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Langston Verdin
Building Relationships to Improve Health in Wisconsin
Langston is director of Health Strategy at the City of Milwaukee Health Department. In this role, he leads a dynamic team of staff which work to advance community engagement, systems improvement, and policy strategies. He is passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of Milwaukeeans and focused on helping the Department meet its mission of advancing the health and equity of Milwaukeeans through science, innovation, and leadership.
Langston has over 17 years of experience in public health and is committed to creating environments where children and families thrive. He received his Master of Public Health degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Zilber School of Public Health with a focus on public health policy and administration and is an alumnus of Marquette University's Future Milwaukee program.
Langston has a passion for community and social justice and is co-founder of Milwaukee's Summer of Peace initiative. Established in 2002, this youth led non-violence program has touched the lives of tens of thousands of children and expanded with an annual peace summit on Chicago's Southside.
In his spare time, Langston enjoys staying active…from the simple neighborhood walks with his two children to playing in competitive kickball and paintball leagues.
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Turkey detains 3 businessmen over failed coup attempt
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Turkish authorities on July 29 widened their post-coup crackdown to the business sector, detaining three major businessmen as part of investigations into the activities of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.
Security forces in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri detained the chairman of the family-owned Boydak Holding company, Mustafa Boydak, and two other top executives.
He and the two other executives - Şükrü and Halit Boydak - were detained at their homes. Efforts were continuing to detain former chairman Hacı Boydak as well as İlyas and Bekir Boydak for whom warrants have also been issued.
The detentions were part of an investigation into the financing of Gülen's activities in Turkey. Ankara blames the cleric for the failed July 15 coup attempt aimed at unseating President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
These appear to be the first major arrests targeting the business world in a crackdown that has already sought to eradicate Gülen's influence from the military, legal system, education and civil service.
Mustafa Boydak is also the head of the chamber of commerce in Kayseri, a fast growing city dubbed one of the "Anatolian Tigers" for the growth and prosperity it has enjoyed under Erdoğan's rule.
Boydak Holding has interests in furniture, energy and finance, and notably owns the prominent Istikbal and Bellona furniture firms.
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Today the Latvian national airline airBaltic has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the TAV Airports Holding A.S. as a Joint Venture partner on a 50:50 shareholding basis for the development, construction and operation of a new passenger terminal at Riga International Airport, informed BC press service of airBaltic.
airBaltic and TAV have signed the Memorandum of Understanding during the international aviation conference "North Hub Riga", held in Riga on June 9 and gathering over 200 participants from about 30 countries in Europe, CIS and the Middle East.
airBaltic has been selected for anna.aero ANNIES award as the Europe's largest flag carrier by new routes, operating this summer 27 routes more than in 2009. airBaltic serves 80 destinations from its home base at Riga, Latvia. From every one of these, airBaltic offers convenient connections via North Hub Riga to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East.


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Department of English Events
Staged reading of "Proseminar in Homophile Studies"
Celebrating 50 Years of LGBTQ Studies at UNL
Date: Sep. 30, 2021 Time: 5:00 pm
Nebraska Union Room: Auditorium
Additional Info: NU
Contact: Timothy Schaffert, tschaffert2@unl.edu
In 1970, the first courses in the newly developing field of LGBTQ studies were offered at U.S. universities—among these few pioneers was the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. "Proseminar in Homophile Studies," led and designed by English professor Louis Crompton and psychology professor James Cole, received an unprecedented level of scrutiny by scholars, administrators, legislators, mental health professionals, and social activists; and its bold, multifaceted, prescient scholarship set the path for a national trend in LGBTQ Studies around the world.
This event features members of UNL's LGBTQ community reading from materials related to the course, its development, its controversies, and the hearings of the Nebraska Legislature.
https://www.unl.edu/english/50-years-lgbtq-studies-unl


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What are the opportunity costs of our access and student success initiatives?
April 27, 2018 Susannah Hume Evaluation 0
By Susannah Hume, King's College London and Behavioural Insights Team |
'Opportunity cost' is a cornerstone of microeconomics that has a great deal of relevance to how and why we should care about evaluating access initiatives. In this blog post, I am going to discuss first of all what the 'pure' microeconomic model of opportunity cost is; then how this can be translated to a principle guiding the prioritisation of access initiatives; and finally, how this links to evaluation methods.
Opportunity cost: the value of the best alternative foregone
Microeconomics is concerned with the issue of the allocation of scarce resources: we have limited money and limited hours in the day, so how should we spend them to get the maximum benefit?
Every time we make a choice—to go to a restaurant for dinner, or walk home instead of taking a taxi, or buy box sets of all 29 seasons of the Simpsons, we're placing a value on each of the options (e.g. restaurant vs. takeaway vs. cooking a meal vs. eating some stale bread with marmite), even if we don't do that explicitly or consciously.
In a financial sense, if you have £100, and you can choose to either invest it in a savings account at Big Bank for 1% interest or one at Local Bank with 3% p.a. interest. In this context, most people instinctively recognise that they should go for the latter. We instinctively compare the £103 return from Local bank to the £101 return from Big Bank, not just to the £100 direct cost of investing. In this case, we can think of the opportunity cost of investing in Big Bank as the £103 foregone by not investing in Local Bank. As this yields a net return of-£2, it's a bad choice; we should invest in Local Bank for a +£2 net return.
But of course, 'value' is more broad than monetary value. You could also spend that £100, on some combination of the choices above—dining out, taking taxis, buying box sets. If we buy something, we're implying that we place more value on an item than its cost–for example, we value having all 29 seasons of the Simpsons more than the £300-odd it would cost to acquire them.
However, if we consider opportunity cost, then we also need to value something more than the next best thing we could do with that resource. For example, if we put the money in our Local Bank account (and if it took us a year to watch all the episodes) we'd have £309, so we're implying we value the Simpsons not only more than the £300 purchase cost, but more than the £309 opportunity cost.
Likewise, when you sit down and start binge watching, you're implicitly saying, "I value watching all 627 episodes of this TV show more than I value the next best thing I could do with my time." The opportunity cost is the value you place on whatever you'd be doing if you weren't marathoning 29 seasons of the Simpsons. Depending on who you are, this might be marathoning 16 seasons of Family Guy, doing 1,248 loads of laundry, or writing the next Great British Novel. But the value of the next best thing for you to be doing is the opportunity cost of the choice you've made.
Anyone who's ever said, "I've got better things to do with my time," is displaying an instinctive awareness of the opportunity cost of their current activities. But overall, humans, as opposed to econs,[i] struggle to consider costs in this way. We tend to just look at the direct costs of doing something, rather than the value of the alternative foregone.
What does this mean for widening participation?
It means that,
For students: whatever initiative we're providing, we should be aiming to compare it against the best alternative that young person is foregoing by accessing that opportunity, not just against business-as-usual (or nothing); and,
For initiatives: whatever initiative we're providing, we should be aiming to compare it against the next best possible use of the time and funding that is being allocated to delivering this initiative.
In widening participation terms, we're not so concerned about monetary value; we're more concerned about likelihood of attending university (in a broad sense)[ii]. Therefore, we should be considering the alternatives for students in terms of increasing their likelihood of attending university, and for WP teams in terms of the alternative initiatives or activities we could be providing in pursuit of this aim.
Opportunity cost for students
We can use the concept of opportunity costs to consider whether we are encouraging students to give their time to the activities that are most likely to increase the likelihood that they apply and are accepted to university.
The key thing here is that a student who doesn't take up a particular access scheme is not going to go into stasis for the duration of the times when they might have been on the scheme; they are going to have a set of other options for how they can use that time.
For example, we have a student, Asma, who is considering applying to a one-week residential summer school. She's pretty interested in university, but her mathematics grades might not be good enough. The other things she could do with that week are:
Intensive studying in mathematics (increases her likelihood a lot);
Participating in community activities, volunteering, working part-time, etc (increases her likelihood a little bit); and
Spending time with her family and friends, relaxing (has a neutral effect on her likelihood of going to university).
So in this example the next best alternative she's forgoing by choosing the Summer School isn't doing nothing, or even relaxing with family and friends, it's option 1: a week's intensive study in mathematics.
Asma should therefore weigh up the benefit of the summer school against mathematics study, and we should be providing her with advice to consider this trade-off, rather than assuming if she weren't at the Summer School there's nothing else she could be doing to pursue her goal of going to university.
It may be that a Summer School is still the best thing for Asma to do, considering opportunity cost, but we won't know that unless we're able to compare the costs and benefits of the alternatives, and this requires robust, consistent evaluation approaches across programmes.
Opportunity cost for institutions
Institutions face increasingly tight budgets, and even with unlimited money, we'd still have limited time. This means we can't do everything we'd like to do to support students to get into and through our courses.
We have to make trade-offs. Delivering this summer school to these students, means we can't deliver that summer school to those. Delivering a set of inspirational talks in Somerset means we can't deliver inspirational talks in London, and so on. Again, practitioners display an instinctive understanding of this, weighing up the time it would take to get to Somerset and to coordinate ambassadors to deliver those talks, against the closer and broader reach of working in London, and the fact that students in London face fewer structural barriers (such as not wanting to relocate) than students in Somerset.
But without robust causal evaluations of initiatives, we're basing these trade-offs solely on instinct. For instance, maybe all the students who turn up to inspirational talks in London are probably going to go to university anyway, so we're allocating effort to an intervention that is actually not effective with those students. This gets to what Professor Neil Harrison has called 'deadweight'—effort we are allocating towards students who would have achieved the outcome anyway. On the other hand, although it's harder to get to Somerset, maybe we can make a real difference to those students' outcomes by doing so.
How does this link to evaluation methods?
Thinking about opportunity costs requires us to have a good idea not only of how much time and resource is going in to an initiative, but much benefit an initiative is providing to the young people receiving it.
This requires that evaluation strategies encompass explicit consideration of the cost-effectiveness of the intervention. For example, if we're providing a summer school, we need to know not only how many students went on it, but also how many students progressed to university, and, most importantly, how many students went to university as a result of the summer school. That is, they would not have progressed to university if they had not gone on that summer school. And we also need to know this for the other initiatives that a young person could be doing.
Until we have a reasonable idea of the true costs of access initiatives, and the true, unique value that they are providing participants, it will be impossible to really get to the bottom of whether we're helping those we're working with make the best use of their time, and whether universities are making the best use of the resources at their disposal.
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[ii] Or whatever the key outcome is for the initiative, which might be something further up the pipeline such as attainment, or knowledge/interest in university.
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Agustín Remiro Manero, one of Francisco Ponzán's most active collaborators, was born on 28 August 1904.
Born in Épila (Aragon) into a modest farming family, Agustin was deeply impressed by what he read about the events of Tragic Week in Barcelona  and joined the CNT in 1919, the year when Épila's pugnacious Sugarworkers' Society and Farmworkers' and Amalgamated Trades Society affiliated to the Confederation, after they had attended the 'La Comedia' congress as mere observers.
Remiro, who was in charge of the Lower Jalón comarcal (county) CNT was caught unawares by the Franco rebellion while in Used (a town he visited annually, contracted by the landowner Cándido Ibañez to help with the harvest) and promptly set off for Épila. There in the early hours of 21 July, Popular Front and CNT militants managed to fend off the initial attack mounted by Falangist militias and troops from the Castillejos Regiment, inflicting several losses on them, but were overwhelmed by the follow-up attack when reinforcements were drafted in. After spending several days in hiding in the nearby Urrea de Jalón district, Remiro decided to try to reach loyalist territory.
He made it via Tardienta, after crossing the Ebro river by lighter and meeting up in the pine woods of Zuera with hundreds more escapees from the banks of the Ebro and the Cinco Villas area.
Shortly after that, he joined the Durruti Column, where he was put in charge of the XI Centuria and joined the "La Noche" group whose mission was to carry out rescues of antifascists from rebel-held territory. In September 1936 he took part in the capture of Fuendetodos and that November he joined the 118th Brigade of the 25th Division. Within a short time, he and some other leading CNT personnel like Cayetano Continente and Juan Bautista Albesa were setting up a guerrilla unit, "Los Iguales", whose main function was to mount raids and carry out sabotage attacks behind enemy lines. Among the group's early successes were the blowing up of part of the railway line into Puerto de Paniza and a bridge in La Puebla de Albortón.
Having played an active part in the capture of the seminary in Belchite and the Sillero Peak, Remiro (using phony papers and wearing a Falangist uniform) travelled to Zaragoza to gather intelligence ahead of a planned republican offensive against Teruel and made several visits to his home town to see his family which was being targeted for all sorts of pressure and harassment. After the loss of Teruel and after the Francoist army broke through the Aragon front, Remiro took part in missions to blow up bridges in lower Aragon (Mas de las Matas, Calanda, etc.) and, by then in Lérida (as commander of the 'C' Machine-gun Battalion, better known as the Remiro Battalion) he took part in the fighting around Tremp, Sort and Balaguer were he was wounded in the fighting around Esplá Peak.
At some point, once the war was lost, Remiro crossed into France where he was placed in the Argelès-sur-mer (or as Ángel Samblancat, from Aragon, sardonically described it 'Argelès-sur-merde') concentration camp before being moved later to the Mazères camp. On 3 June 1939 he had a visit from Francisco Ponzán who recruited him for an underground network tasked with smuggling comrades out to France whose lives were at risk. And so it was that in September 1939 Remiro made his first visit to Spain, successfully bringing a five-man team of CNT comrades safely out to Perpignan.
It seems that Ponzán, who had made contact with the British secret services in November 1939, was involved by 1940 (some say 1941) with the 'Pat O'Leary Network', one of the escape lines set up to help antifascists, Jews and Allied airmen get out (essentially via Gibraltar and Portugal). Between May and June 1940, Remiro and other Ponzán Group members circulated in large numbers inside Spain a leaflet which the late historian Antonio Téllez held was the very first anti-Franco text distributed after the civil war.
In early 1941 Remiro was acting as a courier for the British. His first stopping-off point was Barcelona where the British consul handed over some papers that Remiro was to take to Madrid for delivery to the Cuban and British embassies. At the British Embassy he was given a sum of money and assured that he could carry on with the next leg of mission, due to finish at the British Embassy in Lisbon. On 23 January 1941, having crossed the Portuguese border via Galicia, he was arrested and taken to Oporto by Salazar's PIDE secret police. Even though they knew that he was agent No 3004 and working for Britain's MI6 [Britain and Portugal were allies], on 26 January they drove him to the Spanish border and handed him over to the Francoist authorities in Valencia el Alcantara. After the usual interrogation and torture in Madrid (where he was pressed for information as to the whereabouts of some of his comrades such as 'El Maño' or Estévez Coll) Remiro, having been designated a "highly dangerous prisoner" was to spend four months in a cell at the Interior ministry. Even though the references coming in from Remiro's home town stressed that he had never been implicated in criminal homicide, they could scarcely have been more negative and menacing.
His morale low (in that he sensed that he had been 'sold' and betrayed) and in desperate straits (believing that he was facing the death penalty), Remiro wrote numerous letters from Madrid's Porlier prison to which he had been committed: to his family, to try to raise their spirits; to his comrades (towards whom he was scathing, in the belief that they had washed their hands of him), lobbying for money with which to bribe the judges or 'ease' the ferocious prison conditions in which he was being held and warning them not to put their trust in the British; and to a number of individuals (the priest in Cervera in Lérida, whom he had rescued from being shot: Ibáñez the landowner in Used and the odd neighbour in Épila) asking them for character references. It was all to no avail: the "references" mysteriously went missing from his file and Remiro was condemned to death at a court martial held in Madrid on 27 April 1942.
Somewhat later, on 21 July 1942, Remiro who had hinted in a letter that he planned to escape, managed to climb over the wall of Porlier prison but some of the locals tipped off the police and the police opened fire on him from the guard post. Struck by a bullet, Remiro managed to reach a nearby building, only to be wounded a second time. In the end he chose to drag himself on to the street where a patrol of his pursuers finished him off.
In a macabre twist, nine days after he was finished off, the Captaincy-General reduced his death sentence to a lesser punishment.
Such was the end of one idealist and man of action (barely known, like so many others) who perished in the fight against Francoism.
From: From El Sueño Igualitario, No 9. Translated by: Paul Sharkey.


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Duncan Ferguson to remain in charge for Manchester United trip as Everton board continue search for new manager
Duncan Ferguson won his first match in charge last weekend, but can the Scot pull off a repeat this weekend when Everton visit Old Trafford? Credit: GETTY IMAGES
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Duncan Ferguson will remain in charge of Everton for this weekend's trip to Manchester United, the club has announced.
Ferguson enjoyed a winning start as interim coach last weekend as Chelsea visited Merseyside.
It was a transformative afternoon at Goodison Park, which has given majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri space to consider his options before rushing into a permanent appointment.
Numerous names have been pushed forward for Moshiri's consideration since the sacking of Marco Silva – some more attractive and realistic than others – but no-one has been formally offered the job as the Merseyside club consider the best direction.
Retaining Ferguson for the time-being will be popular with the Everton supporters, many of them intrigued as to how their playing hero makes the transition into management and enthused by his positive start.
Another good performance at Old Trafford would certainly give Moshiri more to ponder with a League Cup home tie with Leicester City coming next week, the kind of evening on Merseyside where Ferguson's presence will have a galvanising effect.
On Tuesday, Portuguese coach Vitor Pereira ruled himself out of contention with a statement that was met with a broad shrug of the shoulders from Evertonians, who were not especially overwhelmed with him being under consideration.
Carlo Ancelotti's availability naturally provokes more excitement following his sacking from Napoli, although it is balanced by realism as luring a coach of his stature with Everton still in need of points to evade a relegation fight would be a challenge.
Everton would certainly be interested in a manager of such calibre, however.
David Moyes' return has been on the agenda for weeks, and he may yet be given the chance to win over the elements of Everton's support who are not eager to see the board go back to a former coach. Numerous coaches are being touted and contacted at the moment, but the key for Everton after the last four appointments is finding someone who understands what makes the club tick.
It cannot have escaped Moshiri's attention that seasoned Evertonians felt Saturday's win was the most 'Everton-like' afternoon in the stadium for many years, and – for the fans at least – it is essential the next manager understands and maintains that re-connection rather than compromises it.
In the meantime, Ferguson can continue to make his case, despite his public announcement that he is 'realistic' about his chances of being given the job full-time.
"Duncan Ferguson will remain as Everton caretaker manager for Sunday's Premier League visit to Manchester United," said Everton's statement.
"Former striker Ferguson was in charge as the Blues secured a 3-1 victory over Chelsea at Goodison on Saturday.
"Ferguson will again be assisted by coaches John Ebbrell and Francis Jeffers and goalkeeper coach Alan Kelly."


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A good leader with bad moral character and intentions.
That's how a guest speaker described Hitler to a room full of Madison High School student athletes over the weekend, NJ.com reports .
The speaker was not identified by Superintendent Mark Schwarz in a letter co-signed by three other district officials sent to parents, nor was the presentation screened in advance, he said.
Schwartz called the presentation "unnecessarily provocative and insensitive," the news outlet said.
The Saturday assembly was aimed at promoting "positive leadership values and a culture of sportsmanship," Schwarz said in the letter. The speaker apparently also included photos of Derek Jeter, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and others in the presentation.
"Conspicuous in this list, however, was a picture of Adolf Hitler shown side by side with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," Schwarz in the letter, NJ.com said.
"During his commentary, the speaker contrasted Dr. King and Hitler, referring to the latter as a 'good leader' with 'bad moral character and intentions.'"
Schwartz said that a "less emotionally-charged" example would have been more effective and appropriate.


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Viral video alleging child sex predation leads to detention of Lamar County man
June 17, 2019 by Sheila Mathews 2 Comments
This still frame was taken from a video posted online in which a Lamar County man identified as James Crews states his intention to meet a 14-year-old boy to "play" and possibly have sex.
The Lamar County man seen in a viral video filmed in the Griffin Wal-Mart, where he allegedly planned to meet "John," who was believed to be a 14-year-old boy, is being held in the Lamar County Jail.
According to Lamar County Sheriff Brad White, the man identified as James Crews turned himself in to the LCSO Monday and is being held while under investigation.
"He came to the Sheriff's Office. We do have him detained. Right now, we're just trying to put it together," White said. "We have him on an investigative hold. We're waiting to interview the man who took the video and we're working to obtain warrants to search his phone and computer."
"Like everyone else, it definitely shocked the conscience a little bit," White said when asked to describe his response to the video shared on numerous social media platforms. "It was certainly disturbing, and you know, it could have turned violent in the middle of a very populated store. Law enforcement certainly wasn't aware of it, that's for certain."
The video shots Crews, who stated he is 35-years-old, being confronted by a man who identifies himself as John Savior. Savior goes on to say he is affiliated with an organization named OPHIS, which he described as an online watchdog group.
The GRIP has attempted to reach Savior since Saturday, but has been unable to do so.
In the now-viral video, Crews is confronted in the hair dye aisle of the local Wal-Mart.
Crews initially denied any intention of wrongdoing.
"All I was doing was meeting him…John… to hang out," he said, adding the pair was planning to "go out and get something to eat and hang out."
Crews acknowledged "John" had told him he was 14-years-old.
Asked if it is appropriate for a 35-year-old man to socialize with a boy that age, Crews replied, "Well, I don't know. I still have friends that I hang out with that are that age, but I don't do nothing with them."
Savior then asked Crews to be truthful about the nature of his meeting with "John."
"I'm being straightforward. I'm not gonna do nothing that I know I can get in trouble and go to jail for," Crews replied.
Savior then responded by explaining the he was the person with whom Crews had been communicating online.
"I know what you were gonna do with John. I know exactly what you were planning on doing with John," Savior said. "I read all of the transcripts. I was actually the person you were communicating with. I was operating the decoy, so I know exactly the type of conversation you were having with John. I just want you to be straightforward with me. You've got one more opportunity if you would like to be before I start going through the chat box. Now, what were you going to do with John tonight?"
At that point, Crews stated, "We were gonna go hang out and if he wanted to play, we were gonna play."
Savior responded, "And by play, you mean…"
"If he wanted to literally have sex or anything, we would have had sex," Crews said.
Savior asked if Crews if it is acceptable for a man his age to have sex with a 14-year-old child, and Crews said, "If he consents to it."
Savior then asked, "Do you think a child is capable of consent?"
Crews responded, "Yeah, they have to make up their own decisions."
In addition to obtaining search warrants for Crews phone and computer, LCSO investigators are also attempting to interview the man identified as Savior.
White said he does not know if Savior is local to the Griffin-Spalding County area.
When asked if he views this as vigilantism, White said, "I would consider this trying to do the wrong way for the right reasons."
He then elaborated, "What they need to do is contact law enforcement when something like this happens, not take things into their own hands. I think if law enforcement – Sheriff Dix – had been contacted when this video was made, prior to contacting this guy, there could have been resolution."
Despite his willingness to speak on camera with Savior, Crews has been less forthcoming with investigators.
"We've attempted to interview him, but he's asked for an attorney. It would be great if he would contact an attorney so we can interview him again," White said, later adding that this is a complex case. "I think it could reach the level of enticing a child for indecent purposes, but there's still a lot we have to go through. We're still at the very beginning stages of this. We're weighing very heavily on our District Attorney's Office in this, too."
Although this video was allegedly filmed in the Griffin Wal-Mart, Spalding County Sheriff Darrell Dix said Lamar County authorities are taking the lead in this investigation, and his office will assist as needed.
"We are working on it together, yes. At this point, Lamar County is handling it since it appears the incident originated in Lamar County. I spoke to Sheriff White around lunch time and if there's anything that develops further in Spalding County, his folks will contact me and we'll move forward from there," Dix said.
While Crews has not been charged with a crime, he can be held for investigative purposes for up to 48 hours.
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Herbert Lubitz says:
Well, he did admit that he was pursuing an underage child, so that should have been soliciting the delinquency of a minor and attempting to have relations with a child.
Beverly Trice says:
If he is guilty of this crime, lock him up for LIFE!


I had just walked back from my stand to the truck to meet the kids. Dressed in sweatshirts, jeans, muck boots and still sporting bed-head, they were ready to get into the woods and help track my deer.
Cam: Dad! You got a buck?
Cam: Man, I can't wait to see him. Is he big?
Bird: How many points, dad?
Three kids, my pack, bow and towing a trailer, I drove the golf cart toward to northwest corner of the course behind the 15th tee. Two days rain had given way to a thin, overcast mid-morning sky, as we made our soggy way between pines and locust trees, steering clear of greens, fairways and bunkers. As we passed a couple pairs of golfers and one foursome, the kids waved, drawing smiles and waves in return.
My in-laws own a public golf course with a good patch of hunting woods behind it. On morning hunts, I walk the dark quarter-mile from the clubhouse where I park my truck to the back corner where I drop into the woods and pick my way to my tree stand. I'm usually settled in and having my first cup of thermos coffee by 5:30, listening blindly to the ink woods around me.
The walk in always takes me back to my first few seasons as a bow hunter. After dad and I would part ways from the tailgate with a good luck and shoot straight, it would take me forever to walk the forty yards to my stand in the dark. The inability to make out my path forward, and the nagging thought that some sort of dangerous, nocturnal, Upstate-NY animal had to be right in front of me was paralyzing. First light would've just barely arrived and I'd still be 15 yards from my tree. Fortunately, I've learned how to unwind that overactive imagination in the years since.
Dad and I have talked about how the sound of the woods changes as shooting-light creeps in. We're always surprised at how the light itself arrives imperceptibly, until we blink a few times and suddenly the shades of gray have picked up more contrast. Trees start to stand apart from the thorn-brush, swale and each other. Everything has gathered faint color.
This is when the sound changes. With sight, our inadequate human hearing shifts its intent from the close sounds of potential danger to the comfortable universe of sunrise. The constant re-balancing of our survival-instinct. Of course, while our survival-instinct and the deeper biological/anthropological importance of our senses are cool things to ponder, my dad and I also agree that the dark before the dawn is also a great time to catch a few more Z's.
As we headed into the woods, the kids knew that being quiet is part of the deal. I brought the boys with me and my dad to track a doe of mine last year— my daughter electing to pass on the festivities. It was their first time following a blood trail and like young hound-dogs after a scent, their 7 and 5 year old enthusiasm would not be contained. This year was different. All three walked with me, talking in hushed voices, trying their best to pick quiet steps, keeping their eyes peeled for more deer, shush-ing each other every now and again.
I pointed out my stand. Awesome. We crossed the creek below my tree and picked our way to the rotted blow-down, 21 yards away, where the buck last stood before I let go of my arrow. I pointed out the first drops of blood and the direction that I had watched the buck bolt and all three immediately went into sleuth-mode.
While I kept an eye out for the deer, they strung together the path of blood drops like one of their dot-to-dot coloring book puzzles. Not long into the search, Bird found the arrow. When we got to the swampy, tall swale (not wanting my half-pint help blindly leading the charge into the thick stuff) they filed in behind me. Four steps in I spotted him and the high-fives and hollering commenced.
After the kids were satisfied with the feel of his hair, hooves, antlers and where the arrow went in and came out, I rolled up my sleeves for the work at hand. They pointed out the liver, intestines and pinched their noses at the stomach-full of grass and corn which smelled like dairy farm silage. I showed them the heart and where the arrow passed through both lungs. Cam offered his approval. Yea, he's not going far without those, right dad? Shades of conversations I'd had– still have– with my dad in the field.
Back at the truck, I poured another cup of coffee and stood, quietly appreciating the beauty and good fortune of the morning–Bird, Cam and Jonah proudly recounting the details of tracking dad's deer to each other, their cousins, grandparents, my friend Grant and any golfers who happened to be near.
There's not much in this world that's better for my soul than that.
It was a morning like any other morning on the water.
Big nasty got a whole jaw-full of strip-set-streamer-and-eight-weight comeuppance.
I have a small melon. Very few hat styles fit, short haircuts make me look 12, and sunglasses give me agida…until recently. On another good mail-day prior to our trip to Idaho, I received a pair of Costa Tag sunglasses. Named after the tagging initiative that folks at the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust are building, the Tags are new style in an crazy-extensive line of high-quality, good looking eyewear. And they fit.
These particular sunglasses came with their new 580P (Polycarbonate) polarized lens in copper. They're also available in glass. Coupled with a fused nylon and Hydrolite frame, they feel lightweight but well-built. According to the folks I talked to at Costa down at IFTD, the 580 lens (a level above their 400's) completely eliminates reflected glare, blocks yellow light and boosts red, green and blue light, the C-WALL coating repels water, oil, dust and scratches, and the copper color best-serves sight fishing, driving and everyday use. Having a long-frustrating sensitivity to light (bright daylight and headlights at night), I hoped the additional optic assistance would make a difference.
For the 10 days we were out west, the Tags (which retail for $169) performed exactly as described. The five rivers we fished all brought different conditions to the game. Cloudy and fast; deep and gin clear; wide and choppy; high and white; smooth as glass.
Even with clear blue skies and the resulting glare on the water for 90% of the trip, I rarely (if ever) had to squint or strain to see where I was wading or casting to. The wider wrap-around style blocked peripheral glare as well. Without the eye fatigue, I was much more comfortable on the water. Plus, the flexible temple-tips kept me from getting those "pressure-spots" on the side of my head–even wearing one of those hats that actually fit.
I put the "driving" benefit of the sunglasses to work as well. We spent the better part of 24 hours over the course of our trip on the road to and from water. But it was one run that sealed the deal on the value of the Tags. I fell on the sword for the four hour drive east from Boise to Idaho Falls on Wednesday morning. Looking east into a bluebird central Idaho morning sky, there was nothing but front-and-center sun. And sun like that plays hell in a couple ways: the intense glare off the windshield (and every bug, wiper drag and water mark on the windshield), and the direct brightness that burns a circle on your iris and leads a trail wherever your eye moves.
It took 3 hours for it to actually dawn on me that I hadn't had to fight the unruly windshield glare, burned irises or light sensitivity I always have. That's not to say I didn't use the visor or gangsta-lean to better use my rearview mirror's shadow at times, but again, the eye fatigue I should've experienced from an entire Idaho plains landcape-full of morning sun simply wasn't there.
All-in-all, a great pair of sunglasses that I plan on getting a lot more use out of during our other-than-fair-weather east coast seasons.
For more information on these and other Costa optics, visit www.costadelmar.com.


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Maite Oroz Areta (Huarte, Navarra, 25 de marzo de 1998) es una futbolista española que juega como centrocampista en la sección femenina del Real Madrid Club de Fútbol de la Primera División de España desde la temporada 2020-21.

Trayectoria

Inicios en Navarra y Bilbao
Se inició en el Club Deportivo Huarte de su localidad natal, donde permaneció seis temporadas hasta fichar con doce años por el Club Atlético Osasuna. Militando en sus categorías inferiores, fue seleccionada como internacional con la selección española y en donde en los diversos torneos sub-16 y sub-17 fue labrando su gran progresión. En esta última categoría se proclamó campeona y subcampeona de Europa, y campeona del mundo. Tras competir con las navarras en Segunda División y finalizar terceras del campeonato, el club disolvió el equipo femenino después del descenso del equipo masculino de categoría y tener que reducir costes, pero pudo rescatarlo finalmente tras un acuerdo con el Mulier Fútbol Club Navarra y retomó su actividad desde regional. Fue el motivo por el que recaló para la temporada 2014-15 en el Athletic Club.

Como rojiblanca tuvo destacadas actuaciones en su primera temporada con el equipo filial, anotando dieciséis goles en la temporada. Pese a sus destacados partidos no contó para el técnico del primer equipo nada más que para un encuentro amistoso. Fue en la nueva temporada, bajo las órdenes del nuevo entrenador Joseba Agirre donde se asentó como una de las revelaciones del equipo y del campeonato. Fue frente a la Real Sociedad de Fútbol, en el derbi vasco, cuando anotó su primer gol como profesional, con diecisiete años. Fue el primero de los cinco que anotó finalmente en su estreno en la Primera División, de la que su equipo terminó como campeón. Esto le permitió la temporada siguiente debutar en la Liga de Campeones de la UEFA, en un partido correspondiente a los dieciseisavos de final frente al Dameboldklubben Fortuna Hjørring danés el 5 de octubre de 2016 que se saldó con una victoria de las bilbaínas por 2-1 merced a un tanto de Maite, su primero en competición europea en su primer partido. Pese a ello, la derrota tras una prórroga por 3-1 en el partido de vuelta las eliminó de la competición. El equipo no pudo mantener sus buenas actuaciones del curso anterior y finalizaron en quinto puesto, producto del gran número de goles encajados en comparación con años anteriores, donde se mostraron muy solventes. En lo particular, Maite se asentó como una de las titulares y referentes del equipo.

Pese a mejorar los resultados no pudo volver a conseguir éxitos con las bilbaínas siendo un tercer puesto y unas semifinales de la Copa de la Reina en 2018, donde una tanda de penaltis les privó de acceder a la final, lo más destacado. Lo que parecía el camino a retomar títulos se truncó para Maite y su equipo debido a una rotura ligamento cruzado de la rodilla izquierda que la apartó de la temporada 2018-19 tras haber disputado únicamente tres partidos. No se recuperó hasta el mes de agosto, cuando reapareció en un amistoso ante el Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux y la jugadora manifestó pese a ello haberse desarrollado futbolísticamente:

Recuperada de la lesión recuperó su juego técnico y su rol pasó a ser más de elaboración para el equipo retrasando un poco su posición en el campo. Fue su última temporada con el Athletic Club, antes de que la competición hubiese de ser suspendida tras 21 jornadas debido a la pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus acaecida en todo el mundo, y la posterior declaración del estado de alarma en España por parte del gobierno. Dos meses después, el 6 de mayo, la Federación Española dio por concluido el campeonato sin disputar el resto de jornadas pendientes, finalizando el equipo en quinta posición. Cabe destacar en el inicio de dicha temporada, que fue la primera vez que el reconocido trofeo Ramón de Carranza fue disputado por equipos femeninos, y donde el Athletic Club se proclamó campeón tras vencer en la tanda de penaltis al Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Women.

Paralelamente a los acontecimientos deportivos, los implicados y representantes del fútbol femenino trabajaban por conseguir unas condiciones laborales justas y acordes a su desarrollo, en cuestiones de igualdad, reconocimiento y protección de sus derechos. La gran proyección y el cada vez más notable desarrollo del fútbol femenino no se reflejaba en las condiciones existentes según los afectados, principalmente las futbolistas, que claman por una profesionalización justa y acorde a las circunstancias vigentes. La resolución a las discrepancias entre implicados y los estamentos y asociaciones abocaron en la firma de un convenio colectivo que suscitó gran polémica debido a su contenido, en especial una desproporcionada lista de compensación, y su no publicación en el Boletín Oficial del Estado, que en principio lo invalidaba, hechos que tuvieron varias consecuencias de diversa índole. En el caso de Maite y una vez finalizado su contrato con el Athletic, firmó con el Real Madrid Club de Fútbol a coste cero, tras haber confeccionado su primer equipo femenino de fútbol.

Etapa en Madrid
[[Archivo:Maite Oroz 2021 training (1).jpg|miniatura|Maite durante un entrenamiento en 2021.]]

Sus grandes actuaciones en Bilbao llamaron la atención de varios clubes, entre ellos el Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, quien tras formar su nuevo equipo femenino llevó a cabo numerosas contrataciones para su estreno en la máxima categoría española. Maite fue una de las incorporaciones del club madridista, con el objetivo de convertirse cuanto antes en uno de los equipos referentes del país, y tras ser señalada como una de las mejores centrocampistas del campeonato y ser seleccionada entre las finalistas en su puesto del Fútbol Draft que premia a los mejores futbolistas jóvenes de la temporada. Su debut se produjo el 4 de octubre en la Ciudad Deportiva de Valdebebas frente a las vigentes campeonas del Fútbol Club Barcelona, donde la mayor experiencia y rodaje de las catalanas hizo que el partido finalizase con un 0-4 en contra.

Pese a su juventud, su trayectoria la convirtió en una de las titulares del equipo, y fue una de las jugadoras más destacadas del principio de la temporada. Un gol suyo, anotado el 18 de octubre frente al Rayo Vallecano de Madrid en la tercera jornada del campeonato supuso el momentáneo 1-0 de la primera victoria oficial de la historia de la sección madridista que finalizó con un resultado de 3-1 en la Ciudad Deportiva de Valdebebas. La navarra recogió un rechace en el área para batir a la guardameta rival de un fuerte derechazo a la escuadra.

Sus buenas actuaciones le valieron su primera convocatoria a la selección absoluta de España, a la que tuvo sin embargo que renunciar debido a una lesión, y ser seleccionada en el Once de Oro del Fútbol Draft junto a su compañera de equipo Misa Rodríguez. Finalmente debutó como internacional absoluta el 18 de febrero ante , disputando la última media hora del encuentro.
Debuta con la absoluta en el partido del 18 de febrero de 2021 frente a  que vencieron las españolas por 0-13 y que las clasificó para la Eurocopa 2022.

 Estadísticas
 Clubes

 Actualizado al último partido disputado el .''

Fuentes: UEFA - UEFA2 - Athletic Club - BDFutbol - SoccerWay - WorldFootball - SoccerDonna.

Palmarés

Campeonatos nacionales

Campeonatos internacionales
Nota *: incluyendo la selección.

Distinciones individuales

Notas

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Ficha de la jugadora en el Real Madrid
Ficha de la jugadora en Women.soccerway.com
Ficha de la jugadora en Uefa.com

Futbolistas femeninas de Navarra
Futbolistas del Athletic Club (femenino)
Futbolistas del Real Madrid Club de Fútbol Femenino
Futbolistas del Club Atlético Osasuna Femenino
Nacidos en Huarte


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Генк Бломвліт (, 24 лютого 1911, Амстердам — 14 березня 1980, Амстердам) — нідерландський футболіст, що грав на позиції захисника. Виступав, зокрема, за клуб «Аякс», а також національну збірну Нідерландів.

Молодший брат бейсболіста Яна Бломвліта.

Клубна кар'єра
Генку Бломвліту було 13 років коли він потрапив в амстердамський «Аякс». Дебют Генка відбувся 18 вересня 1932 року в матчі 1-туру чемпіонату проти клубу ДФК. Оновлений «Аякс» мав в своєму складі відразу чотирьох нових гравців: Бломвліта, Дона, Губура і Аудендейка. Пропустивши в першому таймі, амстердамці звели матч внічию завдяки голу Юрріанса.

Спочатку Генк гра на позиції нападника, але практично через рік Бломвліт втратив місце в основному складі. Лише в сезоні 1935/36 Генк зміг повернути собі місце в основному складі «Аяксі», але цього разу на позиції захисника. Завдяки своїй універсальності Бломвліт міг зіграти на будь-якій позиції, в 30-і роки Генк зіграв 149 матчів за «Аякс».

Футбольна кар'єра Бломвліта закінчилася з початком Другої світової війни. Генк у роки війни служив у Німеччині. До кінця війни Бломвліту було вже 34 роки і він не знаходився у відмінній формі, проте Генк повернувся в футбол і відіграв сезон 1946/1947 за «Аякс». Всього у складі «Аякса» Бломвліт провів 149 матчів і забив 42 м'ячі, свою останню гру за амстердамський клуб Генк провів 21 червня 1947 року проти клубу «Блау-Віт».

У 1953 році Генк Бломвліт отримав звання почесного члена клубу «За заслуги» з нагоди 50-ї річниці «Аякса»

Помер 14 березня 1980 року на 70-му році життя.

Виступи за збірну
У національній збірній Нідерландів Генк дебютував 26 лютого 1932 року в матчі проти збірної Угорщини, який завершився перемогою нідерландців з рахунком 3: 2. Свій другий та останній матч за збірну Бломвліт провів 19 березня 1932 проти збірної Бельгії, який завершився з рахунком 5:4 на користь бельгійців.

Статистика виступів

Статистика виступів за збірну

Досягнення
  Ередивізі
  Чемпіон (4): 1934, 1937, 1939, 1947

Примітки

Посилання

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нідерландські футболісти
Гравці збірної Нідерландів з футболу
Футболісти «Аякса»
Уродженці Амстердама


OODA SEO, a Montreal search engine optimisation firm, launched a variety of updated solutions for clients in Montreal and the surrounding area.
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Eriq La Salle will soon return to television in another medical drama.
The former ER star has been cast in a recurring role on the upcoming CBS medical drama A Gifted Man, as first reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
La Salle will recur as Evan Morrison, a neuropsychiatrist — a physician who treats those with emotional and behavioral disturbances. Morrison is described as a great medical detective who focuses on the nuances of human behavior.
Gifted Man revolves around a competitive surgeon whose world is turned upside down when his ex-wife (Jennifer Ehle) begins teaching him the meaning of life from the hereafter.
The actor is expected to appear in at least four episodes of the series. Executive producer of the series Neal Baer (also EP on 'ER') spoke about working with La Salle for this upcoming project.
La Salle might also direct an episode of the upcoming drama. He has directed episodes of ER, and currently directing episodes of CW's action drama Ringer, which stars Sarah Michelle Gellar.
A Gifted Man premieres Friday, Sept. 23 on CBS.


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New Echota Star Party
Join us for a special program about the night sky! Visitors can view the night sky through a telescope while learning about telescope and planisphere operation, the importance of the night sky, constellations, and traditional Cherokee lore regarding the stars. Please contact the office to reserve a spot and stay up to date on weather cancellations. Program Admission: Children: $3.25/person under 6 years of age Youth: $5.00/person 6-17 years of age Adults: $7.00/person 18 years and older Seniors: $6.50/person 62 years and older 706-624-1321.
History of the Triple Nickels 555th PIR
The "Triple Nickels" were America's first all African American parachute infantry platoon and America's first "smoke jumpers" The "Military Order of the Purple Heart" is composed of Military men and women who received the Purple Heart Medal for wounds suffered in combat. $9-$14. 706-655-5870.
Meet the Farm Animals Tour
Sunday, Feb 19, 2023 10 AM to 11 AM
Join knowledgeable staff for a walk around the farm yard as they introduce you to all our animals! Learn about heritage breeds and even give some of the animals a snack. Start time is 10AM, meet up at the chicken coop down on the farm. Free admission $5 parking. 912-384-7082.
History Walk
Come learn the fascinating history of Indian Springs! From the early use by the Creeks thru the resort era and the CCC construction, learn about 200 years of park history. Meet at the museum. $5 parking. 770-504-2277.
Will I Be Remembered? FDR and TR will reflect on Presidents' Day
Monday, Feb 20, 2023 11 AM to 3 PM
FDR portrayer James Fowler and Teddy Roosevelt portrayer Dr. Joel Harris will reflect on their place in our nation's history. Two great Americans who follow the same career paths to become giants in American history. Performances will be at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 2:00 pm. $9-$14. 706-655-5870.
Presidents' Day Costume Contest for Children
Monday, Feb 20, 2023 3 PM to 4 PM
Calling Thomas Jefferson or Franklin D. Roosevelt or whoever is your favorite president. Come in costume and join the contest and have some fun. Prizes awarded. FDR and TR portrayers James Fowler and Dr. Joel Harris will pick the grand prize winner of the best looking president. $9-$14. 706-655-5870.
Museum Meditation
Has it been a long week for you too? Come unwind with this after hours meditation session in the museum. We'll start the night with a museum tour, do some light stretching, and clear our minds with a meditation session. Bring a yoga mat. This event is by preregistration only call 770-732-5871. $10 plus $5 parking. 770-732-5871.
18th Century Cloth Dolls
Join us for a fun, hands on, and interactive program about 18th Century handkerchief Dolls. You will even get to make your own to take home. $5. 912-437-4770.
19th Century Meal Cooking Demonstration
Watch our naturalist in the "kitchen" and learn the origins of certain foods that were prepared in the 19th century by African Americans. The Demonstration will be held behind the Meeks Cabin, 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM, free to the public! $5 parking. 912-384-7082.
Trail Work Volunteer Day #1
Come out and volunteer to help keep our trails great! Tasks will vary and assignments compatible with participant ability. Please bring gloves. Preregistration preferred. Admission fees waived for volunteer participation. 770-443-7850.
Native American Cultures of the Blue Ridge
Saturday, Feb 25, 2023 11 AM to 12:30 PM
Come join Smithgall to learn about Native Americans of the Blue Ridge region. Learn about their history, culture and how these cultures flourished in the beautiful region we now call home. $5 parking. 706-878-3087.
Devils Pulpit hike
Hike to look at the rock formation called the Devil's pulpit it is a mile and a half hike with 640 stairs. Please call in advance to register $5 parking. 706-754-7981.
Cows Come Home Celebration
Saturday, Mar 4, 2023 10 AM to 3 PM
Enjoy a fun-filled day with activities centered around the dairy that once operated at Hardman Farm. $7. 706-878-1077.
Diamorpha Days: Guided Mountain Hike
Saturday, Mar 4, 2023 9 AM to 12 PM
Diamorpha smallii is in bloom! Endemic to the Southeast US, this gorgeous red succulent fills Panola Mountain's solution pits during the month of March and makes for some beautiful photo opportunities! $10 plus $5 parking. 770-389-7801.
First Visit Tour
1st Saturday of Month 10 AM - 11 AM from Mar 4, 2023
Want a guided tour of Georgia's premiere conservation park? Join volunteers to learn more about Smithgall Woods via a van tour of the park. See the covered bridge, the famous Dukes Creek, and our renowned cottages. There is no charge for the tour, but donations are welcomed. Reservations are required. $5 parking. 706-878-3087.
Scottish Heritage Days 2023
Friday, Mar 10, 2023 9 AM to 5 PM
For our annual Scottish History event, visit Fort King George and witness a variety of Scottish living history demonstrations: musket & cannon firings, blacksmithing, carpentry, medicine, cooking, music, and more! $4.50-$7.50 912-437-4770.
Saturday, Mar 11, 2023 9 AM to 5 PM
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Saturday, Mar 11, 2023 10 AM to 3 PM
Join us and our reenactors as they demonstrate Granbury's Brigade behind the museum. They will be drilling with both rifles and our museums reproduction 6 pound Howitzer cannon. Admission fee required. $3-$6 per person. Call 770-443-7850 for more information. $3-$6. 770-443-7850.
Saturday, Mar 11, 2023 10 AM to 11:30 AM
Day in the Life of a Miner
Peek back at life in the 1830s with demonstrations on gold panning, blacksmithing, folk toys, and more. $10 for adults, and $8 for students. $8-$10. 706-864-2257.
National Quilting Day - Quilting Bee
Join us for an old-fashioned quilting bee. We will be quilting a quilt in the museum for our 1853 era cabin. Everyone is welcome to participate. Come enjoy this time-honored tradition. $3 - $6. 770-443-7850.
Wednesday, Mar 22, 2023 9 AM to 12 PM
Plein Air Art Event
Painters and art fans alike are welcome to our outdoor painting Plein Air event! No prizes or judging, just lots of artsy fun. There is lots to paint: centuries old moss draped live oaks, saltmarsh overlooks, an 1850s era plantation house, and historic outbuildings. $5 - $25. 912-264-7333.
Women Takeover Wormsloe
Celebrate the lives and skills of women in early Georgia as we explore the daily experiences of colonial women. Discover the important, and frequently overlooked, contributions they have made to Georgia's success. Costumed interpreters will demonstrate the 18th century skills needed in the Georgia wilderness. $2 - $10. 912-353-3023.
Archaeology Day at the Vann House
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 to Sunday, Apr 2, 2023 10 AM to 4 PM
Chief Vann House Historic Site - Chatsworth, GA
Take part in Archaeology themed activities at the Vann House. Discover "artifacts" in our dig-boxes, learn more about ancient pottery by creating pottery your own, see the tools of archaeology with students from KSU, see actual artifacts from the Vann House, talk to archaeologists, see the crafting of stone blades, and more. $6. 706-695-2598.
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 10 AM to 3 PM
We will have various historic trades represented at this event including but not limited to blacksmithing, woodworking, sewing, spinning, etc. The is sure to be something for everyone! $3 - $6. 770-443-7850.
1st Saturday of Month 10 AM - 11 AM from Apr 1, 2023
Establish an Orchard: Apple Grafting 101
Sunday, Apr 2, 2023 1:30 PM to 4 PM
Work with UGA Extension Agents to graft your own apple trees from root stock. Participants will leave with their own newly grafted apple roots, all supplies included in program fee. Due to working with sharp instruments, participants must be 18+ and sign a waiver before beginning the program. Must call to pre-register for this interactive class. $40. 706-695-2598.
Easter Egg Decorating
Saturday, Apr 8, 2023 2 PM to 3:30 PM
We love Easter here at Fort McAllister and dyeing and decorating eggs is a fun tradition that was popular even in the Victorian era. Bring a carton of eggs and come decorate eggs with our rangers. We will have dye, paint, tissue paper, along with other items to create your easter masterpieces. $5 parking. 912-727-2339.
78th Annual Ceremony for President Roosevelt
Wednesday, Apr 12, 2023 11 AM to 12:30 PM
On April 12, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed away in Georgia. To commemorate this, we will have a commencement speaker, military band and color guard. Free admission until 12:30 p.m., then $7-$12. 706-655-5870.
24th Annual Tools and Weapons Day
Saturday, Apr 15, 2023 10 AM to 4 PM
Watch staff and demonstrators show how people utilized tools and weapons in the past to survive everyday life. See flintknapping, fire building, archery, atlatl use, and more. $2 - $6. 770-387-3747.
Edible, medicinal and utilitarian plants of the Native Americans
Saturday, Apr 15, 2023 10 AM to 12 PM
Hike with Ben Kirkland along the white oak trail. This 1.25 mile trail meanders through the woods and brings us out to the plaza. Ben will discuss the local flora and fauna and how valuable it was to the everyday life of the American Indians. $5 plus $5 parking. 229-724-2150.
Springtime at the Cabin
Spring into action and make your plans for an outing with a visit to our 1853 cabin. Enjoy life-ways demonstrations such as period games, chores, and crafts. $3 - $6. 770-443-7850.
Farm Heritage Day
Saturday, Apr 29, 2023 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM
See the farm come to life with an antique tractor display and demonstrations of farm skills like blacksmithing, woodstove cooking, spinning, weaving, and butter churning. Visitors can also walk the grounds which includes over 20 original farm buildings, two farm houses, farm animals, a garden, and a mill complex. $2 - $8.50 478-986-5172.
Saturday, May 6, 2023 10 AM to 3 PM
Come experience the sights and sounds of Keys artillery unit. Our reenactors will be demonstrating Keys Battery with our reproduction 6 pound Howitzer cannon behind the museum. Admission fee required. $3-$6 per person. Call 770-443-7850 for more information. $3-$6 per person. 770-443-7850.
1st Saturday of Month 10 AM - 11 AM from May 6, 2023
Falls to Farm Hike
Saturday, May 13, 2023 7:30 AM to 4 PM
This hike is an 11-mile, one-way hike that celebrates more than 150 years of shared history between Hardman Farm and Anna Ruby Falls! 706-878-1077.
The Etowah and Georgia Archaeology Month
Saturday, May 20, 2023 10 AM to 4 PM
Come enjoy a day dedicated to Archaeology based activities, and tours to the mounds. Click on the event for more details. $2 - $6. 770-387-3747.
War of Jenkins' Ear
It is 1742 and the Spanish are coming! Learn about the War of Jenkins' Ear and Georgia's role in the 1739-1748 war between Britain and Spain. Build your own box fort at the Colonial Life Area. Join us for a presentation about the conflict at the Visitors Center at 2:00 pm. Military drills and black powder weapons demonstration throughout the day. $2 - $10. 912-353-3023.
Memorial Day Commemoration
This coastal fort will present hourly Revolutionary War soldier talks and musket and cannon demonstrations. $3-$4.50 912-884-5999.
New Finial Exhibit Opening
Saturday, May 27, 2023 9 AM to 4 PM
On this day, and in conjunction with the 159th Commemoration of the Battle of Pickett's Mill, we will be showcasing a new exhibit featuring a rare flag finial that was found in the "ravine" in 1963. There will be presentations on the subject of flags used during battle. The commemoration will feature the William Oliphant story. $3 - $6. 770-443-7850.
159th Anniversary, Battle of Pickett's Mill
Observe Federal and Confederate infantry drills displayed around separate field encampments. Experience periodic cannon firings taking place throughout the day. Explore civilian lifeways at our 1850's cabin. Enjoy the feature demonstration of the William Oliphant Story held in the "Ravine" between both Federal and Confederate Troops. $3 - $6. 770-443-7850.
Valley Voices--Outdoor Theater
Thursday, Jun 1, 2023 5 PM to 9 PM
Come enjoy an evening of outdoor theater at Hardman Farm with this original play written by Emory Jones and directed by Kathy Blandin. 706-878-1077.
Friday, Jun 2, 2023 5 PM to 9 PM
Saturday, Jun 3, 2023 5 PM to 9 PM
National Trails Day Hike
Saturday, Jun 3, 2023 10 AM to 12 PM
Come out and help us observe National Trails Day. There will be a ranger-led hike that will cover a mix of topics related to both nature and history found along the Pickett's Mill Battlefield trails. The hike will begin at 10 a.m. and will last about two hours. $3 - $6. 770-443-7850.
"Rosie The Riveter" Performance
Saturday, Jun 3, 2023 11 AM to 3 PM
Actress/Storyteller Carol Cain will portray seven different "Rosie the Riveter's" in one special performance. Rosie represents the American women who worked during World War II producing munitions, planes, tanks and war supplies. Times: 11:00am, 1:00pm, and 2:00pm $9- $14. 706-655-5870.
1st Saturday of Month 10 AM - 11 AM from Jun 3, 2023
Saturday, Jun 10, 2023 5 PM to 9 PM
Saturday, Jun 10, 2023 10 AM to 3 PM
Join us and experience the sights and sounds of the 124th Ohio Volunteer Infantry! Our reenactors and volunteers will be demonstrating black powder muskets and cannons as well as the 1860 Henry Repeating Rifle! Admission fee required. Call 770-443-7850 for more information $3-$6. 770-443-7850.
D-Day 79th Anniversary Commemoration
President Franklin D. Roosevelt portrayer James Fowler will brief the nation about D-Day followed by leading our nation in a prayer that took place on June 6, 1944 via radio. Performances 11:00, 1:00, and 2:00. $9-$14. 706-655-5870.
Hike on Ash Creek Trail
Saturday, Jun 10, 2023 10 AM to 12:30 PM
Come on a guided hike on Ash Creek Trail. This is a slightly more challenging trail that is perfect for the summer months! this hike will be around 3.5 miles with some moderately challenging terrain, and two creeks that will be forded (no bridges). This trail is a wonderful opportunity to experience everything that Smithgall Woods has to offer. $5 parking. 706-878-3087.
Junior Ranger Camp: History Edition
Over the weekend, kids ages 8 to 12 can join the Wormsloe Rangers in crafting, games, and hikes that highlight Georgia's nature and history in the 1700s. Campers will earn their official Wormsloe Junior Ranger badge. The fun lasts Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Space is limited. Call our office to register. $80. 912-353-3023.
Sunday, Jun 11, 2023 10 AM to 4 PM
Junior Ranger Day Camp - June 12-16, 2023
Monday, Jun 12, 2023 9 AM to 3 PM
Children age 9-12 years old, come learn about Native American Culture and Natural Resources. Shoot Arrows, throw spears, Identify plants and animals, make crafts, and play games with other Junior Rangers, and more. Register before it's too late; space is limited. Click on the event title for more details. $150. 770-387-3747.
British Occupation of Savannah
Savannah is under British occupation after the Battle of Savannah. Georgia's patriots have fled to the back country, leaving the city in the hands of the redcoats. Do not despair; join our Continental spy ring to keep an eye on those sneaky redcoats. Your spy mission, should you choose to accept, will start at the Visitor Center. $2 - $10. 912-353-3023.
Anna Ruby Tuesday Day Camp
Tuesday, Jun 27, 2023 10 AM to 2 PM
What was life like for a well-to-do girl in Nacoochee in the 1870s? In this one day camp, 6-10 year olds will play period games, play dress up with Victorian attire and have an English tea. Advanced registration required. 706-878-1077.
Independence Day at Colonial Sunbury
Saturday, Jul 1, 2023 10 AM to 3 PM
Celebrate Independence Day with a bang! Visitors will experience musket, and cannon firing demonstrations each hour. Also fun for the younger ones, or the simply the young at heart, enjoy yourself playing hands-on some of the old fashioned toys and games that were common place. Sack races, jump rope, bean bags, and more will be available. $5-$6. 912-884-5999.
Ol' Time Fourth
Saturday, Jul 1, 2023 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Celebrate Fourth of July weekend at Jarrell Plantation with live patriotic and bluegrass music, old time carnival games, relays, and races. See the farm come to life with farm skill demos and stay for a slice of watermelon and a reading of the Declaration of Independence. $6-$8.50 478-986-5172.
1st Saturday of Month 10 AM - 11 AM from Jul 1, 2023
Saturday, Jul 15, 2023 10 AM to 4 PM
Sunday, Jul 16, 2023 10 AM to 4 PM
Vann House Days 2023
What better way to understand the daily life of an 1800s family than to experience it for yourself? Local craftspeople will demonstrate early 19th century skills such as blacksmithing, basket weaving, quilting, weaving, blow guns and more. The Vann Mansion, Cherokee Farmstead, Vann Kitchen, and museum will be open for self-guided tours. $6. 706-695-2598.
Governor Hardman grew several acres of corn to feed his livestock. The UGA White County Extension and Hardman Farm have grown an acre of pesticide free corn. Harvest your own corn and enjoy music, old fashioned games, pet farm animals and more. $7. Children 5 and under: Free 706-878-1077.
World Ranger Day/ Jr Ranger Family Day Camp
We will honor all park rangers and local response organizations who serve or have served on this day. There will be displays and representatives on hand to promote their part in protecting and serving the public in a park setting. This event will also serve as our Junior Ranger Day Camp for individuals and/or families. $3 - $6. 770-443-7850.
Georgia's First 4th
Saturday, Jul 29, 2023 10 AM to 12 PM
Did you know that the Declaration of Independence did not make its way to Savannah until August? Hear the reading of the Declaration of Independence as it was read in 1776. Participate in the debate. Are you loyal to the English King or will you join the Patriot cause? Program start at the Visitor Center Beginning at 10 am and repeat at 2 pm. $2 - $10. 912-353-3023.
Saturday, Jul 29, 2023 2 PM to 4 PM
1st Saturday of Month 10 AM - 11 AM from Aug 5, 2023
Go Tell It On Black Rock Mountain State Park-Storytelling Festival
7 PM - 8 PM from Aug 11, 2023 until Aug 12, 2023
Black Rock Mountain State Park - Mountain City, GA
Spend the weekend hearing storytellers and live music. Participants can learn the craft of storytelling during lectures throughout the weekend. $5 parking. 706-746-2141.
7 PM - 8 PM from Aug 12, 2023
Hollywood at Hardman
Saturday, Aug 12, 2023 7:30 PM to 11 PM
Enjoy an evening at the farm with your family. We will be showing the 1950's movie that was filmed right here in the Sautee-Nacoochee Valley! $6. 706-878-1077.
Tools and Skills that Built a Colony
Saturday, Aug 26, 2023 10 AM to 4 PM
What did those first colonists do to survive when they arrived in 1733? Find out if you have what it took to build a colony. See craft demonstrations such as blacksmithing, spinning, cooking, and more. $2 - $10. 912-353-3023.
Labor Day Commemoration
Saturday, Sep 2, 2023 10 AM to 3 PM
Spinning, blacksmithing, woodworking, and other early trade skills will be demonstrated; along with musket and cannon firing demonstrations on the hour. $3- $4.50 912-884-5999.
Daisy Days: Guided Panola Mountain Hike
Saturday, Sep 2, 2023 9 AM to 12 PM
The Yellow Daisies are blooming! Join us on a guided hike of Panola Mountain to complete the annual Daisy Days Triple Hike Challenge. Wear sturdy hiking shoes and bring water. Register in advance. Ages 10+ $10 plus $5 parking. 770-389-7801.
1st Saturday of Month 10 AM - 11 AM from Sep 2, 2023
Girl Scouts Love State Parks Day
Saturday, Sep 9, 2023 9 AM to 4 PM
All Girl Scout groups are invited to attend this event. Preregistration is required for each group. All activities are open to the public and led by staff and girl scouts. 770-443-7850.
Saturday, Sep 16, 2023 9 AM to 12 PM
Etowah Mounds Annual Cleanup - Your State Parks Day
Saturday, Sep 23, 2023 9 AM to 4 PM
Celebrate Your State Parks Day and National Public Lands Day by visiting Etowah Indian Mounds. Volunteers are encouraged to join our staff and Friends Chapter for our Annual Clean-up. Registered Volunteers get Free Admission. Click on the event title for more information. $0 - $6. 770-387-3747.
Harvest Moon Dinner
Saturday, Sep 23, 2023 6 PM to 9 PM
Hardman Farm's fall premiere event, the Harvest Moon Dance, will bring the farm to life with live 1930's jazz music, delicious food and beer and a night of dancing under the stars. 706-878-1077.
Your State Parks Day/ National Public Lands Day
In conjunction with National Public Lands Day, the Friends of Pickett's Mill will host this volunteer workday. Please bring gloves, water and snacks provided. Admission is free for volunteers on this day. 770-443-7850.
Ghosts and Legends of Hofwyl Broadfield Plantation
Friday, Oct 6, 2023 6:30 PM to 8 PM
Take an eerie journey back in time at Coastal Georgia's last surviving rice plantation. We will walk beneath centuries old Live Oak trees, explore the plantation out-buildings and finish with a tour of the plantation house. $20. 912-264-7333.
22nd Annual Skills of the Past
Saturday, Oct 7, 2023 10 AM to 4 PM
Come watch staff and demonstrators show how people used basic skills to live in the pre-industrial age. See skills such as flintknapping, fire building, cordage making, weaving, food preparation, and more. Click on the event title for more information. $2 - $6. 770-387-3747.
1st Saturday of Month 10 AM - 11 AM from Oct 7, 2023
Where's Noble Bones? A Bone Chiling Scavenger Hunt!
Saturday, Oct 7, 2023 to Sunday, Oct 8, 2023 10 AM to 4 AM
Come help us find Noble Jones, he has lost all of his Noble Bones! Every Saturday in October Wormsloe State Historic Site will be holding a spooky scavenger hunt. It gives families a perfect way to get outdoors and enjoy the beautiful natural and cultural resources here at Wormsloe while having some fun! $2.50 - $10 912-353-3023.
Kids Old-Fashioned Cooking Experience
Monday, Oct 9, 2023 11 AM to 1 PM
Learn how people cooked about 100 years ago using a historic wood stove. Lunch will be provided in part from your own cooking efforts. This program is for children ages 7-12. One adult must stay with their children. Advance Reservations are required. Limit of 20 participants. 706-878-1077.
Friday, Oct 13, 2023 6:30 PM to 8 PM


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Mayan Ruins and Chocolate (Part 1)
December 18, 2021 December 22, 2021 ~ Activated Adventurers
December 3, 2021 – Part II >
If you're going to visit the Yucatan Peninsula, you simply have to see some Mayan ruins. And the best place to do that is the enormously famous Chichen Itza, right? So we thought. And so we'd planned. It is after all, one of the seven wonders of the world. But one of the advantages to staying at a hostel is that you get to meet some experienced and knowledgeable travelers and locals who are full of tips. And literally everyone we talked to who had been to both Chichen Itza and Uxmal (and there were quite a few of them) reported that they preferred the latter. Chichen Itza, they informed us, was certainly worth seeing, but it was crowded, and not nearly as impressive as Uxmal. So we made a change of plans. Chichen Itza will wait for our next trip here. This time, it's Uxmal for the win.
The bus from Merida to Uxmal left at about 9:30 a.m., and the ride took about an hour and 45 minutes. The bus leaves from the Ado terminal (Ado is a major bus line), which is only a short walk from our hostel; the actual bus line that handles this route, however, is called Sur.
We are grateful to A Piece of Travel for a post that helped us navigate the bus from Merida to Uxmal
The fare was 84 pesos (about 4 dollars) each, and there was about a 20 minute wait in line. Having paid, we were given a plastic card with a balance on it, and our initial understanding was that we'd had to overpay a little because tickets were handled only by issuing cards, which were sold only in round increments. But we soon realized that the card was not the ticket, but a sort of "frequent bus-er" pass with a 14 peso bonus on it.
And this fare was one-way only. When we inquired about a roundtrip ticket, we were informed (via a translation on a phone) that there's no such thing, because there is no return bus from Uxmal; the only way to get back is to take a bus from Uxmal to a town called Muna, and from there catch a bus to Merida. This turned out to be not exactly true. But we'll get to that.
direct quote typed on the ticket agent's phone
on the bus
passing through Uman on the bus
Bus ride from Merida to Uxmal
The announcements for departures in the station were in Spanish only, so we really had to be alert and ask around to make sure we didn't miss our bus. When we got on, the seating was catch as catch can, but we found two good ones together and settled back for a fairly comfortable ride — the vehicle was even equipped with a toilet.
The bus dropped us at the entrance to Uxmal across the road is the entrance to ChocoStory, which is a much-touted museum dedicated to the history of chocolate. We just might be persuaded to drop in there after we finish touring the ruins. That was in fact one of the factors that nudged us to choose Uxmal over Chichen Itza. Actually, Chichen Itza has its own ChocoStory, but the intelligence we've received Uxmal over Chichen Itza in the chocolate department as well as the Mayan ruins department.
We were struck by the picturesque setting of the facility, with well-landscaped surroundings and a rustic hotel. Hmmm… maybe that's why they tell you there's no bus back to Merida. They want you to be stuck overnight so you'll have to pay for a hotel. Forever.
Uxmal, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996, has a great deal of mystery surrounding it. It was once a city occupied by as many as some 15,000 inhabits, though their exact dates of occupation, and the construction dates of the buildings are unclear; but apparently construction was in several phases and was completed by about 1100. As the guide on our walking tour of Merida mentioned a few days ago, most of the Mayan records were destroyed when an overzealous priest decided to burn nearly all of their books (codices). As a result, an unknown body of knowledge was lost, including perhaps folk annals and useful medical knowledge. The Mayan Uber driver we had a couple of days ago was able, at our request, to sing two Mayan songs; if the books had been preserved, he might have known songs much older.
The entrance fee to the ruins was a little over 400 pesos (about 20 dollars) each. We had to check our bags upon entering, but after some deliberation, they allowed us to keep our water packs. Which was a relief, because we didn't want to pay for bottled water.
So then it was down the path and around a bend, and suddenly, we were face to face with one of the most whap-in-the-face sights we'd ever witnessed: the so-called Pyramid Of The Magician, the tallest and most iconic of the structures here. It's the one that everybody has to get their picture taken in front of. And for us, just standing in front of it wasn't quite enough.
Walking around to the other side, you come to a large quadrangle that appears to have been a public forum. It's surrounded by structures that remind you of a movie set of some kind or other, though you can't quite name the movie. Look closely and you see motifs paying tribute to various animals — most notably the serpent, which was a symbol of good rather than evil in Mayan culture. It's unknown just what many of these buildings were used for.
Continuing along the tour route, you come to the ball court, where the game we now call Pok Ta Pok was played. It's a very oddly designed rectangle, with slanted platforms on either side where the hoops are located. But the hoops seem to be turned the wrong way, perpendicular to the court. We'd really like to read the rule book for that game. Too bad it got burned up.
One thing you're certain to see at Uxmal, in addition to lots of tourists, is lots of iquanas. There are so many of them standing sentinel everywhere you turn, and that you half suspect they're the reincarnation of the ancient inhabitants of this city.
One of the more intriguing looking buildings was off limits, and a bit in the distance; It was near the Governor's Palace, which of course was among the largest and grandest of structures there. And it was strategically placed on a hill so the Governor had a good view of the ballgames (and other activities, no doubt).
When you get right down to it, Uxmal isn't really all that large, and you could walk through it pretty quickly if you wanted to. But that would be foolish; and indeed, probably very hard to do for anyone who has a sense of wonder and awe. You should allow a good two hours to stroll around these grounds. The time will be well repaid.
Part II – Visit to Choco-World
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China's banking system became the biggest in the world at the end of 2016. As three of the world's four largest banks by assets are now Chinese, the total assets of the country's banking system reached USD34 trillion; more than the eurozone's USD32.7 tn and more than double the US' USD16.1 tn.
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An exploration of central issues in philosophy, as addressed by Herman Dooyeweerd, Dirk Vollenhoven, and the "Amsterdam School" of neoCalvinian thought. The course tests the relevance of this tradition for recent developments in Western philosophy. Special attention is given to critiques of foundationalism, metaphysics, and modernity within reformational philosophy and in other schools of thought.


Few things are more welcome than a hearty bowl of New England clam chowder. The flavor of this quintessential creamy soup with tender chunks of potatoes, salty bits of bacon, sweet corn, and briny clams is delicate and mild.
Peel the Onion and cut into quarter inch dice, then set aside.
Peel the Carrot and cut into quarter inch dice, then set aside.
Cut Yukon Gold Potato into quarter inch dice, and set aside.
Cut the Corn kernels from the cob, and set aside.
Remove the Fresh Thyme leaves from stems, discard stems, and set leaves aside.
Cut the Bacon into quarter inch pieces, and set aside.
Heat a large saucepan over medium heat. When hot, add the bacon and cook until browned, about four minutes.
Remove from the pan using a slotted spoon and place on paper towels.
Retain bacon fat in the pan for sauteing the veggies.
Strain the Canned Chopped Clams over a medium bowl to contain the clam juice, and set both aside.
To the saucepan with the bacon fat, add Butter over medium heat.
When melted, add the small onion and carrot and saute for five minutes or until onions are translucent.
Add corn and saute for two to three minutes.
Add potatoes and half of the thyme. Stir.
Sprinkle All-Purpose Flour over the mixture. Cook for three minutes, stirring until the flour has been well incorporated.
While stirring, pour the clam juice into the mixture in a steady stream until fully blended and no lumps remain. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for fourteen minutes, until the chowder starts to thicken.
Gently fold in the clams and slowly stir in Milk. Season with Salt and Ground Black Pepper. Simmer for 19 minutes more until potatoes are tender.
While the chowder simmers, slice a circle around the top of each loaf of Sourdough Bread Boule and remove the lid. Using your hands, hollow out the inside of each loaf, making a bowl, leaving the walls about a half inch thick.
Place bowls directly onto the oven rack for the last three minutes the chowder is simmering.
Place the bread bowls in the center of two plates. Fill the bowls with chowder. Garnish with bacon and remaining thyme.
Love the use of the sourdough bowl, the pictures make me want some chowder!


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