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Landscape Architecture and the Green New Deal
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By Steve Austin, JD | ASLA | Clinical Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Washington State University
As we enter into a new decade, humanity, and thus by extension, landscape architecture, is at a critical point. We face unprecedented enormous and wicked ecological predicaments including rapid loss of biodiversity, increasing pollution, diminishing resources, mass extinctions and most immediately, the climate crisis. To address, and hopefully end, the dreadful impacts of our destructive patterns, people around the world have begun formulating plans under "Green New Deal" banners. As the predicaments we face are systemic and intertwined with land and people – landscape architecture's essence – it is vital that landscape architects should be supporters and participants in framing the evolution of these Green New Deal plans.
The Climate Crisis
"The climate crisis has arrived and is accelerating faster than most scientists expected," says Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Program.She continues, "It is more severe than anticipated, threatening natural ecosystems and the fate of humanity." This is because the planet is heating rapidly. 2019 ended likely as the second hottest year on record, and includes several all time monthly high average temperatures. Annual global temperatures between 2010-2019 were the hottest of any decade on record.
The heating is caused by an increase of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide as a result of burning fossil fuels. Unfortunately, greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow globally, despite the pledges to reduce them in the Paris Climate Accord. In the four years since that agreement, greenhouse gas emissions have risen by 4%. A recent New York Times article states that this "trajectory is terrible for the future of humanity."
Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 exceeded 410 parts per million (ppm) at the end of 2019, up from 280ppm in the pre-industrial era. According to NASA, the last time Earth's atmosphere contained more than 400 ppm CO 2 was about 3-5 million years ago. Earth's surface temperatures were two-to-three degrees Celsius warmer, ice sheets at both poles had melted, and seas were as much as 40 meters higher than today.
Further, global heating is threatening to trigger as many as nine eco-systemic tipping points, which would make climate change irreversible. A report by the University of Exeter warns that these "cascades" of changes could "threaten the existence of human civilizations."
To avoid this fate, humanity must cease burning fossil fuels as rapidly as possible. According to climate scientist Glen Peters, "CO₂emissions must go to zero to stop global warming at its current level." But the "current level" is too hot: to lower global temperatures, humanity must reduce atmospheric CO2ppm by the drawing down excess CO2 by various means. Ultimately, stopping the increase of CO2ppm in the atmosphere, and then reducing excess CO2, are the only actions that matter for humanity's safety.
To quote the UN's Environment Program director: "We face a stark choice: set in motion the radical transformations we need now, or face the consequences of a planet radically altered by climate change." Those "radical transformations" are the ending of burning fossil fuels and the entire economic structure that that burning underpins. Climate scientist Kevin Anderson describes our situation very simply: "There is no non-extreme future."
A Green New Deal
In order to effectively confront these stark realities, progressive political leaders around the world have made initial proposals for large-scale government actions under the umbrella title of a "Green New Deal" (GND). The term "New Deal" originally refers to the coordinated social, economic, and public works projects instituted by Democratic President Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression in the US in the 1930s. Both the idea and the term "Green New Deal" is over 15 years old; Barack Obama even included it in his 2008 presidential platform.
Very broadly, a Green New Deal as envisioned in the US calls for rapid and sweeping measures to cut carbon emissions through the elimination of burning fossil fuels – from electricity generation to manufacturing, and in transportation and agriculture. The plan calls for large investments in renewable energy and carbon capture technologies. In doing these things, a Green New Deal aims to create jobs and create an equitable, sustainable economy. Obviously such ambitious and comprehensive government interventions will touch every corner of American life.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the sponsors of the US Green New Deal, has injected vital urgency into this era, saying, "We don't have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It's life or death." Hopefully, and wonderfully for landscape architects, she adds further, "the Green New Deal is a chance to rediscover the power of public imagination."
Landscape Architecture and a Green New Deal
The Green New Deal presents landscape architects the most important challenge, and opportunity, in the profession's history. While there is no guarantee that even a successful GND can abate the climate crisis, there are now no other options, save doing nothing. Either choice will result in a fundamental remaking of our economy and society, and thus our profession.
Our choice should be obvious. To thrive, while retaining our morality and integrity, we should join with those who understand the urgency and the scale needed to address the crisis.
There is no more time for incremental, half-hearted measures. Landscape architecture's support of all facets of a GND will improve the chances of success. Landscape architects have a proven track record in building the broad coalitions and demonstrating the creative, intellectual, and leadership abilities needed to envision and administer projects that will emerge from a GND. The sooner that landscape architects assume roles as allies, and where appropriate, leaders, the sooner that GND plans can be shaped to do the necessary things.
What will this take? In an important commentary for Places Journal, Billy Fleming, director of the McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania, challenges landscape architects to internalize and then exude the "politics of design." This is an explicit acknowledgement that landscape architecture is political, touching as it does on the deepest of things – land and communities – with an ability to either reinforce the ecocidal status quo or create a regenerative future. To those who would caution against taking political stances in order to retain our "objectivity," I would respond that silence is a political statement too. In this case, who and what will benefit from our silence?
However, we cannot embrace the politics of the past and present that has led us into the crisis; instead we must align ourselves with the new movements, many youth led, that are emerging. And to be most effective at the politics of design in the crisis time, I believe landscape architects must be allied as activists, not just advocates.
This is because the climate crisis is ultimately a violation of human rights, demanding justice in response. Fortunately justice, the definitive Olmstedian value, is at the core of landscape architecture. Unique among design professions, only landscape architecture comes with such a clear mandate for public good from its founding. That makes landscape architecture ideally suited to help implement GNDs, which are instruments of social, economic, and environmental justice.
Olmsted used landscape architecture to make these justices visible. Today, we accept that radical idea as a given and are grateful for a legacy of local, state, and national parks, conservation areas, and progressive urban planning and infrastructure for public health and quality of life. But these successes were won not only through design but also through activism. They were won in multitudes of political battles that required great courage and tenacity. We must find those characteristics anew in our profession and ourselves. Advocating apolitically for justice – our role, at best, over the last few decades – is not the same as acting directly to ensure justice.
There are many paths to do this. Overarchingly, we need to hold ourselves accountable for our current carbon emissions, and then begin to eliminate them entirely from our work. We cannot be fully committed to justice until we have ended that which is creating the injustice.
This post carbon era demands that we reconceive our work. While there will be a need for what the McHarg Center's Fleming calls "client driven site-specific design," it will not be in pre-crisis forms. Post carbon landscape architecture now must advance carbon dioxide drawdown through effusive planting while also helping us adapt to the crisis through the creation and restoration of biodiverse, regenerative landscapes, especially in frontline communities and ecologies. Our skills and perspectives will also be vital on projects for what I term "the great undoing," the transformation of high carbon urban and suburban infrastructure into regenerative, nature based systems. Meeting all these needs without fossil fuels will demand new design, construction, and ethical paradigms from us.
Beyond that, we need a renewed commitment to public service. The McHarg Center's Fleming urges us to "lean into the Green New Deal" and become more active in all levels of government in order to "not cede that space to the usual crowd of technocrats." His vision includes "revitalizing the constellation of alphabet agencies devoted to the design and management of the built environment" to work on national scale land, housing, and transportation planning projects.
We'll be needed too to apply our training in analysis, synthesis, and visualization for holistic bioregional planning, addressing such things as ecological conservation and restoration, managed retreat and appropriate patterns and locations for resettlement. These last are examples of vital work that creates no emissions.
There are new horizons for us as well. Landscape architects can train to become environmental justice lawyers and expert witnesses. We can serve as politicians as well as in community organizations and non-profits dedicated to a just adaptation to the post carbon era. We can develop into carbon mitigation and drawdown researchers and teachers. We can work as climate risk assessors and management advisors. We can share our knowledge and experiences as writers, speakers, and artists. Further, our experiences and training will make us valuable as ethicists in the new era.
Beyond our professional work, we should commit to community organizing around GND projects and participating in climate strikes and other peaceful non-violent direct actions. Let's let all of our actions point to the world we must achieve.
Climate science tells us that there are no solutions that will enable us to continue to live as we have. Either humanity does everything in its power to avert the worst of the multiple crises and begin regeneration, or it doesn't. Either way, everything will change. Landscape architects now more than ever need to reaffirm our commitment to justice, our profession's original value, and become allies and activists for Green New Deals. Doing anything else will only make things worse. What good would the ideal of landscape architecture be then?
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When Jason Reitman's Ghostbusters was announced, the most common reaction was, "Why?" As in, why do we need a fourth Ghostbusters movie when the original two, with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson, and the 2016 reboot with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones, already exist? Good question! Here's the answer:
Look who accepted the call. #GB20 pic.twitter.com/QwYSiw5pBq
— Ghostbusters (@Ghostbusters) June 27, 2019
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Murray, Aykroyd, and Hudson have all expressed interest in reprising their roles (Ramis sadly passed away in 2014), although nothing is official yet. But there's another, more pressing issue: how hard is it to dance with a proton pack on?
They're not wearing it here.
Our ship has a Rudder! My excitement can't be contained. #GB20
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The Survey Detective Work Behind Wind Energy
Jai Andrist
This article originally appeared in North American Windpower.
Surveying for wind energy project development takes more than simply using a GPS unit or assembling geographic information system (GIS) mapping data.
When it comes to locating all-important section corners on remote project sites that might span 50,000 acres or more, a successful surveyor needs to be part historian and part private investigator. That means knowing how to uncover survey records at a county courthouse or in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) database.
The sleuthing required to complete project surveys is one of the most challenging and fascinating aspects of wind energy work. And once the research is complete, surveyors sometimes borrow the skills of an archaeologist to find markers set by government land surveyors more than two centuries ago.
Because many jurisdictions require turbines to be located a minimum distance from roads, utilities, and occupied dwellings, it's crucial for a developer to obtain a survey that meets standards of the American Land Title Association and National Society of Professional Surveyors (ALTA/NSPS).
My colleagues at Olsson have performed ALTA surveys for dozens of the 400 renewable projects that our firm has worked on. Our involvement in a project typically starts with surveying all occupied structures so developers can begin the process of siting turbines in accordance with setback and design requirements.
Surveyors then work to locate section corners, which are the official one-mile land markers established by the General Land Office (GLO). The GLO administered the Public Land Survey System, which established public domain lands in 30 states (mostly in the South, Midwest, and West) to control the sale and settlement of the property. Modern surveyors often must dig into the records – and the ground – to uncover section monuments first set by government surveyors as far back as 1785 in some areas.
We rely heavily on records at county courthouses or online databases maintained by state governments or the BLM. The research can produce a wealth of information, including handwritten notes by the original surveyor or ledgers containing measurements and descriptions of landmarks that help us find the monument.
We also interview landowners, who frequently volunteer helpful information. We've had landowners take us to section corners that were first revealed to them by their grandfathers many years before.
While some section monuments are stamped brass caps set in concrete, others are pieces of limestone or piles of rocks. Sometimes, a charred wooden post or a slurry of lime left to harden in a hole were placed by surveyors who found the original GLO monuments. We have used everything from hand spades to backhoes to scrape away layers of windblown soil to uncover a monument.
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To walk in the footsteps of the original government surveyors, and recover the evidence of their long-ago work, is very satisfying for those in the surveying profession.
Jai Andrist is a registered land surveyor and Survey team leader with Olsson. Reach Jai at 308.627.6339 or jandrist@olsson.com
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Cervical abnormalities: CIN3 and CGIN
Discovery and diagnosis
What is CIN?
What is CGIN?
Getting abnormal test results
Feelings about abnormal results
The colposcopy examination
Human papilloma virus (HPV)
Treatments and their impacts
LLETZ (loop diathermy)
Cone biopsy
Healing after a LLETZ or cone biopsy
Perceptions and experiences of health care
Recurrence of abnormal cells
Fertility and pregnancy
Sources of support
Effects on daily life
Telling other people
Views on cervical screening
Messages to others
Age at diagnosis: under 25
Age at diagnosis: 25-30
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Melanie - Interview 13
Age at diagnosis: 29
Brief Outline: Melanie was diagnosed with CIN3 in 2008 and with cervical cancer shortly afterwards, at the age of 29. She had LLETZ under general anaesthetic to treat the CIN3 and a hysterectomy to treat the cancer.
Background: Melanie lives with her partner and is a psychiatric nurse Ethnic background / nationality' White British
Melanie said she had been on the pill since she was fourteen, and so always attended for cervical screening. She missed one appointment and, when she noticed bleeding during and after sex, she visited her GP. Her smear test result showed abnormalities and she was referred to a colposcopy clinic, where she was diagnosed with CIN3 and told she would be treated by LLETZ under general anaesthetic in a further appointment.
At this appointment, Melanie was told that all the CIN3 had been removed and that she would need to attend a follow-up appointment in six months. Four weeks after this appointment, however, she received a letter asking her to make another appointment to discuss any further treatment. She said that, at this point, she felt certain she would be diagnosed with cancer.
At this appointment, Melanie was told that she had early stage cervical cancer and a trachelectomy was discussed. In this operation, the surgeon tries to remove all the cancer but leaves behind the internal opening of the cervix. This is then stitched closed, leaving a small opening to allow the flow of a period to escape. The idea is that the stitch will support a growing pregnancy until the baby can be born by caesarean section. This operation can only be given to women who have a small stage 1 cervical cancer.
At the following appointment, Melanie spoke to a different consultant, who gave her the option of having a trachelectomy or a hysterectomy. She felt annoyed at being given a choice but, because she did not want to have children in the future, she decided to have a hysterectomy, having discussed both options with her family and partner.
Melanie said she was happy with the care and information she received from doctors and nurses, and also found the Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust website informative and supportive (www.jotrust.co.uk). She said it took around thirteen weeks to fully recover and, at the time of interview, she was looking forward to a phased return to work.
Melanie was shocked and frightened because of the word 'cancer'. She talked to other people and...
End of October or some point in November I received a letter from the GP to say that the smear results had come back and there was some abnormalities there and they'd advised that I needed to go for a colposcopy. And sent me all the information about a colposcopy and how to make that appointment, which I did do.
That was the time when I first saw a word associated which was cancer, and pre-cancerous cells. And obviously the information leaflet I got was all about the CIN1, 2, 3 which is something I'd never come across before. Totally terrified when I just saw the word cancer, it was just like a mass panic.
But then the more people I spoke to about it, the more common I suppose it was. Everybody I spoke to had had some abnormalities and abnormal smear at some time. My sister, I didn't even realised she'd had several abnormal smears. She'd had treatments for CIN1 and CIN2, so that happened.
Melanie wishes she'd been told about Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust website before colposcopy. She...
I ventured onto Jo's [Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust website www.jotrust.co.uk]. I didn't post anything on there but I just sort of had a good look round. And I found the information on there was probably better and more informative than anything else that I'd found really, which probably sounds a bit strange. But if you put in your search engine CIN3, and it brings up loads of stuff that is just far too technical for my reading, and to be honest I didn't understand much. And when I went onto Jo's, I mean really I suppose that's one of the things, if I'd been told about Jo's during being diagnosed with CIN, that probably would've been very helpful because they've got a massive, massive information and page about pre-cancer as well as cancer.
So yeah, out of everything, I think that would've been quite a positive if, when I went for the colposcopy, they'd told me about Jo's Trust then. Yeah.
So did that nurse tell you about Jo's Trust or…?
She did, when I was diagnosed with cancer she told me about Jo's, and just sort of advised that I had a read on it. And said it was quite, well a lot of forums and it was quite supportive. So I came back but it wasn't till I think it was the following week I went to see the new consultant, and when he gave me the option of treatments, that's when I first posted on it.
Melanie was in a fairly new relationship when she was diagnosed first with CIN 3 and then with...
I was also talking to my partner, because we've not been in a relationship long when I started bleeding, well we wasn't. Our relationship at that time wasn't serious, back in September when it all started happening. We were sort of, I've known him for years and years and years through another friend, but yeah he's been, he's fantastic. And he's just sort of somebody you can talk to about anything. And when I was Googling the erosion of the cervix, he was down here with me at 3 o'clock in the morning just Googling away and trying to find something. So I do speak, I have spoke to him a lot. Yeah, he's fabulous.
Did your relationship become more closer or…?
Definitely. Definitely. Yeah I mean I'm currently just moving in here now and that's, I think if this hadn't have happened, then we certainly wouldn't be moving in together as quick. I mean we've only been seeing each other really since October. But we have grown very close. It's very, absolutely fantastic. And, to be honest, I have kept quite sane throughout this, and I have dealt with it all fantastically I think. But I don't think I would have dealt with it as fantastically if it hadn't have been for him. I mean I've had my mum and I've got my sister and they've been fabulous. But if it hadn't have been for [partner's name], I don't think I'd be as sane as I am.
Melanie encourages women to go for cervical screening even though they may feel scared. If...
Definitely go. In fact out of everything, everything now, if you have an appointment for anything, you've got any concerns of any physical health, I'd just say go. Just get it checked out, even if at the time it seems silly. You feel scared, obviously you're going to be scared, whether or not to go, for a screening. But go, because the earlier, you know it is treatable, really, at the end of the day. Whether it be CIN1, 2, 3, or whether it be cancer, it's all treatable. The longer you leave it, then it's going to have more difficulties, but at the end of the day it's all treatable. And to be honest the treatment isn't that bad. It's all do-able. Yes it's very nerve wracking, and you get very anxious but it's do-able.
Melanie knew she had cancer when she was asked to come back to discuss further treatment after...
It was four weeks after that that I received the letter to say that I needed to go back and make an appointment. The appointment date was through for me to go back and see him again to discuss any further treatment that was required.
So really I knew there and then that, you know, I had it [cervical cancer]. Well I knew really that they'd found some cancer. But you talk to people and people are very reassuring, telling me about, you know, 'everything's going to be fine. I'm sure it's just procedure', blah, blah, blah. But I went and I knew in my own head that I was going to be diagnosed and I went and it was, and fortunately it was very early stages of cancer.
Again, he was absolutely fantastic. I was given a clinical nurse at that point, who was very, very supportive. She then took me, a lot of information she gave me. Totally bombarded you with information really. The amount of stuff they give you.
And then that's when she recommended Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust www.jotrust.co.uk to me and gave me the website address and things like that. I didn't really go, I didn't really do much research on the internet because I just found if I Google anything or look on there it just totally spins me out. The amount of information that was on there, and it was all horror stories, and so I really didn't do much about that.
Telling other people helped Melanie cope. She learned that her sister had had abnormalities too....
So when you got the letter, you told your mum and you told your sister. And that's when you heard from your sister that actually she had been…?
Yeah, she was like, "Oh nothing to worry about, been for loads of them. What are you moaning about?"
Did that make you feel better?
It did, it did. Like I say, the more I spoke to people, cos I'm very much a very open person anyway. I have to talk to get through things. I'm very, I don't know, but I also need, but I have to talk to people. That's the way I cope with stuff, so I spoke to everybody that I met about it really. Everybody I spoke to at some point had been, "Yeah, I've been for one of them, I've been for a colposcopy."
I rang my Dad and, at the time when I rang, I rang my boyfriend as soon as I found out, when I came out. And I told him over the phone that I'd been diagnosed with cancer. Because he's very, very much a strong person, and his dad's very poorly and his dad's got cancer himself. So he's sort of got broad shoulders, bless him.
So I told him and then I can remember ringing my dad and my sister, and I sort of said everything's fine because obviously I didn't want to tell them over the phone. So I told them that it was fine. And then I went to see my sister, when she got home from work, and told her. And then I went to tell my dad, which was horrible telling them. But the worst person was telling my mum when she got back off holiday. That was the most difficult thing at the time.
Such a hard thing to have to tell them isn't it?
Yeah, it was horrid. It was, I think my sister just, oh she just started bawling. And you have to be strong, you have to be strong for them, you know. Its very odd. You try and be strong for them and, like I say, I don't know whether I was just naive at the time but just, well not naïve, just matter of fact and I'd been diagnosed and I was having treatment and that was that.
Melanie had to choose between having a hysterectomy or a radical trachelectomy. She spoke to her...
He [consultant] then gave me an option of having this trachelectomy or a hysterectomy.
I was a bit cross and a bit annoyed that he gave me that option, and that I had to think about what I was going to do. But weighing up the pros and cons and just wanted things getting out of me, and I just wanted the cancer going. And I've never wanted children, and he said that if I had two children then the trachelectomy wouldn't have been an option. So for that reasons really I decided to go for the hysterectomy.
My family – I always speak to, my mum and my sister are like my best friends, so I just talk to them about everything. But when my mum did find out, she came back off holiday. I mean everybody that I spoke to really was sort of, you know, we can't make the decision for you but they took into consideration that I've always said I don't want children. And my mum was very much, "You don't want children, now you've never wanted children." If this is going to be, you know, to get shot of things, then she was more supporting the hysterectomy more than anything. Well more than anyone as well, she was, I think she was pushing for that more. Yeah.
So you went back and told the new consultant and what happened at that appointment?
He said that I had to be 110% sure. He said if there was anything, he said if you're only 99.9% sure that you don't want children, then I'd be offering you the trachelectomy. But then at that point you see, I said to him, "I want the hysterectomy. I'm 100% sure." And then that's where they started saying, not, but then, they himself was leaning more towards the hysterectomy, does that make sense what I'm saying?
Because he was like, then he starts telling you, oh if you'd have the trachelectomy something or, I can't remember what he said but it was like, okay, I've definitely made the right decision to have the hysterectomy. Oh that was it; he was telling me that if I'd gone for the trachelectomy and if there'd been any chance of reoccurrence or anything like that, then it would be more difficult to operate. So I came out of that appointment definitely knowing that I'd made the best decision with having a hysterectomy.
Melanie went into hospital by herself and felt, with hindsight, that it might have been easier if...
I think it was about, gosh, a quarter to three in the afternoon they came for me. And took me down to theatre and I had, the old consultant was the first person I saw down there, who again was lovely. Gave me a big hug, very reassuring.
And then they took me into the theatre room and that's when things, well that's when I started, I just broke down in tears. I can remember just lying on the trolley in absolute gusts of tears. But by that time you're in there and it's very, very clinical isn't it? And nobody's really got time to waste in being….so they just stabbed my arm and put me to sleep. I was in tears when they put me to sleep. I can remember looking through the door and seeing the consultant there, but that's it, gosh. That was a horrible, horrible, yeah that was horrible. Out of everything, that was the worst moment ever I have to say.
What would have helped in that moment?
I don't know, I don't know if it would have helped me taking somebody with me, who could've come in, who could have come down there. I think that probably would, I think looking back now really I should've asked [partner's name] to come. Even, just to keep, you know, someone to talk to whilst I was waiting to go down. But just to go down to theatre with me, just to hold my hand I think whilst I was there.
Because, like I say, that point when I started crying, the nurses just took over and it was a case of , "Too late now love, sorry." Oh yes, so definitely gosh if ever I have anything like that done again, I'll take somebody with me. I don't care how upsetting it would be for them to see me going to sleep. I don't care about that. I'll just take someone with me.
So the next thing you remember is coming round?
Yes. I can remember waking up down there, much better coming round than when I had my anaesthetic for the LLETZ, there wasn't the coughing, the spluttering, which I was quite pleased about. Because obviously at that point having my belly wounded which would have been awful. But I came round, they was very lovely and then they took me straight up onto the ward. And I was all dripped up, and just kept coming in and out of, just asleep.
Walking was difficult at first but gradually Melanie could do more for herself. Within a few...
I was sort of doing a bit more in hospital over the weekend; obviously getting up for the first time was horrendous. I think I spent 30 seconds in the shower, that's all I could muster. But again the nurses was lovely and always there to help. But then I can remember on the Saturday I started doing more, and by Sunday I'd walked downstairs and gone to the canteen. When my dad came to visit, we went down there for a cup of coffee rather than stay on the ward. And then the Monday came home and then things slowly got better from then.
So what were you recommended, you know, what to do to look after yourself when you got home?
To rest, obviously keep mobile and things. Take the painkillers that I was taking. I was only taking paracetomol and Ibuprofen. I wasn't taking anything else. And just rest and, from talking to everybody, they just, everybody said you feel like you want to do more, and you can do more, but realistically you can't. And I can remember [partner's name] had a week off, so I just sort of stayed either in bed or just on this couch. I think I certainly didn't go very far.
And for six weeks I wasn't able to walk the dogs and if I did too much I knew about it at night time. I think after the fourth week I was pulling out that television and oh, that night time I knew I was, that I done too much. Then that was when I gave myself a kick up the bum really and just said, "No, I can't keep doing that." And just slowed right down and, it's only just recently, last four weeks, three weeks I'd say, that I'm getting back to my usual routine. I can take the dogs out now, which is good and, yeah so the last four weeks I've been getting back to normal.
Melanie wants to make more time for the people that matter to her. She stopped smoking before...
I certainly have more of an attitude now of, I'm going to make me happy and I don't really care very much for the consequences on other people. Which sounds really shallow and really nasty when you say it like that. But, before, I've always been very much, constantly worrying about what other people might think of you, constantly trying to be there for other people. And going through this, it's sort of made me realise who I can rely on, and who are my friends. And I don't need to rally round for everybody anymore and constantly go to their problems, because they haven't done that for me. And I know who matters to me, and who don't. And I'll be looking after me and those who matter.
Have you looked at any of the areas of life in a different way, because some girls, women, said that they changed their diet or they were smoking before and they stopped, you know, all those kind of things…?
I have stopped smoking, but the thing is I've never really been a smoker, I'm more of a social smoker. But I did stop smoking. I stopped smoking the week before I went in for the hysterectomy. Because when I went for the anaesthetic and for the LLETZ and I woke up and I was coughing and spluttering, and that was absolutely horrendous. I didn't want to go through that again. So I packed up the Tuesday before my, the week before, and I've not started smoking again. So that's something I feel quite pleased about.
And I'm also trying to get healthier. And I'm more determined to try and be fit because when you look at, you know, you read all these things and people tell you well this can lead to cancer, and this can lead to cancer, and I don't, you don't know whether it does or not. But I certainly, you know my outlook like that has changed. I want to get healthy, and I do want to be healthy. And I want to be around really. I want to be around to see my niece and my nephew grow up. And I want to go out on more walks with the dogs, because I enjoy it and it's going to help me stay fit.
Melanie was nervous before her colposcopy but said the consultant was fantastic. He told her all...
I went [to the colposcopy clinic] and it was fine. I was very nervous about it while I was sitting there, in that waiting room it was quite, a bit nerve racking and things. But yeah, that's just because it's your cervix isn't it? It's very, to be wary to be having treatment and things for. But when I went in, the consultant was absolutely, he was fantastic. He was a very nice gentleman. Sat down, made sure he explained everything to me about the procedure, what was going to happen during the colposcopy. Very much similar to a smear really.
I also had another nurse in, and a student nurse, so that was very good. Although obviously I could've said no. But she was lovely. She sort of held my hand and kept talking to me, and he was absolutely fabulous, very relaxing. Made you feel very comfortable, or as comfortable as you can be in that situation I suppose. But he was lovely, yeah. It was good. A good experience really. It was, he was nice.


Just love being a destination wedding photographer Ibiza, especially when I know the bride & groom. I was totally flattered by the fact that Candice & Paddy had chosen me to capture their wedding party photos. Candice and Paddy met in the summer of 2011. It was the Donnegan's opening party. Donnegan's became their place of work, with Candice managing the sister bar next door and eventually managing both. Paddy, a musician, used to perform as a solo artist. I had first met Candice back in 2001 in Ibiza whilst working in a bar as a photographer we have kept in touch over the years from nights out in San Antonio to days on the slopes in Pas De La Casa, Andorra. Candice introduced me to Paddy around five years ago when I was on a snowboarding holiday with my son, in Andorra, their winter work destination.
Candice told me last Year, when I was out in Ibiza shooting another wedding, that they were getting married at Dickenson Bay Antigua on the 4/11/16. They were planning a Wedding Party back in Ibiza at the end of the season in 2017 and wanted me to photograph the party in Ibiza.
I arrived on the Wednesday, the day before the Wedding party, on the Thursday evening. This gave me plenty of time to hit the beach down at Cala Gracioneta, for a bit of chill before taking the opportunity to have lunch at one of my favourite restaurants, EL Chiringuito. Candice had let me know that the wedding party would be meeting in Donnegans later that night, I popped along to meet them, catching up with some old faces and meeting those I didn't already know.
On the big day, I arrived at Ibiza Rocks Bar in San Antonio, at 6pm, to meet up with the Ibiza based, wedding planner from Hidden Treasures Ibiza Lauren Kaycee. Lauren was lovely, her relaxed manner made her easy to work with. She was attentive to the Bride and Groom and all the guests, making sure everyone was having a fabulous time and everything was running smoothly. She even identified two girls in the wedding party that had found themselves there but did not know anyone!
I was taking the opportunity to get some photos of the bar decoration when I noticed the chef, prepping the food, for the 150 guests, that would soon be arriving. I recognized him immediately, Jamel a friend from over 20 years ago. He had, had a restaurant in San Antonio for 30 years. We had a good catch up, chatting about our families and how he now owns an outdoor catering company. I am can't wait to be working alongside him on another wedding on In Ibiza next May.
The family and friends started arriving at 8pm prompt. They entered from the beach entrance. Candice and Paddy had asked me to grab a couple of family shots before the sun had set completely. The party got underway, it was amazing to see so many familiar faces from years back when I worked out there mixed in with many new. I was spoilt for choice on photo opportunities. At 9pm the wedding video came on the big screen, it immediately captured everyone's attention, all watched in wonder. It was beautiful and there was not a dry eye in the bar. The videographer, from Antigua, had captured the lovely ceremony.
The food opened, it was the most flavoursome paella, I had ever tasted. Standard for food produced by Jamel. Next was the band, CHAPS , Paddy had already worded me to say they were brilliant and boy did they live up to expectation. For the first dance the whole wedding party were requested to join the bride and groom and that is pretty much where all stayed for the entirety of their set. To say they went down well, would be an understatement. Candice had said for me to only work till 10.30pm then join the party, but I couldn't tear myself away until after the band had finished their first set, such good music and so many people to photograph having such a fun time. When they finally finished their set at 11:45 and the glitter, shots and the fun photo booth were in full swing, I decided to take this moment to pop back to the apartment, download and back up the photos, before returning to join in the party myself. Most people were merrily on their way, pretty intoxicated! So we partied well into the next day at around 5am, the grand finale, a bit of opera, Nessun Dorma, performed by Tom Lee aka Ruby Murry, what an outstanding end to the party.
Thank you once again Candice & Paddy for a Lush wedding party, One I will remember forever.
Fantastic shots!!! Really captured an amazinzing night ?


By obsolete, I don't just mean that our high schools are broken, flawed, and under-funded – though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean that our high schools – even when they're working exactly as designed – cannot teach our kids what they need to know today.
Our philanthropy is driven by the belief that every human being has equal worth. We are constantly asking ourselves where a dollar of funding and an hour of effort can make the biggest impact for equality. We look for strategic entry points – where the inequality is the greatest, has the worst consequences, and offers the best chance for improvement. We have decided that high schools are a crucial intervention point for equality because that's where children's paths diverge – some go on to lives of accomplishment and privilege; others to lives of frustration, joblessness, and jail.
Our foundation has invested nearly one billion dollars so far to help redesign the American high school. We are supporting more than fifteen hundred high schools – about half are totally new, and the other half are existing schools that have been redesigned. Four hundred fifty of these schools, both new and redesigned, are already open and operating. Chicago plans to open 100 new schools. New York City is opening 200. Exciting redesign work is under way in Oakland, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Boston.
The basic message he speaks about is the need to prepare children to earn a wage they can support their families on, and that to achieve that wage they need to go to college, however in his talk he provides clear evidence that schools are failing in this objective. The solution, the three Rs.
The third R is Relationships – making sure kids have a number of adults who know them, look out for them, and push them to achieve.
When I visited High Tech High in San Diego a few years ago, one young student told me that High Tech High was the first school he'd ever gone to where being smart was cool. His neighborhood friends gave him a hard time about that, and he said he wasn't sure he was going to stay. But then he showed me the work he was doing on a special project involving a submarine. This kid was really bright. It was an incredible experience talking to him – because his life really did hang in the balance.


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The largest internet providers in Newton are Mediacom, PST Digital , and HughesNet bringing cable, DSL, and satellite options to Newton.
Cable internet from Mediacom is available to nearly all Newton residents, covering 99% of households. Many will also have the option of DSL from PST Digital , which covers 52% of the area. Newton's third most-available internet provider, HughesNet, offers satellite to around 100% of Newton residents.
Cable from Mediacom offers broadband to all households in Newton covering 99% of the area.
Mediacom's cable network is likely to offer faster speeds than DSL or satellite service, but Newton residents in densely populated areas may experience slowed speeds during peak usage times.
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For those who value internet speed as much as cost, PST Digital offers download speeds up to 1,000 Mbps and upload speeds up to 1.5 Mbps in Newton. These download speeds are available to 52% of the area, and are much faster than the average max speeds from all Newton's providers, 264 Mbps.
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Evernote has redesigned the iOS version of the note-taking app to reduce clutter and cut the steps it takes to create, capture and organize notes on the go.
The latest of version of Evernote for iOS not only looks different, it streamlines many of the popular app's note taking and content capture functionality.
"All of the main things that you want to do in the application are just a touch away," Nate Fortin, vice president of Design at Evernote, told eWEEK during an interview. Crafting an interface and overall experience that got out of the user's way was the central philosophy guiding the company's efforts in the months before the Jan. 17 of the redesigned app, he added.
Evernote didn't just slap a new coat of pixels onto its venerable app. The company took "the time and resources to fundamentally rethink how we want to represent who we are," said Erik Wrobel, chief product officer, at Evernote. That investment in talent and time spent on developing and fine-tuning the app has paid off in a modern, more frictionless way of organizing users' professional and personal lives, according to the company.
Evernote 8.0 for iPhones, iPad and iPod Touch sports a minimalist, uncluttered start-up that showcases a user's notes and provides quick access to notebooks and the app's search functionality. Users will notice that the old home screen is gone, affording users immediate access to recent notes.
Fortin said his team paid particular attention to the app's navigation, settling on an interface that users' time is spent "less navigating and more [on] getting things done." Another of the most striking examples of the company's new approach to mobile note taking is the new, multi-function note button.
Appearing at the bottom of the screen, the green button can be quickly tapped to create a new note. Holding the button gives users other options, including the ability to record a voice memo, snap a photo or set a reminder.
Wrobel said the new note button, along with numerous behind-the-scenes performance tweaks, lend the app a sense of "an immediacy in terms of how you create content."
Instead of digging through menus to collect and organize notes, users can now capture and manage their ideas and inspirations "at the speed of thought," he said. The company's goals for Evernote 8.0 on iOS were "simplicity, immediacy, speed and elegance," added Wrobel.
Power users needn't fear the app's new, more consumer-friendly trappings, Wrobel assured. Evernote remained respectful to their needs, although they may need some time to adjust to the new experience, he admitted. Plus, there are new features to satisfy longtime enthusiasts and newcomers alike, he said.
The app features a note editor with more customization options. Users can now select new font sizes, add color to text and highlight important passages. The app's search functionality has been integrated with other features.
For example, tapping on the alarm clock that appears atop any note will show all the notes that have a reminder associated with them. To search for notes with certain tags, users can tap the tag button on a notes list and filter the results.
Evernote Business can now create clear divisions between their personal and work notes. Switching between personal and business accounts only requires a long press of the account selection in the app's tab bar.


Successful snow scramble (Mt. Ellinor only), hit near perfect weather window, great view to Hood Canal, nice glissade, bumpy in part.
Road snow free to lower TH at 2600 ft, Lots of potholes on FS road 24, FS 2419 in good shape. Many people on our day, approx. 40-50 cars at parked at TH and road below. Snow on trail from 2900 ft. Above the Meadow, snow was sufficiently "stepped", micro spikes were sufficient. Some small avalanche debris below steeper sections made for bumpy glissade. Our route (standard for winter) was not as indicated on the map: we reached the summit turning W from the col.
This was a competent and strong group. Students (8) well rounded. Start at 9:15 from TH, back by 3:30 pm, 6:15hrs car to car. Total 6 miles, 3300ft elevation gain. There were many scramblers going up in the glissade chute, from below almost an "Everest-like" picture. Crowds at the summit. Never-the-less, the climb went well. Had some food at the col, enjoying the view over Hood Canal to N and E. At that time, the initially almost clear sky got partly clouded, with some white and black clouds at lower level, making a spectacular scenery. Then continued to summit, only light wind up there. Light snow falling as we returned to the col, precip had stopped as we reached bottom of glissade chute. The snow in the chute was soft enough to facilitate safe speed control by ice axe also in steep sections. We all enjoyed very much this scramble and the glissade in particular. There were quite a few bumps in the chute causing some 5ft near vertical drops. Most of us celebrated the day with hamburgers at a joint in Hoodsport.


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The Congress is aimed at the entire dental team, particularly, ESE certified members, ESE ordinary members (affiliated to full member national Societies), Endodontists, General Dental Practitioners, Postgraduate Students, Academics, Hospital-based dentists and our partners from the dental industry. The ESE wants to attract not only those from Europe but also from the rest of the world – indeed, anyone with an interest in Endodontology and the associated biological, biomaterial and clinical sciences.
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State Trunk Highway 88 (often called Highway 88, STH-88 or WIS 88) is a  state highway in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, that runs from WIS 35 north of Fountain City to WIS 37 south of Mondovi.

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WIS 88 begins at a T intersection with WIS 35 in the unincorporated community of Czechville, northwest of Fountain City and southeast of Cochrane. It heads north on a curving route and passes through the communities of Cream and Praag. The highway then turns northwest before curving back north into Gilmanton. WIS 88 enters Gilmanton from the west and meets the western terminus of Wisconsin Highway 121 before turning north. It meets the eastern terminus of Rustic Road 1 and heads north out of Gilmanton. The highway crosses the Buffalo River before terminating at WIS 37 south of Mondovi.

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Türkiye's Minister of National Education Ziya Selçuk Participated to Ethnosport Culture Festival
Minister of National Education Ziya Selçuk, organized by the world Ethnosport Confederation this year with the slogan "Pilavdan dönenin kaşığı kırılsın(Never give-up)" at Atatürk Airport, Anadolu Agency is the global Communication Partner 4. In his speech at the Ethnosport Cultural Festival, he expressed his excitement to be present at the opening of the festival.
President of the World Ethnosport Confederation Selçuk, who has shown high tenacity in putting forth an international festival thanked Bilal Erdogan, "because what we call value is something we produce by striving. For this reason, it is essential to bring our traditional sports together with art to an international platform in this way, to do work under the name Ethnosport where there is not only a sport but also the shadow of art." was in the form.
Selçuk said that every civilization, every culture is a natural activity to protect itself.:
"Being together in this activity also sets the ground for us to tread. The work of 960 athletes from 17 countries in 12 different branches will grow and expand. Because we are all aware of the importance that these are being done and that they continue to expand in the participating countries."
"It allows us to realize that ethnic and ethnological activities, values and heritage in other countries are World Heritage sites," said Selcuk, who noted that many countries have the opportunity to see their common side through ethnosport. In this sense, I look at Ethnospores from Argentina, Japan, or Azerbaijan, from thousands of kilometers away, as an opportunity for inter-ethnic sports activities to bring together children around the world." was in the form.
He said "We will have the opportunity to see many of our traditional games here. I care that many of the games I encountered in my childhood are witnessed by children today. In that sense, it's not just work, a festival for us, it also provides an opportunity to think about our values and our tradition, our heritage. I wish Ethnosport Cultural Festival to be good to our country and the world."


Lahore: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said that Pakistan's offer of "friendship" to India should not be considered as its weakness and the Indian leadership should shun "arrogance" and hold peace talks.
New Delhi on Friday called off the bilateral talks meeting, citing the "brutal" killing of three policemen in Jammu and Kashmir as well as the release of the postal stamps "glorifying" Kashmiri militant Burhan Wani.
His response came after two major opposition parties — Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) — questioned the "haste" shown by Prime Minister Khan in making efforts to mend ties with India. They held him responsible for the "diplomatic debacle", saying he should have done his "homework" before approaching for a meeting.
The bellicose & irresponsible statement by the Indian Army Chief exposes the Indian designs to the world that should immediately take note of New Delhi's threatening posture. Pakistan extending an olive branch to India, should never be misconstrued as weakness.
On Saturday, director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said Pakistan is a nuclear power and its desire for peace should not be misconstrued as weakness. "If someone tests our patience, we will give a befitting reply to it and not disappoint the nation," he told a private TV channel. "We are on positive trajectory of peace and stability after having gone through efforts over the last two decades. We understand the value of peace and shall not allow it to be reversed," he added.
Dismissing allegations of Pakistan mutilating the body of an Indian jawan, Ghafoor said the Pakistan Army is a professional force and can never undertake such non-professional action.
Ties between India and Pakistan nose-dived following a spate of terror attacks on Indian military bases by Pakistan based terror groups since January 2016. Following the strikes, India announced it will not engage in talks with Pakistan, saying terror and talks cannot go hand-in-hand.


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And boy, was I happy that I did!
Down to the last drop. Don't you love how they added that rosemary sprig on top for decoration? Something to remember for the next time you make your chicken pot pie recipes at home. I am famous for my mini chicken pot pie appetizers — have you see that recipe yet?? SUPER EASY! And by the way – when I say famous – I really mean my husband likes it.
Anyway, if you are heading to NYC in the near future, you can order this yummy goodness at Pershing Square – right outside of Grand Central Station.


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More High Street apartments approved by city boards
By Rodrigo Arriaza
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| Williamsburg
A conceptual rendering of the new apartment building that could be coming to High Street, pending building permit approval. The developer hopes to begin leasing by the end of 2019. (Courtesy of Commonwealth Properties)
A new luxury apartment complex could be coming to High Street in Williamsburg next year.
Site plans for a 223-unit apartment complex were unanimously approved by the city's Planning Commission at its regular meeting Wednesday. The developer, Commonwealth Properties, still must obtain building permits from the city before construction can begin, but if approved, the company's Director of Development Jack Middleton said work could begin by next spring. The company could begin leasing the apartments by the end of 2019.
The 223 units would be combined with eight townhome-style apartment buildings already in construction to form one large luxury complex complete with a swimming pool, club houses, a library, fitness center and other amenities. The eight buildings already under construction are next to Sterling Manor Drive off Treyburn Drive and Middle Street; they will contain 96 apartments once completed. Middleton hopes to begin leasing the townhome-style apartments next spring.
"All of that will be top of the line and will set a new standard for luxury living in the Williamsburg area, and quite honestly, for the Tidewater area in general," Middleton said. "These will be incredibly nice apartments with incredibly nice amenity areas and we're extremely excited to have something built out there to show people."
The first phase of the complex is roughly 4.75 acres and the second, larger phase will be built on a 6-acre field along Kings Manor Drive, Middleton said.
The larger, 223-unit complex will be a four- or five-story apartment building totaling 365,904 square feet, with 84 one-bedroom units, 108 two-bedroom units and 31 three-bedroom units, according to the site plan.
The complex would also have 379 parking spaces, with a two-level parking garage containing 236 parking spaces and 143 spaces being provided behind the apartment buildings, according to a memorandum prepared by city staff.
Middleton said the High Street apartment complex will target primarily retirees and professionals, rather than students.
"The price point tends to push students in a different direction or towards another product, we really try to target those retirees, empty-nesters and young professionals or older professionals, professionals in general," he said. "They tend to be some of the older folks who rent for the lifestyle."
Although the project is still in too early development to narrow down a price point for the apartments, Middleton said they would be targeted toward the higher end of the existing market.
Construction is underway for one of the eight townhome-style apartment buildings next to Sterling Manor Drive. (Rodrigo Arriaza / Virginia Gazette)
Photography studio PHILIP D opened the doors to its new commercial photography studio in James City County last week with a ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony, according to a news release from the county's Department of Economic Development.
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The new 3,600 studio space on Tewning Road sports a 20-foot ceiling and large roll-up doors that allow its photographers to shoot cars and motorcycles, according to the release. The space is more than four times larger than PHILIP D's previous location in New Town.
The studio is owned by Philip Sydow, who has worked as a commercial photographer in the area since 2011. Since opening his studio in 2013, Sydow has worked with clients to create images that blend photography with digital painting and CGI, according to the release.
"We are thrilled with the flexibility our new space provides us to meet the needs of our clients and shoot larger scenes and subjects in studio," said Sydow. "We look forward to expanding our business with these new capabilities."
PHILIP D Studio will hold an open house at its new location from 5-7 p.m. Dec. 12, according to the release. For more information, visit philipdstudio.com.
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I recently lost a bet in Toronto. My friend with whom I was staying bet that his local fish and chip shop would beat anything London had to offer. 'Are you insane?' was my response. 'We invented the stuff. It'll be cooked in maple syrup batter or have Canadian bacon mushy peas'.
So I thought I was safe. How foolish; such hubris.
For anyone travelling to Toronto, I insist you take a little time out of your schedule to try Olde Yorke. It's in the Leslieville district; a pleasant suburb in the east of the city, but by no means central, and situated opposite a run-of-the-mill shopping mall. Blink, and you'd miss it. Inside, it's all make believe Ye English Tavern, but homely.
We went at lunchtime and the place was over half full, and was noticeable by the absence of the smell of fried food. 'Hmm', I thought, 'That's intriguing'. A friendly-genuinely so-waitress showed us to our table, and a quick browse of the menu convinced me to go for the classic Cod and Chips. 'We'll see who's the daddy', I thought.
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I was speechless, largely because my mouth was full. I could not look up at my friend as I can't bear a gloater.
The point of this narrative is not a plug for Olde Yorke though a free haddock and chips would be nice, thank you. It occurred to me that in fashion, too, overseas operators are better at being British than the Brits themselves. I'm thinking of Ralph Lauren, who perfected the English Country House look and then sold it back to us.


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By Armstrong & Getty Nov 17, 2021
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