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London children as young as 4-years-old forced to squeeze through miles of pitch-black, claustrophobic, suffocating 7-inch chimney flues (1800's).
// March 12th, 2019 // People in Unusual Circumstances
The child had no choice. Sold as cheap labor by poverty-stricken parents with too many mouths to feed, they were between 4 and 8 years of age, too young to defend themselves or flee their owner and live on their own. Unfortunately, they were just the right size to squeeze into narrow, pitch black, claustrophobic, suffocatingly-hellish 7-inch chimney flues.
The dangers child chimney sweeps faced
In early 1800 England, immediately after the Industrial Revolution and during the Victorian Era, child chimney sweeps faced a hellish task. They were lowered into narrow chimneys by their owner and forced to clean soot, grime, and creosote from the chimney flue. Falling or being burnt to death was always a possibility but worse, if they lost their way in the complex chimney system or got stuck in bends or twists, they suffocated and died. Child chimney sweeps seldom lived to middle age.
The Great Fire of London in September 1666 gutted half the city and forced a change in building regulations, fire codes, and construction technique. Since buildings were taxed based on the number of chimney stacks, flues were combined into one chimney top. New buildings were built with miles of much smaller chimney flues, some as small as 7-inches, snaking throughout (the smaller flues created better draft for the fire). From room to room, floor to floor, chimney systems twisted, turned, merged, and branched in all directions, exiting the building through a dense cluster of pipes and stacks on the roof. Cleaning this complex system of pipes was not just required by law, the maze of twists and turns gathered soot, ash, and creosote much more quickly than straight chimneys, clogging the flue and creating poisonous gases that could kill residents. Sadly, only very small children could fit into the narrow chimney flues.
Children as young as 4 years old were used to clean the chimney flues (5 or 6-years-old was considered the optimal age but only if the child was small). They carried with them a blanket for collecting soot (valuable for resale as garden dust), a scraper pole for scrubbing hardened creosote, and a chimney sweep brush, often made from straw. From the bottom of the chimney, they would shimmy up the dark and winding flue by drawing up their legs and pressing their knees into the brick. If the opening were too narrow, the child would remove his clothes and "buff it" or climb the chimney in the nude. Held in place by the pressure against their knees, elbows, ankles, and back, they would scrub and scrape soot from the chimney surface above, crawling up foot-by-foot until they reached a twist or branch in the chimney. Then they would work through the turn taking great care to remember the path they had taken. When they reached the top, they had to work their way back down – backwards. Getting lost in the complex system of chimney was a deadly mistake.
One writer described the scene:
"If the apprentice climbed the whole chimney, cleaning it from hearth to rooftop, and exited a row of chimneys, he could forget which chimney he came out of. When that happened, he could go back down the wrong one, or go down the right chimney, but make a wrong turn at some merging of the flues. Children could suffocate or burn to death by getting lost on the way down, and accidentally entering the wrong chimney flue."
If a child became stuck in the chimney, another child would be sent down to assist. Often both children died as a result.
Of course, the child's health suffered greatly. Their eyelids were typically red and swollen. Some went blind from the abrasive powder. They often developed distorted spines and backs because of the pressure and unnatural position they held inside the chimney. Their knees and ankle joints were often damaged and their growth stunted. Lung disease and cancer was all but guaranteed.
Outlawing the practice of child chimney sweeps
Several attempts were made to outlaw the practice. A bill was passed in 1788 but was rarely enforced. The Chimney Sweepers Act of 1834 prohibited "masters" from taking boys younger than 14. The Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Act of 1840 made it illegal to hire anyone under the age of 21. But the money was too good and master chimney sweeps simply ignored the laws.
The practice finally ended in 1875, after the death of George Brewster. The child became stuck in a chimney inside Fullbourn Hospital and suffocated. As a result, entire walls were torn down to find and remove the child's body. Media covered the case and public outrage led to the conviction of Brewster's owner, William Wyer, of manslaughter. Finally, a bill being pushed through Parliament in September 1875 outlawing the practice of using children as human chimney sweeps. The penalties for violation were severe and the practice ended for the last time.
How a bad situation grew worse
Modern-day readers find it difficult to imagine how such a practice could ever start. In fact, it resulted from an attempt to save children's lives. Victorian England was overcrowded, and work was scarce. Children were often employed in factories to help families survive. A study of three workhouses revealed an astounding finding. In one workhouse, 68 out of 76 children died within a year. In a second house, 16 out of 18 died in their first year of work. In a third, for 14 years in a row, no children survived in the factory for longer than a year.
This finding forced Parliament to promote a study of child life in Victorian England. The study produced another astounding find. Orphanages were full of children placed there by poverty-stricken parents who could not afford to support them. In these orphanages, it was found that 93 out of every 100 children died their first year in an orphanage.
As a result of these findings, Parliament passed a law prohibiting children from being kept in a workhouse or orphanage for longer than 3 weeks. This forced many children onto the streets where they were snatched up by uncaring business men for cheap labor or back into the hands of poor parents who were then forced to either "sell" their children as workers or watch them starve to death.
How did a child fit in a 7-inch flue?
Chimney flues ranged in size from 7-inches to 14-inches. They were typically square or rectangular. A child could fit into a smaller 7-inch flue by squeezing his shoulders into the corners. One writer described the process:
"Some chimneys could even be as small as 7″, and only the very smallest children were used to clean those chimney flues. The chimneys were square or rectangular, and the child could maneuver his shoulders into the corners, which allowed for crawling up some surprisingly small chimneys.
The child worked his way up the chimney, holding his soot brush in his right hand above his head, and using mainly his elbows, knees, ankles and back, like a caterpillar. He often had a metal scraper in the other hand to scrape away the hard creosote deposits that stuck to the chimney walls."
How did a child's elbows and knees survive the abrasive brick surface?
The child moved about the chimney by bracing his body with elbows and knees pressed against the rough, brick surface. Long sleeves and pants did not help because they simply tore away after a few feet of climbing. To toughen the child's skin, their elbows and knees were often "hardened". The master chimney sweep did this by placing the child by a hot fire and scrubbing their elbows and knees with a rough brushed soaked in brine. The process was repeated until the scraped and burned skin hardened into crisp, rigid shell.
How did a child suffocate inside a chimney flue?
Children died in the chimneys in one of two ways. If a chimney became too dirty, the flue would contain smoking and burning embers. Even though the master sweep would stand on the roof and pour a bucket of water into the flue if the child cried out, sometimes fires would break out inside the flue and burn the child to death.
More common however, was suffocation. The child would brace themselves with their butt and back pressed against one side of the flue and the legs bent upwards to brace a knee against the brick. However, if the child slipped, the butt and back would slide down and the knees upward, pressed against the child's chest. In these instances, the child found themselves wedged inside the flue. The more they struggled, the deeper they sank until the compression was so tight, they could neither cry out nor breathe.
What if a child refused to cooperate?
The children of course, understood the dangers involved. Many first-time children would be forced into the chimney by the master sweeper, sometimes simply dropped in. They either caught themselves or found themselves wedged in the tight area. They often froze in place, refusing to climb back out because they knew they would be beaten by their owner. The owner would then light a fire in the fireplace and "smoke" the child out.
Sir Percival Pott, commenting on apprentice chimney sweeps, 1776
"The fate of these people seems peculiarly hard…they are treated with great brutality.. they are thrust up narrow and sometimes hot chimnies, [sic] where they are bruised burned and almost suffocated; and when they get to puberty they become … liable to a most noisome, painful and fatal disease."
A child chimney sweep recalls his experience
The following is from a written manuscript by child chimney sweep Gottardo Cavalli.
I often explain what it means to be a chimney sweep. A lot of young people don't believe me, but others do and a friend advised me to describe the life in detail. I have therefore decided to write everything down because these two years were full of stories, hardship, fear, hope, hunger. Writing is not difficult for me. I'm not an author but I don't have to invent a story. Everything is true – I don't have to make anything up because these memories permeate my being.
…I was the last from my village to do this work; only two years, but that was enough to be able to describe the life and the physical suffering of these poor beings who had to crawl like moles inside every hole of the chimney, the boiler of the steam engines, the smokestacks, and who were so badly fed they were always begging for a piece of bread to still their hunger. They were poorly dressed and had to sleep in stalls on the straw or in the hay.
The cold was the worst enemy. We could only keep warm if we all pressed together and covered ourselves with the three or four sacks we used to transport the soot.
…We entered a house and my master adjusted my clothes. My jacket was a barracan (a heavy, black overcoat) without pockets which had to be tucked inside the trousers so that when the belt was tightened it could not pull up when coming down the chimney. A linen hood protected my head from soot and was fastened beneath my chin. I carried the rasp in one hand and the broom in the other.
…No one can imagine what it's like to be trapped in a completely dark hole, having to work your way up with your elbows and knees, 10 to 20 centimetres at a time.
…The narrower the chimney, the more you had the feeling of suffocating. All of the soot fell on top of you, and you couldn't go down because that's where your master was.
…Out of one house and into another without anything to eat. You got used to asking for a piece of bread in each dwelling. It became a necessity. When we were no longer hungry, we asked for a glass of wine to wash down the soot. We acted as if we would drink it but we would leave the glass on the table for our master who would come by to pick up the soot.
…In the afternoon of the next day [Sunday], I wandered with my companions through the town…always followed by the curious stares of the children and their mothers, who would warn them, "be good or the chimney sweep will get you!".
On Christmas and New Year's Day we didn't eat any polenta…since we were, as was the custom, invited to the house of a count or rich person…we weren't allowed to wash our faces since we were said to bring luck. We had to sit at a table with a white tablecloth where all of the food was laid out…but no one said they understood us or our misery. The piece of bread or bowl of soup we received from the poor were worth a lot more since these people gave with their hearts, and didn't ask for anything in return. But the rich expected us to bring them luck and who knows what else.
…We began the long journeys by foot in late January. We didn't return to the town, but slept where we were – in stalls or on hay when we were lucky.
…From farm to farm, village to village, always the same. Our worst enemy was the cold. I only saw the snow once in those two years but fog and hoar frost were at home there…it was a damp cold that you felt through to your bones.
Still today, 50 years later, I still dream that I'm in a narrow, dark and dusty gallery with my head wrapped in a sack. I feel like I'm suffocating and wake up. […]"
Sources: CT Sweep, Wikipedia, Ranker, My Chimney, Victorian Children, Swiss Info, Chimney Solutions
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White | Ready, but will keep | Bodegas Toro Albala | Code: 22627 | 1946 | Spain > Toro | Pedro Ximénez | Medium Bodied, Sweet | 18.0 % alcohol
The 1946 Don PX Convento Seleccion produced with Pedro Ximenez grapes dehydrated under the sun at the time of the Second World War, was only bottled in September 2011. This is an extreme wine, my first descriptor was ultra-mega-super concentrated. It is unbelievably powerful, both in the nose and the palate, full of umami, with sweet cinnamon, Christmas cake, camphor, petrol, lemongrass, Belgian chocolate and butter. Incredibly complex and rich, sweet, balanced and smooth in the palate, it is both very sweet and somehow salty, and with time it develops a black olive note. It combines the texture of the 1962 and the elegance of the 1949. It is as decadent as it gets. 825 bottles were produced. This wine will survive all of us. These wines are kept for generations and offered in very small quantities, but it's amazing that you can still buy and drink something so old, and I'm even tempted to say that it might represent good value for what it is. A real tour de force sweet wine. Drink it if you ever have the privilege to do so from 2013-2060.
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The Wine Advocate - The 1946 Don PX Convento Seleccion produced with Pedro Ximenez grapes dehydrated under the sun at the time of the Second World War, was only bottled in September 2011. This is an extreme wine, my first descriptor was ultra-mega-super concentrated. It is unbelievably powerful, both in the nose and the palate, full of umami, with sweet cinnamon, Christmas cake, camphor, petrol, lemongrass, Belgian chocolate and butter. Incredibly complex and rich, sweet, balanced and smooth in the palate, it is both very sweet and somehow salty, and with time it develops a black olive note. It combines the texture of the 1962 and the elegance of the 1949. It is as decadent as it gets. 825 bottles were produced. This wine will survive all of us. These wines are kept for generations and offered in very small quantities, but its amazing that you can still buy and drink something so old, and Im even tempted to say that it might represent good value for what it is. A real tour de force sweet wine. Drink it if you ever have the privilege to do so from 2013-2060.
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And now I receive in crashlytics many crashes (this happens only for users from Europe, that's why I published and didn't notice on my own devices):
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Times Higher Education World University Rankings: why do we care?
By Nattavud Pimpa - posted Monday, 17 October 2011 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
The Times Higher Education (THE) World University has recently announced the World's top 400 Universities. American Ivy leagues and traditional British Universities are among the top 10, as one can predict. The World's top University for 2011-12 is California Institute of Technology, followed by Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and Princeton Universities.
Universities from Asia have improved their performances from the previous rankings. Nine Universities from Asia, mainly from Japan, Korea and China, are listed in the World's top 100 Universities. They include University of Tokyo (30), University of Hong Kong (34), National University of Singapore (40), Peking University (49), Kyoto University (52), Pohang University of Science and Technology (53), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (62), Tsinghua University (71), and Korea advanced Institute of Science and Technology (94). Only one University from South East Asia, National University of Singapore (40), has been placed among top 100 Universities.
Compared to most OECD countries, Australia has been performing very well in the ranking system. According to the 2011-12 THE, the University of Melbourne (37), Australian National University (38), the University of Sydney (58), and the University of Queensland (74) have progressed to the World's top 100 Universities. Some of our non-traditional Universities, such as Charles Darwin University, Flinders University or Swinburne University of Technology, have made it to top 400.
What are the implications of the THE University rankings to Australia?
We can interpret the consequences of the THE rankings in our higher education system in various facets. We understand from THE, that they rank world Universities by investigating the learning environment (30%), volume, income and reputation (30%), research influence (30%), innovation (2.5%) and staff, student and research (7.5%). In reality, all Universities are created in different socio-political and academic contexts. One of the classic arguments is the size of economy and its relationship with higher education system. For instance, THE looks at public and industry research income. However, indicators of public and industry research income as proportions of total research income are not sufficiently appreciative of how the size of one's national economy influences results. In this regard, they tend to advantage Western economic models and their higher education systems, and concurrently disadvantage more nations and developmentally oriented models.
Australian Universities may perform well, due to a number of reasons.
One is the push from the federal Government on research performance. In the last 24 months, Australian academics were bombarded by the idea of the excellence in Research for Australia initiative (ERA), which adopted a combination of indicators and expert review by committees. In February 2011, an analysis of the government's ERA report (conducted by The Australian newspaper) found that only 12 universities were performing research at or above international standard, with the top four performing at a rate that could be considered well above international standard. Academics are trained to aim for better research performance and it has become culture in (almost) all Australian Universities.
Ranking of Journal and publications, hence, were created to make sure that key research outputs were published in the top (A* or A) journals in each discipline. Resources were spent to make sure that your research findings are disseminated in the top rank outlets. For some academics, research has become their top priority because it can ensure the quality of their scholarships. Questions such as "how do you plan to publish in Nature?" or "Have you published in Journal ofcommon issue for discussion among Australian academics. From 2008-2011, all academic conferences I have attended (mostly are in business and management discipline) includes, at least, one session on meeting with the editorial members of Journal of XYZ.
Some academics argue that, because of the strong demand for research and publication, other forms of academic contributions, such as teaching or community services, may have been taken for granted. The university has always been an intellectual community and a forum for discussion and debate. Within the university there are many reservoirs of knowledge to which society at large can have recourse; but it has also been a centre for individuals who have changed society's perceptions. Not all of its goals are known in advance, and the ongoing ferment is one of its essential characteristic. Clearly, the ranking may not be able to capture some of these aspects.
When we explore the THE rankings, we may assume that traditional universities from the US and the UK tend to perform better than their rivals in Asia, Australia Africa or South America, especially when we explore 'reputation' of the institution. In previous years, it was reported that the THE rankings rely on reputational surveys, which involve polling academics about which universities they think are the best in a given field. Hence, it may be meaningless for most academics.
Some argue that these assessments often use too few academics, who may not be well informed about all the universities they are being asked to judge the quality and reputation of the University, and that there is a bias towards English-speaking countries, particularly those from the traditional UK and American systems.
Some academics may argue against the methodology and validity of the ranking system. The clear dilemma of the university rankings system, despite its diversity, is that its core agenda is to develop systems or indicators drawn from one reality, and get them to speak to diverse academic contexts across culture. Australian academic contexts are clearly different from those in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Therefore, our strong performance may be valid or invalid in the global academic culture. The standard uniform of rankings system may promote the homogenization of academic culture, which is not desirable in education.
Of special concern are the aspects of the method which deal with the difficult-to-measure concept of institutional reputation and research influence. Some academics may choose to ignore the ranking. We, however, must admit that THE is one of the highly regarded publications. Its influence is worldwide. Most governments, academic institutions, research funding bodies and students look at them to judge the quality of the universities.
Because of its influence in the international education market, international governments, students and parents will continue to seek out the best institution and continue to consult the wide variety of available university rankings. Leaders in the Australian higher education system must understand the controversy and rules involved in university rankings. It will help Australian universities to improve their academic performance in the future.
Dr Nattavud Pimoa is an Associate Professor in international business at the School of Management, RMIT University.
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Driving I-5 south from Los Angeles to Oceanside, near the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, there is this place you can pull off and park where people go to feed the squirrels. Of course you aren't supposed to feed the squirrels and there are signs discouraging it, but I don't think it is possible to stop it. The cuteness factor and the desire to have little fuzzy things come up to you and eat out of your hand is just too much. For the record we did not feed the squirrels, but I couldn't help taking photographs.
Squirrels everywhere and some of them way too fat.
Lots of food stealing, or attempts to steal food, going on.
Bring some lawn chairs and a picnic lunch - free entertainment for the whole family!


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Mountains provide vital resources to a significant proportion of the global population, particularly as the "water towers" of the world, and as a result of their high biological diversity at genetic, species and ecosystem levels. Given the immense threats to mountain systems posed by climate change, sensitive management of ecosystems can help promote climate change adaptation.
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Gage Gubrud leads the pack so far for Eagles
Tue., Aug. 16, 2016
Eastern Washington quarterback Gage Gubrud is the front-runner - so far. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)
By Jim Allen jima@spokesman.com(509) 459-5437
Quarterback Gage Gubrud was the first one out of the Eastern Washington lockerroom Monday morning.
All the better to stay ahead of the pack.
"Actually, I'm just trying to get better every day and make every minute count," Gubrud said.
Then again, so are Reilly Hennessey and Jordan West, who were on Gubrud's heels a few seconds later. In fact, they figure to be right behind him all the way to the season opener at Washington State on Sept. 3.
The Eagles are no strangers to quarterback controversies. Four years ago, coach Beau Baldwin juggled the varied talents of Kyle Padron and Vernon Adams Jr. all the way to a Big Sky Conference title and within three points of a berth in the national title game.
However, this year's three-headed affair has Eagle fans looking on with keen interest. They'll get an up-close look during Saturday's scrimmage at Roos Field, which coach Beau Baldwin promises to "pit the best against the best."
At the same time, Baldwin said the scrimmage "won't be the sole determinant" of the starter on Sept. 3. As Baldwin has said since the end of spring, Gubrud would start if the season began today.
But the WSU game is 17 days away, leaving the door ajar for West and Hennessey. In fact, the current depth chart lists all three as equals.
"Every day they continue to compete," Baldwin said. "We're going with the player who gives us the best chance to win. We can win games with any one of those guys, and I've had that situation very seldom."
The situation has changed dramatically in less than a year. West took the reins last fall following the early departure of Adams, and for almost half of the season was one of the top-rated quarterbacks in the Football Championship Subdivision.
However, the Eagle offense stagnated late in the season, culminating in the 57-16 disaster at Montana in which all three saw action.
The competition was rejoined last spring. Gubrud, a 6-foot-2, 195-pound redshirt sophomore from McMinnville, Oregon, moved to the fore because of his mobility. Indeed, Gubrud's speed seemed to keep the Eagle defense off-balance on many occasions.
However, Gubrud lacks game experience. His stat line last year: 7-for-13 for 66 yards. That's one reason he's getting most of the first-unit reps at practice.
"I'm getting a good command of what's going on," said Gubrud, who admits that he still needs to work on staying put in the pocket.
"It's always good to get more reps, but it's second-nature now … I don't have to think as much," Gubrud said.
That's partly attributable to the streamlined system installed last spring by Baldwin and new passing game coordinator Troy Taylor.
Says Baldwin: "It's less about what we're doing and more about how we operate between plays that takes things off the QB and allows him to do less communication."
For Hennessey, that means more time on fundamentals and "using good technique and being good with our eys and quick with our feet."
Hennessey, a 6-3, 200-pound sophomore from Camas, Washington, showed promise in relief of West in the season-opening loss at Oregon.
However, an ankle injury the next week at Northern Iowa cost him half the season. He finished 59-for-91 for 773 yards, four TDs and three picks.
Meanwhile, West is trying to reclaim the spot he held a year ago. His final stats (230-for-356, for 3,002 yards, 30 TDs and just eight picks), were impressive, but opposing defenses seemed to confuse West late in the season: he was 39 for 84 in his last three games and didn't play in the season-ending loss to Portland State.
West, a 6-4 senior from Maple Valley, Washington, got the message from watching Gubrud. He lost 10 pounds in the off-season and said he's more mobile than ever.
Notes: EWU will practice beginning Wednesday at Roos Field. Saturday's scrimmage will begin at about 9:45 a.m.
Published: Aug. 16, 2016, 9:59 p.m.
Tags: beau baldwin, eastern washington football, ewu football, gage gubrud, jordan west, reilly hennessey
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Gene: Your dad keeps a diary?
'''Gene''': Oh Ok. So do your dad go school or what.
Tony: Rhodey, Rhodey! If you're mad at me. We can just talk it out.
Tony: That's the one that I'm going to say Rhodey.
Soldier: Look! Just shut up okay?
Tony: Sorry! I'm just saying that energy right by your brain can't be good. You get headaches?
Rhodey: I'll pilot the armor back...after you say it. Say it!
'''Rhodey''' That is right, I am a hero.
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Tony: Yeah, next time I want to be rescued by cottonball man.
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Tony: It's not fair, there's no way my dad would know that Stane would turn his company evil, that his work would end up on the streets.
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Hsiang-Yun Huang worked at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab in 2018. Before working in the lab, she went to the Netherlands for her Master's in Media Studies: Film and Photographic Studies at Leiden University which she graduated with thesis "The Treatment of Time in Cinema: A Case Study of Cinema of Long Take, Tsai-Ming Liang's Stray Dogs (2013) and What Time Is It There? (2001)" employing a Deleuzian framework. She is active in areas of poetry, photography, filmmaking and contemporary performance. Notable projects she has directed include The Time is Out of Joint, a video art piece that translates the concept of Derrida's notion of self and non-linear temporality into a story. Other projects she has worked on include Moving Landscape, an interdisciplinary performance that brings together a circus artist, performance artist, dancers and a violinist, exploring how to use translation as an artistic method. In 2018 she published her first collection of poems, entitled The Duration of Raining and is currently turning them into experimental films.


Psalm 78:5-7 For he issued his laws to Jacob; he gave his instructions to Israel. He commanded our ancestors to teach them to their children, so the next generation might know them— even the children not yet born— and they in turn will teach their own children. So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands.
When I look into the sweetest face on the planet ~~ my heart absolutely melts! I thank my God for her daily. And as she grabs hold of her Lōlie so tightly, I am reminded of this Scripture verse. How can I not teach my baby girl about the love of her God?
It's too easy to get caught up in "creating the perfect image." That's typical of our late 20's, and throughout our 30's and 40's. We erroneously think that there is that "perfect profile" (if I may use a social media reference) ~~ and to keep it up, we update our "status" regularly (just in case someone is looking). But when we stop to reflect (sometimes it takes a good friend to help us come to a grinding halt) on all this busyness ~~ we've spent a HUGE amount of our life trying to make an impression. An impression that no one really cares about. An impression that really doesn't matter.
After 25 years of "making an invisible impression," we suddenly come to our senses. By this time, we've entered what the world calls "middle age" ( I call it halfway to Heaven). And it hits us on the head like a rock!
How much of this precious and irreconcilable time have we invested into declaring to our next generation the wonderous works of God? Can they claim that they have heard personal accounts from us ~~ of His countless moments of blessing us, rescuing us, healing us, Leading and guiding us ~~ can our own children actually say that they know God is the center of our lives?
Do they see evidence of God in us?
I may not leave an enormous wealth of material goods or a millionaire's bank account for my grandchildren. But I do want to leave them a legacy of my Savior.
When it's all said and done ~~ and the day comes for them to lay my body to rest ~~ I want for my children and grandchildren to be able to claim without a doubt, that they know and embrace the God that loves and created them. And to depend upon Him for their every need.
As we look interest the eyes of our children, Girlfriend, I pray that we will see not only our own eyes, but the eyes of God and His Love.
So that the generations not yet born will set their hope anew upon Him!


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Jennifer Smart Foundation
Helping Kids and Teens Find a Voice
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Jennifer Smart broadcasting live from the Consumer Electronics Show in 2005
In 2009, then 13-year-old Jennifer Smart established the Jennifer Smart Foundation to help kids and the things they care about. From a young age, Jennifer had always split her allowance and gift money three ways – spend, save, and donate. After beginning in radio at 6, she wanted to take her experience as a broadcaster and use it to encourage others to give back.
Initially, the mission of the foundation was to assist organizations and raise awareness of issues regarding kids health & education, animals, and the environment, through information and entertainment services.
In 2010, the foundation purchased KALY AM 1240 in Albuquerque from the Walt Disney Company. Jennifer used this platform to air her 24/7 radio format, JENNiRADIO, spreading positive messages with family-friendly music and other entertainment.
While in Albuquerque, Jen and team developed the Find Your Voice program, which helps sick, healthy and disadvantaged kids and teens improve communication skills and increase self esteem.
As the team began working directly with kids, encouraging them to share their individual personalities and the things that were important to them, we quickly realized that each and every one of them had a passion for something different, and supported a wide variety of causes. While still providing some direction to those who were figuring out the important things in their lives, we encouraged kids to share their own experiences with charities and causes, rather than trying to direct them to a group of organizations we'd come up with.
In 2015, the foundation launched KJNI-LP 101.7 FM in Southern California, bringing family-friendly music and entertainment to the Inland Empire. As JENNiRADIO's new flagship station (replacing Albuquerque's KALY), this channel airs what we call family hits, which is mostly pop, with a sprinkling of other genres like country, rock, alternative, hip hop, 80s and TV & movie hits. We strive to provide family-friendly music, which means these may be slightly edited versions of songs you might hear from other outlets. Our goal is to provide music that is enjoyed by the whole family, that parents will continue listening to, even when the kids aren't in the car. KJNi-LP 101.7 FM is available on local terrestrial radio 24 hours a day. The JENNiRADIO format can also be heard worldwide at JENNiRADIO.com and through the free JENNiRADIO iOS app, available from the Apple App Store.
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In 2016 we built the Find Your Voice Center in the Outlets at Lake Elsinore, and opened our doors with the location's first Find Your Voice radio workshop in November of that year. While the radio workshop is our most popular one, we continue to add new topics and fun events at the Find Your Voice Center.
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Recent highlights at the Find Your Voice Center include an appearance by actress/singer/dancer Alyson Stoner in early 2018, who hosted dance classes and a Q&A and lunch for participants. Also in 2018, we introduced the Interview Like the Pros 2-day workshop, which includes one classroom day and one lab, where kids get hands-on experience interviewing celebrities in a variety of situations.
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Billionaire and the Sisters Ch. 39
A note to readers: This is a long story that unfolds chapter by chapter through the eyes of two protagonists — Mark and Elsa, and as in many of my other stories involves a growing spate of horny characters. Every ten chapters or so I will provide a short summary at the start of that episode to bring new readers up to date (see start of Ch. 30). This story could appear in a number of genres (Loving Wives, Incest, Lesbian, Fetish, and more) depending on the chapter, but the overall theme is Group, so I have applied this moniker to all chapters. The story is still being written, yet I intend to post a new chapter every couple of days. Enjoy.
Chapter 39 — Stalker Strikes Again. Pam Has The Experience
I stood in my study with Lucas, Elsa, Cindy, Sheila, and Don.
Elsa spoke. "I think it videoed Don and me making love. James and Sheila were on the patio too. We could also see inside into the living room; there were two couples in there too. Everyone else was either in a bedroom or the TV room."
Cindy asked, "Newspapers? Paparazzi?"
Lucas shook his head. "I doubt it. The penalties for collecting news and gossip this way on individuals, even celebrities, is fraught with legal problems and some huge lawsuits against the media. They know better. I think this was private. I think this may be our stalker."
Don asked, "How expensive are these things?"
Lucas nodded towards, the device. A piece of black electrical tape had been placed over the camera lens, and the OFF switch had been used. "This model is around four thousand dollars. It's top of the line before you get into media, military, and police equipment. This takes very high resolution pictures and movies, plus the battery pack is sophisticated and probably allows up to thirty to sixty minutes of operation before needing replacement or recharging. I'd say this can be controlled from a good distance away too — several hundred yards, and maybe even a mile."
"What do we know about where it was steered from?"
Lucas said, "Nothing. Three of my men went down to the street, but I think the odds of finding anything are low."
I said, "He'll be pissed that we stopped his fun and captured his toy."
Lucas nodded, "I'm counting on it. Pissed off people make mistakes."
Don asked, "What about the police?"
"I'm about to talk to one of my friends over there as soon as we break up this meeting," Lucas informed us. "I'm going to talk to them about the eggs too. We're seeing a pattern of harassment and stalking. The bomb was only the first of what may be many items. For all we know, maybe our man wanted us to catch his drone."
I waved my hand, ending the meeting. There wasn't anything further we could do.
I turned to most of us and said, "Back to the party … and damn, I was about to have a very nice climax when I was so rudely interrupted."
After some teasing and laughter we went and told the others what we knew, and that the threat was over. Lucas made another sweep of the patio and surrounding buildings, but saw nothing and heard nothing else flying around over three hundred feet above the street level. There were no more drones.
I collected Margo again, and we headed back to the master bedroom. As we went by the door of the guest room, I glanced in.
Elsa's friend Pam was in a wild fuck session with Ryan and Mike. Ryan was fucking her missionary style as Mike fed her his long schlong from a kneeling position near her head. She was making very happy sounds. A closer examination revealed that she already had at least one load of cum in her cunt that Ryan what squashing around as he fucked her — sloppy seconds. She was sexy and I decided I wanted to be with her later if she were up for some more indiscriminate sex.
Sean and Melanie were in the large bed off to one side. She gave me a broad smile, but kept right on riding Sean who had momentarily looked worried that I might get possessive or something with one of my girlfriends. I'd heard him getting an education about our lifestyle earlier in the night, so he knew that Mel was one of my 'wives.'
Margo lay right down and spread her legs in invitation. I was already hard, so I plunged right into her pussy, picking up from where we'd left off a half-hour earlier. Just as we reached critical speed, I heard Sean cum in Mel's sweet pussy. She'd apparently crested too from the little squeaky sounds she made.
The four of us lay there; two couples six feet apart, naked, with cocks in drippy pussies. If there was any embarrassment, I didn't feel it.
After our breathing returned to normal, I offered up our large walk-in shower to everyone. The four of us went in and washed off.
As we were drying off, I asked Sean, "Errr, this may be awkward, but I was attracted to Pam. Would it be OK if …"
Sean grinned, "Oh, hell, yes. Please do her — have sex with her. Do anything she wants and more. This evening is a huge experiment for us. Except for Elsa, we've never ankara bayan escortlar been with other partners. I saw her with a couple of men and she was having a ball. I want her to have this experience so she can see if she wants to keeping doing things like this. I am hoping that she does."
A few minutes later, I found Pam stretched out on the bed in the guest room receiving a back massage from Mike. I winked at him, and took over the massage. He and Ryan gave me a big smile and left the room for other activities.
Pam started to come out of her orgasmic coma. "Oh, God, that feels so good. I'll give you all year to stop."
I said in a sexy tone, "The only reason I'll stop is because I want to fuck you."
Pam turned and saw who was massaging her. "Oh, Mark. You … you really want me? Is it OK to call you Mark." She seemed kind of embarrassed.
"Please do. I do want you; you're sexy and hot, beautiful, and Elsa told me about how smart you are as well as how innocent."
Pam sat up and then kissed me hard, driving her tongue into my mouth. "You're hot too. I like you."
I fondled Pam's erogenous zones, driving her back up the horniness scale until she was panting and asking for me to fuck her. She admitted, "This is the first sex party I've ever been to. If you do this often, I hope you'll keep inviting us. I love fucking new and different people. I never want to leave. I hope this goes on and on."
I smiled, "Well, let me give you something to help remember us by … an orgasm of sorts; the kind I hope you'll remember for a long time in a very nice way."
I fingered Pam's tight cunt, and then added a second and third finger. Pam was holding onto me as she ground her pussy into my right hand. I don't think she knew when my fourth finger joined my hand, but when my thumb did and I worked my hand inside her so I could fist her, she knew and pleaded with me to be nice to her. Pam was wet with a couple of loads of cum in her, so sliding in and moving around was an easy task.
"I will not only be nice to you, I will be the nicest anybody has ever been to you."
I allowed the ridged part on the back of my hand to massage her G-spot. Pam crested and came, and then a minute later, did it again. So far so good.
As Pam extolled my virtues for giving her two exceptionally satisfying back-to-back orgasms, I searched for the pleasure spot deeper in her body. When I touched her magic A-spot, Pam's eyes flared and she moaned in pleasure. I locked in on that position, and started to massage the crease near her cervix with my fingertips.
Pam moaned and writhed as I worked on her A-spot. She got vocal about how nice it felt … and then how 'fucking' nice it felt … and then how it was the best she'd ever felt. She started to breath really hard, taking large gulps of air more and more frequently.
Pam's body responded like a textbook case to The Experience. She slowly started to bow upwards between shoulders and feet pushing into my hand, forming a rainbow arch of horny woman whose crotch wanted even deeper penetration and stimulation from what I was doing to her. She pushed harder and harder into my hand and those magic fingers I was using. I lapped at her clit, and used my other hand on it and other erogenous zones. She was stimulating her own nipples.
Pam's breathing changed from heavy breathing to gasping for air, and I felt her entire vaginal cavern start to pulse. She was starting her orgasm — her Big O. I reached up and pinched each erect nipple hard, knowing her body would translate that sudden surge of pain into spikes of perceived pleasure. My free hand stroked her body. I slapped her pussy, right on her clit, and then went under her arch where I drove two fingers into Pam's ass just as she crested.
"OH, HOLY FUCK. I HAVE BEEN MISSING THIS … ALL MY LIFE. FUCK Mmmm …!"
Pam's words were cut short as she passed out and her body collapsed onto the bed in an unruly pile. Her pussy continued to spasm around my hand. I eventually extracted my hand and licked the myriad of taste sensations from it — not bad giving that I knew Mike and Ryan were mixed in there somewhere. Pam's pussy and pubic hair were now a sodden mess of fluids, mostly from Pam herself.
I held Pam and kissed her as she came awake. She turned and moaned in my arms, "Oh, Mark. I love you. I love you. I love you. I mean that from the bottom of my heart."
I told Pam she was special and that I hoped she liked The Experience. She waxed eloquent about what I'd just done to her … comparing the pleasure to all the pleasures she'd ever had all added together and then multiplied by millions. Her body was still twitching and writhing in pleasures from her greatest orgasm ever.
She sat up slightly so we could kiss, and her kisses were some of the most passionate I'd ever experienced. Pam and I made love after that. She was extremely amorous and wanted me to be sure I knew that what she felt was love and not just wanton sex ankara seksi escortlar and lust. I allowed as how either or both were fine.
Carter came by the room and lit up when he saw Pam and I were finished. I gestured him in and made sure Pam knew she was in good hands as I left for some liquid refreshment in the kitchen. I brought Pam back a bottle of water and got a beautiful loving smile of thanks. She knew I cared about her and basked in that apparent love.
"I heard you give Pam The Experience." She laughed, "The whole county heard you give Pam The Experience. She was sure vocal."
Mark laughed, "She was, but then you've done the same thing."
"Sean said that you were all she could talk about, and this is almost a week after the party. Well, that's not entirely correct. She loved fucking you especially, but she also enjoyed fucking five other men besides you — Ryan, Mike, Carter, Don, and Andy. He said she's declared herself a slut, and that she should have become one years earlier. He said she now wants to make up for lost time."
Mark said, "I thought she was very nice. The innocence about her is palpable — Sean too. I guess you've got them on a trajectory to be more hip and in tune with contemporaries like us?"
I responded, "Sex. They have been repressed sexually. They need to realize that sex makes the world go round. It's not something you hide under a blanket. Flaunt it. Those two people are beautiful people — trim, muscular, in shape, and sexy. I want them to be using and enjoying their God-given talents and assets."
"The same way you use yours," Mark teased.
"Fuck yes," I replied with a happy smile and in an upbeat tone.
"Well, add them to our usual roster of party people. I told Pam we'd have her back." Mark explained, "Well, she begged me to have her back. She told me there were men at our party she hadn't gotten to fuck, and she hadn't even started on the women. She told me you were the greatest female lover she'd ever known."
I laughed, "Mark, I'm the ONLY female lover she's ever known."
Mark said in a more serious tone, "Hey, we've gone a week and not a word about the drone from anybody, and as far as we know, no more stalker. Maybe he was so shocked to lose his expensive drone quadracopter he gave up."
I shook my head. "I doubt it. He's got a problem with you or me or somebody in our group, and he wants to cause us some mischief and maybe even physical harm. He could fly that drone up here with a bomb onboard if he wanted to; now that'd be bad — real bad."
Mark got in a thoughtful mood and went off to talk to Lucas. The following week all the glass windows in the condo were replaced with bulletproof glass. They would also withstand a significant bomb blast depending on the distance and intensity of the charge. Lucas also got a low power, broadband jammer that covered most of the frequencies the drones were known to use; anything coming into our zone would get jammed and lose signal with its controller and most likely fall relatively harmlessly out of the sky. The little box had a range of about two hundred feet.
We slid back into our routine that centered mainly on work. Mark went off to Europe for a week. He got to spend two nights with Brita, but was in Italy the rest of the time. Sean and I made a one-overnight trip to Las Vegas to again meet with the building code people about the condominium. We enjoyed our night together, and even had Pam on the phone using two-way Skype for one of our hot fuck sessions together. While she was on the video with us, Ryan appeared on her doorstep by special arrangement on our part, and she soon had him in bed with her so we watched each other having sex over Skype.
In the middle of the week Mark was still away, Mike and Deke came over to Mark's condo, and we had a little fuck fest that was satisfying and fun for all of us.
Saturday morning early, we were off again to defensive driving school. We were into J-turns and high speed drifting in the limo. We learned that Marshall, Mark's driver and bodyguard, had gone through this same class about three years prior.
In the afternoon, Deke had us shooting with two pistols at the same time, and then he introduced us to tracer rounds for handguns. They weren't normally used, but were available and had some significant utility when trying to hit a distant target. In our second hour, we went through a drill with moving targets, some hostile and some friendly. The idea was to shoot all the hostile bad men, and not shoot any of the women and children. Unfortunately, Deke declared we needed a lot of work on that subject since we tended to aim and fire, without giving too close a look about the nature of the threat.
When we got to the martial arts center, Wan Suh was there, but so here Geck — still wearing a shoulder sling from the damage I'd done, Marshall — Mark's driver, Lucas, Marcia, and a man we called Buzz because of his close crop haircut — a buzz cut. Buzz bayan ankara escort was another ninja.
I went over and again apologized to Geck for dislocating his shoulder and tearing his rotor cuff. He dismissed the situation as just one of those things, and now he needed to relearn some skills. He'd only be watching our training sessions for a while yet.
Buzz had been a survival skills instructor for the Marines before he left the service. He and Wan Suh were friends, and chatted amicably as we got ready for the session. Eventually, Wan Suh called the gathering to order. He described a knife fight scenario and chose Buzz as the aggressor and Marcia as the prey. The pair did two situations, he confronts her versus he comes up behind her. The knife was a dummy. Marcia's response was fierce, and Buzz suffered both times. Wan Suh then analyzed each situation, calling attention to specific actions that Marcia did or that Buzz did or could have done differently.
"Elsa and Lucas will now do a drill," Wan Suh announced.
I was the prey. As Lucas came towards me, trying to look nonchalant, I spotted the knife. I moved to avoid him, but he turned with me. As he did, I was close enough to take his near arm and accelerate his turn, slamming him into a wall and a chair. Lucas went sprawling and our toy knife skittered across the ground to where I picked it up. I slowly backed away from him as he tried to recover.
Lucas was rubbing his chin. He chided me, "What the hell. I hadn't done anything yet."
"You had a knife I could see and you moved in the same direction I did. I took both of those as threatening actions," I protested.
Wan Suh urged us to try the other scenario.
In this one I got a ten-foot lead on Lucas. He moved quickly to come up behind me as we crossed the gym. I heard his footsteps, and side stepped to the left, away from his dominant hand that most likely held the knife. I turned just as he lunged, but he'd had to cross his right hand across his body to try to get to me. I grasped his arm and pulled him by me, making him fall. I cracked his arm across my knee and the knife dropped. I picked it up and made a lunge supposedly driving the weapon into Lucas' right side and then backed away quickly screaming 'Call 9-1-1.'
Wan Suh had me explain how I'd won that match. I explained that most people were right handed, and I wanted him to have to lunge at me and thereby turn his body if I feigned to my left. I guessed he had the knife, but went for his upper arm to pull him off balance. The rest was to get to the knife and neutralize my opponent. I chose the right side of his body because that would inflict the most damage and pain because of the vital organs there.
Cindy and Marshall ran a couple of drills. Wan Suh did one with Marcia. I did another with Buzz. We moved fast and with deadly speed. We were holding back our punches but everyone knew we each could be deadly if we put that extra umph into the maneuver.
Lucas led a short session where he talked about impromptu weapons based on whatever was around us: rocks, gravel, mailbox flag, broken bottle, chair, kid's toy, iPad, pen or pencil, lamp, purse, high heel shoe, and on and on. We had fun thinking up weird items that could be turned to our advantage in a street fight.
Marshall drove us all back to Worthington Towers. Cindy and I were meeting the rest of the girls to go out to dinner together after we got dolled up. Marshall, Marcia, and Buzz hung around; they were part of our security detail when we went out.
Melanie had heard about a new club-lounge-restaurant about a mile away, just off the Interstate. The five of us rolled into the place about eight-thirty with our security detail a few paces behind us. We got a table right away, and soon were eating.
There were five guys making up a band playing in the lounge and the music carried through to the restaurant. After we finished dinner, we migrated into the lounge; the five of us taking a single table in front of a low curved settee.
A few of us danced together for some of the numbers. A couple of single guys asked for dances with some of us, but they didn't seem like they wanted to follow through for anything other than a pretty dance partner. We didn't even get their names.
We were just starting our second round of drinks when something strange happened. A waiter came across the floor to our table, only I noticed he was looking back over his shoulder at someone, as though he were getting instructions as to where to go.
He arrived at our table and asked, "Are you the Worthington party?"
I responded, "Yes, why?"
"I was asked to give this to you." He held out a small flat unmarked box, about two inches deep and twelve inches square. Around the box was a red ribbon.
I took the box but stopped the waiter from leaving. "Where is this person?"
He looked back in the direction he'd come from and shrugged, "I guess he left. He was kind of funny acting. I mean he could have brought it to you."
I turned and fast walked to an emergency exit door about ten feet behind our booth. I burst through the door and dropped the box on the pavement near a parked car. I raced back through the heavy metal door pulling the door behind me.


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Public consultation on controversial £9m Byres Road redevelopment begins next week
The project aims to redesign the street to create a more attractive environment that benefits those who live, work and shop in the area.
Magdalene Dalziel
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A public consultation on design proposals for the future of Byres Road will begin next week.
The council will be bidding to get feedback from residents of the west end and beyond from May 23 - June 27 and there will be drop-in events from 3 - 7pm on May 24 at Partick Library and May 31 at Hillhead Library.
Byres Road is set for a £9m transformation through a multi-million pound public realm project - funded by the Glasgow City Region City Deal - which aims to redesign the street to create a more attractive environment that benefits those who live, work and shop in the area.
Police say 'concern is growing' for missing Glasgow woman Emma Johnston
The design proposals include widened footways, improved surfaces, reduced street clutter, pavement seating and safe cycle routes.
Participation in the consultation is either online or through hard copies at both Hillhead Library and Partick Library, and there will be the opportunity to view the design proposals at both libraries.
The design proposals have been developed after a number of very well-attended consultation events in recent years, with representation from local residents, businesses and community groups.
Councillor Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council and Chair of the Glasgow City Region City Deal Cabinet, said: "Byres Road is a key location and destination for Glaswegians and our visitors, and is an important part of the city's economy day and night.
"Given its importance, we very much want to hear the thoughts of everyone with an interest in the area and so we would like to see as many people as possible taking part in this consultation. This is your chance to help shape how Byres Road will look and work in the future."
As reported by Glasgow Live in February, Glasgow City Council plans to improve Byres Road through the City Deal, alongside Glasgow University's expansion onto the old Western Infirmary site.
But some Glaswegians criticised the move, highlighting other areas which would benefit from the cash injection more than the west end.
Others called for the main shopping stretch of Byres Road to be pedestrianised, creating a tree-lined cafe culture.
To take part in the consultation - or to find out more about the proposals - please visit Glasgow City Council's consultation hub here.
Construction work on the Byres Road project will begin in the autumn of 2019.
Police ScotlandPedestrian rushed to hospital after collision with car in CathcartPart of Holmlea Road has been closed following this evening's incident.


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August 18,2011 – Kamloops Daily News – Survivor's story: Candace Weimer couldn't find the literature she could have used to cope with cancer, so she wrote it hersel
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Candace Weimer
By Mike Youds
Daily News Staff Reporter
She's one of those people who, when presented with a daunting challenge, reaches for the bookshelf.
Candace Weimer had many questions in 2005, no doubt. At age 38, had just been diagnosed with myelfibrosis, a bone and blood cancer that doctors said gave her two years to live.
"I call it a prelude to bone cancer, a prelude to leukemia," she said, now brimming with facts. At the time, she found precious little literature of value. Her "cancer coach," a professionally trained counsellor, had endured many complications with cancer but didn't want to talk about them.
"I need to go find a book that can give me help," thought the communications specialist and fitness instructor, something inspirational yet not without humour. She found a lot on the theories behind cancer and Lance Armstrong's biographical It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life.
"Well, he's not real to me," said Weimer, who was a single parent residing in Saskatchewan at the time.
As the story goes, she set about writing her own, the idea being to "pay forward the knowledge that I had acquired." She kept a journal as she underwent a five-month bone-marrow transplant, chronicling the wait for a stem-cell match, chemotherapy conditioning, the procedure itself, healing, complications and eventual recovery.
With the resolute determination of a true survivor, she's now published When The World Dropped In On Me (DriverWorks Ink, 2011, $15.95, 117 pgs.). Her subtitle sums it up: A personal and unusual guide to help cancer patients and their caregivers survive."
Her brother was able to donate the stem cells, but the transplant had to be done in Seattle — it was the only available facility — with support from Saskatchewan's Telemiracle Fund. Only six in 10 survive such transplants. She opted to treat the journey as though it was a final vacation with her parents. She wrote a possibly final farewell note to her son, who stayed behind. And she kept writing throughout the ordeal.
Within the account, she coaches survivors to maintain their dignity and sense of humour, to allow themselves to release emotional stress, and yet to stay focused on healing and not on the emotional baggage of others.
"I think you have to take some breath in at times. You have to take hold of the situation when everybody around you is reacting, if you can balance it. People go a little crazy when you're diagnosed with cancer.
Everybody reacts differently and there's no right or wrong," she added. "Stay focused on the ball. Stay focused on what you need to be to help yourself. Research and know your disease inside out … Then, I would also say, make sure you have yourself prepared to go either way."
She also stresses the importance of blood and signing onto the international bone marrow registry.
Since her recovery, she met a man from Kamloops and moved out to B.C. She doesn't look back on her cancer as a misfortune.
"I call it in my book a blessing. In the end, I appreciate my life so much more. You don't sweat the small stuff anymore."
Her book is available at Chapters or through her webiste, www.candaceweimer.ca.
"My goal is to make sure there's a copy in every hospital and treatment centre."
Copyright 2011 Glacier Media Inc.


Dolphin holiday homes : Now has many holiday homes to rent . We have many houses to choose from to meet all the different budgets and style there are .Please contact us for any enquiries as we have a great selection and have cleaning services amongst other services like cooking in the morning .
Botswana is relatively flat country with few real hill launch sites . There are near the South of the Country some hills that have potential to launch and fly from . The are also hills to the north and north east but all launching is not for beginners and only experienced pilots must try this . The launches are from rough terrain . The biggest potential is for powered paragliders or winching as they have some suitable runways that are not to busy . Winter is warm and Summer is very warm and with some dust devils . I found a very nice runway near Tsodilo hills and one can fly onto ridge nearby and soaring could be possible .I would recommend an airband radio as the runway is used by bush pilots flying clients into area .
Botswana would have potential for big flat land flying but the danger is landing out amongst the wildlife that could provide some danger .While travelling in Botswana you will see the kings of the Sky the wonderful Vultures showing us how to thermal . There are many types of Vultures in Botswana but all are threatened due to poisoning , and collision or electrocution with power cables .
Review done by Deon Borret pilot with 19 years flying experience .
I have been flying the new Vega 4 for a few weeks now and can say without a doubt there is an increase in performance . The Wing also is now very sensitive to every bit of thermal lift there is making it easier to stay in light lift . The glider feels like you flying a glider in a higher class and the performance of speed and glide feels the same . Yet as with the previous model its quite resistant to turbulence and one feels quite assured in the wing and that it will behave well in trubulence . The Vega 4 is a bit more active than the Vega 3 but not dramatically so and the little extra movement in the wing will not deter most pilots from enjoying the thermalling experience as the glider climbs true and sweet . The wing pulls up very easily and is much lighter and easier to get above ones head than the Vega 3 . There is some extra movement on the wing in ground handling but otherwise its quite docile and ground handling is good . ( I have tested and seen so called EN B wings from other designs alot more active ) .Landing thee wing is quite easy but the extra glide must mean one must adapt normal approaches to the improved glide . Flaring is easy and normal range fo movement .
The brake pressure is light and precise but one has quite a bit of travel on the brake before the glider goes close to stall or spin so accidental induced spin or stall is unlikely . One must set the factory brake settings as the travel was too long for me but dont make it to short as then the glider does not go at maximum speed in hands up ..check tech details .
Overall a beautiful wing that can take you places and ideal XC wing without the stress if you a average to active XC pilot you dont need to go to the DHV2-3 league (EN D) to enjoy good flights anymore .
Will udate after some XC flights under the belt .
Skywings Paragliding Club based in the Garden Route had a brilliant showing in NationalsParagliding Championships held in June 2013 in Barbeton . Skywings managed to win threeclasses out of the 6 available . The Western Cape as a whole was in top form with five 1st placing's and 2nd overall . This has been one of best performances by the Western Cape as a whole for many a year .
The World Championship has just taken place in Bulgaria and locals Jan Minaar ( Team Manager) and Jane Bowden ( Team Pilot ) took part and overall the team did quite well in difficult conditions placing 18th out 38 Nations taking part .
Deon Borrett headed out on his yearly 4x4 adventure trip to the North of our borders . This year the trip was longer and included Namibia , Botswana , Swaziland and Mozambique . The trip did not revolve around paragliding but the wings were waiting for an opportunity to fly . The first flight took place at the famous Dune 7 in Namibia which has been a dream of mine since travelling in Namibia the first time many years ago . We arrived with the wind from the west and quite strong but perfect for the west facing ridge and started to soar the great majestic dunes until sunset and then were greeted with the full moon rising . The next part of our journey took us to the wonderful area of Purros famous for Desert Elephants . We had some close encounters with there great Elephants and I even had to do a polite retreat from an unhappy female who found my photography annoying . Purros from past travels was a much to look forward flying destination . The dunes and mountains nearby provide a easy access and simple launch for even novice class pilots . We flew for most days but we had one day in particular with lots of lift far into the valley something cross between thermals and valley release and with the height above the valley the views were breath taking stark and surreal . The feeling is one of true escape and space when flying this remote region and being remote one must temper enthusasim with caution as the nearest serious medical facility is 600km away . The valleys surrounded Purros are teeming with wildlife , even a few black rhino can be found .This year we went in May and the heat was on around 36 degrees in midday , crazy for so called winter . The next part of journey took us to Botswana for more wildlife experiences and the spotted hyeanas gave us a good working over on our arrival in a remote camping area . We slept very lightly for a few nights as there visits were rather rude and intrusive and the idea of them munching on my head made instilled caution even though we were reasonably safe in tents . We headed to South Africa to attend the Paragliding Nationals and then for quick visit to Swaziland were on our way to Mozambique for warm seas and lots of ridge soaring . We flew at the Xai Xai where we discovered a nice little take off that is quite easy to launch and top land in the centre of the village . From Xai Xai we headed up north where Inhambane had some nice small site facing north winds which blew for a few days . The the south wind took its turn and I went messing around near Tofu , but the wind for Mozambique is the rarely seen East wind then flying heaven will fly into your lap as all ridges seem to face east . I travelled south past Maputo to south of Inhaca Island near Santa Maria and some nice sunset flights overlooking whales ,dolphins jumping and turtles diving . Finally we were in Ponto de Ouro a nice south facing site that had us flying across the border between South Africa and Moz and back a few times . Mozambique is fun and warm like most of its people and the flying is easy if you have good ground handling and dune flying you going to have plenty fun .
On the 27th of January Deon Borrett flew from Serpentine and ended up 4km short of Rheenendal, flying a 28km direct line.
Flyers Lodge now offers group Township Tours. We discover local culture, experience a traditional healer and enjoy some local cuisine.
Deon Borrett from Flyers Lodge enjoys taking his guests on a Township Tour so that they can have a good understanding of how the majority of people live in South Africa.
The Tour takes place in Thembelethu, a neighbourhood of George where mostly Xhosa people stay. The Township is a combination of state/municipal housing projects and shanty town built by migrant workers.
The Tour will explore the culture and lifestyle of a typical Township life. We also visit some local healers, churches and the local business to get a true feel of the way of life in the African Township. There is poverty for sure but also lots of life and hope in the dusty streets. There are mostly happy smiling faces and a sense of community in the Township.
We visit a local house and have dinner, tasting local cuisine that is well prepared and very tasty. There is also a local bar with very cheap beer to savour and an opportunity to engage with many interesting people. This is a genuine experience and no special arrangements, besides the food and dinner, have been made so that one can visit and experience the reality of life in the Township with its joy and hardships as well.
Africa is a wonderful place and must be explored in all its splendor.
Groups can book with Deon and will be met at the entrance to the township to be guided through the tour. The proceeds of the dinner go to the host of the dinner to help improve their family's lives.
So make a booking for your group and enjoy.
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Memory Ball is ecstatic to partner with Cycle Bar Leaside on our first ever Wellness Day! Cycle Bar is a new indoor cycling facility in Leaside and we're pleased to welcome them to their new digs with an exclusive to Memory Ball private ride.
Yes, this is the weekend before Memory Ball and it's a great opportunity to get in shape for the dance floor. And, as you should know by now, exercise is great for the brain!
· Cycle Bar provides the water bottles, shoes, and towels.
· Please arrive 15 minutes before class to get set up!
· Location: 1866 Bayview Ave, Toronto (right beside the TD Bank). Free underground parking!
Class costs $35 with all proceeds going to Memory Ball and the Alzheimer Society of Toronto!
We look forward to seeing you at the Memory Ball X Cycle Bar VIP Private Ride.
Plus, everyone who attends will get a free RYU Plush Gym Towel ($20 value) as a free gift!
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Burna Boy In Good Company With Architectural Digest's Open Door Series
Multiple international award-winning singing sensation, Burna Boy joins the league of exceptional personalities as he opens his door and heart to fans and friends alike with an iconic Architectural Digest magazine article and Open Door feature. Architectural Digest, an American monthly magazine founded in 1920 with over 100years of excellence, has as it's principal subjects, interior design and landscaping, rather than pure external architecture.
Known for its affluent and style-conscious readership, Architectural Digest who recently released the annual AD100 list recognizing the most influential interior designers and architects around the world, featured the Afrofusion pioneer in this edition.
The affable and enigmatic singer, in an exclusive, in-depth look at his resplendent home, wows the audience first as the first Nigerian entertainment personality to be featured on Architectural Digest's Open Door series and secondly, as he takes us through the intricate design techniques and innovations, a synergy of Art, beauty, and creativity, that make his home, his safe place.
In an article written by Chiké Frankie Edozien for the Architectural Digest magazine, he describes the singing sensation's abode as a 'continuous, free-flowing area, with one interior leading right into the next—sans doors.
Of particular note is the main living room, which leads to a massive window overlooking the swimming pool and tended gardens. Overall, the compound evokes the serenity of the lagoons, creeks, and the greenery of the Port Harcourt region'.
As one who constantly finds new ways to tap into the stream of creative consciousness, honours his craft and is the epitome of the most glorious version of himself, this relaxed, goofy glow of self-love has never looked so good on anyone as it does on the African giant in his lair - where everything is right with the world.
Burna Boy who is on a continuous musical reinvention project is now creating an identity, outside of his music as the grammy winner takes us on an intimate tour of his space, with each piece and design, telling a story, indeed reflecting a softer and witty side to the African giant that's rarely seen.
With this feature, Burna Boy joins an impeccable calibre of brilliant global personalities including actor, Robert Downey Jr, singer Ricky Martin, Designer, Michael Kors, the legendary Tommy Hilfiger, one of music's sexiest icons, Lenny Kravitz, Maroon 5's front-man, Adam Levine to mention a few, who have shared their safe haven with the world.
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Design by Akose Enebeli (@mrgunzo) and elArc Designs (@elarcdesigns)
Words by @livesofgreatmen
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