I
was in the neighborhood of the Mongolian Intelligence Agency (clearly
marked on my tourist map) and I had reason to be stealthy: Muggles
(ordinary civilians) were about. Its difficult to work undercover with
white skin and reddish curly hair in UB and, on top of that I had
another logistical hurdle. Even though the coordinates on my GPS had led
me to the correct place, I couldnt reach my target. I couldnt even see
it, but I was sure it was there just beyond my sight and just beyond the
tips of my fingers while I stood tippy-toed close up to the wall.
I
left the foyer and tried to clear my mind to find a solution; to think
out-of-the-box so I could achieve my objective. Maybe I could find
something to stand on such as one of the many loose cobblestones Ive
seen around that UB city dwellers use to make stepping stones across the
puddles when it rains. But then luck smiled upon me: my solution
sauntered down the sidewalk. It was a foreigner with what I needed C not
language skills, but height! He could reach the secret stash hidden up
high in the restaurant foyer behind a piece of wood paneling acting as
camouflage. Once I had that stash in hand I would complete my mission by
signing the log book and taking care of some other important business
that lay within the sealed, weatherproof plastic box. But first, I would
have to convince the approaching tall guy to cooperate with my odd
request to grope behind some dicey wood paneling for me.
The
foreigner, who revealed himself via business card as one Frdric Wils,
Advisor of the Competence Centre for Climate Change (Eschborn, Germany)
had never heard of geocaching, which is what I was up to with all of my
stealth activities. In fact, he had just arrived in UB and Im sure
helping out a geocacher was the last thing he expected to be doing. But
his much shorter companion recognized the term geocaching and so after
he assured my hero that it wasnt some sort of scam or joke (like a rat
hiding up there behind the paneling, waiting to bite his finger off),
Frederic a.k.a. (also known as) Tall Guy reached up and easily retrieved
what it was I wanted so desperately. The smile on his face was
priceless, as Im sure was mine. He handed me the plastic lock-top box
and we parted ways. The hero went to his business lunch with a good and
somewhat bizarre story to bring home from his visit to UB, and I went to
the nearby park to sit on a comfortable bench in the shade to complete
the rest of the activities required by my successful find.
But
here in UB, I had no choice but to go solo. My app didnt work because
my phone is a unique generation of the Samsung Galaxy that will not
accept a local sim card. So before I could geocache I needed to buy a
GPS unit. To do that I had to use a tourist map to find Seven Summits
where I purchased a Garmin eTrex 10 for 25,000 MNT. This is a decent
price for German technology and is not too much pricier than Stateside
for me.
Aside
from geocaching, a GPS can be handy in marking up locations (in GPS
parlay, waypoints) in a city. Afraid of losing your way back to your
hotel? No problem, mark it as a waypoint and use the Navigate To feature
on the GPS unit to find your way home. Just dont lose your GPS unit!
Businesses
could also mark their locations on maps or on their websites under
their location page to help customers find their way, and event
organizers could do the same with the location of a gathering. GPS is
becoming a popular free app on many smart phones so in a city like UB
where official addresses are not yet forthcoming universally, having a
publicly posted GPS address might prove to be the difference between a
new business venture and a flop.
I
would also not be surprised if instead of using street addresses, any
new postal system implemented by the government (or international
delivery firms such as FedEx or United Parcel Service C UPS) might
employ GPS coordinates rather than street names and numbers, if not
doing so already. This would be a practical example of so-called
leap-frog technology which occurs when a society has missed
technological developments. For instance, the absence of landline phones
in many homes is an example of leap-frog technology, as would be the
use of solar panels and composting toilets rather than electric lines
and sewage plumbing.
In a nutshell, to geocache, there are a few easy steps to follow. First,Other companies want a piece of that smartcard action consult the geocaching websites map to locate caches in your area.You must not use the plasticmoulds without
being trained. You can copy down, print out, or download the cache
information to your smart phone app or GPS unit. The details include the
latitude-longitude coordinates, the code and/or name of the cache, a
hint, and often some informative background information of the geocache
location. The locations are usually scenic and/or historical.We Engrave cleaningservicesydney for
YOU. Sometimes a business may sponsor a geocache, but it is frowned
upon to use geocaching as a venue for outright advertising. A geocache
may be placed outside of a business location and the business owner will
not even be aware of its presence. I heard that this is the case with
the cache I found placed high up in the foyer.Did you know that plasticcard chains
can be used for more than just business. You may also consult the
online log of the geocache to read what other geocachers have said about
finding the cache, and pick up additional hints besides the official
one. You can also check attributes such as the date of the last find,
difficultly rating to find, and difficulty rating of the terrain. After
you use your GPS device C or if you cannot access or afford that
technology C your geosense C to navigate to the location, you must then
finally log on to the geocaching web site to log your find, whether you
found it or not.
When you find a cache, try to be stealthy to protect its integrity.This technology allows high volume besttape production
at low cost. Sign and date the log book and replace it and, also, if
there are small trinkets, you may take one and leave one. Often a cache
will have a theme, such as only green color objects may be placed there.
Usually there are no such restrictions. Its best to carry a variety of
objects you could place in a cache. Currently, I have a flattened
souvenir penny from the Rain Forest Cafe in Burlington, Massachusetts; a
rabies dog tag from Henniker, New Hampshire (NH) where I live now; a
rabies dog tag from Dover, NH where I lived in the past; two plastic
camels; some US coins (pennies and nickels); a ring made out of an
antique style nail from Santas Village (an amusement park in Jefferson,
NH); a miniature Etch-a-Sketch on a key ring (my kids will be bummed
when they realize Ive left it in a cache in Mongolia!); some small oddly
shaped rubber items I found in a cache near Schenectady, New York which
my kids told me are erasers; and a geocaching wooden token from
geocacher Weaselboy whom I have never met. I had a pair of earrings in
the shape of small smiling moons, but I left them at the geocache where
my tall hero assisted me as they were befitting the venue. I also have a
Mongolian Red Cross pin which I took from that cache, and, more
importantly, a TravelBug with tag number R2YN9D I took from that cache. I
left off a TravelBug called UncleDons License Plates in its place.
Click on their website www.artsunlight.com for more information.
2013年7月3日 星期三
2012年1月30日 星期一
The Myth of Starving Americans
We take it as a given that hunger stalks America. We hear it in the news, we see a myriad of government and private organizations set up to feed the hungry. And we are often reminded of the greatest of all ironies—in the richest nation on earth, there are still those without enough to eat. But are these media portrayals of hunger in America accurate?
A hungry child is the ultimate third rail in the entitlement debate. Few candidates—Democrat, Republican or independent—would even question conventional wisdom on this particular issue because that would make them look indifferent to hungry children and that, of course, is political death.
The U.S. government spends close to $1 trillion a year providing cash, food, housing, medical care and services to poor and near-poor people. Of that figure, about $111 billion is spent on food in federal and state programs. Yet despite this spending, stories of rampant hunger persist. With all that money going out, how is that possible?
In a report published last September by the Heritage Foundation, researchers Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield asked that very question. They found that, according to Census Bureau data for 2009 (the most recent year statistics are available), of the almost 50 million Americans classified as poor,We offer the best ventilationsystem, 96% of the parents said their children were never hungry. Eighty-three percent of poor families reported having enough food to eat, and 82% of poor adults said they were never hungry at any time in 2009 due to a lack of food or money.
One could deduce that the reason the vast percentage of America's poor say they are never hungry is precisely because of federal and state assistance, but the government offers no way of testing whether this is true or false.
What's clear is that the number of Americans on food stamps—as Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich pointed out in a recent debate—is at a record high. In 2011, more than 46 million Americans—about one in seven—received food stamps.Choose from our large selection of cableties,
Perhaps of greater consequence is the belief of many that food should now be free. In a recent report in the magazine Wisconsin Interest, reporter Mike Nichols discovered that in the 2010-11 school year, approximately 373,000 children received free school lunches in Wisconsin. But there are nowhere near 373,000 kids in the state who come from families falling anywhere near the poverty line. The obvious explanation: A lot of middle-class and upper-middle-class kids are eating lunch at taxpayer expense.
This is not just a Wisconsin phenomenon. Nationally, one out of four school children received a free lunch in 1970, according to the state and federal government data examined by Mr. Nichols. Today, two out of three lunches served in schools are free or nearly free.
The original goal of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s was relatively conservative. LBJ said he wanted to turn the poor from "tax eaters to tax payers." But the opposite seems to have occurred. Where there were once strict guidelines regarding the type of food that was available for food stamps, almost all constraints (save liquor) have been dropped. Even the term food stamps is antiquated—people now use plastic cards that resemble credit cards, thus alleviating any stigma connected to welfare.
Various industries have benefited from food stamps over the years—from the local bodega and chain grocers to America's farmers. In fact, you may soon see today's benefits card used in a restaurant near you. The fast food industry is lobbying Congress to make these cards available in their establishments. That's somewhat irrelevant since benefit cards are already sold for cash, allowing the sellers to buy whatever they please anyway.
Fraud is a major problem, and not just at the federal level. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are currently at odds over whether to continue an anti-fraud attempt to fingerprint benefit recipients. Mr. Bloomberg says it saves millions of taxpayer dollars every year by keeping people from applying for assistance multiple times. Mr. Cuomo says it stigmatizes people and thus keeps hungry children from eating.
But reform is possible. "This isn't rocket science," says Heritage's Mr. Rector. If able-bodied, non-elderly recipients of food stamps were required to work or at least show they are looking for work, the numbers would drop dramatically and poverty would decline as well. "That's exactly what happened under welfare reform in 1996," he says.
A hungry child is the ultimate third rail in the entitlement debate. Few candidates—Democrat, Republican or independent—would even question conventional wisdom on this particular issue because that would make them look indifferent to hungry children and that, of course, is political death.
The U.S. government spends close to $1 trillion a year providing cash, food, housing, medical care and services to poor and near-poor people. Of that figure, about $111 billion is spent on food in federal and state programs. Yet despite this spending, stories of rampant hunger persist. With all that money going out, how is that possible?
In a report published last September by the Heritage Foundation, researchers Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield asked that very question. They found that, according to Census Bureau data for 2009 (the most recent year statistics are available), of the almost 50 million Americans classified as poor,We offer the best ventilationsystem, 96% of the parents said their children were never hungry. Eighty-three percent of poor families reported having enough food to eat, and 82% of poor adults said they were never hungry at any time in 2009 due to a lack of food or money.
One could deduce that the reason the vast percentage of America's poor say they are never hungry is precisely because of federal and state assistance, but the government offers no way of testing whether this is true or false.
What's clear is that the number of Americans on food stamps—as Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich pointed out in a recent debate—is at a record high. In 2011, more than 46 million Americans—about one in seven—received food stamps.Choose from our large selection of cableties,
Perhaps of greater consequence is the belief of many that food should now be free. In a recent report in the magazine Wisconsin Interest, reporter Mike Nichols discovered that in the 2010-11 school year, approximately 373,000 children received free school lunches in Wisconsin. But there are nowhere near 373,000 kids in the state who come from families falling anywhere near the poverty line. The obvious explanation: A lot of middle-class and upper-middle-class kids are eating lunch at taxpayer expense.
This is not just a Wisconsin phenomenon. Nationally, one out of four school children received a free lunch in 1970, according to the state and federal government data examined by Mr. Nichols. Today, two out of three lunches served in schools are free or nearly free.
The original goal of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s was relatively conservative. LBJ said he wanted to turn the poor from "tax eaters to tax payers." But the opposite seems to have occurred. Where there were once strict guidelines regarding the type of food that was available for food stamps, almost all constraints (save liquor) have been dropped. Even the term food stamps is antiquated—people now use plastic cards that resemble credit cards, thus alleviating any stigma connected to welfare.
Various industries have benefited from food stamps over the years—from the local bodega and chain grocers to America's farmers. In fact, you may soon see today's benefits card used in a restaurant near you. The fast food industry is lobbying Congress to make these cards available in their establishments. That's somewhat irrelevant since benefit cards are already sold for cash, allowing the sellers to buy whatever they please anyway.
Fraud is a major problem, and not just at the federal level. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are currently at odds over whether to continue an anti-fraud attempt to fingerprint benefit recipients. Mr. Bloomberg says it saves millions of taxpayer dollars every year by keeping people from applying for assistance multiple times. Mr. Cuomo says it stigmatizes people and thus keeps hungry children from eating.
But reform is possible. "This isn't rocket science," says Heritage's Mr. Rector. If able-bodied, non-elderly recipients of food stamps were required to work or at least show they are looking for work, the numbers would drop dramatically and poverty would decline as well. "That's exactly what happened under welfare reform in 1996," he says.
2012年1月3日 星期二
Blair Witch Star Went To Pot--Literally!
More Hollywood actresses have been driven to drugs than reality stars with a handbag line, but never in as positive and creative a way as Heather Donahue. Relax, I'm talking about medical marijuana. Let me explain:
Heather notably played the female lead, "Heather Donahue," in The Blair Witch Project, the 1999 low-budget phenomenon that purported to be a video done by three students who got lost in the woods as you got lost in abject hysteria.
In her new book, Growgirl, Heather talks about the amusing absurdity of having to play along with the PR campaign that made it seem like she and her co-stars were really students and, worse, that they'd truly croaked.This article refers to electrical projectorlampproducer. "I was allowed to go to the premiere," she told me in a recent interview, "but other times, I was supposed to be dead. I never knew each day if I was supposed to be alive or dead! It was confusing—especially when my mom got that sympathy card," she added, laughing.
But some years later—after the interesting offers and fun locations dried up like the snot she once leaked on Blair Witch billboards—it was career death that seemed a tiny bit inevitable. While filming 2008's The Morgue, a low-budget romp about six strangers who get stranded in the macabre title location, the Pennsylvania-born actress had a revelatory moment. "I wanted a change," she told me,Capture the look and feel of real stone or ceramictile flooring with Alterna by Armstrong. with utter clarity. "I wanted to put things into the world that I was proud of, and I wasn't really proud of things like The Morgue.Original oilpaintings by fine art artist Teresa Bernard. Free online art instruction and painting tips. I remember the exact moment when I decided to quit movies. It was my death-by-mock-fellatio scene, with rubber tubing draped across my face and apple juice dribbling down my cheek." How horrible! Can't wait to rent it!
At this point, any normal person would have surely turned to hard drugs,The BEDDINGE mattress is made for the beddinges set. but Heather simply segued to legal marijuana as part of a group of growers called "the Community" in Nuggettown, California. It turned out to be a terrific career move.
"There was definitely a sense of doing it for the common good," she remembered. "I was part of the Community. And I had a really nice house with a hot tub and a pool." And a boyfriend, too? "I had one when I first moved in," she informed me, "but as soon as I had 27 chickens, a vegetable garden, a puppy, and even a tortoise for a while, things changed. I was a little bit stressed out. I was doing things I had no idea how to do, like building a chicken coop and figuring out how to operate a circular saw!"
Still, it was a welcome change from the rubber tubing—not to mention the snot close-ups—and she really enjoyed mothering "the girls" (i.e., the pot crops) as they grew. "They were so powerful," said Heather, twinkling. "They'd grow an inch or two a night sometimes. Those 'girls' were a force of nature. We pushed each other to the limit, the girls and I!"
As an extra bonus, the gals even provided an unasked-for contact high at certain key moments, letting loose their juices whenever they were under the knife. "You get a transdermal high when you're trimming," Heather admitted. "The smell is so intense during that. And you have the repetitive motion of the scissors nonstop. 'Click, click, click, click .Glass insulator were first produced in the 1850's for use with telegraph lines. . .' It's the only job you can do stoned on whatever you like!"
Not this little ex–movie star, though. Heather was never a big smoker or an addictive-type person—just a healthily obsessive multitasker who wrote a 1,000-page diary during her downtime and eventually trimmed it into Growgirl. (Click, click, click, click . . .)
The book is a dense and breezy read full of extraordinarily intimate details, most memorably a heated conversation Heather had in a car with her own genitals. ("I'm not really into it," her vajayjay allegedly squawked about an oncoming sex act, to which Heather replied, "What are you—my pussy or the Oracle of fucking Delphi?") And then came the most awkward moment of all. "I fell out of the car, just having had a conversation with my pussy," relates Heather, laughing, "and someone says, 'Are you the girl from Blair Witch?'" Happens to me all the time.
Could Growgirl become a movie, complete with that pricelessly humiliating car scene? "It would have to be animated," Heather suggested. "If I could get the Brothers Quay on this, it would be amazing. Too bad the voice of the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz is not available." I suggested Kristin Chenoweth, who played Glinda in Wicked, and Heather gushed: "Yes! She can do the voice of my vagina! Your lips to God's ear." "Your lips," I deadpanned as we both broke up as if terribly high.
Heather notably played the female lead, "Heather Donahue," in The Blair Witch Project, the 1999 low-budget phenomenon that purported to be a video done by three students who got lost in the woods as you got lost in abject hysteria.
In her new book, Growgirl, Heather talks about the amusing absurdity of having to play along with the PR campaign that made it seem like she and her co-stars were really students and, worse, that they'd truly croaked.This article refers to electrical projectorlampproducer. "I was allowed to go to the premiere," she told me in a recent interview, "but other times, I was supposed to be dead. I never knew each day if I was supposed to be alive or dead! It was confusing—especially when my mom got that sympathy card," she added, laughing.
But some years later—after the interesting offers and fun locations dried up like the snot she once leaked on Blair Witch billboards—it was career death that seemed a tiny bit inevitable. While filming 2008's The Morgue, a low-budget romp about six strangers who get stranded in the macabre title location, the Pennsylvania-born actress had a revelatory moment. "I wanted a change," she told me,Capture the look and feel of real stone or ceramictile flooring with Alterna by Armstrong. with utter clarity. "I wanted to put things into the world that I was proud of, and I wasn't really proud of things like The Morgue.Original oilpaintings by fine art artist Teresa Bernard. Free online art instruction and painting tips. I remember the exact moment when I decided to quit movies. It was my death-by-mock-fellatio scene, with rubber tubing draped across my face and apple juice dribbling down my cheek." How horrible! Can't wait to rent it!
At this point, any normal person would have surely turned to hard drugs,The BEDDINGE mattress is made for the beddinges set. but Heather simply segued to legal marijuana as part of a group of growers called "the Community" in Nuggettown, California. It turned out to be a terrific career move.
"There was definitely a sense of doing it for the common good," she remembered. "I was part of the Community. And I had a really nice house with a hot tub and a pool." And a boyfriend, too? "I had one when I first moved in," she informed me, "but as soon as I had 27 chickens, a vegetable garden, a puppy, and even a tortoise for a while, things changed. I was a little bit stressed out. I was doing things I had no idea how to do, like building a chicken coop and figuring out how to operate a circular saw!"
Still, it was a welcome change from the rubber tubing—not to mention the snot close-ups—and she really enjoyed mothering "the girls" (i.e., the pot crops) as they grew. "They were so powerful," said Heather, twinkling. "They'd grow an inch or two a night sometimes. Those 'girls' were a force of nature. We pushed each other to the limit, the girls and I!"
As an extra bonus, the gals even provided an unasked-for contact high at certain key moments, letting loose their juices whenever they were under the knife. "You get a transdermal high when you're trimming," Heather admitted. "The smell is so intense during that. And you have the repetitive motion of the scissors nonstop. 'Click, click, click, click .Glass insulator were first produced in the 1850's for use with telegraph lines. . .' It's the only job you can do stoned on whatever you like!"
Not this little ex–movie star, though. Heather was never a big smoker or an addictive-type person—just a healthily obsessive multitasker who wrote a 1,000-page diary during her downtime and eventually trimmed it into Growgirl. (Click, click, click, click . . .)
The book is a dense and breezy read full of extraordinarily intimate details, most memorably a heated conversation Heather had in a car with her own genitals. ("I'm not really into it," her vajayjay allegedly squawked about an oncoming sex act, to which Heather replied, "What are you—my pussy or the Oracle of fucking Delphi?") And then came the most awkward moment of all. "I fell out of the car, just having had a conversation with my pussy," relates Heather, laughing, "and someone says, 'Are you the girl from Blair Witch?'" Happens to me all the time.
Could Growgirl become a movie, complete with that pricelessly humiliating car scene? "It would have to be animated," Heather suggested. "If I could get the Brothers Quay on this, it would be amazing. Too bad the voice of the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz is not available." I suggested Kristin Chenoweth, who played Glinda in Wicked, and Heather gushed: "Yes! She can do the voice of my vagina! Your lips to God's ear." "Your lips," I deadpanned as we both broke up as if terribly high.
2011年12月28日 星期三
Mumbai cold to fast, Anna health a govt headache
As Lok Sabha debated and passed the Lokpal bill late on Tuesday, worry mounted in Mumbai over Anna Hazare’s health which deteriorated sharply over the evening.
The viral fever that had laid him low in the days leading up to today’s protest fast spiked to 102 degrees F, and his blood pressure rose. Doctors attending on Hazare said his pulse rate had risen to 98, and he had a cold and a chest infection.
Well past midnight, Hazare’s health remained delicate, and there were indications that he could be moved to hospital from the fast venue at the MMRDA grounds in Bandra-Kurla Complex overnight.There are several variations based on the zentaisuits including mummy bag,
A team of doctors from JJ Hospital visited him and drew his blood for tests. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan spoke to him and appealed to him to end his fast. The chief minister said Hazare had told him that he would do as his doctors advise him to.
Officials in Mumbai and Delhi said the government was watching the situation closely. Given earlier experiences with the agitation in Delhi, the government, they said, was wary of appearing to force its will on Hazare, or take any action in a hurry.
Earlier in the evening, Arvind Kejriwal, Hazare’s close aide and member of Team Anna’s core committee, said he had made a fresh appeal to the activist to call off his fast but the 74-year-old was unrelenting.
Kejriwal and fellow activist Kiran Bedi had implored Hazare to end his fast in the morning as well, but Hazare had insisted that the crowds gathered in his support gave him the energy to carry on.
In fact, there wasn’t much of a crowd to speak of.
For an agitation that has always based its claims of legitimacy in numbers, be it at public meetings or on the web, the financial capital provided a significant reality check. None of the numbers freely bandied around by Hazare and his team —“lakhs”, “crores”, and poll ratings in the nineties — were in evidence at the MMRDA grounds, where the peak attendance did not appear to have gone beyond 10,000 at any point.
Until Hazare’s speech began around 3 pm, no more than 5,000 people were scattered around the 20,000-sq metre ground. A separate 10,000-sq metre area reserved for parking was almost entirely deserted. By 4 pm, about 8,000 to 10,000 people had gathered,Hand-painted Chinese porcelaintiles on the floor of a Jewish synagogue in Cochin, a far cry from the 50,000 to 75,The Zentai Project is a group of people who go out in public wearing zentai suits,000 that India Against Corruption, the organisation spearheading the campaign, had predicted.
From his fasting podium, Hazare gave his familiar call for a sustained people’s movement to demand, after the Jan Lokpal bill, a law giving citizens the right to reject all candidates in an election. He also repeated his plan to tour the country in 2012 to campaign against the UPA government if it did not pass a strong Lokpal bill.
The government, Hazare told a modest gathering that was not estimated to have crossed 10,000 at any point during the day, was betraying not Team Anna but the people — and the people would strike back.
“Dilli ke parliament se jan parliament badi hai... Dilli ka parliament janata ke parliament ne banaayi hai,” he said.
A government that baton charges or fires on protesting farmers is autocratic, Hazare said, adding that a ‘right to reject’ law would ensure “goondas” would stay out of parliament and vidhan sabhas. Those who lose in such an election should not be allowed to contest again, he said.
Doctors said the activist was weak from having not eaten well for the past five days, and medicines would work well only if he ate solid food. Dr Devlat Pote, Hazare’s personal physician, said the activist had slept through much of Tuesday, which was unusual.
Hazare’s fast was shifted from Delhi to Mumbai to escape the capital’s harsh winter, but the weather in Mumbai has not been kind either. Mumbai’s suburbs, where Hazare is fasting, saw a record minimum of 11.4 degrees C before he began his fast today, and witnessed a huge variation during the day, with the maximum touching 30.3 degrees C. The forecast is for similar lows in the coming days.
Following the uncertainties surrounding Hazare’s health over the past few days, a fully equipped team of health specialists was present at the MMRDA grounds.Order high quality hand painted oilpaintingre reproductions, In the morning, Pote had said that although Hazare’s health had improved over the past two days, it continued to be fragile.
“Anna’s blood pressure, pulse and weight is normal as of now.This billabongboardshort has the following technological features, His last meal was yesterday’s lunch. We have advised him to drink plenty of water. Although his fever has subsided, the fluctuating weather condition has caused him a sore throat but overall, his condition is fine,” Pote had said in the morning.
The viral fever that had laid him low in the days leading up to today’s protest fast spiked to 102 degrees F, and his blood pressure rose. Doctors attending on Hazare said his pulse rate had risen to 98, and he had a cold and a chest infection.
Well past midnight, Hazare’s health remained delicate, and there were indications that he could be moved to hospital from the fast venue at the MMRDA grounds in Bandra-Kurla Complex overnight.There are several variations based on the zentaisuits including mummy bag,
A team of doctors from JJ Hospital visited him and drew his blood for tests. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan spoke to him and appealed to him to end his fast. The chief minister said Hazare had told him that he would do as his doctors advise him to.
Officials in Mumbai and Delhi said the government was watching the situation closely. Given earlier experiences with the agitation in Delhi, the government, they said, was wary of appearing to force its will on Hazare, or take any action in a hurry.
Earlier in the evening, Arvind Kejriwal, Hazare’s close aide and member of Team Anna’s core committee, said he had made a fresh appeal to the activist to call off his fast but the 74-year-old was unrelenting.
Kejriwal and fellow activist Kiran Bedi had implored Hazare to end his fast in the morning as well, but Hazare had insisted that the crowds gathered in his support gave him the energy to carry on.
In fact, there wasn’t much of a crowd to speak of.
For an agitation that has always based its claims of legitimacy in numbers, be it at public meetings or on the web, the financial capital provided a significant reality check. None of the numbers freely bandied around by Hazare and his team —“lakhs”, “crores”, and poll ratings in the nineties — were in evidence at the MMRDA grounds, where the peak attendance did not appear to have gone beyond 10,000 at any point.
Until Hazare’s speech began around 3 pm, no more than 5,000 people were scattered around the 20,000-sq metre ground. A separate 10,000-sq metre area reserved for parking was almost entirely deserted. By 4 pm, about 8,000 to 10,000 people had gathered,Hand-painted Chinese porcelaintiles on the floor of a Jewish synagogue in Cochin, a far cry from the 50,000 to 75,The Zentai Project is a group of people who go out in public wearing zentai suits,000 that India Against Corruption, the organisation spearheading the campaign, had predicted.
From his fasting podium, Hazare gave his familiar call for a sustained people’s movement to demand, after the Jan Lokpal bill, a law giving citizens the right to reject all candidates in an election. He also repeated his plan to tour the country in 2012 to campaign against the UPA government if it did not pass a strong Lokpal bill.
The government, Hazare told a modest gathering that was not estimated to have crossed 10,000 at any point during the day, was betraying not Team Anna but the people — and the people would strike back.
“Dilli ke parliament se jan parliament badi hai... Dilli ka parliament janata ke parliament ne banaayi hai,” he said.
A government that baton charges or fires on protesting farmers is autocratic, Hazare said, adding that a ‘right to reject’ law would ensure “goondas” would stay out of parliament and vidhan sabhas. Those who lose in such an election should not be allowed to contest again, he said.
Doctors said the activist was weak from having not eaten well for the past five days, and medicines would work well only if he ate solid food. Dr Devlat Pote, Hazare’s personal physician, said the activist had slept through much of Tuesday, which was unusual.
Hazare’s fast was shifted from Delhi to Mumbai to escape the capital’s harsh winter, but the weather in Mumbai has not been kind either. Mumbai’s suburbs, where Hazare is fasting, saw a record minimum of 11.4 degrees C before he began his fast today, and witnessed a huge variation during the day, with the maximum touching 30.3 degrees C. The forecast is for similar lows in the coming days.
Following the uncertainties surrounding Hazare’s health over the past few days, a fully equipped team of health specialists was present at the MMRDA grounds.Order high quality hand painted oilpaintingre reproductions, In the morning, Pote had said that although Hazare’s health had improved over the past two days, it continued to be fragile.
“Anna’s blood pressure, pulse and weight is normal as of now.This billabongboardshort has the following technological features, His last meal was yesterday’s lunch. We have advised him to drink plenty of water. Although his fever has subsided, the fluctuating weather condition has caused him a sore throat but overall, his condition is fine,” Pote had said in the morning.
Birth of Christ came with hope for Luzira inmates
Christmas comes with good news and many Christians use it to reflect on their past and lay strategies to live a better future. The way this happens is miraculous because both the happily living and those who are burdened perceive Christ as the saviors.
Last Thursday as the country was busy preparing for Christmas,In tooling, the pair outlines seven unnaturally occurring geometries--flocking, a chain of inmates at Luzira Upper Prison saw light and decided to abandon their tainted past. They sought the sacraments of baptism and confirmation.
A total of 15 convicts were baptized and 49 confirmed. Among those who received confirmation were five inmates on death row. But amidst the challenge of being in jail the inmates wore beaming faces and sung praises with vigor, like they were possessed by the Holy Spirit.
They gave several testimonies on why they had decided to receive Christ. The theme of their messages was life without him was like being beautiful but badly behaved.
Robert Ojara a 35 year old death row inmate said that he wanted to get baptized because he had learnt a lot while in jail and feared that he wouldn’t get a chance even if released to receive the sacrament since there were no worship centers on his village in northern Uganda.
“By the time I was jailed I had started understanding the importance of God, but the Lord’s Resistance Army war had ravaged my village and there was no chance for me to get baptized. This is the chance I have to embrace Christ,” Ojara said. The other inmate, Simon Kiyemba 18,Omega Plastics are a leading rapid tooling and plasticinjectionmould company based in the UK, on remand over allegations of defilement said that he lost his parents before he was baptized and saw this as an opportunity to embrace Christ.world in preventing cheapipodnanoes and curing blindness into energy people can use LeRoy is a partner in Forest Energy Group LLC.
“There is nothing that is as sweet as living in Christ. All the challenges we have are nothing with Christ,” Kiyemba said.
Like anyone preparing for the birth of Christ, the inmates were smartly dressed in their yellow uniforms and white for convicts on death row donned rubber shoes locally known as Nigina. Their Church which also doubles as carpentry was well decorated and its walls were shining,Find here injectionmouldingmanufacturer, like a modern hotel room.
There are over 600 Catholic inmates in Upper Prison majority of whom attended the baptism and confirmation ceremony that was graced by the Bishop of Masaka Dioceess John Baptist Kagwa. During the function, the inmates sat quietly on their mats and chairs as the prelate fed them with the gospel.
The inmate’s choir gave the function more life with the hymns of praise. The Chairperson of Roman Catholic Church Luzira Upper Prison also an inmate, Paul Kikube made several representations on behalf of his colleagues.
Bishop Kagwa’s message was centered on instilling discipline, love, perseverance and hope among the inmates. He preached on the need to manage anger and strong emotions which he said have led many youth into jail. “You should avoid taking decisions when you are annoyed. Some of you have been jailed because of that. You must be sober when reacting on anything that has angered you.” The bishop appealed to the congregation to remain devoted to their faith noting that only Christ has solutions to their problems.
“There is no permanent situation and with prayers things can change. Some of you were sentenced to death but who knows God can reverse your sentence to light ones.”
The Bishop commended the Prison Authority for giving prisoners freedom of worship. “I did not expect to find such an organized worshiping environment within the Prison. I was hoping to meet you dressed in tattered and dirty clothes; it’s encouraging to find you appearing healthy,Read about coldsorestreatments, which are caused by a viral infection that attacks the skin and nervous system. well kempt and wearing very clean uniforms.”
With the coming of Christ signifying the end of suffering for mankind, the inmates who received the sacraments left with great hope that their burdens had been taken away from them.
Last Thursday as the country was busy preparing for Christmas,In tooling, the pair outlines seven unnaturally occurring geometries--flocking, a chain of inmates at Luzira Upper Prison saw light and decided to abandon their tainted past. They sought the sacraments of baptism and confirmation.
A total of 15 convicts were baptized and 49 confirmed. Among those who received confirmation were five inmates on death row. But amidst the challenge of being in jail the inmates wore beaming faces and sung praises with vigor, like they were possessed by the Holy Spirit.
They gave several testimonies on why they had decided to receive Christ. The theme of their messages was life without him was like being beautiful but badly behaved.
Robert Ojara a 35 year old death row inmate said that he wanted to get baptized because he had learnt a lot while in jail and feared that he wouldn’t get a chance even if released to receive the sacrament since there were no worship centers on his village in northern Uganda.
“By the time I was jailed I had started understanding the importance of God, but the Lord’s Resistance Army war had ravaged my village and there was no chance for me to get baptized. This is the chance I have to embrace Christ,” Ojara said. The other inmate, Simon Kiyemba 18,Omega Plastics are a leading rapid tooling and plasticinjectionmould company based in the UK, on remand over allegations of defilement said that he lost his parents before he was baptized and saw this as an opportunity to embrace Christ.world in preventing cheapipodnanoes and curing blindness into energy people can use LeRoy is a partner in Forest Energy Group LLC.
“There is nothing that is as sweet as living in Christ. All the challenges we have are nothing with Christ,” Kiyemba said.
Like anyone preparing for the birth of Christ, the inmates were smartly dressed in their yellow uniforms and white for convicts on death row donned rubber shoes locally known as Nigina. Their Church which also doubles as carpentry was well decorated and its walls were shining,Find here injectionmouldingmanufacturer, like a modern hotel room.
There are over 600 Catholic inmates in Upper Prison majority of whom attended the baptism and confirmation ceremony that was graced by the Bishop of Masaka Dioceess John Baptist Kagwa. During the function, the inmates sat quietly on their mats and chairs as the prelate fed them with the gospel.
The inmate’s choir gave the function more life with the hymns of praise. The Chairperson of Roman Catholic Church Luzira Upper Prison also an inmate, Paul Kikube made several representations on behalf of his colleagues.
Bishop Kagwa’s message was centered on instilling discipline, love, perseverance and hope among the inmates. He preached on the need to manage anger and strong emotions which he said have led many youth into jail. “You should avoid taking decisions when you are annoyed. Some of you have been jailed because of that. You must be sober when reacting on anything that has angered you.” The bishop appealed to the congregation to remain devoted to their faith noting that only Christ has solutions to their problems.
“There is no permanent situation and with prayers things can change. Some of you were sentenced to death but who knows God can reverse your sentence to light ones.”
The Bishop commended the Prison Authority for giving prisoners freedom of worship. “I did not expect to find such an organized worshiping environment within the Prison. I was hoping to meet you dressed in tattered and dirty clothes; it’s encouraging to find you appearing healthy,Read about coldsorestreatments, which are caused by a viral infection that attacks the skin and nervous system. well kempt and wearing very clean uniforms.”
With the coming of Christ signifying the end of suffering for mankind, the inmates who received the sacraments left with great hope that their burdens had been taken away from them.
2011年12月6日 星期二
The odyssey continues
The exhibition Story of 40 Years by a trio of artists who are best friends represents the evolution of Chinese art. Zhang Zixuan reports.
For so many years, a lingering scene has been looping in Chen Danqing's head: Two teenage boys race bicycles in Shanghai's narrow lanes, one surpassing the other, while they laugh and ring their bicycle bells.We are one of the leading italian solar panels manufacturers.Buy good quality solarpanel from Italy today! When they arrive at No 1301 West Huaihai Road, a Western building in the busiest area of the former French Concession, the two shout out at a second floor window. An older teenage boy pops his head out and says: "Come up!"
It was 1971, when the "cultural revolution" (1966-1976) was in full swing. Chen was 18. Han Xin, the other boy on the bicycle, had just turned into 16. And Lin Xudong, the one at the window, was 19.
That year, in the building that was Lin's house, the three school dropouts began their painting odyssey by covertly copying works of Western masters like Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) and Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) from remnants of pictures they had.
Recently, the trio dusted off many of the artworks they made over the past four decades and will air them once again at the Art Gallery of Chinese Academy of Oil Painting under the title Story of 40 Years.
The co-exhibition gathers their more than 200 artworks along with old photos and handwritten letters that bear witness to their long-lasting friendship.
The low-key opening ceremony lasted just five minutes and featured no big-name guests. But, even so, hundreds of art enthusiasts crammed into the gallery.
"The exhibition doesn't deliver a message of success. It just delivers sincerity, which is vanishing from today's art world," Chen says.
The artist's formative experiences are fairly well known to the general public.
With just a junior high school diploma, the self-taught artist was admitted as a painting-major postgraduate by the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1978,Our syringe needle and hypodermicneedlecannula are made of stainless steel 304 material. after being dispatched to rural Jiangxi province for eight years.
He achieved fame nationwide with his Tibet Series in the early 1980s. Later,There are several variations based on the zentaisuits including mummy bag, he gave up teaching at his alma mater to become a solo artist in New York.
In 2000, Chen returned to become an art doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University. But in 2004 he submitted his resignation in protest against the rule that talented young painters could be rejected because they failed an English entry exam.
Chen has since criticized the Chinese education system and spoken out on many other social issues.
"My fame has been foisted on me by the public," he says. "Only when I'm with Lin and Han can I be the 100 percent me."
When Chen first came to prominence with his Tibet Series, the public dubbed it the "Chen Danqing Complex", referring to the switch from the Soviet model of painting to a European style.
But Chen insists his awakening to a European consciousness was actually influenced by Lin and Han, especially Lin.
"Lin had the best aesthetic taste among us, yet he maintained the lowest profile," Chen says.
Many years later,Shop and save on blurayburners, Blu-Ray Burner, Chen learned by chance that Lin was born in the United States and grew up in France until he was age 4, when his father, a nuclear physicist, returned to help the construction of New China.
Lin was the first of the three who dared to portray nudity. He was also the first who prepared to enter the Central Academy of Fine Arts, when art schools were closed and everyone believed the "cultural revolution" would last forever.
But Lin was already 33 when he finally got into his dream school as a print-major postgraduate in 1984. He was the last of the three to be admitted.
"Part of my life experience can only be expressed by painting, while the rest can only be expressed by movies," Lin comments.The Tile Depot is the UK's largest independent floortiles retailer,
For so many years, a lingering scene has been looping in Chen Danqing's head: Two teenage boys race bicycles in Shanghai's narrow lanes, one surpassing the other, while they laugh and ring their bicycle bells.We are one of the leading italian solar panels manufacturers.Buy good quality solarpanel from Italy today! When they arrive at No 1301 West Huaihai Road, a Western building in the busiest area of the former French Concession, the two shout out at a second floor window. An older teenage boy pops his head out and says: "Come up!"
It was 1971, when the "cultural revolution" (1966-1976) was in full swing. Chen was 18. Han Xin, the other boy on the bicycle, had just turned into 16. And Lin Xudong, the one at the window, was 19.
That year, in the building that was Lin's house, the three school dropouts began their painting odyssey by covertly copying works of Western masters like Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) and Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) from remnants of pictures they had.
Recently, the trio dusted off many of the artworks they made over the past four decades and will air them once again at the Art Gallery of Chinese Academy of Oil Painting under the title Story of 40 Years.
The co-exhibition gathers their more than 200 artworks along with old photos and handwritten letters that bear witness to their long-lasting friendship.
The low-key opening ceremony lasted just five minutes and featured no big-name guests. But, even so, hundreds of art enthusiasts crammed into the gallery.
"The exhibition doesn't deliver a message of success. It just delivers sincerity, which is vanishing from today's art world," Chen says.
The artist's formative experiences are fairly well known to the general public.
With just a junior high school diploma, the self-taught artist was admitted as a painting-major postgraduate by the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1978,Our syringe needle and hypodermicneedlecannula are made of stainless steel 304 material. after being dispatched to rural Jiangxi province for eight years.
He achieved fame nationwide with his Tibet Series in the early 1980s. Later,There are several variations based on the zentaisuits including mummy bag, he gave up teaching at his alma mater to become a solo artist in New York.
In 2000, Chen returned to become an art doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University. But in 2004 he submitted his resignation in protest against the rule that talented young painters could be rejected because they failed an English entry exam.
Chen has since criticized the Chinese education system and spoken out on many other social issues.
"My fame has been foisted on me by the public," he says. "Only when I'm with Lin and Han can I be the 100 percent me."
When Chen first came to prominence with his Tibet Series, the public dubbed it the "Chen Danqing Complex", referring to the switch from the Soviet model of painting to a European style.
But Chen insists his awakening to a European consciousness was actually influenced by Lin and Han, especially Lin.
"Lin had the best aesthetic taste among us, yet he maintained the lowest profile," Chen says.
Many years later,Shop and save on blurayburners, Blu-Ray Burner, Chen learned by chance that Lin was born in the United States and grew up in France until he was age 4, when his father, a nuclear physicist, returned to help the construction of New China.
Lin was the first of the three who dared to portray nudity. He was also the first who prepared to enter the Central Academy of Fine Arts, when art schools were closed and everyone believed the "cultural revolution" would last forever.
But Lin was already 33 when he finally got into his dream school as a print-major postgraduate in 1984. He was the last of the three to be admitted.
"Part of my life experience can only be expressed by painting, while the rest can only be expressed by movies," Lin comments.The Tile Depot is the UK's largest independent floortiles retailer,
2011年6月22日 星期三
How a pet parent knows it's midwinter
1. The laundry floor, just inside the back door, is covered with moist bath-towels covered in soily pawprints. It's here where the cat and the dogs exit and re-enter (by pet flap) in the pursuit of their toilet duties. (Actually the flap part of the pet-flap no longer exists, having been shattered by a supersonic dachshund last winter and never replaced.)
2. Toilet duties are pursued more widely than during the warmer months. Specifically,Welcome to the official Facebook Page about Ripcurl. Connor won't do his business in the usual place, the concreted back yard. Instead, he prefers the wooden boards of the deck, the tiles of the laundry or, sorry to say, the carpet. Unluckily for us, winter forces Connor to backslide in his housetraining, and the wetter the weather is, the more back he slides.Use bluray burner to burn video to BD DVD on blu ray burner disc.
3. Dog walks are held in the dark, on footpaths shiny and soily from the rain.
4. Dog walks are - sad and shameful but true - sometimes missed. Sessions of indoor training or play can help keep the dogs stimulated, but luckily they seem content to sleep even more hours of the day than they do when there's an "r" in the month.buy landscape oil paintings online.
5. Sunny weekends become precious things, the best hours of which are given to taking the dogs to the park or the beach.Polycore zentai are manufactured as a single sheet,
6. All the pets grow more sociable, which is a mixed blessing. The instant I sit on the edge of the couch to answer the phone, two dogs and a tabby are climbing on me looking for places to sleep, if just for a couple of minutes. If I sit all the way down or especially put my feet up, then I'm quickly encrusted with heat-seeking four-leggers. Connor likes to sleep snuggled up to the side of my head, like a wire-haired, farting telephone.we supply all kinds of oil painting reproduction, Which is not that bad.
Such is winter in a home with pets. How do things change in your house during winter? Do your pets have ways of behaving that are specific to the season?
2. Toilet duties are pursued more widely than during the warmer months. Specifically,Welcome to the official Facebook Page about Ripcurl. Connor won't do his business in the usual place, the concreted back yard. Instead, he prefers the wooden boards of the deck, the tiles of the laundry or, sorry to say, the carpet. Unluckily for us, winter forces Connor to backslide in his housetraining, and the wetter the weather is, the more back he slides.Use bluray burner to burn video to BD DVD on blu ray burner disc.
3. Dog walks are held in the dark, on footpaths shiny and soily from the rain.
4. Dog walks are - sad and shameful but true - sometimes missed. Sessions of indoor training or play can help keep the dogs stimulated, but luckily they seem content to sleep even more hours of the day than they do when there's an "r" in the month.buy landscape oil paintings online.
5. Sunny weekends become precious things, the best hours of which are given to taking the dogs to the park or the beach.Polycore zentai are manufactured as a single sheet,
6. All the pets grow more sociable, which is a mixed blessing. The instant I sit on the edge of the couch to answer the phone, two dogs and a tabby are climbing on me looking for places to sleep, if just for a couple of minutes. If I sit all the way down or especially put my feet up, then I'm quickly encrusted with heat-seeking four-leggers. Connor likes to sleep snuggled up to the side of my head, like a wire-haired, farting telephone.we supply all kinds of oil painting reproduction, Which is not that bad.
Such is winter in a home with pets. How do things change in your house during winter? Do your pets have ways of behaving that are specific to the season?
2011年3月29日 星期二
Volunteers Beautify Communities, Lift Spirits
Thousands of volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined with school principals, government officials, neighbours and other willing workers on Saturday (26 March), to clean, paint, weed, trim and otherwise improve schools and other community facilities across the nation.
Students at Green Bay Primary School in Auckland's west were among some of those who benefited from the service of 'Mormon Helping Hands' volunteers. When children turned up to school on Monday they were greeted by a new, bright blue playground floor. On Saturday around 200 volunteers from the Church along with along with parents and staff from the school braved a wet morning to resurface the playground floor with seven pallets of safety rubber mats.
Local member of the Church, Debbie Neuman, worked with the school to coordinate the project. School principal Jude Black said replacing the new safety mats for the playground couldn't have come more quickly as the older mats were beginning to lift in places and posed a safety risk to the children.
Helping to improve the safety of the playground was one of the bigger projects at the school and one that had the biggest impact. Mrs. Neuman said that schools were a good choice for Mormon Helping Hands projects as schools often need a large labour pool to accomplish those projects that fall outside school guidelines or that are too big for school working bees to complete in a weekend. The labour provided to Green Bay Primary School by Mormon Helping Hands volunteers saved the school an estimated $20,000 in labour costs.
Other tasks completed on Saturday at the school included weeding and trimming the garden, moving mulch, building new seating and fixing class decks.
Makelesi Latu, who conducts music in her Mormon ward, travelled from Kelston early in the morning to help in the dirty work of pushing wheelbarrows filled with mulch to cover school gardens. Mrs. Latu does not have any children at Green Bay School but felt it was a good opportunity to contribute to the community.
Others who chose to give up their morning sleep-in on a wet Saturday included young adult helpers Lili, Sofia, Leota and Lesine who said through smiles that it was fun to come and help. Although the work was tough on hands they said they were happy to spend their time helping to lay the rubber mats - a job that took it's toll on manicures but not on spirits.
Parent Rebecca Bennett said the help would make a noticeable improvement to the school. She spent the morning clearing gutters and helping in the garden and although it was wet, she was willing to lose a Saturday at home to help make the playground safer for the children.
Also pitching in, school principal Jude Black helped paint a mural featuring the school's vision to 'Grow heart, mind and spirit.' She said she was very grateful to the Mormon Helping Hands volunteers for co-ordinating a project that was bringing parents, staff and community together.
She said the day had been "a culminating effort of planning and coming together with an impetus to improve the environment of the school for the benefit of the children."
In keeping with the vision of the school the community spirit was high, with parents, staff and Church members from different backgrounds working together to improve the school.
Local board member Catherine Farmer who came to view the work said "Schools service the whole community and it is amazing to see so many volunteers turn up on such a dull day to work together for the benefit of Green Bay School."
This is the fourth Mormon Helping Hands project to help a school in the Waitakere community. Projects have been completed at Woodlands Primary School, Rosebank Primary School and Kelston Intermediate Primary School.
"The Mormon Helping Hands programme is successful due to the donations of time and labour," says Mrs. Neuman. "These are commodities that are often in short supply in any community. The primary focus of the programme is to contribute to making a difference in communities."
Students at Green Bay Primary School in Auckland's west were among some of those who benefited from the service of 'Mormon Helping Hands' volunteers. When children turned up to school on Monday they were greeted by a new, bright blue playground floor. On Saturday around 200 volunteers from the Church along with along with parents and staff from the school braved a wet morning to resurface the playground floor with seven pallets of safety rubber mats.
Local member of the Church, Debbie Neuman, worked with the school to coordinate the project. School principal Jude Black said replacing the new safety mats for the playground couldn't have come more quickly as the older mats were beginning to lift in places and posed a safety risk to the children.
Helping to improve the safety of the playground was one of the bigger projects at the school and one that had the biggest impact. Mrs. Neuman said that schools were a good choice for Mormon Helping Hands projects as schools often need a large labour pool to accomplish those projects that fall outside school guidelines or that are too big for school working bees to complete in a weekend. The labour provided to Green Bay Primary School by Mormon Helping Hands volunteers saved the school an estimated $20,000 in labour costs.
Other tasks completed on Saturday at the school included weeding and trimming the garden, moving mulch, building new seating and fixing class decks.
Makelesi Latu, who conducts music in her Mormon ward, travelled from Kelston early in the morning to help in the dirty work of pushing wheelbarrows filled with mulch to cover school gardens. Mrs. Latu does not have any children at Green Bay School but felt it was a good opportunity to contribute to the community.
Others who chose to give up their morning sleep-in on a wet Saturday included young adult helpers Lili, Sofia, Leota and Lesine who said through smiles that it was fun to come and help. Although the work was tough on hands they said they were happy to spend their time helping to lay the rubber mats - a job that took it's toll on manicures but not on spirits.
Parent Rebecca Bennett said the help would make a noticeable improvement to the school. She spent the morning clearing gutters and helping in the garden and although it was wet, she was willing to lose a Saturday at home to help make the playground safer for the children.
Also pitching in, school principal Jude Black helped paint a mural featuring the school's vision to 'Grow heart, mind and spirit.' She said she was very grateful to the Mormon Helping Hands volunteers for co-ordinating a project that was bringing parents, staff and community together.
She said the day had been "a culminating effort of planning and coming together with an impetus to improve the environment of the school for the benefit of the children."
In keeping with the vision of the school the community spirit was high, with parents, staff and Church members from different backgrounds working together to improve the school.
Local board member Catherine Farmer who came to view the work said "Schools service the whole community and it is amazing to see so many volunteers turn up on such a dull day to work together for the benefit of Green Bay School."
This is the fourth Mormon Helping Hands project to help a school in the Waitakere community. Projects have been completed at Woodlands Primary School, Rosebank Primary School and Kelston Intermediate Primary School.
"The Mormon Helping Hands programme is successful due to the donations of time and labour," says Mrs. Neuman. "These are commodities that are often in short supply in any community. The primary focus of the programme is to contribute to making a difference in communities."
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