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Minnesota Wild at St. Louis Blues NHL Picks & Predictions 2/6/2018
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The Minnesota Wild head to Scottrade Center to take on the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday, February 6, 2018. The opening line for this contest has the Wild at +130 and the Blues at -144.
Minnesota has a record of 28-19-5 this year and away from home they have a record of 10-15-1-1. They are 5th in the Central Division. They have tallied 153 goals and surrendered 150 goals for a point differential of +3. For the year they have an ATS mark of 28-24-0 and an over/under record of 27-23-0. St. Louis has a record of 32-19-3 including 18-10-0-0 on home ice this year. They are 3rd in the Central Division. They've scored 153 goals and have given up 134 for a goal differential of +19. Their record against the spread is 32-22-0 while their over/under mark is 20-34-0.
Valuable Minnesota Wild Betting Trends
The Minnesota Wild are 28-24-0 straight up this year
The Minnesota Wild are 27-23-0 against the over/under this season
Important St. Louis Blues Betting Trends
The St. Louis Blues are 32-22-0 straight up this year
The St. Louis Blues are 20-34-0 against the over/under this season
Key Minnesota Wild Injuries
Key St. Louis Blues Injuries
10/07/17 LW Zachary Sanford Shoulder IR (10/01)
09/27/17 C Robby Fabbri ACL IR (10/01)
Eric Staal has scored 46 total points this year for the Wild. He has 22 goals this season with 140 shots on net, giving him a shooting percentage of 16%. He has a total of 24 assists on the year and averages 18.1 minutes played per contest. Jason Zucker averages 17.2 minutes of ice time per game this season. In that time he has a shooting percentage of 16% by tallying 21 goals on 133 attempts. He has 17 assists, giving him a total of 38 points on the year. Devan Dubnyk has 20 wins and 10 losses this season in goal for the Wild. He has 1,031 shots against him and he's surrendered 87 goals. He's made 944 stops for a save percentage of 92%.
Brayden Schenn has 51 total points this season for the Blues. He has 21 goals this year with 139 shots on goal, giving him a shooting percentage of 15%. He has a total of 30 assists on the year and averages 19.5 minutes played per contest. Vladimir Tarasenko averages 19.7 minutes of ice time per contest. In that time he has a shooting percentage of 10% by scoring 21 goals on 215 attempts. He has 26 assists, giving him a total of 47 points on the year. Carter Hutton has 14 wins and 4 losses this season in net for the Blues. He has 588 shots against him and he's given up 31 goals. He's made 557 saves for a save percentage of 95%.
Useful Team Statistics
The Wild have 61 total points this year, which is 13th in the NHL. They've scored 153 goals while giving up 150 scores, which has them ranked 15th and 16th respectively. They have had 159 power play chances and scored 33 goals on those opportunities for a percentage of 21%. That is 11th in the league. The Wild have given up 189 power play opportunities and surrendered 37 goals on those chances for a penalty kill percentage of 80%, ranking them 16th when short-handed. They average 30 shots per contest and as a team shoot 9.75% for the year. They allow 32 shot attempts to their opposition per game and have a team save percentage of 91%, which is 16th in the league.
The Blues are 6th in the league with a total of 67 points this season. They have 28 power play goals on 172 chances for a percentage of 16%. That is 25th in the NHL. They've given up 161 power play opportunities and surrendered 29 goals on those chances for a penalty kill percentage of 82%, ranking 12th overall. As a team, the Blues are 16th with a total of 153 goals scored while they've given up 134 goals this season, ranking 27th in goals against. They average 33 shots per game and have a team shooting percentage of 8.48%. As a unit they give up 31 shots per contest and have a save percentage of 92%, putting them 5th overall in the NHL.
Minnesota has a Corsi percentage of 46.6% as they've tried 2,739 shots on goal while at full strength while they have surrendered 3,141 shots on net when they have a full team on the ice. That ranks them 28th in Corsi percentage. They are 26th in the NHL in Fenwick percentage with 47.5% as they have 2,113 shots while they've given up 2,332 attempts on defense. The Wild start possessions in the offensive zone 49% of the time while their defensive zone percentage is at 51% for the year. That puts them 21st and 8th in the league in zone percentages respectively. They have 1,555 face-off wins as opposed to 1,544 losses, meaning their face-off win percentage is 50.2%. That is 17th overall in the NHL. On defense Minnesota has 898 hits and they've blocked 809 attempts from opposing offenses, which is 7th in the league.
The Blues are 16th in the league in starting possessions in the offensive zone, doing so 50.6% of the time. Their defensive zone percentage is at 49.4% for the season, which is 19th in the NHL. They have 1,624 face-off wins compared to 1,637 losses, meaning their face-off win percentage is 49.8%. That is 20th in the league. On defense St. Louis has 1,212 hits and they have blocked 848 shots from the opposition, which is 3rd in the league. St. Louis is 14th in the NHL in Corsi percentage with 51% as they've attempted 3,235 shots on net at full strength while they've given up 3,102 shots on net in the same situations. Their Fenwick percentage of 52.2% ranks 8th as they have 2,460 attempts while they have given up 2,254 shots on the defensive end.
Who will win tonight's Wild/Blues NHL game against the spread?
Josh's Pick: Take Minnesota +130
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The weather was horrible and even though we were hoping for a break in the clouds, none came. As you can see from this piccie, it was really quite wet outside.
As I knew my phone battery would die in the middle of the run, I'd brought my camera to take some pics on site. So I asked a fellow runner to take my picture and gave him my camera. Error error, missing memory card! OMG I could kick myself! Home was hours away so no chance of quickly getting one. Luckily said fellow runner kindly took my piccie on his phone and emailed it to me. It was so sweet!
At 9am, about 3000 runners crossed the starting line under watchful eye of Henry VIII.
The race itself was not too bad, for obvious reasons I don't have any 'during' pics, I'm still waiting for the event pics to come through but they seem to be taking their time with those. Afterwards, I spoke to some people on the way home and they said it was one of the toughest courses they'd ever done for a half marathon. The course had road, gravel, grass, and dirt so it pretty much had everything except for obstacles! While I did enjoy the scenery, the weather didn't really help the enjoyment factor. The staff was amazing though and stood in this cold and wet to cheer us on. A big thank you to them!
Once I'd reached 11 miles (who counts in miles anyway? It was seriously confusing) I hit the infamous 'wall'. I'd read about it but had no idea if and when this would effect me. At this point my knee was seriously hurting and we'd just rounded a corner meaning we were facing very strong head winds. I was so done with this! I was annoyed about my phone dying, my memory card which was at home, the fact that I'd dropped behind so much that there was no way I could make a remotely decent time, and I could see the finish line but the course was going into the opposite direction. I was about ready to cry. In hindsight it's quite funny really and I seriously hope no one has photographic evidence of me between mile 11 and 13 as I was just grumbling all the way and I imagine my facial expression left something to be desired. Then, as we rounded mile 13, a fellow runner appeared on the side lines. Having finished her race, she came back to cheer on her friend for the last bit. Somehow that really helped me going as well, and I started cheering said friend on too and we sped up and raced across the finish line together. I immediately lost sight of them in the post-finish chaos, claimed my medal (it's enormous!) and my t-shirt. I'd done it!
My finishing time was 2:48:01, at least it was under 3 hours!
I saw some amazing pictures of the race on Twitter and Facebook, and hope no one minds that I borrowed them for this. I just love the above picture! I had no means of taking this (can you tell I'm kicking myself over this the most?) and it's just so awesome!
Isn't it wonderful? Something I only noticed once home: the medal has the 'Mo' pose and the t-shirt has the 'Bolt' pose hihi, excellent!
I also discovered an importance difference between a 5/10K and a half/whole marathon other than the distance. In a 5/10K you get the t-shirt at the start as a motivator to run the distance. At a half/whole marathon you get the t-shirt as a reward at the end to show you finished it!
Congrats once again! You did it!! I said the same thing after I finished my first half - never again, but I did go back - and again, again...... It's such an achievement and that medal is certainly worth it! What a great homecoming afterwards too! Good luck for your next races!


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KASHMIR LEADERS: WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MUMBAI MASSACRE
by Athar Parvaiz
on Mumbai terror attack
(IPS) -- Political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir, a bone of contention between India and Pakistan for more than 60 years, are aghast at last week's carnage in Mumbai, carried out by armed men who apparently sailed in from the Pakistani port of Karachi.
Many here believe that renewed hostility between the South Asian giants, set off by the sea-borne attacks in which 200 people died, may prove to be a setback for their peaceful movement for an independent or autonomous Kashmir.
"Violence is nowhere acceptable now; you have to hammer home your argument cogently, not through violent means, if you want the support of the international community,' Aktar Hussein, a student at the Kashmir University, told IPS.
At least ten gunmen targeted the financial hub's main railway station, two luxury hotel complexes, a Jewish center and a hospital with automatic fire, grenades and explosives. Barricading themselves inside the two hotels and the Jewish center, they fought off Indian commandos for more than three days from late on Nov. 26 to Nov. 29.
Counterterrorism officials in the United States have supported the contention of Indian authorities that the attackers were linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (soldiers of god) militant group, which is based in Pakistan but has been fighting Indian rule in Kashmir.
And, on Tuesday, while on a visit to Pakistan, Condoleezza Rice said Islamabad had been given sufficient evidence to take action.
Young people like Hussein recognize that the discourse over a settlement of the Kashmir issue changed dramatically after the 9/11 terror attacks on the U.S.
Demonstrably, for them, peaceful mass protests in the Srinagar valley -- against the parcelling out of land to a Hindu shrine board -- have not only gleaned positive results but also won international praise.
The peaceful phase of the movement against Indian rule began after an estimated 50,000 people died in an armed struggle that lasted for 18 years but began petering out after the 9/11 attacks.
"Kashmiris were just rejoicing over the discovery of an effective way of struggle when the terror strikes occurred in Mumbai... these could have a bearing on the resolution of Kashmir issue,' says Kashmir University professor Noor Ahmad Baba.
Almost unanimously, the terror strikes in Mumbai have evoked strong reactions from political parties in Jammu and Kashmir, with the leaders of both separatist and mainstream groups in the state condemning them.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the tallest of the hard line separatists, termed the strikes an ÔÔanti-human' act. "The perpetrators are the enemies of humanity,' he said and called for an internationally observed, independent probe into the attack.
Even Kashmiri militant groups based in the Pakistan-administered part of the territory have expressed shock at the attack. Salah-u-Din, who heads the United Jihad Council (UJC), a conglomerate of more than one dozen active militant outfits in Kashmir, termed the attacks as "reprehensible" in a statement.
"We would never allow any militant group in Kashmir to carry out such an inhuman attack,' Salah-u-Din said in a statement faxed from Muzzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan administered Kashmir where he is based.
The chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Mohammad Yasin Malik, called the terror strikes "a heinous crime against humanity" while talking with IPS over telephone from a hospital in the Indian capital, where he is undergoing treatment.
Jamaat-e-Islami, a religio-political organization in Kashmir, called the attacks Ô'anti-Islamic.' "We condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. Our sympathies are with those who have lost their loved ones in these terror strikes."
The leaders of mainstream political parties have condemned the attacks in more forcefully. "Such gory acts are not only outrageous, but inhuman as well," said former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed who heads the regional, People's Democratic Party.
Another former chief minister, Farooq Abdullah, who is the patron of the National Conference, the other main regional party of Kashmir, declared that in no way were the strikes Ô'in the interest of Kashmiris and their freedom struggle.'
"This (Mumbai attack) doesn't seem to be the handiwork of militants who are active in Kashmir," said one political observer who preferred to remain anonymous and refused to say anything more about it.
Indian Kashmir is presently undergoing staggered elections for the state assembly. Two of the seven phases, scheduled to culminate on Dec. 28, have already been completed and the third phase of polling is slated for Dec. 7.
The first two phases were remarkably peaceful and saw large voter turnouts, although the elections are being held in the backdrop of intra-regional friction and anti-India sentiments since June when the controversy over the land transfer erupted.
Observers say that if animosities between India and Pakistan worsen, it could hamper the rest of the election process. "How can this process go on in a sensitive region like Kashmir, if the tension doesn't ease off between India and Pakistan?" says Noor Baba.
Both the common people and the political leadership of Kashmir favour friendly ties between India and Pakistan, acutely aware that the three wars they fought over the territory have not produced any settlement and have only hardened positions.
Albion Monitor December 5, 2008 (http://www.albionmonitor.com)

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Thousands of disabled students are being forced to choose between having food to eat or having the equipment they need to study, because a new government rule means they must pay £200 towards the cost of computers they need for disability-related reasons.
The government introduced the new rule as part of its controversial reform of the disabled students' allowance (DSA) system, a non-means-tested grant that assists with the extra costs a disabled student faces during higher education study.
Universities minister Sam Gyimah admitted in a parliamentary answer that introducing the new rule – with disabled students in England having to pay £200 towards the cost of a computer and assistive software obtained through the DSA system – had seen the number of recipients of DSA equipment funding fall by 4,600.
This appears to refer to a drop from 28,000 to 23,400 in the number of students receiving DSA for equipment, comparing those who began their courses in 2014-15 with those who began in 2015-16, when the new rules were introduced.
Gyimah said the drop was "expected, because we knew the numbers would fall once students had to pay £200 towards the cost of computer equipment", but he said that an evaluation of the impact of the change was "under way".
Marsha de Cordova (pictured), the disabled Labour MP and shadow minister for disabled people, who had asked the question, said the number of students receiving DSA for essential equipment had fallen by nearly 30 per cent since the £200 up-front fee was introduced (the latest figures show the number of students receiving DSA for equipment have fallen even further than Gyimah's figures, to 19,700).
She said the charge was "clearly preventing disabled students from accessing the essential equipment they need to further their studies" and she called on Gyimah to scrap the new rule.
The minister claimed that the fall in the number of students receiving DSA for equipment did not mean they were "lacking in equipment" because he said "computer ownership is now common among all students, with students spending on average around £250 on computers".
De Cordova told Disability News Service (DNS) afterwards: "I thought [the minister's]response was really weak.
She received DSA when she was studying at university, which paid for a support worker and the assistive technology she needed.
She said: "It certainly enabled me to carry out my studies effectively.
Piers Wilkinson, from the National Union of Students' Disabled Students' Campaign, said they had "consistently opposed" the DSA reforms, because the union believed they would "not only put us at a greater disadvantage in accessing education but also force disabled students out of education".
He said: "Disabled students face astronomical costs of attending university, with higher accommodation costs, additional costs for transport, food and support equipment.
"A laptop can be a vital piece of equipment; this £200 charge is causing hundreds of vital laptops to be locked away from the student, even after the assistive technology software and hardware has been paid for.
"The Equality Act 2010 clearly states that a disabled person cannot be asked to pay for disability adjustments, and yet our government has been charging disabled students £200 for the privilege of accessing the same education opportunities non-disabled students have.
"This charge is making disabled students choose between having food to eat or having the equipment essential for them to study for their £9,000-a-year course.
Meanwhile, The Alliance for Inclusive Education has condemned the government's announcement that it is spending £50 million to expand places in grammar schools in England.
Disabled children with education, health and care plans (EHCPs) or statements of special educational needs represent only 0.1 per cent of grammar school pupils, despite making up 1.8 per cent of the secondary school population.
And disabled children without statements or EHCPs still make up only 4.2 per cent of grammar school pupils, but 12.4 per cent of all secondary school pupils.
DNS revealed last year that the government had been forced to admit that it failed to assess the impact on disabled children and young people of its "discriminatory" plans to expand grammar schools.
Aspis pointed to last year's conclusion of the UN committee on the rights of persons with disabilities, which was highly critical of the UK government's approach to inclusive education and the "persistence of a dual education system" that segregates increasing numbers of disabled children in special schools.
Figures last year showed the proportion of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who attend a special school in England had risen from 5.6 per cent in 2012 to 8.5 per cent in 2016, with the proportion in independent specialist settings rising from 4.5 to 6.3 per cent.
ALLFIE said that the introduction of greater selection by ability in the education system through the expansion of grammar school provision meant "choice for SEND pupils and their parents is in danger of becoming non-existent".


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The anticipation is rapidly rising more and more for the sophomore album, True To Self, from Bryson Tiller. He's added more fuel to the fire with the release of the tracklist to the highly anticipated project.
The tracklist contains 19 tracks, 3 of which 'Somethin Tells Me', 'Honey' and 'Get Mine' featuring Young Thug have already been released.


Welcome 2019 From Seoul, South Korea – Happy New Year!
Feels like 2018 had just started, doesn't it?
And now, it's already time to bid farewell to the year as we ring in the next one.
Does time always seem to pass by faster and faster the older that you get?
Well, that's certainly what it feels like to me.
On the topic of time, it turns out that it's already been 19 months since the last time I posted here on my blog on May 5th, 2017.
As if time doesn't move fast enough, Korea is one hour ahead of Hong Kong and Malaysia, which means we get to celebrate the New Year even earlier than normal.
To be perfectly honest, even at its current schedule, I also don't know where the time has gone with that.
I mean, at the time that I made that last post, this was before we actually launched the Penang Headquarters for our Malaysian company at myinternetevents.com.
That date was on the 4th of July, which was extremely appropriate being that it represented freedom for all of our upcoming students who would step into our training center with the positive commitment to change their lives.
In the last year and a half, so many things have happened that it would be impossible for me to summarize everything right here in this post.
Although, if you would like to catch up on some of them, you are welcomed to read through on some of my older Facebook posts from my personal profile, as well as the ones on our company page, as well.
Basically, ever since we have launched this office and built up this new community, I have been so busy keeping up with its momentum and growth that I literally had no time to do anything else.
Not only have we completed multiple live courses on topics of affiliate marketing, ecommerce, search engine optimization, social media marketing, Facebook advertising, but we have shared even more advanced strategies and real world opportunities for our "inner circle" members.
That would be another reason why I hadn't updated this blog in such a long time.
As a local team, we have grown together through learning at hands on classes, which have created some of the top success mentors in the industry.
Those who are committed to working with us have also qualified to partner with me on real profit sharing projects, where our team have built several projects that shared into the multiple 6 figures in REAL profits.
And because I also personally train my own students to become our community mentors, speakers and trainers, it also means we have been able to deliver tremendous value as a team to the worldwide market.
Now, not only do my new and improved "Protege Team" members have the opportunities to work and travel with me, but they are now also acclaimed and reputable world-class mentors, global speakers and International trainers.
This is why you can see that we have been extremely active in live events, as well.
To be more specific, we have completed about 300 live events thus far ever since the launch of our Penang office.
In fact, in 2018 alone, we have successfully completed 183 events as a team across 5 countries, including Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, with multiple cities and locations within each of those countries, as well.
For those of you keeping count, 183 events (considering that there are 365 days a year) means that we averaged one event every other day – this means that on average, every two days (or about 48 hours), we have successfully provided more value to our students and attendees.
Even though our active community has evidently kept us tremendously busy as a team, we wanted to do even more.
That's why on the 4th of November of this year, exactly 16 months after the launch of our Penang office, we also launched our Kuala Lumpur venue as we expand towards impacting even more lives throughout Malaysia.
Less than 2 months since the launch of this KL venue, it goes without saying that it is only the beginning.
In 2019, we have so many bigger and better plans that we still have yet to announce.
This isn't about making plans, goals or resolutions (most of which will never last past the first few days of the New Year).
Rather, everything here is locked, loaded and confirmed to happen, most of which are already underway as we speak in their execution, as there is literally no time to waste simply waiting, thinking or talking about it.
More International traveling opportunities as new global markets continue to open up doors for us, including my hometown of Hong Kong!
PLUS: Even more brand new bonuses, trainings and partnership opportunities leveraging on our expertise, reputation and network!
In other words, there are TONS of exciting new things to look forward to in 2019, and I simply can't wait to get it all up and running for any and all of our existing or future community members.
Btw – The most exciting ones of all will be those that I actually get to "sit back" and work on my magic "behind the scenes" in anonymity without having to show my face or reveal my identity within these top secret niches.
There are so many new advancements in the age of technology that it's time for me to take a step back from the public live events we have been focusing so much on in 2018, and make 2019 yet another "year of opportunities," but more so with private online projects (as hinted here in my final Facebook post of 2018 from Hong Kong International Airport before my flight to Korea).
As we welcome in the New Year from my holiday tour in Korea, know that there are lots of new adventures being worked on, and will continue to do so as we travel on to our upcoming vacation destinations before finally returning back to my Penang Headquarters later this month.
To my current community members, and especially my active Protege Team, you will get a sneak peek into these plans very soon.
For those of you who are not yet in, or would like to learn more about it, be sure to visit our community website, or contact us directly on our Facebook Page.
2019 is going to be ABSOLUTELY awesome – Hope you are ready for it and intend to make it as successful as I do with my team!
HAPPY NEW YEAR and look forward to having you a part of the success!
It's no secret that there's a lot of money to be made on the Internet.
For over 10 years, I have taught hundreds of thousands of people how to become successful online, and I am personally very proud of the number of lives we've been able to change all around the world.
Here's the good news… The secret to success isn't necessarily what strategies you know or how much experience you have.
In fact, most of my success stories started as complete newbies with zero experience.
Moreover, there are countless others who had previously attended other Internet Marketing courses, and despite the valuable education they received, they were still unsuccessful in achieving their goals, until we somehow got the chance to work together.
What's the real secret to success?
Believe it or not, I've encountered students who started their Internet Marketing journey as far back as 2004 who had never achieved any type of success.
It's not because they weren't smart enough or didn't learn the right techniques.
On the contrary, after over 10 years of self-motivation and continued education, the one thing that prevented them from true success is the luxury of being a part of what we call an "inner circle" of like-minded entrepreneurs who help to inspire and drive one another's will towards achieving freedom.
For each and every single one of my students, clients and event attendees, I strive to build a personal relationship with each of them so they have the opportunity to build business networks with me and the top names in the industry.
As a result, they see that they become successful much faster and easier than they have ever imagined.
In other words, when we meet in person and start a friendship, you become family, and this is the type of culture everyone needs in order to set the right path towards transforming themselves into the successful entrepreneur they are destined to become.
With this simple formula, we have created a record-breaking number of successes around the world, and after taking over a year off to further improve my relationships with existing inner circle members, my Protege Team and I are ready to welcome in new family members with open arms.
In the months of October and November, I am planning a series of events in Malaysia to meet aspiring entrepreneurs who want to finally start their profitable online businesses once and for all, and I will personally be traveling between Penang and Kuala Lumpur to make friends with every one of my attendees.
I haven't conducted my own Internet Marketing training since last year in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, so all the attendees will receive the newest success methods, while at the same time, meeting all my latest successes from the last several months to learn first-hand from them how they are doing it.
Even though learning from a mentor is powerful, I believe it can be infinitely more impactful to hear directly from those who were in your exact same position just a few short months ago, as they can then reveal their own step-by-step process how they were able to do what they've done.
They are my latest successes… Do you want to be next?
If you want to meet in person and discuss how we can help you with your personal goals, this is your official invitation to attend my upcoming event in Penang or Kuala Lumpur (click on the "play" icon to start the 3 minute invitation video so you have a better idea on what we will be talking about).
Look forward to meeting in person, introducing you to my success stories and potentially welcoming you into our inner circle family to transform you to our next one!
This weekend marks the exciting launch of a new era with Internet Marketing Insider Secrets (IMIS) in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Even though I have been periodically conducting Internet Marketing trainings in various countries over the past several years, Internet Marketing Insider Secrets is a completely new and rebranded course which combines some of the best strategies to make money online.
In fact, not only is it comprehensive in nature, IMIS also contains some of the fastest, easiest and most effective ways of making fast income online, as well as detailed blueprints on how to develop a professional brand to build long term Internet businesses.
During the past few years, I have endured personal challenges, unsuccessful professional ventures and failed business partnerships.
Since it is a time-tested and known fact that the best way to learn is from a mentor who have made the mistakes so you don't have to, I have incorporated all of what I've learned from my own mistakes in life and business into this course.
You see, it wasn't long ago that I, too, was feeling lost, stressed out and demotivated in my own businesses.
I can't blame specific people, but I can definitely count the various circumstances where things could and should have been handled better by all parties involved.
That said, the way things have turned out doesn't bother me one bit because to me, the best thing about being an Internet entrepreneur is the freedom.
You would never see me proclaim to the world that I have all the money, fame, fortune and material things that I want – because I don't.
After all, I am a true believer that being rich doesn't refer to those who have the most, but rather, it's those who need the least.
However, I will say that I Internet entrepreneurship has allowed me to enjoy my time, personal and lifestyle freedom.
Being an entrepreneur means that I can do what I want, when I want, and nobody dictates my time but myself.
I have the choice to sleep in every day, not work when I don't feel like it, and take extended vacations for weeks, or even months at a time.
This also means that nobody can make me do anything beyond my will, make me feel like anything less than I am, and definitely no one can "fire" or "terminate" me from anything I work on.
If I leave any project or partnerships, they have always been and will continue to be on my own accord.
Believe it or not, there are people who claim otherwise, and it makes me chuckle every time I hear of yet another time or person who suggests that they have this type of power over me, and freely spreads such rumors around to anyone who would hear it, all in their own helpless attempts for acceptance.
Egos aside, I am simply here to inspire others the same way life has inspired me to rise above the pressures and hate of entrepreneurship, because I am certain this type of experience can happen to anyone, and much more often than we would like.
The hard truth is that people will always make up stories, say bad things behind your back and push you down in an attempt to pull up themselves and their cause.
Whether it's because they're low class, jealous or simply don't understand, their tasteless actions mean nothing to us, and it certainly doesn't change us from choosing to be the best person we can be and doing the best in everything we do.
Life's too short to be meddling into the little details of what people say or think about you; I've learned not to care or be involved in this type of immature pettiness a long time ago.
My advice is to let them be, and not waste any of our precious time and energy on people or things that ultimately prove themselves to be unimportant.
Remember – Regardless of how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, your attitude, integrity and how you treat others ultimately defines your success as a person.
Two months have passed and gone in 2015, but that means we still have another ten months to go to make this a remarkable year for all of us.
For me, I have huge plans this year, and changing lives in Jakarta is only the beginning of what will inevitably be an amazing 2015.
To all the champions out there: My family, friends, students, clients, followers, blog readers, and one of the very, very few privileged business partners (or heck, even if I don't know you) – Be spectacular! Chase your dream! Find your freedom! Change lives!
AND – A huge congratulations to all our future success stories in the Internet Marketing Insider Secrets program… See you all at the top very soon!
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Student Spotlight: Grad student recreates scenes from Romeo and Juliet handmade dolls
Inspired by an Instagram account that featured miniature recreations of Chekhov's plays, UI graduate student Luli Gomez has built and launched her own miniature production company, called the Tiny Players Theatre.
Addie Bushnell, Arts Reporter
Just weeks before spring break — when the University of Iowa made the decision to move the remainder of the spring semester online — graduate acting student Luli Gomez was performing as Natasha in the UI Theatre Arts Department's production of Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov. Her experience would soon lead her to discover a new type of theater — miniature.
It started with a link to an Instagram account, sent to Gomez by one of her friends after hearing that she would be performing in a Chekhov play. The account was filled with posts of beautiful doll houses and dolls carefully positioned to recreate scenes from Chekhov's plays, all run by Kyra Miller Himmelbaum, an actress based in New York.
Gomez said she was immediately taken by the idea, and decided to create something similar with Shakespeare's plays. Using dolls made from the clay and fabric she already had stashed away in her apartment, Gomez began creating her dolls and miniature sets during the UI's extended spring break.
"I really had a lot of extra time on my hands, and nothing to do since there wasn't class and I couldn't go anywhere," Gomez said. "So I just started making these little people, and they turned out to be even cuter than what I was picturing in my head."
Gomez's project quickly began to grow. She began to build intricate sets, pieced together her own costumes, and even installed miniature lights.
Gomez paints the doll's skin, hair, and clothing and uses removable fabric costumes to dress them for different roles. She then positions them on the set and takes pictures of them, captioning each scene with famous lines from Shakespeare plays. She's currently halfway through recreating a production of Romeo and Juliet with her miniature theater.
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The artist even shot a stop motion film depicting the iconic balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, complete with dialogue. While Gomez voiced the part of Juliet, the part of Romeo was voiced by UI MFA acting candidate Steven Antoine Willis.
Having just finished her second year in graduate program, Gomez has been involved in many other theatrical projects and productions. She has appeared in prominent roles in both Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Martin Zimmerman's Seven Spots on the Sun in past years.
Gomez also participated in the Summer Partnership for the Arts and she spent a month in Prague working and acting with the Prague Shakespeare Company. She said all of these pursuits, including her miniature theater, are stepping stones to her post-graduate goals, which include moving to New York City.
"[The city] has so many opportunities," she said. "I want to do TV and film, but I also want to do theater, and New York is one of the only places right now where you can do any of those things."
With another year of school to complete, and the disastrous effects COVID-19 has had on the arts, a new level of uncertainty has begun to hang heavily over Gomez's future. She said she has stayed connected to her craft and maintained her creativity by working on her miniature theater project, which she has since dubbed the "Tiny Players Theatre."
The Tiny Players Theatre now has its own Instagram and Facebook page, and is also featured on Gomez's website. While theater has become largely inaccessible during the pandemic, Gomez hopes that her miniature productions will bring a spark of joy to theater lovers and fellow thespians.
"There's just something so cute about them," Gomez said. "It makes me smile. If I could make other people smile too, that would be enough."
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Favorite artist/musician/writer: I have no musical knowledge
Dream place to live: New York City or Madrid, Spain
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The one thing that we all learned as a result of COVID was the importance of working together for the benefit of others. In this case, these companies joined forces to provide funding that not only allows this client to grow but also contributes to supporting the health of the public in the midst of a global pandemic.
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Fashion, Trends
April 12, 2019 by Addison Anthony
Who knew administrative branding could be so hot?
Normcore had its day, and menocore is still on trend, but the currents of pop culture have swapped brandless-ness for something a bit more unexpected: bureaucratic designerwear?
Streetwear brand Supreme made the govt. cool back in 2017 when they launched a limited edition collab with NYC's MTA, the department in charge of the subway system (and famously bemoaned by all New Yorkers). The Supreme-covered cards later sold online for as much as $130 – quite a hike from the $2.75 per trip New Yorkers usually pay. Supreme's willingness to join forces with 'the man' was a huge step for streetwear, a realm that had traditionally focused on rebelling against exactly these figures.
Since then, consumers have been all over other products tied to government agencies, a move towards government gear that's been dubbed 'civicore.'
Take OnlyNY's licensing deals with the NYC parks system, transportation departments, and sanitation system, for example. Big city dwellers have long loved repping their urban abodes, but going through the government to do so is definitely a new take.
And it's not just a city-based trend, either. With the cosmos more on our minds than ever (is there even a way to escape the horoscope-verse anymore?), NASA's merch is taking the market by (meteor shower) storm. NASA's look also has an especially old-school feel, an appealing aesthetic for young shoppers looking to recycle and find vintage pieces, while also a comfortable feel for the older generations reminiscing on simpler times.
Mission-driven brands like Parks Projects are taking advantage of the consumer's thirst for nostalgia with retro T-shirt designs and big name partners like National Geographic and the Sierra Club. Plus, they're sending revenue straight back into the National Parks system to preserve and maintain what their products are celebrating.
Even the Post Office has looked into diversifying their income streams with their own gear. Snail mail may be out, but civicore is definitely trending.
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The Christian Layman: Or, The Doctrine of the Trinity Fully Considered, and ...
Per Benjamin Parsons (of Pensacola.)
and further, if its origin, progress, and continuance could not be accounted for in any way, but from the necessity of its truth. But I think it can be otherwise easily accounted for, which I shall attempt to show in the next chapter.
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If we place any dependence upon ecclesiastical history from the time of the Apostles for two or three centuries, (and it should be remembered, that all the ancient ecclesiastical historians were considered orthodox,) we must say, with the learned Professor Norton, " we can trace the history of this doctrine, and discover its source, not in the Christian revelation, but in the Platonic philosophy; which was the prevailing philosophy during the first ages after the introduction of Christianity, and of which all the more eminent Christian writers, the fathers, as they are called, were in a greater or less degree disciples. They, as others have often done, blended their philosophy and their religion into one complex, heterogeneous system; and taught the doctrines of the former, as those of the latter. In this manner they introduced errors into the popular faith." " It is an old complaint of learned men," says Mosheim, " that the fathers or teachers of the ancient Church were too much inclined to the philosophy of Plato, and rashly confounded what was taught by that philosopher, with the doctrines of Christ our Saviour ; in consequence of which, the religion of heaven was greatly corrupted, and the truth much obscured."
"Few of the learned are so unacquainted with ecclesiastical history as to be ignorant what a great number of errors and most preposterous opinions flowed in from this impure [unscriptural] source." And, no doubt, one of the most erroneous and preposterous of these opinions was the strange doctrine of the Trinity. Plato was the authority relied on by some of the earliest Trinitarian fathers. Clement of Alexandria, one of the early Platonizing fathers, endeavors to show, that the doctrine was taught by that philosopher. He observes, that, in one of the epistles attribnted to Plato, mention is made of a second, and third principle, besides " the King of all ; by which he can understand nothing to be meant, but the sacred Trinity; the third principle being the Holy Spirit, and the second principle being the Son, by whom all things were created, according to the will of the Father." Eusebius states, that Constantine, in an oration to the assembly of saints, " eulogized Plato as teaching conformably to the truth; that there is a first God, the Father, and a second God, the Logos, or Son." And Augustine, in his Confessions, states, that he found the doctrine concerning the Logos in a Latin translation of some Platonic writings. Basnage says, " Christianity, in its triumph, has often reflected honor on the Platonists; and as the Christians took some pride in finding the Trinity taught by a philosopher, so the Platonists were proud in their turn, to see the Christians adopt their principles." Petavius, in his Theologica Dogmata, (Lib. 1, Cap. 3, de Trinitate,) gives a full account of the Platonic notions concerning the Trinity, and states, "in what manner this doctrine was conceived of-by some of the ancients, and how the fiction of Plato concerning the Trinity was gradually introduced into Christianity, by those of the Platonists, who had become converts to our religion, or by others, who had been in
any way indoctrinated in the Platonic philosophy."
That the doctrine of a trinity was embraced in the philosophy taught by Plato and Philo cannot be doubted; and it is also evident, that the early Christian fathers, when they became 'converts to Christianity, adopted it, or amalgamated it into the Christian system.
Authorities for this are very numerous; but it is not necessary (and it would take too much space) to insert them in this work. If any one wishes to see a full view of this subject, he may have recource to the " Intellectual System" of the very learned, Orthodox Cudworth, where he can find, I think, more information concerning the origin of the Trinity, than in any other work. From this origin we will take a brief view of the progress of the doctrine.
It is not pretended, that the Pagan or Platonic trinity was altogether like the modern doctrine ; but only that it was the origin, the seed that produced it. Though the earliest fathers seemed to agree fully with the Platonists, yet others, with ecclesiastical councils, soon began to make alterations in the doctrine; (I will not say improvements, for I think every alteration they made was a change from
bad to worse.) The Platonic philosophy established a trinity of three gods; a first god, a second god, and a third god ; not, however, all equal; for they considered the second and third much inferior to the first, or as only attributes of the first, as his wisdom, or power, &c. And we find nothing about the numerical union of the three, or of three equal persons in Deity, or of trinity in unity.
But after a while they personified the Platonic Logos, or wisdom of God, and called it the Son ; but they still made him subordinate to the Father. And the Nicene council attempted to go still further, and declared the Son to be consubstantial, of the same substance, with the Father, not that he was the same substance, that is, the supreme God; but that he was of him, and therefore could not be the same; for a person, who is of, or from, another, cannot be that other. Cain was of, or from, Adam, but he was not Adam. Eve was of, or from, the substance of Adam ; but she was not Adam. And they were not numerically one person or being. There was nothing but a specific or generic sameness between them ; there subsisted a union only in love, agreement, design, and interest. But this council did nothing towards. deifying, or even personifying, the Holy Spirit. But afterwards, in A. D. 381, the Emperor Theodosius called another council to remedy this defect, and to anathematize Macedonius, " who had denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit." This council decreed, that the "Holy Ghost is the Lord and Giver of Life, proceeding from the Father, and with the Father and


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NGC 1566 är en Seyfertgalax som syns i stjärnbilden Svärdfisken. Den är den ljusstarkaste galaxen i stjärnbilden. Dess luminositet motsvarar 37 miljarder solar.

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Spiralgalaxer
Stjärnbilden Svärdfisken
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PGC-objekt
157-20
Astronomiska upptäckter 1826

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The DTP's research areas address the BBSRC's core strategic themes . . .
(1) Agriculture & Food Security
The world population is predicted to rise to 9bn people by 2050, and even now 1bn people are malnourished. Delivering food security means ensuring an adequate supply of nutritious, safe food for all in an environmentally sustainable manner. This will require the boosting of yields and nutritional content, and reducing wastage and spoilage while decreasing inputs of energy, water, fertilizers and agrochemicals against the background of climate change. Bioscience has a crucial role to play alongside other disciplines. Mechanistic biology can provide understanding of and the ability to optimize crucial plant processes to address the 'yield gap' which is the difference between the potential and actual productivity. It can develop new and more environmentally friendly methods of controlling pests and diseases and reducing post harvest losses through spoilage.
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(2) Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy
Energy and industrial materials from novel biological sources, reducing dependency on petrochemicals and helping the UK to become a low carbon economy
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When Is Proton Beam Therapy Worthwhile? : Shots - Health News Only a handful of proton beam centers have been built in the US, and the benefits of the costly treatment haven't been proved for many conditions.
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When Is Proton Beam Therapy Worthwhile?
August 27, 200910:31 AM ET
Richard Knox
In his full-bore battle against brain cancer, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy resorted to treatment many consider experimental -- proton beam radiation therapy.
Sen. Kennedy returns to Senate last year after treatment for brain cancer. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
Sen. Kennedy returns to Senate last year after treatment for brain cancer.
Medicare pays for it. But his death leaves open a slew of questions about the costly treatment, which delivers high doses of radiation to tumor cells while largely sparing healthy tissue from damage.
Did it do him any good? Should Medicare (or private insurers) pay for the unproven treatment? And most politically fraught, should Kennedy's legacy issue -- universal health care -- include a mechanism for sorting out what new treatments are worth paying for, and when?
Britain's National Health Service has such a mechanism. It's known as NICE -- the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
Dr. Fergus Macbeth is director of NICE's Center for Clinical Practice and a specialist in radiation therapy for cancer. He says if Kennedy had been a patient in Britain's National Health Service "he wouldn't get proton beam therapy. And there's absolutely no evidence that proton beam therapy provides any additional benefit. It's not a wise use of your resources."
The NHS will pay for proton beam therapy only in cases where there's evidence of benefit -- patients with cancers in the base of the brain, for instance, or the back of the eye. The National Health Service currently pays for these patients to go abroad -- sometimes to US centers that have proton accelerators, which cost about $150 million to construct. But soon the United Kingdom will build a couple of facilities of its own.
The US has only a handful. One of them, at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, doesn't use it to treat brain cancers like Kennedy's, advanced glioblastoma. Dr. James Cox, director of radiation oncology, says specialists there are "pursuing other strategies."
The main reason is that glioblastomas are highly resistant to radiation. " There's hardly any other cancer in the body that's so resistant," Cox says. Cox wasn't involved in Kennedy's care and says he can't comment on it specifically.
In the end, the proton beam therapy Kennedy got at Massachusetts General Hospital may not have bought him more life, if any. Cox says the reason some specialists use it for glioblastoma, at this point, is not to extend life. They hope to stave off some of the cancer's effects without the side effects of conventional radiotherapy, which damages normal brain tissue more than finely tuned proton beams do.
It's impossible to know if proton beam treatment gave Kennedy more months of quality life. But it didn't give him what he probably wanted most -- time to see Congress enact a universal health care plan.


On a late night in October, a bright moon peers down on Dragonfly Place, where Coyote and I live in the Siskiyou Mountains. Deer move out of the trees and browse across a mountain meadow turned white by moonlight. Two owls call to each other from the depths of the woods. In the deep silence of the night, I am startled awake by unsettling images that linger from a dream. I wake up with the thought that a story awaits me down the valley at Rock Point, and I need to go have a look.
I shake Coyote awake. "Want to go for a ride?"
"Nice try, Doty. That only works on the lesser breeds."
"Ah, come on. I thought coyotes were somewhat nocturnal. Doesn't any coyote worth his gophers yearn to be out in the thick of things? Aren't you curious?"
"Nope. You must be thinking of those poor workhorse pooches who have to sweat for a meal."
"But there's a story waiting for us, and you're in it and there is a creepy cemetery with fog. And ghosts! You don't want to miss yet another chance at mythic immortality, do you?"
"Now you're talking my lingo, Mister Storyteller. Make me a cozy bed in your rig, and I'll come along."
In an unexpected leap of energy, Coyote is out the door and down the steps before I can think of a satisfactory reply. I hear Coyote outside.
In the white light of the moon, Coyote and I drive down the mountain ridge. On modern roads, we follow the old stagecoach route through Jacksonville and around the fringe of the Rogue Valley. Moonlight is everywhere ... on the peak of Mount McLoughlin, slanting across the flat tops of the Table Rocks. As we cross the Rogue River, moonlight sparkles on riffles and rapids.
I park my rig in the parking lot near the old hotel which is now a tasting room for the vineyards. Behind the hotel and from the edge of nearby Rock Point Cemetery, rows of grapevines climb the hillside. A few cars speed down the road and disappear into darkness. The moon hangs over the night.
As I wait for some interesting story to arrive and reveal itself, Coyote gets bored and curls into doggy sleep. An hour creeps by. My eyelids grow heavy and I begin to drift into a dream of a story. An old picture of this place from the late 1800s forms in my mind, and Coyote and I wander into that picture.
I am a self-appointed old west wordsmith. Me and my legendary sidekick, Cowpoke Coyote, arrive by stagecoach at the Rock Point Hotel and Stage Station. It is Halloween night along the Rogue River. Among trees and tombstones, a green fog forms in the cemetery, creeps across the moon-white field toward the river and mixes with dust kicked up by the stage as it rattles to a stop. Coyote and I walk through fog toward the hotel and into a spooky night of stories.
The hotel is a classic stage station, a two-story white building with a balcony that juts out from its second floor ballroom. A white fence surrounds the yard, and firs and pines spread speckled shadows of their limbs across the roof and walls. Guest rooms are upstairs, and downstairs are parlors and a kitchen. On this night, the stage station shines ghostly white in the moonlight.
Cowpoke Coyote's ears poke through his cowboy hat. "Nothing I like better than poking cows," smirks Coyote. He says this to me as he pulls his hat off his ears, and we walk inside.
"Are you a cowboy or a coyote man?" I ask.
"Both," says Coyote. "And more! I'm Every Coyote. I'm older than any cowboy around here, and as wise as any old man soon to be a ghost. I'm as young in spirit as any boy, and I can herd entire landscapes of cows with a single howl." Coyote stops dead in his tracks. "Wait a minute, what's that?"
Coyote notices a young boy and his black, one-eyed cocker spaniel. The two pooches eye each other cautiously, but their stares soften as they sense a familiar camaraderie. The hounds curl into snoozing postures on opposite ends of the stone hearth, near the blaze of the fire. I watch the boy and remember my youth, and the hours I spent sitting in firelight listening to stories.
Gwisgwashan, a native elder, walks slowly down the stairs from her room. In shifting shadows and flickering firelight, she looks ancient, her face wrinkled and creased. She is the Keeper of Stories. Her people have lived here for a long time.
Gwisgwashan leans toward the boy. "Well, Tommy. Do you think that this is a good night for stories?" The boy nods with youthful enthusiasm. His dog Tippy dusts the hearth with her tail.
A short woman smelling of lilacs comes in from the kitchen, carrying steaming cider and mulled wine on a tray. "Something to warm your bellies on a chilly night?" She leaves the drinks and disappears into the back of the hotel.
I glance through the window into moonlight. I see a man walking across the field toward the hotel. He wears a hooded cloak and carries a lantern that sways from side to side with each step. As he walks through the fog, the hooded man vanishes and reappears, and the lantern glows green. The man approaches the hotel, opens the door and enters. He sets his lantern on the mantel, and keeps his cloak on as he settles into a chair near the fire. The hood flops over his forehead and hides his eyes.
Gwisgwashan turns his way. "Mr. Lampman. Welcome. Good to see you. I was about to tell Tommy an Old Time story." Lampman raises his arm in a gesture that encourages Gwisgwashan to tell her tale.
The old stories tell us that spirits wandered this place long before the cemetery or this hotel was here. This stretch of river has always been a gathering place for stories. Some stories dramatize our hopes, others give life to our fears. Some drift in and out as ghosts, some mingle with the fog and move along the river. Some of the stories are older than anyone can remember.
From out of the fog, Coyote heard voices. "Ghosts are taking away people." That's all he heard. "Ghosts are taking away people."
Coyote stopped. "What does it mean when people say that? I'd better go downriver and find out. When people die, they are not supposed to take others with them, yet now I hear people saying, 'Ghosts are taking away people.' I'd better find out why they are saying such things."
He walked on and on, downriver into thicker fog, into deep cold, into darker forests. He arrived at a meadow across the river from the Land of the Dead. He heard ghosts talking on the other side.
"Look! Coyote has come here. Someone take him a canoe so he can come across. Let's invite him to visit his death."
Now Coyote sat on the edge of the river and built a fire. As he was smoking his pipe, a young girl brought him a canoe. She waded toward the bank, through the fog and the cold water, holding onto the canoe.
"Come on up here on the land, child," said Coyote. "That water is cold. Come up here and share my fire."
"Oh, no, Coyote. I know your tricks. You come down here and I'll take you across. Aren't you curious?"
"Now why would I want to go over there? Come to the riverbank, child."
"No, Coyote. Quick, come to the canoe and I'll paddle you across."
Coyote got mad. "Come to the land!"
The young girl came up on the bank and stood next to Coyote.
"Quick, Coyote, let me take you across."
Coyote reached to the fire and grabbed a flaming stick off the top. It looked like he was about to light his pipe again, but in a sudden movement, he turned and lit the girl's skirt on fire.
That girl was a ghost and she started burning: doo ... doo ... doo ... doo ... doo.... She ran to the water, got in her canoe and paddled across the river. The canoe blazed as it crossed the river to the Land of the Dead.
Late in the night, the flames died down and the fire smoldered, its pale smoke mingling with the fog.
Coyote called out, "Now you are dead! You will no longer take people with you when you die. In later times, your place will be a place of sunshine. People will come here and live happy lives after they have died. But they will not bring living people with them!"
In the first light of morning, Coyote walked back upriver toward his home, looking for food: creep ... creep ... creep ... creep ... creep.... The sun sparkled on the river. Flowers started blooming. The river rushed along through the first warm air of spring.
The ghosts had been killed.
Before anyone says a word, Lampman pulls back his hood. His eyes flare wild in the flickering light. He speaks with a voice that is deliberate as if the words come not from himself but from deep inside his story.
"Perhaps Coyote burned those Old Time ghosts but he didn't burn them all. Others have arrived since then and more are yet to come. Some are with us now. I walk among trees, between graves, along the river, and I have seen things.
"My tale takes place a few years after the white man's war on the native people of this land. The Takelmas had been force-marched from here to the coast, and those who didn't die of sadness along the way, were locked up on the reservation. But a few stayed behind in their homeland, hiding out in the mountains and here along the river.
"There was a night when the cemetery stretched and reached deep into the woods, its craggy fingers grabbing at the green fog of the ancient forest. I had been told by an Indian friend of mine that this green fog was the spirit of the Tree People reaching out to claim the homeland that once was theirs ... now cleared fields, stage roads, towns.
"I walked through fog upriver to one of the old village sites. In the last glimmer of twilight, I heard drumming and singing. As I walked closer, I saw a campfire, and in that light five dancers circled a giant pine that had been girdled partway up, its bark removed. The pine tree rose from a jumble of cairns, all that remained of the village graveyard. The dancers sang the songs of their ancestors, dancing their ghosts to life, coaxing them out of their graves with familiar songs.
"I moved in closer, and listened and watched. The dance rebuilt the village. Plank houses and sweat lodges rose from the soil, several dance rings emerged, and many fires flared through the night.
"The faces of the dead wore masks. They moved among the living, transparent in the firelight. Some were animals, some human, and a few wore the expressions of the sun and moon. I saw the faces of the White Duck Women, Panther and Wildcat, Salmon Boy, Rock Old Woman. They were joined by others until generations of this village danced together. Some ghosts traveled far from their lives in the myths. Others arrived from a few years back.
"Years before, ghost dances had been held to raise the native dead into a force of warriors and drive away those who had taken everything from them that had been sacred in their lives. But this dance was different. The people sang and danced to share this night in their ancient village. It was a dance of sadness and celebration. It was too late for anything else.
"The dance went on until the first sunlight sent the spirits back to their graves and to their lives beyond the dead. The village collapsed into a jumble of cairns.
"Perhaps this dance had some of the power of previous dances. It worked on me. I walked away from the village and never went back.
"Some ghosts still wander this land. Coyote didn't burn them all."
"Hey! I've got a ghost story," says Tommy. "May I tell it? Please? It's my turn, isn't it?"
Tippy and Coyote perk up when they hear the boy's voice, wagging their tails with encouragement. Lampman draws down his hood and sips his wine. I lean forward in my chair, watching Tommy closely. This boy seems familiar.
"Of course," says Gwisgwashan. "The more stories the better."
Tommy stands up and walks toward the fire. He leans against the mantel and tells his story in a whisper.
"Friends of ours built a ranch house along the river not far from here. When they got settled in, they had a house warming party. And a strange thing happened. I was at that party so I know that this is a true story.
"Around midnight we gathered in the living room around the fire. We were admiring the large mantelpiece and we listened to the story of how the wood had once been the central beam in the rafters of an old barn.
"As the clock chimed twelve, we heard a loud creak, creak, creak coming from the mantelpiece. There were also sounds of choking and horses whinnying and stomping and hoof beats like someone quickly riding away.
"The owners of the house asked around and found that on that night, years before, a gang of outlaws hanged a man at midnight from that same beam in the barn, and then they quickly fled their crime on horseback.
"Every year at midnight, on the anniversary of the hanging, the choking man is heard swinging from the rafters until he is dead. Creak, creak, creak...."
The fire crackles and collapses into coals. Lampman's lantern sputters and goes out. Hoof beats shatter the silence.
The short woman smelling of lilacs rushes into the room. "What's this? There's no stage expected tonight. Not this late. And why are they going so fast?"
She peers through the window. "No one is there. This is spooky."
Coyote and Tippy are up, ears erect, noses sniffing. Cowpoke Coyote has his hat on, ready to poke or punch whatever bovine specter might stampede through the door.
"Shhh," whispers Gwisgwashan. "Listen for the story."
There is the faint sound of a crying baby, and voices mixing with the sounds of many others wailing. Scattered words leak through the din. They are speaking Takelma. The native people are being forced from their homes. Those who escape their tears long enough to speak mutter to each other, asking questions and getting no answers as if no one knows their destination. One voice rises above the others, "Where are we going? Reservation? Land of the Dead?" Another voice shouts back, "Perhaps they are the same place!" They march downriver and into silence.
A train hoots and rumbles past the stage station, heading upriver. A man shouts after it, "You can take your idea of progress somewhere else. We don't want no trains stopping around here!" Doors slam one after another. Men shout as they load furniture and boxes of possessions into wagons that rumble out of Rock Point, heading upriver toward the town of Gold Hill where the train has screeched to a stop.
There is silence and a feeling of emptiness as if this room of the hotel has become a ghost town.
Outside, the green fog spreads thin. Some fog joins the river and flows beyond sight, some creeps back into the cemetery, swirling around trees and tombstones, drawn back to its origins by those who still linger here from the old days.
Lampman lights his lantern, opens the door into moonlight and trudges across the field, disappearing into the fog. Gwisgwashan walks upstairs to her room, and soon after, Tommy and Tippy wander home. The short woman smelling of lilacs is nowhere to be seen. The fire sputters and dies.
As I open my eyes in my rig, the sun sends its first light across the river. I glance to the hotel and see a faint flicker of firelight through the window, and what looks like the shape of the short woman roaming from room to room. The morning smells like lilacs. I drift back to sleep.
A few hours later, a whisper from the back seat startles me fully awake.
"Chirp ... chirp ... chirp...."
"Stop it! You scared the living daylights out of me!"
"Not all the ghouls are dead, Mister Storyteller. Did you notice how that boy Tommy looks a lot like you? You might have been his ghost!"
"Wait a minute, how do you know about him? I thought that was my dream."
"You silly human with such small visions of what is possible. You don't know the old saying?"
"Stories are dreams gone public. And I've seen them all."
"Right," I say. "Let's head home to Dragonfly Place. I need to write out this story."
"You mean write off those silly fears you humans have?"
"We worders don't write things off. We write them down."
"Right," says Coyote. "Let's go home. You can write and scare yourself with your ghost stories. Just don't forget I'm the main pooch in this tale. You can leave out that black one-eyed doggy. Remember, you promised me mythic immortality."
"Right. I'll scribble and you eat breakfast."
As we leave, the lights come on in the old hotel. An "Open" sign is hung on the fence and cars pull into the parking lot. People walk across the porch and into the tasting room where they sample wine.
I imagine this scene. The room fills with folks who have been traveling and wine flows like the river. Near the fireplace, people share their stories like they have always done, here at this place where stories gather. Stories swirl through the day and into the evening. They revisit the stage station like ghosts. A few of the tales are older than anyone can remember.
As we cross the river, the sun sparkles on the surface. Oaks along the riverbanks are bright with their October colors of yellow and gold. The river rushes along through the first warm air of mid-morning.


October half term we took a very spontaneous and last minute trip to the Yorkshire Dales and we had a super time, the only family photo we got altogether though was the one above. This was taken at the foot of Malham Cove. I loved it here, it was such a great location and a nice walk too.
The children walked a lot on that day, I think it tallied around 4 miles and that also included around 380 odd steps up to the top of Malham Cove. They both walked it all, and climbed the stairs – we were both so impressed with them. They must have been so tired.
I love these photos of us at the bottom of the cove, it reminds me of a happy day and one where we talked about silly things and played eye spy for hours it seemed. It was the perfect start to our lovely holiday away.
Beautiful photos. I am very inspired by your fun family adventure. We play "I spy" lots in the car. Thank you for your sharing. New fan of your blog.


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