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No finance professional wants to experience the sudden loss of a position, but the reality of the modern business landscape is that sometimes layoffs happen. Being laid off can be a traumatic blow, but quick action can help mitigate the fallout.
Your success<|fim_middle|> as you're terminated, it's your job is to do everything you can to get your name out there to find your next situation," he said.
Hannah Pitstick is a freelance writer based in the US. | at lessening the impact of a layoff depends on being assertive and resourceful. The first steps you take after being laid off are some of the most crucial, but for many, the shock of dismissal can lead to emotional rather than logical decisions.
"I think when you're getting laid off, a lot of times, it's like hearing that you have cancer," said Scott Bishop, CPA/PFS, partner and executive vice-president with STA Wealth Management in Houston and a veteran financial planner who has written advice on surviving a layoff.
Don't panic. The main thing to remember is not to panic when it comes to surviving a layoff. Give yourself time to breathe and reassess your career. Are you going in the right direction? Where would you like to see yourself in the next two to five years?
Another reason to stay calm is to avoid making tactical mistakes. Before signing any sort of severance package, you may want to have someone, possibly an employment lawyer, take a look at it.
"The last thing you want is to take a severance package, start applying for jobs, and then three months later, find out you're in the middle of a lawsuit with your prior employer because you violated a noncompete agreement that you didn't realise you signed during the severance paperwork," Bishop said.
While you're at it, make sure to confirm any residual pay or benefits from the company that you might be due, including unused paid time off, trailing fees and commissions, and outplacement assistance.
Update your personal brand. If you've been working at the same job for a long time, you probably haven't put together a CV in a while, and you may find the rules of the game have changed. Most jobs are applied to online now, and an applicant's keywords and internet presence are more important than ever.
When you craft your CV, it needs to be tailored for each application in order to get past the applicant tracking system, Jackson stressed. The keywords that you include in your CV are very important, because if you don't tailor your CV and cover letter to the specific jobs to which you're applying, you're far less likely to get a response, she said.
To stand out, she said, you must build your personal brand on sites like LinkedIn. She recommended optimising your profile using the right search terms so you can be found, and sharing content about your area of expertise to attract more attention.
Work to be an expert in your area. When new US tax laws were enacted at the end of 2017, Bishop got to work learning about all the changes and how they were going to impact his clients. He put together webinars and wrote articles so his firm could be a thought leader in that area.
Being one of the most valuable people in the office makes it less likely that you will lose your job in the first place, but even if you are let go, attaining more expertise in your field will help attract new opportunities. Take advantage of any continuing professional development that you can in areas that are specifically beneficial to your business and create sharable content online that exhibits your expertise.
Expand your network. For 75% to 80% of Jackson's clients, networking is the way they secured their next role — far more than using an online job board.
Similarly, attending industry events is a good way to expand your network. Make sure you bring business cards and have a prepared pitch so you know what to say when you meet someone. That said, Jackson recommended never saying you're looking for a job, but rather telling people what your area of expertise is and what you're passionate about.
"Give people the chance to get to know you, like you, and trust you, so down the line, they may reach out to you because they like you and think you would fit the organisation," she said.
Bishop believes professionals should always be networking, and to be successful in surviving a layoff, networking is your new job.
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Four high school students from Latino College Preparatory Academy joined the group and will be starting an internship at Devlabs in the new year. In the video below, Devon Wesley talks about three exciting new developments that have come out of the course.
Devon Wesley recruited two interns from the course to work for his startup Lambhub. Andres Martinez, an adult student at Escuela Popular who has a background in development<|fim_middle|> They started EP Codes and started building out their club webpage in class. The goal of EP Codes is to learn more code while nurturing a core of individuals who are interested in entrepreneurship and technology.
Everardo Villegas, Simona Espinoza and Isidro Rivera are collaborating on building out the online portion of Simona's cleaning company. | operations, will be interning with Lambhub along with Eduardo Rodriguez a high school student at Latino College Prep, who is interested in doing front end work with html and css.
Simona Espinoza is an adult student at Escuela Popular and has run a small cleaning company for 12 years. Simona recruited Latino College Prep students Isidro Rivera and Everardo Villegas to help her build a website with scheduling functions and online payments. The students will receive internship credit from their high school and Simona hopes to see increased revenue for her business.
On their final day of the class students decided that in addition to continuing with another session next semester, they want to found a coding group on campus. | 143 |
Papa John's extends fundraising sponsorship
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Papa John's is an international pizza franchise with over 5,000 stores worldwide in more than 40 markets.
Papa John's will continue its successful fun-run sponsorship to continue raising money for fantastic causes.
Papa John's has shown that once again it's a pizza franchise with a heart, as it will be extending its charity fun-run sponsorship with MCC Promotions. The company has organised successful fun-runs across the country since 2006 and now attracts around 8,000 participants to its events every single year. That's a lot of money raised for charity.
Papa John's franchisees will sponsor around 18 local fun-runs over the course of the year, in major cities including London, Exeter, Northampton and Sheffield. Business development manager, Paul Rayment, explained why the fun-run sponsorship was something the franchise wanted to continue.
"We trialled the fun run sponsorship with a couple of franchisees last year, handing out trophies, medals and T shirts to those taking part. It created a fabulous 'feel good factor' with people of all ages and from all walks of life participating. Now many more of our franchisees recognise this is a win-win situation and have decided to join in to strengthen links with their local communities and to celebrate those with the speediest delivery!"
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Finally, ambitious franchisee Mo Abid, who already manages an incredible 15 Papa John's stores across the country, explained why the fun-runs mean so much to him personally.
"I have been involved with the Run Series for a couple of years now and it's great to be able to give something back to the local communities who support our Papa John's stores, plus help raise funds for various charities at the same time. I plan to open a further ten Papa John's stores in the future and I will certainly be supporting the Run Series at events near my new stores. It's a great day out for all the family and I love presenting the prizes to the runners once they cross the finish line."
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Maria Sharapova rolled past qualifier Stefanie Voegele in straight sets to make the semifinals of the Tianjin Open in her debut appearance.
TIANJIN, China -- Former World No.1 Maria Sharapova put on another banner performance at the Tianjin Open on Friday, as the Russian raced past Swiss qualifier Stefanie Voegele, 6-3, 6-1, to advance to the semifinals.
This is Sharapova's first semifinal appearance since her season debut in April, at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart. In the semifinals, Sharapova will play No.3 seed Peng Shuai, the defending champion and hometown heroine. Peng blitzed Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain, 6-0, 6-1, in less than an hour.
"Obviously she really likes playing here and is the defending champion, so she feels really good about the court and the atmosphere," Sharapova said to the press, when asked about her upcoming match against Peng.
"We haven't played in a long time and I know that it will be a tough match, just because it's the semifinals and when you get to the latter stages it's not getting easier," Sharapova continued. "She really likes playing here and is playing well, and I<|fim_middle|>alenka will take on qualifier Sara Errani in the semifinals. The Italian staged a massive comeback against American Christina McHale, triumphing 5-7, 7-6(2), 6-1, after McHale served for the match at 7-5, 6-5. Errani, the 2012 French Open runner-up (l. Sharapova) is playing her first event since the Citi Open over two months ago. | hope to rise to the occasion."
Sharapova, who received a wild card into the event, has not yet dropped a set this week, and was relatively unbothered during her first meeting with the World No.196. As in her earlier matches, her forehand was extremely solid and effective. Moreover, she won an incredible 85 percent of her first serve points.
Sharapova got off to an inauspicious start, as three unforced errors and a double fault handed Voegele a break lead in the opening game of the match. But Voegele quickly let Sharapova back on serve, double faulting down break point in the very next game.
Serving at 4-3, Voegele fended off triple break point, but a service return winner by Sharapova at deuce gave the Russian a fourth opportunity to break. Voegele double faulted down break point again to give away another of her service games, ceding command of the set to Sharapova.
The five-time Grand Slam champion then closed out the set with a love hold, which included her first two aces of the match. Sharapova won half of the points on Voegele's serve during the set, which propelled her to the two breaks needed to close it out.
There was very little drama in the second set. The momentum was firmly with Sharapova, and she claimed a break in the opening game of the set due to a series of thunderous forehands. The Russian broke again for 3-0, and held for 4-0 to complete a seven-game winning streak.
After Voegele finally got on the board for 4-1, the Swiss player put pressure on Sharapova, returning effectively to give her double break point. But Sharapova escaped both of those chances, and closed out the game on her first opportunity with a wonderful backhand winner.
That would be the last chance for Voegele to grab a foothold in the quarterfinal battle. Her eighth double fault of the encounter gave Sharapova triple match point, and a forehand winner in the forecourt sealed the victory for the Russian star in 64 minutes.
Meanwhile, in an earlier quarterfinal, Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus notched her third consecutive win over a Chinese player this week by defeating Zhu Lin, 6-3, 6-4. The 19-year-old took out Han Xinyun and Duan Ying-Ying in the previous rounds, both times with 6-3, 6-3 scorelines.
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Dryops luridus (Erichson, 1847)
Subgenus:
POLYPHAGA Emery, 1886
BYRRHOIDEA Latreille, 1804
DRYOPIDAE Billberg, 1820 (1817)
DRYOPS Olivier, 1791
This widespread and generally common species occurs throughout Europe from Portugal to Greece and north to Southern Scandinavia and the UK, it is present on most of the Mediterranean islands as well as the Azores and occurs from lowland to medium altitudes; on Sardinia it is recorded at 950m. Here it is<|fim_middle|> - Families - Keys - Articles - Updates - Library - Species - Contact Us
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For information on image rights, click HERE. | common throughout the UK north to Shetland, including all the islands, and is generally our most common member of the family. Typical habitats are the margins of fresh and brackish water, both running and still, and it is tolerant of stagnant water and so should be expected from most wetland situations. Adults occur year-round, they are active from April or May, usually among marginal vegetation or substrate and often in numbers, and are readily swept from such situations through the summer. During the winter they will occasionally occur in extraction samples, among flood debris or marginal litter. Larvae develop within substrate out of the water, generally near marginal situations, feeding on organic matter among roots or litter, and pupation occurs in similar situations.
For certain determination the aedeagus will need to be examined and females are best identified by comparison and association.
Adults are medium-sized beetles, 3.7-4.3mm and entirely black or very dark brown with the antennae and tarsi variously lighter. The dorsal pubescence is double, consisting of quite long and semi-erect setae above dense, short and very fine recumbent hairs. Head strongly microsculptured; with coarse punctures at the base which become very fine anteriorly, and large, convex and pubescent eyes. Antennae 10-segmented; second segment greatly enlarged, tapering to an acute apex and with 3 distinct lengths of pubescence on the inner surface, terminal segment very small and difficult to see. Antennal insertions closer together than either to the inner margin of the adjacent eye. Pronotum transverse and at most only slightly narrower than the elytra, broadest in front of acute posterior angles and evenly curved to sharp anterior angles, sometimes with an obscure median longitudinal ridge towards the base. The sub-lateral grooves are almost straight in the
A large, diverse family found in a wide range of habitats, ground beetles are one of the most popular groups of beetles, and are among the most frequently encountered.
Plagiodera versicolora (Laicharting, 1781)
Tribe:
CHRYSOMELOIDEA Latreille, 1802
CHRYSOMELIDAE Latreille, 1802
CHRYSOMELINAE Latreille, 1802
CHRYSOMELINI Latreille, 1802
PLAGIODERA Dejean, 1836
This very widespread Palaearctic native is now Holarctic following its introduction and establishment in the United States during the first world war; it is now widespread and locally common, in some areas a pest of nursery stock, throughout the central and northern Nearctic region, it is generally common throughout the Palaearctic region from Portugal to the far east of Russia and Japan, extending to the north of Fennoscandia and south across North Africa, much of southern Asia including Pakistan, India Taiwan, Korea and other parts of the Oriental region. In the UK it is generally common across south and central England north to the Wash and sporadic and rare further north to the Humber, it is generally absent from the West Country and in Wales it occurs mostly in southern coastal areas. Here it is a lowland species but throughout much of its range it occurs to low mountain altitudes; in Morocco to 2000m and in central Russia to 3200m. A wide range of host plants have been recorded including, occasionally, Black Poplar but they typically occur on various species of Salix L. including S. alba L. (White Willow), S. purpurea L. (Purple Willow or Purple Osier), S. caprea L. (Goat Willow), S. x pendulina (Weeping Crack-Willow), S. viminalis L. (Common Osier) and S. udensis Trautv. & Mey (Sachalin Willow). Adults occur year-round in habitats typical of the hosts; mostly wetlands situations e.g. river, pond and reservoir margins, marshy areas, fens, river valleys and flood-plains but they also occur on suitable trees in parks, gardens, roadsides and sand dunes etc. sometimes far from water. Adults overwinter among loose bark and fallen timber or in tussocks or under leaf-litter close to the host and may become active in mild spells, they have been recorded from all months but are generally active from early spring until late autumn, peaking in abundance during May and June. In the UK it is univoltine but across much of its continental and North American range there are two or even three generations through the spring and summer. Overwintered adults feed on the underside of leaves producing small holes and as they often feed communally and in numbers leaves may become skeletonised and the damage may be extensive. They may have mated during the previous season but usually mate again in the spring, oviposition begins during May and continues into the summer, and through this period females
may mate and oviposit repeatedly ; eggs are laid in small batches on the underside of leaves and hatch within 4 to 10 days. Larval emergence is usually synchronized and at this time they are cannibalistic and will consume unhatched eggs, mortality may thus be high, they feed in groups and display defensive behaviour; forming feeding rows or rings with the heads outermost, they usually feed from the underside of the leaves but may also feed in numbers from above. They develop rapidly, passing through 3 instars and becoming fully grown within about 3 weeks, pupation occurs on the underneath of leaves and adults eclose after 2 weeks. New generation adults occur from July until August, they feed and mate through the summer before overwintering but so far as is known there is not another generation in the UK, overwintered adults survive into early summer but have generally perished before the next generation arrives. Adults are readily sampled by beating or sweeping host foliage, they are good fliers and may suddenly occur in numbers in new environments, and through the colder months often occur in extraction samples.
This small and convex species might only be confused with various species of Phaedon Latreille, 1829, but here the elytra are striate while in Plagiodera they are confusedly punctured.
2.5-4.5mm. Entire upper surface dark metallic blue or green, rarely black. Head rather flattened or variously depressed between small and very convex eyes, surface variable; usually smooth, shiny and finely punctured but may be rugose and coarsely punctured, antennae inserted under the lateral margin in front of the eyes and separated by at least twice the length of the basal segment, black with basal four or five segments to some extent pale, at least beneath. Pronotum strongly transverse, smoothly rounded and finely bordered laterally, with prominent anterior angles and very finely bordered basal margin, surface variable, smooth, shiny and very finely punctured to almost entirely coarsely punctured, always more strongly punctured or rugose toward the lateral margin. Scutellum smooth and shiny, central area often raised or with various depressions. Elytra randomly punctured throughout; slightly elongate and evenly rounded to a continuously curved apical margin, with conspicuously convex and gently sloping shoulders and a small depression inside the apical angles. Legs dark with indistinctly paler tarsi and yellow claws. Tibiae gradually thickened towards the apex, without apical tooth on outer edge. Tarsi 5-segmented, the third segment strongly bilobed.
Phaedon spp.
Elytra striate
Epipleura concave
Found on herbaceous plants.
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Brad Fittler yet to hear from NSWRL but keen on Blues State of Origin coaching job
By Matt Encarnacion
NSW coaching candidate Brad Fittler has given his strongest indication yet he is keen on the NSW State of Origin coaching position after claiming, "It looks like a pretty good job to take over at the moment."
Fittler, who was at the NSWRL awards dinner on Monday night, is considered the favourite to replace the recently sacked Laurie Daley after coaching the City Origin team for the last few seasons.
The former champion Blues five-eighth has also been involved with the Blues junior teams and admitted it was an exciting time to be involved with NSW.
"There's some really exciting players coming through so once again to the fans we just need to hang on a little bit longer," Fittler said.
"It looks like a pretty good job to take on at the moment."
Fittler insists he has yet to be approached for the job after presenting prop David Klemmer with the Brad Fittler medal as the Blues' players' player in this year's series.
NSWRL chairman George Peponis was a notable absentee at the dinner due to a pre-planned vacation while Daley was also away on holiday on the night.
"There are a few important people away at the moment so they've got to make some decisions," Fittler said.
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"I think everyone involved needs to relay their decision so their own employees can know. Almost all candidates spoken about have a job."
The Blues have yet to advertise the position, although it is understood the decision will come to a head at a board meeting in two weeks time.
"I haven't put my hand up. I've got no idea of the process. I believe they've got a meeting in two weeks. From there, I think everything will be clearer," Fittler said.
The former Blues champion says he remains committed to coaching Lebanon in the upcoming World Cup at the end of the year.
But he also believes there is light at the end of what has been a very dark tunnel for the Blues, having lost 11 of the past 12 series.
"I'm doing the Lebanese thing at the moment, so that's very interesting. I'm loving that. And the kids, I'm loving coaching the NSW under-16s and -18s," he said.
"We've got a long way to go for that coaching role. There's a very good footy team coming through and the fans deserve it. They've been very resilient."
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Chapter 52: Humble Metal Tube
Despite the excellent resolution, Joseph was frustrated by the image on the screen in front of him. A ship with faded blue paint was the subject of the picture, specifically the area just behind the cockpit. Gray letters there, partly peeled away, were probably the ship's name or some kind of registration mark. The only problem was that it was written in a Cyrillic alphabet, which he couldn't read at all. The best telescopes in the world couldn't help him understand a language he didn't know.
Odd design made the task more difficult still. Instead of a single cohesive shape, the foreign ship was made from several large modules tied together with girders and access corridors. Designs of that style were perfectly functional, but to Joseph they seemed more appropriate for a station. No nation familiar to him designed ships that way, and he wondered where the thing could have come from.
Because of their path of approach to the asteroid mine, the letters behind the cockpit were blocked from view by one of the larger modules for most of their approach. Only a few images showed them at all, and most of the time at angle that made them difficult to read. Still, he copied them down with as much care as he could. He didn't need to read them for the computer to run them.
A chime sounded from another computer, and he glanced toward Rebecca. She met his eye and shook her head. Both turned their eyes to the windshield, which displayed an alert. Joseph's gut clenched; the ship's computer had found a match with something.
"Well that didn't take long did it?" Joseph observed. They hadn't even finished the coffee he'd brought back.
"Good news or bad?" she wondered aloud as they both stood.
Joseph caught the word "piracy" somewhere in the columns of data as his eyes roamed over them. "I don't think it's good."
The ship displayed was the one Charlie pointed out as an Islinglonde design and the record it matched was from the Teton Sector Border Patrol's Missing Ships Database. Hardly a surprise. There were only a few ship databases of which they kept updated copies, and that was the largest by a wide margin.
Most of the data wasn't immediately useful to Joseph, and his misgivings deepened as he read. The ship's name was Humble Metal Tube, reflective of both her general shape and the owner's lack of interest in coming up with a better name. Charlie's opinion of the ship's origin was confirmed. The registration was in Islinglonde, but its home port was not one Joseph knew. In fact, none of the ports or locations listed in the information were familiar. The word "piracy" that he'd spotted appeared as the suspected cause of loss.
"Do<|fim_middle|> likely with non-Tetonite ships?" Rebecca turned back to her computer. "Our freighters do go heavier than most on the combat equipment."
"More likely, but not that much more." Joseph's eyes returned to his computer, which had long since finished the coordinate lookups he'd ordered. "Here's another interesting fact. Their approximate position of disappearance isn't anywhere nearby. We aren't close to their flight path at all, they shouldn't have passed within a couple hundred light years of here."
Rebecca's brow furrowed. "That would fit with the mine acting as a covert pirate base. Pirates take the ship without damage and they're able to fly it here to unload the cargo."
"Then smuggle it in a different ship to wherever they sell it." Joseph nodded and pondered that for a moment. "That's the most likely scenario, although it isn't the only one that fits."
"Any chance you've heard of Arundel Station in the New Rutland system? That was their Teton Sector destination."
"I've never encountered either before, even in name." Joseph shook his head and sighed. It would have been helpful if the ports were large enough to be well-known, if not ones he was familiar with. That was too much to ask, the universe was too big. "Are there any clues we can glean from them or is it a standard port in a standard system?"
"The second option." Rebecca shook her head. "Nothing unusual about either of them."
"That's not a surprise, but I'd hoped."
Joseph unlocked his chair, let it slide back as far as it could go and considered all the new information. There were still a lot of unanswered questions, perhaps what they'd learned could resolve a few more. The origins of the remaining ships, their ultimate fate and why they'd wound up here were all unknowns.
Another fact that interested Joseph was that the Islinglondan freighter's disappearance was not recent. She failed to make port several days before he and Tyrone landed on Temorran. It wouldn't have taken nearly that long to get her from the point of capture to the station, so unless she'd gone somewhere else first she'd spent a lot of time parked outside the asteroid mine.
Humble Metal Tube's crew was listed missing with the ship. Had they been recovered some of the data would be more precise. Their fate was also among the open questions. Some pirates simply killed the crew of a captured ship. Given the time since she was taken, that was the likely answer.
"I wish we'd found a match for a second ship." Joseph abandoned his consideration and slid his chair forward again. Those questions had only speculation for answers right now.
"Why a second? Not that it wouldn't be nice, but why not just wish we could identify them all?"
"Well you're right, I wish we could identify them all," Joseph admitted. "I'd settle for just one more because that would tell us whether some of the circumstances around this one are just happenstance or a pattern that holds for all the ships."
"Oh, I understand. Whether they all vanished a long way from the mine, for example."
"Exactly, and especially that question. That this ship was lost a long way from here suggests that they don't attack near the mine. If that trend holds for all of them, it would reassure me that we're relatively safe."
"Pirates would want to avoid ship disappearances too close to where they hide out." Rebecca tapped the arm of her chair absently, mind on the situation. "At least they would if they were wise, but if they were wise maybe they wouldn't be pirates in the first place."
"For some I'm sure that's the case, and I wish they were all like that. Some pirates are wise enough to do other things, but they're still pirates. The more dangerous and successful ones are usually that type."
"Yeah, I suppose. Hopefully that works in our favor here. Are you going to call the others up to tell them?"
"We probably should." For the second time in a few hours Joseph entered a ship-wide alert with orders for the whole crew to report to the bridge. There were no klaxons or flashing lights, it wasn't an emergency, it only sent the message to everyone's personal devices. It was time for the shift change anyway, and he and Rebecca should fill in the rest before they left.
While they waited, Joseph brought up the ship's security systems. Combat free capture of the Humble Metal Tube and the other ships made him think boarders had hidden on the target ships. One of Great Mandan Laker's simplest security measures was grates installed on the cargo intakes to prevent stowaways in the cargo hold. That vector of attack was likely safe, but many other ways to access the ship from the outside existed.
Laker's hull was covered by a web of motion sensors and cameras. The cameras covered every airlock and allowed the crew to see most of the hull. The motion sensors were actually even more robust. Security was their secondary purpose, the first was to detect and track objects near the hull to help the deflector system prevent impacts that might damage the ship.
A quick check of the system logs showed that no object large enough to be a person drifted near the hull since they reached the station. Plenty of loose debris surrounded this mine, and there was a long list of smaller objects already, but few posed enough of a threat to trigger the deflectors. Joseph took note of the typical sizes of the debris and reprogrammed the motion sensors to trigger an alert on the bridge if a human-sized object came within ten feet of the hull. Joseph was confident the existing airlock security could prevent unfriendly access, but this way they'd have some warning if anyone tried. | you recognize any of the ports?" Rebecca asked as she read through the list.
"No. Do you?"
"No, I'll look them up. You warned me that it would be dangerous out here, and I did listen, but I honestly thought it would be more than a month before we had a run-in with pirates."
"I did too, but in this case I don't think we'll have to fight any."
Rebecca gave him a sharp look. "What makes you so sure?"
"Almost any way pirates could use this station makes it advantageous for them to leave us alone. Charlie and I talked about it for a few minutes before he left. This isn't some hidden pirate station, the mine has connections to the normal business world. For it to stay useful to them it has to operate normally, which means deliveries need to flow as scheduled. Knocking off an ore hauler will bring attention they can't afford."
"As long as it's a long-term arrangement."
"Fair point." Joseph's own experiences and the stories of others had taught him there were no "typical" pirates. They were inventive. "I don't see any way we can find out exactly what the arrangement is, but I think it's long-term enough that we can fly away without trouble once we've loaded."
Pirate inventiveness pushed an observation to the front of his mind. He brought up images of the other ships in the cluster, random stills with no particular pattern. Database information on the Humble Metal Tube included an image of the ship at port, which Laker's computer had displayed next to a shot of their own when it put the data up.
Both images showed the ship in the same condition. Their shot showed no sign of even minor damage that wasn't present on the other, let alone damage done by a space battle or forced entry. No comparisons were available, but as far as their footage could show the other ships were in the same condition.
"Whatever type of pirates we may have here, they aren't the smash-and-grab types that attacked Bolinscar Red Comet." Joseph pointed out the lack of damage. "I'm not sure if that's better or not."
"It sounds better. I don't know all the other options though," Rebecca admitted. "Hesworth Station is just a regional shipping platform, I don't think that will give us any useful information. It's close to the Islinglonde-Teton Sector border, but since it's their port of registration and not where they sailed from I don't think that matters much."
"Not for our purposes." The bridge was quiet for a few moments as Joseph accessed star maps and Rebecca continued her investigation of the ports.
"Their last port was an agricultural planet called Donsby," Rebecca said. "Would pirates really capture a ship to steal food?"
"I wouldn't put it past many of them, but that might not have been what they were after. Agricultural goods can be a lot of things." Joseph encountered enough agriculture to know that much. The Carvers grew a wide variety of crops in their domes, and not all of them were for food. "Last time Tyrone and I hauled agricultural goods with Garden Variety Animal it was rubber tree saplings. There isn't a manifest or a general cargo type listed in the database, does the encyclopedia mention any cash crops?"
"Let me check. The planet looks like a backwater."
"Well I've certainly never heard of it before, but there are a lot of places in Islinglonde that I've never heard of. All I can say for sure is that it's not one of the major planets."
"It lists tobacco, cotton and a few others. Maybe they were after one of those that was on board."
"Or they just took the ship with no idea what was on it." Joseph frowned; that explanation didn't add up. "On second thought, I don't buy my theory. It doesn't fit with the fact that all the ships are undamaged."
Rebecca opened her mouth to ask why, then closed it and frowned. Joseph smiled and waited for her to think it through. "Pirates that are able to take a ship without a fight probably know what's on the ship?"
"Or they're more likely to, at any rate," Joseph amended with a pleased smile. "Pirates that routinely take ships without a fight take more time to set up the theft. They somehow neutralize the crew and often the ship beforehand, which takes a lot of effort. They'll check that the cargo is worth their time first. It's always possible for a crew like the corvette we fought to have a ship surrender without a fight, but six times is improbable."
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<|fim_middle|> we never really knew. | I knew this kid in high school who died in a plane crash. He was an amateur pilot and really passionate about it, at a time when most of his peers were busy perfecting their slack-jawed stares. He was flying one morning before school and something happened. He didn't make it. Everyone was devastated, despite the fact that just days before no one really cared about him.
One time in class he gave a speech. In the midst of it he said the phrase "trials and tributaries." He meant tribulations; a tributary is a small river flowing into a larger one. His spell check must of hung him up. At least that's what the teacher said when she corrected him. His face turned red.
Every time I think of that kid, that's what I think of: "trials and tributaries." That's a hell of a legacy to leave behind.
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Eastern Region Confers Life Membership
At the December meeting of Eastern Region Woodturners it was decided to confer Life Memberships to two of our oldest members.
MR GRAHAM TILLY Member Number (47).
Graham was born in Murraybridge S.A. He started his working life as a High School Maths Teacher. Eventually becoming a Maths lecturer at Sydney University. It was during this period that he really got going as a turner. With access to the Ultimo TAFE, lunch times were spent in the Bijou Lane premises using their wood machines.
Graham joined the Guild in 1983 and was at the first meeting. He has been the Convenor of Eastern Region since about 1993. There was much discussion from the group about whether he was an apprentice to Jim Dorbis, but taught be George Hatfield, or the other way around. Either way Graham is our best turner. These days he makes Blanket Boxes, Tea Caddies and turned spoons and scoops. He is also a talented wood carver and enjoys showing off his latest creations.
Perhaps one of his lesser known pursuits, (as told to me by one of our older members), is the production of Japanese Kokeshi Dolls. These dolls, in times past, were meant to represent infants who had passed away.
Graham perfects his designs by doing small production runs, of about 4 or 5 items with each an improvement on the previous item. The final product is well worth the effort, according to Graham.
These days Graham likes to run workshops for people who want to learn from him, and these usually take place in his workshop, under the house. I know everyone learns something from Graham on these occasions. Graham continues to use his "Mongrel Lathe", it is made of parts from various places. No matter, he still turns out excellent items.
Graham is a valued member of Eastern Region and has been a great supporter of the group over many years, by giving him Life Membership it is our way of saying Thank you.
Bibliography: Some of this information came from an article written by Jim Dorbis in By Hand and Eye August/September 2002.
MR SVEN WALLIN Member Number (167).
Sven was born in Falkenberg Sweden. He started work at 18 years old in an Engineering shop. Later he joined the Merchant Navy. He arrived in Australia, met his Australian wife and has lived here ever since.
Sven worked for Atlas Copco, (who made Industrial Compressors) for 36 years. Upon retirement his co workers gave him a Craftmastar Lathe. This kicked his turning into high gear. He produced furniture and toys for his grand children to their great delight.
These days he uses a Teknatool lathe and continues to turn, particularly faceplate turning of platters and bowls. Sven believes that<|fim_middle|> has always done, he continues to use a lot of Lanewood in his creations, (picked up in the Lane). However, the workmanship is always excellent on anything he does.
Perhaps one of the more interesting items he has brought in to show the group was a Birch Bark Horn from Sweden. The bark was worked in a coil to create the horn it actually worked and was quite interesting.
Sven was the Representative for Eastern Region for a number of years and the group by conferring Life Membership wish him well and just want to say Thank you.
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Casa da Avó Genoveva has extensive gardens, with many trees and flowers, where guests can walk or ride a bike (the house has bicycles at your disposal). To one side of the garden, alongside an old tennis court, is the pool (perfect for cooling off in the summer). There is a barbecue and a equipped kitchen that can be also rented to guests. Please ask the owners about this possibility. A private parking area is available and free to guests.
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GSE Opportunities: STEM ambassador training & cross-government vacancies
Posted by: Ben Dages, Posted on: 26 November 2018 - Categories: Capability & Skills, Collaborating & Networking, GSE Opportunities, Our People & Deep Dives, Outreach
STEM Ambassador training session, 5th December 2018, London
Would you like to become a trained Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) ambassador? If so, the GSE team are running a training session so that you can offer your time and enthusiasm to help bring STEM subjects to life and to encourage further study in STEM areas.
As STEM Ambassadors, you can use your Civil Service volunteering leave to support and encourage the next generation of scientists and engineers, particularly from under-represented groups in your home area. The activities you can get involved in include careers talks & events, to supporting lessons and developing science based activities.
For more information and to sign up, contact the GSE team: GSE@go-science.gov.uk
Vacancy: Defence Industrial Policy Adviser (SEO), Ministry of Defence (MoD)
The Ministry of Defence is looking for a resilient individual<|fim_middle|> with industrial and international colleagues.
Further information and contact details for hiring manager are available on Civil Service Jobs
Closing date: 30th November 2018
Vacancy: Behavioural Science Research Adviser (SEO), Department for Transport (DfT)
The Research, Analysis and Development Team in DfT is responsible for providing world-leading S&T advice to protect the transport network against terrorist threats.
The team is currently looking for a behavioural scientist to develop and lead a new portfolio of high impact work, working with partners across Government and around the world.
You will be required to work on a wide range of disciplines including chemistry, physics, engineering and psychology.
Further details are available on Civil Service Jobs
Closing Date: 3rd December
Vacancy: Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser (SCS1), Home Office (HO)
Home Office is advertising for a new post of Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser to directly support the CSA, John Aston, in carrying out his role.
As a post holder, you will deputise for the CSA as necessary, both leading and supporting on projects to ensure the best scientific advice is provided for the department.
Your work will cut across all areas of Home Office work, including emergency response to critical incidents. You will help ensure that scientific advice and evidence underpin the work of the Home Office, and provide Ministers with the scientific information necessary to inform key strategic decisions.
Further details available on Civil Service Jobs
Closing date: 19th December 2018
Vacancy: Impact and Engagement Management – John Innes Centre, Norwich
From November 2018, the John Innes Centre (JIC) will lead a large, multidisciplinary project, in collaboration with nine UK institutions including DEFRA and the Scottish Government, focused on UK resilience to the bacterial plant pathogen, Xylella fastidiosa.
The JIC is seeking a research scientist with experience in research impact on policy and practice for a Impact and Engagement manager.
As a successful applicant, you will rely on the generation, analysis and communication of evidence underpinning future UK responses to this pathogen. To succeed you will depend on close engagement with stakeholders, including policy-makers, government agencies, industries and NGOs.
More information and how to apply on the JIC website.
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You will be responsible for designing and delivering the policy framework to stimulate a thriving, sustainable, innovative and internationally-focused UK defence sector. You will work widely within MoD, across Government and | 125 |
Cruise Specialists hosts Steve and Wendy Bodenheimer are taking us along on another amazing journey. We hope this series shows you what you can expect on a Holland America Grand Voyage. Here are previous peeks:<|fim_middle|>.
The ship was berthed near the famous Central Railway station with the bronze dome built in 1910. Much of the city was destroyed during the 30 years of war which ended in 1992. Reconstruction has been slow and it is hard not to notice the piles of garbage everywhere. City tours offered visits to Independence Square, the Central Market, the railway station, Maputo Fort, City Hall, and the Natural History Museum. Overall, it was an interesting but not very exciting port.
Stay tuned for the next stop and Wendy's incredible overland tour! | Grand voyage send off, what to expect at sea, Polynesia, New Zealand, Western Australia, Singapore and Thailand.
Reunion is a good example of a place where you cannot judge the island by the port area. We were berthed in the middle of the container port, at La Possession and if it weren't for the beautiful mountain peaks and cliffs visible from the ship, it wouldn't be very appealing. It was a 25 minute bus ride from the ship north to Saint-Denis, the island's main city.
Although it is an international destination, very little English is spoken here.
It's all French – French cafes, French Colonial buildings, and chic French shops. We enjoyed an easy walk around the town; down the main boulevard with historical markers and plaques; past sculptures, parks and manicured public buildings; stately old hotels; and up to the big Cathedral with bright colors showing its African and Creole influences.
We also heard from some independent travelers that there were good biking and hiking trails not far away. So much to do, so little time.
Returning to the ship, guests were already gathering out on the Lido deck for the first of the President week events – a complimentary sail away.
It's called President's Week because Holland America's President, Orlando Ashford and his family are on board and hosting a number of special events.
The following day, we were invited to a luncheon for the highest level Mariners – those with over 900 sailing days on Holland America. It was a group of about 75 at tables hosted by Senior Staff.
The following day was a long presentation and Q & A by Orlando to a standing room only audience. The questions were mostly relevant and reasonable and he answered them candidly.
He also announced the itinerary for the 2020 World Voyage. It is quite a departure and was very well received. For the first time in many years, the World Voyage will cover much of South America, including Antarctica and will return to Africa as well.
He said these two places were by far the most requested and so they were combined in one longer than usual (126 days) trip. It will likely be very popular and probably will sell out.
Our next port was Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. It was there that 160 people left the ship for a variety of Overland Tours and Safaris.
Our fellow host Tom Mullen took a group of 32 to Kruger National Park for three days of game drives and animal viewing. Each morning they boarded an open-air vehicle for perfect ride to explore a private game reserve. The afternoon brought a second game drive deep into the bush, where you may encounter South Africa's top predators: cheetahs, hyenas, and lions.
Wendy took 14 Guests for a 5 day adventure in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana (more on this to come!).
Steve stayed on the ship to watch over the rest of our Guests. He had a chance to venture out into Maputo for a look around, it's a pretty raw looking place as you might expect from a third world country | 644 |
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You can help us continue to bring you local news you can trust by becoming a supporter. | Baron Waqa and Jacinda Ardern spoke about the issue of refugees on the island. Photo: NZ Herald
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern met people working with refugees in Nauru but not any of the refugees themselves during her brief visit to the island.
"I spent a short amount of time working with those who are providing services to refugees, just to get a little bit of an insight into their lives, some of the resettlement here.
"That, from my perspective, was useful given we've made an offer that, in time, we ourselves may in the future host up to 150 refugees from here, Ardern told reporters.
The Prime Minister was in Nauru on Wednesday for the Pacific Islands Forum. The issue of refugees, detained on the island on behalf of Australia, has been in the spotlight.
Speaking to reporters following talks with other Pacific leaders, Ardern said she had asked to meet some of the organisations working with refugees but was wary about raising the hopes of refugees by speaking to them directly.
"I wanted to hear their views. I wanted to hear the experiences that they're having. But I do need to consider that human side, particularly when one of the things that I think has added to the vulnerability is that state of limbo.
"We're doing all we can, we've made the offer. It's a genuine offer. Australia knows that that's on the table. We cannot, however, go through that process without Australia."
New Zealand has a long-standing offer to take 150 detained refugees, an offer that has so far been rebuffed by Australia, which fears they may use New Zealand as a back-door entry to Australia.
Ardern confirmed that she had spoken to Nauru President Baron Waqa about the issue but the resettlement of refugees outside Nauru was a matter for Australia.
"We talked a little bit about the services that are provided here."
Ardern, and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters, who has been in Nauru since Monday, flew out of Nauru late last night.
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<|fim_middle|> of enterprise health information management at the health system, in a phone interview.
The health system was already in compliance with some of the regulations. For example, Mass General Brigham patients received their medical records on request. But to ensure compliance with the new rule, the health system now makes records immediately available via the patient portal. This includes inpatient information, as well as information related to ambulatory visits.
Other elements of the new rule, however, placed the health system in a quandary. What should they do when test results contain sensitive information? Up until now, these results were delayed to give clinicians enough time to review the results and personally contact the patient, with whom they have a relationship, to explain what the results mean and answer questions and concerns, Adair said.
But the new regulations stipulate that all test results be made available immediately and easily to patients, so the health system needed to decide how to comply while also considering how to deliver unwelcome health news to patients via the portal.
"That was one of the biggest things we grappled with because the law requires you to share everything with the patient and we weren't used to that, and our doctors were concerned it would cause [the patient] emotional harm if they get a cancer diagnosis without getting a call from them first," Adair said. "And the regulation requires that you can only block a note if it's going to cause significant physical harm or life-threatening injury. The law specifically excludes emotional harm."
To ensure patients were not left feeling like they had to deal with traumatic diagnoses on their own, the health system decided to put a note on test results containing sensitive health news. That lets patients know that their provider would call them to discuss the results.
"It's gone [over] pretty well," Adair said. "I think people were nervous that there was going to be a lot of reactions from patients and phone calls and concerns and so forth. But it hasn't proven to be that way. So, I think it's good that patients have access to their information any time they want it."
The information sharing is of course not a one-way street from providers to patients. With the new rule, health systems have to make provisions for patients authorizing third-party apps like Apple Health, to access their health information. Mass General Brigham however, was already prepared for this.
The health system uses Epic EHR technology, which provides an industry standard set of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) APIs that can be used by third-party apps to access medical records it manages. Further, Mass General Brigham has a security protocol that allows third-party apps to request access to patient information in a secure way, Adair said.
Getting to compliance, wasn't just a matter of IT tweaks and allaying physicians' concerns. It required internal education as well. Mass General Brigham worked with its clinicians — educating them on the rule, how it affects them and what they need to do to remain in compliance, she added.
Like Mass General Brigham, Spectrum Health, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has also started sharing clinician notes for all types of visits with its patients, Voigt, the system's compliance chief, said in a phone interview. Though it already had an initiative in place to share notes from ambulatory visits, it has spent the last few months providing notes from inpatient visits as well to patients via Spectrum Health's online portal.
"Use of our EMR and an app for a portal to grant patient access is not something new to us," Voight said. "We've just expanded the scope of the information we are giving patients access to."
Over the next few months, Spectrum Health plans to monitor the new processes and understand whether any tweaks need to be made. For example, as noted above, clinicians can hold back information for patients if they feel it may cause them physical harm, but that is at the clinician's discretion. The health system will monitor EHRs and disclosures to apps to see how often clinicians are holding back information and what their reasons are, Voigt said.
Spectrum Health will also examine other trends, such as whether the withholding of information is occurring more often in a certain specialty area or among a certain set of clinicians. This is important "so we can go back and look at those patterns to determine whether or not we need to have focused education for providers on the information blocking [regulations]." Further, it can help to determine "if there is something we need to change in our process of providing those open notes that will further help ensure compliance. So, we are really taking advantage of this time," before compliance is required, she added.
The EHR vendor perspective
Both Cerner and Epic — the two biggest EHR vendors in the country — make APIs available for third-party app developers so that the health information on their respective systems can be easily shared with patients. To ensure compliance with the new rule, both companies are making changes to their ongoing efforts.
"In response to the ONC's 21st Century Cures Act final rule, we are pursuing development efforts to upgrade those APIs to the latest version of FHIR adopted as a standard by ONC," said Dick Flanigan, senior vice president at Cerner, in an email. "We will also be overhauling our app registration and onboarding processes to ensure that apps used by patients to access their health information can connect as seamlessly and effortlessly as possible. Incorporated into these processes are industry standard privacy and security capabilities to ensure that a patient's health information is securely transmitted and only made accessible to an app when authorized by the patient."
In addition, the company is making enhancements to consolidated-clinical document architecture (C-CDA) documents, which are "used by providers to exchange information for referrals and other critical technologies," he said.
Epic already makes several APIs available to share data elements in the United States Core Data for Interoperability set, including data on medications, allergies and other information, said Stirling Martin, senior vice president and chief security officer at Epic, in a phone interview. More recently, the company added clinical notes to the set of APIs available.
For both Epic and Cerner, educating customers — the health systems which use their EHRs —is a must.
"Where a lot of our time and energy has gone [in the last six to nine months] is into educating the customer community on what the rule really requires and the scope of what it applies to," Martin said. "[The rule] certainly applies to the data in their Epic system but it also applies to the lab system, dietary system, heck it even applies — if they exchange health information by email, it applies to that as well. As organizations get [data] requests, they need to think about what's their workflow, what's their process for managing those requests."
Cerner's Flanigan said that his company is providing education and resources to customers on how they can use the company's software to exchange health information in different scenarios.
While health systems and EHR vendors alike accelerate efforts to comply with the new rule, it's worth noting that it'll likely be years before the regulations become fully integrated with the healthcare ecosystem.
It will be a "multi-year journey," Voigt of Spectrum Health said. Industry stakeholders can expect updates and changes along the way.
Voight believes the "journey" will likely mimic other major policy changes that have been instituted.
"The one thing I would say, from a compliance officer and a privacy officer standpoint, is similar to what the healthcare industry experienced when the HIPAA rules were created…it took several years for the healthcare industry as well as the government agency that enforced the HIPAA rules, in that case the ONC, to really understand how those rules would be implemented and where those regulations weren't so clear, or where the agency needed to provide guidance," she said. "We know a lot more about how to comply with HIPAA now, about 20 years in, than we did [initially], and I think it's going to take similarly that time for the healthcare industry, and ONC and CMS to understand how these regulations really work in practice."
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Behind the scenes: How health systems, EHR vendors will give patients unprecedented access to their data
Next year is poised to be a banner year for people accessing their health information. In April, the Department of Health and Human Services will implement its long-awaited interoperability and information blocking rules.
Though providers were already giving patients access to their data to some extent, the new rules widen the scope of the information to be provided. As a result, providers are retooling their policies and processes around data access and working to iron out potential hurdles that may have a negative impact on patient experience. EHR vendors, on the other hand, are focusing on shoring up the technology infrastructure that will enable expanded patient access and helping to educate their provider clients. Both groups received a breather when HHS decided to push back the compliance date of the ONC's final rule to April 5 from Nov. 2.
What's in the ONC's final rule?
Together, the ONC and CMS rules implement the interoperability and patient access provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act and support the MyHealthEData initiative, which aims to provide patients control over their healthcare data so they can decide how it will be used.
The ONC's final rule specifically establishes new regulations to prevent information blocking practices by healthcare providers, health IT developers, health information exchanges and health information networks. According to Leah Voigt, Spectrum Health's chief compliance officer, there are two main reasons why information blocking occurs. First, complex privacy laws and regulations overlap at the federal and state levels, due to which these laws can be "over interpreted" to prevent the sharing of health information even when it is actually allowed, she said in an email. Second, the cost and complexity associated with making health information available can be a deterrent to data sharing.
"This is compounded by the first reason — it's hard to know which law or regulation applies when, under what circumstances; and designing processes and technology solutions to make health information available in ways that comply with these laws and rules is not easy," she said. "Often the more complex or nuanced the rules, the more costly the solution."
The ONC's final rule requires healthcare entities to give patients complete access to their personal health information, including clinician notes. It also establishes standards-based application programming interface requirements. APIs are the foundation of smartphone applications, and the new requirements will support the patient's ability to securely obtain their health information from their provider's EHR using an app of their choice.
"One of the goals of the 21st Century Cures Act is to make sure that health information is interoperable and computable, giving patients more control of their medical record," said an ONC official in an email who declined to be publicly identified. "That seamless exchange of electronic health information and patient use of smartphone apps have the potential of delivering affordability and quality through transparency and competition."
The law states that certified health IT developers and HIEs/HINs would be subject to penalties of up to $1 million per violation of information blocking, the ONC spokesperson said. But healthcare providers will be treated differently. The HHS is reviewing feedback on what the appropriate deterrents may be for situations where a provider is found to have engaged in information blocking.
By April, healthcare providers have to make a subset of health data available to patients. The subset called the United States Core Data for Interoperability set includes a dozen or so data elements, including information on allergies, medications and clinical notes. By October 2022, providers have to make all health data available to patients.
How health systems are preparing
Boston-based Mass General Brigham, which includes Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the many systems that would need to comply, set up a working group to discuss the process ahead, said Deborah Adair, executive director | 791 |
The Witches Are Coming
by Lindy West
(Doors at 6:30)
First Parish Church
$28.75 (book bundled) - On Sale Now
Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome LINDY WEST—critically acclaimed New York Times columnist and author of Shrill—for a reading from her latest book, The W<|fim_middle|> author of Shrill, a memoir, which has been adapted into a Hulu series starring Aidy Bryant. Her essays on feminism, social justice, body image and popular culture have been featured in Jezebel, Cosmopolitan, GQ, and on This American Life. From 2014 to 2017 she wrote a weekly political column for The Guardian. She is also the founder of I Believe You/It's Not Your Fault, an advice blog for teenagers, as well as the reproductive rights de-stigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Tickets are non-refundable and non-returnable.
To First Parish Church
As you exit the station, cross Mass. Ave. and look for the newsstand called Crimson Corner. Turn right and proceed north along Mass. Ave. going toward the Cambridge Common. You will pass the Harvard Coop, Bank of America, and CVS. The First Parish Church is located at the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St. Please enter through the front door of the church.
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About The Witches Are Coming
THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.
WE'RE WITCHES,
AND WE'RE HUNTING YOU.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one.
In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the twenty-first century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics—and that delivered us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history.
West writes, "We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. We weren't done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form—like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can'—white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con man into the White House."
We cannot understand how we got here—how the land of the free became Trump's America—without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact-checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other. The truth can transform us; there is witchcraft in it. Lindy West turns on the light.
Praise for The Witches Are Coming
"In this time of great frustration, this collection is a clearing in the woods to meet, to reflect, to dance, and to cackle around the fire." ―Abbi Jacobson, creator of Broad City and New York Times bestselling author of I Might Regret This
"GET ME A BROOM." ―Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
"One of our foremost thinkers on gender unveils her unifying theory of America: that our steady diet of pop culture created by and for embittered, entitled white men has stoked our sociopolitical moment. Adam Sandler, South Park, and Pepe the Frog all come under West's withering scrutiny in this funny, hyper-literate analysis of the link between meme culture and male mediocrity." ―Esquire.com
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14 Celebrities Who Met In College
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We usually assume celebrities all come from different background and all met in Hollywood, but there are a lot of long-standing friendships that predate their fame. Some celebs have known each other since childhood or high school, while others met in college, seemingly right before or as their careers were starting! Here's a list of 14 celebrities you probably didn't know met in college!
14. Kristen Bell and Matthew Morrison
Frozen actress Kristen Bell revealed she knew Matthew Morrison in college while they both attended New York University and that they briefly dated! In an interview with US Weekly she commented on the show Glee and said: "I actually went to college with Matty Morrison. We actually dated very briefly, so I'll have to say maybe Matt Morrison is my favorite part of Glee for various reasons."
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13. Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson
Owen Wilson and film director Wes Anderson were roommates at the University of Texas. As a result, they've become really good friends and even collaborated on a few projects! They co-wrote three films, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, which were then directed by Anderson. Of course, Wilson also starred in all of these movies and landed roles in other moves that Anderson directed like The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and voiced a character in Fantastic Mr. Fox.
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12. Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones
This is an interesting duo that would most definitely have been a force to be reckoned with on campus! Hollywood actor Tommy Lee Jones and former Vice President Al Gore both attended Harvard in the late 1960s. Even though they didn't bunk together, they lived in the same dorm and shared the same group of friends. Gore and Jones remain close friends to this day. In 2001, Jones spoke at the Democratic National Convention to support his old pal and shared some funny stories from their days as college buddies like watching Star Trek together, shooting pool (and tin cans), chasing loose cows and cooking a turkey dinner in tin foil in their shared dorm.
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11. Prince William and Kate Middleton
Prince William and Kate Middleton (now known as Duchess Kate) are arguably the most famous college sweethearts! They met in the fall of 2001 during their first year at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. They started dating in 2003, but briefly broke up in 2005 only to reconcile a few months later. They finally tied the knot<|fim_middle|> the early 1980s. He is also an actor and a writer. They got married in 1987 and have two sons together, Henry and Charles.
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2. Samuel L. Jackson and Latanya Richardson
These two are one of the longest-running couples in Hollywood! They met while she was a student at Atlanta's Spelman College in 1974, and he was a student at the then all-male Morehouse College. They got married in 1980 and now share a daughter together named Zoe Jackson, who works as a freelance film and TV producer. Richardson is lesser known because she stopped working after their daughter was born, but she has held supporting roles in films like Malcolm X, Sleepless in Seattle, When a Man Loves a Woman, The Fighting Temptations and Lone Star.
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1. Brooke Shields and Dean Cain
In her memoir There Was a Little Girl, Brooke Shields revealed she and Superman actor, Dean Cain met at Princeton University. According to her, they were "instantly crazy" about each other. They were "always holding hands and trying to find ways to be alone and kiss, but poor guy, I made him wait." At the time the former child star was "the most celebrated virgin of our time," so when she lost her virginity to Cain — it was a big deal! In her book she wrote, "I actually kind of tumbled off it [the bed] and started running. I was buck naked streaking down the hallway and running like I had just stolen someone's wallet."
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10. Carrie Underwood and Zach Swon (of the Swon Brothers)
Country artists Carrie Underwood and Zach Swon of the Swon Brothers were classmates at Oklahoma's Northeastern State University. Not surprisingly, they both took a country music theater class and even did a show together. In an interview with Taste of Country, Swon said: "The class was so small. It was a night class, and there was probably only eight people in it." He also said his classmates all had an agreement that a different person would bring dinner each week since the class went through the evening and Underwood's choice of dinner was pizza! "Carrie worked at a place called Sam and Ella's Pizza, and it was awesome; it was right there by campus. So…every time it was her turn, that's what she would bring into the class."
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9. Parker Posey and Sherry Stringfield
These two actresses attended State University of New York at Purchase together and were roommates at the time, but Sherry Stringfield was the only one of the two who graduated. Parker Posey dropped out of her drama program to pursue her career as an actress.
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8. Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman
Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman met at the University of Pennsylvania on their first day on September 6, 1992. "I didn't meet my husband and think, I've met the man I'm going to marry. I was like, 'He's cute. I'll f-ck him, because I'm 18 and in college," she said in an interview with Allure. Now they own Brownstone Productions together, share two children and have been married for 14 years.
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7. Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston
British actors Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston seem like likely friends. They both attended Eton College, an English boarding school, and crossed paths again at the University of Cambridge which is where their friendship really blossomed. They collaborated as students in a school play, but to this day have never shared the screen together. That won't last for long though because they are both set to voice characters in the upcoming animated film Early Man!
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6. Stanley Tucci and Ving Rhames
Stanley Tucci met Pulp Fiction actor, Ving Rhames while they lived together as students studying at the State University of New York at Purchase. Tucci was even the one who encouraged Rhames to change his name from Irving to Ving!
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5. Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand
Now this is a talented duo! Award winning actresses Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand were first friends and later roommates at Yale. Both drama majors, the two put put their skills to use when they co-starred in the films Raising Arizona and Crazy in Love. After graduation they lived together again in New York City and Los Angeles.
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4. Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve
Robin Williams and Superman actor Christopher Reeve were two of only 20 freshman accepted into Juilliard School in 1973. Coincidentally they were paired up as roommates and became fast friends. They even referred to each other as "brothers." They hadn't met anyone else at Juilliard when they first met and were among the few students in their classes. Reeve would share his food with Williams when his student loan ran out and Williams stuck by his friend's side when tragedy struck in 1995 after Reeve was left a quadriplegic following a horse-riding accident. Williams made regular visits to the hospital to support his friend and make him laugh, and became a huge supporter of the Christopher Reeve Foundation. Many people suspected that Williams even paid Reeve's medical bills. They were close friends up until Reeve passed away in 2004.
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The Veep actress met her husband when they were both students at Northwestern University back in | 1,003 |
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First Friday Film
February 4, 2022, Friday, 11:00 a.m.
Please join us for our February First Friday Film "Valentine's Day"
January 11 - May 17, 2022, Tuesdays from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Ralph Quinn will be offering a six-week series in which he will teach simple qigong exercises based on Tai Chi principles. This series will be followed immediately by another session of thirteen weeks from February 22 to May 17, 2022 in which Ralph Quinn will teach Dr. Paul Lam's "Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention."
To learn more, call the Library at 856-845-5593
The History of Turtles in Salt Marshes with Jessica DeGraff-Amber PhD.*
Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 1 p.m.
Join us for a virtual lecture. Learn about the history of terrapin conservation and the value of both the diamond back terrapin and the salt marshes in New Jersey.
* This program is made possible in part by funding from The Gloucester County Cultural and Heritage Commission at Rowan College at Gloucester County, a partner of the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of the State.
Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation Mini Pow Wow
WDFPL will be hosting a Mini Pow Wow held by the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet and talk with traditional Native Americans as they teach their cultures and histories.
Clam-Diggers Trade: NJ Pine Barrens Employments In Support Of Sea-Coast Activities*
September 30, 2021, Thursday 1 p.m.
Join us virtually for a lecture given by Adjunct Professor Mark Demitroff, Stockton University, on The Clamdiggers Trade: NJ Pine Barrens Employments in Support of Sea-Coast Activities. Learn about how the N.J. Coastal Zone economy had Pine Barren "sweetwater" roots. Video will be posted here on scheduled date.
Professor Demitroff is a professor at Stockton University.
*This program is made possible in part by funds from The New Jersey Historical Commission / Department of State and the Gloucester County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
The Drowning of Money Island: A Forgotten Community's Fight Against The Rising Seas Threatening Coastal America*
Thursday, October 14, 2021, 1 p.m.
Join us for a virtual lecture by journalist, Andrew Lewis, M<|fim_middle|> 9 or higher is required.)
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(This is the entire 1 hour presentation) | FA, Columbia University, as he gives us a fascinating talk on how rising seas are threatening coastal towns. Video will be posted here on scheduled date.
Brian Betz/Behn Gillece Jazz Duo
Thursday, November 4, 2021 4:00 p.m.
Brian Betz, jazz guitarist, composer, joins Behn Gillece vibraphonist with a robust performance life to take center stage at West Deptford Free Public Library. Betz and Gillece are members of the faculty at Rowan University.
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Thursday, November 18, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
Join us for a virtual lecture: hosted by Claude Epstein, Ph.D. Dr. Epstein is a Professor Emeritus from Stockton University. He is the founder of its Environmental Studies Program as well as being one of its founding faculty.
Online Events For You
The Center for Book Arts is offering on-line classes – www.centerforbookarts.org
Fender Guitars is offering free on-line guitar lessons starting now and for the next three months - www.fender.com
The Alice Paul Institute has an elementary school curriculum and worksheets. There is also information and photos concerning the Suffragette Movement – www.alicepaul.org
The Metropolitan Opera is streaming operas every evening, check it out – www.metopera.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is touring parts of the museum – www.metmuseum.org
The Museum of Modern Art is offering free on-line courses – www.moma.org
You can view some of the gardens and take free on-course at www.Longwoodgardens.org
Scratch For All - a programming language at MIT – https://scratch.mit.edu/
The Library of Congress provides a playlist of music and concerts on Youtube that is periodically updated.
The Chamber Music Society provides livestreams on scheduled days.
Virtual ART Studio livestreams beginning on Friday, June 12.
The Anne Frank House is providing a virtual tour of where Anne Frank and her family hid during World War II.
Cape May County Park and Zoo is providing Virtual Zoo School. Take a look at their daily tours of different parts of the zoo.
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Many of the programs are video taped (with appropriate permission of the presenter) and converted into a DVD for placement in our collection. A short introduction to the presentation is created to introduce the topic and presenter. Here are a few of the introductions (in low resolution format) of a few of our more popular programs. (Windows Media Player | 564 |
MOIRAJO
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Joseph and Jesus
"Joseph, being a just man ... (Matt. 1:18)"
"He did what the Lord had commanded him." (Mat 1:24)"
LISTEN: MercyMe, Joseph's Lullaby,
https<|fim_middle|> remember that we have dreams for them, dreams for life and purpose -- and we will do what we can to make these dreams come true.
Have you had a dream for someone else? A dream for their future? Help them achieve it. Have you been hurt but given the opportunity to see things from God's eyes? Receive that divine vision. Have you had the opportunity to create happy memories, safe spaces for those who need them? Be like Joseph. Joseph, the carpenter, who know not only to build a house, but to build a home.
May your dreams in these final days of Advent lead you to building a home where Love can dwell, all are safe, and dreams come true.
Pray: "God, help us learn from our brother, Joseph. Make us builders of relationships where Love is born, dreams are made and where we take care of each other, in your name."
Moirajo is a minister, social worker, wife, mother, writer and animal lover. That's just for starters. Join the story, there's so much we can share together!
Bible, Living life on life's terms, spirituality
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It can be said that the unsung hero of the Nativity story is Joseph, the human father of Jesus, the husband of Mary. Yet Joseph does not say a word in the Bible. His actions, however, speak volumes. Matthew tells us that Joseph learns that his betrothed, Mary, is found with child of the Holy Spirit. Just about any other man would have felt betrayed, angry, or sought revenge. Another man might have spread rumors. Joseph didn't do these things. We are told that Joseph was just. While it was in his rights to have Mary condemned, but he didn't seek this path. He sought to divorce her quietly. In doing so, he desired to protect her from shame and harm. Joseph was a mensch, a man of integrity and honor.
Joseph was a carpenter. He knew how to build structures. Joseph was also a spiritual carpenter. He knew how to build relationships -- a family -- with the raw materials God gave him. Joseph was precisely the man God needed for the task at hand: a human father for Jesus, the Master Carpenter, born to restore the world to wholeness.
What raw materials did God give Joseph? In addition to his upright character, Joseph had the uncanny ability to listen to God speaking to him through his dreams. He is reassured to take Mary as his wife, and to name the child Jesus. Being warned in a dream about Herod, he takes his family and flees to Egypt. Another dream assures him when he can return. Because he listened, he traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem, from Bethlehem to Egypt, then back to Nazareth. Think of all that traveling with a young child! It's hard enough in our day and age to travel with the under two set. Joseph and Mary faced the inconveniences before them -- but these trials united them instead of tearing them apart. Joseph kept them safe at all costs. Not once do we hear a grumble or complaint. Joseph and Mary built a family in midst these travels -- through their trust and obedience to God and their love and respect for each other.
While there are many legends that have sprung up around Joseph; the biblical narrative alone speaks most powerfully to his character and his vital role in our Christmas story. Joseph teaches us that our character, and what we do for one another in times of dire need, have a long-lasting affect. People may not remember our words. But people will remember what we did for them to keep them safe. People will remember when we gave them a second chance or when we chose the high road. People will remember when we walked the journey with them, even at great inconvenience to ourselves. People will remember when we saved them from evil circumstances. People will remember when we gave them a home. Yes, people will | 586 |
For the fifth year running, Free Beer closed the show at Cowley's<|fim_middle|> Mercy High School Dads club. No one from the band won. Check out the photos here! | on their most important day of the year, St. Patrick's Day, March 17th. Best part of getting there there early was hanging out with our friend Karen Savelly from WCSX-FM. We caught the end of the sent from the Shawn Riley Band who started around 10AM. They ended it with the Star Spangled Banner ... see the video! Find all of the photos here!!We again pulled off our Marathon Irish/Rock/Irish/Rock etc. show with the top of each hour featuring Ron Jewell standing up front telling Irish Jokes, singing Irish Song and playing Irish Guitar while Marcel Lim played Irishi Fiddle to everyone's favorite Irish Songs. We kicked it off at 4:30P and we played all the way until 11PM. Our favorite Cowley's Ex Waitress Deana was there! Marcel was all over the place. He wore a kilt. He played Keyboards during Add It Up. He did a tap solo during Little Less Conversation. We gave a way a trip to Ireland with the | 219 |
<|fim_middle|>ometer westlich der Stadt Lenti, ein Kilometer von der Grenze zu Slowenien entfernt. Nachbargemeinden sind Szijártóháza, Bödeháza, Zalaszombatfa und Rédics. Jenseits der Grenze liegt in zwei Kilometer Entfernung der slowenische Ort Genterovci.
Geschichte
Der Ort wurde bereits 1389 unter dem Namen Gabrianhaza schriftlich erwähnt.
Sehenswürdigkeiten
Römisch-katholische Kirche Nagyboldogasszony, erbaut 1932–1934
Weltkriegsdenkmal (I-II. világháborús emlékmű)
Verkehr
In Gáborjánháza treffen die Nebenstraßen Nr. 74126 und Nr. 74128 aufeinander. Der nächstgelegene Bahnhof befindet sich sechs Kilometer südöstlich in Rédics.
Literatur
Gáborjánháza – Településképi Arculati Kézikönyv 2017. Hrsg. von der Gemeindeverwaltung.
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Gáborjánháza ()
Gáborjánháza község címere (ungarisch)
Ort im Komitat Zala
Ort im Einzugsgebiet Ledava | Gáborjánháza ist eine ungarische Gemeinde im Kreis Lenti im Komitat Zala.
Geografische Lage
Gáborjánháza liegt knapp zehn Kil | 44 |
<|fim_middle|> connect. | It's amazing how accurate this is, how one experience leads to another. Often at just the right time in your life you'll see the dots connect. I always try to remember this quote when things don't go the way I hope they will. Looking back, it usually makes a lot more sense the way it turned out.
I just read the blog post "Better Answers & How I Learned to Defrag My Brain." In it, Alex Hillman talks about the Spark File from Steven Johnson. He writes down any idea that comes to mind. It's saved to a file that amasses all the ideas he's had for years.
He found that when he looks back – and this is the important part – some ideas will start to make more sense. An idea he had today may be the missing piece to an idea he had in 2009, and now he can act on it. He makes it a point to re-read the file in full every few months.
As a creative, there are inevitably ruts where you feel like you can't create. Most of us probably write down ideas in one way or another. But rather than having notebooks, old emails, and the Notes app on my phone having a random collection of ideas, actually implementing a process as to how I curate those ideas makes so much sense.
I'm taking today to re-organize all my old ideas so they can live together. From this day forward, I'll be writing down every bad idea, too. You never know when the dots may | 311 |
Priest Lake, Idaho is in the northern most reaches of Bonner County, some<|fim_middle|>ists. Call The Tree Service today to make an appointment for your consultation about your dangerous trees today! | 80 miles from Spokane. Known for the pristine waters of the Lake from which it gets its name, the Priest Lake community is comprised of several small burghs offering cabins, food, lake access, and more. The main body of the lake - the Lower Priest - is 19 miles long and reaches 300 feet deep in places. The Lower Priest Lake is connected to the Upper Priest Lake through a 2 and half-mile thoroughfare. The first white settlers to the region were trappers, and the Priest Lake area was eventually settled by the Jesuit priests. The lake would eventually be called "Kaniksu," believed to be a Native American word meaning "black robe," referencing the black robes the Jesuits wore. Priest Lake is home to dense woods and stands of cedar, pine, fir, larch, and many other types of trees, and the topography is steep at times, making tree trimming and removal challenging for all but the best arbor | 200 |
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Above: Kristen Proffit and Manda Mosher
of CALICO THE BAND
CALICO THE BAND–the California Americana country group led by the female duo of Manda Mosher and Kirsten Proffit–today (8/25) have teamed up with TheBoot.com to premiere their Western-themed music video for "Cold Cold Love," the latest single from the band's forthcoming album UNDER BLUE SKIES. The track's audio debuted last week (8/15) with MotherChurchPew.com. Click here to watch the video that was filmed just outside of Joshua Tree, a Southern California location which has a "mystical cosmic country connection that is inspiration for us," says the band. Pre-order for UNDER BLUE SKIES is available now on iTunes with instant grat tracks "Cold Cold Love" and "The 405."
CALICO THE BAND, short for "California Country," returns with their signature intimate and tight harmonies on their sophomore album UNDER BLUE SKIES (California Country Records) out Friday, September 15. During release week, the band will be performing two official AmericanaFest Showcases in Nashville, TN. On Thursday, September 14, CALICO THE BAND will perform The California Country Social–presented by California Country Records & The Alternate Root–at Fond Object Records (5pm to 8pm) and Saturday, September 16 for another Official AmericanaFest Showcase at The 5 Spot (midnight).
The band's harmonies light up such standout tracks as "The 405" (the video for which premiered last month with AXS.com), "Cold Cold Love," and "The Leaving Kind" a song about about loving a desperado who can't sit still (unveiledon The Bluegrass Situation; listen here). CALICO THE BAND also delivers an inspired arrangement of Mamas & The Papas' classic "California Dreamin'."
UNDER BLUE SKIES follows the band's debut album which was praised by Terry Roland of No Depression who raved, "The best of L.A.'s country past, present and future clearly emerges from Calico's debut, Rancho California." The opening track, "Fine Line," tells the quintessential story of so many aspiring artists who come<|fim_middle|>For more information on CALICO THE BAND, visit:
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Above: Calico The Band
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Marion Lee Dudra, 87, of Springfield, formerly of Pana passed away Sunday, March 31, 2019 at Heritage Health in Springfield. She was born May 1, 1931 in Pana, daughter of the late Edgar & Lola (Carlisle) Oliver.
Marion lived in the Pana area most of her life and was<|fim_middle|> 18901.
"Email Address" would like to share the life celebration of Marion Lee Dudra. Click on the "link" to go to share a favorite memory or leave a condolence message for the family. | a member of the St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Pana and Pana Women of the Moose. She was a homemaker and enjoyed playing games and sitting on her porch, drinking coffee.
Marion married Aloysius "Aloys" Paul Dudra on June 21, 1952 in Collinsville. He preceded her in death on July 2, 1995.
She is survived by her children: Paul (Susan) Dudra, Decatur, IL & Tammy (Don) Wolters, Springfield and grandsons: Nathaniel Wolters & Patrick Dudra. She was also preceded in death by her daughter, Debbie Dudra-Robison; siblings: Leroy "Corky" Oliver, William Oliver, Gerald Oliver, Winston Oliver, Ruth Gentry, Dorothy Russell, Juanita Gordon, Evelyn Mills, Audrey Moore, Jana Faye Miller, Jerry Oliver, Ima Jean Fischer; and niece, Carolyn Henson.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, April 4, 2019 in McCracken-Dean Funeral Home at 11:00 a.m. with Rev. Rodney A. Schwartz officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Pana. Visitation will be Thursday from 10:00 a.m. until service time in the funeral home.
Memorials in Marion's honor may be made to the Dementia Society of America, P.O. Box 600, Doylestown, PA | 311 |
<|fim_middle|> | POPLAR ISLAND NEARLY VANISHED from sight before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began building dikes for storing dredge material dug out of the shipping channels of Chesapeake Bay. Now the man-made island with its new wetland cells is becoming home to thousands of terrapins who are finding safe nests for their offspring. To keep track of births on the site, field technician Ryan Trimbath (above) and another assistant patrol the island during nesting season. When they find a nest, they dig it up, count the eggs, then cover them again, and flag the site. Fifty days later they ring the nest with aluminum flashing, creating a little terrapin corral to keep hatchlings from wandering away. When the hatchlings finally crawl out, Trimbath captures them for weighing, measuring, and tagging. The survival rate for these nests is running in the 70 to 80 percent range — happy news for biologist Willem Roosenburg (below) who releases hatchlings back into the wetlands. Photographs by Michael W. Fincham. | 222 |
Even though there are many instances where God interacts with humans in Genesis, we have covered most of those on our previous series of posts on Genesis. Therefore, I will skip ahead to the book of Exodus where we find another strong indication of God's desire to be with us.
When Israel left Egypt God was visibly with them. He delivered them from Egypt with a mighty hand and great wonders. The people of Israel can just look up and see the cloud, representing the presence of God with them.
We tend to look back at this story and wonder.
"How amazing it must have been to have experienced God working such wonders and miracles!"
"How incredible it must have been to look up and see a cloud during the day reminding you of God's presence and care."
"How wonderful to have a pillar of fire at night. Scaring away predators, providing you with a night light, and not to mention a heater during the chilly desert nights."
We wish we could have been there, because if we had that experience our faith would be greater. We believe if we had experienced what the Israelites experienced during the Exodus our faith would be significantly stronger.
If only we could be aware of the presence of God as the children of Israel were during the Exodus, then everything would be different. Or so we tell ourselves.
We want to believe that given the mighty signs and wonders the people of Israel witnessed recently, plus the cloud they could see, would be enough to strengthen their faith and drive away all worry and fear. But they cry out to God and complain to Moses. They claim they would rather have been left in Egypt serving the Egyptians.
Do we ever behave like this? One day we are praising God for delivering us from a great trial, the next day we are complaining about how He has led our life, wishing He had just left us alone in our previous lifestyle?
The truth is that learning to trust is not easy<|fim_middle|> desire to be with us.
Today, this coming week, will you make clear your desire to be with God? To develop an intimate relationship with Him to really invest into a relationship with Him as opposed to just going through the motions?
God has done His part.
It's clear that God wants to be with you. The only question left is do you want to be with Him? | .
Is it coincidence that God called Israel out of Egypt and then brought them through the wilderness? Israel complained but God was avoiding war, (Exodus 13:17-18) God was taking them the best way possible, and they were still complaining.
Thinking about this I began to see a pattern.
Jesus spent some time in the wilderness right after His baptism and before beginning to preach. (Matthew 4) When Satan came to tempt Jesus, Jesus told Satan what we all learn when we go through our wilderness experience.
The wilderness experience is not comfortable, away from the comforts of home and the protection of a city. You have to depend on God in the wilderness.
In Exodus we have God wanting to reveal to His children the kind of God that He is. He wants them to know that He will provide for them. But they complain, they don't want to rely on God daily. Couldn't God just provide for them in such a way that they would never have to wonder, just always giving them plenty and taking care of all their problems even before they had to ask for help?
The people of Israel would learn about God as they spent time with God.
Do we want to experience God with us or God at a distance? To be called just in case of emergency?
The wilderness experience is always challenging, but it causes us to develop our relationship with God, it teaches us to trust Him and it allows us to face and overcome greater challenges in the future, challenges we would never dare face if it had not been for the lessons we learned during our wilderness experiences.
Moses learned to be patient in the wilderness.
Jacob learned to be honest and to refuse to let go of God.
Elijah was able to pray and fire came down from heaven.
Israel was facing their first wilderness experience.
and what does Moses say?
Moses had already had his wilderness experience. Moses was not afraid, he had already learned what God was like, not only what God was capable of but how much God cared about His children.
We ought to know by now that God will fight for us. But we insist in worrying in the meanwhile. We know He will provide, but we stress until He does.
It's Christmas season, we are celebrating the birth of Jesus. Yet we wonder if God really cares?
We wonder if He really loves us?
We wonder if He is really powerful?
I hope that you can take time to ponder God's desire to be with us. Not only in a general and impersonal sense, but God's desire to be with you. To be your Lord and Savior.
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ShapeShifting TV: interactive screen media narratives
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Finds: Flints of the Lower Palaeolithic and Upper Palaeolithic periods.
Description: Remains of 5 round hut floors.
Finds: MP flint, out of which an Aterian pedunculated scraper.
may be present as well.
of stones and 3 arrangements of stones in circles.
Finds: Many Upper Palaeolithic blades and cores.
Site typology: Flint workshop, heaps of stone.
Description: Remains of 4 round hut floors, one of which is very large.
Description: Remains of 7 hut floors and 2 smaller areas cleared of stones near the ravine border.
Period, Upper Palaeolithic and BAC.
pebbles likely to have remained in situ for a very long time.
Finds: Abundant Early Upper Palaeolothic (Karkomian) flints.
Site typology: Campsite, fireplace, geoglyph.
in size (5 m in diameter) were probably added during the Early Middle Palaeolithic.
shape. A flint pebble is flaked, probably to enhance its shape.
Periods MC: LP, UP, BAC?.
Site typology: Campsite, heaps of stone, platform, tumuli.
Finds: Abundant Early Upper Palaeolothic (Karkomian?) flints.
a semi-circle around the top of a hill.
much larger than the others and is irregular in shape.
Finds: Flints of the Middle Palaeolithic and Upper Palaeolithic periods.
Description: Remains of 3 round hut floors aligned in a row.
Finds: Flints of the Upper Palaeolithic period.
Site typology: Campsite, flint workshop.
"anthropo-zoomorphic" stones with 1 round, mask-shaped in the centre.
Description: Remains of 7 Palaeolithic hut floors. A tumulus, probably a BAC burial, to the North.
stone semicircle with a stone in the middle.
Periods MC: LP, MP, BAC.
Site typology: Campsite, stone alignment, tumulus.
Description: A flint workshop on a terrace upon site HK/211a. A path in an E-W direction crosses it.
Description: Remains of 3 Palaeolithic hut floors.
Site typology: Heaps of stones.
carefully cleared of stones. Another large area in the vicinity is cleared of stones.
Description: Remains of 4 round hut floors and a smaller area cleared of stones.
structures which were probably temporary dwellings of nomads of the RBY period.
likely to be the remains of a hearth. On the east, 3 flint workshops.
Finds: Flints of the Middle Palaeolithic period.
Site typology: Campsite, flint workshops, fireplace.
Bibliography: EA86, p. 311; EA 93, p. 58.
Bibliography: EA86, p. 311; EA97b, p. 21.
Description: A group of 7 piles of stones, probably tumuli. 60 m east, another similar isolated pile.
Site typology: Heaps of stone, tumuli.
concentric circles on its surface; and the third has a vaguely anthropomorphic shape.
the site may have had a ritual role rather than a habitation one.
made by 12 main flint stones and several smaller ones.
Site typology: platforms, tumuli (?).
Description: Circle of at least 9 structures, probably a plaza, and<|fim_middle|>ology: Campsite, heap of stones.
and several piles of stones.
Description: A circular stone structure and a series of standing stones arranged in a circle.
Site typology: Enclosure, heap of stones.
Description: 12 standing stones in a line that runs almost east-west for 150 m.
Description: Remains of small walls and of agricultural terracing.
smaller stone 10 m to the south.
Periods RA: III, IV-A, VII.
dark patina. At least eight stylized quadrupeds. Early Arabic inscriptions.
Periods RA: III, IV-A, VI.
Description: Two rocks with incisions of the islamic period.
Periods RA: II-B, IV-A, IV-C, VI, VII.
Site typology: Campsite, encampment, rock shelter.
Description: 2 circular stone dwelling and heaps of stones.
Site typology: Encampment, heap of stones.
Description: Remains of an encampment with heaps of stones.
Description: 1 oval stone enclosure and 3 hut floors.
Site typology: Campsite, encampment, enclosure.
Description: 3 hut floors and several heaps of stones at the confluence of 2 wadis.
Description: Remains of an encampment in a strategic position, overlooking an ancient trail.
Site typology: Heaps of stone, stone circle.
Description: Heaps of stones arranged in a semicircle.
Description: Heaps of stones and basement of huts and remains of an encampment.
hut floors form a circle.
Site typology: Campsite, heaps of stones.
Description: 11-12 hut floors arranged in a circle.
Description: A cluster of 3 large basement of huts.
Description: A cluster of 10 hut floors.
Description: 6 aligned hut floors.
Description: Remains of 10 hut floors.
Description: 1 large hut floor and several smaller areas cleared of stones. | additional scattered structures.
different periods. On the northern side remains of a geoglyph.
Finds: Flints (BAC) and pottery (ISL).
added to them by man. Nearby are remains of at least 8 hut floors.
Bibliography: EA86, p. 312; EA93a, p. 56; EA96c, p. 19.
Finds: No material culture found.
Rock Art: One engraved rock.
Periods RA: IV-A, VI, VII.
other rocks with more recent engravings.
Rock Art: Three engraved rocks.
Periods RA: IV-A, IV-C, VI, VII.
Rock Art: Two engraved rocks.
Description: Enclosure built of stone, with 2 dwelling units and 2 tumuli beside it.
Site typology: Encampment, enclosure, tumuli.
the shelter are 3 m x 1.5 m. The interior measures 1 m x 1 m.
There are several other shelters, the 2 largest are situated to the east and to the west.
of about 3km. The site was excavated.
Periods MC: BAC?, Persian ?, HEL, RBY.
Site typology: Anthropomorphic rock, orthostat, rock shelter, shrine.
Bibliography: EA93a, p. 57; VM95, BCSP, vol. 28, pp. 106-114; EA95, p.15.
(Bedouin?) take up a wide area on both sides of the wadi.
Description: Remains of 6 agricultural terraces, at the confluence of 2 wadis.
Description: Remains of a Bedouin encampment.
Bibliography: EA86, p. 311; EA95, p. 10.
measures 60 x 25 m.
Periods MC: MP, BAC, RBY, ISL.
Description: Remains of agricultural terracing in the wadi bed.
Description: Impressive agricultural terraces along a wadi that extend east- west for about 1km.
Periods MC: UP, BAC, ISL.
Description: Remains of a village with 4 large aligned enclosures and other minor structures.
Nearby there are groups of 13-14 small piles of stones (the village cemetery?).
Rock Art: 1 engraved rock.
may have been used to collect water. A small site but exploited many times.
Finds: BAC flints, RBY pottery and fragment of basalt stone bowl, probably Roman.
to the south, are traces of an encampment.
Site typology: Courtyard, encampment, heaps of stones, tumulus.
pile of stones. 60 m east are remains of a nomadic encampment.
Site typology: Encampment, enclosure, heaps of stone.
cluster of rocks with engravings. 1 of them has a flat top with traces of fire.
Finds: LP bifacial tools and flakes. BAC flints: 6 rounded pebbles, probably a game.
the top. These fires have whitened the usually dark patina of the surface.
Periods RA: IV-A, IV-C, VI-VII.
Site typology: Encampment, enclosure, inscription, plaza, rock art, stone circle.
with walls blackened by soot indicate fires were made in them repeatedly.
Periods MC: LP, BAC, RBY.
Site typology: Encampment, rock art, rock shelters, station.
Description: West of site HK/233 are 5 engraved rocks.
Periods RA: II-B, III, VII.
Description: On the slope of the mountain is a tumulus with an "anthropomorphic" stone nearby.
Rock Art: 10 engraved rocks.
Periods RA: II-B, V, VI, VII.
Site typology: Anthropomorphic stone, rock art, tumulus.
Rock Art: 3 engraved rocks.
Site typology: Geoglyphs, rock art, stone alignments.
"private shrine" with a standing orthostat and a semi-circular heap of stone.
Finds: Include Chalcolithic adze and several fan scrapers.
Rock Art: More than 20 engraved rocks.
Periods RA: II?, IV-A, IV-C, V, VI, VII.
Site typology: Heaps of stone, orthostat, plaza, rock art, shrine.
Bibliography: EA87, pp. 21 & 94; EA93a, p. 30.
Rock Art: Five engraved rocks.
fox?) with a very old patina.
Description: Four tumuli and a stone alignment, in direction north-south.
with bow and arrow and a man with a camel.
Periods RA: III, IV-A, IV-C, VII.
associated with a Thamudic inscription.
Rock Art: Four engraved rocks.
Periods RA: IV-C, V, VII.
Site typology: Inscription, rock art.
location of holes probably relics of a plantation.
Site typology: Plaza, stone alignment.
Description: Several heaps of stones, probably tombs.
Site typology: Heaps of stone, tumuli?.
Description: Remains of a nomadic encampment with 3 oval structures.
piles of stones, probably Bedouin tombs.
Finds: Worked flint tools on an area of about 60x80 m.
characteristic tools; the cores are of BAC type.
Description: A tumulus at the top of a small hill.
centre and 8 additional adjacent structures. The diameter of the circle is about 40 m.
Bibliography: EA87, p. 97; EA88a, p. 115.
Site typology: Anthropomorphic stone, slab, tumulus.
A water bottle, some leather straps, shreds from a tunic, camel and goat droppings.
and were probably recently built.
C: Higher up a funerary tumulus.
Finds: Abundant flints; Islam and Byzantine pottery; an iron sickle (ISL). Sediment.
Periods MC: BAC, RBY, ISL.
Rock Art: 50 m east, 1 engraved rock.
Site typology: Rock art, rock shelter, slab, tumulus.
southwest, on another terrace further up in the wadi there are at least 3 stone tumuli.
Description: Remains of a camping site.
of fallen stones indicates that the ceiling is unstable or was so in the past.
animals coming from the deep hole in the kitchen. Worked bones. 2 stone lids, diam.
Bibliography: EA95, pp. 10 & 12.
were chosen for the circles. 1 is formed mostly of white stones, the other of dark stones.
Periods MC: MP, NEO?, BAC.
probably in connection with site HK/245a.
wadis; terrace with 3 stone structures.
On the top of the hill, tumulus with 3 engraved rocks (HK/246b).
Site typology: Courtyard, rock art, tumulus.
Description: Roman and Nabataean pottery sherds near the trail.
Description: One engraved rock with old patina. At least 6 ibexes.
Description: One engraved rock: a hunting scene of IV-A with more recent retouching.
Periods RA: IV-A, V, VI.
Description: At least 6 tumuli and 3 round hut floors.
Description: 3 stone dwelling units.
Description: To the west of 248a stone-built structures of a Bedouin camp and rock engravings.
Rock Art: 3 rocks with Arabic inscription.
Site typology: Encampment, rock art.
the stones of the dwelling site have been incorporated into the burial heaps of stones.
Site typology: Encampment, heaps of stones.
Rock Art: 6 engraved rocks, one in high relief.
Periods RA: 2 of IV-C; others IV-A.
Description: Remains of a nomadic camp, likely to be Beduoin.
with shaped edges, which was used as an axe.
Description: An alignment of 7 tumuli near an ancient trail leading to Har Karkom.
site HK/251 are 4 heaps of stones on the flat top of a hill.
Site typology: Shrine (?), tumulus.
Site typology: Courtyard, rock shelter.
Site typology: Heaps of stone.
Periods RA: IV-C, V, VI, VII.
Structures: 3 circular basement of huts and other heaps of stones. This is likely to be a plaza site.
Site typology: Orthostat, plaza, stone alignment, tumuli.
Description: Remains of a circular stone structure.
Description: A circular stone enclosure and a heap of stones.
Site typology: Enclosure, heaps of stone.
arranged in a row measuring over 60 m. 6 others form a semicircle.
Site typology: Heaps of stone, row.
Description: Hut floors are near a path.
Description: In front of HK/334c, an isolated rock with engravings.
Description: Opposite to HK/262b, rock art on the slope.
Description: A large black rock with a very dark patina with an engraving of an ibex.
Description: A circle of small standing stones about 30 m in diameter.
Site typology: Orthostat, stone circle.
Description: 2 contiguous circles of small standing stones.
small heaps of stones approximately 60 m in length.
Site typology: Encampment, heaps of stone, stone alignment.
Description: Basements of huts on top of a hill and remains of an encampment.
anthropomorphic shape of the rock is likely to have attracted human interest.
Finds: Bifaces LP, flints BAC. Many cores and flakes: flint workshop.
Periods MC: LP, BAC, ISL.
Site typology: Encampment, flint workshop, plaza, tumuli.
Bibliography: EA87, pp. 21 & 126; EA96b, p. 31.
Description: 2 oval stone structures and a pile of stones.
Finds: Flints MP and BAC.
anthropomorphic features. 1 of them has 2 small cup marks as "eyes".
Periods RA: IV-C, V, VI, VII.
Site typology: Anthropo-zoomorphic stones, rock art.
standing stones arranged in a semicircle.
Site typology: Encampment, heaps of stone, orthostat.
Periods RA: IVA, IVC, VII.
Description: Traces of 7 hut floors arranged in a semicircle; at least 4 additional ones further east.
preserved hut floors; there are probably a few more in the vicinity.
Site typology: Campsite, encampment, heaps of stone.
Description: At least 8 hut floors.
Description: 26 hut floors. 7 of them are arranged in a large semicircle.
Description: 20 hut floors. 8 of them are arranged in a semicircle.
Description: Remains of an encampment, basement of huts and piles of stones.
Site typology: Campsite, encampment, heaps of stone.
(diameter nearly 50 m). Geoglyph.
Description: At least 6 basements of huts and piles of stones.
Site typology: Campsite, heaps of stone.
the top of a hill. Geoglyph?.
Rock Art: On the slope 15 engraved rocks including early Semitic inscriptions.
Periods RA: IV-A, IV-c, V, VI, VII.
Site typology: Geoglyph(?), inscription, stone alignment.
Description: 10 small circles cleared of stones forming a circle about 50 m in diameter. Geoglyph(?).
Site typology: Geoglyph(?), stone circle.
Description: 6 round areas cleared of stones and a few heaps of stones remains of an encampment.
Site typology: Encampment, heaps of stone.
Description: A large plaza circle (about 50 m in diameter) made of 13-14 piles of stones (diam.
circle there is an oval shape drawn with small pebbles.
Site typology: Encampment, geoglyph, heaps of stone, plaza.
Description: 2 hut floors and several smaller circles cleared of stones.
Description: 10 hut floors, a series of small circles cleared of stones, and 2 heaps of stones.
dimensions. This attribution is, however, doubtful.
Site typology: Courtyard, enclosure, heaps of stone, plaza.
Description: Piles of stones and hut floors are arranged in a semicircle.
Site typ | 2,917 |
Q: Interpret<|fim_middle|> return name;
}
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Then you can use it like this
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Name your giraffe.");
String name = scanner.nextLine(); // get user input for name
Giraffe giraffe = new Giraffe(name); // use the constructor above to set name
System.out.println(giraffe.getName()); // prints name of giraffe
| User Input as a Variable Name in Java? So, I'm trying to continue my Giraffe program (don't ask). I want users to name their giraffe and that should be the name of the giraffe. For example:
System.out.println("Name your giraffe.");
Something like:
Giraffes.somenewvariabletype scannerexample.nextLine() = Giraffes.Giraffe(parameter, parameter)
A: Maybe you want something like this
public class Giraffe{
String name;
public Giraffe(String name){
this.name = name; // this set the name for your Giraffe object
}
public getName(){ // returns the name of the Giraffe object
| 144 |
Disney Parks Holiday Special Shares First Look at Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy
by Laughing Place Disney Newsdesk | Nov 23, 2018 8:58 AM Pacific Time
Tags: Cars, Disney Parks, Disney Parks Presents a 25 Days of Christmas Holiday Party, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Lightning McQueen, Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy, Walt Disney World
Now that Thanksgiving is over, Disney is focusing its attention on Christmas and excitement continues to build as we approach this holiday. Starting today, fans can enjoy a sneak peek at some of the magical changes coming to Disney Parks when they check out the DisneyNOW app.
What's happening:
The Disney Parks Blog<|fim_middle|>Queen's Racing Academy:
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Ruby Rose Turner (Coop & Cami Ask the World)
Dakota Lotus (Coop & Cami Ask the World)
Kylee Russell (ZOMBIES)
Meg Donnelly (ZOMBIES)
Sadie Stanley (Kim Possible)
Sean Giambrone (Kim Possible, ABC's The Goldbergs)
During the special, Stanley and Giambrone will take viewers behind the scenes of Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy, at Disney's Hollywood Studios, where you will be able to step right into the world of Disney•Pixar's Cars.
This brand-new, show opens in the park's Sunset Showcase in spring 2019 as part of the overall transformation of Disney's Hollywood Studios.
Lightning Mc | 215 |
Honor and Integrity
by Pastor Chuck SwindollScriptures: Psalm 101:1–2
I once heard the president of a seminary express his concern over the school by saying, "I fear<|fim_middle|> house" and "my heart." Integrity is about authenticity, which doesn't change based on the audience or venue.
From Living the Psalms by Charles R. Swindoll, copyright © 2012. Reprinted by permission of Worthy Inspired, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. | we may be turning out graduates with a great number of beliefs but not enough conviction." Conviction gives beliefs a backbone.
I once heard the president of a seminary express his concern over the school by saying, "I fear we may be turning out graduates with a great number of beliefs but not enough conviction." Conviction gives beliefs a backbone. David wasn't satisfied with a set of theological truths floating around in his head; he pinned them down to concrete convictions. It's as though he is saying in Psalm 101:1-4, "I'm committed to God's purpose, whatever it happens to be." In these four verses he lists four great qualities the believer must possess in order to discover clear direction. Each one assaults an aimless mindset. Verses 1 and 2 describe the qualities of honor and integrity.
I will sing of lovingkindness and justice,
To You, O LORD, I will sing praises. (101:1)
Observe what David praises through song: lovingkindness and justice. These two qualities not only define God, they represent the guiding values by which He wants the world to operate. Many years later, the prophet Micah will write,
What does the LORD require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8)
The first value, translated "lovingkindness," is chesed. It combines the ideas of extraordinary and unselfish mercy, love, friendship, kindness, and loyalty. The New Testament concept of grace captures the spirit of chesed. The companion word, translated "justice," is mishpat, which denotes an orderly, equitable administration of government; it describes that quality of civil rule that allows everyone to live peacefully and productively.
David resolves to make these two divine qualities the song of his life. He commits to letting them animate every decision and every relationship.
I will give heed to the blameless way.
When will You come to me?
I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart. (Psalm 101:2)
The first part of this verse has to do with public integrity as David says, literally, "I will give heed unto the way of integrity." The original Hebrew term translated "blameless" or "integrity" means "to be whole, complete, finished." It carries with it the idea of being totally honest, thoroughly sound. The king of Israel knew that his life before the people had to be solid and honest for the kingdom to remain strong.
The second part of this verse has to do with private integrity—he mentions being sound in "my | 546 |
While a myriad of countries were represented by pipe phenoms in PyeongChang, the American women came in hot to Korea this year, boasting a depth of talent seen in few other Olympic events across the board. Five-time Olympian and winningest snowboarder of all time, Kelly Clark; two-time Olympian Arielle Gold, who was sidelined in Sochi due to injury and eager for her second attempt at The Games; rising halfpipe wunder-rider, Maddie Mastro; and of course, reigning pipe royalty, Chloe Kim, looking to add the only missing metal to her ever-growing collection. While these four were perhaps the strongest contenders for a scounty-sweep since Powers, Kass, and Thomas took top three in Salt Lake in 2002, formidable riders, including Spain's Queralt Castellet and China's Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiang prepared to offfers both high airs and lofty spins to the pipe proceedings. Snowboarding legend, Todd Richards was on hand narrate the event for NBC providing a venerable voice of reason as he explained snowboarding to the better part of North America (also a nod to Craig McMorris who provided the commentary for the CBC) as one of the most highly anticipated and most-viewed events at the Olympics.
The ladies of halfpipe surely didn't disappoint. From the very beginning of finals, the resounding message from every rider that dropped was that women's halfpipe riding is in a very good place. 900's were de riguer. Backside and frontside airs towered high overhead the deck. The 1080, a trick first landed in women's competition by Kelly Clark in 2011 and first done back-to-back by Chloe Kim in 2016, was landed or attempted by nearly every rider. The tide continues to rise and while today's Olympic event was a banner day for women's halfpipe, the collective crew of riders involved showed the world that they're only interested in going higher.
Four years ago, as her fellow competitors and pipe peers headed to Russia, Chloe Kim remained at home. She was technically the top qualifier to the 2014 games, but at only 13-years-old, she was just shy of being old enough to compete per Olympic regulation. Since then, Chloe's abilities have only increased and as her riding has become progressively more explosive, the hype surrounding the SoCal-born boarder has simultaneously snowballed. But while many things fall short of the hype around them (Star Wars Episodes 1-3, staying out for one more drink, anything involving a Kardashian, etc.), Chloe Kim continually exceeds expectations and her first Olympic showing was, of course, no exception. Dropping into run one, Chloe was as fluid and<|fim_middle|>5. Congratulations to all of the women who competed in the PyeongChang pipe finals, and to Chloe, Liu, and Arielle for their new Olympic medals. | collected as ever, sending it sky high above the coping for a massive method, and setting the bar with a clean frontside ten, followed by back-to-back nines. She jumped nearly ten points ahead of the next best score with a 93.75 and wouldn't look back the remainder of the event.
Kelly Clark, whose storied contest career has garnered her a gold medal in the 2002 Olympics and two bronzes, in 2010 and 2014, ended the day just below the podium in fourth place. True to form, each run she provided stratosphere-level airs and effortlessly-landed tricks. Savant from Spain, Queralt Castellet, came out firing, not only with some of the most picturesque first-hit methods, but in her final run, massive back-to-back nines and an attempt at a 1080, though she wasn't able to ride it out. Maddie Mastro, whose rise into the upper ranks of the competition circuit has been explosive of late, landed in last place for the day, but her unwillingness to settle for a safety run, coming out of the gates and dropping fast into enormous 1080 attempts, was a confident foreshadowing of her lofty future in the four years to come.
Arielle Gold, coming off a silver at X Games Aspen in January, was the last individual to qualify for today's finals and kicked off the competition in South Korea with the first drop. It wasn't until her third run that Arielle moved into top three contention, building upon the momentum from her second attempt with a 1080 to 720 at the top of the pipe and a front nine to Michalchuk at the bottom. She was awarded an 85.75 from the judges and a definitive shot at her first podium at the Winter Games. Standing at the bottom of the pipe through the rest of the contest, with just two riders to go the Steamboat Springs local was assured her first Olympics hardware, a well-deserved bronze.
Earning Pyeongchang silver was China's Liu Jiayu. Her second run was her best, including a big backside air on her first hit that was followed up by a 720 to a 900. During her third run, she attempted to better her score of 89.75 with a ten of her own, but was unable to put down the landing gear, riding away with a respectable second place and leaving the walls open for Chloe Kim's victory lap. For Chloe, this victory lap could have been easy airs and kicked-out methods–the crowd still would have cheered, her family still would have been proud, and the golden medal still would have been placed around her neck. But instead, true-to-form for the SoCal native and further underlining the progressive current state of women's halfpipe competition, Chloe dropped in and sent a front ten and followed by a cab ten, adding to her existing run and bettering her score by almost five points and earning a 98.2 | 641 |
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Mrs. Schmidt's Story
Chapter XXXVII
Mrs. Schmidt's Story. Johann Schwandt and his wife Christina with their five children, their son-in-law John Walz, and a friend of the family, John Frass, started in May, 1862, from Fairwater, Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, with their household goods, provisions, two yokes of oxen, a few cows and some calves. After an overland journey, which occupied more than a month, they settled on Middle creek in what is now Flora township.
I was then a girl of fourteen and my brother August was ten years of age. We walked the entire distance, driving the stock and picking flowers by the wayside, and when we were tired we would stop and rest and let the cattle eat. Our dear mother would cook the meal and spread the cloth on the grass, and we would all sit around and enjoy the meal more perhaps than the king in his palace eating from golden plates and drinking from crystal glasses. The land which my father settled on was in the wilderness of the Minnesota river bottomlands and the grass was tall and coarse, and the cattle did not like it, but there was no other. My father chose this place because there was timber there, and the first thing the men did was to hew down some trees and peel the bark off of them. They then built a log cabin of two rooms, and, as at first we had no doors, they put blankets at the openings, and covered the roof with grass and bark. After a few weeks, when father went to New Ulm to do some trading, he bought some doors and windows and also shingles. I accompanied him to do some shopping for my mother and sister. It took us four days to go and come back, it being about forty miles from where we lived and traveling with oxen was very slow. After we had some doors and windows in our cabin we lived quite comfortably. The men started to break up the land and cut some hay on father's place, and as both Mr. Walz and Mr. Frass had taken a claim up on the prairie they all went up there to break the land, and all were happy and contented, but it was not to be for long.
By this time the Indians has started to become troublesome. They would come in parties of six to eight and beg for something to eat, for they were always hungry. Our family was a large one and mother could not give them very much, but I remember she always gave them bread. However, it was meat they wanted, and that we did not have very much of ourselves. There was another great pest that bothered us greatly. Our cabin was built about forty feet from the timber that I spoke of, and in this timber there were thousands and thousands of wild pigeons, keeping up a constant cooing from the break of dawn until nightfall. I do not know what has become of them, for they seem to be all gone. I think they left when the country became more settled.
My parents had been on their farm about two months when that most terrible day, the eighteenth of August, came. Out of eight persons there was only one left to tell the story. At noon when the family were just about to eat the noon meal, a party of Sioux Indians came and soon all was over. August, ten years old, was struck on the head with a tomahawk and was left as dead. In the night he revived and crawled into the tall grass and reached the fort. He still has the scar on his head. He now lives in British Columbia, at Vancouver.
About three weeks before the outbreak Legrand Davis came to our house and wanted to know if I would go over the river to Joseph B. Reynolds, who kept a stopping place. He wanted a girl to run errands, dust and so forth, and as they were going to start a school for the Indians I could go to this school at the same time. I needed more schooling and though this a good chance to acquire it. Mother did not like me to go, but Mr. Davis promised to bring me back in two or three weeks, so she reluctantly gave her consent. Little did I think that it was the last time that I would see her dear face on this earth. The Reynold's treated me very kindly, more like their own child than a servant, and I liked to live there. After I had lost my parents they wished to adopt me, but I went to live with an uncle in Wisconsin, who also took my brother August. The eighteenth of August came on a<|fim_middle|>, stolen, but it did not stay white very long. Snana was married to Good Thunder and had two papooses. I had to take care of the baby papoose. I always tried to do all she told me and to please her in all things. There was a bond of sympathy between us because she had just lost her oldest daughter.
After seven weeks of captivity I was released at Camp Release by General Sibley and his army, with the rest of the white prisoners, and as that occasion has been written up so many times I will not mention it here. Mattie Williams was a niece of Mr. Reynolds and was visiting from Ohio. She was highly educated and had a beautiful character. Mary Anderson was a pretty Swedish girl and was to have been married soon to a young man from Shakopee. I was only a plain little German girl who did not know much at all at that time. My Indian mother parted from me at Camp Release and we did not meet again for thirty-two years, but have met many times later, and I received many nice letters from her. She loved me very much, and I have always felt a gratitude towards her which I could not express in words, for she saved me from a terrible fate when she bought me from my captor with her only pony. -- By Mrs. Mary Emilia Schwandt Schmidt.
Mary Emilia Schwandt was born in the district of Brandenburg, near Berlin, Germany, in March, 1848, daughter of John and Christina Schwandt. In 1858, when she was ten years of age, the family came to America, and after a brief stay in Canada, located near Ripon, Wis., where they lived about four years. In 1862 they came to Minnesota in two wagons drawn by oxen, journeying up the beautiful Minnesota valley and settling above the mouth of Beaver creek, near Middle creek in what is now the town of Flora. There John Schwandt took up a claim, and built a log house which he covered with a good strong thatched roof made from the tall, tough, dry grass of the Minnesota bottoms. His land was all in the valley or bottom, extending from the bluff to the river. At that time the family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Schwandt, a daughter Caroline, aged 19, her husband, John Walz; a daughter, Mary Emilia, aged 14, and three sons, August, aged 10; Frederick, aged 6; Christian, aged 4. John Frass, a young man lived with them. John Walz had selected a claim and was preparing to move to it the next fall. | Monday. We had just had our breakfast at the Reynold's and Mary Anderson was just putting on the wash boiler preparing to do the week's washing. Suddenly John Mooer, a half-breed, came running in and said we should all get away as fast as we could, for the Indians had broken out and were killing all the settlers as fast as they could. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds got into a buggy and drove off, and Mattie Williams, Mary Anderson and myself got into a lumber wagon with three men that had stopped over night at the house. The team belonged to Mr. Patoile, a Frenchman, who hauled goods for the government from one agency to another. The wagon was filled with things they wanted to save, so we started, Mr. Patoile driving the team. We drove from seven in the morning until four in the afternoon, and were about eight miles west of New Ulm when we met a party of Indians. We all jumped from the wagon and ran, but we did not run very far before they were upon us, dragging us back. By that time they had killed all the men and some were scalping them. Mary Anderson was shot through the abdomen and died on the fourth day after the shooting. My clothes were riddled by the bullets, but none harmed me. A skirt which I wore has seven holes shot through it and is now in the possession of the D. A. R. at their museum at the Sibley house, Mendota. This skirt was made of heavy muslin and was part of the cover of our wagon when we settled in Renville county.
When we came back to the wagon the Indians had already broken open all the trunks and were dividing the contents. They had with them about twelve other wagons and a great number of horses. The wagons were loaded with plunder of all kinds which they has stolen from the settlers. They ordered us into the wagons and started back to the agency. It was about ten o'clock by the time that we reached Wacouta's home. It was very dark and there was a tallow candle burning. The house was swarming with Indians. Wacouta chased them out and told us to hide up in the loft and he would bring us water and food in the morning, and we were up there three days and two nights. The wounded girl cried for water, for she had a raging fever. During the second night Mattie Williams and I crawled down and went to a corn field, getting some green corn with which we tried to quench her thirst. On the third night we were told to come down, and were taken to Little Crow's village. Mary Anderson died during the night. Mattie Williams' captor took her to his tepee, where he lived with his squaw, and as my captor had no tepee he said he would kill me to be rid of me. When Snana, one of the Indian squaws heard this, she came and looked me over carefully and went away, returning in a short time leading an Indian pony, which she gave my captor, and then took me by the hand and brought me to her tepee. I was adopted into the tribe and had to call her mamma, and she dressed me in Indian clothing and made pretty moccasins for me. She wrapped me in a snow-white blanket, which was, of course | 698 |
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The book, launched yesterday, costs £6.99 and is available from local tourism offices, the AONB Partnership offices in Stanhope, by emailing info@northpenninesaonb.org.uk or calling 01388 528801. | Date Change!
THE history of haymaking in the North Pennines has been committed to print in a new book which has taken four years to research.
"No Five o'Clock on our Calendars: a History of Hay Time in the North Pennines" was put together by Neil Diment, hay time community officer for the North Pennines AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) Partnership.
He based the book on interviews with retired farmers plus photos donated from farms across the area.
The title "No Five o'Clock on our Calendars" comes from conversations with Bill Nixon, an agricultural contractor | 121 |
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The Deceased - Motorcycle Accident
Coroners Regulations 1996
Regulation 14
These findings have been de-identified by direction of the Coroner pursuant to S.57(c) of Coroners Act 1995
"The deceased"
(a) "The deceased" died on 3 February 2011 at the Royal Hobart Hospital.
(b) "The deceased" was born in New Zealand and was aged 20 years at the time of his death.
(c) "The deceased" was unmarried and employed as an Apprentice Butcher at the time of his death.
(d) I find that the deceased died as a result of multiple blunt trauma injuries following a motorcycle crash on the East Derwent Highway, Otago Bay.
"The deceased" was the holder of a novice L1 licence for both a motorcycle and a car. He had been disqualified in February 2009 for driving without an accompanying person and then in March 2009 for driving with alcohol in his body. His novice L1 licence was current at the time of the crash.
Just prior to Christmas 2010 "the deceased" was involved in a minor single vehicle accident whilst riding his motorcycle. This occurred at the roundabout near the showgrounds in Glenorchy when he lost control in wet conditions and fell resulting in soft tissue injuries. His motorcycle was damaged and not repairable.
In January 2011 "the deceased" purchased a Yamaha FZR750R motorcycle. The motorcycle was unregistered at the time of the crash and had been so since 3 July 2010. "The deceased" was not permitted by virtue of his novice L1 licence to ride a motorcycle with a 750cc engine.
On the evening of Saturday 12 February 2011 "the deceased" stayed with his mother, Mrs S at her residence in Southern Tasmania. They shared a can of Jim Beam and Coke and "the deceased" went to bed at approximately 11.30pm. "The deceased" left home the following morning at approximately 10.00am intending to visit<|fim_middle|> …………… At the conclusion of the gravel was a raised dirt/grass embankment a gouge mark was present on the edge of the bank. A void in the grassed area was identified, this void indicates that the motor cycle was airborne for a distance of 15.8 metres before landing in the grass and sliding for a distance of 50 metres".
Tasmania Police determined that the initial minimum speed of the motor cycle at the time of the commencement of the first skid was 123km/h. This is the minimum speed for the motor cycle as the equation does not take into account effective braking prior to the skid or the utilisation of the front brake. Further calculations indicate that the motorcycle was travelling at 113km/h at the time it became airborne.
The motorcycle was airborne for approximately 15.8 metres before landing in the grass and sliding for a further 50 metres. After this it entered a deep culvert which runs parallel with the road way approximately 12 metres from the sealed bitumen. Debris, including the visor from "the deceased" helmet and his mobile phone was located in this culvert.
"The deceased" came to rest approximately 100 metres south of where the motorcycle left the road, lying at the bottom of the culvert. The motorcycle was approximately 10 metres east of where he lay.
The witnesses called emergency services and under their instruction put the deceased on his side in an attempt to clear his airway.
Tasmania Ambulance Service Officers arrived on the scene at 11.52am. They noted "the deceased" to be wearing a full faced helmet. He was unconscious, his airway was cleared and he was immobilised and transported to the Royal Hobart Hospital.
Royal Hobart Hospital records indicate that "the deceased" had experienced respiratory arrest just prior to arrival at the Emergency Department. He was clinically assessed with a closed head injury and compound fracture of the left femur. He died despite continued resuscitation efforts.
Dr Donald Ritchey, Forensic Pathologist carried out the post mortem of "the deceased". In his opinion "the deceased" cause of death was "multiple blunt traumatic injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash".
Toxicology testing carried out by Forensic Science Service Tasmania revealed "no apparent significant toxicology".
Noel Clark, Transport Inspector, Department of Infrastructure Energy and Resources carried out an inspection of "the deceased" Yamaha motorcycle on 15 February 2011. In his opinion the "motor cycle was in a road worthy condition prior to the crash".
Constable Gordon Jamieson, an experienced motorcycle Police Officer, conducted a number of ride throughs of the corner on his police motor cycle at the direction of the Accident Investigator. He concluded that at 80 km/h the corner could be comfortably negotiated. At 100 km/h he also found it comfortable to negotiate the corner. He then travelled at 150 km/h and determined that:-
"......at an increased speed, the curve presents two separate apexes to the right hand bend, the middle of which is the crest of the hill. It was somewhat more challenging to judge the apexes of the curve, and the exit was more difficult to pick a safe riding line through the curve at that speed"
He concluded:-
"In my view an inexperienced motorcycle rider, would have great difficulty negotiating that section of the road at an increased speed above the 80 km/h limit. At a greater speed of more than 100 km/h it would be extremely dangerous to a rider of such experience."
I am satisfied that a full and detailed investigation has been undertaken in relation to the death of "the deceased" and that there are no suspicious circumstances.
I accept that "the deceased" died as a result of multiple blunt traumatic injuries sustained in the motorcycle crash and that he was not impaired by alcohol or other illicit drugs at the time of the crash. I accept that the motorcycle was roadworthy at the time and it's condition did not contribute to the crash. I further accept that the condition of the road did not contribute to the crash.
It is apparent that inexperience, excessive speed and unfamiliarity with the particular section of road were major contributors to the cause of the crash resulting in "the deceased" death.
I wish to conclude by conveying my sincere condolences to the family of "the deceased"
DATED : 27 July 2011 at Hobart in the state of Tasmania | his girlfriend in Dromedary. He was wearing "bike boots and jacket".
Mrs S advises that "the deceased" made no complaints in respect of how the bike handled. She described that "the deceased" girlfriend resided in Dromedary and he would travel regularly to visit her by way of the Bridgewater Bridge. He also had a friend who lived at Pontville and he would use the Bridgewater Bridge to visit him. In her opinion, "the deceased" was not familiar with the East Derwent Highway.
The road where the crash occurred is bitumen and has a general north/south orientation. It has unsealed gravel edges. There are two lanes for vehicles travelling south and one for vehicles travelling north. The two south bound lanes are divided by a single broken line. The south bound lanes and the north bound lane are divided by a continuous parallel line. The posted speed limit for the section of road is 80 km/h. At the time of the crash the weather was fine, the road was dry and the traffic was light.
"The deceased" was travelling in a southerly direction on the East Derwent Highway. As he was exiting a sweeping right hand bend at the top of the crest prior to Murtons Road turnoff at Otago Bay he was travelling in the left of the two south bound lanes.
Witness, Mr F was travelling north along the East Derwent Highway at Otago Bay at approximately 11.40am on 13 February 2011. He was in the left lane approaching the crest of the hill just past Murtons Road when he saw a "motor bike travelling in the opposite direction. The rider was wearing a black leather jacket and black full face helmet." He noticed the bike was fish tailing in the right hand lane and could see smoke coming off the rear wheel. In his opinion the rider had lost control.
Witness Mr G was also travelling in a northerly direction at the same time and saw a motorcycle approaching from the opposite direction. At approximately 400m away he observed that the rider appeared to have lost control with the motorcycle fish tailing. He then lost sight of the motorcycle as they went down into a dip. As they crested the hill he saw the bike and rider were airborne with the bike "approximately 3 feet in the air".
Other witnesses travelling in the opposite direction to "the deceased" stated that the motorcycle appeared to be "tank slapping" or in other words fish tailing underneath him
Constable Cordwell, a qualified investigator with Tasmania Police Accident Investigation Services observed a single distinct tyre skid mark. "The mark was on the edge of the left most south bound lane. The skid mark continued for a distance of 39.1 metres virtually in a straight line. ………… This mark concluded where the bitumen met the gravel road. The tyre mark continued in the gravel on the eastern side of the road and continued for a distance of 12.7 metres. | 613 |
An overview of Alzheimer's disease-related content on Genes to Cognition Online.
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder that causes a gradual and irreversible loss of higher brain functions, including memory, language skills, and perception of time and space, and, eventually, leading to an inability to care for oneself. Use Background to Alzheimer's to review the symptoms causes, and treatments of the disorder. The three hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and death of brain cells. The fundamental pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease is the plaque and the amyloid deposition. Then, secondarily, the amyloid triggers this reaction in cells to form tangles. GENES Use the chromosome Map of Disorders and Processes to explore some of the candidate genes associated with Alzheimer's disease. One of these genes, amyloid precursor protein (APP), is widely expressed in tissues, and is particularly expressed in the synapses of neurons. It is particularly associated with earl-onset Alzheimer's disease. A primary<|fim_middle|> in cells to form neurofibrillary tangles. This is made up of the tau protein, and forms inside the cell. When tangles clump up inside the cell, this causes the neuron to become stressed and eventually die. Thus, there is largely a linear relationship between a-beta build-up, tangles, and neuronal death. Inevitably, this leads to major cognitive problems. BRAIN In Alzheimer's Neuropathology – Stages, Professor Donna Wilcock introduces Braak and Braak staging, which refers to the movement of pathology of Alzheimer's disease throughout the brain. In the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease, you see the pathology in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, which are important to memory formation. had for breakfast that the hippocampus does – this is the formation of new memories. Eventually, this spreads to the rest of the brain affecting sensory-processing areas and the amygdala, which processes emotions. Interestingly, some regions of the brain, such as the cerebellum, are not affected. COGNITION The major risk factor for Alzheimer's disease is age – among individuals of 65, 5-10% have the disorder. This statistic rises to approximately 40% for those aged 85 years or older. It follows that as the general population ages, incidence will rise, and may affect up to 14 million Americans by 2050. Currently, up to 6 million people in the United States have Alzheimer's disease, which has two forms – late-onset, which is the far more common and early-onset, which is rare and affects individuals between 35 and 60. Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed clinically by a battery of tests, but it may be possible to use neuroimaging as a diagnostic tool in the near future. ENVIRONMENT The Dana review article, Environment and Alzheimer's Disease, discusses environmental factors including diet, exercise, red wine consumption, and low stress, which may lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease. In addition, a number of studies have shown a correlation between higher levels of education and resistance to Alzheimer's disease. This is sometimes known as the 'use it or lose it idea', but remains somewhat controversial among researchers.
Source: DNALC.G2C | cause of Alzheimer's disease is deposits of a protein called amyloid-beta as plaques in the brain. When multiple amyloid beta peptides come together, they form an insoluble piece of protein called an amyloid plaque. Tau is the protein that is formed in the neurofibrillary tangle. The purpose of this system of tau and microtubules is for moving cargo down along axons. In a series of illuminating interviews, Professors Kenneth Kosic, Dennis Selkoe, and Donna Wilcock discuss the molecular processes associated with Alzheimer's disease. BIOCHEMICALS In the Biochemistry of Alzheimer's Disease, Professor Donna Wilcock explains that neurotransmitter hypotheses of Alzheimer's disease are largely unspecific. Nevertheless, glutamate, serotonin, and NPY have elicited interest. Aricept is the principle biochemical used to treat Alzheimer's disease, but can only postpone progression. Professor Dennis Selkoe explains that treatments in the coming years are likely to become more effective. CELLS Amyloid-beta (a-beta) build-up causes amyloid plaques. A-beta oligomers can short circuit the synapses in the hippocampus, and interfere with long-term potentiation, a major correlate of memory and learning. Amyloid triggers this reaction | 254 |
Described as 'wonderfully unreliable experiments', Anya Gallaccio's work is concerned essentially with the nature of change and the balance struck between growth and decay. One of the leading British sculptors of her generation, the artist's practice demonstrates a remarkable ability to combine audience engagement with an intellectual rigour. Transforming the everyday to the extraordinary, her installations make use of a wide range of commonplace materials<|fim_middle|>50 COL e 20 BW ills.; Publisher: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham , 2003. | such as chocolate, ice blocks, salt, flowers, chalk, candles and vegetables. This publication was launched to coincide with the artist's first survey exhibition at Ikon in Spring 2003, for which she was nominated for the Turner Prize and includes comprehensive documentation of some of her most celebrated work, as well insights into her most recent sculptural projects, previously unseen in the UK. An essay by art historian and critic Simon Watney included in the catalogue gives particular attention to individual pieces featured in the 2003 Ikon exhibition, while also providing a broader overview of Gallaccio's past works, including exhibitions at Tate Britain in 2000 and 2002, in Basel, Switzerland from 1994-1996, and in Rome, Italy in 1994. Themes and influences are also explored by Watney, in particular, the artist's fascination with concepts of time, cycles, fragility and mortality, and the impact of American philosopher Walt Whitman and the 1960s minimalist sculptors on her work. In addition, this catalogue includes multiple full colour photographs of Gallaccio's work and an abstract 'question and answer' style selection of philosophical musings related to her ideas, compiled from various historical and philosophical texts by writer Angus Cooke.
Text: Watney Simon, Watkins Jonathan. cm 29,7×22; pp. 56; | 297 |
Mastiha trees and similar varieties of this tree family are an essential part of maqui-type vegetation found in Mediterranean countries, but only in Chios tree and nature offer those precious mastiha "tears".
Mid-January and throughout February they prune lower branches to give a specific shape to the tree and to create passages for the circulation of air and light as well as for the drying of resin. Before the tree carving process and mastiha's gathering, the ground around the trunk needs to be free from other plants.Thus, from mid-June to the beginning of July cleaning and soil leveling take place so that any masti<|fim_middle|> is continuous, then the drop is large and relatively soft, while an intermittent flow produces a smaller but harder drop. | ha drops that may fall on the ground can be easily gathered.
The "kentos", as we call the carving of small scars on the lentisk's bark, is the most crucial stage in mastiha production. It begins in July and goes on throughout August, while sometimes there may be more carvings up until the end of September.
In antiquity, Greek and Latin physicians, such as Hippocrates,Galinos and Dioscourides discovered the medicinal properties of mastiha, which they called the "lentisk resin"
It is worth mentioning that mastiha production process has remained practically unchanged by time, something that unbreakably connects it to the historical tradition of Southern Chios.
When the flow of mastiha resin | 151 |
Home » NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defense test
NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defense test
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Sept 26 (Reuters) – NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday in the world's first test of a planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth.
Humanity's first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body played out in a NASA webcast from the mission operations center outside Washington, D.C., 10 months after DART was launched.
The livestream showed images taken by DART's camera as the cube-shaped "impactor" vehicle, no bigger than a vending machine with two rectangular solar arrays, streaked into the asteroid Dimorphos, about the size of a football stadium, at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT) some 6.8 million miles (11 million km) from Earth.
The $330 million mission, some seven years in development, was devised to determine if a spacecraft is capable of changing the trajectory of an asteroid through sheer kinetic force, nudging it off course just enough to keep Earth out of harm's way.
Whether the experiment succeeded beyond accomplishing its intended impact will not be known until further ground-based telescope observations of the asteroid next month. But NASA officials hailed the immediate outcome of Monday's test, saying the spacecraft achieved its purpose<|fim_middle|> period of Dimorphos were made during a six-day observation period in July and will be compared with post-impact measurements made in October to determine whether the asteroid budged and by how much.
Monday's test also was observed by a camera mounted on a briefcase-sized mini-spacecraft released from DART days in advance, as well as by ground-based observatories and the Hubble and Webb space telescopes, but images from those were not immediately available.
DART is the latest of several NASA missions in recent years to explore and interact with asteroids, primordial rocky remnants from the solar system's formation more than 4.5 billion years ago.
Last year, NASA launched a probe on a voyage to the Trojan asteroid clusters orbiting near Jupiter, while the grab-and-go spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is on its way back to Earth with a sample collected in October 2020 from the asteroid Bennu.
The Dimorphos moonlet is one of the smallest astronomical objects to receive a permanent name and is one of 27,500 known near-Earth asteroids of all sizes tracked by NASA. Although none are known to pose a foreseeable hazard to humankind, NASA estimates that many more asteroids remain undetected in the near-Earth vicinity.
(This story corrects name in paragraph 6 to Pam from Palm)
Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Additional reporting by Joey Roulette in Los Angeles; Editing by Sandra Maler and Stephen Coates
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"NASA works for the benefit of humanity, so for us it's the ultimate fulfillment of our mission to do something like this – a technology demonstration that, who knows, some day could save our home," NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, a retired astronaut, said minutes after the impact.
DART, launched by a SpaceX rocket in November 2021, made most of its voyage under the guidance of NASA's flight directors, with control handed over to an autonomous on-board navigation system in the final hours of the journey.
Monday evening's bullseye impact was monitored in near real time from the mission operations center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
Cheers erupted from the control room as second-by-second images of the target asteroid, captured by DART's onboard camera, grew larger and ultimately filled the TV screen of NASA's live webcast just before the signal was lost, confirming the spacecraft had crashed into Dimorphos.
DART's celestial target was an oblong asteroid "moonlet" about 560 feet (170 meters) in diameter that orbits a parent asteroid five times larger called Didymos as part of a binary pair with the same name, the Greek word for twin.
Neither object presents any actual threat to Earth, and NASA scientists said their DART test could not create a new hazard by mistake.
Dimorphos and Didymos are both tiny compared with the cataclysmic Chicxulub asteroid that struck Earth some 66 million years ago, wiping out about three-quarters of the world's plant and animal species including the dinosaurs.
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system showed in this undated illustration handout. NASA/Johns Hopkins/Handout via REUTERS
Smaller asteroids are far more common and present a greater theoretical concern in the near term, making the Didymos pair suitable test subjects for their size, according to NASA scientists and planetary defense experts. A Dimorphos-sized asteroid, while not capable of posing a planet-wide threat, could level a major city with a direct hit.
Also, the two asteroids' relative proximity to Earth and dual configuration make them ideal for the first proof-of-concept mission of DART, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test.
ROBOTIC SUICIDE MISSION
The mission represented a rare instance in which a NASA spacecraft had to crash to succeed. DART flew directly into Dimorphos at 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kph), creating the force scientists hope will be enough to shift its orbital track closer to the parent asteroid.
APL engineers said the spacecraft was presumably smashed to bits and left a small impact crater in the boulder-strewn surface of the asteroid.
The DART team said it expects to shorten the orbital path of Dimorphos by 10 minutes but would consider at least 73 seconds a success, proving the exercise as a viable technique to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth – if one were ever discovered.
A nudge to an asteroid millions of miles away years in advance could be sufficient to safely reroute it.
Earlier calculations of the starting location and orbital | 665 |
Crowds of people – from employees to community members – enjoyed Sutter Tracy Community Hospital's annual Cultural Day.
TRACY – Sutter Tracy Community Hospital held its annual Cultural Day on Wednesday, August 2, giving employees, physicians and volunteers an opportunity to celebrate the diverse cultures in the community.
Cultural Day committee members set up booths<|fim_middle|> American Folklore and Dance by Tony Fuentes performed throughout the day. Tracy resident Darcy Paris opened the event by singing the national anthem. | representing various countries and cultures, preparing authentic dishes, displaying artifacts from their country and providing information for attendees. While the event was intended for Sutter Tracy hospital employees, hospital visitors and community members passing by the hospital walked through the festivities.
Community groups such as PowerHouse Dance, Ballet Folklorico de las Rosas, Hula Ikaika Ohan O Kaawai and Native | 76 |
caEmployee Engagement, Fog Sculpting, and Measuring Love
Published Jan. 7, 2008
Do you believe the following statement?
High levels of employee engagement keenly correlate to individual, group and corporate performance in areas such as retention, turnover, productivity, customer service and loyalty.
It's from Employee Engagement:What Exactly is It? by Patricia Soldati.
How about this following statement?
It's impossible to overstate the importance of an engaged workforce on a company's bottom line.
That one is Julie Gebauer (whom I know) of Towers Perrin at The Workforce Disengagement Problem.
I believe both statements. I believe them a lot, in fact. (And not just because Julie Gebauer says so-though that helps!).
Trouble is-what do you do with it?
"Employee engagement" is one of those concepts that straddle a thin line: how to be complex enough to be true-and yet simple enough to be practical?
• Over-stress explanation, and you risk fog-sculpting-creating beautiful conceptual landscapes that are unactionable;
• Over-stress actionability, and you risk measuring love-mechanizing the things that make humanity human.
Similar issues arise with concepts like loyalty, employee satisfaction, organizational commitment, or identifying customer needs.
There are four risks here.
The first two<|fim_middle|> lower IQ scores.
Don't believe it? Compare 7-year olds' test scores with 20-somethings' performance on the same test. See? Height is clearly correlated with IQ.
Correlation is not causality. David Hume (who outranks even Julie Gebauer), famously showed it's impossible to prove causality.
The search for causality, in service to managerial actions and simplicity, forces us down the path of measuring love-which, like an emotional Heisenberg Principle, can destroy the thing being measured if overdone.
Which leads to the fourth risk-in today's business environment, the biggest of all: measurement-driven behavioralism.
"Employee engagement" is the latest star in the umpteenth remake of a movie we've seen too often: define drivers, measure them, benchmark the measures, attach rewards, and link pay to performance against the metrics.
This leads managers to ask HR to causally link "engagement" to shareholder value, define indicators for the links, and provide incentive plans to drive the whole Rube Goldberg scheme. By Tuesday, please.
I suspect the HR community is even more at fault for encouraging this kind of thinking.
Of the two sins, I'd rather be subjected to fog-sculpting. At least it fires the imagination.
By contrast, measuring love is inherently dehumanizing.
Turning "engagement" into an engineering exercise is-I believe-a great recipe for disengagement.
Scott Flander takes a good look at all this in "Terms of Engagement" in Human Resource Executive Online. He quotes Ian Ziskin, chief HR officer at Northrup Grumman:
I've found over time that the single biggest thing to focus on is not the actual scores or the response rates - that's a means to an end. The end is, do you really understand what the issues are in your business, and what are the actions you're taking to improve them?
I don't know Ziskin, but he sounds a thoughtful exec; he knows how to sculpt fog, and how to measure love. And he artfully chooses a Middle Way. | risks are definitions, and identifying drivers. Soldati says:
In 2006, The Conference Board published "Employee Engagement, A Review of Current Research and Its Implications"...twelve major studies on employee engagement had been published over the prior four years by top research firms such as Gallup, Towers Perrin, Blessing White, the Corporate Leadership Council and others. Each of the studies used different definitions and, collectively, came up with 26 key drivers of engagement.
Four of the studies agreed on eight of the 26 drivers. All studies agreed that the strongest driver is the relationship with one's manager.
Believe it? I do. No problem believing that one at all. But it's dangerously close to the fog-sculpting end of things, up there with good parenting, moral values and integrity.
The third risk is causality. For example: it is statistically proven that shorter people have | 186 |
Phoenix OKs development plan for Metrocenter mall area
Betty Reid
A northwest Phoenix area is ready to move to its next chapter after a two-decade slide into blight
The City Council on March 19 unanimously approved the North Mountain Redevelopment Area plan
The redevelopment area stretches into several council districts. Metrocenter mall is its high-profile landmark
A northwest Phoenix area is ready to move to its next chapter after a two-decade slide into blight.
The City Council on March 19 unanimously approved the North Mountain Redevelopment Area plan, which will shape a 2,500-acre site over a decade. The plan outlines a set of goals and strategies for land uses, upgraded infrastructure and public transportation to the area, roughly 10 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix.
The redevelopment area stretches into several council districts. Metrocenter mall is its high-profile landmark.
"It (Metrocenter) had the potential of turning into a slum," said District 1 Councilwoman Thelda Williams. "Now, it will bring confidence to neighbors, businesses and will bring potential retailers seeking space inside the mall."
When the council designated the area a blight using state laws in February 2013, it asked residents, businesses and other stakeholders what they would like to see it become. The council asked for economic development, light-rail extension, such recreational amenities as swimming pools, college campuses and a cleanup.
District 3 Councilman Bill Gates said word is out about the designation and that businesses are inquiring.
"In meetings as recently as last week, we have had real-estate brokers interested in learning more about the area, the designation and what it ultimately means," Gates said. "We have also had a group approach the city and is working to install a frisbee golf course in the area."
History of area
The area's boundary is 19th and 15th avenues on the east; Alice Avenue, Butler Drive and the Arizona Canal on the south; 35th Avenue on the west;and Cholla Street, Sahuaro and Peoria avenues on the north.
The area is home to such landmarks as the Rose Mofford Sports Complex, the Arizona Canal and the Phoenix Mountains Preserve. It is home to 26,000 people, according to the plan.
It also has 300 businesses, including Metrocenter, which opened in the early 1970s as growth marched to the northwest. The mall and surrounding area thrived until about the early 1990s, when the demographics and housing began to change.
The Great Recession pushed the area into greater decline, city officials said. Retail was hit hard as major retail outlets shuttered at Metrocenter.
According to the plan, the average retail vacancy rate between Peoria and Dunlap avenues and Interstate 17 and 35th Avenue is 28 percent. Citywide, the rate is 12.4 percent.
Vacant buildings attract graffiti, and a lack of property maintenance causes blight, hindering investment, according to the report.
The goals of the plan are to<|fim_middle|>Fink is a 40-year veteran of the commercial real-estate industry. Of that, he spent 15 years focused entirely on redeveloping and repositioning projects.
One of those projects took place near Oakland between 2002 and 2007. The Emeryville Redevelopment Agency was approved in 1976 and dissolved in 2012. Its plan eliminated economic and visual blight in 95 percent of Emeryville, according to the city's website.
"We redeveloped 20 acres into 370,000 square feet of open-lifestyle retail and 250 condos on top of retail shops," Fink said.
Carlyle is the largest landowner in the North Mountain Development Area, and Fink envisions sharply reducing the 30 percent vacancy rate at Metrocenter.
His vision would allow for other uses, such as a venue for a college campus, health care, senior housing or office space. These ideas would require working closely with the city for zoning changes, he said.
Councilwoman Williams said that although conditions at the mall have improved, landscaping, rerouting traffic and adding buildings on its outer ring would give the old mall a chance for a strong comeback.
Plan's highlights
The North Mountain Redevelopment Area plan focuses on five areas: economic development, connectivity, recreation, safety and code compliance, and community education and engagement. It has three phases. Following are highlights:
• Identify sites with high potential for development or adaptive reuse, such as turning a vacant big box building into a restaurant.
• Strong use of Planned Unit Development, which gives businesses greater flexibility to bring new uses to the area.
• Work with Ottawa University to expand college campuses. This would include looking at the feasibility of unifying sports programs into the Rose Mofford Sports Complex and a possible light-rail expansion to bring fans to the complex.
• Extending light rail 3.2 miles along 19th Avenue from Montebello to Dunlap Avenue and west toward Metrocenter. The plan projects 5,000 additional riders daily.
• The city's Street Transportation Department would study area streets to improve their appearance. Funds for the improvements could come from a possible tax increase.
• Install new streetlights, crosswalks and left-turn lanes along Dunlap from 31st to 43rd avenues.
• Partner with the Maricopa Association of Governments, Valley Metro, other cities and an ad hoc citizens committee to update the Phoenix Bikeway Plan.
More:phoenix.gov/pdd/pz/nmtnredev.html. | bring private investment and development to the area, market underused property, get rid of blight, upgrade infrastructure and create jobs.
"It's a multiyear effort," said Alan Stephenson, Phoenix's Planning and Development Department's acting director. "There are no set time frames for it and no set cost for it. It's not redeveloping one site. ... It's a multiple-year action plan for the community to revitalize the area."
The city's role would be to do such things as improve parks and provide lighting for parking lots, he said.
Redevelopment can turn controversial, especially if it calls for condemning property and uprooting residents. Many times, those residents are from middle-class or low-income areas, according to national publications.
The North Mountain plan is not expected to take such an approach.
"The city is not going to condemn any private property as a result of the plan," Stephenson said. "We do not have the legal authority to condemn private property and then turn it over to other interests for redevelopment anymore."
The draft plan also proposes to raise taxes to pay for services. A city services district, for example, would impose a special property tax to bolster public safety, fire protection, refuse collection or landscape maintenance.
Since the council declared the area blighted nearly a year ago, the city staff has identified possible funding sources to help cover costs, Stephenson said. They include low-interest loans, design-assistance grants and support from government partners, private and quasi-public groups, and foundations. Additional sources could become available later, Stephenson said.
Metrocenter mall
Warren Fink, CEO of Carlyle Development Group, bought Metrocenter mall several years ago. A redevelopment district allows certain movement to make businesses more efficient to make changes economically, Fink said.
He is not a stranger to redevelopment projects. Fink's group worked on twiceo major projects over four years.
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A Look Back: Feb. 20, 1962
The front page of The Repository from Feb. 20, 1962 tells of Astronaut John Glenn's successful mission to orbit the earth in a space capsule and Canton's reaction to it.
Glenn Triumphs in space
Astronaut John Glenn's orbits of the Earth in 1962 caused the Canton community to pause.
"The near noontime traffic was unbelievably light, telephone lines scarcely hummed and business virtually was at a standstill," wrote Mary Peebles in a story published in The Canton Repository on Feb. <|fim_middle|>62.
The writer said that a downtown barber shop crowded, but not busy. The shop's three barbers, with everyone else, were watching Glenn's journey into space on television.
"These folks didn't come in for haircuts," remarked one of the barbers. "They came because they don't have television sets or they're having picture tube trouble!"
Glenn safely returned from space and went on to become a United States senator from Ohio. But, during his time orbiting the planet, a photo was taken of Glenn — smiling in space — that was printed on The Repository's front page.
Gary Brown will write about a different front page in Repository history each day during the paper's bicentennial year. Email Gary at gary.brown@cantonrep.com. | 20, 19 | 6 |
Ford seals pick-up and small car awards from Auto Express
The UK's top selling pick-up, the Ford Ranger, and Fiesta, the nation's favourite car, have received awards in the Auto Express New Car Awards 2019.
Ford Ranger - Pick-up of the year
In naming its 2019 Pick-up of the Year, the magazine and online auto experts cited the Ford Ranger's new 2.0-litre diesel powertrain's combination of economy and pulling power. For the high-performance Ranger Raptor, torque output at 500Nm is almost the same as the V8 Mustang's 529Nm.
Steve Fowler, Auto Express editor-in-chief, said: "We've long been fans of the Ford Ranger, but a recent round of updates has propelled it to the top of the class. Its new range of 2.0-litre diesel engines is more efficient, yet they also boost power and pulling performance.
"Its interior has a genuine Sport Utility Vehicle feel, and the Raptor is a proper halo model that'll please both the pick-up faithful and those new to the market.
Find out more<|fim_middle|> them. For a start, it's affordable whether you're buying outright or on PCP finance, and there's a huge variety of trims and engine options to suit every budget.
"Having a smart interior and great tech is a boon, but the Fiesta's trump cards are its able chassis and responsive steering, which deliver agility and maturity in all the right areas."
Find out more about the Fiesta | about the Ranger
Ford Fiesta - Supermini of the year
The latest Ford Fiesta launched two years ago and deliveries have already passed 170,000. This success at being named Auto Express' 2019 Small Car of the Year is the latest testament to a model that has reigned over the sales charts as the UK's top-selling car every year since 2009.
Steve Fowler said: "Brits love the Ford Fiesta for all the same reasons we do, and there are plenty of | 108 |
It was a privilege to be present at the Oldham Gay Pride with an information and awareness stall. I was supported by a wonderful volunteer who was extremely personable and<|fim_middle|> and recruiting, utilising Stonewall principles. This provided a great opportunity to form improved links and plans to improve two way partnership working.
The Pride mainstage had an assortment of acts: an Elvis impersonator, some flamboyant drag artistes and fantastic support from the Mayor and local Oldham council. It was great to see Age UK feature on one of the stalls who now provide an interesting and fun LGBT walking group. The volunteer coordinator each year has tried to persuade me to come along. I always tell her I might be a bit young for this but as each year passes I might not be able to keep saying NO!
We had many people visit our stall and show a great deal of interest in our new service (ROAR). The main theme was LGBT folk who had had a history of not feeling that they had been able to live life as they had wanted. Some had felt elements of stigma, discrimination and homophobia. This in turn led to low confidence and low self-esteem and the use of alcohol/illicit substance/prescribed substances as coping strategies. It is good that those growing up now have improved life opportunities.
Some mentioned a modern hedonistic lifestyle within current LGBT recreational/pub/club scenes and the feeling of the need to use alcohol/substances "to fit in". We were able to provide information about how the ROAR service can support them.
I look forward to many more events supporting and utilising the strengths of our ex-clients, volunteers and peer mentors who want to encourage others to get support like they did. | adept at getting involved.
Experience higher levels of mental health problems often associated with substance use.
The event was situated in parliament square right in the centre of Oldham to showcase joined up community groups supporting and celebrating LGBT life. Despite the windy weather everyone buckled down and kept their stalls up in true Lancashire spirit.
The parade kicked off the event and this year provided the biggest and the best compared to previous years. The Oldham Owl had prominence on the main float reflecting the wisdom of building good community cohesion and collaboration between people to have fun free from stigma and prejudice.
It was great to have a stall close by the Police with their brightly liveried Pride car and the message to "End Hate Crime" and Greater Manchester Fire Brigade who have fantastic ways of working | 152 |
You are here: Home / Budget Cars / Best 2014 cars under $20,00<|fim_middle|> liked is a lift-up lid inside the trunk. With the lid down, there's a flat, seamless floor from the rear bumper, so you can stand up straight to slide things in, instead of bending over to lower something heavy. Or, just hide valuables under the inside lid. This feature is available in the Titanium trim level only. Five-foot-one me hopes Ford will make it available in other models, too.
Colors – Fiesta looks cool and young in sherbert colors such as magenta or lime green, called Green Envy. But it looks elegant and grown-up in the new dark blue and silver colors just introduced.
Another one of the auto journalists on the test drive was Benjamin Preston of the New York Times. Here's his review.
Filed Under: Budget Cars, Test Drives | 0: 2014 Ford Fiesta
Best 2014 cars under $20,000: 2014 Ford Fiesta
Snappy handling, smart styling, 39 mpg fuel economy, and a starting price of $16,050. No wonder the Ford Fiesta is the best-selling car of its size on the planet, and a top choice for first-time buyers and for millennials here in the USA.
I just had the chance spend a day test driving the 2014 Ford Fiesta, arriving now in dealer showrooms, and was suitably impressed. It's a lot of car in a little package.
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Cushing Square Paving Set For Thursday, July 16; Seek Alternative Routes
July 12, 2020 By Franklin B. Tucker Leave a Comment
Photo: The Bradford in Cushing Square.
As the construction of the Bradford, the Toll Brothers Apartment Living project in Cushing Square nears completion, the developer is finishing the restoration of the roads this week.
On Thursday, July 16, paving will occur on the following locations:
Trapelo Road,<|fim_middle|> take place during the week of the [Nov.] 27th and will be done off hours," noted Weiss.
Starbucks Coming Down Wednesday; Disruptions To Cushing Sq. Traffic
June 9, 2017 By Franklin B. Tucker Leave a Comment
Photo: The work is underway at the newly dubbed Bradford in Cushing Square.
The Starbucks Cafe has closed and the Trapelo Raod is about to be dug up as the developer of the Cushing Vill … The Bradford prepares to move forward with excuvation and infrastructure work at the 167,000 sq.-ft. residential/retail/parking complex.
Otto Weiss, project manager for Toll Brothers Apartment Living who is building the development told the Belmontonian on Tuesday, June 7, construction is "on schedule" and, weather permitting, the foundation for the Winslow – the first of three buildings on the site located at the former municipal parking lot adjacent Trapelo Road – will be poured in early August.
He also said the company will officially take possession of the now closed Starbuck's cafe on Monday, June 12 and the building – which was constructed as a Friendly's restaurant in the 1970s – will be razed starting on Wednesday, June 14.
In preparation to the demolision, "[o]n Monday (June 12) we will relocate site fencing that runs behind Starbucks to the curb at Trapelo Road and tie it into the fence running from the corner of Common Street," said Weiss in a press release sent on Friday, June 9.
The side walk between Williston and Common Street along Trapelo road on the project side will be close to pedestrian traffic and signage will be installed instructing pedestrians to cross the street at Williston Road and Common Street.
All utility cut offs will be performed on Monday, June 12, weather permitting, which will require utility crews with trucks working in the street. Police details will start at 7 a.m. on Monday.
The utility shut-offs should not affect service to the surrounding community, said Weiss.
"However the various utility companies may inform you of shut offs need to accommodate their work. That would be out of our control. If we are notified of any suck shut offs we will pass the information along immediately," he said.
Filed Under: Business, News, Uncategorized Tagged With: Belmont, Cushing Square, The Bradford, Toll Brothers Apartment Living
Cushing Square Starbucks To Close Noon, Monday, June 5
Photo: Farewell, espresso friend.
In the coming fortnight, you'll have to find any other place to spend a few hours of free wifi and strong coffee in Cushing Square.
The notice has been taped to the front door of the Trapelo Road Starbucks: the final day of operation will be Monday, June 5 at noon.
Not that the shutdown comes as a surprise to anyone as Toll Brothers, the developer of the 167,000 square foot apartment/retail/parking project once known as Cushing Village before a name change to The Bradford, stated in February of last year the popular hangout for students, seniors, and general layabouts would be demolished soon after construction began.
With the already limited parking reduced to a handful of spaces due to work around the site, the store's hours were cut in the past few week to where it will be open only seven hours during its final week of operations.
While the building, built as a Friendly's restaurant in the 1970s, will soon be coming down, like the legionary Phoenix Starbucks will return in just over a year's time, to occupy a significant space in the residential/storefront building – dubbed the "Winslow" – under construction on the grounds of the former municipal parking lot.
So Long, Cushing Village; Say Hello to 'The Bradford'
April 29, 2017 By Franklin B. Tucker 5 Comments
Photo: Otto Weiss, the "Bradford's" project manager.
A sly smile crossed Bill Lovett's face like he had a secret he wanted so badly to tell.
So he did.
Lovett, a senior development manager at Toll's Apartment Living which owns the 168,000 sq.-ft. apartment/retail/parking complex set to be built in the heart of Belmont's Cushing Square told the 40 residents who flocked to the Belmont Gallery of Art on Thursday afternoon, April 27, came to hear the latest on the project, that a significant change had occurred in the development.
The name. Goodbye to Cushing Village, the moniker was first given the project nearly a decade ago by the project's initial development team.
Welcome to Belmont: "The Bradford."
"Like the pear or tree," said Lovett, likely referring to the Bradford pear tree, the ornamental fruit tree known for its snowy white spring blossoms and sweet smell that lasts for a quite a long time.
"Hold your applause," said Lovett, as the residents reacted rather nonplus to the announcement.
Lovett, who was joined in the meeting by Otto Weiss, the project manager, and architect Peter Quinn, said the name change was proposed by the project's marketing team to provide a new image to the project.
Apparently, the marketing team didn't know of the tree's increasingly horrific reputation among garden club enthusiasts, city planners, and arborists, all who have increasingly come to hate the Bradford with a passion. As the New York Times noted last year, "Today, the Bradford pear may be the most despised tree in this part of the world."
Apart from the name change, most of the news that came from the Toll Brothers team were updates on the construction of the three building project and minor alterations to the development.
Regarding development, Weiss told the audience that the excavation of the municipal parking lot adjacent to Starbucks and Trapelo Road would begin Monday, May 1 and last three to four weeks.
After the digging is finished, laying of the foundation for the retail/residential building known as the Winslow will begin. Simultaneously, the evacuation of the former CVS/First National site (dubbed the Hyland) will commence, said Weiss. That location will house a portion of the parking garage.
Currently, the project area, which has the appearance of a strip mine, is undergoing "dewatering" as the ground water is being decontaminated on the site before being released into the public system. The soil is also being treated and being sent to offsite locations.
Once all the necessary regulatory "is are dotted and ts crossed" construction will begin in earnest with the Winslow being completed and ready for both residential and commercial occupancy in July/August of 2018. It will also be the new home of Starbucks, the only retail lease the firm has signed so far.
The Hyland is scheduled to be open in December 2018, with the centrally located Pomona building, which includes 20,000 sq.-ft. of retail, opening in June 2019. The development is expected to be fully occupied and all detail work finished by the first day of 2020.
(As an aside, Lovett said other than the Winslow, the names of the two other buildings could be given new names. "We didn't want to call them Building 1,2,3. But there could be changes in Phase 2.")
In other news concerning the Bradford:
The number of apartment units in the three buildings has been decreased from 115 to 112, and the total number of bedrooms have fallen by ten as the units have slightly increased in size in some locations.
Changes have been made to exterior design features on each of the buildings – larger, more prominent windows, new material, removal of some architectural segments – "but we have not increased the size or scope of the building as noted in the Special Permit," said Lovett.
The rooftop area on the Winslow has been removed, leaving only the Hyland to have a common area on its roof for residents. But don't expect to see wild, 20-somethings partying hardy on the deck as "those elements" do "in Alewife or East Cambridge" noted Lovett. "It's going to be a different feel" at the Bradford, "a more refined" lifestyle from a "different demographic."
The rents for units have not been set "as it will adjust to the market" with the opening of each building.
Parking for construction workers will be provided off-site.
While it's a certainty that Trapelo Road will need to be dug up to supply utilities to the project, all repair work to the roadway will be extensive including milling and resurfacing an entire segment of the street.
When asked if bars or other alcohol-related businesses could go into the 34,000 sq.-ft. of retail space, Lovett said commercial areas are condominiums like the rental units and "we're very restrictive on retail uses."
Yes, dogs and cats will be welcomed in Cushing Vil …. oops, The Bradford.
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Town Issues Cushing Sq. Starbucks Occupancy Permit
June 19, 2019 By Franklin B. Tucker Leave a Comment
Photo: The location of the new Starbucks in town.
The Belmont Office of Community Development issued a certificate of occupancy to Starbucks Coffee Company on Tuesday, June 19, to allow its cafe at 110 Trapelo Rd. to open for business, said Glenn Clancy, the town's director of community development.
"It will be opening up any day now," Clancy told the Belmontonian at the School Committee meeting at the Chenery Middle School.
The cafe is located on the ground floor of the Winslow building in the Bradford development which occupies the block surrounding Common Street, Trapelo Road, Belmont Street, and Williston Road. The apartment/retail/parking project is being built by Toll Brothers Apartment Living.
The 42 seat store staffed with 25 to 35 employees will have approximately 20 off-street parking spaces adjacent to the location.
While the store will be open daily from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m., the company will likely ask the town to approve a closing time of 10 p.m. which was permitted in the special permit approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Filed Under: Business, News, Real Estate Tagged With: Belmont, Cushing Square, Starbucks Cafe, The Bradford, Toll Brothers Apartment Living
Starbucks Returns To Cushing Square, Opening In Mid-June
May 29, 2019 By Franklin B. Tucker Leave a Comment
Photo: Starbucks returns to Cushing Square.
Caffeine lovers, hipsters and teenagers, rejoice! Starbucks is returning to Cushing Square with an opening in the second week of June.
The multinational coffeehouse chain with 30,000 stores worldwide came before the Select Board on May 29 at Belmont High School to obtain a common victualler license which was granted unanimously.
"We're still probably not going to be able to open for about another week or so trying to finish up the site, make sure it's safe in the public," said Daniel Brennan who works for dpb Design Consultants which partners with Starbucks on permitting and licensing.
"We don't have a concrete [opening] date but after talking to the construction manager, it will probably be a week to two weeks after Friday [May 31], when we get our certificate of occupancy," said Brennan.
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Brennan said the store will likely have a "soft" opening. "[Starbucks] usually does a 'friends and family' where they invite the employees and their families so they can test out all the equipment and get it going," he said.
The best approach for the public to know when the store is open "is go by and see people inside."
Town Administrator Patrice Garvin noted the health department has signed off on the site.
The 42 seat store will have 25 to 35 employees working on the site. There will be approximately 20 off-street parking spaces adjacent to the location between two buildings.
While the store will be open daily from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m., Brennan asked the board to approve a closing time of 10 p.m. which was permitted in the special permit approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
"We will likely want the later time after it is open so we don't want to come back for the change," said Brennan.
Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: Belmont, Cushing Square, Starbucks, The Bradford, Toll Brothers Apartment Living
The Bradford Update: Starbucks Back In Cushing Sq. In May, First Units For Sale This Year
February 3, 2019 By Franklin B. Tucker 2 Comments
Photo: The plans for the Bradford currently under construction.
Expect the return of $4 cappuccinos as the Starbucks returns to Cushing Square this spring, according to a press release dated Feb. 1 from Otto Weiss, project manager of The Bradford for Toll Brothers Apartment Living.
Weiss' update on the construction of the largest commercial/housing development in Belmont focused on the progress made on the three structures being built in the heart of Cushing Square.
Winslow (built on the former municipal parking lot on Trapelo and Williston roads)
Work on the interior and exterior finishes of the Winslow is underway in anticipation of the building being completed in May. The contractor has started work on the Starbucks space and expect to have the coffee shop open in May as well. Sidewalks and outdoor areas around the Winslow will be completed as will the vehicle access between the Pomona and Winslow.
Hyland (located at Belmont and Common streets)
At the Hyland, the framing of the residential floors has begun and construction will soon start on the roofing and exterior work with the anticipate that the Hyland will be complete later in 2019.
Pomona (at Common Street and Trapelo Road)
Work continues on the structural steel and wood framing of the Pomona which will have 35,000 sq.-ft. of commercial space. The contractor is concurrently working on the area between the Pomona and Hyland and anticipate finishing the segment in the coming months. The Pomona will be the last of the building to be completed and will be finished in early 2020.
For residents that have inquiries on leasing information, Weiss said Toll Brothers is not quite ready to start the process "but we will send out information when the time comes."
Filed Under: News, Real Estate Tagged With: Belmont, The Bradford, Toll Brothers Apartment Living
Bradford Show And Tell: Material 'Mock Up' At Cushing Square Site Saturday, Noon to 2 PM
September 28, 2018 By Franklin B. Tucker Leave a Comment
Photo: Residents view samples at the Sept. 6 Planning Board meeting.
The developer of the multifaceted complex in the heart of Cushing Square is inviting neighbors and the public on Saturday, Sept. 29 for a bit of show and tell.
Representatives of Toll Brother Apartment Living, owner/developer of The Bradford, the retail/housing/parking development under construction on three blocks along Common Street and Trapelo Road, is opening its doors just a tad to allow residents to view a "mock-up" of the materials to be used on the exterior of the three buildings occupying the approximately 170,000 square foot site.
From noon to 2 p.m., employees from Toll and Nauset Construction, the primary contractor, will escort groups from the "Winslow" building (the structure being constructed on the former municipal parking lot) along Williston Road to the area set aside for the demonstration. Citizens will then get to see the material – concrete, tiles, granite, and frames for the windows – and examine how they look in the daylight where they will be used. The developer stressed that the viewing is not a tour of the future landmark in Cushing Square.
Early this month, the Planning Board was provided a preview of the samples that will be on display.
Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: Belmont, Cushing Square, The Bradford, Toll Brothers Apartment Living
Christmas Cappuccinos? Starbucks Looking At Late November Opening at Bradford
July 12, 2018 By Franklin B. Tucker 3 Comments
Photo: Design for the new Starbucks in the Bradford development.
Belmont will soon have a third Starbucks Cafe in the Town of Homes as the Zoning Board of Appeals approved unanimously a special permit allowing the Seattle-based coffee mega-chain to run a "fast food" restaurant at The Bradford, the retail/housing/parking development under construction in the heart of Cushing Square.
Plans submitted to the town shows a narrow 2,500 square foot cafe/store located on the left side of the two-story Winslow Building which is being built approximately on the site of the former Starbucks' location on Trapelo Road. The store will have two entrances, in the front and rear, with 42 interior and 12 seasonal outdoor seats located in the back. The cafe will seek to operate most days from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., employing four to six workers per shift. There will be 22 parking spaces – including two handicap spaces – dedicated to the store located between the Winslow and the main Pomona buildings.
The cafe is the first business to commit to The Bradford – previously known as Cushing Village – which has close to 38,000 square feet dedicated to retail. The project, which includes underground parking and 112 apartments, is being developed by Toll Brothers Apartment Living, which rescued the proposal after the original developer, Smith Legacy Partners, failed in its efforts to secure the necessary funding.
Danial Brennan, a consultant, assisting Starbucks in securing municipal permits in New England, said the current schedule is for construction of the cafe to begin Sept. 15 with an anticipated completion date "hopefully at the end of November."
"But [the dates] are always estimates," said Brennan.
Unlike other fast-casual restaurants and quick stop retail operations that came before the Zoning Board of Appeals – a proposed Dunkin' Donuts on Pleasant Street comes to mind – there was no resident opposition or comment concerning Starbucks, which operates approximately 28,000 stores around the globe.
Zoning Chair Nicholas Iannuzzi noted the last well-known "fast food" restaurant to come before the board, for a Subway franchise in Belmont Center, required four meetings before it received a "special" to operate.
"God bless America. God bless Starbucks," he said.
Filed Under: Business, News Tagged With: Belmont, Cushing Square, Starbucks, The Bradford, Toll Brothers Apartment Living, Trapelo Road
Bradford Update: First Steel Frame Going Up After Thanksgiving
November 20, 2017 By Franklin B. Tucker Leave a Comment
Photo: The foundation takes form at the future home of the Bradford in Belmont.
The metal superstructure for the first of three buildings will begin raising from the ground next week as work on The Bradford project marches on, according to the latest news from the former Cushing Village site.
The structural steel erection of the Winslow building – on the former municipal parking lot adjacent Trapelo and Williston roads – "will begin after Thanksgiving and continue through the end of the year," said Otto Weiss, project manager for property owner and developer Toll Brothers Apartment Living.
Also, sewer tie-in work on Williston Road for the new building was expected to be completed this week with no further in-road utility work scheduled for the near future, noted Weiss.
The Winslow, a three-story residential structure with ground level stores, is expected to be the first building completed by the team in approximately the early fall of 2018. The Winslow will be the location of the new Starbucks Cafe, replacing the popular coffee shop leveled in the spring.
In other news, foundation work is moving forward at the Hyland building site – located at the corner of Belmont and Common streets – while excavation of the large parking garage and the Pomona building, at the intersection of Trapelo and Common, will continue through the winter. The Pomona will house a 35,000 square foot retail space, a centerpiece of the 168,000 sq.-ft. apartment/retail/parking complex.
The development is expected to be fully occupied and all detail work finished by the first day of 2020.
Outside the construction site, the MBTA will be relocating one of its catenary poles located along Trapelo Road. While this work in not being performed by Toll Brothers or its construction partners Nauset, "we are unable to give you specific scheduling information, it's our understanding that the work may | 2,572 |
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It was auctioned to benefit Karyn's non-profit organisation (some facebook guys won the auction). Aww... I love to see stuff like that.
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Wow.. Fantastic! It's amazing to see these together again
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They have all aged apart from Will lol.
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I meant 2 post this earlier this week (one of my friends actually posted it on my Facebook). Here's an article on it from AOL/Huffpost...
'Fresh Prince Of Bel Air' Cast Reunited (PHOTO)
If you can recite the entire "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" theme song, then you'll enjoy this.
They haven't been an on-screen family for nearly 16 years, but the cast of the TV show that made Will Smith a household name, have kept in touch.
Smith posted this photo of himself with the Banks family on his Facebook page -- yes that's James Avery, Karyn Parsons, Alfonso Riberio and Tatyana Ali, perhaps better known as Uncle Phil, Hillary, Carlton and Ashley to fans.
Smith wrote, "Got the Holiday season started right with a "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" reunion...there's nothin' like spending Holidays with fam! "
According to TMZ, the photo was taken last week at a luncheon for Parson's charity Sweet<|fim_middle|> all. I tell my son that he must forgive, and forgive himself for letting it hurt so much, I must do the same. I will keep you posted.
She's delusional.
I don't know...I think that's exactly what is needed. I'm sure none of them is okay with the way things are, even if it's not on the front of their brain on a daily basis. She DOES need to forgive and move on. And maybe FP does owe that to her. I'd like to see this happen. No so much an official "reunion"...just a resolution that hopefully end up being a positive thing.
http://dimewars.com/Video/Tatyana-Ali--Chimes-In-On-Will-Smith---Janet-Hubert-s--Aunt-Viv---Fresh-Prince-Beef-.aspx?bcmediaid=6c759171-6465-4cb6-9cb9-45b4dc671af1
Exclusive: "Anyone Who Has A Problem With Will Smith Has A Problem With Me"
Known for his relationships with Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff, SOHH hit up rap veteran Skillz to get his take on former "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" actress Janet Hubert and the disses she has hurled at the Big Willie.
While he can understand Hubert, who played Aunt Vivian Banks, and her point of view, Skillz said he ultimately supports Smith.
"I didn't know Will back then [during 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' days], I didn't know him personally back then," Skillz told SOHH. "I've heard stories from a couple people in the cast about how she was and I believe it was just that syndrome where she's like, 'I'm a classically trained Broadway actress and here I am on this show with this hip-hop kid.' Some people just don't get that. I call it the J.J. syndrome. You know how J.J. [Evans] was on 'Good Times' and you've got Esther Rolle, John Amos, they come from 'Roots' and classic Broadway acting and you're on a show where people are just waiting for the skinny kid to say, 'Dy-no-mite'? After a while, I can see them getting frustrated. And Will is my man, so anyone who has a problem with Will has a problem with me." (SOHH)
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Of course it wasn't a complete reunion -- noticeably absent were Daphne Reid and Janet Hubert who both played Vivian Banks, and Joseph Marcell, who played everyone's favorite wisecracking butler, Geoffrey.
guess who's back with a comment??? yap it's her ... AGAIN http://www.tmz.com/2011/12/27/fresh-prince-will-smith-aunt-vivian/
This woman is nuts!
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She is out of her mind!
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Even tho I'm sure she still holds some animosity towards Will, I find it very hard to believe the 'spin' that TMZ puts on its stories
"There will never be a reunion ... as I will never do anything with an a**hole like Will Smith," Hubert said.
Don't worry, Janet. If there ever is a reunion they'll call Daphne Reid to play your role.
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Best post of 2011. LOL.
Janet was such a good actress that she was completely irrelevant for the most part post '93. Its funny how that little punk became the biggest movie star in the world....
Whether she's telling the truth or fabricating things, I don't feel bad for her. All of this was so long ago...who really cares?! In the end, if FP says she has a bad attitude, she has done nothing but proof it for over 15 years. She says FP's a jerk...but no one else says this...so who are we REALLY going 2 believe? If he was, he'd be letting loose on her for saying all the stuff she has said over the years. There's a reason she isn't getting a lot of work and he's one of the biggest celebrities in the world. She's spent more years bad mouthing the Fresh Prince than she's had managing a career....which she killed by acting this way. I also think there's a reason u don't see ANYONE else in the cast being cool with her. If it was really FP being a jerk, don't u think she'd remain friends with SOMEONE else in the cast?? She also says he's STILL a jerk. How would she know this if she hasn't been around him in YEARS?!?
we should get her that video of the dude in the office who didnt like Will Smith lol.
From her facebook:
Ok so I am going to reach out to Will and suggest we really have a re union, what do you all think. He can only say yay or nay. It is time for this to heal for once and for | 607 |
Father and daughter Qhubeka fans, Colin and Bianca Cooper, have been supporting us in numerous ways over the past few years, from buying and pimping their own Qhubeka bikes, to hosting fundraising events to helping us construct the new bicycle assembly factory as part of the Madikwe Rural Development Programme (MRDP).
In 2014, they decided to do a Nine Peaks ride for Qhubeka in August, riding through each of South Africa's nine provinces on Qhubeka Buffalo Bicycles, climbing the highest peak in each one. Tragically, the tour had to be postponed after Colin and his partner, Maggie, were attacked on their farm, resulting in both being admitted to ICU.
Bianca says that the recovery process was slow, but both Maggie and Colin showed great determination, with Maggie picking up her guitar and Colin strapped to the stationary bike in first weeks following their discharge. "On 10 October, Colin managed his first ride on the Qhubeka Buffalo bicycle. On 11 November, three months after the attack, he rode his first 100km. Both have<|fim_middle|> amazing. Lastly, the community of Groot Marico, who ensured that everything at the farm was sorted out so we didn't have to worry about those formalities.
The entire Nine Peaks Tour will be ridden on the solid steel Qhubeka Buffalo Bicycles, which have no suspension – just one gear and back-pedal brakes, meaning that this will not be your average cycle tour. Furthermore, the Coopers plan to live simply as they ride, without many of the luxuries that have become standard cycling fare. For example, they will live on homemade bread and water from rivers or boreholes, as well as other fresh food.
They will travel by map, odometer and compass (no GPS), riding on dirt roads wherever possible. They will camp for the duration of the trip and ride in "normal" clothing. "No lycra or expensive branded cycling kit," says Colin. They aim to take 1 000 photos and keep a blog diary of the ride. They also hope to have no mechanical failures on the bicycles.
They plan to do 3 000km in 30 days, averaging 100km per day. | continued to recover well and their strength gathers, although Colin still has some weakness of his fingers due to a bad fracture and tendon injury," she says.
"As clichéd as it sounds, no one ever expects that these things will happen to them, especially as the area in which they live was historically very peaceful." She says that the community was shocked and struggled to understand how people could harm two people who have contributed so much to the area – in particular the job creation scheme at the Qhubeka Buffalo Bicycle factory. "It is difficult to remain positive when such terrible things happen, but in the days following this tragedy, we were flooded by such human kindness. Firstly from Qhubeka itself; thank you to Anthony and Giovanni for the phone calls, kind words and coffee. Secondly, my employers and our sponsors, ER Consulting Inc, who have been endlessly supportive and without question gave me a second opportunity at completing the tour. The third group of people are the family and friends who sat with us, bought us coffee, made us meals, gave us shoulders to cry on and were generally | 217 |
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ABC, BCSP Ink Deal to Promote Construction Safety
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Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) and the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on improving occupational safety and health at construction workplaces throughout the United States. The partnership is centered on developing effective prevention strategies and technologies as well as encouraging students and other professionals to choose occupational safety and health as a career and advance their competency in that field.
"ABC is committed to an incident- and accident-free workplace, which we advance through research on best practices, education, and benchmarking tools— our Safety Training Evaluation Process," said Greg Sizemore, ABC vice president of HSE & workforce development. "We are proud to collaborate with the BCSP to promote occupational safety and health professionalism and career opportunities and further this important work."
"ABC and BCSP both value responsibility, accountability and integrity in the profession and the safety professional," said BCSP president Linda F. Martin. "This agreement will provide employers and the members of the workforce with new pathways to strengthen safety, demonstrating commitment to our shared values through education, certification and professional development."
ABC and BCSP will work cooperatively to provide communication, outreach and occupational safety and health development opportunities by:
Developing and disseminating information on management systems and best practices for occupational safety and health in construction workplaces and career opportunities in safety and health through print and electronic media, including the ABC and BCSP websites;
Strengthening recruiting efforts for students to enter occupational safety and health technical, undergraduate and graduate programs;
Supporting occupational safety and health competency in the construction workplace at all levels of the organization, including competency certifications;
Participating in conferences, meetings and other key events where the safety and health of workers and safety and health practitioners' professional development are addressed; and
Promoting and facilitating the transfer of relevant occupational safety and health research findings to practices and to the body of knowledge of safety and health professionals.
The agreement was signed during ABC's 2018 convention, which features the Excellence in Construction® Awards for safety, diversity and project quality; the National Craft Championships; the Construction Management Competition; keynote speakers and education sessions for ABC members and staff from 70 chapters; technology exhibits; networking opportunities; and a national board meeting.
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Imagine a story that while children listened, they moved along with the action? That is the concept behind Move With Me Action Adventures, a series of yoga videos about Scooter and Boy. We know from brain research that movement improves cognitive function. But, sometimes it's hard to get our kids to move enough! The Action Adventures DVDs engage children in movement while building listening skills, literacy foundations, strength, flexibility, and even social skills. I'm a huge fan because I love them as much as my girls do!
Each video is 25 – 30 minutes and includes movements form yoga, Brain Gym, PE standards and educational research. Plus, the stories teach social-emotional lessons like belly breathing, drink water, and eat fruits and vegetables. I love the way the teacher speaks with kindness and warmth. She's amazing.
The yoga adventures are told by our instructor, Wendy Piret, who captivates her audience, us, with a story while we move with her. In the Body Series, the first strength story, The Birthday Gift, tells about the Boy who gets the best birthday gift ever, a Scooter. She tells how the boy rides it and we ride along, pushing our legs out. Then, we become the tree that the Scooter is leaned against and forgotten. What will become of the Scooter? Will Boy return? Watch Scooter & Me ~ The Birthday Gift from Move With Me on Vimeo.
The next story is Monkeying Around at the Zoo and<|fim_middle|> that she has extensive experience as an educator, yoga teacher and trainer. Among other things, she co-authored the Planet Decks for Barefood Books and is the featured instructor in Gaiam's Yoga Fitness for Kids videos. She's also available to train teachers or give presentations. This company is a work of love and her passion and I encourage you to spread the word and get her product, it's really exceptional.
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that sounds hilariously fun, Summer!
I try anything to get my girls moving. We go outside to run around every change we get. When the weather is bad outside…we like to dance or even build an obstacle course. We each get turns doing follow the leadear throught it. It is so much fun. It gets us moving and laughing.
sounds like everyone has fun!
We keep moving on the trampoline, at the playground across the road, by doing obstacle courses (indoors on a rainy day) and doing brain gym.
They look fantastic and I know my daughter would love them. We keep moving by getting out of the house each day – outside to play, out in our neighborhood, out to visit friends. My daughter also attends a kindy gymnastics class each week which she absolutely loves so I know these DVDs would be popular.
Terrific post. The simple narrative of your experience with your girls and our Move with Me videos was delightful. I'm so pleased that you like them and impressed with the time you spent reviewing. Leah is a pretty amazing individual and her work, pulling together a team of creative and independent writers, instructors, and artists to produce an award winning kids yoga DVD series, reflects that.
Keeping my kids active is an ongoing struggle. Thanks for your post! I could use this!!
this is great! anything that gets kids moving and off the couch is fine by me.
We swim and take adventure walks as often as possible in the summer.
My kids LOVE to move, I need the energy to keep up with them, lol. Every afternoon it's outside play time and even in the 100 degree heat of Texas they run, jump and climb all over our backyard (granted there is usually sprinklers or pools involved :-). In the mornings we sometimes take family bike rides when daddy is not traveling. Even just nature hikes are popular with my crew. They'll collect things along our walk then we do some nature craft with our treasures once we get back.
We keep active by making boring chores into games, going to the park, playing in our yard, pulling weeds etc. We also do videos like MoveNGroove, Elmocize etc. So much fun!
I like Move With Me on Facebook. | helps with flexibility. Monkey wants to learn what makes each animal special so he climbs out of his cage and we climb, too, and visits each animal. We learn how the giraffes nibble leaves waaaay up in the tall trees, and we nibble the leaves. And how the tortoise is special because he can tuck up into his own protective shell and we practice being tortoise. But, what makes monkey special? Will he find out?
Possum's Tail is the third video about balance, a story that both my girls love. I watched them follow along with the story, unaware how much movement they were doing, and trying to figure out what would happen next. They both were totally engaged!
The next series, the Mind Series, is also 3 DVDs: Lost and Found in Africa about Character, Robot Makes a New Friend on the Moon about curiosity, and Set Sail about Choices.
Finally, the Heart Series DVDs include: Tortoise, Hare and Dragon about perseverance, Coral Reef about acceptance, and A Beautiful Dream about relationship.
I recently spoke with Leah Kalish, creator of Move With Me Action Adventures and found out | 233 |
Bitten: Renewed for a Third Season
by Trevor Kimball, May 26, 2015
Canadian series Bitten has been renewed for a third season by the Space channel. The werewolf series airs on Syfy here in the US and season two is currently running on Friday nights. Syfy hasn't said that they'll be airing season three but it's expected that they will.
Here's the press release from Space:
– Season 2 of BITTEN gets CTV airing in July –
– Laura Vandervoort returns to star as the world's only female werewolf –
– Production to begin this summer/fall, on location in Toronto –
– BITTEN Season 1 is now streaming on CraveTVTM –
ANAHEIM, CA, May 22, 2015 /CNW/ – As announced earlier today by BITTEN star Laura Vandervoort on a special, on-location edition of THE SOCIAL from Disneyland, Space confirms that it has ordered a third season of its most-watched original series ever, BITTEN. Based on the best-selling series of novels by Kelley Armstrong and produced by No Equal Entertainment, Entertainment One Television (eOne), and Hoodwink Entertainment, Season 3 sees the return of genre icon Laura Vandervoort (SMALLVILLE, Ted) as Elena Michaels; Greyston Holt (ALCATRAZ, DURHAM COUNTY) as Clayton Danvers; Greg Bryk (A History Of Violence, ROOKIE BLUE) as Jeremy Danvers; Steve Lund (BEING ERICA, HAVEN) as Nick Sorrentino, and Genelle Williams (<|fim_middle|>3 will be its last. Where can I sign a petition to keep this show alive. Why do people cancel great shows, and keep bad ones? keep Bitten!!! Shout it out! Keep Bitten, and howl it loud. Ahoooo.
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I can't wait. When will it come on.
Really entertaining. Glad it will be back.
This is my all time favorite show ever! I hope the 3rd season is as good as the 1st and 2nd season. The worst thing about this show is that half the characters in the pack die…
I love bitten! More, more, more!
Hi that is the best news I can't wait for season 3 to come out I think it is the best show I just love it and I hope there is more season's to come just the best show ever u have made my day
Katia Nepalov
The series 'Bitten' is awesome. This is exactly my kind of thing. I am pleased to hear that there will be a season 3. 10 out of 10 for the brilliant show. Excellent story lines, well formatted and very good acting. I am so in love with Laura Vandervoort!
Linda Wernsing
I love the show Bitten! I am so happy it has been renewed for a third season! I am in the process of reading all the books. I hope that SciFi or some American TV channel will air but I haven't seen any announcements yet. If not, then I hope there is some way I can watch it via Hulu or Netflix. Anybody know….???? | WAREHOUSE 13) as Rachel Sutton. Viewers who have yet to join The Pack can stream BITTEN Season 1 on CraveTV right now. Season 2 of BITTEN will air on CTV Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET, beginning July 4.
"BITTEN is a great success story for Space," said Tracey Pearce, Senior Vice-President, Specialty and Pay, Bell Media. "It's been extremely gratifying to witness the series build such a passionate and dedicated international fan base. Congrats to the cast, crew, and our partners No Equal Entertainment, Entertainment One, and Hoodwink Entertainment. We look forward to yet another great season of this killer series."
"We are extremely excited to be headed back into production for a third season and are so proud of our success on Space," said J.B Sugar, Executive Producer, No Equal Entertainment. "We couldn't do it without the continuing support from Bell Media and our incredible fans in Canada and around the world."
"This is a tremendous achievement which wouldn't be possible without our talented cast and crew and Space's unwavering support of the series," said John Morayniss, Chief Executive Officer, Entertainment One Television. "Alongside No Equal Entertainment and Hoodwink Entertainment, we are thrilled to continue this incredible journey and looking forward to sinking our teeth into what's sure to be another nail-biting season."
BITTEN is executive produced by J.B. Sugar (THE COLLECTOR, JPOD) for No Equal Entertainment, John Barbisan, and Patrick Banister (WHISTLER) for Hoodwink Entertainment, and Tecca Crosby, John Morayniss, and Margaret O'Brien for eOne. Daegan Fryklind (MOTIVE, THE LISTENER) is Showrunner. Executive Producers Fryklind and Wil Zmak return to write for Season 3. Also in the writing room are Larry Bambrick, Jenn Engels, and Garfield Lindsay Miller.
BITTEN is produced by No Equal Entertainment, Hoodwink Entertainment, and eOne in association with Space and Bell Media, with the participation of Rogers Cable Network Fund and Cogeco Program Development Fund and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit. Rebecca DiPasquale and Carrie Paupst Shaughnessy are Production Executives, Drama, Bell Media. Tom Hastings is Director of Drama, Independent Production, Bell Media. Corrie Coe is Senior Vice-President, Independent Production, Bell Media. Tracey Pearce is Senior Vice-President, Specialty and Pay, Bell Media. Phil King is President, CTV, Sports, and Entertainment Programming.
About Bell Media Independent Production
Bell Media has commissioned some of Canada's most-watched and most-acclaimed original programming, working with the best Canadian independent producers in the country. Hit CTV series include ratings success stories SAVING HOPE, MOTIVE, the record-breaking THE AMAZING RACE CANADA, and MASTERCHEF CANADA. Among the scripted series on Bell Media pay and specialty channels are the three-time Emmy®-nominated hit DEGRASSI, the internationally acclaimed ORPHAN BLACK, the most-watched original series in Space history BITTEN, Bravo's most-watched original drama 19-2, award-winning dramedy SENSITIVE SKIN, the upcoming adventure series KILLJOYS, and upcoming cult comedy, LETTERKENNY. Bell Media specialty channels are also home to hit factual series HIGHWAY THRU HELL, COLD WATER COWBOYS, and CANADA'S WORST DRIVER, among others.
About Space
Space is home to phenomenal programming including imaginative dramas, epic movies, engaging reality series, and the daily entertainment talk show INNERSPACE, the source for all-things genre – all in high definition (HD). Named "Channel of the Year" in 2013 by Playback Magazine, Space is also home to Original Series ORPHAN BLACK and BITTEN. Space content is always available at Space.ca, and on Facebook, @SpaceChannel, and other social media platforms. Space is a division of Bell Media, which is owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada's largest communications company.
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I love this show do not cancel this program. Why would they cancel a great story line? Are they crazy!! Keep Bitten on the air!!
I love Bitten. So disappointed that season | 1,132 |
Deneen and Creative Destruction
by Dylan Pahman • October 14, 2013
Among many other bizarre claims in his most recent article at The American Conservative, Patrick Deneen writes,
Today's conservatives are liberals — they favor an economy that wreaks "creative destruction," especially on the mass of "non-winners," increasingly controlled by a few powerful actors who secure special benefits for themselves and their heirs….
Pace Inigo Montoya, I actually have no idea what Deneen thinks creative destruction means in this context.
Setting aside the question of whether or not it is a bad thing (or accurate, for that matter) to say that "[t]oday's conservatives are liberals," I am far more concerned with how Deneen thinks creative destruction is "wreaked" upon "non-winners." This is further complicated by his implication that creative destruction supports, rather than threatens, "a few powerful actors."
The term creative destruction was coined by the economist Joseph Schumpeter precisely to describe the phenomenon of how innovation displaces one economic order with the next in a process that, though causing serious short term losses, historically has proven to raise the quality of life for all. Writing in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1947), Schumpeter observed,
[T]he contents of the laborer's budget, say from 1760 to 1940, did not simply grow on unchanging lines but they underwent a process of qualitative change. Similarly, the history of the productive apparatus of a typical farm, from the beginnings of the rationalization of crop rotation, plowing and fattening to the mechanized thing of today — linking up with elevators and railroads — is a history of revolutions. So is the history of the productive apparatus of the iron and steel industry from the charcoal furnace to our own type of furnace, or the history of the apparatus of power production from the overshot water wheel to the modern power plant, or the history of transportation from the mailcoach to the airplane. The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation — if I may use that biological term — that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact<|fim_middle|> the ordinary sense functions more or less promptly; the powerful lever that in the long run expands output and brings down prices is in any case made of other stuff.
While Schumpeter may be overstating his point here, the basic idea is true and easy to grasp. Suppose someone was a CD and DVD manufacturing tycoon in the 1990s and 2000s. One factor that mitigates them from taking full advantage of their large share of the market is the future prospect of creative destruction, for example in the forms of Spotify and Netflix. Through creative destruction the "few powerful actors" of today always must fear the entrepreneur of tomorrow, who uses his/her God-given creativity to find new, more efficient, and more affordable means to serve others through enterprise.
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Dylan Pahman
Dylan Pahman is a research fellow at the Acton Institute, where he serves as managing editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality. He earned his MTS in Historical Theology from Calvin Theological Seminary. In addition to his work as an editor, Dylan has authored several peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, essays, and one book: Foundations of a Free & Virtuous Society (Acton Institute, 2017). He has also lectured on a wide variety of topics, including Orthodox Christian social thought, the history of Christian monastic enterprise, the Reformed statesman and theologian Abraham Kuyper, and academic publishing, among others.
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Perhaps one of the best examples of such creative destruction since Schumpeter's time would be the advent of the internet and the displacing of print newspapers by primarily web-based news and opinions, such as Deneen's own column at The American Conservative. In the process, some people have lost their jobs, some papers have gone out of business, but at the same time many web developers and social media marketers found work, and many new venues have been created all as the reach of readership has expanded to anyone with internet access. Does Deneen really think we ought to lament this?
And that is not all. Despite Deneen's worry that creative destruction somehow serves and preserves "a few powerful actors," Schumpter coined the term to demonstrate precisely the opposite. Creative destruction is a force that mitigates the ill-effects of imperfect competition because it continually threatens the control of those "few powerful actors." Schumpter wrote (again, in 1947),
Economists are at long last emerging from the stage in which price competition was all they saw…. But in capitalist reality as distinguished from its textbook picture, it is not that kind of competition which counts but the competition from the new commodity, the new technology, the new source of supply, the new type of organization (the largest-scale unit of control for instance) — competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms but at their foundations and their very lives. This kind of competition is as much more effective than the other as a bombardment is in comparison with forcing a door, and so much more important that it becomes a matter of comparative indifference whether competition in | 349 |
Home Rural Development Support Programme (RDSP)
Rural Development Support Program (RDSP) is an Associate Body of the Southern African Catholic Bishop's Conference (SACBC) and has been building the capacity of rural communities in South Africa since 1992. RDSP is based in Cape Town, with an associate staff member representing us in the Eastern Cape. We have an experienced Management Board. In a recent assessment of RDSP, Margie Keeton (formerly of Tshikululu) described us as "…a well-established 'niche' NGO that has developed an appropriate methodology and operating style for dealing with a most challenging area of development – support for survivalist community organisations…The resulting model is a surprisingly robust one – a small group of experienced, like-minded professionals who work well together and whose 'light' and flexible overheads enable them to reach and work in any part of South Africa, as required."
Over the last 22 years we have created, tested and delivered a range of support services designed to contribute to the building up of a rural infrastructure. With half of our population classified as non-urban, rural development is of utmost importance to the future sustainability of our country. Rural communities need to be assisted in finding sustainable solutions to<|fim_middle|> permanent state of crisis management. Over the period of a year, we are able to reach communities on a national scale through our various programs, including an average of 20 training courses, 40 mentoring fieldtrips, 2 exposure programs and information sheets. The total number of participants who attend our sessions in one year is over 1000 and those who benefit via the organisations we serve through our organisational development work are over 10,000. Since 1992 we have worked with or trained more than 15,000 people and over 500 community based organisations, many of them in remote rural areas. According to our way of working, rural people and organisations are the implementing agents and we are the support program or service providers with the common aim of alleviating rural poverty. Our programs are our tools for achieving this.
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RDSP works primarily with rural people, community based organisations (CBOs) and small groups in need of skills training, organisational development, mentorship and exposure. We work to strengthen civil society within rural areas and to assist in creating community leadership. Most of the organisations we work with struggle to access training opportunities' require assistance in organisational skills and are under-resourced, often existing in a | 84 |
An address by Brian Porter, President and Chief Executive Officer, presented to the Scotiabank Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
As a management team, we are fortunate to have such an engaged Board of Directors, and one that is so deeply committed to building an even better Bank.
Welcome everyone to Scotiabank's 184th Annual General Meeting, including those who are joining us by webcast.
It's great to be in Calgary!
We have with us today members of the Bank's Board of Directors, our senior management team, shareholders, and a number of special guests.
In particular, I want to extend a warm welcome to Barbara Ritchie.
Scotiabank is a great bank today because of the vision and contributions made by Scotiabankers who came before us – Scotiabankers such as our former President, Chairman and CEO Cedric Ritchie.
From driving the Bank's global expansion, to his instinctive approach, along with a tremendous work ethic, Cedric left a profound and permanent legacy.
We are all truly grateful for his service to the Bank.
This morning, I'd like to share some thoughts on three subjects.
Firstly, I'll review the progress we made across Scotiabank in 2015, and comment on our first-quarter results for 2016.
Secondly, I'll touch on the work we're doing to build an even better bank.
And finally, I'll outline some actions that governments should take to deliver stronger, sustained, economic growth for Canada.
Despite some challenging<|fim_middle|> serve our customers.
It is an honour for me to work with a very talented team, and lead a company with such a storied past and very bright future.
I would also like to thank our kind hosts here in Alberta.
At 184, Scotiabank is older than Canada itself, and we've had a vibrant presence in Alberta's communities for well over a century.
Even though Scotiabank has grown to be Canada's international bank, we know that our roots are here in Canada.
We are a proud Canadian Bank, and the entrepreneurialism, determination and grit found right here in Alberta remains an important inspiration for our Bank's culture.
We recognize that times are difficult right now for Alberta, and we remain committed to our customers here, and to the communities in which we live and work.
On this road to recovery, Scotiabank will continue to be a strong supporter and a reliable partner. | operating conditions, the Bank reported earnings of $7.2 billion for 2015.
We had particularly good performances in our personal and commercial businesses here in Canada, and internationally.
These businesses generate 80% of the Bank's earnings.
The Bank is very well-capitalized, and we announced an increase to our quarterly dividend, which is up 6 per cent compared to the same period last year.
Looking at our business lines, the Canadian Bank is successfully growing assets in a number of targeted areas, and efforts to improve our business mix are generating better returns for our shareholders.
On the liability side, we are focused on growing core deposits and we are pleased with the momentum we've established in this important area.
International Banking's strong performance in the second half of 2015 continued into the first quarter of 2016, with net income increasing to a record $505 million.
These encouraging results from International Banking reflect strong operating performances in the Pacific Alliance Region.
Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile are core to our strategy, and they continue to achieve more robust GDP growth than Canada and the United States.
In January of this year, we showcased our Pacific Alliance operations at an Investor Conference we hosted in Mexico City.
The conference included visits by Central Bank governors from each of the four Pacific Alliance countries.
Attendees heard the Central Bankers say what we've been saying for some time: The trading bloc's growing middle class, solid economic fundamentals and strong growth prospects make it an excellent place to invest, and run a business.
Shareholders and analysts left Mexico with greater confidence in our operations, our local and global leadership teams, and most importantly, our strategy in the Pacific Alliance.
Dieter Jentsch and his team deserve credit for the strong performance of our international businesses.
With Dieter recently assuming leadership of our Global Banking and Markets division, we are delighted to have Nacho Deschamps, a globally recognized banker, as the new Group Head of International Banking and Digital Transformation.
I'm highly confident that Nacho, and his team, will do a great job with our international businesses, and our digital strategy.
I now want to highlight some of the important efforts we have underway to create value for our shareholders over the longer term.
Moderate economic growth, volatility in markets and rapid technological developments are forcing change upon virtually every industry around the globe.
Financial services are no exception.
Scotiabank is responding to the need for change with a comprehensive strategic agenda.
The foundation of our strategy is a commitment to become truly customer focused because great businesses care about improving the experience for their customers.
We are also building a stronger, and more agile, leadership team by investing in our people and ensuring that they have the necessary tools to succeed.
We are actively adjusting our cost structure to become more cost-competitive, and to improve our overall operating efficiency.
We are evolving our business mix to become more profitable and improve our funding profile, while remaining within our risk appetite.
We are allocating our capital more effectively, while also strengthening our balance sheet.
Finally, we are committed to a digital transformation at the Bank, a subject I'd like to elaborate on this morning.
Firstly, let's talk about what we mean by 'digital'.
Digital broadly refers to the latest generation of technology systems, programs and tools that are dramatically improving the way we live, work and communicate.
Digital technology is faster and more powerful than ever before.
As we have seen through the Internet and mobile devices, it is capable of transforming virtually everything we do – from what drives businesses, to how consumers behave, to the way people interact.
Digital technology allows us to FaceTime with our friends, family and colleagues regardless of whether they are across the street or around the world.
It's responsible for automating the most complex industrial and manufacturing processes, resulting in significant productivity gains.
And, in the case of financial services, digital technology allows an increasing number of customers to do virtually all of their banking with the smartphone in their pocket.
As a result, "digital" is having a profound impact on all industries and all economies.
And the trend is not going away. In fact, every indicator suggests that digital will gain speed going forward.
At Scotiabank, we are embracing digital technologies to deliver the best customer experience in our major markets.
This fundamentally means reducing pain points for our customers in their day-to-day banking.
Digital will also provide our employees with the necessary tools, technology and data to better serve our customers.
And through automation, we will achieve better operating efficiency for our shareholders.
We have many digital efforts underway across the Bank.
I'll give you some tangible examples, starting with our distribution network.
Digital trends and changing customer preferences are re-shaping the role and utility of our branch network.
Our customers increasingly perform routine transactions – such as balance enquiries, bill payments and remote deposits – online and through their mobile devices.
By 2020, we expect that less than 10% of financial transactions will occur in our branch network. At the same time, we expect sales through digital channels to increase materially – likely in excess of 50% of total products sold.
That said, our customers continue to tell us they value face-to-face interactions, particularly when it comes to making larger financial decisions.
Our branch network will continue to be an important channel to serve customers, but it must adapt and evolve.
We are re-designing our branches to provide financial advice more effectively, and to conduct the declining volume of day-to-day transactions more efficiently.
As a case in point, in January, I visited our exciting new branch formats in Mexico City.
We will be launching similar branches here in Canada over the coming months.
The Canadian branch network will feature smaller branches that are staffed differently. And they will be better organized and better equipped, for the benefit of both customers and employees.
For example, we have radically re-engineered the mortgage application process.
Before, customers had to make multiple visits to a branch, provide paper documents, and could wait up to 5 days for approval.
Under the new process: the majority of mortgage applications can be completed with a single branch visit; All documents can be provided digitally from the comfort of a customer's home or office; and end-to-end approval can happen in as little as one day.
We're also significantly improving the application process for credit cards, day-to-day banking, small business loans and other products.
Our new application process to open day-to-day bank accounts is being significantly improved. In fact, we're confident that it will provide the best customer experience among the full-service banks here in Canada.
The turnaround time to open a small business account will be reduced from up to 3 weeks to approximately 20 minutes.
The time it takes to fill out an online credit card application will be significantly reduced from 8 minutes to just 2 minutes for an instant approval decision. The entire process will be more intuitive, and require customers to answer fewer questions.
For many applications, such as mortgages and wealth, we are cutting in half the amount of time our employees will spend on applications. That frees up their time to provide valuable advice to our customers.
And we are doing all of this within our risk appetite.
Obviously, this is great news for our customers and our employees. It's also great for our shareholders, who will benefit from these digital improvements through higher loan volumes, increased deposits and a variety of operational efficiencies.
We are also driving many digital initiatives across our Pacific Alliance countries.
One of the most important aspects of our commitment to transforming digitally relates to our mobile banking apps because mobile is a critically important channel.
More than 40% of all Canadians – in all age groups – expect to be banking on their mobile device in the near future.
Adoption across Latin America, where smart phone penetration is still only 40%, is growing rapidly at 20% per year.
In a recent global survey, more than half of all consumers said they would miss their mobile phone more than their physical wallet.
These factors explain why so many companies are adopting a mobile-first mindset.
And at Scotiabank, we are deeply committed to mobile.
In Canada, our banking platform earned the highest overall score for functionality by Forrester Research in 2015.
Our newly launched online and mobile banking platform in Mexico will significantly enhance customer experience, and we're well on our way to introducing this new platform to our other key Latin American markets.
But when it comes to excellence in this field, no one does it better in the world than our very own Tangerine.
Tangerine is a fully digital Bank with more than 2 million customers.
It now has a suite of everyday banking products, including savings accounts, chequing accounts, wealth management and – as of this month – credit cards.
In fact, the early response to Tangerine's new credit card offering has been fantastic.
For the past four years in a row, Tangerine has earned J.D. Power's highest ranking for customer satisfaction.
It also has the highest Net Promoter Score – the best indicator of customers' willingness to recommend – among all Canadian banks.
In many ways, we see Tangerine as the future of banking.
Firstly, Tangerine offers an unparalleled customer experience.
For example, our Voice Banking feature allows customers to bank easily and conveniently through voice commands. It's like SIRI for banking.
And with Interactive Voice Recognition, we can authenticate a customer without the need for passwords or pins.
Secondly, Tangerine is efficient. It serves 2 million customers with less than 1,000 employees.
And thirdly, Tangerine's business model is scalable. It can easily serve many more of the 12 million 'direct ready' Canadians who are interested in banking primarily through digital channels – be that online or mobile.
Tangerine is our own internal disruptor, and is an important part of our overall digital strategy.
On the subject of digital disruption, there is a lot of discussion these days about whether FinTech firms pose an opportunity or a threat to banks.
For our part, we see the emergence of these new players primarily as an opportunity.
We've already built many strategic partnerships with FinTech firms, and are leveraging their creativity and agility to drive business value and help us deliver an even better customer experience.
As part of our commitment to being a leader in digital and mobile Banking, we are looking to build even more partnerships with other innovative firms.
I'd now like to turn to the final portion of my remarks.
Each time I have the opportunity to speak on behalf of the Bank, I try to incorporate a few comments on public policy.
I do this because we feel very strongly that companies like Scotiabank have a responsibility to contribute to the development of good public policy here in Canada.
All of us – individuals and corporations – have a responsibility to leave a strong and prosperous Canada for future generations.
In February of this year, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock – the largest global investment management firm – wrote a letter to CEOs of the world's leading companies.
I liked it so much that I circulated it to our Board of Directors and senior management team.
While longer-term thinking is important for all business leaders, it's also important for political and community leaders.
In this spirit, federal and provincial governments should develop forward-looking and comprehensive economic strategies.
Free and open trade, building economic infrastructure, and increasing productivity.
I have spoken about the first two areas previously, so I'll focus today on productivity.
Productivity is the most important determinant of a country's per capita income over the long term.
And yet, Canada's labour productivity has lagged behind our peers globally for some time.
In some ways, it's Canada's Achilles' heel.
There are at least two pieces of this puzzle that could be addressed in the near term.
While governments can create the conditions for innovation to thrive, Canadian companies need to step up to be the primary drivers.
This is exactly what we're doing at Scotiabank.
As an example, the Bank's annual investment in technology has doubled over the past years to more than $2.4 billion.
We are also partnering with a number of innovative 'made-in-Canada' companies to better serve our customers and increase efficiencies.
One example is a company called Sensi-bill, a Toronto-based start-up that was incubated at Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone.
Sensi-bill developed a game-changing application to make it easier for our customers to manage their purchase receipts, reconcile their bank statements and file their taxes.
The second piece of the productivity puzzle is skilled labour.
Canada is fortunate to have some of the best-educated young people in the world.
Nevertheless, the above-average youth unemployment rate reflects, in part, a disconnect between the skills of many graduates, and the needs of their future employers.
We see the effects of this at Scotiabank, where we have a growing need for digitally savvy employees, such as specialized programmers, engineers and data scientists.
More and more companies – regardless of the industry – are chasing this same talent pool.
The Scotiabank Digital Banking Lab at Western University's Ivey Business School, the Scotiabank Centre for Customer Analytics at Queen's University's Smith School of Business and the Master of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program at St. Mary's University.
These partnerships are good for the Bank, and they give us better access to the talent we need.
They're also good for Canadian youth, who will have opportunities for paid internships, field studies and hands-on experience.
The future prosperity of our Bank, and our country, is not a given – it depends on the decisions we make today.
For our part, we are working hard to create long-term value for our shareholders.
To that end, we are investing in innovation, and we are cultivating a workforce that will thrive in the new digital age.
In closing, I want to thank all of our shareholders for their support.
I want to thank our customers for their business and trust.
And I want to thank Scotiabankers across our footprint for the great work they do day in and day out to | 2,879 |
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As digital business strategies continue to evolve, corporate leaders and information system professionals are attempting to develop a successful workforce knowledge sharing system designed to enhance employee collaboration, innovation, and productivity in today's fluctuating, multigenerational environment.
The 7 Fundamentals to Create and Sustain a Successful Knowledge Sharing Organization reports findings discovered through a case study of a multinational corporation, referred to as Aerospace Inc., specializing in the design, manufacture, and delivery of aerospace products. This case study explores an internally developed social networking tool used by Aerospace Inc. to deliver online collaboration capabilities to employees globally. As a result, seven vital components were identified to create and sustain a successful knowledge sharing organization.
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Such a gorgeous Texas Hill Country wedding at Escondido Golf & Lake Club! We're so excited to have it selected for feature publication in BRIDES Magazine and on The Knot! Maren & Derek met in Barcelona while working for the same modeling agency. With Maren's busy modeling career including features in Vogue and campaigns for Victoria Secret and Alexander Wang, we fast forward several years and now this NYC-based couple is celebrating their beautiful wedding in the gorgeous Texas Hill Country! Maren's beautiful dress by Monique Lhuillier was absolutely captivating, so we set aside a few minutes after the ceremony for an impromptu bridal session at dusk. The magical Texas sky was just perfect with its softly lit hues. Wonderful families and friends celebrated the night away under a classic starlit night, capped off with a sparkler and antique Jaguar departure.
What a beautiful Vista on Seward Hill wedding! The day was absolutely perfect for Carolyn & Steven's gorgeous wedding. I love how the couple chose their dog, Sky, to be Best Dog and ring bearer! Great job, Sky! Everyone loved seeing all of the joy and laughter shared by Carolyn & Steven as they exchanged vows and wedding bands with one another. Wonderful families and friends helped the newlyweds celebrate the night away on the dance floor. The evening ended with a fun sparkler departure grand finale!
Such a wonderful Wildflower Center summer wedding! Kylie & James's wedding was absolutely beautiful. After a really sweet and fun first look between the two, Kylie & James exchanged vows and rings during their ceremony as loving family and wonderful friends witnessed the beautiful marriage of this wonderful couple. Everyone had such a great time throughout the day, especially on the dance floor during the reception! As the end of the ending<|fim_middle|> by Sweet Treats. | arrived, Kylie & James departed as family and friends surrounded them to light the way with a fun glow stick departure!
What a beautiful Allan House wedding in Austin TX! Rachel & Ted exchanged vows and rings during their ceremony in front of a stunningly beautiful floral ring underneath the canopy of majestic pecan trees. Beautiful decor greeted guests throughout the venue, including a really beautiful vintage lounge. And check out that dessert table and beautiful cake!
Rachel and her dad joined in a really sweet Father/Daughter dance, followed by Ted and his mom having a blast for their Mother/Son dance. Everyone then joined in and had a great time dancing the night away to live music (and a special prop….you'll have to check out the preview below to see what I'm talking about!).
The celebration was capped with loving family and great friends sending Rachel & Ted on their way with a really fun sparkler departure!
Many thanks to Katie, Isaiah and team at Pearl Events! Beautiful floral by Bouquets of Austin, vintage rentals by Bee Lavish, and cake and desserts | 213 |
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The accounting profession has a great deal going for it including good pay, challenging work and unlimited opportunities for advancement. Further, clients view their accountants as one of their most trusted advisers.
Our ideal employee has a strong intellect and work ethic, dependability, comfort with asking questions and the ability to get along with others. We look for these qualities as we interview potential employees and interns.
When you accept a position with P&N, we want to strengthen your commitment by helping you succeed. We feel strongly about contributing to younger generations and hiring recent graduates and interns is one way we do that.
Schools provide concepts, tools and methodologies for solving problems and developing thinking skills, but actual work provides the context. We, as practitioners, present the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of practice, such as relationship building, supervising and mentoring and servicing client needs. We expose new employees to services other than tax returns and audits | 199 |
A soufflé is a baked egg-based dish originating in France in the early eighteenth century. Combined with various other ingredients, it can be served as a savory main dish or sweetened as a dessert. The word soufflé is the past participle of the French verb souffler which means "to blow," "to breathe," "to inflate," or "to puff."
History
The earliest mention of the soufflé is attributed to French master cook
Vincent La Chapelle, in the early eighteenth century. The development and popularization of the soufflé is usually traced to French chef Marie-Antoine Carême in the early nineteenth century.
Ingredients and preparation
Soufflés are typically prepared from two basic components:
a flavored crème pâtissière, cream sauce or béchamel, or a purée as the base
egg whites beaten to a soft peak
The base provides the flavor, and the egg whites provide the "lift" or puffiness to the dish. Foods commonly used to flavor the base include herbs, cheese and vegetables for savory soufflés and jam, fruits, berries, chocolate, banana and lemon for dessert soufflés.
Soufflés are generally baked in ramekins or soufflé dishes: these are typically glazed, flat-bottomed, round porcelain containers with unglazed bottoms, vertical or nearly vertical sides and fluted exterior borders. The ramekin, or another baking vessel, may be coated with a thin film of butter to prevent the soufflé from sticking. Some preparations also include adding a coating of sugar, bread crumbs, or a grated hard cheese such as parmesan inside the ramekin in addition to the butter; some cooks believe this allows the soufflé to rise more easily.
<|fim_middle|> ham, or seafood for a more substantial dish. Sweet soufflés may be based on a chocolate or fruit sauce (lemon or raspberry, for example) and are often served with a dusting of powdered sugar. Frugal recipes sometimes emphasize the possibilities for making soufflés from leftovers.
A soufflé may be served alone, with ice cream, fruit, or a sauce.
Apple soufflé is made by lining a cake tin with pureed rice boiled in sweetened milk and baking it until it sets. The rice "border" is filled with thickened apple marmalade and whipped egg whites and baked until it rises.
See also
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List of custard desserts
List of French dishes
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Hungarian desserts | After being cooked, a soufflé is puffed up and fluffy, and it will generally fall after 5 or 10 minutes (as risen dough does). It may be served with a sauce atop the soufflé, such as a sweet dessert sauce, or with a sorbet or ice-cream on the side. When served, the top of a soufflé may be punctured with serving utensils to separate it into individual servings. This can also enable a sauce to integrate into the dish.
Variations
There are a number of both savory and sweet soufflé flavor variations. Savory soufflés often include cheese, and vegetables such as spinach, carrot and herbs, and may sometimes incorporate poultry, bacon, | 150 |
Ted Arnott, MPP, Wellington-Halton Hills
Students are returning to their classrooms and our School Board administrators, principals, teachers, staff and school bus drivers are working hard to ensure our students stay safe.
No doubt there will be challenges ahead and unanticipated issues may arise, but we can and we will work together to resolve them. Our children deserve nothing less than<|fim_middle|> Reserved
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I want to express my sincere thanks to everyone in our education system for their dedication, caring, and professionalism, this year above all years.
A century of fair and impartial Ontario elections
Our right to vote and elect our parliamentary representatives in a free and fair election gives each of us an equal and direct say in deciding who will govern our Province. It also gives legitimacy to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to debate and enact laws, levy taxes, administer programs, and lead us into the future.
This year, Elections Ontario is celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the appointment of the first Chief Election Officer, who was charged with the responsibility of organizing fair and impartial elections of the Members of the Legislature. This year is also the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of Elections Ontario itself, as a separate independent agency.
Around the world in many places, democratic institutions and traditions are being threatened and eroded. But in our Province, Elections Ontario and an informed citizenry will always be the guardians of free and fair elections.
MPPs Return to Queen's Park
While the Legislative Assembly sat many weeks between February and July this year, Members were also kept busy in their Ridings. I know all MPPs, Government and Opposition alike, have been very appreciative of the response of the people of Ontario and the expressions of encouragement and support we have received.
On September 14, we resume sitting again. There will be much to discuss and debate, including the best ways to continue the fight against COVID-19, the help Ontarians need from their Government, and how we can revive the economy safely.
The Legislature is scheduled to sit into December.
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Ted Arnott - MPP Wellington-Halton Hills
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news Telstra Health has announced it has deployed an electronic medical record (EMR) platform at St John of God Midland public and private hospitals in Perth.
The deployment at Australia's newest hospitals in the Perth<|fim_middle|>He said that the strengths of the Telstra Health system are that it is built for Australian conditions, makes it easier for staff to do their job, delivers enhanced clinical care and patient outcomes, and is affordable and sustainable.
The product also tracks important patient information, he explained, such as allergies or the propensity for falls. This should ultimately assist patient care by raising alerts and signalling the need for preventative actions.
Telstra Health is a business division of Telstra Corporation, an Australian telecommunications company. The division provides eHealth solutions with the aim of creating a better health system for patients, providers and health insurers, the firm says. | suburb of Midland will ensure that their digital health solutions match the "state-of-the-art facilities and staff", Telstra Health said in a statement.
The EMR platform will form the clinical "digital backbone" of the $360-million facility, which includes a 307-bed public hospital and a 60-bed private hospital on the same campus, which has replaced the Swan District Hospital.
Russel Duncan, Managing Director of Telstra Health's Emerging Systems, said that the solution was a fully integrated electronic medical record, meeting all the needs of both the public and private hospital environment.
"Patient's clinical data at the St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals will integrate seamlessly with the hospital's Patient Administration System, the national myHealth Record system and eventually the Western Australia Health Department, helping build a more connected health system and improve productivity and clinical care," Duncan said.
Kevin Taylor, St John of God Health Care Group Director of Corporate Services, said that the Telstra Health solution was selected after a comprehensive selection process that rewarded the ability to have data highly available in an interoperable environment.
"We have a very clear expectation that the emerging solution will lead to efficiency and accountability and will be a major system which will enable us to interconnect with the Western Australian Government's health services through expedient data sharing," Taylor said.
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Here is a list of techniques that you can use to help manage your fearful and negative thoughts.
1. Don't dwell on your fearful thoughts. The first thing a person must do is not to dwell or focus on the fear-provoking thought when it comes. The more a person tries to reason out the thought or focus on the fear behind the thought, the stronger the thought becomes. The next time you encounter an obsessive thought, get into the practice of not dwelling on it.
2. Visualize a red stop sign in your mind when you encounter a fear-provoking thought. When the negative thought comes, a person should think of a red stop sign that serves as a reminder to stop focusing on that thought and to think of something else. A person can then try to think of something positive to replace the negative thought.
3. Focus on the facts of the situation. Sometimes, a person may encounter a lot of scary thoughts coming at them all at once. Instead of getting upset, remember that these thoughts are exaggerated and are not based on reality. It is usually the fear behind the thoughts that gets us worked up. Ignore the fear behind these obsessive thoughts, regardless how the strong the fear may be. If you ignore the fear behind these thoughts, then the thoughts become easier to manage.
4. It's only fear. Remember that the difference between an obsessive thought and a regular thought is that an obsessive thought is based on fear. With this in mind, try to find the source of the fear behind the thought. Once you find the source of the fear, learn to manage it. If you do, the thought becomes easier to deal with.
5. Manage your thoughts. Learn to challenge your negative thinking with positive statements and realistic thinking. When encountering thoughts that make your fearful or depressed, challenge those thoughts by asking yourself questions that will maintain objectivity and common sense.
6. Read positive statements. A person should keep a small notebook of positive statements that makes them feel good. Whenever they come across a positive and uplifting verse that makes them feel good, write it down in a small notebook. A person can then carry this notebook around in their pocket<|fim_middle|> problems are out there. The key is that you have to find the answers. The answers to overcoming your fearful thoughts will not come to you without some effort on your part. As mentioned before, the first step in finding the solution to your problem is to always seek help from a qualified professional.
About the author: Stan is the author of a popular managing fear book, "A Layman's Guide To Managing Fear." Stan's book has received over 400 book reviews and offers a lot of free mental health advice on his website. For more information and some more helpful advice, visit Stan's website at www.managingfear.com. | and whenever they feel anxious, they can read their notebook.
7. Learn from your experiences. In every anxiety-related situation you experience, begin to learn what works, what doesn't work, and what you need to improve on in managing your fearful thoughts. For instance, you have a lot of negative thoughts that are bothering you so you take a walk in your neighborhood. The next time you feel anxious you can remind yourself that you got through it the last time by taking a walk. This will give you the confidence to manage your fearful thoughts the next time around.
8. Learn to take it one day at a time. Instead of worrying about how you will get through the rest of the week, try to focus on today. Each day can provide us with different opportunities to learn new things and that includes learning how to deal with your negative thinking. You never know when the answers you are looking for will come to your doorstep.
9. Remember that no one can predict the future with one hundred percent certainty. Even if the thing that you are afraid of does happen there are circumstances and factors that you can't predict which can be used to your advantage. For instance, let's say at your place of work that you miss the deadline for a project you have been working on for the last few months. Everything you feared is coming true. Suddenly, your boss comes to your office and tells you that the deadline is extended and that he forgot to tell you the day before. This unknown factor changes everything. Remember that we may be ninety-nine percent correct in predicting the future, but all it takes is for that one percent to make a world of difference.
10. Learn as much as you can in managing negative and fearful thoughts. There are many books and information that will educate you on how to deal with fear and your negative thinking. Education is the key in finding the answers your looking for in managing your fears.
11. Take advantage of the help that is available around you. If possible, talk to a professional who can help you manage your negative and fearful thoughts. They will be able to provide you with additional advice and insights on how to deal with your current problem. By talking to a professional, a person will be helping themselves in the long run because they will become better able to deal with their problems in the future.
12. Listen To The Professionals And Not Your Friends. Your friends may mean well, but when it comes down to it, the professionals know your situation more than anyone. They know what you are going through and are trained to deal with your negative thinking. When you have questions about your mental health situation consult with your counselor or other mental health professional. Listen to them and follow their advice and not your friends.
13. There is hope. You may feel lost and confused but the answers to your specific | 570 |
Beatles First Album 'Please Please Me' is Released in 1963 — Today in History
Jackie Mancini Published: March 22, 2013
It was the panty-drop, girl-shriek heard round the world, when on March 22, 1963, the Beatles released their first album in the UK, on Parlophone Records.
At a time when the music world was dominated by film score music and easy listening vocalists, 'Please Please Me' was a game changer. The album climbed to the top of the UK charts by May of 1963 and remained there for thirty weeks. What finally replaced it? 'With The Beatles.'
The album was recently ranked 39th on Rolling Stone Magazine's<|fim_middle|>500 Greatest Albums of All Time.' Interestingly enough, 'Please Please Me' was not released in the United States until the introduction of the compact disc in the 80s, though most of the songs were included on other albums which were released in America.
In honor of the album that started it all, here are some of our favorite tracks:
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"The most significant findings of our preliminary review are: The U.S. Government had sufficient information prior to the attempted December 25 attack to have potentially disrupted the AQAP plot.
Assume for a moment that you had full, unconditional access to Google's dataset: what would you ask of it? Google uses it predict the flu. What can you find? If you're like most of us, you will lock up almost immediately. The paradox of choice overwhelms the rational mind with its virtually infinite possibilities.
The question of what to ask is important because the big data space, at present, is focused on data collection, storage and processing. Which is why things like Cloudera's Flume catalog and S3 sink are (rightfully) the subject of intense interest. Not every problem in large scale data processing is solved. Far from it, in fact.
But as Twitter's Kevin Weil eloquently put it during his OSCON talk, "asking the right question is hard." Which is the best explanation of why people like Kevin are so important.
At the recent Hadoop Summit, the reported consensus was that the stuff that used to be hard – collecting<|fim_middle|> it.
Find the people that can do that, whether they're FTE's or consultants, and you'll have your competitive advantage. To answer the right questions, you need the right people.
My question is, how do you develop the skills to be able to ask the right questions? What are the resources available to become the "right person"? That's what I want to know. | , storing and working on large volumes of data – is getting if not easy, easier. Even for individuals, thanks in equal parts to cloud computing and open source software. A conclusion we subscribe to coverage). The challenges that remain, however, may prove to be even more formidable. Because as intelligence agency failures like the December 25 attack prove quite adequately, asking the right question is hard, no matter how much we spend on tools and infrastructure.
There's a kind of natural diminishing returns to scale just because of statistics: you have to have four times as big a sample to get twice as good an estimate.
The bigger problem is the volume of data itself. Even if you can process it analytically, it's difficult to know what to look for. What to ask. How to ask it. And how to keep asking different variations of the question to get not the answer you expect, but the correct answer.
Consider a piece from this week's USA Today, entitled "Methods for detecting test bias flawed, research suggests." Wherein lies the flaw? The question, not the data.
In the common approach, individual questions are analyzed. What the new paper suggests is another way to look for bias. The scholars created a database with literally trillions of questions and scores on a range of tests, including all the major standardized tests used in college admissions. And this database featured trillions of questions that had been determined to have bias. But when samples were pulled out for analysis of a given question on a given test, the results came back negative for bias.
The conclusion, Aguinis said, is that question-by-question analysis doesn't detect bias.
Dustin Moskovitz can talk more about the motivations in 2005. From asking him directly while at Facebook, the goal seemed to revolve around 1) building a historical repository which could be queried offline without impacting the live site and 2) figuring out if changes made to the site impacted user behavior in a positive or negative fashion. For 2, the controversial change near the end of 05 was adding high school networks.
Of course not everybody has Facebook's resources, but there are a variety of resources that can help you identify the right questions to be asking. Including, yes, your friendly industry analysts. This problem of what question to ask is one of the reasons I do not personally subscribe to the idea that our profession is made up of surplus middlemen, though you should obviously consider the source. Even if you have perfect data, you almost certainly do not have perfect questions.
The fact is that even when the boundaries of a dataset are narrowly defined – as with, say, the Netflix data visualized by the New York Times – it's easy to get lost in it. The trick is no longer merely being able to aggregate and operate on data; it's knowing what to do with | 579 |
The great low-FODMAP experiment continues. Despite talking a big game about cooking, I'm actually a pretty big takeout junkie. Now–curse that garlic!–a lot of my favorite restaurant dishes and prepared foods are suddenly off-limits. So, to satisfy my grab-and-go impulse, I've been doubling down on freezer meals.
This has been an opportunity to break out of my (tasty, but repetitive) freezer-cooking rut: beans, soups, stews, chili. A couple weeks ago, I started asking around for recipe ideas, and a friend suggested baked pasta. With a new go-to tomato sauce recipe, it didn't take long to put two and two together. From the fridge, I gathered a mishmash of cooked chicken, carrots, zucchini, bell pepper, dino kale, and provolone cheese. Together with a pound of brown rice pasta and a batch of homemade tomato sauce, these became one of the most delicious freezer meals I've ever made.
I love this just the way I made<|fim_middle|>First, the fun one. I have officially become an Instant Pot fanatic. We bought the six-quart model on Black Friday sale, and it's now a fixture on our kitchen counter. Having an electric pressure cooker has converted me to the religion of the set-it-and-forget-it meal. I can toss a mishmash of ingredients in the Instant Pot, seal it up, and go back about my business. In an hour or so–less if I'm in a hurry, more if I'm not–there's a piping-hot meal waiting for guests, or a batch of something versatile to portion and freeze. | it: tender zucchini, sweet carrot, barely-wilted greens, tangy provolone cheese, and the occasional nugget of chicken. But baked pasta is perfect for cleaning out the fridge, so think of this recipe as a template. You can swap in another kind of cooked meat, or omit it altogether. Use whatever vegetables you like, or whatever's in the fridge. In place of the provolone, try mozzarella, cheddar, smoked gouda, or a mix of cheeses–sliced or shredded, it's up to you. Pretty much the only requirements here are pasta, tomato sauce, and a heap of grated Parmesan.
I may write more about all this at some point–we're still in the thick of it now. But in the meantime, I have a recipe to share. It combines two things that have recently shaken up how I cook and eat–for better and for worse.
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katherine stubergh, wax artist extraordinaire, and that presidential wax museum in keystone, south dakota
Every time I rounded the bend, there he was, staring at me, his eyes boring a hole right through me. Each time I stopped short, felt taken aback, felt caught out in something. Is he looking at me? Is he still looking at me? If I move … Wait, is he about to call the cops? And then his eyes did not move, would not follow me, and I felt relief. Howard Taft, our nation's twenty-seventh President and tenth Chief Justice, turned out to be, after all, just another wax figure at the National Presidential Wax Museum.
It was a beautiful day in Keystone, South Dakota (pop. 340), and I was excited to be at the wax museum co-founded by Katherine Stubergh and stocked with many of her waxworks, including the arresting Mr. Taft. One tours the museum in a circular pattern that starts and ends in the gift shop, but rather than exiting to browse the souvenirs, I found myself backtracking time<|fim_middle|> back to Page 259 for info on the items pictured in this section as lots 731-830 are from the estate of Henry Alvarez. The auction was held in October, 2014. Here are the prices the items fetched.
▸ Short Stubergh bio on askART.com
▸ What's My Line? (Dec 15, 1963)
▸ Souvenir booklet, Walter's International Wax Museum New York World's Fair 1964-65
At the bottom of this page are links to press releases issued by the Walter's museum.
This is the second post in a series on a recent road trip Josie and I took. The trip encompassed eight days, two thousand four hundred and seventy miles, four motels, one tiny cabin, and some of the most interesting art I have ever seen, most of it free and much of it—surprisingly—in the form of statues. Next week, what we found on the street corners of Rapid City.
By Leslie Allen
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katherine stubergh, wax artist extraordinaire, and... | and again—I did not want to leave the quiet marvel of the displays. Teddy Roosevelt, our twenty-sixth President, was a favorite. I wanted to sit down, ask him, hey, what's that you're reading?
Lady Bird Johnson was a favorite. She stood behind and slightly off to the side of her husband as he was sworn in as our thirty-sixth President aboard Air Force One that fateful late November. I wondered what her private thoughts might have been.
I also favored Dolley Madison, wife of our fourth President. She was part of a large party scene. That's her husband in the foreground.
But it wasn't until I happened upon Ronald Reagan, our fortieth President, chatting with Mikhail Gorbachev, that I realized what a truly exceptional wax artist Katherine Stubergh was. Henry Alvarez, a man who was taught by Stubergh and who became a renowned wax sculptor in his own right, was the creator of Reagan and all subsequent presidents in the museum up until the current one, the forty-fifth, who was created by a chap in England. In these more recent figures I felt a lack, specifically, a lack of softness. Softness was a word I had read or heard somewhere in relation to Stubergh's waxworks and it came back to me like a bullet. Once past Stubergh's figures, I realized that to me they had seemed more real, more appealing, and indeed to have had a quality well described as softness.
Stubergh was born in 1911 in San Francisco. Her parents were mannequin makers—she came from a long line of mannequin makers—and one story has it that in 1925 the Stubergh Manufacturing Company was hired by Sid Grauman, of Grauman's Chinese Theater fame, to create wax figures for a new theater in Los Angeles, and thus the Stuberghs came to Hollywood. Katherine, by all accounts a girl with dreams of a career in dance, learned the family art and continued the business until she sold it, in 1970, to Ripley's International Limited. During those years in Hollywood, Katherine and others in the Stubergh studio made wax figures, as well as figures of other materials, for movies, museums, and individuals. One of the more colorful accounts of who Stubergh was appears in an odd but interesting blog called "Waxipedia." The piece is a recollection by wax sculptor David Cellitti, who got his start working with Stubergh. He begins:
She was the Madame Tussaud of America. Anyone who was anyone in Hollywood during the 1920'(s), 30's and 40's sat for her. When Albert Einstein sat for her she didn't speak any German and he didn't speak any English. Yet she said they got along and were able to communicate fine. She took a life mask from Amelia Earhart shortly before the aviator disappeared from the world. W.C. Fields and John Barrymore would show up drunk to the studio situated on Beverly Boulevard in Hollywood because Barrymore thought what she did was so fascinating. Bela Lugosi, Mae West, Mary Pickford and Ginger Rogers were but a few of the actors from Hollywood's Golden Era that sat for her.
Life mask of Buster Keaton by Katherine Stubergh.
On display at the National Presidential Wax Museum.
I also learned about Stubergh at the museum, which has a couple of display cases devoted to her career and an introductory video that speaks of her. She and her husband and two others started the museum in 1971. According to the museum, it was Stubergh's dream to start a wax museum devoted to the presidents. She had been involved in starting other wax museums, as well as creating figures for them, and in the article pictured below, which is on display behind glass in Keystone, we learn that "Miss Stubergh's current ambition is to model the wives of the presidents of the United States for the famous Smithsonian Institute." Perhaps she just wanted to put some heads on those gowns.
One gets the feeling that Stubergh was a woman with a few different ideas and ambitions. (By the way, that's Stubergh just below "Women in Wax." Her mother, who also worked in the studio, is probably the woman to our left, holding the baby, who, no doubt, is made of rubber, a stand-in created for some movie. Cellitti wrote that Stubergh had a sardonic sense of humor, and he tells a somewhat funny story about Katherine's reaction to Mother Stubergh's passing.) Stubergh and her partners sold the Keystone museum, which has gone by a couple of different names, in the 1980s, and she and her husband moved to Honolulu. In 1996, she died.
One of the more notable Hollywood commissions Stubergh took on was for the wax figures used in the 1953 movie "House of Wax." Apparently she received no credit for the work when the movie was initially released, but when it came out on Blu-ray in 2013, she got her accolade.
For "Shall We Dance," a 1937 movie starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Stubergh created forty-four masks of Ginger Rogers. They were key to the movie's grand finale, and if you want to know the significance of the masks, I mean, really and truly understand the masks and their meaning, try reading Wendy Doniger's "The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation." On its cover are five (or is it six?) of the masks Stubergh created.
Eventually, of course, I had to leave our waxen presidents, enter the gift shop, look for a souvenir to take home. But there was none. Believe it or not, no little wax presidents for sale, no souvenir booklet, no book about waxworks or about Katherine Stubergh, no postcards depicting either the denizens of the museum or Stubergh at work; and wouldn't this photo of Stubergh and John Barrymore make a nice postcard –
and when I asked the clerk about it—a nice, attentive woman she was—she seemed slightly surprised by what I was looking for. Certainly one could be happy with a bobblehead president …
There is no page for Katherine Stubergh on Wikipedia. She is not mentioned at all in the far-ranging tome "Madame Tussaud and The History of Waxworks." And when in 1963 Stubergh appeared on the game show "What's My Line" she stumped the panelists. They had no idea who she was and could not guess what she did. Even after they were told her occupation, they seemed slightly confused.
Although some links are in the body of the post, more are below. If you would like to see more photos of Stubergh's or Alvarez' work, I suggest perusing the Hollywood auction catalog. Also, the souvenir booklet for Walter's International Wax Museum at the New York World's Fair is superb. The Last Supper, one of Stubergh's crowning achievements in wax, is pictured there. Stubergh was in New York working on figures for this exhibit when she appeared on "What's My Line."
▸ National Presidential Wax Museum
▸ The Museum's YouTube channel
▸ Waxipedia post on Stubergh
▸ The Wax Figures of Grauman's Chinese
▸ Works of lifelike art with a horrific 'House of Wax'
This is the USA Today article that includes the video clip above.
▸ John Barrymore models for sculptress
The Los Angeles Public Library, source of the Stubergh and Barrymore photo. The date is given as September 30, 1941, and the caption as: John Barrymore poses for Katherine Stubergh, the famous Hollywood sculptress for a portrait bust of the actor. It is one of [a] group likeness of the members of the Royal family of theatre. Miss Stubergh will next do Ethel and Lionel on completion of the bust of John. These busts will then be presented to the Museum of Fine Arts.
▸ Which are wax people?
Another photo (with caption) from the files of the Los Angeles Public Library.
▸ Catalog, Hollywood Auction 65
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State Minister in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn (second right) engages with (from left) country representative for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Jason Fraser; medical director at Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL), Dr Jennifer Brown-Tomlinson; and executive director of JASL, Kandasi Levermore. The occasion was the JASL's public forum on Tuesday at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.
State Minister in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn has hailed the work and partnership of Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) in the national HIV/AIDS response.
Speaking at the JASL's public forum held on Tuesday at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, the state minister said that the organisation has provided 30 years of service to Jamaicans living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, "ensuring that human rights and dignity are preserved, while providing the path to treatment and care services".
"In this regard, the Ministry of Health and Wellness is pleased to continue this significant partnership as part of ongoing efforts to stem the HIV epidemic," she added.
Cuthbert-Flynn noted that the ministry is committed to providing universal access to healthcare for all persons living with HIV (PLHIV) in Jamaica.
She said that Jamaica's treatment cascade up to the end of September 2021 indicates that 86 per cent of the estimated number of PLHIV know their status. In addition, 51 per cent of those diagnosed are retained in care on antiretrovirals (ARVs), and 74 per cent retained on ARVs are virally suppressed.
The state minister said that through collaborations with international and local partners within the public and private sectors, the ministry is continuously seeking to improve the standard of care, which includes medical, social, psychological and peer support.
"Civil societies like JASL have been a part of this journey," she noted.
She said that the JASL's provision of access to treatment and prevention services to all PLHIV is commendable, especially with regard to "key and vulnerable populations", and the work takes on even greater significance given the need to provide and maintain service during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Of note, the JASL has recognised the importance of providing psychosocial support to PLHIV, and has expanded its cadre of staff. This growth is being furthered in other spheres, most notably with the opening of | 540 |
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Three distinct forest types including a remnant of ice-age boreal woodlands grow on an island just nine miles wide and 45 miles long. A century ago, lynx and caribou were the dominant mammals. Today, these species are extinct, replaced by wolves and moose, which only arrived here from | 174 |
AKA Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Born: 3-Feb-1809
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
Died: 4-Nov-1847
Location of death: Leipzig, Germany
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Buried, Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof, Berlin, Germany
Occupation: Composer
Executive summary: Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream
German composer, grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, was born in Hamburg on the 3rd of February 1809. In consequence of the troubles caused by the French occupation of Hamburg, Abraham Mendelssohn, his father, migrated in 1811 to Berlin, where his grandmother Fromet, then in the twenty-fifth year of her widowhood, received the whole family into her house, No. 7 Neue Promenade. Here Felix and his sister Fanny received their first instruction in music from their mother, under whose care they progressed so rapidly that their exceptional talent soon became apparent. Their next teacher was Madame Bigot, who, during the temporary residence of the family in Paris in 1816, gave them valuable instruction. On their return to Berlin they took lessons in thoroughbass and composition from Zelter, in pianoforte-playing from Ludwig Berger, and in violin-playing from Henning -- the care of their general education being entrusted to the father of the novelist Paul von Heyse.
Felix first played in public on the 24th of October 1818, taking the pianoforte part in a trio by Woelfi. On the 11th of April 1819 he entered the Berlin Singakademie as an alto, and in the following year began to compose with extraordinary<|fim_middle|> his own delineation of the character of St. Paul; but it is not too much to say that his heart and life were pure as those of a little child.
Mendelssohn's influence on the early career of Joseph Joachim is, next to his work in the rediscovery of Bach, his greatest bequest to later musical history. Those many profound and sincere admirers to Joachim to whom the name of Mendelssohn calls up only the Widow in Elijah and the weaker Songs without Words, may find the idea strange; but there is no doubt that Joachim regarded the continuation of a true Mendelssohn tradition as identical with his own efforts to "uphold the dignity of art."
Father: Abraham Mendelssohn (d. 1835)
Mother: Lea Salomon Mendelssohn
Sister: Fanny (d. 1847)
Sister: Rebecka (m. Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet)
Wife: Cécile Jeanrenaud (m. 28-Mar-1837)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Music Director (1845-47)
Jewish Ancestry Maternal and Paternal
NNDB MAPPER Create a map starting with Felix Mendelssohn | rapidity. His earliest dated work is a cantata, In rührend feierlichen Tönen, completed on the 13th of January 1820. During that year alone he produced nearly sixty movements, including songs, pianoforte sonatas, a trio for pianoforte, violin and violoncello, a sonata for violin and pianoforte, pieces for the organ, and even a little dramatic piece in three scenes. In 1821 he wrote five symphonies for stringed instruments, each in three movements; motets for four voices, an opera, in one act, called Soldatenliebschaft; another, called Die beiden Pädagogen; part of a third, called Die wandernden Comödianten; and an immense quantity of other music of different kinds, all showing the precocity of his genius. The original autograph copies of these early productions are preserved in the Berlin Library, where they form part of a collection which fills forty-four large volumes, all written with infinite neatness, and for the most part carefully dated -- a sufficient proof that the methodical habits which distinguished his later life were formed in early childhood.
In 1821 Mendelssohn paid his first visit to Goethe, with whom he spent sixteen days at Weimar, in company with Zelter. From this year also dates his first acquaintance with Carl Maria von Weber, who was then in Berlin superintending the production of Der Freischütz; and from the summer of 1822 his introduction, at Cassel, to another of the greatest of his contemporaries, Ludwig Spohr. During this year his pen was even more prolific, producing, among other works, an opera, in three acts, entitled Die beiden Neffen, oder der Onkel aus Boston, and a pianoforte concerto, which he played in public at a concert given by Frau Anna Milder.
It had long been a custom with the Mendelssohn family to give musical performances on alternate Sunday mornings in their dining-room, with a small orchestra, which Felix always conducted, even when he was not tall enough to be seen without standing upon a stool. For each of these occasions he produced some new work -- playing the pianoforte pieces himself, or entrusting them to Fanny, while his sister Rebecka sang, and his brother Paul played the violoncello. In this way Die beiden Neffen was first privately performed, on the fifteenth anniversary of his birthday, the 3rd of February 1824. Between the 3rd and the 31st of March in this year he composed his fine symphony in C minor, now known as Op. 10, and soon afterwards the quartet in B minor, Op. 3, and the (posthumous) pianoforte sestet, Op. 110. In this year also began his lifelong friendship with Moscheles, who, when asked to receive him as a pupil, said, "If he wishes to take a hint from me, as to anything new to him, he can easily do so; but he stands in no need of lessons."
In 1825 Abraham Mendelssohn took Felix to Paris, where among other musicians then resident in the French capital he met the two most popular dramatic composers of the age, Gioacchino Rossini and Giacomo Meyerbeer, and lived on terms of intimacy with Hummel, Kalkbrenner, Rode, Baillot, Herz, and many other artists of European celebrity. On this occasion also he made his first acquaintance with Luigi Cherubini, who, though he rarely praised anyone, expressed a high opinion of his talent, and recommended him to write a Kyrie, for five voices, with full orchestral accompaniments, which he himself described as "exceeding in thickness" anything he had attempted. From letters written at this period we learn that Felix's estimate of the French school of music was far from flattering; but he formed some friendships in Paris, which were renewed on later occasions. He returned to Berlin with his father in May 1825, taking leave of his Parisian friends on the 19th of the month, and interrupting his journey at Weimar for the purpose of paying a second visit to Goethe, to whom he dedicated his quartet in B minor. On reaching home he must have worked with greater zeal than ever; for on the 10th of August in this same year he completed an opera, in two acts, called Die Hochzeit des Camacho, a work of considerable importance.
No ordinary boy could have escaped uninjured from the snares attendant upon such a life as that which Mendelssohn now lived. Notwithstanding his overwhelming passion for music, his general education had been so well cared for that he was able to hold his own, in the society of his seniors, with the grace of an accomplished man of the world. He was already recognized as a leading spirit by the artists with whom he associated, and these artists were men of acknowledged talent and position. The temptations to egoism by which he was surrounded would have rendered most clever students intolerable. But the natural amiability of his disposition, and the healthy influence of his happy home-life, counteracted all tendencies towards self-assertion.
Soon after his return from Paris, Abraham Mendelssohn removed from his mother's residence to No. 3 Leipziger Strasse, a roomy, old-fashioned house, containing an excellent music-room, and in the grounds adjoining a "Gartenhaus" capable of accommodating several hundred persons at the Sunday performances. In the autumn of the following year this "garden house" witnessed a memorable private performance of the work by means of which the greatness of Mendelssohn's genius was first revealed to the outer world -- the overture to Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. The finished score of this famous composition is dated "Berlin, August 6, 1826" -- its author was only seventeen and a half years old. Yet in no later work does he exhibit more originality of thought, more freshness of conception, or more perfect mastery over the details of technical construction, than in this delightful inspiration. The overture was first publicly performed at Stettin (Szczecin), in February 1827, under the direction of the young composer, who was at once accepted as the leader of a new and highly characteristic manifestation of the spirit of progress. Henceforth we must speak of him, not as a student, but as a mature and experienced artist.
Meanwhile Camacho's Wedding had been submitted to Spontini, with a view to its production at the opera. The libretto, founded upon an episode in the history of Don Quixote, was written by Klingemann, and Mendelssohn threw himself into the spirit of the romance with a keen perception of its peculiar humor. The work was put into rehearsal soon after the composer's return from Stettin, produced on the 29th of April 1827, and received with great apparent enthusiasm; but a cabal was formed against it, and it never reached a second performance. The critics abused it mercilessly; yet it exhibits merits of a very high order. The solemn passage for the trombones, which heralds the first appearance of the knight of La Mancha, is conceived in a spirit of reverent appreciation of the idea of Cervantes, which would have done honor to a composer of lifelong experience.
Mendelssohn was annoyed at this injustice, and some time elapsed before his mind recovered its usual bright tone; but he continued to work diligently. Among other serious undertakings, he formed a choir for the study of the choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown to the public; and, in spite of Zelter's opposition, he succeeded, in 1829, in inducing the Berlin Singakademie to give a public performance of the Passion according to St. Matthew, under his direction, with a chorus of between three and four hundred voices. The scheme succeeded beyond his warmest hopes, and proved the means of restoring to the world great compositions which had never been heard since the death of Bach. But the obstructive party were offended; and at this period Mendelssohn was far from popular among the musicians of Berlin.
In April 1829 Mendelssohn paid his first visit to London. His reception was enthusiastic. He made his first appearance before an English audience at one of the Philharmonic Society's concerts -- then held in the Argyll Rooms -- on the 25th of May, conducting his symphony in C minor from the pianoforte, to which he was led by John Cramer. On the 30th he played Weber's Concertstück, from memory, a proceeding at that time extremely unusual. At a concert given by Drouet, on th 24th of June, he played Beethoven's pianoforte concerto if E flat, which had never before been heard in the country; and the overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream was also for the first time, presented to a London audience. On returning home from the concert, Attwood, then organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, left the score of the overture in a hackney coach whereupon Mendelssohn wrote out another, from memory without an error. At another concert he played, with Moscheles, his still unpublished concerto in E, for two pianofortes and orchestra. After the close of the London season he started with Klingemann on a tour through Scotland, where he was inspired with the first idea of his overture to The Isles of Fingal, returning to Berlin at the end of November. Except for an accident to his knee, which lamed him for some time, his visit was highly successful and laid the foundation of many friendships and prosperous negotiations.
The visit to England formed the first division of a great scheme of travel which his father wished him to extend to all the most important art centers in Europe. After refusing the offer of a professorship at Berlin, he started again, in May 1830, for Italy, pausing on his way at Weimar, where he spent a fortnight with Goethe, and reaching Rome, after many pleasant interruptions, on the 1st of November. No excitement prevented him from devoting a certain time every day to composition; but he lost no opportunity of studying either the countless treasures which form the chief glory of the great city or the manners and customs of modern Romans. He attended, with insatiable curiosity, the services in the Sistine Chapel; and his keen power of observation enabled him to throw much interesting light upon them. His letters on this subject, however, lose much of their value through his incapacity to comprehend the close relation existing between the music of Palestrina and his contemporaries and the ritual of the Roman Church. His Lutheran education kept him in ignorance even of the first principles of ordinary chanting; and it is amusing to find him describing as enormities peculiar to the papal choir customs familiar to every village singer in England, and as closely connected with the structure of the "Anglican chant" as with that of "Gregorian music." Still, though he could not agree in all points with Baini, the greatest ecclesiastical musician then living, he shared his admiration for the Improperia, the Miserere, and the cantus planus of the Lamentationes and the Exultet, the musical beauty of which he could understand, apart from their ritual significance.
In passing through Munich on his return in October 1831 he composed and played his pianoforte concerto in G minor, and accepted a commission (never fulfilled) to compose an opera for the Munich theatre. Pausing for a time at Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf he arrived in Paris in December, and passed four pleasant months in the renewal of acquaintances formed in 1825, and in close intercourse with Liszt and Chopin. On the 19th of February 1832 the overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream was played at the conservatoire, and many of his other compositions were brought before the public; but he did not escape disappointments with regard to some of them, especially the Reformation symphony, and the visit was brought to a premature close in March by an attack of cholera, from which, however, he rapidly recovered.
On the 23rd of April 1832 he was again in London, where he twice played his G minor concerto at the Philharmonic concerts, gave a performance on the organ at St. Paul's, and published his first book of Lieder ohne Worte. He returned to Berlin in July, and during the winter he gave public performances of his Reformation symphony, his concerto in G minor, and his Walpurgisnacht. In the following spring he paid a third visit to London for the purpose of conducting his Italian symphony, which was played for the first time, by the Philharmonic Society, on the 13th of May 1833. On the 26th of the same month he conducted the performances at the Lower Rhine festival at Düsseldorf with such brilliant effect that he was at once offered, and accepted, the appointment of general music-director to the town, an office which included the management of the music in the principal churches, at the theatre and at the rooms of two musical associations.
Before entering upon his new duties, Mendelssohn paid a fourth visit to London, with his father, returning to Düsseldorf on the 27th of September 1833. His influence produced as excellent effect upon the church music and in the concert-room; but his relations with the management of the theater were not altogether pleasant; and it was probably this circumstance which first led him to forsake the cultivation of the opera for that of sacred music. At Düsseldorf he first designed his famous oratorio St. Paul, in response to an application from the Cäcilien-Verein at Frankfurt, composed his overture to Die schöne Melusine, and planned some other works of importance. He liked his appointment, and would probably have retained it much longer had he not been invited to undertake the permanent direction of the Gewandhaus concerts at Leipzig, and thus raised to the highest position attainable in the German musical world. To this new sphere of labor he removed in August 1835, opening the first concert at the Gewandhaus, on the 4th of October, with his overture Die Meeresstille, a work possessing great attractions, though by no means on a level with the Midsummer Night's Dream, The Isles of Fingal, or Melusine.
Mendelssohn's reception in Leipzig was most enthusiastic; and under their new director the Gewandhaus concerts prospered exceedingly. Meanwhile St. Paul steadily progressed, and was first produced, with triumphant success, at the Lower Rhine festival at Düsseldorf, on the 22nd of May 1836. On the 3rd of October it was first sung in English, at Liverpool, under the direction of Sir George Smart; and on the 16th of March 1837 Mendelssohn again directed it at Leipzig.
The next great event in Mendelssohn's life was his happy marriage, on the 28th of March 1837, to Cecile Charlotte Sophie Jeanrenaud. The honeymoon was scarcely over before he was again summoned to England to conduct St. Paul, at the Birmingham festival, on the 20th of September. During this visit be played on the organ at St. Paul's and at Christ Church, Newgate Street, with an effect which exercised a lasting influence upon English organists. It was here also that he first contemplated the production of his second oratorio, Elijah.
Passing over the composition of the Lobgesang in 1840, a sixth visit to England in the same year, and his inauguration of a scheme for the erection of a monument to Bach, we find Mendelssohn in 1841 recalled to Berlin by the king of Prussia, with the title of Kapellmeister. Though his appointment resulted in the production of Antigone, Oedipus Coloneus, Athalie, the incidental music to the Midsummer Night's Dream, and other great works, it proved an endless source of vexation, and certainly helped to shorten the composer's life. In 1842 he came to England for the seventh time, accompanied by his wife, conducted his Scotch symphony at the Philharmonic, again played the organ at St. Peter's, Cornhill, and Christ Church, Newgate Street, and was received with honor by the queen and the prince consort. He did not, however, permit his new engagements to interfere with the direction of the Gewandhaus concerts; and in 1843 he founded in Leipzig the great conservatoire which soon became the best musical college in Europe, opening it on the 3rd of April in the buildings of the Gewandhaus. In 1844 he conducted six of the Philharmonic concerts in London, producing his new Midsummer Night's Dream music, and playing Beethoven's pianoforte concerto in G with extraordinary effect. He returned to his duties at Berlin in September, but succeeded in persuading the king to free him from his most onerous engagements.
After a brief residence in Franfurt, Mendelssohn returned to Leipzig in September 1845, resuming his old duties at the Gewandhaus, and teaching regularly in the conservatoire, Here he remained, with little interruption, during the winter -- introducing his friend Jenny Lind, then at the height of her popularity, to the critical frequenters of the Gewandhaus, and steadily working at Elijah, the first performance of which he conducted at the Birmingham festival, on the 26th of August 1846. The reception of this great work was enthusiastic, Unhappily, the excitement attendant upon its production, added to the irritating effect of the worries at Berlin, mad a serious inroad upon the composer's health. On his return to Leipzig he worked on as usual, but it was clear that his health was seriously impaired. In 1847 he visited England for the tenth and last time, to conduct four performances of Elijah at Exeter Hall, on the 16th, 23rd, 28th and 30th of April, one at Manchester on the 20th, and one at Birmingham on the 27th.
But the exertion was beyond his strength. He witnessed Jenny Lind's first appearance at Her Majesty's Theatre, on the 4th of May, and left England on the 9th, little anticipating the trial that awaited him in the tidings of the sudden death of his sister Fanny, which reached him only a few days after his arrival in Frankfurt. The loss of his mother in 1842 had shaken him much, but the suddenness with which this last intelligence was communicated broke him down. He fell to the ground insensible, and never fully recovered. In June he was so far himself again that he was able to travel, with his family, by short stages, to Interlaken, where he stayed for some time, illustrating the journey by a series of watercolor drawings, but making no attempt at composition for many weeks. He returned to Leipzig in September, bringing with him fragments of Christus, Loreley, and some other unfinished works, taking no part in the concerts, and living in privacy. On the 9th of October he called on Madame Frege, and asked her to sing his latest set of songs. She left the room for lights, and on her return found him in violent pain and almost insensible. He lingered for four weeks, and on the 4th of November he passed away, in the presence of his wife, his brother, and his three friends, Moscheles, Schleinitz, and Ferdinand David. A cross marks the site of his grave, in the Alte Dreifaltigkeits Kirchhof, at Berlin.
Mendelssohn's title to a place among the great composers of the 19th century is incontestable. His style, though differing little in technical arrangement from that of his classical predecessors, is characterized by a vein of melody peculiarly his own, and easily distinguishable by those who have studied his works, not only from the genuine effusions of contemporary writers, but from the most successful of the servile imitations with which, even during his lifetime, the music-shops were deluged. In less judicious hands the rigid symmetry of his phrasing might, perhaps, have palled upon the ear; but under his skillful management it serves only to impart an additional charm to thoughts which derive their chief beauty from the evident spontaneity of their conception. In this, as in all other matters of a purely technical character, he regarded the accepted laws of art as the medium by which he might most certainly attain the ends dictated by the inspiration of his genius. Though caring nothing for rules, except as means for producing a good effect, he scarcely ever violated them, and was never weary of impressing their value upon the minds of his pupils. His method of counterpoint was modelled in close accordance with that practiced by Bach. This he used in combination with an elastic development of the sonata-form, similar to that engrafted by Beethoven upon the lines laid down by Joseph Haydn. The principles involved in this arrangement were strictly conservative; yet they enabled him, at the very outset of his career, to invent a new style no less original than that of Schubert or Weber, and no less remarkable as the embodiment of canons already consecrated by classical authority than as a special manifestation of individual genius. It is thus that Mendelssohn stands before us as at the same time a champion of conservatism and an apostle of progress; and it is chiefly by virtue of these two apparently incongruous though really compatible phases of his artistic character that his influence and example availed, for so many years, to hold in check the violence of reactionary opinion which injudicious partisanship afterwards fanned into revolutionary fury.
Concerning Mendelssohn's private character there have never been two opinions. As a man of the world he was more than ordinarily accomplished -- brilliant in conversation, and in his lighter moments overflowing with sparkling humor and ready pleasantry, loyal and unselfish in the more serious business of life, and never weary of working for the general good. As a friend he was unvaryingly kind, sympathetic and true. His earnestness as a Christian needs no stronger testimony than that afforded by | 4,786 |
<|fim_middle|> blog for the first time also. | Cattle Egrets are generally rather non-descript little egrets, but their color transformation at this time of year is astonishing! Most remarkable is the way their plain orange-y beaks turn a striking, deep reddish-orange, with vivid purple lores around their eyes! The Cattle Egret's breeding plumage also highlights their beautiful peach feathers, and they often appear to be wearing spiked topknots ;-D Their legs and feet even change from black to a dramatic orange! To see what they look like during the rest of the year, and to learn more about Cattle Egrets, check out this info on All About Birds.
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You did a fantastic job of highlighting the changes, BJ. While I have seen the cattle egret's breeding plumage, I never realized the bill color changes to that beautiful fiery red, and purple lores.
Thanks so much for your comments, Jet. It's really an incredible transformation. They look so different!
Wonderful, informative post and photos! These egrets are strikingly beautiful!
And yet I confess that I never really think of them as beautiful except at this time of year! I appreciate your visit, Tiny.
Thank you, Berny! I love these Egrets – they can also be so comical to watch!
She has good taste 😊! They are so colorful in this season.
I'm glad you enjoyed them, H.J. – they are very photogenic!
Very Nice! I love photographing these birds. In NJ we only see them a few times a year. Plus they are fun to watch roaming around on the ground.
We are lucky to have them all year round, but they really make their mark in these stand-out colors in the spring! Thanks!
Your visit, as always, is much appreciated, Pam!
Thank YOU for your visit, Amy!
Great post. We have these little guys all over in Clearwater. I love watching them. Thanks for sharing. I will definitely be looking for the color changes now. Thanks for sharing.
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Bruxelles and Broad streets in New Orleans after Hurricane Betsy, Sept. 11, 1965.
Hurricane Betsy has been recategorized a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale. The storm also delivered intense rainfall to much of the country.
Those aboard Air Fprce One at the windows viewing damage to New Orleans from Hurricane Betsy. From left, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Louisiana U.S. Rep. Hale Boggs, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Louisiana U.S. Sen. Russell Long.
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Aerial view of floodwaters in the Lower 9th Ward from Air Force One during a visual inspection of Hurricane Katrina damage by President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Hurricane Betsy's long track over the Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Florida, Gulf of Mexico and landfalling on Louisiana.
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Flood scene from Hurricane Betsy, Sept. 13, 1965.
Standing guard on a street is Pvt. Richard Cliff, Louisiana National Guard, Sept. 20, 1965.
The front page of The Times-Picayune on Sept. 10, 1965, the morning after Hurricane Betsy slammed the New Orleans area (Times-Picayune archives)
About 200 people were taking shelter in New Zion Baptist Church when it collapsed during Betsy. Three children were killed. Sept. 11, 1965.
Crowded into a corridor of City Hall were evacuees from flooded areas. This is just a portion of the 1,500 refugees at City Hall. Sept. 12, 1965.
Paddling along North Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans, Sept. 12, 1965.
54 years later, Hurricane Betsy has been promoted to a Category 4 storm
BY MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN | Staff writer
Mark Schleifstein
Dec 12, 2019 - 5:12 pm
Hurricane Betsy<|fim_middle|> knots, or 136 mph, over 30 seconds at 11 p.m. on Oct. 9. When that reading is adjusted to modern standards, it becomes 112 knots, or 129 mph, just under the Category 4 rating.
The researchers then accounted for the storm moving forward at 15 mph, its large eye (37 nautical miles) and its extremely low central pressure — 946 millibars — to adjust the wind speed to 115 knots, or 132 mph, pushing it into the Category 4 level.
The intensity change certainly doesn't change the devastation wreaked by Betsy: 75 dead in Florida and Louisiana, and the first-ever hurricane to result in more than $1 billion in damages.
In a 2017 analysis of hurricane damage, adjusted for inflation, Betsy ranked only 37th on that metric, at $1.4 billion. Katrina was at the top of the list with an estimated $125 billion in damage. However, that list does not include a half-dozen more recent storms with well over $1 billion in damages.
The summary message issued by the New Orleans office of the National Weather Service on Sept. 11, 1965, summed up Betsy's power after its storm surge overwhelmed St. Bernard Parish, New Orleans East, the Lower 9th Ward and parts of the Upper 9th Ward.
"Damages are excessive and only a vague estimate can be given at this time. It is felt that the losses may range between one half and one billion dollars," the message said. "Great losses from wind and water occurred in New Orleans, and damages to all of the communities south and southeast of New Orleans were extensive."
For the past 20 years, the Hurricane Research Division has been reviewing and revising its databases of key statistics for tropical storms and hurricanes going back to 1851.
Researchers are mining data recovered from Navy, Air Force and Environmental Science Services Administration Hurricane Hunter reconnaissance flights, from the logs of ships that traveled in and near tropical storms and hurricanes, from reviews of images and statistics captured by old and new satellites, and by reviewing local weather station meteorological data collections and radar readings.
The information gathered is then compared with the official information used in the past to rank the storms.
In addition to elevating Betsy's category, the reanalysis work for storms between 1961 and 1965 resulted in the addition of nine new tropical storms and hurricanes to the official list of storms that occurred in the Atlantic basin.
Follow Mark Schleifstein | , which until Katrina was the nastiest storm to menace New Orleans since at least 1915, has received a posthumous promotion.
Long categorized as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, researchers have determined that Betsy was in fact a Category 4 storm with top winds of 132 mph when it made landfall on Grand Isle at 7 p.m. on Sept. 9, 1965.
At the time Betsy struck, the Saffir-Simpson scale was in use, but it weighed a broader range of factors than at present. Storm intensity was measured primarily on observations or estimates of the barometric pressure in a storm's center or eye, although scientists also looked at wind speed and storm surge, said Chris Landsea, science officer for the National Hurricane Center.
Landsea is the longtime lead researcher on a project by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division to reanalyze the intensity of past hurricanes.
Beginning in the late 1990s, and formalized after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center changed the way the Saffir-Simpson scale measures hurricane strength, eliminating central pressure and surge from its analysis and relying only on wind speeds for determining categories.
Storm surge was removed from the scale because it often arrives along coastal sections far removed from a hurricane's eye, and its height is not always related to wind speed or central pressure.
The National Hurricane Center now issues separate warnings for surge events, in addition to including information about expected surge effects in its general tropical storm and hurricane messages.
#50YearsAgo: Hurricane Betsy slammed New Orleans; Share memories, pics
Hurricane Betsy assaulted the New Orleans area on the night of Sept. 9, 1965 with a ferocity…
Changes in rankings for past storms are being made only as a more comprehensive reanalysis process is completed. In November, the research division completed its work on tropical storms and hurricanes occurring from 1961 through 1965, including Betsy.
What's odd about the Betsy reanalysis, Landsea said, is that the data on maximum wind speed available in 1965 listed its top winds at landfall in Louisiana at 135 knots, or 155 mph — just under what today would be Category 5 strength. But the central pressure readings available at the time determined it should be a Category 3.
The reanalysis reviewed wind speeds captured by planes and land stations as the storm was coming ashore, including a reading of 118 | 544 |
The night creeps on, the mist gathers, a shadow crosses the tombstones, what was that noise? Cemeteries have historically gone hand in hand with good stories. But even without ghost stories, Maplewood's Forest Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum is extremely interesting. The Cemetery, located at 1800 Edgerton Street, is among the oldest and most venerated in Maplewood and Minnesota.
The Forest Lawn Cemetery Association was created in 1893 and originally named the site St. Paul Cemetery. Later it was renamed Forest Cemetery before it finally became Forest Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum.
The community mausoleum was completed in 1919, making it the first mausoleum in the state. Mr. Cecil Bryan noted in an article written in the Daily Oklahoma Newspaper, dated January 27, 1918, that the community mausoleum was the largest in the world. There are more than 1,400 crypts and more than 650 niches in the building. The entire cemetery is approximately 44 acres with an estimated 15,000 individuals buried there.
Ms. Janice Quick of the Maplewood Area Historical Society<|fim_middle|>ites of veterans who have honorably served our county. If you visit this site, look for Congressman Bruce Vento's grave. Congressman Vento was the co-author of legislation that established the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota. It is fitting that he rest in Forest Lawn Cemetery amid trees and grass. Within the last thirty-five years, the American Hmong community has honored Forest Lawn as a final resting place for family members. Their black marble monuments bring a rich and interesting addition to the Cemetery. Forest Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum is a must-see for all citizens of Maplewood and Minnesota. | has researched the headstones and the lives of citizens buried at the Forest Lawn Cemetery. Many of the tombstones are ornate and painstakingly carved. It was common for tombstones to include symbols reflecting images of the person's life, beliefs, and career activities. From approximately 1890 through 1910, many gravestone carvers created tombstones with images of tree trunks in them. This could be done due to the soft limestone that was used at that time. Each broken branch on the tree represented a relative who had passed before. A tree stump often meant a person's life was cut short. Wheat or corn often symbolized a long life and the person being ready for the Divine harvest. Other symbols were often added to indicate membership in groups like the Masons, Oddfellows, or other civic organizations.
One can clearly see great historical nuances in the cemetery. Aside from the unique headstones, one will find many graves | 193 |
Sunday Announcements New Time–Starting next Sunday, announcements will be made at 10.30. Liturgy will begin at 10.35.
February Prayer List–print the names of those you wish to be on February's prayer list today. List is on shelf at back of church.
Frost Fest--Chase away winter blahs. An evening of nibbles and drinks at the rectory, February 8 from 5 to 7.30.
Centering Prayer–Every Thursday at 3.00. Mezzanine.
Five Minutes Monthly–Adult Christian Education Group. Readings available today at back of church, on shelf. Meeting date February 17 following 10.30 eucharist.
Flowers this week are given to the Glory of God and in memory of Muriel Sparrey, aunt of Randy Mills, and given by him.
ANNUAL VESTRY MEETING Sunday, February 10. following the 10:30 Eucharist and Potluck lunch.
The next Greenwood Coalition Dinner<|fim_middle|>, January 30 at St. John's. Shepherds Pie with vegetables, salads and desserts is the menu. The sign-up sheet will be on the board at the back of the church.
2019 Church Calendars are in! Get yours now at Coffee Time or the office! Still a must-have bargain at $5. Only a few left!
COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR: You'd look great on our team! For the next few weeks, I'm investing some of my time fundraising for an event we are involved with – the Coldest Night of the Year. The Coldest Night of the Year is a walk that raises money for folks in our community who need our help. Some of them hungry, more than a few hurting and regrettably, some who are homeless too. Adults, moms and kids, seniors and youth as well. Once again this year we will be walking for Green Wood Coalition.
Please consider joining our team – St. Mark's Marchers – and walk with us on Saturday, February 23rd. Another important way to help is to sponsor those of us who are walking. Many of you know the work Green Wood Coalition does already and support in so many ways. You can sponsor by going into the Coldest Night of the Year website, or give a donation through the church. More information? Contact Ann Smith.
what will be the 2021 Church Calendars?
That's 200 years of ministry of this church at this place!
Let's talk about what will be on that Calendar !
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Justyna Kowalczyk About Izabela Marcisz And Rest Of Her SuperSquad
This is Part 2 of our conversation with Justyna Kowalczyk. Part 1 is to be found here
Regarding that "Super Squad" moniker we keep on attaching to Ms. Kowalczyk's team: It's invented by us. After watching the young Polish skiers under the tutelage of Alexander Wierietielny and Justyna Kowalczyk train & compete in several locations throughout the year, the name "Super Squad" sprung to mind – and we feel it's highly appropriate.
As far as we know, nobody ever tried that: selecting a few very promising skiers in their mid-teenage years and working on turning them into a world-class athletes, year after year, race after race, camp after camp.
We are not privy to details but are certain that it takes Kowalczyk' status with sporting authorities and sponsors to pull it through.
And, yes – watching the growth, the progress of the "Super Squad" members, we believe that a breakthrough is just around the corner.
Our sport is changing. They start to train exceptionally hard very early. At 12-13 they already demonstrate powerful skiing technique similar to grown-ups…
There are 10 of them and there is no clear-cut leader. They all are kind of mavericks, all of them
Iza has a strong character – and she chooses her own paths in everything she does
Patricia is on her first year with us but she's a very hard worker and good-natured person, smiles a lot
Monika Skinder is probably closest we've got to team leader
At the last years' Junior World Championships we had one medal ( Skinder) and a fourth and a fifth place ( Marcisz) plus the 5th place in relay. This year we want to do better
Before Kowalczyk not many people in Poland knew about cross country skiing. Then things changed. And bosses of national skis federation want, of course, keep people interested in our sport
There will be a time when I would want a normal , settled life. But to see that at least some of these girls are truly thankful and that they see for themselves that the work we all do starts to bring results is very motivating.
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Aulo Sempronio Atratino fue un político y militar romano del que perteneció a la gens Sempronia.
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Atratino fue miembro de los Sempronios Atratinos, una rama patricia de la gens Sempronia. Fue hijo del censor Lucio Sempronio Atratino y padre del magister equitum Aulo Sempronio Atratino.
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Ocupó el tribunado consular en tres ocasiones en el último cuarto del Durante su primer desempeño del cargo, en el año 425 a. C., se concedió sendas treguas a veyentes<|fim_middle|> fue uno de los dos cónsules del año 428 a. C.
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Bibliografía | y ecuos. En el segundo, ocupado en el año 420 a. C., se encargó de presidir las elecciones cuestorias. Se opuso, entonces, a la elección de dos candidatos plebeyos y, en represalia, su primo Cayo Sempronio Atratino fue llevado a juicio por los tribunos de la plebe acusado de conducta vergonzosa en la guerra contra los volscos. El tercero lo obtuvo en el año 416 a. C.
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How higher ed is transforming during the pandemic
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In this talk, top leaders at UC Berkeley discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has spurred the campus to reimagine its approach to instruction and learning. (Photo by Peg Skorpinski)
The switch to remote learning, triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, is realigning several education fundamentals. In this talk, top leaders at UC Berkeley - Chancellor Carol Christ; Bob Jacobsen, dean of undergraduate studies; and Rich Lyons, chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer - discuss how Berkeley is challenging convention in its new approach to instruction and learning, and consider what the implications for higher education are likely to be.
"Universities started as being the place you could go to get information because books were scarce," said Jacobsen. "Then, Gutenberg came along. But they [universities] didn't go out of business - they became about motivation and assessment. You would go to a class to help you study, to help you learn … we've done that for a thousand years.
"Then, online came along, and we thought that was about distribution. But what I think we're learning now is that it's not. What it's actually about is providing a new form of motivation for studiers and almost teaching them to self-regulate. They can get information anywhere. … This is about teaching them to learn it themselves, to know when they've learned it and to start to use it to change the world. I think we're thinking of online education differently than we did a year ago because of these changes."
In finding new ways for students to access their education, Christ says, it's especially important that each decision the campus makes carries with it a deep commitment to equity.
"A lot of faculty that I've talked to about this sudden move into remote instruction talk about it as just discovering a muscle that they didn't know they had," said Christ. "I think that the same thing is true institutionally. What I think is going to happen 10 years from now, probably even fewer years from now, is we're really going to extend our reach in ways that we will be able to reach more people, be able to provide more access to the extraordinary instruction teaching that Berkeley has, and I think limitations of time and space are going to mean less.
"So, if we do this well, we will be able to create greater equity in the sense that kinds of real obstacles or challenges for students - work schedules, inability to go full-time, commuting - we can make much less of an obstacle with the remote capabilities that we're developing."
This conversation, which took place on June 24, 2020, is part of the Commonwealth Club's Healthy Society Series.
Listen to the full discussion in Berkeley Talks episode #87: "How higher ed is transforming during the pandemic."
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ST. JOHN'S, NL – May 12, 2017 – The Canadian Home Builders' Association (CHBA) is pleased to announce the winners for its 2017 National Awards for Housing Excellence, representing the best new homes, new communities and home renovations in Canada. Thirty-nine National Awards for Housing Excellence were presented at the Association's 74th National Conference in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Vancouver-based companies won the two top awards given for cumulative results in the New Home Awards and Marketing Awards categories.
Adera Development Corporation of Vancouver, BC received the Design Excellence Award for their results in the new home categories. Adera also received two individual New Home Awards for Attached – Mid-to-High-Rise Condominium or Apartment Project, and for Apartment Style/Condominium Units under 1,000 square feet.
Concert Properties Ltd. received the Marketing Excellence Award for their overall success in the marketing categories. Concert won individual Marketing Awards for Direct Promotion – Electronic and for Brochure/Kit.
RND Construction and Christopher Simmonds Architect of Ottawa, ON received New Home Awards for both custom and production detached homes. Vicky's Homes of Edmonton, AB and RDC Fine Homes of Whistler, BC received awards in both the new home and marketing awards categories. My House Design/Build Team Ltd. of Surrey, BC and Kon-strux Developments and Ultimate Renovations of Calgary, AB received two awards in home renovation categories.
CHBA members responded enthusiastically to the new awards program with a record number of entries in 2017. A complete listing by category of all the CHBA National Awards for Housing Excellence finalists can be found below.
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National Volunteer Fire Council Receives Motorola Solutions Foundation Grant
The National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC), the leading association<|fim_middle|> accountability, innovation, impact, diversity, and inclusion.
"The Motorola Solutions Foundation is proud to partner with organizations like the NVFC that share our values and passion for driving positive change in the community," said Karem Perez, executive director of the Motorola Solutions Foundation. "We believe in the work that the NVFC is doing and look forward to seeing their continued impact."
For additional information on the Motorola Solutions Foundation grants program, visit motorolasolutions.com/foundation-grant-partner. For more information about the NVFC visit www.nvfc.org.
The National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) is the leading nonprofit membership association representing the interests of the volunteer fire, EMS, and rescue services. The NVFC serves as the voice of the volunteer in the national arena and provides critical resources, programs, education, and advocacy for first responders across the nation. Learn more at www.nvfc.org.
About the Motorola Solutions Foundation
As the charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola Solutions, the Motorola Solutions Foundation partners with organizations around the globe to create safer cities and equitable, thriving communities. We focus on giving back through strategic grants, employee volunteerism, and other community investment initiatives. Our strategic grants program supports organizations that offer first responder programming and technology and engineering education, and align to our values of accountability, innovation, impact, diversity, and inclusion. The Foundation is one of the many ways in which the company lives out its purpose of helping people be their best in the moments that matter. For more information on the Foundation, visit www.motorolasolutions.com/foundation. | representing the volunteer fire, emergency medical, and rescue services, has received a grant for $25,000 from the Motorola Solutions Foundation, the charitable arm of Motorola Solutions. This is the seventh consecutive grant the NVFC has received from the Motorola Solutions Foundation to support training initiatives.
Through this grant, the NVFC will prepare first responders across the U.S. to serve their communities in a safer, more efficient manner through online and in-person training courses. The grant will enable the NVFC to develop a new course as well as offer existing courses in its catalog for free to the volunteer emergency services community. The training covers critical topics including health, safety, preparedness, leadership development, and retention and recruitment, among others.
"Training is consistently the number one resource that our members request," said NVFC chair Steve Hirsch. "With the varying schedules of volunteer firefighters and limited resources of departments, online training is a pivotal tool in enhancing the knowledge and awareness of responders on an array of topics that will increase their safety and effectiveness. We are grateful to the Motorola Solutions Foundation for supporting the NVFC and our efforts to provide greater training access to our nation's volunteer firefighters, EMS providers, and rescue workers."
The Motorola Solutions Foundation, which has donated $100 million over the past 10 years, focuses its giving on three key areas: first responder programming, technology and engineering education, and programs that blend the two. The Foundation has a long-standing commitment to supporting programs that benefit underrepresented populations and aims to partner with organizations that align to its values of | 316 |
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Under the leadership of Curtis S. Anderson'67 Delegate from the 43rd District and the Baltimore City Delegation, funds totaling 9 million dollars were given to the Baltimore City Public school system. Recently, Curtis S. Anderson '67 and Jacob Howard, III '74 requested a meeting with Dr. Alonso. Dr. Alonso was out of town, so they met with Ms. Dawana Sterrette Legislative Liaison and Mr. Keith Scoggins Chief Operating Officer. At this meeting Mr. Anderson and Mr. Howard express the dire need to use some of these funds to renovate the track and field at Baltimore City College. Curtis Anderson had a follow up meeting with Dr. Alonso and on 8/4/2011 received the letter below, stating we had been given the funds to renovate the field.
Please congratulate Curtis S. Anderson for his hard work on this endeavor. A lot of work by us has gone on over the past ten years, but without the funding this project would never have happen.
The project will start in September with the hiring of an engineer and conclude with the project being completed in August of 2012. Please see attached letter for the complete schedule.
The Alumni Association now has to step up to the plate. We need to raise approximately $100,000 for a new fence to protect the field. This money must be raised before construction starts in March of 2012. We can do this if we all work together. The next phase will be to raise funds for new seating and lights.
On 9/14/2011 The Alumni Association will present a ground breaking ceremony. The ceremony will begin at 8:45 am on Alumni Field. A reception will take place in room 150 at 8am. The ceremony itself should last no more than 20 minutes. We will be inviting the Baltimore Delegation of the State Legislator, Senator's Cardin and Mikulski, Congressman Cummings, and Ruppersberger, Governor O'Malley and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. All of the local media will be invited.
A student representative from the following teams, that will be using the field, will do the actual ground breaking: Varsity Football, JV Football, Men's Soccer, Women's Soccer, Men's Lacrosse, Women's Lacrosse, Track and Cross Country teams.
Please make every attempt to be there for this historic occasion. This is a time<|fim_middle|> for the school.
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Through it all, Sherman has emerged as an NFL sage of sorts, proffering opinions to a range of questions with insight and depth. This week alone, he took shots at NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, the Patriots franchise and the entire structure of college sports. Even in a loss, Sherman seems to have won the week with his comments.
"I kind of go to the beat of my own drum," Sherman said. "If people feel a certain way, you know, everybody has an opinion and I also have my own opinion. I have my own way of doing things and it might not align with everybody. But I'm going to keep it that way."
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And that includes his approach to fatherhood. Sherman caught some flak earlier in the week when he declined to address a hypothetical choice between the game and the birth of his son.
"I didn't think it was that big of a deal," Sherman said. "He's close but he's not expected to come this weekend. I was surprised at how big, I guess a game like this, a story like this, you can't pass it up. I was just surprised it was a national headline."
Really? Sherman seems to grab national headlines as easily as he captures opposing quarterback's passes. In what seems like ancient history given a 2014 season with enough news to fill a decade, Sherman was actually the bad guy.
Remember the 2013 NFC Championship, when Sherman gave sideline Erin Andrews an earful on live TV. He was annoyed by San Francisco 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree, and flush with adrenaline after the win.
"Don't you open your mouth about the best, or you know, I'm gonna shut it for you real quick!" Sherman said.
To some, the soliloquy branded Sherman as a thug, the big bad wolf, the man your mother warned you about. He was reduced to an angry sound bite. Of course, you can never judge a person by one moment and a microphone. But there was a national debate: Did Sherman cross the line?
Those who knew Sherman were quick to point out that the debate about that moment didn't seem to include much about the man Sherman actually was -- a Stanford graduate who finished his masters with his final year of eligibility, and a locker room leader. On Sunday, he stood next to Russell Wilson in the pregame huddle as the Seahawks were about to compete in a second straight Super Bowl.
And that Sherman -- the thinker -- is the one we've seen this season. In a league in which speaking out can cost endorsements and alienate your employer, the cornerback has offered a fearless cultural commentary, even when it might hurt his own relationships within the league.
For example, Sherman was asked how he felt about teammate Marshawn Lynch and his reluctance to talk to the media. A no-win question, right?
Not for Sherman.
"I don't think they should be obligated any more than the commissioner is obligated to speak to the media," Sherman said.
Goodell was asked about Sherman's comment at his Super Bowl news conference and made the unverifiable claim that he's available almost every day. In all actuality, the commissioner is more like Lynch than he may want to admit.
Sherman's likeability may have gone way up, but not so much because he's changed. It's more because he's better understood.
Sherman hasn't given up the taunting. During the Super Bowl he appeared to get into it with Brady, was singled out by Brandon Browner for an uncomfortably close face-to-face and appeared to call out Patriots cornerback Darrelle Revis for getting beaten on Doug Baldwin's touchdown. He looked at the camera and showed a two and a four with his fingers -- Revis is No. 24.
As sharp as Sherman can be, he clearly loves the game he plays, and wants to pass that down to his son.
"Oh, 100 percent, 100 percent," Sherman said in the week leading up to the game. "Football will be probably one of the first or second sports he plays, along with baseball and soccer and all the other fun sports. Because a lot of people talk about the negative aspects of football, and there are many, but there are also a lot of positives that you learn as a kid."
The loss is difficult, but Sherman turned his attention fully to his growing family as the offseason begins.
"I am looking forward to it. It's one of those things that's a life-changer," Sherman said after the game. "I'm looking forward to raising my son, to meet him and to teach him the things that I know."
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Bless This Child
A Treasury of Poems, Quotations, and Readings to Celebrate Birth
Edward Searl
The arrival of every new child is an opportunity for many in the community to celebrate. In Bless This Child, Unitarian Universalist minister Edward Searl has collected a wide range of poetry and prose for every occasion surrounding a new life: composing birth announcements, birthday cards, and notes to new mothers and fathers; performing readings at birth ceremonies and<|fim_middle|> and expecting parents. The selections are contemplative, contemporary, and spiritual but not overtly religious. They are drawn from ancient and modern sources from the famous to the obscure and from various cultures and faith traditions. Many works are previously uncollected. Includes passages from Lao Tzu, Charles Dickens, George Bernard Shaw, Nelson Mandela, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Erica Jong, among many others.
Filled with wonder and hope, Bless This Child is the perfect gift -- a keepsake for expecting mothers and their partners, new parents, grandparents, clergy, and anyone who has a role in nurturing the sacred life of a new baby.
Edward Searl has been a Unitarian Universalist minister in the Chicago area for more than 25 years. He is the author of two books, In Memoriam: A Guide to Modern Funeral and Memorial Services and A Place of Your Own. He is also the editor of a four-volume series forthcoming from Skinner House Books in which Bless This Child and Beyond Absence are included.
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BREWSTER, NY—Nearly 60 percent of Putnam households believe they would be reunited with their children within several hours of a major disaster. Yet history has proven otherwise: it took an astounding seven months to reunite the last child with family after Hurricane Katrina. This reality, and the fact that each day, nearly 20,000 children in Putnam County spend the majority of their day at a childcare facility or school, are the reasons behind the disaster preparedness exercise performed by Putnam County's Community Resilience Coalition on Wednesday, May 3. More than 50 attendees from 28 organizations and agencies participated in the event which ran from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Centennial Golf Club in Carmel.
To better address the unique needs of children, the local Community Resilience Coalition (CRC), an official subcommittee of the longstanding Disaster Preparedness Task Force of Putnam County, conducted a discussion-based, "tabletop" exercise to test the assumptions, protocols and resources of child-serving institutions and key community stakeholders who may interact with children before, during, and after an emergency.
"The purpose of the exercise was to envision all the possibilities that could happen and then to decide how we, as community organizations, would handle it," said Commissioner Anthony Sutton of the Bureau of Emergency Services of Putnam County. "By talking through the steps of a specified scenario, we identify where the gaps are and how best to fill them." The scenario that was played out involved a major earthquake with direct<|fim_middle|>RC Initiative.
The players in the exercise included representatives from schools, child care and after-school programs, law enforcement, public health and healthcare, emergency management and first responders, and other various government and community organizations.
"Strengthening the link between emergency management and child-serving institutions ultimately improves all emergency plans, in addition to sharpening our response and recovery action," said interim Health Commissioner Michael J. Nesheiwat, MD.
The exercise scenario was collaboratively developed with input, advice, and assistance from a multi-agency exercise planning team. This exercise followed the guidance set forth by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and is compliant with Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) protocols and standards.
To learn more about Putnam's CRC, visit the web page: https://www.putnamcountyny.com/health/community-resilience-coalition/.
The BES mission is to keep county residents safe from harm, by providing services to all fire, EMS and related emergency management initiatives. This includes training and equipping special teams for fire investigation, police response and hazardous materials mitigation, and a credible assessment team (CAT). Additionally, BES maintains a countywide communications system and continually seeks ways to improve response to both natural and manmade disasters. For more information, please visit the Bureau of Emergency Services website at https://www.putnamcountyny.com/pcbes. | damage in Putnam County, causing evacuation at some childcare and other essential facilities, and limiting availability of state and federal resources.
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This exercise is a component of the national Resilient Children/Resilient Communities Initiative (RCRC), a partnership between the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University's Earth Institute and Save the Children (STC) funded by a grant from GSK. Putnam County is one of two pilot communities in the U.S. working on the RC | 137 |
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The Intriguing History Behind Bleached Eyebrows
From its Elizabethan beginnings to Madonna revisiting a '90s look in 2021, here's how bleaching<|fim_middle|> "We see this after both of the World Wars with the roaring '20s and Dior's New Look – there's a real human need to do something fun and different, to mark a new era and to tell the world you're doing things differently to how things have gone before." A bleached brow, she adds, puts even more emphasis on maximalist makeup—giving people eager to change their look or express themselves in a new way a blank canvas. "Fashion, but more particularly beauty, is a great outlet for this," Gibson says. "It's relatively low commitment, but makes a direct, visual statement." | your brows became one of the defining beauty trends of the year.
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Before the ubiquitous trends of microblading, brushed-up fuzzy "boy" brows, and the super-skinny eyebrows of Y2K existed, there were bleached brows.
OG models of the '90s like Linda Evangelista had their eyebrows bleached on avant-garde photoshoots, while New York club kids lightened their brows regularly. Makeup artist to the stars Kevyn Aucoin even wrote up a tutorial on how to get the look in his 1997 book, Making Faces.
And as 2021 comes to a close, it appears lightened, bleached brows have become a defining trend of the year, with everyone from Lizzo to Kim Kardashian, Madonna, Katy Perry, and more recently, Lila Moss for the Richard Quinn show in London, taking part in the look. Last month, Kanye West also shaved off his brows entirely, which provided a similar aesthetic—and it's impossible not to see fashion kids on Instagram and TikTok sporting bare foreheads.
The bleached eyebrow itself is a relatively new concept in the world of beauty, coming to prominence in the early 1990s, but the look of barely there eyebrows is not. "We see people really starting to remove their brows in Europe in the Middle Ages, and by the Elizabethan era it was popular to completely remove or bleach out the brows," explains Rachael Gibson, the researcher behind Hair Historian, which chronicles both the highlights and minutiae of hairstyle history. "A very high, wide, bare forehead was the beauty standard, so people bleached out or plucked off their eyebrows completely to achieve the look. People also used walnut oil on their children's foreheads to prevent eyebrows growing in at all."
Once the '90s rolled around, the bleached brow fell in favor of the aforementioned models and club kids because it gave a distinct look. Club kids, in particular, shaved off their eyebrows or opted for cream bleach to get rid of them: it gave more space for the extreme looks they used makeup to achieve during the time.
There's been no shortage of experimentation with makeup in 2021—and that may be part of the reason why bleached brows are everywhere right now. "Left bleached, they conjure an ethereal dreaminess, but they're also a great blank canvas for all of the yassified lewks the kids are serving," adds Michael Angelo, owner of the Wonderland Beauty Parlor in New York City. "Drag makeup has officially entered the building and it's changing the way we think of makeup. Bleached brows allow for infinite experiments without the permanence of waxing or shaving them off."
Madonna, who turned to bleached brows again this year, has always been somewhat of a leader with the look. "When Madonna did this in the '90s to reference the super thin '70s brow, the world jumped on her case so hard," Angelo remembers. "'It's so ugly, what's wrong with her?'"
Aucoin, who famously bleached the brows of Evangelista and Kate Moss, wrote in his book, "A great way to change the look of the face, also by altering the brow, is to bleach them. A bleached brow will soften the expression, as opposed to dyeing them a darker color, which can make them look stronger." He added, "If you feel your brows are too low or too close to the eyes, bleaching them can open up the face." The trend continued throughout the early 2000s, when Chloë Sevigny and Gwen Stefani wore the look.
But perhaps one of the biggest reasons the look is trending now is because of DIY culture. Since the start of the pandemic, people have shaved their heads, experimented with makeup like never before, and have traded their salon appointments for at-home color. "I believe that it has to do with being at home without being able to go out as much, being on social media longer and seeing all the filters. It opens the possibility and vision that we have about ourselves," explains the hairstylist Kim Garduno. "I like it because it is as if we remove a mask from someone's face—and without eyebrows, we can really see the person's essence in their eyes. It's crazy how the energy in the eyes changes drastically. People might think it is a stronger look, but for many I have seen backstage without brows, it can also soften their features."
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Likewise, Gibson thinks the bleached brow look follows a pattern of history. "After times of crisis, there's often a desire for looks which are more creative and which make a statement," she says. | 1,051 |
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Optimizing the Performance of Thermal-Processing Operations with Integrated Software Solutions
Fig. 1. Pusher carburizing furnace
Fig. 2. UBQ universal batch quench IQ furnace
Fig. 3. UBTC universal batch transfer car
Fig. 4. Screen shot of HMI in calibration mode
Justin Bunzeluk and Michael Coburn
KEYWORDS captive heat treating / commercial heat treating / industrial furnaces / maintenance management system / process control / software
Whether captive or commercial, the heat-treat operation faces a tougher challenge for productivity/profitability than other departments of manufacturing.
Computerized Maintenance Management Systems
Remote Diagnostics™ (or RDX) is one of the computerized maintenance management systems designed to increase furnace uptime and productivity through analysis of and reaction to equipment performance data. Data is gathered from the furnace PLC, allowing the customer and AFC-Holcroft to interrogate the furnace data via web conference.
By examining the data, a team of furnace experts can diagnose potential recurring issues and recommend corrective actions. Through this process, the equipment OEM can help customers target the most common causes of unplanned downtime and take steps to remedy them. Real, data-driven reliability and maintainability information gathered supports continuous improvement efforts, which can lead to both process and product advancements.
Remote Diagnostics™ – How It Works
Remote Diagnostics™ (RDX) starts with the acquisition of the furnace's operational and historical data as stored in the HMI from the PLC or else transferred from the PLC to an RDX unit. The data can be collected manually by the customer, by the OEM through remote login or by automating the transfer of data through nightly transmission. Once the data is acquired, it can be filtered by date, time, occurrence, alarm ID, events, and whether these events occurred "in auto," "in manual" or "in burnout" mode.
Charts and graphs are developed to help visualize and Pareto the data, displaying occurrences with blue bars that show their frequency and red lines that denote the length of time over which the occurrence transpired. Various items can be excluded in order to filter out unwanted noise.
This allows the team of furnace experts to drill down into certain occurrences, such as an alarm for "Tray too long in furnace after recipe complete." This leads to dialogue with the customer, usually via web conference, which allows the OEM to reconstruct the cause and effect of a particular event. This can then lead to the diagnosis of recurring problems or alarms, the need for targeted maintenance, and/or action items to improve the efficiency and productivity of<|fim_middle|>@afc-holcroft.com; web: www.afc-holcroft.com.
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Consider a typical fastener manufacturing plant, where heading and threading machines can be turned off for the weekend or for a long holiday, thus saving energy. Not so for the heat-treat operation, where energy is required constantly to keep the furnace hot. Add to this scenario the time and money associated with maintenance and repair.
If a heading or threading machine goes down, it can be worked on immediately provided the necessary spare parts are available. Again, not so for the heat-treat operation, where furnaces can run at temperatures in excess of 1600°F and do not cool down quickly in order to be accessible for immediate inspection and repair. For these reasons, most heat-treat operations prefer to run 24/7 with only minimal, annual downtime planned for in the production schedule. Therefore, downtime is expensive, uptime is optimal and integrated software solutions can help.
Improving Uptime by Targeting Downtime – Some Examples
RDX Saves Commercial Heat Treaters More Than $100,000 per Year
Mike Coburn, sales engineer at AFC-Holcroft, details one customer's experience. "Our customer, a commercial heat-treat operation, was running parts through a two-row pusher furnace (Fig. 1), and they kept experiencing regular crashes because the trays were jamming up in the furnace. The operators felt that since it was an older furnace, the crash was just a part of the regular day-to-day business. They knew that the root cause was that the trays had grown out of spec and beyond the usable life expectancy. Prior to purchasing new trays, the customer asked us for a review and for some assistance."
Upon examination, the RDX data revealed the extent of the crash and recovery impact on the operation's productivity and helped the customer to quantify this loss of time. Recovery costs were estimated to run over $20,000 per quarter/per pusher row. As a solution, the customer chose to invest in new tray positioners, which not only extended the useful life of the existing trays but also eliminated the costly downtime.
"The ROI for this customer was less than three months," Coburn said. "The customer knew that they had periodic problems, but they had not realized the magnitude of the problem in dollars and time until they saw the RDX data summarized.
"AFC-Holcroft has a history of success stories working with customers through Remote Diagnostics where those customers have realized significant savings and improvements to both their production time and profitability."
RDX Data Revealed the Absence of a "Handler Load Advance" Fault
"The prox sensor was proven true," said Coburn. "The hardware was OK. The fault was triggered in manual mode. The absence of the expected 'Handler Load Advance' fault lead to a much faster diagnosis of the problem. The PLC was evaluating the prox's 'true' position instead of a value stored in the managed bit. The managed bit preserved status between scans, so the PLC program was changed back to the original standard and the tray stoppage problem was eliminated. Without seeing the RDX data, troubleshooting for this customer would have taken a lot longer than turned out to be the case."
RDX Team Gets at the Root Cause after Months of Guessing
"A commercial heat-treat customer found that the transfer car (Fig. 3) on their batch equipment line was stopping for unknown reasons," Coburn said. "We made multiple visits to the customer to inspect the equipment and even brought in a sub-supplier to diagnose the controls. Our team suspected at least one of the following as the culprit: PC fault, bad OPC I/O signals and/or even potential network issues."
When the RDX data was obtained, the RDX team analyzed the offending alarms. There were high-alarm occurrences for both "Car has tray, no data" and "Car has data, no tray." So the team reasoned through the conditions for both alarms.
The root cause turned out to be that when the mechanical plunger on the transfer car jiggled, it intermittently failed to make prox switch "true." Identifying the plunger as the root cause, it was reinforced to correct the issue. The collective team's review of the RDX data succeeded where prior efforts had failed.
Supplier as Doctor/Consultant
Remote Diagnostics is a mutually beneficial process between the equipment OEM and the customer that promotes the continuous improvement of product and operational process. In some cases, a customer may not even know that their furnace is not operating at peak performance levels and that they have become "accustomed" to the way their equipment functions. Like a doctor or a consultant, the OEM can identify and evaluate the events or "symptoms" and then recommend remedies or "cures."
Other Computerized Maintenance Management Systems developed by AFC-Holcroft include:
Maintenance Module™
Calibration Mode ™
Engineering Optimization Program™
Calibration Mode™
Calibration Mode will assist with a more in-depth analysis of the machine by collecting information on the different mechanisms and devices to ensure a proper functionality of the furnace. Calibration Mode is a set of diagnostics based on a thumbprint taken when the equipment or software is first commissioned. It takes approximately 60-90 minutes to run the Calibration Mode recipe, and it will display every completion of the steps through the recipe with a "done" message on the screen or leave a blank/fail indicator displayed.
Calibration Mode also offers the ability to change the original setpoints upon determination of the system's needs (Fig. 4). This means that all information setpoints are available to be changed through a password-protection screen for the benchmark (original) values to be set based on the behavior of the machine components. In addition, the information from the last run of Calibration Mode will be left on the screen until the next test is performed so one can go back and look at the information to reference the machine's condition at the time of the previous test. These are just a few reasons why running Calibration Mode while on a shutdown is a good idea.
Yearly Checklist
AFC-Holcroft strongly recommends that a furnace and quench be shut down completely at least once a year for a complete system inspection. This practice has the potential to catch problems before they cause costly downtime. A yearly shutdown is the ideal time to run AFC-Holcroft's Calibration Mode to obtain current annual readings to compare with the benchmark values.
All graphics were submitted by AFC-Holcroft.
Justin Bunzeluk is a guest writer from AFC-Holcroft 49630 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, MI 48393; tel: 1-248-624-8191; fax: 1-248-624-3710; e-mail: sales@afc-holcroft.com; web: www.afc-holcroft.com.
Michael Coburn is a guest writer from AFC-Holcroft 49630 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, MI 48393; tel: 1-248-624-8191; fax: 1-248-624-3710; e-mail: sales | 1,481 |
Louis Friedländer & Co., gegründet 1912, war ein Unternehmen der Pelzbranche. Es produzierte und vertrieb Pelzkonfektion und Felle mit dem wesentlichen Schwerpunkt auf das preiswerte Kaninfell. Auf den von ihm als "Biberette" bezeichneten braunen Kaninfärbungen baute "sich eine gewaltige Industrie auf". Philipp Manes, der Geschichtsschreiber der Pelzbranche, schrieb rückblickend: "Die Firma Louis Friedländer & Co. war wie ein Komet am Himmel der Pelzindustrie aufgegangen und zählte nun zu hell leuchtenden Gestirnen".
Louis Friedländer
Louis Friedländer (* 12. Dezember 1863 in Nordhausen; † 5. März 1933) war ein jüdischer Kaufmann und Unternehmer, nach seiner Lehrzeit im Baumwollhandel tätig. In einem französischen Sprachzirkel lernte er Arthur Wolf kennen, der sein noch junges aber aufblühendes Pelzwarenunternehmen, Fabrikation von Pelzbesatz, gerade nach Berlin verlegte. Er siedelte mit Wolf nach Berlin über und wurde dort nach mehreren Jahren Prokurist und später Teilhaber der Firma.
Gemeinsam brachten sie das Unternehmen mit an die Spitze der Pelzfabrikanten. Als im Jahr 1912 die Trennung der Teilhaber bekannt wurde, war die Branche sehr überrascht. Obwohl, wie Philipp Manes meinte, "selten hat es zwei Männer gegeben, die ihrer Veranlagung nach so wenig zueinander passten. - Wolf - ruhig, bedächtig, wägend und dann lange noch nicht gleich wagend, sondern noch einmal prüfend, sehr gründlich und exakt, nie für kühne Experimente zu habe, nur für Mögliches und Erreichbares. Friedländer - in allem das Gegenteil. Und doch haben die beiden 28 lange Jahre zusammen gearbeitet." Wolf widmete sich dem inneren Aufbau des Unternehmens, der in der Branche "Feuerkopf" genannte Friedländer "war immer in Bewegung."
Gegen Ende des gemeinsamen Unternehmens hatte Louis Friedländer ein Jahr in Davos verbracht, um ein leichtes Lungenleiden auszukurieren. Schon vorher war es zu Unstimmigkeiten gekommen, die Arthur Wolf veranlassten, 1912 eine Trennung herbeizuführen. Zudem waren die beiderseitigen Söhne herangewachsen, so dass es gesicherter schien, wenn zwei Unternehmen nebeneinander bestünden.
Im Berliner Villenbezirk Dahlem hatte sich Friedländer eine Villa bauen lassen. Sein Stolz war das Arbeitszimmer, dessen Schränke bis zur Decke mit Bücher-Kostbarkeiten gefüllt waren. Ein Spezialgebiet war Napoleon-Literatur, dazu Erstausgaben der Klassiker und eine Briefmarkensammlung. Sein gesamter Besitz ging letztlich im Konkurs verloren. Im Jahr 2011 wurde ein Exlibris seines Namens, das sich inzwischen im Bestand der Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin befand, an die Erben zurückgegeben.
Mehrere Jahre betätigte er sich journalistisch, wobei er sich oft zu tagespolitischen Themen äußerte. Zu den Treffen der Branchenverbände kam er nicht und nah<|fim_middle|> eingerichtet, der Verkaufsraum besonders schön und gediegen. Es heisst, dass die Inneneinrichtung 80.000 M. verschlang, die Jahresmiete betrug 30.000 Mark. Eine eigene Werkstatt stellte die teuren Mäntel her." Das repräsentative barocke Gebäude mit dem reichen Außenschmuck steht noch heute. Neben Friedländer beherbergte es weitere Unternehmen der Bekleidungs- und Textilbranche.
Als Teilhaber trat Friedländers ältester Sohn Fritz ein. Der Schwiegersohn Curt Glesinger übernahm die Stelle des auswärtigen Reisenden. Die Fabrikation unterstand dem branchenkundigen Franz Voelkel, seine Frau, Glesingers Schwester, leitete die Zutatenabteilung. Nur ein Jahr konnte in Friedenszeit gearbeitet werden, dann brach 1914 der Krieg aus. Nach Kriegsende kehrten die Söhne und Mitarbeiter in den Betrieb zurück.
Das Unternehmen beschäftigte sich jetzt mit einem Artikel, der bisher in der Pelzbranche nur wenig beachtet wurde, dem Kanin. 50 Jahre zuvor war das Kaninchen in Australien ausgesetzt worden und hatte sich inzwischen dort derart vermehrt, dass es als Lästling bejagt wurde und das Fell zu einem geringen Preis massenhaft zur Verfügung stand. Louis Friedländer war der erste der in großem Umfang die besten der australischen Felle verarbeitete, neben der Hutindustrie, die bisher schon die Haare der geringeren Qualitäten für Filze nutzte. Zuerst erfolgreich war die Einfärbung auf eine schwarze Sealfarbe. Den größten Erfolg brachte jedoch die braune Farbe, die von hell bis dunkel von der "Leipziger Färberei A. G. Markranstädt" hergestellt wurde. Unter dem von Friedländer erdachten Namen "Biberette" ist es "von Berlin aus in den Sprachschatz der gesamten Pelzhandelsindustrie übergegangen". Der Aufschwung der deutschen Pelzfärberei begann in den Jahren 1913/1914, der "Erfindung des Biberettes". Es verdrängte, was Glanz und Haltbarkeit betraf, nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg sämtliche bisher den Markt beherrschenden französischen Kaninveredlungen. Weitere Bezeichnungen für vom Unternehmen herausgebrachten Veredlungen auf australisches Wildkaninfell waren "Bisamin" (1916), "Visonette" (1917/1918), "Bleurette", "Fouinette" und "Taupette" (1922). Erhöhte Bedeutung erhielten diese Erzeugnisse erst wieder 1925, als aus Paris die ersten gerupften Kaninfelle in modernen Farben auf den Markt kamen. Diese "Ejarrèes" genannten, großflächigen Felle ergaben den besten Mantelbesatz.
Louis Friedländer beschäftigte sich weiter mit den australischen Kanin. Er färbte jetzt auch die langhaarigen Felle farbig und stellte durch Umschneiden neue, für die Mantelherstellung gut geeignete Effekte her. Das Erzeugnis verkaufte sich ganz besonders gut nach England, zu Streifen zusammengesetzt, da ein hoher Zoll die Einfuhr farbiger Mäntel erschwerte. Die Streifen aus langhaarigem australischem Kanin in den buntesten Farben bildeten auch ansonsten einen großen Exportartikel, die Modelle daraus fanden im In- und Ausland große Beachtung.
Friedländer war der erste der Berliner Pelzfabrikanten, der "originelle und sehr gut ausgestattete Werbemittel" versandte. Als das Astoria-Hotel in Leipzig 1915 eröffnete, belegten zwei Firmen die unteren Räume, "die durch ihre außergewöhnlichen Leistungen von sich reden machten", die Deutsche Pelzindustrie G.m.b.H. und Louis Friedländer & Co. Regelmäßig zeigte Friedländer künftig im Astoria seine Kollektion und Felle im Schreibsaal und im Lesesaal des Hauses, im Krystallpalast veranstaltete das Unternehmen gleichzeitig "eine Sonderausstellung ihrer Glanzstücke".
Als 1929 in Berlin eine Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Kürschner den Großhändlern per freiwilliger Verzichtserklärung den Privatverkauf nehmen wollten, erklärte Friedländer "in seiner temperamentvollen Art", "einseitige Bindungen gäbe es für ihn nicht. Die Berliner Kürschner kauften ihm nichts ab - er habe aus Privatverkäufen so grosse Einnahmen, dass sie einen Teil seiner Spesen deckten. Würden sich die Berliner Kürschner verpflichten, für diesen nachweisbaren Betrag fertige Konfektion abzukaufen, unterschriebe er den Verpflichtungsschein - sonst nicht."
Die Finanzierung der gewaltigen Wareneinkäufe hatte der Leipziger Rauchwarenhändler David Biedermann übernommen. Viele Unzulänglichkeiten, in der Person Louis Friedländer begründet, führten zu einer Scheinblüte und letztlich zum Zusammenbruch der Firma. Er tätigte ständig Abschlüsse größten Umfanges, ohne eine entsprechende innerbetriebliche Organisation. Friedländers Privatverbrauch war nicht klein, die Zinsen an Biedermann, ein "Heer von Angestellten" mussten bezahlt werden, ein ungeklärter Einbruch im Jahr 1925, alles zusammen führte zu einem Verlust. Hinzu kam dann eine Diabetes-Erkrankung des alternden Inhabers. Die Söhne waren dem Temperament des Vaters nicht gewachsen. Als Biedermann seine Mittel strich, erfolgte 1930 der Zusammenbruch des Unternehmens.
Unter dem Namen seines jüngsten Sohnes Hans versuchte er im kleinsten Umfang einen Neuanfang in der 5. Etage. Zum Schluss geistig nicht mehr ganz klar, starb er im März 1933. Im Jahr 1933 wurde die Firma auf Druck der Nationalsozialisten zwangsverkauft. Seine fünf Kinder wurden als Juden verfolgt und, bis auf den 1899 geborenen Sohn Kurt, deportiert und während des Holocaust ermordet.
Siehe auch
Arthur Wolf, Pelzwaren
Geschichte Geschäftshaus Wallstraße 76–79
Weblinks
Einzelnachweise
Ehemaliges Unternehmen (Berlin)
Pelzhandelsunternehmen
Produzierendes Unternehmen (Berlin)
Gegründet 1912 | m nie ein Amt an, wie es hieß, "weil er sonst mit Arthur Wolf, dem es nichts ausgemacht, an einem Tisch hätte sitzen müssen. Er konnte und wollte nicht vergessen, und deshalb mussten wir seinen klugen Kopf im Rate der Branche hier und in Leipzig entbehren". Zumindest im Februar 1922 war Louis Friedländer jedoch, neben 14 weiteren Mitgliedern, in den Ausschuss des Reichsbundes der deutschen Kürschner e. V., Bezirksverband Berlin-Brandenburg, gewählt worden.
Kaufhaus Görlitz - Kaufhaus "Zum Strauss"
Als Jugendstil-Warenhaus "Zum Strauss" (Baujahr 1912–1913) vom Louis Friedländer nach dem Vorbild des Berliner Kaufhauses Wertheim erbaut, ist das Görlitzer Kaufhaus das einzige seiner Epoche, das noch heute in seiner ursprünglichen bautechnischen Form existiert. Das Gebäude beeindruckt vor allem durch seine kolossale Innenarchitektur.
Louis Friedländer & Co. - Geschäftshaus in berlin
Das Startkapital für das 1912 neu gegründete Unternehmen Louis Friedländer & Co., Wallstraße 76–79 betrug fast eine Million Mark, die aus der Trennung von Arthur Wolf resultierten, hinzu kamen, mit übertragene, sehr große Warenvorräte. Die zweite Etage des neu erbauten Geschäftshauses, später noch zwei weitere, "wurden der Neuzeit entsprechend | 364 |
Forum to Explore North of Boston Tech Hub with Cluster-Mapping Research April 24
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BEVERLY, Mass. – Regional technology executives, students, and others will gather for the fourth annual installment of the North Shore Technology Council's (NSTC) annual research series:
"The State of Technology on the North Shore"
Wednesday, April 24; 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Wylie Inn & Conference Center at Endicott College
295 Hale St.
To help attendees understand "the tech hub north of Boston"—what it is, where it's heading, and how it compares to other hubs—Endicott College students will present research using cluster-mapping tools developed by Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC).
"Our area, the North Shore and the greater tech cluster north of Boston, is a hotbed for new technology development and commercialization," says David Bertoni, president of the NSTC and founder of consulting firm MarketSp@ce. "This Endicott College research project begins to tell the data's tale of which sectors and technology clusters are emerging in our region."
The featured panelist at the event is Rich Bryden, director of information products at the ISC, who designed and launched Harvard's cluster-mapping project. Student presenters from Endicott are junior Chase Andrews, sophomore Haley Noel, senior Ben Sawyer, senior Michael Scherer, and junior Ian Schmidt. The event will be moderated by Jeff Kaplan, managing director of THINKstrategies and founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace. Registration is available online until April 23 at endi.co.tt/NSTC2019 and is $15/executive or individual and $25/non-member.
About the North Shore Technology Council
The North Shore Technology Council creates opportunity, serving individual members and sponsor businesses that are part of the Massachusetts North Shore technology cluster. From the 128 beltway north of Boston to coastal New Hampshire, the NSTC delivers business formation, networking, learning and community programs for innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, educators and the service providers who support them. Its virtual hub | 432 |
In <|fim_middle|> | 1991 electronic duo Ultramarine recorded their landmark laid-back album Every Man And Woman Is A Star, released in this form by Rough Trade in 1992 to great acclaim and eulogised by Simon Reynolds in his book Energy Flash: "All sun-ripened, meandering lassitude and undulant dub-sway tempos, like acid-house suffused with the folky-jazzy ambience of the Canterbury scene."
As well as the sublime single cuts Stella and Saratoga, the album offers a mesh of acoustic textures underpinned by a sometimes dubby, sometimes upfront beat. It's a lavish mix of light yet infectious rhythms and mellow vibes, recalling lazy afternoons and bright summer seascapes. Largely instrumental, the album also features lyric snatches from Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt. "It isn't really techno music," confesses Ian Cooper. "We use the shape and form of dance music but use different acoustic sounds. It's the sort of stuff which seeps into you." (NME, 6/91). Fully remastered and featuring original Rough Trade artwork. | 236 |
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