Hi there, I'm Maurice Turner. After 44 hours of research including speaking with consultants and experts, and plenty of parents and 20 hours spent testing 10 car video, I believe that I found the best car video of 2018.
There's a product for every kind of user on the list of affordable options below. Simply review and buy them. If you're reading this, it is very likely that you're scouting for the best car video. Like choosing clothes or cosmetics, choosing car video should be based on your purpose, favorite style, and financial condition.
You must visit the page of sales. Here is the link. If you don't care about which brand is better, then you can choose the Car Video by the price and buy from the one who will offer the greatest discount.
Why did this car video win the first place?
ULTRA HD & AUTOMATIC SAFEGUARD: XME motion dash cam 1080P full HD with 3″ LCD screen 170 degree wide angle lens view, 5.0 Mega-pixels record every moment in 1920* 1080 / 24fps, 1440* 1080 / 30fps, 1080* 720 / 30fps, 640* 480 / 30fps. Automatically adjust exposure, helps in capturing all the objects moving about 5 meters ahead even things not normally seen at night while driving.
Why did this car video come in second place?
Why did this car video take third place?
If you keep the before points in mind, you can easily go out to the market and buy car video, right? No!
The car buying process is loaded with questions: Which car will satisfy all your wants and needs? Is there a warranty? And what's really going on under the hood?
You can do online research, peek under the hood and go for an exhaustive test drive, but your impression of a vehicle is really formed over months and years of ownership–not hours of research. Of course, you can't do months of testing when shopping for a vehicle, but you can do everything possible to bolster your confidence in your big purchase.
To date, millions of shoppers have accomplished that goal by choosing Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) vehicles. Certified cars offers many of the best features of new and used cars.
Get ready to load up the vehicle along with your favorite movies, and time will pass by, as your passengers watch movies. And do not be surprised, if the kids do not want to leave the car when you arrive at your destination; especially if the movie is not finished! Anyway, regardless which video system you choose, the best thing is that your passengers will greatly appreciate you for making their rides more comfortable.
See a trend here? The leaders clustered between 3and 3hours until 1979, when there was a huge leap forward in the winning time. A three- to four-hour leap. Now let's add the fastest time from the U.S. Express, the Cannonball's largely unknown successor, which ran from 1980 to 1983.
I've always known my time of 31:0was beatable. I always knew 30 hours was possible. I didn't think beating 2hours was. But 28:50? An incredible time. It may be unbeatable, but that doesn't mean one shouldn't pick the best possible car. Anyone entering a modern Cannonball Run is going to be gunning to be—and beat—the best.
Only the iPod touch offers a camera. This is an 8MP camera similar to that inside the iPhone. You'll get the same camera features such as slow-mo video and burst mode shooting (you won't get time lapse though).
Both the iPod touch and the iPod nano can play video, but the iPod touch offers a lot more flexibility, and a bigger screen.
A good quality dashboard cam comes with a hefty price. This means that to get the highest resolution and to obtain a model with the most advance features, particularly for car security, you have to be prepared to pay the price. Simply put, there are many makes and models of dashboard cams in the market and you should have a discerning eye to pick the best model within the price that you are willing to pay.
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The most important of this is the car seat!
It's so important, in fact, that hospitals pay special attention to your car seat and won't let you leave if you don't have one that meets all of their standards. So why is it that 80% of car seats are installed incorrectly and another 40% of people are using car seats that are too big for their child?
Simply put – we see the wrong things, we think they are right, so we repeat them.
Our car seat buying guide will help you to better understand how to choose a car seat, which car seat the best for your family, and how long you can use a car seat for. To do this, we looked at the pros and cons of each car seat, the customer reviews, and the specs.
Of course, you also have to ensure that you install the car seat properly, or all of the research in the world isn't going to keep your child safe. You don't have to spend a ton of money. You don't have to travel far and wide. You don't have to get something that doesn't fit your car or buy a new car just so you can keep your child safe. Instead, you just need to use your head.
When your baby is born, he or she might need something special. Some babies are born really small. Some are born very light. Some have special requirements because of health conditions. While you can't really wait until your baby is born, you should be proactive in determining if you will have any of these issues. Not all car seat models work for extremely small babies.
Then, you have to think about transitioning. Do you want to have a car seat that lasts for years but you have to transition it or do you want to get a few car seats?
Once your child grows out of the infant seat, most parents will move to a convertible seat. Some people will start with a convertible seat, but there are very few that provide enough support for smaller infants. By your child's first birthday, a convertible seat is likely what you will have, installed either forward-facing or rear-facing. Some parents prefer to keep their child rear-facing for as long as possible, but it really depends on your car, your seat, and your child.
If your child is younger than a year old and weighs less than twenty pounds, you should keep him or her in rear facing mode. Some of the tougher convertible seats allow you to go up to 50 pounds in the rear facing mode, but you would need to get a special system that accounts for the length of your child's legs, especially if you plan on taking longer trips. For short trips, they could be fine. However, if you are in an accident and your child's legs are squished, it could be a huge problem.
Your child will let you know if he or she is uncomfortable. Better yet, you should pay attention to when it looks like you can safely move your child from a rear-facing car seat to a forward facing mode.
Most convertible seats will have a convertible harness system, but the weight limit is higher, meaning that the system is tougher.
If you don't want to keep shopping for new seats every time your child grows (and they grow very quickly), you can get an all-in-one seat. Note that they do save money and they are easier, but they aren't typically as safe and effective at each stage like the individual seats are. Since these seats work with infants starting at pounds going all the way up to 120 pounds, that is too wide of a margin to really support every stage equally.
Another reason many people don't go for the all-in-on car seats? They are extremely bulky and lack the convenience in the different stages.
Still, they can be a great option for grandparents or people who won't transport your child all that often.
Infant car seats fit babies snugly during the first year or so, depending on the seat and size of your baby. They face the rear of the car and carry babies up to 2or even 3pounds and 2to 3inches tall.
These seats usually have a handle for easy carrying. They can snap in and out of a base you install in the car, and in and out of your stroller.
Read our complete article on buying an infant car seat.
Convertible car seats are larger and heavier than infant-only car seats. They face the back of the car at first and later turn to face forward, carrying children from birth to somewhere between 40 and 80 pounds and up to 50 inches tall, depending on the seat.
Read our complete article on buying a convertible car seat.
The twin-clutch unit is Getrag-built, it's a revised version of the item found in the Ferrari California but with shorter gearing and recalibrated shifts. Like the powerplant, it's proving sturdy and largely problem-free. A few owners have flagged-up clutch glitches, a simple fix, resetting the clutch-positioning sensors and updating the software. You can check how much is left in the clutch, it's certainly worth the trouble seeing as a new clutch kit will leave you £20k poorer.
Values remain steady: 2010/1cars with a full Ferrari history and a good spec start at c£150k, though you might find one privately for £140k. A few are around £130k but there's usually a reason – LHD, high miles, less saleable colour combo, etc. Most 458s cover minimal mileage, and cars with multiple owners aren't uncommon. Common options include carbon-shelled seats, carbon trim, front suspension lift and Scuderia badges. Spiders start at c£170k. Speciale values have plateaued but that's not saying much, with prices starting around £250k.
Most important, have fun and choose your Car Video wisely! Good luck!
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The Glorious Sons w The Blue Stones
It was an all Canadian, namely, Ontario, night at the Coke Stage last night.
First up were The Blue Stones from Windsor Ontario. Tarek Jafar (vocals & guitars) and Justin Tessier (drums) performed a 30-minute set consisting of hits from their 2018 studio album, Black Holes.
Their sound was big and full, considering it was just the two of them, and I enjoyed their blusey/new wave take on rock.
The crowd continued to fill in with anticipation of the evening's headliners; The Glorious Sons.
Kingston, Ontario's favorite sons hit the stage with their newly released single "Panic Attack" and moved through a 90-minute set of hard-rocking hits.
For me, I think the most memorial moment was guitarist, Chris Koster's solo cover of Pat Benatar's "Love is A Battlefield". As his bandmates left the stage, Chris stood front and center, performing a very touching and powerful rendition.
Frontman, Brett Emmons performed with an insensity and determination of a general taking his troops into battle.
There was crowd-surfing, sing-a-longs, and boundless energy, as these 5 guys from the Limestone City dominated the Coke Stage.
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The Glorious Sons Setlist:
Godless, Graceless and Young
My Poor Heart
Who Killed the Rock 'N Roller
Sometimes on a Sunday
S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun)
Everything Is Alright
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"Lime in the coconut, and eat it all up." Okay, maybe we changed those words a little. We love the lime-coconut combo. And this one's vegan and dairy free!
We love zingy lime and the coconut combo. We take our Doornut and dip it in a zingy lime juice glaze and then roll it in lovely toasted flakey coconut. Yum!


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It is said that since the time of the Etruscans in the 8th century BCE, the bistecca fiorentina has been served blood-red rare with olive oil and copious amounts of black pepper. And, if Marco Polo's mid-thirteenth-century travel tales are to be believed, 4,500 kilos (
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is said that since the time of the Etruscans in the 8th century BCE, the bistecca
fiorentina has been served blood-red rare with olive oil and copious
amounts of black pepper. And, if Marco Polo's mid-thirteenth-century travel
tales are to be believed, 4,500 kilos (10,000 pounds) of black pepper was
consumed per day in an unnamed city in China. Two centuries later in Florence,
architect Filippo Brunelleschi revealed his love affair for peppered foods when
he ate peposo fornacina made with fistfuls of black peppercorns, and
ordered it for the workers on the cathedral's dome. The high price of pepper
and the shortage of coveted spices, such as saffron and cardamom, are evidence
that the law of supply and demand was one of the main reasons for the voyages
to the Indies.
unexpected foods were the outcome of these voyages. Cacao, corn, potatoes,
tomatoes, and other fruits and vegetables arrived in Europe from the Americas
and inspired the birth of a new cuisine in an old land. For example, a merchant
named Francesco Carletti is credited with bringing cacao back to Florence from a
voyage to South America. We should tip our cups to him when we spoon the thick,
hot chocolate during Florence's chilly winters at the famed cafés in piazza
della Repubblica. Chocolate sauce on roasted wild boar is a traditional
Christmas recipe from the Renaissance. Bitter chocolate tempers the gaminess of
wild meats.
tomato was an important part of the diet in Mexico, known as New Spain to
sixteenth-century Spanish explorers, and greatly influenced first Spanish
cuisine, and later Italian. Europeans, especially the English, initially
thought tomatoes were poisonous, probably because they were served on pewter
plates, which caused death when the high acid of the fruit mixed with the lead
from the plate. It is said that Florentines were the first Italians to consider
the tomato's fruit edible and that fried tomatoes were an especially popular
delicacy. One can hardly imagine Italy without the tomato known as the golden
apple-pomo d'oro. Would pizza margherita still be called such without
its Italian-flag-red tomato sauce? It is equally hard to visualize the
landscape of Italy without the now all-too-familiar tomato plants.
exhibition New Frontier at Palazzo Pitti includes a landscape from the late
sixteenth century entitled the Native American Village of Secoton. The
well-groomed, dirt-paved streets and small, permanent homes with rows of corn
in this sophisticated reproduction of the New Found Land of Virginia look more
like a twenty-first-century subdivision, not one established just 65 years after
Amerigo Vespucci had lent his name to this new frontier of America. The scene
clearly shows that the native peoples were well established with advanced
systems of agriculture about 20 years before the first pilgrims from England
arrived, and that corn was a main crop. Corn (maize) spread throughout Europe
and was found in northern Africa, western China, and the East Indies by 1575.
this New World food, probably from Mexico, has yet to fully take its place on
the Italian dinner table. Italians are attached to wheat-based staples just as
the Native Americans were to corn-based foods. Mussolini tried to wean Italy
from its reliance on the breadbasket of North Africa. He campaigned for more
polenta, made from cornmeal, instead of wheat-based pastas and breads. It went
over with Italian mammas about as well as his attempt to promote fast-food-type
lunches instead of the longer, sit-down midday meals.
the movie Tea with Mussolini was a cute title for the 1999 movie filmed
in Tuscany, this tea party was about as likely to have happened as a dinner
with an Indian wearing a feather bonnet headdress at the first Thanksgiving in
America in 1621. Painters of the history of the American West normally took
advantage of the romantic image of the lone Indian greeting English settlers
while wearing feathers. The problem with these paintings, literally, is that
many artists inaccurately showed all tribes wearing them. The first
Thanksgiving took place in the Northeast: feather bonnet headdresses were worn
on the Plains.
mandatory turkey for Thanksgiving dinner is a New World food. In the early
1500s, wild turkeys were brought from Mexico to Europe. After domesticating
them in Europe, the English colonists then brought turkeys back with them to
the New World, but they arrived farther east on the Atlantic seaboard in
Massachusetts, about 4,000 km (2,500 miles) from Mexico, where the turkey had
begun its travels. In 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote of his preference for the
wild turkey as the nation's national bird, not the bald eagle. Ironically,
according to American laws, bald eagle feathers cannot be exported, so the
stereotypical Indian headdresses made for foreign consumers often contained
turkey feathers.
will always remember my first American Thanksgiving in Florence in 1998. We
were a group of four with enough food for 40: one Irishman, who brought
potatoes; an Italian who needed wheat- or gluten-free pasta; and an Englishman
who was still afraid to eat tomatoes. As for me, I wanted turkey and knew enough
to pre-order it from the Mercato Centrale, but I did not realize I would be
doing the feather-plucking at home! That day I settled for something more
Italian: the Made-in-Florence honey (or sugar)-and-milk mix known as gelato. I
chose to believe not in its reputed Chinese origin but in the story of an
original invention by a talented gastronome in the Boboli Gardens.
Hand-colored
illustration of Theodor de Bry's engraved illustration of the Native American
Village of Secoton, which accompanied the text of Thomas Hariot's 1588 book,
entitled A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia.
Laura C. Johnson
An American art historian, Laura C. Johnson has lived in Florence for 15 years. She is credited with the idea for the New Frontier exhibit at the Palazzo Pitti until December 9, 2012, organized as part of the 2012 Un Anno d?Arte (www.unannoadarte.it) initiative and one that commemorates the 500th anniversary of the death of Amerigo Vespucci. To reach her, send an email to lauracjohnson.arthistorian@gmail.com
A New World perspective
The celebrations of Vespucci Year continue with the opening of the exhibit at Palazzo Pitti, New Frontier: History and Culture of the Native Americans from the Collections of The Gilcrease Museum of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Co-organizer Laura Johnson reflects on the title and gives TF a personal glimpse behind the
An inside look at 16th edition of Taste and what foodies can expect from this year's menu.
An interview with the President of the Chianti Wine Consortium Giovanni Busi.
Reburger: delish burgers with a creative soul
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Located 5 miles from the city of Napoli, Italy, Mount Vesuvius is one of the most famous active volcanoes in the world. Its most famous eruption took place in the year 79 A.D., when life came to a permanent standstill in one of the most active and splendid Roman centres, Pompeii.
One of the first things we did when we got to the city of Napoli, Italy was visit Pompeii. Despite the heat and humidity, while wandering the streets of Pompeii, past the former shops, baths, gardens, apartments and theatres, it was easy to get a sense of everyday life in the ancient city.
Mount Vesuvius erupted with tremendous force and little warning. Most Pompeiians had plenty of time to flee. For those who stayed behind, however, conditions soon grew worse. As more and more ash fell, it clogged the air, making it difficult to breathe. Within 24 hours, the city of Pompeii was completely buried under metres of volcanic debris.
Two thousand people died, and the city was abandoned for almost as many years. The city remained mostly untouched until 1748, when a group of explorers looking for ancient artifacts arrived in area and began to dig. They were surprised to find that the ashes and debris from the eruption acted as the perfect preservative - underneath, Pompeii was almost exactly as it had been 2,000 years before. Its buildings were intact, skeletons were frozen right where they'd fallen and everyday objects littered the streets.
Pompeii is one of the most significant proofs of Roman civilization and provides outstanding information on the art, customs, trades and everyday life of the past.
Today, 600,000 people live at the base of Mount Vesuvius, in the region known as the "red zone", or area that would be most directly affected by an eruption. Geologists and volcanologists who study Mount Vesuvius agree that it is overdue for an explosion and therefore continuously monitor its activity.
+ Pompeii is about 150 miles south of Rome, an easy day trip.
+ The site is large, plan on spending at least 2 to 3 hours touring the city.
+ The whole site is very exposed with minimal shade, so bring lots of sunscreen, a hat and water.
+ There are several water fountains throughout the city to refill a water bottle.
+ There is a small area outside, near the parking lot, that sells touristy things, snacks and cold drinks.
+ Maps and guides of Pompeii are available in several languages at the gate.
Have you ever been to Pompeii?
This would be a dream trip for me after studying Anthropology in college!!
I went to Pompeii a few years ago while visiting relatives in Naples. What shocked me the most was how BIG Pompeii actually was. For some reason, I thought it was a small area...not an entire city!
Wow, amazing. I need to see this myself someday.
M and I went to Pompeii on our way down to the Amalfi coast a few years ago. It was absolutely amazing - so historical, sad but incredibly interesting. I wish I'd known how little shade there was beforehand, I didn't have a hat or anything - even with SPF70 on I got fried!


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Tracklist: 1. Everybody Everywhere, 2. Are You Ready, 3. Rock it, 4. Hey Hey You, 5. Living My Dream, 6. Gonna Make It, 7. Only The Best Die Young, 8. Come On, 9. Stop Messing Around, 10. Raise Your Hands, 11. I Love The Things You Hate.


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Book Review: Tales of the Dim Knight by Adam and Andrea Graham
Tales of the Dim Knight
Pull on your tights and hang that cape around your neck, we're going for a ride. What kind of ride, you ask? A superhero spoof ride, a dysfunctional family ride, a marital struggle ride. A ride into redemption.
When mild-mannered Dave Johnson ends up with a alien symbiont enabling him to imagine reality, what does he do with this power? Years of reading comics comes to his aid, as the kid at heart and his naivety lead him to take on the persona of a superhero. Dave is a little dim, but his heart is in the right place, despite the temptations of power and the best ways to use it, especially when the symbiont intends to use Dave to take over the world. Yet, Dave isn't stupid either. He has a head on his shoulders.
But despite this fact, he finds success as a superhero, but not a lot of success as a father and husband. While superhero action abounds, there is minimal tension created by his fights. His power allows him to dispense justice all too easily that few villains have a chance, though a couple of times they make some valiant attempts. But the superhero part is mostly for spoofing anyway, not for creating a thrill ride.
Rather, the the real tension of the story evolves from the complications Dave's secret job has for his wife and children, not to mention his enemies. The heart of the novel revolves around family, right and wrong, the misguided ways we tend to deal with our hurts, and grace, all wrapped in a light-hearted story that will have you chuckling and smiling.
The writing is solid. The characters while at first appearing stereotypical (what do you expect with a spoof?) take on depth as the story progresses. The personal struggles are easy to identify with and provide the strength of the story. It is an easy and enjoyable read.
I found two areas primary that I felt the story could have done better. First, the superhero adventures themselves didn't feel like an integral part of the full plot. They felt somewhat random at times, appearing to exist more to cause problems with the wife and kids than to be an complete story arc themselves. Mind you, I'm not saying they didn't have some story arc. One of the villains who comes in and out of the course of the book has his own character arc, and some stories have their own mini-arc, but as far as each adventure fitting into a complete novel arc, it was hit and miss. I think the story would have been better if that could have been developed as a more complete story arc.
The second is that while the resolution is believable, and the motivation of the characters not totally absent, I felt the resolution to be a little too quick and needing a slower development, especially on one of the characters. What happened is not unrealistic, and happens in real life. But for a story, it appeared to arise abruptly.
Despite those two issues, this book was a fun read. If you like spoofs of superheroes, with a story of redemption against the evil Dave faces not only on the streets of the city, but also in his family and within himself, then this is the book for you. The story gets a solid 4 out of 5 stars for me. I enjoyed it.
Note: I was provided an electronic copy of this book by the author.
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– Mary's Crackers (organic brown rice, quinoa, flax seeds, sesame seeds, water, sea salt, and tamari), 1 box) Note: If you do not have access to this product, try using another whole grain cracker or bread, that does not contain added preservatives or necessary refined ingredients.
1. Make the ' cream cheese' by draining off the residual water from the box of silken tofu. Add the tofu to a high powered blender or food processor, along with miso, nutritional yeast, salt and pepper – blend until it forms a smooth consistency. Place in the fridge to let it chill and firm up.
2. Peel the carrots into 'ribbons', using a veggie peeler. Add them to a mixing bowl. Sprinkle over a a couple drops of liquid smoke (a little goes a long way!), squeeze in the fresh lemon juice, and add salt and pepper. Coat the carrots well, cover the bowl, and let the mix marinate for about 30-minutes.
3. Assemble the items! Spread a little tofu 'cream cheese' on to the crackers, then place a piece of smoked carrot on top, and finish with a sprig of dill. Enjoy!
Carrots are rich in vitamins A, C, K, B vitamins, manganese and fiber.
Mary's crackers are a source of protein, fiber, potassium, iron, and calcium.
Like all leafy greens, dill is rich in nutrients like vitamins A, C, iron, calcium, potassium, and magnesium.
Thoughts on Sustainable eating: While salmon and other fish/seafood are technically healthy foods, it is difficult to source wild, safe and sustainable products in many parts of the world today. The oceans are sadly polluted with plastics, and toxic chemicals – and humans ingest these man-made materials when they consume fish/seafood. This is why I suggest limiting ones intake, if choosing to eat fish at all. My goal in creating this recipe was to provide an enjoyable eating experience, without having to rely on salmon. While carrots do not contain the protein or healthy fats found in wild fish (farmed salmon are much less nutritious), the silken tofu offers the protein, and the flax seed crackers are a source of Omega 3's in this recipe!


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Seeking Asylum in Western Mass: Part 3 of 3 — Transgender asylum-seekers in search of foothold in new country
Rafaella Fabrizi, Joelle Bueno, and Emma Kinney, watch as Natty demonstrates how to make pupusas as a collaboration between the Trans Asylum Seeker Support Network and a University of Massachusetts anthropology class. CAROL LOLLIS PHOTO
Jax Padilla, Rafaella Fabrizi, and Zulay Holland watch along with others in a pupusa-making event, a collaboration between the Trans Asylum Seeker Support Network and a UMass Amherst anthropology class taught by Meredith Degyansky and Boone Shear. Natty demonstrates how to make pupusas. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Jax Padilla, Rafaella Fabrizi, Joelle Bueno, and Zulay Holland watch along with others in a pupusa-making event, a collaboration between the Trans Asylum Seeker Support Network and a UMass Amherst anthropology class taught by Meredith Degyansky and Boone Shear. Natty demonstrates how to make pupusas. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS—CAROL LOLLIS
Alla Sonder and Jax Padilla, two organizers with the Trans Asylum Seeker Support Network. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Natty cooks a mixture of squash, tomatoes, onions and garlic while making dinner at the home of her sponsor. STAFF PHOTO/JERREY ROBERTS
"Natty" slices squash while making dinner, Friday, Mar. 6, 2020 at the home of her sponsor. —STAFF PHOTO/JERREY ROBERTS
Natty slices cauliflower while making dinner, Friday, Mar. 6, 2020 at the home of her sponsor. —STAFF PHOTO/JERREY ROBERTS
Personal care products and other items rest on a chest in Natty's room, Friday, Mar. 6, 2020 at the home of her sponsor. —STAFF PHOTO/JERREY ROBERTS
Natty stands at the door to her room at the home of her sponsor, Friday, Mar. 6, 2020. —STAFF PHOTO/JERREY ROBERTS
Natty walks down stairs from her room at the home of her sponsor, Friday, Mar. 6, 2020. —STAFF PHOTO/JERREY ROBERTS
Natty in her room at the home of her sponsor, Friday, Mar. 6, 2020. —STAFF PHOTO/JERREY ROBERTS
An embroidered handbag given to Natty is hung on a wall in her room at the home of her sponsor, Friday Mar. 6, 2020. —STAFF PHOTO/JERREY ROBERTS
Natty tends to some flowering plants she is growing at the home of her sponsor, Friday, Mar. 6, 2020. —STAFF PHOTO/JERREY ROBERTS
By LUIS FIELDMAN
Published: 3/30/2020 4:11:19 PM
Editor's note: Due to the dangers facing those seeking asylum and their families in their home countries, as well as the sensitive natures of their legal cases, Hampshire Life is using pseudonyms Natty, Eva, and María for asylum-seekers featured in this story and refraining from naming their countries of origin.
Transgender women Natty and Eva came to the United States in search of asylum because their identities made them targets of violence from gangs, police and their nations' governments.
They've been subjected to sexual harassment and death threats in their home countries, and they felt they had no option but to come to the United States in the hope of finding a greater sense of security.
"I had to immigrate to Mexico three years ago because my life was in danger," said Natty, who eventually made her way to the U.S.-Mexico border last year. "There were many times where I was at the point of being assassinated for being trans. In my country, it's not acceptable to be trans in the community."
A local network of volunteers and organizers, called the Trans Asylum Seeker Support Network (TASSN), was formed in early 2019 to help transgender asylum-seekers like Natty and Eva get out of detention and build a supportive community in the Valley. The volunteer group fundraises for the numerous fees associated with the asylum process, finds sponsors to house asylum-seekers, and provides "trauma-informed" support, according to founder Alla Sonder, an Amherst resident.
"Supporting trans and queer asylum-seekers is a very different project than supporting straight or English speaking asylum-seekers," said Sonder about the work of the western Massachusetts group. "They have a lot more trauma. They have to work a lot harder to find community. There is a lot of transphobia in Latin communities."
The Western Massachusetts Asylum Support Network (WMASN), a subject of the second installment of this series, is in close collaboration with the TASSN, but the two operate independently, according to Jonathan Jenner, a lead organizer with the WMASN. The groups often work together and there are volunteers who overlap between networks, but the two are separate entities.
Natty arrived from Central America; Eva from the Caribbean. Under U.S. law, asylum status may be granted to migrants belonging to persecuted social groups. As transgender women, both believe they deserve legally protected status in the U.S. because of the persecution they experienced in their home countries — and they fear for their lives should they be forced to return.
Now living in western Massachusetts, both women are among a handful of trans asylum-seekers living in the Valley attempting to secure a foothold in a new and different country. Neither Natty nor Eva speak English and interviews with Hampshire Life were conducted in Spanish.
Natty is currently taking English classes and says the TASSN has connected her with other trans asylum-seekers living in the area and has provided a lot of emotional support since moving to the Valley. Her asylum case is still pending and her next immigration court hearing is in the fall.
Eva arrived in the Valley in March after being in detention for two months in Arizona and received a sponsorship through the TASSN.
'My family rejected me'
Both Ramon and Santiago, subjects of the first installment of this series, fled their home countries after facing death threats initiated by their nations' authoritarian governments. Natty faced discrimination from her family, gangs, and police on the basis of her identity, and was forced to leave at the age of 19 for Mexico and then the United States for fear of her life.
"My family rejected me and left me to the streets because it is a humiliation for a family to have transgender members," Natty said. Her mother died when she was young, and her father told her to survive on the streets because, "You are not family of ours," Natty recalled him saying.
For three months in 2016, she slept on a nearby beach in her country in Central America. Police would abuse her, verbally and physically, and there were criminals who would also attack her for being transgender. Religious people would hurl insults at her as well, telling her that she would be going to hell for her identity — they also threw bags of water at her.
Eventually, Natty was taken in by a neighbor — another transgender woman — and her neighbor's father. But soon after, Natty began receiving death threats from a local gang syndicate, which had begun assassinating transgender women, according to Natty. A member of the gang showed up at the house Natty was staying at and demanded the equivalent of $2,000, to be paid in 12 hours, or else they would come back and kill her.
In the past, members of the same gang had beaten Natty with clubs and machetes, she said. Her hosts pleaded with the gang not to demand the money or kill her, but to no avail, so they gave Natty a small amount of money to leave the country.
Natty took a bus through Central America and found a place to live in a southern Mexican city in the state of Chiapas. A month later, the gang, failing to find Natty, killed the neighbor who housed her. Natty also heard about other murders across her town where transgender women were tied up and thrown into a river.
"That was what awaited me," Natty said. "How they died is how I would've died … When the gang realized that we all wanted to leave the country, it was like they needed to assassinate us all at once before (we) could leave. It was like a single attack on the trans community. Only a few of us were able to survive because we've come to seek asylum in the United States."
Discrimination fromlaw enforcement
In Eva's home country, she faced discrimination and abuse from many of the same entities as Natty did — from her father, from police officers and from her peers.
Eva said she has developed trauma from police officers who have beaten her and a phobia of men due to past violent encounters. Even so, she said she participated in organizing a march for LGBT rights in her home country during the spring of 2019.
She recounted how one day, when she and fellow organizers were planning details of the march, police arrived and threatened them with violence if they did not stop the march from happening.
"We were in a room organizing — how we were going to do the march, sending out flyers, how many people we could expect," Eva recalled. "And they (the police) came in and told us we could not do the march. If we did the march, they were going to intervene, and beat us. Or take us to prison, or even take our lives."
Eva's mother — one of the few people who supported her as a transgender woman — told her that she should leave the country because she feared for her life. Eva's brother died and her mother couldn't bear losing another child, said Eva, who did not want to talk about her brother's death.
"She told me, 'I need you to leave,'" Eva said.
She flew to Brazil, where she hoped to get asylum from the government. She said she was immediately denied and warned that if she did not leave the country, they would deport her back where she came from. Her passport showed a stamp entering the country and another stamp of her leaving a couple days later.
She traveled next to neighboring Uruguay. At first, she said she liked the country, until she met a man who stalked her and abused her, she said. Afraid of going to the police, she decided to travel through Central America and head to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Traveling through Mexico
Natty and Eva both experienced hardships while in Mexico. Natty had lived there for nearly three years before traveling to the border with the United States to attempt to gain entry and claim asylum. It took Eva from spring 2019 until January 2020 to arrive at the border.
In her time living in Mexico, first in Chiapas, then Oaxaca and Mexico City, Natty's identity and immigration status kept her from getting legal work, and her safety was often in jeopardy.
While living in Chiapas, Natty worked in cantinas, or bars, as a bartender, a job she said she got through bribery. A public official would demand 500 pesos, or roughly $20, as a bribe in order to allow her to work, a common demand made of undocumented immigrants, according to Natty.
"He was taking advantage of our situation," Natty said of the official.
After a year, she moved on to Oaxaca where she had to resort to sex work because she could not get any other work. She was violated and beaten, and even went to a police officer, who told her to return to her country.
"As an official, he was being an accomplice to the violation and abuse I suffered," Natty said.
After this incident, Natty decided to continue north to Mexico City, where she attempted to find work in factories — unsuccessfully due to her immigration status. She said she had to "work on the streets" as a sex worker again, where she often saw "delinquency, people who robbed, beat people," Natty recounted.
In September 2019, Natty arrived in Tijuana and waited for four months to be allowed into the United States. During her stay, she worked for a shoe shop that would set up in a city plaza.
In Tijuana, Natty met a volunteer assisting asylum seekers with the New York City-based New Sanctuary Coalition, who found a sponsor for Natty in western Massachusetts. The coalition had sent volunteers as part of a project called Sanctuary Caravan with the goal of supporting immigrants with the asylum seeking process. Through connections made at the border between a string of different organizations and volunteer groups, Natty met a resident in the Valley at the border who offered her a place to live once released from detention, which Natty agreed to.
Unable to wait
In December 2019, Eva had to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Mexico, to the border city of Nogales, Arizona, rather suddenly. Eva said a gang member in the Mexican city had kidnapped her and she had to cross the border one day to save her life.
At the time of her kidnapping, Eva was waiting to be admitted into the United States through the metering system where migrants have to wait for their number to get called to enter the country.
A gang member kidnapped her and tried to sexually abuse her, not knowing she is a transgender woman. When he found out, he demanded that she leave the city.
"I was violated," Eva said. "I was traumatized by a man who belonged to the mafia. I was scared. Thank God he didn't kill me."
She continued waiting for her number to get called to be admitted into the United States while mostly staying indoors to keep the gang from finding her. One evening, walking back to where she was staying, she said she felt followed and decided she could not wait in Nogales anymore.
Eva crossed into the United States, ignoring the metering system because she was afraid for her life, and a border patrol agent found her. She was promptly detained in a facility in Arizona where she claimed fear of returning to her home country if deported.
Held in isolation
Throughout their time in detention, both Natty and Eva claim they were placed into solitary confinement due to being transgender.
Natty spent her first nine days in isolation in a detention center in California, where she said officials would toss bits of carrots, cookies, and sandwiches on the ground for her to eat. When she eventually got placed with the general population of immigrants detained, she said she saw thousands of people from all over the world housed there.
"Many were appealing their deportations," Natty said. "Some have been there for two to three years."
Eva, on the other hand, spent two months in detention. For the first week, she was placed in solitary confinement. Even though she would try to meditate while in solitary confinement, she said she would often scream and cry because of how awful she felt.
"I had never been deprived of my liberty for so long," Eva said. "The discrimination I fled is what I found in detention."
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which manages and oversees the nation's civil immigration detention system, did not respond to multiple requests for comment on conditions for transgender asylum seekers.
After she was taken out of solitary confinement, she made a friend who had connections with a non-profit, Transcend Arizona, a grassroots group supporting LGTB immigrants in detention. Through this nonprofit, Eva got connected with Liza Neal, a resident in the Valley who became Eva's sponsor.
Eva arrived in the Valley earlier this month and said she has felt liberated since arriving here. Her asylum case is still pending and she has her first hearing in the fall.
"Now I can feel free," Eva said.
Last summer, Natty got released from detention after establishing a sponsorship and paying a $2,500 bond. She's lived in the Valley since then, working through her asylum case, taking English classes, waiting out nearly six months before she can apply to get work authorization.
Asylum-seekers can apply for permission to work 150 days after submitting an asylum application, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
"Right now, I am in the process of asking for asylum," Natty said. "Life is a fight and I am always fighting. And as immigrants, we have to fight and demonstrate how strong we are."
Building a support network
The Trans Asylum Seeker Support Network (TASSN) is a group of volunteers working in different capacities with the goal of creating a welcoming environment for asylum-seekers and being a resource for immigrants navigating the various challenges of settling in a foreign country.
To date, the volunteer network has sponsored and housed seven asylum-seekers, and there are four more in detention that the group is petitioning to have released and brought to the Valley — of those 11, Sonder said nine are transgender women and two that are gender-fluid.
The group began in early 2019 in response to a trans asylum-seeker who received a sponsorship in the Valley, and whom Hampshire Life is calling María.
A local migrant right's activist and organizer, Alla Sonder wanted to ensure that María had a support system in place that went beyond what a single sponsor could provide.
María declined to speak with the paper at her lawyer's suggestion due to her asylum case, which is pending.
Organizing fundraisers, item drives, ride shares, and companionship circles were among the first efforts by Sonder to support María. From there, as more asylum-seekers were being settled into the area, and learning of more transgender immigrants in detention in need of sponsorhips, Sonder said she realized the group would have to grow to be successful.
"There came a point around the end of summer where the network was becoming too much for me as an individual to try and manage the entire network of volunteers," Sonder said. "And also, sponsors were getting very burnt out and the asylum-seekers were needing more in-depth, structured support. So I decided to restructure the entire project so that it would be a series of non-hierarchical committees that each would have different responsibilities within the project."
Sonder said there are 700 people signed up for the network's newsletter — many who volunteer in various capacities — and a core group of 30 members who make up the various committees within the TASSN.
These committees are set up to address the individual needs of each asylum-seeker: a finance committee to fundraise and bookkeep; a direct support committee of mostly Spanish-speakers to coordinate classes, ICE check-ins, court hearings, appointments, and companionship visits; an education committee for political analyses and tactics of the entire collective.
Volunteers in the broader network who subscribe to the newsletter often live busy lives themselves, Sonder said, and can only pitch in once a month, or every few months, with ride shares or monetary donations or other similar efforts.
"We are always in need of more volunteers than we already have," Sonder said.
Within the TASSN, there is an inner group of volunteers who commit to being on a committee, hold monthly meetings, and as Sonder describes, "are very committed to the daily grind work of companionships and helping our compañeras build independence and life skills."
"A lot of the trans women we support have never had a kitchen before, have never had a daily planner," Sonder said. "Many have experienced homelessness, and many have no idea what this country is like. We help with building planning skills, learning English, and with cooking skills."
The TASSN also connects asylum seekers with forms of healing such as psychiatry, therapy, and alternative healing, according to Sonder.
Providing emotional support for arriving asylum-seekers is a priority for the network, according to a lead organizer Jax Padilla of Holyoke. Padilla facilitates direct support committees to ensure that asylum-seekers are getting their daily, weekly and monthly needs met.
Additionally, Padilla makes sure to be available for one-on-one support.
"I provide a lot of companionship for women, and organize other people to get to know them and hang out," Padilla said. "Most of them really love chatting in English, learning English, talking about their own stories."
As for the greater network of volunteers, Sonder said monthly letters are sent out with a list of ways that people can volunteer, whether it's for companionship time, for ridesharing, or simply fundraising.
An important aspect of the network's broader goals, Sonder noted, are its revolutionary aims. The network is as "equally committed to the larger fights to abolish capitalism, abolish borders, and abolish imperialism," she said.
This sets the TASSN apart from other nonprofits and grassroots organizations working in refugee and asylum resettlement, Sonder said, adding that the network's framework is of "revolutionary organizing, not just reformist organizing." The group participates in protests and direct actions against the root causes that force asylum-seekers to flee their country in the first place, according to Sonder.
"It's important for us to hold a solidarity and not a charity framework to locate ourselves within the same systems of imperialism and capitalism that are affecting the asylum seekers and view our work as building comradeships and relationships that transcend borders," Sonder said.
A ministry alliance
Just as María had inspired Sonder to form the TASSN, another local woman who had gone to the southern border in January 2019 decided independently to find ways to support asylum-seekers at the border, in detention, and locally.
Liza Neal, a Valley resident and a spiritual director with South Church in Amherst, is working with ministers in the region to purchase a home for asylumseekers. The alliance is also currently looking for an apartment for asylum-seekers waiting to be released from detention and for a few who are already living in the Valley with sponsors.
Neal is also the sponsor for Eva.
"We wanted to form a caring community with her," Neal said of María. "And to be able to help her thrive and heal and have good legal representation, good medical care, and then at the same time, I am getting calls from people in detention, and we need to do more than just support this one person."
Neal had traveled down to the southern border as part of the New Sanctuary Coalition project where she spent time with asylum-seekers attempting to enter the United States.
"It was an incredibly intense experience," Neal said of being in Tijuana. "There were people from everywhere, all over the world. All kinds of people of all ages."
Neal recounted how her experiences at the border were both inspiring and incredibly hard to cope with. She said she saw immigrants — many of whom had suffered in their home countries and had taken perilous journeys — who still had so much hope. Seeing fathers with their 2-year-olds was difficult, Neal said, because they would very likely be separated once admitted into the country.
Coincidentally, Neal met María's sponsor from Holyoke in Tijuana one day. Later in February, as Neal kept in touch with the sponsor and traveled to western Massachusetts, Neal decided to become involved.
"As she took a bus across the country from detention to here, we organized folks from churches to meet her at each bus change," Neal said.
Neal formed the Trans Asylum Seekers Ministry Alliance, with support from Edwards Church in Northampton and the United Congregational Church in Holyoke, to fundraise for asylum-seekers and find sponsors. To date, the alliance has supported 10 transgender asylum-seekers, both in the Valley and attempting to reach the area, some who have also been supported by the TASSN, according to Neal.
"For those in detention, it's talking on the phone, money so they can make calls, sending letters and books." Neal said. "For those who are on the way here, it's providing connection to folks on the way, money for transportation. For those who are here, it's housing, rides, and connecting them to medical care and legal advocacy."
The group is fundraising for the home and apartment for transgender asylum-seekers through various churches, art auctions, and individual donations. A Buddhist priest even walked The Camino de Santiago — a historic pilgrimage hundreds of miles long in Spain — with people pledging donations for every mile walked.
The Rev. Vanessa Cardinale of South Church said the work around supporting transgender asylum-seekers is an extention of the church's commitment to being welcoming to immigrants. Vanessa said she views her role within the ministry alliance as a supportive one, often being a translator and a listening ear for sponsors in the Valley and immigrants who can only speak Spanish.
"There is a lot of trauma that folks who are coming up have lived through, and maybe for the first time in their lives, are beginning to process because they have the space to," Cardinale said.
Impact of coronavirus
As communities across the globe struggle with an ever-changing landscape of uncertainty as nations attempt to contain the new coronavirus, locally it has forced many asylum-seekers indoors, left some in detention unsure when they will be released, and made keeping track of court dates more difficult.
"It's had a huge impact," Neal said. The search for an apartment for asylum-seekers has become more challenging with landlords wary of making appointments. Sponsors with varying degrees of Spanish-speaking abilities, who often rely on volunteers to help communicate, are attempting to explain the situation to their immigrant guests. English classes have either been canceled or are going virtual.
The financial duress of the epidemic has been widely felt across the country, and local sponsors are not exempt.
"I had a sponsor who was ready to take someone, and they then said, 'I don't know my financial situation,' and had to put their sponsorship on hold," Neal said.
It is unclear whether an asylum seeker who is in detention in Colorado — and was about to be released — will still be allowed to leave, according to Neal. And even if they are allowed to leave, whether or not they will be allowed to travel on an airplane is another unanswered question.
For those with cases in immigration court, there is a phone number that can be called with updates to cases, Neal said, but it is often not updated regularly enough to keep up with the constant changes.
"It feels precarious," Neal said.
As for the impact on the TASSN's work, Sonder said many of the network's volunteers are remotely providing companionship through mobile apps and video chats.
"With social distancing, we are trying to provide companionship via video chat," Sonder said. "In terms of financial support, people aren't making as many donations as much right now."
Sonder added that many of the organizers in the network have become participants and leaders in mutual aid efforts in response to the epidemic, efforts which the network had already laid the groundwork for.
"Engaging in the organizing and mutual aid work for the network for the past year has thoroughly prepared many of us to smoothly and truly transition into, and lead efforts, to engage in mutual aid and organize responses to COVID-19," Sonder said. "It's crucial that all of us organize around rent freezes and rent strikes, moratoriums on evictions, for universal basic income, and mass unemployment benefits."
Settling into the Valley
At the end of February, Eva was released from detention and began living with Neal, her sponsor. Eva had gotten connected to Neal through Transcend Arizona and the Sante Fe Dreamers Project, which provides free legal services to immigrants.
Volunteers with the TASSN went to pick up Eva and on their first night and went out dancing. The TASSN held a party for Eva the following week and introduced her to other asylum-seekers.
"Asombrada. Maravillada," were just a few words Eva used to describe how she felt about the party dedicated to her arrival, meaning "amazed" and "astonished."
She continued, "It's the first time there is a party for me like this. It's something I could never have imagined. I spent my birthday crying in detention. Como se dice: Oh my God!"
Natty said that although life is difficult since she cannot work yet and her asylum case won't get its first hearing until the fall, she feels like she has an opportunity to be herself in a way she never has before.
"Having my gender identity is something so momentous that I can't even describe," Natty said. "To have my gender that I identify in an environment of people that is totally different. I feel safe and secure. But no matter what, my past is not erased. All the sexual abuse, the beatings, everything that I've suffered, all of my friends that have been murdered without justice. All this still affects me."
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Revival and Reform in Britain: A Tale of Two Revolutions, Part 2
In the previous article, we looked at some of the elements that led up to the French Revolution. In this article, we will look at England, which experienced a very different kind of revolution during roughly the same period.
The Situation in Britain
English society may have moved beyond the medievalism of the Ancien Régime in France, but in many ways the situation in Britain was just as dire for the lower classes. England was in the middle of the Enclosure Movement, a major disruption of rural society that destroyed the old medieval manorial economy and displaced many people from the countryside to the cities.
Those displaced persons supplied the labor for the factories of the early Industrial Revolution. Men, women, and children worked in factories, often chained to machines. When the machinery jammed, women and children with their smaller hands had to reach into the gears to free the jam; if they were not quick enough, they might be maimed as the gears suddenly beginning turning again. And for this, they were poorly paid, which is why all members of the family had to work. This meant children could not go to school.
Another way to make a living for women was prostitution. Fully 25% of unmarried women in London were prostitutes, with an average age of 16. Some brothels specialized in girls under 14 years old.
Not surprisingly, alcoholism was a serious problem. Gin was the drug of choice during the period, creating a century-long substance abuse crisis akin to the opioid crisis today.
Casual cruelty in the form of bull baiting, bear baiting, cock fighting, and dog fighting was common. Public executions for a shocking range of crimes including theft were considered public entertainment. For the further edification of the audience, the bodies of criminals convicted of particularly heinous crimes such as murder or arson were either burned or publicly dissected.
England may have been a commercial power with a cohesive elite made up of nobles, the landed gentry, and wealthy merchants, but the social cleavages and the resentment of the lower classes against the upper classes were nearly as great as they were on the continent even if the details vary. The contempt went both ways. For the most part, the upper classes cared little for the lower classes, seeing them instead as creatures to exploit much like their abused animals. Debauchery and drunkenness were common.
The Church of England did nothing to mitigate the kingdom's social problems. Since the Stuart Restoration (1660), Britain had largely enforced conformity to the Church of England, suppressing Dissenters including Puritans in England and Presbyterians in Scotland. Despite this, religion was not a major theme in the period.
After the English Civil War and Commonwealth, British elites looked on any serious commitment to religion or religious practices with suspicion. You were expected to attend church on Sunday, have a church wedding, baptize your children, and be buried in the churchyard, but that was about it. Anything more than that was labeled "enthusiasm," roughly the equivalent of being called a "holy roller."
The Evangelical Revival
That said, while polite society rejected anything beyond going through the motions when it comes to faith, others especially in the lower classes found something far more meaningful and profound in the Evangelical Revival that swept Britain and many of its American colonies.
Interestingly, many of the leaders of these revivals were precisely the kind of highly educated individuals who were drawn to the Enlightenment. Jonathan Edwards, the most famous preacher of the Great Awakening in New England, is considered by many today to be the greatest thinker that America has produced. George Whitefield and John and Charles Wesley were Oxford graduates.
Despite the number of intellectual elites who joined or led the Evangelical Revival, however, it was far from an elitist movement. Some of its leaders, while educated, were hardly part of the intellectual elite. Howell Harris, one of the key leaders of the Welsh Revival, was a simple schoolmaster. Further, unlike the Enlightenment, which appealed primarily to elites, the revivals reached primarily common people, even people below the level of literacy such as coal miners. The result was a spiritual revolution that transformed British society.
As we face significant social upheaval and challenges in our society, the question is, which model will we follow: a secular model built on elitist theories of social reform, or a spiritual model based on a recognition of sin and the need for repentance and inner transformation?
The Spiritual Revolution
According to many historians, the Evangelical Revival helped prevent England from having its own bloody revolution on the model of France. The message preached in these revivals emphasized not an easy conversion experience, but repentance resulting in turning away from sin and a transformed life. They thus looked for spiritual renewal rather than secular, Enlightenment-driven social reform, and they did so in sufficient numbers to keep Britain from collapsing in an orgy of violence.
This did not mean that they ignored social problems, however. The need to root out sin in one's life extended further to rooting it out of society. Thus, British Evangelicals were involved in lobbying and agitating for social reform in every area it was needed.
Most famously, this was personified in William Wilberforce, the parliamentarian who led the fight against the slave trade but who also was involved in nearly 70 other organizations dedicated to righting the many wrongs in British society. In the end, he was largely successful—not only was slavery abolished, but it was said of Wilberforce that he made goodness fashionable in England.
As we face significant social upheaval and challenges in our society, the question is, which model will we follow: a secular model built on elitist theories of social reform, or a spiritual model based on a recognition of sin and the need for repentance and inner transformation? Will we use secular means to achieve our goals or the weapons of the Spirit—prayer, love, and repentance? The results of each are before us. We need to choose wisely. Future generations are depending on us.
George Whitfield
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Robert Garrett, who led Crenshaw High School (California) to the 2016 CIF Division 4-AA state title in December, is the winner of the 2017 Don Shula NFL High School Coach of the Year. Garrett, who was nominated by the Los Angeles Chargers, coached current Chargers linebacker Hayes Pullard and defensive tackle Brandon Mebane during their high school days.
"He's a coach to many, to some he's a mentor, and to others maybe even a father," said Pullard. "To us, he's all of the above. He's done many great things through the years at Crenshaw High that seem like they've almost gone unnoticed, until now. It's an honor to say, 'That's my Coach!'"
"Coach Garrett represents the best coaching example from an inner city school, giving a lifetime effort that develops future leaders. Well-deserved award!" -Commissioner John Aguirre. https://t.co/vGnOnu5PVV https://t.co/iPNcKknO8k
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"I had the opportunity to meet Coach Garrett last month after the Chargers nominated him for this award," said Chargers Head Coach Anthony Lynn. "Yes, he's turned Crenshaw High into a powerhouse over the 30 or so years he's been there, but more than the wins and losses, it's the number of lives he's touched and the young men he's mentored that matters most. That's why he's so deserving of this honor."
"And I can say that, without hesitation, because I've witnessed it first hand with Brandon (Mebane) and Hayes (Pullard) on our team. Not only are they men of great character and integrity, seeing the respect and love they have for Coach Garrett tells you all you need to know. I want to congratulate Coach Garrett on this much-deserved honor and thank him for dedicating his life to helping others achieve their dreams."
Garrett was one of two high school football coaches selected as finalists from a group of coaches nominated by NFL teams. As the national Don Shula Award Winner, Garrett will receive $25,000 from the NFL Foundation, $15,000 of which will go to his high school's football program. He will be a guest of the NFL during Super Bowl LII and walk the red carpet at NFL Honors, a two-hour primetime awards special to air nationally on February 3, the eve of Super Bowl LII, at 9 PM Eastern Time on NBC.
The runner-up was Seattle Seahawks nominee and Royal High School head football coach Wiley Allred of Royal City, Washington. Allred will receive $15,000 from the NFL Foundation, $10,000 of which will go to his high school football program.
All Don Shula Award nominees are active or retired high school football coaches nominated by NFL teams for their character and integrity, leadership and dedication to the community, commitment to player health and safety and on-field success.
Coach Garrett was selected by a panel of distinguished individuals. This year, the Don Shula NFL High School Coach of the Year Award selection panel consisted of two-time Super Bowl champion (XLI, 50) and five-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning, Super Bowl XLII champion and Good Morning America contributor Michael Strahan and Pro Football Hall of Fame President David Barker.
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Have you ever woken up with sore muscles after a night of dancing? That's because dancing has many elements of a workout, and it affects many muscles in your body. So, if you're not a gym fan, but would like to keep fit, then you should read these seven reasons why dancing might be the ultimate workout.
Dancing has the same effect as stretching. It warms up your muscles, makes them more flexible, and also reduces the risk of an injury. Increasing your elasticity will help ease joint ache and post-workout soreness.


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Flush-to-wall doors are minimalist opening systems, whose frame is fitted inside masonry or plasterboard walls, with no external architraves.
Flush-to-wall elements may include hinged doors and pocket sliding doors.
In the most minimalist layout, door leaves are painted to match the surrounding walls, so as to perfectly blends into a modern and essential-looking environment.
Modern lacquered or wooden doors, with Walldoor frame, can also be installed.
As definition, doors are inroads that allow the communication among the rooms of the house, which are separated from each other by walls. This description highlights the purely functional nature of these products. But for those who are wishing to expand this concept and elevate these systems to minimal design elements, which are able to perfectly mix the style of your domestic environment, doors flush to kerb are the perfect furnishing solution. This peculiar type of door is, in fact, a great success because of its essential lines and the fact that they allow a great personalization of enviroments.
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But what is the design's secret of the flush to kerb doors? The absence of visible frames and frameworks gives a result of extreme formal cleanliness to these doors. The panel is thus shaped to the wall, which becomes the protagonist of the room. The camouflage of the door with the wall then, only exposes the thin cut on the wall that identifies the position of the panel, which can be realized with the same finish used for the wall. Our catalog gives interesting solutions, which are different because of mechanisms, dimensions and finishes.
Our flush to wall doors can be installed on both masonry walls and plasterboard surfaces, thanks to the presence of the reversible frame that leaves you free to decide, whenever you want, the door's opening direction. The chassis then is characterized by the fact that it can be complanar with the wall and incorporated in it. It is therefore obvious to forecast a few renovation works to replace a traditional door with a flush to kerb one. Their use is then particularly suitable for camouflaging the presence of technical elements or underfloor compartments and to create openings for niches and wardrobes.
Other possibilities of choice, offered by our collection of flush to kerb doors, can be found in the type of finish of the door and in the type of opening system it has. The panel can be left untreated to be harmonized with the wall finish with paintings, wall papers and decorations, or it can be made of glass or wood, depending on the selected model. Instead, the opening type can be hinged or sliding. The latter is sold with a peculiar container, with no visible elements, which must be plastered during the construction works. Sliding doors surely bring several advantages: modern and minimal design, smooth and continuous flow between the domestic spaces and no waste of space.
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By Joseph Conrad, Sir Angels (Editor)
December 2013 Greenlight First Editions Club Selection
Aboard the Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, England, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his appointment as captain of a river steamboat for an ivory trading company. As a child, Marlow had been fascinated by "the blank spaces" on maps, particularly by the biggest, which by the time he had grown up was no longer blank but turned into "a place of darkness." Yet there remained a big river, "resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country and its tail lost in the depths of the land.
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The Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court has been awarded a new five-year, nearly $2 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to enhance seven of its Specialty Court Programs. The grant will allow the court to offer recovery support services and recovery housing to specialty court participants for the first time. It will also provide funding for Medication-Assisted Treatment services, additional sobrietors and GPS monitors, increased access to lab-validated drug testing, and will allow the court to hire an additional case manager to coordinate services and a program specialist to oversee the grant requirements. The additional funding will also be used to enhance the Specialty Courts' outcome evaluation process, which examines the demographics, completion rates and recidivism rates of each program.
The grant will provide about $400,000 each year for the court's Behavioral Health Court, Behavioral Health DWI Court, Community Veterans Court, Domestic Violence Solutions Treatment Education Program, DWI Recovery Court, Substance Abuse and Treatment Options Program and Urban Native American Healing to Wellness Court.
This latest grant comes two years after the Metropolitan Court was awarded $974,000 from SAMHSA for its Behavioral Health Court, Community Veterans Court and DWI Recovery Court.


Boost seratonin levels, and you might reap a long list of benefits. According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, insomnia is the most common sleep complaint, affecting approximately 50% of Americans. It's no secret that insomnia can lead to irritability, trouble concentrating, confusion, and lethargy. However, it can also lead to an increased risk for diabetes and heart disease, decreased immunity and weight gain. Although a viable option, some over-the-counter sleep aids have side effects or interactions with some medicines. Some stronger sleep aids may become habit-forming over time. If you decide you would like to try a sleep medication, talk to your doctor before starting. If not, there are alternative solutions such as aromatherapy, exercise, creating a sleep schedule, reduced screen time, and eating sleep-promoting foods, like complex carbohydrates.
Yes, you read that last one right. If you've read the previous blog posts for this month, you already know some of the benefits of consuming whole grains. Whole grains are one type of complex carbohydrate that may also help you get a better night's sleep.
Most people have experienced the feeling of tiredness after eating turkey on the holidays. This is due to a compound called tryptophan. With the help of carbohydrates, tryptophan is able to become the hormone serotonin, which is thought to be responsible for regulating sleep. Tryptophan cannot be made into serotonin if carbohydrates are not consumed. However, not all carbohydrates are the same, and focusing your diet on more nutritious forms of carbohydrates can have benefits beyond the pillow.
Carbohydrates can be classified into two types.
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Delving into the ocean's changing role in climate change
Researcher Roberta Hamme. Credit: UVic Photo Services
The ocean plays an essential role in absorbing large quantities of excess carbon dioxide released by human activities—a role critical to a healthy climate and life on earth—yet not enough is known about the rate at which absorption happens or how it will change as the ocean warms and acidifies.
A pan-Canadian research team led by the University of Victoria received $540,000 in funding to address this knowledge gap. The team will investigate the ocean's role in slowing climate change as part of the federal government's $4.7 million Advancing Climate Change Science in Canada initiative announced today by Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna at UVic.
Led by Roberta Hamme, a chemical oceanographer and associate professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, the research will help Canada measure the absorption of carbon dioxide and predict how it will change in the future in Canada's three oceans. The team brings together university and government scientists to train students at seven universities across Canada to develop the next generation of techniques that will be used to integrate observations from new ocean technologies and computer modelling efforts.
"Science clearly shows us the causes of climate change, and our government is supporting the scientists that we know will show us the solutions. Working with scientists and academics will help us keep pushing forward in the fight against climate change. By coming together and working collaboratively we can ensure a safer, more prosperous future for our children and grandchildren," said McKenna.
The Advancing Climate Change Science in Canada initiative is funded jointly by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada and Health Canada to increase scientific information available to support government decision making on climate action.
UVic is a world leader in research on ocean science and technology, climate modelling, climate and adaptation, and the development of innovative clean energy technologies. More information.
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Roberta Hamme (Earth and Ocean Sciences) at 250-472-4014 or rhamme@uvic.ca
Denise Helm (University Communications + Marketing) at 250-721-7656 or dhelm@uvic.ca
Keywords: Oceans, climate change, research, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Roberta Hamme
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Sustainable future through clean energy
Mechanical engineer Zuomin Dong and UVic's Clean Transportation Research Team are working to cut down on the environmental impacts of marine vessels in our oceans.
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PhD student Danielle Claar studies the human impact on coral reefs' symbiotic relationships with algae and other organisms.
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