We have moved on to Daytona Beach for an as yet to be determined amount of time. We had debated staying at the Mayport Naval Station campground longer, as it is a great location on the river and Atlantic. In the end, we decided that we would move on as we were not very happy with the way the campground was operated. We have had issues with this on past visits and have read other folks concerns as well, including the write up on a military campground site.
As background, these campgrounds are funded under a morale and welfare program to support active and retired military for recreation purposes. We have visited many such campgrounds all across the country and this is certainly one of the great locations, but one of the worst managed. This campground appears to be managed not for the use of the designed clientele, but rather for the benefit of the staff which includes somewhere around 12 plus "workcampers" which can stay for up to six months or more. That represents over 20 percent of the sites that are supposed to be available for the intended users.
While we had little problems ourselves, there are many customers who seem to be really afraid of the staff, who patrol the grounds enforcing rules that do not apply to them. In that regard, they are a bit like members of Congress. In short, we decided to leave. It is always a pity when those who present themselves as part of a service organization, are really only supporting themselves instead of the customers. Finally, I should note that this is not unique to the military system, as we belong to a national membership park organization and here again many of the parks are consumed with serving those who work in the parks over the customers. This membership organization is hanging on by its fingernails, at least in part, because of the lack of support for their actions by the paying customers.
We are now located in a commercial park, International RV park, which is very nice and happy to accommodate the needs of its customers. Ironically, with passport America is only 18 dollars a night for the length of our stay.
Since I had no pictures to go with this entry, I have decided to include some pictures I have been looking at from some family sailing vacations in Greece in the late 1990's, while stationed overseas.
We had a quiet Thanksgiving in the motorhome, with the convection oven working its magic on the turkey, and Anneke working the magic with the rest of the meal. Halley was perhaps the one most interested in the whole process and apparently understood that she would somehow enjoy at least some of the results of this labor. It was an excellent meal.
The rest of the day was spent lounging around waiting for the Cowboys/Saints game. The truth is we have little interest in football games. I know some will find this shocking, but there it is. The only reason we endured the nearly four hours of coverage was that Fox Sports was broadcasting from the base our daughter is deployed to in the Middle East. Long story short we did not see her in the total of 2 minutes or less that they actually broadcast from there.
Yesterday was also spent hanging around the campground watching the river traffic and enjoying the beach. Not exciting, but we always enjoy being near the waterfront.
It is now time to start planning our next stop.
Yesterday, we moved a short distance south to the Naval Station at Mayport, FL. This will be our third visit here. In terms of water views, it is tough to beat. The campground sits at the mouth of the St John's River with views of the passing military and commercial traffic. It is also a short walk to the beach on the Atlantic Ocean.
This is where we will be spending Thanksgiving this year. We avoided the mistake we made last year in not planning for this holiday and ended up having to move on Thanksgiving Day from Charleston to Hilton Head. As we prepare for this day, we have been reflecting on how different our Thanksgivings have been since we started full timing four years ago. First and foremost is that it is not assumed that we will always be with family for these occasions. It has also turned out that will not be in the same places for these events either.
Looking back, we spent our first Thanksgiving on the road in Richmond, Va. We were there visiting our youngest daughter, who was on a training assignment away from her duty station in Las Vegas. Despite the wild weather that week, we enjoyed our visit with her and had a very nice RV version of Thanksgiving that Nov in 2006.
In 2007, we were camped at Mayport Naval Station and were invited to have Thanksgiving dinner with friends Ted and Sharon in St Augustine, Fl. Another great event, this time in a sticks and brick house.
2008 found us in Key West; camped along the water in wonderful weather. We celebrated the holiday by ourselves and shared the day with the children by phone.
In 2009, as I mentioned, we forgot about the holiday and scrambled to find a place to stay. Anneke not only got us into a great resort in Hilton head, but also arranged for us to take part in the club dinner. We enjoyed the company of fellow travelers and shared our RV experiences.
This year our plan is to enjoy a quiet day at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean with a Turkey dinner and a walk on the beach.
Wherever this finds all of you, we hope that you have a great day and a lot to be thankful for.
Yesterday morning was devoted to shopping for the upcoming holiday and other items of opportunity. These occasions call for our guest dog, Halley, to spend some extra time in her kennel. So after lunch, we decided it was time to let her see what we are often doing when we head out of the motorhome. We took her along for a little tourist outing close by.
She seemed to be interested in the Tabby construction on the sugar works that was built in 1825 and used to refine the sugar cane that was the primary product of the McIntosh plantation.
She really got a close up look at the oyster shells that were used in the tabby concrete.
On the way back into the naval base, we stopped at the submarine model at the base gate to give Halley a little nautical experience. I think she was ready to enlist.
All in all, I think she enjoyed her day out.


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Aug 7, 2006 - 7:45PM
Travelling by horse?
I have a question. Does anyone have any idea how long it would take a horseman to ride from London to Pemberley(obviously I mean Derbyshire) in winter?
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Aug 7th, 2006 - 7:45 PM
Aug 7, 2006 - 10:44PM
Re: Travelling by horse?
You mean on horseback, not by coach? I suppose he'd have to change horses regularly or rest a lot.
Perhaps this site will help you a bit in the right direction.
Remember P&P: 50 miles of good road, the easy distance between Kent and Hertfordshire? It would take a little more than half a day in a coach. Pemberley - London is a much greater distance of course though.
Aug 7th, 2006 - 10:44 PM
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND OUT THE WORD FOR THE BATHTUB WHERE Collin Firth takes his famous bath. Do you know it? In Spanish we call it tina. Is there a specific terminology in English?
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Aug 17, 2006 - 12:59AM
Well I'll try to make an estimate here.
I would say that it would take two full days at the absolute shortest(that's including staying the night somewhere), but he'd arrive exhausted and that's assuming decent winter weather. More realistically, two nights and three days on the road. I explain my reasoning below, feel free to keep reading if you want to know how I arrived at my timeline.
I'm going to estimate that it's about 150 - 160 miles between London and Pemberly. I arrived at that by using the location of Chatsworth House and it's proximity to Matlock (Matlock is 150, Chatsworth is 160)as the location of Pemberley. Many have said that Chatsworth was the inspiration of Pemberley, and it is mentioned in the book that it is close to Matlock (Elizabeth was going to visit there the next day with her aunt and uncle). Let's assume that the roads are hardpacked dirt, in good condition, and there are no extreme elevation changes (which slow you down), but you did add the element of winter in there so that will obviously slow Darcy down.
Let's assume Darcy is a good and experienced rider that is capable of holding down a quick pace for long distances. Let's also assume that he can change horses at various stops along the way and that it is not storming
All right, all that said, this is where we get to what I do know, horseback riding. I'm going to bet Darcy has a large warmblood of some sort. Darcy would need to be in good shape in order to hold a moderately fast pace (horseback riding is actually very tiring), but I'm sure he is *grin*. If the weather wasn't stormy and the roads were in good condition and he could change horses, he could probably keep a pace up of about 50 to 75 miles a day. Yes this is slower than the coach, but he is on a single horse that is carrying 200lbs and it would tire easily. He would probably change horses at about 3 or 4 times, about every 50 miles.
I have some experience with riding for days on end and if I was making the trip, I'd do it in 3 days of pretty hard riding. Trying to keep up a pace quick enough to over it in 2 days would be difficult. It'd have to be a very serious matter to make me push it to 2 days.
Although endurance race rider winners can cover a 100 mile race in 10-12 hours, these are riders with horses trained for this, and they themselves train for these events. It is much more realistic to assume a pace at half this rate for someone like Darcy who is in good shape and who can afford a good horse.
I hope this incredibly long answer helped answer your question, if you're even still reading!
Aug 17th, 2006 - 12:59 AM
RitaSV
Eli, is 'Slipper Bath' the word you are looking for?
Rita.
It all depends whether the tub is made of copper or not. My research has taken me to asumme that he did bath in such bathtub, I am not certain of the correct terminology for the word. What exactly was or is a slipping tub? Where did you get the word from, I mean what was your source? thanks for the enlightment!I really appreciate it!!
That was really a long answer and I loved it!Of course I am still reading. Thing is, it is not Darcy riding but Col Fitzwilliam, who I gather is just as good, or even better rider, don't you think? And since he did receive some dreadful news he might as well felt eager to arrive soon as possible. So you think it would take him three days anyway? He certainly must have had a great horse, though it could not have been the same since he would have been compelled to change horses. A question, did they recover the first horse or they swaped them?
Your second question about the swaping horses and the recovering of them stumped me a little bit and it got me thinking. Then it got me running some quick searches and then when I couldn't come up with a quick answer I went to my secret source ... my advisor who happens to be an expert on British history with a specialty in 18th century Britain (I'm a part-time graduate student studying history).
We discussed the scenario proposed and came up with a better answer to your questions about travelling by horse.
Since all travel during this time period was done by horse the road system was designed to accomodate that. Post roads would have inns/rest stops at distances that were determined by how far horses could travel before they were exhausted, much like roads today with their gas stations and hotels, etc. It is concieveable that Fitzwilliam would swap out horses at these inns, but my advisor said that he has seen contemporary advertisements for such services, but that it was highly unlikely that he would swap his horse. Instead, Fitzwilliam would keep his horse and merely rest it at the inn before continuing on, unless he had made previous arrangements.
If this is the case, and it was something serious that was sending Fitzwilliam running back to Pemberley, he'd probably travel as far and as fast during the day as possible before stoping to rest at an inn before traveling on and not swap horses.
What is tricky about that is not only is it Fitzwilliam's stamina we have to worry about, but the horse's as well. Even in those 100 mile long endurance races, the horses and riders are checked constantly, must make mandated rest stops, and only about 50% of the people who start them actually make the finish line (most of those are pulled because their horses don't pass the health checks). Asking a horse to travel 150 miles while carrying a 200lbs+ rider on his back quickly, is asking a lot. The horse will be beyond exhausted when it arrived at Pemberley and horses do run themselves to exhaustion and can die from it.
With those conditions and the fact that I'd like to think Fitzwilliam cares enough for his horse he won't run it to the ground. I'd say he'd travel as hard and fast as possible during the 6 to 8 or so hours of good daylight and then rest for 12 or more at night. The horse would get to rest too.
With that kind of pace, a very exhausted, very sore, and very worried Col. Fitzwilliam and horse would arrive at Pemberley's steps a full 3 days after they left London at the earliest!
To kinda mess with this scenario even more. Let's figure that whoever was at Pemberley knew he'd be coming. That person would probably send a fresh horse to meet him along the way at an inn. That way, Fitzwilliam could make the final day of the journey to Pemberley a lot quicker. Whoever brought the fresh horse for him would then follow behind with Fitzwilliam's horse at a much slower pace for sake of Fitzwilliam's horse.
My advisor assures me that this would be pretty accurate for late 18th century English traveling and told me that a lot of government business was taken care of this way. He also said that I need to finish my paper, but I think that comment was specifically for me
Now, if you made it through THIS reply, I'll be really impressed.
Impress hugh? Well, I can tell you that yours has been not only an accurate but also most useful response to my query. Thanks a lot. I will definitely use your answer to back up my story.
And Rita , I will have a look at the page you suggest tonight.Thanks
Aug 18, 2006 - 3:31AM
I have yet another question. What was the relevancy of New Year's celebration in Regency period?Was a ball common place among the rich or would it sound odd?Did they have fireworks?I think I once read a story taking place in Pemberley which included fireworks (was it Tanya's?)but I am not sure whether the author made a research on the subject or just took them for granted. If anyone can butter in I will be obliged.
Aug 18th, 2006 - 3:31 AM
Can I post another really long response to this? You've been warned!
New Years, fondly remembered for the first Mulder/Scully kiss on screen, the polar bear run towards the unheated pool in the back yard, and getting sick after consuming an entire bottle of champagne when I was much too young too. But, Elizabeth and Darcy did not have such things when they celebrated New Years.
New Years during the georgian/regency period was tied up with the Christmas holiday celebrations that lasted for twelve days. Until the Victorian era, one of this biggest celebrations of this time was actually Twelfth Night and Christmas day ran a close second. The Twelfth Night celebration has for the most part faded out of popular culture (except in some hispanic cultures).
Some New Years celebrations did occur though. For the most part these followed along with traditional Christmas (remember, it lasted for 12 days!) celebrations such as lighting the Yule Log, dancing, bonfires, and general revelry. Here is a website that detailes some Twelfth Night celebrations. http://historiccamdencounty.com/ccnews93.shtml This website discusses celebrations in the American Colonies during the mid to late 1700s, but remember, during this time those colonies still had very close ties to England and most of the colonists would be no more than one generation removed from England. Most of their traditions would be very similar.
At an estate like Pemberley, the household and household staff would have their own celebrations, the tennents would probably travel into Lambton to celebrate on their own. It is also quite possible that the family would remain in London during the Christmas holidays rather than spending it at their estate. Houses during this time were not built for comfort, but rather for show. The grand halls and large rooms designed to show off a family's wealth were not very easily heated (and not central heat) and so many wealthy (even moderately wealth) families went to London for the "season". London townhouses were much more comfortable during the winter, probably because they were much smaller.
I also found this website on Scottish rituals duirng the Christmas season. http://www.rampantscotland.com/features/festivals.htm
In short, no Tracey's story was not historically accurate, but that's fine! It was great fun anyway and throughly enjoyable!!
Any other research questions? I love this stuff. That's why I'm in grad school for it! I also just took a long seminar on 18th century England so I'm pretty up to date at the moment if anyone has any other questions.
I just love being chums with you. You have become some kind of cannonical source for my writing!I have always wondered about this stuff of Twelf Night since I read and saw Shakespeare's play, but had no idea whatsoever since I am yet to attend a literature course.Thanks a lot for your fabulous answers . Keep up with them.
Haley. Do have any idea of the duration of a reel? Was it half hour?
Another. I was of the mind that Queen Victoria was the one that had introduced waltzing into court balls.Do you know anything about it? Would it be feasible for Mr Darcy to waltz with Elizabeth in a Twelfth Night Ball?
Aug 21st, 2006 - 6:25 PM
I'm having way too much fun with this.
A reel is actually both a folk dance and a song to accompany the dance and is usually Irish or Scottish in origin. The term is used interchangibly with both the music and the actual dance. A single piece of music (a reel) would last as long as a typical song, usually in the neighborhood of 2-4 minutes. However, many reels could be played back to back with little interruption in the dance. Concievebly this could go on for 1/2 hour, but what is much more likely is that there would be 1/2 hour "sets" with many types of music played, then a short break for the musicans, and then another set.
If you're curious as to how a ball/dance scene would be set up, there are two excellent scenes in both the A&E(BBC) and theatrical release versions of Pride & Prejudice. The one in the Colin Firth version is much more formal and it'd be typical of an upper class dance seen in town or at a great estate in the early 1800s. The one in the 2005 version of P&P is much more country and would be typical of the late 1700s in the country.
The waltz was "invented/introduced" in Vienna in the 1780s. It slowly made its way through the continent and to England over the next few decades. I'm pretty sure it would've been seen and danced in England by members of the court and upper class during the early 1800s.
If Darcy and Elizabeth were at a ball attended by members of Darcy's social class in town or at a great estate like Matlock or Pemberley, then it's very possible that they would dance one waltz at a twelfth night ball. The dance was seen as quite scandalous though, and it would've been very daring to even play a waltz, let alone dance one.
I don't know about the story of Queen Victoria, but I think it is highly improbable that the waltz was not introduced in England before 1837 (when she ascended the throne). I tried to look it up quickly, but then got distracted reading the incredibly long line of succession to the throne of the UK that Victoria left behind.
In short, it's safe to have Darcy and Elizabeth dancing the waltz at the twelfth night ball!
Aug 23rd, 2006 - 3:00 AM
Great. The story of Queen Victoria actually was said to have taken place upon Victoria and Albert's courtship.I do not recall where I came upon the story. I t most provable was some tale told by a History teacher, but since he/ she did not mention the source I am not sure whether to use it.Thanks all the same. Then Darce and Elizabeth will dance the waltz after all.
Does anyone know how old was a lady to become of age in Regency times?
As you were writing about heating the rooms in the house... I remember I was wondering once: not about the size, but about the number. Do you know, how many rooms were there in a house such as Pemberley (so how was it in e.g. Chatsworth House or Matlock House)? How many rooms were there for the everyday use (like library, study, paralors, dining rooms, bedrooms of inhabitants), and how many were there opened only for guests? How many guests could such a house accomodate for a night?
What a great thread! I think I should go on vacation a bit more. Thanks, Eli, for opening it. R~
Here's Rita's post again. She posted such a huge lijk that it disturbed the thread a bit.
Well, Eli, I read a lot of regency romances and 'slipper bath' is a term I've heard of often. If you check out this website you'll see an antique coppler slipper bath that seems close to what Darcy bathed in in the BBC P&P.
slipper bath
It may be called a slipper bath because of it's shape like a ladie's slipper. Hopefully not because its slippery!! LOL
If you can't get the link to work, just go to Google.com and enter the search term 'copper slipper bath' then click on 'images'. You should see several of them.
You see, Renee, I know how to entertain. No wonder I am your favourite!You owe me this!
Sep 12, 2006 - 4:31AM
Great Hall – While Austen includes fairly extensive description of Pemberley in P&P (which is untypical for her), she gives very minimal indication of Pemberley's age and architectural style. However, an important "clue" that the architecturally-inclined reader finds in P&P is the scene set in Pemberley's Portrait Gallery. If it was a true "Long Gallery", this feature would indicate the house was of late Elizabethan or Jacobean times, as more modern houses were not built with Long Galleries. While Rosings is described as "modern" (which might have meant Palladian or - more probably - neo-Classical, the "modern" type of "great house" built in the 18th century), Pemberley is not described as "modern". Austen also includes a detail of Mr. Gardiner speculating on the age of the building, which tends to also indicate an older house which has had renovations and additions over the years, making its age harder to determine. So I have always envisioned Pemberley as Jacobean, full of large fireplace hearths, a Great Hall, rich wood paneling, a Great Chamber, and so on. The Darcy family is clearly an "ancient", landed-gentry family, and I think such a house conveys (to me, at least) a sense of the rich history and long tradition of the Darcys as a long-time, well respected family closely connected with their estate, their land, and the community surrounding it.
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Oct 9, 2006 - 2:13PM
Does any one know what currency was there in London in RT?
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At Mississippi Pizza a week ago last Friday, I saw one of the most musical dance performances I've seen in years, delivered with all her heart by a dancer named Sadie (last name unknown), age about five, as she was propelled to her feet by the equally heartfelt music of the Backyard Blues Boys.
Pigtails flying, jumping up and down in perfect rhythm, spinning around at will — children are marvelous improvisers — this little girl could have had no idea, or at least I hope had no idea, what the musicians were playing and singing about in songs like Saint James Infirmary and their own Rainy Day Blues. What she did know was that that sound, those rhythms, compelled her to move.
So what do we mean when we say a dancer is musical?
Last night at Mississippi Studios, where six of Oregon Ballet Theatre's dancers were performing the first of three nights of a sweet little show that company soloist Candace Bouchard whipped up in a couple of weeks, I couldn't help thinking about George Balanchine.
Not as choreographer, although Bouchard, who was choreographing for the first time, produced some more than adquate steps to be performed on an extremely small platform.
Rather, because history is to some degree repeating itself.
After the 1917 Bolshevik revolution Balanchine and his mates, including his first wife, Tamara Geva, danced in after-hours nightclubs in Petrograd in exchange for a pound of sugar or a loaf of bread.
Food shortages were rampant, the currency was in flux, and there was nothing to buy if you had any money in the first place.
OBT's dancers are not starving, and they're not coping with food shortages caused by a revolution, although they are calling a projected series of performances in nontraditional spaces Uprising. This program, which repeats tonight and tomorrow, is the first. But Bouchard, soloists Stephen Houser and Ansa Deguchi, and company artists Leta Biasucci, Olga Krochik and Lucas Threefoot have been off-contract at OBT since the Emeralds season-opener, and they are definitely dancing to put food on their tables.
And dancing very well, to a large degree because they were dancing to live music, the often infectious beat produced by the indie folk band Horse Feathers.
In the show's first half they were clearly having a very good time, whipping off some pirouettes, rising to the occasion of a very small stage (platform, really, but at least it was wood and they weren't dancing on cement) with, in Threefoot's case, some jetes that came close to being grand.
Bouchard, whose goal was to make classical ballet user-friendly, did not patronize her audience. Incorporated into the choreography were difficult fifth positions and some complicated lifts.
The second half dragged a bit, in part because of the level tone of the music, although Bouchard managed to get all six dancers onto the stage at once in a perfectly viable pattern of movement to end a show that was charming and thoughtfully conceived, and that got a well-deserved rousing ovation from an audience in which I recognized very few faces.
It's a generous performance, danced with the same heart these dancers put into their OBT work, and the close quarters of Mississippi Studios give even seasoned ballet-goers a fresh perspective on the dancers' talent. Company dancer Grace Shibley was represented by some simple costumes, incidentally, in which the dancers could move well, although I could have done without the spangles on Houser's vest.
Uprising (no connection to Hofesh Schechter's piece of the same name) will be repeated tonight and tomorrow night (Wednesday and Thursday) at 8 p.m. at Mississippi Studios, 3939 N. Mississippi St. Catch it if you can.
PHOTOS, from top: Candace Bouchard, Lucas Threefoot, Ansa Deguchi, Leta Biasucci, Stephen Houser, Olga Krochik. Courtesy OBT.


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A Victoria University carpentry student with a lifelong passion for building has been named female apprentice of the year by the Master Builders' Association.
Daniela Lopez-Granada,23, from Point Cook said she was shocked to receive the award, which came with thousands of dollars worth of tools she didn't yet own, including a framing gun and a circular saw.
As a fourth-year apprentice for employer Joncol Building Services, Daniela expects to be a fully qualified tradie by year-end. She specialises in home renovations and extensions, mainly in Melbourne's rapidly gentrifying west.
Daniela says she enjoys all aspects of the work, especially the demolition stage, then "doing a full reno, top-to-bottom, on a house that didn't look very pretty to start."
Although some clients are still surprised to see a woman on a job site, Daniela says "I've never really considered myself a female carpenter – I'm just a carpenter."
Even her parents were unsure of Daniela's career choice when she told them soon after they migrated to Australia from Colombia a few years ago.
"At first they discouraged me because in my country this is not really seen as a good job, especially for a woman," she says. "But now they fully support me because I've convinced them this is what I love."
One of Daniela's teachers, Haydn Radford, says Daniela made a lasting impression on him and was the first in the class to get an apprenticeship.
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A sunny day near a lake in Fairfax, Virginia was the perfect setting for this fun little family portrait session! It wasn't too cold and the lake was just partially frozen. Enjoy!
I love this family. Maybe cause they're MY family. But seriously, I mean we have good genes!
...and he ends with the Inception photo!!!!!
...wait...was this entire blog post just a dream...???


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BONOKOSKI: Ford government puts OPP suicides, PTSD on frontline
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Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services Sylvia Jones addresses media in Aurora on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun
As suicides within the OPP continue to strain the force — the 13th suicide since 2012 occurred at a detachment on Ottawa's outskirts mere days ago — Premier Doug Ford has hooked up his government with the police union to combat the psychological crippler and silent killer of post-traumatic stress disorder.
It was a long time coming and, while the announcement by Community Safety Minister Sylvia Jones was applauded by the president of the Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA), it undoubtedly received a more muted response from the police brass who have done little to stop PTSD's relentless onslaught.
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In 2012, after being made aware there were 23 suicides in the force since 1989, which represented two more officers than were officially killed in the line of duty, then ombudsman Andre Marin tabled his report on the largest investigation his office had undertaken, zeroing in on PTSD and the force's almost cavalier attitude towards fighting it.
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Only last August, shortly before he submitted his retirement papers did OPP commissioner Vince Hawkes order an internal inquiry into PTSD, assigning two respected staff superintendents to head up the probe.
The results of that investigation are expected any day now, but whether they will be made public is still unknown.
Insiders predict it will depend on what they say, and how they say it.
Cops killing themselves is a delicate matter, after all, and their deaths haul in a wide circle of others in their lives.
There is also the stigma of PTSD within the force, whether it be in a police force, the Armed Forces, or first responders who are all supposed to be able to "buck up and carry on" as if their psychological souls are unassailable.
And then, of course, there is the stain of suicide itself, and how it is considered among many in the higher ranks as "a coward's way out."
PTSD, which I have written about often, including in an award-winning series of articles in 2010, has a lot of emotional baggage.
And it comes with no easy answer.
According to Jones, this mental health program she sees developing for the OPP has yet to be costed out or fully conceptualized, but tenders for program proposals have now been requested. "When it comes to our frontline OPP officers, immediate action is needed," said Jones. "(Their) jobs are challenging ones. (They) see tragedies that none of us would ever want to see, (and) experience situations we can only imagine."
In fact, she said, over a rather standard 30-year career on the OPP, a frontline officer is exposed to more than 900 traumatic events.
Rob Jamieson, president of the OPPA, was present at the podium when Jones made her announcement on the mental-health program.
"During the past year, the tragedy of losing several members to suicide has made all of us reflect and examine how we as an association can offer additional support to our members and their families, both on a proactive basis and in times of crisis," said Jamieson.
"The status quo simply cannot continue. The world has changed, and mental health treatment in our membership has not kept pace with the ever-changing demands of policing in the 21st century."
In a few days, the internal report ordered by Hawkes should be completed.
It comes seven years after Marin laid waste with his.
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Waleed Al-Husseini founded the Council of Ex-Muslims of France. He escaped from the Palestinian Authority to Jordan and then to France, after torture and imprisonment in Palestine. He is an ex-Muslim and an atheist. In this educational series, we talk about the situation of ex-Muslims in France.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: To begin with, what inspired you to start the foundation for ex-muslims in France in the first place?
Waleed Al-Husseini: You know, if I want to speak about the inspiration, it will be from the things I have been through. I mean my story, what we explained in the last interview, because it makes me feel that there are a lot of us, and that we need to be united. We need to be united in our voice to speak about us and our problems, to make others feel not alone, and also to demonstrate to Europe and the United States that there are people who leave Islam.
All of these things were reasons and inspiration. Then the work of Maryam Namazie, who is the founder of the Council of Ex-Muslims in Britain. We chose the date of chevalier de la barre, the young French nobleman who got killed for blasphemy here in France during the Dark Ages, to show that we are all chevalier de la barre, but from a Muslim background instead of Christian. These are the things that inspired me.
Jacobsen: What are the main social, political, and educational, initiatives of the organization?
Al-Husseini: We are a group of atheists and non-believers who have faced threats and restrictions in our personal lives. Many of us have been arrested for blasphemy.
We call for universal rights and full equality and oppose tolerance of inhuman beliefs, discrimination and ill-treatment in the name of respecting religion and culture.
Separation of religion from the state and the educational and legal system.
Jacobsen: More to the central discussion, for ex-Muslims – whether atheist, agnostic, another religion, secular humanist, and so on – in France, what is the general day-to-day situation for them?
Al-Husseini: They are in danger not only from governments, but more from the people. Many of us get killed simply because of the usage of some liberal words – for example – look at what happened in Pakistan a few weeks ago or what happened to the bloggers in Bangladesh last year. Or in Saudi Arabia and Mauritania for example, where people have gone to the streets asking the government to kill the apostates. So those in our situation know that we will get killed. Even here in France I am in the same situation. I'm in danger.
Jacobsen: If any, what percentage of ex-Muslims would you say undergo severe discrimination in France? And if so, what are the forms of the discrimination?
Al-Husseini: Here in France, many avoid saying anything because they will be attacked at their work, or perhaps fired if the owner of the company is Muslim. Many of them will not say anything because they are living in areas with many Muslims, who will attack them. Some of us can't even give talks at universities, as you must have seen with what happened to Maryam Namazie last year. When they use the term "Islamophobia," which hasn't as a label before by the way, it is just used to shut us up. This word is used to protect Muslims. It is what I call the modern fatwa.
Jacobsen: What is the one of the biggest misconceptions that French Muslims have about French ex-Muslims?
Al-Husseini: It is the same everywhere, they think that ex-Muslims are Zionists, or that they are working with them to destroy Islam. It's always the same. They never think that it's a free choice.
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Thank you Scott Jacobsen. What a pleasure to read about this courageous man.
We are always with you and with the Council of Ex-Muslims of France.
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Be courageous and continue the journey.


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Latest Reports Ofer - Administrative Detention, Detention until conclusion of proceedings Ofer - Membership/activity in unauthorized association Ofer - Interrogation of Witness, Torture Ofer - Membership/activity in unauthorized association, Torture Ofer - Administrative Detention, Barred (from meeting with attorney) Ofer - Administrative Detention, Detention until conclusion of proceedings Ofer - Disturbances (demonstrations), Plea Bargain Ofer - Barred (from meeting with attorney), Gag Order Ofer - Activity against security in the region, Fines Ofer - Knives, Membership/activity in unauthorized association
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"Incitement" in Facebook:
Every day Palestinians, both in Israel and in the territories, are arrested for posting on Facebook.
Justice Lieut. Col. Avry Einhorn conducted a remand extension hearing in the case of Mahmoud Amro from the village of Durra.
His attorney, Hafez Burnat explained that the suspect is a 45-year old father of 5 who used to work for the PA protective security. He was photographed with a weapon belonging to his colleagues (legally possessed). He later posted the picture on his Facebook page. Now, two years later, his home was raided and searched. Nothing was found, but he was arrested anyway.
As always, some secret material was presented to the judge who determined that "there is evidentiary grounds to link him to serious violations."
The prosecution requested a 7-day extension; the judge agreed to 6, explaining that he would agree to fewer days, but the investigators do not work on Friday and Saturday, so the next hearing was set for 18.4.16.
Judge: Major Haim Balilty
Prosecutor: Lieut. Ely Neumann
Defense: Ibrahim Al Araj
Defendant: Dalal Muhammad Nafez Mahmoud Alkimari – ID 854846193
Dalal, 23, lives in Yatta.
She was arrested on 23.12.15 with a knife in her possession.
The judge pointed out that nowhere does it say that the knife was in her bag, and in the report there is no mention of an attempt to use the knife.
Dalal's brother was present, and they had a few minutes to communicate. Up to now she was not allowed any family visits.
The attorney presented an agreement stipulating that Dalal would serve 6 months in prison and pay a fine of 2000 shekels.
There was a long deliberation by Dalal, her brother and the attorney. The latter explained that she might be released administratively after 21 days, since she had already been in prison for 4 months. She may be released before Ramadan (which this year happens in June).
Eventually, Dalal decided to accept the plea bargain. Later, the judge asked her if she had anything to add, and she said, "I did not commit such a serious violation that merits such a stiff punishment." I agree with her. The judge reiterated that he was not obligated to approve the agreement, which worried Dalal's brother. In the end Dalal said that the agreement had been explained to her, and she was eager to put an end to it all.
A mother coming out of a hearing of her underage son, asked me to explain to her the indictment. She had a copy in Arabic and in Hebrew. Again and again, she read the clauses; her face registered her bewilderment. The 15-year old son is accused of manufacturing improvised guns and shooting them at security forces. He also stole 10 boxes of ammunition, then 3 more, and he threw rocks on numerous occasions. A very energetic and enterprising young man, indeed. The charges looked so baseless, that we both started to laugh. But the kid has been detained for two months and I fear that he won't be released to his loving mother any time soon. She kept saying: "But he is only 15!"
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Popular Abuja based director and producer, Collins Ifeanyi Chukwu is dead. He died yesterday at the Maitama General Hospital after a brief illness. He is survived by his wife, Blessing Collins, and little son, Doxa Efechukwu Collins.
The news, which was confirmed yesterday by the chairman of the guild in Abuja, Agility Onwurah, has thrown the Abuja chapter of AGN into mourning. The usually boisterous Access Garden, which is the official location of the guild's activities, was full of tears and wailings yesterday.
A call placed to his wife yesterday was answered by her mother who said Blessing Collins was not in the right frame of mind to speak. The mother-in-law however confirmed the sad news.
Doxa Efechukwu Collins, his sole heir, was born on May 12, 2012, and was dedicated on Sunday July 22 at the Christ Chosen Church of God, Gwarimpa, Abuja, after which his parents treated entertainment practitioners to a lavish ceremony at their Jikwoyi residence.
"It is quite unfortunate that the young lady has been widowed at this early age with such a little boy. This is a big loss, not only to the family, but to the entertainment industry in Abuja," Frank White, chairman of the Producers Guild of Nigeria, Abuja Chapter lamented.
The late Collins had a knack for producing gospel movies and has to his credit The Burning Flames, el-Gibor, Back to Bethel, and was before his death, working on another blockbuster.
He is one of the very successful Abuja based entertainers who have been able to prove that you don't have to be in Lagos to make it in the industry.
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Oswald Durand (September 17, 1840 - April 22, 1906) was a Haitian poet and politician, said to be "to Haiti what Shakespeare is to England, and Dante to Italy."  He was also a Haitian writer and poet of French and Creole expression, considered as the national poet of Haiti. Besides he was also judged as a Romantic poet and the most prolific one in the nineteen centuries. These 20th-century successors such as René Depestre, and Jacques Roumain congratulated Oswald Durand for his authentic expressions and honored him as a forerunner of Haitian indigenism. He was born in the northern part of Haiti, in the city of Saint-Louis du Nord. In 1842, both his parents died in the earthquake that devastated the city of Cape Haitian. Oswald Durand, and his sister, were welcomed in their maternal grandmother who raised them. He spent most of his childhood outside the city where he was born. Because of political instabilities in Haiti, he was forced to leave school and to educate himself without having recourse to a teacher.

His most famous works are Choucoune, a lyrical poem praising the beauty of a Haitian woman, and Chant National, a lyrical historic poem which became as popular as the presidential hymn.

Durand worked as a teacher before being elected to Congress in 1885. He was subsequently re-elected six times for this position. He founded or served as advisor, or writer for several newspapers and other publications.

Career
In 1860, he became a teacher in an elementary school and in 1867 he held the post of director of a secondary school in the city of Gonaives. Before he turns out to be a Professor he already created his periodical.  In 1868, he turns into the secretary of the council of ministers and after elected delegate in 1885. In 1888, he became president of the Chamber of Deputies, being a journalist he created his own newspaper called "Bigailles". Before his death, Oswald Durand managed to concretize one of his greatest dreams. He travels to France and is received with honor by the famous Jean Francois Coppe to the society of letters people. Oswald Durand was considered a national poet, he used to denounce social relations in his country.  In his text Poetry of Revolution Amy Reinsel stated that "In general, the poems in Rires et Pleurs illustrate the various reasons Durand was hailed as Haiti's national poet both during his lifetime and after his death" (Reinsel 106).  One of Oswald Durand ambition was to show the social relations of his country, the Haitian nature and the history of his country. The author uses themes such as love, earth, slavery and revolution in his text. Indeed, slavery in Haiti was cruel. Slaves were subjected to inhuman treatment. The slave was considered a moveable good. The rest of Sunday's day was not respected.

Patriotism
In Epopee des Aïeux he reveals himself as a patriot of the Haitian nation. In his text, he extols the exploits of our ancestors who fought to free the enslaved. He presents the history of his country as being the most wonderful of ancient stories with glorious facts. Lucmane Vieux in his article Poetry / Battle of Vertieres describes Oswald Durand 's Epopee des Aieux. Lucmane Vieux presented a passage from Oswald Durand text and stated that: "Dessalines, one leap, is in the West. His powerful heels do not spare anything. More whites, more colonists! The slaves of yesterday, the damned Africans, were then masters of Quisqueya the beautiful. Here Dessalines is clearly identified for his accomplishments in the West" (Vieux). Jean-Jacques Dessalines was the one who continued the revolution after the death of Toussaint Louverture. He fought the powerful French army and proclaimed the independence of the country on January 1, 1804. He ordered the slaughter of all white Haitians and declared that Haiti was an all-black nation. It prohibited whites from acquiring land and property, per Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

Durand reveals as a patriot in his poem Ces Allemands where he describes the abuses of Germany to the Haitian government. Bob Lapierre in his book said this: "Germans, dual Prussians we tossed the money, head up, with pride, just as we toss a bone to the dogs!" (Lapierre 19). During the Luders affair, Haiti was forced to yield to German orders. They asked the Haitian government for a $20000 ransom, a letter of apology, the return of the German who was exiled and an official ceremony should be organized in honor of the German charge affairs.

Judicial Trouble
Besides the fact that Oswald Durand was a poet and a writer he also had problems with justice. In 1883, he went to jail because of his politic ideas. During his time in jail, he wrote his famous poem Choucoune.  He disagreed with the government of the President Lysius Felicite Salomon and became a political refugee. During his judicial demises, he takes refuge in a foreign embassy in the city of Cap-Haitian. During his refuge, he wrote a recension of a poem title Mon Ile Bien-Aimee.

Famous works
In his text, Choucoune Oswald Durand extols the beauty of the Haitian woman. The author has created a work that went beyond the other works of his time. He had created a kind of metapoem. His Choucoune work took part in the world literature. His work has been appreciated by international readers. He used the Creole language in his text. He used rhymes from foreign models. In his text, A Primer of Haitian Literature in Kreyol George Lang tells us the type of rhymes that he used: "Here too Kreyòl is subject to a European rhyme-scheme: ABABCCDD. As well, the irony that a Kreyòl-speaking object of desire (Kreyòl itself?) was stolen away by a French-speaker as recounted in a poem cast into a French verse form was likely not lost on readers of the time" (Lang 132).

This text was also used by other people and later became very popular. Michel Mauleart Monton, a pianist of American origin, composed the music of the poem in 1893. The music was performed for the first time in Port-au-Prince on May 14, 1893. The same text Choukoun later becomes the lyric of a song. The lyric of this text for native English is known as yellow birds. The musical lyric was arranged in Calypso style. The lyric was performed by Harry Belafonte and Celia Cruz and was successful in the summer of 1961 when the band Arthur Lyman reached number 4 of Billboard Hot100 and number 2 of the brand new easy listening with its Hawaiian instrumental version.

Another important work of Oswald Durand is Quand nos Aieux briserent leurs entraves which becomes the national song and national anthem of Haiti from 1803 to 1904.

Selected works
 Rires et Pleurs - published 1897
 Choucoune - published 1883
 Chant National
 Ces Allemands - published 14 June 1872
 Pantoum Triste
 La Mort de nos Cocotiers

Notes

References

 Lapierre, Bob. "The Authentic Author of Choukoun." Reclaiming Choukoun, Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2017, pp. 11–20.
 Louis Etienne, Islam. "Les Vautours Du 6 Décembre." Le Nouvelliste, 4 Nov. 2014, lenouvelliste.com/lenouvelliste/article/137583/Les-vautours-du-6-decembre.
 Vieux, Lucmane. "« L'épopée Des Aïeux » D'Oswald Durand." Le Nouvelliste, 17 Nov. 2014, lenouvelliste.com/lenouvelliste/article/138237/Lepopee-des-Aieux-dOswald-Durand.
 "Révolution Haïtienne." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Dec. 2017, fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9volution_ha%C3%AFtienne.
 "Oswald Durand." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Dec. 2017, fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Durand.
 "Jean-Jacques Dessalines." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Dec. 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Dessalines.
 "Michel Mauléart Monton." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Dec. 2017, fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Maul%C3%A9art_Monton.

1840 births
1906 deaths
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Haiti)
Haitian educators
Haitian journalists
Haitian male poets
Haitian politicians
People from Cap-Haïtien
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Space exploration is something that holds a series of powerful emotions for a lot of different people. It often represents our species' ongoing mission to seek out more intelligent life or worlds to inhabit because we love trying to understand the universe above our heads. Ask yourself, however, what if the unthinkable happened and Earth, our home, was destroyed?
RymdResa, best pronounced phonetically and slowly to begin with, is an indie title that focuses on that very event. As a poetic, roguelike adventure that is highly unforgiving and strangely tranquil in its execution, you are the pilot who witnessed the cataclysmic death of their own planet. You decide to roam the stars in search of new life or survivors, or anything at all. With a plethora of ships at your disposal, if you spend enough points of course, you can set off on a new mission in moments.
Across its three galaxies, each with a different objective for the player, RymdResa gives no room for error as even the smallest of space-bound rocks may spell disaster for your ship and the inevitable end of your flight. You have to proceed carefully, weighing up the bonus of using the boost to reach markers faster versus the added risk of instant death if you happen to cross paths with a sun that will vaporize you in the blink of an eye.
Death is a figure you'll become very well acquainted with in this game. Mainly because you're likely to die time and time again, sometimes pointlessly, in your pursuit for a new world. From asteroids to other crafts, it comes in many forms. This learning curve is a fresh change that makes you think about your consumption of precious resources, speed and what could lie ahead of your cockpit. However, this can be wholly off-putting and unfair when you're doing incredibly and suddenly a moon swings around from seemingly nowhere and crushes you into stardust.
The game excels at making the distance traveled interesting though, because after every in-game year spent in the cosmos, a new diary log will be added, for playback at your leisure. Written in short stanza's and read in a cold, static covered tone, these little snippets serve as interaction with the player. Each one adds more to the story as a whole, but better yet, they can be interpreted in different ways.
Even if you spent ten, probably twenty minutes flying across the vast nothingness, you'll likely enjoy the experience. Odd as it may seem, the flight is amazingly therapeutic. Despite a lack of assets normally being an issue with many titles, RymdResa revels in its minimalist approach that works perfectly. Of course, many players may find this lack of eye candy annoying and it may put them off entirely.
This title uses nothing as a gameplay feature and that's definitely not for everyone, however, finding a new signal can be exhilarating as you become used to the times careening through space. It's a careful balance that keeps the game on the right side of fun to play.
Overall, RymdResa is a brilliantly made title that plays on the more quiet side of the selection available on the PC market. This game is an example of achieving as much as possible from basically a bland screen. With some obvious flaws that could use work it's not something you can play causally, but if you're willing you can learn to love it very quickly.