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Listowel Letters
After Vincent Carmody contacted me and told me a bit about Listowel, County Kerry, I became intrigued by the town, its history, and its place in the story of the Irish in America. I wanted to learn more, so naturally I took to the internet.
Listowel (courtesy of Vincent Carmody)
I was thrilled to stumble upon The Gleasure Letters blog. There is little I enjoy more than a nice collection of emigrant letters, and what better way to get to know the history of a town than through first-hand accounts? I admit, I am rather jealous of Ben Naylor, who publishes the blog with his wife, Kathleen. Ben's family had no idea these letters existed until an uncle passed away, leaving a trunk containing the letters behind. I don't think I am the only person engaged in family history research for whom such a discovery is a dream come true!
A description of the collection, taken from The Gleasure Letters blog:
Full transcriptions of hundreds of letters from 1897-1955. Letters are from the Gleasures of Listowel, Ireland to Frank Gleasure in Massachusetts and from Frank's son George Gleasure (killed in D-Day) to his father during World War II.
I urge you to browse around The Gleasure Letters – you will look up at the clock and wonder how two hours could have passed. Ben and Kathleen have done all the hard work for us in transcribing the letters. You get to sit back, read, and enjoy, without getting hung up on words because of the fancy (or illegible) script. Thanks to Ben for his generosity in allowing us a glimpse into the history of the Irish in America, through his family's experiences.
Mary Cogan is the author of the Listowel Connections blog, "…a personal take on Listowel, Co. Kerry. I am writing for anyone anywhere with a Listowel connection but especially for sons and daughters of Listowel who find themselves far from home." Mary's most recent post is a remarkable series of photographs she took while on her morning walk through Listowel.
In October of last year, Ben and Kathleen Naylor paid a visit to Listowel and saw many of the places mentioned in The Gleasure Letters. Mary documented their visit in a post on her blog – click here. Ben and Kathleen were treated to a tour of Listowel from Vincent Carmody, author of Listowel – Snapshots of an Irish Market Town 1850-1950. You could be treated to a copy of the book when you enter our St. Patrick's Day giveaway – details announced next week.
Click here for more on Gleasure letters and photographs.
Click here to get to know Listowel native Kathy Buckley, twentieth-century culinary sensation.
Click here to learn about a Chicago man with Listowel roots who made his mark in politics, Elmer Walsh.
Categories: A Visit Home, Listowel Emigrant Tales | Tags: County Kerry, emigration, history, Listowel, Mary Cogan, Natick Mass, photographs, The Gleasure Letters, Vincent Carmody, WWII | Permalink.
Cobh: The Queenstown Story
Cobh, County Cork (photo: Regan McCormack)
I once heard Cobh described as the saddest place in Ireland. I thought of this as my sister, Regan, and I walked into town one late September morning. With bright sun and fluffy white clouds in a beautiful blue sky overhead and a postcard-perfect harbor in front of us, I couldn't imagine a more cheerful town. The usual quiet Irish morning bustle filled the streets as we made our way to the restored Victorian railway station and home of the Cobh Heritage Centre.
Cobh Heritage Centre (photo: Regan McCormack)
It wasn't until we stepped in to the Heritage Centre's multi-media Queenstown Story exhibit that Cobh's sad reputation began to make sense. From 1848-1950, Cobh (or Queenstown) was the last of Ireland seen by over 2.5 million people whose ships departed Cobh Harbor \; emigrants leaving home for new lives in new worlds. These men, women, and children were fleeing famine and political unrest, leaving a country unable to give them even the most basic social and economic opportunities.
The exhibit does a nice job of bringing the Irish emigrant experience to life — the sound of waves crashing, dim lighting, and artifacts on display belonging to actual passengers combine to give visitors a glimpse into a nineteenth-century steerage compartment. North America promised freedom, prosperity, and a future, but first the emigrants would have to say goodbye to their homeland and risk their lives on a treacherous ocean crossing.
In addition to the exhibit space, the Cobh Heritage Centre offers a genealogy consultation service, café, and shop. Regan and I were able to sit down with Christy Keating, the genealogist on duty. We were lucky that his 10:30 appointment did not show up because Christy is a very busy man, fielding genealogy queries from some of the 100,000 visitors to the centre every year.
Christy told us about the genealogy services they offer at the centre. We talked about the challenges in tracing Irish emigration – there are many online passenger list resources, but they usually are not useful without additional genealogical information. For example, a visitor from Connecticut in the United States walks through the exhibit and approaches Christy and says, "My great-great-grandmother Mary Sullivan came to America during the potato famine – can you tell me more about her?"
Christy politely asks a few follow-up questions, such as what year did she emigrate, what port did she enter, did she travel alone. where was she from, etc. These are often met with a blank stare. All this visitor knows is that their great-great-grandmother Mary Sullivan came from Ireland during the potato famine. Christy does his best to point people in the right direction for learning more about their ancestor, but a few basic details would help immensely.
A number of other family history professionals, genealogists, and archivists in Ireland echo this sentiment: if you are visiting Ireland and have an interest in learning more about your Irish roots, a little homework done before your trip (or visit to the National Library or Archives) can go a long way. Learn some basic information and they will better be able to help you find your ancestor in Ireland. Who knows? You may be able to connect to the county, parish, or townland your family member left all those years ago.
If you are planning a visit to Ireland and know you have some Irish heritage, but don't have the time to research your roots, The Irish in America will do the work for you. Visit the Find Your Cousins tab at the top of this page to get started. We offer a free consultation and reasonable research rates.
Annie Moore (Photo: Regan McCormack)
A statue of Annie Moore and her brothers stands near the Heritage Centre in Cobh. Annie was the first immigrant processed at the newly opened Ellis Island in New York harbor in 1892. Emigration can be a heart-breaking event, but this statue symbolizes the struggles and optimism of those who have left Ireland. Cobh is a sad place in the collective memory, but today it welcomes back the descendants of the emigrants who had to leave their home.
I think every American who is aware of their Irish heritage and visits Ireland should go to Cobh and take a moment to think about their ancestors.
Categories: Why they left | Tags: America, Cobh, Cork, emigration, Famine, Queenstown Story | Permalink.
Ireland Reaching Out to Middle America
Enjoy the latest press release from the folks at Ireland XO. It's great to see them reaching out to the Irish communities in Chicago and Milwaukee!
Ireland XO reaches out to Mid-West Irish-American Diaspora
The Ireland XO Team in action at the Milwaukee Irish Fest: Mike Feerick, Dolores O'Shea, Rory O'Shaughnessy
Ireland Reaching Out began its first major outreach drive to the Irish-American diaspora with a busy and successful visit to Galway's Sister City, Chicago and the Milwaukee Irish Fest 2012.
Loughrea, Co. Galway, August 27th 2012 The Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel has asked Ireland XO to trace the Irish roots of his wife who has Irish ancestry – this is just one of the many hundreds of requests that the team took home from their first major outreach to the Irish-American diaspora in the US Mid-West.
As part of a delegation which included both Galway City and County Councils as well as Fáilte Ireland, members of the Ireland Reaching Out Programme travelled last week to Chicago, en route to the 2012 Milwaukee Irish Fest. Supported by local volunteers from the Chicago area, the team "reached out" to the estimated 120,000 attendees at the Fest to sign up Irish-Americans interested in tracing their roots and one day returning to the parish of their ancestors. There was extraordinary interest shown by those engaged in linking to their Irish Heritage and the majority of them were planning a visit to Ireland for The Gathering 2013.
In Chicago, Ireland XO made presentations at the Irish American Heritage Centre and Gaelic Park in Chicago where Irish culture, language, music, dance and sport is celebrated by many thousands of members. In excess of 150 people attended both venues where Mike Feerick and Henry Healy of Ireland Reaching Out explained their work and closer co-operation between the organisations is envisaged. In particular, the IAHC has an excellent library and archives as well as a monthly genealogy group which Ireland XO intends to leverage.
At the Chicago mayoral reception, John Mahoney, best known for his role in the TV hit comedy Frasier, and whose grandfather is from Co. Cork, praised the Ireland XO concept and encouraged both Diaspora and Irish parishes to sign up. At Milwaukee, the ancestral details of over 600 Irish-Americans were signed up for the programme. These ranged from one Virginia State resident tracing his ancestor's departure from the town of Ballina in Mayo in 1740 and now having 1,200 people on his family tree (all members of the Ballina, Co Mayo Diaspora!), to those who were finding out for the first time about the Irish origins of their grandfather. Commenting on the feedback, Mike Feerick stated that "the immense opportunity for local communities in Ireland to connect with their Diaspora was starkly evident at the Milwaukee Irish Fest. We should not stop until all 70 million of the Irish Diaspora are reconnected!"
For further information on the Ireland Reaching Out Programme, or getting involved, please contactinfo@irelandxo.com or telephone 091 842 013.
Bill Gaynor (Sister Cities), Henry Healy and Mike Feerick (Ireland Reaching Out), Austin Kelly (Sister Cities), Marian Ryan, general manager and John Devitt, President Gaelic Park Chicago.
Galway City delegation, members of the Chicago Sister Cities Committee, Ireland XO and Consul General Aidan Cronin with Mayor Rahm Emanuel
For further media information please contact:
Paula Kennedy, Press Officer,
Tel: +353 (0)91 842013 / 086-069-5152
Email: pkennedy@irelandxo.com
Mike Feerick, CEO of Ireland Reaching Out with Consul General Aidan Cronin
About the Ireland Reaching Out Programme
The Ireland Reaching Out (Ireland XO) project won the special award at the national "Pride of Place" Awards in Nov 2011 and in February 2012, was voted the "Best Community" initiative nationally by the Local Authorities Members Awards (LAMA). The project was founded in South-East Galway by tech entrepreneur Mike Feerick in 2009 and has been funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Heritage Council, the Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ireland Funds, Galway County Council, Galway Rural Development (GRD), and Irish-American sources. Sponsors include Google, Guinness, An Post, and the National Library. In Dec 2011, the project launched a global partnership with the GAA, agreeing to link newly identified members of the Irish Diaspora to the network of nearly 500 GAA clubs worldwide. Well-known broadcasters and economists David McWilliams and George Lee have been prominent supports of Ireland XO pointing out the extraordinary economic potential of the project, which rises well beyond the immediate and obvious tourism opportunity. The Ireland Reaching Out project aims to connect over million people through the project by the end of 2013. It believes it can achieve a database of 10 million members of the Irish Diaspora, including delivering one million additional visits to the island of Ireland by 2016.
Ireland XO in the Press 2011/2012
TV3 Morning Show – Ireland XO wins Arthur Guinness Fund Award
RTE George Lee – The Business – The Irish Diaspora
New Tech Post (David McWilliams): Ireland Reaching Out Launch 2012
New York Times: In tough times; the Irish call their Diaspora
RTE Nationwide: The Obama Visit – Linking to the Diaspora
Irish-American Magazine; Bring them all Back Home
Ireland XO Press Section
Categories: Ireland Reaching Out | Tags: America, Chicago, Cork, emigration, family, Galway, Ireland Reaching Out, Milwaukee | Permalink.
Lovely Laois
Erke, Co. Laois (R. McCormack)
I am extremely excited for my trip to Ireland next month. We have quite a bit on the agenda, but will be wrapping the trip up with a week in the heart of Ireland, County Laois.
My great-grandfather Andrew McCormack came from Ballyedmond, County Laois in the late 1880s and settled in Minnesota. My father has done extensive research on his McCormack lineage over the past fifteen years.
I had no hand in this research, but I have enjoyed all the fruits of my father's labors. Click here and here to read about the fun we have had connecting with our McCormack relations.
My dad won't be along on this trip, so I may need to don the family historian cap – if only to keep my sister straight on who's who! I had better review my dad's printouts…
While in Laois I am planning a visit to the County Archives and Local History Department in Portlaoise. It may have taken a while, but I have learned that a good first step when looking into the history of your Irish ancestors is to go to the County Council website.
The council website for any given county in Ireland will have all the information necessary to live in that county – from where you should dump your trash to the operation hours of the local branch of the library. But they are a great resource for visitors as well. Often these websites provide extensive history and heritage information, including details on genealogy, archives, and special collections.
A couple of clicks into the Laois County Council site, I landed on the Local Research page. Once there I found these useful links:
Laois Archives
Local History Online
Like any good researcher, I plan to do my homework before showing up on the archive's doorstep in September. It looks like they have quite a bit to offer. Maybe I will even find some emigrant letters in some of the personal collections listed on the Laois Archives page.
The Local History Online link brings you to the Ask About Ireland website. This is a very cool site, a must-visit for anyone interested in what the libraries, museums, and archives of Ireland have to offer.
AskAboutIreland and the Cultural Heritage Project is an initiative of public libraries together with local museums and archives in the digitisation and online publication of the original, the unusual and the unique material from their local studies' collections to create a national Internet resource for culture. (from http://www.askaboutireland.ie)
Ask About Ireland also features Griffith's Valuation, the first valuation of property in Ireland, published from 1847 to 1864. You are able to search the Valuation, and of course the more information you have, the better.
Returning to the Local Studies Department, we find an extensive collection of newspapers, cemetery records, photographs, maps, local files, and folklore. All are available to view by appointment. Bridget told me that the microfilm machine is a much sought-after appliance, so set your appointment early to ensure you will have access to the newspapers and records available on microfilm.
I am definitely looking forward to my visit to Portlaoise and the Laois County archives and local studies department. Can't wait to see what I can dig up!
Categories: Archives | Tags: America, Ballyedmond, County Council, emigration, Griffith's Valuation, Ireland, Laois, Local Studies, McCormack | Permalink.
Skerries is a Great Old Town
By now you must all know how much I love letters, so let's take another look at the Stephen Owens Collection. Discovered at the Old Skerries Historical Society in County Dublin in the late 1970s by well-known Irish Emigration historian Kerby Miller, this is a small collection of letters sent from Stephen Owens of Clontarf, Minnesota in the USA to his niece Celia Grimes in his native Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland. The letters are from the first few years of the twentieth century.
I began to look at the letters of Stephen Owens in an earlier post (click here to get caught up.) I will pick up the action with a letter dated July 20, 1900.
Mr. Owens starts right out with the weather (typical Irishman and Minnesotan!) It is the hottest and driest summer in over twenty-five years in Minnesota. No rain and scorching heat have left the farmers with little in the way of grains to cut come harvest time:
Corn and potatoes are Pretty good but the American likes to live on flowers instead of potatoes.
Mr. Owens writes of his younger cousin, a daughter of his Uncle John, who works for a family in Lynn, Massachusetts. He had a letter from her in which she describes her employer and their summer holidays in New Hampshire. She wants very much to come out West to visit her cousin which leads Mr. Owens to write, "I would like to see all my friends before I Die, God bless us all."
The next letter to Celia is dated April 1, 1902. Mr. Owens tells her of the new priest in Clontarf and how the beloved Father McDonald died of consumption. He goes on to tell Celia that she may miss her brother who recently left home for America, "but it is 49 years last February since I seen your Mother, my sister Eliza." All those years later, Mr. Owens still misses his sister and family. He even misses Celia, and she was not even born when he was last in Skerries!
Main Street Skerries, ca 1900 (courtesy of the National Archives of Ireland)
In a previous letter Celia must have told her uncle that there is something of an Irish language revival in Skerries because he writes:
Skerries is a great old Town. It is getting very patriotic. I am glad to hear the young People are learning their Country's language. It is a good sign…
The last letter from Mr. Owens in the collection is dated November 10, 1903. The tone of this letter is less than up-beat. He has been ill for five weeks and sometimes is unable to stand for the pain in his back and legs.
Mr. Owens is pleased to hear that Celia was reunited with her brother who came back from America, and he comments on the latest wave of migrants from Ireland:
…you sent 11 people out from Skerries lately. Them is the kind that is wanting, Old People is only in the way here in America they don't want them. I suppose it's that way in every country…
Mr. Owens is clearly facing the fact that he has reached the twilight of his years and he has apparently given up the notion of returning to Ireland to see all of his old friends and family – "I think when we meet next it will be in heaven." It was another two years before Mr. Owens passed away in December 1905.
I contacted the Skerries Historical Society to see if they had the originals of these letters – I only have copied transcripts. Maree Baker, the librarian at the Society got right back to me and said that they did not have the original letters. She sent along a couple of items from the Grimes family that are part of their collection – a photo from the late 1920s and two memorial cards. Celia's brother James is on the left in the photo and Maree said Celia could be one of the women to the right.
Grimes Family of Skerries (courtesy of the Skerries Historical Society)
Categories: Letters | Tags: America, Clontarf, cousins, emigration, family, Grimes, Ireland, Lynn MA, New Hampshire, Owens, Skerrie | Permalink.
This Old Farmhouse
The first time I visited Ireland in 1988, I was struck by the number of derelict farmhouses dotting the countryside. "Why doesn't someone just tear those old houses down?" I wondered. "That's what we do in the good ol' USA…we don't leave houses to fall down on themselves. If we don't want or need them, we get rid of them and build something new and better…"
Abandoned house near Ballyedmond, County Laois (all photos by Regan McCormack)
This sentiment came from a teenage girl from the city who spent more time in the countryside during six weeks in Ireland than she had in sixteen years back home – in the "good ol' USA". I thought I was so smart…
Fast-forward twenty years and I am closer to home, driving the country roads of Tara Township, crisscrossing its thirty-six square miles in Swift County, Minnesota. My maternal great-great-grandparents were among the pioneer 1870s settlers of this township on the vast prairie of Western Minnesota. This was my first visit to Tara. I had traveled three thousand miles from home on a number of occasions to visit Ireland, my "ancestral homeland", yet I had never bothered to drive a few hours west to see where my people settled when they came to Minnesota.
Granted, as far as vacation destinations are concerned, Ireland is a bit more attractive than Western Minnesota, but it turns out, the two places have some things in common.
There are the obvious similarities in place names in this part of Minnesota. Bishop John Ireland established several colonies of Irish Catholic settlers with names like Avoca, Kildare, Tara, and Clontarf. Hundreds of Irish families from cities and communities in the Eastern United States seized the opportunity to own land and live in a community with its own church and priest, surrounded by fellow Irish Catholics.
The Depression came early to rural communities and persistent crop failures and changing farming practices combined to make farming unviable for most small farmers. My relatives moved to Minneapolis, as did several other Tara families. Some of the original Irish settlers had left Tara even earlier, moving further West, always in search of better land.
So, I wonder why I was surprised to find this in Tara Township?
Section 22 of Tara Township – the McMahon place
On nearly every section of land in the township stands an abandoned farmhouse, or at least a grove of trees planted by the original settlers to protect a house. And this in the "good ol' USA" where we tear things down!
Folks in Ireland and Tara Township have the same reaction when I ask them why they don't simply tear down the abandoned houses. They shrug and say that they are no bother and they can be used for storage. That is the practical response, but I wonder if there is something a bit more sentimental lurking beneath?
The abandoned houses got me thinking…A similar hopelessness that drove millions of Irish to America during the 19th and 20th centuries could be seen in rural Americans who fled the farm for the city in the 1920s. Major difference, of course, is there was not a famine like Ireland experienced, however there was tremendous poverty, crops failed miserably, families were split up, and life changed permanently and dramatically.
I am rather ashamed of my sixteen-year-old self for not being as smart as she thought she was. She should have realized that the same reason this stands today in Ireland…
Near Ballyedmond, County Laois – 2011
might be why this…
Cahir Castle, Tipperary – 2011
Rock of Dunamase, County Laois – 2011
Johnstown, County Kildare – 2009
are still here today. I doubt that the farmhouse ruins will have the staying power of the castles and abbeys of centuries gone by, but in the meantime they can remind us from where we came. Whether it is a farmhouse in Ireland or Tara Township, Minnesota.
Now, if I could only get Jimmy to fix up this old house…
Two Jimmy McCormacks at old family house in Ballyedmond – 2009
Categories: Emigrants, Where they went | Tags: America, Ballyedmond, emigration, family, Foley, Laois, McCormack, McMahon, New Hampshire, Regan | Permalink.
Mick Moloney and the Music of Irish America
Yesterday I heard a re-broadcast of an Arts Tonight interview with folklorist and musician Mick Moloney on RTÉ Radio1. Here is a little bit about Mick from his website:
Mick Moloney is the author of "Far From the Shamrock Shore: The story of Irish American History Through Song" released by Crown Publications in February of 2002 with an accompanying CD on Shanachie Records. He holds a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, and Villanova Universities, and currently teaches at New York University in the Irish Studies program.
Mick has also recorded and produced more than forty albums, organized and performed countless concerts and productions, consulted on American Public Media programs, and earned a National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The interview was very interesting because it reminded me that I can look to music as a historical resource for furthering my understanding of the Irish American experience. When Mick was asked what he encountered when he came to the United States looking for Irish music, he said that he was amazed by the number of songs about the Irish that existed in America…songs about Irish railroad workers and Irish canal workers, Irish anthracite miners in Pennsylvania and Irish coal miners in Montana, big-city Irish politicians and pioneer Irish farmers, Irish activists and Irish gold-rushers in California. Songs covering most of the Irish experiences in America. Mick's conclusion? The Irish "speak of our personal lives and our history as a people through music and song."
Mick was impressed by the quality of the Irish music being played in American cities such as Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, and Chicago. From the mid-1970s, Mick documented the music he found as he traveled all over the United States. The result is a collection of recordings housed at the Taminent Library and Wagner Archives of New York University. Click here to visit the library's detailed guide to the Mick Moloney collection.
This looks like a great book. It was published by Mick Moloney in 2002 and is accompanied by a sixteen song CD. It is available from Amazon.com – click here to take a closer look. I will be ordering myself a copy soon…can't wait to read and listen to it!
I will leave you with a song…
Categories: What they did | Tags: America, emigration, Mick Moloney, music | Permalink.


Please be in prayer for one of our church plants in Egypt which has received permission from the Department of Security and the Federal Government to build a church building on land that has been purchased through gifts to Indigenous Ministries. The next steps will be to raise funding for the building. Would you begin praying with us for this process as they identify the amount that will be? Thank you.
As 2018 draws to a close, our hearts overflow with thankfulness to the Lord for an unprecedented year marked with growth, challenges and successes. We simply could not do this without you, our prayer and financial partners. For the past two months we have detailed the $130,000 year end fund goal of which $46,500 has been received. Would you consider a generous gift to "The Greatest Need" before the end of the year? Your year end gift, no matter what size, is a significant part of our ability to continue to effectively reach nationals with the Gospel. Thank you and may God bless you.
The UNHCR's figures take the world's refugee numbers to a staggering 22.5 million. Five million souls have left Syria after seven years of a civil war. One of the areas they are attracted to is northern Iraq. IM's team helps these refugees as well as Iraqi refugees in Kurdistan and outside of Mosul.
The impact of food distributions in an area where unemployment is 55-59% is vital for families who struggle for stability. School supplies for the children helps to lift burdens from over-taxed parents.
In November, John and Dee Cook joined our Iraq team for a food distribution outside Mosul. As families arrived, parents were visited with, food packets given and to the kids' surprise and delight, a Christmas craft awaited their small hands; one for themselves, and one for their sponsor. Even Spider-Man (below) showed up and had a great time making a crèche!
With the growth over the last year of this Refugee Child Sponsorship Program, we are delighted to welcome three new team members. Their work with logistics, Bible studies and keeping track of the families has already been a huge asset! Enjoy the pics from this memorable day, and thank you for your continued prayers and financial partnership which the Lord is using. Hundreds more children are waiting sponsorship. If you feel the Lord leading you to become a sponsor like some of our sponsors below, welcome! Visit our website, IndigenousMinistries.org, on the right click "Sponsor a Child." You and your family are not going out to McDonalds for one time can help feed a family for two months. Wow, that's impactful. $39/month per child. Thank you.
Retired newlyweds Dennis & Sandy, OR, are excited to sponsor Lara.
Ben & Lily King, AK, lead their church's youth group in sponsoring two Iraqi children Thank you!
The local, national church is the heart of our ministry. Left, John spoke last month in Kurdistan, and as a result of the pastor's ministry and the Word shared, 28 indicated a decision for Christ. They will be followed up with through the local church pastor and teams. Right, Dee held two women's meetings, one in a refugee camp and one in the church; both were packed. Thank you for your partnership. Please continue to pray for Pastor Sabre, the church and our IM team members.
This Christmas, give your family and friends gifts with double effectiveness. It will bless those who are less fortunate and change lives for good. Our Christmas Catalogue has gifts from $15 to $1200!
Each gift has a suggested donation amount and when you donate online, you will receive an email confirmation with a gift voucher for you to print and put under the Christmas tree. Maybe you're missing someone special and want to give a gift in his or her memory…our little Angel Lamb, new this year to our catalogue, is a loving tribute. Each gift will further the work of Indigenous Ministries reaching out through our national teams to thousands with the Gospel.
Click on "Christmas Gift Catalogue" on the right hand banner to start shopping!
"We're so thankful for each sponsor who is making a difference in the lives of refugee kids and their parents through our Refugee Child Sponsorship Program in Iraq. Your love and compassion are changing lives!
School began in Iraq last month, which means our national team was very busy buying and distributing backpacks, school supplies, and school uniforms. Thank you to each one who generously donated to help send the children to school! The video above shows some photos from this time while Mryanna shares a story of one of the families in our program.
As we look to the completion of the year of ministry in 2018, I reflect on all the Lord has allowed us together to accomplish with a warm and grateful heart. Last month I shared with you some of the highlights of 2018 so far.
The transition from taking our sponsorship program from 125 to close to 400 children and students in our sponsorship program is really something I am immensely grateful for. It's a growth point that comes with it's own challenges as our staff both here in our Colorado Springs office and overseas have been stretched to new limits. Yet each time a child, dad or mom responds to the love of Christ we're reminded that it's for this very purpose in this part of history that we've been put in the Harvest together.
We are asking the Lord for the largest financial target yet of $130,000 to finish this year and prepare for what He has in store for 2019. I'd like to share with you where these funds are needed, and ask that you prayerfully consider what the Lord may have you be part of in this campaign.
Colorado Springs office – This is ground zero for the entire ministry. As the Lord has increased our borders, naturally, our staff needs have grown, and we're blessed to have a fantastic, dedicated team! Our full time ministry staff raise their personal salaries, but we do not require our administrative staff to do so. This year we're including a new position and admin needs in our year end number to bring our office in better balance for the long run.
Church plant property in Iraq – The Kurdistan government has offered to GIFT four acres to one of our church plants in Iraq with the agreement that the church pay $40,000. We want to help with $30,000 and ask that the local church in Iraq raise $10,000.
Van for Refugee Child Sponsorship Program in Iraq – We've already raised $15,000 of the $25,000 needed for this van and this will help complete this very important project.
Van for Grace Bible College in India – This $25,000 project will allow the staff to retire an old van that the government will not allow on the roads after 2018 due to its age. This will transport students and staff.
Travel funds – In the past we've also asked our full time staff to raise their own travel funds in addition to raising their own salary. We're changing this policy, as we believe a better use of staff energies is to invest in the ministry itself as it is rapidly expanding.
Donate online or send a check with "Greatest Need Campaign" in the note area. Thank you for prayerfully engaging with us in this campaign. It is because of your faithful partnership that we're able to increase impact in some of the most needful places around the world. Thank you for all you do; we're grateful! To God be the Glory.
This Christmas, give your family and friends gifts that will bless those who are less fortunate and change lives for good. Our Christmas Catalogue has gifts from $15 to $1200!
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This last month was amazing in our annual Pastor's Conference as we gathered the pastors together for encouragement, times around the Word, and refreshment in relationships with the Lord and each other. Our lecturers included two of our dear pastors from the US, our pastor from Iraq, our lead for I.M. Egypt and myself. It was an incredible time and I believe that the Lord met with us in a fresh way. Men shared how much of an impact this time had in their lives and how they were refreshed in a great way.
The theme was "God Looked for a Man." It was precious as the teaching team poured out not only the teaching of Scriptures about God's call, God's heart and God's equipping us to serve Him, but also their personal heartfelt experiences of feeling weak and yet experiencing God's faithful strength. Too often we are weary and try our best to do what God wants in our service to Him, and yet sometimes we lose a close walk with the Lord with our busyness of serving. It was a time to reset the compass of our relationship with Christ.
So many of the pastors came to the conference discouraged, dealing with pressures of ministry along with the pressures from Islamic and Catholic religions trying to shut down the evangelical ministries. At the end of the conference, we heard how refreshed they were through the teaching time, getting some rest, good food and time with their fellow servants. Four young men who are looking to be part of ministry were there on our invitation; they are so looking forward to how the Lord will use them in the days ahead.
As always, without you, dear ministry friends, this couldn't have happened. God used you together to bring this about. These men need our continuing prayers…also especially keep in prayer two church plants that are deepening and growing their congregations in walking with the Lord.
Shelving – The Grace Bible College, India, library building is now used daily by the students!
Training – IM's National Pastors' Conferences have brought vital encouragement to front-line pastors this year. At Grace Bible College, students receive quality biblical training for reaching their own people for Christ.
Now I ask you to join me with a fresh walk of faith as we look to the Lord for 2019. The victories of this year are all for the Glory of God, but they belong to this year. As I've prayed and asked God for His direction for the upcoming year, I'd like to share some thoughts with you.
We are asking the Lord for the largest financial target yet of $130,000 to finish this year and prepare for what He has in store for 2019. I'd like to share with you where these funds are needed, and ask that you prayerfully consider what the Lord may have you be part of this campaign.
Church plant property in Iraq – The Kurdistan government has offered to GIFT four acres to one of our church plants in Iraq with the agreement that the church pay $40,000. We want to help with $30,000 and ask that the local church raise $10,000.
Van for Refugee Child Sponsorship Program in Iraq – We've already raised $10,935 of the $25,000 needed for this van and this will help complete this very important project.


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Animal Crossing New Horizons Delayed to Avoid Crunch, Bowser Explains
June 14, 2019 by JoeTheBard
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According to the president of Nintendo of America Doug Bowser (why, which Bowser were you expecting), the release of Animal Crossing New Horizons was pushed back to avoid crunch. Apparently, the company policy of Nintendo is that they want to give their employees a good work-life balance. Which is apparently a novel, shocking concept for the gaming industry. Their stocks did take a bit of a dip, but they're sticking with it. I gotta respect this move.
Nintendo always stands out from the rest of the industry in some capacity. Sometimes it's bizarre decisions, such as Super Mario Maker 2 not letting you play with friends at launch, so as not to disrupt leader boards. Other times, it's a stance that crunch should not be imposed on their employees, which, sadly, is the exact opposite of how the majority of the industry handles things. And this is exactly why the launch date of Animal Crossing New Horizons has been moved to late March 2020.
In an interview with IGN, the wonderfully named president of Nintendo of America Doug Bowser addressed the company's view on crunch: "For us, one of our key tenets is that we bring smiles to people's faces, and we talk about that all the time. It's our vision. Or our mission, I should say. For us, that applies to our own employees. We need to make sure that our employees have good work-life balance." He then used Animal Crossing as an example: "One of those examples is, we will not bring a game to market before it's ready. We just talked about one example [in Animal Crossing's delay]. It's really important that we have that balance in our world. It's actually something we're proud of."
So, yeah; Animal Crossing New Horizons is coming out on March 20th, 2020, and now you know why. Nothing is worth people breaking their backs and minds over it. The game will, of course, be available only on the Nintendo Switch. If you haven't already, check out the near half-hour gameplay video below, and see what the new Animal Crossing is going to have to offer. I've never played Animal Crossing, but it looks delightful.
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Q: Woocommerce do action does not work in Ajax functions, but works when hardcoded to php file I have created a simple popup on a test page where I load the product summary of a variable product. When I paste the following code in the php file directly, it works perfectly.

global $product;
$product = wc_get_product(14);

do_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary' );

But if I insert it via ajax through functions.php, the variable prices are missing and when the product is added to cart, I get an error message saying that "Please choose product options by visiting BBQ Chicken Pizza".
Here's the jquery function.

$('.product_parent_tabs .variable_a2c_btn').click(function(){

    var prod_id = $(this).attr("data-prod") ;

    $.ajax({
        url: ajaxurl,
        data: {
            'action':'cus_product_popup_ajax', // This is our PHP function below
            'prod_id' : prod_id // This is the variable we are sending via AJAX
        },
        success:function(data) {
    // This outputs the result of the ajax request (The Callback)
            $('#cus_popup .cus_popup_details').html(data);
        },
        error: function(errorThrown){
            window.alert(errorThrown);
        }
    });

functions.php code below

function cus_product_popup_ajax() {

    if ( isset($_REQUEST) ) {
        $prod_id = $_REQUEST['prod_id'];

        global $product;
        $product = wc_get_product(14);

        do_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary' );

    }

    wp_die();
}

add_action( 'wp_ajax_cus_product_popup_ajax', 'cus_product_popup_ajax' );
add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_cus_product_popup_ajax', 'cus_product_popup_ajax' );

Any insights on this will be greatly appreciated!

A: When doing AJAX there is no global $product as the AJAX requests are independent.
More or less here's the solution to your problem which should work:
$prod_id = $_REQUEST['prod_id'];

$product = wc_get_product($prod_id);

do_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', $product );

This should force the action to take $product into consideration and print all stuff for that product.
Let me know if this worked for you.

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Alan Moore's Hypothetical Lizard is a comic book adaptation of the World Fantasy Award-nominated short story "A Hypothetical Lizard", written in 1988 by Alan Moore for the third volume of the Liavek shared world fantasy series. The story was later reprinted in "Words Without Pictures", a 1990 book of prose stories by comics writers edited by Steve Niles, but then went out of print.  In 2004 Avatar Press published the first issue of Alan Moore's Hypothetical Lizard as a comic book adapted by writer Antony Johnston.

The story describes the life of Som-Som, a prostitute in the House Without Clocks - a brothel designed to service rare and exotic tastes.  Som-Som has undergone a corpus callosotomy, severing the connection between the two hemispheres of her brain; this, in conjunction with the porcelain mask attached to the right half of her face, and the thick glove on her right hand, destroys the connections between her thoughts and actions. Therefore, she can see and hear, but not speak of or act on, any secrets her wizard clientele may inadvertently reveal in the throes of passion.  Consequently, Som-Som can only watch as her transsexual friend Rawra Chin is slowly destroyed by an abusive relationship.

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Ode to Necrophilia
August 7, 2019 August 7, 2019 ~ Cakeordeath ~ 29 Comments
Ode to Necrophilia-Kati Horna 1962
The startlingly titled and utterly bizarre photo-series Ode to Necrophilia by Hungarian-Mexican photographer Kati Horna, featuring as a model the brilliant Leonora Carrington, was published in the short lived but innovative Mexican avant-garde magazine S.NOB in 1962.
Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Hungary in 1912, Horna lived in Berlin and Paris before moving to Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War where she was empoyed as the official photographer for the CNT-FAI. Her groundbreaking war photographs that intimately portrayed the effects of the conflict on the civilian population was frequently featured in Spanish Anarchist journals Umbral and Tierra y Libertad as well as internationally. In 1939 she fled with her husband the Spanish anarchist José Horna, first to Paris then to Mexico. Mexico was the first choice for a number of left-leaning artists and intellectuals escaping Europe's nightmare slide into fascism. It was here that she met Remedios Varo, the wealthy art patron Edward James, Benjamin Peret and later Leonora Carrington.
S.NOB was founded by literacy radicals Salvador Elizondo and Juan Garçia Ponce and featured works by the Mexican avant-garde and European emigres with Edward James helping with funding to ensure artistic freedom. It ran for seven issues in 1962.
Below is a selection of images from the series. A quick note regarding the umbrella, which would appear to refer not only to Lautreamont's famous dictum in Les Chants De Maldoror, 'As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table', but also to one of her many outstanding photographs of the Spanish Civil War, Rally at Via Durutti, which I have also included.
Rally at Via Durutti-Kati Horna 1937
The Surreal World: Mexico
July 9, 2019 June 7, 2022 ~ Cakeordeath ~ 51 Comments
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"I don't know why I came here. Mexico is the most surrealist country in the world."-Andre Breton
"There is no way I'm going back to Mexico. I can't stand to be in a country that is more surrealist than my paintings"-Salvador Dali
The above quotes shows how the surreality of Mexico outstripped even the imaginings of the movement's leading theoretician (see The Pope of Surrealism) and its most famous visual artist (see The Phenomenon of Ecstasy).
They are plenty of factors that contributed to Mexico being conducive to the Surrealists. Politically there was the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 (Pancho Villa would be honoured as the Magus of Wheels in the Le Jeu De Marseille, the deck of cards designed by the Surrealists) and the Mexican President's support of the Republican government of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. There was the richness of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art, mythology and culture. As a group familiar with the ideas of Hegel and Marx the Surrealists would have be aware of the theory that Cortes entry into and conquest of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan represented the true starting point of global capitalism that ushered in centuries of exploitative colonialism, slavery and imperialism. Combine the Mexican cult of death, exemplified by the Day of the Dead celebrations and its variegated landscape of mountains, desert and jungle to this already heady mix and you end up with a country more Surrealistic than the Surrealists.
The purpose of Breton's visit in 1938 was to met with Leon Trotsky who was staying at La Casa Azul (The Blue House), the home of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Breton declared Kahlo a surrealist and promoted her work, however the respect certainly wasn't mutual, Kahlo detested Breton and held the Surrealists in contempt. As it appears that Kahlo was having an affair with Breton's wife Jacqueline Lamba (see Dreams of Desire 16 (Jacqueline and Frida), as well as with Leon Trotsky, maybe the byzantine personal relationships within La Casa Azul influenced her judgement of Breton.
With the defeat of the Republicans in Spain by Franco's Nationalists and the invasion of France by Nazi Germany, Mexico welcomed a number of artists, including the director Luis Bunuel, the writer and artist Leonora Carrington, her friend the Spanish artist Remedios Varo (again Kahlo wasn't a fan of either Carrington or Varo, she called them those European bitches), the abstract Surrealist Wolfgang Paalen, Alice Rahon, Bridget Bate Tichenor and the poet Benjamin Peret among others.
It was in Xilitla, Mexico that the eccentric English millionaire and patron of many a Surrealist, Edward James built his extravagant folly house Las Pozas amid the riotously lush fauna and flora of the jungle.
Mexico is certainly well represented in modernist literature. Mexico became the home of the mystery man of modern letters, the German (?) anarchist B. Traven, whose true identity still remains to be resolved. Author of The Treasure of Sierra Madre, which was filmed by John Huston and starred Humphrey Bogart, Traven also wrote The Jungle series about the Mexican Revolution. One of the classics of Modernist literature, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano is set on the Day of the Dead, 1938, in the town of Quaunhnahuac. The Chilean novelist Roberto Bolano's two major (and monumental) novels The Savage Detectives and 2666 are mainly set in Mexico, particularly Mexico City and the badlands of the Sonora Desert.
Finally a brief note on the image selection; I could post a dozen articles on Mesoamerican art alone. I have confined myself to a few outstanding examples of Pre-Columbian art to allow room for Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and the Surrealists. As I have posted at length on Leonora Carrington, I limited selection of this artist to include work by Varo and Tichenor. As an added bonus there are the splendidly morbid and macabre woodcuts of Artemio Rodriguez and a statue of Santa Muerte, the Mexican folk religion of Most Holy Death.
Mosaic mask of Tezcatlipoca
Frida Kahlo-What The Water Gave Me
Frida Kahlo-Without-Hope 1945
Diego Rivera=Dream at the Alameda
Remedios Varo-Spiral Transit
Leonora Carrington-How Doth the Little Crocodille-Mexico City
Self Portrait-Bridget Bate Tichenor
Edward James-Las Pozas
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Arthur Cravan remains an elusive figure. A tireless self-promoter he caused a scandal and generated legends wherever he landed up and as he led a wandering peripatetic existence this meant he was infamous on both sides of the Atlantic. However what is not in doubt is that his exploits were an inspiration to the Dada movements in Europe and New York, leading to his canonisation by the Surrealists.
Born in Lausanne, Switzerland he had fond memories of his uncle, Oscar Wilde, 'I adored him because he resembled a huge beast' (he later perpetuated a hoax in his self-published magazine Maintenant in 1913 that he had recently had met up with Wilde, that was taken up by The New York Times; Wilde had been dead for over a decade). He was expelled from an English boarding school for spanking his teacher, certainly not the last of his anarchic provocations. He travelled throughout Europe on documents and passports he had forged himself and could convincingly pass himself off as German, French, English or Swiss depending on the locale. While in Paris he give an announcement that he would hold a talk which would culminate in his suicide. When the hall filled up in expectation he then accursed the spectators of vulgar voyeurism and proceeded to bore them with a lecture on entropy instead. Proud of his imposing physique (he was 6'4) and his boxing prowess he managed to become the French Heavyweight Champion without winning a single fight and would later go on to fight the World Champion Jack Johnson in the Canary Islands. He lasted a respectable six rounds although Johnson later noted in his autobiography that Cravan seemed out of training.
Dodging the draft he went to New York, where through the agency of Francis Picarbia, his partner-in-crime from his Barcelona days he fraternized with the future Dadaists Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray and would meet his future wife Mina Loy, who nick-named him Colossus. While in New York Cravan also indulged his taste for provocation; upon giving a lecture on humour he turned up dead drunk and proceeded to strip while berating the crowd, the police were promptly called and he was dragged off to the cells.
To once again avoid military service Cravan and Loy went to Mexico where they were married. As I wrote in my previous post Surrealist Women: Mina Loy, Cravan set off in his small sailing boat never to be seen again, leading to all sorts of rumours and reported sightings, further sealing the legend of the anarchic poet-boxer provocateur.
Surrealist Women: Mina Loy
Mina Loy
The Forrest Gump of the international avant-garde, Mina Loy had the unerring knack of being in the right place at just the right time. Born in London in 1882 to an Hungarian Jewish father and an English Protestant mother Loy caught the tail-end of the fin-de-siecle in Jugendstil infatuated Munich in 1899. She moved to Paris in 1903 and entered the circle of writers and artists centred around Gertrude Stein. 1907 saw her de-camping to Florence where she spouted Futurist aphorisms with Marinetti and his cohorts. 1916 saw Loy sail for New York where she promptly made the acquaintance of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray.
It was in New York that she met and fell in love with the love of her life, the heavyweight champion of the Dada-verse and nephew of Oscar Wilde, the poet-boxer Arthur Cravan. They were married in Mexico City in 1918. Afterwards they intended to move to Argentina; however lack of funds and the fact that Loy was pregnant with Cravan's child meant that only Loy took the commercial liner while Cravan set off in a small sail boat with the intention that they would met again in Buenos Aires. Cravan was never seen or heard of again; presumably the boat capsized and he drowned in the Pacific, however his disappearance has led to some wild and improbable theories, my favourite being that Arthur Cravan became the mysteriously reclusive, anarchist novelist B.Traven, famous for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre that was made into a film of the same name by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart.
The twenties saw Loy in the thick of modernist Paris. She published her collection of poems Lunar Baedeker and with the backing of Peggy Guggenheim opened a shop selling decorated lamp-shades. In 1933 she begin her close friendship with the German Surrealist Richard Oelze (see The Expectation) which resulted in her posthumously published Surrealist novel Insel, with its insightful (though disguised) portraits of Andre Breton, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali. Loy states that there is something 'fundamentally black-magicky about the surrealists.'
Loy moved to America in 1936, this time for good. She settled in the Bowery district of New York City which was soon to become the world's art capital. Here she made collages out of the rubbish she collected around her home and be-friended the shy Surrealist artist of Utopia Parkway, Joseph Cornell.
Surrealist Women: Leonora Carrington
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Paul Eluard, Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst-Photo by Lee Miller 1937
An exceptional artist and in my opinion an even better writer Leonora Carrington was the inspiration for many of Max Ernst masterpieces, notably The Robing Of the Bride (see A Week of Max Ernst: Friday) and was in many aspects the archetypal Femme-Enfant of Surrealist desire; a dubious honour that Carrington, as one of the founding members of the Women's Liberation Movement in Mexico in the 1970's, found galling.
Daughter of a English industrialist and an Irish mother, Leonora identified closely with her Celtic heritage which was to play an important part in her art. She was a rebellious child and was expelled from two private boarding schools for her unruly behaviour, subsequently she was sent to Florence to study art. In 1936 at the age of her 19 her mother gave her Herbert Read's book Surrealism and she was intrigued. When the International Surrealist Exhibition came to London Carrington visited and was struck most forcibly by Ernst's work. Shortly after she met Ernst at a party, they were immediately besotted and so began one of the most passionate and productive of all Surrealist love affairs. The 46-year-old Ernst immediately left his second wife for the 20-year-old Carrington; however a divorce wasn't immediately granted and a torrid love triangle ensued until the outbreak of WWII which changed the situation dramatically. Ernst was interned twice first by the French as a German national and then by Gestapo as a degenerate artist. He managed to escape with the aid of Peggy Guggenheim who later became his third wife for a short period. Leonora suffered a mental breakdown that resulted in her being institutionalised in a Madrid psychiatric hospital; a period she characterised as living on The Other Side of the Mirror. Later Andre Breton encouraged her to set down her experiences and the result was published as Down Below.
Leonora and Max met again later in New York but their wartime experiences had been too intense for their affair too continue, however they carried a candle for each other till the end of their days despite their respective marriages. Carrington ended up in Mexico City where she was good friends with Benjamin Peret's wife and fellow Surrealist artist who shared her occultist affinities, Remedios Varos (though Frida Kahlo wasn't impressed, she referred to them as 'those European bitches') and would get occasional visits from Luis Bunuel, who speaks of Carrington with genuine fondness in his autobiography My Last Sigh as well as highly praising her marvellous Surrealist novel The Hearing Trumpet. Another friend from this period was the maverick film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky who frequently stopped by to discuss the Tarot and alchemy. Carrington remained in Mexico City producing art and sculpture up until the first decade of the 21th century, becoming in the process something of a Mexican National Living Treasure until her death in 2011 at the grand old age of 94
How doth the little crocodile
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Maine, NY (March 18, 2019) – A two-alarm fire was reported to have taken place Sunday night, March 17th, that resulted in at least minor injuries. According to authorities, the fire broke out around 9:45 p.m. at a home located on Tiona Road for reasons that are currently under investigation.
Officials reported that firefighters from six different departments were called to the scene. The multiple crews worked to extinguish the fire for approximately four hours, as emergency medical crews were called to the location. According to paramedics who arrived at the scene, all reported injuries were considered to be minor in nature, although there has been no word concerning the number of people involved.
Neither the exact location nor the number of people involved has been released, as police are currently engaged in a thorough investigation into the events that led to this incident. No further details have been provided.
We would first like to extend our deepest sympathies to anyone who suffered any injuries during this blaze as we hope for full recoveries. Additionally, we would like to offer our appreciation to the brave firefighters who risk their lives each day for the members of our community. Many fires and explosions in New York prove to be extremely injurious or fatal, as they are among one of the most hazardous situations that anyone may encounter.
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Breaking Proposed as Olympic Sport for 2024 Summer Games in Paris
Organizers proposed adding breakdancing as a new Olympic sport in Paris during the 2024 Summer Games, according to the Associated Press.
A final decision won't be reached by the International Olympic Committee until after the 2020 Tokyo Games. Organizers would also like to see climbing, surfing and skateboarding added in Paris after all three sports make their Olympic debuts in Tokyo. The proposal included entering 248 athletes for the four sports, which would be evenly split between male and female participants, reports the AP.
The IOC capped the number of Olympic participants at 10,500, meaning space will have to be made elsewhere to accommodate any sports added in Paris.
Tony Estanguet, head of the Paris organizing committee, said including new sports would make the Games "more urban" and "more artistic," reports the BBC.
Breakdancing started in the 1970s in the Bronx as a part of hip-hop culture and eventually spread worldwide. In 2018, it debuted at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. Dancers between the ages of 16-18 competed head-to-head in either men's, women's or mixed-team battles. The breakers were judged on six criteria: personality, technique, variety, creativity, perfomativity and musicality.
Breakers submitted videos online to compete in the Youth Olympics. The winners were selected to participate in the World Breaking Championships in Japan for a chance to advance to the Youth Olympics. In Buenos Aires, the competition was broken down to three phases.
Phase 1: The preselection phase gave breakers one round for a showcase before five judges. The top 32 males and top 16 females were ranked by the judges before advancing to the next phase.
Phase 2: The preliminary phase featured a round robin format with two rounds. Each breaker battled three times per round, and their cumulative number of rounds and votes from judges determined their placement in phase two. The top four breakers advanced to the knock-out rounds.
Phase 3: Each battle in the knock-out phase had four rounds. Battles were split in half with a 90-second pause. One breaker started the first half of the battle and their competitor started the second half. Phase three acted as both the semi-finals and final round.
In the individual competitions, Russia's Sergei "Bumblebee" Chernyshev won the men's final and Ramu Kawai of Japan won the women's.
The 2024 Summer Games will be hosted in Paris from Friday, July 26-Sunday, Aug. 11.
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The Porn star Theo Barone, from the Rio de Janeiro's production company HotBoys, dies at the age of 26
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The ex-porn star Theo Barone died on the last Sunday, September 27, after being hospitalized for five days due to a stomach cancer. Due to his severe clinical condition, Barone was placed in an induced coma and was fed by a nasogastric tube. The information was gathered by the news portal Dentro do Meio.
Very active on social media, Theo's last post was on August 9. A few moments before the news about the hospitalization, his relatives were already making posts to ask for prayers for him. The burial took place at 11 p.m. of September 29, in the city of Nilópolis, in Rio de Janeiro.
The actor entered the porn movies industry due to financial needs: "I needed the money to contribute to my nephew's surgery and, since I was desperate, I ended up talking to a friend who had already done movies and he put a word in for me at HotBoys. They called me, but I didn't accept it at first. As the situation got worse, I accepted it." – he said in an interview with Dentro do Meio.
Throughout the conversation, Theo Barone commented that his family didn't take it well, but deep down they respected him. Furthermore, he also said that he was more recognized on the streets than he thought he would be, however people only crossed the line in places like nightclubs.
"When in a public space, the approaches are fine. But I had hard times in nightclubs and other LGBT places. Once someone cornered me inside a gym bathroom and when I said I didn't want it, the person got p****d off.
He told me that since I was a porn actor, I should like dirty stuff and that I couldn't reject him since he was hot. I simply put a smile on my face, answered that "not everything is what it seems" and left the bathroom."
He dreamed of investing in an international career and also of working with the actor Rhyheim Shabazz.
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Jurgens Strydom (* 13. März 1987 in Windhoek, Südwestafrika) ist ein ehemaliger namibischer Tennisspieler. Mit Weltranglistenplatz 976 im Jahr 2007 im Einzel und 802 im Doppel gilt er als bester Spieler in der Geschichte des Landes.

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Strydom spielte von 2002 bis 2009 professionell. Sein größer Turniererfolg war das Erreichen des Halbfinals beim Juniorenturnier der Wimbledon Championships 2005 im Doppel mit Christopher Llewellyn. 2007 erreichte er das Finale des Heimturniers in Windhoek im Rahmen der ITF Future Tour, wo er Claudio Grassi unterlag. Im gleichen Jahr erreichte er mit seinem Doppelpartner Bogdan-Victor Leonte das Finale in Benin City in Nigeria.

Strydom spielte von 2003 bis 2009 in der namibischen Davis-Cup-Mannschaft und ist in dieser mit 29 Teilnahmen Rekordspieler.

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4K Torrent Download Guide: How to Download 4K Movie Torrents
Startupopinions September 7, 2020
These days, the majority of the films shown in the theatres have a resolution of 4K. However, each movie projected is of at least 100GB of disk size.
This is not only impossible but also unnecessary to be put up on the web. And that is the main reason why it is difficult to come across any 4K torrent on the internet.
In every situation, there are a few exceptions for the 4k movie torrents.
The first-ever 4K Movie: This is sized of about 160 GB: This film is directed and released by Tom Lowe, coming up with the incredible documentary.
Timescales, this is nothing less than a portrait of the very own planet Earth captivated with remarkable 4K cinematography, a term for the quality of rich cinema print.
The first-ever 4K Torrent: The porn content was called Huccio which is an adult site declared which advanced as the pioneer or the first-ever organization with the allowance of 4K ultra high definition adult movie download.
And in the meanwhile, it is taken as a vow to propose it in a similar format all of the ever produced movies into 4K for the loyal users.
See Also: Top 10 Free & Paid Websites for Download 4k Movies
The 4K Torrent download of the Download Trend
Nevertheless, 4K tech has not yet gained that kind of popularity and familiarity in the market up till now, the concept of the ultra-high-definition is quite surprising.
There also have been a majority of monitors and the supporting displays that can play 4K video content such as the 4K television sets.
This gives us the availability of option which allows us to play the option of 4K format or resolution videos also on iPhone, iPad and can be played on the 5k iMac.
And lastly, customers can take a look at the most crystal clear 4K videos even on the PlayStation 4 (PS IV) and on the Xbox also one fine day. Also, there are a few options for the best torrent site for books.
When it comes to the availability of 4K video on a hand it is when the Blu-ray discs every one of them is seen to reach and hold a compressed version of a movie in 4k from 2015 as it used to have about 100 GB of disk size.
On the contrary, Google's YouTube also has declared an incredible policy to create a much bigger selection of videos in 4K content available with the use of the latest technology called VP9.
This is a brand new technology used for 4k video compression. It also means that the users will have the availability of an option to hit the download button for getting the videos and movies in 4k format called free high definition YouTube downloader for video. Some of the best 4k torrent sites.
It is on the other hand highly predictable that all the torrents available in 4K torrent which could have been in reach or accessible to everyone, along with the ultra-clear 5K, and an 8K resolution which sports a greater video quality content when the next generation HEVC is also known as (H.264) compression era comes in as it's a virus-free torrent site.
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The availability of downloading 4K videos with help of WinX downloader for YouTube
Right before the availability of 4K torrents were crawling over the web, there is an evergreen option available for the 1080p video torrents from the majority of the top-rated torrent websites, and sometimes to download 4K test videos, scenery films along with the MVs.
The majority of the videos available are only of a few minute duration and the size varies from 500MB to 2GB in size, hence it is very easy to save or download.
So let us test a 4K download with the help of WinX YouTube downloader as a support so that you can see how perfectly a 4K video appears to be. Some of the famous torrent sites.
Steps for Downloading
First of all, you will have to download and install the WinX 4K downloader for torrent. This can be done by double-clicking the application icon to launch the software and it starts running in the background. Launch it again when you need to download the ultra-clear 4K vides. It on the other hand enables us to download the 4K videos of 60 (fps) frames per second for free.
The next step is to open up the YouTube application or access the site on a computer/laptop and search for a 4K ultra high definition video format.
The third and important step is to click the addition sign button which looks like + on the User Interface, on the other hand just copy and paste the URL of the YouTube video of 4K format.
The second last step is to click the analyze button which will give an option to choose a specific format from the list. To retain the authentic 4K ultra high definition it is suggested to check the "3840×2160" resolution and press OK.
Begin with the downloading of 4K Torrent videos right from the YouTube platform. And after some time, you get to download the video on 4K format which could be played on the computer, iMac, and the known Sony 4K TVs capable of playing such clear video files.
For conclusion: VideoProc an ultimate way to download 4K videos
One can download the free 4K video torrents with the smartly designed and developed 4K torrents with the VideoProc.
This also extends supports in a lot of ways such as converting aspect ratios, changing resolutions, changing the formats of the videos directly from
(1) M2TS to FLV
(2) AVCHD to WMV
(3) MP4 to AVI
(4) FLV to MP4
(5) MKV to MPEG
Or one can also transfer the videos to any kind of device which may include an iPhone, Apple TV, Samsung, HTC, Google, Amazon, PS4, Windows, etc.
This will also allow you to upconvert a video of 1080P high definition to the HEVC 4K with a clearer insight of how the 4k movies look like. This system sports download for extreme quality and lightning-fast conversion speed, credits to
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His and Hers outfits for the most anticipated date-night of the year!
The most anticipated date-night of the year is FINALLY upon us: Valentine's Day. Now, there may be some guys and girls who are STILL scurrying for last minute gifts, reservations (oops!), and bouquet arrangements — it happens! But, if there's something that doesn't belong in the infamous Last Minute Club (yup, I made it up just now, and you can shamelessly jump on board), then it has to be your date-night outfit. Or, should I say outfitS?
Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate the love you share with your partner. It can also be a great way to show the world the love the two of you have for fashion! This year, I encourage all couples to go the extra mile and have your outfits complement one another's for a night on the town — just don't step out in matching bright pink leotards!
In case you're strapped for ways to bring together the perfect His & Hers look, I've got you covered. It's so easy to play with colors, cuts, and accessories when figuring out how to deliver total #couplefashiongoals, and here's a bit of inspo to get you started.
Solids don't have to be boring, nope! A deep green dress never looked so good with a berry lip and gold accessories. Now, add in that purple pugh (turban) and blue vest to the mix and you're a match made in heaven. The earth-like tones are a good way to add newness to Valentine's Day which is usually all about the pinks and reds! The best part about these ensembles is the simplicity — carry them with poise and grace. Your Valentine's Day doesn't have to be complicated to be noticed!
With velvet being all the rage, the leading lady in your life can't go wrong with a tulip cut dress in this cozy-yet-classy material. The beige is the ideal color to pair with a vibrant red lip to give you all the rosy and rouge Valentine's Day feels! The blue checkered suit for the men makes for a win-win situation. The checkers add the perfect dimension to what can be an otherwise plain coat and pant. The red pugh (turban) adds a firey touch, and not to mention the ultimate accent accessory: the peacock feather. Both are dressed to the nines and there's no regret about it! Don't have a peacock feather? Don't sweat it! Red pocket square and a matching red lapel pin a timeless and classy alternatives!
Look 2 - Velvet? Check!


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It is always a passion of my heart to impact the next generation, so whether you are ready to invest in someone's life or you are looking to be part of a healthy mentoring relationship, I hope you will join me for this series!


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Getting from Toronto to Calgary (and return)
Toronto, the capital of Ontario, is the most populous city in Canada. The city is located on the shores of Lake Ontario and offers a lot of things to do. Travelers can spend some time on the beach or walking in the city. Don't forget to visit some museums or the zoo.
Calgary is the largest city in Alberta Province and is the gateway into the Rocky Mountains. It is the most likely point of access for Banff and Jasper. While here make sure to check out the Chinatown , some of the museums and parks.
Due to the long distance between the two cities , choosing the means of transportation depends on both the budget and the time available to cover the distance.
Flying is fastest and the single fares start at CAD $287* for early spring 2012. But you'll cover the distance in less than 4 ½ h.
Buses are definitely the cheapest choice, with single fares starting at CAD $170.10. But the travel time is 2 ½ days.
Since Calgary is not served by a railway station, you need to take the train to Edmonton and then catch a bus for the last part of the journey. It's expensive and time consuming.
Flights from Toronto to Calgary
Although Toronto is served by three airports, the one handling flights to Calgary is Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ), located about 23 km from the city center. It is the busiest airport in Canada and hub for Air Canada, Air Canada Express, Air Transat, CanJet, Sunwing Airlines and WestJet.
Calgary International Airport (YYC) serves the city and the surrounding area and is located about 17 km from downtown. It is Canada's fourth busiest airport and headquarter for WestJet, as well as hub for Air Canada and Canada Express.
If you plan to fly between the two cities for the winter holidays (2011), expect to pay from CAD $384 one way on Air Canada . Flying in mid-March 2012 means you'll pay from CAD $287 one way on WestJet . The flight time is 4 h 18 min.
>>Airfare to Toronto
>>Airfare to Calgary
Trains and buses from Toronto to Calgary
Due to service cut backs in the 1990s, there's no rail service to Calgary. However, you can travel by train on VIA Rail Canada to Edmonton and then catch a bus to Calgary.
1. Trains from Toronto to Edmonton
There is one train connecting the two cities and departs Toronto daily at 10 p.m. It arrives in Edmonton after 2 days 10 h 37 min. The single adult fare is CAD $244.08.
The train leaves Edmonton daily at 11:45 p.m. and arrives in Toronto after 2 days 10 h 45 min.
The single adult ticket is CAD $226.80.
>>read more about Train Travel in Canada
2. Edmonton to Calgary
Greyhound Canada runs a service between Edmonton and Calgary , which also includes express buses, which take between 3 ½ h and 3h 50 min to cover the distance between the two cities. There are 5 express buses per day departing from Edmonton, the first leaving at 7 a.m. and the last at 6 p.m. The advance purchase single adult fare is CAD $34.00.
Regular buses depart 3 times per day and take between 3h50 min and 5h15 min to cover the distance. Advance purchase single adult fare is also CAD $34.00.
Express buses depart 5 times per day from Calgary as well, the first bus leaving at 7 a.m. and the last at 6 p.m. There are three regular buses serving the route, as well and the fare is the same.
>>read more about Bus Travel in Canada
Buses from Toronto to Calgary
Greyhound Canada also offers a direct bus between Toronto and Calgary. It leaves Toronto daily at 1 a.m. and the travel time is 2 days 7h 35 min. The web only single adult fare is CAD $170.10.
Two buses leave Calgary daily at 12:01 a.m. and 12:51 p.m. and the travel time is 2 days 4h. The same web fare applies.
Driving from Toronto to Calgary
You can rent a car and drive the 3300 km (or 3400 km) between Toronto and Calgary. Both available routes pass through the USA, so make sure to ask the car rental agency weather you are allowed to take the car over the border.
The shortest route is via US-2 W and takes 1 day and 13 hours. Plan to make several stops along the way and spend a night along the route.
Note: * at the time the article was written


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Q: my loop for inserting data table is very slow- this is the problem facing in codeigniter.
using database mariadb
i have 7 table called

*

*terms

*class

*section

*subject

*exam_paper
6 assign_subject
7 mark
and the query is

  <?php
            $select  =   $this->db->get_where('terms', array())->result_array();

            foreach ($select as $key => $data_select) :
                $verify_data1 = array(
                    'session_year_id' => $session_year_id
                );
                $query1 = $this->db->get_where('class', $verify_data1);
                $select1 = $query1->result_array();

                foreach ($select1 as $key => $data_select1) :
                    $verify_data2 = array(
                        'class_id' => $data_select1['class_id'],
                        'session_year_id' => $session_year_id
                    );
                    $query2 = $this->db->get_where('section', $verify_data2);
                    $select2 = $query2->result_array();

                    foreach ($select2 as $key => $data_select2) :
                        $verify_data3 = array(
                            'class_id' => $data_select1['class_id'],
                            'section_id' => $data_select2['section_id'],
                            'session_year_id' => $session_year_id
                        );
                        $query3 = $this->db->get_where('subject', $verify_data3);
                        $select3 = $query3->result_array();

                        foreach ($select3 as $key => $data_select3) :
                            $verify_data4 = array(
                                'terms_id' => $data_select['terms_id'],
                                'class_id' => $data_select1['class_id'],
                                'section_id' => $data_select2['section_id'],
                                'subject_id' => $data_select3['subject_id'],
                                'session_year_id' => $session_year_id

                            );
                            $query4 = $this->db->get_where('exam_paper', $verify_data4);
                            $select4 = $query4->result_array();

                            foreach ($select4 as $key => $data_select4) :
                                $verify_data5 = array(
                                    'class_id' => $data_select1['class_id'],
                                    'section_id' => $data_select2['section_id'],
                                    'session_year_id' => $session_year_id

                                );
                                $query5 = $this->db->get_where('assign_subject', $verify_data5);
                                $select5 = $query5->result_array();

                                foreach ($select5 as $key => $data_select5) :
                                    $verify_data6 = array(
                                        'terms_id' => $data_select['terms_id'],
                                        'class_id' => $data_select1['class_id'],
                                        'section_id' => $data_select2['section_id'],
                                        'subject_id' => $data_select3['subject_id'],
                                        'exam_paper_id' => $data_select4['exam_paper_id'],
                                        'student_id' => $data_select5['student_id'],
                                        'status ' => 1,
                                        'session_year_id' => $session_year_id

                                    );
                                    $query = $this->db->get_where('mark', $verify_data6);
                                    $select6 = $query->result_array();

                                    $sql = "select * from mark order by mark_id desc limit 1";
                                    $return_query = $this->db->query($sql)->row()->mark_id + 1;
                                    $verify_data6['mark_id'] = $return_query;

                                    if ($query->num_rows() < 1)
                                        $this->db->insert('mark', $verify_data6);

                                endforeach;
                            endforeach;
                        endforeach;
                    endforeach;
                endforeach;
            endforeach; ?>

the problem is that it is takes more than 3 hour to insert and after inserting it makes page very slow.

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*To avoid the SELECT before each INSERT, use INSERT IGNORE ... or INSERT...ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE...`

*To speed up any insert (by up to 10-fold), "batch" it.  That is insert, say, 100 rows in a single query.

*If the data is coming from other tables, then use INSERT...SELECT...; so you can do it all at once.

A: you can use multi value in insert query to make insert faster and for better speed in loading data from database you should use feature called index .


Recently I read a book that challenged me, upset me and tested my attitude in a very unusual way. A friend found the book in a thrift shop where she worked, and having a Christian history similar to mine, she suggested I might enjoy it. It was one of those books that comes along just when you need it most, the kind that releases a cool breeze across your life. It filled in so many gaps that needed filling, but it also frustrated me so much that I could have thrown it into a river and smiled.
The church that I have belonged to for many years was prone to doing a few doctrinal somersaults from time to time. Minor things came and went and came again and no one was too fussed. Then one day the church did the equivalent of a doctrinal double reverse pike with twist. Doctrines that I considered ordained by God himself, absolutes that were paramount to the practice of my religious life suddenly became irrelevant. At the time "traumatic" seemed a kind word.
Time after time my eyes and then my mind were drawn to the heavily underscored text, leading me to places I didn't want to go, to things I didn't want to think about.
I had no disagreement with that, so I settled down to reshaping my thinking according to the life and teachings of our Savior Jesus Christ in the light of the new covenant. Gradually, over a decade or so, my previous religious practices became less important as I increasingly comprehended the fullness of Christ.
The book that caused me so much unease dealt with those events, the whys and wherefores of it all, from an author who was right there in the moment.
That wasn't what upset me, though.
My problem was that a previous reader had underlined everything he must have thought important with thick black lines (I'm assuming it was a man, though perhaps a woman might have used such an obtrusive pen). Besides his underlining, he had made comments in the margins and inscribed question marks that only he understood. This person obviously had not tasted the emotion of the moment or careered out of control down the roller coaster of "what abouts." Their underlining was almost detached, the kind of underlining one would do to stress an interesting point of ancient history. It was not the heart of a person who had experienced the joy and the sting of the journey.
to things I didn't want to think about. This person was at a different place from me on their spiritual journey, yet they were unknowingly forcing me to go there, even though I felt God wanted me to be somewhere else. Somewhere spiritually healthier for me.
I marveled at this phenomenon. It caused me to think, perhaps I was being shown something bigger than what had come and gone.
Haven't I also been a line-drawer? Haven't I drawn my own lines under events in peoples' lives and in the margins of their personal stories? Indeed, how smugly I've highlighted things that I thought were unusual or not quite right, things I had summed up with a question mark snigger or a disapproving grunt. Have my whispers in the margins drawn another person's attention to a place he or she did not want or need to be?
Then I thought about Christ's words, "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it for me" (Matthew 25:31–40). Jesus identifies so closely with every person that how we treat others is how we are treating him. If I draw lines of judgment under someone else's imperfections, real or imagined, I draw lines under his perfect life.
Jesus is clearly more interested in relationships than in piety. He is not worried about how well we do religion; he wants us to treat one another with dignity and respect. When we love another, it is Jesus loving through us. When we are loved by someone, it is Jesus in us receiving the love. He is both the giver and the receiver. He is the center of all things. Religious practice cannot compete with him, or substitute for him.
In Jesus we are free from all marginal references, underlining, and other peoples' interpretations of the way our lives should progress. We are also free to let others be themselves and enjoy their journey into Christ, no matter where they might be along the way.
To my church I say, Thank you for having the courage to lay everything on Christ alone and ride out the storms it brought. And to my unknown underlining friend, Thank you for the frustration that caused me to meditate upon the inclusive graciousness of God. I nestled a little deeper into our Savior's loving arms because of you.


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How Coronavirus Is Impacting Local Search
By Greg Sterling, Uberall's VP of Market Insights
Given social distancing, store closures and the increasing number of "stay at home" government mandates, one might expect local and near-me search volumes to fall off a cliff. But that's not happening, local search is evolving along with the situation.
Google Trends reflects that over the past 90 days, near-me search is relatively flat on a global basis. It's trending downward slightly - undoubtedly affected by the virus - but mostly from its high during the final holiday shopping weeks of 2019.
Near Me Search Still Happening (Global)
Local Search Is Shifting with the Crisis
What we're seeing, at Uberall and from third-party data, is that local search is very much still occurring, though shifting. Looking at Google Trends for the US market this time, "restaurants near me" (as a proxy for restaurant search generally) is trending down, as are queries such as "café near me."
But when we look at "grocery delivery" or "stores open near me," or "opening hours," we see a spike in volume, starting about a week ago. This reflects people trying to determine which grocery stores offer food delivery and which stores in their area remain open.
Some Categories Have Declined, Others Are Spiking (US)
In the funny / not funny category is the growth of near-me searches for toilet paper. The very recent drop off probably results from the discovery (and resignation) that toilet paper is out of stock in many places.
Toilet Paper Near Me
French Restaurants Down, Fitness Equipment Up
Yelp has released data showing how "consumer interest" in local business categories is changing on its platform in the wake of the virus and "shelter in place" rules. Consumer interest was "measured in terms of daily US counts of a selected set of the many actions people take to connect with businesses on Yelp, such as viewing their business page or posting reviews."
As the chart below indicates, categories such as breweries, galleries, French restaurants, yoga and food trucks are all down. Conversely, food delivery services, fitness equipment, grocery, pharmacies and, sadly, guns & ammo stores are up.
Changes in Consumer Interest on Yelp
Map Views Off 50%, Calls Steady
Turning now to Uberall's own data, what we have seen across the platform since early February are the following changes in consumer behavior:
Local search impressions are fairly stable (-10%)
Map views have declined significantly (-50%)
Requests for directions are also down (-20%)
Call volumes have largely not been impacted
Looking more closely at the data for three specific business categories (gyms, grocery stores, hotels), globally, there has been considerable change since February:
Gyms: site visits are up, calls are up, driving directions are way down
Grocery stores: visits, calls and directions are up
Hotels: calls, directions and site visits are way down
Consumer Actions Shifting by Category
Near Me As E-Commerce Backup?
Based on some anecdotal evidence, it also occurred to me that people may be using near-me search as a kind of backup when they can't find something in-stock online. Normally, near-me searches often precede e-commerce lookups for products.
When people can't find something locally, they usually go online (to Amazon) to get the desired item.
A friend was telling me how he was using Clorox Wipes to disinfect doorknobs. I first went online to see whether I could buy them on Amazon, but they were "currently unavailable." In the process I discovered the following: "Clorox Wipes near me" near the top of the search suggestions list, which means a lot of people are doing this query.
Clorox Wipes Near Me
If you actually do that search the first result is Tom's Guide , which offers a number of recommended places (online and off) to buy the wipes. (As an aside, there's an coronavirus-SEO tactic here: building product inventory pages for hard-to-find items.) And again, while this is speculation, I suspect there's an inversion of the usual process going on: first looking online for products and then "near me." But this is just a single example.
As all of these examples illustrate, people are definitely using local and near-me search during this crisis and perhaps just as much as ever. It's just that behaviors are changing, based upon how the virus is impacting and disrupting our daily lives. Right now, it's more about survival and less about discretionary spending - for the foreseeable future.
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