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About Last Night: Such a Homer!
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About Last Night
by Spike Friedman
In case you were busy warming up the ol' fuse-lighting hand, here's what you missed in sports on Tuesday:
Homer Bailey threw his second career no-hitter, as the Cincinnati Reds beat the San Francisco Giants, 3-0. Bailey joins an elite list of 31 pitchers who have thrown multiple no-hitters, including Nolan Ryan, Cy Young, Justin Verlander, Christy Mathewson, Righty Willertuck, "Lots Of" Fingers McGivens, Wee Willie "William" Willamson, Angry Tom Weatherford, "Shin" Splintsy McFingers, "Two Fingers" Uriah White, "One Finger" Elias McGovern, "Just a Palm and a Weird Half-Thumb" Pete Wigglesworth, and Mark Buehrle.
Miguel Cabrera hit another home run, his 26th of the season, as the Detroit Tigers edged the Toronto Blue Jays, 7-6. Guys, you know that About Last Night is all about sparking debate, so I'm going to say it: Miguel Cabrera is underrated. Is there a better hitter in the game today? No. Case closed. That said, Triple Crowns? Overrated. Is there a more arbitrary designation in the game today? No. Case closed. That said, tigers? Underrated. Is there an animal that more people think is indigenous to Africa but in fact is not? No. Case closed. That said, animals? Overrated. I'm sorry, can animals photosynthesize sunlight and produce oxygen? No. Case closed. That said, oxygen? Underrated. Can you breathe without it? No. Case closed.
Alex Rodriguez went hitless in his first rehab start of the year, playing for the Yankees' Class A affiliate Charleston RiverDogs. "It's fine, everything's fine," said Yankees general manager Brian Cashman as he manically scratched his face. "Our third baseman can't hit with the RiverDogs, makes sense, because what the hell is a RiverDog? Seriously. I need to know. Now! What is a RiverDog?" When told that it was a dog that likes swimming, Cashman threw up in his hands and asked the assembled media if anyone had a wiping towel.
Noted French tennis player Marion Bartoli eliminated the final American from Wimbledon, beating Sloane Stephens in straight sets, 6-4, 7-5. "Ah, but can you eliminate America truly?" Bartoli mused as she puffed on a Gauloise Slim. "Or have we as a society soaked up so much of its toxic capitalist discharge like so many sponges floating through that nation's supposed flaming rivers? We have. But let me ask you this: What if society itself is a flaming river, and the America that has been soaked up by us all was put out there by us?" Bartoli then giggled as the world around her became Technicolor, and she shouted with glee as she flicked her cigarette butt away. "Forget all your troubles, as life is but a dream!" Bartoli then floated into the sky on the back of a cation elephant.
Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman said that he and former coach Jim Harbaugh are no longer talking after Harbaugh made comments referring to the Seahawk's multiple PED suspensions. The two men do however continue to communicate through grunts, side glances, and the occasional physical altercation, as they struggle for dominance in an increasingly competitive NFC West environment.
In a three-way trade, the Clippers sent Caron Butler and Eric Bledsoe to the Suns, receiving a package in return that included Bucks guard J.J. Redick. We here at About Last Night has a direct line to Redick, and he sent us his thoughts on being traded for the second time in a year. As always, Redick expressed himself through poetry.
Traded (Again) (Set Sail): July 2, 2013
Not long ago I was the Magic
Before my life became super tragic
I was shipped out to a team called the Bucks
Where I shot lots of shots and made lots of bucks
But me and Milwaukee could never last
Like a walkie-talkie made out of string and two glass(es)
So I set sail, like a boat that has sails
Will I succeed, or will I just fail?
I'm a big fan of boats and also ships
To be clear boats are cool, and also quite hip
I don't own a boat, hey maybe I'll buy her
Nah, not now, but when I retire
So I set sail from a dock or a pier
Which represents how you wake up without fear
Will it be a good day? Will you be the skipper?
Or will you wind up a Los Angeles Clipper?
Oh damn, that's me
Adrift in a "C"
That stands for Clippers
And Chris
And you
But maybe that "C" also stands for Christ?
Who tells me to forgive and do stuff that is nice
Like accept that the Clips ain't what they were
Doubts become shouts of "I'm strong and I'm sure"
A title in L.A.? The City of Angels?
A title for the C's? A title at Staples?
I'll bring it on home, like a yacht to the shore
Cause I'm J.J. Redick, and it's time to score
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Delmira Agustini (Uruguay, 1886-1914) is considered one of the greatest female poets in Latin America. Filmmaker Laurent provides a beautiful, calm and sometimes playful portrait of her brief life. Agustini had two passions : love and poetry.


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Kopplo sund, sund i Esbo stad, Finland, norr om Kopplorna, mellan dem och Bergö i Sommaröarna.

Genom sundet har sedan medeltiden gått en del av farleden mellan Stockholm och Nevamynningen, och bönderna på Moisö och Svinö gårdar ålades i århundraden att underhålla en remmare vid ett lömskt grund mitt i sundets mynning västerut, där bland annat jakten Alexandra gick på grund och förliste en septembernatt 1962.

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Most times, your phone might simply need a little juice if it has not been charged for a long time so it might require you to charge it for a while before you can use it.
In some cases, the problem might require more complex solutions, and we are here to provide you with these solutions.
Tap the power button repeatedly before trying another solution to your phone's inability to switch on. Sometimes, the problem might not be associated with the entire phone but just the power button alone. If you press the power button repeatedly and there is no change in your phone status, try out the following methods to fix the issue.
To perform this operation and get your Samsung Galaxy Note 9 back on, this guide should help you achieve your aim.
Some of the applications that were downloaded through Google Play Store on your Galaxy Note 9 might be the reason as to why your phone refuses to turn on. The best line of action is to boot your smartphone into Safe Mode which will allow only default factory apps to function.
Restoring factory settings is another option you can try to solve the problem of your Samsung Galaxy Note 9 not coming on. It is one of the best ways to help your phone perform better. To learn how to restore factory settings on your Galaxy Note 9, check out this guide on how to factory reset the Galaxy Note 9.
Before performing the factory settings operation, ensure that all device data and other valuable information on your smartphone are properly backed up especially if you will need them after you get your phone back to normal.
If all the methods suggested above do not restore your phone back to normal, you might need the help of a technician to fix your Samsung Galaxy Note 9. A problem like this might mean that the power button is faulty and needs to be replaced.
Return the phone to the point of purchase and ask for a replacement for the power button.


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On Instagram I told you I've started a Bullet Journal. And I've added to it, really sleezy da peezy, a capsule wardrobe spread, documenting all clothes I own. To afterwards decide which ones need to go. And which ones I still LACK (the fun part, muahaha)! Now I don't wanna anticipate, but I think it's about time to share my idea of the nine fashion items you need this Winter. At least I know I do.
To keep all of your most important belongings, without allowing you to take 5439021 lipsticks, 37851 key chains, 235890 notebooks, and 3248924 hair brushes. You know, only the basic stuff.
I don't need to elaborate right?
I mean, look at this guy's structure and half-turtleneck. LOVE.
To spice up your black skinny jeans game (is there anyone else addicted?).
(Or another color, for that matter, I won't judge.) 'Cause everybody deserves that luxury hotel-feeling at home.
That are hopefully lined with something warm too. So you can beat the cold with style! These ones have zippers and are therefore totally badass.
I only recently acknowledged the importance of dark blue and now I don't know how I ever lived without it.
'Cause it doesn't all have to be super minimal and basic, that would just get boring.
Curious to hear more about the fashion items you'll wear this Winter. At least make sure to stay warm!


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Pseudolampona glenmore är en spindelart som beskrevs av Norman I. Platnick 2000. Pseudolampona glenmore ingår i släktet Pseudolampona och familjen Lamponidae.

Artens utbredningsområde är Queensland. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Q: Do Andy and Riley live in the same world? Barring large scale theories about interconnected universes, and looking at a slightly more realistic point of view, can we say that Andy from Toy Story and Riley from Inside Out live in the same "world"?
Both seem to live in relatively non-fantastical representation of the world (talking toys and inner voices notwithstanding — which neither know about).
Given that Pixar leaves clues in their movies, can we tell if Andy and Riley could meet?
In order of preferred answers, I'd prefer first-order relations between films so evidence of shared elements between Toy Story and Inside Out:
For example:

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*Both Andy and Riley move house and eat pizza, did they use the same mover or eat the same pizza?

*Riley drove through the midwest, near landscape similar to where Lotso was left.

I'll also accept answers where another Pixar movie is used for the connection, for example:

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*Did Andy and Rileys parents both shop at Buy 'n' Large (from Wall-E)?

*Did Andy and Rileys parents both own a copy of Chef Auguste Gusteau's book "Anyone Can Cook" (from Ratatouille)?

A: Both films appear to be set in the same geographical region; The fictional "Tri-County" area

and they both appear to have food items from the same Chinese restaurant seen in Toy Story 2

You could also note that the tech seen in the films (Skype, eBay, internet, flat-screen TVs) would seem to localise the films sometime between the late 1990s and the present day so Andy and Riley are almost certainly contemporaries, albeit she appears to be at least 6+ years younger based on the phones and computers seen in the films.

A: Yes. Not only do they live in the same world, they also somehow know Carl and Ellie from Up.
In Toy Story 3, Andy has a postcard from the couple.

In Inside Out, Riley apparently has very hazy memories of them.
Additionally, the same playground equipment company appears to exist in each world.

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Look what showed up today.
And he drives it HARD on the track yet still has plates..
Cant read the emblem. Is it a Panoz?
I don't think it's a Panoz, but can't tell what it is. But I bet it weighs about 2000 lbs, maybe less.
He said there's 4 in California and 10 in the US.
I always wonder about making a creation car? And just when I gave it a thought I thought someone like cope and all his Machinery at his fingertips and is ingenuity! I wonder what the creation car of his would look like? You know like they have the ones at the car shows. I was just at the Portland car show Saturday and took a few pictures to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.
Take a loik at Roadkill ,and Jay Leno's latest posts.. Especially Leno's, kicks tushie.
The 2-seater AMX went away after 1970 and the AMX became a version of the Javelin name.


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Francisco José Alves da Silva, mais conhecido como Franzé Silva, (Buriti dos Lopes, 19 de dezembro de 1966) é um contador e político brasileiro, atualmente deputado estadual pelo Piauí.

Dados biográficos
Filho de Manoel Damião dos Santos e Joana Alves da Silva. Formado em Contabilidade pela Universidade Federal do Piauí, é auditor fiscal da prefeitura de Teresina. Membro da Pastoral da Juventude, integra o PT desde 1980. Diretor do extinto Jornal da Manhã, assessorou a então vereadora Francisca Trindade. Em 2003 foi diretor administrativo e financeiro da Secretaria de Educação na gestão de Antônio José Medeiros e a seguir foi superintendente de Despesas da Secretaria da Fazenda nos dois primeiros mandatos de Wellington Dias e titular da pasta no segundo governo do mesmo.

Secretário de Administração no terceiro e no quarto governo Wellington Dias, foi eleito deputado estadual em 2018 e 2022. Em 31 de dezembro de 2022 assumiu, de forma interina, a presidência da Assembleia Legislativa do Piauí, pois Themístocles Filho renunciou ao cargo e ao mandato a fim de tomar posse como vice-governador no dia seguinte. Foi eleito presidente do legislativo estadual no mesmo dia em que seus pares escolheram Severo Eulálio para o comando da casa a partir de 2025, numa decisão sem precedentes.

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Q: script that pre-fills a textfield I'm trying to find a script that will fill a textfield of say an  optin form with a text like 'fill in your e-mail address' and dissappear when click on. I know they're all over the net but searching for it only returns javascript autofill scripts where suggestions are listed from a dropdown below the textfield.

A: HTML5 supports placeholder text, which you can use like this
  <input name="email" placeholder="Enter your email address" />

This will automatically disappear when you click on the textfield. For older browsers, you can use one of the above suggestions.

A: This is what I use on my website Expiringlinks.co. Now, if you only want to apply this to one input, change $('input') to $('#yourinputid'). The input field should have a value field that equals your before text.
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<input type="text" value="Whatever you want to show before the click" />

A: jsFiddle example
Or, a slightly different fiddle that doesn't require an ID on the label, but needs the textbox/label to be wrapped in something, for example a <p> tag.
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<input type="text" name="email_address" id="Email" />
<label for="Email" id="EmailLabel">Please enter your email address</label>

CSS
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jQuery
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    }).blur(function()
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At the end of November I had a trip to North Sunderland for a DAC visit as they want to do some work on the west end of the church.
When I visited in September I got quite a few photos, there are some lovely Evetts windows (look back to see the rest), and another interesting one.
On my last visit I missed the NER benches on the pavement outside. You can watch the branch line in a 1928 silent film on the British Pathe website.
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ISASA's Strategic Plan: 2020 – 2024
At the beginning of last year, the ISASA Council adopted a new strategic plan spanning 2020 to 2024.
This new strategic plan follows the successful completion of the previous one. During the combined conference in 2018, attended by governors, school heads and bursars, ISASA reported extensively on the goals achieved or exceeded in the 2014 – 2018 Strategic Plan.
In the 2014 – 2018 Strategic Plan, ISASA set itself five strategic imperatives, which were to:
maintain and grow the membership base of ISASA
secure an enabling environment for independent schools to survive and thrive
provide strategic and professional support to ISASA members
ensure the sustainability of ISASA, and
promote transformation and diversity.
Grow membership base of ISASA
From 2014 to 2018, ISASA membership grew from 769 to 852 schools. This growth trajectory continues.
Enabling environment of independent schools to thrive
Central to an enabling environment in which independent schools can thrive, is for ISASA to have a constructive and principled engagement with regulatory authorities.
ISASA has established itself as a leader and reliable partner of government to ensure that the independent schooling sector meets the constitutional imperative of offering an education which is not of a lesser quality than that of a comparable public school. With government's duty to provide a basic education, the independent sector is there to alleviate this state obligation.
The relationship between ISASA and the Department of Basic Education is therefore symbiotic. It is from this understanding that ISASA believes that it and its member schools must serve a broader public purpose. Supporting quality independent schools is ISASA's national and regional contribution.
Strategic and professional support to ISASA members
Through its Policy Department, ISASA has distinguished itself as a sectorial expert in independent schooling. Members are able to turn to ISASA for general legal, regulatory and policy advice. They are also informed of regulatory updates that may affect them as they fulfil their mission of providing quality education to their charges. These services offered by the Policy Department are often described as ISASA's jewel in the crown, since no other association in southern Africa provides a comparable service to its members.
The Membership Department is constantly identifying members' needs and finding ways to meet them. This is best illustrated by ISASA's ever expanding professional development offering, which is strongly supported by our Publications and Communications Department. Our workshops are focussed on institutional improvement at member schools. The services offered through membership are favourably comparable with ISASA's international counterparts.
ISASA sustainability
Whilst a well-resourced organisation is central to properly dispensing a mission, ISASA has consistently reduced the cost of subscriptions to its members, all the while improving its services. This has been achieved by increased efficiencies. Through astute fiscal management, ISASA has augmented its resources and is now building an endowment to make itself sustainable in perpetuity.
Transformation and diversity
Long before the issues of transformation, diversity and inclusion were globally topical, ISASA was leading the way due its understanding of the constitutional imperative to discard South Africa's wretched past. As this pandemic has reminded us, we live in a globalised and interconnected world. It is therefore beholden on our schools to prepare humanitarian leaders who are able to be positively animated by difference and revel in our world's diversity. They must be citizens who heal and unite our fractured world.
2020 – 2024 Strategic Plan
It was from this strong basis that the 2020 – 2024 Strategic Plan was developed. The process leading up to finalisation of the half-decade roadmap for ISASA was extensive and collaborative. ISASA is a participative member-led body; as a result, the input and collective intelligence of our constituent bodies was sought. This entailed a membership survey, a detailed document review, and a range of stakeholder interviews and workshops, culminating in a nationwide roadshow, during which time membership could make direct input at the various regional annual general meetings.
It was only after the forementioned had been completed that the ISASA Council adopted our present strategy, in the knowledge that its development had been thorough and reflected the views and wishes of ISASA's diverse and broad membership.
Now ISASA's vision is to continue to lead the independent schooling sector boldly in its pursuit to provide quality education. This has been a mainstay of ISASA since it was founded in its present form in 1998.
Our present mission is to:
provide services in a professional manner to the highest standard, while maintaining an efficient, member-centric operation that is responsive to a dynamic and complex environment
champion independent education as a leader in governance and policy in the sector, while maintaining strong relationships with government and other relevant authorities
promote the sustainability of the sector as the largest, most representative organisation in southern Africa, and ensure the long-term financial viability of ISASA in carrying out its mandate efficiently and effectively
be a thought leader in the sector, pioneering innovation and embracing technology in education in order to unlock the collective intellectual capital of the region, and
be the sector leader for transformation in independent education, while representing, promoting and protecting the common interests of the broader membership.
As can be seen from our present mission, nothing has changed since 2013, when the previous strategic plan was formulated. Service excellence, championing quality independent education, financial sustainability, advocating for transformation, diversity and inclusion are all central to retaining ISASA's leading position amongst independent schools' associations in southern Africa.
There have been only two changes: an emphasis on ISASA being a regional body that must make a concerted effort to attain its mission in all the southern African countries where it has a presence; and the necessity to be innovative in the rapidly changing times in which we find ourselves.
Strategic imperatives
In order to bring to fruition its mission, ISASA's eight new strategic imperatives are:
service and operational excellence
diversity and transformation
regulatory stakeholder management
marketing membership and brand, and
sustainable organisation and sector.
Again, none of these strategic imperatives is new; rather they are a restatement of the earlier strategic plan, only more distinctively stated.
ISASA spent last year undertaking a comprehensive organisational review in order to execute its strategic imperatives skilfully.
I am pleased that the organisational structure that has been implemented will continue the great tradition of service excellence to members.
What the strategic planning processes reminds us of is that ISASA is attuned to its mission and has an incisive perspective on the independent schooling sector. It is intricately associated with quality independent education on the African continent. By dutifully planning and implementing its strategy, ISASA does and will maintain its position as a leading independent schools' association.
Lebogang Montjane
Lebogang Montjane is the Executive Director of ISASA.


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New Book Features Parliament Buildings
To mark the conclusion of the 110th anniversary of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association this year, the CPA has published a special anniversary book showcasing over 180 Parliament buildings around the Commonwealth — including Bermuda — and giving an insight into their varied histories.
A spokesperson said, "The historic Parliament buildings of Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, St Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands and the Virgin Islands [BVI] are featured in this new book.
"The book features a special message from the CPA's Patron, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth, who congratulated the Association on its anniversary year. The Queen has visited almost every Parliament building in the Commonwealth during her long reign.
"The CPA was founded on 18 July 1911 as the Empire Parliamentary Association by Members of Parliament from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Newfoundland and South Africa. 110 years later, the membership of the CPA, which succeeded the Empire Parliamentary Association in October 1948, has grown to more than 180 Parliaments and Legislatures across the 54 countries of the 'modern' Commonwealth. Physically, in their composition and in the way they operate, the Parliaments of today are virtually unrecognisable from the Parliaments of 1911.
"This commemorative book features more than 180 Commonwealth Parliaments and Legislatures at national, state, provincial and territorial level amongst the CPA's membership and includes information about each Parliament, as well as over 350 photographs of their buildings and chambers."
The CPA Secretary-General, Stephen Twigg said: "Over the decades, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association has experienced a transformation in our membership to a more diverse composition which better reflects the people that we aim to represent. During this time, the Parliament buildings of the Commonwealth have adapted to meet the requirements of the modern world, while, at the same time, maintaining heritage buildings and Parliamentary Chambers. This special 110th anniversary book showcases their remarkable histories."
"All of the 180 Parliaments and Legislatures in the CPA's membership will be sent a copy of the book for their Parliamentary libraries. Copies will also be available to purchase from the CPA Headquarters Secretariat.
"Parliament Buildings of the Commonwealth | Published by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, 2021 | ISBN: 978-1-3999-0968-6 | Price: £25 plus postage [plus £5 UK/£15 international postage]
"To view a sample copy of the book please click here. The book is available to pre-order for delivery in January 2022 – please email hq.sec@cpahq.org for details."
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Common Sense for Gun Safety
Posted by MainStream Coalition 287.60sc on October 02, 2017
MainStream has long supported gun safety laws. We believe that reasonable gun ordinances help communities feel safer, and that each community must have the ability to regulate guns as they best see fit. You can see where we stand on our website, but here is our statement on gun safety, "The MainStream Coalition supports the Second Amendment, but affirms that the right to bear arms does not extend to endangering the public. We strongly support local control over firearm and weapons related ordinances and regulations, and believe those regulations should require responsible and safe gun ownership."
In the wake of the shootings in Lawrence this weekend, and then waking up this morning to the worst mass shooting in the nation's history in Las Vegas, we wanted to say few words.
First, our hearts go out to the loved ones of the victims, to the injured, and to those who witnessed these murders. We wish this had not happened, and we work to try to prevent these situations from happening. We work with amazing organizations like Moms Demand Action and Grandparents Against Gun Violence. We educate on the issues around gun safety. We testify and report and talk about it. We encourage all of you to do so, too.
Guns are a complicated issue in Kansas, and often crosses party lines. In our latest voting scorecard, on the vote on HB 2278 to support a concealed carry ban in public hospitals and mental institutions, 33 Kansas state Representatives and 16 Senators voted against it. But not all of those votes were from ultra-conservatives. And that vote was a final compromise after bills to keep concealed weapons out of colleges and universities had failed repeatedly. In fact, looking back to the original concealed carry bill, SB 45 in 2015, that allowed guns on campuses, it passed with bi-partisian support. (See our 2016 scorecard for the votes)
But there are two aspects of guns safety every Kansan can agree on.
Gun owners must be safe owners
To own a gun, you must be able to be safe with it. If you intend to use it to hunt, or for your own protection, you must be able to keep others safe around your gun. Knowing how to safely handle, load, store, and shoot a gun seems like an obvious step. So many weapons fall into the wrong hands, be they criminal, child, or estranged lover, that knowing simple steps to take to secure your guns is just common sense. And yet, in Kansas, you do not need to know how to use a gun, to own a gun. Training seems like an obvious step to ensure that. But with no license required to own a gun, there is no training required to own a gun. Training would save lives. Still, Kansas extremists and their lobby, the NRA, fight tooth and claw to defeat these common sense safety measures.
Not every community is the same
Rural towns in Kansas have different needs than urban ones. Where someone in Scott County may live far from their neighbors, and need a gun for peace of mind, families in Johnson County may fear guns in rush hour traffic, or in the Thanksgiving sales crush. This is why each municipality must have the right to regulate their own gun ordinances. The extremists in the Kansas legislature rise up quickly when the Federal government looks to mandate health care, crying out that Kansas must determine its own needs. And yet, they are just as quick to impose a blanket Kansas ban on cities and towns looking to make their communities safer. This hypocrisy is standard procedure for those who listen to their lobbyists, not their constituents.
These are two simple principles. Our police officers, state troopers, security officers and safety officers put their lives at risk every day to keep us safe. Can't we help them? Our elected leaders, in our cities and towns, in our sheriff offices, and in the statehouse, are charged with our safety. They must act to prevent these kinds of acts. We must tell them we want these, the simplest of gun safety measures.
At our Stand Up, Speak Out event on October 22nd, we will be honoring Judy Sherry for her long activism in many causes. One of those causes is her dedication to Grandparents Against Gun Violence, an organization she founded and led for many years. MainStream, and Grandparents Against Gun Violence, are part of the Heartland Coalition Against Gun Violence, and we are holding a community forum next Monday, October 9th. Register to attend, and learn what you can do to help keep our communities safe.
Gun Violence: Keeping Our Children Safe
Heartland Coalition Community Forum Presents: Nicole Hockley
8:30 am, Mon, Oct 9, 2017
Pierson Hall, UMKC, Kansas City, MO
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Last time, we highlighted the popular tendency in media coverage of psychological research on happiness to focus on what works for extraverts and to brush over the fact that these strategies might not yield the desired results for introverts.
In fairness to the media, this trend is not evidence of some sinister anti-introvert conspiracy; more correctly, it reflects the fact the most high profile research in this area has tended to highlight findings that fall into line with what works best for the extroverted personality type, e.g., being highly sociable and having a wide network of friends and close relationships.
This, in turn, does not mean that academic researchers somehow have a grudge against introverts and are knowingly waving an extrovert flag. On the contrary, it's probably a safe bet that there are more introverts prowling the halls of academia than in most professions, given the sometimes solitary nature of the job, and, indeed, the same may well be true of the media. So, therefore, it's not that some kind of pro-extrovert lobby has infiltrated our universities and newsrooms and dedicated itself to the marginalisation of those dastardly introverts who ruin parties with their tiresome social awkwardness. No, the truth is more mundane and yet more interesting all at the same time. As pointed out in our last post, research into personality suggests there are far more extroverts and extrovert-leaning individuals in the general population than introverts, and so, when researchers look to investigate the correlates of higher happiness and wellbeing, unless they specifically seek to control for personality when recruiting participants, they will invariably end up with a research population made up of more extroverts than introverts, and from there it naturally follows that the results they present will be more relevant to those who are more extroverted.
That does not mean there is no research on what works for introverts, just that there is less of it and it is therefore harder to find… and less likely to get a double-page spread on the feature pages of national newspapers.
So, what is more likely to work for the introverts among us when it comes to cultivating happiness?
Writing at the Psychology Today website in 2011, Susan Cain highlighted how when seeking to distinguish between what's going to work for extroverts and introverts, it can be helpful to think in terms of there being many different kinds of happiness, not merely the happiness of ebullience and joy that can be the default idea in the public mind, with this again suggesting that we think in terms of the extrovert experience when we think happiness. As Cain highlights, this does not necessarily have to be so, and, indeed, for introverts, will at least sometimes not be so.
One of her suggestions is the idea of happiness in "short bursts". Here, she draws attention to the common misapprehension that introverts are loners by nature. Not only is this not necessarily so, but it tends not to be the case. There is a distinction to be made between enjoying time alone and being a loner. There is no reason why some individuals might enjoy company but also value the 'recovery time' of time alone. Also, it is not so much that introverts don't enjoy socialising, it is more that the default version of socialising in an extrovert's world can make the idea of staying at home curled up with a book seem even more attractive! As Cain writes: "Introverts want company just as much as extroverts do, but they prefer it in either short doses or with people they know well." And that sums up the key differences between those two personality types as it relates to socialising. While the introvert can thrive in an intimate gathering or in an encounter that lasts for a relatively short time, sometimes the typical extrovert prefers a night out on the town in loud, busy bars and restaurants and may well stay out until the sun comes up. It's not that one approach is somehow better than the other, it's that people need to understand what's going to give them the most enjoyment and arrange their social life accordingly.
She goes on to echo Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (who first proposed the idea) in noting that the flow experience does not tick the classic, extrovert-oriented happiness boxes. To an observer, someone in the flow state most likely wouldn't look particularly happy – you would see none of the typical markers of joy. Instead, flow is a state of high concentration and absorption, the happy marriage between an individual's talents and interests and the task at hand. In the flow state, we are at one with our activity and feel little in terms of emotion; it is only when we emerge from that state that we reflect upon how enjoyable the experience was. Clearly, the flow state is not limited to one personality type or another; it is something we can all aspire to, and the more time we can spend in flow, then the better it will be for us in terms of happiness and wellbeing.
These are but two strategies for introverts to pursue. There are many others, but the purpose here first and foremost has been to highlight that introverts who aren't attracted to the typical extrovert path to happiness and wellbeing need not despair. Happiness is not the exclusive preserve of one personality type over another.


At the risk of gushing, I am proud of you. I'm proud, because none of you (our clients) called us in panic or concern when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 800 points on October 10.
As I publish this post on October 30, the market remains cranky. Who knows what's in store in the short run? So far, Hill Investment Group clients, I remain delighted over your resolve, your mental toughness, your non-reaction when baited.
Don't get me wrong, I derive no pleasure from watching steep market declines. To an extent, I blame the media pundits. I can barely stomach the way they seize on the short-term gyrations to provide empty explanations. It grates on me to watch them leverage the market's equivalent of a car crash, preying on our human frailties, knowing full well that fear will drive eyeballs their way.
That said, there is rare advice to be mined out of the media. For example, The Wall Street Journal just released an amazing piece by UCLA behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi, "The High Financial Price of Our Short Attention Spans." Dr. Benartzi has so much good advice, I'd have to quote nearly the entire article to share my favorite parts.
Perhaps this subhead will suffice: "Focus on the most relevant information, not the most available." Or this: "Your biggest mistakes will come from overreacting to the latest stock swings, not underreacting." Now, go read the rest (by clicking the link above).
Allocate intentionally. Your asset allocation was a decision we made together, based on the mix most likely to help you achieve your unique goals. Any random day (or month, or even year or few) shouldn't change that.
Diversify globally. Your globally diversified portfolio typically includes roughly 12,000 stocks from the US and beyond. You're already set to receive appropriate exposure to risks and expected returns from worldwide markets.
Rebalance habitually. Rebalancing sounds easy, but it takes guts, and is hugely important. It's as close as we get to leveraging market moves, trimming high-flying asset classes (selling high) and restoring recent underdogs (buying low), according to your personalized portfolio plans.
Take the Long View.® Everything we do is about putting the math on your side. What happens in the short run is tough to predict. But we know what the science of investing says, and we've built your portfolio accordingly.
Combined, these four principles suggest that simple discipline may be the most important ingredient of all in becoming a world-class investor. I couldn't tell you whether we've just experienced a random blip or the beginning of a bigger correction. But I am confident that we've prepared our clients for either outcome, and nearly any other permutation we may encounter.
As Matt Hall touched on in his post, "Exactly Why Fiduciary Matters," Hill Investment Group was founded on the premise that every investor deserves excellent client care, fiduciary levels of advice, and access to well-structured investment solutions. While we've not figured out how to scale HIG to serve the entire planet just yet … we're working on it.
One big step in that direction started last spring, when I was hired to launch Hillfolio, our ground-breaking new digital platform for investors of more modest means. This summer, we soft-launched the program. On October 1, we'll launch it publicly, first in St. Louis and Houston – close to Hill Investment Group's two existing offices – then nationally.
Our alliance with Schwab has been key to the launch.
You'll find additional details about our Hillfolio launch in this press release. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
What's 100 years old, a member of the Hill Investment Group family, and the first and largest of its kind?
A night at The Muny with the Reagan family, plus Rick Hill.
We were pleased to put on the event, enjoyed by a good number of our local friends. What a night it was. Because pictures will capture the event far better than words can, we invite you to stroll over to HIG's Instagram page, where we've posted several other photos of the fun.
Here's to the Muny's next season … 101 and counting!


Be happy with Happy Fox!
Welcome to the Happy Fox family. At Happy Fox we want to give you unique nature experiences and make your holiday superb. Happy Fox is family company situated at Rovaniemi, Arctic Circle by Ounasjoki River. To be in the nature and be a part of it, have always been our way of life. This experience we like to share with you. We are focused on small groups, personal service and a wonderful time together surrounded by pure northern nature. When you are with us, you are part of the family.
So when you are happy The Fox is Happy!
Happy Fox ranch is situated by wild running Ounasjoki River. At our ranch you can spent a day of your life surrounded by pure Lappish forest nature, away from rush and noise! And we are only about 15 minute drive from Rovaniemi center.
We offer nature experiences for all the seasons. At summer you can be a treasure hunter and try traditional gold panning and hear about Lapland gold and the tales and legends about it. Our canoe trips and river boat trips takes you to a beautiful river nature.
You can visit our magical forest at any season, to learn about northern nature, plants and herbs and the life and animals of the forest. You get knowledge of healing powers of the forest and its natural herbs and have an opportunity to follow the making of "nature`s own medicine ".
At summer you can pick berries and taste them straight from bush or if you fancy mushrooms you can pick them and we can make delicious snack out of them in an open fire. At autumn, northern nature shows all the beautiful colors when it is time of Ruska. It is great time for all kind of outdoor activities in the nature. The river sided and the forest is filled with all the shades of yellow, orange and red and forest berries and mushrooms are pipe and ready to pick.
At winter you admire beauty and peace of winter forest or you can have a day full of fun playing in snow and trying traditional winter activities and experience ice fishing trip. You can try also aurora hunting experiences by open fire or at sledge trip on ice of Ounasjoki River.
You can experience sauna and swimming in Ounasjoki River also at winter when you have an opportunity to extreme experience of invigorating ice swimming and after wards relax in the heat of the sauna. You can try barrel sauna on ice and ice swimming or out traditional wooden sauna at Fox Cottage. At summer it is worth to try our floating barrel sauna and invigoration swim in Ounasjoki river.
Our sauna and outdoor hot tub is welcoming you to have relaxing moments with your friends at any season. You can also try herbal spa for your hands or feet. At our outdoor hot tub you can enjoy surrounding forest nature at summer in the light of never setting sun. At winter you are surrounded by snowy forest under the starlight sky and if you are lucky, maybe the Fox show you the Northern lights.
We are all waiting for Christmas. At our ranch you could experience traditional Finnish Christmas or the excitement of waiting for Christmas to come. Find the spirit of traditional Finnish Christmas with us.
Do you know the legend about Northern Lights and that they are called Revontulet in Finnish? That means Fox Fire.
At far north where hills are covered by snow and rivers are frozen, lives magical creature the gigantic Firefox Tulikko.
It is told that the one who catches the Firefox will get all the wealth, power and happiness for the rest of his life. Just a glimpse of the Firefox would be a good omen.
But Tulikko is hard to catch. It is running wild across Lapland and once in a while its fur and tail touches snow and snowy hills sending magical sparkles up to the northern sky. And this is how Northern Lights are born.


For the past few weeks I've been into trying new things/recipes mostly for dinner. There are some things I've made that I'll probably never make again, while others came out great, and they were really easy to make also. Here are my two new oven dishes.Both recipes i found on all recipes, just made some minor changes.
Here I have my oven fried potatoes. I love these potatoes, they were very tasty and crisp. For dinner, I served them with grilled chicken breast and some steamed vegetables.
Here is my oven fried chicken. This was also very tasty. For dinner I served it with some rice pilaf and steamed vegetables. It's a good munchies for afternoon snack and also taste great on sandwiches.
8. Remove form oven, drain on paper towel and enjoy.
I haven't made anything new recently, I'm back in my comfort zone, making my regular yummy Nigerian dishes. Will share some pictures with you next time.


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Nigerian couple facing jail in Houston for enslaving 38 yr old woman!
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Nigerian couple enslave woman in Houston.
I am amazed this kind of things still goes on.So many times we have heard of couples being arrested and jailed,you will think that is enough to be a deterrent,but i guess people always think they are too clever and never learn.
A Nigerian couple based in Houston was arrested yesterday after allegedly forcing a 38-year old Nigerian woman to work as a personal slave while subjecting her to bizarre abuses, including making her strain leftover milk from cereal bowls to use in her
tea, and, in one instance, beating her because she dressed the couple's child in the wrong pair of socks.
According to the Houston Press,Chudy Nsobundu, 56, and his wife Sandra, 50, were arrested yesterday and charged with forced labor, visa fraud, withholding documents and harboring conspiracy after allegedly enslaving the Nigerian woman and forcing her to work as a nanny to the couple's five adopted children without pay.
In addition to physical and verbal abuse, federal prosecutors allege the woman was denied basic living necessities — like fresh food, fresh water for drinking and bathing, and access to medical treatment — and was allowed to leave the couple's five-bedroom house at the end of a quiet Katy cul-de-sac only when she was taking the two youngest children out for a walk.
In 2012, Sandra Nsobundu allegedly contacted the victim, who was living in Lagos, Nigeria, at the time, through a mutual friend and asked her if she would come to the United States to care for her adopted children. The Nsobundus have five children, ages 21, 12, nine and two three-year olds (according to public records, the 21-year old is a registered nurse). The victim signed a "contract" to perform the duties, for which she believed she would earn $100 a month, and soon traveled to Texas using fraudulent identification documents allegedly paid for by the Nsobundus.
Once she arrived at the Nsobundus' home at 6415 Arroyo Hill Court, the couple allegedly threw all of the woman's clothes in the garbage and told her she was not allowed to have her own possessions, including her passport, which the couple allegedly kept locked in their bedroom. The feds claim she was forced to sleep on the floor in the two youngest kids' rooms because, as the Nsobundus told her, she was "too smelly" for the bed.
The victim told investigators with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that she worked 5:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. every day, and was not allowed to watch TV or even sit
down during her workday. She was allegedly not allowed to eat fresh food, only leftovers, and could not even use fresh milk for her tea. Instead, Sandra Nsobundu made her "strain the milk out of the children's bowls of cereal," according to the complaint.
The complaint also alleges that Sandra Nsobundu would physically abuse the victim, who had a "deformed" left arm that didn't heal right after a motorcycle accident in Nigeria, if she did not perform her duties to the Nsobundus' expectations. The victim told ICE that in one incident around Easter last year, Sandra Nsobundu "did not like the socks that she had put on" the youngest child, so Nsobundu dragged the woman down by her hair and slapped her in the face with a slipper. Nsobundu then allegedly told the woman that she would "shoot her and kill her" for not taking care of the kids the way she wanted her to.
Throughout her two years enslaved in the Nsobundu household, the couple would often refer to the woman as "the idiot."
In October 2015, the woman called her bank in Nigeria and found out she had not been paid since she arrived in America, prompting her to seek help escaping from the household.
According to the complaint, in late September 2015 a caller notified the National Human Trafficking Resource Center about the woman's situation. The next month, the woma
fled the Nsobundus' residence with the assistance of a case manager from the YMCA International Trafficked Persons Assistance Program and was taken to a women's shelter shortly after.
Court records show Chudy Nsobundu, a registered nurse, was convicted of a misdemeanor theft in Harris County in 1982, and in Fort Bend this January, he was charged with interfering with an emergency call, also a misdemeanor (that case is ongoing). Other than that, the couple's criminal background is clean in Harris, Fort Bend and Waller counties, as well as at the federal level (except for yesterday's arrest).
The Nsobundus each face a total of up to 60 years in prison and $1 million in fines.
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Even so, the mountain began quick development, beginning with the development of the Blackcomb Benchlands with homes. In 1984, the Jersey Cream lift opened, expanding the mountain down into Glacier Creek and adding more terrain.
Things really began to pick up in 1986 when the mountain was bought by newly-formed Intrawest Corp, which resulted in the addition of the 7th Heaven T-bar, making Blackcomb North America's first, and so far only, mountain with a skiable height change of one mile (1600 m).
The next year, in 1987, the first high-speed chairlifts at Whistler opened. The Wizard, Solar Coaster, and 7th Heaven quad lifts cut the lift ride time from base to alpine from 45 minutes to 15. The Rendezvous lodge at the top of the Solar Coaster opened, as well as two T-bars on Hoarstman Glacier, allowing for summer skiing.
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FINANCE: Google & Co: fiddling and wriggling out of corporate tax obligations
During the last week of January, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced a settlement with the technology giant Google by which the company would pay £130 million to the British tax authorities. This was with regard to ten years of back taxes, apparently at an approximate rate of 3%. (Is that a rate you're familiar with?) Rather smugly, Osborne declared the arrangement to be an "major success" because previously Google had paid no tax at all. As Mark Steel noted in The Independent, if every deal which yielded more than nothing was regarded in this way, a car salesman might say: "I've had another major success. I sold an Aston Martin for £1."
Leaving that aside, there was general disquiet that it seemed Google had pretty much plucked a figure out of thin air (or perhaps from a computer search engine?) to decide how much it was going to cough up. As one leading tax lawyer told The Guardian: "I don't think in the last 20 years or so one can say that governments have driven corporation tax policy. It's the large companies that have driven the direction of corporate tax policy." Indeed. Shell, British American Tobacco and Lloyds Bank paid no UK corporation tax in 2014 (the most recent relevant year) despite total global profits of over £30 billion.
OK, let's just weep about that and move back to the subject in hand. Osborne's initial glee re the Google sell-out (sorry, settlement) was soon dimmed when it was learned that Italy was on the verge of agreeing a similar figure even though Google has only about 10% as much business there as it does in the UK. Then the European Union got involved, pledging to look at what had gone on in the Treasury. Fancy that, hey – the British taxpayer being happy about an intervention from Brussels?
The whole affair will doubtless rumble on. Indeed, by the end of the week the Business Secretary, Sajid Javid, was conceding the arrangement was "not a glorious moment". There's a reverse ferret for you! But there is a different issue here than mere tax avoidance/evasion that somewhat intrigues me. I can see that the business Google is in means they might, just might, be in a unique position to help countries like the UK, such as in fighting terrorism, for example. This has never been claimed by the government, but just park that thought for a moment. And then consider this.
At say £2.25 for a latte, the coffee business is a good place to be; especially if you hardly pay any tax
How come Starbucks has also struck a deal with HMRC? And Amazon? And Facebook? Why on earth does that happen? Because our government is afraid that if we don't play ball with them, all coffee shops might close? No one would buy a book? Mark Zuckerberg might unfriend David Cameron?
In fact, there is another part of the problem, which is where Brussels comes in again; in this case not so admirably. The tax affairs of these 'rogue' businesses are routinely routed through Ireland, or Holland, or Luxembourg. And they, of course, are all members of the EU. That could be the subject of another rant.
February 5, 2016 Robert Green


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Driver enjoyment is a quality we've come to expect from Fords, but the EcoSport is a disappointment. Precise steering is a good start, but you soon realise it feels too light and doesn't communicate what the front wheels are doing. You can actually corner fairly quickly thanks to strong grip from the tyres, but don't expect it to drive like a bigger version of the Fiesta – it feels noticeably taller and leans in corners a lot more as a result.
This is the trade-off made for the EcoSport's high SUV seating position and raised body – but most rivals feel less compromised. Most have a more comfortable ride, too. The EcoSport's ride is pretty firm and bumps and potholes are very noticeable inside, while noise levels from the tyres and wind as it passes over the windscreen and mirrors are rather high.
The EcoSport will be particularly disappointing if you compare it with the new Puma, as the latter is one of the very best-driving small SUVs.
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The cheapest diesel in the range is the 99bhp 1.5-litre EcoBlue engine, which gets from 0-62mph in 13.6 seconds. That is undoubtedly slow, but it has more pulling power lower in the rev range than the petrols. This means that it feels perky when you pull away, but the acceleration tails off very quickly. The 123bhp version is only available with four-wheel drive, and is significantly quicker, getting from 0-62mph in 11.3 seconds.
Ford's award-winning 123bhp 1.0-litre EcoBoost engine is the petrol version to go for, as it has a good turn of speed, taking 11 seconds to go from 0-62mph, compared to nearly 12 seconds for the 99bhp model. The 138bhp version trims almost a second from that time, reducing it to 10.2 seconds, but doesn't feel much faster. We suggest sticking with the mid-range model.
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Why it sometimes pays to aim straight
The penalty shootout between Italy and Germany at Euro 2016 had all the drama you could want. At 1-1 Zaza of Italy blasted the ball over the bar. Then Muller of Germany's poor strike was saved. Italy scored to put them 2-1 up - and Germany missed. The game was Italy's for the taking, but then Pelle hit the ball wide....and so it went on, with Germany eventually winning 6-5. In total, only 11 of the 18 penalties were scored.
One interesting feature of the shootout was that the German players always aimed for one corner or the other. The Italians, however, chose twice to aim straight - and on both occasions they scored. Aiming straight has the huge advantage that you are unlikely to miss the target, whereas aiming for the corner can mean hitting the post (as Ozil of Germany did) or going wide.
What's also interesting is that for all 18 penalties, the goalkeeper made a pre-meditated decision to dive to the left or the right. This made aiming straight an even better strategy, since it meant there was always an empty net to aim at.
My general observation of penalty shootouts is that goalkeepers do indeed almost always opt to dive for one of the corners rather than stand still. I think one reason why they do this is that diving is what goalies do. Standing still as the ball sails into the corner doesn't look very smart, so psychologically there's probably some pressure to be dynamic. If this is the case, why don't strikers opt to aim for the centre more often? The answer is that, again, a striker who aims straight looks a bit feeble if the keeper does stand still and save the ball.
But let's suppose strikers decide to start aiming straight more often. In the short term they will score more goals. But goalkeepers will quickly learn. They will change strategy, and decide occasionally (and at random) to stand still, double-bluffing the strikers. Eventually aiming/diving for the corner and going straight/standing still will reach an equilibrium that gives neither the striker nor the goalie a particular advantage.
What is that equilibrium?
In our book The Hidden Maths of Sport*, John Haigh and I proposed a model for penalty taking. We suggested that if a striker aims straight and the goalie stands still, the chance of a goal is (say) 30%. (You can still score if you blast the ball hard enough). And if the goalie dives, the chance of a straight kick going in is (say) 90%. It's not 100% as you might still kick over the bar, or hit the diving goalie's feet. We suggested that the chance of a goal if you aim for the corner and the goalie dives randomly left/right is (say) 50%, and if the goalie stands still it's (say) 80% - you might kick wide.
You might want to argue with some of those probabilities, but for the sake of argument, let's suppose they are correct. For those probabilities of scoring, it turns out that there is a strategy that guarantees the striker a minimum 63%** chance of scoring. It is as follows: randomly aim for one of the corners 2/3 of the time, and aim straight 1/3 of the time. Meanwhile the goalie can ensure that the striker can't do better than 63% if he stands still 4/9 of the time and dives 5/9 of the time. This is the equilibrium strategy that strikers and goalies should adopt.
That 63% figure may sound familiar. Yes, it's exactly the proportion of penalties that Germany and Italy scored between them in the match: 12 out of 19 = 63% (remember that Italy scored a penalty in the 78th minute.)
Of course there are some who might say this is just a coincidence.
* The first edition of this book was called How To Take A Penalty.
** The success rate of penalties in real tournaments is 70-75% - the chance of scoring when aiming for the corner is probably a bit higher than in our very simple model.
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While it's amazing and awesome to be in your own Profession Mass, it's a Totally Different Experience when you're on the other side o' things; namely, making sure everything goes off without a hitch. Which is the situation I found myself in last night, a mere almost-2 years after my own Profession.
I'm currently serving on my local fraternity's council, and as the Minister (our Order's term for "president" or "superior") and I work closely together on everything, I participated in all the behind-the-scenes grunt work for this Mass, in which two of our Candidates (novices) were going to make their permanent Professions. One of my jobs was designing and printing up copies of the program -- involved emailing the thing around to the other council members for their input, verifying who was doing what, and verifying the music selections with the music ensemble. And then copying/folding/stuffing said programs; about 30 of 'em, which we naively thought (ha-ha!) would be enough.
Mass was at 7 p.m., so the Minister, myself, and the other council members figured we'd show up at 6:30 p.m. to set up/organize/etc. How involved could it be? We usually have Mass at our monthly gatherings, anyway.
I arrived at 6:25 p.m. and lo, nearly everyone else thought it'd be A Good Idea to show up way early, too. Which meant I was pinballing among guests and various secular brothers/sisters ("Oh, hello Sister C! Sogoodtoseeyou! GottaruncatchyouaftertheMass!") while trying to get everything ready.
Why aren't the chapel lights on? Who has the keys for that?
Have you seen [concelebrating guest priest] Fr. J? He isn't here yet? Hey, who's the Dominican friar over there? Oh, he's a guest of Sister B. [one of the two about-to-be-Professed Candidates]. Wait, he's also concelebrating? Why didn't anyone tell us he was gonna be here?! He's not in the program!
What do you mean, Fr. J. isn't doing the Gospel reading? We were told he was -- he's listed in the program for that!
Is Brother D. [a deacon and our also fraternity's Formation Director] going to assist at the Mass or not? Well, can you let me know as soon as Fr. K. makes up his mind?
Hi, Guest. Can you please move back a few pews? These are reserved for the Professed brothers and sisters. Thanks so very much!
OK, Sisters S. & B., you'll sit in the front pew so that you can easily come up to the altar when you make your Profession promises. What? No, don't worry, you'll be cued in on everything.
Sister M., you'll sit next to me, since you're serving as one of the Witnesses for the Order and the Church. Right over there, near the front. See? On the side aisle. Yes, you'll be cued when you have to go up, don't worry.
What do you mean, Brother D. can't serve as the other Witness for the Order? He can't because he's also the Formation Director and that isn't allowed? Well, it didn't say anything about that in the Ritual, how were we supposed to know?! And we've got him listed in the program as a Witness! Who'll be the other witness, then?
We're out of programs already?!
All right, I've put the text for the Welcome, the readings, and the Franciscan Litany of Saints up on the podium. Is it time to start now?
Me: Hey, why is the congregation standing? I haven't read the Welcome yet, and y'all haven't processed in!
It really was a lovely Mass, and folks say it all went quite well; the Minister and I were just too frazzled to fully appreciate it. But, we're told it was great.
Oh, yeah, our Historian managed to set himself on fire while taking pictures -- backed into one of the altar candles. Was unharmed, but his shirt sported a Big Honkin' Hole on the back.
Wow, it is amazing how perception/reality come together when God is involved. Great job on the service and glad that you and the minister were the only 'stress casualties'.
Congratulations to your 2 newly professed members. I've been in your shoes during most of our events, since many of our members are aging and not everyone is ambulatory!
Oh, I forgot to ask -- Barb, did you know about the whole Formation-Director-can't-also-be-a-Witness bit? Do you know where it says that?
I checked again in the Ritual and can't find it stated anywhere. Just don't want to run into the same problem during future Profession Masses.
Thanks for the post, Lisa. You really had me cracking up-it's so close to home. I do this same job for the funerals of our brothers, as well as the occasional profession, and I know just how you feel!
"Brother Deacon, presuming you are of the Roman rite, yes, you must kneel from the epiclesis until the memorial acclamation."
"Forgive me Father, but I didn't know you would pray the 'prayer after communion' not after Communion [where it belongs], but after the announcements."
"Dear brothers, would you please wait until the priests with the cups are ready before you go down for holy communion, so that the faithful are not denied the Precious Blood like last time."
"Concelebrants please sit on the right side of the church, no, not the right side from the clerical perspective, but from the perspective of the building and of the people of God. Thank you for your cooperation."
But, as has been noted, the miracle is that everyone then says how wonderful and organized things are, even after it seemed like such a wreck!
You Franciscans sure know how to party!
Not sure about the formation director thing.
Eeep -- Barb, what do you mean by "Just got some news here that has me shaking in my boots...."?
If you don't feel comfortable posting it here, can you email me (email AT franciscanfocus DOT com)? I'm really curious, now! And a mite concerned.


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Late Revelations: When Our Matriarchs Lose Their Filters
At the age of 90, my mother started speaking very differently about her mother. Her jaw tightened when she mentioned her. "All she cared about is money!" she would say. "She was competing with Rockefeller! She wanted to see how big the number in her bank account could get!" On the dinette table stood a matchbook- size photo of my grandmother's pallid face in a babushka, her dark eyes huge and worried. She seemed, frankly, locked away, pleading to be released. The snapshot had been there, imploring, since my grandmother died 30 years ago. Now it vanished.
Can there be such a thing as selective dementia? My mother's mind remained clear in all other matters. This was baffling.
Her mother, my grandmother, had been a widow who'd supported three young children by working as a seamstress in the Bronx. My mother was only two when her father died of tuberculosis. The family was poor. In my girlhood when I visited my elderly grandmother, half-finished dresses still lay piled on the table. Sometimes my grandmother was on her knees, a visitor on a chair before her, as my grandmother positioned a hem. Later, when she could no longer sew, she made 25 cents an hour stuffing records into record-jackets, alone in her apartment.
"She was a slave!" my mother often said bitterly of her mother, while I was growing up. "She worked from before dawn until midnight."
"Well, what about Saturday?"
"Saturday she went to shul and then, in the afternoon, to Crotona Park."
"Did she read, when she was in the park?"
"Are you kidding? She was exhausted. She didn't read. She sat."
This always surprised me, because I recalled my grandmother's glass-front bookcase crammed with volumes, all in Yiddish or Hebrew. To be too tired to read! I couldn't understand a life that didn't have ample reading.
Mameleh my mother used to call her mother. We lived about eight blocks away. They would sit in our kitchen and drink tea. My mother once forbade me from accepting a quarter from her mother, who needed it. When I saw them, I saw their tenderness. They didn't hug, but they often kissed on the cheek.
And so, in the beginning, and for a long time after, I dismissed my mother's late-in-life negative view of her mother. I once asked a psychiatrist about it. "It sounds so warped to me, this brand new version of her mother. Do you think there's anything to it?"
The psychiatrist frowned. "Well, most people don't wait until they're 90 to start resenting their parents," she said, which I took to mean that if there was actually something to resent, my mother would have found it decades earlier.
So I dismissed this version as nonsensical. But as the years passed—eight, so far—my mother continued to speak of her mother in the same negative way, and I began to concede that there might be something to her version, especially as details emerged. "She didn't care about me," my mother told me. "I had my tonsils out when I was eleven years old, and she didn't come.
There was another girl near me who'd also had her tonsils out. I heard her say to her parents, 'Give my leftover ice cream to the orphan girl'. That's how I seemed. An orphan! So they gave me the ice cream after she licked it."
She also said, "When I was six I had bronchitis, and the hospital sent me to a Catholic hospital in Brighton Beach. I was there months. My mother came to visit only once, at Passover, and brought me a box of matzah. That was the last thing I needed! The other kids were already sticking pins in me for being a Jew! What did I need with matzahs then?"
She'd never told me these stories as a child or young adult. Only in middle-age did I get to hear them. And for many reasons I felt I was lucky to have a mother who'd lived so long.
Because my new understanding is that in advanced age, defenses thin. In old age my mother was giving me a portrait of her internal world as a very young girl. How else to understand a mother who is too busy to give attention to her toddler? She must be money-hungry! Insatiable. How else to understand a woman who doesn't visit, but remains obsessed with her sewing machine? I am getting the version of her mother that my mother experienced when she was a child.
"I never could never find my love for her," my mother told me one night, when I had ordered a glass of wine for her over supper. We were staying at the Marriott on my husband's business points; my parents' apartment had bedbugs, so we shared a bedroom for the first time in our lives. My mother didn't drink alcohol, even at Passover. "It feels like floating!" my mother reported back, laying in the next bed over. "It's a very nice feeling!" Then she confessed to me how she felt about her mother.
Hearing this, my own childhood finally made sense. For my mother had never enjoyed reading to me or, it seemed, paying me much attention. One of the few times she did read to me, The Cat in the Hat borrowed from the Francis Martin Library, she leapt up after six or seven pages, exclaiming, "You have no idea how it dries the throat! How much it hurts!" before she hurried out of the room to the sink.
Why did it pain her so much to read to me? I believe now I know. It sometimes hurts to give what you haven't been given. She was as bored with me in my early childhood as her mother must have appeared to be with her. Happiness seemed a zero-sum game to us both, and if I was happy, I must be taking from her.
I felt quite mediocre, as a child. My accomplishments, when they began in my senior year of high school, came as a surprise to me, and always seemed a fluke. My intelligence, discovered so late due to a lack of early mirroring, seemed extraneous, a fun hat tied to a dull head. But now in my mother's advanced old age, I feel that I have been given a precious lens.
Nor is it only with my own mother that I see this phenomenon of age exposing a person's emotional core. My husband's mother, who in fact does have dementia, often rocks in place, moaning yearningly, "Mama, Mama, Mama!" During her life of cogency she was a loquacious but emotionally aloof woman. Conversation, always filled with laughter and chatter, seemed a method to keep others at a distance. She appeared irritated by others' needs. She was a woman with a voracious appetite, a secret eater, and her favorite thing was to be left alone to read, as my husband jokingly called them, "sagas of Hebrew passion."
But in her mid 80s, when her mind gave way, she started saying "Mama." Now it is almost all she says. I may be making too much of this, but I don't think so. I think she is finally voicing the painful longing that hid behind her obdurate affect. She once told me that her mother advised her, "Nobody wants to hear about you." Her tone at the time was impassive, her story told with a shrug. I couldn't imagine what it felt like to hear that from one's own mother. But now she is showing me.
How grateful I am for these late revelations. They give me pain, yes, but knowledge can be healing. If my mother had passed away before she started resenting her mother, what a loss for us both! Now, what has emerged is ambivalence, for I do believe she experienced for her mother both love and hatred. My mother suffered early deprivations that made her think that a poor woman supporting her family was in truth avaricious and cold, hoarding her assets. Consigned to the hospital ward, how lonely she must have felt, wanting the woman who apparently didn't want her. Back home she was ignored, even neglected, while her mother bent over the sewing machine. A shard of my mother's emotional truth flies down through the years and illuminates my own childhood. I understand now the strange absences that shaped me.
In my earliest years I recall being in a playpen, a crib, or strapped into a high chair, always at a distance from the besieged woman I craved. As an adult I was surprised to discover that "What did you learn at school today?" was considered a standard inquiry. A sense of inferiority—my own mother was uninterested in me—has haunted me, and effloresced in various kinds of mundane masochism that only midlife let me conquer.
But now, discovering my own mother's longing has freed me to feel empathy. Here is the girl my mother was, waiting alone in her hospital bed for the woman who didn't appear. That lonely little girl didn't go away. She's still there. My mother's old age introduced me to her. I take my mother's hand as she sits in the wheelchair. "I love when you visit," she says. "Me too," I answer, truthfully.
When I leave her, I am emptier and fulfilled, enlarged by the echoes of the women in my family, by my mother in the present and the past.
Bonnie Friedman is the author of the bestselling Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life and, most recently, Surrendering Oz: A Life in Essays, which was longlisted for the PEN award in the Art of the Essay.
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