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Who is Cheikhou Kouyate and can he solve Arsenal's defensive problems?
Cheikhou Kouyate has recently been linked with a move to the Premier League and in particular Arsenal but who is he?
Can Kouyate solve Arsenal's problems?
The Senegalese defender is currently playing in Belgium for Anderlecht and has been in impressive form and with him only be 23 will have a lot of time to develop and get better. He can also play in the holding midfielder role so his distribution is very good and not only does he stop attacks but he also starts them from the back, which means that he would certainly fit into Arsene Wenger's style of play. Kouyate has nearly played 100 league games for Anderlecht and also has five international caps to his name and played at the London Olympics for his country in 2012.
Kouyate has already announced that he will be leaving the Belgian side in the summer and with Anzhi Makhachkala and Borussia Dortmund also said to be keen on the player, Arsenal may have to move quickly if they are to sign him. Arsenal have expressed their interest in the player a few times but that has never came to anything, however this time could be different and it seems a lot more likely that a transfer will come off.
But what does this mean for Arsenal's other centre backs? At the minute they only really have three centre backs anyway, so it doesn't mean that somebody has to leave. Sebastien Squillaci is still at the club but he really shouldn't be and has been an awful signing and I fully expect him to leave this summer. On to the other three and in my opinion there isn't much between them at all and that is because they are all as inconsistent as each other.
Firstly, Thomas Vermaelen has got quite a lot of praise for his time at Arsenal but for me he hasn't been that great and at times looked more interested in adding to his goal tally than actually defending his own goal. He can be very good at times and got away with some poor performances in his first season because he did score eight goals but now they have dried up, fans have been more critical. In his defence though he did miss almost a full season through injury so I am possibly being a bit harsh.
Per Mertesacker is another defender that came to Arsenal with a good reputation but on the whole has been too slow and cost his team on several occasions. It is surprising that he has struggled at times because he is a German international and has a lot of caps to his name but put him in a one on one situation with basically any Premier League striker and he is struggling.
Finally, Laurent Koscielny is possibly the most frustrating to me because he looks very good for spells and then he will just have an awful game and seems to lack the required concentration to be a first choice centre back in the Premier League. All the defenders have good qualities and maybe if they weren't in a team competing in the Champions League and expected to win trophies they would be seen as brilliant players. But to put it simply, Arsenal score enough goals to win trophies they just simply cannot defend and a lot of this is because of how poor they are in the centre of their defence.
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Who will Robin Van Persie sign for if he is allowed to leave Arsenal?
Posted on July 7, 2012 by patto1992
The transfer saga that will dominate the headlines this summer will once again involve Arsenal and their captain.
This time it is Robin Van Persie when in previous years it has been Cesc Fabregas, however it does still go even further back than that with both Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira getting linked away from the club every summer. I am not going to go into whether Arsenal are a 'selling club' or not because they in my opinion work the transfer market the right way by basically living within their means and even though the fans may not like it, they must accept it.
Van Persie has scored 132 goals in 279 games for Arsenal
I am going to focus more on Van Persie and you can see why he is being linked with the champions from a lot of countries around Europe after last season as he was phenomenal and was probably the best player in the Premier League. He scored 37 goals last season in all competitions but Arsenal still failed to win a trophy and you can understand the reason he wants to leave the club as even with his impressive goal tally, they never looked like winning the Premier League (mostly because of a poor start) and were easily knocked out of the Champions League after a very poor first leg.
Most clubs in the world would love to have the Dutchman in their squads but surely there are only a few that he would want to join. Unsurprisingly, Manchester City are the favourites to sign him and out of everyone in the Premier League I personally think this is the only team he would contemplate signing for. City have bought quite a few players from Arsenal including Samir Nasri last summer so they know they can do business with Arsenal and they won't refuse to sell RVP to them. But in my opinion they would have to sell a striker first as they have Edin Dzeko, Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero and Mario Balotelli all fighting for a first team place already. Personally, I would only have Van Persie over Dzeko so I don't see the need of them signing him but they will probably try anyway.
Juventus are also heavily linked with RVP and you can see it is because they lack a real goal scorer in their team and if they want to challenge for the Champions league next season then they most definitely need more goals in their side with Alessandro Matri only getting 10 league goals and Mirko Vucinic not even hitting double figures, they need someone that is going to get at least 20 goals. Andrea Pirlo showed at the Euros that he can still be a brilliant player and RVP would score goals for fun with his playmaking abilities. At times, Van Persie made Alex Song look like a pass master with his movement so imagine how good Pirlo will look.
Finally, Barcelona are also linked with him and yet again it is not very surprising to see their name come up however some of the rumours are. If they sign the Arsenal man, they may be looking to offload David Villa who is now 30 and has been out for eight months with a broken leg. If I was negotiating this deal I would definitely try and make it a swap deal. I think Villa is a better player than Van Persie and if he can recapture his form before he suffered his injury then he could actually make Arsenal a better team.
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USTPAC disturbed by Justice Minister's statement
In an interview with BBC Sandeshaya, Sri Lankan Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe categorically rejected all allegations of war crimes committed by Sri Lanka's armed forces and stated the government would take legal action against anyone who alleges the armed forces committed war crimes. Furthermore, he said that anyone who discusses mass graves in Sri Lanka's North is an enemy of the nation and war heroes.
In response to the Minister's remarks, US Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC)'s President Dr. Karunyan Arulanantham said:
"USTPAC is deeply troubled by Justice Minister Rajapakshe's comments. His calls for legal action against those who accuse the armed forces of war crimes appears an attempt to silence victims and human rights defenders as they search for truth and justice. It runs counter to and potentially negates the current government's commitment to Transitional Justice and good governance."
Minister Rajapakshe's statement, taken with repeated pledges to protect war heroes from President Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, seriously damages victims' trust in the government to carry out credible transitional justice mechanisms and institutional reforms as agreed to by Sri Lanka in UN Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1. It also contradicts the findings of the 2010 Panel of Experts Report, the 2012 Petrie Report, and the 2015 Report of the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL). These UN reports identified widespread and systematic war crimes committed by both sides during Sri Lanka's civil war.
The OISL Report found in its principal findings that there were "reasonable grounds" to believe that international crimes had been committed by the Sri Lankan army including: unlawful killings & enforced disappearances, shelling of civilian areas, shelling of hospitals, sexual torture, and denial of humanitarian aid, while the LTTE's international crimes included: unlawful recruitment of children, unlawful killings, and forced recruitment.
The OISL Report noted that, "The sheer number of allegations, their gravity, recurrence and the similarities in their modus operandi, as well as the consistent pattern of conduct they indicate, all point towards system crimes," i.e. war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Dr. Karunyan further stated: "This development points to the need for transitional justice mechanisms that are fully independent from the unreformed Justice Ministry. Given the Justice Minister's comments on mass graves, he should not have any role in creating, operating or monitoring the Office on Missing Persons.
"The Minister's statement should raise alarm bells among the international community. The partiality of the Justice Minister is another indication that there must be international expert participation in the transitional justice mechanisms in Sri Lanka, including international judges. Critically, statements of this kind by senior members of the government point to the need for long-term monitoring on implementation of Resolution 30/1 by the OHCHR." (USTPAC)
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Though a tiny city – only seven miles by seven miles – its influence is as wide as its appeal is diverse. Within 24 hours, you could hike a coastal path with Silicon Valley billionaires; bargain in Chinatown's lantern-strung streets; and chow down on cheap tacos in the Latin-flavoured Mission District, where palms sway outside Art Deco movie palaces. Throw in a surplus of major landmarks – the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz island, cable cars, Lombard Street – and you've got a solid argument that this isn't just the States' best-looking city. It's simply the best.
Laura Chubb, our resident expert, offers her top tips on the hottest places to eat, drink and stay this season.
Jungle-strangled skulls and a back bar built from an old aeroplane fuselage pioneer a darker spin on tiki at Duboce Triangle's new drinkery, Last Rites (718 14th St.). Cannibal vibes match the cocktails' biting twists on the tiki playbook, featuring ingredients such as curry stout syrup or green chile liqueur.
The long-awaited Lodge at the Presidio (105 Montgomery St.; 00 1 415 561 1234) has opened inside The Presidio National Park, making it the closest hotel to the Golden Gate Bridge. Now's the time to soak in this smart boutique's views, before the summer fog settles in. Double rooms from $314 (£241).
Cairo-born celebrity chef Michael Mina's (252 California St.; 00 1 415 397 9222) eponymous, Michelin-starred Financial District restaurant has ripped up its contemporary American menu in favour of Middle Eastern flavours. The highlight of this new six-course feast? A peerless foie gras – invented by the Egyptians – with glazed mango and ginger.
Start your day with bay views at the Ferry Building (1 The Embarcadero; 00 1 415 983 8030): the terminal doubles as a marketplace for the Bay Area's culinary heroes. Grab a locally roasted Blue Bottle Coffee, and stock up on picnic items (Acme's olive bread, Cowgirl Creamery cheese).
Outside, catch the vintage F tram along the palm-lined Embarcadero boulevard to Pier 33, where cruises leave for Alcatraz Island (00 1 415 981 7625); note that you should book a month in advance. Once docked, pick up the excellent free audio tour inside the prison. Don't miss the graffiti on the water tower, left by Native American protesters who occupied Alcatraz in the 1970s. A thorough poke around should take three hours.
Enjoy your picnic finds at tables by the docking area (no food or drink is sold on the island) and wrap up against that whipping wind.
A short stroll from Pier 33, search out the wooden staircase climbing through residents' tumbling cliffside gardens. Filbert Street Steps are a steep slog, but keep pausing to glance behind for phenomenal views of bobbing sailboats and the Bay Bridge. At the top, continue along Filbert to Hyde, and hop aboard the next cable car. Enjoy a hair-raising ride down precipitous hills, until the end of the line at Fisherman's Wharf.
Resist turning east to the tourist-trap wharf and rent a bike at nearby Blazing Saddles (2715 Hyde; 00 1 415 202 8888). Now pedal west along Marina Boulevard to Crissy Field in The Presidio National Park (00 1 415 561 5300). The promenade gives front-row views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin Headlands. The clearest days are in autumn and winter: summer fog often obscures the vista.
For a colourful evening, dip into Chinatown. Li Po Lounge (916 Grant Av.; 00 1 415 982 0072) is a classic dive, once frequented by Beat hero Jack Kerouac. Be warned: the signature Chinese Mai Tai contains potent Chinese liquor. Sober up in the queue for House of Nanking (919 Kearny St.; 00 1 415 421 1429), a cheap institution with celebrity fans (regulars include Francis Ford Coppola). Staff bully you into what to order, but go with it – the 'famous' sesame chicken, sweet and sticky atop thinly sliced sweet potatoes, is outstanding.
After dark, the Bay Bridge is illuminated by a permanent art installation, 'The Bay Lights'. Watch 25,000 LEDs streak across the cables in dramatic patterns with a cocktail at bayside Waterbar (399 The Embarcadero; 00 1 415 284 9922). The Sappho – a sort-of negroni with Cointreau and Sipsmith gin – is a good, stiff nightcap.
You can't come to San Francisco and miss Golden Gate Park. As the city is all-too-fond of pointing out, this green escape is larger than Manhattan's Central Park. Start at the eastern tip, in Haight-Ashbury: over the road, find fortifying caffeine and cake at industrial-cool, local roasters Flywheel Coffee (672 Stanyan St.; 00 1 415 682 4023). While it might sound naff, an easy way to see the best of 1,000 acres in a single morning is the official segway tour (book at goldengatepark.com).
Don't miss the free views from the Hamon Observation Tower at the De Young Museum (50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.; 00 1 415 750 3600), sweeping over from boxy, low-rise homes to the Pacific.
The city's hottest neighbourhood is also its oldest – The Mission is where Spanish settlers founded San Francisco in 1776. Buy lunch at renowned Tartine Bakery (600 Guerrero St.; 00 1 415 487 2600), which starts serving sandwiches (sample filling: smoked sheep cheese and quince jam) after 11.30am. Picnic at palm-dotted Dolores Park (19th & Dolores St.), with fabulous vistas of downtown skyscrapers.
Two blocks east, Valencia Street offers two miles of independent boutiques. Find artist-designed threads at Nooworks (395 Valencia St.; 00 1 415 829 7623) and weird taxidermy in Paxton Gate (824 Valencia St.; 00 1 415 824 1872), before turning down Clarion Alley. When Latino immigrants first moved here in the 1960s, activist-artists painted intricate political murals, and the tradition stuck. Some of the best are here, and in Balmy Alley, a brisk 20-minute walk away.
Flour + Water (2401 Harrison St.; 00 1 415 826 7000), a 10-minute amble from Balmy, pairs handmade pastas with Bay Area produce, and is one of the city's most-celebrated restaurants. Reservations are impossible. However, they keep 40 of their 60 seats open for walk-ins every night, so put your name down and while away the one- to two-hour wait at True Laurel (753 Alabama Street; 001 415 341 0020) across the street. You might call this 'farm-to-glass' drinking, as every cocktail ingredient here is painstakingly — and often regionally — sourced. Sip on an A Dilla Pt. 2 for the most extraordinary blend of passionfruit, coconut cream and dill.
Once at the dinner table, plump for the seasonal, seven-course pasta tasting menu; previous dishes include kale cavatelli with lamb sugo, chanterelles and sierra fig mostarda.
The Battery is simply the best hotel in San Francisco. It's situated within a private members' club, where guests get an all-access pass to exclusive facilities and events. It also benefits from super-stylish interiors by designer-to-the-tech-stars Ken Fulk, and everything from the food to the tea is world-class. Service is superlative.
Located in the heart of San Francisco's spectacular national park is the Inn at The Presidio, a unique boutique hotel converted from historic lodgings. Though only five miles from downtown, it offers a peaceful retreat among forest, with partial views of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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San Francisco has more coffee shops than any other city in the United States, and is partial to local roasters. Find a pack of small-batch beans by hometown heroes such as Sightglass, Blue Bottle and Ritual Coffee Roasters in any Wholefoods, or head to their standalone shops scattered throughout the city (see websites).
The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco. And you can invent your own fortune at Chinatown's Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory (56 Ross Alley; 00 1 415 781 3956), where custom fortunes can be tucked into freshly-made treats.
As the apocryphal Mark Twain saying goes, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." It is a common tourist faux pas to think June, July and August are going to be warm in San Francisco. It is usually the season of fog, strong winds, unexpected chills and tourists shivering in shorts and T-shirts. Highs for these months only reach the mid-60s Fahrenheit (18 degrees Celcius).
September and October are the choice times to visit San Francisco, with highs in the low 70s (Fahrenheit) and mostly bright, sunny days with clear skies. Winter temperatures are only 15 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than summer, although it can be considerably rainier between November and March, and fog blankets the city skyline on many mornings.
You can turn right at a red traffic light (provided you come to a complete stop first, and there is no oncoming traffic and no contradictory sign saying "no turn on red").
In most American cities, you have to park with your car pointing in the direction of the traffic on the correct side of the road; otherwise you will be ticketed and fined.
The San Francisco CityPass offers discounts on a few major attractions and museums and includes a Muni bus and cable-car passport and a bay cruise.
Laura left London for San Francisco seeking lighter vibes and brighter skies and has never looked back. Find her at the bayshore – taking yet another picture of the Golden Gate Bridge – or fretting over a deadline with a Nitro coffee in a third-wave café.
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The Social Worker (Navigator) may be assigned administrative responsibility for clinical program development and is accountable for clinical program effectiveness and modification of service patterns. Assignments may include clinical settings where they have limited access to onsite supervision such as CBOCs or satellite outpatient clinics, and collaborates with the other members of the treatment team in the provision of comprehensive health care services to Veterans, etc. Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. Education: Have a master's degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Graduates of schools of social work that are in candidacy status do not meet this requirement until the School of Social Work is fully accredited. 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Grade Determinations: Senior Social Worker GS-0185-12:Experience: The candidate must have at least two years of experience post advanced practice clinical licensure and should be in a specialized area of social work practice of which, one year must be equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Senior social workers have experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment. Senior social workers are experts in their specialized area of practice. Senior social workers may have certification or other post-masters training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university that includes a defined curriculum/course of study and internship or equivalent supervised professional experience in a specialty. In addition to the experience above, candidates must demonstrate all of the following KSAs:(a) Skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations. 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Many people feel trapped on the office treadmill because they think they don't have what it takes to grab a virtual job. But here's the thing: you don't have to be a slick graphic designer or a whizz-kid programmer to work online. There are countless 'work from anywhere' jobs that require basic skills, skills that you probably already possess.
So, whether you want to supplement your income or are looking for a way into freelance life, there are plenty of opportunities to suit your skillset and that you can fit around your 9-5.
Here are the top 10 remote part-time jobs that require basic skills that you could be doing from anywhere, at any time, and from right now!
This covers a few different part-time remote jobs, including blogging, technical writer, content editing, copywriting and writing posts for social media. If you have a way with words, can avoid writer's block, have good spelling and grammar, and can pay attention to detail then content creation could be a lucrative side job from home. Plus, content is needed for every field and topic under the sun, meaning there are plenty of part-time remote jobs in content no matter your interests or expertise.
Virtual assistant roles can range from a few hours a week to full-time hours. Busy entrepreneurs and business folk need help with a wide variety of tasks. Virtual Assistants help with everything from answering emails, scheduling meetings and arranging daily tasks to typing up meeting notes. This is a hugely varied role, sometimes made up of lots of small tasks, so being able to prioritise tasks is key. But the good things is, this kind of role can be done on the go, meaning you can work from anywhere at any time.
One of the most popular part-time remote jobs is online teaching. You don't nessesarily need to be a qualified teacher, there are plenty of online language schools who accept tutors without experience, as long as you are a native speaker of the language you are teaching. You can usually choose your own schedule and work as much or as little as you want or as your free-time allows.
Knowledge and experience are a much sought after commodity these days. If you've been in your current position for a while and know your subject inside out, then there are others willing to pay for your expertise. Consultancy can be on a part-time, project basis and makes for the perfect remote part-time job. It's also a great way to test the waters and gain contacts if you are considering making the move to full-time freelancing in the future.
Remote customer service jobs can cover anything from phone calls, Facebook, Live Chat, emails, or more technical support roles. You may find a role focusing on one method of communication or a combination. If you are a good communicator and an effective problem solver then this could be a nice little side job from home.
If you like to talk but also have great listening skills, then telemarketing could be the perfect virtual job for you. Many of the opportunities for remote telemarketing jobs will include 'cold calling' so being confident on the phone is a must.
Online data entry is a growing work-from-home field. You may be asked to update Google Docs, Excel spreadsheets, or transfer old data into a new format. If you have ever worked in an office, or even taken a basic computer literacy class in high school, then you can do this! It's the perfect part-time remote job that you can start immediately.
Yes, you read that correctly… you can earn money by playing games! The fancier title for a Games Tester is a Quality Assurance Tester, and it's not just about playing computer games. A QA Tester will play new games and fulfil certain in-game tasks, then document and report any code errors, glitches or discrepancies. This is probably the best part-time remote job a gamer could ever hope for!
If you are organised with a friendly, persuasive personality or already have sales experience, then a role as a virtual sales assistant could be a perfect fit. This can be a pretty varied role, you could be tasked with research into target markets, collecting info, reaching out to potential customers, or even organising customer data on CRM software.
Podcasts and video content for businesses are on the rise and these need to be transcribed into high-quality text. Some transcribing gigs require you to just listen and type it, others will require a little more work to turn the audio into a blog post or professional document. As long as you can pay attention and type with speed and accuracy, then transcribing can be an excellent side job from home.
The truth is, whatever your current role is, chances are you can find it online! But if you want to try something completely different, then you can. There are loads of part time remote jobs that you can start now without spending the time or money to re-train.
The best place to look for remote part-time jobs is of course online! There are so many job sites which cater solely for virtual jobs. One of the best platforms we've come across is FreeeUp. They help connect businesses and entrepreneurs with freelancers, but unlike other remote job sites, they take great care to ensure that their freelancers are treated fairly. It's free to join so sign up today and take the first step to your new part-time remote job!


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Blodgett Wedding Barn
Project for daughter's wedding leads to event venue
Lisa Mackinder
Cindy and Terry Blodgett sit on an antique sofa in the century-old barn they transformed into a special events venue.
© 2019 Encore Publications/Brian Powers
When Terry Blodgett has an idea, he goes all out.
In 2016, when Blodgett suggested to his wife, Cindy, that they renovate the 1830s-era barn on their property in Schoolcraft for their daughter Bethany's wedding, Cindy didn't realize it would be more than patching a few boards and pouring a concrete floor. Much more.
"If I had known, really, how big of a project it was, I would have nixed it," she says.
But Bethany, as well as some other couples and families, are happy the project didn't get the ax. The Blodgetts transformed the barn — built during Andrew Jackson's presidency, complete with dirt floors, milking stalls and haylofts — into a special event venue rivaling those featured on channels like HGTV or in magazines such as Country Living.
The guests at Bethany's wedding raved about the barn. Members of the groom's family told the Blodgetts about a barn in Berrien Springs that was rented for weddings and receptions and wondered how often the Blodgetts rented out their barn.
"We said, 'We just did it for our daughter,'" says 60-year-old Terry. "They said, 'This is better than that other barn. You ought to do it!'"
That's all it took for Terry — who, with Cindy, co-owns Terry Blodgett Builders Inc. in Schoolcraft and Servpro of North Elkhart County, Indiana, a franchise that offers fire and water cleanup and restoration — to get started. In 2017, he built an addition to the barn that houses a 400-square-foot bar space, a 300-square-foot buffet space, a kitchen and bathrooms. Above that, Terry built a bridal suite, groom's quarters and a family room, all of which have heat and central air conditioning.
The original barn has a 2,750-square-foot reception area with seating that accommodates 200 people. Immense barn doors open to overlook the 200-acre farm's apple orchard, replete with a gazebo that is used as a site for outdoor ceremonies.
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In May 2018, the Blodgett Wedding Barn, located at 12903 S. 14th St., opened for business.
"I had people wanting to book 2020," Cindy says. But the Blodgetts didn't want to book that far ahead yet. She told them, "I need to at least get through a season and see how it's working." Their first year worked well, with 15 weddings held at the barn.
It's easy to understand people's enthusiasm. The upstairs bridal suite is filled with comfy chairs, abundant lighting and a lengthy mirror for doing hair and makeup. The adjacent room is a family gathering room, where family members and friends can visit with each other on cozy leather sofas before the wedding.
"Everybody really comments on this (the family gathering room)," Cindy says. "I don't think there's another venue that has this type of a space for extra people."
The Blodgetts also paid attention to the décor. Cindy shopped at antique stores, estate sales and thrift markets for exactly the right pieces, and her effort paid off. People often comment on these features, she says, like the heavy-duty, well-constructed farmhouse tables used for wedding receptions. Even the chairs catch guests' eyes.
"Nobody has the spindle-back chairs that look really nice," Cindy says.
Being a family-owned business has proved to be advantageous, since there are plenty of family members to assist with the work. The Blodgetts have 10 children, ranging in age from 12 to 42, not to mention 10 grandchildren and an 11th on the way and the nearly dozen foster children the family had over a 10-year period.
At two events in a row at the Blodgett Wedding Barn someone forgot to bring a cake cutter, Cindy says, but the family came to the rescue with the utensil. Another wedding lacked a table skirt. Again, someone in the extensive Blodgett clan had one.
"You don't want your day ruined because 'Oh no! We ran out of forks!'" Cindy says, chuckling.
When the Blodgetts purchased their farm 20 years ago, wind blew through the farmhouse windows so forcefully the curtains waved, and cracks splintered the plaster walls and wood floors. The home's refrigerator sat on the dilapidated porch, and orange shag carpet covered the house's floors. When Terry first found the property, Cindy told him emphatically, "No way!" But Terry always went all-in on projects, she says, so she knew he would "make it right." At the time, they didn't foresee the Blodgett Wedding Barn in their future.
"This is what we decided to do for our (future) retirement," Terry explains, then jokes that when retirement does happen, he can stay home and mow the grass.
"We'll see how long he is content staying home and mowing the grass," Cindy chimes in. "There will be some other new project that he will start."
Years ago, when Terry wanted to make maple syrup, he tapped 200 trees. Then the Blodgetts wanted an apple orchard. Cindy was thinking maybe 20 trees; Terry came home with 750 saplings. Same thing with strawberries: 750 plants.
"He can't do anything small," she says, grinning. Terry smiles back. And he already has a new project to start: a lavender garden for wedding ceremonies.
"I'm assuming it's going to be 750 plants," Cindy jokes.
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"If I had known, really, how big of a project it was, I would have nixed it."
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Transition Towns Kapiti invites you to an informative Documentary Film Evening.
Why banks have so much money and everybody else has so much debt?
A 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States.
With Guest Speaker Gary Williams, Permaculture Educator, who will speak about a Kapiti voucher scheme!
Transition Towns Kapiti is a group of citizens concerned with preparing our community to have a more sustainable future by transitioning us from a fossil fuel dependence to a more sustainable way of life.


After deciding to have our wedding in a barn which had been converted into an event space my thoughts turned to lighting. With the rustic nature of the barn and the impressively high ceilings, one type of lighting sprang to mind instantly — Edison-style bulbs.
I've long been a fan of cloth covered wire, so I decided to make each bulb a separate hanging fixture with twisted cloth covered wire, an outlet and a bulb socket. This made the setup completely modular, allowing us to adjust for electrical loads and support almost any arrangement of bulbs. Each fixture would be plugged into a multi-outlet extension cord and secured with a small electrical tie. Each multi-outlet extension cord was plugged in through a lamp dimmer, which was also affixed with an electrical tie to avoid disconnections.
The parts I sourced are below, feel free to comment with better prices. These sockets are three-stage but the bulbs are not, bulbs could be swapped for three-stage bulbs or the sockets for single stage, but it all works regardless. Three-stage bulbs may eliminate the need for the dimmers, but having the dimmers made adjustments quite easy.
To wire the hanging fixtures I first slipped one piece of heat shrink tubing (without heating yet) over the cloth ends encompassing both leads. I then worked the cloth back, stripped the insulation inside and then attached the leads to the socket and plug. Once the leads were secured I shimmied the heat shrink as close to the connections as it would go and blasted it with the heat gun (or, oh my, harassed it with the soldering iron).
Before you go wild with these, do some math to see how many fixtures you should be plugging into each extension cord, and how much wattage your dimmer can support — watch dimmers closely at first, they may heat up, but make sure they're not melting!
If you're interested in other Edison-style lighting ideas and/or wondering what I did with all these lights afterwards check out DIY steampunk-style iron pipe Edison fixture and DIY reclaimed lumber hanging Edison bulb chandelier.
Update: Close to a year following our wedding we sent these lights, along with a simple handcrafted fixture, to family and friends as a token of our appreciation and as a keepsake from our wedding. Details about the Edison light thank you packages can be found here.


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Q: Expanding  causes content to wrap to next line My problem is that content inside a TD will wrap to next line instead of expanding the parent table. I can't understand what would be the limit at which the table stops expanding.
What I want is to prevent content to jump onto next row.
The problem is described here https://jsfiddle.net/9o1cvbwk/3/:

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*Press 'Add' several times.

*the table keeps expanding up the point it reaches the width of the screen (OK)

*Pressing 'Add' again will cause the 'V' link to jump to next row, right under the input button ( NOK )

*Pressing 'Add' again will cause the table to expand beyond the limit of the screen ( NOK - correct to expand but without the 'v' link sliding to the next row )

Really looking forward to opinions.

A: To prevent "V" link to jump to next row, simply add white-space: nowrap to td.
white-space defines what to do, when browser meets some whitespace (space, tab, etc). If we set it to nowrap, browser will not wrap our content if there will be not enought space.
When the table expand beyond boundaries, the "V" is collapsing to next row, because of no space.
in your css add:
td {
  white-space: nowrap;
}

JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/66c93hgv/

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The Empire of Trauma
Didier Fassin
Paperback ISBN: 9780691137537 $35.00/£30.00
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood
Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman
Rachel Gomme
6 x 9.25 in.
Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims — yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. The Empire of Trauma tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category.
Basing their analysis on a wide-ranging ethnography, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman examine the politics of reparation, testimony, and proof made possible by the recognition of trauma. They study the application of psychiatric victimology to victims of the 1995 terrorist bombings in Paris and the 2001 industrial disaster in Toulouse; the involvement of humanitarian psychiatry with both Palestinians and Israelis during the second Intifada; and the application of the psychotraumatology of exile to asylum seekers victimized by persecution and torture.
Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, The Empire of Trauma provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.
Winner of the 2010 William A. Douglass Prize for Best Book in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe/American Anthropological Association
Didier Fassin, one of France's leading social anthropologists and a physician in internal medicine, is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Richard Rechtman, a psychiatrist and anthropologist, is medical director of the Institut Marcel Rivière in France. Both are members of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Social Issues (IRIS).
"A model contribution to this collective effort at understanding and mitigating the world's misery. . . . [This] calm and mighty book is no less than a staccato history of military and civilian suffering since 1914. . . . Splendid."—Fred Inglis, Times Higher Education
"A must read for those interested in trauma, this book looks at the ubiquity of trauma and the development of a new vocabulary and discourse of traumatic events."—A.N. Douglas, Choice
"[A]s Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman elegantly describe in their new book, . . . what has happened is nothing less than a fundamental change in what it means to be 'traumatised'. . . . [M]ental health professionals never seem far away from either challenge or crisis, which is why the work is so demanding but also stimulating and never dull. Much the same is true of Empire of Trauma."—Simon Wessely, British Medical Journal
"A model of social inquiry, The Empire of Trauma is a major contribution not only to our understanding of trauma and the nature of victimhood but to our purchase on the times in which we live."—Joseph E. Davis, Canadian Journal of Sociology
"This is an unusual book for the psychiatric bookshelf, because the authors seek to stand free of the scientific facts altogether and to ask simply what impact the emergence of the trauma narrative has had upon the world. This, they argue, is the anthropological stance: to ask how ideas emerge in a society and come to be seen as true, and what follows from that truth, without asking whether those ideas are in fact true. Because of this stance, the book will be read as provocative; but it should be read, because the authors have something to say."—Tanya M. Luhrmann, American Journal of Psychiatry
"The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood makes a signal contribution to the genre of 'the history of the present'. . . . The detail and finesse with which theory and data are woven together for each case makes this book compelling. . . . [I]ndeed, a splendid achievement."—Veena Das, American Journal of Sociology
"[T]his book presents a well-reasoned discourse on the concepts of trauma, trauma-related disorders, treatment and their relationships to social, political and economic considerations. It will appeal to scholars in a number of disciplines including anthropology, psychiatry, psychology, history and sociology."—Shameran Slewa-Younan, Metascience
"An enormous achievement. The Empire of Trauma offers not only an understanding of the anthropology of the concept of trauma in general, but also a very interesting discussion of the development of values and value systems in our globalized world. This is one of the best books I have read in a long time on the issue of trauma."—David Becker, Free University Berlin
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Recession & recovery • 15 Apr 2021 Ronald MacDonald
How has coronavirus affected social capital in the UK?
Social capital – a measure of the strength of our communities and society as a whole – has been declining in the UK in recent years. Rebuilding these bonds will be vital to meet the challenges of inequality, climate change and recovery from the crisis.
The strength of a country's network of social relationships – what can be described as its stock of 'social capital' – has a significant influence on a broad range of socio-economic indicators, including measures of health, inequality, productivity and economic growth.
Data for the UK as a whole and for Scotland indicate that, going into the crisis, social capital was declining. It is unclear whether or not the pandemic will exacerbate this trend. But given widespread evidence of the positive effects of social capital and the dramatic effects that Covid-19 has had on so many parts of our lives, it is likely to play an important role in the post-pandemic recovery.
It is therefore worthwhile examining how Covid-19 has affected these vital networks in the UK and what policies might be needed to strengthen or rebuild them.
What is social capital?
Social capital means different things to different people and there is no single widely accepted definition. But there is a commonality of the relevant factors and concepts that underpin the various interpretations.
For example, social capital has been described as 'an instantiated set of informal values or norms shared among members of a group that permits them to cooperate with one another. If members of the group come to expect that others will behave reliably and honestly, then they will come to trust one another' (Fukuyama, 1999).
Similarly, it is argued that social capital 'generally refers to trust, concern for one's associates, a willingness to live by the norms of one's community and to punish those who do not' (Bowles and Gintis, 2002). For others, 'social capital refers to connections among individuals – social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them' (Putnam, 2000).
Trust seems to be the key word that captures the central element of what social capital is all about.
What are the benefits of social capital?
Mutual trust underwrites our interactions, whether they are private, social, economic or political in nature. From an economic perspective, firms can benefit from the cooperative trust embodied in various types of networks, since this can reduce transaction and monitoring costs, and help to facilitate an efficient allocation of resources.
In contrast, society wastes resources when people distrust each other and are dishonest. For example, management may have to introduce complex monitoring and surveillance systems in the workplace to ensure staff to fulfil their work time obligations.
At the macroeconomic level (in other words, looking at the economy as a whole), it has been demonstrated that inter-personal trust is strongly linked to GDP growth (Knack and Keefer, 1997). It has also been shown that 'trust-based cooperative relations' between different organisations have contributed to the competitive advantage of manufacturing enterprises in Germany and Japan, as well as in parts of Italy (Humphry and Schmitz, 1998).
Further, a variety of studies have demonstrated that social capital is positively associated with improved health outcomes along a number of dimensions, as well as reduced inequality and a reduction in crime rates (OECD, 2000; OECD, 2010). When there is trust embedded in our communities, individuals and society as a whole benefit.
What are the recent trends in social capital in the UK and Scotland?
The most recent study of social capital in the UK by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) was published in February 2020 and included data for the year up to the end of Autumn 2019 (ONS, 2020). The ONS measures social capital in terms of personal relationships, social network support, civic engagement, and trust and cooperative norms – using 25 indicators of social capital in total.
Figure 1: Trust (%) in national government in the UK, 2004-2019
Source: Office for National Statistics
A number of indicators show a fall in social capital going into the pandemic. First, there was a dramatic decline in the general public's trust in national government from 2017 to 2019 – from 32% to 21%, as shown in Figure 1.
Second, the proportion of those saying that they feel they 'belong' to their neighbourhood has also fallen since 2014. In terms of individual engagement, which includes interactions with their personal environment and networks, people are less likely to connect with wider interests through organisational membership of clubs, community trusts, religious networks and social service groups, both in the short and longer term.
Finally, and corresponding to the falls in actual community engagement, there has been a sharp rise (53% in 2013 to 68% 2019) in the use of the internet for social networking in the recent past. This is shown in Figure 2 and is discussed further below.
Figure 2: Proportion who used the internet for social networking in the last three months in the UK, 2011-2019
The Scottish government's social capital index is based on four themes: social networks, community cohesion, social participation and community empowerment (Scottish Government, 2020). Under these headings, data from 18 survey questions asked in the Scottish Household Survey are tracked over time and used to create an overall measure of the national change in social capital since 2013.
The latest data were published in February 2020 (but the next publication is not scheduled until October 2021). The Scottish social capital measure was stable at the 100 mark between 2013 and 2017 but fell in the two subsequent years, to 93 points by 2019. The change between 2017 and 2019 has been driven by the decrease in the social capital themes of 'empowerment' (feeling able to influence decisions), 'networks' (neighbourhood help and support) and 'participation' (volunteering).
What has happened to social capital during the pandemic?
The pandemic has dramatically changed the way in which many people work and enjoy their leisure time, with working from home becoming a new norm for many. This shift, when considered alongside the millions on furlough and those that have become unemployed, raises important questions about the impact of the pandemic on the UK's stock of social capital.
The effects can be seen at different levels. Trainees in various sectors are most likely to have found it difficult to build good network relationships, despite access to the internet. Many may have started jobs but never met their colleagues. This is something their employers may need to address after the pandemic. In workplaces where good trust-building networks were not built-up pre-pandemic, enforced working at home may have exacerbated existing inefficiencies.
Given the behavioural changes that have resulted from the pandemic, its effect on trust is likely to have had wider implications and affected how people interact outside the workplace. For example, the risk of catching Covid-19 from other people is likely to have changed levels of trust. This may limit people's ability to sustain the kind of network relationships that are essential to building and maintaining social capital.
As noted above, the UK-wide survey of social capital indicates a dramatic fall in trust in national government going into the pandemic, and it is unclear at this stage whether or not this trend will continue. The UK government's handling of the first phase of the pandemic perhaps suggests that the loss of trust will continue, although the impressive speed of the rollout of the vaccine in the second phase may counter this. The overall effect on government trust is likely to be dependent on how gradual relaxation of the current lockdown pans out.
With the significant increase in the use of the internet and social media platforms during the pandemic, it could be argued that virtual networks have substituted for actual networks. But there is growing evidence that it is the ability of the internet to create in-person meetings and foster 'real-world' relationships that are the most important means through which it can bring about change (Putnam and Skocpol, 2018).
Another aspect of working from home is that commuting times have fallen significantly. This has allowed people to interact more at their local community level, thereby potentially building social capital in a different direction.
One of the key ways this has been demonstrated during the pandemic is the large number of local voluntary community groups that have been formed to assist the most vulnerable with deliveries of food and other essential supplies. It is estimated that ten million adults in the UK have volunteered for community activities or organisations for, on average, three hours per week. This would be equivalent to approximately £400 million worth of labour at the median UK wage.
What are the potential policy responses to changes in social capital?
Whatever the actual outcome for social capital that results from the pandemic, we know that there will be inferior outcomes for health, inequalities and economic growth. This means that there is a strong case for rebuilding social capital. What policy changes and other factors could bring about positive change?
Comparisons have been made between the end of the so-called 'Gilded Age' in the United States (1870-1900) and the current period in terms of persistent inequality, polarisation and cultural self-absorption (Putnam, 2020). In reaction to the large inequalities in the Gilded Age, a diverse group of progressive reformists became prominent in civil society. These reformers created a huge range of groups, such as the Rotary Club and other societies with a community-based focus on socialising, service and mutual aid. This movement created a vast store of social capital, which helped to foster widespread support for legislation to address such issues as labour reform, the monopoly power of corporations and inequality.
In order to achieve a comparable reform today, policy-makers may need to follow the lead of the progressive reformers of the Gilded Age and engage in an 'immense collaboration'. Perhaps post-pandemic, other pressing concerns such as climate change or global inequality will be the galvanising focus that creates such collaboration, with the internet and social media playing a supporting role.
Another way in which the UK's stock of social capital could be improved is in terms of reforming the objectives of companies. The idea that the modern-day corporation is only about maximising shareholder value has created huge inequalities, leading many to call for a move away from the shareholder-based model to a system where firms have responsibilities to the societies they operate within.
Such a change could be achieved by a change in corporate law that would alter the governance of modern companies and refocus their objectives to include taking account of the undesirable side-effects of maximising shareholder value. Specifically, this could be done by ensuring that the costs of maintaining social, human and natural capital are taken into account when determining profits.
It is widely accepted that the UK is over-centralised. As a result, in many communities, the level of perceived influence over local decision-making has been consistently low in recent years. Decentralisation of decision-making could therefore give people in local communities a greater incentive to get involved in local governance, building stronger local-level social networks in doing so.
Further, policies that support the greater use of information and communications technology could be used to help connect people with their local neighbourhoods, as well as more distant communities. Electronic networks can also serve to communicate information and ease market transactions, especially where matching information is lacking (OECD, 2000). There are undoubtedly inequalities in the ability to access technology, for example high-speed broadband, and policy should therefore recognise the special need to target disadvantaged groups.
Other initiatives could include fiscal support, in the form of tax relief, for families that encourages or facilitates more parental involvement in the lives of children. These policies could work alongside government support for voluntary initiatives on the 'demand-side', with measures that encourage funding of organisations that make effective use of volunteers. There could also be 'supply-side' measures that encourage employers to offer time off for some sorts of community activity (OECD, 2000).
Finally, government could empower citizens by supporting co-production models in communities. This could help ensure that health and social care, for example, are embedded in local communities (Scottish Co-production Network). Such initiatives would enable elderly and other groups to stay closer to their families, sustaining social ties and reaping positive health benefits. Research has shown that such benefits are closely linked to social capital – a finding that has particular resonance in light of the pandemic, given the severity of Covid-19 outbreaks in care homes.
In the wake of the financial crisis, the pandemic has again highlighted the overemphasis of financial capital in our society at the expense of other forms of capital, such as natural capital and social capital. Given the considerable evidence that social capital has a pervasive effect on a wide variety of socio-economic indicators – such as health, wellbeing and productivity – if we are to rebuild a post-pandemic society that addresses the key issues of inequality and climate change, and create a sustainable and resilient recovery, there has to be a greater emphasis on rebuilding and strengthening social capital.
OECD report on social capital, human capital and health: This report builds on findings from a workshop of the Social Capital Global Network, organised in Paris in October 2018.
OECD report on the accuracy of measuring institutional trust: This report presents data from a wide range of different household surveys containing measures of trust and combines this with information on other social and economic outcomes.
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Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge
Imran Rasul, UCL
Mirco Tonin, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
Ronald MacDonald, University of Glasgow
Ben Fine, SOAS
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From Miami Beach to Haiti: Gary Monroe photos on display in DeLand
Austin Fuller
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Gary Monroe pushed the button to take a photo of three elderly people walking on a South Beach sidewalk just as a bicyclist glided into the frame.
It might not have been the shot he was looking for at first, but the intruding bicyclist changed Monroe's life in a snap of a camera.
Monroe would realize the bicyclist was likely a Haitian immigrant and that 1981 photograph would lead to many more he would take of the Haitian people. His work took him to the streets of Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood, inside Miami's Krome Detention Center to photograph detained refugees and to the Caribbean nation of Haiti 25 times.
Photographs from around the world by the now 67-year-old retired Daytona State College professor are on display at the downtown location of the Museum of Art - DeLand through June 2. In addition to his 46 black and white photographs, the exhibit will feature 22 cultural objects and 10 paintings by others from Monroe's collection.
"It's an art form in itself," museum CEO George Bolge said of Monroe's work.
But before Monroe would take photos in Haiti and elsewhere around the world, he was taking photos of Jewish retirees in South Beach — including those three people walking on the sidewalk. His and Andy Sweet's work documenting those retirees is the focus of the 2018 documentary "The Last Resort." The film will be screened Wednesday at DeLand's Athens Theatre.
"I largely agreed to be in it to serve my dear friend and collaborator on that project Andy Sweet's legacy," Monroe said. "He's a story and I'm not. He was murdered at age 28, brutally, and there were other factors about his life: from his closeted sexuality to his family having not cared for his archive, which was ultimately lost and later resurrected."
Legacy was also important to Monroe when he decided to document the Jewish retirees of South Beach from 1977 to 1986.
"There was a very precious legacy in South Beach that was being overlooked ... these Old World Jews," Monroe said. "I'm Jewish but I'm an Americanized Jew. My generation is quite different. Those people were the cutoff from the Old World."
Then the arrival of Haitian immigrants to South Florida gave him a chance to look at a different migration.
"I was just intrigued by the Haitians and their manner and their presence and at that point I decided to look at this new wave of immigration," Monroe said. "They just handled themselves with so much grace and dignity."
As for how he got into photography in the first place, Monroe recalls being a directionless University of South Florida student when he went into a dorm room where glossies were tacked on the wall.
"Something right there about the process got to me and I bought a Nikon and went to Europe for the summer and photographed and came back," he said. "When I got back to USF, I became an art major and nothing has changed since."
He would go on to the University of Colorado Boulder for graduate school and eventually moved to Volusia County to teach at Daytona State College. He sees immediacy as what links his photographs, whether shot in India or Haiti.
"I trust my intuitions. Everything's unmediated, very immediate. I edit later," he said. "I'm not telling stories. I'm not reporting the news. I'm just a wandering soul trying to make sense of the world visually."
WHAT: "The Last Resort" documentary film featuring photographer Gary Monroe
WHEN: 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 8
WHERE: Gallery reception (5:30-6:30 p.m.) at Museum of Art - DeLand, 100 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. "The Last Resort" screening and Q&A with Gary Monroe (7-8:30 p.m.) at Athens Theatre, 124 N. Florida Ave., DeLand
TICKETS: $10 non-members; $5 museum members and Athens Theatre season ticket holders
INFORMATION: 386-734-4371


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Whistler riders tackle Arduum Challenge
The B.C. Cup downhill mountain bike series doesn't have any easy races, but last weekend's annual Arduum Challenge in Mission stands on its own with a long, steep, rooty and rough course through an old-growth forest. Despite some improvements to the course the top part remains a white-knuckle experience where a controlled skid is sometimes your only option to make the next corner.
The top Whistler rider in the Elite category was Harry Armstrong, who placed 10 th in 4:08.35. Reuben Miller was three spots back in 4:10.77, J.S. Therrien four spots back in 4:12.57, James McSkimming 18 th after a crash, Scott Halvorson 21 st and Berend Boer 26 th . Whistler's Bethany Parsons won the women's Elite race in 5:51.32, followed by Squamish's Miranda Miller in 6:25.12.
In the 30-plus Citizen Men, Sean Nicol of Pemberton was fifth in 5:05.98.
In Junior Men 17 to 18, Craig Campbell of Squamish was second in 4:00.01. Connor McDougall was 12th in 4:29.20, Jesse Ballhausen 14 th in 4:32.23, Kyle Quesnel 21 st and Leo Brandvold 29 th .
In Master 30-plus women Meghan Illingworth was second in 6:02.78 and Whistler's Kari Mancer was third in 6:09.08.
In Master 30 to 39 Men, Cory Leclerc of Squamish was third in 4:35.96 and Clark Lewis was seventh in 4:43.23.
In Senior Women 19 to 29 Pemberton's Jaime Hill was second in 5:58.31.
In Under 17 Men, Whistler's Max Horner was fourth in 4:00.12, Kip Shortreed of Squamish was eighth in 4:31.69, Jordan Gosteli 10 th in 4:33.56, Owen Scully 15 th in 5:00.16 and Jonny Dempsey 22 nd in 6:01.88.