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Dr. Kristin Held: 'Medicare for All' Completes Government Takeover of Medicine
"Government completes the takeover of the entire health insurance industry in one small paragraph," she explains. "Government becomes the single payer, and the transformation from free-market, patient-centered medicine to socialized medicine that serves the common good of the state is complete."
Omnibus Boosts Funding for U.S. Education Department by $3.9 Billion, Plus Extras
President Donald Trump campaigned on getting the federal government out of education, but Republicans in Congress have increased the department's funding by at least $3.9 billion in the omnibus spending bill.
22 Mar 2018, 8:59 AM PST
Conservatives Erupt over Betsy DeVos Announcement: 'Common Core Is Dead'
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos may have lost another opportunity to show education policy watchers from her own party that she understands what they have been fighting against with the Common Core standards for the past decade.
23 Jan 2018, 9:57 AM PST
Homeschoolers Debate Federal Involvement in Cruz Tax Bill Amendment
Homeschoolers in the United States are debating whether an amendment to the GOP tax reform bill that would expand 529 College Savings Plans to allow use of tax-exempt funds to pay for homeschooling expenses will put homeschoolers at risk of federal oversight.
9 Dec 2017, 5:10 PM PST
Reps. Todd Rokita and Ralph Norman Co-Sponsor Bill to End U.S. Education Department
Two more U.S. representatives have co-sponsored a bill that would end the U.S. Department of Education by December of 2018.
Rep. Thomas Massie Endorses Judge Roy Moore in Alabama Senate Race
Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie is endorsing former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who is running against appointed incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in Alabama's U.S. Senate primary runoff for the seat vacated by now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
12 Sep 2017, 12:16 AM PST
Betsy DeVos to Scrap Obama Campus Sex Policy: 'Weaponized' Government to 'Work Against Students'
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos asserted that the Obama administration's heavy-handed policy that forced colleges and universities to conduct "kangaroo courts" in dealing with accusations of sexual assault has "failed."
7 Sep 2017, 11:52 AM PST
Judge Roy Moore: 'It's Time We End Federal Government's Involvement in Education'
In a video message posted to his Twitter account, former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore says it is time to end the federal government's involvement in education and allow parents to take the lead in how best to educate their children.
5 Sep 2017, 7:17 AM PST
Local Control? States Grumble at Trump Education Department's Criticism of Education Plans
U.S. Education secretary Betsy DeVos has touted a move toward the end of federal control of education, but more states are finding the Trump education department – much like that of former President Barack Obama – is still attempting to control their decisions from Washington, D.C.
19 Jul 2017, 5:34 PM PST
Sen. Patty Murray Demands Ouster of Top Education Official After Apology for Campus Sex Comments
Democrat Sen. Patty Murray is calling for the removal of education civil rights chief Candice Jackson following Jackson's apology for comments she made regarding the status of campus sexual assault complaints that are filed with her office:
Democrats' Obsession with PC Agenda Shows Danger of Federal School Choice Program
During Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's appearance before a House subcommittee last week, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) may have thought her question to DeVos would demonstrate her commitment to LGBT students in schools, but what it really did was highlight why school choice should never be a federal program in the states.
Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Repeal Ban on Student Data Collection
A bipartisan group of members of Congress have introduced a bill that would overturn a federal ban on collecting data on the education and employment outcomes of college students.
Homeschool Advocates to Betsy DeVos: We 'Want to Be Left Alone by Federal Government'
Homeschool advocates say they informed U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that homeschooling should not be included in any school voucher programs since government regulation could be tied to acceptance of taxpayer funds.
17 May 2017, 10:11 AM PST
Heritage Panel Warns Trump About Making School Choice a Federal Program
A panel of education policy experts agree the Trump administration appears to be moving toward some form of federal management of school choice, but warns that attempts to influence school choice policy from Washington, D.C. could undermine the president's stated goals of returning education decisions back to the states and local governments.
Rep. Justin Amash Co-Sponsors Bill to Eliminate U.S. Education Department
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) is a co-sponsor of a recently introduced bill that would eliminate the federal education department.
Six Things Betsy DeVos Can Do to Show States She Is 'Certainly Not a Supporter' of Common Core
Betsy DeVos announced upon her nomination as U.S. education secretary that she is "certainly not a supporter" of Common Core, even though the organizations she funded and supported through her service are avid proponents of the controversial education reform.
Education Expert: Betsy DeVos Should Address Local Control Before School Choice
The Heartland Institute's senior fellow for education policy explains why newly confirmed U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would do well to "improve her standing with grassroots groups" by first addressing local control of education before she moves ahead on school choice.
Intense Reactions from Across Spectrum as Betsy DeVos Sworn in as U.S. Education Secretary
Americans from across the political spectrum are voicing strong reactions to the Senate's confirmation of now-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
7 Feb 2017, 9:26 PM PST
Five Reasons Why Betsy DeVos' Nomination as Education Chief is Controversial
With debate on Betsy DeVos' nomination ended, President Donald Trump's pick for the nation's top education post will likely require the rare situation of a sitting vice president to trek over to the Senate to break a 50-50 tie in order to get her over the finish line.
5 Feb 2017, 8:13 AM PST
Texas Governor Declares Convention of States a Lege Emergency Item
"For decades, the federal government has grown out of control. It has increasingly abandoned the Constitution, stiff-armed the states and ignored its citizens," Texas Governor Greg Abbott told legislators and those gathered for his State of the State address on Tuesday. He declared legislation supporting an Article V Convention of States to be an emergency item for the session.
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Catholic Education Director Says Betsy DeVos Shares Jeb Bush's and Hillary Clinton's View of Common Core
The Cardinal Newman Society is a vocal opponent of the Common Core standards in Catholic schools. In his column at the Newman Society, Matt Archbold writes, "As Catholics, we welcome all converts. Let's hope DeVos' conversion away from Common Core is genuine."
Politico: Betsy DeVos' Michigan Charter Schools Get 'Poor Grades'
President-elect Donald Trump's education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos has contributed both her wealth and influence to the creation of more charter schools in her home state of Michigan, but national test scores show the state has not fared well as a result, says a report in Politico.
Michigan Common Core Supporters Praise Trump's Education Chief Pick Betsy DeVos
Michigan supporters of the Common Core standards are praising President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head up the U.S. Department of Education.
Thankful: Texas Defending the Lone Star State Against Federal Overreach
Texans have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving holiday. The Lone Star State has taken President Barack Obama to court over 45 times since he became president in 2009 and have fought for state sovereignty and against federal overreach when he has issued executive orders and federal policies
Parent Activist Urges Trump to Honor Phyllis Schlafly with Choice of Education Secretary She Would Endorse
The co-founder of Hoosiers Against Common Core says conservative icon and Donald Trump supporter Phyllis Schlafly would be troubled to learn Trump's reported short list of education secretary candidates consists of many Common Core and Jeb Bush supporters.
American Family Association: 'Alarming' Trump Considering Common Core Supporters for Education Secretary
The American Family Association (AFA) is urging President-elect Donald Trump to choose an education secretary who not only is against the Common Core standards, but also is committed to getting the federal government out of education policy.
21 Nov 2016, 9:16 PM PST
Donald Trump Can Make Good on His Pledge To End Common Core
While on the campaign trail, the president-elect described Common Core as a "disaster," and said that the federal government should leave education to states and local school districts.
Obama Takes Education Victory Lap: Minority Students Trail Whites Due to 'Legacy of Discrimination'
The president, who appeared with both current U.S. Secretary of Education John King and the former secretary, Arne Duncan, told students, "We live in a global economy," and that they will be competing for jobs with people not only from the United States, but also from "India and China."
WikiLeaks: Hillary Clinton Calls Common Core a 'Political Failure'
WikiLeaks emails revealing remarks from a paid speech Hillary Clinton gave in July of 2014 show the now-Democrat presidential nominee referring to the Common Core standards as simply a "political failure" by a "bipartisan group of governors" who neglected to have a plan for "explaining it and selling it to people."
Study: Only 'Those Who Set Directions For Common Core Have Benefited'
Americans were told that the Common Core standards would close the achievement gap between white and minority students and make U.S. students "college and career ready." Yet, a new study validates what grassroots parent groups have known all along: the federally funded program, which most states lapped up for a quick infusion of federal cash, has bombed.


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Telling Herstories: The Broad View
A blog for women with stories to tell
Writing from the Land
Reading Out Loud
My ears ache from wearing head phones and I'm getting tired of listening to my own voice. What am I doing? I'm narrating my memoir, Walking Nature Home, for the audio version to be released late this year. So far, I've read three chapters. Each one takes about a day, even though the finished length of each chapter is only somewhere between 40 and 45 minutes. With nine chapters total, I figure I need six more good reading days to finish.
What takes so long? Getting it right. The actual read of a chapter takes somewhere between an hour and a half and two hours. When I stumble over a word, or get the tone or emphasis wrong, or make another error--or a loud motorcycle goes by outside--I start the sentence over again. Sometimes I go back to the beginning of a paragraph if that makes a "cleaner" break to make sure I haven't changed the tone or volume of my voice.
I could record at a real studio, but I'd rather spend those hours in the comfort of my own office, sitting at a microphone table designed and made out of scraps by my sculptor husband, Richard. My office isn't soundproof, but by using a homemade foam baffle (thank you for that too, Richard!) and a directional mike (a Blue Yeti USB mike that plugs right into my Mac laptop, for those who want to know the technical stuff), it does pretty well, except for the occasional passing ya-hoo with a loud vehicle. That round black screen in front of the mike in the photo above, by the way, is to soften the explosion of sound that comes with 'P's and other hard consonants. It looks weird, but is very effective.
The rough edit takes about twice times as long as the read time, which means three to four hours of careful listening, deleting each bad or duplicate part of the soundtrack and pasting the two cut edges together, just the way we used to do with real tape and a razor blade back in the days before recordings went digital, listening carefully to the mend, and then moving on... I do the rough edit myself using Garageband, Apple's nifty--and surprisingly powerful--audio editing program that came free with my Macintosh. It works just like the sound boards I've used in real studios. (That's Garageband above, with me reading the opening of Chapter Three on the sound track.)
What does this have to do with writing? These hours at the mike and listening with the headphones remind me of why reading your work aloud is one of the best editing techniques around. I'm hearing Walking Nature Home anew: the tone of the words, the cadence and rhythm of the sentences and paragraphs, the flow of the story itself. And even after editing it dozens and dozens of times, even after the editors at University of Texas Press went over it with their careful eyes, even though it's in print, I hear things I could do to improve the writing.
That's the magic of hearing your work, of reading it out loud and listening crically. Looking at your writing on paper or on screen is useful; hearing it is entirely different. It sounds new, and thus you notice things you otherwise wouldn't.
You don't need my quick-and-dirty home recording studio to do it. All you need is a quiet space--a room with a door that shuts, or a time when no one else is around to interrupt you. Pick up your writing, put on your best storytelling or reading voice, clear your throat, sit up straight, and read. Don't rush it and don't dramatize, just read your words with the respect they deserve. And listen. When you notice something that doesn't sound right, stop and make a note. Then pick up your writing and start reading again. You'll be surprised at what you hear.
P.S. What is surprising me as I record Walking Nature Home? It's pretty darn good!
By Susan J. Tweit
Oct 8, 2010 9:06:21 PM | Writing from the Land
"Luck" Takes Hard Work
"You are so lucky," wrote a reader in response to one of my recent columns. "Most people don't live life in the full way you do."
My initial response was cranky.
It's hard to see the "lucky" in Richard's brain cancer, and in his second brain surgery in the past eleven months. It's very hard to see the lucky in the pathology report on the latest tumors: Grade 4, as bad as brain cancer gets, with a prognosis I have no wish to invoke here, or anywhere else.
It's hard to see the lucky in my mom's recent diagnosis with Alzheimer's Disease, leaving my 82-year-old dad to manage her care with me "assisting" from three hours drive away.
It's hard to see the lucky in my daily struggle to carve out "me time" in order to write, the one thing that saves such sanity as I retain, and restores my spirit.
After getting over my crankiness though, I think I understand: I'm fortunate to have potentially rich opportunities, to be able to make the kinds of choices I make, and to be living a full, present, relatively gracious life with all the above.
That's "luck," I suppose, the kind that takes some mighty hard work to recognize. (And it reminds me all too much of the proverbial Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.)
We don't get to pick what life brings us. What power we have over events and circumstance lies in how we respond.
We can choose to learn from what life sends our way--I'm certainly learning much about life and how to live it gracefully and generously from this journey with Richard's brain cancer, plus my mom's Alzheimers. As a writer of personal essay and memoir, I am also accumulating stories to use to illustrate that hard-won wisdom. Does that make me "lucky?" I suppose you could say so, even while admitting that it's tough luck indeed.
Choosing to respond openly and graciously to life's challenges pays off. For instance, on the days when I'm able to avoid sinking into the muck of overwhelm, I am able to notice the riches of my moments--the warmth of sunrises and sunsets, the gift of love, the sound of sandhill cranes' haunting calls as they wing high overhead, the sight of fringed gentians blooming in vivid blue or aspen leaves flaming gold, the feel of frosty air at dawn.
Those riches surround me every day. Whether I see or feel them is my choice.
Not that the choosing is either simple or easy--it's not. But those choices determine whether I find mind- and spirit-nurturing beauty and happiness in even the most difficult of days, or not.
Luck's hard work, not happenstance. It's the attitude to you bring to life, the spirit you cultivate, the way you are in even the most unassuming of moments.
That abililty to find the flashes of luck in any situation is something that can enrich your writing as well. Think about it next time you're struggling with your work and ask yourself: What choices am I making? How do they affect the stories I tell? Can I choose to frame my writing differently? How would it change if I did?
"We become the stories we tell ourselves," says psychologist and author Mary Pipher. What stories are you telling?
Sep 17, 2010 8:40:00 AM | Writing from the Land
Showing Persistence
Some ten years ago, not long after my husband Richard and I took up restoring the block of degraded urban creek that parallels one edge of the reclaimed former industrial property where we live, we rescued a clump of Rocky Mountain iris that had been uprooted by a grader-blade on a remote county road. A native westerner, this wild iris flourishes in unplowed, spring-wet grasslands, its blossoms tinting whole meadows blue-violet.
We carefully wrapped the plants in damp sheets of newspaper, brought them home, and dug them in just above the creek. The next spring we searched for their pale green leaves among the crowded blades of sedge and grass with no success. We were disappointed, but we had weeds to pull and other transplants to tend. As our stream-side restoration project began to flourish, we forgot the wild iris.
Some years later, that iris appeared right where we'd planted it, its slender, stiffly flattened green leaves contrasting with the winter-dry grass. Over the next month, half a dozen slender, pointed buds rose and burst into bloom, the pale blue flowers floating like so many butterflies.
Then came a drought the likes of which hadn't occurred here in several centuries. Our spring-fed creek dried up for weeks, and the iris disappeared. The creek's flow eventually returned, but the ethereal blossoms didn't--not the next spring, or the next. We figured the wild iris was gone. Until its pale blue flowers reappeared six springs later.
Earlier this year, Richard said, "I wonder if the iris will bloom this year." We searched for its stiff leaves and didn't find them. Then, a few weeks later, he was picking up windblown trash along the creek and spotted the first two blossoms. "The iris are back!" he called, and I scrambled down the bank to admire them.
That these tough native plants with their delicate flowers persist at all along our thread of urban creek, bounded by a parking lot on one bank and a former industrial property on the other seems to me a small miracle. I'm grateful for the gift of their lives, and the lesson they demonstrate in persistence.
Here's your writing prompt: In this short piece, I used the life of a wild iris plant to represent persistence. Does something or someone in your life symbolize persistence for you? How would you tell the story to demonstrate--show, not tell--that particular quality? Try writing your story of persistence without ever using the word. (Note that in this piece I didn't actually use the word until the very last sentence.) Go for it!
Jul 15, 2010 4:13:22 PM | Writing from the Land
Taking the Round-About Route to the Proper Destination
A few weeks back, my snail-mail box yielded a treat, a review copy of Susan Leigh Tomlinson's new book, How to Keep A Naturalist's Notebook. I dipped into the book immediately, and here's part of what I said in my review for Story Circle Book Reviews:
This thoughtful and elegantly written guide shows you to how to dip beneath the surface of the natural world through keeping an illustrated field journal. We journal about our lives, why not journal about the other species around us as well? Observing and noting nature is a way of getting to know that wider, wilder community, and through it, deepening our understanding of our own species. It's a way of honoring the living world....
I knew after reading the book that I wanted to talk with Tomlinson about her work. So I emailed her, and she agreed to an interview. The full Q & A is on Story Circle Book Reviews, but here's an excerpt that touches on questions near and dear to all who write about our life-choices.
Tweit: Your writing in How to Keep a Naturalist's Notebook seems like that of someone who grew up in kinship with nature. You have an undergraduate degree in fine art, and two graduate degrees in geology. Why the switch? Or do you see art and science as integrated?
Tomlinson: This is a difficult question to address--not because I think science and art aren't integrated, because, in fact, I do. Rather, it is a more troubling and complicated answer, and says something, I think, about society and our perception of the arts versus science. Also, this is a bit confessional, and so that makes it harder to share....
Early on, my parents recognized something in my drawings and enrolled me in in art classes at the local museum, even though that must have really stretched their very strained budget. I enjoyed it--immensely--but I also enjoyed being outside a lot, too. I would walk around in the surrounding desert, exploring arroyos, picking up interesting rocks... and somewhere out there, I decided I was going to be a scientist. Art was just something I did because it was fun and it came naturally to me, but it wasn't something I ever took seriously as a career.
I had this idea, see, that scientists were more respected for their brains than artists--they were taken more "seriously"--and that was important to me. I've always struggled in school, mostly because I am an inveterate daydreamer, even today. A teacher would be explaining how to do this or that with math and my mind would start to wander...and the next thing I'd know, we'd be having a quiz about it. So while my siblings were always excelling at school, I was dragging home the dicey report card. I got it in my head that I wasn't very smart.
Around the same time, there was a wonderful television program on in New Mexico, and it focused on science for kids. ... It was, I guess, a local version of "Mr. Wizard," and we used to watch it school. I truly loved that show. And perhaps because of it, science was one of the subjects at which I did well in school.
But math was not. And so when it came time to go to college, my father sat me down and told me I should major in art, because a scientist needed to be able to do math. Though he probably didn't mean it this way, the implication, in my mind, was that I wasn't smart enough to be a scientist. So I majored in art, and always felt a little less smart because of it.
I enjoyed majoring in art, more or less. But what I didn't know then and understand now is that I didn't really want to be a "fine artist." I wanted to be an illustrator. One is not better than the other, but certainly there is more prestige in society in being someone who is creating original and ground-breaking art.... The trouble is, I'm really a pretty simple person, and don't care a whole lot about being a ground-breaking artist. ... In art school though, the emphasis was on fine art (and at the time, this seemed to mean, "the uglier, the better" though I am certain, in retrospect, that I interpreted that incorrectly), so that's what I thought I had to do.
Oftentimes, I've envisioned the path my life has taken as someone who is standing in a station when a train rolls in, and I hop on it because I think it's going to take me where I want to go. Only later do I find that it is the wrong train, and I have to wait until the next stop in order to get off and right my course...
So after I graduated, I kicked around, trying very half-heartedly to be ground-breaking, but it just wasn't in me... . After awhile I got a job working for a geologist, who made a point of teaching me some things about geology. I enjoyed it a lot, and then one day, I said to myself, "You know, I've always wanted to be a scientist..."
My feelings about scientists being "brainier" than artists persisted all the way through graduate school, all the way through getting a doctorate in geology. But while I loved being outside and doing field work, learning the geology of a place, ... at some point I realized that, once again, I'd apparently gotten on the wrong train, for the wrong reasons.
After I'd earned my doctorate, I stumbled into a job in the Honors College at our university. Through a series of very fortunate circumstances, I wound up directing and teaching in a new degree program that combined humanities and the study of nature and the environment (the Natural History and Humanities degree). I was hired, of all things, because I had a scholastic background in both! And suddenly, it all came together, and I knew I was home. It turned out that all those years, I hadn't been on the wrong trains at all--I'd just needed to take several connecting trains to reach my destination.
And most importantly, I'd finally matured enough to realize that I was neither "brainier" as a scientist or as an artist, one discipline did not have more prestige than another, fine arts were not somehow "better" than illustration. I finally realized that what is important is to always keep seeking the things that interest you, the things you love--this is what is important when trying to chart a course for your life. If you do this, you will one day arrive at your proper destination.
I still reek at math.
Here's your life-writing prompt: Imagine the course of your life as a series of metaphorical train journeys. Where did you begin? What trains did you take? And where did they take you? Can you say, like Susan Tomlinson, that in the end, by "seeking the things that interest you, the things you love" you have arrived at "your proper destination"?
Apr 16, 2010 6:18:13 PM | Writing from the Land
On our way to the Stories From the Heart Conference in Austin, Texas, in February, Richard and I drove nearly 1,500 miles through snowstorms, hail, sleet, and pounding rain, from our home in the southern Rocky Mountains across the Great Plains to the Arkansas Ozarks and then south to Austin, the edge of the Texas Hill Country. Along the way we talked from time to time about the larger and longer journey with Richard's brain cancer we've been navigating. Both journeys had their scary times, but neither is responsible for the clutch of fear that inspired the title of this post.
That fear came up--seemingly out of nowhere--as I was working through my own writing exercise with the participants in my "Writing the Hard Stuff" workshop at Stories from the Heart. In the exercise, I asked the group to look into the metaphorical suitcase that contains the also-metaphorical baggage we each carry around and identify the heaviest item in there. As they thought and wrote, I opened my laptop and looked into my own suitcase (for the record, it's a huge soft-sided case of the sort popular in the 1970s, in black watch plaid accessorized with tasteful green textured vinyl). It wasn't hard to distinguish the heaviest thing in my suitcase: fear. There's a lot of scary stuff in my life right now: Richard's brain cancer, our finances, my work, the economy, global warming, and so on. As I described the fear though, I was shocked. It was an entirely different sort of fear, and one I never thought I'd be troubled by, fear of success.
I cogitated about that fear during the remainder of the conference, and all along the thousand-plus mile drive home, including one marathon 700-mile day where we pressed on long after we were worn out in order to out-flanked a huge snowstorm blowing past us. As we navigated the storm's aftermath on the last day of the drive (that's a snowy New Mexico landscape above--those cholla cactus look pretty cold in their white blankets!), I tried to explain the fear that I saw to Richard. "I'm afraid of succeeding," I said.
He looked at me, puzzled. He's watched me work hard over several decades to establish a career as a freelance writer. "I know, it sounds weird," I continued, trying to articulate what I felt inside.
What it boils down to is this: I'm a successful writer, I'm widely and well published, including twelve books and hundreds of articles and essays in magazines and newspapers running the gamut from Audubon and Popular Mechanics, to the Los Angeles Times and High Country News. But I struggle to earn a comfortable living from my work. What's in my way? It seems that I sabotage myself with a deep-seated fear that greater success will force me to "grow up" and be someone I'm not, someone who is too busy to cultivate a kitchen garden and make her own yogurt, someone who doesn't have time to talk to the magpies in the yard or greet the sunrise and sunset, someone who has to have her makeup done and teeth whitened, someone who won't enjoy just sitting side by side with the man she loves and watching miles of snowy landscape pass by. Does that sound silly?
Perhaps. But that's the fear I recognized while participating in my own workshop. I'm afraid to write what's in my heart, afraid that voicing it will shift my life in such profound ways that I won't have have time and space to be ordinary, every day, plain-old me, the me who loves life and all the lives we share it with.
Now I've got to face that fear. For me, that means writing it out.
What fears lurk in the suitcase--or knapsack, purse, or briefcase--that holds your baggage. If you take them out and look at them in the light, what do they have to say to you? What would you say to them?
Write it all out. Like me, you may find your load--and your life--lighter afterward.
Mar 13, 2010 2:02:46 PM | Writing from the Land
Difficult Memories: Finding Voice and Grace in the "Hard Stuff"
How do we handle the hard stuff in our life stories? How do we write about the memories that are controversial, painful, or just no fun to remember? We'll practice writing techniques that strengthen our voices and reveal the grace and wisdom to be found even in hard times.
That's the description of "Difficult Memories," the workshop I'll be teaching at Story Circle Network's Stories From the Heart V Conference, in Austin, Texas, February 5 - 7, 2010.
When I proposed the workshop last spring, I was thinking about my process in writing my memoir, Walking Nature Home, and my struggle to find the wisdom in the painful and outright hard parts of my own story. When I wrote the first few drafts of that book, I was still angry and hurt by some of my experiences. Writing out my feelings was therapeutic, but didn't result in particularly good memoir.
In fact, some of the initial drafts are so bad that re-reading them is more than embarrassing. It took me decades--and many rewrites--before I learned to chip away at the narrative to find the gift of gold in the hard stuff, before I found the grace to tell my story in a way that was respectful, honest, and compelling. When I finally did, reading the story was exciting instead of painful. It finally felt right--and I felt good about writing it.
Here's an example of finding voice and grace in the hard stuff, from the first chapter of Walking Nature Home:
That Labor Day weekend, we went backpacking with friends and an early fall snowstorm moved in. All I remember from those three days is a steady rain of wet, white flakes falling silently, muffling forest and lake and rock, pressing down on the roof of our small tent until I felt like I would suffocate. On the long drive out, even the cab of our pickup truck seemed to have shrunk. I looked over at Kent and said,
"I need space. I think we should separate."
His jaw clenched hard, but he didn't turn his eyes from the gravel road. "You'll be dead first."
I moved out. He attempted suicide. I saw a counselor.
Those four paragraphs paint a vivid picture of the disintegration of my first marriage, conveying the salient points without portraying every gory detail. The last line shows how dramatic paring events down to their essence can be: "I moved out. He attempted suicide. I saw a counselor."
There's obviously a lot more I could have said. That chapter did in fact originally include much more material, all of it vivid and dramatic in its own right.
Over time as I worked on the memoir though, I realized that this particular part of the story had come to "weigh" so much that it disturbed the overall balance. Writing out the intimate details of the disintegration of my first marriage may have helped me come to peace with my decisions, but it distracted from the larger point, a love story on several levels: me learning to love myself, the loving bond I found with my second husband, Richard, and the love of nature, the community of species with whom we share this planet, that sustained me through those years and still does.
As I re-visited the painful story of my first marriage, my ability to tell the story well grew as I grew as a person. I can't say which came first: my ability to understand myself or my ability to write the hard stuff with clarity and grace. But I know that we grew together, that memoir and me.
Now I need every bit of that clarity and grace as my beloved Richard and I walk hand in hand through the "hard stuff" of his brain cancer. I know my practice in learning to tell the sometimes painful and traumatic stories that make up Walking Nature Home is helping me keep my balance today, both in writing and life. Wrestling with difficult memories not only taught me how to write a story that novelist Sandra Dallas recently hailed as "a moving story... filled with hope and joy," it also taught me how to make a hopeful, joyous life--no matter what comes.
Dec 17, 2009 6:11:45 PM | Writing from the Land
Telling--and Re-telling--a Thanksgiving Story
One of the most basic issues in writing is how to tell the story: where to start, where to end, what voice or voices to use, what to include, and at least as important, what to leave out. Perhaps it's obvious, but sometimes we forget that any one story can be told in many ways with many different results. Which way you choose depends in part on what your aim is, as well as on the audience you're speaking to. Knowing how to tell a story involves enough introspection to know what the story says,its underlying meaning. (Sometimes we only learn the underlying meaning by writing out the details of the story and then letting it sit a while--I call this letting it compost--and reading it anew to see what it has to say.)
Here's an example of telling one story--in this case, a life-story, part of my ongoing project to write memoir about my life as it happens--in two different ways for two different audiences. The first version, "A Tale of Two Hospitals," is on my blog at http://tinyurl.com/ybkbmet. Read that first, and then read the version below, which appeared in my weekly newspaper column as "Thanksgiving Is For Giving Thanks."
One unseasonably lovely November afternoon a few weeks ago, my husband, Richard and I drove over the mountains to Denver. We left on time for once, the weather and traffic cooperated, and we arrived in the Metro Area before rush hour got crazy.
I should have known things were going too smoothly.
We had planned to bring dinner to my parents, who live near the city. But when we arrived at their senior community, we learned that my mom been taken to a nearby hospital, with my dad accompanying her.
We drove straight there, and found my mother in a room off the busy ER, looking tiny under a mound of blankets and attached to a plethora of tubes and wires and monitors. She was sitting up though, and devouring her hospital dinner.
Turns out that the sore throat she had reported when I called the previous weekend had been the beginnings of pneumonia. Hence the antibiotics dripping into her veins from one bag and the saline solution from another, plus oxygen chuffing into her nose, and electrodes attached to her chest to monitor her heartbeat.
Now that she was stable, she was slated to be transferred to a regular room. So we drove my dad back to their apartment and fed him dinner.
By that time, Richard and I had almost forgotten why we ventured the long drive to Denver in the first place--almost. Our destination was another hospital, where Richard was scheduled to meet with Oncology to learn what's next in the journey that began with him hallucinating birds more than two months ago and continues through treatment for brain cancer.
By the time we left the city the next afternoon, headed back home over the mountains, my mother had improved so much that she hoped to be discharged from the hospital the next day. And we had conferred with Richard's oncologist, who explained that his tumor, a Grade 3 Astrocytoma for those who track these things, is serious enough that they want to treat it aggressively.
That means radiation to start, accompanied by chemotherapy to enhance the cell-killing effect, and then a course of chemo by itself.
That's where Thanksgiving comes in: Our two-hospital trip reminded me of why I give thanks. Not just on Thanksgiving, or just for the turkey, no matter how delicious it and the trimmings might be.
No, what I give thanks for on this holiday and every day is not stuff--nor the chance to stuff myself with food, nor money, power, or prestige.
My giving-thanks list is short, comprised of the essentials that I believe are worth more than any things or money: Sharing my days with Richard, my mother's recovery, being part of a far-flung-in-distance but close-in-heart community of family and friends, the gift of practicing our art and writing, and of being able to live in a generous and sustainable way in a place we love.
Those blessings are what make every day Thanksgiving for me.
Notice that both versions begin with almost the same words, and tell the same story. But the blog version, besides being longer, includes more details of the actual events. It's memoir-in-the-making: here's what's happening, and how it affects my life, plus a bit of the lessons I take from it. The newspaper column version gives an abbreviated version of the events, and then teases out a connection to Thanksgiving (the week the column will run). It's an opinion piece, not a news piece, but it's actually less personal than the blog post, with a tie-in to a more universal meaning. Essentially, it says, "This is what has happened in my life, and it reminds me of things we can all think about and learn from." Both versions are memoir, both tell the same story from my life; where they differ is in the voice and interpretation.
Here's an exercise to practice with your writing: take a story you've been working on. Write it out, and then go back and write it a different way: choose a different beginning, a different voice, add musings about what it means.... Then compare the two versions, read critically, and see what each has to tell you!
Nov 21, 2009 1:10:22 PM | Writing from the Land
The Daily Grace of Haiku
When my new media expert badgered me into joining Twitter last summer, I was grumpy. What in the world could I do on Twitter, in 140 characters or less, that wouldn't just seem stupid? I thought about something my husband, Richard, taught me when he was a university professor honing his teaching skills: the concept of added value. In his case, that meant finding what he brought to teaching that students couldn't get from textbooks, videos or the internet. In applying that idea to my presence on Twitter, I thought about what I could do on Twitter that would be useful and reflect my voice and perspective.
After a bit of fumbling around, I realized, haiku. Richard and I have always played with haiku when we're on long road trips as a way to capture moments and experiences that might otherwise be forgotten in the rush of getting from A to B. (When I say we "play with" haiku, what I mean is we come up with the haiku in our heads and speak it aloud to each other as we drive along.) It occurred to me that Twitter is like a radio station of sorts, and I could post a daily haiku as a way to "broadcast" a snippet from wherever I find myself out to the social media universe, like a virtual locator beacon. "I'm here, and this what's happening in my landscape."
So I started posting a daily haiku as my contribution to Twitter. (It cross-posts on Facebook, thus saving some digital energy.) It doesn't have to be anything as grandiose as this view of the mountains that rise above our valley shot from the highway coming down the last passon our drive home. A detail can be as telling as a whole view. Sometimes something I notice in the garden prompts a haiku, like this one:
Clear dawn turns to rain
frost forecast—harvest like mad!
fall comes tomorrow.
Or this one:
Fog hid the dawn sky
then crescent moon at sunset
day passed in between.
Or something I notice as I look out the window:
Rising fast and high
fifty vultures slip-slide south
silver under wings.
The practice has made me more attentive to where I am and what's happening in the world around me, so that I've even come up with haiku from Richard's stays in the hospital, like this one from a difficult night in the ICU:
Outside snowflakes reign
inside lights blink, sensors beep
life sighs, in and out.
The gift of finding a haiku worth posting on Twitter nearly every day (I'm not perfect!) is that it asks me to find a bit of grace in the day, no matter what comes. And the practice of turning that bit of grace into haiku gives me experience in finding the essence in the moment and communicating it in words. As life-writers, it seems to me that an important part of what we're doing is finding the essence in our experiences and figuring out how to communicate it. That makes Haiku excellent practice: it's short, it exercises our vocabulary and hones our awareness, and it can be done anywhere at anytime and memorized until it can be written down.
If you want to try a daily practice of seeing and communicating via haiku, here are the basic rules:
Three lines in a 5-7-5 pattern (five syllables in the first line, seven the second, five the third--haiku experts say that this rule isn't firm, but I find it a useful discipline)
Based in nature or natural phenomena
References--directly or indirectly--the season
The gift? I've found beauty and grace in the toughest moments, from Richard's time in the ICU, to the morning I woke way too early and lay in bed wide awake and tired, until I opened the blind:
Crescent edge silver
ghost moon rises escorting
Venus and Saturn.
Oct 17, 2009 1:26:44 PM | Writing from the Land
September has been an interesting month in my household, at least in the sense of the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." My husband, Richard, and I were due to spend to two weeks in a remote cabin in the San Juan Mountains, where we had been awarded a joint artist/writer retreat. Instead he landed in the hospital in Denver after he begin seeing birds--thousands of them--on our way to the cabin. There were birds everywhere: birds as tiny as house flies perched on every blade of grass and pebble, birds crowded every fence rail and utility wire, birds are large as condors appeared on distant ridge tops. He watches birds, and these were benign, so he wasn't troubled. I was: they weren't real.
Turned out he was experiencing what was probably a viral infection causing life-threatening swelling in the right frontal lobe of his brain, the area that processes visual stimuli. As I was trying to digest our swift transit from long-anticipated-retreat-in-a-remote-mountain-cabin to husband-in-the-hospital-with-swelling-of-the-brain, a friend, the novelist Jane Kirkpatrick, wrote something in an email triggered one of those "Aha!" moments, shifting my understanding in a subtle but profound way:
"This occurrence took you from your lovely cabin in the aspen grove, but sent you where you could receive what you need."
When I first read Jane's words, I was startled. Then I realized she was right. The events of late August, distressing as they were, did indeed send Richard and I to where we could receive what we need, both literally and metaphorically.
By that, I don't mean to say Richard "needed" the health issue that landed him in a Denver hospital for most of a week.
But he clearly did need to receive immediate and thoughtful medical attention, and he even needed the grueling battery of tests, the days in the hospital, and the subsequent course of treatment extending into the following weeks.
And I needed the chance to stop and reflect. Where the events that landed us in Denver instead of at the cabin in the aspen grove have sent me (at least in the metaphorical sense) is to pondering not how to get away on another residency, but how to make my every day life be more "residential" or "retreatful."
The busyness creeps in insidiously: just when I think I'm doing pretty well at staying balanced, I say "Yes" to one more deadline, one more speaking gig, one more teaching commitment, or one more kind of community involvement. Suddenly the days are cluttered with "shoulds" and I'm the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, running as fast as I can just to keep from losing ground.
The time tending to Richard's health crisis gave me enough distance to recognize that I want to make every day more like I'm on a writing residency, without leaving home.
As a start on that, I wrote up a short list of words to remind me of how I want to live and work and be:
Contemplative.
I'm not planning on joining a religious order (I'm generally allergic to organizations and groups, especially when they involve meetings), but I do want my spirituality and my love for life to infuse my every day.
So the lesson I take from the writing residency that didn't happen is a strong message to consider how I'm organizing my life and find ways to make my days even more about doing what I love and believe in--being the change I want to see, in every moment.
That reminds me of one more word to add to my list of words to live by, perhaps the most important:
Loving.
Here's my wish for your days: Live as if you've been given a precious gift, because you have--life. Use it thoughtfully, mindfully, reverently. With love.
And write your own list of words to live by.
P.S. Richard's recovering at home, and I'm grateful to have him with me. The birds, having delivered their message, are gone, and we're working on restoring the rhythms of our lives in mindful and retreatful ways.
Sep 20, 2009 10:19:56 PM | Writing from the Land
Writing the Hard Stuff
Difficult times hit everyone's lives. How do we write about the hard stuff? Can writing help us work our way through pain and misery, anger and grief? Sometimes.
A few weeks ago, a dear friend died in a rafting accident. As I struggled to accept the loss and find a way to not let the black cloud of grief settle solidly over my days, I realized that I needed to write as a way to honor both Carol's life and my feelings. So I wrote my own version of a personal obituary in my weekly newspaper column:
The call came on one of those afternoons when life moves so quickly that even though you're going as fast as you possibly can, you feel like the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, as if you're barely keeping up.
"Susan, it's Jim," my friend said, and then paused. "I've got sad news: Carol Jacobson died yesterday in a rafting accident on the Green River."
"No," I said.
We were silent, me attempting to make sense of nonsensical news; he probably wondering what he should say.
"But she was so excited about that trip," I said, as if that could change what had already happened. "She had always wanted to run Lodore Canyon."
"I'm sorry," he said.
"The raft flipped in Triplet Falls and she fell out. They picked her up in the pool at the bottom, but she never recovered consciousness."
Silence again while we both tried to digest the news.
Then we talked for a bit, remembering the previous fall when we had signed books at her store, and how she had loved books and ideas and stories--and being home in northwestern Colorado after thirty years away.
"I'm sorry," he said again.
"Me, too."
That was a month ago, and I'm still trying to make sense of the news that Carol Valera Jacobson, age 54, co-owner of Downtown Books in Craig, Colorado, poet, teacher, memoirist, storyteller, gardener, mom to three grown sons, re-married barely two years, is dead.
We had just "talked" in email a few days before, as she was getting ready for the raft trip. She asked for advice on dealing with slugs and grasshoppers in her garden; she nudged me about arranging my trip to sign books at her store and talk to her memoir-writing classes; she wanted information on writing workshops I'll be teaching.
And then she fell out of a raft going over a series of drops in Lodore Canyon and she's gone. Just like that.
Carol lit up a room. She loved life--people say that, but Carol really did, and was engaged in every moment of it, from gardening to giving the best hugs and laughing whole-body laughs, to improving downtown Craig, the ranching and oil town where she had grown up and to which she had returned six years ago to be closer to family.
More than 400 people came to her memorial service, and the tears and laughter and remembrances went on for two hours.
I keep thinking of things I need to tell her. And then I remember she's gone.
I want to honor Carol's life, and her passion for stories and literacy and for the community of land and people there in Moffat County.
I want to carry forward her laugh and her stubborn genius for making good things happen; I want to be the writer she believed I am.
And I want to make sense of the door that closed with her sudden death, and watch for the one I'm sure she's holding open somewhere else.
Writing--whether it's about difficult times, difficult memories, or difficult feelings--can open that door. It can help us find a way through times that are tough, a way out of emotions that threaten to swamp us. And it can be a way to honor our losses and the scars we carry, those lessons that we wouldn't have chosen to learn, but which shape our lives.
(Carol Valera Jacobson in Downtown Books, Craig, Colorado)
This one's for you, Carol. My love and blessings go with you as you continue on this great journey, wherever it may take us.....
Aug 18, 2009 4:14:47 PM | Writing from the Land
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The Technical High School Forestry/Wood Harvesting programs in Maine are the only entry level training available in Maine. Currently there are four programs in Maine located across the state in Norway, Rumford, Farmington and Dyer Brook. Although program content varies slightly with each school, all offer Certified Logging Professional (CLP) Apprenticeship certification to successful graduates. These programs accept high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. Training lasts between one and three years depending on the individual school. All programs have a strong hands on component operating various types of logging equipment (from chain saws and cable skidders to Cut to Length harvester) on a school logging operation.
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Singer/Songwriter/Artist
Cleave To Us Thomas Reid 5:07
Howling Thomas Reid 4:32
I'll Still Fall Thomas Reid 4:15
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Thomas Reid's heart-breaking debut album – An emotionally honest piece of art that peers into Thomas Reid's mind, leaving the listener with a an album that reads like a tragic love story front to back. Includes 11 original songs, ranging from indie folk, to dark, ambient alternative rock, mixed with experimental, synth based melancholic electronic. Among the brand new songs on the tracklist are re-recorded and remastered versions of his three original demos "I'll Still Fall", "Howling", and "Cleave to Us". The album was released October 28th 2017.
*Special thanks to Nick, Mom, Patrick Lee Hebert, Ines K., Bostin, Noelle, and every single wonderful person who has ever supported my music in any way whatsoever. Your support means more than I can ever fully express to you. This album would not be possible without you. You are wonderful and I can't thank you enough.
-Thomas Reid
New single "All I Want" out now.
New single "A Day Dream Date With You" Out this Tuesday, 7/16/2019
New single "Me and You Against the World" out now.
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Lonely Music Collective's new EP "Lonely Winter" out now.


Why is everything so much harder than you think it will be?
That's the base of our ceiling fan dislodged from the ceiling. The fan was on HIGH and I walked straight into it with my 40 pound ladder. Needless to say it was like jamming a 2×4 into someone's bicycle wheel – the fan went from high to zero in half a second and nearly ripped off the ceiling. D'oh! I was so scared I'd broken it. Or ripped the wiring apart. Or destroyed something important in the electrical box. That would mean buying a new fan, reinstalling it, and going through the hell of trying to program the remote control.
I bought this on a whim last year at Home Depot. I've never even used it [which is why I tried it second to last – after going through the 7 cans/tubes that were open I began trying the ones that were still factory sealed]. Thankfully I bought it!!! The only difference is that it's eggshell instead of matte. But it's too small a difference to notice, especially from the floor. O-M-G! Finally. Holy Cow. You might notice from the list that I even tried our primers & exterior paints! Jeesh.
Since the ladder reached almost to the ceiling, I had to roller in and around the ladder legs, and then when I moved the ladder over a few feet, I'd roller where it used to be. BUT I think even though I thought I was doing a thorough job, I wasn't. So I will have to move the bed away from the wall again this weekend and set the ladder down lower [which is safer, because I can set it up in an A-frame shape] and use my extension roller to re-paint the top part of the wall. Bummer. But at least I [think] I figured it out!
SO GROSS!!! I used it a year ago when patching the bedroom wall and it's been completely sealed since then [or at least had the appearance of being]. I don't know what happened.
It must be difficult to paint well from such a big ladder. Makes me happy that I hired out our exterior paint job. You impress me with all that you do.
Well, the only times I've painted walls (girl cave and now bedroom) have been from a ladder so I guess I don't know the difference!
YES!! This same thing happened to the BM paint that we used on our kitchen cabinets!! I had never seen mold on paint before. I didn't even know paint contained ingredients that could mold! This has never happened with my Valspar paint. WTF???
Well, as you said ….nothing's ever easy, especially if you think it's going to be super easy. However, once you've finished the touch ups, your room is going to be beautiful! Actually, it always has been beautiful, so you're just doing the frosting on the cake.


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Groups support refiling of suit vs Marcopper
Author: eli j obligacion | Wednesday, November 09, 2016 |
Reopening of case in Canada draws backing, but LGU, civil society split on choice of law firm
By Maricar Cinco, Inquirer
Marcopper's open pit at Mt. Tapian in Marinduque, as shown in a photograph in 2010, taken 14 years after the country's worst mining disaster. —INQUIRER PHOTO
A plan to pursue the multimillion-dollar suit against a global mining firm gained the support of the Catholic Church and civil society groups in Marinduque province to recover the cost of damage left by the 1996 mine tailings spill, tagged as the worst mining tragedy in the Philippines.
The provincial board of Marinduque, in June, issued a resolution to refile the case in a Canadian court against the Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp., the company that absorbed Placer Dome, the parent company of the defunct Marcopper Mining Corp.
In 1996, one of Marcopper's drainage tunnels gave way, unleashing about 200 million tons of tailings into Boac River. Traces of mine wastes are still visible in the water today.
The Marinduque provincial government, in 2005, filed a $100-million class suit against the mining company at the Nevada district court in the United States.
But after 10 years of court proceedings, the Nevada State Supreme Court threw out the case for forum non conveniens, meaning the US was a wrong jurisdiction to hear it.
In 2014, Barrick Gold offered a $20-million settlement but the Marinduque provincial board turned it down after it felt that the amount was not enough to compensate for the environmental damage wrought by the mining disaster on the island.
While the decision to reopen the case in Canada drew support, various groups in the province were divided as to whether they would continue engaging the services of law firm, Diamond McCarthy.
The US-based firm originally represented the Marinduque government under a contingency arrangement, meaning it would be paid a fraction of whatever the court awards the province once a resolution or a settlement is reached.
In a letter on Oct. 13, Marinduque Gov. Carmencita Reyes asked the provincial board to grant her the authority to enter into another contract with the firm for the "immediate filing of suit" in British Columbia or Ontario.
Reyes also sought authority to sign an agreement with the New York-based Parabellum Capital LLC as a third party funder. The purpose of a funder is to shoulder the costs during litigation, she said.
But the Marinduque Council for Environmental Concerns (Macec) opposed Reyes' move to continue engaging lawyers from Diamond McCarthy saying it is "unnecessary and costly."
"We remain positive and we support the intention of the provincial government to refile the case in Canada, but we strongly oppose the continuous engagement of Diamond McCarthy … for the case," it said.
Macec instead urged the provincial government to "directly engage the services of Canadian firms [or] lawyers for the case."
In a telephone interview on Monday, former provincial board member and Macec mining committee head Adeline Angeles said Diamond McCarthy does not have a presence in Canada and it would need to hire lawyers from Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb, a Canadian firm.
In effect, "the province [will be] hiring multiple layers of lawyers [and] that is not only costly but unnecessary [because] that will significantly affect the final return or net recovery [for Marinduque]," she said.
"There are several other Canadian law firms that expressed interest [to represent Marinduque] and are amenable to a contingency arrangement," Angeles said.
Boac Bishop Marcelino Antonio Maralit, in a letter to the provincial board, said he supported the case's refiling but "clearly, the immediate signing of said proposal … without the necessary changes in favor of the province would be very disadvantageous."
The provincial board, in a special session on Oct. 25, voted against authorizing Reyes to enter into the contracts. It has yet to reach a decision on the choice of a legal representative.
Barrick Gold, Marcopper


New Delhi: India welcomed a pledge by Britain Thursday to end "complacency" towards its former colony and forge a special relationship, which ministers said would translate in coming years into economic benefits for both.
Britain has lost market share in India in recent years, slipping to eighteenth biggest exporter to the country in 2008-2009 from fifth in 2002-2003, and a large delegation flew in this week to try to reverse that trend.
"There's been a certain amount of complacency in the past ... a belief that sentiment was enough," Vince Cable, business secretary in a new coalition government that came into office in London in May, told ministers and business leaders in New Delhi.
Cable said it was time for Britain to "understand and respect that India has made enormous changes", and offer Indian business partners the investments, exports and technologies that met the expectations of modern, tech-savvy India.
Prime Minister David Cameron brought six cabinet members and more than 30 senior executives from leading British firms with him, in what Indian media described as the biggest delegation to visit since independence from Britain in 1947.
"India and the UK have a relationship which is distinct, which is very special," said trade minister Anand Sharma, adding that the size and seniority of the British delegation had "registered" with Indians and generated "enthusiastic interest".
Ministers from both sides, taking part in a panel discussion in front of an audience of Indian business leaders, said the test of whether the new "special relationship" added up to more than just words would be whether trade and business ties grew.
The stakes are greater for Britain, which is struggling to emerge from its worse recession since the Second World War, than for India, which is enjoying strong growth and stands to reap benefits from increasing trade flows between emerging markets.
Bilateral trade was worth $12.5 billion (Dh45.9 billion) in 2008-2009 — an amount dwarfed by what Britain trades with Ireland, a country of about 4 million.
A first result of the British visit was a contract worth more than $1 billion for defence group BAE Systems and engine maker Rolls-Royce to provide training jets to the Indian military, signed on Wednesday in Bangalore.
Yesterday, the focus moved to more traditional forms of diplomacy, with Cameron meeting a series of politicians on a hectic day in New Delhi. He met his counterpart, Manmohan Singh, in the evening.
The new British government, a coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, has made clear it thinks the previous Labour government had focused on other foreign policy priorities to the detriment of ties with India, a long-time friend and ally.
With Britain planning deep cuts in public spending to rein in a bulging deficit, the coalition wants to focus on fast-growing economies like India to tap new sources of growth.
Asked whether a visit to India just 13 weeks into the life of the new government might send the wrong message to China, foreign secretary William Hague said ties with India needed more nurturing.
"The Labour government did quite a good job of relations with China so there's strong foreign policy continuity there. With India there's a greater need for reinvigoration," he told reporters.


Parents agree the objective of Court-Involved Therapy (CIT) is not to determine IF it is in the child(ren)'s best interests to have contact with one of the parents. Rather, the parents agree it is in the child(ren)'s best interests to have meaningful relationships with both parents. The CIT is intended, therefore, to help the children have healthy and meaningful relationships with both parents. This process is generally court ordered.
There are many reasons why a child may be reluctant to have contact with a parent. The parent and child never had a well-established relationship or the difficulties may be newly emerging. Sometimes events have hurt a parent and child's relationship, including exposure to stormy or violent parent interactions or child mistreatment. In some situations, one parent is knowingly or unknowingly undermining or interfering with the child's relationship with the other parent. Many times a child is reacting to the stress of being caught in the middle of parent conflict or to differences in the parents' styles of parenting, and has aligned with one parent to relieve their internal distress. Usually, there is a combination of factors at play.


This is a workshop to help you give a talk on a technical subject, with empasis on speaking at London Clojurian meetups and our Clojure Exchange conference in December. You dont need to be an expert to present, as hearing what you and your team have done is at least as interesting and often more interesting. You dont need to be an expert speaker, just willing to give it a try (or just curious about what's involved). We are all developers with different experiences that are valuable to share and our audiences are very friendly.
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Economics: An Empirical Science Capable of Forecasting Economic Events?
In the aftermath of the 2007–2009 financial crisis, mainstream economics was criticized for having failed to either forecast or help prevent the market crash, which resulted in large losses for investors, although markets were back to pre-crisis levels by the end of the first quarter of 2013. Some have suggested that the crash itself was the result of bad or poorly applied theory. What parts of the theory are bad? What parts were poorly applied? What parts are truly relevant to investment management? Is there better science in the making? The authors of this article address these questions.
You are going to email the following Economics: An Empirical Science Capable of Forecasting Economic Events?
CURRENT MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS: WHAT ARE THE LIMITS?
IS CURRENT MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS A GOOD APPROXIMATION TO REALITY?
CAN FINANCIAL DECISION-MAKING BE REDUCED TO A COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURE?
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Oil companies' climate targets not what they seem
By James Osborne, Houston Chronicle
Two years ago, a group of the world's largest oil companies announced a major commitment to fight climate change, promising to reduce methane emissions from their operations by 20 percent within seven years.
But the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, whose members include Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and Occidental Petroleum, inserted a little-noticed footnote explaining that the commitment only extended to their "operated oil and gas assets."
That designation, in many cases, excluded more than half the companies' oil and gas production, which comes from joint ventures in which their partners manage day-to-day operations, according to a new report by the Environmental Defense Fund.
That largely leaves national oil companies in the Middle East, Africa and Russia, with which American and European companies often partner, a license to pollute at will."They essentially created a loophole on methane targets," said Ben Ratner, a senior director at EDF. "They are taking the profit from those joint ventures, but they're ignoring the emissions."
The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative declined to comment. But the American Petroleum Institute, which represents all but one of the companies in the initiative, said western companies are limited in their ability to set standards for overseas partners, many of which are not subject to the same investor and political pressures as companies the United States and Europe.
"It's a more significant challenge when you're working in partnership," said Aaron Padilla, API's manager of climate policy. "You're not able to be as ambitious as you can be on your own operations."
The revelation about methane emissions comes as energy companies increase efforts to prove their clean energy bonafides and satisfy investors concerned about the survival of the industry in a low-carbon future. Governments worldwide are cracking down on greenhouse gas emissions.
Methane, which leaks from drilling equipment and pipelines, is of particular concern. The Environmental Protection Agency says the gas warms the planet at 25 times the rate of carbon dioxide over the first 100 years it's in the atmosphere.
But as companies trumpet one climate change goal after another, determining which companies are taking the issue seriously has become difficult. For instance, industries tend to focus on emissions from their own factories and facilities while ignoring the environmental damage caused by their products, such as emissions from gasoline-burning cars, said Andrew Logan, oil and gas director at CERES, a nonprofit that advises on sustainable investing.
"Depending on the company, their total emissions might be eight times the size of their operational emissions," he said. "There's so much focus on the details of targets and how companies are going to meet them and too little on what these targets actually include."
Several organizations rate companies on their so-called Environment-Sustainability-Governance performance, but it's not unusual for a company to do well in one rating and poorly in another, experts say. Whether investors care if companies are making significant progress in addressing climate change or merely ticking boxes remains unclear.
A report by Deutsche Bank last year found that companies receiving positive press about climate efforts outperformed their peers on the stock market. But news organizations are not necessarily vetting companies' claims, let alone comparing the climate programs of different companies, potentially giving investors a rosier picture.
"It's difficult to say just what investors think about the issue of climate control itself, let alone whether they value transparency on it or not," said Ehud Ronn, a finance professor at the University of Texas. "Ideally, we'd like to see whether investors penalize companies for investing too little, or too much, in climate mitigation efforts."
For now, the financial sector is increasing its commitment to climate change – at least on its face.
When the Trump administration announced plans earlier this year to limit pension plans and 401K funds from applying sustainability goals in their decision making, financial firms including Fidelity Investments of Boston and BlackRock of New York spoke out in opposition.
The New York bank JP Morgan announced this month it was realigning its investment strategy with the Paris agreement on climate change, with the goal of getting the companies in its investment portfolio to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Such actions are getting the attention of publicly traded oil companies, eager to prove themselves serious about the issue at a time when the future of their industry is uncertain and investors are losing confidence in the sector.
Chevron, the U.S. oil major, has said it will include both its operated and non-operated production in its emissions targets — the only major oil company to do so, according to the Environmental Defense Fund.
BP announced last month it would use on-site measurements rather than estimates in its methane reporting. Sayma Robbie, a BP senior vice president, even wrote the foreword to Environmental Defense Fund, acknowledging that "non-operated joint ventures make up a significant portion of our production" and pledging that BP would pressure overseas partners to set targets for reducing methane emissions.
So far, the national oil companies to join the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative are Saudi Aramco, the China National Petroleum Corp. and Petrobras in Brazil.
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Kopalnia – dawny wąskotorowy przystanek osobowy w Gościeradzu, w gminie Koronowo, w powiecie bydgoskim, w województwie kujawsko-pomorskim. Położony był na wąskotorowej linii kolejowej z Bydgoszczy do Koronowa. Linia ta została otwarta w 1895 roku. W 1969 roku linię zamknięto dla ruchu pasażerskiego.

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Gościeradz (województwo kujawsko-pomorskie)
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NY Law Firm Levy Konigsberg LLP Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Rockefeller University Hospital Related To Decades Of Alleged Sexual Abuse
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NEW YORK, N.Y., Feb. 15, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — New York-based law firm Levy Konigsberg LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against Rockefeller University Hospital based on allegations related to the Hospital's handling of sexual abuse claims made against Dr. Reginald Archibald, a faculty member who served on the University's faculty between the 1940s and 1980s.
According to the complaint filed February 13, 2019, Archibald was a pediatric endocrinologist at the hospital and saw more than 9,000 patients over the course of his career.
The lawsuit alleges that Archibald likely molested thousands of patients in hospital examination rooms and his office and also made pornographic photos of his victims, which were kept on Rockefeller property. Furthermore, the complaint alleges that staff members were aware of both Archibald's conduct and the existence of the photographs and did not disclose either.
LK lawyers representing the plaintiffs allege that complaints regarding Archibald go back to at least the 1990s, and Rockefeller University admits that it has been aware of the abuse since 2004 at the latest.
The complaint further claims that the University waited until 2018 to contact former patients and that the shock of receiving an unsolicited communication from the facility that facilitated Archibald's abuse caused severe emotional distress and invaded patients' privacy.
The lawsuit is seeking compensatory, punitive, and exemplary damages for past and future pain and suffering and past and future emotional distress and mental anguish, costs of future counseling, therapy, and medical treatment related to the injuries inflicted by the defendant, pre-judgment and post-judgment interest, attorneys' fees, and various other forms of relief.
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Because We Love You
Rosemary B. Quigley, University of Michigan Law School
I remember the impotence I felt on the eve of the Gulf War in January 1991. No one could have known at that moment what a brief conflict it would be. We had every reason to believe that the Middle East would be hurled into turmoil. And if protracted war ensued, a draft would surely follow. I watched my college boyfriend sink into despair, with the help of a Bob Mould CD, at the prospect of being called to give his life for his country. I remained uncharacteristically mute. In the face of this battle, our positions were too unequal for my words or touch to console. I had listened to my male friends deliberate the legitimacy of the war-to-be and the potential for service deferment for some days. Though they were liberal-minded, it was clear that my views brought little to bear upon the situation. We were all people with big plans, but the plans of the women were shielded from the looming threat of life-threatening, wartime service. The potential of a male friend being killed, I was reminded, was nothing in the face of that man conceiving his own death. Experiencing such a dynamic compelled me to accept gradually the different situations of men and women in American society and under American law. Men and women used to be similarly situated to me and I was befuddled by, and unsympathetic to, many women's seeming incapacity to assert themselves and achieve their goals in a purportedly male-defined world. But as I've worked in a professional climate of bravado, developed intimate relationships with men, and provided legal services to hurting women, I have come to recognize that the genders probably are distinct, and that the best we can hope for is harmonization. No Constitutional Right to be Ladies by Linda Kerber1 has further clarified my resolution of the age-old conundrum of whether women can be equal with, while distinct from, men. Kerber draws women as strong but different, ultimately resolving that the unique characteristics of gender should not be manipulated to undermine social equality. Women, she points out, have sought to contribute equally as citizens regardless of gender differences. Kerber sees the remaining barriers to parity, like women's exception from conscription, as enduring from generation to generation. But by focusing on women's assumption of constitutional obligations, Kerber renders an engaging historical framework for considering women as full partners in citizenship.
Rosemary B. Quigley, Because We Love You, 98 Mich. L. Rev. 1822 (2019).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol98/iss6/19
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Adria's Musings and Reviews: How To: Color Your Bujo Pages Black.
I'm trying to stay way ahead on planning my bullet journal spreads and I am working on October right now.
Since Halloween is in October I thought I'd have a goth/Halloween month which to me meant black pages! I had no idea how to do this but I got an idea while checking out The Petite Planner's instagram. She used an ink pad and a beauty blender to get her black spread but there was no tutorial for them. That's okay though, she already provided what she used to color the page so I figured the rest out myself.
So if you want to do a black layout here is how I did it and what I found out after I did the first week's spread.
Your notebook (I'm using the Leuchtturm1917 soft cover 7x10 in. which I found at Barnes and Noble but you can order it off of Amazon).
An ink pad of whatever color you use. I would suggest using a waterproof ink because if it isn't waterproof then it will smear if you use a water based marker like Tombow. I am using Versafine pigment ink in Onyx Black. I bought it at JoAnns but again, you can order it off of Amazon.
Patterning Tape. I got mine at Michael's but it can be found on Amazon. It comes with 2 rolls in 1/8 in width and ¼ width. I used the thinner of the two.
Beauty Blender or Foundation Sponge. The beauty blender can be a bit pricey but the sponges can be bought in a pretty large pack at your local drug store.
Gloves because I quickly learned that it could get messy!
Scrap paper to put under each page so that you don't end up coloring any other pages you don't want to.
Tombow Mono Removable Adhesive. Make sure it's the removable one! I get mine at Michael's but here's the Amazon link.
Steps 1 & 2: Using the patterning tape, "draw" your boxes or whatever shape you have planned. Make sure you press down on the tape so that it doesn't move when you're painting over it. That's the easy part.
Take your scrap paper and tape it with the removable adhesive to the backs of the pages that you're going to be painting on, this will keep you from painting the edges of the other pages.
Now I used both the beauty blender and the regular foundation sponge and honestly I liked using the sponge better. They both hold the ink pretty well but I took longer with the beauty blender and it stained my fingers pretty bad.
Step 5: Dab your blender or sponge into your ink pad. I don't press down hard because it will absorb too much ink. Anyway, start painting your page, I start with downward strokes first and as the sponge ran out of ink I switched to putting a bit of pressure on the sponge to get the excess off. Repeat as needed until your pages are completely covered.
Tip: Make sure your strokes follow the direction of the tape as much as you can. I say this because if the ends of the tape lift up you won't be able to get them to stick again and you will probably end up painting over a part you didn't want to paint.
Step: 6 Let it dry completely. I left mine to dry over night the first time but realized that it doesn't need that much time. The second time I gave it like 2-3 hours just to be sure.
Step 7: Finally, the moment of truth. Carefully peel off the patterning tape. I say carefully because I tore a few inches here and there while removing it.
Ta da! It's done. Now in my case I noticed that I had a few spots that I wanted to color in just to make my boxes look more even. I just put a few small strips of patterning tape on and painted it. Do not try to free hand it, it won't work unless you have a very small sponge you can control.
Note: There IS a bit of bleed through depending how much ink you put on the page. In my case it's fine because I'm doing back to back black spreads for the whole month of October.
I tested out my new black pages using three white pens/markers. The first was the ranger brush pen in white which was okay but didn't show like I wanted it to. The second was the sakura jelly pen in white which was better but still not what I wanted. The winner was the uni-ball signo broad pen in white. OMG I LOVE THIS PEN! It's exactly what I was looking for and I need to get another one ASAP.
As of this post I also purchased waterproof dark blue and waterproof green ink pads so I will be painting some more spreads in the future just to test them out.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. If you have any tips you'd like to share, please do I love learning new and better techniques.


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1 How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. 2 The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers. 3 He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around. 4 He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire. 5 The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. 6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid in ruins his meeting place; the Lord has made Zion forget festival and Sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest. 7 The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord as on the day of festival. 8 The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together. 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the Lord. 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. 11 My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city. 12 They cry to their mothers, "Where is bread and wine?" as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers' bosom. 13 What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is vast as the sea; who can heal you? 14 Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading. 15 All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?" 16 All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: "We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!" 17 The Lord has done what he purposed; he has carried out his word, which he commanded long ago; he has thrown down without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the might of your foes. 18 Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite! 19 "Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street." 20 Look, O Lord, and see! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? 21 In the dust of the streets lie the young and the old; my young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; you have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without pity. 22 You summoned as if to a festival day my terrors on every side, and on the day of the anger of the Lord no one escaped or survived; those whom I held and raised my enemy destroyed.
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NEW ULM, Minn. - Taco John's International Inc. (Taco John's), a leading quick-service Mexican franchise, announced today its grand reopening of the New Ulm restaurant, located at 1301 S. Broadway St.
On Monday, May 3, the location will be having its grand reopening celebration. There will be a Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting at 9 a.m., promotional specials and opportunities to win prizes.
"We're ecstatic to be celebrating not only the store's 40th anniversary in New Ulm, but also the dining room grand reopening," said Nancy Lilleodden, who co-owns the location with her husband, Andy. "In addition, this year marks our 10-year anniversary of owning and operating this store. We are so grateful for the support of the community for all of these years and look forward to welcoming everyone back to our dining room!"
As part of a larger, systemwide remodeling initiative, the updated restaurant in New Ulm features a myriad of new design elements, both inside and out.
This location has dine-in, drive-thru and online ordering. Operating hours are Mondays – Saturdays, 6:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. and Sundays, 7:30 a.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Differentiating itself in the popular Mexican quick-service segment, Taco John's prides itself on a unique menu that features high-quality ingredients. Its commitment to quality has established the brand as the go-to restaurant in its markets. Additionally, its significant drive-thru and to-go business has helped insulate the brand from recent market shifts. Taco John's has been the leader in to-go and drive-thru business for decades.
For more information on Taco John's, visit www.tacojohns.com/.
About Taco John's
Taco John's, a leading quick-service franchise in the Mexican food segment, has more than 380 stores open across 22 states. Since 1969, Taco John's has offered its devoted fan following made-from-scratch quality food.
For more information on the Taco John's, visit https://tacojohns.com/.


The Handbook and Toolkit highlight the important role of creative, cross-domain cooperation in the communication and valorisation of cultural heritage. The products provide a knowledge base, inspiring examples, and recommendations for cooperation projects.
Included are results of CreativeCH expert workshops and additional studies as well as 21 case studies of projects in focus areas of the project. The areas include Archaeological Sites, World Heritage Towns, Industrial Heritage, Historical Places and Buildings, Cultural Routes, and Citizens' Cultural Participation.
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