Tumgik
#is there an education system in daybreak town?
cq-studios · 8 months
Note
29. How do you think they would be as a parent?—Ephemer
Ooh, okay, I do spend quite a bit of time thinking about this.
So, I think Ephemer would be a really fun dad overall, but he’s also not entirely stable.
He’d mask a lot of his pain with his cheery demeanour but sometimes his kid(s) will come home and just see him completely broken on the couch or something. Ephemer has a lot of trauma and I very much doubt Scala in general, let alone early Scala, has a good grasp on or ways to help treat mental health issues.
Speaking of that trauma though, I don’t think he’d want his kid(s) to be Keyblade wielders. I’ve talked about this before, but Daybreak Town certainly had a lot of kids dying… all the time. I can’t imagine that anyone, let alone someone as social as Ephemer, could’ve avoided that. I feel that Ephemer would be against kids wielding Keyblades similarly to how Skuld was against Shift Pride, with the compromise being the education system. Even still though, I can’t imagine Ephemer would be too comfortable with the idea.
I also think for similar reasons that he’d be a bit of a helicopter parent lol. All up in his kid(s) business, always checking in to make sure they’re okay, can’t let them out of sight for too long. Like people who had too much freedom when they were younger tend to not give their kids enough freedom and Ephemer certainly had quite a bit of freedom when he was younger.
I feel like his partner would try and rein him in a bit, to moderate success. The anxiety wins over quite often, but it gets better as the kid(s) get older.
I’m trying to think if I have any other headcannons about this but I think that’s it
12 notes · View notes
oakwoodlife · 2 years
Text
Summer Must-Dos in South Jordan, Utah for the Active 55 and Over Community
There is nothing quite like summer days in South Jordan. Between the epic sunsets and majestic mountain views, South Jordan provides an exciting and community-based experience for everyone: from children to young adults. However, those in 55 and over communities, in particular, have found South Jordan to provide a bustling and welcoming environment during the summer months.
Whether your interests include community get-togethers, outdoor activities, or cultural connections, South Jordan is bound to have an abundance of it! OakwoodLife’s gorgeous Daybreak Community is only a five-minute walk or bike ride from shops, restaurants, and the light rail system, known as TRAX, making South Jordan easy to access, especially in the warm summer months. This means that whether you are wanting to take a trip into the city for a night in Salt Lake City or prefer to stay in the heart of South Jordan, there are plenty of activities right at your fingertips. Here are a few of our favorite things to do for those blissful summer days in stunning South Jordan, Utah, for the fifty-five and over community:
City Led Activities (That will make you fall even more in love with South Jordan.)
One of the most endearing aspects of South Jordan is its small-town community feel. Movies in the Moonlight is a summer activity hosted by the city that provides food trucks and movies at dusk for the entire South Jordan community. Get to know your neighbors, try some local cuisine, and sit back for a traditional summer favorite.
SoJo SummerFest is another popular activity for residents in the early summer. Complete with games, parades, music, and more, Summerfest provides joy for the young and the young at heart, just a moment away from SpringHouse Village.
Outdoor Activities (Suitable for the 55 and Over Community)
For those perfect days with the smell of summer in the air, South Jordan provides a multitude of activities for those who are looking to stay active and get outside. The Glenmoor Golf Course is a favorite of the Daybreak community, as well as those in the surrounding area. This 18-hole course is a par 72 and treats golfers to mountainous views and idyllic conditions in the summer months.
Oquirrh Lake is another favorite for those who are looking to get outside during the warmer months. The entire trail surrounding the lake is paved, making it suitable for all levels of hikers, and provides an easy getaway into nature, no matter the time of year. Additionally, Daybreak residents are permitted to boat within the lake for some summertime water fun.
Cultural Activities (For art and music lovers alike.)
The District is a popular area for summertime social events within the 55-plus communities and for good reason! This 120-acre development provides specialty shops, top-of-the-line restaurants, incredible architecture, and a stunning view of the Salt Lake Valley. For those looking to take advantage of long summer nights on patios with friends, the District will be your place to do just that.
For an educational experience that highlights art and the history of South Jordan, Gale Center of History and Culture provides a classic museum experience With regular events and changes of displays, this should be on your South Jordan to-do list.
55 Plus Communities: Making the Most out of Summertime in South Jordan
Whether you have recently moved to SpringHouse Village or have grown up surrounded by the comradery and majesty of South Jordan, you will be certain to find a few summer adventures in South Jordan.
At the end of the day, with your cheeks kissed by the sun, it is relaxing to know you can return home to the cozy space within your 55 and over community. From all of us at OakwoodLife, we wish you a happy, relaxing, and healthy summer.
The post Summer Must-Dos in South Jordan, Utah for the Active 55 and Over Community appeared first on OakwoodLife.
Originally published here: https://myoakwoodlife.com/blog/summer-must-dos-in-south-jordan-utah-for-the-active-55-and-over-community/
1 note · View note
awtuscanywriting · 4 years
Conversation
Blaine: Ventus can you read this list out loud for the others?
Ventus: No, I cannot. (zooms in) Yo, what's up, I'm Ventus, I'm 10 and I never learned how to read!
24 notes · View notes
vivi-mire · 2 years
Text
I need a big old lore book on mundane shit to be released right now. I need to know the staple foods of destiny islands so bad it’s unreal.
Does anyone else have any hcs about the general worldbuilding of the original kh worlds? Stuff like the daybreak town education system or the radiant garden drinking age. If you do please please add them on to this post I’m begging you. I want to hear them so badly
45 notes · View notes
ersrtdrtf · 3 years
Text
threw the letter after me without opening it
Another displayed a gigantic turtle, strung up by its legs on iron chains, heavy as a horse. Crabs scrabbled inside casks of brine and seaweed. 2d. “The domestic relations of master and slave.”—These relations are much misunderstood by many lugosis carhartt persons at the North, who regard the terms as synonymous with oppressor and oppressed. Before I had got down the first flight of stairs he opened the door again and threw the letter after me without opening it. I went home and told mother all about it. If the gods had given her the strength they gave Jaime and fekete női bakancs that swaggering oaf Robert, she could have made her own escape. Oh, for a sword and the skill to wield it. A brothel. Half of her freedmen were from Yunkai, where the Wise Masters had been famed for training bedslaves. Beckman, E. R. He said Meereen’s turn would come soon, so I cut his tongue out and fed it to a yellow dog. No dog will eat a liar’s tongue. But, while we cherish all these considerations, we must also remember that it is no love to the South to countenance and defend a pernicious system; a system which is as injurious to the master as to the slave; a system which turns fruitful fields to deserts; a system ruinous to education, to morals, and to religion and social progress; a system of which many of the most intelligent and valuable men at the South are weary, and from which they desire to escape, and by emigration are yearly escaping. Neither must we concede the rights of the slave; for he is also our brother, and there is a reason why we should speak for him which does not exist in the case of his master. Jon wanted nothing more. No, he had to tell himself, those days are gone. The sow ate them from her hand, squealing happily. “When we perform for Queen Daenerys the silver will rain down, you’ll see.”. They, with four or five other women in the prison, used to meet together, before daybreak, to spread their sorrows before the Refuge of the afflicted; and in these prayers the hard-hearted slave-dealer was daily remembered. The brothers of Mary and Emily were very gentle and tender in their treatment of their sisters, which had an influence upon other men in their company.. Leathers calls him Wun Wun, and that seems to serve.” Wun Wun was very little like the giants in Old Nan’s tales, those huge savage creatures who mixed blood into their morning porridge and devoured whole bulls, hair and hide and horns. This giant ate no polo raflorene meat at all, though he cizme din denim was a holy terror when served a basket of roots, crunching onions and turnips and even raw hard neeps between his big square teeth. “Then give me men, Sire. I will provide officers for each of the abandoned forts, seasoned commanders who know the Wall and the lands beyond, and how best to survive the coming winter. All they did was make beautiful things. I have a tapestry they gave me hanging over my bed. You have remodelled him. I will confess the idea did occur to me, then, that you rather than anyone might secure his happiness. A light wind was riffling the waters of the pool below, lugosis carhartt all around the naked swordsman. It reminded him of how Tysha would riffle his hair during the false spring of their marriage, before he helped his father’s guardsmen rape her. The first Council of Orange, held in 441, ordained in its seventh canon that the church should check by ecclesiastical censures whoever desired to reduce to any kind of servitude баскетболни обувки jordan slaves who had been emancipated within the enclosure of the church. A century later, the same prohibition was repeated in the seventh canon of the fifth Council of Orleans, held in 549. The one between his ankles was no more than a foot long, shortening his stride to a shuffle. It was hard to move quickly that way, but bocanci grisport 480 he adidas retro schuhe männer tried as best he could, hopping and clanking from his pallet. The Lord of the Dreadfort will bring his knights up the causeway, whilst his son leads his own men down on you from the north. No quarter will be granted. Lord Tywin Lannister wrote me himself to say that he had Wylis. If I would have him freed unharmed, he told me, I must repent my treason, yield my city, declare my loyalty to the boy king on the Iron Throne … and bend my knee to sac camelbak lobo Roose Bolton, his Warden of the North. Strange! Anna Andreyevna looked inquiringly at Nikolay Sergeyitch, and seemed positively pouting a little as though she were resentful. “Is it really worth while to print and read such nonsense, and they pay money for it, too,” was written on her face. Not long since, in the village of Richmond, Madison county, he applied to several churches for permission to lecture on the nike delta force ár moral and religious condition of the slaves, but was unsuccessful. February 1st, in the evening, he preached to the colored congregation of that place, after which he was assailed by a mob, and driven from the town. For half a heartbeat it eluded him, and that frightened him so badly that he tripped on the steep dungeon steps and tore his breeches open on the stone, drawing blood. Little Walder had to shove the torch at him to get him back on his feet and moving again.. Stretch out your neck, my lord.” The pale morning sunlight ran up and down his blade as Jon clasped the hilt of the bastard sword with both hands and raised it high. “If you have any last words, now is the time to speak them,” he said, expecting one last curse.. He should not have said that. Victarion took him around the throat with his burned hand and lifted him bodily into the air. But in the night the waters rose and drowned them, and from that day to this they have not rested. They are down there still beneath the water, they who were once the lords of fire.
1 note · View note
Text
Welcome to Daybreak Academy!
Nestled on the outskirts of a sleepy tourist trap called Cable Town is the prestigious boarding school, Daybreak Academy. Established in 1972, Daybreak was the brainchild of one generous man who wished to give equal learning to a variety of truly exceptional children.
Daybreak Academy's finest attraction is its house system; separated into five houses (Unicornis, Ursus, Anguis, Leopardus, and Vulpes) students are sorted by their main learning style to further enrich their education. Each house is commanded by its respective headmaster- Ira for Unicornis, Aced for Ursus, Invi for Anguis, Gula for Leopardus, and Ava for Vulpes.
But no school is without its interesting students. Adopted by Ava when he was 5, Ephemer is an occupational troublemaker who almost always gets away with his schemes. The fact that he's quite familiar with the other headmasters has absolutely everything to do with it. Skuld, his best friend, is far more focused on her studies. Familiar with a life under pressure, Skuld is one unconscious act away from possibly harming her mental and physical health in the name of a good grade.
Meanwhile, as a much shyer member of the student body, Strelitzia is quite comfortable with being in the background. There's a part of Strelitzia that has yet to show itself- but will it make her a stronger person, or will it cause her to become more of a recluse?
Starting in January 2020, Anora Ravishta is Daybreak's newest student. A well rounded learner, and unusual in her enrollment during winter break, Anora is unknowingly about to become the linchpin in many events over the next year.
☆ ⚬ ☆ ⚬ ☆ ⚬ ☆ ⚬ ☆ ⚬ ☆ ⚬ ☆ ⚬ ☆ ⚬ ☆
Daybreak Academy is a Kingdom Hearts high school AU, focused primarily on Union Cross and its plethora of characters. Original characters are added to give a much wider cast, when needed. The story is currently a work in progress, with chapters being updated every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Chapters are posted using Tumblr's queue system; it is currently set for 8 AM EST (12 PM UTC).
Start the story at the first chapter: The First Day
Start the story from chapter 25: Pysanka
Start the story from chapter 50: Are You Ready?
Start the story from chapter 75: What Me Worry?
Start the story from chapter 100: Anora Talks Back
Want to know more? Check out the About page here: About
Have a question that isn't covered in the About? Do so here: Ask
Have time to answer a five question survey? Do so: here
8 notes · View notes
hclianthi · 5 years
Text
I feel like it’s important to note just how sheltered the keykids are and how that affects the way their Keyblade War escalated. And it mainly comes down to one particular fact.
The keykids.....don’t really understand ‘death’. 
It’s easy to assume that all their talk of ‘disappearing’ and ‘going missing’ is just Disney Language™, but no. Throughout the disney worlds themselves, death and dying are constantly used and referenced everywhere except the one place you’d think the idea would be normalized - the one place where dying in the line of duty is almost expected. But it isn’t. To the keykids, to fall in battle isn’t dying. You only disappear. It’s like someone just...moves away. You just stop seeing them anymore, but it’s not a big deal.
Tumblr media Tumblr media
There’s a concerning level of desensitization in Daybreak Town regarding the lives lost as a keyblade wielder. This extends even to the post-Foretellers world where, in the Summer Break special story missions, the fact that something in the realm of darkness was swallowing up keykids left and right wasn’t even given a thought until the sheer numbers they were losing was impossible to ignore. 
And I think this is intentional. It’s become increasingly obvious that the chi/khux war was set up in deeper ways than we initially expected. Despite being within the assumed 12-16 general age range, a lot of these kids act a lot younger than they are. There’s an immaturity that you usually see in blatantly sheltered kids, and a tendency towards lashing out when provoked (even in regards to the Player themselves), and that’s why the fights start breaking out so quickly over seemingly nothing. Daybreak Town has no solid emotional support or education system to teach them the levels of control they need in these situations. 
Tumblr media
And with no solid emotional or logical grounding, especially with their only adult/parental figures all outright encouraging this with their own agendas and resignment to a fate they refuse to avoid, the children who depend on them for guidance can only follow their lead in the name of their Unions. 
Tumblr media
And this I think is exactly the intent behind this portion of MoM’s plan. The truly exceptional are recruited by Ava and kept away from the fighting for ‘what comes after’, while the others go to war - potentially as a summoning method for Kingdom Hearts, which appears after all the kids have already fallen.
After all, if there’s no concept of death, why would they be afraid to go to war for their Unions? Why should they even give a second thought to making those other kids in other Unions ‘disappear’, especially if those kids are the real bad guys anyway? 
Tumblr media
12 notes · View notes
Text
*kicks down plotting room door* You! *points at all the Vexen rpers.* One of you needs to rp with me the plot thread of Vexen/Even postkh3 putting together that Demyx never had a proper education past elementary/primary school. And it is therefore impossible to tell what Demyx’s IQ actually is/could be with proper schooling. 
It’s just something tells me the Unions weren’t fighting heartless after school. And even if they were the Dandelions definitely weren’t going to school in the fake Daybreak town. And since Demyx doesn’t remember most of this time anyway/any knowledge about the worlds he did remember would be inaccurate after 2000 years. He’d know basically nothing and have to start from scratch. So he must have soaked things up like a sponge when he got picked up by the org at 16. But they definitely didn’t have a schooling system. So he was labeled stupid when his reports were written at elementary schoolers reading level and not in an essay like formate of a highschooler.
16 notes · View notes
newstfionline · 3 years
Text
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Biden delivers confident assessment: ‘We’re going to win this race’ (Yahoo News) Democratic nominee Joe Biden addressed the nation Friday, after his growing lead in the presidential election’s key battleground states appeared to have placed him on the verge of victory. "The numbers tell us a clear and convincing story: We're going to win this race," Biden said. The remarks came as the race appeared to be quickly slipping away from Trump. As votes continued to be counted in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania, Biden held a lead in all of them. The Associated Press and Fox had already called Arizona for Biden; any of the remaining three states would put the Democrat over the 270 Electoral College votes needed to secure the presidency. But ahead of Biden’s speech in Wilmington, President Trump made clear that he would not be conceding defeat in the race anytime soon. “Joe Biden should not wrongfully claim the office of the President!” Trump tweeted. “I could make that claim also. Legal proceedings are just now beginning!” Early on Wednesday, several hours after the polls closed, Trump made an appearance and declared he had already won the election. "We will win this, and as far as I'm concerned, we already have,” he told supporters in the East Room of the White House.
Presidential election exposes America’s ‘perilous’ divides (AP) Presidential elections can be revealing moments that convey the wishes of the American people to the next wave of elected officials. So far, the big reveal in the contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden is the extent of the cavernous divide between Republican and Democratic America, one that defines the nation, no matter which candidate ultimately wins. Voters from both parties turned out in droves to pick the next president, but as they did so, they found little agreement about what that president should do. Democrats and Republicans prioritized different issues, lived in different communities and even voted on different kinds of ballots. Whoever emerges as the winner, that division ensures that the next president will face significant gridlock in Congress, skepticism about the integrity of the vote and an agitated electorate increasingly divided by race, education and geography. Even the vote count itself threatens to further split Americans. “Except for the Civil War, I don’t think we’ve lived through any time as perilous as this in terms of the divisions,” said historian Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Eta back to sea as Central America tallies damages and dead (AP) As the remnants of Hurricane Eta moved back over Caribbean waters, governments in Central America worked to tally the displaced and dead, and recover bodies from landslides and flooding that claimed dozens of lives from Guatemala to Panama. It will be days before the true toll of Eta is known. Its torrential rains battered economies already strangled by the COVID-19 pandemic, took all from those who had little and laid bare the shortcomings of governments unable to aid their citizens and pleading for international assistance. Shortly after Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández asked neighboring Guatemala for help rescuing residents stranded near their shared border Thursday, Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said at least 50 people had been killed in landslides in his own country, most of them in a remote town rescuers struggled to reach. A week of rain spoiled crops, washed away bridges and flooded homes across Central America. Hurricane Eta’s arrival Tuesday afternoon in northeast Nicaragua followed days of drenching rain as it crawled toward shore. Its slow, meandering path north through Honduras pushed rivers over their banks and pouring into neighborhoods where families were forced onto rooftops to wait for rescue. / (Reuters, later:) The death toll from the calamitous storm Eta in Central America soared on Friday after the Guatemalan military reached a remote mountainous village where torrential rains had triggered devastating mudslides, killing about 100 people. Another 50 are missing.
Brazilian state of Amapa suffers a power blackout for days (AP) A fire at an electricity substation has caused four days of blackouts in most of northern Brazil’s Amapa state, disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The outage began Tuesday night when a fire damaged a transformer, interrupting the power supply to 13 of the state’s 16 municipalities, including the capital Macapa, the state government said. Amapa state, on Brazil’s border with French Guyana, has a total of 850,000 residents. Nearly 90% of Amapa’s population was still without power on Friday morning, according to the state’s communications secretary. Thousands of people lined up to fill water jugs and tanks at places in the capital where supply was still available, according to images shown in local press. Most of the population was without telephone service or internet access.
Minks (National Geographic) Minks, which are raised for their fur around much of the world, are, like several other mammals, able to catch coronaviruses from humans. That’s the bad news. The worse news is that 207 fur farms in Denmark are home to minks that tested positive for the coronavirus. The even worse news is that the nation’s public health authority found that the virus can then circulate between minks and humans, and worse still, the virus has mutated in the minks. Half of the 783 human cases in the north of the country are related to the minks’ mutant coronavirus. That’s extremely bad, as if this strain gets around it may be sufficiently mutated to undermine the efficacy of a future vaccine. In light of this, Denmark will kill every one of the 15 million mink in the country’s 1,200 fur farms as a precautionary step.
France reinforcing its border controls following attacks (AP) French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that France is reinforcing its border controls after a series of attacks that hit the country in recent weeks. Macron said the number of police and troops in charge of border controls will double from 2,400 now to 4,800. They will focus on fighting illegal immigration and smuggling activities, he said, during a visit to a frontier post in Le Perthus, at the border with Spain. In addition, Macron said he will push for changes to make controls at the European Union’s external borders more efficient. “Attacks in France, in Austria a few days ago in Vienna, show us that the terrorist risk is everywhere, that (terrorist) networks are global ... which forces Europe to intensify its response,” he said. France will present its proposals at a European summit in December.
Greece imposes lockdown to avoid worst at hospitals (AP) With a surge in coronavirus cases straining health systems in many European countries, Greece announced a nationwide lockdown Thursday in the hopes of stemming a rising tide of patients before its hospitals come under “unbearable” pressure. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that he acted before infection rates reached the levels seen in many neighboring countries because, after years of financial crises that have damaged its health system, it couldn’t afford to wait as long to impose restrictions as others had. The lockdown takes effect at daybreak on Saturday across the country and will last until the end of the month. People will only be allowed to leave their homes for work, physical exercise and medical reasons—and only after sending a text message to authorities. Shops will shut, although supermarkets and other food stores will remain open. Restaurants will operate on a delivery-only basis.
Kosovo President Resigns to Fight War Crimes Case in the Netherlands (NYT) The president of Kosovo, a guerrilla leader during Kosovo’s fight for independence against Serbia, resigned on Thursday to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special international court in the Netherlands. The president, Hashim Thaci, 52, said at a news conference in Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, that he was stepping down to protect the office of the presidency. The former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Mr. Thaci was indicted in June by the special court in The Hague on 10 counts of war crimes. Prosecutors accused him and other former independence fighters of being “criminally responsible for nearly 100 murders.” A judge at the court also confirmed war crimes charges against Jakup Krasniqi, a former interim president of Kosovo. Prosecutors said Wednesday that he had been arrested with the help of European Union authorities.
Belarus nuclear plant opens (Foreign Policy) The first nuclear plant in Belarus began operations on Thursday amid objections from neighboring Lithuania, whose citizens live within roughly 12 miles of the facility. The plant, built by Russian state company Rosatom, will eventually power a third of Belarus according to a statement from its energy ministry. Lithuania’s complaints about problems with the plant’s construction have been waved off by Russia, who say it meets the highest international standards. Lithuania has offered free potassium iodide tablets—which can protect the thyroid gland from radioactive iodine released during nuclear accidents—to residents near the plant in the event of a nuclear meltdown.
Iraqi forces kill protester, wound 40 in southern Basra (AP) Iraqi security forces killed at least one anti-government protester using live gunfire and wounded at least 40 others in the southern city of Basra on Friday, security sources and a rights official said. It was the first killing of a protester by security forces in Basra since Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi took office in May. Deadly flare-ups have been rare since protests against Iraq’s ruling elite and demanding jobs and services largely subsided earlier this year. During months of anti-government protests that erupted under his predecessor Adel Abdul Mahdi in October 2019, more than 500 people were killed, mostly young unarmed demonstrators.
Israel rebuked for ‘biggest demolition of Palestinian homes in years’ (BBC) The United Nations has rebuked Israel for carrying out what it said was the biggest demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank for a decade. Some 73 people, including 41 children, were made homeless when their dwellings were knocked down in the Bedouin settlement of Khirbet Humsa, in the Jordan Valley, the UN said. The Israeli military said the structures had been built illegally. But the UN called the Israeli actions a “grave breach” of international law. According to the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), 76 structures—including homes, animal shelters, toilets and solar panels—were destroyed when Israeli bulldozers moved in late on Tuesday. Footage from the scene following the demolition, released by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, showed the area strewn with wreckage including twisted metal, sheets and cots. “This is a great injustice,” resident Harb Abu al-Kabash told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “We didn’t know they were coming and we didn’t prepare, and now we are facing rain.”
Ethiopia conflict escalates as army sends more troops to Tigray region (Washington Post) Ethiopia’s dispute with the northern Tigray region escalated Thursday with reports of heavy shelling and the army’s deputy chief declaring that the country had entered into “an unexpected war” and was sending more troops to the area. The intensifying conflict drew an urgent international response, with the United Nations dispatching a special envoy to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, and the International Crisis Group warning that the conflict could spread beyond Ethiopia’s borders. Clashes erupted in Tigray on Wednesday after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, sent troops into Tigray province and declared a “military confrontation” after the regional government attacked a federal military base.
0 notes
Text
I will carry on writing this stuff until someone stops me A very near miss
Newly arrived in South Africa and working at Cresset House Camphill Village
Glenn Austin
Midrand
South Africa12/85 to 12/86
This will sound odd but I would go for walks just to take photos of the red rocky ground. I was fascinated by the intensity of sunlight and how it made things look especially at the start and the end of the day. 
The rocks in the river bed nearby looked as alien as anything from Mars (they were some of the oldest geology on the planet) and when the summer rains came, the violence and drama of the lightning storms and the deluge that followed. 
On Sundays evenings I would walk out and watch the local people hold services by the river. Lots of dancing and singing. I fell in love with South Africa instantly. 
The job was more than hard. It started at daybreak dealing with my one hundred ancient chickens and their meagre egg output. I would spend the rest of the morning leading a team of people working in the building heat out of the day on the vegetable garden. And then in the afternoon, I made the bread for the site. Really inedible stuff and I was replaced. All of this was done without the aid of technology or agricultural pesticides. I killed the hordes of rats and a few snakes that hung about the chicken houses in other ways you don’t want to hear about.
 I rebuilt dirt roads and created horse corrals and generally maintained the estate.  And we did all of this alongside people who were intellectually disabled (in the words of the time in South Africa, mentally retarded).Then outside of land and kitchen work, I ran various kinds of educational groups and some bizarre entertainments. The working day extended from not later than 6am and extended till 9pm (on-call all night), six days a week. And we did not get paid. 
Essentially the estate was a community, we were provided with pocket money, accommodation, food and occasional payments for clothing. Lynn, my wife cooked meals for the site and residents (or co-workers) in our house and covered for the house mother when she was off. My eldest daughter, who was four, spent the day watching and helping me and our youngest who was one stayed with Lynn. 
We ran Sunset House and a mixture of people from all around the world worked in the same way on five other houses which were grouped around an irregular circuit. Most were like me and Lynn but there was a core of people who had been with the Camphill organisation for decades. Some since childhood. Attached to the site was a compound of simple buildings which housed African Workers who mostly came from the Transkei region of the country. They were a parallel workforce which operated under the direction of a man who acted as a kind of  foreman. 
Our director was a lovely woman called Karen Von Schilling who as her name suggests came from a German aristocratic background. Her father had helped develop the V2 rockets which fell on London in the latter years of the war. Karen had rejected her family background and after the war came to Aberdeen in Scotland to train in this unusual system under a well known doctor who followed the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner who created Steiner Schools across the world. I have skimmed over a lot there and some might want to read about the near-unique nature of the Camphill and Steiner movements. Most of that year is a memory of exhaustion and developing friction with the people who ran the place. They had some odd religious and other views which were unusual and I really did not like. Some were fanatical about these things and I increasingly ignored the structure and did my own thing. What was not in doubt was the quality of what was being done and how much the resident’s benefited from a life where their work and abilities were essential for the operation of the place. The disagreements covered a lot of things, but what I missed most of all was red meat which was banned. I would walk miles into the nearest town to have a hamburger and fries and a beer.TV and radio were not allowed on the site. All our news came from the Johannesburg Star newspaper which arrived at about four each afternoon. There was a race to the office to get hold of it. 
As is well known the country was in a state of near civil war and the papers were heavily censored (the front page had blanked out columns to show where officials had blocked publication of a story). Apart from June 16th, a special day which commemorates the Soweto uprising of 1976, little of what was going on impinged upon us. On that day special precautions were put in place and we all stayed on site. 
The days off are vivid in my mind. Lynn, I and the kids would somehow get to Olifantsfontein where there was a train station and travel into Johannesburg where we would head for Joubert Park for a picnic or maybe sloppy chips (don’t ask). As we got a bit more money we would have lunch at the Wimpy bar on Rissik Street. Unbeknown to us a number of security policemen went there for their lunch each day. This was noted by MK, the military wing of the ANC and a limpet mine device was planted there at lunchtime on the 24th June. A similar one in nearby Benoni caused many more causalities. We would almost certainly have been at the Rissik street branch when the explosive device went off seriously injuring five people. As it was my regular day off had been cancelled or changed because we were short of staff. I was furious about that but then got a phone from my mum in the middle of the night asking if we were okay. I counted myself very lucky. It had been on the UK news and she knew it was our day off and we were likely to have been there. 
An account of the two bombings is in the record of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which was set up after as part of the deal which ended Apartheid
Tomorrow: Hillbrow and something completely different
Photographs.
The Rissik Street Wimpy
A 2020 photo  of another South African Camphill Village showing how we worked at Cresset
Tumblr media Tumblr media
0 notes
xeford2020 · 4 years
Text
A Deeper Look: The Mattox Family Home
Tumblr media
The Mattox Home in Greenfield Village THF68734 Through furnishings and presentations, the Mattox Home in Greenfield Village tells the story of one family living in rural Georgia in the 1930s. Read on to discover more about the community in Bryan County (where the house was originally located), learn about the Mattox family, and get an inside look at how they lived. Amos and Grace Mattox Amos Mattox, probably born around 1889, grew up in this house during the harsh years of Southern segregation. He and his wife, Grace, married in 1909.
The home in Greenfield Village is shown as it would have been during the 1930s, when the entire country was in the grip of the Great Depression. Low prices and little demand for farm products created a crisis for farmers throughout the country, and many abandoned their land. Amos and Grace Mattox maintained their resourceful lifestyle, keeping up a vegetable garden, livestock, and fowl to feed themselves and two young children, Carrie and Amos, Jr. To supplement the family’s income, Amos worked at various jobs—as a laborer for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railway and at the local sawmill, and as a shoemaker, carpenter, and barber. He also served as a deacon at the Bryan Neck Baptist Church. The church had been founded by his grandfather Amos Morel, a formerly enslaved steam engineer who, in the 1870s, purchased the land the Mattox home stood on. Like his grandfather, Amos Mattox sold parts of his family’s land when he needed cash.
Grace Mattox is remembered by her children as a busy and meticulous homemaker. In addition to daily chores, she canned fruits and vegetables, cared and provided for elderly and sick neighbors, crocheted, did “fancy work” embroidery, and made her home as cozy and attractive as possible. A devoted mother, she encouraged and supported the education of her two children, walking a mile to and from their school daily with a “proper hot lunch” for them.
Although life was hard, the Mattox family proudly affirmed that there was "always enough."
Tumblr media
A copy of the only known photograph of Amos Mattox, Sr. THF135142
African American Community Life in 1930s Bryan County, GeorgiaSixty-five years after the Civil War, coastal Georgia was a land of sleepy towns, cypress swamps, moss-hung trees, oxcarts, horse-drawn wagons, and a few cars. Among long-abandoned crumbling mansions stood small farmhouses scattered about on what were once extensive holdings of plantation land but were now mostly small individual farms—some privately owned like the Mattox home and property, but most rented on the share system. Following the breakup of the large plantations after the Civil War, members of the same family tended to settle close together on the same land where they had lived when they were enslaved. A generation later, this was still true of the Mattox family. Amos Mattox, Jr., remembers his Uncle Henry living within “hollerin’ distance” and his Uncle Charlie living 5 to 10 minutes’ walk away. In the absence of telephones, close neighbors could be hailed by shouting.
What we know about the Mattox family comes from record searches and oral interviews. When Henry Ford acquired the Mattox home in 1943, there were still many people alive who could recall their youth on the very land on which their descendants lived. Elderly, formerly enslaved neighbors like “Aunt” Jane Lewis were links to the past for children like Carrie and Amos Mattox, Jr.
Tumblr media
Henry Ford moved the Mattox Home to Greenfield Village in 1943. He can be seen in this photograph (far right) with Grace Mattox (in the doorway) and others at the home on its original site. THF123296
Like 89 percent of rural homes in 1930, the Mattox home lacked electricity and running water; kerosene lamps provided light. However, the Mattoxes owned a battery-operated radio and a hand-cranked phonograph. Amos, Jr., and Carrie could recall few leisure activities, but many occasions when the family worked together, farming, gardening, canning, and doing the wash. Most work was done outside, with seats provided on porches and under grape arbors. Houses were hot and close inside, and were used mainly for sleeping, bathing, or as shelter from the rain. In the evening the Mattoxes read from the family Bible.
Neighbors allowed their livestock, cattle and hogs, to range freely on common ground in the forest (families notched their animals’ ears with distinctive markings to prove ownership). After butchering a hog, the Mattoxes would smoke the hams for a few months in the chimney of their home. According to Amos, Jr., the chimney, made of clay and sticks, occasionally caught fire. To extinguish the fires, a member of the family climbed on the roof and poured water down the chimney.
Health care was poor and infant mortality high. Grace Mattox gave birth to six children, only two of whom survived past infancy. Often, community members would take shifts caring for a sick person night and day. Grace Mattox was instrumental in organizing home nursing for her local community.
The Mattox family’s social life, like that of their neighbors, centered around the Bryan Neck Baptist Church and the prayer house associated with it. The prayer house was about 150 feet from the Mattoxes’ home. They attended prayer meetings in Bryan Neck Baptist Church every other Sunday morning at daybreak. On alternate Sundays and Sunday evenings, as well as on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, they walked to the prayer house. The whole community was thought of as one family, including mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, and close friends. They celebrated holidays together, cared for one another in times of sickness and crisis, shared their surplus produce, and encouraged and supported one another in their daily lives.
The Mattox Home in Greenfield Village In 1943 Henry Ford brought the Mattox home to Greenfield Village. After the purchase he agreed to let the Mattoxes continue to live on the property, built the family a new house, and bought new furnishings for it. Since no written agreement was found regarding the continued use of the property after the death of Henry Ford (1947) and his wife, Clara (1950), the Mattoxes were, sadly, evicted by the new owners, the Southern Kraft Timberland Company.
Tumblr media
View of the Mattox Home in Greenfield Village, showing the vegetable garden and the birdhouses made from gourds THF45319
Exterior and Grounds Bryan County, Georgia, lies in a swampy region of the Low Country. People living in this area usually maintained yards of swept dirt to prevent the growth of vegetation and keep mosquitoes and snakes away from the houses. Residents swept fancy designs into the dirt to make the yards more attractive, especially around holidays. People also fashioned birdhouses from gourds to attract purple martins, which feed on mosquitoes and other flying insects. The birdhouses at the Mattox home, as well as the roof repaired with a cast-off sign, are examples of the family’s ingenious use of available resources.
Vegetable Garden Most of what the Mattox family produced was for their own use. In their vegetable garden the Mattoxes raised corn, sweet potatoes, rice, peas, beans, tomatoes, and okra, as well as collard, mustard, and turnip greens.
Tumblr media
Rear view of the Mattox Home in Greenfield Village (the grape arbor is visible at right) THF1967
Grape Arbor In the warm climate of coastal Georgia, families spent much of their lives outdoors. The Mattoxes’ grape arbor provided a cool, shady space for household chores like laundering or food preservation. Amos Mattox made wine from the native Southern scuppernong and muscadine grape varieties grown there.
Chicken Yard The Mattox family raised chickens, hogs, and goats for their own use. The chickens and goats were confined in the yard near the house, while the hogs were allowed to range freely.
Tumblr media
Interior of the Mattox Home in Greenfield Village THF53390
The Home That Mattoxes covered their interior walls with newspaper for both insulation and decoration. Photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s show that this was the norm rather than the exception in small rural homes in the South.
Much of the furniture now in the home was owned by the Mattox family. The mirror on the wall originally belonged to Amos Mattox’s grandfather, Amos Morel. Needlework scattered through the rooms represent Grace Mattox’s sewing and decorating skills. Over the mantel is a copy of the only known photograph of Amos Mattox, Sr. Pictures and fans with representations of religious themes and the family Bible reflect the strong religious grounding of the family. A checkerboard with bottle caps as game pieces and homemade dolls show how the family overcame the constraints of limited means.
Tumblr media
Mattox Home kitchen THF53400
The room attached to the rear of the home contains the kitchen and dining room, often used as the children’s bedroom. On the woodburning cookstove, Grace Mattox prepared meals for her family and dishes to bring to church suppers and community celebrations. The family worked together to prepare canned goods that could be stored on shelves in the kitchen for use throughout the year. Explore the Mattox Family Home for yourself in the Porches & Parlors district in Greenfield Village.
#1 Ford Daily | Đại lý – Showroom ủy quyền Ford Việt Nam 2019 Ford Daily là showroom, đại lý Ford lớn nhất Việt Nam: Chuyên phân phối xe ô tô FORD như: EcoSport ✅ Everest ✅ Explorer ✅ Focus ✅ Ranger… [email protected] 6A Đường Trần Hưng Đạo, Phường Phạm Ngũ Lão, Quận 1, Hồ Chí Minh 711240 0901333373 https://forddaily.com/ https://forddaily.com/xe/ https://forddaily.com/dai-ly/ https://forddaily.com/bang-gia/ https://forddaily.com/tra-gop/ #forddaily #dailyfordhcm #fordshowroomhcm https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ford+Daily/@10.7693359,106.696211,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x1f188a05d927f4ff!8m2!3d10.7693359!4d106.696211
0 notes
Text
Welcome to Daybreak Academy! (first post edition)
Hello! This is the obligatory first post on this new Tumblr!
For the most part, this blog is very much a 'writeblr,' a blog dedicated to writing. In this case, it is to cover the writing and development of a high school AU set in the Kingdom Hearts series. This series uses many characters from the mobile game, Union Cross, with some light overlap into Birth By Sleep. This blog will also be used to showcase other fanworks around the Tumblr Kingdom Hearts community- centering on Union Cross / Back Cover / chi above all else. I will not give away story spoilers from the Japan version until they are revealed in the Global verion of Union Cross. ⚬
Now, without further ado, on to the setting:
⚬ Nestled on the outskirts of a sleepy tourist trap called Cable Town is the prestigious boarding school, Daybreak Academy. Established in 1972, Daybreak was the brainchild of one generous man who wished to give equal learning to a variety of truly exceptional children. Daybreak Academy's finest attraction is its house system; separated into five houses (Unicornis, Ursus, Anguis, Leopardus, and Vulpes) students are sorted by their main learning style to further enrich their education. Each house is commanded by its respective headmaster- Ira for Unicornis, Aced for Ursus, Invi for Anguis, Gula for Leopardus, and Ava for Vulpes. ⚬ Starting in January 2020, Anora Ravishta is Daybreak's newest student. A well rounded learner, and unusual in her enrollment during winter break, Anora is unknowingly about to become the linchpin in many events over the next year. ⚬ For the next few days, all current chapters of Daybreak Academy will be published here on Tumblr. Then, tune in every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday as life at Daybreak Academy marches on. Formals, plays, the next GPA destroying exam- all of it can be found at Daybreak Academy, you just need to enroll! ⚬ Start the story with the first chapter here: The First Day Want to know more? Check out the About page here: About Have a question that isn't covered in the About? Do so here: Ask
3 notes · View notes