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SUSWAM FIRES COMMISSIONER
From ROSE EJEMBI, Makurdi.
Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam, on Tuesday, relieved his Commissioner for Information and Culture, Bem Melladu, of his appointment in a bid to restructure his cabinet.
In a statement by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Audu Achigili, the sacked commissioner has also been directed to hand over with immediate effect to the permanent secretary of the ministry.
Also speaking with newsmen at the Government House Press Center, the SSG explained that the governor had the right to sack any commissioner at any time if such commissioner is found to be nursing a political ambition.
'No person can hold government to ransom. You cannot divert government attention. The machinery of government must go ahead,' he said.
It would be recalled that Melladu was one of the commissioners who were redeployed to other ministries during a recent cabinet reshuffle in the state. He was deployed from the ministry of Commerce and Industry to Information and Culture.
No reason was given for the commissioner's sack but Daily Sun gathered that he may have been relieved of his job because of his alleged loyalty to the former governor of the State, Senator George Akume.
Another rumour had it that his sack might not be unconnected with his intention to contest the House of Representatives seat in Gboko/Tarka Federal Constituency.
Efforts to reach the sacked commissioner for comment failed as his mobile phone was switched off.
In a related development, Governor Gabriel Suswam has approved the suspension of 12 local government chairmen who were recently recommended for suspension by the state House of Assembly over alleged misappropriation of excess crude funds accruing to their councils.
While handing down the punishment, the governor slammed two months suspension on council chairmen of Ogbadibo, Gwer and Gwer West who were recommended for six months suspension by the state House of Assembly.
Also, the nine other chairmen that were recommended for three months suspension are now to proceed on one month suspension. However, no mention was made as to whether or not the affected chairmen are to refund the monies they allegedly embezzled.

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In Brief This Week: Sequenom, Mayo Medical Laboratories; Enigma Diagnostics; Bioline; Atlas Genetics
Jan 18, 2014 | staff reporter
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Sequenom said this week that Mayo Medical Laboratories, the reference laboratory for the Mayo Clinic, will offer access to Sequenom's MaterniT21 Plus test for fetal aneuploidies. Mayo Medical Laboratories provides diagnostic tests to more than 5,000 healthcare institutions around the world.
Enigma Diagnostics CE marked it EnigmaML system and the company's first FluAB-RSV diagnostic assay. The real-time PCR-based system is a raw sample-to-result instrument, which delivers results equivalent to central laboratory standards in up to 70 minutes, Enigma said. The assay detects all currently circulating influenza and RSV viruses from nasopharygeal swab samples.
Meridian Bioscience subsidiary Bioline has opened an office in Singapore to support and grow its business in the region. Bioline will provide direct sales, technical support, and training to its existing customers. It said it also can offer same-day delivery to many of its customers in Singapore.
Atlas Genetics completed development of the Atlas io Reader and is entering pilot manufacturing of the instrument ahead of clinical studies to support the company's submission for regulatory approval in Europe. The io Reader, developed with The Technology Partnership, automates sample preparation, DNA amplification, and electrochemical detection.
In Brief This Week is a Friday column containing news items that our readers may have missed during the week.


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Mercedes says its electric concept has 620 miles of range and seats made with mushrooms
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business
Yeah a a mm hmm.
Mercedes has unveiled a new all-electric concept car, the EQXX, that the company claims can go 620 miles on a single charge.The futuristic luxury car is also made with a host of innovative recycled and sustainable materials including mushroom fibers, ground up cacti and trash such as food scraps.Related video above: These are the 10 worst cars for depreciationMercedes' range claim for this concept vehicle is based on computer simulated testing, not actual driving, the company said. If the claim is accurate, though, the EQXX would be able to drive farther on a single charge than a Toyota Prius hybrid can travel on a full tank of gas, according to United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates. The Prius can only manage 588 miles. It's nearly as far as the 644 miles that a diesel-powered Chevrolet Suburban can go on a 28-gallon tank of fuel. It's also much farther than any other electric car currently available in the United States, according to the EPA.Mercedes plans to demonstrate the car's range in an actual driving test this spring, the company said.Mercedes has said it intends for half its sales to be electric cars by 2025 and, by 2030, for the brand to be virtually "ready to go all electric." Mercedes referred to the EQXX as a "technology blueprint for series production."Mercedes plans to put a car with the EQXX's battery and electric motor technology, as well as some of the car's other features, into production in 2024, said Markus Schäfer, chief technology officer of Mercedes' parent company Daimler.The EQXX achieves its remarkable range with a battery pack that is half as large and 30% lighter than the one in the Mercedes EQS, the German automakers current fully electric sedan, while storing the same amount of energy, according to Mercedes. At 620 miles, or 1,000 kilometers, the EQXX would provide about 133 miles more driving distance on a charge than the EQS based on European range estimates for that car.The EQXX gains those extra miles largely through efficiency, according to Mercedes. Mercedes claims the EQXX can travel more than 6 miles per kilowatt hour of electricity. That's almost three times farther per kilowatt hour than a Tesla Model S Long Range, according to U.S. EPA estimates. A kilowatt-hour is a unit of electrical energy stored in a car's battery so miles per kilowatt hour is like miles per gallon for a gasoline car. The figures are much lower, though, because a gallon of gasoline contains almost 34 kilowatt hours of energy.To reach that level of efficiency, Mercedes designers focused on aerodynamics. The EQXX has a drag coefficient of just 0.17, which is sightly more aerodynamic than a properly thrown football. It's also more aerodynamic than today's Mercedes EQS which, while still very aerodynamic, has a drag coefficient of 0.20. A Porsche 911 Turbo has a drag coefficient of 0.33, according to Porsche.The car is also designed to be as light as possible, according to Mercedes. Besides the relatively light battery pack it has wheels made from magnesium, and aluminum brakes. Springs in the EQXX's suspension are made from glass-fiber reinforced plastic instead of metal.The EQXX's body includes a web-like subframe designed to have metal only where it's actually needed for structural integrity and crash safety. Empty spaces in the frame are filled in with a material called UBQ, created by an Israeli startup. UBQ is made from landfill waste that can include things like mixed plastics, cardboard, gardening waste and even diapers, according to Mercedes-Benz. Solar panels in the roof supply supplemental energy for things like air conditioning, lights and the car's touchscreen systems reducing demands on battery power.Besides the UBQ filler material in the body, the EQXX also utilizes sustainable materials in other parts of the car. A leather-like material made from mycelium, the underground root-like structures of mushrooms, is used in the seat cushions. Another leather substitute, made from pulverized cactus fibers, is used elsewhere in the interior. The carpets are made entirely of bamboo fiber, according to Mercedes.Inside, the EQXX has an enormous touchscreen that stretches all they way across the dashboard. Unlike the ultra-wide "screen" in the EQS, which is actually three smaller screens under a single sheet of glass, the one in the EQXX really is a single four-foot wide screen. To save energy, unused portions of the screen dim.Mercedes engineers and designers have also tried to give the car's voice-control system more personality with a lifelike voice that's more emotionally expressive. The system is represented by a human-shaped avatar made up of tiny stars. The figure is modeled on the young Mercedes Jellinek, the daughter of Emil Jellinek, an early (and particularly demanding) customer of Daimler, now Mercedes' parent company.In 1900, he commissioned a new sports car model that he insisted be named after his daughter. The car was such a success that her name later became attached to every car the company made.
Mercedes has unveiled a new all-electric concept car, the EQXX, that the company claims can go 620 miles on a single charge.
The futuristic luxury car is also made with a host of innovative recycled and sustainable materials including mushroom fibers, ground up cacti and trash such as food scraps.
Related video above: These are the 10 worst cars for depreciation
Mercedes' range claim for this concept vehicle is based on computer simulated testing, not actual driving, the company said. If the claim is accurate, though, the EQXX would be able to drive farther on a single charge than a Toyota Prius hybrid can travel on a full tank of gas, according to United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates. The Prius can only manage 588 miles. It's nearly as far as the 644 miles that a diesel-powered Chevrolet Suburban can go on a 28-gallon tank of fuel. It's also much farther than any other electric car currently available in the United States, according to the EPA.
Mercedes plans to demonstrate the car's range in an actual driving test this spring, the company said.
Mercedes has said it intends for half its sales to be electric cars by 2025 and, by 2030, for the brand to be virtually "ready to go all electric." Mercedes referred to the EQXX as a "technology blueprint for series production."
Mercedes-Benz AG – Communications & Marketing
Mercedes plans to put a car with the EQXX's battery and electric motor technology, as well as some of the car's other features, into production in 2024, said Markus Schäfer, chief technology officer of Mercedes' parent company Daimler.
The EQXX achieves its remarkable range with a battery pack that is half as large and 30% lighter than the one in the Mercedes EQS, the German automakers current fully electric sedan, while storing the same amount of energy, according to Mercedes. At 620 miles, or 1,000 kilometers, the EQXX would provide about 133 miles more driving distance on a charge than the EQS based on European range estimates for that car.
Buying an electric car? Here's what you need to know
The EQXX gains those extra miles largely through efficiency, according to Mercedes. Mercedes claims the EQXX can travel more than 6 miles per kilowatt hour of electricity. That's almost three times farther per kilowatt hour than a Tesla Model S Long Range, according to U.S. EPA estimates. A kilowatt-hour is a unit of electrical energy stored in a car's battery so miles per kilowatt hour is like miles per gallon for a gasoline car. The figures are much lower, though, because a gallon of gasoline contains almost 34 kilowatt hours of energy.
To reach that level of efficiency, Mercedes designers focused on aerodynamics. The EQXX has a drag coefficient of just 0.17, which is sightly more aerodynamic than a properly thrown football. It's also more aerodynamic than today's Mercedes EQS which, while still very aerodynamic, has a drag coefficient of 0.20. A Porsche 911 Turbo has a drag coefficient of 0.33, according to Porsche.
The car is also designed to be as light as possible, according to Mercedes. Besides the relatively light battery pack it has wheels made from magnesium, and aluminum brakes. Springs in the EQXX's suspension are made from glass-fiber reinforced plastic instead of metal.
The EQXX's body includes a web-like subframe designed to have metal only where it's actually needed for structural integrity and crash safety. Empty spaces in the frame are filled in with a material called UBQ, created by an Israeli startup. UBQ is made from landfill waste that can include things like mixed plastics, cardboard, gardening waste and even diapers, according to Mercedes-Benz. Solar panels in the roof supply supplemental energy for things like air conditioning, lights and the car's touchscreen systems reducing demands on battery power.
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Besides the UBQ filler material in the body, the EQXX also utilizes sustainable materials in other parts of the car. A leather-like material made from mycelium, the underground root-like structures of mushrooms, is used in the seat cushions. Another leather substitute, made from pulverized cactus fibers, is used elsewhere in the interior. The carpets are made entirely of bamboo fiber, according to Mercedes.
Inside, the EQXX has an enormous touchscreen that stretches all they way across the dashboard. Unlike the ultra-wide "screen" in the EQS, which is actually three smaller screens under a single sheet of glass, the one in the EQXX really is a single four-foot wide screen. To save energy, unused portions of the screen dim.
Mercedes engineers and designers have also tried to give the car's voice-control system more personality with a lifelike voice that's more emotionally expressive. The system is represented by a human-shaped avatar made up of tiny stars. The figure is modeled on the young Mercedes Jellinek, the daughter of Emil Jellinek, an early (and particularly demanding) customer of Daimler, now Mercedes' parent company.
In 1900, he commissioned a new sports car model that he insisted be named after his daughter. The car was such a success that her name later became attached to every car the company made.
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Volunteer Firefighters Needed in NEPA
Posted: Jan 15, 2020 / 11:51 AM EST / Updated: Jan 15, 2020 / 11:51 AM EST
NANTICOKE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU-TV) All across Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania there is a dire need for volunteer firefighters. What happens when there is an emergency and no one answers the call?
Professional firefighters tell Eyewitness News that times are tough and the future is dismal for volunteers.
"In 1970, Pennsylvania had 300,000 plus volunteers. With the number dwindling down to like 38,000 now. The drop is insane when you think about just 50 years." Chief Kevin Hazleton of the Nanticoke Fire Department said.
Here at the Nanticoke Fire Department, some people are paid while others are volunteers. Without their volunteers, the fire department wouldn't be able to make those life saving rescues.
"We have a good volunteer base in Nanticoke, we do. And we're lucky enough to be a combination department. But having people on the scene in the first 3-4 minutes is the difference between life and death no doubt about it." Chief Hazleton added.
Being a volunteer can be very rewarding. Volunteering could even lead many to a career in fighting fires.
"The reward is just helping your brother, helping your neighbor with volunteerism. That's how it started. And that's what it's still about. Just getting that little, hey, thank you."
"It could turn into something you like and eventually you can try to make a career out of it. I know not only here in the valley but a lot of friends did end up moving outside the area working in D.C., Baltimore County and that area too." Dane Aukstakalnis from the Nanticoke Fire Department said.
Chief Hazleton says if you're willing to volunteer there is a place for you at any local fire department from 14 year old junior firemen to seniors.
"All of a sudden you retired early and you have something to do, come around! Every department has something you could help with. There's no doubt about that."
If you or anyone you know is interested in volunteering, stop by your local fire department and they can help you get started.
HAZLETON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Two people are charged after a search warrant was executed in Hazleton.
According to a press release from Hazleton Police Department, Randi Torres-Irizarry, 44, of Hazleton and Luis Lucas-Castillo, 39, of Hazle Township, were taken into custody and charged after police seized a large amount of cocaine, suspected fentanyl, cash, and packaging/processing materials.
Police: Missing woman died of hypothermia
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By Sarah Beckford Nov 12, 2021
Måneskin is what I consider to be part of the slowly simmering revival of rock music that's been occurring in recent years. Their music is filled with brash guitar solos and lyrics of love and rebellion that recall earlier eras of rock.
By Lauren Canavan Nov 9, 2021
t was a Wednesday afternoon in September. I sat in my anthropology class fidgeting in my chair and incessantly checking the time on my phone. I'd soon be slipping out the lecture hall to catch a train from Long Island to Manhattan. I thought back to the feeling of excitement that washed over me as I ordered the tickets for Black Pumas back in June. My anticipation for this show was unmatched, as it had already once been postponed, due to — you guessed it — COVID-19.
By Rafael Cruvinel Nov 3, 2021
When Adele posted the teaser for "Easy On Me," the lead single from her new album 30, we all knew it was time to put our favorite artists out of her shining path. Because this is what Adele's success looks like: a tsunami that breaks all possible records no matter what (or who) is in the way. No fanbase wants to compete with her.
By Anthony Leon Oct 20, 2021
Kendrick Lamar has broken his silence. After four years without any solo releases, Lamar penned his thoughts about the future under the name "Oklama."
By The Stony Brook Press Oct 20, 2021
Summer 2021 was almost the summer of post-vaccine freedom — almost. Continuing our annual tradition, we've compiled a list of songs that captured the hope, sorrow and personal growth we experienced over the break.
By Rafael Cruvinel Oct 7, 2021
As fans relistened to Lorde's first two albums, there was a clear expectation her next release would fall within the same vein — dark aesthetics, gloomy introspective lyrics and complex production. But what came to life was completely different.
By Keating Zelenke Sep 15, 2021
When we found the key to the Press archives, I only remember finding a box or two of old magazines tucked away. The rest of the long walk-in closet was instead full of records. Boxes and boxes of old WUSB promotional records from the '80s and '90s — relics from when the radio station was affiliated with the magazine.
By Sarah Beckford Jul 14, 2021
How do you translate the energy and feeling of a live show — the crowd singing along, watching the lines around a concert venue with excitement — into a virtual production with an audience stuck at home? How does new music, intended to shake a room, get converted into a virtual experience? For Brockhampton, achieving that feat means utilizing the tools in their playbook that make for a great live show, and adapting them.


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Sooners lose Mulkey to Rice
The tallest player in program history, Nancy Mulkey, is transferring to Rice, she announced on Twitter this week.
The 6-foot-9 center played in all 33 games her freshman season with Oklahoma, including 18 starts, averaging 3.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.9 blocks in 11 minutes per game. The tallest player in the country out of Cypress Woods High School, in Cypress, Texas, Mulkey
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The Bigelow House as it appeared during the 1860s. The Carpenter Gothic style borrowed elements from medieval church architecture and reinterpreted them in wooden construction: a steeply pitched roof, gothic (pointed) arches, decorative millwork that suggested the carved stone of old cathedrals. It was a style that peaked in popularity back east at about the time early pioneer settlers were moving west.
The Bigelow House Museum Collection.
The foundation shows that the house was built in two stages. The front half was constructed first and sits on a raft of charred cedar logs measuring 16"-18" in diameter. This was a common practice to preserve the wood from beetles and rot. The back half was added later (although it is not known how much later) and uses a more contemporary pier and pad construction method.
In 1905 Ann Elizabeth modified the room layouts, added the stairs in the library and substantially changed the old kitchen into a formal dining room and the milk room into the current kitchen. These remodels allowed the family to rent rooms to boarders and generate additional income.
There was another phase of renovation in 1950 after Ruth died. The rear kitchen was modernized and a hot water radiator system was installed. The most recent modifications occurred in 1995 when the house was sold to the Bigelow House Preservation Association.
Daniel Richardson 7 BIGELOW was born in 1824 and raised in New York State. Two years after reading law at Harvard, he crossed the Oregon Trail. He arrived in the small frontier settlement of Olympia in late 1851 where he established a law practice, filed a Donation Land Claim and threw himself into local politics. Ann Elizabeth White Bigelow was only 14 when her family came west from Wisconsin that same year. By 1853, she was teaching school near the Nisqually River.
In 1854, Elizabeth and Daniel married and moved to a tiny cabin on his land claim. Soon afterwards they built their neat, white two-story home, and raised eight children.
Known as the "Father of Washington State," Daniel was among the first settlers to call for the separation of Washington from Oregon Territory. He served in the first Washington Territorial legislature and held a number of other offices during his long career. He and Elizabeth were ardent supporters of education, civil rights for non whites, suffrage, and temperance.
diary of D. R. Bigelow.
This family portrait was taken in 1889 and shows all eight of their children.
Jotham "Duncan" Bigelow (1871-1969), William Ellis Bigelow (1862-1891), and Ruth Bigelow Wright (1860-1950).
George Bigelow (1881-1961), Ann Elizabeth White Bigelow (1836-1926), and Margaret Bigelow (1878-1937).
Olympia's oldest surviving home was built by pioneer lawyer Daniel R. Bigelow and his schoolteacher wife, Ann Elizabeth White Bigelow, sometime before 1860. Its style is primarily Gothic Revival or "Carpenter Gothic," one of the most popular American architectural fashions of the day. The earliest part of the house rests on a foundation of whole cedar logs that were hardened by fire to protect against rotting, much as Northwest Native people prepared logs for cedar canoes.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow came west over the Oregon Trail-he as a sober bachelor and she as a teen with her family-in 1851. They met here, married in 1854 and lived at first in a tiny cabin that stands (though greatly altered) on the grounds of the Bigelow House. Daniel Bigelow served in the Washington Territorial Legislature and held many other civic offices, including county treasurer and superintendent of schools. Both he and Ann Elizabeth were fierce supporters of voting rights for women. In 1871 the famous suffragist Susan B. Anthony dined at the Bigelow House while passing through Olympia on one of her lecture tours.
Like many other settlers, the Bigelows developed a small farm on their homestead. Several gnarled fruit trees from their pioneer orchard still grow at the Bigleow House and in the gardens of neighboring homes.
The historic Bigelow House, still occupied today by members of the Bigelow family, was purchased in 1994 by the Bigelow House Preservation Association and carefully restored. It contains an unusual collection of original family furnishings and is open to the public as a historic house museum.
The Bigelow House is located on Glass Ave NE, just off East Bay Drive. It is listed on both the National and Washington State Registers of Historic Places, as well as on the Olympia Heritage Register. Please see http://www.bigelowhouse.org/ for more information.
The Bigelow House Museum is the oldest residence in Olympia, Washington, and one of the oldest still standing in the Pacific Northwest. It was built circa 1860 by pioneer lawyer Daniel R. Bigelow and his schoolteacher wife Ann Elizabeth White Bigelow. Surrounded by more than an acre of the family's original land claim, the house is charming example of the Carpenter Gothic style popular in rural America during the mid-1800s.
The Bigelow House has been home to a single family—a family that saved things— for more than 140 years. It contains a remarkable collection of original furnishings, phots, documents, and other personal belongings.
From pioneer fruit trees out in the garden to elaborate late-19th Century handcrafts worked by Bigelow women, the Bigelow House reflects the life work of four successive generations of Bigelow family members. Bigelow House Museum offers a tantalizing glimpse of life in Puget Sound Country before Washington became a state and American women won the vote.
Opened to the public as a Museum in 1995, visitors may tour the ground floor of the house, its gardens and the historic neighborhood. The Museum hosts several events throughout the year. Special tours can be arranged year round.


The boats and anglers that were lucky enough to get a day out on the water yesterday, had a very good day catching sea bass and tog. Some of the local charter boats got their boat limit of tog, which this season was a feat in itself. This weather has really put a crimp in everyones fishing for tog, sea bass, flounder and every other species that is targeted in our waters.
I am hearing some far off rumors that a small group of stripers has been spotted off the coast of Atlantic City, NJ. And I have heard that fish up to 45" have been being caught off Ocean City, NJ. Hopefully that small group makes a pit stop off our coast to take a little break before continuing south to their winter home. There is still enough bait fish to keep them here for a little bit. Also the bait fish up in the Delaware bay should get their attention and get them to make a right turn to the bay.
If the weather gives up, and we can get out to get some fishing in before winter really sets in, the sea bass and tog fishing should be off the hook, only because the fisheries have not been overly fished thanks to other nature. Keep your fingers crossed and let's hope we have a great end to the fall fishing season. Congratulations to the winners of our Tautog Tournament this year, !st Place- Joe McNeil, 2nd Place- Chris Ragni Jr, 3rd Place- Joe McNeil.
Our Annual Striper Tournament is scheduled to begin on Friday, Nov 23rd and run until Dec 23rd. Stop by and register today. Same as tog tourney, $5 a day, $30 for the month. You must be paid and registered in order to win.
Until next week, Tightlines Everyone, Tommy Serbin.


An NFL free agent has sided with Le'Veon Bell's contract holdout, going to Twitter to charge that his complaining Pittsburgh Steelers teammates are "brainwashed" into siding with management.
Rich Ohrnberger, who last played for the San Diego Chargers in 2013-14 and hosts a sports talk show there, went on social media to blast Bell's teammates for not sticking up for the All-Pro running back.
Le'Veon Bell's teammates are brainwashed.
Ownership/management/coaches have these players doing their dirty work! You DON'T comment on someone else's contract. If Bell's holdout succeeds in earning him more money it benefits the union.
Bell continues to hold out for a long-term deal, missing all of training camp as the NFL season opener approaches. His teammates have sounded off about his absence in the local Pittsburgh press.
The Washington Post stated Bell is expected to make $14.5 million under is the current contract, tops among running backs. That's a fact that has not been lost on some of his teammates, like All-Pro guard David DeCastro.
The Post pointed out that Bell did not report to the team in 2017 until nine days after the season opener when he was not under contract. In the end, he was given a one-year franchise tag for the second year in a row instead of the contract extension he was seeking.
The Post-Gazette wrote that if Bell sits for the entire season, he would remain under the same franchise tag next year, the one his is fighting against. If the star running back reports before the 11th week in the season, according to the newspaper, his salary for the weeks miss could disappear, but he would be an unrestricted free agent in 2019, putting up his services for the rest of the NFL to bid on.
While Ohrnberger touted that Bell's move could help all players in the long run by referencing the union, that did not appear to sit well with many fans.
So benefit the union but hurt the team. Nice yeah that makes sense y'all are spoiled.
Omg! Are you freaking kidding me! The players do not deserve more money. They are paid crazily now!


Mike worked for several years as management consultant specializing in communications, group animation and community and organizational development.
His work experiences include Superintendent of Social Service in Baffin, senior management positions in Yellowknife with the territorial government and his own consulting firm to do community and organizational development work. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in the areas of community justice, health care and addictions, education, political and economic development and community planning. Much of his work focused on the development of aboriginal self-government.
Mike has a special interest in helping to build a conceptual bridge that links the traditional teachings of aboriginal elders with the insights of the new science and cosmology. These insights are leading to a growing awareness that organizations and communities are organisms, are part of a living universe, have a self-organizing capability and are guided by the same developmental principles that guide the development of the earth itself. Mike was, once a fellow monk with Thomas Berry and has a special interest in bringing Berry's Earth Spirituality to local communities. He lives in Comox, with his wife Arlene. He volunteers in a number of community efforts opposing coalmines and pipelines. He is working to help develop a community climate change culture.
Dianne lives in Sechelt, British Columbia on Canada's West Coast. She graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1983 with a degree in Psychology and Anthropology. From 1983 until 2017, she lived in Winnipeg with her life partner and they raised three daughters.
Between 1992 and 1995, Dianne and her partner worked with the Methodist Church in Trinidad and Tobago. Travel in The Philippines, Central America, Israel and Palestine has honed her commitment to human rights, cross-cultural dialogue and non-violent communication.
Dianne has worked in child and adolescent mental health, sexual abuse treatment and recovery work and with adults with disabilities. She works in private practice as a therapist, consults with groups around organizational development, designs and offers retreats, and has a keen interest in support for people at the threshold of life, helping with life-end conversations with clients and families.
Jennifer Berezan is a unique blend of singer/songwriter, teacher, and activist. Over the course of eight albums, she has devel oped and explored recurring themes with a rare wisdom. Her lifelong involvement in environmental, women's, and other justice movements as well as an interest in Buddhism and earth-based spirituality are at the heart of her writing.
Her intense and personal approach to music as a transforming experience has brought her strong rapport with audiences from small clubs to large festivals throughout North America and Europe. Her ground breaking work as a recording artist and teacher has established her as a leading voice in the field of music and healing and she is an acclaimed producer of large scale multi-cultural ecstatic musical events. She teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the department of Philosophy and Religion. Her on-going class (since 1997) is entitled "the Healing Ecstasy of Sound" and explores music as a spiritual practice from a wide range of cross cultural, traditional and contemporary perspectives.
Dr. Pille Bunnell is a systems ecologist who has specialised in the integration and explanation of complex concerns for domain specialists, policy makers, students, and the public. As the Director of Environmental Literacy with an interna tional consulting firm she conducted integrative projects in the framework of Adaptive Environmental Management; dealing with concerns ranging from fisheries, wildlife and forestry, to land use management, energy use, and climate change. Over the last decade she has shifted her focus to cybernetics, investigating the relation between complex systems, human understanding, and human activities. Pille is currently particularly interested in the systemic nature of arising and evolving systems, the manner in which we distinguish and constitute our worlds in multiple relational domains, and the ethical and durability implications of different manners of human languaging and living. At RoyalRoadsUniversity she teaches courses in Systems Thinking and Systems Methods in the Masters of Environmental Management Program.
After six years as President and Past President of the American Society of Cybernetics, she remains active with the society and serves on the editorial boards of Cybernetics and Human Knowing and Constructivist Foundations. In 2007 the ASC awarded Pille with the Norbert Wiener Medal for her contributions to Cybernetics.
Ph.D. in Christian Spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union, and his M.A. in Theology from Oxford University. He is the author of The Word in The Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism (Oxford), The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology (Oxford), and is the founding editor of Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality (Johns Hopkins). For the past two years, he has served as co-director of LMU's study abroad program, Casa de la Mateada in Córdoba Argentina.
David left behind corporate and airline careers to pursue his passion for exploring the answers to humanity's eternal question of our place in the Universe and to help bring forth a new story for our turbulent times. For the past fifteen years he has immersed himself in the works of scientists and thinkers such as Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, Elisabet Sahtouris, James Lovelock, "Big Historians" such as David Christian, and many others.
The dialogues within The Holy Universe are an outgrowth of this study as well as his work with the Pachamama Alliance's "Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream" Symposium. He wrote the book in part for people like him who call themselves "spiritual but not religious," who are trying to make sense of the craziness going on in the world and who seek a meaningful path through the global crises we collectively face.
David lives in Northern California, USA, and likes to hike and catch up on his reading and research when not traveling around the countryside speaking about The Holy Universe.
Tony Clarke holds a masters and doctoral degrees in ministry and social ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He served as the Director of Social Affairs for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops between 1975 and 1994. He is currently the founder and director of the Polaris institute in Ottawa and is the author of numerous books including Blue Gold: The Battle against the Corporate Theft of the World's Water and, more recently, Tar Sands Showdown: Canada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change .
Jim has degrees in chemistry from Assumption University of Windsor and later in theology from the University of Western Ontario. Today he pursues with "evolutionary faith" a passion for the wisdom that is revealed in the universe story, in the lives of his ancestors, and his own tradition. As a teacher and administrator, author and presenter, he strives to give voice to the cry of a people who find meaning in the narrative of their lives, in the promise of geo-justice, in the cosmic melodies that resonate among us, in the deep ponderings that take us to the precipice of new beginnings, and in the unspoken hunger that finds expression in the sacred impulses of our lives. Experience: Develops, directs and teaches programs in spirituality and culture, theological education, social and ecological justice, popular and adult education, community organization and development; and animates mediating structures of information, support and common action.
Pauline is a masterful storyteller, Emmy-nominated screenwriter, and award-winning novelist for The Song Spinner. She is a professional singer who has recorded five CDs of her original music. A provocative keynote speaker, she has been called "an aphrodisiac of ideas. Pauline's most recent book, Becoming Intimate with the Earth, published by Collins Foundation Press, is a powerful guide to healing our relationship with our planetary home. Her poetic, musical telling of the evolutionary story of the universe has received praise from participants, educators, and the scientific community. Visit her website or email Pauline.
Ilia is a Senior Fellow at Woodstock Theological Center and Director of the Catholic Studies Program at Georgetown University. Prior to Woodstock she was Professor and Chair of Spirituality Studies at Washington Theological Union where she taught in the areas of spirituality, Franciscan theology and Science and Religion. She holds a doctorate in Pharmacology from New Jersey Medical School-Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and a doctorate in Historical Theology from Fordham University. She is the author of twelve books and numerous articles. Her most recent book The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love will be published by Orbis Books in 2013.
Denis was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He got involved in folk and choral music in the early 60's, eventually graduating in 1977 from the University of Victoria with a Bachelor of Music Degree. After graduation he became Director of the Victoria Conservatory of Music, leaving in1999 in order to pursue his own musical creativity.Denis is a songwriter, and plays guitar, Irish harp, and piano. He has been associated with a number of choirs and vocal groups as arranger and conductor, and is director of Soundings, a 26-voice vocal ensemble, and co-director of the Gettin' Higher Choir and the highly successful Community Choir Leadership Training Program. For many years Denis has accompanied the poet David Whyte on his tours to Ireland, where he enlivens groups with singing and music. Also active as a poet, Denis leads courses and workshops in poetry, where he seeks to bring people into an awareness of the wisdom that is expressed through the poetic tradition.
Duane is an internationally recognized, visionary speaker and author. His books include: The Living Universe, Promise Ahead, Voluntary Simplicity, and Awakening Earth. He has worked as a senior staff member of a Presidential Commission on the American Future and as a senior social scientist with the think-tank SRI International where he coauthored numerous studies of the future. In 2006, Duane received the international "Goi Peace Award" in recognition of his contribution to a global "vision, consciousness, and lifestyle" that fosters a "more sustainable and spiritual culture." Visit Duane's website.
Barb ara Fiand is a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur. She gives retreats, workshops and courses throughout the country and abroad on issues related to holistic spirituality, prayer, religious life, feminist spirituality, transformation of consciousness, quantum spirituality, and the psychology and spirituality of human maturation. She is the author of ten books, Awe-Filled Wonder, The Interface of Science and Spirituality; Releasement, Spirituality for Ministry; Prayer, Quest, Healing; Embraced by Compassion, On Human Longing and Divine Response and more as well as numerous articles as well as cassette tapes.
Lisa heard her calling in 1980 from a tenacious little pine tree hanging off a bare rocky cliff. The pine tree said, if I can hold on in these circumstances, so can you! This experience motivated Lisa to continue her ecological and political studies at U of T and York U, culminating in a Masters in Environmental Studies. She since spent 30 years serving not-for-profit and government agencies with conservation mandates in B.C. On the verge of burn-out in 2014, Lisa softened her approach to advocacy while participating in Courage & Renewal(TM) retreats and is now facilitating those retreats in Canada. Courage & Renewal workshops have refreshed the connection between Lisa's public role and her private soul. Lisa is enjoying a less adversarial approach to seeking urgent political and economic change and wants to share that with others.
For Gerald, unity with Earth life is based in physical engagement and contact. He works and leads in native habitat renewal projects in urban watersheds, and supports the work with prose, poetry and many committee meetings. Participating in Earth Literacies programs strengthens and clarifies Gerald's calling to reconnect himself and others with the community of life, local and global, inner and outer.
Sister Cecilia Hudec is a Sister of Charity with a MA Earth Literacy (2002), a teacher and a facilitator of adult learning and praying. She has a deep passion and love for her Planet Home and its inhabitants which expresses itself in works of justice and advocacy. She loves her daily walk along the Fraser River attending to the natural community living there.
Karen is an ecological futures specialist who assists filmmakers, students, organisations, filmmakers, and communities in creating projects that contribute to sustainable and just futures. She believes that the images and stories we create have the ability to guide and inform our actions towards diverse, green and peaceful futures. Karen worked for many years as an environmental planner, and then completed an interdisciplinary PhD on images of futures in film. She teaches part-time at the University of Victoria, has written many articles, and a book chapter, on sustainable and just futures. She also had a restaurant along the way and now is active in protecting land for organic farming and writes about food in the future. She also works with First Nations to protect their lands and their place in Canada's future.
Jan has a background in somatic psychotherapy, adult development, public engagement processes including the use of popular theatre and the creative arts. She has worked in the field of climate change for 30 years both as a grassroots activist and academic. She was a founding board member of the Calgary Eco Centre, a board member of the Canadian Dialogue and Deliberation Community, Co-director of the Calgary Integrative Body Psychotherapy Institute, and co- founder of the Show and Tell Theatre Collective. Her PhD focused on the social economic paradigms underlying climate change. She has worked with Joanna Macy's concepts of despair and transformation since the 1980's.
Gertie Jocksch is a Sister of Charity of Halifax. She holds a Masters of Divinity and a Doctor of Ministry from Regis College and the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. Over the last several years her work experience include Director of Field Education at RegisCollege, Campus Ministry and Director of Graduate Theology Programs at St. Mark's College in Vancouver. A passion that has continued to evolve Gertie's work has been her concern and care for Mother Earth. This work included participation in the development of the Centre for Earth and Spirit as well as coordinating programs, facilitating programs and administration. Presently Gertie coordinates the work of The Living Language Institute Foundation developing Programs in Earth Literacies and facilitating programs. Gertie also teaches in the area of Ecotheology and Ecofeminism.
Monica Kaufer coordinates a small Cenacle Retreat House, while also facilitating retreats for groups and individuals. Spiritual companioning, healing bodywork and the Exercises of St. Ignatius are important aspects of her ministry.
Dawn and Barry are seasoned facilitators who have worked with the Enneagram since 1985. They each have private practices in counseling and spiritual direction and are members of the leadership team of The Pacific Jubilee Program in Spiritual Direction Training. They offer workshops and groups that help people open to and honour their own inner work, the work of others and the Great Work.
To assist individuals and groups on their unique paths of personal and spiritual growth, they draw upon their backgrounds in theology, spirituality, psychology and inner process facilitation.
Their approach to the Enneagram attempts to honour its beginnings and development in ancient spiritual tradition by focusing upon energetic patternings, inner motivation and the nurturing of our essential selves within the context of an interconnected greater whole rather than simply upon behavioural manifestations and personality traits.
Dawn and Barry have found the Enneagram to be a profound tool for transformation for those ready and willing to explore that which both honours and goes beyond personality and is at the heart of our existence as human beings who seek to integrate inner and outer life with all of creation and to take our place within the cosmic whole.
Educational Background: MREd – Fort Wright College, Spokane, WA. MA in Spirituality – Mundelein College, Chicago Ph.D. in Ecological Spirituality – The Union Institute and University, Cincinnati Alexandra is well known in the United States and internationally as a teacher and lecturer on ecological and creation spirituality, eco-feminism and religious life. She was Program Director, instructor, and staff member at The Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality (ICCS) in Oakland, California for four years. She has been visiting professor at University of Creation Spirituality/Wisdom University and Holy Names University (Sophia Center) in California.
Her publications include, Prayer – A Discovery of Life (Minneapolis: Winston, 1983) and Spirituality and Creation (New York: United Church, 1988). Alexandra is currently involved in the ministry of spiritual direction and retreat facilitation. She is also Adjunct professor in the field of spirituality for the School of Theology and Ministry (STM) at Seattle University. She is the Executive Director of GreenHearth that focuses on urban ecology and spirituality. Alexandra was born in Hungary, and escaped with her family during the Freedom Fight in 1956. They settled in Vancouver, British Columbia. She remains a Canadian citizen.
Rachelle Lamb has been working in the field of 'communication and relating' for most of her adult life. She is a speaker and author, internationally recognized trainer of Nonviolent Communication (12 years) and has been studying with Stephen Jenkinson (subject of NFB film Griefwalker 2009) for the past 2 years. Her work has over time has developed significantly to not only include but to highlight the above mentioned themes. For more information, visit her website.
Jackie Larkin and Maggie Ziegler are active in social justice and environmental movements. Jackie works as a consultant, designing and facilitating a variety of courses in leadership development, strategic planning, and facilitation skills for unions, non-profits and in the health care sector. She is an active Board member of Toxic Free Canada. Maggie, a psychotherapist and educator in the trauma field, both in B.C and internationally, also provides a wide range of consulting and facilitation services to the non-profit sector. She is currently the vice-chair of the Salt Spring Island Transportation Commission. Jackie and Maggie have been co-facilitating Work That Reconnects retreats and workshops since 2000.
Jackie and Maggie have trained with Joanna Macy in the Work That Reconnects and have co-facilitated workshops and retreats for seventeen years. Passionate about Earth and committed to social and environmental change, they integrate diverse experiences and interests into dynamic and transformative workshops. They welcome the opportunity to share facilitation with Maxine.
"World-view changing work that opens the heart and cleanses the spirit, and provided me with a new supportive network of others who want to bring hope and change into being."– 2008 participant.
Dr Maija Heimo is a broadly trained cultural geographer (PhD from UBC), an agronomist and gardener, and an artist. She has taught human geography courses at UBC, SFU, and ThompsonRiversUniversity. Her research has focused on the politics of environmental decision making and land use, as well as perceptions of Indigenous knowledge about nature. She has also explored the significance of place and self in the process of migration whether within one's original country or internationally, and she has participated in the work of some Indigenous Sami people of Finland in their efforts to protect their significant places from commercial exploitation and to prepare documents for land claims. She lives on a small farm in McLure, North of Kamloops, where she and her artist partner raise chicken and grow their own food.
Hilary Leighton, is most at home in the forest where her own re/search was informed from a tender age by an early deep and vivid resonance and fascination for imaginative happenings, associations, sensory experiences, illuminations and observations of living processes and universal patterns in wild nature. This childhood enchantment, and a rooted belief that all teaching is an act of love and remembering, infuses her writing, teaching and learning and grounds her to be a natural educator, a perennial learner, a tireless advocate for well-being and a wild poet at heart! Hilary holds a Master of Education, Curriculum and Instruction from Simon Fraser University, has studied Ecopsychology at the graduate level at Naropa University, and is currently completing a three year program in Integrated Body Psychotherapy Practitioner Training, and not least of all embarking on an interdisciplinary doctoral study program in EP. She is a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, a certified Myers-Briggs facilitator, and an active participant on the Education Committee of the Haven Institute, Gabriola Island, BC and a founding director of the Child Nature Alliance. Although she spends most of her days imagining and designing ways to bring pedagogical spaces of possibility as the Director of Continuing Studies at Royal Roads University, Hilary derives the most satisfaction from the generosity of teaching and encouraging others. She can be found falling more deeply in love with world in Victoria, BC, Canada in a renovated 1948 farmhouse with her 80 year young mother and a giant white dog that she runs with at dawn.
Jaymie Matthews is an astro-paparazzo who unveils the hidden lifestyles of stars by eavesdropping on "the music of the spheres." His version of an interstellar iPod is Canada's first space telescope, MOST (which stands for Microvariability & Oscillations of STars), which detects vibrations in the light of ringing stars too subtle to be seen even by the largest telescopes on Earth. Dr. Matthews is the Mission Scientist leading the Canadian Space Agency's MOST project, and a Professor of astrophysics in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of British Columbia. He and his team are trying to revise the biography of our Sun – past and future – by studying its neighbours in our Galactic city, the Milky Way. His research sounds more like astromedicine than astrophysics: performing "ultrasound" on stellar embryos, checking on the hyperactivity of a pre-teen sun, and taking the pulses of stars in their twilight years. Dr. Matthews and his team are also using MOST to forecast the weather on planets beyond the Solar System, and they are part of the search for Terra Nova – alien Earths around other stars. Dr. Matthews is a leading expert in the field of stellar seismology: literally using the surface vibrations of vibrating stars to probe their hidden interiors and histories. He was born in Chatham, Ontario, and obtained his B.Sc. degree at the University of Toronto, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Matthews held Isaac Walton Killam and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowships at UBC, and an Attaché de Recherche position at the Université de Montreal, before taking on a faculty position at UBC in 1992.
Sherry has taught the workshop Exploring the Core Basis of Prayer, nationally and internationally, since 2001. This workshop was passed down to her by Huichol Tsaurirrikame (elder shaman) David Wiley, keepsthefire.org with the support and guida of Grandfather Fire (our heart essence) to return people to powerful and effective prayer. This is now a Lifeways program of the Sacred Fire Community, sacredfirecommunity.org/blog/prayer. Sherry offers prayer coaching and both individual and group companion prayers, which facilitate participants receiving personal guidance from Grandfather Fire on matters of importance to them.
Michael Morwood has over 30 years experience in retreat, education, parish and youth ministries in Australia. Since 1990 he has worked in adult faith formation in almost every diocese of Australia. He is interested in helping Christiansexamine what they believeand why they believe it, what they imagine and why they imagine the way they do. He is interested in helping Christians articulate faith in Jesus in ways that resonate with contemporary understanding of our place in the universe.
India, Peru and in several African countries, facilitating programmes on Adult Faith Development. His best known books include Quantum Theology(1996 – revised in 2004), Reclaiming Spirituality (1998), Evolutionary Faith(2002), Catching Up with Jesus (2005), The Transformation of Desire(2007), Ancestral Grace (2008), Jesus in the Power of Poetry (2009).
Layman Pascal is a public speaker, nondual theologian and yoga & meditation teacher based in Victoria, British Columbia. His family has lived in the coastal islands for five generations so he is very local! He is a writer on themes of cultural philosophy, shamanism and organic spiritual development. Lately he has been active as a board member of the Foundation for Integral Religion and Spirituality and a founder of the Beyond Interfaith project.
Prior to becoming a counselor, I worked as a dental hygienist for 25 years. One of the primary roles of a dental hygienist is helping people change and grow into living healthier lives. So, my avocation throughout that first career was to study psychology, personal development and holistic health. It was a natural next step to want to work more directly with people about the whole of their lives (not just their teeth!) In mid-life, I completed a M.A. in Psychology from Antioch University in Seattle, Washington and began a private counselling practice in 1993. My background as a health professional led me to study body-oriented psychotherapies. I've completed certification in Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP). I have pursued further training in Lifespan Integration for healing trauma, and I am a certified Imago Relationship Therapist. I also have a deep love and concern for our relationship with the natural world, which led me to train to lead retreats and workshops in Ecopsychology.
Jill is recognized internationally as the pioneer of the Sound Healing and Ancestral Healing movements, through her rediscovery of ancient vocal techniques, the power of group chant, and the spiritual potential of the voice as a magical instrument for healing and meditation. She gives workshops throughout the world, "Healing Voice", teaching diverse forms of sacred chant, and especially Mongolian overtone chanting and "Healing the Family and Ancestors", combining Family Constellations with chant and ceremony. Author of "The Mystic Spiral", and "Overtone Chanting Meditations", she guides non-singers as much as international opera performers in their pursuit of the lost voice. Visit her website.
Siobhan Robinsong is co-founder of Hollyhock, founder of the Gettin' Higher Choir,one of North America's largest no-audition choirs andand has been busting the myth of the non-singer since 1994.
Rupert is a biologist and author of more than 80 technical papers and 10 books, including Science Set Free. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, where he was Director of Studies in cell biology. He was also a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005-2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. Visit his website.
Martha Saunders Ph.D., taught religious studies and women's studies for many years at Concordia University, Montreal, and at the University of Toronto, specializing in religious and environmental ethics.
Since 1995 she has been one of the long-time leaders of an independent eco-spiritual community in Toronto, called Ruah. This community lives and celebrates a spirituality inspired by the works of Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, and others, based in love of the earth and exploring what it means to "reinvent the human" (Thomas Berry) in the evolving cosmos. We believe that an Earth-based spirituality must include a spirituality of liberation that challenges us into right relationship with all other creatures.
Brian is Director of the Center for the Story of the Universe and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon in 1978 for work in gravitational dynamics. He brings the context of story to our understanding of the 13.7 billion year trajectory of the universe. Such a story, he feels, will assist in the emergence of a flourishing Earth community.
Jonathan has become increasingly involved in transpersonal matters, expanding on his formal training and research in Marine Ecology. Raised a Birthright Quaker, he has studies and practices that include Buddhism, Deep Ecology, Native American Spirituality, drumming and shamanic work with entheogens. Jonathan—scientist, artist, and educator—has worked in secondary and post-secondary settings as a research scientist, naturalist, wilderness guide and graduate faculty member; he holds a PhD in Marine Botany.
In his coaching practice, he helps mature adults become elders in the deepest sense. He has also been involved in rites of passage for young men.
What he loves most in this world is the play between "not-two" and unabashed individuality, especially in the context of earth literacy and biophyllia. His life is about serving the flow of something greater than himself. A generalist at heart, Jonathan is an experienced facilitator, mentor and practitioner of life-long learning; Jonathan's learning history is constantly being up-dated.
Louise Taylor, BMus, Orff 3, Dalcroze Crt.
Louise has an extensive background in both music and dance. She has taught at the Chicago Latin school, The Buckingham Friends School (Pennsylvania) the Victoria Conservatory of Music and the Mont Kiara International School (Malaysia). She is co-founder of the International music society for Pre and Perinatal Development (IMSPND) and has given workshops in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia and Finland under the auspices of Early Childhood Music Education and UNESCO. Louise founded Music Education Therapeutic Applications (META) which continues to function in Malaysia. Louise has always brought international folk and sacred circle dance to the many places she has lived. She continues to teach music privately.
Bernice has enjoyed sacred circle dance since 1995 when she first danced with June Watts, who is credited with bringing the tradition to Canada from the UK. Since then, she has been an enthusiastic participant, leader and workshop provider, claiming many influences –besides June, Judy King and Mandy de Winter, Laura Shannon, Friedle Kloke-Eibl, Stefan and Bethan Freedman, Lesley Laslett as well as numerous Folk Dance teachers. Consequently, the repertoire is as varied as these leaders. In earlier years, Bernice taught high school; currently she is a spiritual care and counseling specialist –primarily with Psychiatric patients and clients. Her occupations keep work and play life balanced, integrated and joyful. She is a strong proponent of circle dance as spiritual practice because of its accessibility to all but mostly because it honors our individual bodies and as such, the body of Earth.
Margaret is the author of The Cosmic Pilgrim, (2010, Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon) which is a spiritual exploration of the new story of science and religion through journeying with Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme. Margaret started her career as a teacher but then moved to retreat work, parish ministry, and adult education. Margaret earned an MA in Theological Studies in 2018. Currently she is co-ordinating programming with Gertie Jocksch for Programs in Earth Literacies.
Ian Wight, a Canadian Scot, has been – in roughly equal measure, over the past four decades or so – an educator of professional planners, and a professional planning practitioner. He is now exploring his re-firement (a re-placing of retirement), kindling his abiding passions, which include an advocacy of planning as placemaking, as wellbeing by design. True to his Scottish ancestry, Ian loves a really good 'blether' that bridges the personal, the professional and the spiritual. In this offering he draws particularly on application of an integral perspective, grounded in a selection of blessings from John O'Donohue's To Bless the Space Between Us.
Mary Jane Wilson CND MA, Cert. A. Th.
Mary Jane is a certified Art Therapist, Spiritual Director and Psychosynthesis Counsellor. She studied with Mathew Fox, Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme at the Creation Centered Spirituality Institute founded by Mathew Fox. When completing her MA, Mary Jane had the opportunity to participate in extensive dream work with Jungian analyst John Giannini who introduced her to healing mandala. She also studied the Creation Centered Mystics one of whom is Hildegard of Bingen. She has worked extensively in the area of healing with a particular focus on women and children, especially with First Nations. She conducts retreats and workshops in Canada and USA.
Bill Wilson is a Jesuit priest with an M.A. in Sociology and a PhD in Social Psychology. He has worked in high schools, parishes, with first nations, the Director of Smith Alcohol and Drug Dependency Clinic, Director of Manresa Retreat Centre. He is currently a spiritual director and facilitator. Bill enjoys poetry and classical music. He is an avid reader of world affairs, ecology and and theology.


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Greece's coast guard was searching Monday for at least six people missing at sea after the dinghy they were using to enter Greece clandestinely from Turkey overturned off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos.
The coast guard said it had rescued six people and recovered the body of one man, and was searching the area for the missing. It was alerted after a fishing boat picked up one person off the island's eastern coast Monday morning, and a second managed to swim to the island. The two told authorities they had been in a boat carrying about 15 people when it overturned.
Separately, the coast guard said it had picked up 877 people in 30 search and rescue operations from Friday morning to Monday morning off the coasts of the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos and Kos. The figures do not include the hundreds to manage to make it to the islands themselves, mostly in inflatable dinghies.
Greece has been overwhelmed by an influx of mainly refugees from Syria and Afghanistan reaching its islands from Turkey, with more than 160,000 entering the country so far this year.
The vast majority, if not all, do not want to remain in Greece, a financially broken country where unemployment runs at more than 26 percent. Instead, the migrants seek to make their way north toward more prosperous European countries such as Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.
The Greek government has chartered a ferry to transport migrants and refugees from the Greek islands to the country's main port of Piraeus near Athens, as tickets on regular ferries are hard to obtain during the peak tourist and holiday season.
The ferry arrived in Piraeus Monday morning with 2,500 mostly Syrian refugees transported from Lesbos. Thousands more remain on the islands.
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Of all the prophetic works recorded for us in the Old Testament, Jonah is unique. This writing does not focus on Jonah's message; in fact, only one sentence is given to his message—"Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" (3:4). Rather than focusing on this, emphasis is placed on Jonah himself. As we read through this great story, there are a number of lessons for us to learn.
Before delving into these lessons, we must take careful note: This is a true story. Skeptics are quick to dismiss the story of Jonah as fiction, and unfortunately, it seems their influence has affected some who claim to believe the Bible. While the evidence offered may not sway the hardened skeptic, we who believe the message of Scripture must not be taken in by error and stand up for what the Scriptures teach!
The Scriptures teach that Jonah was a real man and that his story was a real event. 2 Kings 14:25 (a book of history) refers to Jonah as a real man who really was a prophet of God. Jesus referred to the events of Jonah as evidence of the sign that would be given to the people: "For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matthew 12:40). Just as Jesus was really dead, buried, and raised—the foundational view of Christianity (Romans 6:1-11; 1 Corinthians 15:12-20)—Jonah was really in the belly of the fish and vomited out on the land (Jonah 1:17; 2:10). With that aside, let us consider some of the things Jonah teaches us.
We can, undoubtedly, hide ourselves from doing the work of our Lord, just as Jonah attempted to do. There are many "ships" we seek to hide ourselves in: kinships, friendships, relationships, scholarships, etc. We're so busy living our lives that we fail to realize we're running away from God, and are surprised when the seas of our inner self are tempestuous. If we want rest, we must take on Christ's yoke (Matthew 11:28-30). If we want peace, we must pray with thanksgiving (Philippians 4:6-7). God must be first in our lives (Matthew 6:33; 10:34-39), and he knows when he isn't despite how things may look to us (consider the "reputation" vs. the "reality" in Revelation 3:1).
Second, we learn of God's great love for all of his creation. We are very familiar with the fact that Israel was God's chosen people whom he raised up and cared for (cf. Ezekiel 16:1-14; Hosea 11:1-4). However, we sometimes overlook the fact that the other nations were God's creation, too—unless we are pointing out his righteous judgment against them (e.g. Isaiah 13-27).
Nineveh was not a Jewish city, though; they were Assyrian, and when their evil had come up before God (1:2), his first instinct was not to strike them all dead. Instead, he looked down on the ignorant city in pity (4:11) and ensured that they would hear the message of truth by which they might have life (3:1-5, 10).
Do we see how this looks forward to God's eternal plan? There was nothing special about Israel that made God choose them as his people; certainly, they were God's people and he raised them, but they were not an end unto themselves. Their purpose was that the Christ might come into the world (Romans 9:4-5), and by him, all might be saved (John 3:16). God's desire has always been for his creation (of whatever nation) to be saved (see Jeremiah 18:7-10). Israel was chosen to ultimately bring this about in the Christ, but in the meantime, God did not leave the Gentiles guideless and without any hope.
Third, we learn of God's great mercy and how it must be reflected in us. In chapter four, we learn why Jonah ran away instead of preaching to the people at first: he knew that if he preached and the people repented, God would not destroy them (4:2). He then went out of the city, made a booth, sat and watched it "till he should see what would become of the city" (4:5)—perhaps he was watching for their slip up and subsequent destruction? As he sat and waited, God taught him a lesson in pity. He caused a plant to grow and give Jonah shade; the next day, God caused this plant to wither. When Jonah grew angry about this, God said, "You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?" (4:10-11).
Jonah understood pity and mercy when it affected him: God had mercy to save him from the sea; God should have been merciful to the plant which gave him shade. But he missed the mercy in which over 120,000 ignorant people were saved. He knew God had this mercy (4:2), but he missed that he, too, should have had this mercy. The book ends rather abruptly, and we do not know if Jonah ever learned the lesson God was teaching him. Whether he did or not, it is recorded for us to learn from.
We have been blessed with great mercy from God, and we must show great mercy to others (Matthew 18:21-35), even those who are our enemies (Matthew 5:43-48). As our God is holy, we must be holy (1 Peter 1:14-16). His light must shine in us who are his (Matthew 5:14-16).


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