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WTS Cozumel Concludes In Dramatic Fashion
Spain's Mario Mola finished in fifth to earn the overall series world championship title after Jonathan Brownlee barely made it to the finish line.
Alistair helps brother Jonathan across the finish line. Photo: Delly Carr/Triathlon.org
Great Britain's Jonathan Brownlee missed out on his second world championship title after his brother Alistair had to help him across the finish line. South Africa's Henri Schoeman passed both Brownlees in the final stretch to get his first WTS win, while Spain's Mario Mola finished in fifth to earn the overall series world championship title.
Spain will add another name to their list of world champions after Mario Mola's fifth place finish in the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Cozumel saw him win the 2016 ITU World Championship title in a dramatic finish.
Earning the gold for the race was South Africa's Henri Schoeman, his career first World Triathlon Series win. The win came in the final 500m, as Schoeman bypassed Jonathan Brownlee (GBR), who struggling in the heat, and Alistair Brownlee (GBR), who had stopped to help will his brother over the line.
Alistair, who won Olympic gold while his brother took silver in Rio last month, assisted Jonny to continue racing, wrapping his arm around him and helping him run stride for stride. With Mola back more than a minute, second was Jonny's best shot at taking the world title. Wobbling down the finish chute, the brothers managed to scurry across with Jonny taking silver and Alistair winning bronze on the day.
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However, a quickly charging Mola, who got wind of Jonny's state from his support team, and found a late surge to maintain his top ranking in the Columbia Threadneedle Rankings with a fifth-place finish. That meant Jonathan finished in second-place overall for the season, with Fernando Alarza maintaining his third-place in the Columbia Threadneedle Rankings.
"First of all this was not how I wanted to win the world championship. Luckily I was able to be in the top five considering Jonny didn't win the race. To be honest, I was already considering that the role of Alistair was to help Jonny," said Mola of his newly earned crown. "Considering that, I thought, well I'm going to be second again, but at least I will fight until the end. And when I heard Jonny isn't feeling well, I thought 'I need to fight to the end.' We want everyone to be safe after the finish line, it's not the way I wanted it, but that's triathlon."
Following an appeal by the Spanish Triathlon Federation to disqualify Jonathan Brownlee for accepting assistance from Alistair Brownlee to finish the 2016 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Cozumel, during which Jonathan struggled with heat exhaustion in the final portion of the run, the ITU competition jury unanimously ruled against disqualifying Jonathan. The ITU Competition Jury made this decision in accordance to Appendix K, Rule 7, which states that athletes can receive help from another athlete, Technical Official or Race Official.
Schoeman, who won Olympic bronze exactly one month again, said of his win and first-ever WTS podium, "I knew it was going to be warm out there. I just tried to stay calm throughout the whole race. I was just running with the Brownlees and trying not to exert too much and then I saw Jonny pull ahead on that third lap. So it is just so unfortunate that he collapsed at the end, I think both Brownlees deserve one and two, but it is an overall race that counts and I am the one who ended up the strongest. So I am really happy with that."
Henri Schoeman earned his first WTS win after Jonathan Brownlee struggled to the finish. Photo: Janos Schmidt/Triathlon.org
Read the recap from Triathlon.org below:
The elite men's race was the final race of the 2016 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Cozumel, so as the men entered the ocean, they would close out a busy and phenomenal week of world championship racing.
The 1500m swim did not see the field spread out much. However, despite the men staying pretty bunched together, a few names edged out just slightly ahead. As the swimmers exited the open water and into the marina, Frenchman Aurelien Raphael pushed the pace on and exited the water as the leader into the first transition.
The Brownlees exited the water next out in front. They were two of the leading men to enter T1, which allowed Jonny to get onto the bike first and form a bike pack.
Early on, a group of nine men, which included the Brownlees, Aaron Royle (AUS), Greg Billington (USA) Raphael, Alessandro Fabian (ITA), Joao Pererira (POR), Andrea Salvisburg (SUI). The final man was South Africa's Schoeman, setting the scenario up as a recreation of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic games.
Mola left the swim without goggles and a swim cap, so he found himself trailing by 21 seconds heading out onto the bike. He was forced to join the massive chase pack that tallied 44 men after the first lap. Training partner Richard Murray (RSA) also came out of the water about 30 seconds down, so he would join onto the chase as well.
With all three Olympic medalists in the mix, the leaders valiantly worked to gain as much space as they could between the Spaniard, who was trailing behind. And they were successful. After Pererira fell back and joined the chase, the frontrunners that now accounted for eight men increased their lead lap after lap. While at the halfway mark they had built up a comfortable gap of 46 seconds, they decided they wanted more and as they dismounted their bikes and headed into T2, the gap had doubled to 1:39.
It was obvious that Jonny was gunning for a world title. A furious transition saw him blast out of the gates and onto the run, swiftly claiming the top position.
But the performance of the day went to Schoeman, who stayed right on Jonny's toes and would not let him start the run alone. It was then on the third lap where Alistair joined and then pushed ahead slightly.
While Jonathan Brownlee had run strongly, the conditions took their toll with just under half a kilometer until the finish line. As Alistair stopped to run alongside his brother, Schoeman took the lead just as the Brownlees were hitting the end of the blue carpet.
Halfway through the run, Mola was trailing by 1:12. However, he found himself in a talented run field alongside Murray, Ryan Bailie (AUS) and Crisanto Grajales (MEX), so finishing near the top was still in sights.
That group eventually powered past more than half of the men's lead bike group, with Mola's fifth-placed finish enough to secure another world title for Spain.
His first elite ITU world championship title, he claimed an ITU junior world championship on the Gold Coast in 2009 – where he beat Jonathan Brownlee. Mola joins Javier Gomez Noya and Ivan Rana as elite men's ITU World Champions from Spain. Mola's championship also means Spain has topped the overall Series podium every year since 2012, when Jonathan Brownlee won the title.
Mario Mola (1st) and Fernando Alarza (3rd) make up the final WTS podium. Jonathan Brownlee (2nd) continued to receive medical treatment during the medal ceremonies. Photo: Triathlon.org
Watch a complete video recap of the race below:
2016 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final – Men's Elite
1500m swim, 40km bike, 10km run
1. Henri Schoeman RSA 1:46:50
2. Jonathan Brownlee GBR 1:47:08
3. Alistair Brownlee GBR 1:47:08
4. Richard Murray RSA 1:47:35
5. Mario Mola ESP 1:47:36
6. Ryan Bailie AUS 1:47:40
7. Crisanto Grajales MEX 1:47:46
8. Jelle Geens BEL 1:47:52
9. Fernando Alarza ESP 1:47:53
10. Adam Bowden GBR 1:47:55
Columbia Threadneedle Rankings
1. Mario Mola ESP 4819
2. Jonathan Brownlee GBR 4815
3. Fernando Alarza ESP 4087
4. Henri Schoeman RSA 3160
5. Richard Murray RSA 2975
6. Ryan Bailie AUS 2893
7. Crisanto Grajales MEX 2822
8. Pierre Le Corre FRA 2810
9. Adam Bowden GBR 2700
10. Alistair Brownlee GBR 2679
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Air pollution costs Britain £10bn a year, report shows
Britain is third highest contributor to air pollution that costs Europe up to £149bn a year, says EU agency report
Britain has 10 of Europe's top 50 "super-polluting" power stations and factories, helping to cost it more in health and environmental impacts than any other countries, except for Germany and Poland.
New air pollution figures from the European environment agency EEA suggest that a handful of power stations and industrial plants together cost the National Health Service and the wider UK economy over £10bn a year.
Of over 14,000 major industrial plants identified in Europe's 27 countries, Drax power station in Selby and the Longannet plant at Kincardine in Scotland were ranked respectively 5th and 10th between 2008-2012.
Drax's air pollution is calculated to have cost the economy £2.7-£6.34bn and Longannet £1.8-4.56bn. The Corus steel works in Redcar ranked 27th in Europe with Alcan Aluminium in Co Durham 34th.
The 10 biggest British plants together were calculated to have at cost at least £12.6bn in air pollution damages between 2008-2012.
Eight of the 30 biggest sources of air pollution were in Germany, six in Poland, four in Romania and three each in Bulgaria and the Britain. Half of all the health and environmental costs were said to be caused by just 1% of the industrial plants, said the report.
The authors calculated the economic damage done not just by major air pollutants emitted from coal and gas power stations but also those from burning diesel and petrol in vehicles. It included the estimated cost to the health service of the premature deaths and respiratory problems caused by traffic and industry, as well as the damage done to buildings, and the money lost from crop damage and from soil and water pollution.
CO2, a major gas responsible for climate change, was costed according to its carbon price. For the air pollutants, the majority of costs were said to be due to the health impacts of people breathing in minute particles of unburned carbon.
According to the authors, "air pollution cost [European] society at least €59 billion, (£46bn) and possibly as much as €189 billion (£149bn) in 2012. The upper estimate is roughly the same as the GDP of Finland or half the GDP of Poland. In Britain, the cost is estimated to be between £31-99bn in the five years from 2008."
"While we all benefit from industry and power generation, this analysis shows that the technologies used by these plants impose hidden costs on our health and the environment. Industry is also only part of the picture – it is important to recognise that other sectors, primarily transport and agriculture, also contribute to poor air quality," said Hans Bruyninckx, EEA director.
The report recorded a small decrease in the economic damage done over the five years monitored in the report. This, said the authors, reflected lower emissions from European industry, attributed to both tighter air pollution laws, greater efficiency in factories and machines and the Europe-wide economic recession.
But the EEA warned that the total cost of damage to health and the environment from pollution by all sectors of the economy, including from 'diffuse' sources such as road transport and households, could be significantly higher.
In 2010, the European commission estimated that the external costs associated with only the main air pollutants ranged from £260- 740bn.
An EEA spokesman added that because air pollution crossed borders, all figures were calculated from sources of pollution. The wide range of damages, he said, reflected different countries' ways of putting a value on the health impacts of air pollution as well as the different methods used to estimate CO2 related damage.
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Dinesh Manocha and Aravind Srinivasan Named Distinguished University Professors
Distinguished University Professor is the highest academic honor bestowed by the university
(Left to Right) Dinesh Manocha and Aravind Srinivasan
Paul Chrisman Iribe, Professor Dinesh Manocha and Professor Aravind Srinivasan have been named 2020 Distinguished University Professors. The title is the highest appointment bestowed on a tenured faculty member.
This distinction is honored to only 7% of the tenured faculty, in recognition of the significant and impactful contribution in teaching, research and service.
An undergraduate in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, Manocha joined UMD in 2018. Prior to joining UMD, he was the Matthew Mason/Phi Delta Theta Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A co-leader of the UMD GAMMA research group, Manocha's research focuses on geometric and scientific algorithms with applications to computer graphics, robotics and virtual reality. His research group has developed many widely used software systems related to geometric computing, physically based modeling, virtual reality, and robotics that have successfully transitioned to industry.
Manocha ranks 71 in the Guide2Research Ranking of Computer Scientists with more than 40,000 citations according to Google Scholar. He has published 550 conference and journal papers, received 16 best paper or test-of-time awards, and supervised 54 Ph.D. students.
His recent work on the real time robot motion planning algorithms has been integrated into the widely used robot operating system (ROS) and is used with commercial manipulators and mobile robots. Manocha co-founded Impulsonic, a developer of physics-based audio simulation technologies, which was acquired by the Valve Corporation in 2016. The audio simulation technologies developed by his group have been licensed by leading commercial vendors and used in game engines and virtual reality systems.
Manocha has been recognized with several awards for his significant and impactful research contributions and scholarship, notable ones are 2020 Pierre Bézier Award ,a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, Sloan Fellowship, IBM Fellowship, SIGMOD IndySort Winner, Honda Research Award, and UNC Hettleman Prize.
He was elected to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGGRAPH Academy and received the Distinguished Career in Computer Science award by the Washington Academy of Sciences.
He has served as chair and program committee member for more than 100 leading conferences, and as a member of the editorial board or guest editor of eleven leading journals.
In addition to being the professor of computer science, he also holds joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He is also affiliated with the Maryland Robotics Center and the Institute for Systems Research.
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Srinivasan joined UMD's Department of Computer Science in 2001 as an associate professor. He holds a joint appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
An undergraduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, masters and Ph.D. from Cornell University, all in computer science, Srinivasan's research focuses on randomized algorithms, networking, social networks, and combinatorial optimization, as well as in the growing confluence of algorithms, networks, and randomness, in fields including the social web, public health, biology, and energy.
Recently, Srinivasan began leading the computational foundations part of a new National Science Foundation Expeditions project to explore trends in globalization, antimicrobial resistance, urbanization and ecological pressures—factors that have converged to increase the risk of global pandemics like COVID-19. Key to this work is the development of new machine learning algorithms that can interpret large amounts of data from multiple sources over multiple networks.
He has published nearly 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and refereed conferences, and he has advised 17 graduate students.
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There is much shock professed about the metaphors used to describe Mrs May's political plight — talk of the 'killing zone', or her being stabbed, and worse. I feel this shock myself, but in fact such metaphors are routine in politics and almost always have been. Think, for example, of Harold Macmillan's 'Night of the Long Knives' — arguably more tasteless, since it compared a cabinet reshuffle with a Nazi murder spree.
The real reason it seems shocking in this case surely, as it did when John McDonnell favourably invoked people who wanted to lynch Esther McVey, is that it is men speaking about a woman. On this, old-fashioned chivalry and modern feminism agree.
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Ski resorts making most of truncated season: 'We're just trying to break even'
'It's definitely a different year, for sure, and we hope to still pull things off,' says Snow Valley Ski Resort's Jonathan Palmer
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Editor's note: The following story was written before new lockdown rules were announced on Friday, but despite those provisions coming into effect Monday, ski hills are still permitted to be open.
Those working in the ski business are used to ups and downs, but none can match the season of 2020-21.
By the time area lifts were able to start up again nearly two weeks ago following a pandemic-induced hiatus since the Christmas break, half the season was over.
But Snow Valley Ski Resort's Jonathan Palmer figures snow enthusiasts have been waiting for the opportunity to get to the hills and he expects people will be keen to get in some spring skiing.
"There's still an opportunity, I think some real pent-up demand still for people to get out," he said. "It's definitely a different year for sure, and we hope to still pull things off."
It still remains to be seen if Mother Nature will allow the Barrie-area ski hill to remain open right to April 12 for this year's March break, but Palmer says it's possible.
With staff back at work, a decent snow base and a winter without rain or a major thaw, as long as the dreaded COVID-19 and its potentially deadly variants can be kept at bay through precautions, operators say they can still salvage something from the season and skiers and boarders can get in their alpine fix.
"We weren't expecting this to be a normal year anyway," said Kevin Nichol, president of the Ontario Snow Resorts Association, given that disruptions started last season in March when the state of emergency was declared as COVID-19 continued to spread worldwide.
But closure for half the season was on nobody's radar, particularly since Ontario was the only North American jurisdiction to close its ski hills.
Local resorts were adjusting their operations and had invested in initiatives to encourage distancing such as touchless service and other precautions.
The closure order which followed disrupted an important local industry which employs about 8,000 people provincewide, almost half of which is in this area, said Kathleen Trainor, Tourism Barrie's executive director.
"That's millions of dollars of economic impact of their payroll into communities," said Trainor.
The Barrie area, she added, is a winter destination which, during most years, sees local hotels and restaurants generating revenue from those coming up to play in the snow on the hills and the trails.
Typically, the hotels fill up during the Family Day long weekend and March break, she added. Given that March break has been bumped to April this year, it's anyone's guess how that will play in the season and whether the snow as well as interest will hold up.
The current resumption of operations once again opens up those jobs and allows the resorts to generate some income.
"Getting some sort of return on their investment or getting some money back for these big procedures that they had already put in place so they could open is important as well. Certainly we don't want to see any ski resort not surviving," said Trainor.
Robert Huter is hopeful that everyone will still be able to take advantage of the remaining winter season.
"At this point, we're just trying to break even," said the Mount St. Louis Moonstone general manager. "Hopefully, we'll finish it on a positive note."
The northern Simcoe County ski hill has been communicating with the government about the possibility of accessing assistance. Although the concern is that it may fall through the cracks of the funding formula, which is geared for operations with fewer than 99 employees.
Operators are, however, accustomed to dealing with challenges, and with climate change and unpredictable weather, those challenges have been many in recent years, proving to be a "formidable foe."
"I'd like to go back to worrying about climate change," said Nichol.
So now that most in the snow business have been allowed to work, the association is encouraging operators and snow enthusiasts alike to remain safe while enjoying the outdoors, but adopting all suggested precautions like distancing and masking, and they've adopted the slogan "ski well, be well."
About the Author: Marg. Bruineman, Local Journalism Initiative
Marg. Buineman is an award-winning journalist covering justice issues and human interest stories for BarrieToday.


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Caught in the New Age Trap
After a decade of confusion, Phillip Blindenbach's life was in ruins. What would make him see his future with clarity? July 24, 2012 by Ken Ramstead
Lieutenant Phillip Blindenbach and his wife, Kathy, are co-pastors at the East Village Mission, a ministry of The Salvation Army—Community Services (Calgary)
"How do I sum up the 10-year fog bank of my time in the New Age movement?" asks Phillip Blindenbach. "Can I put into words all the twists and turns and convolutedness of it? In many ways, it's all still a sad blur."
Lashing Out
Phillip was born in Squamish, B.C., a small logging town situated between Vancouver and Whistler, and his parents were very involved in the Pentecostal church. "My earliest memories are of Sunday school, church activities and Sunday lunch at the pastor's house," he says.
But when Phillip was five, his parents divorced. "I'd spend part of the time at my mother's, where faith was not present and was even mocked at times, while the rest of my time was spent at my father's in a strict, disciplined faith environment. I was mad at God, mad at my parents, mad at myself."
By the time Phillip was 13, his pent-up frustration had reached a boiling point. Angered by what he considered the inconsistencies and hypocrisies of religion, he lashed out at his father, telling him he didn't believe in God.
Lost Decade
So things stood until Phillip was 20. Out of idle curiosity, he attended an aromatherapy workshop. That led to classes on ancient healing philosophies and, eventually, to his becoming immersed in the New Age movement.
"I was on a search for knowledge and self-understanding," says Phillip now. "But in New Age, you never really find what you are looking for. You keep searching and searching, attending workshops and courses beyond count. It's all one big feedback loop, where everyone is talking to you, hoping you've found 'it' while you're talking to them, hoping they've found it—and none of us ever did.
"I probably spent tens of thousands of dollars in the 10 years I was involved in New Age workshops, courses and retreats," he continues. "I'd max out my credit cards and consolidate my debt, and then, just as quickly, I'd fill my credit cards again."
Phillip was introduced to recreational marijuana use at roughly the same time that he started his New Age journey. "The drugs severely hampered my ability to focus on a train of thought," he explains. "It just made the fog bank I was in even thicker. Seeking knowledge and self-discovery doesn't mesh with pot."
A Life in Ruins
By 2003, Phillip was a community-living support worker in Vancouver working with Michael Collins, a behavioural consultant who was also the associate pastor at The Salvation Army's Cariboo Hill Temple in Burnaby, B.C.
"I was in the midst of my New Age crisis, trying to figure out my life's purpose, why I was here on earth," Phillip says, "and I'd talk about, say, wanting to go to Africa or somewhere but Michael would call my bluff, telling me that he could connect me with some missionaries who were leaving that week. And I'd back off. I guess talk is cheap."
Finally, Michael invited Phillip to help the church prepare sandwiches for the Army in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside one Sunday afternoon.
Phillip walked into the Salvation Army church five minutes before the evening service.
"I'd arrived to make sandwiches and found myself sitting in the last pew of the church right in the middle of the service," says Phillip.
The service that night was about the life-and-death choices we all make in our lives, and the eternal consequences that are the result. The words rocked Phillip to his core.
"God," prayed Phillip, "I haven't done such a great job of my life for the last 17 years. Please take my life back."
After the service, Phillip helped distribute the sandwiches to the down-and-outers.
"I was standing in a rainy gutter on the corner of Main and Hastings, handing out sandwiches as fast as I could to the press of people milling around me," says Phillip. "My years in New Age, the money I had spent, the workshops and courses I took, hadn't equipped me for dealing with the apparent need of those who came looking for food and a personal connection that night. I was struggling to cope and make sense of it all."
By the time Phillip got home and wept bitter tears of remorse, his life as he had known it had crumbled around him. He was ready to rebuild it.
It took a year of faithful attendance at Cariboo Hill Temple to get Phillip's life on track. He became an official member of The Salvation Army in 2004 and a Salvation Army officer/pastor in 2010. He was even able to reconcile with his father shortly before his death.
"I'd hurt him badly when I was young, but our conversations about our shared faith and beliefs brought both of us a great measure of healing," Phillip says.
Now a Salvation Army lieutenant and married to a fellow pastor in The Salvation Army, Phillip is grateful that God took his prayer seriously.
"I realize now that He'd always been waiting for me," Phillip concludes, "waiting for me through the wasted years I'd spent on my New Age wanderings, waiting for me through my doubts and rebellion.
He had something in store for me, and The Salvation Army was what it was."
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On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Lance Gillard said:
Thanks for sharing this part of your life Phil! People need to hear the truth, and that truth is that God still changes lives! Your involvment in the New Age movement grants a perspective that many do not have and I thank you for that. It is a blessing for me to know you! Speaking the truth is always hard, but yet the truth needs to be told! thank you for reminding us of one of the many "traps" that are out there for us to fall in to. If that is disrespectful, which I do not think it is, then what are we supposed to do? Tell people to ignore the big pit?
God Bless you and your ministry Phil!
On Wednesday, October 3, 2012, Raphaella said:
I can understand being lost in life, but to headline New Age as a "trap" is plain disrespectful.
On Thursday, July 26, 2012, Matt Sheils said:
Great testimony brother! Keep sharing the good news :)


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The centerpiece of the park the sweeping views of Otay Lake. Located in South County just twenty miles from downtown San Diego and four miles from the international border with Mexico, the park is just a quick trip for city residents who want to get away for a quiet hour or two.
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Everywhere you look, '90s nostalgia is alive and well — even on Bob Saget's Instagram account.
The Fuller House star posted a selfie on his account taken by friend Seth Green, featuring Green, his wife Clare Grant, Bob Saget, and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York star Macaulay Culkin apparently not lost in New York. As Green's own Instagram account notes, he and Grant had seen last night's showing of Hand to God, which stars Saget, and the trio picked up Culkin somewhere along the way. Culkin has done voices for Green's Robot Chicken.
"Fun times last night after show in the #TimesSquare with friends @ClareGrant, Macaulay Culkin, and the master of the selfie, my pal @SethGreen," Saget wrote.
The Full House star recently tapped into a similar vein of nostalgia when he appeared in his former (and now future) costar John Stamos' Grandfathered, and is set to appear again. Saget will also return with Stamos and much of the rest of the Full House cast next year on Netflix's revival Fuller House. Though it seems if any of D.J.'s kids are stuck home alone in the new series, their grandpa will know exactly who to call to help.


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Kathleen Airhart, then the interim superintendent of the state-run Achievement School District, speaks in February to a community meeting sponsored by the Frayser Exchange in Memphis.
Kathleen Airhart, who recently served as interim leader of Tennessee's Achievement School District during a major transition, has stepped down as the state's deputy education commissioner and chief operating officer.
The career educator ended almost seven years with the Education Department last week in Nashville. She will start her new job with the Council of Chief State School Officers as the national nonprofit organization's program director on special education.
Since 2012, Airhart has been a go-to lieutenant for two education commissioners as Tennessee rolled out major policy initiatives under its First to the Top overhaul of K-12 schools.
She oversaw the transition to the state's academic intervention program for struggling students, the expansion of career and technical education opportunities, the development of a library of state and local education resources, and operational changes to make the Achievement School District financially sustainable after the end of a federal award supporting Tennessee's turnaround program for low-performing schools.
Airhart worked mostly behind the scenes until Commissioner Candice McQueen tasked her last fall with leading the Achievement School District, also known as the ASD, as Tennessee looked for a replacement for departing Superintendent Malika Anderson. During that time, Airhart met frequently with school communities in Memphis, the hub of the ASD's work, and oversaw the closure of two more under-enrolled schools before McQueen tapped turnaround leader Sharon Griffin to take the helm beginning in June.
Airhart previously was superintendent of Putnam County Schools, where she was named Tennessee's Superintendent of the Year in 2011. She started her career as a high school special education teacher and also served as a special ed supervisor.
In her new job, she'll return to her roots and advise other states on special education programs and services.
"Dr. Airhart has been an excellent manager and leader at the department, and no matter what challenges she was presented, she always stayed calm and kept students at the center of every decision," McQueen wrote in an internal letter about the departure.
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CIO Strategy Council launches Sustainable IT Pledge
Lynn Greiner
Internet and IT technology usage already creates more greenhouse gas than the aviation industry according to a 2019 report by The Shift Project, a Paris, France-based carbon transition think tank, and is on track to account for eight per cent of emissions by 2025.
For the first time in North America, a group of Canada's biggest public and private sector organizations including Accenture, ATCO, Bell, Canadian Blood Services, Micro Focus, Microsoft Canada and Oracle, have made a commitment to curb the environmental impact of their IT operations by signing the Sustainable IT Pledge.
The pledge signatories are all members of the CIO Strategy Council, a non-profit that brings together Canada's leading businesses and public-sector organizations to act on the challenges posed by the digital economy. It is accredited by the Standards Council of Canada and develops standards that support the data-driven economy.
"Few of us are aware of the carbon emissions caused by the data centres and networks that our smartphones and laptops run on," said Katie Gibson, vice president of strategy and partnerships at CIO Strategy Council, the non-profit leading the pledge. "But energy demand from digital technologies is increasing six times faster than the rest of the economy due to the growth of remote working, streaming services and the widespread use of data-hungry artificial intelligence. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made clear last week, the climate crisis is a 'code-red for humanity.' Time is fast running out to act on emissions, and Canada's leading public and private-sector organizations are stepping up to the plate."
Jim Love, chief information officer and chief content officer at IT World Canada, added, "We all have to take accountability for not just our personal but also our corporate carbon footprint. We can't simply pass it off as someone else's responsibility or wait for someone else to solve it. It's easy to say the "buck stops here". Maybe what we really need to say is the "solution starts here". That's true accountability. I'm proud to stand with the other CIOs on the CIO Strategy Council who are stepping up to be part of the solution."
To address the issues, the signatories have pledged to:
Take steps to address emissions from their IT operations by, for instance: optimizing their systems to reduce data processing volumes; using cloud-based services where possible; and extending service life of devices by refurbishing existing assets instead of buying replacements.
Set robust emissions targets for their IT operations and publicly disclose progress against them.
Set rigorous sustainability standards for suppliers while supporting Canada's cleantech industry.
Promote the adoption of sustainable IT practices and consider areas where national standards for sustainable IT could help.
These commitments will also enhance many of the signatories' existing promises to become carbon-neutral.
"We are proud to add Microsoft Canada to the CIO Strategy Council Sustainable IT Pledge, adding to our continued leadership when it comes to driving down emissions in the sector," said John Weigelt, national technology officer, Microsoft Canada. "Last year, Microsoft committed to be carbon negative by 2030 and, by 2050, to remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted since it was founded in 1975. We continue to work towards this goal and strive to help our customers achieve their own sustainability goals along with us."
Added Neil Correa, cyber strategist at Micro Focus, another signatory, "The importance of us all taking action to protect the environment has never been greater, which is why Micro Focus is proud to sign the Sustainable IT Pledge, alongside our peers. We are committed to reducing our impact on the environment and to helping our customers and partners address their carbon footprint and adopt carbon friendly IT strategies. Through this pledge, the work of the CIO Strategy Council and our collective efforts, together we can play a part in helping to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all."
For the full list of companies that have joined the Sustainable IT Pledge and to read the pledge in full, visit ciostrategycouncil.com/sustainable.
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January's first snow. James' first snow, too!
February: Snow, snow, snow. School closures, school closures, school closures. I don't know if Elisabeth saw the inside of her classroom that month. Instead, she watched a lot of Frozen. I'm a good parent. I also had an unfortunate incident in a Trader Joe's parking lot involving my Toyota Highlander, a pole, and a personal injury lawyer's BMW. Can we talk for a second about how it's like a requirement that every Trader Joe's has the worst parking lot in the city? Seriously. Every. Single. One. Anyway, moral of the story is don't go to a Trader Joe's on a holiday the day before a massive snowstorm.
Oh, we did have an exceptionally beautifully warm and sunny day in the early month that happened to coincide with our wildly successful housewarming party. Win!
March: March was a good month. Mainly because I stopped nursing James. If you read my blog last year, you may remember I basically ate birdseed for the majority of his infancy due to his allergic colitis. Well, that sucked, and he and I were both hungry all the time. So I began eating cheese again and he began drinking outrageously expensive hypoallergenic formula, and we were both the happier for it.
Other good things in March? My thirtieth birthday and a ski trip to Sunday River, Maine. I don't ski, but Elisabeth does now!
We even met some distant cousins – It's too bad Elisabeth didn't care for them.
April: My dad has been coming to D.C. frequently for work, so we have been lucky enough to see my parents on a monthly basis, at least. April was no different, and my mom joined us for Easter. We hosted all our local family for Easter dinner, which I only did because my mom was here to cook. My mom, Elisabeth, and I saw the live action Cinderella in theaters, and Elisabeth has not taken off her Cinderella costume since then. My dad came in a few days later and caught the end of Cherry Blossom season. The kids also enjoyed their first baseball game: Nats-Phillies. The Nats crushed it, but Elisabeth was too busy enjoying her snacks to notice.
These two took up gardening together.
May: The 'rents were back at the beginning of the month, and my dad and I took the kids to the Museum of Natural History to get educated. Damon celebrated another year on Earth with his family and mine all present.
I got my first weekend away from both kids – what!? – and flew out to California for my friend Jessica's bachelorette party. We spent a fantastic weekend in Santa Barbara drinking copious amounts of wine. Elisabeth had her last day of preschool, kicking off the longest summer break in the history of the world (Four months. FOUR!) and sadly had to say goodbye to her best friend, Anna, whose family moved to Florida. We still miss them, but such is the military life.
First day of preschool vs. last day of preschool. Whoa.
Of course, I can't write about May without mentioning James' first birthday! I tried to do a cute cake smash photo shoot and dress him up in one of those Pinterest-inspired outfits, and it was a complete failure. James, who is usually all smiles, refused to crack a grin and later erupted into full on tears when faced with his cake. Probably because he was dressed like a Chippendales dancer, as Damon pointed out. My bad. We had a laid-back BBQ to celebrate, and even my California-based brother made it out to attend.
I'm really sorry about this, James.
Oh, and James began walking this month. Game over.
June: Welp, summer. Kids all day, every day. And our local pool has a five-and-a-half year waiting list (not an exaggeration.) Luckily the monotony of summer break was broken up with a trip to California for Jessica's wedding. Damon was unable to attend, so I braved a cross-country flight with both kids on my own. AND I LIVED TO TELL ABOUT IT. The wedding, in Sonoma, was lovely. Elisabeth was the flower girl and kinda sorta stole the show. I mean, Miss Thing had a job to do and after that job was done, she needed to par-tay. My mom graciously traveled up to help me take care of the kids, so I also got to do partying of my own.
July: Still summer. Still a five-and-a-half year waiting list to get into our pool. July seemed interminable until it was time to pack for our summer vacation (an Alaskan cruise), when suddenly there were not enough hours in the day to get ready. It was our first vacation as a family of four, and a bucket list trip for Damon. I was just stoked to not have to fly by myself with two kids again. Before we had even boarded, our car seat got stuck in the security scanner and Elisabeth pooped in her pants (I had forgotten an extra pair of underwear, of course.) I now understand why my parents always took vacations by themselves.
We made it to Alaska and onto the ship, where we joined my parents. We traveled on a small ship with excellent service. Elisabeth befriended the entire ship's staff, but especially Gede on the housekeeping staff, whom she called, "Mr. Ga-DAY!" and still talks about to this day. Alaska was beautiful, if a bit chilly, and we kept busy hiking, dog sledding, ziplining… you know, normal things. James and Elisabeth particularly enjoyed the cookies and ice cream that the staff spoiled them with on a daily (hourly?) basis.
Damon, James, and I stayed in Vancouver a few extra days and Elisabeth went home to California with my parents. Damon and I had a great time exploring Vancouver and Victoria with only one child.
Beer tasting on Granville Island.
August: I hopped down to California with James for another three weeks or so and discovered that James is a swimming prodigy just like his older sister. Check him out. 15 months old, people.
James got his first hair cut in California.
Upon returning to Virginia, Damon and I celebrated our fifth anniversary – and our first together since our first.
Most notably for me, I got my Fit4Mom certification. I've been a Stroller Strides devotee since Elisabeth was born, and I'd long considered becoming an instructor. Well, the stars finally aligned (somewhat suddenly!) and I had the opportunity to get certified at the end of this month. I'm thrilled to be teaching for this great organization.
September: Stilllll summer. We spent a fun-filled Labor Day weekend in Philadelphia with Damon's extended family. I love, love, love that Elisabeth and James have this awesomely big family to grow up with.
I took my fourth trip in five months out to California for a college friend's wedding. Lauren got married outside of Lake Tahoe. There were forest fires raging not too far away, but the wedding was rustic and beautiful and I appreciated the chance to catch up with old friends.
Damon couldn't make it, so my college friend Brett was my date!
Then… PRESCHOOL STARTED! HALLELUJAH! I even put James in the nursery classroom at Elisabeth's school for two mornings a week. While Elisabeth mentally exhausts me, James physically exhausts me. I was hesitant at first to put him in "school" while I'm at home, but I quickly realized the six hours a week he's in the nursery helps keep me sane for the other 162 hours I have to deal with his shenanigans.
Oh, and our kitchen exploded. Okay, not really. But we had a slow leak that caused lots and lots of floor damage that we didn't realize thanks to a large rubber mat in the kitchen. Hello, unexpected and unwelcome kitchen renovation. Buh-bye dishwasher, kitchen floor, cabinets, and countertops.
Ed Sheeran concert. Sometimes we do grown-up things.
October: Fall was in full swing! We had a great day at the famed (at least in Northern VA) Cox Farms, Damon completed the Army 10-Miler AND the Marine Corps Marathon, we had a GLORIOUS long weekend in Freeport, Maine, and of course, Halloween. Elisabeth wanted to be Tinkerbell, which I fully supported since it was easy to find on Amazon. James was obviously Peter Pan. I'm going to milk the sibling costumes for as long as I can.
Apple picking with Great-Aunt Fran.
Freezing in her costume, but refusing to ruin her outfit with a jacket.
After co-teaching Stroller Strides throughout September, I started instructing on my own. I've been told I'm bossy, so getting to tell people what to do and how to do it – in a kind and encouraging way, of course – is right up my ally. Kidding. Sort of.
November: The birthday month. Elisabeth turned four on the 21st. FOUR. It's kind of a big deal. She'll tell everyone who asks (and even those who don't) that she had three parties. THREE. Not really, but I'll let her believe it. She had a little celebration in class, we went downtown with a couple of friends to see Cinderella – the Musical, and she had her princess-themed party. OK, it was kind of a lot. But as the world got a little darker this month, it was somewhat comforting to be surrounded by a throng of glittering, giggling, carefree princesses.
We celebrated Thanksgiving with Damon's cousins, before heading back up to Philly for his family's annual Turkey Bowl.
And perhaps most importantly, our kitchen remodel finished! It was an obnoxious inconvenience to be without a kitchen for two-and-a-half months (#firstworldproblems), but we did get a brand new floor and new countertops with insurance picking up the tab. Since our kitchen/living room floors looked so new and shiny and pretty, we decided we had to update the floors in our family room. And the outdated built-ins, while we were at it. And a couple other things, because why not? Thus began: Remodel, Phase 2.
Also got a West Wing tour in this month!
And I got to read to Elisabeth's class. Elisabeth's face is priceless.
December: We got some good news this month. For the past several months, James has had several hearing tests, all showing him to have some hearing loss. The audiologist finally suggested he undergo a sedated ABR to determine the significance of the loss. Well, the test showed his hearing is actually fine! That was a completely unexpected result, but an incredible relief.
We then got wrapped up in the usual holiday busyness. Damon and I attended a gala (for what, I still don't know…), we hosted a small Christmas party, Elisabeth's preschool put on a sweet Christmas musical, we visited the National Christmas Tree, etc., etc. All topped off by our family trip to California. We had a wonderful, semi-relaxing time with my family, and Santa was very generous to everyone. I guess we were good this year.
The kids and I returned home Wednesday evening, and Remodel: Phase 2 officially ended yesterday. Meaning we entered 2016 without any outstanding home projects! AMEN! Damon and I had big plans to celebrate NYE drinking champagne and watching The Holiday – and maybe even Love Actually, if we were feeling crazy – but much like last year, James had different plans for us. We ended up ringing in the New Year trying to coax a very awake toddler back to sleep. Oh, well. Everyone's healthy, everyone's home.
That brings me to today, January 1st. I noticed as I was reflecting on this past year that everything seemed so very normal. Which was kind of weird for us. The past several years were full of BIG things for our family – New jobs, new babies, new homes, crazy fun travel experiences…All amazing things. But it's also kind of amazing to have a little calm (as calm as life can be with a preschooler and toddler) and consistency, a rare thing for a military family. So even if it was only for 2015, I'm going to appreciate it, and look forward to whatever exciting things 2016 will bring.


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Perspective: Mortgate relief
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday:
The Obama administration has stepped up efforts to help homeowners refinance their mortgages, potentially bringing relief to millions of those who owe more than their homes are worth. It's an overdue step that should boost consumer spending, even if it may not avert a huge number of foreclosures. The latter problem requires more aggressive and effective loan modifications, which banks and investors have been reluctant to do - to their own detriment.
The collapse of the housing market has left an estimated 11 million Americans owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. Although about 70% of those "underwater" borrowers have loans with interest rates higher than are available today, their lack of collateral has prevented them from refinancing into new, more affordable loans.
On Monday, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, announced a more ambitious refinancing program that could enable an additional 2 million underwater borrowers who are not in default to obtain new loans. Those refinancings will reduce the returns that Fannie, Freddie and other investors stood to receive from the loans, but that's the standard risk faced by those who buy mortgage-backed securities. More important, by cutting homeowners' debt payments, the refinancings should improve consumer confidence and increase spending, spurring the economy.
The reduction in monthly payments should also prevent some homeowners who aren't in default today from going into foreclosure. But it won't provide much help for the estimated 2.2 million borrowers Moody's Analytics expects to lose their homes in 2012. Lenders could cut their losses significantly by modifying mortgages to lower the monthly payments of defaulting borrowers, and they've tried a number of techniques with limited success. But they've balked at what analysts say would be the most effective step - writing off part of the borrower's debt - because it has a higher upfront cost. Lenders also say there's a moral hazard in bailing out borrowers who can't pay off their debts.
Granted, bailed-out banks are experts when it comes to moral hazard. But it's hard to draw clear lines of blame for the housing bubble between the enablers and the enabled, and there's no shortage of homeowners whose property values and incomes have collapsed through no fault of their own. And it's telling that Fannie, Freddie and most of the major national banks have refused to participate in a California program that offers to pay half the cost of principal reductions for lower- and moderate-income homeowners with a demonstrable hardship, such as a severe illness or a layoff. What moral hazard do those cases pose?
There's some hope that state prosecutors, who are pursuing mortgage fraud claims against the major banks, will persuade them to commit billions of dollars to writing off some of the debt owed by borrowers. Those write-downs, which would occur only when they cost lenders less than foreclosing, could prove the feasibility and value of principal reductions. But Fannie and Freddie, which also were rescued by Washington, need to be persuaded as well - by the administration or Congress.


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Mann's Raid
Henry Gilbreath, a soldier in
Co. K, 5th Illinois Cavalry.
Although there is no record that
he was involved in the raid, he
was in the same company as
Capt. Mann. This image was
taken in the Washington
Gallery in Vicksburg.
During the siege of Vicksburg, Union General Ulysses S. Grant sent a small raiding party behind Confederate lines to disrupt communications and create havoc on the railroads. Forty men from the 5th Illinois Cavalry were picked for this mission, under the command of Captain Calvin A. Mann. The 6' tall, blonde, blue-eyed Mann graduated from the St. Louis Medical College in 1858. When he enlisted in September, 1861, however, he joined the 5th Illinois Cavalry as a 2nd Lieutenant.
The Pearl River at Monticello
The small expedition began by steaming down the Mississippi to Rodney. After landing at Rodney, the raiders rode to Brookhaven on June 24, 1863. There, they burned twelve railroad cars before moving on toward Monticello. After the Union cavalry left Brookhaven, they were pursued by approximately twenty-two Confederate soldiers and local citizens from the Brookhaven area under the command of 1st Lieutenant William M. Wilson of Co. B, 43rd Tennessee Infantry, a native of Rhea County, Tennessee. The group was hastily assembled by the commander of a Confederate training camp near Brookhaven.
Crossing the Pearl River at Monticello, the Union raiders cut the ferry adrift and headed for Ellisville. When Lt. Wilson arrived at the Pearl, he had to find another river crossing. He also had to spend valuable time recruiting more men and horses, as the Brookhaven home guard refused to go any further in pursuit of the Yankees. Captain Mann, meanwhile, proceeded east and crossed the Leaf River.
Thinking he had shaken the Confederates, Mann allowed his men to camp for the night. Wilson's Confederates, however, were hot on the trail and rode hard for Ellisville. Arriving at Rocky Creek on June 25, they were surprised to learn that the Federals had not yet arrived. As such, Wilson dismounted his force of approximately 35 men and boys and waited. When the raiders arrived, the fighting was brief and decisive. Allowing Mann's troopers to approach within a few yards of Rocky Creek, a single volley from the Confederates killed four men and wounded five. Captain Mann was thrown from his horse and captured. The remaining Federals scattered into the nearby woods but were soon rounded up and surrendered. Four of the wounded were left in Ellisville, while the rest were taken to Jackson as prisoners. The captured horses, guns and equipment were apparently taken by citizens from the surrounding area for their own use. Lt. Wilson wrote that they could probably be recovered but that it would take a force to do it.
Capt. Mann's broken gravestone
As a small engagement, few today are familiar with this episode of the Civil War in Mississippi, although it has all the elements of a great story. To mark the site of the skirmish, there is a state historical marker on Hwy. 588, approximately 3.5 miles west of Ellisville.
As a postscript, Captain Mann survived the war and practiced medicine in Perryville, Missouri, and in Illinois. He died in 1902 and is buried in the Diamond Cross Cemetery in Randolph County, Illinois.
Photo sources:
(1) Henry Gilbreath photo: Springfield-Greene County Library District and Wilson's Creek National Battlefield http://ozarkscivilwar.org/photographs/2011/09/gilbreath-henry/
(2) Pearl River photo: http://oldhousedreams.com/2010/06/17/1840s-cottage-monticello-ms/
(3) Marker photo by Don Troyka on Flikr http://www.flickr.com/photos/7430002@N06/5322448070/
(4) Mann grave photo: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=1968596&GRid=13097674&
Jim, loved it...great job!
U-166 and the Robert E. Lee
Col. Robert A. Smith in Life and Death
The Hattiesburg Zoo
Isaac Carman and the 48th Ohio at Vicksburg
Robert "Rope" Boyd
S&H Green Stamps
Evans Wall and the Swamp Girl
Mississippi Pride Football and the RFL
A very rainy day in Jackson
The Bell Witch in Mississippi
Madison's WWII airfield
The lost town of Middleton
Leprechauns in Oregon!
Mississippi's Wizard of Oz
"The Henry Ford of Furniture"
Embury D. Osband
Buster's Liquor
The curious death of Sarah Burns
Frank Pope(s), Ole Miss and Georgetown, Colorado
Delta Village
Fun at Parchman
(Old) Baptist Church
Yazoo Mills
Tippah Lodge
Col. Sargent
Weidmann's
Owen's Wells
An American Hero
The Horse Soldiers
The Late Mrs. Kelly
Coach Emory Bellard
Jeffrey Forrest
Holy Houdini!
Golgotha Fun Park
Me and Mr. Rumbold
McLaurin Hudson
Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo
Piave Mill


Do we really need this varnishncsa for varnish to work?
Can I stop & disable this process or is it necessary?
That will be a great idea, however, CWP team may not bother looking at this thread as they are FREE.
Anyhow, +1 from my side.
What is the suggestion board for, if not suggesting something to the staff?
Did you put the IP address on the firewall whitelist?
I was waiting for an admin dark theme for years!!!
Could we please have an suggestion voting-system / feature requests board for CWP where we can upvote the features we like to see?
and delete the domain "guidadelgusto.com"
This will also delete the SSL certificate and your problem .conf file.
Check it, if it is still there delete "/etc/nginx/conf.d/guidadelgusto.com_ssl.conf" manually over SSH or FTP!
and add the domain again.
Now you should be fine with SSL and with "Apache + nginx".
Does anyone have experience with Nginx Ultimate Bot Blocker?
I installed it after the instructions step by step, but I can't see any effect.
Step 10 failed for me.
I still get an "200 OK" when I should get an "(52) Empty reply from server" reply.
Could you integrate this into future releases of CWP (pro)?
Pleas google first before making a forum request.
CSF Firewall / Re: Editor in CWP for /etc/csf/csf.pignore ?
"/etc/csf/csf.pignore" is not needed very often, so I guess there is no link in the menu for it.
You can edit any file on the server with the "?module=file_editor&file=" module!
CSF Firewall / Re: Is it necessary to enable CSF Firewall or Mod security in Centos Web Panel ?
I would STRONGLY RECOMMEND IT!
I use CWP7pro and I installed Comodo WAF for ModSecurity- which does a GREAT job protecting my WordPress sites (without me making any manual exception Rules)!
10€ for CWP Pro is totally worth it and the guys build CWP absolutely deserve our support (IMO).
I once blocked several countries in my /etc/csf/csf.conf.
And then a few days later AutoSSL (renewal of SSL certificates) wasn't working anymore.
I WAS UNABLE to create new SSL certificates!
I've found out that blocking NL (Netherlands) was the root cause for it.
Let's Encrypt is located in NL and it needs to connect to generate SSL certificates!
Did you google the problem?
CSF Firewall / Re: CWP Countries servers are in ?
Wikipedia tells me cPanel, but I dont use cPanel!
Does CWP(pro) use these ports in any way?
Can we remove/block them withour any trouble?
I've removed 2030, because 2031 is more secure.


Cedar Creek is a picturesque waterway, which beings its life as water moving from the high altitudes of Mount Glorious in the D'Aguilar Ranges to the low lying areas of South Pine River. As the creek meanders towards the coastline of Moreton Bay, it is a treasure trove of rock pools, waterfalls, stunning picnic spots, plus home to a diversity of Australian native flora and fauna, including kookaburra's, platypus and wallabies. You can start your exploration from either the location called Cedar Creek (near Samford) or Draper (near Eatons Hill), both just thirty minutes from the Brisbane city centre. Cedar Creek is one of the go-to spots for North Brisbane families and one of the must-dos for Moreton residents.
The fifteen plus kilometres of road which (mostly) runs alongside the Cedar Creek bank, can be driven in approximately 17 minutes, one direction only, from start (-27.324276, 152.794168) to finish (-27.348701, 152.916208). Along the drive is a patchwork of parks and reserves where visitors can pull up, enjoy a picnic or a splash in the rock pools.
PLEASE, when entering the parks and reserves, be respectful of private property.
The covered barbecues and riverfront picnic tables make a lovely day out for families. Andy Williams Park, located at 744 Cedar Creek Road, has public toilets and potable water but the park is not suitable for those with mobility issues.
Kids can play in the shallows at the creek, spot little fish and enjoy some relatively safe creek swimming. There are no large swimming holes at Andy Williams Park, but it is very refreshing to sit in the shallows of the rock pools, enjoying the cool water flowing by on its way to the South Pine River.
At one time, the upper creek with its rock pool, semi-submerged cave and a rather scary jumping spot was the go-to place for Brisbane day trips, but with the land now privately owned and it is illegal to access the water hole, it's time to find other options for swimming and playing at Cedar Creek or visit other popular swimming spots, Rocky Hole and Stony Creek!
If stopping at the crossing close to Kirk Road, be on the lookout for a platypus or two.
Halls Road Crossing is a quiet picnic spot with no amenities but with knee deep water for kids to paddle in – and turtles to spot. This relatively quiet spot is dog free.
To really experience the wonders of Edward Allison Park, you need to walk down the gravel track from the carpark area and south across the grassy paddock. What you will discover is a nature playground, as the freshwaters of Cedar Creek flows over boulders, pebbles and logs.
The naturally formed pools create great swimming holes for kids, but it is a good idea to have them wear aqua shoes when swimming to avoid cutting the bottoms of their feet on sharp rocks and sticks. Some areas are deeper than others, so treat the creek like a swimming pool and don't leave children unattended. For some extra fun with older kids, play a game of water brandy, using a foam ball to tag participants! They'll love running through the small rock pools to miss being 'tagged'.
Things to do and see around Cedar Creek!