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British Esports Association grows team with three new hires
May 15th, London: The British Esports Association, the not-for-profit organisation set up to promote and support grassroots esports, has made a trio of appointments.
Morgan Ashurst (pictured left) has taken the position of marketing manager, focusing on social media, partnerships and campaigns, while Elliot Bond (centre) and Alice Leaman (right) have joined as school and college liaison officers, helping educational institutions learn about esports and the British Esports Championships.
Morgan boasts a host of marketing and content experience, having worked as digital content manager at Riot Gaming and most recently as senior marketing executive at system builder Fierce PC, where she headed up the Fierce Esports brand and its teams.
She is also a former Call of Duty pro gamer, having competed at LAN events since the age of 16 and was featured in a Channel 4 documentary, Vice article and campaign for Belong and Activision.
Elliot has been building PCs and playing games from a young age, and is currently a high-ranked Champion 3 Rocket League player who has Grand Champion in his sights this season. He joins from Mallinson Sport Centre at Highgate School in London, where he worked as commercial and enterprise duty manager focusing on tournament, project and client management.
Alice, meanwhile, has service and hospitality experience as well as close ties with the British Esports Association. She has been volunteering for British Esports for more than a year, having helped with the pilot Championships and Season 1 and 2 as an admin.
Elliot takes on a full-time role looking after schools and colleges in the South of the UK, while Alice adopts a part-time role and will work focus on the North. Both Elliot and Alice will work alongside student esports coordinator Natacha Jones and report in to British Esports head of education Tom Dore; Morgan will report in to content director Dominic Sacco.
Elliot and Alice start on May 20th and Morgan will join on June 10th.
Morgan said: "I'm super excited to be starting my next journey as the new marketing manager for the British Esports Association. From growing up within the esports industry and playing at Call of Duty events to showing the rest of the UK the power of esports is a dream come true."
Elliot added: "I am very passionate about the esports industry and have been for years. I am proud to join the team at this crucial time in its development here in the UK. I am excited to see the young talent that the UK can produce and how it develops in the future."
Alice commented: "Having volunteered for a year working on the Championships, I'm thrilled that I get to be a part of making the Championships even bigger and better. I'm most looking forward to inspiring younger generations to get involved and to realise the key skills that can be gained from esports. I believe that UK esports will continue to grow further in the future and I want to be a part of making this happen."
British Esports Association CEO Chester King said: "We are delighted to have found three talented people to join our team. I am really excited about what they will bring to British Esports and the impact they will have as we continue to grow and develop."
About the British Esports Association
The British Esports Association is a not-for-profit organisation established in 2016 to support and promote esports in the UK.
As a national body, its aims are to foster future British talent, increase the awareness of esports and provide expertise and advice. It's focused on the grassroots level of esports.
The Association hopes to help educate the masses – including parents, teachers, media and government – around what esports is and the benefits it offers.
Its three goals are to Promote, Improve and Inspire.
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Dominic Sacco, content director
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Michael O'Dell
Dignitas Founder
Michael O'Dell (aka ODEE) is the founder of long-running esports organisation Dignitas, and previously managed its professional esports teams. He is a veteran of competitive gaming and a keen supporter of the growing industry.
Team Dignitas was founded in 2003 having started out in Battlefield 1942, and has grown to produce top sides across multiple titles including League of Legends, CSGO, Rocket League and more. Dignitas was acquired by US NBA basketball club The Philadelphia 76ers in 2016, later rebranded to Dignitas and ODEE stepped away from the organisation in 2019.
Andrew Nixon
Sheridans Lawyer
Andrew heads up the sports and esports team at the entertainment and media firm Sheridans. Andrew acts for a wide range of stakeholders within the esports industry, including rights holders, leagues, teams, game developers and individual esports talent.
He has also spoken at various esports and sports conferences on esports, across a variety of issues, including regulation, player welfare, governance and the commercialisation of esports and content licensing. Andrew's background is in traditional sports sector, acting forgoverning bodies, rights holders, sports data companies, sports clubs, sports agencies, sponsors and individual athletes. Andrew is also a non-executive director of Table Tennis England and sits on the editorial board for Law in Sport.
Dominic Sacco
Dominic has an extensive background in video games trade journalism, having worked at NewBay Media on games industry publication MCV and as editor of tech trade title PCR.
He founded his own publication Esports News UK in 2015 to cover the UK League of Legends scene and other esports games in the UK, conducting player interviews, match reports and covering news.
Dominic is responsible for content on the British Esports Association website, internal and external communications, handling public queries and works with marketing and PR on the association's messaging.
Alice Leaman
School and college liaison officer
Alice has service and hospitality experience as well as close ties with the British Esports Association. She has been volunteering for British Esports for more than a year, having helped with the pilot Championships and Season 1 and 2 as an admin.
Alice looks after schools and colleges in the North of the UK.
Tom Dore
Head of Education
Tom is leading our exciting schools project as Head of Education, looking at launching esports leagues in schools and colleges throughout the UK.
Currently still working at a school in Bath, he is an experienced teacher and educator with over 17 years experience in different leadership roles across a full spectrum of state and independent schools. He has also worked as an associate for PIXL, the national partnership of over 2,500 schools in the UK. He is passionate about supporting young people and enabling them to achieve success both inside and outside the classroom.
If you are a student or teacher and are interested in taking part in the schools/colleges league, please visit our Championships hub here or email Tom here.
Head of skills
Dave has 15+ years experience advising the education sector including government, professional institutions and employers about skills both in the UK and internationally.
At British Esports he is head of skills and offers us support on relationships with various colleges and educational organisations.
In 2017 Dave co-founded an international edtech company to look at enhancing the skills required for global projects like the China Belt and Road.
Dave also holds numerous executive roles across tech as an investment and skills adviser.
Morgan Ashurst
Elliot Bond
Elliot has been building PCs and playing games from a young age, and is currently a high-ranked Champion 3 Rocket League player who has Grand Champion in his sights this season.
He joined British Esports from Mallinson Sport Centre at Highgate School in London, where he worked as commercial and enterprise duty manager focusing on tournament, project and client management.
Elliot looks after schools and colleges in the South of the UK.
Student Esports Coordinator
Natacha Jones is an experienced esports producer and observer who holds the role of student esports coordinator at the British Esports Association.
She looks after the British Esports Championships for schools and colleges, working alongside school projects lead Tom Dore, epic.LAN and our team of admins.
Over the past few years, Natacha has built up some impressive experience within UK esports. She was project manager for the King of the North gaming festival, president of the University of Manchester Esports Society and has also been working as a freelance esports observer and producer. In January 2019, Natacha was promoted at the NUEL to creative director.
Adam Leadercramer
Director and Company Secretary
Adam is a Partner and the Head of Digital Media/ Technology at Onside Law, a boutique law firm based in London and specialising in the sports, esports and media sectors.
He acts for a broad range of clients within these sectors including governing bodies, teams, individuals, established brands and start- up/growth businesses.
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Chester King
British Esports was founded by Chester King of the International Group. Chester received authority from the UK Government to establish the association in January 2016.
Chester has a 23-year background in traditional sports, with Stoke Park (owned by International Group) running the pre-wimbledon tennis event The Boodles, as well as working for the Football Association, Lord's and the Rugby Football Union.
Chester also founded The eGames initiative, a separate international medal-based esports tournament which ran its showcase in British House alongside the Rio Olympics.
Rt. Hon. Ed Vaizey Mp
The British Esports Association, the not-for-profit national body set up to support grassroots esports, has appointed the Rt. Hon. Ed Vaizey MP as Vice Chair.
Ed worked as Culture Minister between 2010 and 2016, and is currently the Member of Parliament for Didcot and Wantage.
He is a big advocate of the video games industry in Britain, having secured tax breaks for game development studios, and was recently recognised by GamesIndustry.Biz as one of the 100 most influential people in the British games industry.
Projects Executive
Rob has impressive experience in esports coaching, having worked with ManaLight, a former esports organisation who made it to several UK finals in League of Legends.
He is helping to shape British Esports' education and membership offerings, and is working closely with the Enemy of Boredom initiative backed by the Prince's Trust.
Rob is passionate about UK esports and also helped with the association's kids' esports club at Maida Vale Library.
Ceirnan Lowe
Ceirnan "Excoundrel" Lowe is an esports broadcaster with over four years experience in the UK esports industry, covering multiple titles as a colour caster.
He previously studied medicine at university but have left the field and found a home within the esports industry. He has cast a host of games from League of Legends to Hearthstone and Vainglory, for a range of companies.
Mary Antieul
Tournament provider (GAME/Belong/Insomnia)
Mary Antieul oversees esports strategy, operations and partnerships at GAME across the Belong arenas and Insomnia Gaming Festival. She has worked in the gaming industry for over ten years and has significant experience within gaming retail, in building and sustaining gaming communities and delivering exciting competitive experiences for gamers.
Mary's focus is to encourage the growth of the grassroots scene through competition and supporting infrastructure.
Ryan Hart
Content creator and host, former pro gamer
Ryan Hart is one of the most well-known UK players in the fighting game genre, having won over 450 tournaments.
The former professional Street Fighter player is a four-time Guinness World Record holder, two-time Evolution world champion and the most successful UK esports player to date. These days he works as a content creator and host.
Student representative (NUEL)
Josh is focused on giving people their first opportunities to participate in esports and help them develop their talents. He founded the National University Esports League (NUEL), the UK's inter-university esports tournament, in 2010, which has grown into one of the largest participation esports leagues in the UK.
Josh is also one of the founding members of University Esports Masters (UEM), the European group of university esports leagues working together to grow the collegiate scene within Europe and organise the annual continental championship.
David Yarnton
Director, Gfinity/Edge Esports
David Yarnton has been involved in the video games industry for over 30 years and was a founding director of Gfinity, the first company to launch a dedicated esports arena in London.
In addition to Gfinity, David is involved in the esports industry with a couple of digital start-ups including Edge Esports, and prior to that was a senior executive with Nintendo for 17 years, most recently in charge of their business in the UK & Ireland, having moved here with the company from Australia in 2003.
He has been on a number of industry boards and is currently chairman of the esports sub-group of UKIE (UK Interactive Entertainment, the only trade body for the UK's games and wider interactive entertainment industry) as well as being founder and chairman of the British Inspiration Awards, an organisation that helps recognise and celebrate British creative achievements.
Carleigh Morgan
Carleigh Morgan is a former Fulbright scholar and a currentPhD candidate at King's College London.
Her dissertation explores the cybernetic sutures between bodies and machines, with particular emphasis on the diagrams of legibility that encode gamers as programmable and readable by computer technologies. Pro gamers feature centrally as part of this work, and many hours of research involve interviewing players, streamers, sports psychologists, physiologists and sports managers to develop a broad understanding of the training regimens of top gamers.
In 2016 she graduated from the MA in Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory at King's College, London with a Distinction and is currently a research assistant at the Centre for Digital Culture. She also works with Women in Gaming as well as the Institute for Esports Research Portal, and has written about the legal rights of esports players for various publications, including Motherboard.
Mark Candella
Broadcaster (Twitch)
As the second executive from Twitch on British Esports' Advisory Board, stepping in for Chris if he's unable to attend a board meeting (and vice versa), Mark Candella is the firm's Director of Strategic Partnerships.
Craig Fletcher
Multiplay founder
Having run his first online gaming league (over dialup modem) and "LAN party" in 1994, Craig then founded Multiplay in 1997 as a games-orientated event management company, with a primary focus on running LAN events and the very early days of esports.
He is responsible for the Insomnia series of events, which now take place at the Birmingham NEC several times per year and attract thousands of visitors. Multiplay was sold to GAME in 2015, and Craig now sits as part of the retailer's senior executive team, where he leads the group's transformation strategy around esports and competitive gaming.
Heather Dower
Presenter, caster and host
Heather is well-known in UK esports having worked with the likes of Ginx TV, Multiplay and others, hosting the likes of the Daily Download show, Insomnia esports tournaments and more.
The presenter, caster and stage host joined the board in September 2017. She said: "I have always believed that esports is a powerful space that can be used to enrich the community, something I will endeavour to do as a part of the association."
Darren Newnham
Biz dev/consultant
Darren "Slammer" Newnham is a gamer, esports fan and business development professional who has brought years of commercial and corporate experience (from Disney, SEGA and O2) to teams, players and brands.
Currently head of Nexus, his own esports business that brings teams, organizations, brands and players together. He cut his teeth in esports with the largest global esports teams: Fnatic.
Darren can often be found on a PUBG map, on BF1 with friends or still tanking a few LFR groups in WoW. He started gaming back in the days of 486 PCs and Duke Nukem 3D ladders on Compuserve on a 14k dial up modem (yes he's that old)!
Andy Payne
OBE, Chair
Andy is an experienced video games entrepreneur of 32 years, having run Mastertronic from 1988 to 2015.
He chaired games industry trade body Ukie from 2005 to 2015 and is still a board member. He is a board advisor at games developer Bossa Studios and a founder of games industry charity GamesAid.
Andy was a founder of mobile and tablet specialist AppyNation and Gambitious, a crowdfunding platform for games and movies. He is also chair of Esports specialist EGL, founder of simulation specialists Just Flight and a VP of games charity Special Effect.


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Flutterby™! : Don't correct deadly drivers, they may be cops
Don't correct deadly drivers, they may be cops
2015-10-16 22:26:41.749943+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments [edit]
Cyclist Bangs On Police Officer's SUV in Bike Lane Dispute, Gets Handcuffed:
James Liu, an attorney who lives in Logan Square, was cited for disorderly conduct on North Desplaines Street Wednesday after he hit the swerving silver SUV with his hand, he told DNAinfo Chicago. A witness first reported his account of the ensuing incident on Chainlink.org, a community forum for Chicago bikers.
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#Comment Re: Don't correct deadly drivers, they may be cops made: 2015-10-19 13:43:59.855412+00 by: Larry Burton
"The best way to deal with this as a cyclist is not to bang on someone's window," she said. "It comes off as a threatening gesture."
If a car has moved close enough to me for me to bang on its window I find that to be a very threatening gesture in itself. I think the cop got embarrassed and arresting the person who embarrassed him was his way of rectifying his embarrassment. This type of personality doesn't need to belong to a cop.
#Comment Re: Don't correct deadly drivers, they may be cops made: 2015-10-19 15:34:23.064571+00 by: Dan Lyke [edit]
Yeah, in a just world the cop would be up on assault with a deadly weapon charges.
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History of Coffee in Colombia
Colombian coffee is often regarded as some of the highest quality coffee in the world. Colombia has traditionally grown arabica beans and its unique geography makes it perfectly suited for producing a delicious, high quality brew1. Colombia's excellent growing conditions have paired with an aggressive marketing campaign by the National Federation of Coffee Growers (FNC), which has worked since the late 1950's to bring Colombia's coffee sector to the forefront of international attention. Colombia has traditionally been second in global coffee production only to Brazil2, but has been set back to third by Vietnam's recent market entry and rapidly expanding production of robusta coffees. Over 500,000 farms, most of them small landholdings of 5 hectares or less3 are scattered across the zonas cafeteras, some of the most biologically diverse landscapes in the world.
Colombia is bisected by the Andes Mountains which splits into three parallel cordilleras (mountain ranges) as they run south to north. Much of the nation's coffee is grown in this area. The small nation, about three times the size of Montana4 contains two of South America's five "biodiversity hotspots"5. The Tumbes-Choco hotspot occupies all of Colombia's coast, while the Tropical Andes hotspot covers nearly all its mountain ranges. In fact, Conservation International calls the Colombian Andes the "richest and most diverse region on earth," noting that the whole of the tropical Andes chain contains one sixth of the world's plant species in only one percent of its land area5.
No one knows exactly when coffee arrived in what is now Colombia. Some think the bean came with Jesuit priests in the seventeenth century7, but the first shipment of coffee overseas wasn't until 1835, when 2500 pounds of coffee headed from Colombia to the United States8. In pre and post-independence times, most export agriculture was done on large-scale latifundos controlled by elites8. By 1860, coffee had emerged as the dominant export crop, and shortly thereafter, tariffs on coffee exports had become the main source of government revenues8. Land reform in the 1930's did some to relieve the inequality in land ownership, but by 1980, 10% of farms, including ranches, managed 80% of arable land8. This chronic inequality has not been as prevalent in the coffee sector, and the nation has shown a strong trend towards small fincas in the last 30 years3.
The National Federation of Coffee Growers, an industry association which represents the nation's coffee producers has been responsible for creating a name for Colombian coffee with their well-known spokesman, the fictional, charismatic Juan Valdez. The FNC guarantees purchase of green coffee, but farmers are under no obligation to sell to them1.
Colombia has 38 cooperatives independent of the FNC, nineteen of which are certified fair trade by the Fair Trade Labeling Organization10. The FNC reports that the vast majority of the nation's coffee is grown under shade with 1.4 million hectares under canopy and only 717,000 hectares grown in full sun1.
Deforestation as well as soil and water contamination from overuse of pesticide are among two of the most grievous environmental problems facing the country4. Soil erosion has become a significant problem for some conventional farmers as well9. Sustainable coffee production holds great promise in addressing these issues, and has the potential to protect species that occur nowhere else in the world.
The Coffee Crisis and Colombia's Future
The global coffee crisis hit Colombia's small producers hard. Twenty-three percent of producers were not meeting production costs in the nineteen nineties10. The affect on producer families varied by region, but overall the crisis sent people further into poverty and debt. Malnutrition among small children in farm families went up significantly, while coffee production across the country fell 44% as farmers could no longer afford to harvest and process their crops11. Many farmers were forced to migrate for work in urban areas leading to increased unemployment and more poverty11.
With the rise in global coffee prices, Colombia's economy has picked up overall4, and things are beginning to look better for farm families. Colombia has the potential use its rich biodiversity to gain a premium on its shade-grown coffee and simultaneously protect the ecology and improve livelihoods for its producer families. The history of control over agriculture by elites and large organizations, the threat leveled at both human and ecological communities through the U.S. led war on drugs, and continued political violence remain a real challenge to creating a most just and sustainable agricultural system.
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"Imports: Commodities by Country." Key Statistics of Food and Agriculture External Trade. 2003. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 8 Aug. 2005.
Garcia, Julian. Evolucion de la distribucion de las fincas cafeteras: Hacia una regionalizacion de la cafecultura colombiana. Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros. 2003.
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Lonely Planet World Guide Colombia.
Ultimate Coffees Info, Colombian Coffee, 2005.
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Gomez, Gabriel Cadena. Sustainable Coffee Production Practices in Colombia. National Federation of Coffee Growers, 2005.
FLO Coffee Partners Fair Trade Labeling Organization, 2005.
del Corral, Mauricio Perfetti. Liliana Velasquez Martinez, Oscar Alberto Ortiz Gonzales, Jose Faber Hernandez Ortiz, Pablo Rolando Arango Giraldo. Cuantificacion de los impactos micro-macroeconomicos y sociales de la crisis cafetera en Colombia. Centro de Estudios Regionales, Cafeteros, y Empresariales. National Federation of Coffee Growers, 2005.


Energy definition is generally defined as the capacity or capacity to carry out work. i am positive you could appreciate the truth that power is needed to do paintings, but what's work? work can be defined as the movement of mass when a pressure is applied to it. In other phrases, work is executed whilst a pressure moves a few object far. Really placed, work calls for energy, and energy spent plays paintings.
Now that we realize what power is, let's bear in mind in which it comes from. the answer to this query is without a doubt pretty simple. Energy comes from count number. Now why we've been talking about these houses of electricity and matter. This makes experience whilst we take a look at the definition of labor. Work may be described as the switch of energy to or from matter. In truth, the total quantity of energy contained within rely is without delay proportional to the mass. Moreover, energy can be transferred from one device to some other.
So what's a device? A system is a group of gadgets prepared into a whole – or, to position it any other way: whatever you're considering as the complete for the reason of a observe. Let's talk about some examples of systems. For example, you could do not forget the complete universe as a gadget. you may bear in mind the universe as a gadget for the reason of studying the relationship between exceptional galaxies inside the universe. Another example of a device could be your frame. you may take into account the human body as a device for the cause of analyzing the interplay between the diverse organs that make up your body.
Permit's look at an instance of that. we've all heated water on a stove, or possibly we have watched somebody else do that. whilst we heat the water on the stove, power is transferred from the heated detail of the stove into the water. As that strength is transferred, the water molecules are compelled to move faster. similarly, a device may transfer strength to any other via getting into direct contact with it. My son likes to play baseball; he's performed ever seeing that he become a little youngster, and he is clearly pretty precise at it. whilst he hits the ball, that ball is going pretty some distance. In this example of power switch, the strength of movement in the bat is transferred into the baseball, which, in flip, now has power of movement as well.
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A picnic area in the middle of the countryside at the start of the Salt Trail.
Located at the start of the Salt Trail, the Salin picnic area offers fantastic views of the Rhône valley. With wooden tables and benches in a verdant setting, this is the perfect place for a break, with the refreshing fountain nearby.


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Sudanese-Russian committee to meet in Moscow next month
In International, News
Sudan's Defence Minister Awad Ibn Ouf receives Russian Ambassador to Sudan Vladimir Zheltov on 13 August 2018 (Photo SUNA)
August 28, 2018 (KHARTOUM) – Russia's Ambassador to Khartoum, Vladimir Zheltov, said the joint economic committee between Sudan and Russia would hold its 6th meeting in Moscow next month.
The semi-official Sudan Media Center (SMC) ha quoted Zheltov as saying the meeting would discuss a number of economic and political issues particularly on the domain of minerals.
He pointed out that the Russian embassy and the Sudanese government are currently working to determine the agenda of the meeting.
Zheltov added the Russian side would be headed by the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment while the Sudanese side is headed by the Minister of Minerals.
Politically, Russia is seen as a major ally of the government of al-Bashir that faces isolation from the West. However, economic cooperation between the two countries has remained very low, with a trade balance that does not exceed $400 million.
In December 2015, Sudan and Russia signed 14 cooperation agreements in different domains, including oil, minerals and banks.
The agreements also include a concession contract between Sudan and the Russian Rus Geology to prospect for oil in Sudan's Bloc E57 and another accord for the geological mapping of the Jebel Moya area, North Kordofan State.
Ethiopia to import 100,000 tonnes of sugar in 2008-09
Business leaders back Kiir, call on Amum to withdraw petition from court
Registration of southern voters in Kenya proceeding smoothly amid declining turnout
Ethiopian Unity council asks US, EU nations for diplomatic recognition


It was my first day running for 3min consecutively, but only 28min of a total workout. I'm used to doing at min a 30min workout. So, before the cool-down, I added in an extra 3min jog to make the workout 31min total instead of 28min. It also brought up my total distance which I was happier with. Still not sure how I'm going to get through week 5 (the 5min warm up straight through to 20min flat of running), especially since I didn't plan well and don't really have time to repeat any of the weeks. But, I guess we'll see how that one goes. I had some calf and shin-splint pain even though I stretched before I ran, but better than the first week I started.
I'm also working on getting more sleep. I read a lot the other day about sleep patterns and health (just by googling, and reading some blogs, nothing too scientific) . . . I am thinking the right number for me is 7.5hrs. If I get better about getting more hours of sleep, and staying hydrated (more water during the day after my morning coffee!), I will be able to do this running thing better. We shall see . . .
Slower day today, but still added on some walking there at the end. Was struggling a bit there those last 30 seconds of the 3min running sessions, but I kept myself going and finished!
Again was struggling those last 30 seconds of the 3min running sessions, ugh! And I can't seem to break past 1.4 / 1.5 miles in 30min. And then oy – the dreaded week 5 – yikes! (5min walking warm-up straight to 20min of running) . . . How am I ever supposed to be ready for that / do that much less run the whole 5k in a little over a month?!
Well, I guess I'll keep going and see where I am mid-October! I'm only on week 3. There are 8 or 9 weeks for a reason. I'm not even half way through.
Stay hydrated – drink more water throughout the day!
And – linking back to my nine week training schedule to link up with all of my other couch to 5k weekly recaps.


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January 4, 2017 Craig Hebert
Rustic Renovation
H1 Construction transformed a rundown retail space into a rustic restaurant with modern, thoughtful touches. DALLAS/FORT WORTH – Texadelphia found an ideal retail center space for its new Richardson restaurant at 100 South Central Expressway – except it wasn't ideal. A 50-year revolving door of retail and restaurant tenants had left the space in clear need of a finish-out.
H1 Construction president and senior project manager Craig R. Hebert saw the project as an opportunity to not just correct the 3,300-sf space's flaws, but to create something better for the client. Working with architect P Shade LLC in McKinney, Hebert and his team overcame many challenges to fashion an eatery filled with rustic charm.
"Because it was so old and so many different tenants had been there before, we had to relocate and move things around to facilitate another restaurant. It was quite extensive," Hebert says. "It was space that had a considerable amount of things that needed to be done to make it work, including relocating the building's structural components and extensive work outside to receive the plumbing necessary to provide for a restaurant. We had to relocate roof drains that were coming down through the middle of the kitchen area. We also had to relocate main sewer lines and connections throughout the space to accommodate the plumbing needs for the grease interceptors."
Even though the space required extensive work, Hebert says the process was "fairly smooth."
"Complications did come up that caused delays," he says. "We even had to perform some modifications to the exterior of the building for the landlord for their egress; the sidewalks and approach to the building were dilapidated. Those were upgrades that were improved as well to facilitate the restaurant's needs."
There was one pleasant surprise in store for the crew, however. When the space's interior was pushed back to create an outdoor seating area, walls were torn out to allow for new brickwork to be covered by stucco. The ordered brick arrived in random colors, but in a consistent size. Once installed, the landlord and owners "liked the look of the patterned brick on these walls," he says. "They decided to keep it because it looked old, rustic and consistent with some of the building's features." Not covering the brick with the planned stucco saved time, money and labor.
Adding to the rustic look are interior walls covered with 1-in. solid oak planking milled to the client's specifications and custom bar countertops crafted from specialty woods. One unique characteristic, however, is the dining room, corridor and bathroom floors.
"The concrete slurry mixture is similar to doing an epoxy-type floor, but it was poured onto the floors in a thin coat and then stamped to make it look like an old rustic wood floor. It included all of the lines and nail heads for the individual planks of wood; it has the appearance of real wood but it's actually concrete. You literally cannot tell the difference," Hebert says. "It's cleaner, very durable, and hides a lot of the flaws of a retail space where the foundation has been cut up multiple times. It levels the entire floor and gives the appearance of a wood floor at the same time."
The kitchen's epoxy floor goes up the paneled walls by six inches, which creates a permanent barrier, ideal for kitchen messes and cleaning.
"You could literally fill the kitchen six inches full of water and it would not leak underneath the walls or damage any of the framing or adjoining lease space," Hebert says. "It has an epoxy floor that is a quarter-inch thick, which is beautiful and very easy to maintain.
Hebert praised the subcontractors who rose to each of the project's challenges. Phil Wilmot, of Dark Horse Construction LLC, not only provided the custom millwork and finishes but also worked as the main project manager. Flooring was provided by ADT Concrete Coatings, Alamo Glass and Mirror installed the entrance's custom glass, Allied Interiors is credited with the interior framing, ceilings, drywall and finishes, C&E Electric handled the electrical work, CR Construction provided masonry services and Quality One Energy Systems installed the mechanical systems.
The clients were so pleased with the finished result that they designated it as the prototype for the restaurant's future franchises.
"The key factor is that the project manager was on the project and worked directly with everybody in an efficient, effective way with strong communication, resulting in it getting done within the expectations of our client," Hebert says. "That has a lot to do with why they want it to be a flagship store in terms of the time, quality and the overall look of the project. The owners are extremely happy with us."
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Mary would then make the trek back to the Willoughby house in time for the morning labor.
If Mary did not hear Williams preach at Norfolk on that day, she had numerous opportunities in the weeks that followed. Williams was unwelcome in Norfolk, but he was invited to stay with a prominent merchant in Portsmouth, where he preached openly at large biracial meetings held in a converted warehouse.5 For about a month Williams travelled around Norfolk County, spreading the word about God's infinite capacity for redemption. Enslaved people proved receptive to his powerful evocation of the liberation to be found in God's grace. Methodist conversion was an unmediated process whereby the individual freely chose salvation and was personally accountable to God. Being born anew in God's grace implied a profound separation between the spiritual and the physical self. This promise of a spiritual autonomy hit a highly responsive cord among people defined as property: while the insignificant body might be compelled to labor for others, the untrammelled spirit could soar free.
Mary had probably lived in the New Mill Creek area until she was purchased by Willoughby to work in his house in Norfolk in 1768. She was then in her early twenties and was pregnant, with one infant child. Her children carried the surname Savills, which was the name of slave-owners around New Mill Creek.8 Somewhere in the same region was the place where she held her nocturnal classes.
Williams's death coincided with start of the American Revolution, a cataclysmic upheaval that provided Mary the chance to liberate her body, as well as her spirit. In December 1775 Willoughby came under strong suspicion as a Loyalist. After the town of Norfolk was burned to the ground, Willoughby's connection to the exiled royal governor Lord Dunmore excited concern and in April 1776 he was required to move at least thirty miles away from the shore. To enforce submission, the Virginia Committee of Safety ordered Willoughby's slaves to be taken by the militia.12 Two years later, his son unsuccessfully petitioned for compensation from the Virginia legislature on the grounds that this punitive action caused his late father's entire slave property to seek refuge with Lord Dunmore.13 Other evidence in the minutes of the Committee of Safety and the Virginia Gazette suggests that the defection of Willoughby's slaves actually occurred in May, when a ship from Dunmore's fleet was in the vicinity of Willoughby Point and that Willoughby had personally taken all his property to Dunmore for safekeeping.14 Soon after, the old man died at his plantation at Willoughby Point. The quixotic petition for compensation from his son and heir was probably a strategy to dispel any suggestion of the family's collusion with the British.
Just at the time that Mary arrived, a smallpox epidemic broke out in the British camp, wreaking havoc on Dunmore's military ambitions. The naval surgeons organized a mass inoculation of the black recruits and in order to isolate the sick they persuaded Dunmore to move his base to Gwynn Island. 17 The British departed in late May, leaving behind the graves of almost 300 people.18 Dunmore reported that every night they were forced to throw dead bodies into the sea. Virginians found diseased bodies drifting ashore on the tide, as many as a dozen at a time. On Gwynn Island, Dunmore continued to draw fresh black recruits at the rate of six to eight each day, most of whom succumbed to the disease as soon as they arrived. Those who recovered from the inoculation fell victim to an outbreak of typhoid fever. In this dreadfully weakened condition, Dunmore's force was easily driven from the island in early July 1776, and they took refuge on the fleet once again. The British naval commander reported that the "distress and confusion" of the hasty evacuation was beyond his powers to describe.19 Eyewitnesses concurred that the death toll on the island from one cause or another was "near 500 souls."20 Mary and her three children were among the dozen or so survivors from the plantation of John Willoughby. Nathaniel Snowball, his wife Violet their children and his brother Timothy also survived, as did the preacher Moses, although he must have fallen victim to smallpox, as he was blind and unable to walk unaided.
Forced to leave Virginia, Dunmore attached his small force to the British and Hessian forces that invaded New York in September 1776 and so Mary became part of a community of about 1000 runaways living behind the British lines in Lower Manhattan. She, like most of Dunmore's surviving recruits, was employed the Royal Artillery Department and housed in barracks created out of four row-houses where they were provided with weekly rations, as well as a lamp and a pint of oil for each room. Within the black refugee community the Methodists from Virginia formed a close-knit group. As Mary was one of the few who could read and write, she probably took on the roles of both exhorter and teacher. While there were a number of Methodist preachers, all of them deferred to the blind and crippled Moses, who became known to his many followers as "Daddy Moses". Completely illiterate, Moses appealed to visions to reveal the will of God and divine the sure road to eternal salvation. His highly emotional delivery blended personal experience with renditions of Old Testament stories, in the form of call and response. His ecstatic preaching had an electrifying effect on his listeners, who might at any time be seized by the spirit. The raucous spiritual expression of his congregation found echoes in the older African the African practice of ecstatic soul possession. For these black Methodists, the cultural practices that had nurtured the unregenerate self did not need to be abandoned to believe they were reborn in God's grace.
Next in line to Daddy Moses as the most influential preacher was Luke Jordan, who arrived in New York in May 1779. He was part of a large interconnected group of 256 men, 135 women and 127 children that Admiral Collier Matthews brought back from his destructive raid into Portsmouth Virginia.21 Luke Jordan had been enslaved to Josiah Jordan, but his wife Rachel and son Joshua were enslaved to Willis Wilkinson, the father of Mills Wilkinson, who once owned Daddy Moses. Over thirty people in the group came from the Wilkinson plantations, while twenty or so were from various branches of the Jordan family. Indeed, almost everyone in this group could demonstrate a complex connection of kin and marriage across numerous plantations in several tidewater counties. Many were kin to people who had fled in 1776. The ships under Admiral Collier must have made a particular effort to collect these people, probably on the advice of their kinfolk who working with the British. 22 Most likely these fugitives were taken up by the privateers that accompanied Collier's fleet. These ships belonged to John Goodridge, who was from Portsmouth and an original member of Methodist meeting in that town. It could not have been entirely coincidental that many, if not most, of the runaways were also Methodists.
Late in 1781, the British garrison in New York was shattered by the news from Yorktown that Cornwallis had lost the campaign for the South. For the Virginian runaways sheltering behind the British lines, this was a terrible blow. Now there was no way they could be reunited with family left behind, except to return as fugitive slaves and face the awful consequences. Worse news was to come with the terms of the provisional peace treaty signed on November 29, 1782, which prohibited the British from taking away any runaway slaves. Rumors swept New York that the British would be obliged to abandon the several thousands of black refugees living behind their lines. Having experienced years of freedom, runaways like Mary and Caesar Perth were horrified at the prospect of being turned over to vengeful masters. In this tense time John Willoughby Jr arrived in New York seeking to make good on his inheritance. As he complained to the British Commander-in-Chief, Sir Guy Carleton, he and several fellow Virginians had been "put to expense of a disagreeable journey to New York," only to discover that their property had been offered free transport to Nova Scotia. He insisted that Carleton abide by the terms of the treaty and to put an immediate stop the embarkation to Nova Scotia. If not, he complained, he and his neighbors would be financially ruined.25 Carleton did not even bother to reply. On his instructions all runaways who had been with the British for a year or more were issued with certificates of freedom signed by Brigadier General Samuel Birch, commandant of the New York garrison. Willoughby returned empty handed to Virginia and in July 1783 Mary and Caesar Perth, with their baby daughter Susan, were embarked on the L'Abondance bound for Nova Scotia. Traveling with them were her daughters Zilpah and Hannah Savills, as well as her eldest daughter Patience Freeman, whose husband Thomas Freeman was to follow a few months later.
It was Daddy Moses who hosted the first big community meeting in Birchtown, when John Clarkson arrived in Nova Scotia in 1791 hoping to recruit settlers for the Sierra Leone Company's colony in West Africa. Addressing hundreds of people who crammed into the Methodist meetinghouse, Clarkson outlined the company's offer of the free land grants and explained that, unlike Nova Scotia, there would be no discrimination between white and black settlers in Sierra Leone. Within three days the entire congregation of Daddy Moses had elected to follow Clarkson to Sierra Leone. The very first names on the list of emigrants "that call themselves Methodists" were those of Caesar Perth and his wife Mary. Patience and her husband Thomas Freeman, were also on the list, as was Hannah.32 Of the 700 or so names on the list of the Methodists emigrants, eight were identified as preachers. All of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion agreed to leave Nova Scotia, as did the entire Baptist congregation from nearby Shelburne. Another 200 people of both Methodist and Baptist persuasion walked overland from New Brunswick to be included in the exodus. 33 The final tally of émigrés was nearly 1200 people.
To praise the Savior's name.
The day of Jubilee is come!
About 3 o'clock in morning of April 2, Clarkson recorded there was "a great deal of lightening, torrents of rain came down with heavy squalls of wind and several loud claps of thunder repeated by the deep roaring echoes of the mountains."37 The monsoon had arrived. The flimsy huts were badly damaged in the first downpour and the next day a tornado ripped through the tattered dwellings. With inadequate shelter from the constant rain, nearly everyone came down with malarial fever. Anna Maria Falconbridge, who was the wife of the company agent, described a desperate situation with about 700 people "under the affliction of burning fevers," while the rest were "scarce able to crawl about." Every day handfuls of people were "buried with as little ceremony as so many dogs and cats," she wrote.38 The provisions brought from England by the company ships were completely spoiled and the steaming monsoonal air carried the nauseating stench of rotting food. Mary and her daughter Susan survived, as did Patience and Thomas Freeman, but Caesar Perth was among the very first who died.
Throughout the ordeal, Mary was sustained by her intense commitment to the otherworldly life of the spirit. An enthusiastic celebration of faith was the lifeblood of this black community. "I never met with, heard, or read of, any set of people observing the same appearance of godliness," Anna Maria Falconbridge wrote. Whatever time woke in the night, she could hear "preachings from some quarter or another." 39 Where the Methodist meetinghouse could sustain Mary's spirit, to sustain her body she ran a kind of boarding house and chophouse by the wharves, catering to company employees and visiting sailors from slave ships. In 1794 she was awarded license to sell retail goods. The long serving governor of Sierra Leone, Zachary Macaulay, took a particular interest in Mary, engaged her as his housekeeper and entrusting her with the care and education of a group of African children who lived at his house.
Macaulay was one of the Evangelical Clapham Sect, whose members dominated the Sierra Leone Company. He was a stern moralist who took to heart the admonition of company chairman, Henry Thornton, "that the point to be laboured is to make the colony a religious colony."40 On his arrival in 1793, Macaulay had been appalled at the raw fervor of the Methodists preachers and he thought their wild shouting and ecstatic visions smacked of gross impiety. He was hard pressed to decide which sect of black dissenters was worst: the "mad Methodists" with their creed of "which shall bawl the loudest," or the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, whose "rank antinomianism" filled him with disgust.41 Even the small minority of Baptists was morality lax and ignorant of doctrinal matters, he thought. This was not the Christianity that the Clapham Sect envisaged taking root in heathen Africa.
After the French attack Freetown was substantially rebuilt and by 1796 was the largest town on the west coast of Africa. About 400 timber and shingle houses were neatly laid out along nine streets, and an assortment of livestock cropped the grass-covered streets. Mary Perth ran her boarding house and shop near the waterfront, which was always a site of frenetic activity. At any given time there might be one or two visiting slave ships, the trading vessels of the Sierra Leone Company, plus the canoes of hundreds of Africans who brought produce to trade each day. Mary employed others to help her, but even so she was kept very busy as shopkeeper and landlady in addition to her being housekeeper and teacher. Such was the exacting workload of this indefatigable widow that the company chaplain thought she was about seventy when she was only fifty-five.
Revered John Clarke was a Scottish Presbyterian who shared Macaulay's horror at the raucous, undisciplined religious observance of the settlers. He openly expressed his dismayed at "the unwillingness of the preachers to receive information" and their ignorance of the true principles of Christianity. Macaulay observed with approval how Clark "levels the whole weight of his ability to counter the ruinous actions by which the people are misled." His zeal was indefatigable, instituting a weekly lecture to combat their "gross ignorance of the first principles of religion". To each of various congregations he gave sermons about their shortcomings as Christians.45 At first the black preachers were delighted to have a vigorous and educated minister to preach in their meetinghouses, but within a few weeks Macaulay faced a deputation of Methodists preachers, led by Nathaniel Snowball and Luke Jordan, complaining of being humiliated by Clarke. All the better for that, was Macaulay's opinion. He was fully expectant that Clarke could teach the settlers "self-denying duty and subjugation of temper." It was not to be. Within weeks Clarke's welcome was angrily withdrawn and few settlers bothered to attend either his sermons or his lectures. When Clarke made personal visits to invite settlers to come to Christ, he was curtly informed: "We don't want you … we are in Christ already and have been for these last 22 years." 46 Mary Perth remained Clarke's only true adherent among the black community. He was delighted with her steadfast devotion, while the rest were dangerously deluded, stubbornly deaf to his earnest proselytising.
Clarke was so pleased with Mary that he wrote a sketch of her that was published in the Evangelical Magazine. This old woman was "more like one come down out of heaven to earth than like one who is only preparing for glory," he wrote. He told about how she had been a slave preacher in America and had walked twenty miles a night to instruct other slaves. "I need not tell you she is black," he explained. "This I can assure you is no hindrance to our Christian fellowship. I am as happy in her company as I ever was in that of any Christian of my own colour." This "one militant saint" was the next best thing to the bible in Sierra Leone. But the joy Clarke felt in his fellowship Mary was severely tempered by the antagonism he felt from of the rest of the settlers. A confrontation between Clarke and fourteen black preachers almost ended in blows after he suggested that they were blasphemers.
The governor was dismayed at the failure of his zealous chaplain to make his charges properly respectful Christians. Every day the Methodists settlers appeared to him to be more disrespectful and seditious. They even went so far as to send him a letter protesting that first and foremost their loyalty was to "the governor of the universe" and they expected the temporal governor to understand "we consider ourselves a perfect church, having no need of the assistance of any worldly power to appoint or perform religious ceremonies for us."47 The Methodist meetinghouse, he decided had become "a kind of Jacobin club."48 He derided these dissent settlers as ignorant and perverse, fast sliding into 'the wretched state of barbarism in which their African forefathers were sunk and from which we had fondly hoped they had now been rescued."49 Mary Perth was the exception. He had nothing but praise for this particular Methodist. Letters to his fiancée Selena Mills spoke of "the good old woman" and he encouraged Selena to send Mary the uplifting tracts written by her companion and mentor, Hannah More. Mary, he opined, "had judgement enough to relish them."50 For her part, Mary sent gifts of her own to these two pious English ladies and laid plans to go to England to visit them. Mary sent the company chairman and banker Henry Thornton the large sum of 155 pounds to be invested in order to pay for the trip.
Yet in May 1798 Macaulay's view of Mary Perth had soured. He felt that she had got above her station and become "vain, worldly, and arrogant, harsh and violent in her tempers, little careful of the means of finally swelling the store and little attentive to discharge the duties to the children under her care." The flattery that Clarke had published in Evangelical Magazine had turned her head, Macaulay believed, and "made an open door for almost every evil." In addition, her increasing material wealth had served to "to unhinge her mind, to fill her with pride and with all those bad tempers which it engenders." Mary had been accused of over-changing customers at her shop, even though she was not directly responsible for the operation of the shop. Macaulay allowed that "things laid to her charge might have arisen from inadvertencies in other causes," but he could not forgive "most unchristian and unchallenged temples of rage, revenge, impatience, and pride." Nor would he accept that she was penitent, regarding her statements of contrition as no more that "the common Methodist cant respecting the wickedness of the heart." In his eyes, Mary had finally shown her true nature as "one who has been a professor of Methodism for near forty years." 51 She was barred from his house and stripped of her role as superintendent and tutor of his African charges.
In April 1799 Macaulay prepared to depart Sierra Leone for good. Even as he packed to leave he was still railing against the Methodists. Mary Perth, however, was once more restored in his confidence. She was also leaving Sierra Leone as the supervisor for the twenty-four African children Macaulay was taking back to Clapham to be educated as Christian missionaries. Mary welcomed the job since it gave her the opportunity to get medical treatment for her ailing daughter Susan. In May 1799, she and Susan disembarked at Portsmouth and traveled overland to London where she they were given lodgings in Clapham. Because of a smallpox scare, the African children were taken to St Pancreas Hospital to undergo inoculation. Macaulay's letters were full of concern, writing to Selena "God will be graciously pleased to restore them all to us and make their future lives speak his praise".52 He made no of Mary Perth. Presumably she stayed at Clapham, as she had already been exposed to smallpox in Virginia and Susan would have been inoculated in Nova Scotia.
By the time the children were discharged in early July, Macaulay found accommodation for them in the house near Battersea belonging to Joseph Hughes, a Baptist minister he knew in the abolition movement. Mary moved there to be housekeeper for the African children, while Hughes's younger colleague, John Foster, was employed as their teacher. Foster observed in letters to colleagues that that the "well travelled" black housekeeper was a pious and happy soul. 53 He was unaware of Mary's anxiety about the illness of her daughter, whose health did not improve in England. Three months later Macaulay had finalized arrangements for the children to be educated at Clapham. The twenty boys were sent to live in a house opposite the common, with a schoolteacher working under the direction of the Evangelical rector of Clapham church, Reverend John Venn.54 The four girls went to Henry Thornton's house to be taught manners by his wife Marianne. Mary probably stayed at Battersea to nurse her daughter Susan, who died sometime the following year.
Mary Perth left almost no trace on the historical record of the Atlantic world during the tumultuous era of the American and French revolutions. For the half century between 1768 and 1813 she is one name among many on a series of lists, an occasional aside in the letters of self-important white men and a condescending homily in an obscure magazine. Yet her story matters, and not just because it alerts us to the central role of religion in the lives of the black refugees of the American Revolution, important though that is. We need to see Mary Perth as a complex historical actor impelled by her own volition, and not simply part a faceless, undifferentiated mass called "Black Loyalists". Recovering her historical experience from the recesses of the archive provides a unique insight into the process of forming social solidarities, making personal choices and negotiating the tortuous transition from enslavement into self-determination and dignity. In the bare bones of her remarkable life we can glimpse a dynamic combination of spirituality, resourcefulness, resilience and mobility that allows us a richer understanding of historical experience than we can extract from the abstract concept of "agency".
1 The account of Mary's proselytizing comes from a letter from Rev. Clarke, the chaplain in Sierra Leone, July 29, 1796 published in Evangelical Magazine, 4, (1796), 464. The date is an estimate based on the presence of Methodist itinerants in Norfolk in 1772 and the age of her youngest child who was born in 1772.
2 The class she was leading the woods may not have been exclusively black, given that the itinerants who carried Methodism into the tidewater preached a biracial brotherhood.
4 Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Methodism in the Southern Mind 1770-1810 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) provides an excellent discussion of the potency of early Methodism.
7 Information from William Wallace Bennett, Memorials of Methodism in Virginia, (Richmond: WW Bennett, 1871).
13 The Willoughby petition can be found in Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia (Richmond: Thomas White, 1827), 55.
15 Prominent among the Methodist congregation in Nova Scotia and later Sierra Leone were people from Norfolk. Princess Anne, Nansemond and Isle of Wight counties.
16 Another runaway from Mills Wilkinson was captured at Great Bridge in December 1775.
17 Purdie's Virginia Gazette, March 8, 1776. Narrative of Andrew Snape Hamond, in William Bell Clark, William James Morgan and Michael J Crawford, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution, (Washington DC: Naval History Division, 1970) vol. 5, 321-2 and Dunmore to Germain, March 30, 1776, CO 5/1373, National Archives of the United Kingdom (hereafter NAUK).
18 For evidenced of the 300 graves, see Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), 58.
19 Naval Documents of the American Revolution, vol. 5, 669, 839-41, 1079.
20 Dixon and Hunter Virginia Gazette, July 20, and Purdie's Virginia Gazette, July 19, 1776.
21 Return of Persons that came off from Virginia with General Mathew, August 24, 1779, CO 5/52/63, NAUK.
24 The fact that her daughters kept Hannah and Zilpa kept the surname Savills rather than Perth suggests this was not the case.
25 Petition of inhabitants of Norfolk and Princess Ann County, April 28 1783, PRO 30/55/92, NUAK.
26 Muster Book for Free Black Settlement of Birchtown 1783-4. MG9/B9-14 National Archives of Canada.
28 A disapproving Anglican missionary used the term "pious frenzy", but it could easily have been applied by the Wesleyan Methodists, see Wilson, The Loyal Blacks, 120. W.E. B. Du Bois has identified the "frenzy" as one of the three fundamental elements of black religion, Souls of Black Folk (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1903) 191.
29 Nathan Bangs, ed., The Life of the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson, (New York: Mason and Lane, 1839), 144, 152.
30 John Marrant, A Journal of the Rev. John Marrant, From August the 18th, 1785, to The 16th of March 1790… (London: printed for the author, 1790), 11-12, 33-34.
31 Because Marrant has provided his own self aggrandizing account of these events, John Saillant and Joanna Brooks have overemphasized the importance of Marrant to the black refugee community and have mistakenly attributed the rebellious spirit among the Sierra Leone settlers to his influence, rather than Methodist preachers like Daddy Moses and Luke Jordan.
32 The list included Hannah Freeman included either as Patience Freeman's sister or because she married Thomas Freeman's brother, Robert.
33 John Clarkson's Journal of his Mission to America, and parts of his Sierra Leone Journal are held by the New York Historical Society (NYHS).
34 The account of this hymn singing is described in J. B Elliott, Lady Huntingdon's Connextion in Sierra Leone (London: no publisher, 1851), 15. The words given differ from the original by Charles Wesley. John Clarkson's Journal, March 11, 1792 also refers to the hymn being sung and he describes it again a letter to William Wilberforce n.d, Clarkson Papers, Add MSS 41263, British Library.
36 Stories recounted by Anna Maria Falconbridge, Two Voyages to Sierra Leone in Deirdre Coleman, ed Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies (London: Leicester University Press, 1999).
39 Falconbridge quote, Two Voyages, 122.
42 Macaulay Journal, November 26, 1794, September 13, 1793,.
43 Falconbridge, Two Voyages, 123, 131. Macaulay Journal, September 13, 1793.
45 Macaulay, Journal, October 5, May 22, 1796.
47 Methodist petition reprinted in Knutsford, The Life and Letters of Zachary Macaulay, 145.
48 Macaulay, Journal, July14, July21, 1796.
49 Macaulay Journal, 8 June 1797.
51 Like the Reverend Clark Macaulay had judged Mary to be over seventy and thus a Methodist for forty rather than twenty five years.
53 From J E Rykland ed., The Life and Correspondence of John Foster quoted in Madge Dresser, Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port (London: Continuum Books, 2001) 173.
54 See Bruce Mouser, " The African Academy — Clapham 1799-1806, History of Education, 33:1, 2004, 87-103.
55 Information from Wilson, The Loyal Blacks, p 356.


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All is through the glass darkly . . . and so the New York Yankees a soccer team by my say so aside, the political state metaphysically opposes the religious at every turn. It has so since the Renaissance. The birth of the modern world was the death of the medieval ecclesiastical.
America's hostility to organized religion is not as much of an anomaly for our society as it might appear on face; the profession of the free exercise of any religion notwithstanding, America does stand as a new order of the ages, thus in direct conflict with any theocratic reactions. It does have an innate hostility to any church that has real political power; it would have to. I don't disagree yet, but there is a way where even this democratically inclined impulse to oppose church dogmas can work as a corrosive force on liberty. Nonetheless, American democracy is set in opposition to theocractic impulses by necessity.
To avoid establishing a state religion the United States must hold all religions at least suspect, much along the logical lines of the President de facto holding all citizens as suspects and potential enemies of the Constitution when he swears to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. But then this is also why religion has been cleaved to by the most reactionary of our politicians; there is no room to wage a healthy respect for nor a deep understanding of religion in America, not with the way we read, the way we think, the way we occlude our vision of the past–tempocentrism has been our most abiding dogma, even the most liberally inclined politically are its victims; moreover, especially the politically correct, those whose narrow constraints of correctness have begun to constrict liberty.
For an honest assessment of religion we would have to learn more, read more, and more deeply than we do or can; we would have to examine more evidence than we could be willing to do with how we have taught intellectual integrity. And here in the United States, and in direct contrast to how checkered this Catholic knows the history of the Catholic Church to have been, the Church still does not receive even treatment from the American Media, nor does it receive rational treatment from the American mainstream. Flip the coin of bourgeois secular civilization and you will come up with one side or the other of an anti-ecclesiastic minting. This would not be a problem except for how it has also left us mute in face of other political fanaticisms.
We have no way of speaking to religions at all; this is why Muslims scare the hell out of us. Many Muslims are fast becoming the only ones who can talk monotheism with any certainty, and, yes, without fanaticism, regardless of how many fanatics there are pretending to be Muslims. But most liberal American women I meet who find veils on Muslim women so unsettling do so mostly because of the masks they wear themselves at work but just as often at home in the mirror. The masks inside on the selves of the Self are the veils we all wear, Muslim women are just more overt than we would ever be willing to be.
In our culture's guiding metaphysics at present, there is no truth, and mostly because without truth, anyone can say anything, really a marketplace way of managing the idea of free speech, which is what we have instead of Free Speech being a democratic way of managing the ecclesiastic. The internet also provides instant expertise, but where anyone can be an expert, no one is, but then this only reinforces "anyone can say," which has always been the flip-side of "who's to say?" The latter being the rhetorical question most popular in America.
We have a long way to go or return to if we are ever going to have trenchant and intelligent discussion with Muslims because that return would be to where Muslims have not left–and I am restricting my reference to Muslims to sane, rational, intelligent, educated Muslims. Seeing as there are a billion Muslims in the world there would have to millions of what/of whom I have described. But then there are millions of the stupid, the insane, the narrow-minded, the hateful, et cetera. The world is a confusing place because either in veracity or in metaphor (which holds a special kind of validity and veracity) God has allowed Satan dominion over the world. And as a metaphor, we must be able to see what this means for the world. I guess in the traditions of the BOOK, Satan should have dominion over the world, otherwise free-will would be incidental and perhaps moot.
How is it we ever believe we can avoid hubris? Perhaps that is in itself hubris.


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How Did Cleveland and Northeast Ohio Do with the RNC?
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — A little over a year after the Republican National Convention came to Cleveland, we are getting a look at the impact it had on our area.
Thursday, the Cleveland 2016 Host Committee announced the hosting of the 2016 RNC resulted in up to $188.4 million of economic benefit to our region, which includes Cuyahoga; Lake; Geauga; Lorain; Summit; Medina; and Erie counties, according to Tourism Economics. The total is short of the original $200 million estimate.
Also, the jobs and labor income is said to have been significant with 1,324 FTE positions created through the RNC hosting, translating to $61.1 million in income for area residents.
Studies from both Tourism Economics and Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs were done.
"While the different approaches and methodologies provide two different figures for the economic impact, both studies confirm what we already knew: political conventions provide platforms for long-term impact in addition to short-term financial infusions," said David Gilbert, President and CEO of the Cleveland 2016 Host Committee. "That bottom line mirrors our goals from the day Cleveland was chosen as the host city: the Convention infused revenue into our economy that wouldn't have otherwise been realized, and, possibly more importantly, it launched Cleveland on a national and international trajectory in regard to awareness and reputation."
Here are some of the key findings, according to the host committee:
Tourism Economics Analysis
• The 2016 RNC produced $110.1 million in direct spending and $188.4 million in economic impact in a seven-county region. (Note: Visitor spending estimate based on sample size of 1,793 from 2015 Longwoods International Visitor Spending Study commissioned by Destination Cleveland.)
• Hotels averaged 88 percent peak occupancy rate in the seven-county region and 99 percent in Downtown Cleveland during the five core nights of the Convention. Airbnb provided much needed capacity with guest night bookings increasing more than 300 percent compared with the two weeks prior and following the Convention.
• Hotels more than doubled their average daily rates in 2016 over 2015. Airbnb's average nightly prices also more than doubled.
• The jobs and labor income generated by the city's hosting of the RNC were significant. The 1,324 FTE positions generated (on an annualized basis) through the hosting translated to $61.1 million in income for residents.
• The economic activity associated with the RNC generated $10.2 million in state and local tax revenue for the seven-county region, providing funds to support resident programs and services.
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The project supported the Governments of Viet Nam and the Lao People's Democratic Republic in incorporating the social and environmental co-benefits of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) into the process of introducing national REDD+ strategies. Furthermore, the project partners identified opportunities for integrating social and environmental safeguards into existing processes and practices. Incorporating REDD+ safeguards and co-benefits required the introduction and testing of innovative mechanisms in order to support - in addition to emission reductions – the sustainable social development of the local population and the protection of biological diversity. Such mechanisms included the development of subnational REDD+ implementation plans that take social and environmental criteria into account as well as the introduction of participatory forest monitoring and local profit-sharing mechanisms for REDD+.
In Vietnam, the project had a broad and multifold impact from the national to the provincial level. Through policy advice at the national level, a Country Safeguards Roadmap was developed as part of the National REDD+ Programme and a Technical Working Group on Environmental and Social Standards was set up, in which the project leader SNV continues to hold the deputy chair after the end of the project period.
The 3rd version of Vietnam's National Biodiversity Strategy (NBSAP) now mentions links between REDD+ and biodiversity.
In Laos, the project equally supported the establishment of a technical working group on environmental and social standards. To this end, various trainings served for capacity building on REDD+ in general, benefits and standards in particular, and benefit sharing under REDD+.
In the two Vietnamese pilot regions Lam Dong and Ca Mau, the project, together with USAID LEAF and UN-REDD, supported the development of provincial REDD+ action plans. Particular attention was paid to the inclusion of all stakeholder groups as well as co-benefits.
The project's participatory approach influenced Vietnam's national guidelines for subnational REDD+ planning processes, which are currently being applied in six other provinces (multiplier effect), and was integrated into Vietnam's National REDD+ Action Plan in connection with REDD+ monitoring.
In the Vietnamese pilot area Lam Dong, the project developed in close cooperation with local authorities and communities an innovative methodology in three parts for forest monitoring (participatory carbon, biodiversity and social monitoring). This methodology was specifically designed for the purpose of replication in other countries.
In addition, the project trained almost 300 people locally in data acquisition methods for biodiversity monitoring.
Various project elements and approaches (e.g. for integrating environmental and social standards into national and sub-national REDD+ planning, participatory monitoring methods) are currently being replicated in a further ICI project ("Operationalising National Safeguard Requirements for Results-based Payments from REDD+") in Ghana and Peru, after being adapted to local conditions.
In Vietnam, local "Multiple Benefit Incentive Models" were developed for the province of Lam Dong and could be integrated into the province's REDD+ Action Plan.
In Laos, the project analysed options for equitable profit distribution under REDD+.
Overall, the project has produced more than 20 knowledge products (handouts, field reports, studies), e.g. "Mapping the potential for REDD+ to deliver biodiversity conservation in Viet Nam", "Participatory Biodiversity Monitoring for REDD+ - considerations for national REDD+ programmes", "A country-led approach to REDD+ safeguards and multiple benefits". – Finally, the project participated or contributed to more than 25 international events (including COP 17 and 18 World Climate Conferences) in order to share the new knowledge and methods and thereby enrich the international REDD+ process.
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Skipton sisters to play a part in shaping the future of policing in North Yorkshire
Skipton sisters Nikki, left, and Hamaiza Ul-Hassan are two of the latest recruits to North Yorkshire's Youth Commission – the group that helps shape the way the police tackle issues affecting young people. Nikki, aged 23, a restaurant manager, and Hamaiza, aged 14, a pupil at Skipton Girls High School, have made sure that forced […]
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Funding for the Youth Commission on Police and Crime for North Yorkshire will be extended for another two years to enable the Commission to further explore the findings outlined in their final report, which was published today (13 June 2016). The Youth Commission, piloted in July 2015, was funded through the Police and Crime Commissioner's […]
Julia Mulligan backs calls by young people for more 'approachable' police force in largest ever study of their views on policing
Young people call for police officers to be more 'approachable' to under 25s in the largest ever study of young people's opinions of policing in North Yorkshire, instigated by Julia Mulligan, North Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner. Among its findings, it says that young people want police officers to be more consistent in the way […]
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I've been SO emotional. I cry at the slightest sad thing. Adam made me a necklace…I bawled. Caroline hugged me…I sobbed like a baby. Walter let me cuddle him like usual when I saw him for the first time in days…nothing could make me hold back my tears. I packed up at AB's house and made the bed FOR REAL…tears…lots of them. Jon told me I'm a good mom…cried uncontrollably. It's all so bittersweet. I'm SO grateful to be going to Homewood on Tuesday, but I miss my life. Yes that's ME saying I miss my life…the one who tried to die 3 times. But it's true, and the emotions I feel as of late are raw and gut wrenching.
Sooooo…Last night AB gave me my phone, my wallet, my passwords and a bag of my medications that have been locked away for a month. Gasp! When they were in my hands I stood there holding them, frozen in time, like a kid caught red-handed stealing a chocolate bar. What now? I asked AB. "You go and keep getting better! It's up to you now." I still couldn't move. Finally I carried the bag of meds to my room on my finger like a bag of dirty diapers headed to the trash. This is just so weird. When I got to my room with my kryptonite swinging in a bag like a pendulum, I turned around in a slow circle looking for a home for 'them'. I had permission to have the 'substances' that almost killed me in my possession. I was about to sleep fully trusted with them only feet away! I dropped them on the floor and forgot about them…the best I could do.
Earlier that day AB asked me why I thought I was so emotional. She was sure my 'Yay I got a bed at Homewood' high would carry me into Tuesday. Secretly, I knew it wouldn't. The change would not be easy for me. I had settled into my new routine and I knew that uprooting again would stir my dark world for sure. My answer to her question was that I felt similar to the way I felt when I came home from the hospital a month ago. Worried about my family and friends, filled with guilt that I couldn't take care of myself, and sad that my life was upside down. These feelings didn't in anyway discount my gratefulness…they were there for a reason I'm sure. And I needed to feel them and let them be so that I could carry forward with what 'save my life school' had taught me. Distress will pass…have faith in that Natalie. Still not easy!
Monday is my last day of 'save my life school'…sigh. Now I'm crying again! I love every single person I met there! I felt this unexplainable connection because of our similar struggles and pain. Thank you everyone for opening your hearts completely, through stories, tears and talks. You all taught me how to be vulnerable enough to heal, and strong enough to trust. Complete strangers became my extended family…and I couldn't have picked a better bunch if I tried. This 100% includes my teachers! 'Lou Diamond Philips', you are truly amazing! Your ability to even convince me to give the program a chance took one special person 😉 I trusted you and you never let me down. You made me laugh (you make all of us laugh) and I felt so safe telling you anything. The program would never be the same without you! XO. 'Colourful Glasses', I learned SO MUCH in your class! Without a handout (99% of the time 😉 ) I still walked away a better person because of the knowledge you shared. You got me to break out of my shell and that's not an easy task. Keep rocking those colours! And thank you for everything. 'Nurture Your Spirit', you helped me navigate my confused and cluttered heart. You always did a great job keeping us on track, and had the most wonderful advice. Thank you for listening to us so closely and never rushing our words; you're a beautiful person. 'Anxiety Magician', I didn't give you enough credit at the beginning of my school journey. Anxiety class gave me anxiety..but you taught me how to change that! (A MAJOR feat, trust me!) Your knowledge of every subject you taught always left me in awe. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and patience (I know I questioned a lot of things at first). You're an amazing teacher. 'Smiles and Patience' (I know you're laughing that I called you that…but that's how I felt about you 😉 ) You rock. I loved having you as a teacher because you facilitated the best conversations. You somehow were always able to make silence turn into productivity! So impressive! I will be keeping my emotion tree on the fridge for everyone to see. You are a great guy! "Save my life school' was a success because of ALL of you! I will miss you!
What's worth the prize is always worth the fight … if it was easy, everyone would do it. But there's innumerable value in doing the hard stuff.
Your blog postings have actually been a huge help this past week, (yes I binged through all of it in a week). I've been going through a rough spell and my biggest weakness has been asking for help. Because one of my defensive measures is to keep people at arms length my "Army" is quite small. You're very lucky to have someone like AB in your life, I don't have a bf because I haven't let anyone fill that role in a long time. I saw a lot of me reading about your experiences, it was comforting and yet unnerving the similarities. Particularly the postings describing your overdoses, it struck a nerve. When going through the routine of going to bed I'd be gathering up my evening meds, and I have been catching myself staring at the Benadryl bottle. I'm having sleeping issues at the moment and have been finding myself wondering how many would it take to finally get some sleep. I so desperately want to sleep. But then reading your posts made me realize I'm in bigger trouble than I was willing to admit. So I started to reach out to my circle. So thank you Natalie for your blog and I hope things work out for you in Homewood. Good luck and happy early holidays.
HI Sarah! I'm so happy you have reached out for help! It's so much easier said than done I know. I'm proud of you and so happy that my blogs helped if even in the smallest way. Please keep me posted on YOUR journey. BIG HUG!!!
Thanks I will. I already made an appointment to my councillor and going to see my dr about a new med this week.


The new Nature's Gym programme for January-March 2014 is now available. We hope there is plenty on it for you to enjoy! There a a couple of new sites as well, so lots of exciting times ahead! So why not come an join us in helping improve your local green space!
Come rain, come cold winds, come frozen ground….
.....the Nature's Gym volunteers will be out toiling in the Parks and Nature Reserves in Lewisham. Yesterday, 19 brave souls made the trip to Sydenham Wells Park to volunteer their time. We have been working here for a while to create and improve the meadow areas in the nature area of the site. Sydenham Wells … Continue reading Come rain, come cold winds, come frozen ground….


O'NEALS — The stands on both sides of the football field at Minarets High School filled up with people and excitement.
People were cheering for both YHS and Minarets football teams.
The JV game ended in the scores of Minarets with 6 to Yosemite with 12.
Losing is never enjoyable, but it's clear that our players learned some valuable lessons that they applied in their most recent game against Tranquility.
Last Friday, Minarets Mustangs took a strong lead against Tranquility Tigers with the final score ending 60-7. Now, our boys are off to Fowler for what promises to be another exciting game.
Be sure to follow Minarets Football on Instagram at @Minarets_Football!


Found in "A Book of Golden Deeds" by Charlotte Yonge, no publisher or date listed, circa 1880.
A tintype for a bookmark? Wow!
What an interesting photo. The actor in the photo looks so serious. I wonder what the story was about.
What an awesome find! That's a great old photo.
Interesting photo, and great book cover!!


the transformative impact of the Buildings at Risk Register on our built environment.
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Simon Green, AHSS President, puts the case for the Buildings at Risk Register—of which he is manager—being a positive tool in the regeneration of our historic Environment.


To remain competitive, salespeople must provide excellent service while still reaching their sales quotas. When these two ideas converge, sales-service ambidexterity is achieved. But how can sales managers encourage their sales associates to reach this medium?
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Community and individual-level factors affect the satisfaction a person derives from living in his or her community. How do we determine if a community is meeting the needs of the person, and how do we better prepare our communities, moving forward, to appeal to potential homeowners?


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