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I am not a magic realist
By Introduction by Rob Spillman
June 11, 1997 11:00PM (UTC)
you won't find any talking trees or heroic, sombrero-wearing peasants in Alberto Fuguet's fiction. This 33-year-old Chilean author of two novels and a collection of short stories is part of a rising tide of young Latin American writers who have turned against the collective voice of magic realism in favor of personal, realistic, apolitical fiction. When his first novel, "Bad Vibes," was published in Chile in 1991, it caused a minor sensation, selling 35,000 copies and triggering a secondary sales boom for the previously banned "Catcher in the Rye." Just out in the U.S. from St. Martin's, "Bad Vibes" centers on Matias, a 17 year-old with a very American jones for sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Matias reads Rolling Stone, loves Holden Caulfield and even though he runs with the cool clique of outsiders within the privileged world of upper-class Santiago youth, he is the embodiment of alienation. "Bad Vibes" is a visceral, energetic read that shatters preconceptions and destroys stereotypes. Like Irvine Welsh kicking down doors for his brash Scottish contemporaries, Alberto Fuguet is leading the charge of Gabriel Garcma Marquez's disgruntled children. Listen up or history will blow by you.
when I was just starting out as a writer at home in Santiago, Chile, in the late 1980s, the nation's premier writer, Jose Donoso, who died late last year, invited me to participate in a workshop to be held at his house, and he eventually became something of a mentor to me. I usually took whatever advice he had to offer. Donoso had taught creative writing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City during the 1960s and always talked about it with great nostalgia and respect. He encouraged me to apply to the International Writers Program there, and after a couple of letters and some string-pulling, I got in, arriving at Iowa from Chile in the summer of 1994 with high hopes.
I had a secret agenda that wasn't really a secret at all: I wanted to take advantage of my being in the heart of the heart of the literary land. And I also wanted get published in the States, the home of so many writers and artists who had inspired me. To be published in English, in a sense, was like joining that group. Iowa City, to me, was the promised land. I felt like a true literary pilgrim, and it seemed altogether appropriate that my dorm was called the Mayflower. I felt I had arrived at last, but I soon found that I still had a long way to go. Unlike most of the other participants, I wasn't out to write a book or get my first novel published. I already had three under my belt. The problem was: They were in Spanish.
My first afternoon at Iowa proved to be a sign of things to come. I was invited, along with the other foreign writers, to a welcome reception. There were people from Nigeria, India, Syria, Malaysia, Burma, Poland and Israel. One of the program coordinators casually suggested it would be great to see everyone in their "native outfits." So, following his suggestion, I went down in an MTV Latino T-shirt (sent to me by a VJ friend), baggy shorts and a pair of Birkenstocks. The coordinators were disappointed, to say the least.
After a few weeks, I began to suspect that I might actually have a chance at getting published in English, even if I didn't have the right outfit. After all, I was Latino, and everything Latino was "hot." Bookstore shelves were peppered with Latino names and colorful dust jackets: Santiago, Alvarez, Cisneros, Anaya, Esquivel, Castillo, Allende, Rodríguez, Viramontes. There seemed to be a Spanish-language wave that I wanted to ride on my South American board. I couldn't believe my luck. I figured that all I had to do was get someone to translate something I wrote, and then my work would speak for itself.
A student translator eagerly invited me to her house one day. She served me some nachos with salsa and put on a Silvio Rodríguez tape (Rodríguez is a pro-Castro Cuban troubadour) in an effort to make me feel "at home." She began our work session with her opinion: She really enjoyed my work, but somehow, she felt, it lacked "magical realism." We worked on it, but the flying abuelitas and the obsessively constructed genealogies didn't seem to fit in my work. Weeks later, the Iowa Review rejected the first story I submitted to them. In a polite letter, I was gently told that it wasn't what they were looking for. In fact, the story I had written could easily have taken place right here, in America, they said.
I got the message. I knew I had done something wrong, and I had the sinking feeling that my North American glory days had come to an end before they had even gotten started. Add some folklore and a dash of tropical heat and come back later. That was the message I heard. So I went back to the bookstores and took a closer look at all those novels with Hispanic authors. Sure enough, they fit the formula. They had done their homework. Each book offered either color-by-numbers magical realism or the cult of the underdeveloped. Sagas of sweaty migrant farm laborers, the plight of misunderstood political refugees or the spicy violence of the barrio. All decent themes, of course, but quite removed from my middle-class, metropolitan Chilean existence. All of a sudden, it hit me: I was Latin American, all right -- I just wasn't Latino enough. My American dreams came to an abrupt end.
Fast forward: Things happened, and a combination of luck, good timing and the right people came into my life. My first book, "Mala Onda," was finally accepted for publication in the United States by a large New York publishing house. Luckily, I found an editor who felt as I did: He was fed up with García Márquez wannabes and is a true believer in cultural realism, a sort of NAFTA-like writing that he felt I exemplified. Great. However, I realize now more than ever that I still somehow don't feel part of the Latino canon. And I wonder if I ever will. But what can I do? My language is Spanish and my home is in South America. How much more Latino can you get?
The thing is, I get suffocated by thick, sweet, humid air that smells like mangos, and I get the munchies when I begin to fly among thousands of colorful butterflies. I can't help it; I'm an urban dweller through and through. The closest I'll ever get to "Like Water for Chocolate" is cruising the titles at my local Blockbuster.
Reinaldo Arenas, the well-known writer and Cuban exile, hit the nail on the head when he attacked the South American literary stereotypes that so-called "developed" countries have fostered. "To write in Latin America is a drama (whether conscious or not), played out beneath the eternal double curse of underdevelopment and exoticism." Arenas feels that Latin American magic realism has degenerated to the point that its dominant theme is nothing more than a desire to pander to the magic-starved sensibilities of North American and European readers. I tend to agree with him.
"The other side of the curse is that of conformity. We [Latinos] ... are [considered] noble savages, simple, passionate beings whose only goal in life is to cultivate an acre of land, and dance the cumbia ... By taking the path of exoticism, and with the paternalistic support and understanding proffered by the Europeans and North Americans, one can easily reach fame and fortune, and, sometimes even the Nobel Prize."
Exactly. Unlike the ethereal world of García Márquez's imaginary Macondo, my own world is something much closer to what I call "McOndo" -- a world of McDonald's, Macintoshes and condos. In a continent that was once ultra-politicized, young, apolitical writers like myself are now writing without an overt agenda, about their own experiences. Living in cities all over South America, hooked on cable TV (CNN en español), addicted to movies and connected to the Net, we are far away from the jalapeño-scented, siesta-happy atmosphere that permeates too much of the South American literary landscape. Julian Barnes echoes this feeling in his novel "Flaubert's Parrot," where his scholarly narrator declares that the entire genre of magical realism should be banished: "A quota system is to be introduced on fiction set in South America," he says. The example he gives speaks for itself. "Ah, the fredonna tree whose roots grow at the tip of its branches, and whose fibers assist the hunchback to impregnate by telepathy the haughty wife of the hacienda owner ..."
Writers today who mold themselves after the Latin American "boom" writers of the 1960s (García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, to name a few) have transformed fiction writing into the fairy-tale business, cranking out shamelessly folkloric novels that cater to the imaginations of politically correct readers -- readers who, at present, aren't even aware of Latino cultural realism. David Gallagher, writing from Chile for the London Times Literary Supplement, considers this obscurity an asset: "These writers don't have an international reputation to protect. Nor do they feel the necessity of submerging themselves in the waters of the politically correct. Since they don't have the advantage of living abroad, they wouldn't even know how to write a PC novel ... they aren't writing for an international audience, and therefore, have no need to maintain the status quo of the stereotypical Latin America that is packaged up for export."
I feel the great literary theme of Latin American identity (who are we?) must now take a back seat to the theme of personal identity (who am I?). The McOndo writers -- such as Rodrigo Fresán and Martin Rejtman of Argentina, Jaime Bayly of Peru, Sergio Gómez of Chile, Edmundo Paz Soldán of Bolivia and Naief Yeyha of Mexico, to name a few -- base their stories on individual lives, instead of collective epics. This new genre may be one of the byproducts of a free-market economy and the privatization craze that has swept South America.
I don't deny that there exists a colorful, exotic aspect to Latin America, but in my opinion, life on this continent is far too complex to be so simply categorized. It is an injustice to reduce the essence of Latin America to men in ponchos and sombreros, gun-toting drug lords and sensual salsa-swinging señoritas. As a character from my second book said: "I want to write a saga, but without falling into the trap of magical realism. Pure virtual realism, pure McOndo literature. Kind of like 'The House of the Spirits,' only without the spirits."
In the past, Latin American writers felt compelled to leave their home countries to be able to write about them. Not only were they seeking political freedom, but cultural nutrition. As expatriates, they idealized their countries to the point that they created a world that never really existed. I feel very comfortable at my desk in Santiago, writing about the world around me. A world that comes to me through television, radio, the Internet and movies, which I send back through my fiction. My Latin American fiction.
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Police Investigate Possible Connection Between Slaying Of 2 Women
By Juan Fernandez January 28, 2012 at 10:50 am
Filed Under:Bree' Anna Guzman, Lincoln Heights, Michelle Lozano, Murder Cases
LINCOLN HEIGHTS (CBS) — Police are planning to investigate whether there's a possible connection between two murder cases.
Investigators have found that two women, both dumped alongside Southland freeways, lived in Lincoln Heights. They said that's one of several similarities they've discovered.
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Michelle Lozano, 17, was found murdered last April. A homeless woman discovered the teen's body in the bushes alongside an offramp of the southbound Sacramento (5) Freeway.
On Friday, police found the body of a missing 22-year-old mother. A Cal Trans crew happened upon Bree' Anna Guzman's body in bushes next to an onramp to the Glendale (2) Freeway.
"I think about her everyday and I wonder who did this because nobody deserves this — nobody," said Lozano's sister Maria.
"The not knowing is the worst part," Lozano's mother Eva Ramos said. "When I saw what happened to the young lady I remembered what happened to my daughter. I know what her mother is going through."
When Lozano's family heard about Guzman's death they were struck by the similarities between the two girls and how they were found.
Both women were young Latina women from Lincoln Heights. They shared similar builds and looks. The two women disappeared during a walk to a nearby store. And both bodies were found left by freeways.
Lozano's sister said she had friends who knew Guzman.
The LAPD told CBS2 reporter Juan Fernandez that it's too soon to make a connection but detectives confirm they will be looking at any similarities as soon as the Coroner completes his investigation in the Guzman case. Investigators said it's likely they'll test DNA samples found on both victims.
"I said to myself, I hope it's not the same guy who's doing this," Maria Lozano said. "But I did think it was a similar case."
At Thursday night's vigil for Guzman several mourners said they suspected her death was the work of a serial killer.
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Home » Music » Kirstie Allsopp quits Twitter after backlash over post about menstruation
Kirstie Allsopp quits Twitter after backlash over post about menstruation
TV star Kirstie Allsopp has left Twitter after backlash over feeling 'troubled' following Adil Ray's tweet about reports of racism at a sports club.
The Location, Location, Location host hit out at Adil as he blasted the 'greatest scandal' in sport, addressing allegations an Asian player at Yorkshire County Cricket Club had his prayer mat used to clean up a woman's period.
The Good Morning Britain presenter wrote: This is becoming the greatest scandal in sport. Another Asian player claims he was 'urinated' on and heard players brag they 'sh**ged a bird…who was on her period and made a mess', and all they could find is a Muslim player's prayer mat to clean it up.
He continued: "Allegations that a Muslim prayer mat was used by Yorkshire Cricket players to clean up the mess from having sex with a woman on her period and players p**sed on an Asian players head are vile.
"We need answers and action now. I fear a DCMS review won't cut it. This is much bigger."
Kirstie perceived the tweet was aimed towards menstruation and urged her fans to take notice, writes The Express.
She typed: "The repugnance towards menstruating women inherent in this must be acknowledged. Two wrongs don't make a right.
"Things can be racist and sexist. They can be wrong on multiple levels. Highlighting a second wrong, does not in any way lessen the first noted wrong."
However, some of her followers felt her reaction was discriminatory.
One fan wrote that although there may be two 'wrongs' being highlighted, there was no aim towards menstruation in Adil's post.
Kirstie then addressed the backlash, by writing: "Twitter used to be a place you could discuss things. I felt @adilray's repetition of comments that illustrated repugnance towards menstruating women was troubling and I said so to him."
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She added: "Things can be wrong in multiple ways and it is daft to argue otherwise.
"Bigots don't pick one thing to be bigoted about and remain paragons of virtue on every other way.
"But Twitter is now full of people who think nuance is a dirty word. Who believes that if they disagree with you on one thing then you must be venal in all ways.
"It's therefore not, sadly, a place for me. I enjoy debate, intelligent debate and exchanges of views, ideas, and perspectives, this is no longer a place for that," she finished.
Her account is still live, but the TV presenter has changed her bio to "Off Twitter once and for all. Determined not to fall off the wagon."
Last summer, Azeem Rafiq alleged institutional racism against the club during two periods between 2008 and 2018.
The club launched an investigation and apologised to Rafiq for being the victim of "inappropriate behaviour" and did not elaborate further.
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'Smuggling' sting sees five arrested
PUBLISHED: 09:30 21 July 2014
Mandy Bishop from North Somerset Council with the seized cigarettes.
CRIMINAL gangs may be connected to the 'smuggling' of thousands of pounds of illicit goods into Weston.
About £20,000 worth of suspected counterfeit goods have been recovered following a major operation across the town, with numerous shops and homes raided.
Police believe the illicit smuggling trade may be funding other criminal activity.
The operation, carried out by Trading Standards, the police and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), uncovered tens of thousands of pounds of suspected counterfeit or illicit cigarettes, tobacco and alcohol.
A 31-year-old Weston woman has been arrested, as were four men, including two 37-year-olds from Weston and Worle.
Another Weston man, aged 34, and a 33-year-old Nottingham man were also arrested. All five were interviewed and have been bailed.
Mandy Bishop, assistant director of operations at North Somerset Council, said: "This illicit trade undermines legitimate retailers, who pay their taxes and abide by the rules and shouldn't have to compete with individuals who sell untaxed and smuggled goods which have often been linked to organised criminal gangs."
The smuggling crackdown was launched on July 7 and recovered 53,000 cigarettes and 5kgs of rolled tobacco worth an estimated £19,000. Alcohol samples were also taken away by HMRC for further analysis.
Officers raided six shops and four homes as part of the operation.
Inspector Sharon Bennett from Weston police station said: "The operation was extremely successful and demonstrates effective partnership working.
"In many cases, money from the sale of illegal or smuggled goods is used to fund other illegal activities.
"Goods smuggled into the country might not necessarily be of the required quality, standard or in some cases even the product or brand they claim to be.
"We will continue to work with our partners to tackle crime such as this, which has a detrimental effect on both our local economy and community."


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Q: Filtering Data Based On Foreign Key - Django I am having an issue dynamically populating form data based on the previous selected field. In my case I have two models one which contains different types of memberships associated to different clubs. Then I have another model which handles registrations for individual clubs.
My problem - when the end-user is ready to sign up the form renders (I already filter out members based on the club they originally selected) but I need to filter the price based on the membership selected (foreign key) of player model.
Below is my model for the membership types:
Model to store clubs available memberships so members can select and pay on registration page
class ClubMemberships(models.Model):

club_id = models.ForeignKey(ClubInfo, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
title = models.CharField(max_length=30, default='')
price = models.DecimalField(default=0.00, max_digits=6, decimal_places=2)
description = models.TextField()

def __str__(self):
    return self.title

Here is the model for the registration:
Model to store player information to be used for membership registration
class Player(models.Model):

club_id = models.ForeignKey(ClubInfo, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
membership_title = models.ForeignKey(ClubMemberships, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
price = models.DecimalField(max_digits=10, decimal_places=2)
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
dob = models.DateField(max_length=8)
email = models.EmailField(max_length=50)
phone = models.CharField(max_length=12)
mobile = models.CharField(max_length=15)
emergency_contact_name = models.CharField(max_length=40)
emergency_contact_mobile = models.CharField(max_length=15)
address1 = models.CharField(max_length=30)
address2 = models.CharField(max_length=30, default='')
address3 = models.CharField(max_length=30, default='')
town = models.CharField(max_length=30)
county = models.CharField(max_length=30)
country = models.CharField(max_length=30)

def __str__(self):
    return "%s %s" % (self.first_name, self.last_name)

Form for player registration:
Form to accept details for members to register
class PlayerRegistrationForm(forms.ModelForm):

class Meta:
    model = Player
    fields = '__all__'
    labels = {
        'dob': 'Date of Birth'
    }
    widgets = {
        'dob': forms.DateInput(attrs={'id': 'datepicker'})
    }

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super(PlayerRegistrationForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    self.fields['club_id'].widget = forms.HiddenInput()

def load_price(self, request):
    membership = request.GET.get('membership_title')
    title = ClubMemberships.objects.filter(title=membership)
    self.fields['price'].queryset = ClubMemberships.objects.filter(price=title.price)

The load_price is an example of what I am trying to accomplish but cannot get it working. I want the form to check the membership selected in the form then filter the price of that membership and display it in the form.
Here is my form in the browser:
Form
Would really appreciate any help as I cannot incorporate PayPal until I can correctly display the price.
Thanks

A: This is an example based on car manufacturer and models.
This javascript is looking for when a manufacturer changes in the dropdown list
$("#id_car_make").change(function () {
    var url = $("#searchForm").attr("data-models-url");  // get the url of the `load_cities` view
    var carMakeId = $(this).val();  // get the selected country ID from the HTML input

    $.ajax({                       // initialize an AJAX request
        url: url,                    // set the url of the request (= localhost:8000/hr/ajax/load-cities/)
        data: {
            'car_make': carMakeId       // add the country id to the GET parameters
        },
        success: function (data) {   // `data` is the return of the `load_cities` view function
            $("#id_car_model").html(data);  // replace the contents of the city input with the data that came from the server
        }
    });

});

it calls this url
    path('ajax/load-models/', views.load_models, name="ajax_load_models"),

which calls this view
def load_models(request):
    car_make_id = request.GET.get('car_make')
    car_models = CarModel.objects.filter(car_make_id=car_make_id).order_by('name')
    return render(request, 'leases/partials/car_model_dropdown_list_options.html', {'car_models': car_models})

which uses this template to pass the model drop down to the javascript
    <option value="">Model</option>
    {% for car_model in car_models %}
    <option value="{{ car_model.pk }}">{{ car_model.name }}</option>
    {% endfor %}

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God-Sized Goals with Tom Moynihan
Juggling and hustling life's uncertainties make the process of living more challenging. Tom Moynihan, the uncle of host Dr. Kevin Pecca, shares how he survived life in a big family. With his God-sized goals, Tom was able to support himself towards becoming a cop, a firefighter, an investigator, and eventually a counselor who helps others live more productive lives. Having been able to balance work and home life, he gives advice to people who are trying to find their way in life – whether with a passion or a new job career. He also talks about the importance of journaling, getting rid of the negative self-talk, and how he helps people take the steps in the right direction.
We have Tom Moynihan. Tom Moynihan is a retired New York City police officer, firefighter, fire marshal, nurse and currently is a personal counselor. He is also my uncle who has been a second father to me and is always there for our family no matter what the situation may be. We talk about the power of having God-sized goals, the power of writing down very clearly your goals and intentions, the gift of asking the world what you really want out of this life and creating your own opportunities. Please welcome Tom Moynihan.
We have Tom Moynihan. Tom Moynihan is my uncle. He is a rock for our family. He's your go-to guy for everything you need. He's been an inspiration and role model in my life. I'm very excited to have him on the show. Uncle Tom, how are you?
Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.
Uncle Tom, where are you from originally?
I was originally born in Queens, New York. I was the number five of six children and from there we lived in Queens Village for a few more years and then we moved out to Massapequa.
You moved out to Long Island when you were about six or seven. What were those early days like for you? Can you remember?
The early days back in Long Island where the men were men and the women were men. It was a little tough. The winters were a little more severe but it was a great place to grow up. It was a great place to get my formal education and it worked out well for me.
What was it like growing up in a big family like that, one of six kids?
The first up is best dressed. You had to learn how to survive, but we were very close. That's the one thing I can say about a big family. It is conducive to staying tight and close up to this day.
What were those early years like for the family? Were they tough? What was it like?
It was a situation where we had a family dynamic where my father had some issues with alcohol and it was very difficult growing up as a child of an alcoholic. I later went to graduate school to get my MSW, and the one question they always ask you when you're coming home from school or if you suspect that a child has a problem with alcohol or drugs at home. You ask him a telltale question is what you can expect when you come home from school at 3:00 in the afternoon and you opened up the door? If you get the deer in the headlight look from the kid, there's something going on at home that you should look into. The home life was very tight-knit. We had a close relationship with all of our kids, but unfortunately, it was overshadowed by my alcohol. We learned to survive. It was survival mode most of the time.
What things did you take from your early childhood that helps you survive those times in the early years into your early twenties and everything?
I think living in an environment like that, there was no violence. There was no abuse. It was the unknown, the uncertainty. Getting involved in sports. I played lacrosse way back when in the days of wooden sticks and iron men. Unfortunately, there wasn't too much participation from my father. My mother was trying to survive and working as much as she could to keep the bills paid and to keep everyone together. The things that I brought from that household was a survivorship mode. We learned to be close. We learned to be self-sufficient. We learned that we had to get whatever we wanted. We all got jobs early. We all looked out for each other, but we all took care of ourselves.
How did the dynamic change when your father passed away at a young age? How old were you?
I was seventeen when my father died. There wasn't too much emphasis on higher education. If you made it out of high school, you were very happy. That was because my parents were the end products of the Great Depression and they survived. They were living on the coattails of that whole depression era. Luckily for me, my role model early on was my brother, Gene. Gene was instrumental in taking a look at a few options in my life. Gene became a New York City policeman. At the time they had a police trainee program going on. It prompted me to take the entrance exam for the New York City Police Department at age sixteen. We had the opportunity to come on board as young as seventeen and you do nonenforcement jobs until you reach the age of 21, and then you automatically got appointed to patrolman at that time.
Technically you were a New York City cop at seventeen?
I was New York City Police training at seventeen. With the passing of my father, that opened up a lot of interesting times in my life.
I'm sure you met some great people with that. I'm sure you had some fun. What was your experience like at such a young age as a New York City policeman?
My first command was down in the narcotics division and I worked in there for a few months. I was asked to join the Community Relations Division, which was a select cadre of younger guys who were all eighteen to twenty. They wanted us to go around and give narcotic lectures in the schools. At the time, The Bronx was burning. There was a lot of heroin on the streets. We were trying to have a group of young police trainees that we could form a relationship with. They trained us, they put us in a formalized training program, and we all became precinct service officers. We worked throughout the city. I did that until I was 21 years old. I entered the Police Academy for my formalized training.
How long were you a New York City cop for?
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I stayed in the New York City Police Department through 1977. I was 25. Unfortunately for me, when I was in high school, a friend of my father was a New York City fire lieutenant. At his prompting, he threw us into the back of his Chevy station wagon one Saturday morning and he says, "You're all going to go down and take the New York City Fire Department test." I think we were at seventeen. We took the test and I took the fire test and I forgot about it. When I was a policeman from 1973 on, we were in the middle of the financial crisis. The city was going broke. There were laid off cops. I got laid off for about three days in 1975 during the fiscal crisis.
Were you married at this point?
Not yet. That's right before we got married in '75. They called us back. They laid off 5,000 people and they called back 2,000 people because they were having some major civil upheavals going on at the time. I wanted to go into the Tactical Patrol Force at that point in time. We worked at 6:00 at night to 2:00 in the morning and we were more or less working high crime areas with high productivity, high activity outfit. We worked in probably some of the toughest neighborhoods in New York City at the time.
You probably saw some things doing that?
I certainly did it. It was my youthful urban education. At that time, I started going to school. I started going to night school. I went to John Jay College. In 1977, I happened to be working in the twentieth precinct up in Harlem. While making the car stop, my partner was going out and talking to the driver of a car from the passenger side. He was getting into a little bit of a verbal argument. I reached down to open up the door and a gypsy kid came and took the door of the radio cart off. Everything broke loose and we wound up taking everybody down the station house and getting things squared away. Fortunately for me the next day, I got letters from the fire department asking me if I wanted to become a New York City fireman.
That's wild how something like that happens and the next day an opportunity comes like it's almost unexplainable.
They say there are no coincidences for all, it's true. From there, I thought about it and I initially turned the first opportunity down in August of '77. I had just gotten married and I wasn't sure if I wanted to be a fireman, but then in November of '77, I had made up my mind and wanted to go. I decided to leave the New York City Police Department and enter the New York City Fire Department.
Why did you want to go to the fire department?
No one in my family was ever a fireman. The motivating factor I had was my supervisor at the time, Bob Leonard. He was my boss. He heard that I had turned the fire department down and he wanted to talk to me. He had me drive in that one night. We drove that night and he said, "You had the opportunity at the fire department." I said, "I was thinking about it, but I'm not sure if I want to go." He said, "Opportunities don't come along in your life that often. You should take another look at that and seriously think about that." We talked for about an hour and he laid it all out for me. I was touched by him actually sharing this with me. I thought about it. He made some good points. He says, "You've got a year to come back. If it doesn't work out with the fire department, you can always come back to the police. There's no time lost." I decided to give it a shot. I went to the fire department and I never looked back.
How was that transition from policeman to a firefighter?
It was like night and day. It was like a glorified boy scout camp. Went to work on Randalls Island every day for a few weeks and we were sliding down ropes, shooting water at buildings and knocking down doors, breaking glass, running around. It was a lot of fun and I miss some of the most interesting, endearing and bravest men I've ever met in my life on that job. I realized that it was a challenge because you are fighting against nature. I never understood that until I got into that position where you had to go and put yourself in some unsafe situations. Using the strength and fortitude of the people that you're working with is a team effort was the motivating factor. You couldn't let your team down. Being one of five guys in a truck company, you learned your job, you learned it well, you went in there and you never let anybody down. You never let anybody alone. You always made sure that everyone got out together. It was a great concept and it worked. It was a great experience for me. I got hurt early on the job. I had a few years in the job. We relocated to Rockaway during a cold February morning. Unfortunately, when we got down to Rockaway, we got into a bit of a situation where I got thrown off the rig, breaking my arm and my knee and I got on sick report for a few months.
You were up on top of the ladder or something. How high up were you?
It was about twenty feet. We lost hydraulics and everything else. It was a towel ladder.
Did you fall twenty feet off the ladder onto the concrete?
Yes, fifteen to twenty feet, something like that. I broke my leg and my right radial arm. At that time, the fire department had a program and they were looking to get more men into nursing. I had thought about that. I had applied for it earlier on. When I was out sick at that time, they accepted me. I started my studies and I started going to nursing school.
What were you going to school for then?
When I was a policeman, I went to John Jay College Criminal of Justice. I went to get my Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Administration Planning. I was looking to further my education. I went to the fire department and they laid it out for me. I said, "That might be an interesting career path." They were looking at getting more men into the nursing field at that point in time in the '70s. They gave us unlimited mutual and made it very easy for us to go to school.
What made you want to go to school because nobody else in your family was going to further their education in college and everything? What do you think it was that made you say yes because a lot of people don't want to do that?
My sister Margie went to nursing school. She became a nurse and I was married to Maureen, a nurse. I thought it might be something instead of just underutilizing my spare time in the fire department and there was a lot of free time and a lot of time off. They had a great chart. I figured I'd utilize that time wisely and I'd go to nursing school and that's what I did.
Attaining God-Sized Goals: Using the strength and fortitude of the people that you are working with as a team can be a great motivation.
You went to nursing school and then after you graduated, were you done with the fire department?
I continued to go to nursing school. When I got back from medical leave, I had taken a test for the fire marshal's office. I became a fire marshal. I was back to police work and I was doing cause and origin and I was an investigative police officer for the New York City Fire Department. I used to investigate arson, fatal deaths and candid investigations. We did a plurality of jobs for the New York City Fire Department.
Did you enjoy that work?
I did. It was very interesting. Most people when you came and talked to them and said, "You have to listen to the fire marshals," they were like, "The fire extinguishers are over there in the corner." I said, "No, we don't want to see the fire extinguisher. You put your hands behind your back, you're under arrest." He knew who we were. It was a great job. It was very interesting to learn about cause and origin. The different colors of the fire, the different colors of smoke and how you reconstruct the fire zone by using an inverted cone and looking to see where the most damages in the building, where the origin of the fire took place. We worked with the NYPD Arson Explosion Squad. Some work with terrorists and also for profit. They had a lot of fraudulent international groups that were coming into the country and they were buying a lot of buildings. They were burning the top floor down and then they got the whole building through insurance. There was a lot of different scams going on at that point in time. It was very interesting working with ATF, the Arson Explosion Squad and the Fire Marshal's Office. We also had a joint Arson Task Force with the State Police. It was interesting pulling all of our collective resources together.
Were that crazy hours working all around the clock or was it 9 to 5?
We did work on the clock. At the time, I was still going to nursing school. They were very accommodating to me. They let me change my tools around. I happened to finished nursing school right as I retired from the fire department.
Are you juggling a family at this point? Any kids?
I think we had three or four kids. The injuries that I sustained from the fire department from that fall that time, they said I couldn't do firefighting anymore. They asked me and they said, "Your firefighting career is over." My careers mended together there and there was this opportunity to go into nursing, which I did. I had a number of different interesting jobs as a nurse also. I worked for a pharmaceutical company. I sold medications at one point in time. I did some private duty stuff. I worked for a bit doing occupational health nursing. I also had an opportunity to work for an insurance company as an insurance medical investigator, which put everything that I was doing altogether. I wore a lot of hats. I was doing investigation for the medical owners doing a lot of different things and I decided to try that. I wound up working for two different companies for over 30 years doing that.
With that job, you're investigating insurance fraud and people that are faking injuries or whatever.
We try to establish a pattern of credible claims and we do pay all credible claims. Naturally, you do find some people that are not as honest as other people are. We do make some proper notifications and the referrals for the bureau and whatnot when necessary. Majority of the time though, we spent a lot of time evaluating people that had been on the claim for a while to see if there's anything we can do as their carrier and to help them through difficult times. That's why you get that insurance.
At this point, you're wearing a couple of different hats at work. You've got a large family. How were you able to balance out everything? Home life, work life, spending time with the kids, paying for everything with the kids. How does that all work? Aunt Maureen had a job too.
She always worked. She worked between part-time and full-time. She went back to graduate school and she became an NP, Nurse Practitioner, in psych. It was a collaborative effort. We had to pitch in. We had a lot of energy because we had six children, and we're always involved in everything. Maura was involved in track, cross country and indoor track. Our son, Tom was involved in wrestling and in lacrosse. Brendan was the same. He was involved in lacrosse and football. They were all involved. I'd say the majority was lacrosse and soccer. Some of them did wrestling, some of them did golf. Terry I think had the most charmed life though. He did golf in his last year and he was a pretty good soccer player. He had a good couple of years in high school. Elizabeth ran, played lacrosse for a while. Everyone was very busy. They were all finding their own way. It was a wild and crazy time, but it was great.
What advice would you have for people that are trying to find their way in life, whether it's their passion or it's going into a new job career? You've had so many different careers over time and you found a way to enjoy them all. How do you think that was?
One more thing that I didn't tell you yet. Being a nurse and having a background or a family history of alcoholism, I was approached to join this program they had. It was the New York Statewide Peer Assistance for Nurses program several years ago. It gave nurses an opportunity that had problems with drugs and alcohol the ability to go into this program and in lieu of prosecution against the license and lieu of discipline. What they do is they will work with them. I joined this as a SPAN facilitator and I've been working in this program for the last several years. It got me into counseling and it got me into thinking about handling different situations. It made my job as an investigator a lot better, a lot sharper because I had a lot of skill sets that I use to do a lot of other things.
It prompted me to take advantage of the company that I worked for an educational assistance plan. I went back and I got my Master's in social work. I liked the type of work. It motivated me to look further into this. I'm working on the SPAN program. I do some private counseling on the weekends and it is very fulfilling. What suggestion would I give to the people that are looking for the future or are unsure? Follow your heart, follow your dream. Never ever let anybody talk you out of it and never let yourself out of it. We are sometimes our biggest critic. "I can't do this." You can. If you put your mind to anything, you could do anything you want to do. It's your desire. It's what you want to make your dominant intention to do. You can do it.
You do some private counseling. What do people come to you with and how are you able to help these people with whatever they're dealing with?
Most of the people come to you because they have an issue, something that's affecting their life. Something that they can't shake. Sometimes it can be drugs and alcohol. Sometimes it could be a family situation, it could be a marriage. It can be having children. It could be a number of things. Some of us reach a point in time in our life where we need help. Asking for help sometimes is the biggest roadblock or the biggest stumbling block that people have to overcome. When they reach a point in their life and they say, "This is not working for me anymore." It's time for you to reach out. When people come to me, I usually let them talk and give them free rein as far as what's bothering them.
The program stems from the writing program with my brother, Gene and I, and all of us were starting a long time ago. It's a combination of goal-focused therapy and also asking people what you want. The majority of people don't spend five minutes in their life trying to figure out what it is that they want because they go through life and they're spinning their wheels. They get up in the morning, they go to work and they ruminate a lot of windshield time. It's a lot of thoughts, but they don't take too much time figuring out what it is that I want. What is going to make me happy? That's why I work with people. I said, "What is it that's going to make your life happy? How would you want your life to be? What changes do you want to make this better?" Open up the doors like that.
How does that work? Do you have them journaling? How does that start and how do they make steps in the right direction?
Some people are better candidates for journaling than others. Some people have that affinity to journaling. A thought is a chemical reaction and when you write it down, it becomes a physical reaction. When you're at school, they always tell you, "If you want to learn something. If you'd want to know something. If you want to be very good at it. If you want to know it and feel it, then write it down." Rewrite your notes. If you can write it down, that means that you know that you got it. There's something about writing down what it is that you want and making your intentions God-size. My God-size intentions are every day, I want robust health. I want financial freedom. I want to send out the best vibration in the world to bring in the best clients in my life. I want to surround my children with light to make them happy, joyous and free. I'll repeat the same thing every day. However, I changed a little bit. I do make changes in my journaling every day. It works for me. If people use it, I use it in my therapy classes all the time. If it works for them, it works for them. It's powerful. Words are powerful and our thoughts become our behaviors.
Attaining God-Sized Goals: A thought is a chemical reaction. When you write it down, it becomes a physical reaction.
Do you write down short-term goals, long-term goals, and when is it important to reassess those goals?
I go look between us and I say, "How would you relate this to work out?" After the initial situation or crisis, depending on what it is, is an address, then we go over what it is that I want on a long-term? The magical question is, "If you wake up and your life will be perfectly fine and wonderful, and everything you wanted in your life was right in front of you, what would your life be?"
That's hard work. You don't just write that down right away. You've got to sit by yourself for a little bit and think about it.
That's why it makes you contemplate your priorities. It makes you figure out what's important in life. From there, it makes it easy to point out any shortfalls that they may be going through. Anything that's not jiving. Is that the best thing for you? How's this going to work out for you? What do you think?
Do you think some people are fearful actually to ask for what they want? Some people may think, "That's too big. I can't ask that." How does somebody remove that?
That's why I say make your aspirations and make your wishes God-size. Don't ask for a little. When you write down that book, this is your checkbook for life with an unlimited supply of currency that you can write anything down you want. The currency will come. Anything you want is going to happen. The funny thing about this, Kevin is, I tell people, "Don't buy it, just try it." I guarantee if you are steadfast and do this for 90 days, your life will change. It cannot help but change. You'll have a couple of moments, you'll say, "What happened here?" I tell people this, "I want you to call me up. I want you to tell me about this when it happens." This is what happens with that very frequently all the time.
You are also probably dealing with some cops, firefighters, whoever may be. You might have some people that are pretty hard headed, getting in their own way, don't want to believe that the journaling is going to help. How do you break through to those people?
I've seen a number of cops and firemen post 911 with PTSD, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Sometimes it's very difficult for them to think clearly and not to have flashbacks and not have the recurrent thoughts. Sometimes somebody journaling what they want is very helpful. Other types of therapy I used to like rapid resolution therapy, which is a combination of hypnotherapy and also deep thought process changes that occur quickly. It's a very interesting type of modality and it helps a lot of people.
It's a week-long course that you take to get certified in that. It includes changing the level of consciousness. If someone has a real problem like with PTSD and stuff like that, the human mind is different than the primal mind. If the zebras were walking in the jungle and see a lion, they go into fight, flight mode and they take off. The only thing that the zebra has to be aware of is it's got to be faster than the slowest zebra. Once it gets past that threat, the zebra goes optimum and they say, "I just made it out of it by the skin of your nose." He said, "What are you talking about?" That's the difference between the human brain and the primal animal brain. Another analogy we use is garbage disposal. A lot of times you put the coffee grinds down there and you turn the faucet on, you grind it up, you throw your egg shells down and you grind it up, it goes through smoothly. That's your thought process. Every once in a while, you get an avocado stuck in that mechanism. Those are the thoughts that bring you problems. These are the thoughts that cause PTSD. These are the thoughts that cause a lot of traumatic events in our lives, sexual trauma, emotional trauma, physical trauma. It sticks in their heads and that's when RRT is very effective.
For people reading this, how does one even start to journal? What do you think should they start with to get the ball rolling?
You can get the book and you can get to think into a book. It gives you a little explanation forward to the book and it shows you how to journal. You can get that online or you can just get a composition book. You can do it on your phone. Start simple. Start with ten affirmations to say what is it that's important in your life. Is it your health? Is it your financial freedom? Is it your marriage? Is it your children? Is it someone or something in your life that's causing you an issue or something that you want to change? Is it a change in your job? Is it changing the direction of where do you want to go? These are the things that you can start small. The only two rules are make your wishes God-size and keep everything positive. You've got an unlimited supply of currency. Whatever you're writing in that it's going to take place whatever you want.
Now that I've heard your story and I'm connecting the dots. It seems like every opportunity you've had, whether it's another job or another opportunity, they've come sequentially without you trying too hard. Almost like it flowed one into the next. How do you explain that? How do you think that came to be?
I've always had an open mind and I've always been the type of person always to keep my ear to the ground. Some people aren't like me, but I've always been conscientious and I've always been looking for, "Maybe I'd like to do that. Maybe that would be good for me. Maybe I could try to look into something else." I've been the type of person that always looks for the next step. Like journaling, things have always come my way. I don't know how it happened. I didn't ask too many questions. It was the right place at the right time. I think it's the right mentality and the right time. That's what it has to do. If you're an up person, if you're a half-full glass all the time, if you keep your positive attitude going on all the time, that helps.
It sounds like you didn't put a lot of self-limitations on yourself either. You always had those God-size intentions and that's definitely served you 100%.
I've always said I also had a very positive family. Growing up, the stuff that we had, we were very supportive of each other. My marriage has been terrific. We support ourselves all the time and we've always helped each other attain the position in our lives we want to get to. When Maureen went back to graduate school and when I went back to graduate school, we always was there for each other and I think that was important.
This is by far the longest I've ever heard you talk about yourself. Usually, when people get a conversation going with you, you're always willing to ask how the other person is doing. You're definitely a listen first, talk next type of guy. I think that's why people are so comfortable opening up to you because you give them a gateway to share everything. Where does that come from and all of that?
They say you have two ears and one mouth for a reason. It helps being a gifted listener. Your father was a gifted listener. We could all learn something from your dad. There's something to be said about listening. There's listening and there's really listening. Looking beyond question and maybe invoking other questions to more or less make an understanding of what they're going through. It helps me when I'm interviewing people. It helps me when I'm helping a client when I'm in therapy with them. Many people are so quick to talk. Sometimes it's good to be quiet and let it all sink in. Silence equals silence a lot of times. We should just listen and it helps. It helps to have a sense of humor too in this world.
I feel like even if another person talks a lot. If you let them talk, they'll end up talking themselves in a circle anyway and you won't have to backlash at them or anything.
Sometimes they can talk themselves out of the problem, especially if you can stop them and say, "What did you just say? What did you mean by that?"
Attaining God-Sized Goals: Make your wishes God-size and keep everything positive.
It's interesting you said that because I was doing a couple of sessions with Jay. I'm the same way as you. I let other people talk. I had it flipped on me and some of the stuff that was bothering me, I started talking about and as I was saying it, I was thinking to myself, "That is such a non-issue." It's almost like when you put it out and you actually see the words come out in front of you, that's not even a real problem. I wouldn't have had that if I didn't say it out loud.
Sometimes you've got to hear from your own ears and be gentle with yourself too. It's nice being gentle with yourself and not beating yourself up. We are sometimes our worst enemy. We have the ability to do a number on ourselves. You have to be kind and gentle with yourself.
Are you saying the way we talk to ourselves? Some people can be very hard, just bad language on themselves. Do you think that takes a toll on a person's well-being after a while?
Without a doubt. Words are very powerful. Thoughts are even more powerful. If you're thinking things about yourself and not being too forgiven, that leaves a lot of issues.
Changing the way you talk to yourself can be a powerful change.
Change your environment. Change the way you are thinking about things. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change, as Wayne Dyer used to say all the time. It's true. If you're in a funk, do something about it. Go for a walk. Take care of yourself. Do something good for yourself. Do something kind for yourself. The people are leaving the session and say, "What are you doing for fun this week? What exactly are you doing for yourself?" Be a little selfish for yourself. Another thing I forgot to tell you, which is paramount is every time I write, I always put I love Tom. The first thing on the top of the journal. If I don't love myself, I'm not good for anybody else.
At the end of every show, I like to ask all my guests, what is one piece of advice that has resonated with you over the years that you would like to share or gift the audience? It could be absolutely anything.
Some of the gifts that I've got from my life are my children. The gifts that I got from them is that hard work pays off. They all have blossomed in their own way. They've all come around. My advice to anybody is hard work pays off. Be kind to yourself. Be the best guy that you possibly can to everyone around you because something is going to come back.
Thank you so much, Uncle Tom. I love you. Thanks for always being there for me. I appreciate all the wisdom you provided for this episode.
You're very welcome, Kevin. I'm very proud of you.
Thank you so much. I'll talk to you soon.
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The New Year always brings fresh beginnings, new perspectives and plenty of resolutions. For companies, it's a time to think about updating processes, platforms and methods so your people and clients can work smarter and more efficiently—and so your company saves money. We have a clean slate, after all, so it makes sense to make changes now before we get too bogged down in our same old ways.


One of my favorites, heres a 1917 Hamilton 996 motor barrel 19 jewel railroad watch. Recently serviced and running strong, bright and clean movement, gold jewel settings, really nice double sunk porcelain Montgomery dial (faint hairlines, see pics) nice bold blue hands, and a glass crystal. Housed in a beautiful mainliner Keystone white gold filled case. Dont miss your chance to own a piece of railroad history.
The item "16s 19 Jewel Hamilton 996 Railroad Watch 1917 Model 2 Serviced" is in sale since Tuesday, January 15, 2019. This item is in the category "Jewelry & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Pocket Watches\Antique".
The seller is "tav396" and is located in West Newton, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped to United States.
Model: MODEL 2 - GRADE 996!


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A EMD SD60 é uma locomotiva diesel-elétrica de 3.800 hp (2.8 MW) com 6 eixos construída pela General Motors Electro-Motive Division. Projetada para puxar cargas de grande peso por distancias longas a velocidade moderadas foi introduzida no mercado americano em 1984, e produzida em varias variações até  1995.

Historia e Desenvolvimento
O desenvolvimento das SD50 e SD60 em meados dos  anos 1970s e começo dos anos 80 foi uma resposta ao lançamento das GE B36-7 e GE C36-7 de 3600 hp (2.7MW) pela maior concorrente da EMD na época, a GE. Em 1980, o modelo EMD SD50 foi adicionado ao catálogo da EMD. Entretanto, a SD50 rapidamente se tornou um "mico"  em termos de vendas devido a sua mecânica de baixa confiança, elétrica complexa e sistema de tração único da série 50, que exigia algumas peças de reposição não compatíveis com as dos modelos 40 e 45. EMD começou rapidamente a desenvolver a série SD60, que melhoraria os pontos fracos da SD50.  Entretanto os desenhos da cabine e casas de motores e radiadores são indistinguíveis se comparados com as ultimas SD50. Mas a SD60 já vinha com o novo EMD 710-G3A de 16 cilindros, Gerador Principal AR-11, Motores de Tração  D-87 e um sistema de controle microprocessado que controla vários sistemas da locomotiva eletronicamente (Ex. Patinação e Amperagem).  Mecanicamente, a SD60 é melhor em economia e eficiência do que a SD50, porem isso não foi o bastante para retomar o mercado perdido e maquiar a mesma elétrica e mecânica de baixa confiança plagiada da SD50. EMD chegou a anunciar que três SD60 poderiam substituir quatro SD40-2, fato consumado realmente apenas com a SD70MAC, quase uma década mais nova.

Variantes
Diversas variantes da SD60 foram produzidas, incluindo:
 A SD60 padrão, que tem frente para a frente curta.
 A SD60F, comprada e operada pela Canadian National Railway, tem um corpo ao estilo Cowl Unit/Cowl Body e possui quatro vidros na frente da cabine.
 A SD60I "WhisperCab" uma variação de cabine que isola a vibração e som usando sistemas de borracha de PU. A mesma cabine foi usada depois na SD70I, SD80MAC e a SD90MAC. Só a Conrail comprou essas maquinas. Tdas elas estão na Norfolk Southern e CSX atualmente.
 A SD60M, primeiras compradas pela Union Pacific com a "North American safety cab", primeiras unidades produzidas com 3 vidros frontais, posteriormente substituídos por apenas 2.
 A SD60MAC uma variação da SD60M de corrente alternada. Ao todo quatro unidades da SD60MAC foram testadas na Burlington Northern provando a viabilidade do sistema de tração AC da EMD, todas as compras subseqüentes foram de EMD SD70MAC.

SD60's Brasileiras
Foram compradas pela EFC duas locomotivas, junto a Equipamentos Villares S. A. (EVSA), subsidiária EMD no Brasil denominadas de SD60M por serem adaptadas a bitola larga (1600mm), sendo que as mesmas foram entregues em outubro de 1991. Foram as últimas locomotivas fabricadas pela Equipamentos Villares S/a antes da sua fusão com a General Electric do Brasil em 1992.

São numeradas como EFC 601 e 602 e ainda encontra-se em operação.

Referências
 Memória do Trem Frota de Locomotivas da EFC.
 EMD SD60

General Motors
Locomotivas diesel-elétricas
Locomotivas da GM
Locomotivas C-C
SD60M

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June 27 – Twelve miles planned for today. It is supposed to be just as hot as yesterday – getting up to 79 degrees! No joke though, when there is not a spot of shade all day, it feels hot enough.
The Yorkshire Dales have been low rolling hills, fairly tame and feature free for the past few days. Not that I want those Lake District mountains back! We met three men from York today who declared this the most gorgeous scenery on God's green earth, so I guess it's a matter of opinion. Here are the remains of a stone circle. I told Jim if he could get the sheep to sit properly, the circle would be easier to see! Also the remains of an old school.
Our sunbrellas were up by 10am.
We ran into Becky and Jerry from California again, and also three New Zealanders we met in the pub a few days ago. Not everyone has passed us by! Here is an empty lake (tarn) bed.
Sheep looking for some shade.
By 2pm, I could feel that my legs were sunburned, despite repeated application of sunscreen. I guess my stride was too long for the shade of the umbrella. Why didn't I wear my long pants today?
Kirkby Stephen (pronounced by the locals as Kirby Steven) is one of the bigger towns we've visited, so Jim was able to go to the chemist's and got me some aloe vera gel and some stronger sunblock for my poor red legs. There is a very nice old church here, (kirkby means by the church) built by the Normans in the 1100s, but it's called St. Lukes, not St. Stephens – a mystery!
Rules for the marketplace 1302!
June 28 – We've been contemplating taking a day off, and today seemed like a good day to do it. Following a lovely breakfast at our B & B, we waited downstairs with the baggage, and when the van came to transport our bags, it transported us too!
In a half hour, we reached Frith Lodge, where we will spend the day and the night. It is so high up that the van dropped us at the edge of the property, and our host met us and drove us (and our packs) a mile further up the hill. Totally isolated, with nothing else about.
Our hosts Neil and Karen made us feel very welcome, and their dog Jess checked us out to see if we'd be dropping any food her way.
They maintain a lovely garden.
A quiet afternoon and a nap made me feel so much better, although my legs are still awfully red. When it was time for supper, Neil let us know that there would be a delay, as the other couple came in late suffering heat exhaustion and the husband had to be put to bed. Unprecedented heat for this part of the country!


A short funny story can sometimes make your day, and my days are filled with short funny stories - original ones - straight from the mouths of my firsties.
First graders can be deep thinkers, too, who are highly opinionated, and more than happy to share their truth with you!
A Bad Grade? Not Me!
Amy was concerned about the grade on her Language Arts test … She thought that I had marked a correct answer as wrong.
So I went through several examples and explained the correct answer to her.
"You do?" I asked, hoping that she really did.
She took pity on me. Hugging my neck, she continued, "Now, you stop worrying ... I JUST catched it."
My class walked past a group of students who were playing outside during their P.E. class.
Martin was babbling to Mrs. Dells, my student teacher.
"Oh, see that boy running with the ball? That's my brother, Cliff. He's in second grade!" he shouted.
"Last year he was in first grade ... just like me. And, guess what! In MY teacher's room. How about that?" he said, as if it were some kind of a miracle.
Gena opened a HUGE chocolate candy bar. And everyone who saw it said, "Ahhhhh …" Then, immediately, they started begging for a piece.
Oooh, was I in trouble? What was she talking about?
"Make them stop, Teacher! 'Cause ... MEMBER? Momma said, 'I ain't EVER 'post to be a-nnoyed!' "


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We have 5,400 lane kilometres (3,300 miles) of roads and 170 kilometres (105 miles) of sidewalks throughout Kawartha Lakes. Read about how Kawartha Lakes funds, builds, repairs and maintains its road network.
New! Community roundtables on Managing our Roads
Kawartha Lakes Council is pleased to introduce a new way of engaging with the community.
Starting late summer and continuing into September, the public will be invited to participate in community roundtables in each of the eight wards. A community roundtable is an opportunity for Kawartha Lakes residents to engage with their elected officials, municipal staff and each other about current topics of general interest.
All roundtables will be open to the public and will be approximately two hours long. Chaired by the Deputy Mayor, meetings will include a round of introductions, a topic overview, a discussion and a section addressing next steps. After each series of roundtables, the Deputy Mayor will create a report for Council including feedback from the public, ideas and recommendations. The topics will vary for each series of roundtables; 2019 will focus on managing our roads.
The new roundtables were announced at a Special Council meeting on March 19 that provided a full briefing on the state of our roads network which spans over 5,400 kilometres (3,300 miles).
"I'm very excited to have discussions with our residents about topics important to them," said Doug Elmslie, Deputy Mayor. "There's no shortage of smart ideas out there. These roundtables are an opportunity to gather intelligence from the community while sharing information about how we deliver municipal services. We want to hear opinions, concerns and feedback on how we're doing and how together we can improve."
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Public Works Roads Depot Master Plan
Notice of Completion - January 30, 2018
Notice of Completion -January 30, 2018
The City of Kawartha Lakes has recently completed a Master Plan: For the Network Design of Roads Depots for the City of Kawartha Lakes.
The Master Plan identifies the preferred number, general location, and size of Roads and Fleet Maintenance Depots, within the City, to achieve productivity, legislative and service delivery objectives over the next twenty-five years. It was completed by following the planning process for a Schedule B Municipal Class Environmental Assessment under the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act.
If there are no requests received within the required 30 calendar days, the City of Kawartha Lakes will proceed with the recommendations made within the Master Plan.
Interested persons should provide written comment, on the Master Plan, to the Director of Public Works, within 30 calendar days from the date of this Notice.
Bryan Robinson, Director of Public Works
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Whatever meat you choose, fresh is always best.
I always love an 8oz patty.
I like Prime Rib and Angus beef burgers..
Cooked on an open flame is best ! No flat top please !
I don't like greasy burgers.
Must be real cheddar (I prefer one slice, but shredded is good too).
Please no American Cheese (i.e. processed).
The bun must be big and strong enough to hold the burger; however, you don't want it to over power the burger. At the same time, you don't want a bun that falls apart.
This is where it gets very particular. Everyone has different tastes, but here are mine.
If I can't get avocado, I will get pickles and onions.
Crispy bacon in 2 rows.
For sauces, the standard mayo is good, but something with a little zing is preferable, like maybe a cajun aioli !
If I can't get avocado, I will get mustard and ketchup.
You don't want a side to ruin your masterpiece, so don't use just plain fries. Cut them thick in house, double fry and season to perfection with sea salt. A house-made ketchup will give you bonus stars!


Bicycles are locked up outside Hopkins Hall on October 19th, 2016.
Bicyclists will soon have an easier time finding places to lock up. The University is adding 1,000 spaces of bike parking around campus.
Renovations to improve bike safety and convenience are underway and will continue through next semester. Facilities and Services is adding U-shaped racks that create room for about two bikes to be locked in place in the same spot.
"The new racks will make it easy for cyclists to lock both wheels and the frame to the bicycle rack using a u-lock and cable," Lily Wilcock, a coordinator at Facilities and Services, said in an email. It was made possible through funding provided by the Student Sustainability Committee in hopes that more convenient bike racks will promote bicycling and have a positive environmental impact.
Facilities and Services looked for funding to make campus more bicycle friendly for years when the SSC offered the grant for improvements.
In October 2014, there were close to 5,500 bikes on the campus. The most recent census from the Campus Bike Center said there were 2,600 bicycles; but there were fewer volunteers to count them this year, so Wilcock thinks there are probably closer to 4,500.
Students are required to register their bikes online, which makes it easier to both find and return stolen bikes and to plan better for future renovations on bike additions, according to the Facilities and Services website. In addition, Champaign County provides resources that can help students learn to properly lock their bikes.
The bike racks will be placed outside of over 20 facilities, including some more populous areas such as the Main Library.
The University was recognized as a bronze level Bicycle Friendly University in 2011 by the League of American Bicyclists for its support of the bicycle community, which was a key part of the University keeping its bicycle friendly environment.
The University is trying to promote a good environment for bikers, but there are some areas on campus that could still use renovations, Joseph Borrelli, a freshman in Engineering, said.
During the renovations students will have other places to place their bikes, but each location will be marked with construction signs ahead of the work schedule.


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Jonathan Harty
How hydrogen can fuel Britain's future
This appeared as a contribution to the Young Fabians Anticipations Magazine
As talk of Green New Deals gather pace and attention on climate change is greater than ever, talk of solutions are too often presented in the abstract. If the Green New Deal presented to the US Congress is anything to go by, progressive plans at their most ambitious are (for now) figurative and lacking concrete framing and substance.
What these various Green New Deals get correct is that preventing climate change is not only a challenge but an environmental and economic opportunity. Inherent in that economic aspect is the question of how our economy is run and what it is – to use a pun – fuelled by.
Hydrogen is the fuel of the future. It's safer and cleaner than fossil fuels and has more potential for large-scale environmental and economic change than battery and hybrid power. To be the answer to the questions posed by climate change, hydrogen must overcome three obstacles. All of these can be overcome with sound policy and a willingness to adapt the British economy to one powered by hydrogen.
First, safety. Like any fuel hydrogen has risks, most of which surround questions of storage. Hydrogen is flammable when mixed with even a small amount of air and committing to it as a fuel of the future will require a consistent approach to ensure safety. This is also the easiest challenge to overcome – because hydrogen is lighter than air. Policymakers can ensure that vehicles are built with emergency valves in the event of a fire and that carbon fibre is used in the construction of storage tanks to prevent explosions in car crashes or damage to production plants.
Secondly – infrastructure – the single biggest challenge and the one where
alternative energy sources such as nuclear and solar have inherent advantages. Electric cars and renewable energy can adapt to existing power grids to store and distribute electricity. There are few large-scale hydrogen production facilities in the world but one of them, Shell's Rhineland refinery, offers a glimpse of the potential for mass-produced hydrogen powering homes and transport. In sharp contrast to the estimated £50billion estimated to build a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point, the cost of refitting the Rhineland refinery for hydrogen production will be about €20million (£17.8million) and will employ 1,600 staff. For £500million – the equivalent of the UK's budget allocation for road maintenance – 28
hydrogen production plants could be built by refitting redundant oil and coal refineries, employing 45,000 people producing the fuel of the future.
Finally, and most importantly to the everyday consumer, is the question of cost. If hydrogen has any hope of being the fuel of the future, it's costs must be brought down in line with fossil fuels and batteries for it to be a viable alternative.
Fortunately, a great deal of research conducted over the past few decades offers hope. Increasingly hydrogen production uses methods that can be done on a small scale, using renewable energy to produce hydrogen. Picture a future where every petrol station has its own hydrogen production plant, and every town and city its own hydrogen power station. This will require investment, but done on a large enough scale, the benefits are incalculable and the risks minimal.
The reason why hydrogen is infrequently talked about as a realistic solution to many climate problems is because governments must build economies around it, rather than adapt economic structures as would be done with solar and wind. But as the threat of climate change gathers pace, policymakers must be prepared to consider radical solutions equal to the size of the challenges we will face. A hydrogen-fuelled economy can and should be an integral part of Britain's Green New Deal.
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Castelbuono (Sicilian: Castiddubbuonu) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily (southern Italy).

It is known for its castle from which its name derives, and around which the city developed in the 14th century.

History
Construction of the Castle began in 1316, by order of Count Francesco I of Ventimiglia, over the ruins of the ancient Byzantine town of Ypsigro, high on the San Pietro hill. Hence its original name, Castello del buon aere ("Castle of good air"), from which the name Castelbuono is derived - literally meaning "good castle".

Numerous drastic alterations were made in the 17th century for reasons of accommodation, when a number of Ventimiglia families moved here from Palermo - the castle never served any really strategic purpose, owing to its geographic position down valley.
The construction presents Arab-Norman and Swabian features: the cube shape recalls Arabic architecture; the square towers, although incorporated into those of the façade, reflect Norman architectural style, as also the battlements; and the round tower recalls aspects of Swabian architecture.

The city is home to one of Europe's oldest road running competitions: the Giro Podistico Internazionale Castelbuono was first held in the city in 1912 and is held annually.

Main sights

The Castle
The construction of the  Castle  mixes Arab-Norman features with others typical of the castles built during the Hohenstaufen rule of southern Italy: the cube shape recalls Arabic architecture; the square towers, although incorporated into those of the façade, reflect Norman architectural style, as also the battlements; and the round tower recalls aspects of Frederick II's times architecture.

The structure is on three floors, the first floor for the servants, with the essential services, the second for the nobility, with the sumptuous Cappella Palatina, and the third for the court and for guests.

The Cappella Palatina ("Palace Chapel") was built in 1683 by the brothers Giuseppe and Giacomo Serpotta, with a great profusion of precious marble, stuccowork, putti, and friezes that commemorate the most resplendent moments in the history of the House of Ventimiglia. Here is kept the holy relic of the skull of Saint Anne, in an urn that acts as the pedestal to the sculpted bust of Castelbuono's patron saint.

There are also the traditional underground dungeons and a tunnel that leads to the Church of San Francesco.

Other sights
The church of Matrice Vecchia was built in the 15th century on the ruins of a pagan temple. It has  a Renaissance portico added in the 16th century, and a central portal in the Catalan-Gothic style. On the left side is a bell-tower with a Romanesque mullioned window culminating in an octagonal spire covered with majolica tiles. The interior of the church, originally divided into a nave and two aisles, received another aisle at the end of the 16th century. It preserves prized works, most remarkably, above the main altar, a splendid polyptych depicting The Coronation of the Virgin , attributed to Pietro Ruzzolone or possibly Antonello de Saliba. On the bottom right is the unusual figure of a Saint wearing spectacles. On the right is a statue of the Madonna delle Grazie by Antonello Gagini. Below the nave is a fresco depicting the Betrothal of the Virgins showing a strong Senese influence in the elegant features and the symmetry of the composition. Some of the columns separating the nave and the aisles are painted with frescoes, including the figure of St. Catherine of Alexandria.

Other sights include:
Church of Nativity of Mary (late 16th-early 17th century)
Church of St. Francis, which has maintained a 14th-century
Church of Sant'Antonino Martire, including the original Gothic portal
Fountain of Venere Ciprea (15th century), which decorated the entrance to the ancient Ypsigro
Civic Museum of Art, located in the castle
Museum of Nature "Francesco Minà Palumbo"

Twin towns
 Sinaia, Romania

References

External links
 Official website

Castles in Italy
Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Palermo
Populated places established in the 14th century


Where Does Wyoming Rank On Higher Educated Residents?
Wyoming comes in 40th amongst the states for least amount of residents who have a master's degree or higher, according to Zippia.
The study was conducted by using the Census ACS data from 2012-2016. They took the percentage from each state of residents who at least have a masters. Wyoming only has 8.76% of residents with a masters degree.
Nearly one-third of Americans have at least a bachelor's degree. Around 11% of American's have at least one master's degree.