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The best companies survived Covid on the back of brand advocates: John Hall
On Day 1 of e4m Content Jam, Hall, Co-Founder & President, Calendar.com, decoded the mantra to follow in order to tug at the heartstrings of consumers in the new Covid-led world
Updated: Nov 26, 2020 9:30 AM
Day one of the e4m Content Jam 2020 kickstarted on a rather high-powered note with John Hall, Co-Founder & President, Calendar.com's keynote session 'Staying Top of Mind in Challenging Times'. Hall spoke about what companies can do to make things better, especially in this new Covid-led, digital world. He addressed pieces like time, trust, relevance, building relationships with people in order to tug right at the heart-strings of consumers in the new world.
Hall contended that the first thumb rule is around keeping things real and around utilizing time efficiently which will in turn help with the ROI factor. "Right now we have a temporary new normal. We don't really know what this next year holds for us, but we do know that time is a major factor of how we're spending time to engage people and the ROI that we're getting back.
Return on investment of our time is strategically aligning efforts, especially digitally. You want to make sure the team is on the same page then you utilize the resources in the best way," he said.
Secondly, he addressed how building trust and relationships have never been more important.
"There have been more trust barriers than ever that we're having to get past as marketers. Working towards building trust remains imperative in the world today," Hall remarked.
He also expounded on the importance of building relationships. "Especially during such times, we need to be overcompensating with building trust. It's never been more important. Because right now people miss that connection. People miss personalization. So whether you jump on a Zoom call you should bring good energy to it immediately," Hall advised.
Sharing a recent incident, he noted the importance of creating brand advocates.
"I recently had a bad experience with a marketer on a team, and I communicated that. It's easy to communicate these frustrations because you're frustrated, but always remember to communicate when people do well. So right after that I spent a good 30 minutes, just thinking about the people over the last week that have been easy to deal with. I wanted to personalize that to make them feel once again that we're recognizing and appreciating their efforts. From that you create these super brand advocates. With COVID and what happened here, the best companies stayed alive because of brand advocates because of those people that truly love the company because they stuck with them throughout that time," Hall explained.
Further, he spoke of the need of consistently being educating and educating people you work with."I think right now, there's a lack of trust in the media and what information is out there so it's really important that you do your best as a company and to become a true trusted source by transparency and consistent education," Hall hinted.
He also spoke about how relevance plays an important role today. "To me that next evolution is around relevancy. Is it relevant and does it truly engage the person. We need to ask: Are we being relevant with our content? Are we getting the relevant people to engage with us as that's what is extremely important right now, to make sure that we're engaging the right people with the right content," he asserted.
Shedding light on the need for partnerships he said, " Recognising people is just something that I'm trying to do consistently right now. Find joint ventures or joint partnerships. This is a world where we kind of need to be in it together to move forward, to find good partners, to find good people that you can move forward with," Hall stated.
Lastly, he advised on the importance of focus and steering away from the distractions that surround us."In this world, focus is going to be a major priority.
And I want you guys to print this out. This is something that I have on my desk as well, is that there are things that matter and there are things you can control in your job and in your professional life. I'm telling you there's a lot of things that you cannot control, and you cannot think those things distract you from your overall goals, your priorities, your marketing initiatives, your communication initiatives and overall business goals, and so keep this at your desk and follow it," Hall exclaimed.
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GPs are determined to cut their out-of-hours workload even if the contract is rejected.
Several co-operatives, primary care organisations and LMCs have already drawn up proposals to allow GPs to give up or reduce their out-of-hours commitment in the event of a No vote.
Thamesdoc, a co-op in Surrey and Hampshire, plans to roll out a scheme employing locums to cover out-of-hours work on annual salaries of around £100,000, even if GPs reject the contract.
Dr Ken Megson, secretary of Gateshead and South Tyneside LMC and a GP in Felling, Tyne and Wear, said: 'We have put a bit of pressure on the PCT which is going forward with a scheme already.


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Total People 5-9 Years 9,428
Total People 10-14 Years 10,322
Total People 20-24 Years 8,502
Total People 85 Years and Older 2,135
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1-Person Households with Unemployed Residents 5,507
1- Person Households with 1 Employed Resident 5,349
Total Households with 2 People 17,232
2-Person Households with 2 Employed Residents 6,496
Total Households with 3 People 9,226
3-Person Households with Unemployed Residents 744
3-Person Households with 3+ EmployedResidents 1,287
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Percent of People Who Have Graduated High School 24.84%
Percent of People Who Started College 39.78%
Percent of People Who Finished College 29.48%
Percent of Homeowners Who Have Not Graduated High School 4.14%
Percent of Homeowners Who Have Graduated High School 22.96%
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Percent of Homeowners Who Finished College 33.9%
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JUKEBOX | BOB DYLAN | SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
Posted on August 4, 2015	by Trace
— T u e s d a y T u n e s —
SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
B O B D Y L A N
was originally released in 1965.
It was Dylan's first Top 40 hit in the U.S.
The first line is a reference to codeine distillation and politics of the time —
"Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine / I'm on the pavement thinkin' about the Government"…
The song also depicts some of the growing conflicts between "straight" or "square" (40-hour workers) and the emerging 1960s counterculture.
The widespread use of recreational drugs, and turmoil surrounding the Vietnam War were both starting to take hold of the nation, and Dylan's hyperkinetic lyrics were dense with up-to-the-minute allusions to important emerging elements in the 1960s youth culture.
According to rock journalist Andy Gill "an entire generation recognized the zeitgeist in the verbal whirlwind of Subterranean Homesick Blues."
In 2004 Dylan said "It's from Chuck Berry, a bit of 'Too Much Monkey Business' and some of the scat songs of the '40s."
Dylan has also stated that when he reached the University of Minnesota in 1959, he fell under the influence of the Beat scene..
"It was Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso and Ferlinghetti."
Kerouac's 'The Subterraneans' a novel published in 1958 about the Beats, has been suggested as a possible inspiration for the song's title.
The song also references the struggles surrounding the American civil rights movement ["Better stay away from those / That carry around a fire hose"].
During the civil rights movement, peaceful protestors were beaten and sprayed with high pressure fire hoses. Despite the political nature of the lyrics, the song went on to become the first Top 40 hit for Dylan in the United States.
Image with gratitude ©Lisa Law from her Bob Dylan Collection
John Lennon was reported to find the song so captivating that he didn't know how he'd be able to write a song that could compete with it.
In addition to the song's influence on music, the song was used in what became one of the first "modern" promotional film clips, the forerunner of what later became known as the music video.
The original clip was actually the opening segment of D. A. Pennebaker's film 'Don't Look Back' a documentary on Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England.
In the film Dylan, who came up with the idea, holds up cue cards for the audience, with selected words and phrases from the lyrics.
The cue cards were written by Donovan, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Neuwirth and Dylan himself. While staring at the camera, he flips the cards as the song plays.
There are intentional misspellings and puns throughout the clip: for instance, when the song's lyrics say "eleven dollar bills" the poster says "20 dollar bills".
The clip was shot in an alley behind the Savoy Hotel in London where Ginsberg and Neuwirth make a cameo in the background.
Thanks to the back of the Savoy Hotel retaining much of the same exterior as in 1965, the alley used in the video sequence has been identified as the Savoy Steps.
Dylan's early focus on rock and roll gave way to an interest in American folk music; in 1985, Dylan explained the attraction that folk music had exerted on him:
"The thing about rock'n'roll is that for me anyway it wasn't enough … There were great catch-phrases and driving pulse rhythms … but the songs weren't serious or didn't reflect life in a realistic way. I knew that when I got into folk music, it was more of a serious type of thing. The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings." Source — diluted wiki and google images
Johny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in the coon-skip cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten.
Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the DA
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try, 'No Doz'
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows.
Get sick, get well
Hang around an ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write Braille
Get jailed, jump bail Join the army, if you failed
You're gonna get hit
But losers, cheaters
Six-time users
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters.
Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles.
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4.3% rural women faced molestation on defacating in open, 7.6% on going to market. Comparable?, asks study
By Rajiv Shah
In a sharp critique of the Government of India thinking, continuing since the UPA days, that rural women are "vulnerable to sexual assault" when they defecate in the open, a recent study carried has said that such a view only distracts policy makers "from the real social divisions, based on caste, that prevent the adoption of affordable latrines".
Carried out jointly by scholars from Indian Statistical Institute, University of Pennsylvania and Research Institute for Compassionate Economics (RICE), and published by RICE, the study believes such a thinking only caters to the urbanite view that "if women had more decision-making power, many more households in rural India would invest in latrines."
Based on an interview of 1,046 women, as part of the paper "Understanding open defecation in rural India: Untouchability, pollution, and latrine pits" by Diane Coffey, Aashish Gupta, Payal Hathi, Dean Spears, Nikhil Srivastav, and Sangita Vyas, the study says, "4.3% told us that while going to defecate, they had been the victim of someone attempting to molest them."
However, ironically, the study says, "Of the same group, 7.6% reported that this had happened to them while going to the market", underlining, "The point is not that these events are necessarily comparable. The point is that it is not a serious policy response".
The study is based on a survey on sanitation beliefs and behavior for approximately 23,000 individuals in 3,200 households in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
Wondering by this standard should one "suggest that women should stop going to markets", the study insists, "Ending sexual violence, ending open defecation, and ensuring social access to markets for everyone are all important goals, but they will not be resolved by the same public policy or programme."
The study says, "Although it is true that latrines may benefit women more than men because they are expected to clean up the feces of ailing relatives and small children, women reject affordable latrines for the same reasons that men do: they, too, are concerned about ritual pollution and pit-emptying."
The study further says, "It is no surprise, considering the restrictions on rural women's freedom of movement, that many women express positive attitudes toward open defecation. A young daughter-in-law in Haryana, whose household owns a latrine, explained that 'the reason that [I and my sisters-in-law] go outside [to defecate] is that we get to wander a bit...you know, we live cooped up inside'."
During the field work, the scholars say, they found government slogans, painted on walls or displayed on posters in government offices, which pointed to the apparent contradiction between practices that enforce women's modesty and open defecation. "For instance, a common slogan in Uttar Pradesh is 'Daughters-in-law and daughters should not go outside, make a toilet in your house'."
Finding these efforts "to persuade men to build latrines by appealing to restrictive gender norms problematic", the study underlines, "These gender norms are stifling for women and constitute an important constraint on human development in rural India. Discrimination against women and limitations on their mobility and decision making power are widely understood to contribute to poor child health."
Asking government "dismantle, not reinforce, such norms", the study says, "these messages give villagers the impression that latrine use is for women, but the message that the government should be sending is that latrine use is for everyone. Men's feces as well as women's feces spread germs that make other people sick. "
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Since Christmas and New Year's is over, the hectic days have returned. You still remember the happy holiday trip last time? It seems the period was like a magical dream which has been overwhelmed by normal daily life. Well, the truth is in February wanderlust takes over the whole nation. There are some interesting events that are worth travelling to in the UK.
Are you a person who is fond of tasting ales? Then you do not want to miss the 15th Derby Camera Winter Ale Festival which will take place on 20th to 23th February at the Roundhouse in Derby. It offers one of the best ales from over 400 cask ales, cider and world bear along with the performances of the fantastic live bands in the Derby Roundhouse. In addition, there are many activities you can take part in, such as being an apprentice brewer on 'A Day with the Brewer' experience or disclose some of the best pubs on Derby's Perfect Pub Crawl.
If you are not very interested in ales, you could consider attending the Jorvik Viking Festival which will be hold in York from the 20th to 27th. You might be wondering what the relation between Viking and the UK is? Generally, you would first think of Scandinavia but York has a rich Norse heritage as well. This is a great opportunity to learn about Viking. You can hear Norse sagas and legend stories, learn some of the crafts from experts, try their food and watch the show of the Anglo-Saxons lock swords with the Viking invaders.
As music is one of the best ways to chill out, the Coastival Festival (22th to 24th February) is worth checking out. Over three days, the stage will be host to various genres of performances such as pop, comedy, dance, and so on. Feeling your soul immersing into the world of hip-hop and jazz whilst grinning all weekend because of the stand-up comedians; you will have an unforgettable experience. Furthermore, the Broadstairs Blue Bash Festival from 22th to 24th near Canterbury is another good choice for music lovers. It is more than exciting to enjoy the music from over 60 bands across the world.
What are your plans for February? It seems like none of the above festivals can be missed! It is time to pack up your stuff and plan a short-term trip to bring some colour to the dullness of February!


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import os
import sys

def is_active():
	return True

def get_name():
        return "X11"

def can_build():

	if (os.name!="posix"):
		return False

	if sys.platform == "darwin":
		return False # no x11 on mac for now

	errorval=os.system("pkg-config --version > /dev/null")

	if (errorval):
		print("pkg-config not found.. x11 disabled.")
		return False

	x11_error=os.system("pkg-config x11 --modversion > /dev/null ")
	if (x11_error):
		print("X11 not found.. x11 disabled.")
		return False

        ssl_error=os.system("pkg-config openssl --modversion > /dev/null ")
        if (ssl_error):
                print("OpenSSL not found.. x11 disabled.")
                return False

	x11_error=os.system("pkg-config xcursor --modversion > /dev/null ")
	if (x11_error):
		print("xcursor not found.. x11 disabled.")
		return False

	return True # X11 enabled

def get_opts():

	return [
	('use_llvm','Use llvm compiler','no'),
	('use_sanitizer','Use llvm compiler sanitize address','no'),
	]

def get_flags():

	return [
	('builtin_zlib', 'no'),
	("openssl", "yes"),
        ]

def configure(env):

	is64=sys.maxsize > 2**32

	if (env["bits"]=="default"):
		if (is64):
			env["bits"]="64"
		else:
			env["bits"]="32"

	env.Append(CPPPATH=['#platform/x11'])
	if (env["use_llvm"]=="yes"):
		env["CC"]="clang"
		env["CXX"]="clang++"
		env["LD"]="clang++"
		if (env["use_sanitizer"]=="yes"):
			env.Append(CXXFLAGS=['-fsanitize=address','-fno-omit-frame-pointer'])
			env.Append(LINKFLAGS=['-fsanitize=address'])

	#if (env["tools"]=="no"):
	#	#no tools suffix
	#	env['OBJSUFFIX'] = ".nt"+env['OBJSUFFIX']
	#	env['LIBSUFFIX'] = ".nt"+env['LIBSUFFIX']

	if (env["target"]=="release"):

		env.Append(CCFLAGS=['-O2','-ffast-math','-fomit-frame-pointer'])

	elif (env["target"]=="release_debug"):

		env.Append(CCFLAGS=['-O2','-ffast-math','-DDEBUG_ENABLED'])

	elif (env["target"]=="debug"):

		env.Append(CCFLAGS=['-g2', '-Wall','-DDEBUG_ENABLED','-DDEBUG_MEMORY_ENABLED'])

	env.ParseConfig('pkg-config x11 --cflags --libs')
	env.ParseConfig('pkg-config xcursor --cflags --libs')
	env.ParseConfig('pkg-config openssl --cflags --libs')

	env.ParseConfig('pkg-config freetype2 --cflags --libs')
	env.Append(CCFLAGS=['-DFREETYPE_ENABLED'])

	env.Append(CPPFLAGS=['-DOPENGL_ENABLED','-DGLEW_ENABLED'])
	env.Append(CPPFLAGS=["-DALSA_ENABLED"])
	env.Append(CPPFLAGS=['-DX11_ENABLED','-DUNIX_ENABLED','-DGLES2_ENABLED','-DGLES1_ENABLED','-DGLES_OVER_GL'])
	env.Append(LIBS=['GL', 'GLU', 'pthread','asound','z']) #TODO detect linux/BSD!
	#env.Append(CPPFLAGS=['-DMPC_FIXED_POINT'])

#host compiler is default..

	if (is64 and env["bits"]=="32"):
		env.Append(CPPFLAGS=['-m32'])
		env.Append(LINKFLAGS=['-m32','-L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu'])
	elif (not is64 and env["bits"]=="32"):
		env.Append(CPPFLAGS=['-m64'])
		env.Append(LINKFLAGS=['-m64','-L/usr/lib/i686-linux-gnu'])

	if (env["CXX"]=="clang++"):
		env.Append(CPPFLAGS=['-DTYPED_METHOD_BIND'])
		env["CC"]="clang"
		env["LD"]="clang++"

	import methods

	env.Append( BUILDERS = { 'GLSL120' : env.Builder(action = methods.build_legacygl_headers, suffix = 'glsl.h',src_suffix = '.glsl') } )
	env.Append( BUILDERS = { 'GLSL' : env.Builder(action = methods.build_glsl_headers, suffix = 'glsl.h',src_suffix = '.glsl') } )
	env.Append( BUILDERS = { 'GLSL120GLES' : env.Builder(action = methods.build_gles2_headers, suffix = 'glsl.h',src_suffix = '.glsl') } )
	#env.Append( BUILDERS = { 'HLSL9' : env.Builder(action = methods.build_hlsl_dx9_headers, suffix = 'hlsl.h',src_suffix = '.hlsl') } )

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This simple project, presented here as a master pattern, is the perfect starting point for knitting in the round. Choose the desired circumference of your cowl, make a gauge swatch to determine your cast-on number, and away you go!
You can knit this cowl in plain stockinette stitch and allow it to curl at the edges, or add a simple border of garter stitch to control the natural roll of stockinette stitch. You can also knit it in a variety of stitch patterns; it lends itself well to lacy, open designs.
This cowl is circular in shape. You can make it any circumference and height you want. The circumference is determined by the number of stitches you cast on; the height is determined by how many rounds you knit before you bind off. The L and XL sizes are intended to be wrapped twice around your neck.
Needles: One 16-inch (or longer) circular needle in the size needed to get your desired gauge.
Yarn: You can use virtually any weight of yarn for this project. The number of yards you need will vary, depending on gauge, stitch pattern, and the size of the cowl. The table gives you a rough estimate of the yardage for a 20–50" cowl that is approximately 12" tall.
If you plan to use this stitch patterm on your cowl, be sure to cast on a number of stitches that is a multiple of 14.
If you plan to use this stitch pattern on your cowl, be sure to cast on a number of stitches that is a multiple of 17.
It is best to work this project using one circular needle in the traditional method. You can work smaller cowls on a 16-inch circular; larger cowls will fit better on a 32-inch circular. However, if you do not have the correct length of circular needle to fit all of your cast-on stitches, you can use two circulars or the magic loop method.
Drape a tape measure or a 50-inch piece of string around your neck and arrange it to find your desired cowl circumference.
This master pattern offers sizes ranging from 20 inches all the way up to 50 inches. The smaller cowls will fit once around your neck, and, if you knit it to a sufficient height, you can pull it up over the head as a snood.
The 32-inch cowl can drape gracefully around the neck as both a fashion accessory and a buffer against the cold winter winds. The two largest sizes are large enough that you can wrap them twice around the neck for added warmth, or once around the neck as a dramatic accent.
When choosing yarn for your cowl, consider the purpose you want your finished project to fulfill. If you are seeking a year-round accessory, choose a yarn that reflects that; cotton, rayon, or silk would be comfortable just about anywhere. If you want a cowl item that's suited for cool-weather wear, try wool or another animal fiber. Think about color as well; a simple stockinette cowl will show the colors of a variegated or self-patterning yarn to best advantage, while a solid or semi-solid color yarn is more appropriate for a complicated stitch pattern.
After choosing your yarn, consider a stitch pattern. You can work this cowl in stockinette stitch, one of the lacy patterns presented in Cowl B or C, a stitch pattern, or a pattern of your own. Once you've chosen a stitch pattern, make a swatch in that pattern to determine your gauge and your needle size. Your gauge will determine the number of stitches you cast on to achieve a given size. Bear in mind that your total number of cast-on stitches should be divisible by the number of stitches in your stitch pattern. For example, if your stitch pattern is 12 stitches wide, round the cast-on number from the table on the next page to a multiple of 12.
Using the long-tail cast-on, cast on the number of stitches specified in the table for your gauge and desired cowl size.
Arrange your stitches on the needle and join for working in the round, being careful not to twist the cast-on around the needles. Place a marker to indicate the end of the round.
If you want an edging, work a few rounds of garter stitch as follows: *Knit 1 round; purl 1 round. Repeat from * once.
Begin to work in stockinette or your chosen stitch pattern until the cowl measures the desired height from the cast-on edge.
Try 12–24 inches for a single-wrap cowl and 8–12 inches for a longer cowl. The cowl should be at least 18 inches tall if you want to wear it as a snood.
Bind off loosely. Weave in yarn ends.
If you chose a lace pattern, it is especially important to block your finished item to open up the lace.


more from the big day!
Grandpa and GG waiting by the door Charlotte was about to come through with Stan. I was able to watch all of this on a tv in the operating room...so neat.
Charlotte showed off her strong lungs right off the bat.
As soon as I talked to her right here, she stopped crying...pretty neat :).
With GG! (My dad had a cold so couldn't hold her :(...will have to share that picture when the time comes :).
With my friend, Chloe, who brought the sweet birthday cookie cake for Charlotte!
Big Sis played and played!
This is what Anniston does when we ask her to "Praise Jesus!" ha.
Sleepy girl...LOVE having another girl with great cheeks :).
Sorry, not sure why I had to write commentary under almost every picture when it is pretty evident what you are looking at in these :).
We are doing great! I CANNOT believe how awesome I feel this time. I thought it was great last time, but seriously, this is such a blessing. Going home tomorrow!
She is beautiful with chubby cheeks like her sister, and, not like her sister, she has lots of dark hair!! Love her!!
Everything went SO smoothly, and she is the picture of health! Thank you so much for your prayers!! They were felt and answered!
I have lots of other pictures that I will share asap!
I cannot believe tomorrow is the day! I just wanted to document what we have been up to these last few days as a family of three and to share more prego stuff for my memory!
Oh, and not to mention the delivery! It is so different anticipating the delivery this time. I don't think I have ever shared many details of how Anniston got here, and it is because it was kind of not the best time (could have been much worse though, so still thankful), and I didn't want to scare anyone away since what happened to me is not very common. I will just share one part because it is the main aspect that seems so strange/exciting to me right now. When I was in labor, my epidural only worked on half of my body (really not fun, especially with all the fun pitocin...), so when I had to go in for the section, they could not get me numb all the way and had to put me to sleep without Stan in the room. It was SO weird not seeing my baby come out of me! I had always anticipated that and never thought of any other option that would prevent me from at least seeing her. She kind of didn't feel like she was mine when I saw her a few hours later, but that is a whole other post ha. I was just SO thankful she was okay, so none of that mattered at all at the time. ANYWAY, I am excited to see Charlotte this time! So many new things!
And, after my pre-op appointment at the hospital today, I am a teeny bit nervous, so you can pray for that, too :).
Okay, I have to document this because these have probably been my biggest craving. Yes you heard me...craving. Stan makes fun of me all the time because I think I could just eat the whole bottle in one sitting. And, no I have not done that! Pretty sure that's not advisable. Anyway, I do chew a few, ahem, a day. Listen, I just never knew they had Wintergreen flavor! I thought they were always just those nasty, chalky fruity kind, but these are SO good. And, I guess I need my calcium too, so plusses all around!
Saturday, we had a fun day just the three of us. We needed to pick up a few last minute things at the grocery store, and our new store has grocery carts for the kids! Anniston LOVED pushing it, and for a little while, Stan pushed her in it and won all kinds of daddy points from the other ladies in the store :). Oh, and then he took her to the playground without me that afternoon and won even more points. He's doing gooood :).
Like mother like daughter...notice here that she is going after my tums :).
That morning, we also went to the farmer's market to pick up a few things and took a few quick pictures of her with the pumpkins!
She kept looking at Stan :).
Sweet smile, sweet girl. I must point out that she has just been the sweetest little girl lately. Not that she wasn't sweet before, but I think she is just growing up. Maybe she knows something is changing? Although she is nice to everyone else, she does seem to show me lots of extra love lately, which I will gladly accept and soak up :). She actually just jumped all over my stomach trying to give me love a few minutes ago, so pray that she gently loves me (and Charlotte) over the next few weeks, ha.
Okay, I will try to post pictures asap tomorrow afternoon! Thank you so much for praying for us!
***OH, also, Anniston has been doing SO much better walking the last week!! I know it is because of you guys praying! Thank you!!
I am sharing this picture not only because of the season but also because Anniston's OT actually made her this dress! Isn't that so sweet?? Her OT has been so kind and very relatable/understanding with me...totally priceless with a therapist. She has even cried when telling me how much she sees in Anniston and how she knows she will be just fine. Love her. She asked me a couple of weeks ago if she could sew Anniston a fall dress, and I said sure! To which she replied: "Ok, I already took her measurements last week" ha. Too nice.
Well, in trying to be positive, I will just say that Anniston's right arm was pretty affected by the stroke, but it is definitely getting better! On one hand, I could almost say that I haven't seen a ton of progress, but on the other: if we sit back and look at where she has come from, all of these baby steps really are huge. There is a good bit of neglect when it comes to her right arm/hand...she doesn't hold a book or a ball with both hands, but when we are reading a book, we can say "turn the page with your right hand", and she will do it :). We lift the page, and she turns it with her fist...the movement is slow, and you can tell she is thinking so hard about it while she does it, but this is for sure an improvement. She will stand at the piano, playing away with her left hand, and when we say "play with your right hand", she will lift it up and bang the keys.
For a while, we did constraint therapy at home (where we tie down her good arm...I know, seems aweful), but now that she is older, it is a bit harder, so we try to present things to her on her right side to show her that it would be "easier" to use the arm that is closer. I try to sit to her right at restaurants, and we have always positioned her carseat (whether rear-facing or forward) to where the window she looks out of is to her right to help prevent any favoring with looking to the left. Her eyes look equally in both directions (you would never know how severe the stroke was by looking at her face...such a praise), but her arm is the main form of neglect with her right side. I know as she gets older and sees the importance of using it, there will be much improvement.
She wears this little soft thumb splint on her right hand most of the time when she is awake...mainly at home and at therapy. I think she had just spilled applesauce on it in the pic if you were wondering :). This splint has really done wonders with helping her hand to be relaxed while holding her thumb out. She had another thumb-loop splint before this that was great, too, but she learned how to take it off :).
All in all, her right arm is getting better! I think I have mentioned this before, but the return of movement after an injury like this usually starts at the shoulder and moves down to the elbow and then to the fingers. We have to resist the urge to focus on her fingers because that can be discouraging, but if we look at all that she is doing with her arm as a whole (pulling up, crawling, bringing it to mid-line more), we can see so many improvements!
Okay, on to speech. Hmmm...where to begin. Basically, since the stroke affected the left side of Anniston's brain (where speech is), it appears that some of her expressive language (talking) has been impaired. The huge praise is that her receptive language (comprehension...what she understands) is testing within the normal range! I know that is such a praise. Yes, it can be hard sometimes when I focus on her not talking well, and yes, there are names for the disorder, but we are choosing to be positive and praise God for how far she has come. We are choosing to believe that He is healing her and that we will see more fruit of that healing eventually...we have already seen so much! Such a blessing, too, that she is so young and that her brain is so plastic.
Basically, Anniston is verbal...she tries to say things and grunts some (not preferable), using a few consonants and vowels. She understands SO much, so considering that fact, her temperament is VERY good seeing that she does not seem to get too frustrated when we cannot understand what she is trying to tell us. (Don't get me wrong, we have our moments though.) She will try to mimic us, but it doesn't usually sound like what we are saying. She uses a few spontaneous words that we can pretty well decipher ("out", "up", "on"). She might repeat "mama" or "dada", but she has not intentionally called us "mama" or "dada". There are many animal sounds that she will say/try to say, and really usually she will at least attempt most words if we ask her...just not so much when we don't prompt her. It seems she knows what she wants to say, but getting it from her brain to her mouth is hard. Didn't even know there was such a thing before all of this.
Sometimes it overwhelms me thinking about the future. School. Reading. Writing. BUT, we just have to take it one day at a time and realize that she is God's child, and He has done and will do so much through her.
We just changed speech therapists and have seen SO much more improvement. This is all gradually getting better, and her therapist is very hopeful, seeing how smart Anniston is and how motivated she is. Her therapist also believes that once Anniston masters more of these gross motor hurdles (when she is walking better), the speech will come more quickly.
Oh, and Anniston does have other ways of communicating. She uses several signs still and we also have incorporated the use of pictures some, too. We use visual cues to prompt her, and we are working on strengthening some of her facial muscles...also trying to get her to keep her tongue in her mouth more. We use bubbles and whistles at home to try to get her to blow and just recognize/use her lips more. We read tons of books, point at pictures, try to get her to initiate verbalizations, work on our vocabulary words, use flash cards, etc. All of this is helping, and we appreciate your prayers!
Like I said, she is doing SO well. I just want to remember all of this so that we can have a reference to look back on when she is doing even more! Love you so much and appreciated your encouraging words on the last post more than you know!
PS: Charlotte is coming Wednesday! Yikes! Or, I guess it could be before! Yikes!
Anniston's progress, that is...it has been a little bit heavy on me lately...maybe having to do with pregnancy and what not, but it is pretty typical for me to have "moments" about every 6 months or so. It's okay, though, because those "moments" always bring me back to reality that we have such a healthy, precious little girl who is such a miracle and gift from God.
Let's see...I think I will just focus on PT and OT for this post because speech is probably heavier on my heart and might take a separate post :).
I never thought I would have a 28 month old who is still struggling to walk. It kind of breaks my heart sometimes. I know it is not the most important thing, but I'm just ready for that to be her primary mode of mobility. It's hard work. For all of us but especially for her. You might remember that Anniston took her first steps at 21 months when we were at IMOT. Well, she has pretty much been taking steps since then, and her walking and endurance have improved, but she still has some fear and weakness that we battle. But, we KNOW God is working in her and that the fear is subsiding while her strength is increasing. So thankful!
I told her PT the other day that it's just hard sometimes seeing that yes, there is progress, but my goodness, it just feels so slow. She was sweet to say that with a child NOT in her shoes who just has a delay with walking, it seems so fast when they start walking and things just escalate from there, but for a child like Anniston who has some paralysis on one side, ANY progress is SO huge, even if it seems slow. I am trying to be thankful :). She really is doing so very well, and this is not a "health" thing, so wow, what a blessing in itself!
She just got this new brace. Now she has an AFO instead of the SMO that we started out with a year ago. (Still wearing an SMO on her left foot though.) Basically, an SMO is more for ankle support, correcting the turning-in of the foot, and an AFO will do the same but will also keep her heel on the ground (she has had pretty tight heel cords that we have really had to work at stretching since she began walking, which is due to more tone on her right side because of the stroke; thus she walks flat on her left/good foot and up on her right toes...this makes her more unsteady and more likely to fall...which praise the Lord, He is watching over her and protecting her.) Imagine walking flat on your left foot and up on your right toes at the same time...you would be off balance, most likely, and you might be a little afraid you were going to fall. Now, imagine you are two :). She is pretty careful, which I am grateful for, but this can also be a struggle.
Stan and I were talking the other night about how any little setback with her sometimes means months before she is back where she needs to be. Let me clarify. For example, the braces: Anniston had just started pulling up to standing last year right before we got her first set of braces. Immediately after receiving her new orthotics, she stopped pulling up, and it took MONTHS before we could get her to do it again. Her feet were bigger with them on, and everything was just clunky...maybe that was why, I don't know. We would try to go back barefoot to get her to pull up, but it just wasn't happening. Now, we just had her casted for AFO's. I called the end of July to set up the appointment. They could not see her until the end of August. Once we got in, she had to get her foot casted so that the brace is made especially for her. We made an appointment for "2 weeks later" which turned into a month later because insurance had not approved and the brace cannot be made until then. And, now that we have the braces, they were hurting her, so we had to get them adjusted, which set us back another few weeks, and we go back on November 7th to hopefully do one last adjustment and then cast her LEFT foot for her other brace (doing it at a separate time because we needed to make sure she needs another SMO instead of switching to AFO with left foot too) which would probably take another month to get...much less the adjusting part.
I'm sorry....that sounded like I was really upset and complaining, but I truly am not...I just wanted to show how some of these things (which will in the end be good things) wind up seemingly prolonging her progress...and can be frustrating. Oh, and the AFO hurts her foot at times to where she is laying down on the ground because she cannot bear to put weight on it. I know this is because the brace is doing what it is supposed to be doing (helping to flatten her foot), but it still feels like: where is my little girl who was taking so many steps just a few weeks ago?? Okay, I'm done with the vent, and I kind of wish I wouldn't have written all of that ha.
I am in a Bible study right now called "No Other Gods" by Kelly Minter. I went into it thinking that I didn't really have another god or that maybe it was technology or something?, but on the first night of our study, it hit me: my god was Anniston's success. I think many parents can relate. I want Anniston to do so well, and the fact that we have to work harder than some (not all by any means) makes it almost consume me that much more sometimes, I think. It is hard not to compare milestones at times or want your child to be "the best". I have pushed her so hard at times to achieve certain things, and then it hits me: why am I doing this? Really, why? In eternity, what does this matter? Don't get me wrong, I believe wholeheartedly in giving everything your best for the glory of the Lord, but I just think in light of eternity, whether or not my child could stack a certain number of blocks at so many months or could clap or sing or say her ABC's by a certain point does NOT matter! It finally hit me (sometimes it takes me a while:)) that I would so much rather her love the Lord and be loving and kind to others than to achieve anything that this world merits. I am not saying that I still don't struggle with these worldly feelings, but I am just saying that I am trying to make HIM number one instead of Anniston's success.
"But seek first the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you." Luke 12:31 God spoke this verse to my heart a couple of months ago, and it has changed everything for me. None of the above milestones are bad. It is okay for me to desire those things for Anniston, but when they become bigger to me than HIM, and when those thoughts consume me, it is completely wrong. I cannot tell you how much this scripture has meant to me and how much I have seen God do in Anniston as I focus on Him. I am so not perfect, and I still have my moments, but I do see that as I look at Him more, she is taken care of and progressing more and more, even at a quicker rate. He is her Heavenly Father. She is His child foremost, and it is not all on me or Stan. What a relief.
She is seriously the most precious little girl ever, and I do not know what we did to deserve having her as our child...I am just so in love.
Okay, OT might have to be a separate post, too :).
Wow, just realized that it was two years ago today that we brought Anniston home from the hospital after her stroke...my mind just hasn't acknowledged what day it is lately, ha. He has brought her SO far since then. She couldn't even look to the right, much less straight ahead on October 14, 2009, but now she gives me the sweetest love with those same blue eyes. SO thankful.
I have a couple of fall recipes to share! My friend, Kristen, is inspiring me...these are for you, girl!
This pasta salad was labeled a "harvest salad" in the September issue of Southern Living Magazine, so of course that caught my eye :)...anything resembling fall catches my eye, by the way. Just a tid-bit. Well, this pasta salad really hit the spot with me, and I cannot stop thinking about it! It definitely needs to be eaten within the first couple of days after being made because the dressing can become pretty strong after that. It is SO good...you need to try :). Oh, and even though it says to use half of the box of bow tie pasta, don't let that fool you...this makes a ton! Don't make it just for yourself...or do. Yes, do.
Cut broccoli florets from stems, and separate florets into small pieces using tip of a paring knife. Peel away tough outer layer of stems, and finely chop stems.
Whisk together mayonnaise and next 4 ingredients in a large bowl; add broccoli, hot cooked pasta, and grapes. Stir to coat. Cover and chill 3 hours. Stir bacon and pecans into salad just before serving...can be done ahead of time, though.
Okay, the next recipe (from allrecipes.com) I have made a couple of times now to pass out and for company, and they have been pretty popular. They are SO soft. I am a big pumpkin flavor fan, so if you're not, these may not be the cookies for you...but if so, bake on!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, and salt; set aside.
In a medium bowl, cream together 1/2 cup of butter and sugars. Add pumpkin, egg, and 1 teaspoon vanilla...beat until creamy. Mix in dry ingredients. You can immediately drop spoonfuls onto cookie sheet, but I like to refrigerate the dough for at least an hour or so (or even overnight)...just cleaner that way. Drop on cookie sheet and flatten slightly.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Cool cookies then drizzle glaze with fork.
To make glaze: combine the last four ingredients well. Add milk as needed to achieve drizzling consistency. Makes 3 dozen. Enjoy!
Also, I went to the doctor this week and have not progressed at all yet...odd because it was not at all that way with Anniston by this point, but I guess these girls are proving to be different already! 36 weeks today :).


I won't go into as much detail about all the things on my lists since most of them are straightforward and I have plenty on here, but I will mention anything special or noteworthy and I'm always glad to answer questions in the comments.
Anyways, enough of my blabbering, let's get into what you're here for!
Budapest what a gem you are. Budapest was my first trip outside the country while studying abroad and it did not disappoint.
Walking around Amsterdam felt like walking around a pop-up fairytale book. Architecturally it looks and feels different than most of the cities I saw in Europe. With its buildings in all shades of black, grey, and maroon and the plethora of canals and bridges, Amsterdam doesn't feel like a real city at all.
It's crazy to think that this time last year I was getting ready for my four month adventure in Prague. How has an entire year gone by already? I miss those four months abroad looking back there's so many things I would have done differently and one of those would be packing.
Brussels originally wasn't on my list of places to visit, but when my old roommates asked if I wanted to join them on this trip, I couldn't say no. It's a beautiful and walkable city and I'm already planning on going back! Brussels is also a really easy place to do with Amsterdam (only 3 hours away via bus) or Bruges if you don't want to stay in the city the whole time.


In a desperate bid to stay in power, General Pervez Musharraf has staged a coup against the rule of law in Pakistan. His declaration of martial law, suspension of the constitution and basic rights was aimed at overthrowing Pakistan's Supreme Court, which was expected to rule next week that Musharraf could not continue as both president and chief of the army.
Musharraf's proclamation is a litany of complaints about the courts. The Supreme Court was the only branch of government Musharraf and the army did not control. In the eight years since his October 1999 seizure of power, Musharraf has rigged parliamentary elections to give himself a majority, hand-picked his prime minister, and replaced many senior generals. His control, and through him that of the army leadership, over government and the state was nearly complete. But none of this was enough to give him either the unchecked power or the legitimacy that he wanted.
A particular concern was the Supreme Court taking up the cases of the hundreds of people picked up in recent years by law enforcement agencies without warrants and held in custody, without charge or trial. The demands for due process and habeas corpus proved fruitless as officials simply lied to the courts about the people they were holding.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan was finally able to convince the Supreme Court to act. The Court began to summon senior officials and demanded the government produce the detained people in court. It threatened senior law enforcement officials with contempt of court and jail if they did not comply and was considering calling the chiefs of the armed forces to answer to the court. The system cracked and the disappeared started appearing.
Iftikhar Chaudhry, the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, emerged as a key figure in confronting the arbitrary exercise of power by the government. General Musharraf responded earlier this year by firing him, triggering a national movement led by lawyers for the justice's restoration. It attracted a lot of public support, reflecting the widespread disenchantment with the eight years of Musharraf's rule. Across the country, large crowds lined the roads and assembled to see and hear the chief justice. The other judges of the Supreme Court declared that the chief justice must be reinstated and Musharraf had to back down.
The Court has returned to the cases of illegal detention. It also sentenced seven senior officials to suspended jail terms for manhandling the chief justice during the campaign for his reinstatement.
General Musharraf has also claimed that the courts are hampering his efforts to stem the Islamic militancy in the tribal areas, the creeping talibanization of Pakistan's northwestern province, and the suicide bombing that have erupted across major cities over the past few years. But the Courts have only insisted on the rule of law. Musharraf's failure to effectively counter the militancy springs from more other causes.
The most important problem has been the military regime itself and its policies towards the Islamic political parties and militants. In need of some kind of political cover after seizing power in 1999, Musharraf and his generals cobbled together an alliance of opportunistic politicians, defectors from other parties and the Islamist political parties. This included the most radical and violent militant groups, which the army, led by Musharraf, had organized and used in the war against India in the Kargil region of Kashmir in the spring of 1999. This military-mullah alliance in Pakistan stretches back over 30 years, and was central in the U.S.-backed jihad against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan of the 1980s and the Kashmir insurgency of the 1990s.
When not offering direct support, the Musharraf regime has preferred neglect and appeasement of Islamist political parties and militants. Islamic laws are allowed to stay on the books. Militant groups are grudgingly banned in public and privately allowed to operate. Whether is in the tribal areas of Waziristan or the militant take-over of the Red Mosque in the heart of Islamabad, Musharraf and his generals preferred to ignore it, and then make concessions to the militants in the vain hope that the problem would go away.
The government has responded to the militancy only when domestic and international demands do something became overwhelming. But instead of a legal, politically measured, and thought-out response that is part of a long-term policy to counter the militancy, Musharraf and his generals have responded time and again with a spasm. They unleash a dramatic show of force including artillery, helicopter gun ships and air strikes, which inevitably result in large numbers of civilian deaths and injuries, inflame public opinion, and stoke the militancy.
At the heart of Musharraf's second coup, and what has determined its timing and character, is not an activist court, illegal detentions or the militancy. The Court had begun to hear challenges to Musharraf's role as both chief of army Staff and president of the republic. Pakistan's constitution explicitly forbids holding both positions. A showdown was imminent. It has been claimed that a Supreme Court judge told the government that the court was set to rule against Musharraf. Musharraf ended this threat by removing the chief justice and most of the rest of the Supreme Court. Before they were bundled out of the Supreme Court building, seven of the justices, including the chief justice, issued an order declaring Musharraf's proclamation of emergency to be unconstitutional and called on government officials and the armed forces to refuse to obey it. In a message to the country's lawyers, the chief justice called for opposition.
The target of the coup is also obvious from the list of those who have been the first to be detained in the police raids: leaders of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, prominent lawyers, and pro-democracy activists. The goal is clearly to prevent a movement for democracy and rule of law that could confront General Musharraf and the larger structure of army rule in Pakistan.
Protests have started across the country, led by lawyers and civil society groups. They have been met with tear gas and brute force. Thousands are reported to have been arrested. It is likely to be a determined campaign, building on the experience of the mobilization earlier this year. But Pakistan's civil society, while heroic, is fragile. It is poorly equipped for a long and difficult struggle against a military regime. Central to any prospect of success will be Pakistan's major political parties, Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party and Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League.
But both the Peoples Party and the Muslim League are led from the top-down. They are populist vehicles for their leaders, both of whom are former prime ministers, rather than well-rooted democratic political parties with resilient local structures. Further, the leaders of both parties are deeply compromised. With U.S. and British support, Bhutto recently made a deal with General Musharraf to drop all corruption charges against her and enable her return from exile to join a Musharraf-led government. She has summoned her party activists to the barricades, but she may be willing to negotiate terms with the General on power sharing.
Sharif was overthrown by Musharraf in his 1999 coup and agreed to go into exile in Saudi Arabia. His party will willingly join the fray but many in his party abandoned ship to join the rag-tag group of politicians assembled by General Musharraf as a fig leaf for his rule. Sharif also tried to return from exile but was bundled into a plane and sent back, despite a clear Supreme Court ruling that Sharif had the right to return to Pakistan. There were no major protests.
With the government at odds with the people, the police being tasked to crush pro-democracy activists, and chaos in the streets, the Islamic militants may try and take advantage of the unrest. They have already spread their influence far beyond the tribal and border areas and now control three major towns in the Swat valley, a few hours drive from Islamabad. Government forces simply surrendered and handed over their weapons. Pakistani flags have been replaced by jihadi banners on public buildings. Across the country, there have been attacks on soldiers and police. The bombing that killed over 100 people in a Karachi rally welcoming Bhutto may be a sign of things to come.
Washington has invested heavily in General Musharraf and will not want to write this off. Since September 11, 2001, the United States has given enormous political and diplomatic support and over $10 billion to Pakistan to buy General Musharraf's support for its "war on terror." It is a doomed policy.
The United States has supported all of Pakistan military dictators, politically and with guns and money, starting as long ago as 1958. In the 50 years since then, it has failed to learn that supporting Pakistan's generals and the army they command does little for Pakistan's people. Under American tutelage, the army has grown in size and developed a fierce appetite for high-tech expensive weapons, which now include nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and a habit of seizing power while people continue to struggle with grinding poverty and failing institutions. It is no wonder that the United States is deeply unpopular in Pakistan. A 2007 poll found that only 15% of Pakistanis had a favorable attitude towards the United States. This hostility toward the United States will only worsen as Pakistanis see the United States set aside democracy and the rule of law in favor of a general and his army.
To get out of this crisis, the international community must demand that General Musharraf immediately end his emergency, restore the constitution and Supreme Court, and fulfill his commitment to step down as chief of army staff. Having lost what little trust was vested in him by the country, Musharraf should also stand down as president. An interim administration could hold elections and let Pakistanis choose lawful leaders.
No one expects elections and a shift to civilian rule to be a panacea. And though Pakistanis have had bitter experiences with democracy, they still prefer it to the army. Elections can mark the start of the long and difficult task of building democratic institutions and creating a system of accountability and trust between government and people, state and society. This can bring Pakistanis some hope for the future, and foster confidence that democracy and the rule of law can deliver the justice that has so long been denied to them.
Zia Mian, a Foreign Policy In Focus (www.fpif.org) columnist, directs the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia at Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security. A.H. Nayyar is the Executive Director of Developments in Literacy, a non-profit group supporting education for the poor in Pakistan.


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Xenophobia: AKA says he has nothing to apologise for but regrets drama
AKA was targeted by angry Nigerians over an old tweet of his and has since stated that he regrets how things unfolded, but will not be apologising. The rapper feels he didn't do anything that warrants an apology.
Rapper AKA's passion for football was used against him when angry Nigerians came after him for a tweet he shared in July.
The recent rise in xenophobic attacks in South Africa has caused an understandable amount of upset and the social media streets didn't take long to become increasingly bitter, and AKA was one of the people that anger was taken out on.
Briefly.co.za reported on how Mzansi defended the rapper quite fiercely on social media, where all the drama unfolded.
AKA has since spoken up, saying he regrets how so many people got involved, but he refuses to apologise.
In a statement from his management on Wednesday, AKA said his words had been "taken out of context" and were misrepresented.
"I am unsure how innocent tweets over football have been taken so greatly out of context. I am saddened by the notion that I, Kiernan Jarred Forbes, dislike or hate Nigeria/Nigerians - I do not. These words never came from me. I am disheartened that anyone would believe I have negative feelings towards Nigeria and her citizens, as nothing could be further from the truth. At no point do I say anything negative about Nigeria."
AKA said he regrets how out of control things got and reflected on how celebs need to be careful with what they say, but clearly said he doesn't feel the need to apologise for anything.
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Sheriff officer was backed into a corner at Liberty | Opinion
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A screenshot from a video that went viral on Monday after an incident between a Liberty Tech student and a student resource officer on the bus. (Photo: Submitted)
This week's incident on the bus in Liberty Tech's parking lot wasn't a good situation for anybody.
It wasn't good for the student, who apparently already had disciplinary issues on the bus according to Jackson-Madison County Schools Superintendent Ray Washington.
It wasn't good for the school system as things are looking up with test scores going up, workforce training programs like LOOP doing well, new schools being built and a lot of cautious optimism in the community as everyone else sees the gains of the district as a whole. This public incident is a public speed bump as the system tries to get rolling down the road.
And it wasn't good for the Madison County Sheriff's Department as a male officer was seen manhandling a female student that appeared to be about half his weight and no match for him in strength.
But as bad as the incident was, could there have been another way for officials to handle it?
The student shouldn't have been on the bus because she was temporarily banned from that privilege (and I found out that apparently riding the bus isn't a guaranteed right by the public-school system during a school board meeting last year when they were discussing buses in the school during the one bell time discussion) because of prior disciplinary issues.
She and two other temporarily banned students were told to get off the bus. She was the only one who refused to get leave, holding up the bus's departure from school.
This is the critical point in the incident because this is when the officers did what they had to do in the situation. Video from the on-the-bus portion of the incident shows her refusal to leave, even putting her feet on the seat backs as the officer carried her off the bus.
So if the officers hadn't chosen to physically pick her up and remove her from the bus that way and she persisted in her refusal, one of two things would've happened.
The bus would've continued to sit in the parking lot, delaying a few dozen students' ride home, and there's no telling what that would've affected if any of them have after school jobs, younger siblings to watch, etc. I'm sure Washington would've gotten several calls about that on Monday night.
And the other one was the officers, administration and bus driver allowed the student to stay on the bus and continue like nothing had happened.
To some, that seems like that would've been the correct decision to make in this instance, but at some point, that student must learn – and other students in the school must see – that there's no reward for failing to follow the rules.
If all decision-makers in this instance were to let that happen, the integrity of the discipline system of Liberty Tech High School would've taken a major hit and sent a message to all students that following the rules is optional if you simply refuse to do what you're supposed to do.
And that would've potentially started a massive chain reaction that would've hurt the school's ability to educate its students for the rest of the school year.
Does anybody involved like the fact that an officer of the law had to resort to physical actions to do his job? Of course not, but when law enforcement officers are backed into a corner, they're typically trained to handle that situation.
According to Sheriff John Mehr, the officer relied on his training and did what he was supposed to do, citing that he appeared to have been intentional about putting her down on softer ground instead of concrete or asphalt.
I get that there's a lack of trust in law enforcement nationwide because of highly visible incidents where bad things have happened because of mistakes that were made.
But like Washington said at Tuesday's press conference, there are 12,000 students in JMCSS schools, and very few of them are disciplinary problems. Just like across the board, there are few law enforcement officers who are doing things intentionally the wrong way.
And at some point, there must be a trust in law enforcement as a whole to do their job, even when them doing their job doesn't have a positive look to it.
Because they're still going to be the ones we call when we need someone to ensure safety in tough situations.
Brandon Shields is the editor of The Jackson Sun. Reach him at bjshields@jacksonsun.com or at 731-425-9751. Follow him on Twitter @JSEditorBrandon or on Instagram at editorbrandon.
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Argento Week: Mother of Tears
So, Mother of Tears . I almost hate to review it, because here I am, setting up this week about how great Argento films are, and his most recent release is absolutely terrible. A lot of the blame can be chalked up to "sequel-itis." You see, in Suspiria , Argento set up this back-story about the Three Mothers: Mater Suspiriorum (the Mother of Sighs), Mater Tenebrarum (the Mother of Darkness) and Mater Lachrimarum (the Mother of Tears). The Three Mothers are extremely powerful witches who essentially created black magic because they got bored one day. In Suspiria , American dance student Suzy Banyon destroys Mater Suspiriorum pretty much by accident. In Inferno American music student Mark Elliot, while investigating his sister's mysterious disappearance, accidentally destroys Mater Tenebrarum. In Mother of Tears , however, American art restorer Sarah Mandy (which is hard to tell, because Asia Argento is utterly incapable of maintaining an American accent) accidentally releases Mater Lachrimarum from imprisonment, beginning a series of calamitous events that nearly destroys the world and results in the deaths of...well, pretty much every single character in the film save two.
Really, Dario? A demon in the camera? You're going to start the film with a "gotcha" scare?
The primary problem with the film is one of tone: there isn't one. Well, no, that's not entirely fair. There is no suspense to the film. There's none of the surreal dream logic that characterized Suspiria. Instead we get a disjointed series of events, punctuated by extreme gore. Yes, extreme gore, even by the standards of an Argento film, a director who has never been particularly squeamish about showing brutal and inventive methods of murder. It's almost as if Argento looked at the contemporary marketplace for horror films and decided to make something that would sell, not something that would actually cap off the story begun in Suspiria. Mother of Tears has more of Saw or Hostel to it than films like Tenebrae or Deep Red.
Never get blood on the mystic artifacts, kids.
Plot-wise, the film runs along rather confused lines. A mysterious casket is unearthed at a monastery. The casket, decorated with mystical sigils, is sent to an archaeological museum to be researched. While there, the casket is opened by two assistants, one of them Sarah, and the other disemboweled in short order by three demons while Sarah is chased through the museum by a monkey. She escapes only when a mysterious voice opens locked doors, allowing her to escape. The police, understandably, are skeptical of her story. Meanwhile, the contents of the casket are claimed by a witch-cult worshipping Mater Lachrimarum, and a wave of violence and murder begins to sweep through Rome. Sarah's boss/lover Michael tries to discover the history of the casket, finding that it contains the emblems of Mater Lachrimarum's power. Underage prostitutes begin following Michael as he comes closer to finding out who took the casket and he soon finds that his son has been kidnapped by witches. It's at this point that Sarah starts to come off as a bit of a dolt, as she refuses to see any connections between the casket, the waves of violence, and the murder of her co-worker.
The forces of Evil, or Lufthansa flight attendants?
More witches begin arriving in Rome as the cult's power grows and Sarah starts researching the appearances of trinities in occult history. Michael disappears while attempting to find an exorcist, prompting Sarah to search for him, cleverly outwitting the emo-est witches in the world in a train-station, escaping only by finding an inventive use for a sliding door and her previously unknown ability to turn invisible. Yes, really. And that's the point where any pretense of logic flees the film in search of greener pastures. Sarah tracks down an exorcist, only to get him killed. She gets help from a lesbian good witch, only to get her killed. She finds Michael, who's now a zombie. She finds an alchemist who knows the history of the Three Mothers and how to destroy them, only to get him killed. And all along, the ghost of her mother, a good witch who imprisoned Mater Suspiriorum, thus weakening her enough for a dancer to kill, gives her pretty much useless advice consistently too late to be of much use.
Witchcraft training looks remarkably like weird lesbian foreplay.
After a fairly interminable period of wandering around, Sarah and the one competent cop in Rome discover the hiding place of Mater Lachrimarum and her coven. Argento pulls out all the stops, here. He wants to create a Boschian nightmare of debauchery and depravity and evil, but the end result is...silly. Like an episode of Red Shoe Diaries crossed with Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose. And at the end of all things, the Mother of Tears is defeated...because she kept all her power in an object that burns easily. Of course, our heroine has to endure at least one more disgusting, humiliating scene before she's allowed to escape and enjoy her near-coincidental and almost completely accidental triumph. It's almost as if the witch-cult gave Sarah the power to defeat them, as frankly just about anyone could have given the nature of their destruction.
Yes, Asia, this is the crap in your dad's head.
Really, it's a downright tragedy that this is how Argento has chosen to end the storyline begun in Suspiria. In hindsight, neither follow-up was really necessary or contributed to the effectiveness of the original (nor, do I suspect, will the long-discussed remake of Suspiria that threatens to be made every few years).
Not even lots of shots of Italian men in suits can save this film.
Tomorrow: Suspiria gets the treatment it's always deserved!
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Giro d'Italia de 1935 foi a vigésima terceira edição da prova ciclística Giro d'Italia (Corsa Rosa), realizada entre os dias 18 de maio e 6 de junho de 1935.

A competição foi realizada em 18 etapas com um total de 3.577 km.

O vencedor foi o ciclista Vasco Bergamaschi. Largaram 102 competidores cruzaram a linha de chegada 62 corredores.

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BOOK TOUR + REVIEW: Entangle by Veronica Larsen
Entangle
by Veronica Larsen
Genre: Contemporary Adult Romance
Expected Publication: December 1, 2014
Format Acquired: ARC from Author via Enchanted Book Promotions
It begins small.
His smoky blue eyes strike hers until the air between them flickers.
Her whispered suggestion blows the spark into a flame.
A guarded heart. A relentless pursuit.
An insatiable chemistry that yields to a torrid affair.
Alexis Stone
I tried to do things the right way.
I wore the big white dress and rode off with Prince Charming.
Then Charming changed his mind.
See, that's the part they don't tell you; he can change his mind.
These days, I don't put my heart in anyone's hands because I don't even know where I've left it.
Enter Leo. Blue-eyed specimen of a man, stirring me awake in ways I never thought possible. I think I should indulge myself for once. Because one time is all I need.
Then he goes and weaves simple, deliberate movements into pure, gilded pleasure. And I'm hooked.
I'm so blinded by desire I barely notice the gaping hole opening underneath me, the one that's sure to swallow me entirely.
Because every time I've dared to get close to someone, they've cracked me wide open. Why should this time be any different?
*AMAZON*
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WARNING: SPOILER ALERT
There are good books that I read, but put down eventually for quite some time to return to life. And there are good books that I devour straight up, with very little or no breaks... and this is one of those books. The moment I picked this up, I couldn't put it down. Nope.
Veronica Larsen places two emotionally unavailable characters together and mashes them so perfectly, they just bounced from flawed to insanely perfect. The novel is written in first person, bouncing back and forth between the thoughts of Alexis Stone and Leo Conrad.
Alexis is the boss-woman of her own booming company. She's a smart, strong, independent woman, who doesn't need a ring on her finger, or she thought she did once... until her ex-husband decided to do a U-turn out of her life, just because she couldn't be the type of woman he wanted: the trophy housewife and homemaker. Two years later, you'd think she's already moved on properly from the heartbreak, but then, who does move on easily? Having been ditched by a husband who recited 'till death do us part' vows to her once, it's not an easy step to move on from that, especially when her ex-mother-in-law sends her an invitation to his wedding. Wow-ee.
I wore the big white dress and rode off with Prince Chrming. But then Charming changed his mind.
She's not in love with him anymore, but for sure, she does hate him so much for having been able to move on, while she now appears as a stuck up, prissy boss who intimidates her blind dates and employees, except for one hunk, Leo, her new Engineering Director, who sends her heated glances that make her feel nervous and giddy every now and then... and Leo seems like the perfect itch scratcher.
As much as Leo is a total hunk, he is basically the typical hot bachelor who loves living the single life. A, he's cool with flings, and B, he's not into commitment. Though he comes off quite aloof, perhaps due to the reason that he's fairly new in the company, but that doesn't stop him from fantasizing about his stunning employer. Despite his attraction towards her, he doesn't want to take the step forward, because he knows what's going to happen:
She will develop unrequited feelings, eventually become bitter toward me, and make my life hell. That's the natural cycle of these things. I've see it too many times to question its existence.
F*ck. Bitterness. Hell.
But you know, no matter how many times you try to deny and reject an attraction, the tension is always over the top.
We don't acknowledge it with words but our gazes dance in the air between us, passing secret notes back and forth and no one else in the room seems to notice.
I have so much mixed feelings for this book, but majority flows to the positive. When was the last time I've actually read a book where the woman is a dominating creature, where she holds the reigns in and out of the relationship, intentionally or unconsciously? I don't remember. But this book nails it. Alexis Stone is the dream woman -- minus the terrible emotional package -- but nonetheless, she is someone I would bow down to. And not only do we have a dominating woman in the form of Alexis Stone, we've also got the perfect male counterpart to her highness, which doesn't seem quite obvious in some points in the book, but in the very end, he's the king, absolutely ready to bow down to his queen. Now, that's what I call equality.
But just like any other person, they're very broken. They both come with a package that they've tried so hard to get rid of. For Alexis, it's her past, particularly, her mother, the woman who ditched her kids for drugs and alcohol after her husband ditched the family. There's lots and lots of ditching going on in this book. Her messy childhood led to hardwork that got her sister and herself college degrees... and then came her divorce that led to creating a very daunting woman unaware of her stature on her high pedestal... with unbreakable walls. Meanwhile, Leo, hailing from family money, and disliking every bit of it. The commitment, the lack of freedom and imposed control. Leo is the man who just wants out of a 'two' and would most prefer to be a 'one'. While Alexis feels she's had her chance for her Happy Ever After, Leo has never encountered a single aspect in life that would be worthy of calling a Happy Ever After.
We become fools that think love, in and of itself, is enough to fix broken things, broken people.
I had known this quote was overly familiar, and I felt at ease when I read the author's acknowledgments where she mentioned being inspired by my two favorite poets ever, Christopher Poindexter and R.M. Drake; and the quote above hails from this beautiful masterpiece.
"And in the end, we were all just humans... Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness." -- Christopher Poindexter
And no, it's not an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote, despite what everyone else is saying.
And moooving on.
With the aforementioned poetic verses, this is where I am pleased about the author's writing style. A prose in itself, she uses beautifully placed quotes and verses that almost results as a punch in the gut of how on point they are (And kudos to the poets who've inspired those quotes). Although some of the readers may dislike that type of writing and would call it overly dramatic; as a person who writes poetry, I simply loved how the author played on words, although at some point, I would agree that it did fall into a very dramatic motion, but it wasn't to the point that it was overly and unecessary.
As I suddenly feel that my review sounds so jumbled up, bouncing from topic to topic, I'd also like to acknowledge the other characers in this book whom I enjoyed reading about: Alexis' sister, Emily, is my spirit animal. She's a fresh graduate lawyer... with a loud potty mouth. Reading about her was so much fun, even as a minor character, she brought the sun to this dramatic romance.
My adoration for this book kind of went a little downhill when I reached the ending, because it lacked closure. When reading novels, the Epilogue is my most favorite part of the whole thing... and this book did not have any. As cliche as it may sound, I love the idea of time skips after the "I love you's" where they show how they turned out to be and also, what happens to the others... not unless there would be a next book, which I'm quite unsure of. But nonetheless, I still loved how everything flowed. I just felt as if I was cut short at the end.
All I needed, more that anything, was for someone to convince me that love is worth the risk. We are built for love. We are hard-wired for the experience. And if we don't risk losing ourselves in it, we risk never finding ourselves at all.
But nonetheless, this story was fantastic! A highly recommended read!
4 Stars, Book Review, Book Tour, Contemporary, Erotic Romance, Hearts of Stone, Self Published, Veronica Larsen
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You're very welcome, Ms. Veronica! :) I really enjoyed reading your book! Thank you for stopping by!
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The school district had to recalculate which schools qualified for the federal program after Falling Water Elementary closed.
Now, seven schools which used to qualify no longer do.
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20 hours on, no trace of Mumbai toddler who fell down gutter, family inconsolable
A 2-year-old boy in Mumbai fell down an open gutter on Wednesday night after heavy rain. While officials fear for the worse, there has been no trace of the boy even after 20 hours.
"I will commit suicide if by tonight I don't get my child," said Suraj Singh, father of two-year-old Divyansh, who fell in an open gutter on Wednesday night in Goregaon, Mumbai.
Even after over 20 hours, the child is yet to be traced. Several teams of the fire brigade, NDRF and BMC have been working round the clock to look for the child.
As time ticks away family members and rescue officials are fearing the worst.
On Wednesday night, after finishing his dinner, Divyansh was walking near his house when he fell in an open gutter. His mother left the house to search for the child but could not locate him. The locals checked CCTV camera installed near the house. They were shocked to find that the child had fallen in the open gutter.
The father of the child is inconsolable. He said, "BMC is responsible for the incident. Can they bring back my child? I want my child back. If I don't get him back by tonight, I will commit suicide."
The father and mother of the child are completely distraught and devastated after the incident. The mother is unconscious. She sometimes keeps running out of the house searching for her child in the open gutter.
The toddler's uncle Sandeep Singh said, "We want immediate action against BMC officials. They are responsible for this. Several complaints were made about the gutter but no action was taken."
The locals also alleged that rescue operations did not start on time. It was only the next morning that officials started digging up the gutter.
Local corporator Swapnil Tembulkar, a Shiv Sena leader, said, "We are continuously searching for the child. Toughest and strictest action will be taken against the culprits. They won't be spare. I had written for the same to BMC as well."
As more time passed, the family got impatient and kept losing hope. The angry locals and family members blocked the main road. After 30 minutes, police managed to calm down the father and others and managed to open the road.
Over 30 teams of BMC, fire brigade, NDRF are trying to locate the child.
It was raining very heavily on Wednesday when the boy fell down the gutter and force of water in the gutter was very fast.
After three kilometres the gutter ends in a huge open nullah and flows into the the Arabian Sea. The officials fear that boy may have also went into the Arabian Sea due to the force of water. However, everyone is still hoping against hope.
A police officer from the local police station said, once we find the boy, later we will file an FIR and take action against the culprit.
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The data on marriages presented in this special release were obtained from the second copy of the marriage certificates that were registered at the Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrars all throughout the country and forwarded to the National Statistics Office. Figures presented herein include only those marriages which occurred in 2005 and were registered from January 2005 to March 2006. Figures were not adjusted for underregistration.
Registered marriages decline further; crude marriage rate is 6.2
A total of 518,595 marriages were reported in 2005, a decrease of 10.9 percent from previous year's 582,281. Crude marriage rate (CMR) was computed at 6.2 per 1,000 midyear population. Compared with 2004 figures, most regions showed declines in reported marriages, except Western Visayas and Northern Mindanao which increased by 5.6 percent and 6.3 percent, respectively.
Just like in the previous years, the National Capital Region reported the highest number of marriages with 82,830 or 16.0 percent of the total. The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), on the other hand, had the least with only 2,564 or 0.5 percent of total marriages.
CMR was highest in Cagayan Valley and Central Luzon (both with 7.8) while the lowest was posted in ARMM (0.8 per thousand midyear population). Refer to Table 1.
May is back on top as most preferred month for marriage
In 2005, May bounced back as the most preferred month for marrying with 60,097 or 11.6 percent of total registered marriages. This month had a daily average of 1,939 occurrences, or a daily index of 136.4 marriages. January came in second with 57,217 marriages or an average of 1,846 per day, followed by December (56,056). Preceding year's topnotcher (April) dropped to fourth spot in 2005.
The least number of marriages occurred in November with 27,022 (5.2%). See Table 2.
Most women marry at ages 20-24 years; men at 25-29 years
Generally, women married at earlier ages than men. Approximately four in every ten (38.6 percent or 200,210) recorded marriages in 2005 involved women aged 20-24 years. About one third (33.9 percent or 175,647) of their male counterparts, mean-while, married at ages 25 to 29 years. The median age of marrying for brides and grooms was 24.7 years and 27.5 years, respectively.
It was also observed that there were more teenage brides (69,335) than teenage grooms (15,786). In contrast, more men aged 50 years and over got married compared with women in the same age group - 18,116 versus 7,736. Refer to Table 3.
Most couples prefer civil wedding
By type of ceremony (Table 4), marriages performed under civil rites showed the largest proportion with 232,520 or 44.8 percent of the total. Ranked second was marriages solemnized under Roman Catholic rites (197,413 or 38.1 percent). The remaining percentage was solemnized under other religious rites (84,522 or 16.3%), Muslim rites (2,862 or 0.6%), and tribal rites (1,129 or 0.2%).
Nearly all marrying couples are single
Table 5 shows that nearly a hundred percent (99.2% or 514,389 and 97.5% or 505,595) of brides and grooms respectively were single. Marriages which involved couples who were both single numbered 503,605 or 97.1 percent.
Meanwhile, remarriage was more common among males (12,546 or 2.4 percent) than females (4,001 or 0.8 percent). Of the total males who remarried, 108 were reported as already/still married. This can be attributed to the fact that some Muslim men are allowed to have multiple wives at the same time. Similarly, it is acceptable for some men belonging to some indigenous tribes to have several wives in accordance with their laws, customs and traditions, practices, and rites.
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216th-Find The Purse From Textile Shop is another point and click escape game created by Top 10 New Games. Assume that you are going to visit the textile shop with your friends. Unfortunately, you missed your purse in a textile shop. Now you are going to find the purse by using a key, objects, hints and solving puzzles. We hope you will find the purse. Good luck and have fun!