. The amount of funds requested for salaries was $8633 and the amount of funds requested for computers and equipment was $5250. No local match was required.
Commissioner Futrelle, seconded by Commissioner Cooper, moved to authorize the Board of Election's submission of the HAVA grant application in the total amount of $13,883.
B. Out-of-State Travel Request for Tax Department – County Manager Nelson stated that Mr. Kelvin Byrd, Tax Administrator, had been requested by the North Carolina Tax Official Association to travel out-of-state to Gwinnett County, Georgia, for the purpose of training in the area of taxation collection of motor vehicles. The North Carolina Tax Official Association was to pay for Mr. Byrd's travel expenses.
Vice-Chairman Winkler, seconded by Commissioner Cooper, moved to approve the out-of-state travel request for Mr. Kelvin Byrd to attend training in Gwinnett County, Georgia, pursuant upon there being no costs to Watauga County.
C. Discussion of Extending Terms of Sale for Old High School – County Manager Nelson stated that the Notice of Sale for the old Watauga High School property was set to expire June 30, 2010. The County Manager requested the Notice of Sale be extended for a one-year period. Therefore the requested closing date, should the property sell, needed to be amended to be held by June 30, 2011. If extended, the Notice was to be relisted on the County's website as well as other internet sites previously used to advertise the sale.
Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Vice-Chairman Winkler, moved to extend the Notice of Sale for the old high school property to June 30, 2011.
E. Discussion of Planning for Eastern Community Center – Chairman Deal stated that the Recreation Center Sub-Committee had been discussing the location of a recreation center and also had been in contact with a party interested in potentially purchasing the old high school site. Through discussions with developers interested in the potential purchase of the old high school property, the Sub-Committee was informed that some major retailers, who might be interested in locating on the property, did not wish to share the campus with a recreation center. There was a consensus of the developers that shared parking (with a recreation center) produced congestion without much shopping traffic. It was also noted that the approximate six acres, considered as a location for the recreation center, was an area that could otherwise be developed as prime retail space.
· an approximate 6,000 square foot community center and a gymnasium be constructed in the eastern portion of the County, at a site to be determined.
Chairman Deal stated that, with this recommendation, the Western Youth Network was to be located near the new high school and a gym was to be located in the eastern portion of the County, an area that currently does not have many recreational opportunities.
Discussion was also held regarding the quarter-cent sales tax referendum which, if passed, would generate the revenue needed to fund the recreation center, eastern community center, including a gym; operational expenses for both facilities; and other recreational opportunities in the County.
Commissioner Kinsey, seconded by Commissioner Cooper, moved to establish the County's intent to construct an approximate 50,000-55,000 square foot recreation center at the new high school site and build an Eastern Community Center at a site to be determined that was to include a community center and gymnasium.
The County Manager stated that an architect was required for an Eastern Community Center; however, staff recommended delaying architect selection and programming until after the August 31st tax referendum. The County Manager also stated that the County Attorney was to offer an opinion of how to best select an architect for the project. If the referendum passed, the issue regarding architect selection was whether to amend the contract with PBC+L or to conduct a qualification-based selection process in choosing an architect for the Eastern Community Center.
F. Appointment of Voting Delegate for NCACC Annual Conference – County Manager Nelson stated that the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners annual conference was scheduled for August 26-29, 2010, at the Greenville Convention Center in Pitt County. Due to the ongoing economic situation, the registration fee was waived for commissioners and mangers who pre-registered prior to July 26, 2010. After July 26, the fee was to be $199.
County Manager Nelson stated that each county in attendance was required to select a voting member for representation at the annual business meeting which was conducted as a part of the conference. Submission of the selected voting delegate was due August 6, 2010.
Commissioner Futrelle, seconded by Commissioner Cooper, moved to appoint Vice-Chairman Winkler as Watauga County's voting delegate at the NCACC Annual Business Meeting which was to be held as a part of the NCACC Annual Conference.
G. Announcements – County Manager Nelson announced that the Watauga County Board of Education had scheduled a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Watauga High School on Friday, July 30, 2010, at 10:00 A.M. with tours of the new school available following the dedication ceremony. Governor Perdue was scheduled as a Key Note speaker for this event.
County Manager Nelson announced that the Town of Boone had scheduled the following Independence Day events: the Grand Opening of the Clawson/Burnley Park from 11:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.; entertainment and watermelon on the Jones House Lawn at 1:30 P.M.; the Fourth of July Parade on King Street beginning at 3:30 P.M.; music with DJ Carl at the Clawson/Burnley Park at 7:00 P.M.; and fireworks by Zambelli at the Clawson/Burnley Park at 9:30 P.M. All events were scheduled for Saturday, July 3, 2010.
County Manager Nelson announced that, as historically practiced, the Board of Commissioners cancelled their July 5th regular meeting due to the Independence Day Holiday; therefore, the next regularly scheduled meeting was set for Tuesday, July 20, 2010, at 6:00 P.M. in the Commissioners' Board Room.
County Manager Nelson announced that the Watauga County Economic Development Commission had written a letter in support of passage of the referendum and establishment of the quarter-cent sales tax in Watauga County.
At 7:19 P.M., Vice-Chairman Winkler, seconded by Commissioner Cooper, moved to enter Closed Session to discuss Attorney/Client Matters, per G. S. 143-318.11(a)(3) and Land Acquisition, per G. S. 143-318.11(a)(5)(i).
Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Vice-Chairman Winkler, moved to resume the open meeting at 8:03 P.M.
A. Request to Accept Donated Property – Property, comprised of Beech Mountain Lot D32, had been donated to Watauga County from the Estate of Weston J. Olberg.
Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Vice-Chairman Winkler, moved to accept the deed of Beech Mountain Lot D32 from the Estate of Weston J. Olberg pursuant to the County Attorney conveying the lot.
B. PARTF Grant Award Acceptance – An official letter was received from the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Division of Parks and Recreation recognizing the award of a PARTF grant to the County for Rocky Knob Park in the amount of $500,000 with a local match of $575,600.
Commissioner Futrelle, seconded by Commissioner Kinsey, moved to accept the PARTF grant award in the amount of $500,000; approve the local match in the amount of $575,600; and authorize entering into the proposed North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Fund Project Agreement (Contract Number 3182) for Rocky Knob Park – Phase I.
Chairman Deal adjourned the meeting at 8:04 P.M.


Have a homegrown player make Cambridge and their national sides first team.
In my last two posts from this series I laid down some goals for me to achieve within this save, I also promised that you would only see me pen another Cambridge United post if I managed to achieve one of these goals. Now before I mentioned that I felt like my Cambridge side were ready to push on and claim a Europa League place, however I was wrong, as we went a step further and claimed a spot in the Champions League Group stages. That's right we finished 3rd, behind a rampant Chelsea and Manchester United but in front of an over-achieving Everton.
I'll be honest here, I'm not sure what my plan is with this post. Is it a season review? Well if it is I've already given away the end so you may as well stop reading here. Is it about the Champions League qualification? Again if it is there isn't much to say that I haven't already said so again probably best to stop reading here. Screw it, lets just start from the beginning, my attempt to cheat my way to completing a goal, the signing of Andrew Tickell, that's him to your right though that screenshot is taken in November of the next season. The idea behind my desire to become England manager on two separate saves played side my side on two different versions of Football Manager *Breath* was to sneak Cambridge United players into the England National side. I was worried that I might not make it to the next time the England manager spot was available, or i would miss it again, so buying players that were already a part of the England camp was one way to half complete my goal. It helps that Tickell pretty much hit all the right spots for me, baring a single worrying trait, he slotted straight into my first team thank you very much.
Things were looking great at the start of the season and come the end of November we were right there in the fight for the title, Tickell and loan signing Paulo Bernardo had hit the ground running and we were looking great in our new 4-4-2, which was our old 4-1-4-1 under the hood with a shiny new paint job and some different bodywork. Then my Cambridge side did Cambridge side things and fell into a poor run of form (below) that saw us drop all the way down to mid table and in the end I had to resort to bringing back the 4-1-4-1 with a few tweaks to bring back a level of solidity to our play. The reasons behind the swap to 4-4-2 had been the emergence of two great strikers and a lack of decent midfield options but left winger Marko Radojevic had proven to be ineffective in my Wide Midfielder role while David Donaldson had the attributes to go out and terrorise defences. I'd have to bite the bullet with my midfield, the system over the players, and hope that Marian Engel in the DM spot could do enough work to cover the weaknesses of his midfield partners.
Well it worked, with the the more aggressive 4-4-2 as a back up we managed to fight our way up the league table with Donaldson leading the way for us. It was tight and with 5 games to go we were sat in 5th looking up, however a great run of form meant that we went into the final day in 4th knowing Champions League qualification was in our hands. The only problem was that it was against Chelsea who, alongside Manchester United, were miles ahead of the rest of the pack, with Europa League football already in the bag but 5th place Arsenal snapping at our heels I was worried that we'd have to settle for second best after being so close. When all was said and done at the Cambridge Utd Stadium it seemed that I had overestimated that old football chestnut of teams downing arms when there's nothing left to play form, Chelsea were 2nd no matter the result so they simple didn't turn up. Donaldson had a field day scoring a hat-trick, two pens but I'll take it, but his great game was simply a result of our dominance as a side. I've never had a game that I was so worried about that turned out to be so easy, then came the news from Turf Moor, Everton had lost and we'd stolen 3rd place on the final day.
I had two main reasons for taking on this save, one to call back to the first team I ever had a decent save with in a Football Manager style game, and two to easy the memory of the Cheltenham side that I failed to get into the Premier League. That Cheltenham side were cruelly murdered by an ex but this Cambridge side have gone above and beyond what I'd expected or even hoped. I'm excited to see just how far I can take them, and I know that I already have two posts lined up for the future.
Thanks to Keysi for hosting me, you can find me in FM Slack, my channel is #braziers-England, I'm also on Twitter and Instagram. I also have my own blog where I talk about random rubbish with its own Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and fledgling YouTube.


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One of our long standing clients came to us with a dilemma. Despite being one of their best performing buildings it was clear that so much more could improved with the site, how it interfaced with the wider cityscape and also the community that uses the building everyday.
Densification in any part of central London is fraught with difficulties but also opportunities in terms of reworking problematic existing spaces so they coherently work better within themselves socially and functionally but also 'look outward' in a more coherent way. The proposals look both at the streetscape and building volumetric to foster both greater connectivity within a disparate set of building forms but also to bring a more conceptually strong architectural language for the site context as a whole.
The proposals look to increase the height of the building up by a further ten storeys to the main tower footprint but also increase the podium level building by a further two storeys. The complexity of the project is not simply the additional height and the structural solutions this will require but also the development of an architectural language that will work for both this site and sit comfortably in its surrounding setting.
The community that live in this building are principally young and in full time education and as a result there is a fundamental importance in delivering breakout space and variety of communal activity space for students to share experiences, relax or study.
As with all our projects, at is heart is the importance of developing a sense of intrinsic community and as a result this will physically manifest itself as shared amenity and work spaces at various levels of the new building environment.


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A childhood story – further thoughts on 'When Marnie was there'
July 8, 2017 by Life in a Bind - BPD and me 5 Comments
The house on the far left is The Marsh House (Marnie's house) – or rather, the house that inspired the book 'When Marnie was there'. The house is located in Burnham Overy Staithe, in Norfolk (or 'Little Overton', as it is referred to in the book). Photo is by Chris Wood (User:chris_j_wood). [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons .
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about rediscovering a book that I read as a child, the memory and impact of which stayed with me, even though I could not remember anything apart from the name 'Marnie' in the title. The book was called 'When Marnie was there', and I have now read it twice within the space of a month. The first time I read it, I cried for almost an hour after I finished it, but for no reason particular reason that I could identify. The second time, as I read it I turned over the tops of pages which contained sentences or paragraphs that particularly struck me or rang true.
I am still trying to understand the power of this book which means so much to me. I know without a doubt that I saw (and still see) myself in Anna, the book's main character. The way she defended herself from the world and from her emotions, following on from loss, mirrored my own response as a child (and not only as a child). When I read it for the second time, I think I was looking for something redemptive, in the way that Anna had begun to be transformed through her encounters with Marnie, the little girl who lived at The Marsh House.
There are thoughts beginning to take shape in my mind, and a post starting to form. But I am not quite there yet. What I have felt compelled to do, is write down all those passages that struck me. And that is what I did tonight – I went through every page with a turned-down corner, and typed those sections out, and am copying them below. I hope you will forgive this post, therefore: both for its insularity (for without being me and without knowing why these passages chimed with me, they may appear rather random); but also for what it gives away. I very much hope that these passages will encourage you to obtain a second hand copy of the book and to read it, rather than feeling as though I have spoiled it by revealing some of how it unfolds. There are still important plot points and many other beautiful and frightening components of the story that I have not given away.
Even without knowing the story, and without knowing my own internal context, I hope that these passages hang together. All I can say is that they must have hung together in my sub-conscious, and this is my attempt to figure out why. For greater clarity, I have used italics purely to separate out paragraphs a little more, and to show where one quoted section ends, and another begins. I hope I am not infringing copyright law by quoting to such a degree!
She could only stand there stiffly by the open door of the carriage, with her case in her hand, hoping she looked ordinary and wishing the train would go. Mrs Preston, seeing Anna's 'ordinary' look – which in her own mind she thought of as her 'wooden face' – sighed and turned her attention to more practical things.
Already the turmoil of Liverpool Street Station, the hurry, the confusion, the nearness of parting – against which she had only been able to protect herself with her wooden face – seemed a hundred years ago, she thought.
There was a picture over the bed, a framed sampler in red and blue cross-stitch, with the words Hold fast that which is Good embroidered over a blue anchor. Anna looked at this with mistrust. It was the word 'good'. Not that she herself was particularly naughty, in fact her school reports quite often gave her a 'Good' for Conduct, but in some odd way the word seemed to leave her outside. She didn't feel good…..
A small bird flew over the creek, quite close to her head, uttering a short plaintive cry four or five times running, all on one note. It sounded like 'Pity me'! Oh, pity me!'
And then she saw the house…..As soon as she saw it Anna knew that this was what she had been looking for. The house, which faced straight on to the creek, was large and old and square, its many small windows framed in faded blue woodwork. No wonder she had felt she was being watched with all those windows staring at her!
Sitting alone on the shore….she looked back at the long, low line of the village and tried to pick out The Marsh House. But it was not there!…..Alarmed, she stood up. It had to be there. If it was not, then nothing seemed safe any more….nothing made sense….She blinked, opened her eyes wider, and looked again. Still it was not there. She sat down then – with the most ordinary face in the world, to show she was quite independent and not frightened at all…….as they rounded a bend in the creek and she saw the old house gradually emerge from its dark background of trees, she felt so hot and happy with relief that she nearly said, 'There it is!' out loud. She realized now that it had been there all the time.
Then as they rounded the last bend, she turned as she always did, to look towards The Marsh House…..They drew nearer, and then she saw, quite distinctly, in one of the upper windows, a girl. She was standing patiently, having her hair brushed.
She ignored the hand, pretending not to see it, but in that instant she longed to flop down on the floor beside him and tell him everything. But she could not have done that without crying, and the very idea of such a thing appalled her. Anyway they would miss the point somehow. Mrs Preston always did. She was always kind, but also she was always so terribly concerned. If only there was someone who would let you cry occasionally for no reason, or hardly any reason at all! But there appeared to be a conspiracy against that.
Already she had spent many afternoons here, lying in a sandy hollow, hearing only the wind rustling the tops of the grasses, the distant crying of the gulls, and the soft soughing of the sea. It was like being at the very edge of the world. Sometimes the gulls came nearer, screaming noisily as they quarelled over small fish in the pools, and sometimes they cried mournfully far away along the beach. Then Anna felt like crying too – not actually, but quietly – inside. They made a sad, and beautiful, and long-ago sound that seemed to remind her of something lovely she had once known – and lost, and never found again. But she did not know what it was.
Nothing had been said at the cottage about Anna staying out so late, and having to be brought home by the Beales. All that day, and the next, she went about quietly, steeling herself against reproaches and scoldings that never came. And gradually she thought she understood why. Mrs Pegg knew now that Anna was not worth bothering about. And this was her way of dealing with it – by saying nothing at all. She was tired of Anna…..This was not so, but Anna was not to know. At home things had a way of lingering on. They were not necessarily referred to, but you could feel them in the air…..Mrs Pegg appeared entirely unconcerned. This, thought Anna, could only mean that she had abandoned her, because she was too bad to be worth bothering about.
She had not seen Marnie since the party three nights ago, and The Marsh House had been silent. She glanced towards it now and saw that it seemed dark and asleep. The suspicion entered her mind suddenly that perhaps the family had gone away without her knowing….
'Marnie! I thought you'd gone away.' 'Silly, I live here.' 'But I never see you.' 'Goose, you're seeing me now'……'I've been so lonely', said Anna, surprised to hear herself saying it- it was so rare for her to confide in anyone.
They lay, side by side, sucking the ends of grasses, while the wind roared by over their heads, scarcely stirring their hair. In the sudden quiet, Anna murmured 'You are lucky. I wish I was you.' 'Why?' Anna wanted to say, because you're pretty and rich and nice, and you've got everything I haven't, but she was suddenly tongue-tied. It would have sounded silly.
Marnie moved nearer and touched her hair. 'Dear Anna, I love you. I love you more than any girl I've ever known'. She wiped the tear away and said, suddenly gay again, 'There! Does that make you feel better?' Anna smiled. Yes, she did feel better. It was as if a weight had been lifted off her. Running back across the fields with Marnie, she felt as light as air.
They were on the far side of the marsh, where sea lavender and marsh weeds gave way to hard sand. Here, when the tide was out, they spent hours altering the course of steams, and making tiny villages out of mud and sand. Even before a house was complete Marnie would start making a garden for it, collecting springs of sea lavender to make bushes, and wild harebells to stick along the sides of each minute garden path. When, next day, they found the tide had washed it all away, she was undismayed and would start on another all over again. But Anna was always a little regretful for the lost houses.
'What!' Anna was surprised. 'Don't you like the sea? I've always thought you were so lucky having it come right up to the house like that.' 'I'd rather have a garden', said Marnie. 'There's one at the front, of course, but that's different…..' 'The front?' Anna was puzzled. 'Isn't that the front that looks out on to the staithe?' Marnie stopped drawing flower beds in the sand and looked round at her in surprise. 'The front? How could it be, you goose? How do you suppose people could come when the tide's up? Did you imagine everyone came like you did, in my little boat?' She laughed, and Anna who had imagined just that, felt foolish. She realized now that of course it could not be so. She was surprised she had not thought of it before……'But tell me……where does the front come out?' Anna thought hard, trying to visualize that part of the road, then remembered the high brick wall that ran along one side, with the tall iron gates halfway along. She had looked through them one day and seen a dark drive, bordered with yew trees, curving away to the left. 'It looks so different,' she said slowly, 'I never thought……..'
She put her cheek against Anna's for a second, then ran on. Anna had to be satisfied with that, Marnie loved her best, and would rather be with her. That was all she had wanted to hear. She paddled across the creek and saw that the windows of the house were in darkness after all. But that did not mean they had gone away; only that they were round the other side.
She thought of the dark drive and the forbidding front entrance on the main road. Edward, and all the other guests, were welcome to that, she thought happily. She and Marnie shared the side of the house that she liked best, the quiet, secret side that had seemed to recognize her when she first stood dreaming by the water, the side that looked as if it had been there for ever…..
It was exasperating to wait for hours in the chosen place, only to have Marnie pop up on the way home. Surely she used not to do this? Anna could not remember, but it began to feel as if Marnie was playing hide and seek with her.
'I can't be everywhere all the time. And I'm here now. Come on, let's be friends'. But Anna did not feel like being coaxed. 'It isn't fair', she said. 'I need you more than you need me'. 'Nonsense. I need you, too, but you don't understand – I'm not free like you are. Don't let's quarrel, darling Anna!' Then Anna's resentment melted away, and they were happy again.
But she began to realise that she must not rely on Marnie too much. That if she was over sure of meeting her, that would be the time she would not come. That it was almost as if Marnie was determined Anna should never take her for granted. And yet sometimes they were as happy together as they had ever been.
Marnie murmured, so low that it might almost have been the wind blowing over the grasses, 'You are lucky. I wish I was you.' Anna turned to her, suddenly quiet. 'That's what I said to you – last time we were here'. 'Did you?' 'Yes, don't you remember? Oh, poor Marnie! I do love you. I love you more than any girl I've ever known.' She put out a hand to touch Marnie's hair, then stopped in mid-air. 'And that's what you said to me', she said slowly, with a surprised look on her face. 'How funny, it almost seems as if we're changing places'.
But how could Marnie have gone without even a word? Anna could never forgive her for that. And she would never trust anyone again. The hurt inside her hardened. She pushed away the tray and lay down again. Then, turning her face to the wall, she closed her mind to everything.
And suddenly all the bitter grudge she had been feeling against Marnie melted away. Marnie was her friend, and she loved her. Joyfully she shouted back, 'Yes! Oh, yes! Of course I forgive you! And I love you, Marnie. I shall never forget you, ever!'
She turned again to the window. Marnie's face had disappeared completely, blotted out by the blinding rain. But she waved wildly, trying to smile a good-bye, and pointing along the narrow strip of shore, which would soon be covered. And suddenly, as she looked, it seemed to her that the house was empty after all. That there was no one behind any of those blank staring windows. It looked like a house that had been empty a long time…..
Since her illness a shutter seemed to have come down between her and everything that had happened to her just before she was nearly drowned. It seemed now as if it had all happened a long time ago. Sometimes she almost felt as if she were seeing Little Overton for the first time. Then she would remember Marnie.
Marnie had gone. There was no doubt about it. As soon as she saw The Marsh House again, Anna knew for sure. She stood for a long while gazing at it, wondering what was different, and could find nothing specific. The house just looked empty. She was not surprised. She had known in her heart that she would never see Marnie again. But secretly she mourned for her.
Coming across the marsh at low tide one afternoon, she found an old lady sitting on a camp stool, sketching. She stood behind her for a moment, quietly watching, and saw that she was painting the staithe and The Marsh House. The lady turned and glanced up at her, and smiled. Instead of slinking away, as she would previously have done, Anna found herself smiling back…….'I love that old house, don't you?' said the woman. 'Yes', Anna said. The woman turned back to her painting. Anna waited, wondering if she would turn round again, but she didn't, so she crept quietly away. But she was pleased and felt as if she had made friends with someone just by not running away.
Coming to the front entrance of The Marsh House she was surprised to find the iron gates wide open….following the bend in the drive she came in full view of the house, and stopped and stared. She had never imagined it would look like this. It was just as attractive as the old house by the water. For some reason she had always thought of the front as if it were some quite different place. Now, for the first time, she realized what she must always have known really; they were two sides of the same house. And this side was, if anything, even more attractive. It had a warm, welcoming look which she had never expected.
Two sides of the same house…..One facing out on to the main road, the other looking back over the water…..And so strongly had she been attracted to the backward-looking side that she had even, for a while, mistaken it for the front. She wondered how she could have been so silly. But then, the gates had always been closed before, so how could she have known?
She lay down on her back in a hollow, feeling suddenly lonely, and wept for Marnie. The sad, long-ago sound of the gulls crying in the distance brought real tears now, and they fell from the corners of her eyes, trickling down the sides of her neck and wetting her hair before they sank into the sand. But even as she wept, a new and delicious sadness was creeping over her. The sadness one feels for something enjoyed and now over, rather than for something lost and never found again. A sandpiper flew overhead calling 'Pity me' but its cry was now like a little lament for Marnie rather than an empty pity for herself. Comforted by her own tears, she lay there until the sun had dried them….
For a moment she found it impossible even to imagine Mrs Preston at The Marsh House, but the more she thought about it, the more she wanted her to come. She wanted her to see the Lindsays, and she wanted to see her with the Lindsays. If they liked her and she liked them, then – even if only for an hour – Anna's two worlds would be joined into one. At the back of her mind, too, was a thought she had not yet allowed herself to think about seriously. Her holiday could not last for ever. It was already August, and although the subject had never actually been mentioned, she knew she would have to go home again before next term began.
It was raining harder now and she was beginning to get wet, but it did not matter. She was warm inside. She turned and began running back along the dyke, thinking how strange it was – about being 'inside' or 'outside'. It was nothing to do with there being other people, or whether you were 'an only', or one of a large family….it was something to do with how you were feeling inside yourself.
The wind made a roaring noise in her ears as she ran, and she shouted and sang at the top of her voice. She remembered once, some summer morning – when had it been? – running along a dyke in a wind like this, and feeling the same sort of happiness. Then she remembered. It was when she had been with Marnie, that first time they had gone mushrooming – that first time they had been real friends.
For an instant she fancied she saw someone – a little girl with long, fair hair– waving to her from one of the upper windows of the Marsh House. But there was no one there…..It was the end window – the window that had once been Marnie's…..She stood for a moment, watching the rain falling slantwise across the house and streaming in rivers down the window panes, wondering what it reminded her of. Then she remembered that, too.
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Sounds like it would resonate with me too! Might pick up a copy when I finish reading my current book x
Wow, this book sounds really good. It already resonated with me on a deep level. Will definitely be getting a copy of this as soon as I can afford it. Thanks for sharing this with us. ❤
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I watched the movie online. (Free) It was great…..there was so much in that book!
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True Face of Newstart Recipients
Wendy Morgan, in her appearance on ABC's The Drum, showed the true face of Newstart recipients.
The majority are older women and they are on Newstart much longer than younger people, often for four years until they are old enough for the pension.
Wendy is not a drug addict. Nor is she a dole bludger.
She is a science tutor, has a double science degree in physics and chemistry, ran a printing lab and also has a forklift license.
October 7, 2019/by Augustine Zycher
The Queen & Other Older Women
Have you noticed something about the women who were honoured this year in the Queen's Birthday Honours list?
Have you noticed that a significant number of these leaders in business, the media, STEM, women's rights, Indigenous recognition, and innovation are women over the age of 50 - usually referred to as 'older women'.
These women have been quite rightly recognised for their valuable contributions to society. So why is it that women over 50 are generally regarded in media and in terms of employment as having expended their value with their youth?
June 16, 2019/by Augustine Zycher
The 'Invisible' Crisis
This election is characterised by bipartisan blindness. Both the Coalition's 2019 Budget and the Budget Reply show that Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten have overlooked a looming national crisis. Neither is prepared to recognise that older women in Australia are ageing into poverty and homelessness in unprecedented numbers.
These women remain invisible to both leaders and to their party platforms.
And yet the statistics are available to those who want to see them.
April 10, 2019/by Augustine Zycher
TWO AUSTRALIAS
Paul Keating recently expressed fears of a future when there will be two Australias. But we are already there. We already have a generation of people who have worked all their lives and now find themselves impoverished. They are women aged over 55 and there are over a million of them.
Their economic disadvantage is the consequence of a history of gender discrimination.
Throughout their working lives, these women suffered decades of economic discrimination, inequality and injustice.
November 18, 2018/by Augustine Zycher
OLD SHEILAS SPEAKING UP
Our names are Augustine Zycher and Rosalie Zycher. We are the Founders and Editors of WomanGoingPlaces.
We now setting up a Facebook Group called:
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We belong to a generation of pioneers - women over the age of 50.
But we don't really see ourselves as a pioneering generation. And we certainly are not given any credit for it. So maybe it's worthwhile remembering just what we did pioneer.
October 14, 2018/by Augustine Zycher
WOMEN OVER 50 – what shall we call ourselves?
Let's start by listing what other people call us - matron, old lady, granny, biddy, old bag, crone, hag, witch, are some of the names used.
There is nothing positive about these appellations. They are either neutral or negative.
They denote weakness, ugliness, helplessness and even evil.
They constitute a massive put down.
In a society that values women primarily for their youthful beauty, sexual and reproductive powers, the more we age, the more we lose value. Our currency as women is devalued.
Until we become invisible.
April 9, 2018/by Augustine Zycher
We, the Matriarchs…
We, the Matriarchs… are the first generation in history of older, highly educated women to number in the tens of millions.
We are the first ever generation of older women who have spent decades in the workforce in professions and skilled employment, and not in the sweatshops and the fields.
We are the first ever generation of older women who have accumulated independent wealth and economic clout, despite discriminatory wage practices.
And we are the first ever generation of older women who can expect to live into their 90s.
But now we are entering the age of retirement. What next? What does society expect of us?
Well, nothing really.
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My name is Ajok. I come from South Sudan (in 2005).
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But now our kids not listen to us.
When you see on the TV they say black people do this, they do this, you not feeling good. You feeling like tell your kid and your family to go back in your country. But not safe in our country. That's why we are here.
April 16, 2017/by Rosalie Zycher
Fatma – Women of Oz
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We interviewed Esther, aged 107, with her daughter Norma. Esther has lived in an aged care facility since she was 102. Prior to that she lived independently. Throughout her long life, she travelled extensively in Australia, especially in the family caravan, with her late husband and her daughters. These trips were a joyful and an important part of Esther's family life. She and Norma share some of these memories.
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Susan – Women of Oz
I learnt to be on my own later, travelling as an older woman, because I think I have been left alone as an older woman in a way that I never was when I was younger. I used to be followed. Spain was a nightmare. You couldn't be on the street in those days in the sixties. You could not go to Spain alone. You could not go to Greece alone. And you could not be in Italy unless you wanted to be followed all the time. Now I feel very free because no-one even sees me! Oh, it's great! It's fabulous!
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Karyn – Women of Oz
Every time we build in Cambodia, it's a challenge because 40 to 50 people build 40 homes in 3 days. It's heads down, bottom up, hammer away. It's always a physical challenge.
Susie – Women of Oz
The most outstanding trip I ever undertook was with a group of 5 women and we climbed Kilimanjaro. It was an amazing, emotional experience.
Elizabeth – Women of Oz
I'd never been out of Australia until about 6 years ago. Well, I thought, it's now or never. And now I've been to over 30 countries.
Claire – Women of Oz
The trip I most remember was to Mexico, about 4 years ago. My daughter was working there with Cirque du Soleil.
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Kuzhithura (also known as Kuzhithurai) is a city and a municipality in Kanyakumari District in the Indian state of TamilNadu.
It is the administrative headquarters of the Vilavancode Taluk. It is located along the Kochi-Trivandrum-Kanyakumari National highway 47.
It has a historical seaport (thura or thurai) where ancient merchants came from across the Arabian sea in ancient times. It is mentioned in ancient Indian maps. As of 2011, the town had a population of 21,307.
Kuzhithura municipality spreads over an area of 5 km². The Thamiraparani river flows through Kuzhithura.
This town is famous for the annual Vavu Bali (Shradham for the ancestors held during the Mahalaya Amavasi) ceremony that is held here during July/Aug (Malayalam month Karkidakam).
The Government Higher Secondary School Vilavancode is situated at Kuzhithura junction. It was founded by HRH Sir Sree Chithira Thirunal, Maharajah of Travancore GCSI, GCIE (November 7, 1912 – July 19, 1991) who was the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Travancore.


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The World Beyond by Sri Chinmoy offers insight into death and bereavement informed by Eastern spiritual philosophy and the author's firsthand wisdom as a spiritual teacher to thousands of seekers around the world.
I had been meaning to write about this recently published compilation of my teacher's writings on death and consolation in loss ever since I first read it last August. I never imagined that I would turn to such a task in the context of his own death a mere few months later.
The synchronicity of this book's publication shortly before the author's own death proves a compelling tool to parse out teachings to help his students cope with mourning the loss of his outer presence in their lives.
This book, however, is compelling under any circumstances and for any audience. It offers a glimpse into death, the afterlife, reincarnation and advice for lessening the sorrow associated with the loss of a loved one.
Now I wish to tell you, Reverend, how you and your wife can console yourselves and even get inner joy from your outer loss. Please keep around yourselves as many pictures as possible of your beloved son at different times of his life. Please write down your sweetest memories of your beloved son. Then, from time to time, read those memories and become the sweetness, beauty, reality and divinity of your son's life. While you are trying to grow into the memories, feel that your son is not only with you and in you, but for you.
with your heart's cries and your soul's smiles. Through prayers, we develop our heart's cries. Through meditations, we develop our soul's smiles. Either of these two can be applicable to commune with your beloved son or to derive joy from merely thinking about him.
Later in the book, Sri Chinmoy offers more practical advice in the form of a special meditation technique to try if one is visiting someone in the hospital and that person is dying.
Another important message in the book is his explanation of ancient Eastern wisdom on death itself. The book begins with his mention of the soul and death from the viewpoint of the Bhagavad Gita. From this perspective, the soul is birthless and deathless and the human life is a journey experienced through countless lifetimes coming back down to Earth.
The song of the birds says that there is no death. The birds fly in the sky. The sky signifies Infinity. If one remains in Infinity, then how can there be any death? So the song of the birds always declares the Immortality of the soul.
Read The World Beyond by Sri Chinmoy and hear the birds sing.
To purchase the book published by Aum Publications, see ordering information at SriChinmoybooks.com.


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How Normal Are "Normal" Errors of Language and Cognition?
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Purpose The aim of this study was to estimate the frequency and severity of common errors and inefficiencies of language and cognition in the general population. Method Item-response theory parameters were analyzed from the Neuro-QOL Cognitive Function Item Bank v2.0, which references a large normative sample that mirrors the demographics of the U.S. Census. Item parameters were analyzed to reveal the most likely responses to items about errors and inefficiencies of language and cognition. These most likely responses were estimated for each of 25 levels of theta to reveal normal and gradations of abnormal experiences of errors and inefficiencies. Results A typical experience with language and cognitive errors and inefficiencies (e.g., producing a T score between 40 and 60) is to have "a little" difficulty with each task that was assessed or to experience nearly every error/inefficiency at least once a week. Word-finding effort was particularly ubiquitous, as was the experience of walking into a room and forgetting one's intention. Conclusions It is typical to experience errors and inefficiencies of language and cognition. This analysis describes a typical experience for an average person in a highly representative sample. However, more work is needed in order to learn what is typical for more specific subgroups, for example, based on age.
Effects of speech rate, preview time of visual context, and participant instructions reveal strong limits on prediction in language processing.
Functional lateralization of major Chinese language cortex for presurgical evaluation in neurosurgery.
Cognitive Effects of White Matter Pathology in Normal and Pathological Aging.
Normal cellular isoform of prion proteins (PRIONS) encoded by a chromosomal gene and found in normal and scrapie-infected brain tissue, and other normal tissue. PrPC are protease-sensitive proteins whose function is unknown. Posttranslational modification of PrPC into PrPSC leads to infectivity.


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Persons nominated for consideration for honorary degrees should have made distinguished and broad contributions to society. These may be in the traditional areas of scholarship and creative arts, research and development, the learned professions, public service, or business and industry. The prime and controlling consideration should be excellence.
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Current elected or appointed national office holders
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Early in the academic year the Committee will solicit through the offices of the vice presidents, deans, and University Council Executive Committee nominations for an honorary degree. Nominations must be supported by individuals who are knowledgeable in the nominee's field of accomplishment and who therefore are in a position to make an evaluation. Each nomination must be accompanied by three or more letters of nomination and a biographical sketch of the individual. The Committee may seek additional information.
The Honorary Degrees Committee will screen nominees and recommend, with supporting rationale, up to five finalists to the President. The President, based on the supporting rationale and any additional consultation, will select the one or two persons to receive an honorary degree and make his recommendation to the Chancellor for consideration by the Board of Regents.


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A Criminal Lawyer's Tips for Writing Legal Thrillers. Guest Post by Author/Attorney Ed Rucker
Date: June 14, 2019Author: Ronovan 2 Comments
Today's guest author is Ed Rucker, author of The Inevitable Witness. He's a criminal defense lawyer in California who has tried over 200 jury trials, including 13 death penalty cases. His forthcoming legal thriller, Justice Makes A Killing, will be released in July 2019.
Who better than this guy to give write this post?
A Criminal Lawyer's Tips for Writing Legal Thrillers
Plot Requires Tension
Trying a criminal case has much in common with the creation of a mystery plot; in a jury trial, both the prosecutor and the defense lawyer are storytellers – although their stories are radically different.
When the police investigate a crime, they uncover and assemble an array of "facts," such as witnesses, documents or forensic evidence. The prosecutor then weaves these facts together into a story, one that shows that the defendant committed the crime. In the prosecutor's story, the defendant is propelled by a strong emotion like greed, jealousy, or revenge.
The defense must tell an alternative story about these "facts," one that accepts the hard facts (science based forensics), but demonstrates the unreliability or falseness of other facts, leading to a different conclusion. If new facts are uncovered and added to the story, perhaps now they point their finger at another suspect.
In a mystery novel, as these contrasting stories evolve and move toward a climax, they can make for a tension-filled plot and an exhilarating read.
Build Complex Characters
Readers enjoy when a book's characters have some depth, some complexity. This certainly applies to the story's protagonist, but equally to its other characters. For example, when the storyline includes an innocent person who is wrongfully accused, there is often a tendency to treat that character as a placeholder while the business of solving the mystery moves ahead. In reality, when a person is charged with a crime it shakes them to their very core. The prospect of spending a good portion of their life in a steel and cement box tends to peel away any layers of pretense. People are stripped raw and their true being emerges with all its contradictions, virtues, and base impulses.
This is also true of the villain of the piece. As a criminal defense lawyer, I learned that no matter how abhorrent the acts my clients committed, I was always able to find a vein of humanity in them with which I could identify. Like all of us, they were a bundle of complex and contradictory impulses, both good and bad. Most had personal histories that made their life choices – while not acceptable – at least understandable. As the old adage says, there but for the grace of God go I. Even a villain should not appear one-dimensional.
Reflect the Media's Effect on Criminal Cases
We are saturated today with a barrage of news, not only from such traditional outlets as TV and the newspapers, but also from social media. A significant number of the public receive their information from podcasts on Facebook and YouTube. Therefore, to write with authenticity about a criminal investigation or a legal thriller that involves a sensational case, the author must address the impact that this media coverage has on those involved. In my experience, if a case attracts the media's attention it changes how that case is handled by the participants. The police detectives and their superiors go to quickly solve the crime in order to enhance their public image. Such pressure carries with the real possibility of a rush to judgment. When the case reaches the courts, the media spotlight shifts onto the judge and the prosecutor. Both must stand for election and may fear a backlash at the ballot box if their decisions do not meet with the media's approval. Consequently, the prosecutor feels he or she must win at all costs and seek the harshest punishment in order to appear "tough on crime." A judge may tilt his or her rulings toward the prosecution on close legal questions to avoid appearing "soft on crime." The author should recognize and seek to depict this reality.
Prosecutors are Not Always Ethical
It is realistic to write about prosecutors stepping over ethical lines. Prosecutors, no doubt, have a difficult job. Not because, as is portrayed on TV, they have the "deck stacked against them," but rather because they must often act against their own competitive instincts by sharing their evidence with the defense. This Constitutional guarantee is needed to guard against the conviction of innocent people. However, the pressure on prosecutors to win in order to advance their own careers and reputations may sometimes cause them to ignore these "legal technicalities." They may be tempted to hide exculpatory evidence, coach a witness, use discredited informants, or tolerate police fabrications, all in the name of "we know he's guilty." When such misdeeds are discovered, the courts are reluctant to actually punish an offending prosecutor, choosing instead to consider such violations as "harmless legal errors." This lack of accountability creates a sense of immunity among prosecutors. So depicting such malfeasance or the temptation to indulge in it should be something the author considers.
Ed Rucker is the author of The Inevitable Witness. He is a criminal defense lawyer in California who has tried over 200 jury trials, including 13 death penalty cases. He has received numerous awards, including the L.A. Criminal Bar Association's "Trial Lawyer of the Year," the L.A. County Bar Association's "Distinguished Career Award," and he is listed in "Best Lawyers in America." Under the auspices of the Ukrainian government, he spent two years there establishing a legal assistance program for criminal cases. His forthcoming legal thriller, Justice Makes A Killing, will be released in July 2019.
DEFENSE LAWYER BOBBY EARL RETURNS TO FACE HIS TOUGHEST CASE YET
When Bobby Earl meets the beautiful but vulnerable Kate Carlson, a prominent LA lawyer who awaits trial in a small town jail for a murder during a prison break, he thinks he knows what's at stake: negotiate a decent plea deal for a guilty client, pocket his fee and move on. But Kate insists she's been set-up. To find the truth, Bobby must risk his own life, career and everything he loves by dredging up the secrets of the billion-dollar private prison industry and the powerful California prison guards union, in a desperate battle against a powerful and expanding conspiracy.
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Emberlit Stove Review - Is this folding stove a BOB option?
In any survival situation, the ability to prepare food and boil water are crucial. You need to make sure your bug out plan accounts for this. There are a variety of stove types you can add to your bugout bag and picking one that meets your needs while making the right compromises is an important decision. Many space-conscious preppers look for an ultralight stove to solve this problem. We came across a great example of a well made, compact backpacking stove in the Emberlit Stainless Steel Collapsible Stove. Mikhail at Emberlit was kind enough to send one over for us to put through the paces. The Emberlit backpacking stove weighs 11.3 oz (316 g) and folds flat to fit in a pack or even a pocket. It utilizes a rocket stove style design which allows it to burn nearly anything and conduct heat in a highly efficient manner. Finding a rocket stove that could pack down to nearly nothing seemed too good to be true. As we conducted our Emberlit Stove Review we were impressed with the functionality and versatility of their design.
The test I devised for our Emberlit stove review was pretty simple: make a cup of instant coffee-a trail favorite of mine. The Emberlit comes in a nice, reusable package with assembly instructions printed clearly on the front. I removed the Emberlit folding stove from its envelope, hastily ignoring the simple instructions and just assembling on the fly. The only real thing to note in assembly (pointed out in the instructions) is that the front (the side with the fuel feeder opening) goes on last. Beyond that, there's basically only one way to put it together. This simplicity of design means you could put the stove together in a hurry, in a low light situation, or if your hands are numb from the cold or unsteady.
Once I had the Emberlit assembled, I set about collecting fuel. As with any camp fire, you want to make sure you have all the fuel you'll need set aside before you light your fire. There are few things more demoralizing that getting some kindling lit and realizing you don't have enough to keep it going. This is of particular importance in a crisis or bug out scenario.
With my fuel gathered and set aside, I set about building my fire. I removed the grill section and added a couple of pieces of balled up paper, some of the smaller dry twigs on top to start. I lit the tinder and commenced adding more small kindling. The rocket stove based design of the Emberlit makes getting your little fire going as easy as you could hope for. The walls protect the small fire and hold in heat, while the bottom vents draw in air creating a chimney effect. Once I'd gotten a good bed of coals, I replaced the grill and started feeding larger pieces of fuel through the Emberlit's front opening. I set my canteen cup full of water on the grill and continued tending the fire. Since this is such a small fire, you do have to keep an eye on it and feed it as it consumes fuel. The grill section is flat and stable enough to accommodate a large pot or pan, should you need it.
After a few short minutes my cup had reached a rolling boil, and was ready for coffee. I extinguished the fire, allowed the Emberlit to cool and quickly wiped it down and packed it. The whole process was quick, easy and left hardly a trace of my passing.
Incredibly packable. You could fit this stove in your pants pocket.
Versatile fuel source. Use whatever is at hand: wood, moss, cardboard, paper, charcoal, dung, or any other biomass.
Easy to use. Simple, quick, and obvious assembly.
Rocket Stove design makes getting a good fire going easy.
Stability. The Emberlit is well built and stable enough to use in many cooking applications.
The floor of the stove keeps your fire off the ground which is great in wet or snowy survival scenarios.
Takes a little more time and care than a liquid or solid fuel stove to boil water.
Overall I would rate the Emberlit Stainless Steel Collapsible Stove very highly and recommend it as an addition to any camping kit or bugout bag. Over the course of our Emberlit stove review it became obvious that its simplicity, durability and versatility make it an item you'll use again and again. It is worth noting that Emberlit's stoves also come in a titanium version for those wanting a corrosion resistant collapsible stove. Our testing showed that the Emberlit folding stove has a fairly easy learning curve to climb but as with any piece of survival kit, make sure you take it out and practice using it. Mastering basic survival skills and tools BEFORE you need to use them is what preparedness is all about.
What do you think of the Emberlit folding stove? Is there anything else you would want to see as a part of our Emberlit stove review? Please let us know in the Comments Section below, thanks!
Oakley is an outdoor enthusiast and life skills student located in Northern New Jersey.
I think since they advertise that it can use multiple fuels that you put that to the test. Depending on the weather were you are you could have tried a few alternative fuels and then reported on how effective or ineffective they were or any other special insights from trying alternative fuels.
That is a great idea for future testing. As we use the stove we will try to post an update on different materials' effectiveness. Thanks for your feedback!
Fred's idea is good. Here's another one. You could use a watch and small cooking thermometer to compare how long it takes various stoves to raise the temp of the water to the temp you want for your coffee, soup, etc. Thanks for your efforts.
Great idea Duncan, Thanks. If we do a bunch more stove tests we will have to do something like this so we can compare apples to apples.


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Home » Business » MAN, Oron partners organisation to end marine plastic pollution
MAN, Oron partners organisation to end marine plastic pollution
By Godfrey Bivbere
•Maritime Academy, Oron
THE Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, in collaboration with Marine and Environment Care is set to roll out a campaign against marine plastic pollution.
Addressing the audience at the Academy's auditorium, the Rector, Commodore Emmanuel Effedua (retd), expressed his commitment to the campaign to end marine plastic debris.
Effedua told the gathering that the Academy considered it a worthy course to support, considering that marine plastic pollution is a global concern and that institutions around the world were making recognisable efforts at ensuring the oceans become healthy again.
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He stated: "The Maritime Academy of Nigeria is glad to identify with this programme that is educating the community on the dangers of polluting the seas and oceans, as well as actionable steps that should be taken to end the pollution. As an institution connected with the marine environment, it is our responsibility and honour to guard the marine environment, so that we can continue to enjoy the benefits of the ocean resources.
"The talk about the Blue Economy, which comes from the ocean resources, cannot be complete without taking responsibility of the well-being of the oceans. It is the Decade of Ocean Science For Sustainable Development, as declared by the UNESCO, and the essence of Decade is for the UN member states to work on mapped out strategies toward achieving the ocean we want today and for the future generation.
"We have simply set sail showing our step to action to ending marine pollution, particularly with plastic. We shall leave here with the message, not just for our consumption alone, but to be shared among everyone around us."
In her presentation, the resource person, Mrs. Hope Afoke Orivri, a specialist in communication for human and environmental development, said the core of the engagement was to enable participants at the lecture get exposed to the dangers of marine environment pollution and be able to take action based on the message they have been engaged with.
She urged every participant to be a worthy ambassador of the oceans by staying true to the pledge to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic wares than engaging in indiscriminate disposal of waste.
She told the gathering that people must begin to understand that marine debris, particularly plastic pollutants, come from human activities, as people fail to manage their municipal waste properly, adding, "People need to understand that it is activities that human involve in on land that starts the pollution to the seas. When used items including plastic packaging for food and drinks and even cutlery are dumped carelessly after use, such items are swept into the seas by running water or wind.
"The good thing is that we can all agree to take responsibility and begin to save our seas now by cutting out single-use plastics, and recycling the ones we must throw away."
"Pollution of the seas is very worrisome, because the pollutants end up in our food chain, beginning with the seafood we eat. Of course, the fishes and marine mammals ingest the plastic thinking it is food."
Highpoint of the event was the membership registration for a Clean-Up Club.
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Inequality exists everywhere (whether we like it or not), even in social justice spaces. Participants in the the Creative Resilience Collective agree to lessen the negative effects of oppressive ideologies as much as possible. "There is no hierarchy of oppression" (Lorde) -- we strive to recognize and counteract all oppressions intersectionally. We position ourselves mindfully in an anti-oppressive stance through study groups, workshops, critical writing, art/design making, and other neighborly practices.
Participants in the collective should experience a space full of comfort, agency and a sense of worth. Personal boundaries should be welcomed, should maintain integrity under stress, and should be met with generosity. Sharing needs should feel rhythmic and dependable. Consider what you can do to encourage and support others. Make room for quieter voices to contribute. Offer support and enthusiasm for great ideas. Leverage the low cost of experimentation to support emergent ideas, and take care to acknowledge original sources, not just the most recent or loudest contributor. When someone offers something unexpected, look for ways to contribute and collaborate. Share your knowledge and skills. Prioritize access for and input from those who are traditionally excluded from the civic and political process.
Group members are accountable to each other and the community at large, and are responsible for direct and open communication, transparency, and how we share and distribute power. Accountability is weighed much more heavily through measuring impact than by reviewing intentions.
Treat others the way they want to be treated - We all sometimes assume our needs are symmetrical with others'. Don't erase the differences between all lives.
Always have check-ins - Take it for granted that other people are not always aligned with you emotionally, intellectual, spiritually, or otherwise. Put in your best effort into aligning using all your communication skills. 'Community' and 'communication' go hand in hand.
Assume Positive Intent (API) - Not everyone comes in with the same set of experiences and knowledge, so assume that people have good intent.
Be accountable - Anticipate, acknowledge, and show responsibility for the impact of your actions and words. Intentions count less than impact.
Confidentiality - Share lessons learned. Refrain from names and identifiers when you have not gotten consent to share them.
"Don't Yuck My Yum" - Avoid statements that pass judgment, such as "I hate that" or "Eww!" We all have different experiences, struggles, tastes, and preferences.
Use "I" statements - Speak from your own experiences rather than generalizing. You are an expert in your own experience.
Self-care - Take breaks from meetings/organizing if needed ("Show up for your health, not for events"). Pass on/delegate responsibilities if needed. Say yes and no when you mean it. Define healthy boundaries. Cherish mistakes. Develop support networks within and outside the collective.
Care - Hold each other accountable for community and self care.
Have some food beforehand or bring some to share to avoid the "hanger" that can affect the process in a meeting.
Try to come prepared. Take time to gather supplies and the things you'll need for the meeting to avoid feeling flustered and stressed while in the meeting. It could be your laptop, water bottle, pen and notepad, notes you've made, etc. If you forget something, that's ok too. Be kind to yourself.
Communicate your needs to the group.
Care (for yourself or by/for others) - Sometimes our meetings can be long and draining, Do what you need to do to recharge and de-stress.
Do something energizing – Walk, exercise, take a quick stretch, etc.
Be introverted - Read a book, take a bath, watch a movie, listen to good music.
Be social - Go out, share a meal, hit the dancefloor.
Rest - Take a nap/go to bed (if it's an evening meeting).
Take things one thing at a time - Sometimes you may feel overwhelmed with action items to do. Create a list or plan out how you might make the workload more manageable over time. It could help put your mind at ease and reduce anxiety.


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Q: Best Practice for deploying PHP on multiple servers I'm currently deploying some PHP Zend applications on my servers and this is currently what I got.
1st Layer - Load-balancer + Http-cache.
2nd Layer - web-server (will have many more webservers in here, that's why the load-balancer).
3rd Layer - MySql (will have replication, slave-master, maybe sharding per customer or group of customers).
The question is this, currently Im running nginx + php-fpm on the webserver, all the php code stays in the user respective home folder. When the time passes I'll want to increase the number of servers, php-fpm and nginx instances.
Where should I put the php, because I can't duplicate it among the servers, otherwise updates will screw up consistency ;)
I'm thinking maybe a NFS that will hold all php code and the servers will just point to that.
What the correct approach here?
I'm kind of new to server architecture.
Appreciate your help.
[]'s
Rodrigo

A: You really shouldn't put it on NFS. That will make your NFS server a single point of failure.
If your NFS is unreachable (maybe it crashes, maybe there's a network problem..), then your whole site is offline.
Instead, store your PHP in some central location - anywhere. It doesn't matter where.
Then when you need to push your files to a new server, just copy then to the new server.
You will have to make sure your users do not update the PHP on the web servers directly.
They should update them in the central location.
For example, let's say you have web1 and web2 as your web servers, and your PHP files are kept in /home/foo/php and /home/bar/php. This is currently your authoritative location and probably needs to change.
Set up something like /var/code/foo/php and /var/code/bar/php, and tell your users to update there. When they do an update, run a script which copies the files to /home/foo/php and /home/bar/php` on each web server.
Part of the difficulty you're having now, and will continue to have, is that you're storing data in users home directories.
You should consider moving to a proper version control system like Mercurial, Git or SVN. Store all of the data in the same location, and then check out those wherever you want.
An example of this:
Use a server (let's call it dev1) and install SVN. Create an new project in SVN (let's call it php_project1). Tell your users to check out svn://dev1/php_project1/userN, and to edit and commit the files to SVN.
Then on your web servers, you can do something like:
cd /home/user1/php
svn checkout svn://dev1/php_project1/user1

And any time you need to update your web servers, you just run svn update in the home directory.
There's a lot more I could go in to. Welcome to managing a web farm.

A: *

*1st Layer - only load-balancer

*2nd Layer - static/image/video web-server(nginx); common web-server(nginx+php-fpm); script server(nginx+php-fpm or cpp; run "heavy" script); memcached server

*3rd Layer - sharding master-slave MySQL server

and monitoring(Zabbix) and mail server. Pinba realtime monitoring/statistics server for PHP using MySQL.

I'm thinking maybe a NFS that will hold all php code and the servers will just point to that.

bad idea, use Version Control System(git,svn,mercurial,...) and deployment script


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#noregrets
Mandy Moore isn't that excited to relive her pop-star past, and tbh, we get it
Jen Juneau
Hands up if you listened to Mandy Moore's "Candy" on repeat during the summer of 1999 and got a VW Beetle because of that music video as soon as you could afford to buy a car. Just us? OK, cool. But seriously, the Mandy Moore pop star persona isn't something the actress is especially keen about reliving.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, the This Is Us star shone some light on her current priorities, starting off with the disclaimer that, "I'm in a completely different chapter of my life, and I don't begrudge anything."
"It's all led me to where I am now," she says. I'm happy to acknowledge [the past], but also stay focused on the present.
We completely get this. Like…Mandy was 14 when she recorded "Candy" and 15 when the music video dropped. Now, 18 years later, she's killing it as Rebecca on This Is Us (to the point where if she doesn't get a nod when the Emmy nominations are announced next month, we'll probably riot), which is a long way from her pop-star days.
But that doesn't mean Mandy doesn't totally appreciate where she got her start — it's just all about keeping the different parts of her journey where they belong.
"I think it's cool to have different chapters of your life and career and for there to be a portion of an audience out there that just knows me from [This Is Us]," she added to ET. "I'm totally fine with it because there's plenty of stuff in the past I'd like to forget."
It's unclear whether Mandy means personally, professionally, or both with that latter quote, but we can't possibly think of anything in her career that we'd want to forget. From A Walk to Remember — which we're still crying over — to The Princess Diaries, her voice work as Rapunzel in Tangled, and all her amazing music, we detect no flaws.
She's even getting her feet wet (literally) in the thriller genre! Her new shark movie 47 Meters Down comes out TOMORROW, and we've already got our tickets and nerves intact.
So while we promise we're totally focused on Mandy's present career, we still can't help watching the "Candy" music video again. It's just so summer perfect and next month marks its 18th anniversary, which is a special-enough occasion, right? Plus, THE FASHION. THE BOYS. THE BRIGHT COLORS. It's all just so deliciously late '90s.
You forgive us Mandy, right? We're still along for the ride of your career, and know you will continue to do amazing things!
By Jen Juneau
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