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LAS CRUCES - Seven days after an already-revised deadline, the city council passed a resolution establishing a broad policy for carrying out the city's trap-neuter-return program to humanely reduce the free-roaming, unowned cat population.
City councilors voted 7-0 to approve the resolution Monday, despite the opposition of some animal advocates who said the resolution did not adhere to the intent of the city's ordinance codifying TNR.
Last August, the Las Cruces City Council approved of trap-neuter-return, or TNR, as part of its revised animal care ordinance. The ordinance establishes the definition of community cats, defines where they can be released following surgeries or trappings, creates a four-strike policy for repeatedly impounded cats and encourages the registration of community cat caregivers.
By that same ordinance, the city council had until Dec. 14, 2021 to adopt a formal TNR policy, which is supposed to include things such as public education components, compliance requirements for community cats and their caregivers, where informational resources will be available and best practices for caring for community cats.
But the city missed the December deadline. While Assistant City Manager Eric Enriquez told the council in January city animal control staff, animal shelter staff and members of the city's TNR subcommittee "ran out of time" to formalize policies, Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley Director Clint Thacker described staff scrambling to try to finalize something in the last few weeks before the deadline and missing it.
The council voted to extend the deadline by six months. The new deadline was June 14.
The resolution approved during the June 21 city council meeting, a week after the new deadline, "affirms (the council's) support for a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program to humanely control the population of feral cats in the community."
According to the resolution, the city's Animal Control Unit will work with the ASCMV, local community cat caretakers, nonprofit animal welfare organizations and the public to carry out the TNR program. It encourages community cat caregivers to register with animal control or a nonprofit group.
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"Through the registration process and execution of caregiving duties, standard care procedures and timelines according to nationally recognized TNR best practices will be communicated and employed," the resolution states.
The resolution states animal control will "offer educational material at their offices and in the field and, if available, community/feral cat deterrents to residents as needed." The resolution also states animal control will work with the ASCMV and other nonprofit groups to create and secure funding for publicly available resources such as educational materials and deterrents.
Finally, the resolution calls for the ASCMV to develop a plan for implementing TNR which covers "TNR best practices, caregiver registration, basic expectations and responsibilities for caregivers, educational information for the public, and mechanisms for TNR logistics." The resolution states the plan can be revisited on a regular basis, perhaps annually, and should account for animal shelter capacity.
Enriquez said Monday the policy resolution was kept broad to keep the program adaptable.
"One of the reasons the policy is so general is so it's broad, and we can adapt to it with the specifics that have been identified by the subcommittee team (and) that we can always change the standard operating procedures or guidelines," Enriquez said.
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Some local advocates called on the council to not approve the resolution.
"This resolution is not a policy nor does it claim that it is a policy," said Geri Wheelis, a member of the city's TNR subcommittee, which was tasked with crafting the program and policies. "The resolution merely supports implementation of TNR, which is great but unnecessary as TNR is already a law in Las Cruces."
Wheelis said the subcommittee had not met in the past six months since the original deadline was extended. There was only one meeting of the Animal Care Task Force in February, she told the Sun-News, but she said the resolution passed Monday did not come from that meeting.
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The TNR ordinance and the June 21 resolution both recommend the city provide funding for the TNR program, including surgical procedures, on an annual basis. Enriquez said funding had been included as part of the ASCMV's annual budget, which includes funding to hire a TNR coordinator.
Animal Control Supervisor Gino Jimenez said his unit began to implement TNR immediately after the ordinance was passed last August.
"Even though we didn't have a policy in place then, we decided that it was best to, since you all voted on that TNR practice, let's get rolling with it," Jimenez said. Thacker, the animal shelter director, has expressed difficulty meeting demand due to a lack of veterinarians.
Michael McDevitt is a city and county government reporter for the Sun-News. He can be reached at 575-202-3205, mmcdevitt@lcsun-news.com or @MikeMcDTweets on Twitter.

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The similarities of creationists and atheists
Regular Network Norwich & Norfolk columnist James Knight continues his theme of psychological patterns and sees the similarities in the thinking of new-wave atheists and creationists.
Continuing the theme of psychological patterns – those who have been tuning in so far in this series will have seen that we've already reached a pretty important realisation regarding not just the polarising power of these psychological driving forces, but also the internal conflict they cause individuals too. My realisation that the new-wave atheists and the creationists are displaying the same psychological patterns (albeit with different matters of detail in their sound-bytes) has been particularly important in this project.
That the new-wave atheists use creationist material with which to bash mainstream Christians is absurd, and indicative of the fragility of their own case, particularly given that the contemporary mindset is unlike that of the Biblical writers, so any science issue are remiss. In fact, the differences between ancient Hebrews and modern Americans are about as far apart as one can imagine - it seems crazy to think that the Genesis writers were delivering a commentary that we could interpret scientifically five or six thousand years later. So the mainstream Christians (who make up the vast majority) find that their opposition from both sides largely consists of a similar, and pretty incompetent, group. In that sense there is a further commonality between atheists and fundamentalists in that both seem oblivious to the power of the mythological narrative and all its broad resonances, and both only seem able to view the more complex subjects through an over-simplifying lens of black and white.
As those who read the recent very poorly reasoned article from fundamentalist Gary Burchnall would have seen, the language employed by the likes of the Answers in Genesis cult directed at theistic evolutionists is the same sanguinary and abrasive language they use on atheists too. Terms like "Putting words into God's mouth", "Applying your opinion to scripture", "Compromising God's word", "God means what he says", "Ignoring God's word", "Believing atheistic systems" and threats about turning Christianity into something 'natural' are all part of their repertoire of dismissive intimidation.
I wonder if this is in some part due to the American influence, which as a nation has an imperial feel about it, where its citizens believe that God is doing something special there (exclusive to them), and that to be a part of the great awakening is to have the bestowment of a personal identity with God's word that requires no interpretation or critical analysis. I don't think this factor can be underestimated, particularly if one bears in mind that the vast majority of this anti-science fundamentalism comes from America (or an implicitly American influence). By dismissing anything that has in the past been associated with church rivalry or even mild deviation while awaiting the full facts, they claim to have God's direct authority in keeping their fellow men and women on the straight and narrow. Naturally, they have become so accustomed to using implicitly threatening language and hegemonic spiritual duress that those who can be manipulated must feel that they are authority figures who proclaim genuine authority in a world that's gone wrong, whether that 'authority' contradicts known facts or not.
That we have a Western world of superficiality, consumerism, spiritual tricks, and increasing departure from the faith makes them feel justified in lumping in things like science and philosophy in their repudiations too, because it isn't difficult to adopt a 'My way or the wrong way' message where the wrong way leads to any one of the un-Christian lifestyles that are exclusively at odds with Christ's teachings. Furthermore, if you can entrap gullible acolytes with creationist mantras that claim the necessity of an alternative to 'naturalistic' science, then you can probably get people to open up their wallets and purses too and invest in movements like Answers in Genesis and the Discovery Institute; institutions that lie to children about the natural world, and peddle distortions on just about every important subject. They are a minority cult-type organisation for which the majority of Christians are forever apologising or having to put the record straight. All this fits nicely for them into a set of sleight of hand tricks where genuine ignorance and delusion become entangled with the desire for power, control, prestige and leadership influence.
The patterns are all too familiar - they resemble the sectarians and the cults in thought and in behavioural patterns, and I guess that before long those who can manipulate others find themselves adopting all sorts of tactics that they would find quite contemptible in any other group environment.
In summary, the symptoms of this kind of Christian seem to be a toxic mix of self-righteousness (how I see God's infallible world cannot be challenged) and self-negation (I'm not worthy to put my own interpretation on God's truth), which makes for a pretty frustrating Christian fundamentalist. Thus, the mainstream Christian is really up against it because both atheists and creationists make their living by distorting the true picture of scripture by adding spurious literalism to parts of the Bible that the vast majority of their fellow Christians realise are not to be taken that way.
Furthermore, there is another important point, about which I have written a chapter in one of my books - about how the word of God is not static, but dynamic. One thing is quite clear - one isn't required to take Genesis literally in order to recognise the power of its concepts; just about every Christian I know has no trouble appreciating sin and salvation through the grace of Jesus, so clearly seeing Genesis non-literally hasn't impeded Christians' clarity on sin and the need for a saviour. That fundamentalists place so much emphasis on something that has no bearing on people accepting Jesus shows the first fault - but there is more, because I can formulate a question for which they have no answer, and it takes the following form;
What is added to the reality of sin and falleness in a literal historical Genesis act or event that would be absent in a mythological or allegorical Genesis expression?
You'll find in the cases of early Genesis, the answer is nothing at all. In fact, it's fairly obvious that the reverse is true - were it a literal event it would diminish much of the power of the concept. That's the key word - 'concept' - you see, a concept is a thought or an idea belonging to the mind by taking the generic form of being abstracted from various particulars within the sphere of sense-data. They must realise that sin and being fallen apply here, and that they are not literal objects that can be touched or felt - they are implicitly concept-based, just as pride or happiness or generosity are concepts that are known by what they amount to in the context of literal scenarios.
By imputing a literalism or a physicalism to sin there is the question of the difference between perceptions and conceptions. A sinful action like, say, witnessing a murder is an action that is implicitly 'perceived' by the witness, because it fits the criteria required to fall under the sense-based category distinction. Objects like people and murder weapons have physical properties, their composition constitutes objects that can be experienced with our senses - they can be seen, touched, smelt, heard, and tasted, if one so wishes. And of course, there is naturally an overlap between perception and conception because the murder can be conceived in an explicitly conceptual form (like a memory or in further ideation).
Now non-perceptive aspects of reality are different - they are not physical objects that can be seen or touched or smelt - they are implicitly conceptual because they take the form of an idea or a mental abstraction. So take the concept of sin or goodness or generosity or love or beauty or sublimity - each of these falls into the category distinction of being implicitly conceptual, because they are not shared experiences in the same way that sense-based observations are shared, and they are not 'common sense' friendly. They elicit meaning throughout shared experiences, because they are concepts that have significance conferred upon them in commonality of experience, and communication of those experiences. For that reason it makes no sense to talk of sin being more than a concept.
Trying to define 'sin' without the conceptual form is as futile as trying to run away from your own legs. So all this talk of the importance of a literal Genesis is moonshine, because it fails to take from the account the most powerful part of the story – the power of the concept and its reification in actionable form throughout one's journey with Christ. Forgetting the hermeneutics for a second and concentrating on the psychology that drives it - I have to say few things upset me more in Christianity than a believer who has been indoctrinated to the extent that he has suppressed his faculties of reason to the point that they appear dormantly locked in to the 'inner man' bursting to get out. They are not only a product of brainwashing, they are trapped in a hellish one-dimensional discourse that is stifling the development of the abilities God gave them. And they fool themselves into thinking they're content with this - but I sense they're not; how could anyone be, their continual threads and discussions about this are simply a subliminal method of trying to express the division within themselves. On the one hand all they have on the surface is what authoritarian elders have drummed into them - yet in the oceanic depths of their selfhood is an instinctively rational creature with so many facets of ability and creativity just bursting to get out.
And, of course, to contend that evolution militates against our being sinful or fallen is nonsense – it should be so obvious really. Any evolved being is going to be in a fallen state when fallenness is qualitatively measured against God. We cannot legislate sin or wrongdoing or imperfection out of the system; and of course even the angels bow to Jesus as Lord. But there is a bigger failing of literalism, and we just mentioned it - to stubbornly accept it as a real event and deny its broader conceptual implications is delimiting, because it shuts off the Christian from one of God's key plans for His word - its dynamic development in conceptual form throughout the spread of Christianity in every age, right up to the present day. Not only will God resource His wisdom in contemporary context by having His Holy Spirit help us invest new meanings in the concepts, He will use the present conceptual developments to plant seeds for those unborn folk that are to follow. It is no surprise that this faulty application of literalism where it isn't warranted is yet another pattern that emerges in both creationist and new-wave atheist alike.
A similar thing happens in ethics - the biblical ethics are not literally history either - they are concepts that are applied to historical events (as seen in the Old and New Testaments) but that can be invested in with new developments as humanity progresses. That's why we have things like business ethics, medical ethics, environmental ethics, to name but three, that we never used to have, but were assimilated into present cultural zeitgeists with recourse to antiquity.
The concepts of sin and falleness work in a similar way to ethics - they are part of a foundational truth applicable to all of mankind, but they cannot be compacted into one historical event with one person because they acquire new contexts when added to different situations in different times. For the same reason that we find the true significance of sin in the power of the concept, we find the true significance early Genesis in the power of the concepts it elicits. To try to package all that power into a literal Adam and Eve is simply to divest it of conceptual power, and in doing so, you unwittingly attempt to rob scripture of some of its spiritual gravitas.
When it comes to a man in relation to God, a man in 2011 is fallen in the same way that a man in 1654 or 1729 is fallen - all of them can only rely on the grace of Christ for salvation. But how they relate that falleness to their own surroundings will differ greatly, just as how a man relates the ethical blueprints to his day depends very much on the period of history in which he lived.
It is on that note that I will close, because next time out I will be tackling the most difficult theological question I have ever faced – one I have been asked by another to tackle; in fact, the only one for which I haven't managed to construct concepts that have to my satisfaction clearly defined answers.
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Barbados was settled by the British in the early-1600s; it achieved independence in the mid-1960s. The island was never governed by another country and remains, in many ways, quite British.
In what ways? I'm glad you asked.
Greg and me (right) with our British friends Annie and David in West Sussex two weeks ago.
- Like the English, Bajans insert that silly "u" into words such as neighbour, parlour, and harbour. My husband refers to this as "the Queen's English." Grumble-grumble, it's actually just a waste of a letter. Also, Bajans pronounce the word "scone" not with a long "o" but with a short one, as though there's no "e" at the end of the word … ouch, hurts my ears!
- The Brits adore visiting Barbados and when I visit England I'm amazed how well even less-sophisticated travelers seems to know Barbados: shop-girls who've never left their villages have asked me if I've seen Prince Harry or William here or ask what Sandy Lane is like.
- Above all else, it's the scenery that, to me, is the most startling similarity between the two countries. When I'm out driving in the countryside (usually on the left side of the road), I am struck by similarities of narrow roads and countryside. Of course, a photo can't capture temperature and that is markedly different. However, even with the chill, I adore the lush beauty of England's countryside, the Brits' wonderful sense of humor (um, humour), and the very fine friends Greg and I have there.
Green and lush, like England. I took this photo outside of Bathsheba overlooking the east coast; that's the Atlantic Ocean. Minus the sea and palm trees, this could be England.
A great comparison. However, those necessary 'u' letters were around long before a certain country corrupted the English language! Also, football, the world's main sport, is played by more people in Barbados than cricket now and is watched on television by a large slice of the population, the same as in England (not many follow polo in England!) The English use the 'e' on scone. The majority of English enjoy their Royal Family relationship (despite what the media try to say) LOL This conversation could go on forever… especially when you consider the boot and bonnet of the car, roundabouts… we must talk it through one Brighton (not the English one) Farmer's market day. It's near Windsor in St George!
Stephen, good morning. Thanks for this. Yes, I know the Brits have an "e" on the end of "scone" … I note that they do …. my complaint (mind you, given the state of the world, a small complaint indeed in all the complaints) … they insist on calling the food a "scon," as though it has no "e." Aaarrrggghhh, blimey!
I know Barbados Brighton farmers market well … I'm taking a ten-week photography course on Saturday mornings right now and so have to miss the farmers market for the time being. I don't know what you look like; if you see me there mid-April and beyond, say howdy!
Brilliant post! We'll teach these colonist Yanks how to spell one day!
There are very many things in Barbados that do make it little Britain Thanks for the fun read.
There's even a Mayfield in Barbados – my family lived in Mayfield, Kent before moving to the Caribbean.
One area that's not so British is the beer – served ice cold here thank goodness:) And having said that, I hear Banks has a nice British sounding Ale out now.
Don't know if other places on the island feature this quaint British tradition, but the Barbados Yacht Club serves afternoon tea.
Jane even in Canada we have the same problem with the word scone.
Some say it like the word bone and some say it like the word gone.
Finola, hi. I don't know about the new ale … I'll check it out. Sounds interesting.
I visited your beautiful jewelry on Etsy .. I didn't know you showed on Etsy, one of my favorite sites on the net! That heart-within-a-heart necklace is something extra special …. oooh and ahhhh!! Lovely, just lovely, jewelry in the spirit of the Caribbean. For those you haven't yet seen, please visit Finola's work here.
Ahhh, yes, Meg … thanks for this wonderful contribution. You're right! The Yacht Club does serve afternoon tea. So does The Crane. Both offer amazing sea views, too, views any Brit would give a scone (no matter how it's pronounced) to see!
Thank you, Kyle, for this in-depth visit into Barbados' history. This was a fun read from Conde Nast Traveler and a wonderful contribution to my blog. Thank you.
Edie, hello, lovely to hear from you. I'm surprised to hear a sensible Canadian pronounces scone to rhyme with "gone." I'm definitely a "bone" girl myself, married to a (frustrating) "gone" guy.
Well, as long as we stick with "gone" or "bone" … pray we don't hear a "done" rhymer out there!
Who was it who corrected me on the founding of Barbados by the British? I am unable to locate the comment but thank you for it, whoever was the eagle eye who spotted my gaffe. You are so right .. the date was 1605, as noted on a plaque in Holetown where the first settlers, um, settled, having sailed into this beautiful land on a ship called the Olive Blossom.
Again, thank you. I depend upon all of you to keep me honest!
Thanks again for the 'props'!
I need your help! During the current term I study the British Influence in the Caribbean (predominantly Barbados) with special focus on education (educational system and curriculum). I also consider the after-effects of British colonialism. For that matter I would appreciate if you could answer some questions on that topic.
I apologize if there are any problems in understanding my English. As I learned it as a foreign language, it might not always be correct.
1. What parallels can be recognized between education in UK and education in Barbados? Please consider the educational system as well as graduation possibilities.
2. What effect did British colonialism have on today's curriculum in former British colonies in the Caribbean? You may also give examples.
I read the book "Patterns of Foreign Influence in the Caribbean" by Emmanuel de Kadt, 1960, University of the West Indies. There is a chapter called "The ex-colonial society in Jamaica". This is an extract: "In our schools we were brought up on English literature, English history, English geography, and mathematical quizzes about the times trains took to travel from London to Glasgow". How far can patterns of curriculum like these be recognized even today?
4. What would you call "typically English" in your personal life and why? This question does not only refer to education, but also to sports, culture, language, architecture, etc.?
5. How would you assess the relationship between the UK and Barbados today?
6. Is there anything you would find important to consider about this topic in addition?
All good questions, my dear, and no need to apologize for your English, which is as perfect as your plea for help with your homework. You might consult academicians at the University of the West Indies. They will be more qualified than an interloper like me, more passionate about than educated, about the influence of the British educational system on Barbados. Good luck.
I think Turkey must be the new 'little england'. I recently went on holiday there and there were more brits than anyone else.
Barbados is referred to as, "Little England", because it was the most successfully colonized island of the West Indies. This is mainly because of the geography of the land. Due to the fact that Barbados is generally flat, slaves had no mountains to take refuge as in the cases with Haiti and Jamaica.
Furthermore, it would have been difficult to survive off the land as there were few natural fresh water sources, even fewer species of wild animals.
If a slave escaped there would have been hunted down by dogs and pistol. If found the result would have been death or torture.
African P.O.W (slaves) and Irish indentured servants were forced into a life of slavery as punishment.
The Africans that were human trafficked to Barbados spoke several different languages. However, they were denied the right to speak in their mother tongues so as to prohibit them from revolting. Many Africans learnt to communicate in English from their close environment with the Irish slaves. Hence, why the Barbadian accent has some strong Irish elements.
All these factors led to Barbados being a successfully colonized territory by the British. As it was never colonised by any other European nation as was the case with Jamaica etc.
The African and Irish slaves conformed in order to survive the horrors & genocide of slavery. Even though the Irish counterparts were treated more favourably due to the implementation of the system of colourism.
However,there were many revolts and riots which led to attaining independence from British rule.
Fascinating, if sad, history, Melanie. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with me. I really appreciate hearing from you.
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has passed to the spirit world aged 65.
Liverpool-born Glyn devoted his life to learning and teaching, sharing his vast knowledge and mediumship with many students and friends around the world.
Glyn had a wide experience of physical mediumship and trance states, and was a trance medium himself. He lived in the small country village of Maids Moreton in Buckinghamshire.
"Glyn possesses extensive understanding of various mediumistic and spiritual paths, and is particularly known for the quality of his work and his ability to demonstrate his mediumship almost effortlessly in front of large audiences.
"He is highly respected for his understanding of and insight into different areas of mediumistic unfoldment and his devotion to helping students explore and realise their individual potential.
"In 2003, he made the front page of Psychic News (which he has done many times in his mediumistic life) after being struck down by a mystery virus. Since then, he has shown how determination and the power of the spirit can overcome adversity.
A protégé of fellow medium Gordon Higginson, Glyn worked with him on a series of projects extending over many years and was a co-founder of the Gordon Higginson Fellowship.
At one time, Glyn worked regularly at London's Spiritualist Association of Great Britain and was involved with PRISM (Psychical Research Involving Selected Mediums).
Interviewed on radio and TV throughout the world, Glyn was deeply drawn to the teachings and insights of Ernest Holmes, the founder of Science of Mind. The medium recorded various teaching CDs and cassettes, as well as writing highly acclaimed books.
Paying tribute, Minister David Bruton, President of the Spiritualists' National Union, said: "Glyn, who was known to many as a fine medium and tutor, and great ambassador for Spiritualism, touched the lives of so many people through his gift of mediumship. I am sure you will all join me in sending him, his family and friends the power of our healing prayers.
"Glyn had been battling cancer for a while, which naturally took its toll on him physically. I am sure that now Glyn has taken his transition to Spirit, he will be met by many friends – Gordon Higginson and others – to welcome him home.
A private funeral service for Glyn took place on Friday, June 12. This was followed by a public service of celebration of his life the same afternoon in Akeley, Bucks. His family invited friends, students and colleagues to attend.
I FIRST met Glyn Edwards in the summer of 1989, just before his fortieth birthday. We instantly hit it off and discovered vast fields of common ground between us, as Glyn, like myself, had an enquiring mind and a deep interest in both eastern and western spirituality. Glyn invited me on a course he was running at the Arthur Findlay College for which he had booked, amongst others, a respected semi-retired Buddhist teacher and a Christian yogi.
It was just what I was looking for – and also for Glyn it seemed – as we both came away at the end of the course with reams of notes and lists of wonderful books to read. Jointly, we made our way to Watkins Books in London (a favourite watering hole for Glyn and me) to fill up the boot of my car with titles on Spiritualism, New Thought, mystical poetry, Buddhist psychology and yogic wisdom. It was clear from the start that we shared the same passions and enjoyed drawing from more than one source for spiritual nourishment.
Shortly after our first meeting, a small graphics partnership I had in London's Docklands moved into computerised design work. I mentioned to Glyn that if he wanted to write and publish something, this was the time, as technology made book layout less expensive.
As an energetic and creative young man, Glyn proposed collaboration between us for a book on different areas of spirituality and mediumship. I wasn't actually expecting him to ask me to write a book with him, but agreed to see how I could help. Because of other commitments, it took us eight years to complete.
It became a best seller at the Arthur Findlay College shop. Glyn and I revised and updated it in 2011 and gave it a more contemporary title, The Spirit World in Plain English. Glyn was extremely pleased with the look and reading of the revised edition, which is clearly seen in his opening Acknowledgments. After all, we had come a long way since we first started writing and had more experience of such ventures under our belts.
After writing the first book, I had an idea for a smaller manual and this time approached Glyn about writing it together. Incredibly, it then became a best seller at the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain. We also revised and expanded it recently, giving it a new title, Spirit Gems. Once again, Glyn displayed how pithy he could be in putting great insights together.
In the final section of the book we found various quotations to add on important spheres of unfoldment. Glyn had no end of enthusiasm in finding key teachings from different writers and teachers he loved, such as Silver Birch, American New Thought writer Ernest Holmes, the Dalai Lama and Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku. In all the years I knew Glyn, these have always been amongst his favourites for reading.
Glyn then presented a completely new venture. He wanted to set up a fellowship honouring the name of his much-loved friend and mentor Gordon Higginson, which would not only look at mediumistic unfoldment, but other related areas of spirituality. The fellowship ran numerous successful events in the south of England, including two major physical mediumship courses with several high-profile names.
Glyn was obviously a big draw at many events and loved having the freedom of working without being under the scrutiny of another organisation. Glyn was also aware that I was becoming deeply involved in nature/earth-centred spirituality and happily chaired a day for free that I put on with members of GreenSpirit, including the respected scientist Chris Clark and Ian Mowll, the interfaith minister and co-ordinator of GreenSpirit.
At the same time, Glyn then asked if I would put together a small book on mediumistic and psychic powers in different traditions, as he wanted to promote a more inclusive and open-minded understanding of alternative paths. Having already written an Appendix that touched on this in a yoga book with a swami, I accepted Glyn's request and expanded what I had started in that book.
I asked Glyn if he would also like to be interviewed for two large sections that could be included. Questions put to Glyn were invariably followed by a period of reflective silence. He would then answer fluently and without pausing until he had covered all that he felt was needed. We called it Realms of Wondrous Gifts.
Having co-authored so much with Glyn, and him having recorded various exercises and teachings for CDs and written countless articles for magazines such as PN, I realised there was enough material that could be pulled together for a collection of his key teachings on mediumship. After all, he was the one who was famous – and mediumship was what he was most famous for.
We successfully launched the anthology with the name The Potential of Mediumship at one of the fellowship's main events three years ago and sold almost every copy we had with us after Glyn finished a truly dazzling demonstration of his mediumship one evening.
The queue to the table where Glyn sat joyously chatting and signing copies for everyone was a sight to be seen. Putting the book together for Glyn was a labour of love and I was really happy it turned out to be such a big success for him. I will sadly miss doing the creative projects we did together and those wonderful memorable times we had.


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That Girl Started Her Own Country
The latest mystery by Holy Ghost Writer dazzles with a tale of computer hacking, legal wrangling and kung-fu fighting.
International playgirl and jet-setter Zaydee is in love with investigative journalist Steven Larson, who is writing an exposé of the Bilderberg Group. Zaydee believes Larson is in danger, so she hatches a complicated plan to help him by providing him with a safe house and starting up a new publication for him, staffed by computer hackers. However, when Zaydee is set up and betrayed by her investment broker, the FBI arrests her. Since she refuses to identify herself, the FBI agents book her under the clever name "Princess Jane Doe." However, she manages to take full advantage of her new royal title by using the esoteric Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act as part of an international legal procedure to defend herself, without legal counsel, against unknown charges. As Zaydee becomes a media celebrity, her true identity remains a mystery to both the FBI and the general public. The author fills each chapter with intrigue, following Zaydee as she plots her escape from prison. The increasingly elaborate plot also features a math-genius professor and Yale University's Skull and Bones secret society. The author effectively keeps the reader guessing each character's allegiance as well as Zaydee's eventual endgame. In the end, readers may be left wondering about the mysterious and colorful Zaydee's true backstory—as well as author Holy Ghost Writer's true identity." -Kirkus Reviews


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FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole: He's dead.
In some ways this is best structured Twin Peaks episode of the new series. Strange, surreal, violent, funny with plenty of plot developments.
Becky is indeed Shelly and Bobby Briggs wayward daughter and Steven is more than her no good boyfriend but her husband. He is cheating on her as well as taking money from her. When she goes on a shooting rampage, we get some character moments between Shelly, Bobby and Becky.
Indeed when we first encountered Bobby Briggs at the Sheriff's department, I thought he would be a crooked cop but now we know that the mouthy, cynical one at the Sheriff's department is bent.
When there is a random shooting incident through the window of the diner and Bobby Briggs discovering a distraught woman in a car with a sick woman, it seems that there is some dark cloud hovering above the town of Twin Peaks which has unleashed an explosion of violence.
The FBI investigation in Buckhorn is also gathering pace. Both Gordon and Albert are shown to have a supernatural edge which we so far thought only Agent Cooper possessed. They see a mysterious figure moving about which suddenly kills Hastings while Gordon has a vision where he sees those notorious woodsmen. They also discover the headless body of a woman with some coordinates.
The Mitchum brothers cannot wait to get their hands on Dougie Jones, Bradley Mitchum is just counting down the hours until he gets to kill their arch nemesis Dougie. Yet a strange dream Bradley has had means Dougie may not be their enemy especially as Dougie has been dispatched to meet the Mitchum brothers with a $30 million cheque as their fire was deemed to be accidental.
All of a sudden Dougie is having cherry pie with the Mitchum Brothers in a restaurant where Dougie meets the old lady he help win a jackpot at the casino. She thanks him for changing her life.
David Lynch has set a very high standard in this episode.


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'She Said' Cast Say They Made Movie for Harvey Weinstein's Victims
Steve Pond
A version of this story about "She Said" first appeared in the Guilds & Critics Awards/Documentaries issue of TheWrap's awards magazine.
They showed up at the New York Times building like journalists reporting for work, except that the Times was shut down because of COVID and the workers who showed up were actors: Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan playing reporters, Patricia Clarkson and Andre Braugher as their editors, and many others who'd borrowed the Times' offices for a couple of weeks of shooting on "She Said."
The film from director Maria Schrader, recently released by Universal to strong reviews but tepid box-office returns, is based on the book by Times reporters Jodi Kantor (Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Mulligan) about how they broke the story of Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual abuse. One of its strengths is the richness of the ensemble that filled what otherwise would have been a nearly-empty Times building — along with the wrenching work of other actors like Jennifer Ehle and Samantha Morton, who show up midway through the film as survivors of Weinstein's misconduct.
"The ensemble of characters is fascinating in this movie and so beautifully observed and nuanced," Clarkson said. "Every person that walks on the screen is so three-dimensional and rich."
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At the center of that ensemble are Kazan and Mulligan, who in real life have been close friends for more than a decade. "We met 14 years ago, when we did (a Broadway production of) "The Seagull" together in our early 20s," Mulligan said. "We shared a tiny dressing room on the top floor and became incredibly good friends very quickly. And ever since then we've been trying to find something to act in together — a play or a film or a TV show, whatever it may be."
When Mulligan showed the "She Said" script to her husband, musician Marcus Mumford, his response was immediate: "It's amazing, and Zoe Kazan should play Jodi Kantor." Mulligan didn't have any say in the casting, but when she heard Kazan was meeting with the producers, she called her friend immediately. "I remember speaking to Zoe, and I was practically crying with excitement," she said. "I didn't want her to feel pressure, but I also couldn't imagine doing it with anyone else."
Kazan said she found the script "so smart and economical, and it portrayed a kind of working motherhood that I have so rarely seen on film. And I found it tremendously moving — I cried when I read the script for the first time, and every time after."
Working together, Mulligan added, the actresses had an easy shorthand. "We didn't have to do any of the getting-to-know-you stuff," she said. "It was just straight into sharing notes and ideas."
The two actresses had one week of going through the script with Schrader ("Unorthodox", "I'm Your Man"), then a second week with more of the ensemble. "We hit the ground running in the New York Times building," Mulligan said. "When you are working with extraordinary actors like Patricia and Andre and Frank (Wood), they bring all that richness on day one. Andre was Dean (Baquet) and made that newsroom feel like it was his newsroom. Patricia similarly has that presence, and Frank feels like someone who's worked at the New York Times for 30 years. That made it very easy for us to build that newsroom relationship quickly."
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"I thought being in the building was extraordinary," Braugher said. "That building could have potentially been recreated on a set somewhere, but it wouldn't carry that kind of psychic truth. It was where the things actually happened, as opposed to where we're pretending that they're happening, you know?"
The supporting cast was in and out briefly, with Morton having a single scene and Ehle popping up a handful of times. "I was only on set for two days," said Ehle, who played Laura Madden, the first survivor to agree to go on the record for the Times. "We didn't rehearse beforehand, but I felt a huge responsibility to Laura. I had to practice putting that aside so that I could do my job and not feel shackled by my wanting to honor her so badly."
To some degree, the entire ensemble felt that way—none more so than Clarkson, who made two movies with Weinstein. "There were so many things at play for me when I took this film, having been produced by Harvey and having suffered his bullying," she said. "I was never sexually abused by Harvey, thankfully, but I have suffered his wrath in a way that was demoralizing and impactful in my life. We've all risen out of the cesspool of Harvey, and we are all here to talk about it and tell the real story that was kept from so many of us in Hollywood by his enablers."
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For Kazan and Mulligan, neither of whom ever worked for Weinstein, the usual pressures of playing real people mixed with the sense that "She Said" was being made not for the reporters, but for the victims and the survivors. "I think that that responsibility far outweighed the responsibility that we felt to portray Jodi and Megan accurately," Kazan said. "I think we all felt that on set, from the top down. I mean, even from Donna Langley, who's the head of Universal. Talking to Donna before we started filming, I felt like, 'Oh, we all have the exact same goal in mind, and we feel the same weight of responsibility.'"
"Everyone I went to school with, all my friends at home — we all grew up in a predatory time for women," Mulligan added. "But it's also an issue that affected our mothers and grandmothers. Everyone has something in their lives that is touched by this, whether it's abuse and assault or just a feeling of being diminished by an environment where women are made to feel lesser than.
"We have grown up armed against a threat and aware that as a girl and a woman, there's a risk that's felt within every industry, and certainly within ours. That's what makes this film so universal — as Jodi says in the film, if this is happening to Hollywood actresses, who else could it be happening to?"
But the Hollywood part of the equation is central to "She Said," which is being released by an industry that until the New York Times story and the rise of the MeToo movement continued to give power to Harvey Weinstein and his ilk.
"The thing I keep coming back to in my head," Kazan said, "is that when a system is built to support a monster, everyone is implicated. You can't exist in the system without feeling some implication. And I think it's the reason that we need institutions like the New York Times to put their muscle behind people who are capable of exposing the truth."
And does she see any real change now? "Progress is incremental, and it doesn't go in a straight line," she said. "When this article came out in 2017, my knee-jerk reaction was, 'Is this going to change anything?' I felt like the answer was going to be no, and I was wrong. And one of the biggest changes is that if the same article came out today, I wouldn't have that question in my mind.
"The solution is not going to come overnight, but I think we have begun to hold people in power to account."
Read more from the Guilds & Critics/Documentary issue here.
Photographed by Jeff Vespa for TheWrap
demoralizing and impactful in my life. We've all risen outof the cesspool of Harvey, and we are all here to talk about it and tell the real story that was kept from so many of us in Hollywood by his enablers."For Kazan and Mulligan, neither of whom ever worked for Weinstein, the usual pressures of playing real people mixed with the sense that She Said was being made not for the reporters, but for the victims and the survivors. "I think that that responsibility far outweighed the responsibility that we felt to portray Jodi and Megan accurately," Kazan said. "I think we all felt that on set, from the top down. I mean, even from Donna Langley, who's the head of Universal. Talking to Donna before we started filming, I felt like, "Oh, we all have the exact same goal in mind, and we feel the same weight of responsibility."The thing I keep coming back to in my head," Kazan added, "is that when a system is built to support a monster, everyone is implicated. You can't exist in the system without feeling some implication. And I think it's the reason that we need institutions like the New York Times to put their muscle behind people who are capable of exposing the truth."


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Statistics • COVID-19 response
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This website provides a space for the global statistical community to share guidance, actions, tools and best practices to ensure the operational continuity of data programmes by National Statistical Offices, and to address issues of open and timely access to critical data needed by governments and all sectors of society to respond to the global COVID-19 crisis.
Rapid adaptation of data collection, processing and dissemination methods to ensure continuity of key statistical programmes.
Guidance and possible approaches to address managerial and IT challenges for operational continuity during the emergency situation.
Guidance and possible approaches for the production of timely data to monitor the evolution and impacts of COVID-19.
Resources to support and encourage national statistical offices and other data producers to leverage and use open data.
Initiatives and resources provided by agencies of the UN system and beyond, including the regional economic and social commissions and stakeholders from private sector, academia, and civil society.
Online webinars and twitter chats to share knowledge and experience on how the statsitical system can respond to the COVID-19 emergency.
The global COVID-19 crisis is affecting critical operations across the entire global statistical system. National and international statistical organizations need to take immediate action to ensure the continuity of key statistical compilation activities and the continued availability of data to inform emergency mitigation actions by governments and all sectors of society.
Senior management in statistical organizations are working together with their own front-line managers and IT teams, and with partners at the national and global levels, to deal with the current emergency. This includes:
Establishing new procedures and workflows, collaborating in virtual teams, and implementing secure remote data access and data exchange capabilities for staff members of National Statistical Offices, providers of data inputs and the users of statistical outputs to remain effectively linked together throughout the statistical value chain.
Adapting and innovating data production methods and processes to ensure continuity of major official statistical programmes
Addressing the increased need for data openness and accessibility to meet the urgent demand for reliable and accurate information on the spreading and impact of the virus as well as its impact on people's lives and all sectors of the economy.
Stakeholders from across the global statistical community are ready to support National Statistical Offices to address multiple challenges of the current crisis. As part of this effort, the United Nations Statistics Division is leading a collaborative effort with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and Open Data Watch, to develop this website to share guidance, best practices, information resources and tools to help statistical organizations function during an emergency situation in which most of their staff is suddenly unable to work on-site.
Rapidly innovating to produce timely data on violence against women
While we just celebrated International Women's day, we recognize that women continue to face many inequalities and challenges – including rising violence. A recent report by UN Women produced new survey data confirming the "shadow pandemic" that is violence against women (VAW). In a conversation with Jessamyn O. Encarnacion, who is the Inter-Regional Advisor on Gender Statistics at UN Women, we find more about how innovations have helped produce the numbers behind this report.
Survey on the Implementation of the Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data
In recent years and in multiple fora, governments around the world have recognized that all countries need to have accessible, timely, and reliable disaggregated data to measure progress and ensure no one is left behind in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. There is also a global consensus on the need to intensify efforts to transform statistical capacities in poorer countries.
Keeping Labour Data Flowing during COVID - What did We Learn? A Conversation with Kieran Walsh, Senior Statistician, ILO Department of Statistics about the ILO Global Survey with National Statistical Offices
The ILO Department of Statistics recently published a report on a global survey with national statistical offices on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on labour force surveys and dissemination of labour market statistics. We have the pleasure to have a conversation with Mr. Kieran Walsh for some insights about the report and how it informs the work programme of ILO in the future.
European Statistical Recovery Dashboard
In December 2020, Eurostat launched the European Statistical Recovery Dashboard, which is updated every month and contains monthly and quarterly statistical indicators relevant for tracking the economic and social recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
National statistical offices still face disruptions and challenges as they adapt to a "new normal"
When the COVID-19 pandemic first broke out, national statistical offices (NSOs) around the world acted to suspend face-to-face interviews and asked staff to work from home, even though many lacked adequate technology for remote work.
Surviving the COVID stress test: the leading experience of KOSTAT
South Korea's success in combating COVID-19 certainly has many lessons to offer to the rest of the world, so has its national statistical system. When the first shock of COVID-19 hit the country between early March to mid-April in 2020, Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) was at its busiest time preparing for a number of household surveys such as the household finances and living conditions survey and employment survey.
Ensuring continuity in survey operations while mitigating risk of COVID-19 transmission: new guidance available
The COVID-19 pandemic presented a major challenge for household survey programs, as the health risks posed by the virus and associated restrictions disrupted traditional face-to-face survey operations in many countries. According to a survey on the impact of COVID-19 on national statistical offices conducted by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the World Bank in May 2020, 96 percent of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) had partially or fully stopped face-to-face data collection.
Dealing with disruption: National statistical offices are adjusting to continued challenges as COVID-19 keeps affecting their operations
As various global restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic continue, so do disruptions to the operations of National Statistical Offices. This comes at a time when data remain key to inform evidence-based policymaking that addresses the manifold public health, economic, and social challenges countries face.
Survey of National Statistical Offices during COVID-19
The World Bank and the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), in coordination with the five UN Regional Commissions, are conducting a global online survey to assess the impact of the coronavirus crisis on statistical offices, and to identify needs for financial and technical support.
Coping with the pandemic crisis: what do national statistical offices need the most?
The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage countries across the world taking a heavy toll, with more than 25 million cases and over 750,000 deaths globally as of this writing. Most countries are still under some restrictions to limit the spread of the virus and continue to operate in emergency mode. National statistical systems also continue to face tremendous challenges as a result of the crisis at a time when data are more urgently needed than ever to inform critical interventions to save lives, restart the economy and address the long-term impact of the pandemic.
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Due to overwhelming demand (and many overachievers!) we've decided to launch weeks 3 and 4 at the same time so people can skip ahead if they want. If you're new to the program, get started with Week 1.
Hopefully you are coming out of Week 2 feeling confident with your progress, and ready to take on your Week 3 challenge. You're now at the point where you have developed a solid running base, and you are ready to work even more outside of your comfort zone.
In Week 1 we talked about setting small goals to help you stay focused as you follow your plan. Being able to run for 2 minutes without stopping, or going 10 steps farther than last time, are small things that allow you to put your endurance to the test. Consistency has been the key, and it doesn't stop here!
Your challenge in Week 3 will be running longer, recovering less, and noticing how your body responds. Make a mental note of how you feel during your workouts by asking yourself questions like, "Does my form feel strong?" and, "Is my breathing comfortable?" Answering these questions will help to focus your attention on areas that need improvement. It doesn't matter if you're beginner or advanced, there will always be area that you will want to improve before you jump into the next challenge.
(1) Try to keep a positive mindset– this will help you prepare for this week's challenge: running for double the amount of time. If you aren't able to run the full time without stopping, don't worry – slow down and adjust your form and breathing. If needed, check back in with your Week 2 exercise plan.
(2) Test out Week 3 – Day 1 by starting out with a slower pace knowing that you are going to be running twice as long. Getting a little uncomfortable is a good thing this week, you have to push yourself if you want to improve, just be cautious not to over do it.
As in previous weeks, be sure to give yourself at least 5 minutes to stretch before you hit the road. Use examples from Week 1 and Week 2. This week is especially important as the duration of your workouts are longer.
As runners, we're focused on building lung capacity, legs strength, and mental toughness, but it's important not to neglect areas like your core that can be a powerhouse for us as we start to take on longer runs and steadier paces.
For Week 3, add a 30-60 second plank to your pre- and post-workout routine. This is a great way to get warmed up and to add a little challenge to your cool down. Come into a push-up position, then lower your elbows one at a time to provide a base underneath. Envision your body in a straight line from head to toe, try not to arch your back, pull your core away from the floor and raise your hips. Take deep breaths and hold.
To approach a side plank, start in the plank position described above. Roll over to one side, bringing your top foot slightly in front of the other to provide support. Top arm is on your hip, raise your hips away from the floor and create a straight line from head to toe. Breath and hold for 30 seconds then flip to the other side.
The Week 3 running plan will have you working a little harder from your warm-up to your cool down. The total duration of your workouts are 5-7 minutes longer, and your workouts will require you to run for intervals that are double the amount of time compared to Week 2.
On Day 1, you will start with a 3 minute power walk to quickly elevate your heart rate and warm up your legs. With less recovery time, you will be able to test out your breathing techniques and endurance. Each day you will be running for 4 mins, with your recovery time varying between 1 and 2 minutes.
On Days 2 & 3, try to keep your recovery time to 1 minute. If this is not enough, try to keep it consistent with no more than 2 minutes in between each jog. Practice breathing – don't be afraid to push yourself a bit and get used to feeling a little uncomfortable. This is your turning point! It is normal to feel like your body is working harder, and this is where you can put your mental strength to the test!
Once you have completed Week 3, your running skills are becoming rock solid. When you first started your plan, you had more recovery time and shorter jogs. Now, you are jogging twice as long and cutting down on recovery time. Pacing yourself has become important in that you are aware to slow down and adjust, if needed. Stretching, breathing, core strength, and mindset are your key points of focus that will help you along your journey.
For the last three weeks, you have embarked on a true runner's journey: you have worked to strengthen your body and mind, and pushed yourself farther than your may have believed possible. Congratulations – you are just about there! You are now a runner, and with Week 4, there is no turning back. This week, you will turn the corner and enter into your final workout plan, putting your physical and mental fortitude to the test. It may not have been easy to step outside of your comfort zone these last few weeks, but you did it!
As runners, we find ourselves in a constant mental battle as we take on longer runs across more challenging routes. Here is where we put one foot in front of the other, battle the thoughts that tell us to pull back or stop, and ultimately bask in the glory of our accomplishments. We are constantly setting and smashing new goals, each run taking one more step than we thought possible, and learning to finish strong. This is the beauty of the run.
You have been working hard to create a solid running base. Now, it's time to trust in your training, trust in yourself, and put your newfound skills to the test. Week 4 will be your most challenging week by far because we're cutting down on the walk/recovery time and replacing it with longer running intervals. If you feel good about where you're at with the workouts, then it's time to take on Week 4. If not, stick with previous workouts until you are comfortable. The great thing about running is that you can take your time; there is no wrong pace, only your pace.
When you're ready to tackle Week 4, be sure to remind yourself that stretching, breathing and a positive mindset are all still very important. In fact, they are most important this week as we put all of our skills together and try to get into "the flow," that place where your mind and your body work together to achieve greatness.
Be consistent with your stretching routine, it should be done before every run. Use stretches you learned from Week 1 to prevent injury and help loosen up as you take on longer run time. See below for an additional pre/post run stretch to add to your routine.
Your Week 4 workouts all start with an easy jog, getting your heart rate and legs warmed up a bit quicker than you have in weeks 1-3. Consider your warm-up to be at a "conversational pace." This means that if you were to go out for a run with a friend, you'd be able to hold a conversation while running. This is a good way to gauge your pace, making sure you aren't starting too fast. If you feel like you aren't able to talk and jog during this warm-up, slow down into a power walk and continue with walking warm-ups until you're ready.
On Day 1 and 3, you will be jogging for 5 minutes with 2 minute power walks in between for a total of 28 minutes. Try to keep your power walks steady so you can get used to the feeling of working harder. The idea is to use the active recovery time to work on strengthening your legs and your lungs. Your total duration for Days 1 and 3 is 35 minutes.
On Day 2 and 4, you will be challenged with only 1 minute to recovery between your 5 minute jogs. These will be your most challenging days as you learn to stay steady for a period of 30 minutes. Your short recovery time will be the test of how far you've come with your endurance. Check in with yourself on these days by asking questions like, "How do my legs feel?", "Is my form strong?", "Is my breathing comfortable or labored?" Take note of how you feel each day and remember to go back to Week 3 if you aren't ready to take on the extra run time. Your total duration for Days 2 and 4 is 37 minutes which is your longest workouts thus far.
Cooldowns will consist of an easy jog at your conversational pace for 2 minutes. You will then end with a 2 minute power walk so you can learn to finish strong. Think of your cool downs as what you'd do after you crossed the finish line of a race. Instead of stopping suddenly, keep moving for a few more minutes bringing your speed and heart rate down gradually until you come to a stop.
Now is the time to reflect on your journey of the last four weeks. Your mental and physical strength is stronger than when you first started, and you've chosen to stick to a routine. Hopefully you've been able to accomplish some, if not all, of the goals you set in Week 1. Take a moment to look back on how far you've come. You've got a lot to be proud of!
With your solid training base, you are officially on your way to transforming into a stronger runner. Don't lose momentum by stopping here – try focusing on what you are capable of if you continue. Think about setting bigger goals with even steadier intervals and longer workout duration.
What do you envision for yourself in the coming weeks? Perhaps you're feeling confident enough to try out a 5k (3.1 miles) and put your training to the test! You can prepare for this by adjusting your Week 4 workout plan and adding 1 minute per week to your run time. If you feel really great, try adding two minutes, and so on. Keep the recovery time the same or cut it in half for an added challenge. Signing up for a race can help keep you accountable and on track. Search for 5k races in your area.
Going forward, keep challenging yourself and pushing your limits. You can learn to love the run, and let it take you down a path more rewarding than you ever imagined! Trust in the training and congratulate yourself on becoming a runner!


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Five Pakistani-Christian singers who were the mainstay of Lollywood's golden years – Scroll.in
Kalika Ayuna December 16, 2022 Creativity Leave a comment 0 Views
In recent years, documentary films and books have brought some long overdue limelight to the contributions of the many instrumentalists and behind-the-scenes-musicians who helped make the hits that millions of Bollywood fans have loved over the decades. Artists such as Kersi Lord, Chic Chocolate, Anthony Gonsalves and Enoch Daniels from the Goan, Parsi and other minority communities are emerging from the shadows and becoming appreciated as real personalities by mainstream fans.
Across that fateful western border, a once-vibrant and parallel film culture centred in Lahore at one time nurtured its own bevy of singers and composers who thrilled Pakistani music and movie devotees in the golden years of the 1960s and 1970s when Lollywood was at its creative zenith. Like in Mumbai, quite a few of the most popular and successful of these were from the minority Christian community. Let's get acquainted with a few of them.
Yaaro Mujhe Maaf Karo Mein Nashe Main Hun Salim Raza
From Saat Lakh
With a voice pitched somewher between Mukesh and Talat Mahmood, Salim Raza was a popular playback singer in the 1950s and early 1960s with many an evergreen hit to his credit. This song from the 1957 release Saat Lakh is the song that broke open his career. Born Noel Dias in Amritsar, his family, not unlike many people from smaller communities, were positively inclined to the proposition of the new country called Pakistan. Impressed by the secular rhetoric of Quaid-e-Azam MA Jinnah and distrustful of an Independent India dominated by high-caste Hindus, a not-insignificant number of Christians opted to migrate to or stay on in Pakistan.
Dias' family moved to Lahore where he pursued his interest in music and studied under the classical tutelage of Ustad Aashiq Hussain. From the time he started singing for Radio Lahore, his light touch voice was picked up by several film directors to sing tragic and sad songs. Getting his break in the mid-1950s in films like Qatiland Saat Lakh, Dias (who changed his name to Salim Raza at the beginning of his career) became a much-loved singer. With the advent of the great Ahmed Rushdie in the early '60s, however, Raza's voice fell out of favour and his final film credit dates to 1966 (Pali k Jhunkar). Raza migrated to Canada and passed away in 1983.
Dil Na Lagana Irene Parveen
From Insaniyaat
Irene Parveen's voice, often paired with Ahmed Rushdie, Noor Jehan or Mala, wowed Pakistani movie-goers from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. Blessed with a versatile voice that seemed to fit any sort of scene, Irene was born into a Christian family and married into another prominent Christian clan based in Peshawar. This melody was composed by the amazing M Ashraf for the 1967 hit Insaaniyat and is regarded as one of Irene's best outings. In the early 1980s, Parveen migrated to the UK where she currently lives.
Tu Jo Nahi Hai SB John
From Savera
A wonderful song with lyrics by Fayyaz Hashmi sung by the honey-voiced Sunny Benjamin John of Karachi. The song was first heard in the 1959 film Savera, which introduced John to a national audience. Critically acclaimed as one of the all time classics of Pakistani film music, John almost missed his date with destiny. He had been down with the flu and fever for several days and only went to the audition on the insistence of a friend. He apologised to the infamously moody music director Master Manzoor, "I've got a fever so won't be able to sing well," but Manzoor cut him off and told him to get on with it. After his rendition, Manzoor sat back stunned and exclaimed, "Where have you been all these years?" History was made and a new voice was discovered.
With the advent of television in the mid-1960s, John commenced singing Christian hymns and carols every Christmas Eve, a tradition that has been embraced by the country's Christian community. In 2010, John was awarded Pakistan's highest cultural award, the President's Prize of Performance, for his outstanding services to music.
Jane Se Pehle Soch Lo Itna A Nayyar
From Parwana
In the 1980s, there were no two brighter Lolly-stars then Nadeem and Babra Sharif and probably no playback voice more popular than that of A Nayyar. With over 5,000 songs credited to him, Nayyar, a member of Lahore's large Christian community, has a voice and a singing persona similar to that of Kishore Kumar: strong, very masculine and joyful. Nayyar continues to sing but on the gospel music circuit in American and European churches.
Pee Ke Zara Dekho Robin Ghosh
From Miss Hippy
This clip from a Pakistani remake of Hare Rama Hare Krishna and its smash hit Dum Maro Dum is a brilliant tour de force of imagined altered states set amidst odd pink lighting in a scene that unfolds around a campfire in a cave and a posh living room at the same time. The scene's wild, drug-influenced orgy of dance and song must have surely been of the sort prominent in the minds of "conservative elements" when they clamped down on such nonsense after the hanging of ZA Bhutto in the late 1970s.
The music sways and cruises along with flourishes of Mexicali trumpets, strings that get orchestrated into a swirling frenzy, punchy organ chords and dramatic rat-a-tat guitar interjections. This is the wonderful work of the giant Christian Bengali music director Robin Ghosh. Ghosh lives quietly with his wife, famous former Lollywood starlet, Shabnam, in Dhaka.
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