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11 Things I Never Want Snopesed.
The other day, I realized that I have a broad assortment of facts and factoids that I turn to on a surprisingly regular basis but for which I have no evidence whatsoever. None.
For some inexplicable reason I heard or read or dreamt up a few things that suited my world view so perfectly I grabbed them and never let them go.
I bet you have some of these gems floating around in your default information bank, too.
So here, unplugged and unfact-checked, I present, 11 things I never want Snopesed.
WORLD'S MOST PERFECT FOOD
1) A slice of pepperoni pizza contains all the major food groups;
2) Shakespeare never intended his plays to be written down and published in books, much less studied ;
3) On a commercially operated ski hill, if you let a bowling ball go at the top, it will follow a path to the bottom where the skiers line up for the lift;
"SHAKESPEARE PENS INVOICE"
by Rodney Frost
4) 20 percent of all magazine reading gets done in the john.
5) An airplane "wants" to fly; i.e., if the engine fails in mid-air, it'll glide smoothly to the ground;
6) Astronauts age more slowly while they're in space;
7) Artists like studios with north-facing windows because north light is consistent;
8) Woody Guthrie was paid by the U.S. government to write "Roll On Columbia" to help sell the idea of building a dam;
9) In Dante's Inferno, there's a level of hell where people eat human flesh and when the poem is read aloud in the original Italian, the reader's mouth moves in a chewing motion;
10) Pigs are the smartest animals in the barnyard;
11) People are more liable to read an odd-numbered list than an even-numbered one.
4 Job-Losing Tips for Fired Journalists
Since university, I've had 10 staff jobs.
THE HELLYER SAY: After the book came out, he fired us.
Five of them, I quit.
Four I got fired from.
One, I haven't quite figured out what happened.
The weirdest firing, I have to admit, was from my first-ever magazine gig. I had been an editor at a Toronto-based company called Chimo Media just over three years when one afternoon, the owner, Paul Hellyer--yup, Canada's former minister of defence--showed up to tell us that business was bad and several of us were goners.
What made the day particularly memorable was that before lunchtime, I had taken a call from my landlord, a friendly Russian-Canadian senior citizen. He was so apologetic he was almost crying when he told me his aging wife could no longer manage the stairs at home, so they needed our apartment.
My new wife Helena and I were evicted. And 50 percent of us was now unemployed.
We'd seen better days. (I should mention that one week before that double-barrelled job-loss/eviction day, she and I had booked and paid for a two-week trip to Greece.)
In all of the magazines that Chimo Media produced, we advertised an economics book that our civic-minded owner Hellyer had authored. The title? "Jobs For All." (Look it up!) Written by the chap who fired us.
Still, I owe him.
If it weren't for the former honourable Paul Hellyer and several others in the industry I could not present these "4 Job-Losing Tips For Journalists Who Find Themselves Fired."
Tip 1) Have Plans B, C, D, E, F'n G.
Once, after I told my friend, colleague and neighbour Doug Bennett that I'd been let go (from something, I forget what), he said, "That's why Robert Fulford says every journalist should have at least seven bosses."
He's right. If one outfit kicks you off the team, you need something else journalistic to do. It might be editing copy as assistant editor of the West Toronto-High-Park Shania Twain Fan Club newsletter, but for Pete's sakes have another gig lined up. It'll keep you grounded.
But more important is the answer to this question: When I quote Doug quoting Fulford,whose brilliance are we tapping into? My friend Doug's or that of the guy he cited? These are the important issues writers grapple with. Never mind whose employee you are.
I'm deciding here and now. It's Bennett. He chose the smart quote.
That's the kind of thing makes a terrific journalist. Doesn't matter who he or she works for.
Tip 2) If you've decided to quit, quit. Never mind how much you've had to drink.
One job, I had to quit three times before it took.
My very first newspaper position was at The Standard, a community paper serving several communities in Northern Ontario. Based in Elliot Lake. The publisher, Jon Butler, hired me between my third and fourth years at university.
After that summer, I quit to return to school but 18 months later, I got a call.
Jon: "Want your old job back?"
Peter: "You betcha!"
A few months passed with me back at the old job and then one evening, I—a single, skinny, long-haired, small-town newspaper reporter who'd barely done any travelling at all save to a few family funerals in various Canadian locales—got quite drunk with a guy named Mark, and decided we had to explore India, even if it meant quitting our jobs.
I phoned Butler to tell him my plans. Turns out he was very curious about everything Indian and made me a counter-offer. If I filed a few stories from my travels, there'd be a job waiting for me when I got back.
I returned and got the old job back where I stayed until I quit again.
Mark never made it to India. Never quit his job neither.
Then again, he's not a writer. The India trip was one of the best things I ever did. And Butler one of the best bosses ever.
Tip 3) Look in the career-view mirror
Here's a secret I can no longer keep.
Growing up in our very book-friendly house in Sudbury, I learned from novels that women found male writers irresistible. Couldn't keep their hands off them. I didn't quite understand why, but I'd be lying if I said this didn't inform my career choice.
Except … I never actually chose a "career."
I just wanted to write.
I know with certainty that I was in my mid 30s first time any of my journalism friends used the word "career" in reference to himself. Even then, I think he was trying to impress somebody.
Career simply wasn't a thing. Writing was.
Furthermore, I was well into my 40s by the time I realized that all those novels in which the male writer/hero was so attractive to women were written by—you guessed it—middle-aged men.
All I know for sure is, I didn't get into this business to work for anybody; I got into it because I wanted to—among other things—write.
Tip 4) Document, Document, Document.
If you do get fired, be sure to make careful notes of what people involved say and do. If you've ever been to court, you'll know that meticulous note-taking is welcomed.
I'm not suggesting you head for court. In fact, a date in front of a judge is the last thing I'd recommend.
I once got fired in a schmozzle so illegal a lawyer guaranteed me if I sued, I'd win. But, he said, the case would take years. The company would dig its heels in, it had way more money than me, and even if I did emerge victorious, he said, lawyers would get a bunch of my dough.
The worst part? As long as the case was before the courts, I couldn't talk about it.
Imagine, me not being able to talk about something.
On this matter, my spokesass is Donkey, from Shrek, who said, "What's the point of being able to talk when you gotta keep secrets?"
Yes, take notes. But not because of lawsuits.
Take notes because that's what writers do.
You never know when you're going to need them for a novel, a play, or a movie script. Or a blog.
The Tour of A Life Time. Or Maybe a Life Sentence.
This is too weird and rare not to share. In mid-June, my 25-year-old daughter Ria and I toured the now-closed Kingston Penitentiary. Yeah, that Kingston Pen.
It's 178 years old and for many years was home to quite a few household-name inmates. Corrections Canada closed the joint in 2013. (And no, they didn't lay all the prisoners off and send them home; they were dispatched to various maximum security facilities around the country.)
After the closure, the authorities invited local people in for tours. Something like 18,000 people took them up on the offer.
Prisoners in the shops manufactured locks for Canada Post bags.
So this year, the St. Lawrence Parks Commission very smartly re-introduced the idea and tickets are going fast. I recommend buying one. Check www.kingstonpentour.com.
Kingston Pen is unlike any historical site you've ever seen.
It's chilling, sobering and sad.
But at the same time the tour paints for you a portrait of a sort of bizarre community of souls—staff and inmates—with eerily interwoven interests.
One reason that the tour is so powerful is that former staffers are on hand to describe what life was like on a day-to-day basis. They look you in the eye and tell you about how proud they were of the work they were doing with the incarcerated men and you understand that basically, everybody was doing the best they could under lousy circumstances.
And while they won't name names, the guides answer questions with surprising candor.
The first place you go after entering is the children's room, where inmates could interact with their visiting kids. Posted around the room at various sites are little 8x10 signs, advising the inmates of things like 'interfering with children other than your own is a serious offence'.
There, we were greeted by a soft-spoken woman who had started her career as a nurse but rose to be the "keeper" of the penitentiary, a job she had until 2013. "That meant," she said, "When the warden went home at night and on weekends, the jail was mine."
We went past the row of cabin-like houses designed for conjugal and family overnight stays. The guide (another former guard) says the houses were always booked and when in use, the inmates could order in pizza, if they wanted to.
Me and Luke the tour guide. His dad had been the warden.
Then it was on to the main range, which looks like an old-fashioned jail from a movie set; just as you imagine one to be.
At one point, while our tour group of 20 was examining an actual cell—still containing the unmade cot (as if the inmate had just stepped out for a minute), the little TV, and some homemade decorations—the guide/guard demonstrated how staff made announcements. He yelled "Jug UP!" with such vigor and volume it was arresting. "Mostly," he told me afterwards, "we didn't yell like that."
Hands down the hardest site in the place is the row of tiny, barely-bigger-than-a-minivan segregation cells, where certain prisoners (some of their names you know) spent 23 out of 24 hours of the day, isolated for their own safety. The only thing a prisoner can do in there, the guard says, is read.
At the end of the row, a door leads out to an equally tiny dismal fenced-off patch of grass, which is where the isolated prisoner could, if he wanted to, spend the 24th hour.
The guard said all maximum-security federal pens across Canada have these isolation cells and, she added, they're all full, all the time.
Much of the tour is given over to the shops, where prisoners held down real (albeit miserly paying) jobs, such as assembling locks for Canada Post mail bags. (The irony was not lost on the guide.)
Another small square brick structure, just south of the main gate, is the I-T building.
And it was in there that one of the most surprising chapters of Canadian Penal History unfolded; something I hope somebody someday makes a movie about. Knowing about what happened in the I-T shed changed everything about my visit.
Fisheye view of the north and south gates.
As you exit through the gift shop, you can purchase, for the sale price of $5, a CD called "Kingston Penitentiary Is On The Air. Inmate Radio Shows Live From 1952."
According to our guide Luke, the CD had been recorded in the I-T building.
The CD cover reads: "In the spring of 2000, two dusty CKWS radio transcription discs, part of the collection of the Penitentiary Museum, were sent to the audio restoration specialist Graham Newton, of Toronto. Although we knew that these recordings had something to do with a radio show, their content was a complete mystery."
"What came back was a CD containing an hour's worth of performances by inmate entertainers from Kingston Penitentiary as originally broadcast over the public airwaves in the summer of 1952. The quality and professionalism of the performances was simply astounding."
The KP inmates did songs, skits and even parodies of commercials; e.g., "If you use Keen&Peachy Hacksaw blades, you'll find no holds barred and no bars will hold."
The show was broadcast on numerous small town radio stations across Canada including I think my hometown of Sudbury. The performances are nothing less than Massey-Hall worthy. If you've ever seen "A Prairie Home Companion," the movie about an old-time radio show, written by Garrison Keillor, you'll know what 'KP is On The Air' sounds like."
Across the street from the Pen sits the Kingston Penitentiary Museum.
The curator of the museum—he's been there for 30 years or so—is Dave St. Onge. He is largely responsible for assembling the CD. (It's also for sale in the museum store.)
I phoned to ask permission to post an excerpt on this blog. He happily agreed and then I asked if he knew any particulars about the performers. Might any still be alive? I estimate that if they were serving time in the mid '50s, any survivor would now be in his early 80s.
He said they only went by first names but he was pretty sure that Edwin Boyd of the infamous Boyd Gang was one of the performers. "But as you know, he passed away a few years ago."
"That was one of the problems with the show," he said. "The performers kept changing."
Listen to these voices. And the musicianship. Think of the practice and discipline it took to get here.
Think of the natural talent that was—and probably still is—locked up. Try to tell me you're not amazed.
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Oscar's 2017: Chelsea's Chaotic Dreams [Contributor: Chelsea]
2:11 PM contributor: chelsea, misc: just for fun, oscars, oscars 2017 2 comments
Movie Super Bowl is upon us this weekend, and unlike the past few years, the 80th Academy Awards is looking to be the most predictable awards show of the year. With La La Land sweeping everything but the SAG Awards (for which it was not nominated for Best Ensemble), it's looking to sweep again tonight. The only thing that could get in its way is the new crop of Academy voters and the inevitable backlash at its frontrunner status.
Instead of being boring and just trying to predict who will win what, I'm going to go through my dream chaotic Oscars scenario, and luckily, I've seen almost every nominated film this year, including the short films and documentaries.
This is one of the many awards La La Land has in the bag, and the only thing working against the film is the lack of SAG ensemble nomination. The only other film to win Best Picture without that SAG Ensemble nod was Braveheart, and that was the first year of the ceremony. In my perfect world, Moonlight would be taking this home because, favoritism aside, it is the best made film and the most important film of 2016. I would be DELIGHTED to see something like Lion or Arrival hop in there and throw everything into shambles, but if there was going to be a populist upset, then Hidden Figures would be your film. What I would give for one of those four films to snag Best Picture.
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
Barry Jenkins is really the only director that deserves to be nominated here. I just do not like Damien Chazelle's work and white perspective on jazz music, but he's gonna take this because how does the film with 14 nominations not win Best Director? Denis Villeneuve was a nice addition here, but I wish we had a Pablo Larrain, Mike Mills, and Ava DuVernay in here instead of Gibson, Lonergan, and Chazelle.
Sunny Pawar was the Best Actor of 2016 and I will fight people on this. This batch is just a really bad category where they could have done so much better. The Oscars have a history of rewarding white men with sexual abuse allegations, so Casey Affleck will be in great company when he probably wins. Denzel is our only real hope for an upset, but what I wouldn't give for Andrew Garfield to win (even though Hacksaw Ridge is really awful). Gosling is just riding that La La Land wave.
Ahh, the category where everyone is pretty great and we could've had six more nominees. Emma Stone is the clear frontrunner, but if we had to give her an Oscar for anything in her filmography, it should have been Easy A. She was robbed. Let's toss this one to Ruth Negga or Isabelle Huppert instead, while mourning the fact that the Academy does not deserve Annette Bening and all the wonderful work she's given them.
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
The only chaos I would accept here would be Dev Patel getting this over Mahershala Ali and only barely because Ali is so dang good in Moonlight. His performance in the first act reigns over the entire film and is a masterclass in nonverbal acting. Hot dad Dev Patel can only win if he brings Sunny Pawar on stage with him in a matching tux.
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
It's just a shame that Greta Gerwig and Lupita Nyong'o couldn't have snuck in here for 20th Century Women and Queen of Katwe, respectively. I would swap those two in for Nicole Kidman and Michelle Williams in an instant. This one time I will go with the general consensus though and award Viola Davis, because it's ridiculous that we haven't yet. She is one of our few GREAT actors working in the industry today and I only wish she was getting a lead actress statue.
Y'all, 20th Century Women is just so good and the best thing I watched last year. Writing does not get better than what Mike Mills delivered. I also really don't like any of the other four nominees and this would have been a great place to reward Jackie or The Edge of Seventeen. I know La La Land and Manchester are battling hard for this one, but why don't we just give it to the super fun and pro-women film instead to make up for its snubs across the board?
Unlike the Original side, this category is just stacked with great scripts. Moonlight and Arrival both won WGA awards, but these two scripts are going against each other for the first time since the Academy decided Moonlight was an adapted script. As much as I wish Arrival would win anything, I gotta pull for Moonlight here. I don't want any chaotic nonsense to get in the way of this beautiful film.
I would sell both kidneys if Lion or Moonlight got this one. The first hour of Lion is the most beautiful thing I've watched in years, and Moonlight is everything that is right in film. Arrival and Silence are beautiful as well and just as worthy of being nominated. One of the top three biggest reasons I hated La La Land was the cinematography and realizing that it was done by the man behind the horrid cinematography of American Hustle and Joy. Do we really want to give that guy a statue before somebody like the great Roger Deakins, who is the Susan Lucci of this category?
This would be the perfect place to reward Arrival because that film is seamless and the editing is what makes all the mystery work. Moonlight is just as worthy, of course. Pass on the others.
The Jungle Book was all visual effects, but how cool would it be for a stop-motion animated film like Kubo to win? It would just be wild and perfect.
The fact that this is the only nomination for Hail, Caesar! is why we don't deserve nice things. Channing Tatum should be sweeping the awards season for his song and dance number.
Fantastic Beasts winning anything would be the first Oscar win for the Harry Potter franchise, and again, this is why we don't deserve nice things. Jackie would be the best winner though and it's just laughable that La La Land is here and Hidden Figures is not.
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
A Man Called Ove
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
You know what, why not? Give it to Suicide Squad.
LION OR JACKIE, DON'T FIGHT ME ON THIS! LA LA LAND ISN'T ACTUALLY GOOD MUSIC! DON'T LET THEM FOOL YOU WITH THEIR SLICK HOLLYWOOD MEDIOCRITY AND FLUFF! DO YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN FEMALE COMPOSERS ARE NOMINATED? 'CAUSE I DO, AND IT'S A SAD FACT. JACKIE NEEDS THIS ONE.
"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)," La La Land
"Can't Stop the Feeling," Trolls
"City of Stars," La La Land
"The Empty Chair," Jim: The James Foley Story
"How Far I'll Go," Moana
What does Lin have to do to get an EGOT over the meh musical songs? Moana was so good and possibly the best Disney Princess film.
Hear me out: Deepwater Horizon would be such a deserving winner here. Or Arrival because we don't know what aliens in coffee beans really sound like.
Sticking with Arrival on this one again. If The Force Awakens can't win an Oscar, then Rogue One surely does not deserve any.
Low-key cheering for Moana because I'm a sucker for a good musical, but Zootopia is the most political film of the past decade. Who doesn't want the film that's about taking down a leader inciting fear upon the citizenry and dealing with sexism in the workplace to win? Why isn't Zootopia up for Best Picture again?
Life, Animated
All of these are great, even though I'm only two hours into OJ: Made in America. But can we give this one to 13th for Ava DuVernay, or Fire at Sea? Let the O.J. miniseries be this year's award winner.
Tanna
Cheering for The Salesman purely in support of filmmaker Asghar Farhadi being unable to attend the show due to the Muslim travel ban.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Joe's Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets
I really loved all of these even though they're all super hard to get through. Three of them tackle the Syria and refugee crisis in some way, while the fourth deals with a Holocaust survivor donating his 70 year old violin to a young girl. The fifth looks at families, doctors, and patients exploring end-of-life decisions. Oddly enough, the Holocaust one is the most uplifting, but I'm pulling for the Syrian docs.
Ennemis Entreniers
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
All of these are really bad. Sing is the only somewhat enjoyable one that isn't a GREAT film, but it's the best thing here.
Blind Vaysha
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Piper is adorable and just a joy to watch. I'm cool with Pixar getting its first win here.
Laís Frederico March 3, 2017 at 12:45 PM
The best picture of 2016 was Manchester by the sea, La Land and Moonlight somehow gave too much to the viewer, consistently saying what the characters were feeling, Manchester by the sea, managed to use the flashbacks brilliantly, and revealed what they need about the characters at the right time and in the right measure.
I do think Moonlight is a masterpiece, but in technical matters it wasn't the best film nominated, but the almost cruel intimacy that the story is told is magnificent, the Academy seems to be awarded more on the content and the impact of the story than mere technical issues, seeing that last year happened the same thing with Spotlight who
won over Mad Max or The Revenant, this somehow doesn't takes away the prestige of the movie, Moonlight is a great movie, and I'm glad that won.
Barry Jenkins was the best director and deserved to win, He was the only one who was more bold with the long takes, and he used the mise en scene to perfection.
Unfortunately Casey Affleck was the best in the category for best leading actor, his performance was expecional, but we were sad because of all these allegations... Hollywood being hollywood
I'm so happy that Viola Davis won, because she really deserved, but Michelle Williams need to win her OScars one day.
I love Emma Stone but this award should be for Isabelle Huppert, she was by far the best, play such complex and intriguing character.
**I mean Damien Chazelle was the best director
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Women's Issues Therapists in Brownsburg, IN
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Heather Simmer
Counselor, LMHC Verified
My top priority is to provide a safe and nurturing counseling environment where my clients feel supported as they learn and grow. I blend several different counseling techniques together in a manner that fits each client's specific needs. Through careful listening and understanding, I guide my clients in examining their current and past attitudes, feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and choices and collaborate with each client to determine how these are affecting their day-to-day lives. Together, we create a plan to work through these issues, and I challenge and support my clients as they make positive choices and changes.
Alyssa M Johnson
Are you a woman feeling stressed out, exhausted, and over committed? Are you worn out from trying to be perfect? Feel like you're at a breaking point and things have to change, but aren't sure where to even start? That's where I come in.
Sarah Barksdale
Counselor, LMHCA, MAAC Verified
Investing time to know my clients is essential to me as we are all impacted by family, social, cultural, and economical factors. I feel it is important that clients are given a safe space to share their stories. I have worked with children, teens, married couples, parents, and adults with various life situations, including people experiencing homelessness and addiction. I also have a history of working with individuals involved in ministry settings. I am a practical strategist for supporting people through life's difficulties. As a heartfelt listener I love to help people find hope when they otherwise feel stuck.
Meaningful Day Services
Meaningful Day Services is committed to providing evidence-based, person centered supports that work to meet the goals of each unique individual. Our counselors use a variety of treatment modalities to best meet the needs of each individual and family we serve. We have many counselors who are experienced in working with individuals across the lifespan. We believe in collaborating with our clients to achieve optimal outcomes. Our counselors are able to provide supports through telehealth or in person at our Brownsburg or Jeffersonville offices.
Michelle Whitaker
There are many reasons why someone might want to come to therapy. Are you feeling sad, worried, irritable or angry most of the time? Maybe it just feels hard to regulate your mood. You may have experienced trauma. You could be going through a difficult time in your life due to stress, grief or life changes. Your relationships with your friends or responsibilities at school might feel overwhelming or hard to manage. If you're a parent, you might notice these changes in your child or teen. Any of these situations can leave you feeling lonely, stuck or hopeless. I am here to help provide compassion, hope and trauma-informed care.
Kimberly Metro
Counselor, NCC, MA, LMHC Verified
Have you been feeling overwhelmed, stressed,depressed, or hopeless? Do you need to make some changes in your life, but uncertain where to start? Are there painful issues from your past which are still affecting you? Are you dealing with grief issues, but feel that no one understands? I will provide compassionate support, identify core issues and develop a plan to get you on the road to a happier, more satisfying life. Whether you are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma or other issues, there is hope for a brighter future for you!
Tamara Munoz
Are you feeling stuck? Does your anxiety and sadness continue to worsen? Do you feel overwhelmed most days? Tamara is very passionate about helping others achieve their goals. Her holistic approach aides clients in recognizing their strengths. She uses humor and compassion to reflect obstacles that sometimes a client's environment or even themselves unconsciously create. Tamara can help you get unstuck. For some, they may even feel like they know intellectually what to do but have trouble taking action. You may even feel like you are shutting down. This is where Tamara comes in; to help you Build the Bridge to your success.
Emily Koehler
Counselor, LMHC, NCC, RYT Verified
Ever feel like the "real you" is buried under substance use, relationship drama, distractions, or obligations? You are not alone. I support clients as they uncover their true nature and inner wisdom.
Tandy Moffitt
Taking care of you is important. It takes courage to carve out time to work toward self empowerment and growth. I value relationship building and reflection through the use of an eclectic approach pulling from cognitive behavior, solution focused, and other personalized therapy approaches. Together we can explore your concerns and develop plans to strive for your goals.
Mary Jane Wymore
Counselor, MS, LMHC Verified
Problems at school, feelings of sadness and confusion, emotional and behavioral outbursts, and withdrawing from people and activities are common concerns seen in children. Adolescents often experience problems at school, at home, and in social settings, causing feelings of isolation and poor decision making such as drinking, smoking, and skipping school. I work with children and adolescents to understand the root causes of their feelings and actions and to identify and implement appropriate coping skills.
Brittany Snyder
Sole provider at Aura Counseling & Wellness, LLC. An inclusive provider, Brittany specializes in holistic mental health and counseling made accessible to all in Indiana by offering both in-person and online options. She takes into account ALL aspects of a person's lived experience as she assists clients in achieving their full potential. Through deeper insight and awareness building, shadow work, healing unresolved trauma, mindfulness and self-compassion, inner-child work, and developing a deeper understanding and knowing of one's self and others, Brittany can help you live a more full, happier, and peaceful life!
Jane Roell
There have been times in my life where I've looked around and realized that I am not where I want to be and understand how lonely and frustrating that can be. There are many things that get in the way of us reaching our full potential. It may be that we are stressed and unsure how to deal with life experiences or just an overwhelming sense of fear or sadness. Whatever the reason, my hope is to help support and encourage you to understand yourself better and how to best respond and cope with life's emotions and situations.
April Bordeau
A common phrase I hear is "I just feel stuck." The people who say that know there is something better out there, but they don't know how to move in that direction. My role is to help you better understand yourself, heal from whatever life has thrown at you, and make the most of who you want to be. Many people reach out because their lives seem to lack meaning, they don't feel worthwhile, they find some challenges overwhelming, or they just don't seem to feel joy from their relationships or activities. That's where we begin the work. We start where you are.
Kristina Haus
My hope is that through my direct style of therapy, I can help you find your way to a more fulfilling and authentic life. I believe that my clients are most successful when we can establish an open and honest therapeutic relationship. I want to work alongside you and possibly your spouse, children or family to pursue a healthier approach to life.
Teresa M Walters
Marriage & Family Therapist, EdD, MAMFT, LMFT, LAC, DTM Verified
As a licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed addiction counselor, my multidimensional, private practice is designed to provide you with a safe, effective, and tailor-made approach to your unique therapeutic needs. Utilizing a combination of holistic psychotherapy, family-systems coaching & marriage, and family education, I help individuals, couples, and families build strong relational bonds, heal deep emotional woundedness, and strengthen the family unit in a private, discreet, and cozy, home-like setting. If you are ready to start your transformational journey to health, happiness, and wholeness, give me a call.
The Butterfly House
What if counseling didn't have to be a scary or arduous process? What if therapy could be a refreshing, encouraging, and hopeful experience that left you feeling empowered in your personal, professional, and spiritual life? Welcome to a different kind of therapy practice where what matters most is what matters to you. Where your comfort and well-being are always primary and the goal is to provide you with a safe, supportive, effective, and comfortable way to build healthy relational connections and resolve troublesome conflicts and concerns. Call today to get started on your path to relational health and healing.
Marcia Compton
Counselor, DMin, LMHC, LAC Verified
Today you are one step closer to a new you where you feel empowered and on a positive path to growth and well-being. As a solution-focused therapist, my goal is to help you uncover your true potential and lead a life that is worth celebrating. While we can't change difficult situations of the past, we can work together to better understand and resolve challenges in your life. By applying complementary therapy approaches, we will unearth long-standing behavior patterns or negative perceptions that may be holding you back from experiencing a more fulfilling and meaningful life.
Dodi Moncrief
Trauma leaves us feeling broken, damaged, and disconnected from our true selves. You may be fed up with feeling triggered in everyday situations, isolated from friends who can't understand, or guilt over what happened to you. You may not even remember a time you didn't feel like this. Either way, one thing is for sure: you're ready for some relief. You're ready to enjoy deep relationships without your past getting in the way. You're ready to wake up each morning with a purpose. Most of all, you're ready to love yourself again & face your future with a sense of hope.
Laura Jay-Ballinger
Are you weighed down by "doing it all" and always left feeling like it's not quite enough? Do you often feel overwhelmed and exhausted? Whether it's parenting struggles, food and body concerns, relationship difficulties, past wounds, or all of the above, the demands of our lives can leave us frazzled and empty. Without focusing on our needs and caring for ourselves, we can become burned out, anxious, and lost. We repeat patterns of behavior in our relationships that don't serve us anymore and keep us stuck.
Amy Chenault
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MDiv, LMFT Verified
People come to me when they have reached a breaking point. Some feel trapped in a high stress job, caregiver role, or difficult relationship. Some feel unsupported and alone in their personal or professional lives. Others feel overwhelmed, checked-out, cynical, and stuck. Right now, COVID-19 is complicating problems that may have already been present. The stress of this virus may be bringing up concerns that you thought you had already overcome. Or, you may be experiencing completely new challenges.
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Women's Issues Therapists
Brownsburg women's therapists who have a special focus on women and women's issues, including women's emotional health, women's mental health and life transitions for women. Women's counseling in Brownsburg may include caring for women and for women's self esteem, help for abused women, battered women and career women. Counseling for women and psychotherapy for women in Brownsburg help with mental health issues and life transitions.


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AirAsia Starts Petition Against High Malaysia Airport Passenger Charges
byJoanna Bailey
AirAsia has launched a petition against what they are calling 'unfair' passenger service charges at Malaysia's airports. The budget carrier says charges have been increased more than 200% in three years, and argue that passengers using low-cost hubs should pay less than those using full-service airports.
AirAsia is disputing increased passenger charges at KLIA2. Photo: Wikimedia
Problems at KLIA2
In July 2018, Malaysia Airports (MAHB) raised the tax on passengers departing via Kuala Lumpur's newer airport, KLIA2. Previous to this, departing passengers had been charged a lower rate at this than at the other KL airport, KLIA. This price increase served to equalize the charges at both airports.
AirAsia was not happy with this, claiming that the hike was unfair and didn't represent the level of service available to passengers at KLIA2. It claimed that KLIA2 was always designed to be a low-cost hub, with fewer amenities and a less luxurious experience than the original KLIA airport.
AirAsia claim that KLIA2 is not equal to KLIA in PaxEx, therefore charges should not be equal either. Photo: Fabio Achilli via Flickr
In protest of the hike, the airline proceeded to not collect the additional charge from their passengers. Business Insider reports the CEO of AirAsia Malaysia, Riad Asmat, as saying,
"KLIA2 is a low-cost terminal with far lower levels of service provided to passengers, compared to KLIA, which is a full-service terminal".
He went on to say that the carrier had previously lodged a number of complaints in relation to KLIA2. These were apparently related to,
"…substandard infrastructure and access at KLIA2 which has negatively impacted our operational performance and punctuality… From our calculations, these cross-claims far exceed the amount of airport tax that we have refused to collect for MASSB from our passengers".
The carrier continued to operate flights after the charge increased, collecting only the previous amount of RM50 from each traveler.
Forced to pay
While the active protestation of the charges hike was somewhat admirable, it was not to last. In December 2018, Malaysia Airports issued a summons to AirAsia to pay back the charges they owed. A year after the charges came into effect, the Straits Times reports that AirAsia group was ordered to pay RM41.52m ($9.88m) in unpaid airport charges to MAHB.
The airline has been forced to start collecting charges. Photo: AirAsia
This amount was made up of RM40.73m in charges themselves, plus another RM792,381.74 in late payment charges. The judgment not only meant AirAsia had to pay back what they owed, but also that they had to begin collecting passenger service charges as prescribed by MAHB.
As such, AirAsia now has no choice but to begin collecting the full RM73 passenger service charge levied by MAHB. Indeed, it began doing so on August 9th, but under protest.
Group chief executive, Tan Sri Tony Fernandes told the Straits Times,
"I'm so disappointed and frustrated. All we have ever asked is for MAHB to understand our model and help us to create more jobs. We are the LCC, it's (MAHB) largest customer yet,"
Launching a petition
Not being one to take things lying down, AirAsia has rallied to gather support for their appeal against the additional charges at KLIA2. Launching a petition via Change.org, the carrier has highlighted what they say has been a 200% increase in passenger charges in the past three years.
The petition has already gathered more than 50,000 signatures. Photo: AirAsia
Until the end of 2016, it says it was paying just RM32. From January 1st, 2017, it began paying RM50, and from July 2018 was supposed to be paying RM73. They say that,
"We believe that high PSC stifles tourism, hampers economic growth and makes Malaysia considerably less attractive to visitors compared to other destinations."
Together, let's keep flying affordable.
Watch this video. Share it on your social media and sign our petition here: https://t.co/VtcxWUr3DI
Join us in the fight for #FairAirportPSC. pic.twitter.com/Bt9OkkdtrP
— AirAsia (@AirAsia) August 8, 2019
Clearly, they are not alone in their opinion that these charges are unfair, having gathered more than 50,000 signatures since the petition launched. Whether it will have any impact on the AirAsia's appeal against the judgment remains to be seen.
Do you think the charges are fair? Should passengers at low-cost hubs pay less service tax than those at full-service airports? Let us know in the comments.
Joanna Bailey
Editor - Joanna has worked in publishing for more than a decade and is fast becoming a go-to source for commercial aviation analysis. Providing commentary for outlets including the BBC, CNBC, and others, she works closely with IATA, AviaDev and various airlines and suppliers to get the inside track on the global marketplace.


Another study on women in STEM with some interesting insights, but while a lot suggests a causal relation, it's still correlation.
Many women in doctoral degree programs in fields like engineering and physics are in a class of their own – and that's not a good thing.
In the worst-case scenario – where there's just one woman in a new class – she is 12 percentage points less likely to graduate within six years than her male classmates, the study found.
The findings suggest that the "female-friendliness" of doctoral programs may play a key role in the gender gap in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields.
"It has been nearly impossible to quantify the climate for women in male-dominated STEM fields," said Valerie Bostwick, co-author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher in economics at The Ohio State University.
A key advantage of this data is that it shows when and if students drop out – something that most data sets on graduate students don't show.
"But if there were more women than average in the program, that graduation gap goes away," Weinberg said.
If female students were less likely to obtain research funding than their male peers, that could be an important reason why they're failing to finish. But the study found no real differences in funding for men and women.
Bostwick said that if grades or research funding are not the main reason for why women are not completing their STEM degrees, that suggests the reason must be something that can't be directly measured: the academic climate for women.
"We can only speculate about what it is in the climate that is making it more difficult for women," Bostwick said.
We study the effects of peer gender composition, a proxy for female-friendliness of environment, in STEM doctoral programs on persistence and degree completion. Leveraging unique new data and quasi-random variation in gender composition across cohorts within programs, we show that women entering cohorts with no female peers are 11.9pp less likely to graduate within 6 years than their male counterparts. A 1 sd increase in the percentage of female students differentially increases the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in the probability of dropping out in the first year of a Ph.D. program and are largest in programs that are typically male-dominated.


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Meghan Trainor Wipes Out On 'Tonight Show': Check Out These Other Celebrity Spills!
Singer Meghan Trainor has had her ups and downs, but her latest "down" was on the Tonight Show. And it was quite a literal one!
The musician was just nearing the end of her set on Jimmy Fallon's late night talk show when she spun around and lost her balance. She tried to grab the mic stand to recover, but it was too late. Both she and the mic tumbled to the floor.
Trainor laid on the floor in exasperation, but Fallon took away some of her embarrassment by joining her on the ground.
Aside from a few bruises, the "No" singer is doing okay. "I'm feeling it today. I'm feeling little bruises everywhere," she said.
Though she is the most recent victim of some unintentional gymnastics, Meghan Trainor's not the only one to have taken a spill onstage.


Canada Water Library is a new public place where the architecture contributes to the experience of using it, as its designer intended.
A medieval Grade 1 listed landmark, Guildhall is home of the City of London Corporation and remains a grand setting for banquets, royal occasions and receptions.
Millennium Point is a destination where science, technology and learning come to life in the heart of Birmingham's City Centre Knowledge Quarter. Conceived as the largest non-London landmark millennium project in England, Millennium Point was built at a cost of £114m.
Covering 100,000 sqft across six floors, SegaWorld was the largest indoor theme park in the world at the time with an estimated build cost of £45m.
An amazing new £16m learning space at the University of Birmingham, including a 450-seat concert hall, rehearsal room and range of teaching spaces, practice rooms and a recording studio.


Critically acclaimed and six-time Grammy-Award nominated musical virtuosos, The Dixie Dregs (a.k.a The Dregs), are gearing up for a national U.S. tour starting February 28. The performances will mark the first time in 40 years the original band, Steve Morse (guitar), Andy West (bass), Allen Sloan(violin), Steve Davidowski (keyboards) and Rod Morgenstein (drums), will share the stage. Tickets are on sale now.
The "Dawn of the Dregs" 25-date tour, with additional dates to be announced soon, will take the band across the country starting on February 28 in Clearwater, FL and make stops in Atlanta, Charleston, Washington D.C., New York City, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Boulder and Phoenix, among many others, before wrapping April 25 in Dallas, TX.


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Q: Ruby: DRY out creation of Active Record Relation object I am building up an Active Record Relation object in steps, allowing a user to filter a list of car parts by make and model of car:
parts = Part.where(:listed => (start_date..end_date))

unless filters[:make_id].nil? || filters[:make_id] == 0
  parts = parts.joins(:car).
      where("cars.make_id = ?", filters[:make_id] )
end

unless filters[:model_id].nil? || filters[:model_id] == 0
  parts = parts.joins(:car).
      where("cars.model_id = ?", filters[:model_id] )
end

etc...

This is repetitive, and I would like to pull this out into a method that takes 'make_id' and 'model_id' as parameters.  One important feature to retain is that if a filter is nil (e.g. the user doesn't specify the model) then parts for all models are returned.
I can't figure out how to tackle this and I'm not sure what to Google.  Can you help?

A: parts = Part.where(:listed => (start_date..end_date))

[:make_id, :model_id].each do |k|
  filters[k]
  .tap{|f| parts = parts.joins(:car).where("cars.#{k} = ?", f) unless f.to_i.zero?}
end

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This statistic represents the projected sales of electric bicycles with pedal support of up to 25 kilometers per hour worldwide in 2014 and 2023. In 2023, global sales of such e-bikes are forecast to reach approximately 40 million units. China is expected to remain the most important market for electric bikes worldwide, as 34.3 million units are predicted to be sold here.
Projections were made based on market forecasts by Navigant Research (2014).
Includes all electric bicycles where power assistance stops at top speeds of less than 25 kilometers per hour.
Statistics on "Bicycle market in Italy "
For which reasons would you use a bike sharing service?
Which infrastructure would you rather have at disposal?
Do you think is it useful providing bike sharing services in your city?


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Ephraim's glory is like the firstling of his bullocks and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth.
~ Deuteronomy 33:17
Stephen's Smith Family - Ancestors, Descendants and Cousins
Hendrick de Mandeville I [Parents] was born in 1650 in Guilderland, Holland, Netherlands. He died on 8 Dec 1712 in Mountain View, New Jersey. He was buried in Dec 1712 in Mountain View, New Jersey. Hendrick married Elizabeth Jansen Berry on 21 Apr 1699.
Other marriages:
Schelle, Annette Pieterse
Elizabeth Jansen Berry. Elizabeth married Hendrick de Mandeville I on 21 Apr 1699.
They had the following children.
Hendrick de Mandeville II was born in 1704. He died in 1790.
William Jorrisse Bouwman. William married Hendrickje Johannes.
Hendrickje Johannes [Parents]. Hendrickje married William Jorrisse Bouwman.
Elsje Jorrisse Bouwman was born about 1677 in Brooklyn, New York. She was christened on 14 Oct 1677 in Brooklyn, New York.
Johannes Marcus. Johannes married Elsje Hendricks about 1660 in Brooklyn, New York.
Elsje Hendricks was born about 1628 in Guilderland, Netherlands. She died on 22 May 1701 in Flatbush, Nassau, New York. She was buried in New York. Elsje married Johannes Marcus about 1660 in Brooklyn, New York.
Mandeville, Giles Jansen Aegidus de
F i Hendrickje Johannes.
David de Mandeville [Parents] was born about 1665 in New York, New York. David married Maritze Van Hoesman on 19 Jul 1700 in New York, New York.
Maritze Van Hoesman. Maritze married David de Mandeville on 19 Jul 1700 in New York, New York.
Hendrick de Mandeville I [Parents] was born in 1650 in Guilderland, Holland, Netherlands. He died on 8 Dec 1712 in Mountain View, New Jersey. He was buried in Dec 1712 in Mountain View, New Jersey. Hendrick married Annette Pieterse Schelle.
Berry, Elizabeth Jansen
Annette Pieterse Schelle. Annette married Hendrick de Mandeville I.
Giles Jansen Aegidus de Mandeville [Parents] was born in Jun 1626 in Normandy, France. He died on 22 May 1701 in New Amsterdam, New York. He was buried in 1701 in New Amsterdam, New York. Giles married Elsje Hendricks in 1646 in , Gelderland, Netherlands.
Elsje Hendricks was born about 1628 in Guilderland, Netherlands. She died on 22 May 1701 in Flatbush, Nassau, New York. She was buried in New York. Elsje married Giles Jansen Aegidus de Mandeville in 1646 in , Gelderland, Netherlands.
Marcus, Johannes
William de Mandeville was born about 1648 in France.
F ii Styntje "Christina" Jans was born in 1649. She died in Oct 1685.
M iii Hendrick de Mandeville I was born in 1650. He died on 8 Dec 1712.
F iv Aeltje Elsie de Mandeville was born about 1650.
M v David de Mandeville was born about 1665.
F vi Tryntie de Mandeville was born in 1649.
F vii Gerritie Jillisae de Mandeville was born in 1665.
Jan Pieterse Meet II was born about 1660 in Holland. Jan married Gerritie Jillisae de Mandeville.
Gerritie Jillisae de Mandeville [Parents] was born in 1665 in Long Island, Nassau, New York. She died in Pacquenac, , New York. Gerritie married Jan Pieterse Meet II.
Meet, Peter Jansen
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Peter Jansen Meet. Peter married Gerritie Jillisae de Mandeville.
Gerritie Jillisae de Mandeville [Parents] was born in 1665 in Long Island, Nassau, New York. She died in Pacquenac, , New York. Gerritie married Peter Jansen Meet.
Meet II, Jan Pieterse
Edward Ira Moses. Edward married Eliza Jane Smith on 7 Dec 1882 in Texas.
Eliza Jane Smith [Parents] was born on 4 Sep 1855. She died on 17 Jan 1931. Eliza married Edward Ira Moses on 7 Dec 1882 in Texas.
Cornelius Jansen Vanderveer. Cornelius married Tryntie de Mandeville before 1670 in Flatbush, Kings, New York.
Tryntie de Mandeville [Parents] was born in 1649 in Holland, Netherlands. Tryntie married Cornelius Jansen Vanderveer before 1670 in Flatbush, Kings, New York.


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June 2022 | Compelling People
The Dandurands
An Edwardian power couple
Patrice Dutil
Joséphine Marchand et Raoul Dandurand: Amour, politique et féminisme
Marie Lavigne and Michèle Stanton-Jean
392 pages, softcover and ebook
Raoul and Joséphine Dandurand were among the glamour couples of Edwardian Canada. He was a dashing senator for the division of De Lorimier, and she was a leading feminist and femme de lettres. He was Wilfrid Laurier's Quebec homme de confiance, with contacts across the country, especially in business circles. She was belle époque brains and elegance personified — a perfect candidate to represent Canada at the Exposition universelle of 1900, in Paris. Together, Raoul and Joséphine were much admired, but their memory has long faded. Not even Sandra Gwyn referred to them in her superb The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier, which won a Governor General's Award in 1984.
In addition to their exceptional careers in public service, the authors Marie Lavigne and Michèle Stanton‑Jean have contributed mightily to the writing of women's history in Quebec, including with their 2017 biography of the suffrage pioneer Idola Saint‑Jean. With their latest, Joséphine Marchand et Raoul Dandurand, they help remind of a forgotten couple through appreciative analysis and talented storytelling. Dual biographies like this are valuable and rare, comparable to George Spater and Ian Parsons's A Marriage of True Minds: An Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, from 1977; Rosemary Ashton's Thomas & Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage, from 2002; and Terry Crowley's Marriage of Minds: Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada, from 2003.
Born in 1861, Joséphine was the daughter of Félix-Gabriel Marchand and Hersélie Turgeon. The fourth of their eleven children, she was raised in St‑Jean, a prosperous little town southeast of Montreal that profited from the trade on the Richelieu River. For most of her childhood and adolescence, she attended the convent school run by the Congrégation de Notre-Dame and profoundly hated it. Her father was a gentleman farmer, notary, editor of the newspaper Le Franco-Canadien, a writer, and, not least, the local member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. Impeccably bilingual (his mother spoke to him only in English), Marchand considered himself a rouge, a radical Grit who advocated reforms of all sorts in the life of the province.
Joséphine had, like her father, a literary bent. She kept a journal most of her life and maintained a healthy and revealing correspondence, both of which are deftly handled by Lavigne and Stanton-Jean. Her body of work included dramatic comedies and essays on subjects of public interest, but she really shone when she wrote about the rights and place of women in society.
Their tony home on Sherbrooke Street West.
Image by Nicole Iu
She published her first piece in 1879, a remarkable achievement for a young lady at the time, even if it appeared in her father's newspaper. She went on to place material in many other publications, and she seemed to befriend all the leading Quebec authors. Her literary agent was none other than Honoré Mercier, the flamboyant leader of the provincial Liberal Party and the premier of Quebec from 1887 to 1891.
Joséphine met Raoul Dandurand (also born in 1861) in 1882, during a visit to Mercier's house in Montreal. It wasn't exactly love at first sight. She wasn't looking for affection, and neither was he. But later that summer, when one of her first plays, Quand on s'aime, on se marie (When we love each other, we get married), was produced in St‑Jean, Raoul made a point of attending. Mr. "D" thus made his entry into her diary, though emotions remained distant. It would take two years for him to announce that he was in pursuit of her heart. There was a slight hitch when he finally did: Raoul came across as a bit of a radical himself. While Joséphine had her doubts about the Church and faith, she could not yoke herself to an atheist.
Raoul convinced her that he was a practising Catholic after all, and things took a turn in the summer of 1884, when passions erupted and commitments were secretly uttered. Arrangements were formalized the following summer (he even stole a kiss, something she regretted). They hoped to wed in Montreal later that year, but a smallpox epidemic delayed their plans. Instead, they were married on a bitterly cold morning in January 1886, in her hometown, and set off before noon to honeymoon in New York.
At twenty-five, Joséphine knew nothing about love. "Science and intelligence before love!" she wrote to her fiancé in November 1885, while everybody else was talking about the hanging of Louis Riel. Raoul likely had other ideas. The nuptial mysteries were revealed to Joséphine only a few months before she wed; Raoul, frustrated but kind, waited over a week before the consummation took place in Gotham. Her rage against such ignorance — the product, in her view, of an overly conservative society — would fuel her activism for the next forty years.
"The senate would be his political home for the next forty-four years."
Raoul proved himself to be a rather traditional husband at first, quite content to give laundry directives to his wife, for example, but the couple's power dynamics changed quickly. For one thing, Joséphine informed him, there would be only one child (born ten months after the wedding), and she expected their relationship to be governed by mutual respect.
In 1893, Joséphine gave a new voice to her independent views by founding and editing Le Coin du feu, a monthly magazine aimed at a female readership, the first of its kind in Canada. In it, she revealed herself as what we would today call a first-wave feminist: determined that women have a vote and a voice in politics; have the right to ride a bicycle; and, above all, have respect in the public sphere, including that of priests. "A woman's brain is equal to a man's," she declared. Her convictions soon won over her husband, who would promote the rights of women for the rest of his life.
Raoul, meanwhile, developed a successful law practice in Montreal, busily collecting and serving a growing clientele. He wrote a few books and cultivated his political contacts among the Liberals and nationalistes in the Mercier government. In the early 1890s, he was called in by friends to sort out local political squabbles, and he discovered he was very good at delivering unlikely election victories. As Liberal popularity grew in Quebec, his services were increasingly in demand. He was asked to run for office several times but always resisted: he was too busy in law. Sir Wilfrid Laurier helped strike a happy medium in 1898, when he named Raoul Dandurand, still only thirty-five, to the Senate. It would be his political home for the next forty-four years.
Laurier came to rely on Raoul for advice, fundraising, and organization during his years in power, while the Dandurands became a fixture on the Ottawa and Quebec political, intellectual, and social scenes. Joséphine spoke English easily, and she was powerfully attracted to the feminism of Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Lady Aberdeen. The irrepressible wife of Lord Aberdeen, the governor general, Hamilton-Gordon used her influence to invigorate feminism in Canada.
In 1894, Joséphine addressed the first meeting of the National Council of Women of Canada. Speaking in English, she called for policy changes to support the arts — one of the many causes she championed throughout her career. She also volunteered her time with the Victorian Order of Nurses and the Oeuvre des livres gratuits project, which was dedicated to making free books available to impoverished children. She was outgoing, even exuberant, eager to learn and to share. For her troubles, she was viciously attacked in Quebec's conservative press.
For his part, Raoul thrived in the three-ring circus that was his professional life. A workaholic, he often travelled for weeks at a time, away from the tony family home he had purchased on Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal (the building now houses the Galerie Eric Klinkhoff). He grew wealthy — in some eyes, suspiciously so — as his law practice and real estate investments flourished and as business and political interests seemed to converge so easily. Added to those tasks was service in the Senate. Finally, Raoul remained active in the politics of Montreal, where his talents as a political fixer were called upon routinely. Joséphine Marchand et Raoul Dandurand is comparatively weak on this topic, as Lavigne and Stanton-Jean don't show a firm grasp of the tensions that ripped at the fabric of Liberal politics in Montreal and Quebec City and that demanded Raoul's time.
The defeat of the Laurier Liberals in 1911 pushed the Dandurands into the background. Then Joséphine became mysteriously ill and, eventually, incapable of walking. The book does not offer a diagnosis — was it psoriatic arthritis or multiple sclerosis? — but Joséphine was a shut‑in by the end of the First World War. She died in 1925, at the age of sixty-four, after thirty-eight years of happy marriage (for decades, Raoul would sign letters to her as "your old lover"). Her funeral was attended by William Lyon Mackenzie King and numerous members of his federal cabinet as well as most of Montreal's luminaries.
The Liberals' return to power, in 1921, had helped revive Raoul's political career. Mackenzie King liked Raoul enormously, making him government leader in the Senate and asking him to manage part of Canada's foreign relations. Raoul Dandurand was Ottawa's representative to the League of Nations, rising to serve as president of its assembly in 1925. From 1927 to 1930, he represented Canada on the league's council, essentially its board of governors. He grew to love the organization and became its most eloquent promoter in this country. He died suddenly in March 1942, at age eighty. Today, Quebec's leading think tank on international relations is named in his honour.
Patrice Dutil founded the Literary Review of Canada in 1991.
I expected better from the caption writers and proofreaders at the Literary Review of Canada. The drawing accompanying this piece claimed that the Dandurand home on Sherbrooke Street West was "tony." It was no more "tony" than it was "micky" or "larry" or "percy." It certainly was located in a high-class Montreal neighbourhood. That fact and the Dandurand achievements and fortune gave it a high tone. It was thus "toney," not "tony."
Mistakes such as this — along with sloppy writing, incorrect grammar, and negligent proofreading — are increasingly rampant, even in "national" newspapers such as the Globe and Mail and National Post. You can do better.
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