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Location Ontario, Canada
Commodities Primary Gold
Commodities Secondary Silver, Copper, Zinc
Total Current Year Production Period Ended December 31, 2021
Gold; ounces 153,836
Silver; ounces 0
Copper; pounds 0
Zinc; pounds 0
Total Known Current and Historical Production 1927 – 2021
Gold, ounces 29,763,000
Silver; ounces 5,022,773
Copper; pounds 58,969,000
Zinc; pounds 362,330,000
Iron Ore; tonnes 22,850,000
Total Known Compliant Reserves Proven & Probable
Gold, ounces 4,577,000
Total Known Compliant Exclusive Resources Measured & Indicated
Silver; ounces 15,925,000
Total Known Endowment 1927 – 2021
Total Known Endowment includes current and historical production and compliant reserves and resources
Data compiled from DigiGeoData database,Ontario Mineral Deposit Inventory, technical reports and corporate websites.
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Red Lake Mining Camp Exploration History
Red Lake was originally the site of a Hudson's Bay Co fur-trading post (1790-1822). From the mid -1870s to the early 1920s, the quest for furs, then for minerals, brought people to the area.
Survey work in the area was first carried out by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1883. Gold was originally reported in the Red Lake area in 1897 by R.J. Gilbert who eventually staked claims.
In 1924, two years after a discovery of gold by Gus McManus, the Ontario Department of Mines published a geological report on this district. The remoteness of the region prevented serious exploration activity until 1925 when claims were registered by Ray and Lorne Howey and George McNeely. These claims eventually became part of the Howey Mine. This was the catalyst of a major gold rush to the area.
More than 3,000 people converged on Red Lake at the height of the Gold Rush of 1926. They traveled by dog team or by foot on the frozen rivers and lakes, over the 180-mile gold rush trail. In spring, they used canoes or small boats, and before long, airplanes. Eventually the bush plane came to dominate travel. In 1936, Howey Bay, in the heart of Red Lake, was the busiest airport in the world, as aircraft of all shapes and sizes transported freight and passengers in and out of the area at 15-minute intervals.
The first recorded production from the Red Lake area came from the Howey Mine. The mine produced 452,000 ounces of gold until the mine was closed in 1957.
During the1930s and 1940s production peaked with 12 producing mines.
There were other mines that had smaller and limited production during that time.
Gold mining declined during the next 2 decades until 3 new mines opened during the 1960's. They were the H.G. Young, Annco and Willmar producing an aggregate of 161,000 ounces of gold until the last one closed in the 1970s.
Two of the most prolific mines which started producing in the 1940s, the Campbell and Red Lake, remain in production today.
The Campbell mine since the beginning of operations in 1946 until the end of 2015, produced and processed 22.2 Mt grading 17.71 g/t gold, resulting in 12,643,919 gold ounces.
The Dickenson mine now know as the Red Lake mine, from the beginning of operations in 1948 until the end of 2015, produced and processed 12.3 Mt grading 25.81 g/t gold, resulting in 10,209,702 gold ounces. For 1997, 1998 and 1999, there was no production due to strike by unionized employees.
In 2018, gold production in Red Lake continues from the integrated operations of Goldcorp Inc.'s Red Lake Gold Mines, comprising the Campbell, Red Lake, Cochenour and Balmer complexes. In May 2006, Goldcorp combined the reporting of their production and reserves/resources of their mines and deposits into the Red Lake Complex.
Birch-Uchi Mining Camp Exploration History
The Birch Lake – Uchi Lake greenstone belt was actively prospected after the discovery of gold at Red Lake in 1925.
Several small gold mines were developed in the area during the 1930s.
These included the Argosy, Bobjo, Hudson Pactricia, Jackson Manion and the Kostnyuk Brothers.
Base metal exploration in the belt took place from the 1950s through the early 1960s, but began in earnest in the late 1960s following the discovery in 1968 of the South Bay copper-zinc-silver volcanic-hosted massive sulphide ("VMS") deposit by Selco Mining Corp. ("Selco")
The discovery was found during a regional airborne electromagnetic ("AEM") survey follow-up program.
The Selco discovery developed into the South Bay Mine which produced copper, zinc and silver between1971 and 1981.
Exploration in the Birch Lake – Uchi Lake belt was carried out actively until 2008, when the area became relatively idle for several years.
Over the past few years, several companies have returned to the Birch Lake – Uchi Lake area.
Geology of the Red Lake Area
The Red Lake greenstone belt is in the western portion of the Uchi Subprovince of the Canadian Shield. The mineralization within the area is typical of Archean greenstone belt-hosted gold deposits. The Red Lake Greenstone Belt is approximately 50 km east-west by 75 km north-south,
Gold deposits in the district have been classified into three main categories: mafic volcanic-hosted, felsic intrusive-hosted and strata bound.
The Red Lake Greenstone Belt is an accumulation of Archean-age metavolcanics, meta-sedimentary and
intrusive rocks that record a volcanic history that spans 300 Ma, and is represented by seven volcano-sedimentary assemblages (Figure 3, Sanborn-Barrie et al., 2001)
The Balmer assemblage consists of tholeiitic and komatiitic flows and ultramafic intrusive rocks
intercalated with 2.98 – 2.96 billion year old (Ga) felsic volcanic, clastic, and chemical sedimentary rocks. It is host to the largest of the Red Lake District current and past-producing gold mines. Six successive, younger stratigraphic assemblages have been documented: (Walker, 2009)
The Ball assemblage (2.94 – 2.92 Ga) consisting of crustally contaminated komatiite, tholeiitic basalt, calcalkaline felsic volcanic rocks, and stromatolitic carbonate.
The Slate Bay assemblage (less than 2.91 Ga.), composed of quartz-rich wacke and conglomerate.
The Bruce Channel assemblage (2.89 Ga.), composed of intermediate pyroclastic volcanic and sedimentary rocks.
The Trout Bay assemblage (2.85 Ga, Sanborn-Barrie et al., 2001) consisting of basalt overlain by clastic rocks, intermediate tuff and chert-magnetite iron-formation.
The Huston assemblage (<2.89 Ga. and >2.74 Ga.) consisting of a regionally extensive unit of polymictic conglomerate, locally associated with wacke and argillite, that marks an angular unconformity between Mesoarchean and Neoarchean strata.
The uppermost stratigraphic package, the Confederation assemblage (2.75 – 2.73 Ga.), consisting of calk alkaline and tholeiitic felsic, intermediate, and mafic volcanic rocks, which locally exhibit volcanogenic massive-sulphide-style alteration and mineralization.
Thomas, R.; 2009. Exploration activities of Rubicon Minerals Corporation on the Phoenix Gold Project, Red Lake Ontario; January 9 2009, p 25
Sanborn-Barrie, M., Skulski, T., and Parker, J., 2001. Three hundred million years of tectonic history recorded by the Red Lake greenstone belt, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 2001-C19, 30 p.
Geology of the Birch-Uchi Area
The Birch‐Uchi Greenstone Belt is in the north‐central part of the Uchi Subprovince of the
Canadian Shield which consists of north trending volcanic and sedimentary rocks.
The greenstone belt is approximately 32 kilometres wide by 84 kilometres long enclosed in an envelope of granitic rocks.
The most favourable sites for potential gold mineralization are shear zones associated with major faults and deformation zones, particularly where alteration veining and disseminated sulfides are present, as well as areas within and marginal to the fine-grained high-level felsic intrusions.
These deposits are generally steeply dipping high grade gold deposits often located on flexures along lateral fault splays off principal crustal faults or breaks.
Both gold and base metals have been historically produced.
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Every success starts with a decision to try
"To see the people I train being helpful in society, then I know I did a good job." That's what Nizeyimana Jean, a teacher at the Teacher Training College in Bicumbi, told us when we asked him what makes him most satisfied about his job. Nizeyimana went on to explain that he likes to know that the work that he does helps his students to have a happy and fulfilling life.
Nizenyimana Jean explaining how they use items from everyday life as a resource in the classroom. Credit: Christie Gregg
The teacher training college (TTC) in Bicumbi is in the Rwamagana region in Rwanda, a mountainous area approximately two hours' drive from the capital, Kigali. The surrounding countryside is so lush and green at the moment because the rainy season has just started.
We soon left the tarmac roads of the capital to head up the clay dirt roads to make our way to the TTC. We passed many small villages with small brick shops on either side of the road, and lots of bicycles transporting mini bananas from rural plantations.
On arriving at the residential TTC we met Celestin Bakinga, Principal of TTC Bicumbi, and Tutor Nizeyimana, who introduced us to the work that he does to educate the next generation of 564 primary school teachers in training. He showed us how the student teachers gather equipment from their daily lives to use as teaching resources in schools.
This includes everything from plastic bottles, to educate on liquid volumes, to rice sacks, for depicting the letters of the alphabet or anatomical images, and banana fibre baskets for local cultural education awareness. The college needs to teachthe students how to be self-sufficient so that they can sustain their teaching practices without needing extra funding.
We also spoke to some of the student teachers, a group aged between 16 and 25 years, about what their hopes were for their futures and what their favourite subjects were. The answers were humbling and inspirational:
"I hope that the knowledge, skills and values I get from here will help me to share with others in the next generation."
"I love to study history; you must know where you come from to know where you are going to."
The work that we saw at the TTC this afternoon helped to consolidate what we saw at the Child Friendly School of Kanyinya, which we visited in the morning. The school supports 1,712 students, aged from four to 18, through their education. We got to observe two pre-primary classes whose adorable members are aged five to six (they start primary 1 at six here!) The focus was on learning through play (singing, counting and exercise) and we saw many rice sack drawings and homemade props!
We then got to see their Reading Room. Inside this special room some of the reading and learning materials were funded by our very own Soft Toys for Education campaign.
The children spend 40 minutes practising sounding out their letters and reading stories, to support their development in reading. Ezra, one of 34 UNICEF-supported school-based mentors, also explained how the school is working to ensure quality in teaching standards in Rwandan education, as this remains one of their biggest challenges. We then donated some inflatable world globes and some tennis balls to promote play with the children!
Contrary to some of our expectations, and despite all Rwanda's history and challenges, today has been an inspirational and uplifting day. We are feeling so proud to work for IKEA, and felt that our values were really alive in the schools. They make more from less, their simplicity is a virtue and they are definitely "on the way"!
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LeBron James Is The NBA's Leading Shoe Salesman
Kurt Badenhausen Forbes Staff
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LeBron James is leading the Heat and Nike to new heights. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)
LeBron James is in the hunt for a second straight NBA championship after leading the Miami Heat to an NBA-best 66 wins during the regular season. It has been a wildly successful 12-month run for King James, as he established himself as the NBA's biggest star since Michael Jordan. James led the Heat on a 27-game winning streak. He added another NBA MVP trophy (for a total of four), an Olympic gold medal and his first title over the past year. The game's most dominant player is also crushing the competition in stores, outselling his nearest rival's signature sneakers 6-to-1.
Nike generated $300 million in U.S. retail sales in 2012 for James' signature shoes, according to research firm SportsOneSource. Nike's haul represents a 50% increase from sales of James' kicks in 2011. "The first thing is the aesthetics. The shoes look great and his star stature continues to rise," says SportsOneSource analyst Matt Powell. "The media attention on him helps him sell more footwear."
The LeBron X caused a stir last summer when the Wall Street Journal reported that the shoes would be priced at more than $300. In reality, the base LeBron X shoe costs $180 and the technology-embedded shoe with Nike+ sensors, which tracks how high players jump and how far they run, is available for $260.
Nike first signed James to a seven-year, $90 million contract in 2003 before James had finished his senior year in high school and was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers. It remains the largest initial player endorsement contract ever handed out to a Nike athlete. His early Nike sneakers got mixed reviews and sales were sluggish for the player dubbed "The Chosen One" on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 2002. But James and Nike's designers eventually found the right fit. "LeBron VI was the first really good looking shoe," says Powell.
Nike is James' biggest marketing partner and helps put him on top of the NBA's top-earners from endorsements. Nike re-signed James in 2010 in a deal that James' business manager Maverick Carter calls "more of a joint venture." Forbes estimates that James earns $20 million annually, including royalties from the Beaverton, Ore footwear giant.
The second best-selling active NBA pitchman is Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. His Kobe 8 signature shoes sold $50 million at U.S. stores last year. Bryant has been part of the Nike family since 2003. The 15-time All-Star was an Adidas athlete for the first six years of his career. Bryant's shoe sales in the U.S. were down in 2012, but he is the NBA's biggest star in China and his Nike sneakers sell briskly in Asia.
Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks ranks third with U.S. retail sales of $40 million for his Jordan Melo M9. Anthony is part of the Jordan Brand roster, which also includes Blake Griffin, Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook.
Today's NBA stars are all still looking up at global icon Michael Jordan. The Nike-owned Jordan Brand has been on fire with $2 billion in U.S. sales in 2012, according to SportsOneSource. Susquehanna Financial analyst Christopher Svezia estimates the brand grew 25-30% globally in 2012. The royalty agreement is worth more than $60 million annually for Jordan, who last played an NBA game in 2003.
Nike released the Air Jordan XX8 in February. It is the 28th shoe in the Jordan franchise. In addition to new Air Jordans, Nike continues to put out retro versions of the franchise with an average selling price of $130 to $150. The Jordan Brand commands a 56% market share in basketball, while the Nike brand has 37%. Adidas has a 5% share and Reebok is at 2% in the U.S.
Adidas inked Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose to a 13-year deal in 2012, which is expected to pay out at least $185 million. Despite missing the entire 2012-13 season, Rose's signature shoe has gained traction with sales of $25 million in 2012. But Rose still lags the top guys at Nike.
Adidas' other top endorsers have really struggled. John Wall signed with Adidas subsidiary, Reebok, in 2010 for $25 million over five years. Reebok had high expectations for Wall, who was a heavily-hyped star after a year at the University of Kentucky, but sales of his signature shoes have disappointed. Retail sales were only $5 million in 2012 and in January Wall departed the Reebok brand for that of its parent, Adidas.
Dwight Howard continues a longtime trend of NBA big men struggling to sell shoes. Adidas moved only $5 million worth of Howard product last year. Powell says the soap opera surrounding his departure from Orlando and first year in Los Angeles hurt him in the marketplace. "Your average 10-year-old can envision being Kobe. He has no way of being Dwight Howard," says Powell.
U.S. Retail Basketball Shoe Sales
LeBron James (Nike): $300 million
Kobe Bryant (Nike): $50 million
Carmelo Anthony (Jordan): $40 million
Kevin Durant (Nike): $35 million
Derrick Rose (Adidas): $25 million
John Wall (Reebok): $5 million
Dwight Howard (Adidas): $5 million
Source: SportsOneSource
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Coachella 2016: Vince Staples captures unsettled mood
Rapper Vince Staples perform onstage during day 2 of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Weekend 1 at the Empire Polo Club on April 16, 2016 in Indio. (Michael Tullberg / Getty Images for Coachella)
By August Brown
In a Sahara tent known for sensory overload and cut-loose fun, the Long Beach rapper Vince Staples delivered a bracing jolt of the reality behind Coachella's traditional escapism.
"See this weight is on my shoulders, pray Jehovah lift me up / And my pain is never over, pills and potions fix me up," he rapped on "Lift Me Up," one of the best songs from his breakthrough LP "Summertime '06."
The kids understood the pills and potions part, but there was a lot of real pain underneath those lyrics that set the tone of the day so far: a sense that something is wrong in the world. And by naming it (or building giant sculptures about it) we can try to fix it.
That sentiment started early Saturday when Run the Jewels played a congenial introduction video from Bernie Sanders. It was the first potential-president cameo at the festival, and RTJ's Killer Mike is one of Sanders' most outspoken advocates. RTJ's set was rowdy and upbeat, with a buddy-comedy verve (El-P apologized for wearing shorts onstage and making the crowd stare at his legs) and guest turns from Nas and a spectacularly bawdy Gangsta Boo.
But as topics like police brutality and failed institutions crept in, RTJ's political radicalism turned from endearing to pointed. The party was in full swing, but there was work to be done.
Elsewhere, the same sense popped up in SZA's moody but vigorous R&B. She's the only woman signed to Top Dawg Entertainment (home to Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q), and her songs move at a narcotic crawl but are filled to overflowing with tough emotion. She closed with "Babylon," one of her best and darkest singles, which she said she wrote as a bit of revenge track against her family and all the boring jobs she had while drifiting through her post-college years. The sound went from jazzy and intimate to bass-bombed and overwhelming. With any luck, she'll finally achieve the same renown as her labelmates soon.
Even Halsey and the Damned, about as diametrically opposed as two acts here can be, tapped into their own veins of dissatisfaction. The Damned's no-future UK punk thrash sounded gritty and immediate; Halsey's electro-pop was much bigger but still rooted in, as she described it, the feelings of a "19-year-girl from New Jersey with no clue." Her hit single "New Americana" is a cumbersome, awkward song, but she's got real vocal talent and a genuine eye on the tides of millennial misgivings.
But Staples captured the unsettled mood best, even as he ribbed the audience for getting too stoned to really hear him out. "Hang N' Bang" and "Smoke and Retribution" (his collaboration with the Aussie downtempo producer Flume) documented a life at the margins of L.A., and the taxing ways we escape it.
Staples has a vicious wit and an even more unsparing sense of indignity, and it's a rare rapper who can make a crowd laugh and dance, and then turn it inside-out against them.
Brown writes for the California News Group, publisher of The San Diego Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.
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Alone: A Winter in the Woodsrecounts a true Canadian adventure on the frontier. On a deeper level, it is a story about courage, self-reliance, love and community, about accepting responsibility for not only doing things right but doing the right thing, so that the common good is served. Author Felicity Sidnell Reid adroitly weaves these two themes together so that venture and virtue become a unified narrative that both enthralls and elevates.
The adventure plays out in the late 18thcentury as Upper Canada is being slowly settled by families cutting land-grant farms from virgin forest. United Empire Loyalist Elias Turner accompanied by his 13-year-old son is on his way from the Kingston area of Ontario to the Belleville area in mid-winter by ox-drawn sled to claim his land. After building a tiny cabin, Elias must leave his son with the oxen at the cabin and return to Adolphustown for the rest of the winter. There, he will care for his wife and remaining children until the spring thaw allows them all to travel to their new home along the shore of Lake Ontario by boat with the rest of their belongings.
This captivating novel, based on fact, tells two complementary stories. The principal adventure is seen through the eyes of the 13-year-old John who, entirely alone in the bush for several months, must care for the farm animals and, in spring, plant a vegetable garden to feed the family when they arrive. The second story is told by 14-year-old Joséphine Fontaine. Joséphine, originally from Montreal, was orphaned when her father disappeared and her mother died in Adolphustown as they made their way west to look for him. Elias and his wife have given her a home in return for her help with the younger Turner children. This happy device allows the author not only to provide a complete picture of these several months while the family is separated, but also to show the reader what it was like to be an adolescent boy and an adolescent girl on the north shore of Lake Ontario in the 1790s.
Felicity Sidnell Reid's skill as a historian, observer of humanity and wordsmith allows her to add depth and nuance to this story in the detail with which she presents the routines of everyday life, the human themes she addresses, and the incisiveness of the language she employs. Here is a writer who is not merely conscious of Canada's early colonial period and the personal and moral challenges that faced her settlers, but one who has succeeded in presenting them in a most insightful and engaging way.
Both principal characters are captivating. For the greater part of the story, John is physically isolated from his family and lives entirely without neighbors save for the occasional passing trader, Ojibway band or circuit rider. Perforce he must learn how to best cope. Josephine, though living with the rest of Turner family in Adolphustown, is within an alien culture and not yet quite adapted to her new environment. John's perspective allows us to see what is going on at the 'sharp' end of settlement where no roads or villages yet exist; Josephine's graphically illustrates what a small colonial settlement was like in those days and the pressures that bore down on a lone and vulnerable young woman.
Both of the main characters live moments of natural beauty that feed spirituality and of violence that threatens their very existence. Both must learn how to handle themselves and their immediate worlds with insight, savvy and skill, if they are to survive misadventure or worse.
The narrative is masterfully built around crucial incidents and individuals who either threaten the security or come to the rescue of each of these two young people who, though only 70 miles apart are separated by dense wilderness caught in the grip of winter. John faces isolation, ferocious wild animals that threaten himself as well as his livestock, unforgiving snowstorms, pneumonia brought on by exposure, and a predatory and violent trader unsympathetic to the United Empire Loyalist cause and intent on taking advantage of a lone boy. Little stands between him and disaster but his own ingenuity, the uplifting ministry of an itinerant preacher of and a passing Ojibwa family. Josephine is still grieving over the disappearance of her father into the interior and the death of her mother. Though she is cared for by the Turner family, she knows not what will become of her when they move west to their land grant. She is paid rough court by a neighboring boy some years her senior in Adolphustown and fears his resentment at her aloofness to his attention. Salvation for Josephine, if there be any, comes in the form of a compassionate and observant adult and her own determination to protect her integrity.
Late eighteenth-century Ontario is a setting that many Canadians are unfamiliar with. The reader will enjoy the sense of daily life as it was lived by so many of the early settlers, with all the challenges that it brought and which we have largely forgotten. A measure of history helps us to arrive at a viable definition of who we are as a sovereign nation. This novel, with its lively and detailed account of how just one single family strove to settle the land grant they were awarded in Upper Canada at the turn of the 19thcentury, serves as a reminder — for those who need reminding — of how Canada came to be. For those who were unaware of the monumental personal struggle involved, it serves as a penetrative revelation.
I very much enjoyed this novel and learned a great deal from it. As a grandfather, I have strongly encouraged younger people to read and likewise enjoy and learn from it.
Alone: A Winter in the Woods offers something very important to the young reader. It presents the physical and moral world in all its challenging reality – an existence that can be negotiated successfully only by developing inner resources and practical skills. The settlement of Canada was undertaken not in any Harry Potter fantasy world in which success is guaranteed by the possession of magic wands and spells. Survival then – as today – depends on the conscious development of virtue, faith, competence and responsibility. By contrast, the fantasy worlds of J.K. Rowling eschew character, competence and virtue in favour of witchcraft and wizardry and so teach us nothing about how to live well.
Children, as they grow into adults, must learn that good things don't happen simply because they utter magic words. Good is more likely to accrue if we strive to take responsibility, build our experience, redouble our efforts and increase our competence and our virtue. Felicity Sidnell Reid's Alone: A Winter in the Woods redresses the balance away from mere magic selfishness towards the moral life of the family and the larger community where the 'we' is of greater importance than the 'I'.
Ronald Mackay
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Jacquie Biggar says:
Fantastic review! Canada has a vibrant history, I'm happy to see more books coming out that shows our diversity.
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Thank you Ronald and Chris!
Many thanks to Ronald Mackay for this great review and to The Story Reading Ape for publishing it!
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Q: nsupdate returns error but is successfull I'm running  Bind and Apache on Debian and im doing dynamic updates on one of my zones with nsupdate via php script
The update Function:
function nsupdate($subdomain, $ip) {
 $domain = escapeshellcmd($subdomain . '.example.com');
 $ip = escapeshellcmd($ip);
 $data = "<<EOF
 server localhost
 zone example.com
 update delete $domain A
 update add $domain 10 A $ip
 send
 EOF";
 exec("/usr/bin/nsupdate -k /var/bind/keys/Kexample.com.+157+40387.private $data", $cmdout, $ret);
 return $ret;
}

I call this function (sub = 'test', ip = random valid IPv4 IP):
$ret = nsupdate($sub, $ip);
if ($ret != 0) {
    $msg = "Error! Code: $ret";
}else {
     $msg = "Success!";
}

The value of $ret is '1' and the $msg is 'Error! Code: 1', but the syslog shows
client ::1#9726/key example.com: signer "example.com" approved
client ::1#9726/key example.com: updating zone 'example.com/IN': deleting rrset at 'test.example.com' A
client ::1#9726/key example.com: updating zone 'example.com/IN': adding an RR at 'test.example.com' A

i can ping the subdomain and it returns the new IP. But i'd still like to know why the nsupdate call returns 1 and not the expected 0 on a succesful update.
update 1
here the $cmdout with debugging enabled for nsupdate
array(13) {
[0]=> string(22) "Outgoing update query:"
[1]=> string(59) ";; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: UPDATE, status: NOERROR, id: 58402"
[2]=> string(55) ";; flags:; ZONE: 1, PREREQ: 0, UPDATE: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1"
[3]=> string(16) ";; ZONE SECTION:"
[4]=> string(22) ";example.com. IN SOA"
[5]=> string(0) ""
[6]=> string(18) ";; UPDATE SECTION:"
[7]=> string(33) "test.example.com. 0 ANY A"
[8]=> string(45) "test.example.com. 10 IN A 22.22.22.22"
[9]=> string(0) ""
[10]=> string(22) ";; TSIG PSEUDOSECTION:"
[11]=> string(109) "example.com. 0 ANY TSIG hmac-md5.sig-alg.reg.int. 1439217988 300 16 kaHm1/GbMf0+cuIJO62lgw== 58402 NOERROR 0"
[12]=> string(0) "" }

A: I had the same "problem" bothering me for a while now.
When I tried the above nsupdate commands on the command line everything was fine and the exit status (type in console directly after nsupdate -> echo $? returned 0) but called from php it was 1.
Until I realized that while being on the console I typed quit to end my nsupdate session. As soon as I added this line to the php script everything was fine aka exit code 0.
So change $data to

     $data = "<<EOF
     server localhost
     zone example.com
     update delete $domain A
     update add $domain 10 A $ip
     send
     quit
     EOF";

A: Try adding var_dump($cmdout);var_dump($ret); before return $ret. $msg is irrelevant.

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The root of the climate crisis is capitalism, not demographics
Posted Aug 15, 2017 by Michael Friedman
Climate Change, EcologyGlobalCommentaryFeatured
Growing concerns about climate change and other environmental trends have set off the next round of old Malthusian diagnoses and solutions.
As a case in point, ecological economist William E. Rees recently wrote in the Canadian alternative magazine The Tyee ("Staving Off the Coming Global Collapse" July 17, 2017):
The "competitive displacement" of other species is an inevitable byproduct of continuous growth on a finite planet. The expansion of humans and their artifacts necessarily means the contraction of everything else. (Politicians' protests notwithstanding, there is a fundamental contradiction between population/economic growth and protecting the "environment.")
As a first sweep, one might assert that "common sense" would dictate that as a population increases, so does pressure on resources, all else being equal. This is the logic behind the ecological concept of the "carrying capacity" of an ecosystem. It is the basis for the old Club of Rome report, "Limits to Growth." And it is also associated with some versions of the "planetary boundaries" concept.
All else is not equal.
Capital accumulation drives environmental destruction
In a capitalist society natural resources are appropriated by capitalists as exchange values, not use values. That is, it is not their need, utility, aesthetics, etc., but their monetary worth upon exchange, that drives their extraction and subsequent use all the way down the commodity chain to the consumer.
Human labor creates exchange value, including the value of inputs and wages, and a surplus value component that comprises profits. Driven by competition, the employer seeks to maximize profits, while reducing inputs and wages. For entrepreneurs, the goal of the consummation of profitable sales is reinvestment in an ever-expanding process of capital accumulation: of growth.
This competition-stimulated thirst to unceasingly grow capital is what drives natural resource extraction and use. Ever-increasing amounts of iron ore or oil are stripped from the ground, ever greater expanses of forest are cut down, more and more fish are scooped from the sea, not to move, house or feed increasing numbers of people, but in order to exploit yet more oil, iron ore, fish or forests. On the other hand, capitalists are only interested in those resources that will turn a profit. These are disarticulated from their environmental matrix and exploited. The rest of that matrix is considered disposable, whatever its importance to our health or the biosphere.
It is important to underline that society is divided into fundamental and conflicting classes whose power to invest or purchase, and exploit natural resources, is dramatically unequal and determined by their position in the production process – whether they own capital and employ labor, or merely own their ability to labor. There is a reason why 71% of global greenhouse gases are emitted by just 100 corporations, according to recent reports.
Thus, it is incorrect to say that demographics drives resource use. Simple demographics ceased to play a dominant role in resource use when capitalist production became generalized. In fact, one could argue that demographics ceased to be the single major determinant when societies divided into classes based on unequal division of the social surplus product.
Both consumption of goods and population growth are over-determined and mediated by capitalism. In other words, multiple and reciprocal causality characterize the relationship between capitalist production, consumption and population growth.
Consumption, a function of effective demand
And what of our role as consumers? Don't we determine what we consume and how we do so? Aren't we the protagonists of rampant consumerism? Access to and consumption of resources is generally determined by the market: not by need, but by effective demand (monetary purchasing power), whether the purchaser of a resource/commodity is another capitalist or a worker.
However, both as individuals and social classes, capitalists and workers share neither equal command of effective demand, nor equal institutional access to resources. The laboring classes ultimately only command their ability to work — even a basic wage is not guaranteed. For their part, ownership gives capitalists command of capital and production. And, beyond the capital, itself, they command the institutional and legal structures of the state, giving them the means, say, to force Central American campesinos off land to which the latter hold title, or to build oil pipelines across Native American reservation land.
While it is true that capitalists require consumers of their goods, and consumers' aggregate demand plays a role in determining product offerings, the aforementioned institutional inequality between a mass of atomized or even organized, mostly working class consumers, and businesses means that production under capitalism dominates consumption, rather than the other way around. This inequality originates in the historic origins of the mass capitalist market in the dissolution of the feudal fiefdoms and enclosure of commons, together with repressive legislation, that deprived tens of thousands of serfs and peasants of their means of subsistence and drove them into the arms of manufacturers and merchants as workers and dependent consumers, a process that is still replicated, today, in the developing nations.
In both industrialized and developing economies the market is all-pervasive and its hegemony virtually complete. Even peasant farmers in the most remote villages in the global south are held in its grip. We are socialized in its tenets from cradle-to-grave and in all social spaces, whether at home, in school, at places of worship, or in cultural venues. We embody its expectations. It generates and conditions our needs, even our identities. Neither hippie communes nor consumer cooperatives can provide escape from it. It encompasses increasing masses of commodities, including indispensable and non-renewable natural resources. And, under capitalism the great majority of us cannot survive outside of it.
Capitalists engage in a variety of types of competition in order to capture market share and a multitude of practices to assure product sales, (all the while constantly seeking to lower costs of production and wages). These include price wars, constant bombardment by massive ad campaigns (particularly directed at specific, vulnerable populations), creation of artificial needs and desires, manipulation of biologically hard-wired urges, adulteration and shoddy production, disposable items and planned obsolescence, consumer credit, and so on. Entrepreneurs must market increasing masses of goods. Ultimately, they are caught between their compulsion to produce more and more, and a mass of consumers with a relatively or absolutely limited purchasing power.
The final household consumers of useful items do not and cannot absorb all capitalist production. Some goods, of course, are exported, while national producers must compete with imports. But, both the state and capital goods sectors represent effective demand for significant components of the social product. For entrepreneurs who are consumers of capital goods, purchases are put in motion as capital, expected to bring in a profit and contribute to further growth. Effective demand is also supplied by the state, whose purchases include a disproportionate mass of goods destined not for consumption, but for destruction: military goods, in particular. The state is conceived as a purchaser of last resort, destined to stimulate production and accumulation, where the effective demand of individual consumers fails. This was a fundamental role of Keynesian economics.
Profligate waste and casual environmental degradation is a byproduct of such a system in which growth growth's sake is the goal, increasing masses of goods must be pumped onto the market and all that does not generate profits is considered a freely-given product of nature or an "externality."
Consumer struggles can induce some changes, even beneficial ones, but only as long as these correspond to the dynamic of commodity production and the logic of the market. We can convince supermarkets to sell organic produce, we can force them to abandon plastic bags, we can demand recycling programs, and even our capitalist states are willing to undertake some measures they claim will address climate change, such as cap-and-trade, which commodifies quotas of greenhouse gases. However, these should all be understood as measures that simultaneously legitimize and even extend commodity production and the market, ironically strengthening consumerism and growth. None of these sorts of measures alter the dynamic of capitalist production and marketing, and hence, they provide no real solutions to the biosphere crises. The hegemony of the market CAN be overthrown, but this requires expropriation of the owners of capital and of the production process, and replacement of the oligarchic state by one democratically representing working people. Adam Smith's "invisible hand" must be replaced by democratic planning of resource use, and production and distribution of goods and services.
Demographics and resources: Cause or effect?
And what about the "population" side of the equation? Surely great population densities and unchecked population growth place pressures on resources, locally if not globally. While this may be true in the abstract and for specific local cases, this cannot be generalized as a "natural law" under capitalism. As noted, the relationships are highly mediated by our social form, with pressure on resources determined by class and geopolitics.
Pressure on resources cannot be said to correspond necessarily either with population density or growth. Within industrialized nations, as consumers, the well-heeled shift their exorbitant carbon and other ecological costs onto the shoulders of the working class majorities, from their industries, estates and luxury suburbs to more densely populated urban and rural working class communities, where actual consumption is relatively limited, per capita.
In addition to the vastly unequal division of incomes among social classes in the production process, unequal ownership establishes power relations that are manifested through the state and institutions of civil society. These relations play out in vastly unequal command over the division of society's surplus product and hence allocation of resources. Racism and other forms of oppression sustain and widen the disparity. Mechanisms for appropriating the social surplus include fiscal policy, particularly taxes and social expenditures, and urban and regional planning, including zoning laws. Other institutional mechanisms function within civil society, such as bank lending policies.
In turn, these unequal quotas of power translate into differing environmental and health outcomes. The fields of public health and environmental justice have long dealt with "social determinants of health" and "environmental racism," realized through factors such as provision of ample green spaces in wealthy communities, as opposed to low income communities, or siting of polluting facilities in working class communities of color. Similarly, both greater social power and income facilitate access to a host of "green" innovations, from ready availability of organic produce to greater diversity of energy alternatives, to energy-efficient infrastructure to better public transportation. Taken together, these constitute a sort of regressive ecological taxation imposed by the ruling class on the working class majority. Not all ecological disruption is shifted into more marginalized communities, though: the wealthy do love their golf courses and well-manicured lawns, thought to be net sources of emissions.
In addition, much has been written about "unequal ecological exchange" between the global north and south, by which ecological costs, such as deforestation or biodiversity decline, accrue to the south, while the products of ecological disruption are exported to the north. (See James Rice, "Ecological unequal exchange: Consumption, equity, and unsustainable structural relationships within the global economy," International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48, vol. 1 (2007): 43-72)
Thus, hypothetically, if we were to control for disparities in consumption, unequal ecological exchange and regressive ecological taxation, in terms of per capita resource consumption, Scarsdale, and not Bombay's slums or Kenya's plains, would boast the more exorbitant carbon footprint and should be considered "overpopulated."
Population density may, in fact, be inversely correlated with carbon footprint. For example, a Boston University study found that densely populated urban areas produce fewer emissions than suburbs or more sprawling urban areas as a result of proximity or availability of public transportation or the carbon costs of maintaining those neat lawns.
Globally, the highest population growth rates are associated with poverty, hardly conducive to rampant consumerism. For many of the world's high demographic growth regions, in fact, chronic malnutrition is the norm, a product not of demographics, but of lack of "effective demand." Studies beginning with sociologist Mahmood Mamdani's 1970s study of an Indian farming village consistently demonstrate that development, gender equality and improving security and quality of life lead to a decline in birth rate, a phenomenon known as a "demographic transition". Healthcare, education, women's reproductive rights and social equality, steady employment at a living wage, and a full stomach reduce the need for large families to hedge against an uncertain future, and empower women to limit family size.
Which brings up a final point. The drive for profits at the root of the capitalist economy represents a fundamental barrier to improvements in social wellbeing for the world's working class majority. The vicissitudes of existential struggle between ordinary people and owners of capital determines the division of wealth both in the factory and in society at large. It is within the class struggle that we find the heart of the "population problem" under capitalism.
In Volume I of Capital, Marx argued that capitalist accumulation inevitably engenders a reserve army of the unemployed. In the core capitalist countries, this process began with the aforementioned enclosure and privatization of the commons and the dissolution of the feudal demesnes, a process that created a capital stock, on the one hand, and an impoverished mass of workers for developing industries. Capital accumulation continuously regenerates the reserve army through the normal operation of the business cycle, as well as through secular growth in productivity or decline in the profit rate.
In the colonies, shortages of labor were met with enslavement of indigenous and African peoples and indenture. In the U.S., emancipation was met with resurgent racism, which contributed to the constitution of the reserve army in urban, industrial areas, and which, together with oppression of the capitalist periphery, has been instrumental to the present day in domesticating the U.S. labor movement and intensifying extraction of surplus labor and the accumulation process.
With the global expansion of capitalism and the domination and pillage of much of the capitalist world by a small number of wealthy nations, this reserve army was significantly displaced to the "underdeveloped" nations, a process whose tempo has increased in the neoliberal epoch, with the massive increase of rural to urban migrations providing cheap labor for global sweatshops, under the impetus of structural adjustments and free trade agreements, foisted on developing nations by international financial institutions and industrialized nations. In recent years, the World Bank has facilitated a massive land-grab in the developing nations by transnational corporations. Kenya is a case in point. A recent Sunday New York Times piece by Jeffrey Gettleman ("Loss of Fertile Land Fuels 'Looming Crisis' Across Africa") placed the violent land disputes shaking that country in a Malthusian framework. Nevertheless, a recent report on Kenya by the Oakland Institute noted that,
the influx of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country grew from $729 million to $3.53 billion between 2007 and 2013 and has fueled the government's swift acquisition of land to sell to overseas firms, creating land conflicts and dispossessing thousands of families of their ancestral homes.
It was the reserve army, the mass of unproductive, largely urban poor that lacks the wherewithal to "productively" consume, and which represents a threat to the system if not tightly controlled, that was the concern of the Reverend Robert Thomas Malthus. Malthus considered the masses of urban poor in English cities, employed and unemployed, to be the "dangerous classes": abhorrent in their poverty and criminality and prone to unpredictable social explosions. With them in mind, Malthus formulated his famous warning that human reproduction inevitably proceeds at a geometric rate, while resources can increase, at most, arithmetically, inevitably leading to a collision, unless measures are taken to reign in the procreativity of those "dangerous classes."
And so, we find that the "population problem" is an ideological and social control, rather than a demographic, issue under capitalism. Fears of a demographic explosion among the impoverished and oppressed, resulting from fecundity and migration, often attributed to "feeble-mindedness," cultural backwardness or genetics, led to the proliferation of eugenic theories, laws and measures. Nor are such ideas relics of a bygone past, as recurrent reported incidents of sterilization abuse directed at Puerto Rican women, indigenous Guatemalan women, African American men and women, and other oppressed groups attest. Most recently, the ideology re-emerged in reports that a Tennessee judge offered reduced sentences for inmates who agree to vasectomies and Nexplanon implants. In recent years, nativists have also dusted off overpopulation arguments to justify immigration control. Lest we think that such reasoning is far-fetched, it behooves us to recall that similar logic resulted in the draconian Immigration Act of 1924.
Addressing the epistemologically and ideologically related arguments of biological determinism, biologist Stephen Jay Gould once pointed out that,
The same bad arguments recur every few years with a predictable and depressing regularity.
No mystery attends the reason for these recurrences. They are not manifestations of some underlying cyclicity, obeying a natural law that might be captured in a mathematical formula as convenient as IQ; nor do these episodes represent any hot item of new data or some previously unconsidered novel twist in argument. ("The Politics of Biological Determinism," Rethinking Schools 14, no 2 [1999-2000])
Rather, Gould affirmed, the recurrence of these ideologies is "sociopolitical": they "correlate with episodes of political retrenchment, particularly with campaigns for reduced government spending on social programs, or at times of fear among ruling elites, when disadvantaged groups sow serious social unrest or even threaten to usurp power." Such is the existential threat to the capitalist order posed by current ecological crises.
On the other hand, in a world governed by principles of ecological integration, human well-being, and participatory democracy, rather that profitability, growth and "the invisible hand," demographic criteria might well become meaningful for rational planning of resource conservation and use.
About Michael Friedman
Michael Friedman is part of the effort to revitalize Science for the People (started in 1969), which aims to to rebuild the tradition of radical science by organizing scientists, activists, students, and scholars. Friedman currently teaches biology and public health courses at a medical school in Antigua and Barbuda. He worked in journalism and aquaculture in Nicaragua through the 1980s, taught high school science courses through the 90s, and has been active in solidarity, environmental justice, education reform and union movements.
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Egypt arrests 7 after raising gay pride flag at a concert
September 26, 2017 | 12:41pm | Updated February 26, 2019 | 10:14am
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CAIRO — Egyptian authorities have arrested seven people they accuse of being gay and promoting homosexuality for allegedly raising the rainbow flag of the LGBT movement at a concert last week, even though there is no law banning the practices.
The flag was a rare sign of support for highly marginalized homosexuals in conservative Egypt. It took place at a Cairo performance on Friday by popular Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou' Leila, a jazzy, electro-Arabesque group whose lead singer is openly gay.
The seven were arrested on Monday and charged with "inciting immorality," security officials said, adding that the Supreme State Security Prosecution acted after authorities discovered the seven had "raised the flag of homosexuals." The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists.
Homosexuality is highly taboo in Egypt among both majority Muslims and the Christian minority, but it is not explicitly prohibited by law. In practice, however, the state regularly seeks to prosecute individuals under alternative charges, including "immorality" and "debauchery," which are normally reserved for prostitution.
Prosecutors also sometimes charge gay people with "blasphemy," which is also considered a crime in a country with severe limits on free speech.
Shortly after the concert, images and videos of the flag-raising went viral, with some praising the move but others posting virulent attacks on social media. An exasperated host on one television channel urged Reza Ragab, the deputy head of the official musicians union, to explain how such a thing could have happened "on Egyptian soil."
"We are against gay art," Ragab said in a phone interview on AlAssema TV. "It is depraved art."
He said the band had all the necessary permits, including approval by the ubiquitous state security services, but added that the union would ban the group from further performances.
Mashrou' Leila has played in Egypt before, although the group was twice banned from performing in Jordan over allegations its musicians violate the kingdom's traditions and commit blasphemy. It is one of the Arab world's few rock acts to gain significant resonance in the West, playing its Arabic-language fusion to a growing number of fans in Europe and the United States.
The band on its Facebook page called the Cairo show, held in a mall in an upscale suburb, one of the best they had ever played and that it had been an "honor to play to such a wonderful crowd." The feed became a culture war battle zone in subsequent posts, however, with some users hurling insults while others defended the group.
Egypt regularly arrests gay men, with large police raids on parties or other locations such as bathhouses occasionally creating media sensations.
The most famous raid was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested at a dance party on a floating nightclub moored on the Nile called the Queen Boat. The men were put on trial in a highly publicized proceeding during which they were mocked in the media, which published photos of them as well as names and addresses. Almost half were sentenced to prison after a trial that was widely criticized by human rights groups and Western governments.
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NATCHEZ — A friend and associate of two Adams County volunteer firefighters who were shot to death on Friday night, said both men were community-minded people who worked hard to make the community a better place.
Troy Whittington, 31, and Jason Haley, 34, both Adams County volunteer firefighters were shot to death Friday night while at the house of friends and fellow firefighters on Quasar Street, just off U.S. 61 North after attending the Natchez Krewe of Phoenix Mardi Gras parade.
The men went to the house with a woman and her two children and two of her children's friends, when the woman's estranged husband, Jonathan Beach, 36, tried to enter the house, said Lt. Cal Green of the Adams County Sheriff's Office.
Both Whittington and Haley, officials said, had their guns drawn when Beach entered the house. Beach shot Whittington and Haley who died of their gunshots, authorities said, but not before Haley fired his gun striking Beach, who suffered a non-life threatening wound. Whittington did not fire his gun, authorities said. The wife and children remained locked in a back bedroom, authorities said.
Beach was arrested later that night and is being held on two counts of murder with no bond, Green said. More charges could be filed, pending further investigation, Green said.
Robert Bradford Sr., Adams County emergency management director, who oversees county volunteer firefighters, said both Whittington and Haley were good men who spent a great deal of time volunteering for emergency management training and firefighting.
Whittington, Bradford said, had been involved in volunteer firefighting for approximately 16 years, having been involved in organizations in Louisiana before moving to, and getting involved in volunteer emergency efforts in Adams County.
When Whittington was not at work for his regular job, he could be found at the county emergency operations center looking for ways to pitch in and help with training, Bradford said.
Whittington also was involved in helping maintain the VFD fire engines to keep them up and running, Bradford said.
Haley and his wife, Billie, lived just across the Franklin County line, Bradford said, but they volunteered for fire and emergency services in Adams County about three years ago.
Bradford said Jason had recently battled cancer, and that during his fight with cancer, others had to keep him from using too much energy in volunteer firefighting and emergency services.
Bradford said the community lost two great assets in Whittington and Haley.
The funeral for Haley will be noon Monday at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 418 Morgantown Road. Visitation will also be at the church Monday morning from 10 a.m. until noon.
The funeral for Whittington will be noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Kingston United Methodist Church, 1090 Hutchins Landing Road. Visitation will also be at Kingston, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. A crowdfunding account has been set up to help cover Whittington's funeral costs at www.gofundme.com/troy-whittington-family.
At least $4,800 is needed to help cover the funeral costs and a fund has been set up through the Adams County Volunteer Firefighters Association to help both families. Checks can be made out to Adams County Volunteer Firefighters Association and mailed to 575 Kingston Road, Natchez, MS 39120.


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A CD dedicated to Cristian Carrara's music.
I met Cristian Carrara, a person of great simplicity and kindness, and later I had the pleasure to listen to his music. When he improvises on the piano, the smiling boy I met before, reveals an unexpected depth colored with poetry and melancholy. Intrigued, I listened to "Piano Diary", a diary written with notes rather than with words, and I thought I could bring back the music of Cristian vaguely to neo-romanticism, albeit in various details his music reveals a study and an awareness that few composers of this movement have. I continued listening to "LiberMundi", a work that continues, despite its originality, the long tradition of Italian melodic tradition, and "Destination of the Blood," which fits perfectly in the Italian school for soundtracks. I finally came across his music written for an absolutely pop context (to be presented at Sanremo Festival) as "Song between the wars", also included in this recording with a new arrangement.
Different genres in which Cristian engages without embarrassment and with great flexibility or perhaps smoothing the boundaries created by those who still want to build walls instead of bridges in the musical world.


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HELP! I just started working at a new facility that has 3 different storage areas for my department plus I have a large office I can also use for storage. The spaces are currently a disorganized mess which makes it incredibly difficult for myself and my staff to know what we have for equipment/materials and efficiently get needed supplies for activties. Does anyone have any suggestions for ways they keep their storage areas organized but still functional? Just to give a little more detail the basement storage area is primarily holiday decorations, I have a small storage closet for my memory care unit, and a larger general activities storage room where majority of my games/materials are currently being stored.
Hey Tiffany, never too much storage. But you are right when it is disorganized you miss out on so much. Maybe you can have an inventory day? Bring all of the stuff out and put it into piles around the activities room. Then buy storage bins (the plastic kind you can get for $5 at Wal-mart) and label everything. We would always keep our Holiday stuff downstairs and bring it up when we need them. And the arts and crafts or general items we would keep upstairs so we have them on hand. You could even put the residents to work on this one and could even be a lot of fun if you play some sing-along songs and have good snacks on hand for those who just want to watch!
in the ceiling using dowels (arm height). This way we could hang light items on plastic bags (using garden hooks) like light craft stuff, costumes, hats, and scrap/fabric paper. The hanging dowels were positioned away from the walls so that they were kept free for cupboards and shelves.
Thank you all so much for your suggestions! I will definitely put them to good use!


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Petey's ears started flipping forward again. It's a small thing, but I love when they do that. He looks so adorable.
"Enjoying time with family without letting all my work overwhelm me." - I made sure to have lots of fun and take my time relaxing with the family.
Try not to be too hard on myself if I feel overwhelmed and tired.


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