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25 NovRethinking Intersections – Five-Ways Port Elizabeth
Written by Grant Hancock
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Across the globe major cities are starting to make serious inroads into reprioritising road-space, providing more space for public transit, cycling, and providing a greater focus on pedestrian accessibility and safety. From Bogota to New York City planners are bringing major intersections into the 21st century and implementing the pioneering design standards developed by the Dutch.
Making progress has not, and is still not, easy. Our cities have been planned around the motor vehicle for so long that it takes clarity of vision and a great deal of patience and persistence to change the perceptions of those who stand against change, and those who need to be convinced that change is necessary.
Most people do not realise just how car-centric our city infrastructure is. The first response by many to proposals to reduce street parking, the number of lanes, or reduce speed limits is usually negative. For many it is at first unfathomable that these changes could be proposed, or in any way seen as producing a net positive to society. Yet evidence from across the globe, from major global cities to smaller centres in the developing world, shows that realigning our road space works, and works well!
One of the most common criticisms, especially to projects such as the development of cycling infrastructure is that there is just no space. Let us look at that a bit closer using the example of the important 'Five-Ways' intersection in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
What do we see when we look at the satellite image below? A lot of lanes? What else?
You should see those black lines on the road. Those are marks left behind from cars made by drops of oil and exhaust fumes. Looking at them you can see just how much of the massive Five-Ways intersection is being used. You can also see just how much road is hardly being used at all.
Just look at how much space car lanes take up! Central is a densely populated area, being one of the few places in Port Elizabeth with apartment blocks. It is also home to many shops including a major supermarket. But look at how unfriendly this landscape is for pedestrians. If there was ever to be a place in our cities where pedestrians should be prioritised, it would be in a densely packed community such as central. But the roads are wide, the corners have gentle curves so cars don't have to slow down much, the lines on the road are faded and there is no real protection for pedestrians when crossing the road other than a 'beg-button' at the crossing points.
And then of course there is no provision for other forms of transport. In a community such as central, with so many apartment buildings and nearby amenities cycling should be extremely popular. That it is not is not an indictment on the appeal of urban cycling, but on the hostile environment created by car centric infrastructure. Would you take your children cycling down Cape Road or through the massive Five-Ways intersection?
Let us take a look at what Five-Ways could look like if a small investment was made into providing new infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians.
First things first, let us reduce the size of the intersection a bit. Making the intersection smaller will have the effect of slowing cars down (which in a highly populated area is no bad thing) lowering the risk of accidents, improving pedestrian safety, and lowering noise.
Next let's look at putting in some protected cycling lanes. We'll use best practice design principles and put mono-directional cycle lanes on both sides of the road. We'll also paint them a bright colour (blue in this case) to provide a strong visual sign that this is a space for cyclists. At intersections this will also provide a sign to vehicles not to trespass onto the blue paint.
Cyclists will use the intersection as if it were a roundabout, traveling clockwise around the intersection remaining on protected infrastructure the entire time and at no point having to move across the intersection into car lanes. This means that motorists and cyclists each of their own space and should not encounter each other. Now there will be those that argue that we should not be putting down cycling infrastructure when so few people cycle. To these people I would point to the countless examples of infrastructure around the world (e.g. London and New York) have seen major increases in cyclist traffic. I would also add my favourite quote by the famous urbanist Brent Toderian: "It's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a river
Turning to pedestrians, we'll add additional curb space (grey) to further protect the cycle lanes and act as waiting areas for pedestrians wanting to cross the road. These curbs act to narrow the intersection and forces cars to go more slowly around corners. It also means that the distance pedestrians need to walk to cross the road is greatly reduced. This improves accessibility for all pedestrians but especially for the elderly, children, or differently abled who may move slower than the average person.
Next we'll paint the pedestrian walkways in bright colour (red in this case) to provide a very clear visual signal that this is a pedestrian space on which cars should not trespass when pedestrians have the right of way.
To further simplify the intersection (and thus improve its safety), and to provide additional space for pedestrians let's close off Park Lane to motor vehicles. We might have to call it Four-Ways in future but there is no reason why access to Park Lane is necessary at Five-Ways. Park Lane and Park Drive beyond it can be accessed easily enough through Dickens Street or King Georges Road where vehicles coming from the opposite direction must already travel due to the Park Lane access road being one directional only. This will free up this section of Park Lane for a small public space.
So what do we have to give up in order to make this happen? Not much at all is the answer. One car lane can be sacrificed on Cape Road (bottom of the image below) where there are a frankly ridiculous 6 lanes in place at the moment. Some on street parking down Cape Road would need to be removed too and car lane widths reduced on other roads to accommodate new cycling lanes.
Those worried about access to shops and apartments needn't worry too much. Although on street parking takes up a lot of space visually there are really not many parking bays that would be lost. For example, In the 210 metres between Dickens Street and the Five-Ways intersection there are only 15 parking bays on the one side of the road and 12 on the other. There is even less parking available on the other side of the intersection towards Salisbury Avenue.
Vehicle parking would still remain in Westbourne Road and the side streets, and with some minor investments parking in these roads could easily be increased to compensate for the loss of on street parking. But the loss of a few parking bays should not prevent the development of infrastructure which will fundemantely improve the mobility environment for thousands of pedestrians, motorists, and cyclists.
When teamed with efficent public transport, interventions like these can fundamentally change the shape of our cities, improve public safety, promote more active lifestyles, and reduce pollution. But the issue of our public transport system is a topic in of itself, and for another time.
Our cities are full of examples where simple solutions and small investments can drastically improved the accessibility and safety for pedestrians and cyclists. The rest of the world is already working on this, we should follow suit. In Nelson Mandela Bay especially we have the potential to dramatically improve our mobility environment and even become leaders in Africa in sustainable mobility.
Grant Hancock
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Gratitude Marketing: Appreciation Marketing – Why Did You Attend?
Appreciation Marketing – Why Did You Attend?
When I attend a networking meeting I am looking for different results depending on the different meetings. Any gathering of any sort is a networking meeting, even if you are going to be with just one person. Of course the more attendees present, the better the chance of meeting someone whom you have not met before or someone with whom you may be able to form a business relationship.
When attending any networking meeting, I anticipate learning something that I did not previously know or meeting someone new to me. There is something refreshing about learning that never ceases to amaze me and always rekindles my inner fire. Sometimes the what, or who, that is new may not be discovered at the meeting itself but may be found before, or after, the event.
Depending on the meeting and its organizers, your intent in attending may vary. Is it a business event, an entertainment function, a small gathering of friends, a celebration of some sort such as an anniversary or birth, an educational seminar, or even a combination of reasons? Whatever the function, you will be in the presence of people whom you may know well, or not at all. Take advantage of the meeting and spend time with the people that you never met before, or the people that you don't know well.
Of course, you can spend time with friends, but after you acknowledge them, get to know someone with whom you are not acquainted or do not know as well. You never know what you may learn, or the new relationship that you can make. This does not mean that you should only make acquaintances based on who can enhance your life. Try getting to know someone whose life that you can improve, with whom you can share some of your knowledge. That way both of you can find the event was beneficial or rewarding.
At an event there is always the person who may not be comfortable being in attendance. It is perhaps the person who has never before attended a networking meeting; it may be the spouse who is present at their partner's corporate function and feels left out of the small talk. Look for the person who is alone, even in a crowd or conversation. Look for the person who is "hugging the wall", standing by themselves, or doesn't engage in a conversation, even if they are physically included in the group that is chatting. Seek out these people and see if you have something in common, learn from them, and share with them what you have to offer. Treat them like you would want to be treated, or treat them even better.
Of course the most important thing that you can do in relation to any gathering is to follow up with everyone that you met. Words of thanks to them for their knowledge, wisdom, laughs, comments, attendance, or whatever are always appreciated. Fulfillment of your promises to them for information or clarification should be shared, just as you promised that you would do. Your follow up is essential to the success of the meeting, as well as to your reputation.
I still believe that every meeting, no matter the number of participants, is an opportunity that should not be missed. Learn, share, follow up, and enhance your life. You will be the better for it. Leave me your comments about this phase of Appreciation Marketing, or call me at 360-314-8691, or email me at Jim@SOC4Now.com. I even consider your reading this blog posting as a gathering of the sort that will improve both our lives. Thank you for your time, and remember to give, receive, and repeat to others to make everyone's life better.


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Dr Frederik Pedersen
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School of Divinity, History and Philosophy,
Crombie Annexe,
Meston Walk,
University of Aberdeen,
Old Aberdeen,
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Room: G04
School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History
Frederik is the President Emeritus of the European Academy of Religion, a world-wide research network with its secretariat in Bologna.
Frederik's research has two main focuses: Scandinavian and Baltic history and the history of marriage. His publications are evenly divided between the Viking Age, Scandinavian Secular Law, the History of the German Hanse and the History of the Reception of Medieval Canon Law.
Frederik has always been keen to ensure that his work is accessible to a large audience, both in style and in content. He has good connections with the media and is adept at disseminating his research outwith specialised academia. He is an experienced media commentator on issues relating to mediaeval social history and gender, and Viking history. Not only has he addressed academic audiences at Harvard Law School, The Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Law (Frankfurt am Main), Toronto, Oxford, Copenhagen, and Cambridge, but he has also been invited to appear on Woman's Hour and his appearances on television and radio programmes have included Melvyn Bragg's BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time, David Aaronovitch's BBC Radio 4 series The Viking Way, Phillip Adams, Late Night Live (Radio National, ABC, Australia), the Andy Peebles show (BBC Radio North), and Bettany Hughes' Channel 4 series Seven Ages of Britain. He has also been an advisor on television series, such as Neil Oliver's Vikings and Robert Bartlett's Inside The Mind of the Middle Ages. In 2014 he was an invited keynote speaker at Politics, Patronage and Prostitution: The Experiences of Medieval Women, a 'Special Interest Event' at Christ Church Oxford where he spoke on the subject of 'Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages'. He is the author of many articles on mediaeval law and marriage for The Conversation and The Medieval Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Danish Medical Bulletin. Currently he is planning a series of appearances to present cases from his research at the Aberdeen 'The Word' festival (held annually in May) under the title 'Tales from the Crypt: the York mediaeval Church Courts Look at Marital Fidelity'.
His work has an impact on a wide constituency: among academic scholars he has made significant contributions to legal history, women's studies, gender studies, mediaeval history, political history, social history, demography, economic history, and urban history. Among the more general interest groups his work is of significance to local historians and genealogists and those with an interest in the cultural history of marriage.
Frederik has extensive experience in dealing with mediaeval legal records and a broad knowledge of mediaeval legal history. Since graduating from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, he has published many scholarly articles and a monograph drawing on evidence from the courts of mediaeval York. In addition, he has published more generally on legal, social, and demographic issues in mediaeval Scandinavian law, on the marriage-breakup of King Philip II of France and on the development of marriage-law and theology from apostolic times to the fourteenth century. He translated the 12th-century Law of Scania from Danish to English as part of the mediaeval Nordic Laws project at Aberdeen, and has translated three monographs on Scandinavia and crusades, mediaeval Danish law, and a biography of the legal philosopher Alf Ross from Danish to English. By invitation from Bloomsbury Academic publishers he edits the second volume, The Medieval Age, 500—1500, of their six-volume series The Cultural History of Marriage, an international collaboration between European and North-American scholars, which is scheduled for publication in 2018.
As a student, Frederik held scholarships from various Danish trusts at the Centre for Medieval Studies in York and Copenhagen University. He graduated from Copnhagen with a PhD-level Magisterkonferens in 1984, received funding for an additional PhD from the Government of Canada in 1985 which was supplemented by grants from Carlsbergfondet. He studied with Michael Sheehan, Brian Stock and Ambrose Raftis at the Toronto Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and received a second PhD in 1992 before going on to be the Carlsberg-Clare Hall Visiting Fellow, a Carlsberg Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and a Visiting Professor at Forschungszentrum Europäische Aufklärung in Potsdam.
Since 2008, Frederik has been a Director of the Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (The International Medieval Canon Law Society) and he was a member of the Carnegie-Mellon funded advisory user-group for the Borthwick Institute for Archives. He was the founding president of 'Church, Law and Society in the Middle Ages' (CLASMA), an AHRC-funded network dedicated to the training of a new generation of scholars of mediaeval canon law. He is a member of the editorial board of Studia Gratiana, an academic journal for the study of mediaeval canon law which is published by the Vatican, and reviews books for academic journals in the UK and abroad.
In addition to his work with ecclesiastical court-records he took the initiative, and co-wrote the application, for the induction of the Aberdeen Burgh Records to the UNESCO UK Memory of the World. He also co-authored and edited the best-selling Viking Empires (CUP 2005).
He is currently editing the fourteenth-century marriage cases held in the Borthwick Institute for Archives in York for the British Academy series Records of Social and Economic History. This edition (and it is hoped, an accompanying monograph) will provide a more detailed picture of the way in which the legal system interacted with the cultural expectation of marriage and provide an informed discussion concerning the veracity and the limitations of the narratives presented by litigants and their proctors in court. This discussion will include not only the legal context but also the social and cultural assumptions of the litigants and the legal profession. The edition will make complete transcripts of all surviving marriage cause papers from fourteenth-century York available to a wider, mainly academic, audience for the first time and will enable a better informed discussion of their content in future and will enable a trans-national approach to the study of the interaction of the public with legal institutions by allowing and encouraging scholars to compare the York Cause Papers with other legal sources and to make comparative studies of different courts and different time-periods.
The edition and monograph also has a direct bearing on contemporary concerns, as expressed, for example in the recent papal encyclical Amoris Laetitia on the place of the family in modern life.
Frederik is a peer reviewer for The Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), The Carniegie Trust For The Universities in Scotland, The European Research Council, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) and the Icelandic Research Fund.
External Memberships
President of The Eurpean Academy of Religion (EuARe)
Editor of The Medieval Age, 500-1450 Volume 2 (of 6) of Joanne Ferraro (gen. ed.) The Cultural History of Marriage (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Member of the Carnegie Trust Peer Review College
Member of the AHRC Peer Review College
President of CLASMA (Church, Law and Society in the Middle Ages)
Member of the Board of Directors of The International Medieval Canon Law Society (ICMAC)
The Reception of Medieval Marriage Law
Medieval Courts and Medieval Law.
Medieval Demography
Cultural History of Marriage
Scandinavian History (particularly Post-Viking)
The North Atlantic as a Cultural Space
I am currently editing the fourteenth century marriage litigation preserved in the Borthwick Institute for the British Academy.
The mediaeval Cause Papers are a unique collection of legal documents of outstanding importance for legal and social historians of the middle ages. The litigants who appeared in them were drawn from all walks of life, from travelling traders, city apprentices and seamstresses to members of the baronial class. The marriage cases are particularly interesting because the Church courts allowed women to be plaintiffs and therefore they promise an extremely rare glimpse into the lives of medieval women.
Although it is tempting to believe that these documents contain the authentic voices of mediaeval people, an investigation of the full transcripts reveal that for procedural reasons the cases, the stories told and the manner of their telling was influenced by learned law from the outset. The first step of litigation was the plaintiff's oral presentation of a libel to the court which was subsequently redacted into a written libel with the help of a court-appointed proctor who was trained in law. Subsequent responses were made under oath, which meant that the defendant always had to keep in mind that if proven wrong, s/he might be sentenced for perjury. The documentation is also limited to what was admissible and interesting to the court and therefore omits many details and cannot be said to be an true record of ordinary life. However, until now the marriage cases have been excerpted and no complete records have been published. For the procedural reasons given above it is particularly important to provide full transcripts of the cases in order to allow scholars to establish the legal strategies open to the litigants at any given point of the litigation process.
The edited volume will include complete transcriptions of the Latin texts of all surviving fourteenth-century marriage cases. The transcripts are estimated to be about 250,000 words in length, the edition will be prefaced with a 50,000 word introduction outlining the history of the court, the legal procedure followed and a brief history of the archive. Indexes will include an Index of some 800 persons, an Index of Places and an Index of Case-types. It is expected that the indexes will take up approximately 30 printed pages.
The European Academy of Religion (Bologna-based world-wide research network)
Church, Law, and Society in the Middle Ages (with Barbara Bombi, Martin Brett, Peter Clarke, Kathleen Cushing, Anne Duggan, and Magnus Ryan).
CliohRes.net (With more than 150 collaborators across the EU)
Nordic Medieval Law
Teaching Responsibilities
Frederik has a strong involvment in the teaching of the history of sexuality and gender relations, and teaches senior honours courses on canon law and on marriage in the Middle Ages
In 2001, he put together the department's popular course on vikings (originally called 'Vikings, Gaels and Normans', but now simply 'Vikings!'), which became the Cambridge University Press best-selling Viking Empires and formed the basis for David Aaronovitz's Radio 4 series The Viking Way.
His main teaching interest is the history of marriage and the family, women, the history of the construction of gender and on gender relations from Antiquity to the present. His third-year courses have concentrated on the social, legal and cultural history of marriage and family in the middle ages and on Viking-age Scandinavia
He also taught Latin to History post-graduates for the past 18 years and designed the LT1007, LT1507, LT2007 and LT2507 courses.
He is keen to integrate literary texts such as the Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Mystery plays, and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde with the analysis of more traditional historical sources.
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William of Æbelholt as a source for the early reception of canon law in Denmark
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Payment for past crimes: 12th-century French cleric who called on Denmark to pay for Viking raids
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A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age (500-1450): Volume 2
Pedersen, F. J. G. (ed.), Kuehn, T. J., Karras, R. M., Dixon-Smith, S., Torrens, H. S. d., Engh, L. C., Butler, S., Ferraro, J. (ed.)
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A Cultural History of Marriage. Pedersen, F. (ed.). Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 97-115, 22 pages
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Playing the System: Marriage Litigation in the Fourteenth Century
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Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages. Smith, T. W., Killick, H. (eds.). Boydell & Brewer, pp. 185-202
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Motives for Murder: The Role of Sir Ralph Paynel in the Murder of William Cantilupe (1375)
Continuity, Change and Pragmatism in the Law. Simpson, A. R. C., Styles, S. C., West, E., Wilson, A. L. (eds.). Aberdeen University Press, pp. 68-94, 27 pages
Reading of the banns: how the church tried to perfect the institution of marriage
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Dayle Boller serves as the Men's Minstry Director at Daybreak Christian Assembly. Dayle coordinates various men's outings, trips, dinners, etc. It is essential to the church for men to fellowship with one another and to learn from each other. Dayle also works with the men to attend the MD/DC District Men's Conference held in March/April.


Herrera, Jose E.; Balzano, Leandro; Pompeo, Francisco ; Resasco, Daniel E.
Single-walled carbon nanotubes prepared by disproportionation of CO over Co-Mo/SiO 2 catalysts have been characterized by Raman spectroscopy, using several excitation energies. By varying the reaction temperature, different ranges of nanotube diameter were obtained. The average diameter of a single-walled nanotube produced at 750°C was 0.9 nm, while it increased up to about 1.5 nm when the synthesis was conducted at 950°C. The analysis of the Raman spectra obtained with a range of laser excitation energies not only gives a definite description of the single-walled nanotubes diameters but also helps differentiate the metallic or semiconducting character of the samples. This analysis can be done by comparing the experimental data with calculated gap energies as a function of nanotube diameter as well as comparing the relative intensity of bands centered at 50-60 cm -1 lower than the tangential G mode. The analysis of this feature, which can be fitted with a Breit-Wigner-Fano line, offers a method for distinguishing between metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes.


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An Alaska helicopter tour company says it's seen a 250% surge in business compared to 2019 as an influx of tourists travel to the state
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Alaska Helicopter Tours glacier landing.Alaska Helicopter Tours
Anchorage-based Alaska Helicopter Tours experienced a 250% boom in 2021 sales compared to 2019.
Hiring enough ground staff was the company's biggest challenge during the surge in demand.
The pandemic wrecked the tourism industry in the northern-most US state of Alaska, but it's seeing a speedy recovery with one tourism company more than doubling its 2019 sales this year.
Anchorage-based Alaska Helicopter Tours is a flightseeing company that flies adventurous customers across the beautiful state, offering aerial views of places like Denali National Park, as well as glacier hiking and dogsled tours.
Like many other companies across the country, the operator was a victim of the coronavirus pandemic, having temporarily lost its allowance to serve tourists. However, it was fortunate to be able to operate as an essential service flying for the local electric company on behalf of its parent organization, Alpha Aviation.
Following strict health and safety protocols as a utility service, Alaska Helicopter Tours was granted a waiver at the end of March 2020 by the state's Congress to offer flight tours to local Alaskans. According to the company's Director of Operations, Jennifer Hanks, who was born and raised in the state, the service helped keep the business going.
"We could offer something for locals to do to get out of their house," Hanks told Insider. "We were one of the first companies to be up and running and it was really nice to be able to open our doors to local Alaskans."
While the company was able to continue business during the pandemic, which was a rarity for tourism operators, it did not expect a huge travel surge in 2021. But, by January, it was clear Alaska Helicopter Tours was in for a big year.
"We thought it was going to be pandemic style with not many employees and not many helicopters on the tourism side, but we ended up having the craziest, busiest year ever," Hanks told Insider. "2019 was our busiest season and we are already two and half times over that in sales for 2021. And, for 2022, our presales are already double what they were this year."
Hanks explained that the surge comes from people desperate for a vacation and finally being able to travel again. She said a chunk of their guests were big families, and she believes that the airlines offering deals on flights helped people visit the state at a lower cost.
With the spike in sales came challenges, including finding enough labor and resources to meet demand. Before the pandemic, the company operated a fleet of three helicopters, including two Robinson R44s and one A-Star Helicopter, but had to add one more of each to handle the surge. The company also plans to grow the fleet event more due to the booming 2022 presales.
Alaska Helicopter Tours Robinson R44.Alaska Helicopter Tours
Though the company's business is growing, Alaska Helicopter Tours is no stranger to the labor shortage. Hanks told Insider that the company's biggest hurdle during the surge was hiring ground staff.
"Just like everywhere in the US, we could not find people because the hiring pool was very small and a lot of people were on unemployment," she explained. "A lot of Alaska's employees are also J1 [international] students, but they couldn't enter the US, so we did a lot of local advertising and got set up on Indeed."
According to Hanks, finding pilots was not an issue because having "Alaska time" for flight is a big benefit for their resumes.
Going into 2022, Alaska Helicopter Tours is cautious about the new COVID-19 Omicron variant, but it still expects a strong season.
"Realistically, the 2022 sales will be about 30% above what we did this year," Hanks told Insider.
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Partially true, and half truths. Ford did pardon Nixon. Reagan sold arms in "Iran Contra." Remember the Ollie North hearings? Bush 41 broke his "no new taxes" campaign promise, and was a one-term president because of it. However, a New York Times investigation revealed that there HAD BEEN WMD. The outing of Valerie Plame, the CIA agent is spin as she was no longer in the CIA by that time. Their conclusion is all wrong though. They conveniently compare "Hillary's server" against the deeds of multiple Republicans over decades only one of which, Iran Contra, was illegal, while neglecting all the treachery by multiple Democrats. That's a FALSE comparison.
Iran contra democats refused to provide aid, that Reagan wanted for anticommunist forces in Nicaragua. The Democrats supported the Communist Sandinistas. Reagan made deals to get them arms. The population was against the Democrats, they didn't care. as not aware of Iran Contra when it happened. When the facts came out he made a primetime national speech on all the TV stations apologizing to the American people and more than a dozen of the people involved in the scandal were sent to prison.You can find Reagan's speech on YouTube.
Nixon erased 33 seconds of voice recordings. Hillary deleted 33,000 emails. Hillary used an illegal private server and refused to turn it over.
George W Bush did not ever say Iraq had a role in 9/11. Remember liberals hated his pre-emptive war? You know that one where all the crazy Islamic radicals went to Iraq, as compared to now when they are spreading across Europe and coming here.
Also, Dick Cheney did not out an agent. Richard Armitage accidentally revealed her employment by the CIA. She worked at the CIA HQ in Langley, VA. Hard to imagine that she was extremely covert if she parks in their parking lot.
Reagan ended the Cold War, stopped Communist s spread in South America.......True story.
Bush Sr raised taxes and was not reelected. GW Bush tax relief on the first $6,000 of taxable income for individuals and the first $12,000 of income for couples. Unfortunately, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and AIG later that summer destroyed confidence in the global banking system.
Bush jr's military strategy in the Afghanistan and Iraq War was working and it wasn't until Obama and Hillary not only pulled out troops but told the world public when and how many they were going to pull out.
GW Bush even warned of this in 2007... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg5wexZUkSc
Iraq was stabilizing until Obama pulled troops out and even worse announced publicly how many and when. Sadam did have wmds. The intel was there. The fact that even the liberal mainstream media the time we went into Iraq was confirming themselves that Saddam had tons upon tons of yellow cake uranium (among other chemical weapons)...
http://www.wired.com/2010/10/wikilea...ising-results/
http://www.nbcnews.com/ID/25546334/
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/ira...l?_s=PM%253AUS
Prior to Bush becoming president there was much talk about WMD by the Clinton administration and that included Nancy Pelosi...
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp
Not to mention, that it was also located recently too...
http://www.inquisitr.com/1309825/isi...ush-was-right/
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arn...-lies-exposed/
As to the Senate Committee report - http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/080605/phase2a.pdf
- cited by Mr. Chait, actually, pre-war statements by the Bush administration were found to be largely "substantiated by intelligence" with no manipulated intelligence nor political pressure placed on intelligence analysts.
The casus belli for Operation Iraqi Freedom was Iraq's material breach of the Gulf War ceasefire.
Saddam's noncompliance with the UNSC resolutions, including the disarmament mandates of UNSCR 687, was evidently true.
See explanation of the law and policy, fact basis for Operation Iraqi Freedom:
http://learning-curve.blogspot.com/2...eedom-faq.html
Obama sending millions upon millions of US tax dollars to the greater of two evils in the Middle East...
Egypt: http://www.examiner.com/article/egyp...d-fighter-jets
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...washingtonpost
Lybia: http://m.lubbockonline.com/interact/...ists#gsc.tab=0
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2015/02/09...q-afghanistan/
Syria: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...ction/2075323/
Iraq: President Obama told the American people and the world that we were leaving a stable Iraq behind - sadly, he was wrong. Instead President Obama not only pulling troops from Iraq prematurely, he announced the timeline and how many troops he's pulling out of there to the enemy.
This created a power vacuum that ended up destabilizing the entire region and birthed the terrorist group known as ISIS.
https://www.aei.org/publication/bush...appen-in-iraq/
Eight months after the last Republican President, George W. Bush, took office, on 9/10/01 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reported that $2.3 TRILLION was missing from the Pentagon during the Clinton Administration, then the next day 911 occurred.
What will happen after the Obama adminstration leaves office (How much worse than 911?) and how much money did they embezzle from the American people?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU
Ted Kennedy left a woman in a car for 11 hours while in drunken stupor, Robert Byrd a Grand Wizard in the KKK. Gov Faubus defied Federal troops blocking desegregation in Little Rock, Gov Wallace same same in Alabama, LBJ saying when he signed the Civil Rights Act " we'll have them GD Ns voting for us for the next 200 years."
FDR rounded up all Japanese and put them in concentration camps...just like Hitler did to the Jews. Operation Paperclip where the Democratic President Truman's administration basically gave asylum to high-ranking Nazis and brought them into the US to live comfortable lives working for the government including NASA (Wernher von Braun).
Hillary Clinton was fired from the Watergate investigation for ethical violations, and has been lying ever since. She voted to declare war on Iraq.
She campaigned for DOMA, NAFTA, and supported other laws her husband slick willy the sexual predator signed. She adamantly opposed same sex so-called "marriage" until it became trendy about 4 years ago. The story about the server came out, because Hillary destroyed all the e'mails about benghazi.
It's what Hillary DID on her home server by handling classified material, not just that she had her own server. Plus, something NO ONE is talking about, is that this directly implicates BHO. Hillary had to have been communicating with him via email. He had to have known she was using a private server. Therefore, the president himself is likely guilty of breaking the same law Hillary did. This to me IS "the smoking gun" in the Hillary server issue. Now Obama is incentivizing and enabling hostage-taking with ransom deals to terrorism enabling governments.
Using the "Private Server" was the part that could be proven. The Data was the REAL issue. If the DOJ and FBI weren't SO corrupt, they would have raided the location immediately and confiscated all of the evidence instead of giving Her MONTHS to disburse and delete the incriminating parts. If you were thought to be committing traitorous dealings on your computer, how long would it take them to break your door down?
One big difference is those things happened after they were elected. We already know about the things that Hillary has done, which go beyond just the email server already. This should all really make us concerned about what she will do if given even more power.
(I'm also against Trump too, btw. I'm NeverTrump and NeverHillary. I won't take part in voting for either one of them).
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"It's incredible that I have to write this sentence in October 2014, but here it goes. No, George W. Bush was not right about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Now, I know what you're going say. "But look! The Times says they found WMDs in Iraq! The liberal media was wrong! Bush was right!" No, Bush was still very wrong. Very, very wrong.
Before we get into the actual reasons for why this doesn't vindicate Bush, let's think about this logically for moment. If the presence of these weapons proved Bush correct, then it stands to reason that the Bush administration would have come out at some point and said "hey, look at these weapons, we got it right." But they never did that. They knew the weapons were there, and they had many years to wave them around as proof positive that they didn't get many thousands of people killed based on false information, so why didn't they do it?"
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/15/no_b...mes_bombshell/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...eyPlayers.html
You can repeat the lies all you want, but the actual intel as provided above from sources ranging left, right, and independent, and the outcome of Obama's decision-making in Iraq proves otherwise.
Oh, well. Doesn't matter. He's still the president and nobody cares about what you think. boo hoo
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Wait - what? Actual intel? Here on Almostsmart? .... INTEL!
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Middlebury College Sailing
Fleet and Facilities
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Regatta Schedule
Stuart Walker Trophy
Alumni Regatta
Oh So Close! A recap of the past two weeks for MCSC
Alex Levin Uncategorized October 26, 2016 October 31, 2016
Simply put, the team would not be where it is today without all of the hard work and contributions made from every single member of this sailing team. Over the past two weeks, the sailing team has experienced new highs and a few lows. For the first time in years (we really are not sure how long), the Middlebury Panthers cracked the top 18 teams of NEISA, topping out at 16th overall after week 6. Week 7's regatta at Mass Maritime Academy's Great Herring Pond Open yielded slightly disappointing results, leaving the team in a super close 19th place, just hundreds of decimal points behind Salve Regina in 18th. Salve seemed to save their best sailing for the last two weekends, as they were able to secure a spot in the top 18 of NEISA.
Despite the weather warnings for heavy winds and potentially heavy rains, Nate Weiner/Emmet Bryon and Lexie Lessing/Julia Silva trekked from Middlebury to Boston College for the Central Series #6. With the potential for strong Southwesterly winds, BC allowed teams to make late drops. Never one to quit, the group of Middlebury sailors sent it to Boston to tackle the breezy sailing conditions. After a slow start to the day, the strong winds drove into Boston Harbor, followed by a rain so torrential that Lexie and Julia claimed 'they could not see or hear the finish line'. Races were called a bit early on Saturday and no final decision was made on racing until the next day. In the end, there was no sailing on Sunday in Boston Harbor, and the team headed back north to Middlebury to find snowy mountain peaks and that fall is already on its way out.
Leading into this past Sunday's regatta at Tufts, the Middlebury Panthers needed a top score in order to sneak into this upcoming weekend's Schell Trophy hosted by Coast Guard Academy. The breezy conditions provided spectators with ample entertainment, coaches with five hours of stress, and sailors with exhausting yet exciting sailing. As the breeze was not expected to subside throughout the day, Diana W, UNH's coach, made the decision with Ken Legler to limit sailors to just a mainsail. Tufts sailors helped rig all of the new Turbo Larks, stepping the masts and wrapping the jibs around themselves to render them useless for the day. Whether this was safer / better for the boats or not, this was the decision that was made by two very experienced coaches. Sailing without a jib in big puffy breeze caused multiple teams to find themselves stuck in irons for minutes at a time.
The Panthers sent two complete teams to the Peak Foliage, hosted by UNH at Tufts. Our Women's team was comprised of Jade Forsberg and Sarah Yang along with Raine Ellison and Alden Cowap. Our coed team was fielded by Ben Arquit and Sarah Scott plus Sam Scatchard and Sam Zimmer. Ben and Sarah started quite strong, with a 2nd and a 1st in the first set. They finished with solid scores despite an incomplete final set due to time constraints. Although no Reese's were awarded during the regatta (at least to our knowledge), the team always enjoys a well managed day of racing by Diana and her assistants from UNH. Thanks to Tufts for their help rigging and derigging the Larks, and congrats to Mcgill for their win and securing the 16th spot in NEISA. Full scores and report here.
(Sam Z, Sam S, Ben A, Sarah Scott, Raine, Alden, Jade, Sarah Yang in front)
Despite narrowly missing the cut for the top 18 teams of NEISA and a berth in the Schell, the Panthers are excited to compete this weekend on the Thames river at the Fall Dinghy Tourney. It will be exciting to compete against a half dozen other teams who narrowly missed the cut, just down river from the Schell tourney. The team still has eyes on a top 18 finish overall, as we have two more regattas to compete in. Thanks to everyone who continues to support our team as we make positive strides and continue to move up in the ranks in collegiate sailing.
This past weekend, the Middlebury Panthers made the long (and gorgeous) drive to Maine for the Barnett Trophy at Bowdoin and the Protest Trophy hosted by Bates. Two great events in a variety of conditions yielded mixed results for the the Panthers.
The Barnett was sailed out of Bowdoin's beautiful new Leighton Sailing Center on Harpswell Sound. Saturday's sailing conditions were a building seabreeze with diminishing sunshine throughout the day. Ten races were sailed with on-water rotations and one lunch break in between race 4 and 5. Though the Middlebury sailors had little to no trouble sailing in the 10kt seabreeze, the current played a bit of a factor in the morning in their tactical decision making. Whether fortunate or unfortunate, only 9 teams showed up to the Barnett, meaning that A and B fleet sailed combined divisions. With tricky current and multiple fouls at the weather and offset mark each race, scores were up and down for every team on day one. As the day wore on, the Panthers results became more consistent, with a few solid top 8 finishes mixed in. At the end of the day, the Panther's sat in a comfortable position ahead of UCONN, poised to make a move to pass Mass Maritime.
(Ben Brown and Casey Astiz in boat 8)
As luck would have it, Saturday's kind seabreeze gave way to a stiff and chilly NW breeze for Sunday. Fortunately, only 8 races would be sailed on Sunday, and with races just off the Leighton Sailing Center, rotations would be done off the dock. Shortly after the start of the races, the skies open, and the breeze kicked in, and the weather progressively got worse and worse. With each rotation, teams were slower and slower to leave the dock. Unlike Saturday's mistake filled sailing, Sunday's racing featured virtually no fouls and plenty of exciting racing finishes.
In A-fleet, Ben Brown (2018) and Casey Astiz (2019) started the day with three strong races due to great starts and solid management of the fleet. Jade Forsberg (2017) and Sarah Yang (2019) improved within a strong B-fleet and enjoyed one race of leading the fleet around the first two marks. The day could not have ended any earlier, as all sailors were wet, cold, and exhausted from two days of racing. The Panther's 8th place finish will certainly provide the team great points to help move up the rankings this week in NEISA. Congrats to Harvard and a big thank you to Head Coach Frank Pizzo and company for running an excellent regatta. Full scores can be found here.
In Lewiston, Maine, the Panthers raced against another formidable group of sailors at the Protest Trophy. Bates sailing venue is located at Taylor Pond. Unfortunately, the regatta did not feature the breeze that the sailors had in Harpswell Sound-just the rain.
From Lexie Lessing (2019): "Everything went smoothly besides the wind dying after the third race and the constant cold rain".
Lexie Lessing and Erich Wu started strong in A-fleet, netting a few strong races. As the wind tapered off and the rain got heavier and colder, the results flatlined into more consistent mid-fleet races.
New racers Vick Xu and Eiko Fulton raced in B-fleet, struggling to find consistently but had some good races with solid results. Being Eiko's first and Vick's second regatta, their hard work and drive to improve was apparent throughout Sunday's regatta.
The team heads to two more regattas this coming weekend. Four sailors will take on a group of schools up north in Montreal, Quebec at the McGill Cup. Another group of sailors will head to the infamous Great Herring Pond Open at Mass Maritime's inland sailing venue.
Thanks to all of the parents, friends, and family who continue to support our team. We cannot do it with our your support, so we appreciate any donations that you are able to make to our small but growing club sailing team. We are excited with our progress and have our eyes looking forward to this weekend's important regattas.
Slow and Steady wins the race?
Alex Levin Uncategorized October 5, 2016 October 5, 2016
Some may argue that 'slow and steady' does not in fact help you win a sailing race. However, the Fall season for NEISA sailors is more of a marathon than a sprint, a race that merits methodical sailing throughout the course of the season.
Certainly, the sailing conditions this past weekend at MIT's Wood Pavilion on the Charles River required methodical planning, as shifty and progressively light Northeast winds filtered through the Charles River basin.
Most sailors have a love/hate relationship with the George Warren Smith Trophy at MIT: whereas the sailing on the Charles can be so exciting, it can also be terribly frustrating and unforgiving. Relative to Middlebury, sailing in Boston is considered 'close', and regattas in Boston always yield great turn outs from teams both stronger and weaker than Middlebury. Not to mention the regatta is sailed in Fireflys and MIT's infamous 'Tech(nical) Dinghies'. There is something so pure and classic about sailing in downtown Boston on the Charles. Needless to say, the sailing on the Charles is always…unpredictable.
Saturday's weather was forecasted to blow 15-25 from the Northeast-a promising forecast for the Charles. Thirty-eight or so sailors from 19 schools arrived at the Charles to lighter than forecasted breeze and a drizzle that never let up throughout the day. The Middlebury Panthers were represented by Ben Brown and Alden Cowap in A-fleet, and Ben Arquit and Emmet Byron in B-fleet. A-fleet started in fireflies with B-fleet in the techs. Both groups started off strong, allowing confidence to build slowly throughout the day. However, just as quickly as one's confidence can blossom after a strong race on the Charles, one terrible race can quickly humble even the strongest sailors and remind them that the Charles does what the Charles wants. Needless to say, the Panthers ended Day 1 of the Smith Trophy in a comfortable 9th place with the possibility to gain a place or two.
The weather on Sunday was much less exciting with grey skies, light breeze, and just plain damp. The team set goals to close the gap on Boston College, only 25 points ahead. A few good races for the Panthers and a few poor races by the 2nd ranked BC Eagles could allow Middlebury to move into 8th place for the regatta. After a strong first set for Midd, the wind slowly shut off, creating ever so frustrating and unforgiving sailing conditions. Connecting the puffs was the name of the game, and locating the breeze before others would result in positive results. Despite putting our time on Lake Dunmore sailing in the lightest of breezes this fall, the Panthers could not keep up the Sunday morning success and faltered in the light, patchy air.
The regatta ended when MIT sailing Master Franny Charles could no longer maintain any breeze above 3kts. The regatta was called around 1pm with Middlebury finishing in a strong 9th out of 19 boats.
Thanks to Franny Charles and the MIT sailing staff once again for an efficient regatta. Full scores.
The entire team continues to work hard every day at practice, supporting and pushing each other. The Panthers thank everyone who continues to house, support, and watch our team as we continue to gain traction during the marathon that is the fall 2016 season. Excitingly, the team has continued to climb the NEISA rankings and is looking forward to this coming weekend. This weekend, the team will have eight sailors competing in Maine-one group at the Barnett (Bowdoin College) and another group at the Protest (Bates College).
GO MIDD!!!
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Well, that was fun, yes? Yes. It was. I had a little trepidation about the show diverging from its successful formula of turning old songs new again and turning new songs slightly less auto-tuned and terrible. While I don't think either of the original numbers performed tonight have that same earworm quality of anything by Rihanna, Katy Perry or Ke$ha, they were sweet and genuine. I'm almost relieved that they chose to do something that felt right for the show and not just a quick cash grab to get some radio play.
The story moved along nicely, but I'd be remiss in my bitchy internet commenting duties if I didn't complain a little bit about the lack of gravity given to Regionals this season. I just remember bawling hysterically during last season's Regionals finale and I missed those high stakes. Maybe the powers-that-be are saving all those big, emotional moments for Nationals. Fingers crossed.
Still, it was fun! Let's discuss!
In a nutshell: Regionals time! After being served with a cease and desist letter from My Chemical Romance (which was of course forged by Sue), the New Directions are forced to reconsider Rachel's idea to do original songs. The main crew will work together on one number while Rachel and Quinn pair off to write the other. What, you haven't heard? Quinn and Rachel are totally besties now. Well, at least now that Quinn is determined to go public with Finn and win prom king/queen and she doesn't need Rachel mucking it all up. When they go to the auditorium to work, Quinn confesses about her and Finn's affair and breaks it all down to Rachel. She and Finn will get married and stay in Lima, she'll become a successful real estate agent and he'll take over Kurt's dad's tire shop. And Rachel will be off far, far away performing dinner theater or some such. It's tough love, but it's actually a little true. Rachel is not meant to stay in Lima, and maybe Quinn is. Finn is the real wild card here and I imagine this will really play out with how Finn wants to plan his future. I'm interested to see where that goes. Meanwhile, at Dalton, Kurt's letting Blaine have it about hogging all the solos. When the Warblers' mascot dies, Kurt is heartbroken and sings Paul McCartney's "Blackbird" in his honor. Blaine is moved and finally realizes that he's in love with Kurt. Hooray! Blaine's even inspired to share a solo at Regionals with Kurt. Double hooray! At the competition, the judges are Sarah Palin a Tea Party candidate, Sister Mary Clarence a stripper-turned-nun, and the Lima news anchor who Sue had a brief affair with in season one. Sue's Aural Intensity team sings a song about Jesus to pander to the judges, the Warblers are fun and charming (despite singing an UGH P!nk song) and then it's the New Directions' turn. First Rachel sings her very moving original song about trying her best, but her best not being good enough and blahblah and it was all very good and very Rachel and I did indeed love it. Then the rest of the crew comes out and they sing "Loser Like Me," an original song that's pretty self-explanatory. It's fun and summery and it's all capped off with a confetti slushee attack to the crowd. Loved it. The New Directions handily defeat the competition and they're off to Nationals! The team even unanimously vote Rachel MVP of Regionals! Her best is good enough sometimes! Another hooray! Oh, and one more thing, apparently Will is still maybe-sort-of dating Holly! Quad hooray?
Note: I am currently writing this from a hotel in Austin with no DVR. As such, these quotes may not be as accurate as usual. Bear with me.
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Things to do in Powys
Days out in Powys
Places to visit in Powys
Craig Goch, Elan Valley
Powys in mid Wales encompasses the 'old' counties of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and part of Brecknockshire. The east of the county forms the borderland with England. The Rivers Severn, Wye and Usk flow through Powys.
Offa's Dyke
The Brecon Beacons National Park is in the south of the county, Offas Dyke Footpath and Wales's newest National Trail - Glyndwr's Way - pass through Powys, making it a popular destination for those who enjoy outdoor pursuits, wildlife and nature.
Lake Vyrnwy
Lying in scenic countryside in the north of the county, near the foothills of the Berwyn Mountains, Lake Vyrnwy is a Victorian reservoir built in 1880s to provide water for Liverpool. It has the first stone-built dam in Britain. There is a RSPB nature reserve around the reservoir along with a circular 13-mile cycle route. The reservoir is renowned for fresh water fishing.
Marteg River at Gilfach Farm near Rhayader
Pistyll Rhaeadr Waterfall
Seven Wonders of Wales
Within this lovely peaceful area, is one of the 'Seven Wonders of Wales' - Pistyll Rhaeadr Waterfals. Formed by the Afon Disgynfa River passing over a 240-foot/75m-cliff face, Pistyll Rhaeadr means the 'Spring of the Waterfall' and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Powis Castle
In the north east borderlands, you will find the historic market town of Welshpool, famous as the home of 13th century Powis Castle. The impressive red sandstone castle and its beautiful gardens overlook the upper Severn valley.
Powis Castle, Welshpool
Situated on the Canal Warf is Powysland Museum, with displays illustrating life in Montgomeryshire throughout the ages. The town is the starting point of the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway. Why not take a trip and enjoy travelling deep into the beautiful Banwy Valley? The terminus is at Llanfair Caereinion.
A few miles south in the village of Berriew is Glansevern Hall Gardens.htm. The garden stretches over 18 acres and is a delight for the green fingered. Also in Berriew is the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture with an innovative collection of amusing works.
There is a Powys Tourist Information Office in Newtown, a busy shopping centre and the largest market town in the Severn Valley. During the 19th century the town was an important centre manufacturing textiles. Today you can learn about its past at the Newtown Textile Museum in Commercial Street.
River Usk
Owain Glyndwr
The historic border town Knighton is steeped in history and was the site of one of Owain Glyndwr's victories over English invaders. It's now the starting point of Glyndwr's Way National Trail, a trail which links to the Offa's Dyke Path. It wends its way in a giant horse shoe through market towns and quiet villages to Machynlleth in the east of the county, before turning back across Powys to Welshpool.
Dovey Valley
The lovely Dovey Valley is a beauty spot and one of the great natural features of mid Wales. Here you will find Machynlleth, an attractive small town, with interesting shops and galleries whose history goes back to the Iron Age.
Owen Glyndwr was proclaimed King here in the 15th century and made it the capital of Wales. The Owen Glyndwr Institute in the town is traditionally thought of as his Parliament House.
The town is a popular centre for fishermen who come to fish the River Dovey for salmon and sea trout.
Centre For Alternative Technology
From Machynlleth, take the water balanced cliff railway 180 feet up the side of the valley to visit the Centre for Alternative Technology. It's the largest display of its kind in Europe. There is so much to see, do and learn, it's a great day out for all ages.
Brecon Beacons National Park
At the heart of mid Wales is the town of Rhayader situated on the River Wye at the gateway to the beautiful Elan Valley. The surrounding lakes were built as reservoirs to supply water to Birmingham. Rhayader is a favourite centre for walkers, pony trekkers and wildlife enthusiasts.
Wye Valley
The woodlands of the Wye Valley provide protected nesting sites for Red Kite. Visitors to the area can watch these majestic birds at the feeding centre at Gigrin Farm just outside the town.
North of Rhayader at the mouth of the Marteg Valley, in the Cambrian Mountains is Gilfach Nature Reserve, where a wide variety of habitats support many species of wildlife and plants.
Spa Towns
It is well worth visiting Presteigne and the Victorian Spa Towns of Builth Wells, Llandrindod Wells, and Llanwrtyd Wells.
The pretty little town of Presteigne on the Herefordshire border has plenty of history to discover - the half-timbered buildings date back to the 14th century.
Today Builth Wells is best known as the host of The Royal Welsh agricultural show which is held annually at the end of July.
Sgwd Yr Eira Waterfall in the Brecon Beacons
Llandrindod Wells is a popular inland resort with fine 19th century architecture, parks, gardens, a lake, bowling green and a Spa Pump Room.
Llanwrtyd Wells claims to be the smallest town in Britain and many events take place throughout the year. It is a popular centre for walkers, cyclists and pony trekkers.
Llangorse Lake, Brecon Beacons National Park
In south Powys, Hay-on-Wye is renowned as a busy centre for second hand books. A Literary Festival is held here in the last week in May and the first week in June.
The historic Cathedral town of Brecon is an ideal base for exploring the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
From here you can enjoy outings such as a trip on the Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal. Alternatively, you might want to board a steam train on the Brecon Mountain Railway for a scenic ride into the National Park.
Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture
Andrew Logan's work is of popular poetry and metropolitan glamour. It is an art which resounds with the exuberant excess of a Busby Berkeley musical.
Our eco-centre features working examples of sustainable living, renewable energy, environmentally responsible building, energy conservation, organic growing and composting.
Gilfach Nature Reserve
Situated in a beautiful setting at the mouth of the Marteg Valley in the Cambrian Mountains of mid-Wales, Gilfach is locally unique because of its wide variety of habitats: high moorland to enclosed meadow, oak woodland to rocky upland river.
Glansevern Hall
Over 25 acres of glorious gardens surrounding a Greek revival house of great elegance on the banks of the River Severn.
Llanidloes Museum
The Local History Gallery depicts the development of Llanidloes during the last three centuries. Topics include the history of the Old Market Hall, civic events in the town as well as both World Wars.
Newtown Textile Museum
Step into the lives of the handloom weavers of the mid 19th century with a visit to Newtown Textile Museum
Powis Castle and Garden
It is hard to believe that the oldest parts of Powis Castle were begun around 800 years ago and some of the oaks were planted at a similar time. The castle was built by the Welsh Princes.
Powysland Museum
The groundfloor displays illustrate the history and development of life in Montgomeryshire from the earliest prehistoric settlers to the 20th century population.
Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh
When you come to Brecon be sure to reserve at least one hour to see the treasures of the 'Old 24th', South Wales Borderers, the Monmouthshire Regiment and, more recently The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot).
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Have a break in our tea rooms- Whether its breakfast, coffee and cake,afternoon tea or the lunch menu, come and enjoy home cooked food from fresh produce
Tretower Court and Castle
A visit to Tretower Court and Castle reveals two historic sites for the price of one. In open country against the backdrop of the Brecon Beacons stands a stark, round tower and its companion piece - a handsome stone manor house.
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
The railway was opened in 1903 to link the rural communities to the market town of Welshpool. The gauge of 2 ft 6 inches allowed for tight curves and steep gradients following the contours of the countryside.
Historic Brecon is the bustling centre of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Crickhowell
A wonderfully compact and well preserved Georgian town with a 13th century castle and 17th century bridge boasting more arches on one side than the other.
Hay-on-Wye
Located on the Welsh-English border, Hay-on-Wye is a market town in the Brecon Beacons National Park. The town is most famous as a Book Town due to its many second-hand bookshops - making it a wonderful destination for book-lovers to explore.
Knighton
700 years ago Knighton was the scene of one of Owain Glyndwr's most famous victories against English invaders. Now it warmly welcomes tourists from all over Europe and beyond to this attractive and interesting border town.
Llandrindod Wells
The Victorian spa town of Llandrindod Wells is a double delight, the touring centre for some of the most beautiful of all Mid Wales countryside and an inland resort famed since Victorian times.
Llangenny
The picturesque village of Llangenny situated in the hills of Brecon Beacons National Park may seem out of the way but is perfectly located for those fond of walks, bike riding or just seeing nature.
Llyswen
Llyswen, in the Upper Wye Valley, is noted for its beauty and tranquillity and is a wonderful location for those wanting a quiet holiday.
New Radnor
New Radnor is a delightful village situated just off the A44 on the borders of Hereford and mid wales. Easy to pass by on the way to places of more renown it well rewards a visit.
Partrishow
Partrishow is a very small village about 2miles north of Abergavenny South wales.
Pont-Nedd-Fechan
Located in the Vale of Neath, Pontneddfechan was once a scene of great industrial activity and innovation.
Presteigne
Cross the River Lugg at Presteigne and you'll step ashore on England. This fascinating little medieval market town is right on the English border, with history and buildings dating back to the 14th century.
Rhayader is situated on a crossroads halfway between North and South Wales - a place of hills, valleys and water. In Welsh, Rhaeadr means waterfall.
Talgarth
The small but ancient market town of Talgarth sits comfortably beneath the Black Mountains, forming an excellent gateway to the mountains for hill walking or mountain biking.
Talybont
Talybont-on-Usk is a pretty village nestling below the Central Beacons between the River Usk and the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, in the heart of the Brecon Beacons National Park.


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When last we met I was about to go to the Jimmy Buffett concert and then immediately on to our annual Cape Cod vacation. Guess what? That's just what I did. So, taking things in chronological order, I shall recap our tailgating and concert day first.
As usual, we converted my Jeep into a pirate ship. And that's cool. But you know what? It's a lot of work. Dale spends time before the concert getting it ready and then it has to be all assembled in the parking lot. On a day that's made for fun this just sort of feels like . . . work. All this is a long way of saying that we have decided the 3 masted Jeep made it's final appearance at this year's tailgating event. And so, we made the most of it!
We posed with the usual suspects along with the addition of some new tailgating superstars.
Dressing up as a pirate is great fun but this year's weather was incredibly hot. I bailed on my costume by late afternoon. I didn't bail on the fun, though. We had tequila and beer, jello shots and cheeseburgers, and as much fun as you can legally have.
Or illegally have, if you're going by the rules posted on that there sign.
Anyway. It was a fantastic day and it lived up to all of my expectations, as did the concert. Jimmy Buffett never disappoints me, he is an entertainer extraordinaire and his song selection at this show included several of my favorites.
The show ended just as the skies opened up and the rain came down. We huddled under a pop up, eating licorice and cookies and reminiscing on what a fun day it had been. The ride home was a damp and chilly one but the memories of a fantastic day kept us warm.
Okay, not really. It was cold! But still, I wouldn't have changed a thing. And my favorite pirate wouldn't have either.
Welcome back and glad that you had a great time as always!!!
You kinda expect a little 'illegal' behavior from a lot of scallywags and pirates, don't you?! Welcome back! You were missed.
Is that where we last left you!? It seems so long ago now. That was summer, now it's almost fall and summer vacations are over. It's nice to read your posts once again. I've missed you!
You and Dale certainly don't do things halfway!
Well, I'm as speechless as if I'd been there enjoying some tequila!
The Jeep looks great but I can imagine it is quite the project. And I don't blame you for bailing on the costume. It was a sticky day for sure. Until the rain came. I was watching my weather app and praying it skipped you guys but it wasn't looking good! I heard lots of stories of soggy rides home this year. Glad you had a blast.
I love your Pirate Jeep! Always fun to read about Buffett time.
Oh, cool! Our oldie-but-goodie fantastic performer was Tom Rush–but indoors, no costumes and no refreshments. Great view, though!


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This is the tenth part of a series I'm calling Blogmatics. It's an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.
There are many days when I find myself teetering on the brink of, if not atheism, then at least a strong agnosticism.
Ironically, it's a strong faith that leads me here more often than doubt.
Sure, there are times when I doubt the very existence of God for one reason or another, but more often than not it is my deepest convictions about God's existence and God's nature that push me towards agnosticism.
At the heart of my struggle is the problem of evil.
First cause or intimate designer, total sovereign or free will benefactor, absolute omnipotence or kenotic self-denial, if God exists and has the ability to speak the rest of existence into being, and if God is the sort of God described by the Christian faith, then God is capable of bursting through our reality to defy our wildest imaginations with acts of unspeakable grace and healing.
So when that doesn't occur and we are left to cry out with the Psalmist, "My God, my God, why have your forsaken me?", I find myself wondering why God is even worth believing in.
So what keeps me hanging around the church?
Why not leave and embrace a protesting agnosticism?
Because I can't escape the resurrection.
I can't escape a feeling deep in my soul that something happened that first Easter morning which forever changed the reality of the world we live in and the world to come.
I can't prove it unequivocally.
I don't have any video of Jesus walking out of the tomb or pictures of a resurrected Jesus or the resurrected Jesus himself to present as definitive proof.
But I do have an empty tomb.
And I do have eyewitness testimony.
And I do have the record of people who experienced something so dramatic, so earth shattering that it radically transformed the course of not only their own lives, but of history itself.
But even still, I do not believe in the resurrection simply because the Bible tells me so.
I believe in the resurrection because I have encountered the resurrected Christ in my own life.
I've held his nail pierced hand as my family has held on to me and refused to let me feel as if I was alone, unloved, or unacceptable. I've touched the wound in his side when my friends have embraced and supported me through times of trial and weakness. I've seen miracles in the kindness of mere acquaintances and total strangers who have extended grace and mercy to me when I did not deserve it.
Could those simply be kind acts from nice people?
This is why the church grounds the Christian faith in the historical, physical resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Aside from the fact that Christianity makes no sense apart from the resurrection, to affirm the resurrection of Jesus is to affirm the reality that God is really and truly at work in the world, endowing it with hope, gifting it with grace, and slowly but surely transforming it into the place it was created to be.
Which is why I am not interested in a gnostic resurrection that divorces God's work in the physical here and now from a spiritual hope for what God may do in the future or which relegates a transforming moment in time to an esoteric ideal sparked in the imagination of a few ancient religious zealots.
I find the notion that the resurrection of Jesus was simply a spiritual idea to be an utterly empty, completely unsatisfying, and totally hopeless claim sparked by a false humility of faith.
If the resurrection of Jesus was not a historical, physical moment that continues to transform and renew the historical, physical world we live in, then it is not something worth believing in.
Likewise, I am not interested in the resurrection simply as a belief to be affirmed.
Peter Rollins has a beautiful talk that he gives in which he speaks about how he denies the resurrection. It's intentionally framed to get the audience to believe Rollins is taking an unorthodox stance on a central orthodox theological tenet of faith. In reality, he is exposing how divorced our lives so often are from our faith.
We claim to believe that all things have been made new, that the mighty have been brought down and the least made great, that new life has been extended to the dead and the dying, and yet we do nothing to help bring that reality to fruition. Instead, we live our lives as if nothing really changed that first Easter morning. Which means, as Rollins so eloquently puts it, every time we refuse to extend the love and grace that has been given to us, we deny the reality of the resurrection.
So it should really come as no surprise that so many are so disinterested in a church that increasingly defines itself by political positions and what she doesn't do and who she doesn't associate with, rather the ways in which she incarnates the resurrected Christ to the world. They hear us shout the good news from the mountaintop, but they don't see us live it out in the valley.
Tragically, the resurrection has become for many of us nothing more than another doctrine to be affirmed in order to secure our ticket to heaven.
If the historical, physical resurrection we claim to believe in is not also a historical, physical life we lead which transforms the historical, physical world we live in, then the church and the gospel she proclaims is not something worth believing in.
To put it another way, if the historical, physical, reality transforming resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth does not result in historical, physical, reality transforming people, then as a church we deny the resurrection more unequivocally than any archaeological dig ever could.
Now, I am under no illusion that being on our best behavior will necessarily win over all the skeptics.
But I do believe, or at least I want to believe, that when it comes to the resurrection, part of the reason so many people don't believe in the unbelievable is that the church gives them no reason for doing so.
Which means if we are going to claim that Jesus was truly raised from the dead, then we must live out the resurrected life.
Otherwise, we need to stop pretending to believe.