USD singers perform at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- The University of South Dakota Chamber Singers and Concert Choir have been selected to present concerts on the American Choral Directors Association North Central Conference Feb. 18-20 at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, one of only five collegiate choirs in the six-state region chosen by audition for a featured performance at the conference.
"With so many outstanding choral ensembles in the region, to be chosen truly demonstrates the sustained excellence and dedication of these students," said conductor David Holdhusen.
Choirs selected for the bi-annual ACDA Conference must submit one selection from each of the past three years to be judged by a panel of respected choral musicians. The chamber singers open the conference with their performance at 9 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 18.
The USD Concert Choir, directed by Timothy Campbell, was asked by the organization to join with the South Dakota Symphony and three other college choirs in the presentation of "Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem," a powerful work that is operatic in scope, filled with drama and rarely performed. This concert will be presented twice, once at the conference on Feb. 19 and again as part of the SDSO's regular season Feb. 20. Tickets for the SDSO performance are available at the Washington Pavilion Box Office.
The Chamber Singers and Concert Choir return to Vermillion on Sunday, Feb. 21, for the 3 p.m. USD Spring Choral Showcase in Aalfs Auditorium at Slagle Hall. The concert also features the Vermillion Children's Choir and Men's and Women's Chorus. The choirs will perform music by master composers like Handel and Mozart, as well as modern repertoire, spirituals and folk songs. The concert is free and open to the public. If you would like additional information, please contact David Holdhusen, david.holdhusen@usd.edu or 605-677-5275.


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Mix salmon, soup, and peas and carrots in small saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until heated through.
Serve over crumbled biscuits or toast.
Mix all ingredients together thoroughly. Form into 4 patties.
Spritz a frying pan with non-fat spray. Cook patties until slightly browned, and until completely cooked.
Mix chicken, onion, garlic, paprika, basil, salt and cayenne in 2 quart microwavable casserole. Cover and microwave on High 8 – 10 minutes, stirring midway.
Stir in tomato sauce, cornstarch, and cold water. Cook an additional 5-7 minutes covered on High.
Cream sugar and oil together. Add the eggs and pumpkin; mix well. Stir in all dry ingredients alternately with water.
Pour into two well-greased and floured 9″x5″ loaf pans . Bake at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hour until done.
Let stand 10 minutes, then remove from pans and cool.
Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Cook lasagna noodles until tender. Drain, rinse, and set aside.
and continue to cook for another minute or so. Add vinegar and vegetable stock and cook for 1 minute. Add milk and continue to cook until sauce begins to thicken. Do not overcook as moisture is needed for the lasagna.
Spray a 9×13 baking pan with non-stick spray. Place 3 noodles in the pan and top with 1/2 the mushroom mixture, followed by 1/2 the Gouda. Repeat with remaining noodles and Gouda. Top with Romano.
Bake for 25 minutes until heated through. Serve hot.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, combine bran, flour, sugar substitute, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and apples. Add sweet potatoes, egg substitute, oil, and yogurt. Stir all ingredients thoroughly. Spray muffin tins with vegetable cooking spray and spoon 1/4 cup of batter per muffin. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until done. Makes 12 muffins.
I've modified this recipe slightly from the original posted on the LA Sweet Potato Commission site to make it more point friendly. These muffins tend to come out short and squatty and very dense, and they are extremely filling. They taste incredibly good with apple jelly.
Mix all ingredients together and pour into greased 9×12 pan (or two round pans). Bake at 350 degrees for about 35 minutes.
Do not add water. Mix pumpkin and cake mix thoroughly and spoon into lightly greased muffin pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 18 minutes.
Delicious served with fatfree whipped topping!


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Paul Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Music and Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music at Brown University, Music Director and Conductor of the Brown University Orchestra, Senior Lecturer in Music at Brown, Music Director and Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and Music Advisor to the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. He has conducted over sixty orchestras worldwide, including the San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica de Salta, and Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, led opera and ballet performances with the Boston Academy of Music, Commonwealth Opera, Opera Providence, Connecticut Concert Ballet, and Festival Ballet Providence, and recorded with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra, and Brown University Orchestra. Also an accomplished composer, pianist, author, and educator, his compositions include an opera, a ballet, incidental music for several plays, and numerous orchestral and vocal works that have earned him many awards, including a 2016 Fellowship in Music Composition from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) and a 2016 RISCA Project Grant for Individual Artists to support his newest composition, Brass Knuckles (for large orchestra), which he composed in August 2016. He has published articles and essays on a variety of musical subjects and is the author of A Clockwork Counterpoint, a groundbreaking study of Anthony Burgess's music and its intrinsic relationship to his literature. Phillips's many honors include the 2015 Harriet W. Sheridan Award for Distinguished Contribution to Teaching and Learning at Brown University and 11 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music.
Phillips holds two degrees in music from Columbia: CC '78 (BA in music, cum laude) and GSAS '80 (MA in composition). He has been a member of the music faculty at Brown since 1989.
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A Tachiramantis a kétéltűek (Amphibia) osztályába, a békák (Anura) rendjébe és a Craugastoridae családba, azon belül a Ceuthomantinae alcsaládba tartozó nem.

Nevének eredete

Nevét egyik élőhelyéről a Táchira mélyföldről kapta.

Előfordulása

A nembe tartozó fajok Venezuelában és Kolumbiában honosak.

Rendszerezés
A nembe az alábbi fajok tartoznak:

 Tachiramantis douglasi (Lynch, 1996)
 Tachiramantis lassoalcalai (Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barros, 2010)
 Tachiramantis lentiginosus (Rivero, 1984)
 Tachiramantis prolixodiscus (Lynch, 1978)

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Források

 A Tachiramantis az Amphibiaweb oldalon
 Amphibian Species of the World 6.0
 Heinicke, Barrio-Amorós & Hedges, 2015 : Molecular and morphological data support recognition of a new genus of New World direct-developing frog (Anura: Terrarana) from an under-sampled region of South America. Zootaxa, n° 3986, p. 151–172.

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Arbetaren var en tidskrift för Sveriges arbetare.

Utgivningstid för tidningen var 5 december 1868 till den 31 december 1870 i Göteborg. Tidningen startade med 4 provnummer: 5 december 1868 till 24 december 1868. Tryckt hos D. F. Bonnier. Tidningen använde antikva som typsnitt. Tidningen innehåller träsnittsillustrationer. Arbetaren kom ut en gång i veckan på lördagar och hade 4 sidor med tre spalter och kostade 3 riksdaler. Tidningens utgivare var litteratören Axel Erik Johan Krook, som 31 oktober 1868 erhöll utgivningsbevis för Arbetaren förnyat 18 november samma år. Enligt Arbetarrörelsen arkiv var tidningen utgiven av Göteborgs Arbetarförening. Krook var ordförande i Göteborgs Arbetareförening under en tioårsperiod.

Tidningen finns idag att läsa på 4 bibliotek i Sverige, Kungliga biblioteket i Stockholm, Arbetarrörelsens arkiv i Stockholm (inbunden), Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek och Lunds universitetsbibliotek på tidningsdepån.

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Nedlagda svenska dagstidningar
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The 2018 commUNITY Mission to Israel is a custom built itinerary anchored by six mega events. Below is a tentative itinerary. The Personal Track options for Wednesday, October 17 are now available by clicking here.
Opening reception and dinner at the Tel Aviv Port with a L'chaim for Israel's 70th Anniversary!
A full day of customized tours with your bus group – we will be visiting sites in Tel Aviv and northward. Lunch is included.
Finish the day with a "Salute to the Israeli Defense Force" Party with soldiers at an IDF base. This is your opportunity to meet the young men and women who fight valiantly to protect the State and People of Israel.
3:30 p.m. Tour of Ammunition Hill, the historic site of fierce battles during the War of Independence and the Six Day War. More than just a memorial to the soldiers who fell there, it is a place that tells stories of bravery, heritage and leadership.
Tour Jerusalem—both the "Old City" and the "New City" including Ir David/City of David.
Thanks to recent excavations, one can now walk the streets of Second Temple Jerusalem and be amazed by its splendor.


Despite the economic calamity of the Great Depression, the modern world of the 20th century and the new Electronic Age moved ahead. In the 1930s, electronic products came into the home in the form of convenient kitchen appliances.
Homemakers rode on the cutting edge of technology as products like gas stoves, refrigerators, washing machines, electric irons, and vacuum cleaners created a demand for electricity.
Generating plants that provided power for commercial use developed in the late 19th century. In 1896, Niagara Falls heralded hydroelectric power for cities. Electric street cars began to replace horse drawn vehicles. In 1904, The St. Louis World's Fair introduced electrical plugs and wall outlets for the home.
By the mid 1920s, 60% of homes in the United States had electric power which was promoted as clean, safe, and efficient. Electronic products promised to reduce house work and to replace reliance on domestic servants.
Though rural areas were slightly behind the curve, the Roosevelt Administration pushed for a widening of the electric grid in the belief that available electricity was important for commerce. Despite the high unemployment rate (24%) and a general decrease in in overall wages, the new technologies were here to stay.
Ads for electric appliances appeared in ladies' magazines touting their products as being economic and scientific. Words like "automatic" were introduced into the popular lexicon and housework was never the same again.
The Westinghouse refrigerator shown at the top of this article featured rolling shelves, and built in crisping pans for vegetables.
That is not a freezer at the top, but an enclosed compressor. You can see the small compartment at the center top shelf for making ice cubes. This charming refrigerator also featured interior lighting!
An ice box was commonly used to keep perishable food cold. It was a glorified cooler that was insulated. Ice cut in winter from frozen lakes was stored and delivered to households by the ice man who drove a horse and wagon.
Ice boxes could be quite attractive, made of wood with metal interiors. The ice would, of course, melt into a drip pan. This could be inconvenient. The pan had to be drained to avoid overflow.
The earliest refrigerators had compressors located in the basement. Moving the compressor to the top of the unit was a modern breakthrough. The GE refrigerator shown at the right was actually on it's way out in 1932, as compressors began to be located within the unit.
The cabinet and interior are made of porcelain. The picture illustrates how easy it is to clean. Grease, dirt, and scrapes could be wiped away.
Magic Chef Series 700 with it's "Artile" surface shows a new interest in kitchen décor. The kitchen was becoming a room to decorate in pretty colors with interesting accents like the pattern decorating the doors of this gas stove.
At the turn of the last century, electricity was introduced to households for illumination, replacing gas lights. Gas companies, concerned about loss of income, developed gas stoves. Previously, stoves were fueled by wood or coal, were dirty and needed constant upkeep.
This version of the gas stove featured an automatic button. The cook did not even need to use a match to light the flame!
Touted for its cleanliness, the General Electric Hotpoint Range of 1932 offered a flameless electric coil for cooking. The advertisement promised less time spent on kitchen chores, freeing the housewife for other things.
This old electric range does not look much different than the electric ranges that we see today. Notice the absence of a right, rear coil. There was a pot that sunk down into the stove for cooking soups!
Okay so I got a bit sloppy here. I apologize for the ripped page but here we are with a fabulous deluxe toaster available for only $5.95. Notice that it is an open toaster. You set the toaster on the stove and turned the toast manually. Fully enclosed toasters were not to be had in 1932.
Why was this particular toaster called deluxe? Because it was attractive with a decorative chrome surface.
This type of toaster was available in most stores up into the 1970s. I actually had one myself!
Here is a beautiful old refrigerator from 1930, still in use!
What would a cast iron antique General Electric refrigerator with a square monitor or motor on top be worth?
I am not sure what you mean. The GE Monitor Top refrigerator was introduced in the 1920s and produced until 1936. It was not cast iron but porcelain over steel.
The original refrigerant was Methyl formate, but some people have updated the Monitor for use by adding modern coils to the back and using an R12 blend of refrigerants. That way, the old appliance can be used.
The value of this wonderful old kitchen appliance depends on its condition. Damage or missing parts subtract from its value. Replacement parts are hard to find. Values are all over the place depending on condition. They can go from $275.00 to close to $4,000.00.
Hi Virginia - that sounds like a good idea. I love to see the old ads and enjoy the older designs. It's fun if they include prices as well. Hoosier cabinets were so attractive and practical. Love the kind with the built-in flour sifter!
I've been saving up ads for Hoosier cabinets. Love those. You've inspired me to get going on making a hub about them. Enjoyed your vintage appliances here.
prestonandkate - I like to see that stuff but I don't think I could take all that color. I remember being a little kid and looking in the windows at a new house development while out walking with my father. I was so exited to see a turquoise refrigerator! I had to hurry home to tell my mother!
kittythedreamer - Hello Kitty, your grandmother's farmhouse sounds lovely. While working on this hub, I wandered onto sites that offer refurbished kitchen appliances, mostly stoves. They bought these nasty looking old gas stoves for next to nothing and made them shine like new. Was I excited! Wouldn't I love to have one of them! But they weren't cheap. Thanks for commenting!
Such a fun hub! My grandmother's home looks like a farmhouse from the 30s...complete with antique pie-safe and icebox! Of course she has a refrigerator for sheer convenience as the ice man no longer delivers on horseback and has increased his prices. Hehe. :) Great stuff! Loved it...you know I love all things vintage/antique!
Hi Nellianna - thank you. Glad you enjoyed it! I can get totally lost in youtube videos as I wander around trying to find something that fits a hub. That woman's refrigerator is so beautiful! No wonder she keeps it. Back then they built things to last. Thanks for sharing your story!
Being a 1932 human being whose early years were populated with a few of the 'modern appliances' of that period, I can really relate to your excellent coverage of them! In town, we had an 'ice box' at least till I was in school. Can't remember exactly when we had any other. Of course, all summer every year, we were at the ranch where there was no electricity till I was 11 or so, and we never got appliances out there while my folks commuted to it. When my brother moved there after WWII, he installed a few appliances.
When I first married in 1954, we lived in a furnished cottage with a Magic Chef gas stove like the one you've pictured! It was a great stove and I made some good food on and in it! I guess the landlord was like the mom in your video who wouldn't relinquish her 1930 refrigerator with the enamelware 'hydrators'.
This is a delightful trip back through the years, Dolores! Thank you!


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Khadija Zahra Ahmadi () is an Afghanistani politician who served as a mayor of the city of Nili, in Daykunidi province, in central Afghanistan. She served from 2018 to 2021, until the fall of Afghanistan to the hands of the Taliban. She grew up in Iran in a refugee family who fled Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion. She is the second Afghan female mayor belonging to the Hazara ethnic group after Azra Jafari to achieve that rank. Zarifa Ghafari is a Pashtun native and the third women to serve as a mayor in post-Taliban era.  During the time Ahmadi served as a mayor, she received death threats from fundamentalist and Islamist groups like the Taliban. Like many other Afghans, she was forced to leave her country after the fall of Kabul and later resettled in Spain. On April 25, 2022, she was awarded with the prize "Reconocimiento Mare Terra" for her fight and advocacy for Afghan women's rights.

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Last year, almost 25,000 Nevadans found their health plans canceled, thanks to the so-called Affordable Care Act.
The ACA also caused a dramatic increase in the price of individual insurance plans — with Nevada having the largest premium increases in the entire country, according to a national study by the Manhattan Institute. In some plans, the cost nearly tripled.
Plagued by higher prices that consumers found unacceptable, plus a dysfunctional state website, only 38,000 individuals enrolled for insurance through Nevada health link. The originally announced goal: 118,000.
But one program, as a result of ACA, grew exponentially: Medicaid.
On July 1, 2013, Nevada had 320,000 people enrolled in Medicaid. Now USA Today reports over 601,000 individuals are on the state's Medicaid rolls — following the expansion Gov. Brian Sandoval championed during the 2013 Legislative Session.
Even with these dramatic increases in subsidized coverage, however, Nevada's uninsured rate remains high: between 12 and 21 percent, depending on who's counting.
Either statistic provides powerful evidence that the vast majority of the uninsured were uninsured by choice. Even with "free" coverage available, hundreds of thousands find enrolling not worth the bother.
Unfortunately, however, the dramatic increase in Medicaid participants is — as the Nevada Policy Research Institute predicted — having negative consequences for the program's original, needier enrollees.
Medicaid was originally designed to provide a medical safety-net for very low-income Americans, particularly children. Before the ACA expanded eligibility, over half of Medicaid enrollees were children, while individuals who were disabled, blind or aged made up almost a quarter.
In contrast, the vast majority of the new enrollees are healthy adults, who are often childless and generally healthy.
Add in the fact that, to control costs, the government routinely offers doctors reimbursement rates frequently below doctors' actual costs and significantly below what they receive from private insurance companies.
Because of this, a 2008 survey of physicians found, only 40 percent of doctors take all new Medicaid patients.
The consequence, here in Nevada — given the state's well-known doctor shortage — is that the disabled and children from poor families now must compete with over 280,000 newly subsidized healthier adults for appointments with a fixed number of doctors.
For the truly sick, this can be deadly.
Consider what happened to Deamonte Driver, a Maryland 12-year-old. Deamonte, who was receiving Medicaid, had a toothache. His tooth needed an extraction that should have cost just $80. There was a catch, however.
Only 900 of Marlyand's 5,500 dentists accepted Medicaid. And the Driver family, despite calling over 20 offices, couldn't get Deamonte a timely appointment. His tooth infection abscessed; the infection made its way to his brain; and Deamonte, despite two brain surgeries, died within a month.
Bottom line: Expansion of Nevada's Medicaid rolls makes it less likely that those who truly need care will receive it in a timely manner.
Medicaid expansion is also going to hit the state budget extremely hard. A study conducted by Cato scholar Jagadeesh Gokhale for NPRI found that the ACA will cause Nevada to spend an additional $5.4 billion on Medicaid from 2014 to 2023.
The story of Carolyn Oatman, as reported by Phil Galewitz of Kaiser Health News, encapsulates both problems. Oatman, a currently unemployed Reno resident, signed up for Medicaid earlier this year. She likes the program, because it gives her free medicine. There is one downside. It takes her two months to wangle a doctor's appointment.
So Oatman uses hospital emergency rooms. "I love it on Medicaid, because now I can go [to] the emergency room when I need to and don't have to worry about the bill," she said.
Remember when Pres. Obama told the American people that a key reason for passing ACA was so that people like Oatman would find a primary care doctor, instead of going to the emergency room?
So the Nevada Legislature, which passed the state Medicaid expansion, has put itself in a bind: The extra dollars going into Medicaid mean fewer dollars for other priorities, such as education or transportation.
Medicaid-program reforms in Florida and elsewhere are available to Nevada lawmakers, if they're interested.
However, the basic issue comes down to this: To help the children on Medicaid, exclude healthy adults.
A version of this commentary was originally published by the Nevada Business magazine.
Victor Joecks is executive vice president of the Nevada Policy Research Institute, a non-partisan, free-market think tank. For more visit http://npri.org.


How to improve you overseas sales?
Do you want to become more succesful in sales? The key element is that you ensure that you know exactly which trigger makes your customer decide to choose your product or service. Your success in sales depends on what your customer or prospect tells you. Below you will find five internationally applicable golden rules to use in your sales conversations.
Your knowledge is meaningless for the customer, unless he or she needs your information. Ask questions, listen and do not interrupt the other. Also wait quietly until the customer or prospect has finished talking (the force of silence). Tip: When you talk prematurely, you do not only run the risk of not fully understanding the customer, but also of interrupting his thought process. Talking too early adheres another risk: you might take a position too early. That could be a source of complaints and protests.
When everything runs smoothly with a client or prospect, than he or she has no vendor need. His or her problems are in fact your opportunities. Look for the problems of your customers. Search precisely for those problems you can solve with your products or services. That way you are able to prove the value of your product or service. The customer will recognize its value and necessity.
Especially in more complicated sales processes, a good relationship with your customers is very important. You do business with people, not companies. Always strive to strengthen your relationship with the customer. Key to your success is the contribution that you deliver to the success of your customer. Tip: Keep things fresh. Come up with new ideas. Do not bother your customers with old worn solutions. Surprise your customers with insights. Things they have not thought of. A surprising idea is much more valuable than, say, a gift.
Mistakes are no problem. Making the same mistakes again and again is not a good idea. Selling is a tough profession. You learn by doing. You build sales experience by conducting sales conversations.
- What did I do well?
- What could I do better?
Tip: Do sales conversations in real life and put yourself at a higher level by actively applying these golden rules. By doing so you will improve yourself step by step. Eventually you will be unstoppable with regard to your sales success!
International trade statistics put to work: where to sell your beer?
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Rediscovering Yourself
Coaching for Gifted Adults
Jennifer Harvey Sallin
Michelle Quarton
Ecological Grief, Trauma & Finding Your Role
Ecological Grief, Trauma & Finding…
by Jennifer Harvey Sallin
A Personal Story: the Climate Emergency & Childhood Trauma Collide
Many people who know my work know I grew up in a fundamentalist religious family. They fervently believed that the "End Times" were near and warnings and admonitions from our church leaders (including my pastor father) and propoganda (such as the movie A Thief in the Night) were a regular part of my upbringing. As a result, I spent the majority of my childhood and adolescence in a state of terror about the imminent end of the world. And though with age, my intellectual intensity made me question and ultimately reject our church's doctrine, the fear was still wired into my neurons and soma. When I left religion in my early twenties and finally had access to other thought systems, I was existentially, intellectually and somatically relieved to not have to live under that constant threat. With support from therapists and coaches, I started to heal the trauma I had incurred from feeling chronically unsafe in the world, and life started to become much more open-ended and hopeful.
That was in the early 2000's and the discussion on climate change was already well-underway, but healing from religious abuse and other trauma and rebuilding my life took the focus of my attention. Additionally, I believed that climate scientists would work together with government in order to make the necessary changes at the policy level; after all, who on earth would they ignore such an important problem when they had the power to fix it? But as the years passed, I healed and had more space to consider the state of the world and realized our leaders were for the most part not responding to the specialists' pleas for change. I started to feel increasingly uneasy about the situation because if we can't trust the leaders who have the power, who can we trust? This paradox triggered memories of my religious childhood, where leaders made choices that hurt me and compromised my well-being and survival.
I once again found myself in a state of terror about the "imminent end of the world" and the inability to trust the people in charge. All too familiar with complex trauma and the four f's, I could see that I was having a "trauma reaction". I felt frozen and overwhelmed. It was like I couldn't differentiate between then and now. Though I continued to live my life and do my work and find moments of joy in daily living, I often found myself thinking in a trauma-triggered loop, "It's not fair that I should have to live my whole life feeling terrorized that the end of the world is near" and "It's not fair that people in power can't be trusted". Often, I heard my gifted side say, "Yeah, and it's also not fair that I'm still having to dedicate my intellect to managing ambient terror after working so hard to heal!"
Feeling Ecological Grief
There was something else in there too: grief. Regardless of my particular past, I have always loved and felt deeply connected to the Earth and watching it undergo so much destruction on such a massive scale has been physically painful. In my trauma-triggered frozen state, I struggled to find the inner resources to process the grief in a healthy way.
It helped when I learned that ecological grief is a real thing, and that like me, many people are struggling with it now. Additionally, many of the gifted people I work with have told me that – like me – they've been feeling additional grief and helplessness over the fact that there's no amount of applying their uncommon smarts which will solve this highly complex emergency once and for all. Not rarely that feeling of helplessness triggers gifted-specific trauma: memories of times when, no matter how much we tried to use our fast minds to resolve agonizing family or cultural or other societal dysfunctions, we were just kids and didn't have enough resources, strength, social support or lived wisdom to be able to make a big enough difference to really change our fate. Once again, the emotional reactions are layered, complex, and across time dimensions.
The time dimension issue was key for me. I often heard myself thinking, "This is an emergency. I don't have time to grieve or come out of the 'freeze'!". And yet, there was no way to pressure myself into having a solution both for the world and for myself today. The only thing I could realistically do was to accept the situation in a non-dualistic way: yes, the climate emergency was threatening my life as I knew it, and yes I needed to – once again – work through more layers of trauma and very real grief. It was my full, complex reality.
Starting there, I researched ecological grief, opened up to my husband and friends about my feelings, and asked others how they were handling their feelings; I booked therapy and bodywork sessions to help me process the trauma triggering; and spent a lot of time (even more than usual) out in nature. Answers came, and while I wished they would come faster, I comforted myself knowing I was doing my best in a highly complex situation. The pain hung around like a heavy storm cloud, but I didn't push it away.
A Compassionate Breakthrough
In InterGifted's Creatives group, our leader Merlin Györy guided us in a group exercise in which we put our feelings on an important matter into a piece of original art. I made the piece you see above. It was just a very rough sketch of hard, but sincere feelings: me sitting in the ocean with all the plastic that now ubiquitously lives there, while meditating and sending compassion out to the oceans and the rest of the Earth suffering with it. Sharing this piece with our group was a real breakthrough, as it acknowledged something important: I wasn't powerless, even in my state of freeze and grief. I was connected to the world through my compassion for it, and that meant that just by feeling the compassion, I was doing something positive for the world.
Yeah, but what good is that? a skeptical part of me countered. Yet I knew from my years of mindfulness practice that our compassion makes a big difference in situations where it seems that no difference can be made, so I ignored the inner skeptic. Mindfulness has opened up connections and entrained energy fields even when circumstances have appeared immovable, and inspired and motivated me in situations even when action felt impossible. It has lead to increasing returns, as it builds over time. So I knew that while compassion itself wouldn't heal the world and reverse climate change, it would have positive reverberating effects on me as well as on the people with whom I was engaging on this topic, and that meant something to me.
As I reconnected with that compassion, I kept getting the message that I am just human; that I can only do what I'm able to do; that I may be gifted, I may have a fast brain, I may be powerful in some ways – but I'm still just human. That I didn't single-handedly create this emergency, wasn't responsible for the situation I had been born into, and didn't create my body and how it as a biological system reacts to – and needs time to heal from – trauma. Finally, as I felt completely embraced by this "it's okay to be human" context, I felt safe – not safe from the emergency, not safe from world destruction, but safe within my own self. I also started to feel more connected to the Earth as a present-moment friend, rather than as a tragic representation of a dying entity "out there".
That led to many healing conversations, meditations, new connections with nature and wonderful discoveries (such as finding the book called How Forests Think, by Eduardo Kohn). With my friends and within InterGifted, I started to explore creative, constructive and compassion-driven ways of contributing to the collective response. I discovered people who are creating games, art, and literature for ecological education and awareness-raising. I saw Greta Thunberg daring to reject "business as usual" and creating a new path for collective constructive action. I found a fellow therapist, Margaret Klein Salamon, who is leading a strong, psychologically- and trauma-informed movement to help people transform themselves individually and respond collectively. These and many other inspirations – especially the meditative explorations with my friend and collaborator Karin Eglinton – helped me to identify more clearly where I felt my own passions guiding me to contribute. Given what I had been through, I felt inspired to create a collective "place" where we can gather together to cultivate gratitude, love, compassion for and connection with the Earth. And to that end, Karin Eglinton and I started a climate response project, I Heart Earth.
Finding Your Unique Role
If you are in the freeze, there are ways to encourage safety and to come out of dissociation and paralysis: talk and somatic therapy, group support, self-education, art-making and self-compassion are wonderful ways to actively engage in helping yourself work through trauma. Additionally, coming out to your friends and family about how you feel, if it is safe to do so, can be a very important step. Often, even the closest people to us don't know what we're going through inside, and with these complex and sensitive issues, they will likely never guess unless we tell them. In order to get the full support you need, you must speak up. If you need professional support during this time, my team at InterGifted can help connect you to a knowledgeable therapist.
If you are in a more constructive, building and reaching out energy, you may be ready to take inventory of your passions, values and skills and to see where they match up to what is needed now. Where do they overlap? Where can you jump into the collective effort now? What are the next steps for doing this? It may take some slowing down and mindful attention to your life: where you can make changes, how you can redistribute your energy to include earth advocacy, and how you can shift your lifestyle to match the changing times. Practicing mindfulness with us and coaching might also be helpful ways to get support in this phase of your personal process.
Wherever you find yourself on your own journey of reconnecting with the Earth, I warmly welcome you to join mine over at I Heart Earth. You can also follow a more intimate art-making & interbeing process at my art instagram account.
Recommended reading/resources:
12 Meditations for the Earth
Climate and Mind
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Rights of Nature, by David Boyd
The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben
Powerarchy, Melanie Joy
Mermaid Forest
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At the Valdosta, Georgia Independence Day 5K on 4 July 2015, Kaleb Wolfenden got outkicked for third place by Chance Roe, his teammate on the Lowndes High cross-country squad. At the same race on 4 July 2016, no one was outkicking Wolfeneden. The Lowndes High senior won the 5K by over 400 meters, running 16:28--the second-fastest time in the eight-year history of the race. Hahira, Georgia athlete Brianna Prinsloo won the women's title in 22:37, coming in twentieth overall.
Valdosta's Jackson Green was second in 18:10, just ahead of the 18:15 posted for third place by Valdosta High cross-country runner Matthew Baun. Dan Butzin took fourth in 18:50, and Valdosta High cross-country coach Ryan Kelly was fifth in 19:06. David Burnett of Valdosta was the fastest master runner in the race and sixth overall in 19:28.
Debbie Green was the first woman master and second female finisher, 22nd overall in 22:52. A Valdosta athlete, Green had been the women's champ in the 2015 Independence Day 5K. Lauren Bewley of Valdosta placed third in the women's standings, finishing 26th overall in 24:23.
119 athletes finished the 2016 Valdosta Independence Day 5K. The race was produced, timed, and scored by A Course / Line, LLC, of Valdosta, Georgia.


What Would Be the Reaction?
The final communique of the Arab Summit, concluded Wednesday in Amman...read by Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit,...voiced rejection of all unilateral Israeli measures aimed at altering the legal and historical status of Muslim and Christian holy shrines in occupied Jerusalem.
King Abdullah, whose dynasty has custodianship over Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, said any unilateral Israeli move to change the status quo in the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque would have "catastrophic" consequences for the future of the region.
Israel rejects all unilateral Arab actions and measures that were aimed at altering the legal and historical status of Jewish holy shrines in Jerusalem they occupied after invading and conquering the country in 638 CE?
What do you think would be the reaction?
Why not a "replacement" community?
And it is within a bloc of communities: Shiloh, Achiyah, Esh Kodesh, Adei-Ad & Keida. And the site, currently Geulat Tzion, has been inhabited for a while by a few families and all its land is state land, not private, officially declared so three decades ago.
EP pointed out to me that almost all the headlines of the main media outlets are that Israel 'approves first new settlement in 20 years' (here: here; here; here; here; here; here;).
But haven't we been informed for years that there were thousands of "new settlements" every week - via Peace Now, etc.?
The settlement movement is not about to take over AIPAC or the U.S. pro-Israel community any time soon. But it did manage to seize control of a couple hours of Policy Conference, at least for some tiny but vocal minority of the confab's participants.
On Monday afternoon, the Yesha Council, the umbrella organization representing Jewish communities in the West Bank, held an event at a rented space on F Street, about a half-mile away from the convention center. It wasn't really counter-programming—none of the half-dozen speakers that I stayed for criticized AIPAC in their talks. But it was at least concurrent programming.
About half the attendees wore Policy Conference lanyards, with a few red Congress Club ribbons scattered among the crowd. Views of the lobby itself tended to be mixed. For some, AIPAC isn't pro-settlement enough. Marc Provisor, a Policy Conference attendee and activist from the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, said he is "proud of AIPAC," but still thinks it's less accepting of the settlers' perspectives than it should be. "AIPAC has to be open to all sides of Israel rather than being limited," he said. What's needed in discussions of Israel, he said, is "informed opinion, rather than manipulated opinion." Others were less generous. "My sense is that AIPAC wants to do what's good for the two-state solution…and the two-state solution is the property of people who say Israel is an occupier," one attendee told me me.
Although he didn't mention AIPAC by name, Yishai Fleisher, a spokesperson for Hebron's Jewish community, implied that the Yesha Council event was carrying out the kind of messaging work that other groups were either unwilling or unable to do. "You can't answer 'You stole someone's land' with 'We invented a cell phone.' The answer is, 'It's our ancestral homeland and we're going to hold onto it'" he told me—a line he then repeated almost verbatim for a packed room a few moments later, while introducing the afternoon's speakers.
The event drew about 1oo people, meaning the vast majority of Policy Conference's 18,000 participants were somewhere else at the time. But the speaking lineup included prominent Israeli political figures: Housing minister Yoav Gallant, New York consul general Dani Dayan, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan, and regional cooperation minister Tzachi Hanegbi all spoke, giving the gathering a higher-powered roster than all but a few of the actual AIPAC breakouts happening during the same time period.
Policy conference largely deals within areas of broad agreement—at the plenary sessions, Israeli policy in the West Bank is usually discussed indirectly or in passing. At the Yesha event, with its promises of like-minded people and free kosher sushi, supporters of the settlement movement didn't have to hide behind the requirements of maintaining shalom bayit within the broader pro-Israel movement. The Israeli speakers spoke a little more freely than they might have in front of a more diverse or more skeptical English-speaking audience: "We're at half a million now. We need to get to one million settlers," Hotovely said. Dayan boasted that the settler population increased by 40 percent during his six years as head of the Yesha Council. "If that's not my entrance ticket to Gan Eden," he quipped, "I don't know what is." Gallant, a retired IDF general, called his settlement advocacy "a correction" after a career partly dedicated to destroying things in battle.
Missouri's Fourth Congressional District Vicky Hartzler was attacked.
"The writer, expert in biology, asks: why a Congress Representative would act "in support of the settlement enterprise".
In 1922, Congress approved of the Mandate for Palestine to reconstitute the historic Jewish National Home which, at that time, included Judea, Samaria and even Gaza in its territory. In 1924, Congress authorized the Anglo-American Convention for Palestine which also included that territory, with special emphasis on American citizens' rights. There are at least 30,000 American citizens living in the Judea & Samaria communities, excluding Jerusalem (see below).
Further, to "What U.S. or Missouri interests are served by this pro-settler activism?", I could add that economic interests of local industries are a possible factor as well as extending American values to the area for Jews and Christians and Muslims just like other foreign aid programs. Check the FB page of the US Consulate in Jerusalem to see how much taxpayer dollars go for "Palestinian Arabs". Also, Israel's security is well served by a Jewish presence in the hills overlooking Israel. Remove that and regional stability collapses.
And as for "Is she even serving the interests of American Jews, the majority of whom oppose the settlements while supporting Israel?" well, she is and I doubt the majority do oppose "the settlements" but simply want peace. Don't forget, "settlements" for Arabs and maybe Jews like the write also include 205,000 Jews who live in post-1967 Jerusalem neighborhoods. They are to be ethnically cleansed just like the Jews who lived in Judea, Samaria and Gaza were cleansed by Arabs during 1920-1948?
The complete West Bank Jewish Population Stats report was released today with data updated to January 1, 2017. The report is available to the public in English via the mailing list at the West Bank Jewish Population Stats website.
The West Bank Jewish Population Stats report is compiled each year by Former Member of Knesset Yaakov "Ketzaleh" Katz based on precise data from the population registry in Israel's Ministry of the Interior. As of January 1, 2017, according to the report, 420,899 Jews live in West Bank towns, not including the some 300,000 Jewish residents of the eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, which are technically part of the West Bank as well.
I rechecked sources for Jerusalem.
I added up all the neighborhoods post-67 at the Jerusalem Yearbook for end of 2014.
The sum of those figures equals 204,390 at the end of 2014.
Missing may be Maaleh Hazeitim and Kidmat Tzion with Har Hazeitim. But that would be around 500 so let's round off at 205,000.
The average yearly growth of the Jewish population, found here, seems for past 5 years to be 1.42.
That would provide a total approximate figure of 208,000 Jews residing in the post-1967 Jerusalem neighborhoods which the Arabs and the UN declares territory slated for a future Arab state in the former area of the Palestine Mandate.
promise to fight to the end and we will never surrender..."
If now [in the case of] the salamander, which is [only] an offspring of fire, he who anoints himself with its blood is not affected by fire, how much more so the Scholars, whose whole body is fire, for it is written [Jer. 23, 29]: "Is not My word like as fire? saith the Lord".
Resh Lakish said. The fire of Gehinnom has no power over the transgressors of Israel.
As is the custom, I wear a tallit katan, vernacularly know as "tzitzit", under my shirt.
Today, something rather unique happened (although it may have happened to me previously some decades ago I think).
I usually dress in our darkened bedroom (wake-up for me is 5:20 as shacharit is at 6) but go into another room to select a shirt. Which is what I did this morning.
For those wondering what the "this" is: I seem to have slipped my belt through the part of the tzitzit that connects the fringes to the actual material that creates a four-cornered garment.
It meant, however, that I had to reloop myself so as to put on my camera and cellphone.
Is Jordan a Moderating Force?
Jordan is not fulfilling its responsibilities.
That language and terminology violates the treaty.
Will Israel's government call in Jordan's Ambassador to convey a reprimand or a note of dissatisfaction?
Gideon Levy has a pro-firebomber piece in Haaretz. It drips empathy for the terrorist.
Okay, he doesn't suggest outright that Arabs throw fire-bombs at IDF soldiers of Israeli civilians but he does attack the army's attempts to protect themselves and Israel's civilians.
He was obviously not endangering the soldiers as he fled.
Obviously? Did they know he did not have a gun and maybe would have turned and fire at them?
I won't attempt to argue whether at the time, early evening when the visibility is not perfect, Abu Razi perhaps had also been seen at an angle, turning to his left, rather than at a 90-degree angle, But I will say that the shot that killed him obviously save a Jewish life in the future.
The dead youth was a terrorist. He refused at least two attempts to dissuade him from throwing the firebomb. He was a ticking firebomber.
There are no moral doubts.
Would that his death convince other youths to leave the path of terror.
Language is always an issue in social contact and discourse, especially in diplomacy.
The two delegations also discussed Israeli settlement construction, following up on Prime Minister Netanyahu's visit to Washington and Mr. Greenblatt's recent visit to Israel. The United States delegation reiterated President Trump's concerns regarding settlement activity in the context of moving towards a peace agreement. The Israeli delegation made clear that Israel's intent going forward is to adopt a policy regarding settlement activity that takes those concerns into consideration. The talks were serious and constructive, and they are ongoing.
...the term "interests" or "attention" would have been employed.
Was Khalid Masood Eliminated Elor Aazariah-style?
An IDF soldier, Elor Azariah, shot dead a neutralized terrorist in Hebron last year.
After stabbing a soldier, the terrorist was wounded, seriously, and then Azariah, claiming he felt threatened by perceived movement by the terrorist, shot him dead. It sent off a storm in Israel, politicians' declarations, and a trial.
What happened in London on Wednesday?
A terrorist rammed dozens of pedestrians, stabbed a policemen (who died), was shot and seriously wounded.
But was he shot after wounded and on the ground? By two policemen?
And yes, I am, aware that some 10 minutes passed between the downing of the Hebron terrorist and Azariah's shot, unlike the incident in London.
But morally, it doesn't make a difference. The terrorist was down and need not have been shot again, if that indeed was the case.
Now, most Jews and many non-Jews know that the Purim story involves Jews defending themselves from a state-sponsored program of elimination, eradication and extirpation.
It cannot be compared to supremacist radical Islamism killing non-Muslims in a terror campaign that has no rhyme nor reason.
What Beinart does in that tweet is mask that a) the Pals. are the ones who have been avoiding closing a deal, since 1993's Oslo Accords including Clinton Parameters, Netanyahu's construction moratorium, Olmerts's and Livni's swaps, etc.; b) ignoring that there is a security aspect in Israel's administration; c) that so-called "occupation" is legal in that it responded to a war of aggression in a defensive fashion.
Beinart, besides exploiting anti-Semitic tropes against his ideological foes and misrepresenting Zionism in his poorly researched book, see here and here, is now turning Judaism upside-down.
For that, he truly deserves the Dumb Jew Award.
An unexpected discovery was made a few weeks ago in an archaeological excavation of the Israel Antiquities Authority conducted in the vicinity of Ramla. Together with flint tools that are 250,000 years old from the Middle Palaeolithic period, archaeologists were astounded to find a fascinating reminder from the First World War that included, among other things, hundreds of liquor bottles that are 100 years old. These were found near a building where British soldiers were garrisoned during the war.
According to Ron Toueg, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, "...We exposed a building whose upper part was not preserved, which was apparently the foundations of a barracks...Inside the building we discovered dozens of uniform buttons, belt buckles, parts of riding equipment, and other artifacts that were the property of the British soldiers. The building caught fire and collapsed for a reason which at this point is unclear. The place where the soldiers discarded debris was revealed just a few meters from the building. We were surprised to discover that along with broken crockery and cutlery there was an enormous number of soft drink and liquor bottles. In fact, about 70% of the waste that was discarded in the refuse pit were liquor bottles. It seems that the soldiers took advantage of the respite given them to release the tension by frequently drinking alcohol".
...According to Sary Mark, an architect, conservator and an authority on the British army's occupation of the area, "On November 15, 1917 the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of General Allenby conquered the area around the towns of Lod and Ramla. Before occupying Jerusalem the army encamped in the area where the archaeological excavation took place: the headquarters at Bir Salam – Ramla Camp and Sarafand Camp. The army was based there for about nine months until a decision was made to continue the conquest of the country further north. The building that was discovered in the excavation was used by the British soldiers, and it is rare authentic evidence and the first of its kind of the day-to-day life of the expeditionary forces for a very brief period during the First World War".
Thanks to Eriola Jakoel, media coordinator of the Central Region, Israel Antiquities Authority.
Kevin Jon Heller blogs at Opinio Juris.
...Your response to Yisreal is weird. Drawing a line from "expressing less than favorable views" to " referring to their children as "little snakes" is bizarre. You are also being quite dishonest when you say you quoted Shaked in her "own words". Those were not her "own words" and you ignore the context. It is also irrelevant to the discussion here, but I can see why you want to change the subject.
I get it. It's tired and pathetic, but I get it — everyone who criticises Israel is, by dint of their criticism, biased. Only those who defend Israel are objective. The myopia is staggering, but it's entirely predictable.
The really weird matter is that in writing "Yes, nothing demonstrates prejudice quite like quoting high-ranking Israel officials' own words…", KJH was either misconstruing what I had referred to or didn't quite grasp it.
I had written "Can a Jew or even a Christian expressing less than favorable views about Palestinians be as free in Ramallah or try Hebron or, better, Shchem/Nablus?" and he refers to the most extremist instance of Ayelet Shaked's remarks (and I won't get into whether they were her words, quoted or whether she apologized or not for that is not the point). From my "less than favorable" to her "snakes" is a trick that a law professor should not be engaged in.
Unlike Kumar, I do think he has control of brain and limbs. Or, to be a university professor, he should. His frothing and ranting on political and ideological issues are unseemly.
After years of following the Facebook page of the United States Consulate Facebook page and noting that despite perhaps 1,000,000 Hebrew readers in the area over which it supervises it does not appear in Hebrew, only English and Arabic.
Maybe Jason Greenblatt's presence was a help?
The next days' posts reverted to the Hebrew-exclusion policy.
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I checked. While "Hebrew" is mentioned, "Jews" or "Jewish" are not.
Do You Read the Quran?
And fight against the disbelievers collectively as they fight against you collectively. And know that Allah is with the righteous [who fear Him].
I use Palestinianism to describe a phenomenon of an Arab people who never in history shared any specific national identity characteristics that would set them off and make them a special case as a "people". See here, and also here, for example, and also here for Bat-Yeor.
self-mythologising [as in the case of] Palestinianism...the ideology which suggest there is a nationalism for a group of Arabs-who-refer-to-themselves-as-'Palestinians' and which, at its essence, denies the existence of a Jewish People, with its history, religion, culture and history who possess an historic homeland.
So-called national homeland never existed as a political or even an administrative entity.
The name "Palestine" came from the Roman rule over the Land of Israel after 135 CE, although previously a region by that name did exist but was not applied to what is know as Palestine today, whereas Judea was.
Arabs have a non-Arabic name for their national homeland. Really?
"the Palestinisation issue started after the Green Line was erased"
High Court justices have ordered the Interior Ministry to restore the residency rights of a Palestinian man born in East Jerusalem who was denied permission to live in the city after being away for many years... justices Uzi Fogelmen, Meni Mazuz and the court president, Miriam Naor, found in his favor and instructed the ministry to restore his status.
The ruling's significance is in the fact that the justices accepted the principle argued by Abdulhak's attorneys that East Jerusalem residents are not immigrants but have rights due to the fact they were born in the city. Fogelman wrote that "the interior minister must...consider the special circumstances of these residents – that as opposed to immigrants seeking status – they have a strong affinity to the place where they live, as people born in this area..."
a) does Mr. Abdulhak accept Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem?
b) is that what "affinity" means? or is his "affinity" strictly non-Israeli? and if so, what are the justices doing?
c) and if indeed Abdulhak's argument is what he truly believes, well, then, the Jewish right of return should gain his support as there's no greater affinity to Jerusalem and the Land of Israel as that of the Jews, even if we were not born here.
Did He Flee or Remove Himself?
Will You Visit Us at Shiloh?


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Letter: Another student for Willman
Today I would like to tell our community about my mock trial coach and my City Council candidate, Charlie Willman.
This spring, I asked Charlie if I could interview him about his candidacy for a paper. When listening to his goals for Glenwood and Ward 3, all I could think was "Right. On. Point." His support to fix our streets, his plan to renew Sixth street, and his hopes to create affordable housing are all on point for what our community needs.
I believe Charlie also hit one of the most important parts of a campaign, community outreach. He plans to have neighborhood street parties where his constituents can come meet with him and voice their concerns. I feel this is the most important part of the local government as the councilors are supposed to represent you, the people.
I personally know that Charlie will always be your advocate. Charlie is also the most qualified person for the job. He has been on the Downtown Development Authority for seven years and is currently a member of both the Financial Advisory Board and the city's Transportation Commission while still making the time to run a nationally recognized mock trial program.
I have known Charlie for the past three years, and he has shown what it truly means to be a civil servant. You must understand that Charlie has more patience than almost any other person if he's volunteering his time to coach highly trained argumentative teenagers.
Even with the stigma of being a lawyer, he is one of the most loving and funniest men I know and it has been an honor to have him as a coach.
Charlie is the advocate we need for Ward 3. I am only 17, so I won't be able to vote for him in the upcoming election, but there is no doubt in my mind that I would check his name on the ballot. If you know Glenwood, you know Charlie Willman is the best candidate.
Linnaea Petterson
Letter: Be respectful, please
About a week or so ago I was thinking how politely political our citizens of Glenwood Springs were — we have two three-way council races and one controversial ballot issue.
It seemed as if citizens were engaged by attending public issues and answers, writing letters to the editor and openly discussing their points of view. It was exciting.
And now, citizens, proposed candidates and proponents/opponents of the ballot issue are in a street fight of sorts.
I'm not writing to get into the game of verbal assaults but to simply say — are you really thinking about the good of the town or your ego(s)? Let everyone get their facts straight before speaking. If you have a "plan" to help Glenwood then state it, share it.
And lastly, you don't have to agree with one another but be respectful. The preverbal Golden Rule, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," never goes out of style.
Suzanne Stewart
Letter: Willman willing to put in time and effort
I am writing in support of Charlie WIllman for Ward 3 city council. As a member of Charlie's high school mock trial team, I have witnessed his complete dedication to everything with which he is involved. Charlie spends many hours a week with his mock trial team, on top of working full time. He strives for perfection and is willing to work as hard as it takes to get things done right. While Charlie is but one of many who love the city of Glenwood Springs and want what is best for its citizens, he stands out as willing to put in the time and effort needed to accomplish this goal.
Anna Carrington
Letter: Charlie Willman — the wise choice for City Council
It was really no surprise when I opened the paper and saw that Charlie Willman was running for the Ward 3 City Council. Charlie has been involved and in service to this community for many years and in many capacities. He comes forth with a plethora of knowledge about the community he wishes to serve. He has a unique historical perception and intimate knowledge of the inner workings of Glenwood Springs. Such knowledge is invaluable and should not be overlooked. The thing I like best about Charlie is he listens. He listens with both left and right ears before coming to a qualified decision. Were I to live in Glenwood, he would be my first and most solid choice.
William H. DuBois Sr.
Letter: Vanian is one of us
When you hear someone call a person a "politician" it usually isn't a compliment. I think that is because it has gotten to be in our society that politicians tend to say one thing and do another. They follow their party's ways rather than their own, trying to just stay in office. Well that means Jennifer Vanian is not a politician. She stands up for her beliefs and listens to what others believe. And when she tackles something, she's all in, going above and beyond most others. I'd be willing to say she has worked harder to be more informed about Glenwood's issues than any other candidate. Talking to people in our city government, touring our facilities and reading everything she can get her hands on about the current issues. When someone is willing to put in this kind of effort, that is someone we want making completely thought-out decisions for our town. She does her homework and will be a great asset to our city council.
John Korrie,
Letter: Even if you don't support the tax, vote for Jim
There seems to be a big divide among voters regarding the proposed street tax, and it seems to be pushing voters to support one candidate over another. I would encourage voters to separate those two issues.
I'm a fiscal conservative generally opposed to new taxes at the federal and state level. I'm less opposed to local taxes if I support the purpose of the tax, not too high and the cost/benefit ratio is good. I often compare the question of new local taxes to family finances regarding savings for some future benefit or need like a vacation, a car, or a new roof. If we can afford the extra monthly cost and the benefit is sufficiently valuable compared to the cost, then we do it, if not, then we don't.
Decisions such as these need to be based on factual information from informed sources. Regarding the proposed tax, it is recklessly uninformed to suggest that an extra $2 million can be found in the city's general fund. It is unequivocally false to suggest that City Council on its own could issue a bond based on this "found" $2 million. A new bond would require another vote of the people. Besides, an extra $2 million per year does not fix our roads, we need a minimum of about $3.5 million per year for approximately 15 years. Having worked on the city's budget for the last eight years, I can say with a high degree of certainty that there is not an extra $3.5 million per year to be "found" in the budget, every year for the next 15 years, that wouldn't also require an equally unacceptable sacrifice of city services.
Regardless of your vote on the tax, I would strongly urge you to support Jim Ingraham for the at-large City Council seat. I've worked closely with Jim over the past year on the council and for many years prior to that when Jim was on the Financial Advisory Board. I've found Jim to be informed, dedicated, honest, reasonable and to be a person with a high level of knowledge and integrity. He is the only candidate with sufficient experience. He doesn't have an axe to grind. His only agenda is to serve the best interests of the citizens of this community.
Michael Gamba,
Letter: Jim and Charlie – two powerhouse candidates
I've had the outstanding pleasure of working alongside both Jim Ingraham and Charlie Willman for almost 1 ½ years on the Financial Advisory Board (FAB) for the city, and I can personally attest to their deep sense of community, thoughtfulness, business prowess and common sense.
Jim's exceptional career in the world of corporate America finance is a huge benefit for FAB and especially City Council. He takes the complex, and boils it down into practical and understandable equations and prioritizes those potential next steps — all in a manner that is consistent with the hometown values of Glenwood and it's citizenry. Jim is not afraid to take on the tough issues head-on, and make the difficult and yet "grown up" choices that must be made in the best interests of our community. His positive, yet realistic optimism is that of a statesman — even in a sometimes cynical political environment.
Charlie has given many years of service to this community, and really knows Glenwood inside and out. His dedication started as a young attorney for the city in the early '80s serving as city attorney for four years. When it comes to understanding local issues, the history, and working with folks from all walks of life, Charlie is the man that brings perspective and a pragmatic approach for moving ahead. His selfless giving to our youth on the Mock Trial program, his visionary efforts with the Downtown Development Authority and many other local causes, has been an inspiration to all of us.
Please consider these two exceptionally qualified candidates for City Council. I can tell you that they both deeply care and are clear headed about what to do in moving Glenwood forward financially, in a practical down to earth manner. Vote "Yes" for Jim Ingraham for City Council at large, and "Yes" for Charlie Willman for City Council Ward 3.
Letter: Hershey has ability to find creative solutions to problems
I would like to encourage you to vote for Tony Hershey for City Council. I have lived in the valley for over 25 years, over 15 years in Glenwood Springs. I've known Tony for over 15 years since we started out as coworkers, and now I consider him a friend and I believe he would work diligently to improve our city. He is honest, kind, a hard worker and is really good at listening with an ability to find creative solutions to problems. I believe his skills are invaluable for the city at this time. He is against the tax on our roads and I know he will find other ways to fix our roads without passage of this tax. I would encourage you to talk to Tony and listen to his ideas and I believe you will find him to be the best candidate for the at-large position.
Judy Martin,
Letter: Willman is a problem solver
I am writing in support of Charlie Willman for the Ward 3 City Council position.
Through my time in the mock trial program, which Charlie has been dedicated to for several years, I saw several qualities that would help Charlie be very successful in this council position. He is passionate, fair, hardworking and resilient. Charlie's will and need to do the right thing will push him far in this position. He is a man of the people, and will hear our needs. I look up to him as a mentor and I know that he will always be there to offer advice and give solutions. Charlie is a problem solver, and won't stop working until he has done what is best for our city. In this election, I'll be voting for Charlie!
Emily Carrington
Letter: City needs Willman's dedication, passion and leadership
I would like to share a side of Charlie Willman that very few know. Charlie is a role model. Along with my team (GSHS Mock Trial – Varsity), I have spent countless hours with my coach. Charlie has taught me how to use inflection, be persuasive, purposeful movement and how to articulate long debates over the Colorado Rules of evidence. Those teachings are valuable and better my performance as a "mock" attorney, but there are far more tangible matters that surpass those teachings.
Charlie's dedication and love toward our team cannot be explained in a sentence. He once told me, "you must do everything with passion — love to show how dedicated you are. No one can teach you passion" and at first I kind of rolled my eyes and thought, OK, this is just another famous Willman lecture. But, that has resonated in my daily life.
Charlie has adopted our team like his own grandchildren. He's accepted and trained us in the pursuit of perfection. Our team is our second family and we all owe that to Charlie. In the midst of chaos, Charlie has maintained composure and his leadership role when times get extremely difficult. Charlie has worked countless hours with our team, maintained his job, ran for city council all while being perfectly composed. In moments of frustration and tears I can recall Charlie lending a piece of advice, and a joke or two.
I broke down at practice one night, Charlie's words of wisdom were to believe in myself, but also that he believed in me at my lowest and trusted that I could pick myself up again. That weekend, we placed third at state. No one has taught us passion, we have redefined that within ourselves, but we couldn't have — I couldn't have — without Charlie's fatherly figure in the background encouraging us to be the better version of ourselves every day within every move. That is the type of dedication, passion and leadership we need for our city.
Pilar Melendez,


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Disapointing.
I listened to most of it one day at work, as in, over six hours and forty minuts of the book. It is not very inconsistent in and of itself, One character's fighting style quickly goes from being basically a mindless brut to talented but inexpianced in the span of two or three fights. The IRL part is next to ignored, no one has any life aside from tending to the main character out of the game. Despite being Very wealthy there is no atendent or the like aside from the kids who, despite likely being well off themselves, are just there for him whenever it might convenience the main character no matter what. Someone who is basically a Real Life Murderer gets off with what amounts to a slap on the wrist. And What Really annoyed me. The main character is a full-on Mary Sue. Sure there are failings, but they never matter. A master blacksmith is dumped into a game that has realistic smithing. The smith learns that they are able to make End game level gear out of steel, They are level 1. Later the Smith learns that steel items are lower end next to the magical metals; Rather than have to do anything meaningful to learn how to work with Literally Magic Metal, They test said metal, Go "Oh, it is just made of these very common real-world metals that make it this color" then works it with barely an effort and blam. End game level item from magic metal X on the first go. I got this book wanting something like Magic-Smithing on RR. I was Highly disappointed.
Great first book
I liked everything about this book I hope there is a second book coming out
Good story ok narrator. Just fair warning to anybody that actually knows and likes blacksmithing the author may have talk to somebody who knows how to do it and that's about it. He does seem to know his armor and weapons though no 10 pound long swords here.
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Privilege? Really?
This reads like a 15 year old's fan fic. Folks don't act the way the characters in this book do. Marginally entertaining, the narrator, Mr. Kramer, saves the book. Mr. Mandani, if you read this, get out of the social group you've fallen into, go meet some different types of people. Get a variety of jobs. Experience life. Then write the next book.
I will not lie I had doubts when I started this book, a litrpg all about crafting no adventure no dungeons murder hobos etc. but this book is a masterpiece a true work of art much like the smithing of our beloved mc. The book is engaging, imaginative and much more I can't wait for the next book and highly surest you stop reading reviews bye the book and get lost in this beautiful world of smithing and fantasy. (Warning this book, Will make you have the feels you will smile, cry and much more with this mc)
I wish is was longer.
I can't wait until the next book comes to Audible. This book was far better then I expected.
Filled with nitpicky smithing details but very little story.
It's okay. I love hearing the process of crafting, but this wasn't done so anyone could understand. Your only options are to look up a million words for weapons and armor or to go with the flow and not care when there isn't enough detail, just names, to describe what is being made. Not approachable for someone who knows nothing of metalworking or ancient weapon or armor styles. Spoiler* Deals with suicide and then people lying about it. The narrator speaks pretty fast so it's extra hard visualizing the pieces the main character crafts. Overall the story is okay. Take out all the names of weapons and armor and it would be short. It's half baked. Some parts are overly descriptive and others lacking. This isn't a book where one can pause a look up a picture of the item. Since names are hard when spoken and very close to other names. When it is an item that is modified we get and excellent visual as it is needed. Using the names of existing items feels like a crutch for this author. It's either one or the other, rarely both. The story is made of petty BS akin to "I have power because of my family, and a big head, so ima put you down and then brag about it :P" then plot armor "I have skill and you're actually stupid so ima logic this shit, hope it works out, then tell on you :P" And while this isn't bad per se it isn't the most riveting plot. Don't get me wrong I love crafting novels, but I like an inventive plot too. I probably would listen to a second one, but I wouldn't read it. Too many names and too little hook. The beginning was good, as well as the little clips at the beginning of each chapter, but the childish fights are dumb and bring the whole novel down. It's like all the intellect of the characters and author stayed within the blacksmith's forge.
Good stand alone book.
while I liked the book I doubt I will get the next one as I do not see what else another one has to add in the premise.
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This noble VR story is thought proving and heart felt. The adventure was absolutely juicy with the craft of Blacksmithing. I'd be willing to bet this book could be used to teach people how to be a real smith! Praises To The Writer!!!
Not explaining anything leads to problems
The MC is pretty much just a mary sue type character that only ever seems to have trouble or problems when people don't bother to explain basic game concepts to him. Everything he makes is automatically the best it can be of that material. Set backs never feel like a big deal at all and everyone else is either immediately his loyal follower or is obviously evil and hates his guts.
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Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas (University of Washington Press, 2020) by performer and scholar Gerry Smyth includes lyrics and commentary for dozens of sea shanties, as well as a brief history of the genre. The world that emerges in these 19th century sailor songs is surprisingly multi-cultural; in a sense, sea shanties were the first sonic products of globalization, combining African-American work songs, Irish ballads, and English folk tunes. This book is designed to be used by performers and ensembles looking for singable versions of these ribald and entertaining songs.
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We welcomed our daughter, Kinzie Claire Regan, to the world on Thursday, June 23rd at 12:34pm (1,2,3,4!). We were so ready for her arrival and couldn't be more thrilled to have a new addition to our family.
Kinzie was 8 lbs 2 oz and 21.5″ tall at birth. She loves being swaddled and held at all times. We took her to her first pediatrician appointment yesterday and she is in the 94th percentile in height. Tall just like her Dad and sister!
Kinzie is only 5 days old today and it is amazing how it's already so hard to envision our family without her. Taylor, who will turn 2 on Monday (the Fourth of July), is quickly adjusting to her new role as a big sister. We tried "prepping" her as much as we could and it is wonderful to see her smile at Kinzie now. All of their interactions are melting my heart.
Taylor is a little jealous at times which was expected but I already know we are in for a lot more heart melting moments to come!
We brought extra outfits to the hospital for Kinzie and comfy pajamas and a robe for me. Also extra comfortable and cute swaddle blankets. I was ready to get out of the hospital gown ASAP this time. I also had this adorable personalized hat from Lizzie Roda's Etsy shop.
Becoming a mom for the first time when Taylor was born was exciting, exhausting and a bit overwhelming. Learning how to care for a baby, recovering from a rough delivery, and everything being so new also caused some anxiety and stress.
This time, I know what to expect for the most part and although I wouldn't say things are easy, they are definitely not as stressful as with the first baby. We are enjoying every moment (especially the quiet ones).
These past few days have been an exhausting but delightful blur of diaper changing, feedings, family visits and eating too much ice cream. I wouldn't have it any other way!
Thankfully we have had a lot of help especially from my mom and mother-in-law. I feel very lucky to have such a great family helping us out. I am definitely feeling like one lucky momma.
In the car reading this now (pot roast in tow). Loved these tidbits and updates Sam. So excited to see Kinzie and Taylor in just a few minutes!
Thanks Elisabeth! Hope to see you again soon!
Congratulations Samantha! Kinzie is beautiful! I can totally relate to your overall positive experience with your second daughter- I felt the same kind of joy and confidence the second time around. I hope your labor and delivery was smooth. I'm now at 37 weeks and even though this is my third baby, I'm scared of labor. I think it comes from knowing exactly what to expect! lol. I'm wishing you a smooth recovery and blessed early weeks with your newborn and your family. Enjoy all the pampering too mama, you deserve it.
You are so sweet Angela! Thank you!! I was the same way about labor which is totally understandable. I wish you the best in the next couple weeks – almost there!!


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