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Avoiding a Staffing Merry Go Round
Best Practices for Hiring and Training at Carnivals and Fairs
Cover Story, Slideshow
For over a century, traveling fairs and carnivals have toured America, entertaining communities of all sizes with the combination of lavish shows, great food, fun games and thrilling rides.
There's nothing quite like the excitement and adventure of working outdoors with one of America's premier traveling carnivals. These jobs offer steady pay, great bonding opportunities and the chance to travel around the country.
Jobs at carnivals include electricians, mechanics, ride foremen, ride operators, game attendants, food service staff and CDL drivers, and finding the right men and women for the jobs isn't always easy.
When Jimmi Johnson, owner of Brandon, Fla.-based 1st Class Entertainment needs to staff his concessions operation, he looks for local people to fill spots not covered by his full-time workers.
"If I'm short staffed, I've found the best thing is to place a florescent sign out on the highway letting people know you need carnival workers and I get calls real fast," he said. "If there are ordinances against that, I put the sign on my flatbed truck and put it in a parking lot. I get a lot of college students or people who just haven't worked in a while and they are real receptive to work."
Michael Wood, owner of Wood Entertainment, which provides rides for fairs, festivals, and events stretching from the California Coast to Miami, Fla., including the operation of amusement rides at five of the top 10 fairs in the United States, said it takes about 30 people to operate the rides he supplies at carnivals.
"I struggle sometimes because of the itinerant nature of my business, and of course you need to stay compliant with the local and state labor laws," Wood said. "We used to hire from the local population, we mined for farm boys in Indiana, and recently have turned to a temporary foreign visa program and use South Africans in our full-time staff."
The way the program works, is that the workers come to the United States for nine months and travel with the carnival, earning pay and fulfilling a dream of seeing the U.S.
"Whoever works for us, whether from the U.S. or a foreign country, we need to remember why they are doing what they are doing, and many times it's because they want to see a little bit of America," Wood said. "We give them a realistic work schedule that will allow them to leave the fairgrounds and have some adventures."
As soon as his workers arrive off a plane and fill out their documentation, Wood gets them started on a week-long training session.
"With a good clean conscious, you can't hire someone who's never seen a fairly complex amusement ride and put them in charge in a day's time. You can show them what to do in 30-40 minutes but they need many more hours to feel comfortable," he said. "We train them on how to use the equipment and have a contract with a company that specializes in amusement ride safety and have them come down to train them. After, we will have someone supervise them for 40 hours until we know they can react and handle every situation."
Jason Wagner, co-owner of the 30-year old touring Wagner's Carnival, which travels between the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska setting up numerous fairs and festivals, employs 40 full-time workers, including 16 workers on work visas from Mexico.
"We've been doing that for four years. To begin with, the quality and the reliability of the labor is way, way better," he said. "I find that the majority of Americans want to stay on unemployment or can't pass a drug test. This has worked out great for us."
Training comes in the form of safety seminars as well as individual lessons on each ride, concession stand and all emergency procedures.
"Our employees are trained to operate the equipment, and are tested repeatedly throughout the year," Wagner said. "Our equipment is inspected daily and is watched throughout the day by the operator, supervisor and the owners."
David Grein, owner of Funtime Carnival, an outdoor amusement company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, which operates at fairs, festivals, school carnivals and special events in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, believes in using United States workers and has found success in finding employees through word of mouth and old-fashioned newspaper ads.
Another great option for finding help, according to Jim Houghton, owner of Houghton Enterprises, a Cochranville, Pa.-based touring carnival that visits 30 locations a year throughout Delaware and Pennsylvania, is to advertise on Craig's List.
"In this economy, more people seem to be looking for work and we get the younger 18-25 group and more recently, the 45-55 age group. We're getting a good crop of applicants so we can pick and choose," Houghton said. "We have 10 different training formats, going over each one of the rides and making sure everyone is up for the challenge. We won't let anyone touch anything they are not ready for."
Stewart Bell, general manager of Campbell Amusements, which has been bringing carnival fun to fairs throughout Eastern Canada for more than 45 years, said that he needs 40 employees to handle everything at his shows.
"We generally employ full timers who travel with us, and many of them have been with the company for years and years. We have three people who have been here in excess of 40 years, five in excess of 20 and 10-15 in excess of 10 years," he said. "We will use local people to help erect and dismantle the equipment, but that doesn't require much knowledge or training."
When there is turnover, the company relies on its reputation and doesn't need to worry about posting "help wanted" signs, as it currently has more applications than jobs available.
"Whether they are new or have been with us for some time, in the spring of every year there's a complete training session that goes on for every individual staff member," Bell said. "We have a group of senior employees who lead everything and the section manager will ensure everyone has a good understanding of what needs to be done and the correct way to do it."
Joe Sutton, owner of the family-owned Fountain City Amusements in St. Louis, Mo., carries on average 20-25 employees when he travels to different fairs with his ride concessions.
"A lot of our guys come back because it's like a big family and they just love it," Sutton said. "To find other staff I need, I've turned to the Internet, had success with radio spots and I'll let the fair committee know I'm looking for people and often they will have people interested in jobs."
One of the reasons people return year after year is that Sutton provides extra perks for his employees.
"We might do 10 spots in 11 days, so it gets pretty hectic, so when we get the chance, we do other things together," he said. "I'll take the guys to a movie, we've done canoe trips, cookouts and took a holiday to Six Flags. You want to let them know that you care about them and you'll earn their respect that way."
One problem with workers is that because the jobs aren't high paying, they often attract people who might not take the job too seriously or follow rules too closely. Carnival workers are always expected to be polite to patrons so when someone steps out of line or does something that warrants discipline, carnival owners are quick to talk the problem over to ensure it doesn't happen again.
Wagner makes sure all of his employees wear a Wagner's Carnival uniform, while Houghton expects his workers to be clean shaven, wearing clean clothes and following the rules and regulations that he's laid out.
"If we need to discipline, we give everyone one warning and we feel that's enough in this business," Houghton said. "If they do something that jeopardizes our customer, they may get fired that same night."
Actions that would necessitate dismissal would be not paying attention to a ride when it's operating, being really rude to a customer or constantly flirting with the opposite sex instead of doing their job.
"The biggest problem we have had are cell phones, they are an unbelievable mess," Houghton said. "If we catch someone texting or on the phone, we take it from them until the end of the night. If they do it again, they are finished and I'll have a foreman take over until we can find someone new."
Sutton said he doesn't tolerate bad habits and administers drug tests weekly to make sure no one is doing anything illegal.
"This is my livelihood, so I can't make exceptions," he said. "If someone breaks a rule, like maybe they went off the celebrate their birthday and had a bit too much to drink, I'll tell them to sleep it off, but if it becomes a habit, they're gone. I don't rehab."
Wood revealed that the thing he looks for are employees who treat his customers well and maintain a positive attitude, even when those around him may be acting inappropriately.
"Being in this business is something special and if you're going to work in it, you're going to treat it right," he said. "There's a reason so many people have stayed for so many years." –
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Trump Jr. emails suggest he welcomed Russian help against Clinton
July 11, 2017 Doina Chiacu Article
Donald Trump Jr. stands onstage with his father
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's eldest son eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have information incriminating Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as part of Kremlin support for his father's campaign, according to an email chain released on Tuesday.The emails in the chain were between Donald Trump Jr., who posted it on Twitter, and Rob Goldstone, a publicist who helped to arrange the June 9, 2016, meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, who says she is a private lawyer and denies having Kremlin ties.The email chain's disclosures could provide ammunition for U.S. investigators probing whether there was collusion between the Kremlin and Trump's Republican presidential campaign. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Moscow sought to hurt Clinton and help Trump in the 2016 presidential election."The Crown prosecutor of Russia … offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father," said the June 3, 2016, email to Trump Jr. from publicist Rob Goldstone."This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump," according to the email Trump Jr. posted on Twitter."If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer," Trump Jr. partly replied in the exchange, which he said represented the entire chain of his emails about the meeting.The exchange includes at least one error. Russia has a prosecutor general rather than a "crown prosecutor." A spokesman for the prosecutor general declined to comment immediately.White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters that the president applauded his son's transparency in releasing the emails and viewed him as a "high-quality person," referring all other questions to Trump's and his son's lawyers.Trump Jr. and his younger brother, Eric Trump, run the Trump Organization, which their father headed before going to the White House.
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Why Go to Therapy?
A professional answers teens' questions
Natasha Santos
Many of us have been to therapy, whether by choice or by force. We've sat in a chair week after week talking—or not talking—about our problems. However, we often don't really understand the purpose of therapy. We've come up with our own definitions for our therapists: "That crazy lady who asks all the questions," or, "That man who's always in my business."
At Represent, many of us writers wanted to know how therapy is supposed to work and how a relationship with a therapist can be healing. So last year a group of us interviewed therapist Carrie King, director of the Children's Psychotherapy Project in Brooklyn, NY, to sort out all of the ideas we have about therapy.
Working Out the Past
King was short and slim, empathetic but with a sharp tongue. She told us that most kids in care have been through traumatic experiences and that spending time in a safe place thinking about what has happened to you is important, because traumas can have a lasting impact. Even if years have passed, your mind and body may still be working out an understanding of a traumatic event that happened to you when you were much younger.
Your feelings might come out through harmful behaviors like self-mutilation (hurting yourself) or eating disorders (bulimia, anorexia or binge eating). These are all signs that your mind and body are trying to work out what happened to you.
If you were physically or sexually abused, you might never have fully allowed yourself to experience the feelings associated with what happened. Those feelings can come back in ways that may feel strange to you. For instance, some people develop panic attacks (a sudden feeling of intense anxiety, shortness of breath, sweating and trembling), or hypervigilance (an unusually high awareness of surroundings), or dissociation (a feeling of being separate from yourself and away from your body).
"Kids who are molested grow up wondering if they're good," King told us. "They ask questions like: 'Is who I am good enough? Am I good enough in relationships? Am I good enough as a friend?'" Her message was clear: although the abuse many of us endured was not our fault, it often leaves us feeling tainted, unworthy, or like we're bad inside.
The Risk of Getting Hurt Again
King told us that if you don't come to an understanding of what happened to you in the past, you might put yourself at a greater risk of being abused again. Many times, people who have suffered a trauma seek out experiences that feel similar to those that led to the painful experience. Just as you may replay the trauma in your head, trying to understand what happened or why, you may unconsciously replay the trauma in your life.
King researched factors that affect whether adult women who had been sexually abused in the past were sexually abused again. She found two things: First, because it feels so bad to be abused, some women got depressed and started drinking or doing drugs. "Anyone on drugs or drinking is at a higher risk of being sexually assaulted," King said, because they are not always aware of their surroundings or what's happening to them.
Second, some women feel so badly about themselves because of their past abuse that their vision of who they are and what their body means to them changes. "They lose an attachment to or respect for their bodies," King said. So when there were danger signs, these women didn't take action to protect their bodies from harm.
"A repetition of the trauma (being abused in a similar way as in the past) shows you there's still something you need to understand about how you think about what happened, or what it means to you, and how you approach your body and your life as a result," she said.
Why We Build Walls. . .
Because of betrayals we've experienced in past relationships, many of us feel unsure about getting into new relationships. To protect ourselves from harm, we may build boundaries and walls inside to shield ourselves from people or situations that we fear may hurt us.
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But those walls—like reacting to other people with distrust or hostility—can also make us feel isolated or misunderstood. We asked if it's possible to loosen our boundaries so we can truly become close to others, and how we could go about doing that without making ourselves unsafe.
"You built that boundary because you love yourself and you had the will to survive," King said. "But when the danger is not there anymore, you have to let go of those boundaries." King told us that you can take certain steps to help you rethink how you approach others.
. . .And How to Take Them Down
The first step is to acknowledge that you built those walls for a reason: you needed to protect yourself from danger.
The second is asking yourself, "Why did I build this?" Looking back at what you didn't have as a child (like protection or consistent love) and figuring out if you have it now or not is a lot of work. It means considering your past and seeing how many things in your life have changed, investigating your mind and environment consciously and seeing how safe you really are now.
The third step is to begin to take the boundary down. That's a huge thing to do because you're making yourself vulnerable and leaving the familiar. Say one of your former foster parents abused you by constantly cutting you down. You might have become hostile and untrusting of people, fearing that they will do the same thing. But once you become aware of this pattern you decide to try to let go of your hostility and distrust and connect to positive, caring friends and adults. That's a great goal, but scary. You are leaving the ways of acting that you are familiar with and trying out a new way of relating to people that you hope will be better. But acting more openly might lead to getting hurt again.
When taking any risk, it's best to have someone safe to return to for support and to reflect on the feelings that risk-taking raises inside of you. That's where a therapist can be more helpful than a friend or even a mentor. "It's very hard for a friend to help you feel safe enough to take such enormous risks. In most cases, it takes someone who is trained," King said.
King told us that therapists can often help their clients hear themselves. She gave us an example of a girl who says she wants to settle down, but is constantly going from guy to guy. "I would try to get her to figure out why she's going from guy to guy if she wants to be connected to one person," she said.
A therapist can help you think about your experiences in new ways. "Sometimes you spend so much time in your own head, you lose the creativity of thinking about your problems in a different way. Telling someone else and hearing their ideas on your problems can be good," she told us.
Many of us believed that our therapists' main job is to give advice on the day-to-day goings-on in our lives. But King told us that she is not there to give advice and solve problems; she's there to observe and notice her clients' behaviors and to pay attention to the larger themes in their lives, such as the main emotions they feel, experiences they seek out and patterns of their behavior.
She said therapists are trained to see the big picture. "We try to look for what's behind all the details of a story: the rage, or the fear of being left again, or the worry about what's going to become of you. Those are the bigger things, the big umbrella sort of piece behind many of your stories," she said.
We thought therapists must become bored listening to their clients for hours, but King said even boredom can be useful. "When someone is telling a big long boring story, I use it to think, 'What's happening here? Why am I feeling bored'?" Sometimes people go on and on about something unimportant to avoid talking about something real or important. If the therapist points that out, they can at least talk about why the client is avoiding a more important conversation.
Speaking with Dr. King made therapy seem less scary and threatening. She helped us see that with the right person, therapy is a place where you have the freedom and safety to think and talk about painful experiences in your past, and to get help changing harmful patterns of thinking or acting, so you don't get hurt again.


Justin Easter, Cole Prince and Savannah Walters are the winners of an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. sponsored by Laurens Electric Cooperative. They will travel with other South Carolina students to the nation's capital where they will join more than 1,400 students from across the country. The nation's electric cooperatives sponsor the one-week event each June.
(from left) Justin Easter, Cole Prince and Savannah Walters, local high school juniors, are the winners of Laurens Electric Cooperative's 2017 Washington Youth Tour. They will travel with other South Carolina students to the nation's capital, where they will join more than 1,400 students from across the country to visit with legislators and tour sites of historical significance.
The students attending this year's Washington Youth Tour to represent Laurens Electric Cooperative, called delegates, are Justin Easter, son of Frank and Kathy Easter of Clinton, Cole Prince, son of William and Kimberly Prince of Mountville, and Savannah Walters, daughter of Veronica and Ken Walters of Simpsonville.
The delegates were selected from a group of high school students who completed an application and were interviewed by a panel of judges. They will be among more than 40 other young people from all over the state participating in the tour to the nation's capital city, June 10-15.
Justin Nobles will be Laurens Electric's first sponsored student at the newly created Cooperative Youth Summit, a three day tour of the state's capital, learning about state government and electric cooperatives.
As the popularity of Washington Youth Tour grows, South Carolina's electric co-ops decided to begin a similar program on a state level: Cooperative Youth Summit.
For the inaugural year of the program, Laurens Electric will sponsor Justin Curtis Nobles of Cross Hill on a three-day, two-night event in the capital city Columbia in July.
Students will be housed at the University of South Carolina and engage in activities designed to teach them about electric cooperatives and the co-op business model, as well as how state government works.


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Where should we draw the line between TV and film?
Last week, I finally caught up with HBO's celebrated 2014 mini-series Olive Kitteridge. Adapted from Elizabeth Strout's novel of the same name and told over an expansive four-hour runtime, it's broken into four parts that align with its somewhat episodic "chapter" structure.
Few people would contest the fact that Olive Kitteridge is a mini-series. In terms of narrative scope and format, it's perfectly suited to hour-long segments. Yet in the opening credits, it's labelled as "a film by Lisa Cholodenko". And that feels valid too. Olive Kitteridge has a cinematic feel to it and Cholodenko, whose past films include The Kids Are All Right and Laurel Canyon, clearly brought a Hollywood pedigree to the project.
So with all of that in mind, I began to wonder, where exactly is the line between television and film?
One simplistic and perhaps obvious answer is, "it doesn't really matter." Great art is great art regardless of how or where you consume it. And whether something is distributed as a theatrical film or a television mini-series could very well come down to practical decisions related to its potential marketability on a given platform. When you look at it that way, the division doesn't feel all that artistically significant.
But still, labelling something as "film" or "television" brings certain consequences. In this supposed golden age of television, the line between the two formats is blurring, but many viewers and critics still hold onto the idea that television is "lesser" than cinema. Calling something a "made for TV movie" still has a somewhat withering connotation, even in an age where it's not uncommon for A-list Oscar winners like Al Pacino or William Hurt to star in said movies.
Even big-name talent might not get the same respect for their work on TV. Frances McDormand won an Emmy for Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie for her work in Olive Kitteridge, and in my opinion quite deservedly so. We'll never know if she would have won her second Best Actress Oscar had Olive Kitteridge been eligible for that award (her first being in 1997 for Fargo), but if you were going to introduce McDormand by her credentials, it seems a lot more likely you'd say "Academy Award winner Frances McDormand" rather than "Emmy Award winner Frances McDormand".
It's not all bad news for television, though, since the format obviously also affords some artistic freedom that film doesn't. By having the luxury of taking four hours to track 25 years in its protagonist's life, Olive Kitteridge obviously has the room to fully develop its characters. Who's to say that it would have been so effective pared down to a standard "movie" runtime of half the length?
And it's not as though television is so ghettoized nowadays. Series like Stranger Things or Game of Thrones are arguably bigger cultural phenomenons than almost any recent movie to hit theatres. If the quality is there people will catch on, and with online platforms enabling viewers to "binge watch" hours of content at a time, it seems the tides are turning in favour of longer-format series that fans can get invested in and discuss for longer than a "one and done" standalone movie.
One film that really worked to blur those lines was O.J.: Made in America (which I reviewed here), Ezra Eddelman's nearly eight-hour documentary about the notorious O.J. Simpson. Documentaries have always lent themselves nicely to episodic, multi-hour miniseries, whether it be Ken Burns' lengthy PBS examinations of American history or the Netflix sensation Making a Murder. And O.J. did break into five logical and vaguely self-contained parts to air on television or streaming. But those involved with O.J. stayed adamant that it was in fact a feature film, riding that classification all the way to a (well-deserved) Oscar win for Best Documentary. Some quibbled with the idea of O.J. being a movie, but considering it initially screened at film festivals like Sundance and Hot Docs as a single 463-minute unit, it seems illogical to argue that it's not.
With that example in mind, perhaps the best way to classify whether something is film or television comes down to intent. If the filmmakers envision their work as an eight-hour film, then so be it. There are certainly examples of arthouse and experimental films that run nearly as long or longer, but they'd also never be broken into smaller, more easily digestible segments simply because they lack marketability, regardless of how you dice them up. If we accept those works as "films" at face value, why do we try to "punish" something like O.J. by claiming it's not a film, simply because a studio or distributor took the opportunity to get the film out to a wider audience by choosing an alternative format for their film?
Since we're talking about intent, let's close with some thoughts from one of the filmmakers in question. When asked about Olive Kitteridge's format, Cholodenko had this to say:
"When I saw it back for the first time on a screen, it's got this really lovely title sequence and says 'A Film by Lisa Cholodenko' — and I watched it and I thought, wow does it feel like that? Is that going to be strange?
And then at the end I really felt like, gosh, that really is a film, it was really such a great opportunity to make this four hour film, you know? It does have these chapters but for me it feels very coherent. It's all in the piece and it hangs together and it is like a film. We shot it like a film, I approached it like a film, I think visually it feels like a film and narratively I thought of it as a film with the whole arc: Where does she go, where does she start, does it have a midpoint? All these things weave together — even though they're episodes — into a bigger picture."
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NYMPHAEA 'Eve's Solitare'
Jessie Keith
(Eve's Solitare Waterlily, Tropical Day-Blooming Waterlily)
The day-blooming tropical waterlily 'Eve's Solitare' is a free-flowering cultivar with iridescent blue or violet-blue petals. These fragranced, flat flowers are held above the water surface and begin to close in the early evening around sunset. The pollen-carrying anthers in the flower's center are light and dark blue, and lavender. This waterlily has round, green floating leaves with prominent dark red splatterings. Leaf undersides are green and purple. They are supported by flexible olive green...
NYMPHAEA 'Gloriosa'
Mark A. Miller
(Gloriosa Waterlily, Hardy Waterlily)
The hardy waterlily 'Gloriosa' is a very free-flowering cultivar with cup-shaped, lightly scented, bright red flowers held above the water surface. The center is filled with stamens colored yellow and orange-red. This hybrid has oval, green floating leaves that emerge light purple with dark purple blotches. Leaf undersides are purple-brown with lighter green veins. They are supported by flexible purplish brown stems that arise from a thick rhizome growing hortizontally in mucky soil below.
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NYMPHAEA 'Graziella'
(Graziella Waterlily, Hardy Waterlily)
The hardy waterlily 'Graziella' is a very free-flowering cultivar with color-changing flowers held above the water surface. Its innermost petals are yellow with orange tints, and outer petals are light yellow with a green patch. Over the course of three days, the flower itself deepens its colors, ending up orange-yellow. This 1905 hybrid has nearly round, green floating leaves with new leaves appearing with purple speckles. They are supported by flexible stems that arise from a rhizome growing in...
NYMPHAEA 'Green Smoke'
(Green Smoke Waterlily, Tropical Day-blooming Waterlily)
The unusually-colored day-blooming tropical waterlily 'Green Smoke' is a free-flowering cultivar with inner petals green-yellow with blue tips and outermost petals fully blue. These pleasantly fragranced, cup-shaped flowers are held above the water surface and begin to close in the early evening around sunset. The pollen-carrying anthers in the flower's center are golden yellow with green tips. This waterlily has oval, green floating leaves with faint blotches of purple. New leaves are bronzy pink...
NYMPHAEA 'Hermine'
(Hardy Waterlily, Hermine Waterlily)
The hardy waterlily 'Hermine' is an exquisite free-flowering cultivar with star-shaped, lightly scented white flowers held above the water surface. The flower center is filled with yellow stamens. This 1910 hybrid has heart-shaped, olive green floating leaves with bronze-purple undersides. New leaves have a bronze casting. They are supported by flexible bronzed stems that arise from a thick rhizome growing hortizontally in mucky soil below.
Waterlilies require full to partial sun and sites with...
NYMPHAEA 'Isabelle Pring'
(Isabelle Pring Waterlily, Tropical Day-blooming Waterlily)
The day-blooming tropical waterlily 'Isabelle Pring' is a very free-flowering cultivar with creamy white flowers that is viviparous, bearing small live plants from its leaves. The large, fragranced, star-shaped flowers are held above the water surface and begin to close in the early evening. The pollen-carrying anthers in the flower's center are yellow. This waterlily has green floating leaves with purple spots and toothed margins, or edges. They are supported by flexible bronzy green stems that...
NYMPHAEA 'James Gurney'
(James Gurney Waterlily, Tropical Night-Blooming Water Lily)
The night-blooming tropical waterlily 'James Gurney' is a free-flowering cultivar with rich coral-rose petals and orange pollen-carrying anthers in the center. It is a classic cultivar, first debuting at the turn of the 20th century. These pungently scented, large flowers are held above the water surface and open around sunset and close around noon the following day. This waterlily has large, floating reddish dark green leaves with scalloped or cut edges. They are supported by flexible stems that...
NYMPHAEA 'King of Siam'
(King of Siam Waterlily, Tropical Day-blooming Waterlily)
The day-blooming tropical waterlily 'King of Siam' is a true double-flowered cultivar with impressive deep blue petals. These nicely scented, flat-star flowers are held above the water surface and begin to close in the early evening around sunset. This cultivar is sterile and lacks the many anthers and stamens in the flower center. This waterlily has oval, green floating leaves with reddish purple undersides. They are supported by flexible pinkish brown stems that arise from a rhizome growing in...
NYMPHAEA 'Leopardess'
(Leopardess Waterlily, Tropical Day-blooming Waterlily)
The day-blooming tropical waterlily 'Leopardess' is a free-flowering cultivar best regarded for its attractive floating leaves. Its flowers are blue with purple-tipped petals and are only slightly fragrant. The cuplike blossom opens in the morning and closes by sunset. This waterlily has nearly round, purple floating leaves with green blotches. Leaf undersides are green with innumerable purple spots. They are supported by flexible, dull brown stems that arise from a rhizome growing in mucky soil...
NYMPHAEA 'Lone Star'
(Lone Star Waterlily, Tropical Day-blooming Waterlily)
The day-blooming tropical waterlily 'Lone Star' is a free-flowering hybrid with rich, light purple petals that have a satiny sheen that fade to lavender. These vanilla-fragranced, symmetrically round and wide flowers are held above the water surface and begin to close in the early evening. The pollen-carrying anthers in the flower's center are purple. This waterlily has deep yellow-green floating leaves with purple-green undersides with green veins. They are supported by flexible, maroon stems...


Although it may seen difficult to conclude with the current cloud hovering overhead, there was actually a moment in time when you could procure a desirable pair of sneakers with a single hundred dollar bill. In fact, depending on your choice, you might even get some change back. Maybe even enough for a couple pairs of socks, laces, or whatever your local sneaker shop pitched when you arrived at the register. Those days, however, are long gone. A good pair by present standards will run you at least two Franklin's after tax, possibly more.
Some point the blame for this meteoric price increase squarely at the admixture of hip hop culture and high fashion, a budding genre for all intents led by its valiant hero, Kanye West. Among the early sneaker aficionados with an inkling for the finest points of fashion, West gallantly led this charge – bringing together two worlds that not so long ago only admired one another from a far. Now, though, that union has birthed a child, and that child with many offsprings of its own. West – the most robust and densely dispersed figure of this budding class – imprinted his footing first by way of sneakers. Thus, the cost structure surrounding his collaborative releases ultimately set the stage for all we see today (even if he didn't set them), and what's on the horizon.
Tomorrow marks the release of the adidas Yeezy Boost 350 "Black," undoubtedly one of the most anticipated sneakers of the year. The shoe will retail for $200, a far cry in cost structure from what many believe to be a Nike Roshe Run competitor. Considering this follows the $350 adidas Yeezy Boost 750 – a subtle yet daring leap in sneaker cost – we thought it timely to chronicle the pricing history of Kanye's collaborative footwear catalogue thus far.
Following the unreleased Nike Air Max 180 "College Dropout" sample which was inspired by West's debut album of the same name, the "Dropout Bear" Bapesta acts as Kanye's first official retail release. And while no one will attest to an earth shattering reception upon release, this rarity cemented that fact that West would design things, the designs would be good and we'd want more of them. Dropping in very limited numbers – which now proves a very telling strategic effort – the shoe quickly rose to legend status, almost like a time sake for a moment in culture where West's fashion sense and musical intrigue were otherworldly for the space in which he then, and now, holds firm as a dominant luminary.
On bended knee, in all black, emotional as ever, a grieving Kanye West debuted the Nike Air Yeezy at the 2008 Grammy Awards. Offering the first clear viewing of the "Grammy" sample, Kanye had produced a provocative, daring and sporty shoe wholly foundational to anything that had come before. The progressive build leaped beyond current trends and defied conformity with effortlessness. As did the $215 price point. Now, to be fair, it wasn't utterly insane to pay $215 for a limited pair of sneakers in 2009 when the inaugural colorway hit retailers. More than anything else, it was simply that this was his first with Nike – almost as if to say, "this shoe is so good we could have priced it at $315, but we'll start here." Instantly the industry had been ignited, reinvigorated. And artist collaborations would almost never again mirror inline cost structure.
If you take nothing else from Kanye West for Louis Vuitton, know that he reinvented what Run DMC had executed to perfection decades prior. Wear a shoe, support a brand, even nickname yourself after them, and ultimately you might get a deal out of it. Kanye West x LV was monumental for hip hop and sneaker culture. It was the first time that a major fashion house had given, in this case, a kid from Chicago an opportunity to collaborate on a shoe. Mind you, one with no industry credentials, design school degree or significant financial backing. West, again, had broken new ground. Yet, what many thought was incredibly lofty pricing for the collection was completely in line with Louis Vuitton price points for previous athletic-inspired footwear. Ranging from $840 upwards to $1,140, Kanye was raising taste levels while cost shifted in accordance with that hike.
With a three-year interval for the follow-up to the Air Yeezy 1, and alleged turmoil between West and Nike over design immunity, it's debatable that the Air Yeezy 2 is the most anticipated sneaker of all-time. Similarly, it's also among a select minority of sneakers that lived up to the hype following unprecedented apprehension. Even with all that, the shoe only increased $30 in cost with relation to its forerunner. There's also the fact that it was now 2012, and performance basketball sneakers (think LeBrons) alongside a beckoning lifestyle market (think Balenciagas) align in expenditure. I mean, let's be honest, the "Red Octobers" could have retailed for $300+ and sold out just as fast.
When EPMD pleaded "Rap is Outta Control" on Business As Usual, the duo's third studio album released in 1990, it was a courageous decree about where the once humble genre had ventured – seemingly a place pioneering characters hardly recognized. That brings us to current times and Kanye West x adidas. Some would proclaim that "Sneakers Are Outta Control," with prices that validate such assumptions. Truthfully, the easily apparent union between sneakers and art should mute that claim entirely. Thus, the adidas Yeezy Boost 750 retailing for $350 shouldn't offend in the slightest.
Like hip hop, there has always been a desire from some to devalue what we hold most dear – our culture. The sneaker community, unfortunately, is not free from this devaluation. Why can't a work of art be priced based on timed honored worth? Why isn't our art revered like more traditional depictions? Kanye recognizes this fallacy and has spoke about it at length. And even though he'd certainly like to see cost decreased to create some type of uniformity and greater accessibility for things that are, but shouldn't be, considered exclusive, our cultural valuation is limitless. Accordingly, our artifacts should reflect that monetary worth through and through.


Chris Lynn and Travis Head are in danger of being axed from Australia's World Cup plans after captain Aaron Finch conceded the failing top order is "one-dimensional".
Glenn Maxwell is also fighting to justify his place, with selectors to consider an overhaul that will bring Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb back into the reckoning and set up the likelihood David Warner and Steve Smith will be immediately rushed back in when their bans expire.
Finch included himself in the list of batsmen under pressure, but the skipper and Shaun Marsh topped the averages and runs in an otherwise dismal calendar year that will go down as the worst in Australia's mostly proud ODI history.
The last-minute decision to swap around Head and Lynn in the batting order for Sunday's series-deciding loss was proof that neither are safe for Australia's next 50-over series against India in January where Finch has promised the entire style and strategy of the side will be under review.
Finch defended Lynn's potential as a World Cup wildcard, but the Big Bash enforcer has now played 18 white ball innings for Australia without a half-century as selectors search for multi-faceted batsmen who can do more than clear the fence.
Lynn failed to replicate his explosive domestic form on the international stage this series.
"I think that if you look at our line-up on paper at the moment you'd say that it's an attacking side and it's a fairly one-dimensional side in terms of attack versus workers of the ball and your traditional batsmen," said Finch.
"That's no disrespect to any of the players … but we haven't got it right for a while and that does expose you in the middle-order at times when you come up on different wickets or against a really good attack who get on top of you early.
"We have to either adapt our game plan a little bit around the way the side is structured, or we slightly change our personnel to fit a style we think we can win.
"It's two months until the next one-day games against India so that will be a really good opportunity to sit down and reassess and really start mapping out that process of how JL (coach Justin Langer) and the leaders think we can be the most successful in this format."
Head, Maxwell, Lynn and Marcus Stoinis all average less than 30 in ODI batting this year in a season where Australia have a worse record than any other team in the world.
Leading analyst Kerry O'Keeffe has bemoaned the lack of "rhythm" players in Australia's order, with Khawaja and Handscomb the best credentialed batsmen to rectify that problem at least until Warner and Smith are available to be rushed in for the World Cup.
Finch said the rising pressure on Head and Lynn applied to others as well.
"It's not just them, it was myself included. Between us we made about 150 runs for the tournament in three key batting positions, two opening and at No.4," he said.
"We're all under pressure when we lose. There's going to be questions asked of all of us.
"That was disappointing from all of us. For Chris this is only his fourth (ODI) game today. He's still relatively new to international cricket. He's been around domestic cricket and various tournaments for a long time but international cricket he's probably just still trying to find his feet a little bit and work out (that balance).
"The way he played in the JLT Cup (domestic competition) this year was exceptional as leading run-scorer.
"For a guy who hadn't played one-day cricket for a long time that was really positive. The way he can turn a game. We saw it briefly in Adelaide where he flicked the switch against (Kagiso) Rabada. Yes he got out but he changed the momentum of the game totally.
"That's still definitely a thought going forward."


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Q: Adding row to relational table - linq to sql I have 3 primary Tables -  Picture, Album and Collage. Collage and Album can have 1-many pictures. Pictures do not have to be in Album to be added to the Collage.
To define their relationship, I have AlbumPicture and CollagePicture tables.
My problem is when I try to add picture already uploaded to the Collage and hence to the CollagePicture table. It throws primry key violation error on PK_Picture since picture already exists.
CollagePictures.InsertOnSubmit(new CollagePicture {Collage = CollagePicture = existingPic});

I need to add one record in CollagePicture for existing picture and new Collage. Is there any way I can tell linq to not add picture if it already exists?
I am new to Linq and still learning.
EDIT:
sorry If I was not clear.
I assign PK to Picture as GUID when Pictures are uploaded. In CollagePicture I already have this pictureId with different collage
e.g.
CollagePictureId [PK]= 1
CollageId=1
PictureId = 1234567890123456

Now I want to add same Picture with different CollageId say,2. When I try to add anything to CollagePicture it tries to add to the Picture table as well. and that is when I get an exception. Hope this will clear things up.

A: I finally made it work..
Instead of this
CollagePictures.InsertOnSubmit(new CollagePicture {Collage = Collage, CollagePicture = existingPic});

It should be
CollagePictures.InsertOnSubmit(new CollagePicture {Collage = collage, CollagePicture.PictureId = existingPic.PictureId});

When you add an object to the relational table entity it adds the object in primary table as well. so just referencing Id makes sure that it does not do anything to the primary table.
It was easy and I should have tried that before..but Thanks for everyone's help though.

A: What primary key do you have on CollagePicture table? It's not really clear, what do you want to do when inserting new entry to CollagePicture. Do you mean that you add the existing picture to an existing collage? If so your primary key should be (PictureId, CollageId)

A: Without a detailed view of your data model, it's really hard to take a guess.
If you correctly configured your relations and LINQ to SQL, you could do something like the following:
collage.Add(Picture);

That way LINQ to SQL would add the right rows to the tables.
To check if the picure already exists in the Collage, you would do something like this.
collage.Pictures.Where(p => p.ID == pictureID).Count() > 0

A: If the PK of existingPic is 0 (assuming type int) then it is new, else it already exists.
if(existingPic.pkColumnId == 0)
  CollagePictures.InsertOnSubmit(existingPic);

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okay well guys im officially too inactive on this damn site.
if you want to keep in touch, please join my discord server.
bc her and my friend were all over eachother all the time and i mentioned that it made me uncomfortable and they both blew up on me and started attacking me. they called me a bunch of names and said i was a hypocrite.
then they tried to apologize and i blew up on them for blowing up on me.
its a whole big mess.
i loved them so much.
"ive had two more aunts on me"
"an art crawled up my arm"
lmao ill stream later tonight.
I only read the page that sink said she was pregnant, so i dont know if you all ignored that entirely or not and if so, thats no good.
Congratulations sink, I'm sure you'll make a fantastic parent.
And Jem, im so glad hes alright.
Everyone else, im sorry that so many things have been going down lately. Ive said it before and ill say it again, you guys are more than welcome to message me on any of my social media accounts if you need to. They can all be found in the link hub that is in my sig.
Omf that happens to me all the time though.


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The Business Benefits of the National Broadband Network.
by David Klemke on January 18, 2012
There's little doubt in my mind that the National Broadband Network will be a major benefit to Australia, way past the investment we're making in it. It's one of those rare pieces of legislation that will almost certainly outlive the government that started it and the Labor government should be commended for that. Indeed something like the National Broadband Network is almost a necessity if Australia wants to keep pace with the rest of the world in a technological sense as otherwise we'd be stuck on aging copper infrastructure that really doesn't have any legs left in it. Still whilst anyone in the IT or related sectors would agree that the NBN will be good for business it's not entirely clear what those benefits will be.
News.com.au ran a story this morning that pointed to research showing only 30% of Australian businesses had a "medium to high" understanding of the benefits available to them through the NBN. Making a few assumptions here I'm guessing the survey didn't ask actual questions to gauge their true understanding so it's likely that that number is actually a lot lower than the survey lets on. I'll admit that for a non-technical person, who was likely the one answering the survey, the benefits of ubiquitous high speed Internet for your business are not entirely clear especially when the Internet they have now is probably doing them well enough.
The businesses geared to make the most of the NBN are ones with multiple offices spread throughout Australia. Right now getting a good inter-office connection, whether a full WAN or just some trickery using VPN tunnels and a regular ADSL, is either an expensive or complicated affair. The NBN will provide high speed interconnects at prices that many businesses will be able to afford. This means you'll be able to get almost 100MB connections between offices giving you LAN like speeds between disparate offices. It might not sound like much but even small government agencies currently struggle with this (I've worked for more than one) and the boost in productivity from better connections between regional offices is very noticeable. This would also extend to remote workers as well, since it's highly likely that they'll have NBN access as well.
Having a large connection also enables businesses to move services out of expensive hosted data centres and onto their own premises. Right now it's nigh on impossible to host client facing services internally unless you want to shell out a lot of money for the business type Internet plans. The NBN will bring data centre level speeds to almost every home and place of business in Australia enabling current businesses the opportunity to migrate inwards, saving on rental and administration costs. Sure the facilities they have might not be as good as what they can get elsewhere but the cost savings of not using a co-located service (believe me, they're not cheap) would be more than worth it.
There's also a host of services that are currently infeasible to operate, due to their high bandwidth use, that would become feasible thanks to the NBN. Such services won't be available immediately but as the NBN reaches a threshold of active users then we can expect either local innovators to create them or for current Internet giants to localize their services for Australia. Predominately I see this taking the form of cloud based services which are accessible from Australia but have yet to have local nodes due to the lack of supporting infrastructure. This would also help cloud providers crack into that ever elusive Australian government sector which has remained resistant due to the restrictions placed on where their data can be stored.
The NBN will also bring about many other ancillary benefits due to the higher speed and ubiquitous access that business will be able to take advantage of. Indeed the flow on effects of a fully fibre communications network will have benefits that will flow on for decades for both businesses and consumers alike. Realistically this list is just the tip of the iceberg as over time there will be numerous services that become available in order to take advantage of our new capabilities. I personally can't wait to get onto it, enough so that moving to one of the fibre enabled locations is tempting, albeit not tempting enough to make me move to Tasmania.
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The National Broadband Network: The Diamond in an Election Turd Sandwich.
by David Klemke on September 10, 2010
I think I speak for a lot of Australians when I say I was tired of this election 2 weeks ago. I didn't have the same buzz I had 3 years ago when I made my way to the ballot box, eagerly waiting to cast my vote that would bring the change that Australia desperately needed. That night was filled with elation as my prime minister of choice was elected and Australia's future started looking a lot brighter. The next couple years were a tumultuous time but we came through the other side with nary a scratch on ourselves. However Rudd's non-negotiable stance on several key issues rubbed people the wrong way and the Liberal attack dogs were let loose, utterly destroying the once high approvals that Labor once had. In the end we ended up in a position where neither party really won the election and we're now stuck with a minority government and 3 years of pork for a few regional seats. There's really little good to come out of this election.
Still there had to be a winner and it was the Labor government. You'd think that by my glowing recollection of the first years of the Labor government that I'd be happy about this but in truth I'm indifferent. I voted for the Greens this year because they aligned with my ideals the best out of the lot, but they were still far off the mark for a lot of their other policies. Don't think for a second that I was just voting for them because I was disillusioned with Labor; I voted below the line on this one ensuring all my preferences went exactly where I wanted them, not where the Greens thought they should. Still it mattered little for the electorate I'm in, but that's just how it goes in representative democracies.
Probably the only good thing to come out of all of this is the fact that the National Broadband Network will not be scrapped in its infantile stages and will live on for the next 3 years. I commend the Labor government for initiating this project as the time frames are far past that of their current term (and then some) showing that they at least have some long term vision for the future, even if it's only in this one area. The good news is that should they not win the next election the NBN will be far enough underway that cancelling it would be political suicide and it will keep on rolling until its fully realised. There's still a chance that it might get scaled back or mucked with in another way by a future government but 3 years is long enough to secure the vast majority of its infrastructure to ensure that a good majority of the original NBN idea gets implemented within its original time frame.
However the NBN hasn't come out of this election turd smelling of roses either. As funneling pork to the regional independents was key to securing this election for the Labor government the NBN, which would eventually bring significant investment to the regions anyway, has been rescheduled to first target regional Australia. Now it's really here nor there on whether this is a good or bad thing in itself, I mean I'm all for them working out the bugs on the regional folk before rolling it out here, but the highest value places for the NBN are the CBDs of major cities. Rolling out to the regions first means that Australian businesses will be waiting longer to make use of these upgrades, potentially stymying them for a couple years. It's not that big of a deal, but it does open up the potential for criticism when the NBN is only delivering on its promises to a small subset of Australia.
There's also been an increased amount of scrutiny and criticism levelled at the NBN due to its increased visibility in this election. During its construction the NBN is going to require up to 25,000 workers to get it all rolled out by its current deadline of 2018. According to industry union estimates there are only 7,000 workers in Australia right now that are capable of performing the required work and their estimates show that there will be a shortage of 10,000 workers over the course of the NBN's implementation. Such a skills shortage does mean that there will be an upward pressure on wages in this particular industry and that has the potential to increase the projected costs for the NBN. Most of this has already been taken into consideration however and I believe the potential impact to the project should be minimal if action is taken to address it immediately. It's unfortunate that Australia has a tendency to be so xenophobic when it comes to migrant workers as there's more than enough skilled labor overseas that could be imported for the required duration.
Can't imagine how the unions would feel about that one either… 😉
Strangely enough one of the most common criticisms I've heard has come from my IT cohorts who say that the NBN goes too far with its planned implementation. Their reasoning is mostly based on the fact that the Internet they have now is quite adequate and there's little reason to overhaul the network. However this does not take into consideration that the current copper infrastructure can not scale in the same way a fiber network can and whilst their broadband is fast enough now it won't be in 5 to 10 years time. Additionally such a network would make Australia quite attractive to overseas technology companies looking to trial new services, especially those coming out of the United States. This has the potential to build Australia's service industry up for the time when our natural resources run dry and our current source of economic success is cut off.
The counterpoint many of them use is that wireless technologies are rapidly and will render a cabled network useless. Indeed the LTE specification is designed to give peak performances that are very comparable to that of the NBN and there have been demonstrations of the technology to that effect. However the amount of work to implement such a wireless system on the same scale as the NBN requires investment on almost the same level. The wireless towers would all require a fiber connection back to the dark fiber back hauls in essence requiring a scaled back NBN that did fiber to the node. Additionally none of the towers in Australia are equipped to broadcast on the frequencies required to achieve speeds comparable to that of the NBN, somewhere on the order of 2.6GHz (most carriers are on the 850/900/1900/2100MHz bands). There would also be a need to increase the number of towers to ensure adequate coverage, further increasing the cost required. In the end the argument that a wireless NBN is the cheaper and better alternative is nothing more than a distraction, it's just not as viable as a national fiber network.
It's no secret that I've got a lot invested in the NBN idea, what with my dreams of starting up my own private data center in my basement so I can host all my web applications cheaply. But the NBN is so much more than that and whilst I might be unhappy with the way the election turned out this year I'm glad that the NBN didn't get the chop. The next 3 years of pork barrel politics will be long forgotten when the NBN finally reaches its goal of bringing extremely fast Internet to the vast majority of Australia's population and I can't wait to see it happen.
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This post is written by my daughter. For the prelude to her story, read here.
It's taken nearly a year to heal my broken heart—to relive the rich memories with a song rather than sorrow lacing my heart.
It's been nearly 11 months since I left with a group of students from Liberty University to spend the summer in Guatemala. While there I had the opportunity to learn Spanish, live with a host family, and revel in one of God's sweetest gifts to me—the chance to work in an orphanage.
We did ministry by serving the Guatemalan people in various ways. I saw pain, suffering, and poverty. I saw people who had nothing. I saw teenagers who weighed a mere 40 pounds from lack of food. I saw a woman with Down syndrome living in a trash heap. I saw a boy with epilepsy whose bed was nothing more than the ragged and worn hole of a hammock he shared with his other siblings.
But I also saw joy amidst the sorrow and healing among the brokenness. As I was serving in the orphanage I was honored with the sweet and precious gift of loving these children—the forgotten ones. These little ones had a cot to sleep on and tortilla and beans for their bellies but didn't know a father's love or a mother's touch. For me, that is where the difference lies.
The street children and sickly kids may not always have a full stomach or a spacious home, but they have parents. They have someone who loves them—who is willing to go days or weeks without food so that their children might have a bite to eat. Some may argue with me, but I find it hard to discern which is worse— go without food, or not know the love of a mother or father.
The first day at the orphanage, I held a 3 year old in my arms named Andy. Instantly, I knew the warm truth that trickled deep into my soul: he was mine. I believe God draws different people to each other. He drew this precious bundle of laughter and mischief to me. I visited him in the baby house every day. Going on walks, we giggled, tickled, played, laughed and chased each other. All the little things little boys do.
When he said that, how could I ever go home?
I don't know why God drew me to this certain child. Maybe it was his crooked smile, or the way he would jump into my arms when he saw me. Or how he begged me to just watch him play soccer for hours. Or the way he would take my hand and off we went to play marbles, cards, or just sit and talk. Other children could sit on my lap, but only if he knew where I was. Maybe it was because he reminded me of my own three little brothers who are now too old to sit in my lap. I don't know, but what I do know is that he needed to be loved and that was something I could do.
For a time, I honestly thought I would never leave.
I was having the time of my life. My favorite compliment was when people asked me in Spanish if I was "mixed," thinking I was half-Latina because of my tanned skin and dark features, but knew I wasn't because of my blue eyes. I would proudly reply, "My Grandpa's Italian" and beam because they thought I fit with the culture I was becoming a part of. I even got use to the rats and bugs. They didn't bother me so much. I loved the simplicity of life there—the relaxed atmosphere, the friendliness and love of the people, and not having access to modern technology.
The week before I had to leave, I hardly slept. I couldn't believe the time had come. I'll never forget whispering in Andy's ear "Te quiero muchisimo mi niñito" (I love you little one) knowing he wouldn't understand that the next day I wouldn't be coming back. Saying good-bye to the other kids was painful, especially when Julio, my treasure with the twisted leg, looked at me and said "Adios preciosa" (Good-bye dear one). As soon as he said that, I kissed him, and walked down the mountain because if I hadn't I never would have. Tono was the good-bye I was dreading. He buried his head in my stomach, squeezed me tight and we said good-byes.
I came back to the U.S. and cried every single day for the next month. My heart had never been more broken.
Life went on. I went back to school. There were days when I would weep on the floor of my dorm, crying out to God asking, "Why?"…. Why what? I didn't even understand the questions in the depths of my heart. But God heard them and he allowed me to go back for 2 weeks in January.
The highlight of that trip in January was spending time at the orphanage. I saw the precious bundles of joy that I had missed every second I was gone. Once again, I kissed, cuddled, tickled, chased, and played hide and seek with my baby Andy. I held Elias while we watched a movie. I held tightly to Julio (the boy with the twisted leg) as we jumped on the trampoline the orphans had gotten for Christmas. I told Leydi and Alexa they were beautiful, I tucked Marcos into bed and kissed his sleeping cheek.
He is just ten years old.
These last few months, God has been faithful as he has graciously helped me release the bitterness and anger at Him in my heart for tearing me away from these precious kids. It was only when I acknowledged my bitterness and anger toward the Lord that my heart began to heal. It was only after this happened that when I looked at pictures of the children I could smile and remember instead of cry.
Now I have a joy in my spirit instead of sorrow in my heart.
The little children go to Jesus, not me. They are His and not mine. He loves them more than I do or ever could. Instead of mourning a loss, I celebrate the fact that Jesus knows each one of us and our needs individually. He is taking care of the children; He only used me to help him for a time, but what a blessing it was.
If you are a parent, hold your children close and tell them you love them because there are millions of kids out there who do not have parents—little girls who will never have a daddy to tell them they're beautiful and little boys who will not know a mother's loving touch.
I write this in faith that I am going back. I don't know when, where, or how but God has told me I am going back. I claim that promise. In the meantime, I pray for the precious ones and trust God knowing that He is loving them and meeting their needs in a greater way than my simple love ever could.
How are you living that out in your own life today?
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God bless your heart of abundant love and courage. You shared a priceless gift to God's children that society has forgotten. I knew the heartbreaking feeling of seeing these innocent children who are growing up hungry, deprived of basic needs, no parents to guide them, yet when they smile, they smile like they have sunshine in their hearts. I work in a government hospital in the Philippines before coming to America. Now I ask myself if I did the right thing. One day, I hope to go back and serve in whatever way I can. I hope my prayers will be heard soon.
Thank you so much for reading and for sharing your heart that is captured by the human spirit. You have a tender heart I always see in your writing, too. Thank you.
This post is absolutely wonderful!! It's left me in tears and with a heart full to go love on my 5 little people! Brenda it's obvious God's done a work thru you in raising your daughter! And Kaylee thank you for sharing with maturity beyond your years! I trust God will continue to work thru you in amazing ways! Thank you both for sharing!!
Kaylee has her mother's way with words. My heart was touched with the weight and worth of her words. It is beautiful to see a young person's heart so full of God and love for others. God will lead in His timing. I love her promise from Him.
Thank you so much Pamela. She is a young lady who experiences life in with much depth. It's a privilege to watch her grow in Him.
Brenda, I was so moved reading this. It reminded me of Haiti and the loss I experienced once I left there which took months to heal. Even now as I read this and reflect, my eyes are filled with tears for people only God has placed in my heart. I can certainly identify with Kaylee. Truly, relating to others and then having to let go is painful…even those outside our biological families. I see so much of you in her…"like mother like daughter".
Thank you Marian. I know you understand the missionary's heart.
Thank you for this beautiful post written from a mother's heart!! I felt as if I was right there with you as you played with, held and loved on these children. How blessed those children are to have been loved by Jesus through you!!!
Thank you so much for your kind words Wendy!
Oh my! My ears are full of tears. I've often wondered if I visited such a place if I could leave and return to my "normal" life. Thank you for your words of wisdom and humility. I have asked God for the opportunity to help in such a way outside of the US and am waiting for Him to open the door.
Brenda, I look forward to meeting you this summer in Rockford, IL!
I'm looking forward to meeting you, too! You will hear the fullness of why this story has so much depth to it and so much of God's grace in it. I'm looking forward to it!
I read this post first before reading the prelude. Both posts were heart-wrenching. Truth is, as I read your daughter's words, I couldn't help but shed a few tears. For the pain, the poverty… the injustice of it all. I live in a country where the gap between the rich and the poor cannot be bridged – it's too wide a disparity. But even the poverty I see around me seems nothing compared to many accounts I have read of the poverty in Haiti. How much more painful must it have been for Kaylee – who has grown up in a "first world" rich country as yours… How beautifully she has expressed herself. As a mother of three adult children, I can only say that you are fortunate to have a daughter who has allowed her heart to be captured by the King. You did well to release her to her calling, for there really is no better way. LIke Mary, you also have your own pain at relinquishing what is so precious to your heart. But the joy you receive in return is immeasurable.
Thank you Lidia. Knowing your heart and the depth of the love of God you have, I receive every word you share as a blessing from Him. There's more to this story that I don't share but only when I speak to audiences, but the journey she has had in letting Jesus be her first love is one of grace and mercy. Thank you so much for reading and for capturing the heart of Christ in this experience. My love to you in Him, always, my dear friend.
Thank you, Ingrid, for reading and for continuing on your own journey where Jesus is taking you! I am thankful you are returning and perhaps are, too, building relationships and seeds in the little ones that will fill them for a lifetime. Thank you.


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'Stumptown': Matt Olmstead Named Co-Showrunner On ABC Series
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Former Chicago PD showrunner Matt Olmstead has been named co-showrunner of ABC's new drama series Stumptown, which just received a back order from ABC.
Under his overall deal at ABC Studios, which is behind Stumptown, Olmstead had originally joined Stumptown, headlined by Cobie Smulders, as consulting producer at the start. He has since been upped to executive producer and co-showrunner alongside developer Jason Richman.
Olmstead co-created Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med, and was the showrunner on Chicago PD. He began his writing career on NYPD Blue, where he rose to executive producer. He also ran Prison Break from its inception and also co-created/exec produced Breakout Kings for A&E.
In addition to Richman, Olmstead joins executive producers Ruben Fleischer and David Bernad, Greg Rucka (author of the "Stumptown" graphic novel series), Matthew Southworth and Justin Greenwood (illustrators of the "Stumptown" graphic novel series).
This article was printed from	https://deadline.com/2019/10/stumptown-matt-olmstead-co-showrunner-abc-series-1202770843/


The W and the H stand for Wishing and Hoping. Science shows that by wishing and hoping, your brain gets excited. And when you share those wishes and hopes with others, it gives your brain another high, basically. So if you are at a party or get-together and you start talking about all these things you wish and hope to do, you will be feeling pretty good about it all. But honestly, most people never get past this point of wishing and hoping to reach their goals. How many times have you heard people say, "I'm going to lose weight this year." or "I'm going to run a marathon.", etc. and then you never see them do it. Unfortunately, most people just get stuck here.
So, now let's move on to the O of the word W.H.O.O.P.I.E. The first O stands for Outcome. This is basically looking at the big picture and what your "results" and "end goal" will be before you even start working on them. So, with losing weight as an example, it might be… for my clothes to fit me better, to have more energy, to start seeing some muscle-tone, etc. This part is exciting too, and some people make it to this step of the process as well. We like thinking about what the end goal will be and how nice it will be once we've completed our goal!
The next O stands for Obstacles. This is where most people get tripped up. Many people see obstacles as excuses. And they use these excuses as a reason to not meet their goals, and the whole process ends here. Boom. Over. Done. Well, that's unfortunate.
Maybe they didn't think about the obstacles before they started so when they came up, they weren't prepared for them and how to overcome them. I know, for me, in the past, it was hard to make myself get to the gym if my kids were sick. It was a huge obstacle for me, and yes, I used it as an excuse to just stop all together even trying to go. I would be three weeks into establishing my habit, and then one of my children would run a fever so I couldn't take them out. But with my goal of "three classes per week", I knew that I still have opportunities to reach that task for that goal, even if I couldn't go on Monday. Or maybe I could do a home workout that day instead. I had a plan in place for overcoming the obstacles, a Plan B – if you will. I wasn't going to let it be an excuse anymore for me to fail. And this is a very important step.
P actually stands for the Planning & Process. It's not only planning for how to overcome the obstacles, but maybe it's writing a training plan for yourself if you are working to lose weight or writing out a meal plan. It's the process of "gym 3x/week". I know that my process included nursing the baby or pumping a bottle of milk before we went to the gym, grabbing a snack for the boys, and bringing the stroller for the baby. It was a lot of work to get to the gym, but I now had a process and a plan, and it worked.
The I in W.H.O.O.P.I.E. stands for Identity…. attach your identity to your goal. Finish this sentence with something that is relevant to your goal.
wakes up early to get my workout in.
wakes up early to spend time with God.
cleans the kitchen before I go to bed.
plans out my day the night before.
It can be anything, and your goal then just becomes part of who you are. People come to expect it from you. I'm thinking of all the times that we've gone out of town, whether to my parents' house or even further away – almost every time we do – my husband looks ahead and plans to attend one or more classes at the nearest CrossFit gym. We've all come to expect it, because it's a part of who he is. And that's definitely not a bad thing.
The E and final letter stands for Execute. Take your plan, and put it into action. Make it happen. Reach that goal. I use my planner for this, whatever my goal might be, and it helps me tremendously. I'll be showing you how I do that soon.


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L. Fu, F. Saccomanno, L. F. Miranda-Moren, Y-J Park, & J. Chen (2006). GradeX – A Decision Support Tool for Hotspot Identification and Countermeasure Analysis of Highway-Railway Grade Crossings, accepted for presentation at TRB 2007 Annul Meeting.
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L. Fu, F. Saccomanno, L. F. Miranda-Moren, Y-J Park, J. Chen, (2006) "GradeX – A Decision Support Tool for Hotspot Identification and Countermeasure Analysis of Highway-Railway Grade Crossings" accepted for presentation at TRB 2007 Annul Meeting.