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Going to the Hamvention? Stop by booth 6509!
For the ninth year in a row, fellow volunteers and I will be representing the charity Ears To Our World (ETOW), at the Hamvention now in Xenia, Ohio.
This entry was posted in Ham Radio, News and tagged Dayton Hamvention, Ears To Our World, ETOW, hamvention, Xenia on May 17, 2018 by Thomas.
In November, we posted an update on the Ears To Our World website with information about our most recent work in Puerto Rico.
After Hurricane Maria left the majority of Puerto Rico without power and basic services, at ETOW we waited for the right opportunity (after food, water and medical supplies were rushed in) to send self-powered radios to those still living without power and in need of basic community information.
Once US Postal Service delivery was restored to the island, we turned to our amazing volunteer (and SWLing Post contributor) Robert Gulley (AK3Q) to coordinate the process.
Robert contacted the Lares Amateur Radio Emergency Service (LARES) in Puerto Rico and asked for their assistance. Nelson Santiago (WP3B) with LARES enthusiastically volunteered to venture out into the community and distribute radios to those who needed them the most–families still lacking mains power. The LARES club distributed the radios effectively and efficiently–they also photo-documented everything.
The whole process was simply amazing to watch unfold.
Many thanks to Universal Radio who helped us quickly procure 15 self-powered radios for our initial pilot shipment. As of December, we've now sent and distributed an additional 40 radios–totaling 55 units to 55 families.
This whole project became a reality through our network of radio enthusiasts. We're so grateful to everyone involved. Thank you!
Click here to view photos and read about this project at Ears To Our World.
This entry was posted in News and tagged Ears To Our World, ETOW, Humanitarian Radio, Lares Amateur Radio Emergency Service (LARES), Robert Gulley (AK3Q) on January 11, 2018 by Thomas.


All we know is that they have already implied that Leeds are in breach of its club charter and regulation 3.4, which requires clubs to act in "good faith" towards each other.
So - what's the punishment going to be?
Whatever it is, we should learn our fate this afternoon!
Bamford starts tomorrow according to Phil Hay, yet during the Presser yesterday Bamford declared that he is not yet fully fit!
Speaking at the presser, the ex Boro striker said 'If I'm being honest I'm probably not fully fit in terms of match sharpness.
I only had two proper training sessions before the last game, but it was nice to be back out there and it's one of them where I'm only going to get the match sharpness by playing in the matches.
It's probably going to take a few to get up to full speed, but I'm looking forward to it.
Bamford may be forced to fill the number 10 role, as there seems to be another injury crisis on its way!
Both Klich and Forshaw have knee injuries and are major doubts for Saturday.
To make matters worse Hernandez have a groin problem!
Izzy Brown has been pictured training with the first team!
Is this unusual - yes!!! Up to now, he has been training with the U23's!
Will he get his league debut on Saturday?
Difference between fitness and match sharpness and Bamford explains it well. You can do all the fitness work but intil you play matches you aren't making decisions, you aren't running when you've just been kicked etc.
Sounds like run of the mill niggles that you will get over a long season. Hopefully they will all miss 1 match at the most.
Would expect him to be on the bench and maybe 20 or 30 minutes at the end of the match. I would expect him to still play at least 2 or 3 more full U23 matches before Bielsa would look to start him.
I hear that the EFL are going to come down really hard and make Bielsa listen to the complete collected works of Stan Collymore's on-air comments. Amnesty International have said they will step in on Bielsa's behalf if that happens.
I pretty much agree with Wesel's comments.
Just to add that we just cannot catch a break with the injuries.
Bamford and Brown are back although neither is fully fit by their own admissions and yet we look likely to lose another three.
Losing Forshaw is not so much of an issue as we have Phillips available but to not have either Hernadez or Klich for the same game is a worry.
Also the fact that MB has stated that Harrison definitely starts but that Clarke only starts if Hernandez isn't fit is depressing.
Pleased to hear that Boro had to travel back from Newport by coach and didn't arrive back until 7am.
. Amnesty International have said they will step in on Bielsa's behalf if that happens.
Good morning! We just need to get it over and done with and move on. Assuming it's not a points deduction, then hopefully we won't let it get to us.
Bamford was sharp enough to nearly score twice when he came on, so that'll do for me. The clinical edge we have been missing, and he can also pull one out of nowhere, which could be vital against Boro's defence.


Louie is a rat who got to join the cool cats in the band, Felicia and the Blue Stella Novas, after they gave him a chance even though he is a rat! Check out that story and music in Felicia and the Rat.
Now it is Louie's turn to get over his prejudices and give a dog a chance to prove himself as the band risks losing their home among the trashcans when the city starts to get cleaned up.
Includes 10 original soundtracks for instant listening! Just scan the codes and enjoy a musical rendition of the story!
"With Louie and that Dog, Mauro Magellan uses great music and illustrations to paint a beautiful picture of how much can be accomplished when Felicia and the Blue Stella Novas overcome their mistrust and prejudice."
Mauro Magellan is an illustrator, graphic artist, and musician who has written and illustrated adult and children's books. He is a songwriter and drummer, currently traveling all over the world with the popular Nashville-based band, Dan Baird and Homemade Sin.


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Rehabilitation over incarceration
City, county, state leaders take on opioid epidemic
Diane Turbyfill dturbyfill@gastongazette.com
Drug addicts keep in motion a revolving door to the Gaston County Jail. A regional partnership has now formed to act as a doorstop with the purpose of helping drug addicts break their habit.
Partners Behavioral Health Management will contribute $266,000 in one year to kick off a pilot program in Gaston County.
The organization worked with nine local agencies over nine months to create the program.
Gaston County Police Chief Joe Ramey started the conversation after a friend talked to him about a loved one who struggled with addiction. These people end up in jail, or dead.
"Opioid addiction is a disease that is unforgiving," Ramey said at a press conference Monday.
The plan is to roll out the Drug Diversion and Treatment Program, a one-year pilot program to give addicts in legal trouble a second chance.
Candidates for the program will be those who are arrested for a second time with charges related to their addiction.
Police and court officials will work with health officials to identify candidates for the program, which lasts 120 days. If a person doesn't complete the program, they will be prosecuted for what initially landed them in jail.
The person gets a chance to avoid prosecution by enrolling in the program. If they complete the program successfully, they won't be prosecuted on their recent arrest, and hopefully they'll walk a clearer path to success.
It's not a free pass, said Barbara Hallisey with Partners.
"This is not letting them off the hook, but it's giving them a helping hand," she said.
Phoenix Counseling Center will provide space to house 16 adults at a time, with a goal of helping 48 in a year's time. Ten more people who have more stable homes will be treated on an outpatient basis.
If the inaugural year goes well, county and state leaders think the program could qualify for grants that would allow it to expand. Some are already discussing moving the program into its own home in an empty juvenile detention center in Dallas, according to Hallisey.
As the program gets started, Partners plans to hire five new employees. If it expands to its own space in the future, the initiative could bring on a total of 20, Hallisey said.
The organization's sizable donation was available through Medicaid savings, Hallisey said.
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis joined local officials for Monday's announcement. The Republican senator from North Carolina praised the group for assembling a powerful team with a strong plan of action, and he wants to help find money for a program that breaks people of addiction and turns them into contributing members of society.
Gaston County District Attorney Locke Bell said it's time to look at more than just a person's crime, but what drove them to it.
Gaston County Health Director Chris Dobbins says he sees sad cases come through clinics at the Health Department.
"Every day we see mothers come to our maternity program, and they're addicted to opioids," he said.
These women are terrified to ask for help because they're afraid they'll lose custody of their children and possibly face jail time.
"These families need options. They need help," Dobbins said.
You can reach Diane Turbyfill at 704-869-1817 and Twitter.com/GazetteDiane.

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My wish is that there were longer and larger versions sold by Craftsman! What a great tool to have when the regular ratchet/extension combo won't work! This thing allows me to get in to some tight spots and still get the job done!
Again, need one for 3/8 drive and a longer one for the rear spark plugs!
Could not find benefit of this?
Maybe I am missing something here with this tool, but I could not get the bend to make enough of a difference to assist me at all. Suggestions? Others having similar experience?
Works as expected. Not something I use every day, but when needed it's way handy.


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Leslie Abasta-Cummings is a healthcare star. She is determined, strategic, passionate and caring. It is rare to find someone so committed to making healthcare accessible, affordable and available to every person in the Central Valley. Her determination and talent will help ensure that her dream comes true.
Leslie is the CEO of Livingston Community Health (LCH). She has grown the organization into a 10-site Federally Qualified Health Center serving Merced and Stanislaus Counties. With her Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Glen Villanueva, and a wonderful executive team, she is leading an effort to create meaningful change.
Leslie comes from a multi-cultural family and understands what it is like to be without services and care. Because of her personal experience with the challenges many people face, fixing our healthcare system is not merely important to Leslie, it's a personal priority. She understands that far too many women struggle to obtain needed medical and well-baby care. To aid women in Livingston, LCH has created a medical home in the heart of the city – a central location where women, children and men can obtain quality healthcare.
Leslie is focused on severely bending the cost curve; that is, helping all families access affordable care. To do so, she has led an effort to redefine where and how healthcare is delivered, recognizing the importance of bringing care to people when they are homebound.
Her goal is to create a healthcare response team that is family-focused. For example, she's created a plan that allows parents to speak with physicians by phone or text when a child is sick, when appropriate, rather than having to bring that sick child into a healthcare clinic. With services available in English, Spanish and other languages, Livingston Community Health is pioneering new strategies in healthcare that are both patient-focused and family-focused.
Leslie receives a lot of support from her Board of Directors and, in particular, from Mary Ellen Arana, the chairwoman of the LCH Board. The amazing duo, joined by other board members, want to create changes in how healthcare is delivered to benefit the people in our community. But what is truly exciting is their recognition that we cannot change healthcare unless we also change how people live. They are therefore focused on what some call the social determinants of health – helping people earn more so they can achieve better healthcare and mental economic options.
As part of this effort, Leslie and her team are working to provide healthcare training opportunities for members of our community. They want to ensure that every person who wants to work in the healthcare field has a chance to be part of the future of the community by providing care, not just receiving it. One element of this initiative is a program that would provide training in respite and adult day care services, so that people who are caring for disabled family members, old and young, have access to the help they need.
I suspect in the coming months, the new healthcare environment that Leslie and her team are creating will demonstrate why she is a gift to each of us.
— Jeffrey Lewis is the President and CEO of Legacy Health Endowment in Turlock. The views expressed are his own (jeffrey@legacyhealthendowment.org).


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VDL BRINGS MIDCITY ELECTRIC
During the Busworld press conference by VDL Bus & Coach, the Dutch bus manufacturer announced that the Futura coach range now comes with three years of full warranty. Furthermore, it was mentioned that VDL will focus mainly on electric when it comes to public transport, even though diesel is not out of mind.
With its large-scale projects in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, where VDL delivered 43 electric articulated Citeas including the charging infrastructure and soon with 100 of the same Citeas in Amsterdam, VDL boasts the VDL MidCity Electric, which is premiering at Busworld. A minibus that meets the need for small-scale public transport. It is eight meters long and has a low floor that ensures easy access for wheelchair passengers. The longer wheelbase offers the MidCity Electric a flexible concept for all kinds of layouts. An 87-kWh battery is supposed to give it an action radius of about 220 kilometres. VDL Bus & Coach expects to take this MidCity Electric in production somewhere next year.
VDL Bus & Coach says that the transition to zero-emission public transport is all about turnkey public transport systems and sees itself as a transition partner. As a reward for this attitude, VDL received the Sustainable Urban Bus 2018 Award for the Citea SLFA-181 Electric at the Busworld Awards Night.
During Busworld 2017, VDL shows various electric public transport systems. The award-winning VDL Citea SLFA Electric is an 18.1-meter electric articulated bus, also winner of the Red Dot Award 2017 in the Product Design category. VDL Bus & Coach brought a special Citea SLFA-181 Electric to their Busworld stand. To show the versatility, a zero-emission public transport system is shown on the outside area: a VDL Citea LLE-99 Electric with rapid charging station.
Nonetheless, VDL Bus & Coach has not forgotten about diesel. The company continues to develop in this field, especially in their spearhead which is making the vehicles lighter and therefore more economical. Next to the lighter weight, the new start-stop function and an integrated regeneration system also contribute to a four to eight percent lower fuel consumption.
The stand also demonstrates the VDL Futura FDD2-141 double-decker, VDL Futura FHD2-106. A novelty is the luxury VDL Futura FHD2-135 which is being shown to the public for the first time and is clearly intended for the VIP segment.
VDL Bus & Coach strengthens position in Scandinavia
VDL Bus & Coach is going to further expand its leading position in Europe in the field of electric mobility. Busworld Kortrijk served as location for VDL Bus & Coach to reach an agreement on the acquisition of the shares of the Swedish company Björks & Byberg in VDL Bus & Coach Nordic. VDL's Buses division has had a minority interest in the Scandinavian bus sales organization for years. VDL Bus & Coach is now taking over the majority interest from Björks & Byberg.
The intention agreement stipulates that the transaction will be completed by the end of 2017. VDL Bus & Coach Nordic, with offices in Sweden, Finland and Norway, employs about sixty people. VDL's decision to take over the share package is a logical continuation of the chosen strategy to be directly present with its Buses division in the bus markets that show potential. For example, VDL Bus & Coach announced last week, also at Busworld, that they will be opening their own branch in Spain this autumn.
"In order to take a next step and offer complete customer solutions, including for our coach portfolio, as a transition partner to zero emission heavy duty mobility, it is crucial that VDL itself is located in the near vicinity of our customers", says Henk Coppens, CEO of VDL Bus & Coach.
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Have been traveling the past week and have been lax about writing.
Am going to do a big post on what we accomplished in 2012 and then one setting out some high level goals for 2013.
Meanwhile, hope you had a wonderful holiday and best wishes for success in the New Year.


During a visit to England in spring 2013, we enjoyed many puddings and cakes garnished with little round golden/orange colored fruits framed by lighter gold husk-like leaves. They were slightly crunchy with a sweet and tart flavor, tropical like pineapple. I'd never seen or eaten them before and even their name, Cape Gooseberry, was unfamiliar.
Months later as I was ordering seeds for the 2014 kitchen garden I saw them again, this time in the Territorial Seed catalog under the name Ground Cherry, Physalis peruviana. They were listed along with tomatillos, another husk-enclosed orb of the Physalis family. I definitely had to try growing some of these delicious little fruits. Of the two varieties offered, Aunt Molly's and Pineapple, I chose Aunt Molly's because the days to maturity were ten days shorter than for Pineapple.
The catalog description suggested growing them as you would tomatoes, starting seeds indoors six to eight weeks before the last spring frost, carefully hardening them off before setting them out in a warm place, and watering regularly. When I told my friend Carol, a specialist in unusual plants, that I was growing ground cherries this year she offered me seeds of goldenberry, a related variety, to try as well. The tiny seeds of each variety germinated well though slowly, and by late spring I had sturdy plants to set out. I put two of each variety in the cold frame where they'd get plenty of heat and good irrigation, spacing them about eighteen inches apart.
In the weeks that followed their growth habits emerged. The ground cherry sent out branches in all directions, hugging the ground as its name suggested. The goldenberry grew upward, strong branches more like those of tomatillos. Both produced lovely exotic blossoms, yellow with purple centers. If they'd done nothing else, they'd still have been a great ornamental addition to the kitchen garden, but by mid-July the blossoms gave way to little lantern-like shapes hanging from the branches, lovely as well. The ground cherry lanterns were light green and rounded while the goldenberry lanterns were darker green veined with purple and elongated. And finally, just as the catalog described, the husks on the ground cherry turned from green to golden tan and dropped to the ground. I gathered a handful, peeled back the husks and there were the golden/orange orbs I'd tasted over a year ago on English desserts. We ate them like candy. The cold frame became the favorite kitchen garden snack stop.
We've continued to treat them like candy but the abundance of ground cherries has lead me to look for other ways to prepare them. They are definitely more than a dessert garnish. In her cookbook Chez Panisse Fruit (2002), Alice Waters suggests holding them by the husk and dipping them in chocolate for a stand-alone dessert treat. Moving beyond desserts, she suggests adding them to salsas and to salads. Their sweet/tart flavor combines well with spicy peppers, pickled onions and sweet tomatoes as well as with pungent greens like arugula. Recently I made a salad of fresh corn, cherry tomatoes, lightly pickled red onion, basil and lots of husked ground cherries. The ground cherries added a welcome layer of sweet tart flavor to this already tasty mix. To a grain salad made with Bluebird Grain Farms Potlach Pilaf (cracked emmer farro and wild rice), I added sliced fresh plums and basil leaves, toasted pecans, and lots of ground cherries to the cooked and cooled grains for a delicious complement to pork chops.
And one morning, I added husked ground cherries to cornmeal scones, just to see what they'd be like. Cooked, they lose some of their intense flavor and reminded us most of blueberries. They were tasty but their flavor raw is so much more interesting I think I'll stick with them fresh and experiment with more salsas and salads.
Waters also points out that ground cherries "continue to color and ripen after harvesting and should not be eaten until they have turned yellow or orange." (52) Other sources explain that when green and unripe, ground cherries can cause an upset stomach. Finally, in good news for storage, Waters and others say that ground cherries in their husks will keep for months in a cool, dry place.
Google searches have turned up many more dessert and salad recipes for ground cherries as well as more tips for growing and harvesting them and even lists of other names they go by: husk cherry, Peruvian ground cherry, bladder cherry, husk tomato, strawberry tomato, pohas or poha berries. I'll continue to collect recipe ideas as the remaining ground cherries ripen. In another month the goldenberries should be ripe too and will provide more material for experiments. Thanks to those English desserts, ground cherries and their cousin goldenberry will be part of our kitchen garden from now on.


The Klein family moved to Bellville, Texas in 1998. Ross, Barbara, Brittney and Courtney have always shared a love for agriculture and the rural lifestyle. Taking after their parents, Brittney and Courtney were both heavily involved in athletics, 4-H, and FFA. This is how their journey with cattle started. The family shares a passion for nature, livestock and their home in Austin County.
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Bullycide at ??? High
Posted on October 12, 2010 by littleisis
My High School alma mater has become famous in recent months. Earlier today, the actor from that new show on NBC I can't be bothered to watch, The Event, Scott Patterson, posted the address, location and phone number of the guidance office of Mentor High School on his Facebook page. It was wrong of him to do that. Posting addresses online is low, and Scott Patterson knows little about the town he refers to.
I lived in Mentor from the time I was seven to the time I was seventeen. It is typical of suburbia across the country in it's conformity, simplicity and repression. It is a beach front town, located on the shore of Lake Erie, and sometimes my friends and I would go to the Headlands and climb the rocks near a lighthouse, brushing cottonwood seeds off of our clothes from the trees in the parking lot, hopping over dead fish and cigarette butts.
At times Mentor can be not entirely unpleasant. I still have fond memories of some of my teachers. Mr. Wolski, my history teacher from Sophomore year, was a lefty clown (not unlike myiq) and he and I had a running commentary with each other. When I was a junior and passed him in the halls, I would mutter "Mr. Wolski is a loser," and pretend not to have noticed him when he turned around. Mr. Raiff, from AP Government, told me I was an anarchist. The Hopkins Airport once had an air show and a few people were photographed protesting the War in Iraq, and he wrote my name above one of the girls carrying the signs. Because of my old English teacher, Mrs. Stucky I can write a three page research paper in ten minutes or so in perfect MLA format. I feel privileged to have been taught by them and others. If it hadn't been for them I wouldn't be writing this post right now and I would never know my right to search for my own opinion and stand by my convictions, to always learn and never stop, because you can never really know everything.
But those fond memories, I'm sorry to say, pale in comparison to others. Lately, the media seems particularly interested in Mentor's secret little world of shit. Out of all the schools we've heard about where teens have taken there own lives due to "bullycide," Mentor has been singled out. In Mentor, four suicides have occurred in the past couple of years, and almost all of them were due to bullying. Here's an article about it from the AP, it gets most of the facts right, and I recommend reading the whole thing:
Eric Mohat was flamboyant and loud and preferred to wear pink most of the time. When he didn't get the lead soprano part in the choir his freshman year, he was indignant, his mother says. Continue reading →
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Federal Judge says don't enforce Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Posted on October 12, 2010 by Myiq2xu
New York Times:
A federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday immediately stopping enforcement of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, suspending the 17-year-old ban on openly gay U.S. troops.
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips' landmark ruling also ordered the government to suspend and discontinue all pending discharge proceedings and investigations under the policy.
U.S. Department of Justice attorneys have 60 days to appeal. Pentagon and Department of Justice officials said they are reviewing the case and had no immediate comment.
The injunction goes into effect immediately, said Dan Woods, the attorney who represented the Log Cabin Republicans, the gay rights group that filed the lawsuit in 2004 to stop the ban's enforcement.
Ironically we have a Republican group doing more for LGBT rights than Barack "fierce advocate" Obama.
What are the blogospheric reactions?
Buffoon Juice:
Get ready for loud bally-hooing over activist judges. Much gnashing of teeth and such. Oh, and no more soldiers getting booted out of the military for the horrible crime of being attracted to the same sex and having the integrity to not lie about it. The question is – will the government appeal the ruling? What will Obama do?
From the first comment there we can see the Kool-aiders are already making excuses:
I suspect the DoJ will appeal the ruling, because unlike the Bush administration (and Alberto Gonzales in particular), they understand that the Executive branch is not allowed to pick and choose what laws they like.
"Poor Barack, he has a duty to be a fierce advocate for a law he promised to get rid of."
But what about an opinion from someone who actually knows a thing or two about the law, like Ann Althouse:
But what damnable luck for the Democrats to have this thrown at them 2 weeks before the election! It's such a bad issue for Obama. He hasn't done what he promised, and he's fought against constitutional rights that he ought to be actively pursuing, whether he'd made promises or not. He's going to have to rest on the argument that he was always all about Congress making the change. But why hasn't his Congress gone his way?
What about one of those evil reactionary wingnutters like Allahpundit at Hot Air?:
Decision time for The One: Does he appeal or not? If he decides not to, he'll undercut Gates's insistence that no action should be taken on the policy until the Pentagon completes its review of the effects on readiness. If he does appeal, he'll antagonize the lefties (especially young voters) whom he needs to turn out next month. The obvious solution is to punt and avoid a decision until after the election, but I'm not sure liberals will let him get away with that. What if the "professional left" mobilizes and demands a decision before November 2? Prediction: Heart-ache at the Pentagon.
Exit question: Is this actually a blessing in disguise for the GOP? We may well have a Republican majority in the Senate next year, and without this decision the survival of DADT would fall mainly on them. Their inclination will be to satisfy the social-con base and vote to keep it, but that would put them on the wrong side of public opinion (including Republican opinion) and would instantly destroy any chance of rapprochement with gay voters. The judge let them off the hook by taking the issue out of their hands. Abortion redux! (emphasis added)
Barack Obama campaigned with Donnie "Pray teh gay away" McClurkin, refused to participate in gay pride events or to have his picture taken with the mayor of San Francisco (Democrat Gavin Newsom) and opposes gay marriage.
I hope I'm wrong but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the government will appeal this ruling. Just a hunch.
Poliglot:
In a move expected by most legal observers, the U.S. Department of Justice this afternoon filed notices of appeal in two cases striking down the federal definition of marriage, contained in the Defense of Marriage Act, as unconstitutional.
U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro had ruled on July 8 in the cases, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Massachusetts v. Department of Health and Human Services, that Section 3 of DOMA was unconstitutional on several grounds, finding that the marriage definition violated the equal protection and due process guarantees, as well as the Spending Clause and Tenth Amendment.
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, which argued the Gill case on behalf of the plaintiffs, issued a statement moments after the government's filing.
"We fully expected an appeal and are more than ready to meet it head on," Mary L. Bonauto, GLAD's Civil Rights Project Director, said in the statement. "DOMA brings harm to families like our plaintiffs every day, denying married couples and their children basic protections like health insurance, pensions, and Social Security benefits. We are confident in the strength of our case."
The White House issued no comment on the filing and directed questions to DOJ.
If Obama is gonna go all-in to defend DOMA he'll do the same for DADT. Anybody care to bet me?
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package org.apache.syncope.client.cli.commands.task;

import java.util.LinkedList;
import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException;
import org.apache.syncope.client.cli.Input;
import org.apache.syncope.common.lib.SyncopeClientException;
import org.apache.syncope.common.lib.to.AbstractTaskTO;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class TaskRead extends AbstractTaskCommand {

    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TaskRead.class);

    private static final String READ_HELP_MESSAGE = "task --read {TASK-KEY} {TASK-KEY} [...]";

    private final Input input;

    public TaskRead(final Input input) {
        this.input = input;
    }

    public void read() {
        if (input.parameterNumber() >= 1) {
            final LinkedList<AbstractTaskTO> taskTOs = new LinkedList<>();
            for (final String parameter : input.getParameters()) {
                try {
                    taskTOs.add(taskSyncopeOperations.read(parameter));
                } catch (final NumberFormatException ex) {
                    LOG.error("Error reading task", ex);
                    taskResultManager.notBooleanDeletedError("task", parameter);
                } catch (final SyncopeClientException | WebServiceException ex) {
                    LOG.error("Error reading task", ex);
                    if (ex.getMessage().startsWith("NotFound")) {
                        taskResultManager.notFoundError("Task", parameter);
                    } else {
                        taskResultManager.genericError(ex.getMessage());
                    }
                    break;
                }
            }
            taskResultManager.printTasks(taskTOs);
        } else {
            taskResultManager.commandOptionError(READ_HELP_MESSAGE);
        }
    }
}

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Dress for Weather or Season?
One of the best parts about living in Houston is that it is warm and sunny in the middle of the winter. At one point in my life I felt like I couldn't wear warm weather clothes in January because it was still officially winter. I don't know when I changed my opinion, but I'm so glad I did and now I'm on another kick- ha! In fact, my new mantra just may be dress according to the weather, not the season- ha!
While I can't pin-point the moment my opinion changed, I have a few scenario's I think may have influenced me. I have a bff that lives in Miami (she's a stylist- check her blog out here) and we had a conversation about what people wear there in the fall. She said they wear beach shoes, shorts, sweaters for layering at night and always the color white- YES! It may have been the times when I was sweating in my cold weather clothes when it was unseasonably warm, (suffer no more!). Maybe it's because when the sun is finally shining I want to celebrate and wear my warm weather clothes. Or maybe it was after I blogged about wearing white all year round because, hey- after all, Emily Post says it's OK. Who knows what the catalyst was for the change, but what I do know is that it's been kinda liberating!
I hope you'll join me in dressing for the weather and not the season. And for those of you who have been doing this for years, why didn't you tell me- ha!
You are so inspiring! Thank you!
Love this. Was starting in to my closet the other day and couldn't decide which way I should dress since it was such a warm day. I went with light layers in dark colors- light layers for warmth and dark colors for seasons!!
I had to laugh when I read your post…I live in So.Cal. so our weather is probably pretty similar, in fact it was 80 degrees last week and i just had to chuckle at the girls who were sweating it out in their sweaters and boots, just because it was January!
oh man, if I had your weather I would totally dress for the weather and not the season – tons of layers and jackets are NOT fun anyway. I always admire how great white jeans look on others. They're definitely timeless and so chic.
Thank you, I needed someone to say it was ok!
love this outfit! and i have a similar conundrum…i live in LA and it's pretty much 70 and sunny all through the year. i think your choice of outfit is perfect – i just don't think it would make sense to wear like a patterned cotton sundress in january though!
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The Heartbreaking Choices Faced by Child Care Providers on the Front Lines
They were already holding up the economy while operating on razor-thin margins. Now, they are taking care of the children of essential workers as costs and obstacles mount.
By Bryce CovertTwitter
David Nelligan picks up his son while Dorothy Williams looks on at Dottie's Family Childcare in Boston, Massachusetts on March 17, 2020. (Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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It was early in March that Karen DeVos first started taking measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus at the day care center she runs. She told the parents at her Little Learners Early Childhood Center in Ada, Minnesota, that there would be a new, lower-contact drop-off protocol, and that anyone with a temperature of 100 degrees would be told to stay home. Show-and-tell was canceled, as she didn't want children bringing anything into the classroom, and she hired an extra staff person to do even more cleaning than normal. Even then, "the scariness of the situation hadn't really set in yet," she said. As the pandemic quickly spread across the country and her governor ordered some businesses to close, she faced a more difficult question: Should she remain open to serve the families who needed her, putting herself, her staff, and the children she cared for at risk? Or should she simply close her doors?
The week of March 20, she had to make a call. Governor Tim Walz had asked providers to stay open to serve essential workers. All but two of the families DeVos serves are essential workers of some form or another. "I don't know that I slept at all at night," she said.
"The easy response to this for me at this point would be to close," she said. Weighing on her is not just that she has staff who are worried about being exposed to the virus as they come to work to care for children whose parents go out and work every day. It's also dollars and cents. She's had to spend more on staff to make sure there's enough capacity to do all the extra cleaning and to keep group sizes small. At the same time, she's not charging the families who are keeping their children home, so she's bringing in less money in tuition. She got a $3,000 grant from a foundation that allowed her to make last month's payroll, and she can meet her expenses for April—except for her own paycheck, which she skipped. But after that, if no other help comes through, "I don't anticipate we can continue running the same way that we are," she said.
Hers is the only child care center in her rural county. "I really do feel a huge sense of responsibility to those who work here and to the children that we're serving," she said. But remaining open is something she constantly wrestles with. "I would hate to be responsible for somebody getting sick," she said, her voice becoming nearly a whisper. "That's such a weight to carry on one's shoulders."
As the Covid-19 crisis keeps millions of Americans home, the child care providers that enable working parents to keep their jobs are experiencing massive upheaval. Half of all child care providers across the country have closed. Another 15 percent are closed to all but the children of essential workers. At the same time, states across the country have promised essential workers that child care will be available to them if they keep working. That's forced providers to decide whether or not they can afford to remain open and serve those children.
It's not a simple equation. Child care providers already operate on razor-thin margins. Now, those that are still open are almost certainly experiencing lower attendance, which likely means less tuition than normal. But most fixed costs remain the same: rent or a mortgage, along with utilities and bills like food and supplies. Staff can't be reduced too far since minimum teacher-to-child ratios are legally mandated. In some cases, child care centers need more staff to reduce class sizes for social distancing, to do extra cleaning, or to cover for staff who get sick or need to stay home. Meanwhile, getting those cleaning supplies has become far harder—and more expensive—as the entire world hoards the Clorox wipes and paper towels that centers normally rely on.
"Those that are open are struggling, and those that are closed are struggling," said Chad Dunkley, president of the Minnesota Child Care Association. "I haven't heard a single person who isn't."
According to an analysis by the National Women's Law Center and CLASP shared exclusively with The Nation, it takes $6.3 billion a month for centers to remain open for the estimated 6 million children of essential workers who need care during the workday. They estimate that child care centers' costs are 23 percent higher now if they're offering emergency care, while costs are 19 percent higher for home-based providers.
All told, it would take at least $9.6 billion a month on top of what the federal government already provides to ensure that providers who remain open for essential workers are able to meet their extra costs while also keeping closed centers afloat so that they can reopen when the crisis passes. It's a staggering sum. But "we're talking about an entire sector that is holding up our entire economy," noted Melissa Boteach, vice president for child care and early learning at the National Women's Law Center. Child care providers are a key part of keeping other vital services—hospitals, grocery stores, pharmacies—open. About 30 percent of health care workers, who are in short supply right now, have children under the age of 14.
So far, Congress has included just $3.5 billion in extra funding for child care providers in the CARES Act. The industry "does get lost sometimes," Dunkley said. "We're loud and we're important, but we don't have the kind of lobbying dollars other industries have." Boeing, for example, has requested $60 billion for the aerospace manufacturing industry, and has already received a $17 billion federal loan program carved out specifically for the company in the CARES Act.
While many states have mandated child care provider closures as part of stay-at-home orders, they have generally exempted child care providers that stay open to serve essential workers. Seventeen states have mandated that child care providers close unless they're willing to provide care to the children of essential workers. In some places, such as Delaware, Illinois, and Oregon, child care centers have to apply and receive special licenses or waivers to keep their doors open for essential workers. In Maryland, they have to report daily on the health of each child in their care, according to an upcoming briefing paper by Valerie Lacarte of the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
But most states are hoping that at least some providers will choose to keep operating, recognizing that they are necessary if essential workers are going to stay at work. And lawmakers at all levels have made big promises to essential workers in the hope that they'll keep showing up. Colorado Governor Jared Police pledged access to emergency child care for frontline workers so that "people aren't forced to stay home simply because their kid doesn't have a place to go during the day." Minnesota and Vermont classified grocery clerks as essential workers so that they could receive child care. "Frontline workers—including grocery and pharmacy workers, warehouse workers, medical personnel, farmworkers, food processing workers, truck drivers, postal workers, delivery drivers, and janitors—must be provided hazard pay, child care, and safe working conditions," Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted.
Nacole Thrower, an essential worker, makes sure the hands of her three-year-old son, Hudson, are washed while arriving at the emergency child care facility in Washington, D.C., on April 15, 2020. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
But few states are offering details about how providers are supposed to provide care, let alone enough extra money to ensure they can do it without going broke. The decision about whether, and how, to stay open is mostly left up to individual providers. And while some states have made emergency funding and grants available—Minnesota and Vermont, for example, have backed up their promises to essential workers with new funding for child care—none of it matches the scale of the need. Others are paying providers less than what they normally receive: According to Lacarte's briefing paper, Maryland has barred providers from charging families of essential workers directly and will pay them a flat rate that may be less than what they normally charge. "They're really weighing the health and safety concerns," noted Catherine White, director of child care and early learning at the National Women's Law Center, against the financial cost of shuttering. "They're caught between a rock and a hard place."
It wasn't clear whether Milagros Carbajal, whose children call her Miss Millie, should keep her in-home day care center in New York City open. Neither the city nor the state told providers what to do. "Initially we were left to figure out things for ourselves," she said. "We should have gotten an e-mail, should have gotten a text, something." Eventually, the state sent them guidance on safety protocols if they decided to stay open and what numbers to call if anything went wrong.
Even less clear was whether she would get paid if she stayed open. She cares for a number of children whose parents get subsidies from the city to pay for care, and the city has told her she'll get paid for them, whether they attend or not, for the month of April. But it also said it will decide what to do moving forward on a month-to-month basis. "You're holding your breath every 30 days," she noted. "This is another stress we have to deal with on top of everything else, which his completely unfair." If the city stops paying the full voucher amount, she'll have to close her doors. "If we're supporting parents, then who's supporting us?"
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In the absence of clear guidance, providers are coming up with their own safety protocols to keep operating while protecting everyone's health. Every provider I spoke with takes the temperatures of parents and children alike before they come into the classrooms. Many aren't even allowing parents to come into the room at all, leading to "a few more tears at drop off," Karen DeVos said. Cleanliness is a staple of a child care classroom, but all of them have gone into overdrive. Kids' "poor little hands are just raw because they're constantly washing," she noted. Providers have shrunk class sizes as small as they can and try to keep children as separated from each other as possible.
Some have come up with creative solutions. Carbajal has the children change into a T-shirt that gets left with her every day. Tonya Holt has closed the sensory table at her center in Minnesota, usually filled with sand or water, and put away any toys that can't be washed and sanitized after every use. The front desk used to have a drawer full of stickers, and each child could take one out each day. It's been empty since March 1.
Other changes are harder. "We're hugging less," said Angelique Speight, a provider in Washington, DC. "I'm so used to loving them and hugging them so tight."
The day has changed in ways big and small. For DeVos's school-age children—she takes care of kids as old as fourth grade—her staff now has to do distance learning with them. It entails "a whole bunch of different lesson plans and a whole bunch of different iPads, trying to navigate the different expectations for each child," she said. "It's a whole other level of crazy thrown into the mix."
DeVos's center is housed on the same campus as an assisted living facility, and now her kids can't have contact with the residents, whom they call the grandmas and grandpas, and normally see on a daily basis, giving them hugs and doing daily activities together. So instead the grandmas and grandpas watch them play through their windows, to which the children have taped pictures and messages. "Most of them aren't actually related, but it is still family to us," she said. "We miss them terribly."
Lower attendance is also an adjustment. "It's so different," Carbajal said. "On a normal day you will hear the laughter, and some cries and some screaming, of children. Now when you come in, it's so quiet." She misses the children who aren't coming anymore. "It's emotional. Mentally draining," she said. The Tuesday after Easter, she dressed up in a bunny suit and dropped off baskets at some of their apartments. Sometimes they wave and call to her out their windows when she walks by on her way to and from work.
Small things have gotten tough, too. It's been a challenge for her to get cleaning supplies, a staple for a child care provider even without a global pandemic. Store shelves are wiped clean. She managed to get some things from Amazon, and her union gave her one bottle of hand sanitizer. Her monthly toilet paper shipment that usually comes on the first of the month didn't arrive until mid April. It took a month for a box of 100 disposable masks to arrive—and cost $100.
Still, she wants to be open. "Even if I had one child, I was going to stay open," she said. She's since taken in two new children whose programs have closed.
Closing wasn't a financial option for Jamila Warfa, either. She didn't get much guidance from Washington state about what she should do, so she kept going because she needed the money. Speaking Somali through an interpreter, she explained that her husband, whose job is taking elderly people to appointments, was exposed to a patient who tested positive for Covid-19, so he had to quarantine himself and hasn't been working. They need her income.
April Moskalczyk holds two-year-old Zavaya Bibbs while she has her temperature taken at the YMCA in Erie, Pennsylvania, on April 1, 2020. (Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News via AP)
Meanwhile, she's worried that she's exposing not just herself but also her husband and five children at home. She's not just caring for the children of essential workers; she has children coming in whose parents are at home. It makes her very nervous. She doesn't have health insurance. But she can't afford to close.
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The only contact she's had with the government was a call three weeks ago from the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families asking what she needed. She told them she needs cleaning supplies; so far, nothing has materialized. She's tried to look into some of the government assistance programs that might be available to her, but her language barrier has made it difficult.
Some states are offering extra assistance immediately. Texas will distribute $40 million to parents and child care providers so they can care for the children of essential workers. Minnesota has created a $30 million emergency child care grant program for licensed programs serving essential workers. Vermont has offered families a stabilization payment program so that they can keep paying their providers even if their children aren't attending day care. North Carolina and New Mexico have both committed to paying child care subsidies, whether or not the children attend programs, as well as offering bonus payments; in New Mexico, providers who stay open will get an extra $250 per enrolled child.
The Minnesota grant is a notable win in a state where child care providers have been trying for years to get more funding. "It goes further than anything we've been able to win on child care," Marte said. But providers have to apply for it—not everyone will get money—and it's capped at $15,500 a month. That amount won't go far enough for Tonya Holt, who has to pay a mortgage on her 11,000-foot facility and compensate staff. "That doesn't offset the loss of tuition," she noted.
Normally, she has about 170 children in her 11 classrooms. Now there are about 30 coming every day, and, at least for now, she's not charging tuition for the ones who stay home. She's had to cut her staff in half, from 40 to 20. Those that do come in have a lot more to do—extra cleaning, plus acting as distance-learning tutors. "There was a very large learning curve," she said. And, of course, there's the danger of exposure. "They put themselves at risk every day."
She's been able to cut back on things like supplies and playground maintenance. But she doesn't think she can continue to operate as is for more than a month. "Our fixed costs are our fixed costs," she noted. "We're depleting our cash reserves every day.… It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the finances just don't work."
"There's this almost misunderstanding, misrepresentation, that because the legislature continues to say child care is so essential, that we are somehow being taken care of," she added. "That's really not the case." Instead, she said, "We really need some help."
Some lawmakers want to deliver it. On April 15, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith put forward a plan to invest $50 billion in what they call a "child care bailout." That kind of money "would go a very long way to sustaining things," said Katherine Gallagher Robbins, director of child care and early education at CLASP. It would also ensure hazard pay, addressing the fact that the providers who are open are putting their own health on the line. "I really think those that are coming to work and putting themselves at higher risk should have…some incentive pay," Dunkley said. "They deserve a heroes' fund. They're some of the lowest-wage heroes out there."
Angelique Speight felt called to stay open to make sure society keeps functioning. "Who's going to take care of the patients if nobody takes care of the doctors' and the nurses' children? How are you going to eat if the grocery stores are closed?" she asked. "I feel as though I'm doing a good service, not just for children but for the community." Every parent of the children she's caring for has an essential role: a pharmacist, a lab technician, a nurse, and a home health aide.
She knows how important it is to have someone care for your child every day: Her adult daughter has special needs and relies on caregivers to care for her, she told me through tears. "I decided if they take care of her, I have to take care of the kids," she said.
But she knows that her service comes at a huge personal risk. "We put our lives in danger every day," she said. Staying open has created family strife. The only people working with her right now are her 24-year-old daughter and 79-year-old mother; the rest of the staff has been furloughed. But her daughter wants her to shut down to protect her mother. "The first two, three weeks was horrible, we argued every day," she said. Her mother is also scared. But she's determined. "Somebody has to stay open to help," she said.
All of these providers hope to keep going for as long as they can. But the future is uncertain for all of them, particularly as the crisis extends into the unknown future. Without more investment, things won't just get messy during the pandemic. It could leave lasting scars in the child care industry, accelerating the existing provider shortage. "We will not have a child care sector to come back to if we do not make significant investments now," Boteach said.
"A lot of people can make it through a few weeks of tough financial circumstances, but how are you going to make it through a few months?" Dunkley said. "We're going to see some permanent closures when this is all over."
Bryce CovertTwitterBryce Covert is a contributor at The Nation and a contributing op-ed writer at The New York Times.


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Welcome to week three of The Fool's Journey, from Tarot. When we first met him, we saw that The Fool is a lot like us when we start our magnificent quest to write a book (although it seems fair to call ourselves Sojourners, since we've thought about this journey a bit, or a lot). Filled with excitement and possibility, The Fool takes off on his journey, relying on the little dog at his heels to keep him from stepping off a cliff in his enthusiasm. The journey will be exciting, scary, arduous and fruitful. There will be 21 encounters with powerful forces along the way. From each encounter The Fool will learn more about his true path to achievement, and we're traveling with him, like a third-person pov camera sitting on his shoulder, to see what he sees, feel what he feels, and best of all, learn what he learns. (For those interested in the story from the beginning, links to previous posts are at the bottom of this entry.)
After a narrow escape from nearly stepping off a cliff into the void, followed by a fascinating encounter with The Magician, who reveals to The Fool that he carries all the tools he needs in the pack on his staff to do and be whatever he wants, The Fool gathers his tools back into his pack and sets off once again. Where, he's not sure, but he's on a path, and does know that it will take him where he needs to go. Day fades into evening, and as the warmth and brightness of the sun that shone on The Magician yield to mysterious dusk, he rounds a corner and comes upon a deeply serene and wise figure sitting upon a complex throne. She is The High Priestess.
The High Priestess sits between two pillars, one black and one white (negation and beginning), with a pomegranate (secret knowledge) curtain behind her. She holds an ancient scroll (arcane information), and there are two moons—one in the crown of Isis she wears and the other a crescent at her feet, that illuminate her. Talk about symbolism! And, she knows everything there is to know about The Fool. He is aware of this, absolutely, without her uttering a word.
The Fool lays out his tools at her feet. "The Magician showed me these," he says, "and I know I can use them to achieve success, but there are so many things I can do! I don't know which is the best choice." She gazes at him silently, but not coldly.
"You know so much about me," he goes on, "could you help me? Tell me which to choose?" He sits at her feet and opens himself to her teachings.
"Take these," she says, and hands him two ancient scrolls. "They will teach you how to decide."
The Fool reads them by the light of her crescent moon. Finally, he knows enough to decide what he wants, where to go and what to do. He is filled with energy and can't bear to wait a minute longer before he resumes his journey, although he's quite sure there are many more things The High Priestess could tell him. Those pomegranates, that curtain. He instinctually feels their power, and he's right, because they lead to the deepest, most esoteric and secret knowledge of all.
He's apparently not ready for that yet, because off he goes, impatient to reach the next bend in his path. But as he leaves, he notices that there's water bubbling up from beneath the High Priestess' throne and he hears her rich, smoky voice whisper, "We'll meet again, when you're ready to travel the most secret path."
Intrigued (but let's be honest, more than a little freaked out), he strides on, anxious to make his future real.
Okay, so now, thanks to hours of meditating in a darkened room with only flickering candles, images of the River Styx, and a deep voice from within to keep him company (er, I mean The High Priestess' secret knowledge about how life's mysteries unfold), he's got a plan for what to do with at least one of those ideas The Magician revealed to him. I'm thinking he's feeling pretty good, kind of cocky, knowing how to get from point A to point B, with a general sort of idea of what comes after Plot Point One (oops, I mean point B). But there's something nagging at my mind, something about that hidden knowledge that The High Priestess didn't reveal. Without that, can he know what awaits him on his journey? Should we worry?(He's obviously a panster, not an outliner! Hmmm.)
We'll get a glimpse of what's in store next week, when The Fool steps into the golden light of a new day and experiences an overwhelming sense of abundance just out of reach, which, he realizes, is emanating from the magnificent figure in front of him, The Empress.
Links to earlier Fool's Journey posts: 0: The Fool, and 1: The Magician
My interpretation of The Fool's Journey as it applies to the writing life is my own, but the journey itself is long-established information from a variety of sources. Those I've relied on most heavily are: TAROT BASICS by Burger & Fiebig, AECLECTIC TAROT by Thirteen, and EVERYDAY TAROT by Fairfield.
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Karlene Petitt May 2, 2011 at 8:53 AM
Linda, I love this! And how appropriate for this week. As you know, I am going to a handicapper's tournament. I have the tools... which include the racing form. Yes, they are the ancient scrolls, as the form show the history of the horses.
I need to know how to decide. That is the key to my success. They will teach me. I'm feeling a parallel journey with the fool. And yes, I, too, will be back next week.
Linda Gray May 2, 2011 at 9:09 AM
You will know, Sojourner Karlene! Good luck and have tons of fun!
Lisa Gail Green May 2, 2011 at 9:19 AM
He he, I love it! And I sympathize because I too am a Pantser. LOL
Heather May 2, 2011 at 9:43 AM
I know exactly how the Fool feels! That hidden knowledge that is sometimes just out of reach but is tempting one... I can't wait to see what happens to him!
Yeah, Lisa, it's rough on us seat-of-the-pants types! (I'm persuaded it's best to have SOME idea where you're going before you set out, though.) Still, I can't help cheering on The Fool in his wide-open quest. Thanks for the comment, and I'll keep the dissemination of the secret knowledge of your panster-ness to a minimum—just the blogosphere. heh.
Yes, it's just like that, Heather. Barely out of reach, around the next corner. He'll get there, and so will we. (I just hope he doesn't turn so many corners he's permanently gone 'round the bend!) If you can feel the secrets waiting for you, you'll be holding them soon!
Michael Di Gesu May 2, 2011 at 11:13 AM
HI, Linda,
This is such fun.... I can relate to him as well since I am a pantser too.
Lydia Kang May 2, 2011 at 11:14 AM
This makes me want to dig up a Tarot deck I used to have in college. So cool, keep them coming!
Linda Gray May 2, 2011 at 11:29 AM
I'm glad it's fun, Michael. It should be, shouldn't It? Or what are we pantsing along for anyway, posterity? Oh, yeah, maybe. But I'm pretty sure The Fool will get us there in good shape, however long and windy our path may be.
You should, Lydia! You would have so much fun. Lots more to come. Our Fool is just getting started.


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Race for perfection: Hertfordshire stud farms
Hertfordshire stud farms have bred some winning horses
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Flat racing is an obsession that has gripped the nation for centuries. It's not widely known, but in Herts thoroughbred breeding has an esteemed history and continues to produce winners. With the 'covering season' underway, Sandra Deeble visited leading stud farms in the county
Scupture in horseshoes by Tom Hill at Laundry Cottage
'We call them Ladies in Waiting,' Melba Bryce tells me, as we watch two mares ready to foal. I'm at Laundry Cottage Stud Farm, an impressive and immaculate 90-acre site in Codicote and home to Colin and Melba Bryce, who have run the stud since 2004, and are breeders of Wootton Basset, winner of the prestigious Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp Racecourse in France.
'No matter how many times you see a foaling, it's magical,' says Melba, as her husband peers under one of the mares called Jeanie Johnston. 'She's ready,' he says.
He grew up playing rugby in Scotland but was 'keen on racing and having a few bets', which led to a career in breeding racehorses, at which he and his wife have excelled. He is especially proud of their grey filly Pinch of Posh who is a Newmarket winner.
'We just kind of fell into it,' he says, explaining that they started with two broodmares and were lucky enough to buy some land from their farmer neighbour. Their daughters caught the bug too and had ponies from a young age. It is a passion that stuck; one of their daughters is Gina Harding, broadcaster on Channel 4 Racing and Sky's At The Races.
Max Weston with yard manager Shelley Brinkworth. Max is holding a yearling filly sired by Sea The Stars, Shelley has a yearling filly sired by Bated Breath
'It's addictive,' Colin says, when I ask him about breeding racehorses. 'But financially it's a constant struggle, no matter what people tell you.'
The sentiment is echoed over at Cherry Park Stud in Ardeley, run by fourth-generation breeder Luke Neale and his mother Virginia. 'There's an old saying: Fools breed horses for wise men to buy them,' Luke says. 'The ultimate goal is that we all want to breed Group 1 winners.'
Group 1 races include The Derby at Epsom, the Gold Cup at Ascot, Doncaster's St Leger, and The Guineas and July Cup at Newmarket.
Luke has bred his own Group 1 winner in Australia, Spillway, who won the Australian Cup last year. He says the challenge to breed winners is largely down to funding and volume, something that comes more easily to investors from the Middle East.
Childwickbury Stud Farm
'The Arabs spend millions and millions trying to do it. We're trying to do the best we can with our resources – with good horse husbandry and common sense - and sometimes I think we have to pat ourselves on the back.'
Making a virtue of necessity, Luke's philosophy is small can be beautiful. 'We're trying to be a boutique stud. We run on about 70 acres and we're breeding quality not quantity.'
Luke applauds the Bryces for their success with Wootton Bassett, and the work at Newsells Park, the 1200-acre stud farm near Royston, which has bred several winners, including Legatissimo, winner of the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket.
Newsells is a public, commercial stud, with three resident stallions and 130 mares, and is owned by German company Jacobs Holdings and managed by Julian Dollar who learned his trade at Newmarket and in Kentucky.
Laundry Cottage
With nearly ten years' at the stud, he admits, 'We're still the new kids on the block.' He says the goal is simple: 'We are here purely and simply to make money. If we were an owner-breeder outfit, we could quietly go about our business.'
He says all the breeders 'took a hit' in 2008 when the global economy floundered, but for Newsells, things have rebounded since 2011 and the stud enjoyed 'record sales' in 2013. If you are selling to the super rich, you are relatively protected, Julian explains. Their main market is Qatar and Dubai.
'Sheikh Mohammed is one of the most passionate horsemen you'll ever meet. He has a house up in Newmarket and he and his brother have changed the nature of racing and breeding through the money they've invested.'
He adds that home grown royal enthusiasm has also done much to help the industry. 'We have to thank our Queen for attracting so much investment in UK racing and breeding. It's the Queen being at Royal Ascot and other racing events that has brought the royal families from the Middle East to the UK.
'In Hertfordshire, we fight our corner and we punch above our weight. It's about winners and it's about sales.' One big sale day came in 2013 when Newsells sold a yearling colt for £3.6m. 'That was a pretty big moment,' says Julian.
Newsells' stallions are Equiano, Nathaniel and Mount Nelson and February to July is their busiest time of year with the breeding or 'covering' season starting the day after Valentine's Day.
'There's not a lot of romance,' admits Julian. 'It's just hormones. Although the mares are hopefully well in season.'
Herts helps foals to thrive
'We've got good topography here,' says Julian of North Herts. 'The gently undulating hills are very good for bringing up good horses.'
Colin Bryce is equally proud of the 'light loam underlain by chalk' in Codicote and Luke Neale calls the spring grass in Ardeley, 'Doctor Green'.
As for Max Weston, who recently took on the role of stud manager at Childwickbury Stud near St Albans, he is effusive about the land. 'The grass has been down since the start of the 19th century. It's like a Persian rug when you walk on it. It's really thick and great for the foals' joints.'
Max has worked at studs in New Zealand and Ireland and he also ran the stud at Highclere, aka Downton Abbey. Together with his partner, yard manager Shelley Brinkworth, he is proud to be a custodian of one of the oldest UK studs.
A boarding stud, Weston looks after mares owned by people all over the country. In the past, both the Queen Mother and Queen had broodmares at Childwickbury.
'Our dream would be to produce another classic winner. Twelve Group 1 winners have come from this stud, including three Derby winners.'
Sir John Blundell Maple (who owned furniture makers Maple & Co) founded the stud in 1888 and sold it to Jack Joel in 1906. Jack's son, Jim, bred Royal Palace, winner of the Derby in 1967 and Fairy Footsteps, the 1981 winner of the 1000 Guineas. More recently, the stud was owned by the Marquesa de Moratella, whose Tin Horse won the French 2000 Guineas in 2011.
All of the breeders I met are happy to be close to Newmarket 'for sales and emergencies' but also far enough away to be outside of the gossip goldfish bowl. And as Max Weston points out, should a contagious disease break out in Newmarket, clients are happy to be further away.
'We're also close to London and international airports,' says Max, something that appeals to overseas owners.
At the time of meeting them all the breeders were still waiting for foals. Luke Neale is looking forward to a foal from his adored grey filly Amulet, and at Newsells, Julian Dollar is waiting for a staggering 100 foals.
'They're keeping their legs crossed because the weather is cold,' says Max Weston.
Then the day after my visit to Laundry Cottage, Colin Bryce sends me an email: 'Jeanie Johnston had a nice filly foal at 11pm last night.' Let's hope she will be a Group 1 winner.
Bluffers guide to breeding
(With thanks to Max Weston)
Bloodstock: thoroughbred horses
Sire: father
Dam: mother
Broodmare: retired mare for breeding
Maiden mare: first time mother
Teaser: warms up the mares
Stallion: over four years old
Yearling: more than a year old
Covering: mating a stallion with a mare


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