Later on that day, Laura walked into the small town that was located near the retreat centre. Annie was busy replying to her clients' emails and organising sessions for when she returned from the retreat. Annie and Laura had come to call the retreat centre 'The Palace of Peace', because of the peaceful feeling that they both got when they were there. Thankfully there was a small town nearby with shops, cafes and a market – Laura wasn't sure if she could have lived right in the middle of nowhere.'Otherwise how would I get some proper coffee', Laura thought as she walked along the dry pavement and the colourful lights on the billboards advertising everyday products in Mandarine. 'I wonder what they are trying to sell', Laura pondered as she stared at the foreign-looking Chinese characters.
'What a language to learn,' Laura said to herself as she approach the teahouse that made excellent iced pearl tea. There were many scooters in different colours parked at the front, one of the most popular means of transport Taiwan, as Laura had learnt in her first day in Taipei.
'One iced milk tea to take away', Laura said to the smily girl behind the counter. Just for a double-measure, she pointed at the picture of the tea in the menu. All menus here thankfully had pictures in then, as Laura still wasn't sure how much English everyone understood. She was pretty sure that most people understood a lot but were just shy to speak it themselves. Despite the language barrier, everyone was so hospitable and friendly that it made Laura want to learn some Chinese so that she could communicate with the locals.
Since it was a pleasant summer's evening, Laura decided to walk to the canal that ran through the town and sit by the water as the sun went down. The day before, she had found a beautiful spot on the canal bank that overlooked the mountains. 'This is blissful', she thought as she sat down on the green grass. Birds were singing and Laura could see the pink rays of the sun behind the mountain as the sun set for the night.
Out of the blue, just when Laura was finishing her tea and getting ready to head back to the Palace of Peace, she heard a loud voice shouting from the direction of the tea shop. She turned around to see a tall, dark Western-looking man stomp out of one of the small super markets. He looked distraught and slightly angry. Right behind him, there was a group of locals who looked even angrier. They were shouting after the man in Chinese, but since the man didn't even turn to look, they soon stopped, shrugged their shoulders and walked back into the store.
Laura was looking more closely at the man who appeared to be walking towards the canal and her spot of peace.
Laura was just getting back on her feet when the dark stranger was standing right in front of her. He was much taller than what Laura had initially thought. Towering over her, he held out a chocolate bar towards her. As Laura looked up, she could see a clint of mischief in his deep brown eyes.
Then Laura took a sharp breath in as she realised who he was. He was Darky Lewis, a world-famous pop singer. He had sang with a very famous band called The Dark Stars until last year when he decided to go solo, and had built a very successful solo career for himself. Laura was in awe. She quickly tried to recompose herself and smiled at the man.
'Were those people just shouting after you?' She asked tentatively. To her surprise, Darky started laughing in very girlish giggles. There was something very captivating about the way he laughed, and Laura couldn't help herself but to laugh along.
Darky shrugged at Laura apologetically. He looked somehow embarrassed at what he had done.
'How come a world-reknown pop star needs to steal chocolate bars?' Laura whispered to herself, but nevertheless she dug out some Taiwanese shillings from her pocket.
Darky took the coins and looked grateful. 'Thank you very much. This is very kind of you. Now, please, at lest take one of the chocolate bars as a thank you.' He grinned a charming smile that spread across his face. 'I'll be back in a minute.' Darky disappeared back inside the shop and, Laura didn't have time for much else than for gathering her thoughts, when Darky was back by her side with some iced coffees in hand.
Laura took the coffees and waved at the shop window. Since it was dark, it was hard to make out if anyone waved back, but she thought that she saw a red sleeve move in a wave motion.
'That's sorted then', she said and smiled at Darky. 'I am Laura, by the way, from London'.
'So what brings you here?' Darky asked after a while once they had chewed on their chocolate bars in silence for a few minutes, admiring the mountains that were now casting grey silluettes.
'I am doing a yoga and meditation retreat down the road', Laura said and pointed to the direction of the retreat centre.
With that, he walked away into the dark night.
'What is he like', Laura whispered to the birds that were flying by, as she started walking towards the retreat centre, with an uneasy feeling in her heart.
This entry was posted in Writing & blogging and tagged volunteer blog, Writing and blogging on January 25, 2015 by Buna School of Music.
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WASHINGTON _ The Senate on Thursday confirmed acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to lead the department on a permanent basis, despite complaints by Democrats that the former oil and gas lobbyist has used his federal position to benefit former industry clients. The Senate voted 56-41 to approve Bernhardt's nomination to oversee the country's public lands and resources. He succeeds Ryan Zinke, who resigned in January amid a series of ethics investigations. By Matthew Daly. SENT: 600 words, national lines. AP Photos.
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MURDER TRIAL-TESTER NEPHEW _ Trial has begun in Spokane for a man who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a nephew of Montana Sen. Jon Tester.
BUTTE-SUPERFUND _ U.S. environmental officials are taking comments from the public on a proposed final plan for the decades-long Butte Superfund cleanup.
IRS-DONOR DISCLOSURE-MONTANA _ U.S. government attorneys are asking a judge to throw out Montana Gov. Steve Bullock's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department.
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Why War Nerd Hates World War Two
By Gary Brecher
The Exile, December 15, 2010
Edited by Andy Ross
WW II is way overrated. The biggest lie about WW II is that it was a war between good and evil. Bullshit, because there were no good European countries.
AR Moral philosophy 101: Good and evil are usually shades of gray. If there were no good European countries, there were probably no good countries anywhere, which suggests a defective application of the concept of good here. My take: American self-congratulation at being on the "good" side of the war is probably exaggerated but certainly not mere vanity.
Fact #1: They Were ALL Fascists.
At a military level, WW II was Stalin vs. Hitler. The rest was window dressing. Stalin won because his brand of fascism was actually way more ruthless and bloody and effective than Hitler's smalltime snobbery, and because Stalin had the whole US industrial machine backing him.
AR This is the sort of simplistic hyperbole that makes Brecher a small-time blogger and not a big-shot historian, despite his obvious erudition on matters relating to war. The core military conflict was that between Stalinist communism and Hitlerite fascism, sure, but I would say that at the level of motivating ideas the driver was the conflict between Soviet demagogic proletarianism and Nazi predatory elitism. The military clash was window dressing for a collision of ideologies, which are not just pale sets of ideas but memetic executables that infect brains and turn whole populations into zomboid replicators for the ideologies.
Of course, most of these WW II fans prefer to think about Britain and the rest of Western Europe. Well, they were all fascists too, just weaker than Stalin and Hitler, more sly and suckup-y. Europe before Stalingrad was an alien planet, as crazy and bloodthirsty as any Aztec priest. Nobody realizes the complete flip-flop Europe did in 1945. Before that, it was a continent full of insane fascists. Some were braver, better soldiers, or smarter; those are the only real differences. And when I say "smarter," I don't want to overdo it. Hitler was the stupidest of all, but he was just the standout.
AR If we're all fascists then "fascist" is an empty label. And were the Cold War ideologues any less fascistic in this vague sense? What about the planners who tried to calculate how many megadeaths it would take to win a thermonuclear war? More recently, the planning behind the "clash of civilizations" is at least as fascist in this general sense as, say, the British colonial administrators who used military force to keep down insurgents in the Middle East. And if the whole world is as fascist now and it was then, we need to drop this silly word and just admit that people often feel the need to act tough.
Take Churchill, who's supposed to be a God of courage and decency and smarts. Churchill was the moron who got Allied armies into useless Mediterranean campaigns in both World Wars. Churchill's one and only reason for fighting Hitler was that he didn't want Germany challenging England for world domination. In 1936, Churchill told a British general, "Germany is getting too strong; we must smash her." That was his only objection to the Nazis. Churchill was always in favor of violence against anybody who opposed British interests.
AR Churchill was not as perfect as people like Dick Cheney seem to imagine, and many historians have between them managed to put the facts into better perspective than Churchill himself did. Nevertheless, his contribution to the Allied war effort was not merely outstanding but decisive. Faced with an appalling situation, he did the right thing and ensured the survival of a much more civilized ideology than those of the monsters who fought for dominance via their conscript armies on the Eastern Front.
And if we rotate the globe, the Asian theatre also turns out to be a classic battle of fascism vs. more fascism. The Imperial Japanese military caste was beyond fascist. And Chiang Kai Shek, the Asian Churchill: a totally incompetent military leader and lifelong fascist who saw how the wind was blowing and repackaged himself as a crusader for democracy in order to get aid from the gullible Americans.
AR Invoking the f-word for all involved is just fogging up the whole history. Imperial Japanese forces took the role of aggressors and perpetrated horrific crimes all across East Asia. The fact that the attacked parties organized themselves and found various ways to fight back does not establish their moral equivalence with the aggressors.
After Stalingrad, the world's fascists just figured out that if you wanted to win, you needed US backing like Stalin got, and that meant you needed a cleaner line of patter than the Nazis and Japanese used.
AR Since 1945 the United States has a record of backing regimes that often appear to be fascist. The U.S. imperialist memeplex has learned to instrumentalize such petty or local fascism to promote the spread of its American Dream brain infector. And of course a civilized line of patter is now part of the package. For that we can thank Churchill. We have succeeded in putting some distance between us and the tyrants whose proxies slugged it out in the mud from 1941 to 1945.
Fact #2: The Holocaust is a One-Shot Exception; Genocide DOES Pay.
The Holocaust is the next-biggest non-lesson of WW II. Everybody loves to talk about this particular case of genocide because it failed, or so we're told. The Germans paid a terrible price for what they did to the Jews. Nope; the Germans paid a terrible price for invading Russia. If they'd stuck to holding their half of Eurasia, Stalin would have continued his love affair with Hitler and the European Jews would have been a shared buffet. The reason people love to talk about Nazis killing Jews is that, thanks to the Jews in America, there were people who insisted on remembering the victims.
AR The terrible price for murdering all those Jews was the war itself. If you take the view that the clash of Soviet and Nazi ideologies was at root a clash of cosmopolitan Bolshevism with Germanic racism, the whole European war was window dressing for the genocide, a warm-up exercise to get into a sufficiently nihilistic and murderous mindset. Genocide is not a tea party. One needs to blind onself to the horror with a vision analogous to manifest destiny. Against a civilized people like the Jews, that takes an enormous and almost suicidal effort, as the Germans discovered. Against less exalted victims, lesser efforts may suffice.
Fact #3: There Are NO Military Lessons to Be Learned from WW II
Here's the real lesson of the war: military superiority in the narrow sense isn't nearly as important as economic strength and propaganda working in tandem. If military superiority settled things, the Germans and Japanese would have won because they were by far, and I mean by FAR, the best soldiers.
AR Brecher's "real" lesson IS a military lesson, and found its best expression in the Cold War. Having to resort to military action is already halfway to defeat, since it is tantamount to accepting that might is right and that moral arguments have become irrelevant. This was the appalling situation that Churchill and the British faced in 1940, where victory at any price seemed the only way out.
The key military struggle of the war was on the plains of Russia, and Hitler lost not because he was evil--what, Stalin wasn't just as evil?--but because he was too much of a snobby hick idiot to look for allies. And if Stalin had been one smidgen LESS evil, he'd have lost anyway. Stalin won because his soldiers were way more afraid of the NKVD than the Nazis.
AR Philosophy 101 again: Being evil is not an alternative to being various other things, such as being a snobby hick idiot, but is a condition realized precisely through such other, more specific states of being. To evaluate or compare the historical evil of military dictators is in effect to measure their respective performances on scales of snobbery, idiocy and so on. As for why the Soviets won, there were many reasons, not least among them massive Anglo-American aid.
So the real legacy of this shitty war was a Soviet world, where the way to win is to mix propaganda about love and peace for grabbing US tax dollars with a new kind of violence, a mean cowardly kind that happened in Moscow basement interrogation cells, with 70-year sentences to Office World as the alternative for us lucky Fresno-ites.
AR Poppycock. This is not a Soviet world. And to see it (from Fresno) as Office World is to miss the awesome beauty and power of war via Windows. Each generation finds a new way to fight the good fight. Tanks and aircraft were the WW II way, now we replicate our executables via mouse and keyboard. Get with it, Gary, or go under.

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These Amazing Activists Prove Beauty Comes in All Sizes
ByJulie Zeilinger
This is Tess Munster:
She's a body positive plus-size model known for her social media presence. An Instagram star and creator of the successful hashtag #EffYourBeautyStandards, Munster recently made history by becoming the first woman of her size and height to be signed to a major modeling agency. But she is hardly the only activist who uses social media to disrupt narrow conceptions of beauty.
Women all over the country are taking to social media platforms like Instagram, YouTube and beyond to fight the narrow definition of beauty valued in the Western world.
Rather than accept standards that position their bodies as inadequate or "other" in some way, these courageous individuals are using the tools at their disposal to educate others by rejecting conventional narratives and proving that all bodies — no matter their size, color or any other factor — are beautiful.
Here are a few of these inspiring activists:
Virgie Tovar, creator of #LoseHateNotWeight
Virgie Tovar
From the age of 5, Tovar recalls being "systematically emotionally tortured" by her peers because of her size. Although she knew this treatment wasn't right, she "didn't have any language to articulate what exactly was happening," she told Mic. She eventually realized that "no amount of weight loss or body alterations actually free us from that 'I'm never good enough' mentality," and the only solution would be to eradicate that mentality itself.
Tovar said this can be achieved by capitalizing on the democratic power of social media: "Social media has served to boost the signal of a message that mainstream media had convinced us was a minority opinion." Hashtags like #LoseHateNotWeight, which Tovar started, promote community and allow people who may be socially isolated to create and develop relationships with others who "inspire, challenge and support them all over the world."
Melissa Fabello, YouTube crusader
Fabello became a body image activist as part of her recovery from an eating disorder spurred by an abusive relationship. After recovering, she found that feminist and body positive movements saved her life. "It was like a born-again religion to me," she told Mic. "I felt compelled to spread that gospel."
And spread it she does on her YouTube channel, with videos that tackle everything from how diets contribute to capitalism to dispelling myths about eating disorders to explaining thin privilege and beyond. Social media, specifically YouTube, offers a quick, easy way to spread messages of body positivity in a culture devoid of opportunities for people to unlearn harmful messages, Fabello said.
Fabello said her ability to "quickly, easily and vastly" reach people through social media and, to in turn, share others' insights has had a powerful impact on her life — and her work has certainly inspired others.
Trans Folx Fighting Eating Disorders
Dagan VanDemark
T-FFED founder Dagan VanDemark's academic work found that the mainstream eating disorder recovery community had no idea how to navigate trans culture and that members of trans and gender-diverse communities suffer disproportionately from eating disorders and body image issues. VanDemark joined forces with a team equally enthusiastic about challenging the dominant narrative that primarily depicts those affected by eating disorders as white, cisgender, presumably straight, able-bodied, upper class, young, female and usually insured.
According to the T-FFED team, social media enables access to resources, support and information from which "trans and gender-diverse folx (especially folx of color) have been historically barred by gatekeeping on the part of the medical industrial complex." The group uses Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr to raise awareness and launch a dialogue about how to best "build a more sustainable [eating disorder] community that goes beyond 'inclusion' and un-interrogated 'diversity' to prioritizing marginalized leadership and the redistribution of funding to this necessary work."
Caroline Rothstein, poet and activist
Rothstein, a writer, spoken-word poet and president of the board of directors for Mental Fitness Inc., began her educational work surrounding body image after recovering from a decade-long experience with an eating disorder. After meeting a woman struggling with bulimia who told her that recovery videos on YouTube could be improved, Rothstein began to use the platform to educate others about eating disorder awareness and prevention. She created a series of videos about body empowerment and also posts recordings of her spoken-word poetry.
"My hope is that through empowering others to honor their truths and love their own bodies," Rothstein told Mic. "It will bring them closer not only to respecting themselves but also respecting everyone else they know and meet."
Nalgona Positivity Pride
Gloria Lucas
Nalgona Positivity Pride describes itself as a "multi-ethnic and queer-friendly site for chubby warriors [that] focuses on the intersection of eating disorder awareness, indigeneity and issues that are relative to people of color." According to its Facebook page, the collective "no longer want[s] feminist waves, we want queer tsunamis!!"
Founder Gloria Lucas saw a lack of ethnic and gender diversity in the body justice movement during her recovery from an own eating disorder and used social media to address this gap. She uses platforms like Tumblr and Facebook because they "can be used outside the rigid nonprofit industrial complex" and help "folks of color find a safe space that they can actually relate to."
While blaming and shaming the forces that perpetuate narrow standards of beauty may be a valid initial response, it's also a relatively easy and ultimately ineffective one. What's more difficult, yet essential to creating change, is constructing a positive alternative reality. These activists are trying to do just that by educating others and working to share images that represent an array of bodies.
We owe it to these brave activists to spread the word about their work and support their message that anybody — and any body — can be and is beautiful.
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Cuttack district
Badamba block
Kendupalli
Kendupalli Population, Caste, Working Data Cuttack, Odisha - Census 2011
Kendupalli is a village situated in Badamba block of Cuttack district in Odisha. As per the Population Census 2011, there are total 29 families residing in the village Kendupalli. The total population of Kendupalli is 123 out of which 60 are males and 63 are females thus the Average Sex Ratio of Kendupalli is 1,050.
The population of Children of age 0-6 years in Kendupalli village is 18 which is 15% of the total population. There are 10 male children and 8 female children between the age 0-6 years. Thus as per the Census 2011 the Child Sex Ratio of Kendupalli is 800 which is less than Average Sex Ratio (1,050) of Kendupalli village.
As per the Census 2011, the literacy rate of Kendupalli is 91.4%. Thus Kendupalli village has higher literacy rate compared to 76.6% of Cuttack district. The male literacy rate is 92% and the female literacy rate is 90.91% in Kendupalli village.
As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act (Amendment 1998), Kendupalli village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of the village.
Kendupalli Data as per Census 2011
As per the Population Census 2011 data, following are some quick facts about Kendupalli village.
Children 18 10 8
Literacy 91.43% 92% 90.91%
Scheduled Caste 25 14 11
Scheduled Tribe 98 46 52
Illiterate 27 14 13
Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 20.3% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 79.7% of total population in Kendupalli village.
In Kendupalli village out of total population, 63 were engaged in work activities. 66.7% of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 33.3% were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 63 workers engaged in Main Work, 31 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 0 were Agricultural labourer.
Main Workers 42 32 10
Cultivators 31 31 0
Household Industries 11 1 10
Marginal Workers 21 0 21
Non Working 60 28 32
Map of Kendupalli, Cuttack, Odisha
Nearby Villages to Kendupalli, Badamba
Below are the list of villages near Kendupalli village in Badamba.
Janipadar 703
Malati 712
Dudhiaberani 522
Dasarathipur 641
Chauli 102
Barapatia 317
Madhupur 52
Mahatabandha 184
Gopalpur 1,448
Kharod 1,986
Kendupalli, Cuttack, Odisha - Wikipedia


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Bluebell shooting |
Man who disposed of gun used in attempted murder of Dublin mum Sinead Connolly is jailed
Sinead Connolly had told the court how she had known Paul Mooney since she was in primary school
Ryan DunneIndependent.ie
A 35-year-old man who disposed of a firearm used in the attempted murder of a mother left paralysed after a shooting in her home has been jailed for five years.
At the Central Criminal Court tonight, Mr Justice Paul McDermott said that Paul Mooney (35), with an address at Ring Street, Inchicore, Dublin 8, had been willing to dispose of the gun without any question after the shooting that left Sinead Connolly with "the most catastrophic injuries".
Mooney pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm and ammunition, to wit, a G9A Grand Power semi-automatic handgun and Luger Barnaul ammunition, in such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable inference that he had not got it in his possession for a lawful purpose, at Bernard Curtis House, Bluebell in Dublin 12 on March 6, 2021.
Victim Sinead Connolly pictured leaving the Central Criminal Court in Dublin
Ms Connolly was left paralysed after she was shot on that date by Dean McCarthy (33), with an address at Bluebell, who was jailed for 15 years for Ms Connolly's attempted murder.
A co-accused, Joseph Byrne (33), La Touche Road, Bluebell, Dublin 12, was jailed for nine-and-a-half years for possession of a G9A Grand Power semi-automatic handgun with intent to endanger life.
In the sentencing of Paul Mooney, Garda Paul Carroll confirmed to counsel for the prosecution, Anne-Marie Lawlor SC, that Ms Connolly had been the subject of threats from Dean McCarthy for months before the shooting.
He said that McCarthy had grabbed her by the throat, spat in her face and called her derogatory names. Gda Carroll said that some of this occurred in front of Ms Connolly's daughter, who was seven at the time.
Gda Carroll gave further evidence that McCarthy told Ms Connolly that he would leave her in "a body bag" and Ms Connolly was very afraid.
He said that on March 6, 2021, McCarthy and Joseph Byrne were in McCarthy's flat when the firearm was discharged and McCarthy was shot in the stomach.
Sinéad Connolly
The two men then went to Ms Connolly's flat and kicked in the door, before McCarthy shot Ms Connolly. Ms Connolly fell onto the sofa and McCarthy shot her again, causing "catastrophic injuries". Gda Carroll said Ms Connolly's daughter and visitors to the flat were in the kitchen at the time and a number of further shots were fired, which hit the kitchen door area.
Gda Carroll said that Paul Mooney arrived on the stairwell outside Ms Connolly's apartment and "appeared to be startled". He said that McCarthy and Byrne made good their escape, with McCarthy leaving the gun on the stairwell.
Mooney then picked the gun up, concealed it in his pocket and walked down the stairs. The gun was subsequently found by gardaí in a communal bin near the flats.
When arrested, Mooney told gardaí he went to the flats to pay Dean McCarthy €50 that he owed him. He said that when McCarthy left the gun on the stairs, he shouted, "Take that and I'll be back to see you later."
Mooney also told gardaí that he, McCarthy and Ms Connolly had been friends for years.
Mooney had nine previous convictions.
Ms Lawlor told the court that Ms Connolly has been in full-time hospital care since the shooting. She was in intensive care due to multiple gunshot wounds and has been left paralysed and in need of a wheelchair for all mobility.
Ms Connolly gave a victim impact statement to the court, in which she said she has been left paralysed forever and dependent on pharmaceuticals and medical staff. She said that the bullets shattered her collarbone, broke her ribs, punctured her lung and shattered her spine.
She said that medical staff had told her these were "the most catastrophic injuries" they had ever seen.
She said that she was in a coma for 15 days, which caused tremendous grief and anxiety to her family.
"I have known Paul Mooney since primary school. He did not try to get help for me; his priority was getting rid of the gun," said Ms Connolly.
Defence counsel, James Dwyer SC said that Mooney wished to offer an apology to Ms Connolly.
In passing sentence, Mr Justice McDermott said that Mooney was not involved directly in anything that happened to Ms Connolly, but he had been quite happy to dispose of the gun openly without hesitation and in broad daylight.
Setting the headline sentence at eight years, Mr Justice McDermott considered mitigating factors such as the accused's expression of remorse, his assistance to the gardaí, and the fact that he has suffered symptoms of a psychological condition. The judge noted that Mooney had also received threats against his life due to this matter.
Imposing six years in prison, the judge suspended the last 12 months for two years on condition that Mooney keeps the peace, engages with a victim impact awareness programme and an alcohol and drug awareness programme, and follows all probation service directions.
The sentence was backdated to October 6, 2022.
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Circuit de Monaco is a  street circuit laid out on the city streets of Monte Carlo and La Condamine around the harbour of the Principality of Monaco. It is commonly, and even officially, referred to as "Monte Carlo" because it is largely inside the Monte Carlo neighbourhood of Monaco.

The circuit is annually used on three weekends in April–May for Formula One Monaco Grand Prix, Formula E Monaco ePrix and Historic Grand Prix of Monaco. Formula One's respective feeder series over the years – Formula 3000, GP2 Series and today the Formula 2 championship and Porsche Supercup – also visit the circuit concurrently with Formula One. The Monaco Grand Prix is one of the three events victories in which count towards the Triple Crown of Motorsport.

History

The idea for a Grand Prix race around the streets of Monaco came from Antony Noghès, the president of the Monegasque motor club, Automobile Club de Monaco, and close friend of the ruling Grimaldi family. The inaugural race was held in 1929 and was won by William Grover-Williams in a Bugatti.

To date, only three local drivers have won a race at the circuit. Louis Chiron did it at the non-championship 1931 Monaco Grand Prix; 82 years later, Stefano Coletti crossed the line in first position at the sprint race of the 2013 Monaco GP2 Series round. The third driver to do so was Stéphane Richelmi at the sprint race of the 2014 Monaco GP2 Series round.

Evolution of the circuit
The track has remained substantially unchanged since its creation in 1929: as a city circuit, its conformation is closely linked to that of the principality's road system. The changes were almost entirely connected to redefinitions of the ordinary roads of the town.

In the first editions of the Grand Prix, the start and finish were placed on Boulevard Albert 1er (the innermost straight, which leads to the Sainte Dévote curve). In 1955 the start and finish were moved to the opposite straight, overlooking the promenade (that now houses the pit lane). At the time, neither the Piscine complex nor the "La Rascasse" hairpin existed: after the "Tabac" curve, the route proceeded in the lane that is parallel to today's starting straight: the two sections (separated only by a row of trees) were joined by a single narrow hairpin called the "Gasometer". As can be seen from the period films, in the second half of the 1950s the only existing lane after the Tabac was the one mentioned; in fact, in those years, the lane that we now call "promenade" with the two "Piscine" chicanes was not yet defined, and only in the 1960s images we can notice the progress of the landfilling about that portion of the bay, including the Piscine area which will be completed shortly thereafter.

In 1963 the starting line was again moved to Boulevard Albert 1er (opposite the promenade), without changes to the track from the "Tabac" to the "Gasometer" (incidentally, the swimming pool and the waterfront lane that 10 years later will become part of the circuit, had already been created).

In 1972 the boxes were moved near the chicane area of the port, therefore was created a "new" chicane that was closer to the "Tabac" curve. After this chicane, the track continued on the usual straight (parallel to the starting lane) using the "Gasometer" curve for the last time. This solution lasted only a year and, in the following months, the main works were completed in time for the 1973 Grand Prix with the construction of a new section that still connects the "Tabac" curve to "Piscine" (Stade Nautique). This change will result in the addition of  to the circuit – whose total length increased to  – adding the new portion along the harbour, which followed the layout of the swimming pool and ended in a new chicane around the "La Rascasse" restaurant and then joined (with a slight climb to the Anthony Noghes curve) to the starting straight. The boxes were reinstalled in the old lane (now free). The layout took on its current appearance with the double chicane "Piscine", abandoning (by the 1973 GP) the old "Gasometer" curve (where the entrance to the new boxes was created). 1972 was also the last year for the passage under the old tunnel.

In 1973, as anticipated, the track was modified at various points also due to the construction of new civil buildings. In particular, a new hotel was under construction in the "Old Station" hairpin area (Hotel Loews, later renamed Fairmont), resulting in an extension of the tunnel towards the "Portier" curve. The 1973 images show the unusual passage under the new long tunnel, above which the pillars of the Loews hotel are being built. At the exit of the tunnel there was the traditional port chicane and, after the "Tabac" curve, the new path adjacent to the swimming pools (two "S" left–right and right–left connected by a short straight) and "La Rascasse" hairpin. It was the first year for the new garages in an independent lane, with an entrance just after "La Rascasse", where an asphalt slide was installed to overcome the difference in level from the roadway.

In 1976 the "Sainte Dévote" and "Anthony Noghes" corners were modified: in order to slow down the transit of the cars, curbs and protections were repositioned.

In 1986, thanks to the expansion of the roadway implemented in the chicane area of the port, the chicane itself was modified and made slower: instead of the previously existing fast change of direction, deemed too dangerous, new curbs were installed to design a double turn at 90 degrees. It was then renamed "Nouvelle Chicane".

In 1997 the first "Piscine" corner was modified: the shifting of the track edge protections improved the visibility for the pilots and allowed a higher speed. A year later (at the request of Pasquale Lattuneddu, chief operating officer of Formula One Management), the whole area of the paddock was surrounded with shatterproof fences, in order to reduce and better manage the people authorised to access them.

In 2003 the second "Piscine" curve underwent a treatment similar to that of the first curve, with the shifting of the barriers to improve visibility, while the arrangement of new temporary curbs went to slow down the passage of the cars. However, the most important novelty was the widening of the port lane: in this way the segment between "Piscine" and "La Rascasse" could be rectified, becoming faster and less demanding. The extra space also allowed for the installation of new grandstands and the expansion of the pit lane, which was also equipped with semi-permanent two-storey buildings (instead of the previous tiny prefabricated structures) to better accommodate the teams, the technicians and the material.

Before the 2007 season, the internal curb of the "Grand Hotel" hairpin was significantly lowered and widened, in order to allow the single-seaters to climb on it and eventually face the curve with a narrower trajectory.

Since the 2003 edition, the traffic divider at the "Sainte Dévote" curve has been removed in order to widen the track: the track design is now left to the curb only. This has meant, for safety reasons, an extension of the exit lane from the pits: in practice, once the "proper" pit lane has been left, the drivers must remain in the yellow line that "cuts" the "Sainte Dévote".

The pit lane was further revised in 2004 by reversing the position of the pits with respect to the lane itself, building a much larger and more welcoming structure. Monte Carlo has thus become the only Formula 1 circuit in which the pits are not facing the track, but rather physically separate it from the pit lane.

In 2011, after some accidents that occurred during the race weekend (the Mexican driver Sergio Pérez suffered a rather serious one), the drivers urged a change in the sector between the exit of the tunnel and the "Nouvelle Chicane", complaining (above all) about the disconnection of the road surface and incorrect positioning of the guard rail in the escape route opposite the tunnel. However, these requests were not followed up.

In 2015 the "Tabac" curve was re-profiled, slightly anticipating the entrance and thus shortening the track by three metres (from  to  today).

Characteristics

The building of the circuit takes six weeks, and the dismantling after the race another three weeks. The race circuit is narrow, with many elevation shifts and tight corners. These features make it perhaps the most demanding track in Formula One racing. Although the course has changed many times during its history, it is still considered the ultimate test of driving skills in Formula One. It contains both the slowest corner in Formula One (the Fairmont Hairpin, taken at just ) and one of the quickest (the flat out kink in the tunnel, three turns beyond the hairpin, taken at ).

Due to the tight and twisty nature of the circuit, it favours the skill of the drivers over the power of the cars. However, there is very little overtaking as the course is so narrow and dangerous, as demonstrated by the 2021 Monaco Grand Prix having only one overtake in a 78 lap race (when Mick Schumacher overtook his teammate Nikita Mazepin on the opening lap). Nelson Piquet likened racing round the course to "riding a bicycle around your living room". Prior to 1987, the number of cars starting the race was limited to 20, compared to 26 at other circuits. The famous tunnel section (running under the Fairmont Hotel, marked in grey in the circuit diagram above) is said to be difficult for drivers to cope with due to the quick switch from light to dark, then back to light again, at one of the fastest points of the course. As a result, race outcomes tend to be decided by grid positions as well as pit strategies, and the race is extremely hard on gearboxes and brakes.

Several attempts have been made to improve cramped conditions in the pit garages. In 2002, a substantial amount of land was reclaimed from the harbour to slightly change the shape of one section of the circuit; this left more space for new pit garages, which debuted in the 2004 event.

The circuit is generally recognized to be less safe than other circuits used for Formula One. Driver and former winner Michael Schumacher stated before the 2012 Grand Prix that the additional risk is "justifiable once a year". If it were not already an existing Grand Prix, it would not be permitted to be added to the Formula One schedule, for safety reasons.

In January 2009, the circuit was voted top of the "Seven Sporting Wonders of the World" in a poll of 3,500 British sports fans.

A lap of the modern-day circuit

The lap starts with a short sprint up Boulevard Albert Ier, to the tight Sainte-Dévote corner, named after Sainte-Dévote Chapel, a small church just beyond the barriers. This is a nearly 90-degree right-hand bend usually taken in first or second gear. This corner has seen many first lap accidents, although these are less common since the removal of the mini roundabout on the apex of the corner before the 2003 event, making the entrance to the corner wider. The cars then head uphill along Avenue d'Ostende, before changing down for the long left-hander at Massenet. The maximum gradient in this part of the circuit is around 12%.

Out of Massenet, the cars drive past the famous casino, Monte Carlo Casino, before quickly reaching the aptly named Casino Square. This part of the track is  higher than the lowest part. The cars snake down Avenue des Beaux Arts, the next short straight, avoiding an enormous bump on the left of the track, a reminder of the unique nature of the circuit. This leads to the tight Mirabeau corner, which is followed by a short downhill burst to the even tighter Fairmont Hairpin (was known as the Station Hairpin before the hotel was opened on the site in 1973; the hairpin's name changed depending on the name on the hotel). It is a corner which has been used for many overtaking manoeuvres in the past. However, it would be almost physically impossible for two modern F1 cars to go round side by side, as the drivers must use full steering lock to get around. It is so tight that many Formula 1 teams must redesign their steering and suspension specifically to negotiate this corner.

After the hairpin, the cars head downhill again to a double right-hander called Portier, named after the region of Monaco, before heading into the famous tunnel, a unique feature of a Formula One circuit. (Until 2009 only one other circuit, Detroit in 1982–1988, featured a tunnel, but the F1 series now includes racing at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, which presents a shorter tunnel at the exit of the pit lane.) As well as the change of light making visibility poor, a car can lose 20–30% of its downforce due to the unique aerodynamic properties of the tunnel. The tunnel also presents a unique problem when it rains. As it is virtually indoors, the tunnel usually remains dry while the rest of the track is wet, with only the cars bringing in water from their tyres. Famously before the very wet 1984 race, Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone had local fire crews wet down the road in the tunnel to give it the same surface grip as the rest of the track. This was done at the request of McLaren driver Niki Lauda.

Out of the tunnel, the cars have to brake hard for the tight left–right–left Nouvelle Chicane. This has been the scene of several large accidents, including that of Karl Wendlinger in 1994, Jenson Button in 2003 and Sergio Pérez in 2011. The chicane is generally the only place on the circuit where overtaking can be attempted. There is a short straight to Tabac, so called as there used to be a tobacconist on the outside of the corner. Tabac is a tight fourth-gear corner which is taken at about . Accelerating up to , the cars reach Piscine, a fast left–right followed by a slower right–left chicane which takes the cars past the Rainier III Nautical Stadium, its swimming pool gives its name to the corner.

Following Piscine, there is a short straight followed by heavy braking for a quick left which is immediately followed by the tight 135-degree right-hander called La Rascasse. This is another corner that requires full steering lock; it will be remembered for a long time as the location of one of the most suspicious manoeuvres in recent Formula One history during the 2006 season when Michael Schumacher appeared to deliberately stop his car in qualifying so as to prevent Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber – who were both following and were on flying laps – from out-qualifying him. The Rascasse takes the cars into a short straight that precedes the final corner, Virage Antony Noghès. Named after the organiser of the first Monaco Grand Prix, the corner is a tight right-hander which brings the cars back onto the start-finish straight, and across the line to start a new lap.

Monaco is one of the three circuits which have only one DRS zone, the others being Suzuka and Imola. During the race, it is active along the pit straight from Antony Noghès to Sainte-Dévote, for a total of .

Mechanical adaptations

Monaco's street circuit places very different demands on the cars in comparison to the majority of the other circuits used during a Championship season. The cars are set up with high downforce; not as is popularly believed to increase cornering speeds, as many of the corners are taken at such a low speed to negate any aerodynamic effect, but instead to shorten braking times and keep the cars stable under acceleration. Many teams use special wing assemblies incorporating extra active planes in addition to those in use for other circuits. The Jordan and Arrows teams tried to use new mid-wings in 2001. The Arrows wing was similar in design to a normal rear wing but smaller and suspended above the nose cone. Jordan had a small wing suspended on a short pole just in front of the driver. Both were designed to improve downforce, but, after testing them during Thursday practice, the FIA banned both.

Brake wear is not a problem during a race in Monaco. Instead, the low speeds mean the issue is keeping the brakes up to working temperature. The only heavy braking points are at the chicane after the tunnel, and to a lesser extent into the Sainte-Dévote and Mirabeau corners. With a lack of temperature, brake bite becomes a problem, as the surface of the carbon brake disc becomes smooth as glass, reducing friction between the pads and the disk, hence lessening braking power. To combat this, in 2006 Juan Pablo Montoya adopted discs with radial grooves that increased the bite rate between disk and pads, increasing the average temperature of the brakes.

Conversely, cooling the cars' engines is a major concern. Formula One cars do not incorporate any form of forced cooling, relying solely on air moving over the car to remove heat from the radiator elements. In the past many teams used to adjust the radiator intakes to allow for extra airflow, creating the once-common "Monaco nose". Before 2014, teams also used closer ratio gears, as there are hardly any long straights in Monaco and acceleration is at a premium (starting from the 2014 season, the same gear ratios must be used throughout the season). A special steering rack with a larger pinion gear is also fitted to allow the cars to be driven around the tightest corners.

In other motorsport

FIA World Rally Championship
The circuit has been used as a special stage during the WRC Monte Carlo Rally, for example in 2008.

FIA Formula E Championship

On 18 September 2014 it was announced the Formula E would be racing on a shorter  version of the Monaco Grand Prix circuit, which was subsequently used for the 2014–15, 2016–17 and 2018–19 seasons. This layout omitted the regular section of the track between the climb up the hill at Beau Rivage and the Nouvelle Chicane at the exit of the tunnel, instead turning right immediately after Saint Devote to head downhill, before rejoining the regular layout by way of a 180 degree turn at the chicane.

Monaco was not scheduled to be on the calendar for the second season of Formula E because it took the slot on the calendar filled by the Historic Grand Prix at Monaco every other year. The inaugural Paris ePrix took its spot on the calendar for season two, with the Monaco ePrix reinstated for season three. This biennial agreement will continue at least into Formula E's fifth season.

A new track layout was used only for the 2021 Monaco ePrix: the layout is similar to the Formula One layout, with only slight differences at turns 1 (Sainte Devote) and 11 (Nouvelle Chicane). This new layout has a length of ; the distance of the track being increased due to the increase in car performance and range of Gen2 cars. The 2022 Monaco ePrix would instead see the race run on the full track layout.

Events

 Current

 May: Formula One Monaco Grand Prix, Formula E Monaco ePrix, FIA Formula 2 Championship, FIA Formula 3 Championship, Porsche Supercup

 Future

 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco (1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021–2022, 2024)

 Former

 FIA European Formula 3 Championship (1975)
 Formula 3 Euro Series (2005)
 Formula Regional European Championship (2021–2022)
 Formula Renault Eurocup (2016–2019)
 GP2 Series Monaco GP2 round (2005–2016)
 GP3 Series (2012)
 International Formula 3000 Monaco F3000 round (1998–2004)
 Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy (2019)
 World Series by Renault (2005–2015)

Criticism
Several commentators and drivers have criticised the circuit's design, saying that it creates boring races. Criticism has been directed towards how few overtake attempts are performed, the slow speeds at which the cars take the Fairmont Hairpin, as well as how frequently the driver who sets the pole position wins. Fernando Alonso has said that the race is "the most boring race ever," and Lewis Hamilton stated that the 2022 Grand Prix "wasn't really racing."

Deaths from crashes
 1948 – Norman Linnecar
 1952 – Luigi Fagioli
 1962 – Dennis Taylor
 1967 – Lorenzo Bandini

Major race results
Further information, see Monaco race results

Layout history and lap records

The layout history and official race lap records at the Circuit de Monaco are listed as:

Weather
The Monaco Grand Prix is run on the final Sunday of May, in a transition between spring and summer. Monaco, in general, has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa), although since the track is only used for a brief period in May, when it is being used it has a narrower temperature range than the principality itself has throughout the year. For the Monaco Grand Prix, temperatures are usually around  in terms of ambient conditions, whereas sun exposure can make the track itself a bit warmer than that. Still, soft tyre compounds often tend to hold up well around Monaco courtesy of surface temperatures being fairly moderate. The maritime moderation make May heatwaves rather unlikely.

Although the Mediterranean precipitation pattern leads to Monaco being quite dry by late May, due to the urban and narrow nature of the circuit, rainfall combined with the painted areas and the long tunnel makes wet racing extremely challenging. This was demonstrated by the 1984, 1996, 1997, 2008 and 2016 events. The 1984 event was red-flagged due to track conditions being deemed too dangerous with the race not being restarted. In 1996, the mixed-weather conditions caused carnage, paving way for Olivier Panis' shock win in an unfancied Ligier. The following year, the 1997 race winner Michael Schumacher got the chequered flag after just 62 of the planned 78 laps due to the very slow pace of half a minute slower than dry-weather lap times on the very wet track seeing the clock hit the two hours of maximum time well before the race distance was completed.

The tunnel can be sprinkled under wet conditions to provide for consistent track conditions, although during a full-wet race the tunnel gets drier throughout.

See also
 The Chatham – a former bar near the Beau Rivage corner on the Circuit de Monaco that was popular with motor racing personalities

References

External links

 Automobile Club de Monaco
 BBC's circuit guide
 Circuit de Monaco on Google Maps (Current Formula 1 Tracks)
 Circuit de Monaco on Google Maps
 Circuit de Monaco in PC games (Every car showcased around Circuit de Monaco)

1929 establishments in Monaco
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Chris Birch was born on the small Caribbean Island of St Kitts on 26 April 1928. Having been born, raised and educated on the Island, he moved to Bristol to attend university in 1946, where he read philosophy, botany and chemistry. While at university, he joined the Communist Party and became an active member, even running as the Communist Party Candidate in the 1968 Borough Council Elections for Parsons Green Ward. While at Bristol University, he also met his wife Betty, they married in 1950, and have now been married for over half a century. Chris and Betty shared similar interests, both being Communist Party members and being involved with organisations such as the Aid to Spanish Youth Committee. As a result they have often attended campaigns and protests together such as the 'Release Lopez Raimundo' demonstration outside the Spanish embassy in 1952.
After university, Chris worked for the pharmaceuticals manufacturer Abbotts. While doing this he was also National Treasurer of the Young Communist League and in 1955 was asked to go to Warsaw to help organise a world youth festival. Having helped to organise a successful festival, both Chris and Betty were asked to go to Budapest to work at the headquarters of the World Federation of Democratic Youth. It was while doing this job that the Birch's were caught up in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Betty and their two children managed to escape almost immediately and eventually make it back to London. Chris stayed in Hungary, at the centre of the hostility, and was captured and held prisoner by the Red Army before managing to escape.
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In 1990, Chris decided to retire in order to have more time to get involved in projects that were important to him. Having witnessed his friend Mark Ashton die of HIV in 1987, Chris became heavily involved in the HIV/Aids pandemic. He helped to produce the Communist Party's policy on HIV/Aids, and volunteered at London Lighthouse, the Terence Higgins Trust and Kobler Clinic at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. As a result of his work at London Lighthouse, he was chosen as one of five volunteers from the organisation to walk behind the coffin at the funeral of Princess Diana. In 1992, after successfully campaigning to get a memorial plaque for the Countess of Pembroke installed at Westminster Abbey, Chris also began to volunteer there in his spare time. Throughout their retirement, Chris and Betty have continued to get involved with campaigns and demonstrations, for example, in 2002 Betty attended the huge 'Don't Attack Iraq' demonstration.
Papers of political and LGBTQ+ activist and journalist Chris Birch, and his wife Betty Birch. Includes: Political memorabilia from Rothwell and Bristol, the Spanish Youth Committee and International Brigade, the Communist Party in London and the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1945-1997; memorials of various individuals, 1986-2010; papers relating to London Lighthouse and the funeral of Princess Diana, 1996-1998; papers and ephemera relating to HIV/AIDS charities and research, 1976-2005; papers and a CD relating to the NAMES Project and AIDs Memorial Quilt, 1994-2014; obituaries and photographs of Mark Ashton, 1987; ephemera, correspondence and objects relating to the Mark Ashton Trust, 1987-1988; book and press cuttings relating to the film Pride, 2014; press cuttings, ephemera and correspondence relating to Chris Birch's personal political interests; biographical scrapbooks created and kept by Chris Birch containing ephemera, correspondence, photographs and press cuttings relating to politics, journalism, family, campaigns and social events, 1928-2018; photographs of Chris and Betty at demonstrations, [1952]; individual objects such as, a fan from 54 Dean Street HIV clinic, a china pot commemorating the 70th anniversary of the International Brigade and a truncheon taken from police by Mark Ashton during a protest, [1987-2006]; draft copies of Chris Birch's book 'Ten Generations: Looking backwards in time: Some glimpses of my family' and papers relating to its publication [1994-2003]; scrapbook made for Betty Birch by the Hurlingham and Chelsea School N.U.T. containing photographs of various demonstrations and campaigns [1979-1985]; newsletters from the International Brigade Memorial Trust and Socialist History Society, 2002-2007; and certificates belonging to Betty Birch and her family from the Greater London Fund for the Blind and the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, (1928-2018).
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Mr. MacKinnon is a native of Prince Edward Island. He was awarded a B.A. (Honours Economics) from Dalhousie University and an M.B.A. from York University. He was also awarded a Centennial Fellowship by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and York University to study at York, Harvard and Oxford Universities as well as the European Institute of Business Studies.
Mr. MacKinnon served as Director, Planning and Economics and Executive Director, Development Strategy in the Nova Scotia Department of Development from 1977 to 1981. He later served in several senior capacities in the Ontario Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Montreal and as CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association from 1996 to 2003. He was also CEO of the Ontario Development Corporation, Ontario's major economic development agency, from 1986 to 1993.
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I Will Wait, Till God Says "It's Time!" The Play – Act 1 – A Blog, A Magazine. It's JustsumInspiration!
So one might would deem me as being an around the way girl, if I told them how many times I have gone around and around and around….with relationships, these relationships with men have been a roller-coaster to say the least. In the process of me trying to FIND the right man I went through some doozies, I could say other names but I'm a Christian and it wouldn't be allowed to come from my lips. During that period of time I noticed that I was in an ON again, OFF again relationship with God in which I prayed a lot…..got in a relationship…..prayed less and still……..got in another relationship, things were not looking good, If I had only WAITED on God, half of my life experiences would be obsolete; if only life was a big eraser, oh the things I would erase. But I'm so glad that I had those experiences as it has allowed those trials to become my Triumphs in getting to know me better, what I was really desiring in a man and most of all to gain a closer walk and/or relationship with Christ.
Those experiences have given me the unique opportunity to talk to you. I wrote this as a play and even performed it in church some years ago. Yes, the story you are about to read is a true story of my dating experiences (characters changed) through the years, so whether you're in an active relationship at the moment, Married, Divorced, Single – Single and a Virgin waiting for marriage or have been around the dating way like I have, hopefully there will be something within these pages that will minister to you to either give you hope to move on from a broken relationship or how to WAIT on God for the perfect relationship that he has for you (notice I said PERFECT) there's no such thing as the perfect man, but the man that God has for you will be perfect for your situation, your lifestyle and your relationship with God – which won't hinder it but help it.
Be Blessed & Keep WAITING! I know it's been a long time, but trust me it's worth the wait.
It's been 6 months since I've been out on a date, I called myself taking a breather to get to know me and what I really wanted out of a relationship, so thinking I had gotten myself truly together I finally decided to give the dating scene another go round.
So today I got my hair, nails and toes done "yes my toes". I wanted to be perfect for this date; I went the whole nine yards. When I got to his house he came out wearing this dirty white wife-beater shirt, some old, looked to big for him baggy pants and some timber's not timberland's because these shoes looked like they had gone out of style with the polyester pants era. He also looked like he had not had a hair cut in 2 years I imagined, and then had the nerve to have a comb sticking out of it. I stood there in amazement because I looked like beauty and he was definitely the beast. And if his attire didn't take the cake; come to find out he doesn't have a car; my car was going to be our source of transportation for the night. Now that was strike number two; and I should've left then, But no, I was lonely, desperate, and hoping that maybe something good would come out of this nice evening, despite his current situation.
So we took my ride, and here I was thinking we're going to go somewhere nice and elegant like Justin's, Olive Garden, Red Lobster or someplace like that, especially since I spent all day beautifying myself. "So where are we going." I asked. "Oh I thought we'd go to McDonalds." say he's kind of short of change, by this time I was getting short of patience, then had the nerve to tell me to "order something cheap, "hard times ya know." I was thinking to myself well just how hard have times gotten, I mean isn't minimum wage $7.25 an hour? I was devastated and upset at myself for continuing this date and my friend for setting me up with him.
Come to find out as our minimal conversation progressed, that prospective job at the Law Firm ended up being a job beside the law firm collecting cans and raffling tickets, and that 2008 Yukon he didn't have ended up being a banged up 1964 Nova that was just impounded last week. Telling me what he used to be and what he used to have and how he bought this home and car (might I add) for the last girl he was with. I mean what; I guess good times just stopped when you got to me huh.
Can you picture me sitting up in McDonald's sporting a $200.00 dress with some Baby Phat Carmen 03 pumps and an $85.00 hairdo? People looking at me like I had a problem, and I did, a whole lot of problems.
But I didn't wait……………Big Mistake.
The following week I met a guy named Steven, No I did not meet him through my friend Stephanie after that ordeal with Robert I decided to leave her alone. So I thought I would try and hook myself up with someone after all who could know exactly what I want in a man than me right?….Wrong.
"You sure look good doll." He said.
I turned around and low and behold standing before me was the most handsome man I had ever seen; I mean Billy Dee Williams had nothing on him, now Denzel Washington well that's another story. But anyway, he was tall and light skinned with a nice frame to him, very broad shoulders, with the most gorgeous brown eyes.
And unlike Robert, he did know how to dress. He had on this Sean John jacket with a white shirt underneath and he wore some nice Sean John jeans with some Karl Kani boots (these were the real things). He must have a little something, something." I thought to myself, it's about time.
"Hello, my name is Steven," He said, smiling.
"I'll pay for the gas, do you mind?" taking out his wallet.
Before I could say "Oh no I got it" I said, "Yes you may." before I knew it. "Don't sound desperate." I kept telling myself. My mind was saying this but my actions were saying go right ahead.
We exchanged numbers and he asked if I could call him right away when I got home, certainly I said. As I watched him walk away I noticed that he did not look too bad from behind either… "Okay quit lusting." I said to myself. But as much as I wanted to hurry home and call him, I just stood there because I really wanted to see what type of car he was driving or if he even had one.
Hey, please stay tuned for part 2 of: "Did He Just Stand Me Up?" Part 2 – COMING SUNDAY @ 12noon.
You wouldn't believe what happened next….
*Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are fictitious and have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals once involved.
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Thanks for the post! Interesting read.
Aww! Thanks so much – the ups and downs of dating is complicated…lol. I appreciate you for reading.
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You are certainly enjoying writing! I get it.
Oh, this was SUCH a good read! McDonald's guy & you waiting to see if gas station guy had a car had me laughing out loud. One of the best lines: "Can you picture me sitting up in McDonald's sporting a $200.00 dress with some Baby Phat Carmen 03 pumps and an $85.00 hairdo? People looking at me like I had a problem, and I did, a whole lot of problems." 😂 Can't wait for part 2! You definitely have a gift, Roshonda – you're an amazing storyteller!
Thank you for your words of assurance to the rest of us ladies, it sure is tough out there, loneliness is very tough. I didn't feel it so much in my twenties, but thirties seem tougher. I'm really into career and work as well, but lately, there is a part of the day where I just become so disoriented, lost and lonely. I cry for no reason, I feel like a part of me is broken or that it's far away from me. I have a strong relationship with God and I do reach out to him for all the matters of my life and I know and trust that remedies and healing will arrive from him and I remind myself everyday that this is a good test, much better than alternatives like loss of loved ones or illness, and I must be pleased with my destiny. I just hope that the loneliness becomes filled and that I feel okay again. I think we all need to pray for each other, because it's tough for everyone, no matter what their status is as you said. We might all be in slightly different situations, with different expectations and our lives might be developing at different paces, but we all experience pain in some form or another and understanding and supporting one another is a great way to go about it. So I pray that you find happiness, content, peace and loving companionship in your life, and everyone else too, all the ladies who are feeling a bit hopeless, a bit sad right now. Hang in there ladies.


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WoodSongs nears 1000th Broadcast
The biggest "under the radar" live audience program on public radio will reach the milestone 1000th broadcast November 2019.
Folksinger and Michael Johnathon started the Americana format "WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour" in 2001, in a tiny studio that barely seated 12 people airing on just one college radio station. "WoodSongs" is truly unique in the world of musical radio and television programs, as it is produced entirely by volunteers.
Today, WoodSongs is heard from Australia across America to Ireland on 537 public, community (available from PRX) and commercial radio stations worldwide, including the American Forces Radio Network, which broadcast the show on two channels in 177 nations which includes every military base and U.S. Naval ships in the world. The show has recently been added to the legendary WSM 650 AM home of the Grand Ole Opry, who elected to air the public radio edit.
The public television version (available via NETA) airs in 96M USA TV homes from LA to Las Vegas to Vermont on PBS affiliates plus the RFD-TV Network throughout the United States.
WoodSongs is the only music broadcast fully available to teachers and home school families. It is distributed in partnership with the University of Kentucky with lesson plans, at no charge, to thousands of schools for use in the classroom, and has one of the biggest roots music archives anywhere. Each program has a segment devoted to a "WoodSongs Kid," a young, unknown artist. See www.WoodSongs.com.
The show has inspired scores of hometown performance venues called WoodSongs Coffeehouses plus organized the national community of front porch musicians, SongFarmers.org
THE 1000th BROADCAST
The show will make media history, when it tapes its 1000th broadcast on, or about November 18, 2019, in Lexington, Kentucky. (The exact date is subject to change, but can be confirmed by this fall.) "WoodSongs" tapes on most Mondays in front of a live audience at the historic Lyric Theatre in Lexington, Kentucky. Previous guests have included the likes of John Oates, Roger McGuinn, Judy Collins, Jewel, Tommy Emmanuel, Bela Fleck, Blind Boys of Alabama, Amy Grant, Wanda Jackson, Chris Thile, Odetta, Rhonda Vincent and many more.
In 2019 Michael Johnathon has a new studio album, "Dazed & Confuzed," a full symphony performance tour and album "Songs of Rural America," plus the release of his next book, "WoodSongs 4." www.MichaelJohnathon.com
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Our Mission (adopted March 12, 2000): We are a family of many hearts and voices faithfully worshiping God. We encourage one another in our living, learning and growing as God's people. Led by the Holy Spirit, we joyfully promise to serve others as we share the love and hope of Jesus Christ.
St. John's UCC has a longstanding reputation in Vincennes of community outreach and service. We are also part of many local, regional, nationwide and global efforts through the UCC's OCWM program.
Our church is in the top 100 UCC churches donating to the One Great Hour of Sharing program.
Our outreach, benevolence and mission programs are overseen by the Christian Outreach and Benevolence Committee. We believe these missions enable us to fulfill our mission of serving others in the spirit of our Lord. It's a great way to get involved, enjoy fellowship with others, and serve the Lord. Please click on the "Mission Moment" link above and read about how your Benevolent Fund and donations are spent to do God's work in our world.
There are some local missions that our congregation supports with a little extra effort. These projects require contributions of time, talent and treasure from the congregation. For other local and OCWM missions, please scroll down.
Mission: Through collaboration among agencies and networks, B.A.B.E.'s mission is to meet the basic material needs of pregnant women and families with children ages newborn through 3 years, with a voucher system that promotes preventive health care (physical and emotional) in a safe and nurturing environment.
The B.A.B.E. store is open to Knox County residents only (Mondays, 12 - 4 PM), and all donations come from Knox County people and churches.
St. John's UCC has donated the space for the store and commits benevolence monies throughout the year. B.A.B.E. has no paid staff; St. John's provides 97% of the volunteer staff in the store at this time.
For more information about the store, or to volunteer in some way, write PO Box 608, Vincennes, IN 47591, or call the church office (812-882-2720) and leave a message for B.A.B.E.
Adult mentors from our St. John's congregation have committed to spending one hour each week with one child at Riley Elementary School doing tutoring and self esteem building. Each mentor and child team is supported by a prayer partner from the church.
For more information about how you can help St. John's make a difference in the life of a child, contact the church office (812-882-2720). We would be happy to share our enthusiasm with you.
The success of St. John's UCC's KIDS HOPE partnership with Riley has inspired other local churches to sponsor the following Vincennes schools.
Please ask your child's teacher or the school social worker for a referral.
St. John's UCC is one of several area churches that provide nutritious, hot meals to local residents. Volunteers from our congregation prepare and serve a Thursday evening meal on a regular rotation (every six weeks).
Whether it's food preparation, set-up, serving, or clean-up, this is a great way to get involved and make a real difference. If you cannot commit for the entire event, perhaps you could come to help prepare or help clean up. Your service is very much appreciated!
There are many children in Knox County who do not get anything to eat from the time they finish their Friday lunch at school until they have breakfast at school on Monday. This is especially true of some of our KIDS HOPE USA children. Backpacks of Love will provide a child with food every weekend so they don't have to be hungry. Right now, it has been determined by the Riley Elementary staff that there are 18 children who really need this help.
Keep in mind can openers are usually not available. A box will be in the vestibule for your donations of love. If you don't want to do the shopping but want to help in this project, monetary donations are welcome. Just mark your check to the church that it is for Backpacks of Love.
Items needed: Individual tubs of cereal, cereal bars, individual containers of mac & cheese, cans of soup, stew or dumplings, canned vegetables, juice drink boxes, spaghetti-O's, canned fruit.
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Phoebe's Mission is a disbursement of necessary household items to low income Knox County residents the 1st Friday of each month from 4:30-6 PM. These household items are necessary for everyone, but they cannot be purchased with food stamps.
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This epidemic is not a faraway issue, but one that affects us locally. After meeting with the Dean of Students at VU, John Livers, who echoed that, "this is an on-going crisis that many Vincennes University students deal with on a weekly basis," the Evangelism & Membership Committee in conjunction with the Outreach & Mission Committee has moved ahead with establishing a student food pantry for beginning in Fall Semester 2015.
Thanks to a generous donation in honor of Sandy Kitchell which will be used as seed money to kick this new outreach off. St. John's UCC has been given the chance to address this community need, and has stepped up to reach out, as Christ commanded by feeding the 'poor' among us and serving the people where God has placed this church!
Eight interested members of our congregation attended the organizational meeting for SANDY'S PANTRY, an outreach mission in conjunction with Vincennes University for students without food. We ask for donations of non-perishable items that need no refrigeration and minimal prep time. Examples: cereal, pop tarts, English muffins, bagels, microwavable non refrigeration breakfast meals, boxed mac & cheese with cheese sauce already in the box, canned stew, soups, chill, canned tuna, canned chicken, canned ham, microwave rice, individual oatmeal packets, grits, bread, peanut butter, Nutella, nuts, jelly in square restaurant sizes, butter in round restaurant sizes, granola, snack bars, chocolate individually wrapped, snack cakes, "helpers" ramen noodles, canned spaghetti, powdered milk, canned fruits, canned veggies, etc. There is a list of these items and more on the Bulletin Board. If you wish to donate cash, that is acceptable as well because we can buy in bulk and save!
THANK YOU for supporting our newest outreach mission: SANDY'S PANTRY! If you would like to be involved in this new ministry at St. John's, please contact Brenda Fillingim or the church office. Food and monetary donations are currently being accepted.
Sandy's Pantry – Great Start!
After beginning our newest outreach, SANDY'S PANTRY, in September, we have been privileged to have served a total of 58 VU students. Those of us who volunteer to serve in this Outreach each month are excited. The students are very appreciative, and we are blessed for the opportunity to show them the Love of Christ. THANK YOU so much for your continued donations to this worthwhile Mission to our community of students. 58 students means 1,160 food items! We are preparing to order more items to restock our shelves! THANK YOU to the volunteers: Bailey & Casey Harner, Marge, Beamon, Ruth Witsman, Carole Culp, Jerri Johanningsmeier, Kristi Cook, Jill Cooper, Lynne Simmons, Bill Lathrop, Rev. Kate, Brian & Brenda Fillingim. If you wish to donate, items needed are non-perishable, individual serving, food items.