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When I looked back at the photos on my computer Blue seemed to jump out at me from everywhere. So I just randomly chose a few.
Miss Moggs, the blonde witch on the left and JMB, the redhead witch on the right, met up in Second Life for a Halloween photo opportunity. Actually it was a bit like two stooges as we tried, rather unsuccessfully to have the broom in the right place and the lighting right , plus the correct pose. After the fact I noticed that I had two different witch hats on at the same time. Yes you can do this in SL I'm afraid. Any possible mistake that can be made is usually made by me. Sigh! Now, no laughing else I will zap with you with my Wicked Witch Dark Power Staff which emits some flashing things but no spells, or so it says. Click any photo to enlarge should you so desire.
But let me show you a few more photos from the seriously decorated for Halloween house near me. For the past five years the Halloween decor has been been better and better. It's not suitable for very young children but to give you a idea, besides what I wrote about it last year, here are some photos I took recently of the current display. I also showed some photos of this year's display for the Photo Hunt Scary post last week.
When I googled this last year I could find nothing but this year there were all kinds of links from an article in the local paper to a mention in the Vancity Buzz blog, and it even has its own Facebook entry and website.
This year's theme is the History of Terror and begins in the "building" on the left, erected especially for the display and in the darkness, with the odd faint glow, it houses the Ancient Egypt display.
Medieval is the theme for the next section with figures such as these lining the side garden.
The inferno follows with this horrific representation but a small part.
A witches' coven nestles against the garage as spells are cast and magic potions brewed in the steaming cauldron. I think that fellow is beyond help.
represent the Age of Exploration.
The 19th Century Asylum, complete with caged figures and nasty looking things in jars, including a head, was a bit over the top for me. Here is the padded cell with bloodstained walls and syringes stuck into the ceiling and a hideous fellow waiting at the end.
huge ugly insects and trees personified, but not in a nice way.
These homeowners actually have a very nice garden but seem to have no worries about scattering all these figures around for this display. As I completed the tour a woman emerged through the front door and we got to chatting. I discovered that the decoration was done by the two men who lived in the house and this lady who was the girlfriend of one of them. They are definitely not in the "business" as I heard rumoured last year. One of the fellows lectures at the Vancouver Film School and he gets his students to dress up for the show at night which is somewhat scarier as you can imagine. She told me that the sum of the donations they had received towards the three charities they support was over $20,000 last year.
A rather ugly Queen of Hearts, along with other figures, graces the front porch.
This pair in the front garden put you in mind of anyone?
Well, if you have stayed with me to the end of this rather long post, you probably understand that I really love this haunted house. I tell everyone that they should go see it but warn them to go first in the daytime. I have not been game to visit it at night myself.
As a final wrap-up here is a short video taken by the Province newspaper crew. It is worth the time to watch it I assure you.
I have not done politics here so far, and to be honest I am not too sure what political pigeonhole I should be in anyway. I don't think I fit any of them neatly, but this I feel needs a comment.
It turns out the UK government has recently officially, but quietly, sanctioned Sharia courts in the UK.
I guess this has been even easier to keep quiet than usual, what with all the problems with the stock market and recession. It certainly seems to have mostly slipped by the public consciousness.
Well if you didn't notice it I can tell you there are now Sharia Courts in the UK that can give rulings which are enforceable with the full power of the British legal system, through County, and High Court.
I find this whole idea quite disturbing. I expect you may be thinking. Well why not? Isn't it a cultural thing?
Ok I must say now, I am not an expert on Sharia Law, I do know somethings about it though. If there is one thing I am pretty sure about, women sure tend to come off second best under it. A Woman's word counts for less under it.
Imagine trying to get custody in a divorce under Sharia Law. I think maybe 'Fathers for Justice' might get a bit of a raw deal, but this would be turning the tables way too far back the other way.
I figure Sharia law is biased against females and the uk Government should not be tacit in allowing, or promoting something that is biased against females. To use a modern term you can argue Sharia Courts/Law are/is institution<|fim_middle|> one we are constantly trying to make sure is unbiased, fair and honest and good for everyone. We have fought for equal rights for women for a long time, some might say we are not quite there yet.
Surely officially authorising these courts is a step backwards?
JMB: I'm getting tickets to go to the symphony with M. Do you want to come?
JMB: Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Are you sure?
Old Scientist: OK. That's different.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is on tour at the moment so last Saturday night, filling in, the National Arts Centre Orchestra performed in the Orpheum theatre under Maestro Pinchas Zukerman. Yes, that same Pinchas Zukerman, one of the world's great violinists as well as long time Music Director of the NACO.
The opening short piece was a contemporary one, Infinite Sky with Birds by Alexina Louie, very fast with the brass being the focus, with support from the strings and woodwinds. I quite enjoyed it however the Old Scientist muttered later if that were on a CD he would skip it. Sigh!
But next followed the Mozart Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.3, with Zukerman playing the violin and conducting the orchestra. One of a series of five violin concertos it was written by Mozart at the tender age of nineteen years. While not my favourite violin concerto, that would have to be the Mendelssohn, a much more dramatic piece to my mind, it is indeed a very beautiful work and to hear it played by Pinchas Zukerman was a very special treat.
If it please you, here is the Adagio, the second movement played by the great Isaac Stern. This is considered one of the most beautiful sections of any violin concerto ever written. A very old slightly flawed rendition due to age but beautiful none the less.
Here is the very famous French Horn solo from the second movement with that oh so familiar theme towards the end.
As we were walking back towards the car, the old scientist said, "The first time I heard that symphony live was at the Sydney Town Hall with Kiril Kondrashin with the Stalingrad State Orchestra. The brass were just wonderful and the woodwinds too." What? How long ago this was, since he left Australia in 1957, but he still remembers the experience. I have no idea when I first heard this. Do you? He certainly was impressed.
A lovely musical evening it was, somewhat dimmed by the fact that there was a hockey game plus a football game on that evening. All three events seemed to conclude at the same time with the result that it took me 65 minutes to travel from my parking space on the sixth floor of the parkade to the ground floor booth to pay the parking fee. My poor passengers had to listen to me complain bitterly about people returning to cars on the lower levels long after we did but managing to exit before us because kind people let them into the line of cars. To add insult to injury, when there are hockey or football games on they double the usual parking fee. Next time I think I will take the bus! | ally sexist.
The way society looks at things these days I figure you could even go so far as to say it might be viewed as racist to allow it, given that overwhelming majority of any females to "voluntarily" submit themselves to this institution in the UK will probably see themselves as Asian. It is these women who will be overwhelmingly subject to it.
The government insists it is sexist to have clubs that treat the sexes differently. It is illegal to discriminate against females at work.
I am pretty sure you could bet that there is no way the government would have given such an institution a second's thought if it were not tying to placate what amount to volatile reactionary religious feelings.
I am sure there are some out there who would say women can't manage for themselves, for whatever reasons. That they need the guidance of wiser male heads. There are probably people who would try to say I am racist, or islamophobic, or something, for even making the points I have. I honestly don't think I am. To me this looks like letting a religious group get away with treating women unfairly.
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Humm Burger | comes to the Old World, certain countries get all the fame. France, Italy, Spain – the list goes on. But what about the Iberian peninsula's 'other' viticultural hotbed? As much as we love the wines of Spain, more often than not, Portugal gets lost in the darkness of its larger neighbor's shadows. When it comes to Portugal, the viticultural possibilities are endless; with 14 designated regions, an array of winemaking styles, and an even larger amount of indigenous grape varieties, there's really not much that Portugal doesn't do. This week, we're focusing on the country's most highly regarded appellation: Douro.
Historically, winemaking has been a thing in the Douro since the third century, though the region really began taking off about 1400 years later, when the region's fortified wines became well beloved in England.
Port became a staple in the Brits' drinking regime, skyrocketing the economy of Portugal as a whole. The region, like most of Europe, fell victim to phylloxera in the mid-1860s, killing off precious amounts of grape vines. Though, like most European viticultural regions, the appellation was able to recover in due time.
Visually speaking, the Douro is one of the most stunning viticultural regions in the entire world. Steep hills slathered with vines line the banks of the snaking Douro river, creating a viticultural hotbed for some of the country's most interesting grape varieties.
Geographically speaking, the region is broken into three large sections: Baixo Corgo, Cima Corgo and Douro Superior. Baixo Corgo has the most moderate climate, as well as the highest rainfall. Cima Corgo is the biggest of the three, and where most of the major wineries are found. Douro Superior is the hottest and driest of them all, spanning just shy of the Spanish border. As of 2001, the region was impressively named a World Heritage Site.
The Douro experiences a Mediterranean climate, with hot summers and chilly winters. Soil types vary throughout the appellation, with schist-ier soils dominating the vineyards destined for Port production, and more granitic soils producing fruit for drier table wines.
The Douro's most popular red varieties are Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesca, Tinta Roriz (otherwise known as Tempranillo), Tinta Barroca and Tinta Cao. White grapes aren't nearly as common, though Gouveio and Malvasia Fina are arguably the most widely found.
And while fortified Port wines are the region's claim to fame, there is also a strong presence of quality dry wines coming out of the region. Warm temperatures and abundant sunshine allow grapes to optimally ripen, giving way to full-bodied, powerful cuvées. Whether dessert or dry is what you're craving, the Douro definitely has a bottle of full-bodied red to satisfy | 621 |
Venture across the mesmerizing Sultanate of Oman, a hidden gem of the Middle East. Enjoy camel rides and encounter Bedouin tribes in the rolling dunes of the Wahiba Sands. Take in Oman's fascinating heritage: walk through ancient Arabia's frankincense trade sites and souqs overflowing with fabrics and handicrafts. Drive up to the terrace-style orchards of Al Jebel Al Akhdar Mountains and Prophet Job's Tomb. Visit abandoned villages, embark on a sunset cruise, and spend a night in a Bedouin-style tent. See the best of Oman - in just over a week.
Welcome to Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, a millennial-old trading port between East and West. Meeting with your MT Sobek representative at the airport and transfer airport to your hotel. Enjoy a welcome group dinner and have an informative evening meeting with your guide at Kargeen restaurant.
Enjoy an action-packed city tour showcasing Muscat's exquisite Grand Mosque, built with sandstone and marble, and adorned with a Swarovski crystal chandelier and 27-ton handmade Persian carpet. Visit the magnificent Al Alam Palace, one of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos' six royal residences, and enjoy a visit to the National Museum. Here you will find a unique collection of Omani artifacts, some dating back to the earliest human settlement on the Oman Peninsula around two million years ago! Continue to Muttrah Souq, Muscat's famed market overflowing with fabrics, spices, and handicrafts. Weather permitting, take on a sunset boat ride along Muscat's spectacular coastline. Dinner is on your own this evening.
Start the day at the traditional Barka fish market and then set off on a 75-mile drive from Muscat to the village of Nakhal, known for its hot springs and surrounding date palms. Visit the beautifully restored Narhal Fort, built atop a huge rock in the 16th century. Today it hosts a permanent museum and a weekly goat market. Thrill-seekers can opt for a spectacular canyon drive through the dramatic Wadi Bani Awuf involving steep bends and bumpy roads through remarkable geological formations. Next, tour the charming mountain village of Bilad Sayt near Jebel Shams, Oman's highest peak, and stroll through Al Hamra-one of the best-preserved old towns in the country. Relax at the hotel and replenish over dinner.
After breakfast, leave for Jebel Akhdar - Oman's premier outdoor hiking area at the center of the Al Hajar mountain range. Enjoy views of dramatic peaks as you traverse rugged landscapes, marveling at fruit orchards, ancient irrigation channels, wadis, and Omani villages along the way. Learn about the fragrant 'damascina' rosewater made from the region's prized rose varietals and visit Wadi Bani Habib, an interesting village located on the massive plateau.
Rise today for a hike through beautiful Wadi Al Muyadin with its vast orange cliffs, limestone boulders and pretty trees, nourished by water below the wadi. Next, head to Nizwa, one of Oman's oldest cities nestled between palm trees and towering mountains. Stroll through the bustling sou<|fim_middle|> long skirts and only wear swimsuits on the beach.
Is there Wi-Fi at all the accommodations?
Yes, there is Wi-Fi at all of the accommodations on this trip.
Is Oman Safe to visit?
As crime and acts of terrorism are nearly nonexistent in Oman, it is considered a safe destination for travel.
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Wake for breakfast at camp before driving to the enchanting Wadi Bani Khalid. Its crystal-clear pools are cool and deep-just right for plunging in! Return to the desert camp, where you can enjoy a camel ride across the Wahiba Sands. The sands stretch over 80 miles and provide a real taste of the Arabian Desert, with their high dunes and traditional Bedouin encampments. Overnight again at Desert Nights Camp.
After breakfast travel 75 miles to the coastal city of Sur, known for its history of boat (dhow) making. See how dhows are crafted before heading to the pretty Al Ayjah lighthouse for a photo opportunity. The next stop is the Bimmah sinkhole, a deep natural depression filled with water. Legend has it that a meteor fell in this spot! In the afternoon, return to the Muscat Airport to fly to Salalah.
Explore the old fishing village and 19th-century castle of Taqah, with a stellar fort museum, then head to the capital of ancient Arabia's frankincense trade and site of the ruined Samhuram city. From there, head to Mirbat and visit the twin-domed Bin Alis Tomb and see the natural spring of Ayn Razat. Overnight in Salalah.
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel before transferring to the Salalah airport for homeward-bound flights.
The best of Oman in eight days: desert dunes, vibrant coastline, ancient sites, historic cities, towering mountains, and tropical gardens.
MT Sobek experts guide intimate groups through some of Oman's most striking landscapes.
On this trip, all accommodations look onto breathtaking surroundings and provide direct access to site-specific activities and adventure.
Scenic drives, local market visits, archeological tours, and desert adventures featuring camel rides, Bedouin tribe encounters, and camping under the stars.
Luxury resorts and boutique hotels provide high-class amenities and services, while Bedouin-inspired camping offers extraordinary lodging in deluxe desert camps.
An MTS representative will meet you on arrival at Muscat International Airport in Muscat.
Do I need a visa to travel to Oman?
Yes, American citizens need a visa to travel to Oman. You can obtain an e-visa online for travel to Oman.
How do I get to Oman?
Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines, Emirates and Qatar Airlines fly to Oman.
Do I need to follow a special dress code for Oman?
No, but we advise you to dress conservatively—wear long sleeved tops and pants or | 601 |
The English specialization in Writing trains students in the field of creative writing.
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Students who choose the Writing specialization develop their writing and editing skills in a supportive, close-knit community of fellow writers, led by our expert faculty. Graduates possess the experience needed for jobs in the publishing industry or in writing-intensive careers in business or government. Internships on campus or in the community offer additional preparation for careers in writing, editing, public relations, teaching, and other fields.
At UWF, we realize that each student has individual aspirations. That's why we offer a unique educational experience that paves the way for you to impact the world through an exciting career. Ready to start your journey? | The English Writing specialization centers on a workshop-based curriculum that provides hands-on training for emerging creative writers in the areas of poetry, short fiction, playwriting, and creative nonfiction. The program is an ideal place to develop your creative potential and delve deeply into the literary arts.
With help from students, the department publishes two literature magazines: Panhandler, which features creative work from professional writers throughout the country, and The Troubadour, | 87 |
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My job is certainly varied and this is one of the best things about the role. As well as liaising with our internal team, I speak regularly with clients including senior representatives. I am also involved in finance as well as delivery, and although the variety can make the job a little hectic, I would rather it<|fim_middle|> a secret desire to perform - but I can't sing or dance!
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As an organisation we are always looking at creative ways of solving complex issues. As I am often involved in this process I would say it is a creative job. In addition, I encourage everyone in the organisation to use their individual creative talents to provide innovative solutions.
The majority of my time is spent liaising with existing or prospective clients about the services BJSS offers and how we can help their business grow. I also spend a lot of time with the management team to discuss organisational development and internal improvements.
We have what we call an 'egoless culture' at BJSS and many of the staff use hot desks, so I often jump onto a desk that is available, depending on which office I am working from.
I'm not creative in the accepted sense, but I have always enjoyed making things, and it was the most rewarding part of my time as a developer.
Not that I can think of, though my colleagues might disagree.
I do both and enjoy it that way. I'm lucky to have such a strong team working with me and my time working with them tends to be where the ideas come from, as well as the challenges.
In the region of ten or eleven I would guess.
There are some days when one meeting can take up the whole day, and other days when I'm only in two or three short meetings. I would estimate that on average half my day is spent in meetings or on phone calls, and I tackle emails for three hours or so. Email can take up as much time as you let it, so it's important not to get drawn into too many email conversations.
I would say I am more of a 'follower', as I tend to only re-tweet the more interesting posts from our corporate Twitter feed.
The most satisfying thing about my work is the frequent response I get from clients about successful deliveries. Being able to improve a client's process, save them money, and give them a competitive advantage makes me feel very proud of our team.
I don't listen to music at work. I think it blocks you off from what is going on around you and can put up a barrier between you and your colleagues.
Often I just grab a sandwich and work at a desk. Sometimes I take a few minutes and have a 'head clearing walk' and on other occasions I go out with clients or colleagues.
Yes, whenever I can. We have regular socials at each office and I also cycle and run with a few colleagues. We also have weekends away which are a great time to catch up.
I can't think of any specific tasks I'm glad to have left behind. I have enjoyed taking on new responsibilities as my role has changed. It's nice to see other people develop and do the roles I've previously done.
One last check of emails to ensure there is nothing urgent and if I'm at home there are family duties to see to, so my last task will be to test my daughter's blood sugar levels.
Apart from spending time with my family and friends, I really enjoy cycling, running and some scuba diving which I've just recently started.
I tend to – yes.
Yes. Sometimes it's unavoidable and can at times be the best place to get things done.
"Gosh, you're thin!" and maybe - "listen to other people because when a decision needs to be made it is better to have as much input as possible".
I think I'd like to try my hand as a stage actor. I imagine the rush of adrenalin and the immediate response from the audience would be great. I've always had | 724 |
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Winner of the Best New Director award at the San Sebastián Film Festival and numerous accolades internationally, Benedikt Erlingsson's critically acclaimed debut feature OF HORSES AND MEN is a darkly comedic, episodic tale of the lives of a remote Icelandic community and the deeply intertwined and highly emotive relationships with their horses. Unique, engaging and beautifully shot, OF HORSES AND MEN was Iceland's official submission for the 2014 Oscars and won in six categories at the 2014 Edda Awards (The Icelandic Film and Television Academy), including Director of the Year, Screenplay of the Year and Best Film.
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Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Charlotte Bøving, Steinn Ármann Magnússon, Helgi Björnsson, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Sigríður María Egilsdóttir
Benedikt Erlingsson
Editor: David Alexander Corno
Cinematographer: Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
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Language: Icelandic
Shooting gauge: Digital
Original aspect ratio: 16:9
Theatrical Release Date: 13 June 2014
DVD Release Date: 22 September 2014
Also available on Blu-Ray: 22 September 2014
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What are Bundle Branch Blocks?
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By Jamie, Facty StaffUpdated: May 1, 2019
Although bundle branches are just one small part of the electrical network of the heart, the role they play is significant. A bundle branch block diagnosis can be scary, but it is not necessarily a medical emergency. It can be a sign of underlying heart disease or a normal part of aging. Knowing how the electrical system in the heart works is essential to understanding what a bundle branch block is and how it affects the heart's ability to pump effectively.
What are Bundle Branches?
The human heart is made of muscle and relies on electrical signals to pump blood through the body. The process starts in the sinoatrial (SA) node, the "pacemaker", a small collection of muscle cells at the top of the right atrium. The SA node sends an electric signal through the muscle fibers, which pumps blood from the right atrium into the lower chambers of the heart -- the ventricles. A second node in the ventricles, the atrioventricular (AV) node, receives this signal from the SA node and stimulates the lower chambers to pump blood out of the heart. To do this, it sends a signal that travels along muscle fibers into the wall that separates the ventricles. There, it splits into two paths or bundle branches.
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What Do Bundle Branches Do?
The left and right bundle branches are essential to keeping the heart beating properly. They deliver electrical signals to a delicate network of fibers called the Purkinje fibers located inside the ventricular walls. Purkinje fibers are specialized cells that complete cardiac actions more efficiently than any other cell in the body. They are directly responsible for synchronizing the ventricles and ensuring the heart pumps effectively. Because Purkinje fibers rely on the bundle branches for electrical signals, it's essential that the bundle branches remain intact to maintain an adequate cardiac rhythm.
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What Happens in a Bundle Branch Block?
A bundle branch block occurs when something interferes with the electrical impulse traveling through the bundle branches on their way to the ventricles. Causes include heart attacks, blood clots in the lungs, or cardiac infections. This interruption can cause the heart to pump less efficiently because it interferes with the ventricles' ability to contract and coordinate with the rest of the heart. Depending on the severity, bundle branch blocks can cause significant problems throughout the body, though mild cases often display no symptoms.
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Symptoms of a Bundle Branch Block
In people who are otherwise healthy, a bundle branch block might be present for years and the doctor usually discovers the condition when diagnosing another issue, such as after a heart attack or when evaluating heart disease. Although not common, people with bundle branch blocks may faint or feel lightheaded. Even though a bundle branch block does not present with many symptoms, it's still important to take it seriously. It could be a sign that part of the heart is not getting the oxygen it needs. Some people with a bundle branch block are also at greater risk for heart disease.
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Bundle Branch Block Diagnosis
The only way to diagnose a bundle branch block is with an electrocardiogram or EKG. For this test, a technician places ten adhesive pads with electrodes to the chest, arms, and legs. The patient usually lies flat on an exam table or sits straight up in a chair to minimize movement. Electrodes pick up the electrical activity in the heart, and the EKG machine translates it into a tracing, which a qualified medical professional<|fim_middle|> depending on how much damage the heart sustained. If an infection of the heart muscle is to blame, antibiotics can clear up the infection, and the doctor will continue to monitor the patient closely.
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Are Bundle Branch Blocks Serious?
For people who are otherwise healthy, a bundle branch block isn't an emergency and may simply be a symptom of aging. When symptoms are absent, physicians are unlikely to intervene but may recommend the patient be regularly monitored to ensure other issues do not develop. Healthy people with a bundle branch block should take care to maintain their health through exercise and diet to prevent other cardiac issues that could exacerbate their current condition.
How Do EKGs Help Diagnose a Bundle Branch Block?
An EKG tracks the electrical activity of the heart and records it on paper to create a visual representation of a heartbeat. The strength and timing of the electrical activity are represented by different parts of the tracing. The first bump is the P-wave, which represents the firing of the AV node. Next is the QRS-complex, which follows the electrics impulse as it travels through the ventricles. This includes the branch bundles and the Purkinje fibers. The T-wave is next and shows when the ventricles relax. A trained professional can tell a lot from these tracings by looking at the distances between each wave, as well as other factors.
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Do Pacemakers Help?
Pacemakers are not a cure for bundle branch blocks but can help with underlying issues, specifically arrhythmias that cause the heart to beat irregularly due to heart attacks, age, or genetic conditions. One instance where a pacemaker may be beneficial to a bundle branch block is if an individual experiences frequent episodes of fainting. Because this side effect can lead to injury or drastically impact the person's quality of life, doctors may install a pacemaker to correct the problem. | then interprets to diagnose a heart attack, blocked arteries, or structural changes, as well as bundle branch blocks and many other conditions.
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Bundle branch blocks are fairly common. They often occur secondary to other medical conditions including lung disease, heart wall defects, high blood pressure, and coronary artery disease. People who have heart or lung conditions are at risk for developing them, and they are more common in older adults. That said, bundle branch blocks can also occur in people who are otherwise perfectly healthy. There are no risk factors that specifically lead to bundle branch block, only to the underlying diseases that can cause it.
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In and of themselves, bundle branch blocks do not require treatment. If there is no underlying heart disease, the condition only needs to be monitored. When an underlying condition is present, treatment centers on managing it. For example, if a bundle branch block develops after a heart attack, a pacemaker might be needed | 204 |
Sales fell 13 percent in the second quarter at IBM, and profit dropped 16 percent -- but things could have been worse if it weren't for sales of the recently launched Z13 mainframe. IBM blamed much of the decline on a strong dollar and the sale to Lenovo of its low-end server business.
IBM could have boosted its results by $1.8 million in the second quarter by eliminating its spending on lobbyists. Instead, it increased its spend by 7 percent. Other companies spent more, however: Amazon doubled its lobbying budget to $2.15 billion, while Facebook's expenditure on lobbying rose by a quarter to $2.7 billion in the quarter. Apple and Intel each spent about $1.25 million, both up from the year-earlier quarter. Alone among the big tech companies, Google cut spending to $4.62 million -- but at that level, it's hard to tell whether peer pressure or thrifty new CFO Ruth Porat were behind the reduction.
Days after a case pitting ride-hailing service Uber against Spanish authorities was referred to the highest European court, Uber's public affairs head for the continent said the company will consider further legal action to defend its disruptive business model, the New York Times reports.
Apple will announce its results for the quarter to June 27 after market close -- but it won't be breaking out numbers for the Apple Watch, which went on sale three days before the quarter began. The company will bury the figure in an "other products" category, alongside Beats headphones and the declining iPod, says the Wall Street Journal.
Apple's "other products" category could one day include an autonomous car, a Wall Street Journal article about the company's recent hire suggests. A previous rumor that the company was moving into the automotive market fizzled when the company revealed a fleet of vehicles for recording streetside imagery. Why, then, does it need the production chops of Doug Betts, former global quality leader at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, when that handful of cars is already built?
Qualcomm could announce the lay-off of up to 10 percent of its workforce during a conference call to discuss its earnings on Wednesday, Forbes reports. The company is also considering a plan to break<|fim_middle|> the clueless photo booth. | itself up following pressure from an activist investor. While the smartphone industry is booming, things turned sour for Qualcomm when major customer Samsung Electronics decided to use internally developed chips for its flagship S6 smartphones.
In the wake of the massive data breach at surveillance vendor Hacking Team, in which 400GB of documents were taken, companies are looking for ways to find out who is leaking their data, and who's looking at it once it leaks. CSO takes a look at tricks for making stolen data phone home to say where it has ended up.
Google is harshing the mellow of Californians who smoke pot for medical reasons by refusing to distribute Android app Loud Cannabis in its Play Store. The app allows users to order cannabis from local growers. The company behind it, Green Exchange, says it is in compliance with Google's developer guidelines prohibiting programs that promote illegal activities because it's legal to buy cannabis in California on a doctor's recommendation.
It's plain Tuesday, not "Patch Tuesday," but Microsoft wants you to patch your Windows PC all the same. A flaw in the code for displaying OpenType fonts allows hackers to remotely take control of a machine. The flaw was reported by researchers sifting through the trove of leaked Hacking Team documents, reports Computerworld. Microsoft has issued a patch for versions of Windows from 7 through the as-yet unreleased Windows 10 to fix the vulnerability.
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Mafia, along with the other islands lying off the east coast of Africa, has shared in the long and interesting history of the area. The East Coast forms a part of the Indian Ocean littoral, and the peoples of this region have been traders and sea-farers for centuries. It is an area exceptional in Africa because it is mentioned in written accounts which go back as far as two thousand years. The earliest is a Greek text, the Periplus of the Erythraen Sea, which is dated around A.D. 110. Most subsequent accounts, up to the arrival of the Portguese on the coast in the fifteenth century, were written by Arab geographers.
By the end of the first millenium A.D. there had been established a number of Islamic city-states based on trade the most important of which were initially on Zanzibar and Pemba Islands. By the thirteenth century, however, the chief settlement on the coast was Kilwa Kisiwani, a small island lying about 80 miles to the south of Mafia. Kilwa owed its prosperity mainly to the fact that it controlled the gold-trade from Sofala (now in Mozambique).
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Literature │ Life is a metaphor, but what does that mean?
We know that life is multilayered. When we believe we've just lifted a layer, dealt with it and understood it, we only expose the next. But what do we do with the next layer? Will that new tissue, new exposed specimen just be the beginning of many more to come after that? But most importantly, will everything make sense at the end of it all? Murakami's fusion of magical realism and metaphysical questioning sends the reader falling from a dizzying height. He infiltrates the things that we as humans desperately try to keep a hold of, such as reality, dreams and memory; everything is desperately trying to work as one, to be in harmony if you will.
It's almost hard to believe that in 1974, Murakami was watching a baseball match when he felt the inspiration to write his first novel. Whatever it was that flickered through his mind or suddenly switched on, it never switched off. Murakami's Kafka on the Shore is the story of a fifteen year old runaway who calls himself Kafka, and an elderly gentleman called Nakata. Kafka is trying to run away from his father's Oedipal prophecy and goes in search of his mother and sister who left him behind, whilst Nakata who can not read or write but is able to communicate with cat's follows his own fate. That is what this story is essentially about. Kafka is trying to fight a fate that has been laid out for him, unlike others, he can see the puppet strings just like every single Greek tragedy ever written, but Nakata who may not be the sharpest tool in the box, is more in touch with the very being of the earth which will help him fulfill his fate. Understanding and not understanding are key elements throughout, this may seem inconspicuously simple, but nothing is what it seems.
As the blur between reality and the surreal continues to swell and merge into the other the more everything strangely makes sense. Fairytale like characters terrify and mystify the reader at every turn in this bildungsroman tale; where libraries are safe houses and forests are gateways to truths. Orphaned children, lost mothers and adopted family and friends are only the beginning to Murakami's fantastically spun out tale. This multifunctional novel takes us away from the realm we forage in, yet it looks just like the one we step out into every day, but how does he do this? How can he reach into our craniums and change the physicality of our brain? This very questioning is what makes him a successful writer. As a writer, I would like to reach out and delve into the brain of Murakami in order to experience his thoughts and<|fim_middle|> to think on and "digest" a book for some time after reading it. I would also recommend this book to the people that like different and odd books.
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Dr. William W. Turner Jr. and his wife, Rosemary (Toni), recently joined The Heritage Society when they announced a bequest that will establish The William and Rosemary Turner Endowed Fund at Southwestern Medical Foundation. This fund will support medical student scholarships at UT Southwestern Medical School, where Dr. Turner completed his residency in 1977 in general surgery. He has been a member of the faculty for 27 years and, is currently the Master of Sprague College.
Dr. Turner is a Professor in the Division of Gastrointestinal and Acute Care Surgery. He holds the Carla and Paul Bass Professorship in Medical Education Honoring Charles C. Sprague, M.D. and the Alvin Baldwin, Jr. Chair in Surgery.
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Dr. Turner and his wife visited and considered three options for general surgery residency before graduation from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. The last place he visited, UT Southwestern, was by far his first choice.
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After making the decision to come to UT Southwestern, the Turners packed up all their belongings in a small trailer and made their way to Dallas. When the trailer broke down on the road, Mrs. Turner remarked, "I'm sure glad you're going to be a surgeon – maybe you can fix this trailer too!"
It was Mrs. Turner's encouragement that guided Dr. Turner to the field of surgery. During medical school, he was interested in becoming an internist and enjoyed its challenges. Dr. Turner said nostalgically, "Luckily my wife was there to say, 'No, you need to be a surgeon. I've never met anyone who likes fixing things as much as you do.'"
During residency, Dr. Turner trained under the late Drs. G. Tom Shires and William J. Fry. Drs. Shires and Robert McClelland, experts in surgery and trauma, were both on duty at Parkland Memorial Hospital when President John F. Kennedy was brought to the hospital.
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That opportunity to return to Dallas and UT Southwestern came in 2007.
Dr. Turner is an esteemed military veteran, having served in the United States Air Force, Reserve Medical Service Corps five years and in the United States Air Force, Active Duty Medical Service Corps two years. His love for our nation and its educational traditions is evident. Dr. and Mrs. Turner believe deeply in supporting future generations in their pursuit of leading medical education.
You never know what's going to excite a medical student or draw them to a certain area of study, and you also cannot identify their potential by socioeconomic status. To us, it's important that those who work hard have every opportunity possible to join UT Southwestern Medical School. We want the best and the brightest, no matter their circumstances.
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Dr. Turner remains inspired by the tremendous innovation occurring at UT Southwestern. "We live in a very exciting time. The most impressive step forward I've seen is the human genome project, because it helps us understand disease at a very fundamental level. Techniques such as CRISPR Cas9 gene editing technology allow us to unzip a DNA strand, fix an error, and zip it back up. Those are "operations" done as a microscopic level. They are extraordinary."
He recognizes the unique role that philanthropy has played in enabling innovation in our region. "Southwestern Medical Foundation and its support of endeavors at the medical school enables us to shorten the distance between discovery in the lab and at the bedside to benefit our community," said Dr. Turner. "I've had a sense for a long time that Southwestern Medical Foundation has UT Southwestern's benefit at its core, and it's going to take really good care of our investment."
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In order to keep college students as distracted from their real-life obligations as possible, Hulu and Spotify have come together to offer a combined streaming-subscription deal. The two services announced plans today for a special deal for U.S. college students that offers access to both Spotify Premium (which costs $9.99 a month) and<|fim_middle|> not a student but are still into the idea of a bundled subscription, Hulu and Spotify may have you covered in the future — the companies say deals targeted at the broader market are in the works.
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Spotify and Hulu Launch a College-Student Subscription Deal | Hulu's Limited Commercials plan ($7.99 a month) for a mere $4.99. The deal, which covers movies, TV, and music, is the first cross-platform offering from Spotify and would give undergrads the chance to listen to, say, "Wild Thoughts" and also watch The Mindy Project, or the new Taylor Swift and The Handmaid's Tale, which would honestly be a solid subject for a college paper. Students looking for similar subscription offers should be aware that Amazon Prime also has a student discount, and is available for $49 per year, or just over four bucks a month. If you're | 132 |
While climbing up the ladder, a diver visualizes the twists, flips and turns they are about to perform, as they see themselves piercing the water like a knife, completing the perfect dive. Months of preparation go into this culminating moment and they understand exactly what they came to do. As a diver enters the platform, their heart<|fim_middle|> if the person who answered the phone was pleasant and knowledgable, if the response time was satisfactory, and if the prices were reasonable. Then, follow it up with a high quality product or service, and you'll earn customers for life.
Marketing is one of the most difficult parts of owning a business. If you're opting to manage that part of it on your own, there are plenty of things to consider when you're building your campaign. Who is your target demographic, and how to do you find them? Are you marketing to young people who do most of their communicating and information finding on the Internet? Or are you looking for more established adults who have online presences but who also still watch television on a schedule and read books? Get into the minds of your customers and find them where they are.
When it's time to deploy a marketing campaign, there are plenty of things to consider. The majority of marketing is done online, and some of it doesn't even cost much more than your time. A good, well-followed Facebook page or Twitter profile can be just as effective, if not more effective, than paid resources. Also, starting an SEO optimized blog that offers authoritative information on whatever area your company specializes in can be an effective way of driving traffic.
Beyond this, most search engines and social media sites sell advertising, and the Pay Per Click model means that you run ads and pay any time that someone navigates from the ad to your website or profile page. You can find these on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google and more.
When you open a business, you have to have a firm understanding that things will be difficult at some time. You could get lucky and skip that part, but it isn't likely. Make the commitment that you will see your operation through the lean periods that come before prosperity. If there is any question about your ability or desire to stick it out through rough patches, then you may not want to open in the first place. Running a business can be endlessly fulfilling, but that doesn't make it easy. You are totally capable of it if you make the commitment from day one.
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People who want to start a business should understand what they want from their business, understand their product or service, know how to market their business, and follow the above steps to starting a business in order to be prepared for what they will encounter. After months of preparation and planning, it's time for beginning business owners to put their toes over the edge of the diving board, stare at the water below and perform the perfect swan dive, if they wish to plunge into their business venture with confidence. | thumps throughout their entire being – It's Go Time! Much like a diver preparing for a competition quality dive, those who wish to start a business have to prepare beforehand, if they want to enter the industry with confidence. Here we will go over the necessary steps to starting a business in order to avoid an embarrassing belly flop failure.
Starting a business obviously begins with an idea, but the inspiration should be immediately followed with an examination of what the market needs and what you can offer that is somehow different from existing options. Firmly decide what you are able to offer the community, and look in to how much a service like yours is needed. If everyone in your city is opening frozen yogurt shops, then there may not be enough room in that market for you. If there isn't a frozen yogurt food truck, however, and you need a more flexible sc dule than the set hours you can find in a store, you may have stumbled upon the perfect solution for what you can offer AND what the market needs.
Running a business doesn't end when your enthusiasm begins to wane. That's why you have to do something that you love. Starting a business just because it can be lucrative can mean that if things get tough and lean, you may not have the staying power and dedication to get through the rough patch. You've made a huge investment that can go right down the drain. If you're passionate about making frozen yogurt, developing new flavors and creating ice cream converts, you'll be more likely to work through rough periods because you're monetizing something that you love. Passion doesn't automatically mean success, but it does mean perseverance when the market isn't perfect– which could be a lot of the time.
Do some research on what the going price is for in your area. Remember that you don't have to undercut your competition just to drive up business. Products that are priced lower than everyone else's don't necessarily bring in business, and they may, in fact, drive people away because they assume your product is cheaply made. Figure out what the market is asking for the same item, and decide how close to that you can comfortably get considering your overhead and cost of manufacturing.
It takes a while for a business to turn a profit, and operations that defy that axiom are rare. Literally bank on the idea that finances are going to be lean for a while, and plan for that by making sure that you have enough capital to float for the first few months or, if possible, years. If you're borrowing the capital, it's best to try to secure more than just opening expenses. Machinery and build out are important things to invest in, but they won't get you very far if you don't have enough capital to operate for a while.
There will likely be other businesses who are providing similar services to yours. While there may be a thousand things that you do differently than the competition, offering better, faster and higher quality services is what will get you noticed. Customers won't know what the finished product is like until it's all over, but they will know | 621 |
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There are a few online radio stations that are dedicated to playing music from independent artists. Below are some of the major players:
Internet radio service 8tracks offer curated playlists which are created by the site's users. As a<|fim_middle|> songs by earning 'Groovies' which is the Earbits currency. You earn Groovies by sharing an artist on social media, or joining their mailing list.
Jango is a free online radio station that plays music based on your existing music taste – you enter an artist and they will play you the artist you requested, along with other similar artists. While they cater heavily for commercial artists, they mix commercial music with indie artists to help you start slowly discovering new music from artists that you may not have heard of before.
UK-based Amazing Radio is a radio station dedicated to playing 100% emerging music from independent artists. The music is sourced from sister site Amazing Tunes. The music selected to be played on the site is decided by the fans who can play, rate, and purchase tracks on the Amazing Tunes site, and also via the audition show on the radio station where tracks will be played for consideration by the listeners.
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While the rear of this couch shows the Chesterfield, with its rows of tufting, a tux couch has cleaner, more angular lines. It is said to have been the bellwether of more modern styles in the 1920s. While some say this sofa style took its name from Tux Park in Ny, it's also said to be called following the classic fancy mens suit. You are able to identify a tux couch by its arms that are identical peak because the back. The tufting on the back of the couch and its rectangle-shaped silhouette will also be traditional characteristics. Cushions include comfort to this high-equipped design. Also, as the sofa above from Upcountry is padded in leather-based, this well-liked style is often done in fabrics of all types, including the really stylish velvet.
The term this is actually the comfort and sophisticated appear. This set includes a tufted backrest and nail head highlight that gives it the subtle appear. Its grey color contributes to its remarkable look. It can match as much as 8 inches bed mattress. That alone lets you know how comfy the set can be. Notably, it doesn't include a bed mattress. So you may want to buy one. The trundle includes a castor to allow quick access. You may even pull the trundle for people to take a seat on. Just to mention, it may need putting together, however its super easy to put together.
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Just like its namesake, the camelback sofa has a hump or possibly two that highlights the primary silhouette of this sofa design. This is a traditional design that was prominent within the 18th century by Chippendale and families who desired aristocratic, formal Akira Tray Table often opted for this design. Today, this sofa style gives a far more official air to the room, especially when padded in a official fabric. A far more informal textile option will make it appropriate for a household room that doesnt require a lot of custom. In either case, the camelback couch has some factors that define the style. The thighs are usually exposed, the sofa has no back again soft cushions also it normally has square or folded hands.
Weighing below Dollar300 (plus shipping) and 56 in . wide, our pocket book- and room-friendly pick is ideal for very first apartments, playrooms, dens or other small areas. Simply because its upholstered with additional powerful bonded leather, this lying loveseat is more resistant against unsightly stains, releases and holes. Clients describe this reclining loveseat as comfortable, stylish and an excellent worth. One rater authored that it was one of the most comfy furniture pieces she is ever had, while another said he | 1,275 |
By Natalie Diaz
A Year in Reading: Julietta Singh
Julietta Singh - 12.21.2021
How to Hold a Body
I spent most of this year reading through Canadian archives in<|fim_middle|> of so many tangible enclosures produced through the pandemic, my reading life this year has been attuned to affective openings, to women writers making space for each other and for other possible worlds. I've spent the year remembering that literature has, across my life, been a space for kinship, for breathing.
At the turn of the new year, I lifted Dionne Brand's No Language Is Neutral off the shelf, a collection I hadn't read since 1999, when I was young, lost, and wanting, and did not know how to hold the heft of the world. I lit a candle, smoked a bowl, and opened that thin collection to discover these words: "this is you girl, this cut of road up/to Blanchicheuse, this every turn a piece/of blue and earth carrying on, beating, rock and/ocean this wearing away, smoothing the insides/pearl and shell and coral"… this is you girl felt like a hailing, the most intimate ecological invitation I had ever received, an aperture into queer love through which I blinked and blinked and blinked.
In the half-cold Virginia winter, I read Natalie Diaz's Postcolonial Love Poem and was felled by its everything. Grieving and revolutionary, the body here is a warrior that holds colonialism and its undoing in its bones. For all of its Indigenous love, it also asks us—through our different languages, histories, and geographies—to break down this neocolonial world and build another. I did not know Diaz when I read this book, but her words felt like sister words. Two seasons later, when she appeared one late autumn evening at my doorstep and broke me from my pandemic enclosure, she reminded me that where we discover ourselves in words is also where we ground ourselves in the world.
In the darker months, I picked up Ada Limon's The Carrying, which articulated so stunningly that what we do not carry also has weight, the heft of which can bend us into other shapes and configurations. I spent some time with her work after this, traveling through her collections in reverse to see how she had arrived here, to this place where my reading her made such perfect sense, where our paths became concert. I felt a deep pleasure at the late discovery that Diaz and Limon had exchanged letter poems released under the title "Envelopes of Air," where the thickening of female friendship and the poetry of political critique are sutured spheres.
I kept returning this year to how literature offers a sense of what you wish to have, or what you wished to have had, or what you wish for others to have. Come spring, I sat on the back porch with the greening elm tree and Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings, taken by how a book that so starkly details the violence inflicted on Asian American bodies manages also to portray the bonds and struggles of feminist friendship forged through art. When the book shifts into an intimate reach for the brilliant writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, who was raped and murdered in Manhattan in 1982, it's as though these two writers are stitching themselves together. An impossible reach across time, but together they tell a story that has not yet been heard about the precarity of being a minoritized woman artist, and about how we might continue to hold each other across all thresholds, including our violent deaths.
Launched back in the classroom this autumn, I took refuge in feminist classics as I struggled with the fact of being so tangibly back in the world. Rereading Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, I was attuned to things I hadn't considered before, dynamics of care that hadn't yet landed for me. I've always thought of Phoebe, the protagonist's best friend, as merely the gateway into the story, the one who offers our protagonist the attention she needs to tell us her story. But this time around, I noticed how Phoebe in her "hungry listening" is fueled by the possibilities of what Janie's adventures might open for her own life. Phoebe, who is "eager to feel and do through Janie." Phoebe, who while listening "couldn't help moving her feet." Phoebe, whose body is readying itself for the stories of other lives lived, whose body holds the eagerness and promise of what those stories might make possible for herself and for us.
Rereading Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night, I was likewise struck by what Mala, a woman so violently dehumanized by the force of colonial patriarchy, continues to make possible for others. In one incredible scene, she offers her transfeminine nurse Ty a dress to wear, and when Ty dons the dress, Mala simply turns away and carries on with her business. It takes Ty a moment to realize that Mala is not failing to bear witness, but rather offering the greatest gesture of feminist friendship: the creation of space and opportunity to let others thrive.
In mid-October, I sat by the seaside on my birthday reading Divya Victor's Curb. At the point of contact between water and land, I held tightly to this book that is all about location, those coordinates at which minoritized lives are subjected to violence, stamped out through hatred and misrecognition. Reading by the sea, where the landscape is all smooth and swell, the curbs emerged as both weapons and thresholds, wounds and possibilities. There, we find the poetic coordinates of hate crimes, but we find also the promise of desi sisters wandering the world on "anywhere walks" and learning to fight it through their "anywhere mouths." Always at the edge of war and friendship, Curb reminds us that in brutality we still manage to lift, salvage, hold the beautiful things, not least of which each other.
When Natalie Diaz appeared at my door in mid-November as a stranger-friend, I wanted to show her the spectacular orange burst of maple leaves outside my window. Instead, we joked about being different kinds of Indians, indelibly linked through colonialism's power to name and consume, until our laughter loosened with a coming familiarity. Before she left, she asked if I could show her the mangle of my foot, a once broken appendage that healed so abundantly it took on the shape of a new thing. As I peeled off my sock, she wrapped her hand around the calcified swell, her palm shelling my creature-foot. One appendage becoming flesh home to another, as if to explain: this is how to hold a body—we harbor the breaks, then build the belonging-world. | pursuit of a strange new project, a search for traces of women who lived, worked, and studied in my childhood home before me. I have been trying to imagine through what logics I might say that their lives have shaped my own, what forms of ethical belonging and attachment we might invent to sustain life. I'm reaching for other women across time and text, across histories of race, class, and disability, envisioning a single brick and mortal space as a portal through which I might understand my connection and responsibility to place and people differently.
My search has been mostly virtual because I've remained in a certain state of seclusion this past year, with a nine-year old unvaccinated whirlwind in my midst, trying, like all of us, to live safely together. In the face | 160 |
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JD Sports profit and revenues accelerate in the first half
Prachi Singh
Total revenue at JD Sports Fashion plc increased by 47.4 percent in the first half period to 2,721.2 million pounds (3,360.7 million dollars) including 725.2 million<|fim_middle|> Sports confident of achieving headline profit target
Total gross margin in the first half period of 46.9 percent was 1.3 percent lower than the prior year, while profit before tax and exceptional items increased by 30.1 percent to 158.6 million pounds (195.7 million dollars). The basic earnings per ordinary share decreased slightly to 9.67p from 10.05p last year, while the adjusted earnings per ordinary share increased by 25.1 percent to 12.57p from 10.05p in 2018.
The company added that notwithstanding the ongoing uncertainty with regards to Brexit, its board is confident that, without the impact from the transition to IFRS 16, the Group would have been on track to deliver headline profit before tax for the full year at the top end of market expectations which currently range from 402 million pounds to 424 million pounds. However, after adjusting for the impact of the transition to IFRS 16, the group believes that it would deliver results at the mid-point of expectations.
The JD Sports board proposes paying an interim dividend of 0.28p per ordinary share, an increase of 3.7 percent, on January 3, 2020 to shareholders on the register at November 29, 2019.
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jd sports fashion jd sports finish line | pounds of revenue from Finish Line and JD in the United States. The company said, like for like store sales across its global group fascias, excluding Finish Line but including the more established businesses in Europe, Asia Pacific and Outdoor, increased by 7 percent with the overall like for like growth for the same fascias, including online, increasing by 10 percent.
Commenting on the first half trading, Peter Cowgill, the company's Executive Chairman, said in a statement: "Against a backdrop of widely reported retail challenges in the UK, it is extremely encouraging that JD has delivered like for like sales growth of more than 10 percent with an improved conversion reflecting consumers' increasingly positive reaction to our elevated multichannel proposition. We are pleased by the continued positive trends to date in the second half in Sports Fashion whilst recognising the tougher comparatives ahead."
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for this game in particular, I prefer a warmer, dimmer look so will likely reduce the overall brightness as well.
Incandescent bulbs provide this exact this type of illumination. It's my personal experience that incandescent bulbs are not only significantly cheaper they also last a lot longer than their LED replacements.
LOTR is a tough one for powder coat choices, since every side of the machine uses a different color pallet. I tried an oil rubbed bronze colored powder and I'm really pleased.
You made a good choice. That looks great!
I have an OCD in mine. I understand there are settings but I've never messed with it. In this game, does it make sense for me to learn and adjust the settings?
I guess the answer to this question lies i whether you have a condition similar to the board's name. In other words, are you OCD about how things look? I was very OCD and spent a little time (but not much) tweaking a few bulbs for brightness so they blended in with the others. If you don't see any issues then skip it and stick with the stock profile that you initially loaded.
They SO do - but you're on the money - it's got to be done right or not at all.
certainly not mandatory to learn the settings, but i agree with the other comments that LOTR is a delicate flower when it comes to LEDs.
Personally i used Comet's 2SMD warm white frosted bulbs throughout - so they're all the same brightness, colour temp & profile. Also easier/quicker to buy a big bunch 75% wedge to 25% bayonet, roughly speaking, than it is to colour match and build a complex shopping list.
Brightness can be adjusted down to maintain that dimmer glow like incandescents. It's 85% peak by default i think with LED OCD, which is a good start.
There's also the delay which i think i set to 1, instead of the default 2.
In summary, you get out what you put in!
Sometimes i wish i could OCD Metallica Premium. It's way too blinky & bright for my eyes!
I really, really wish I installed the NVRAM I got right before I did this but it has to go away forever. My best score yet by at least 2x.
Isn't the high score capped at 250 million on the original production runs of this game?
Nice job btw, sorry you had to lose that.
btw, still having quirky issues with that right VUK. It knows the ball is there, but it takes it's good ol time sometimes kicking the ball up, usually ending up in ball search mode, and of course always right in the middle of a game.
One bit of advice - if you go into the built-in help menu it takes you through a troubleshooting procedure, one of the later steps is to use a wire and short the tab of the magnet transistor to ground to test if the transistor is good and the magnet energizes. Mine tested bad (because the fuse was blown) but I decided to try shorting some nearby transistors to see what would happen. Well, what happened was that I got a spark and blew two transistors , so DON'T DO THAT! I had to replace the 2 transistors and the blown magnet fuse and now all is back to normal with no further issues after several games.
This exact scenario happened to me just recently.
I have to replace the original backbox speakers and wires (from a Pinsound card, long story) and wanted to make sure I have the wiring correct. Can anyone confirm how the wires run to each of the 2 backbox speakers? Thanks in advance.
Just joined the club today, are there any must have mods I need to have to enjoy the game? I plan on having it for a long time.
The palantir mod is one of the best in all of pinball. That's the one you need to have.
Color DMD in Scan mode really enhances the game a lot. I think the Shire Decal is much needed as that part of the playfield is so barebones without it. I'm also a fan of the Army of the Dead mod to add some character to that upper playfield. As stated above, the palantir mod is incredible but almost impossible to find. A new person is making them now but there's a back order list of at least a year already, and we don't even know if enough parts exist for him to make them all.
If you're into enhancing the art, there are some really great options for art blades: sillyoldelf's are my favorite, but there are also brass mirror blades which are cool and a<|fim_middle|> done tastefully. I ordered the Cointaker complete kit. Once I had it installed, I made some modifications to suit my taste. Warm white in the GI is a must for this game! I also added spotlights on the slingshots to light up the middle of the playfield a little better. I'm in a pinball league with 20+ pinheads and they all said this was the nicest LOTR lighting they've ever seen.
I can't help you with a figure, but are the finger prints something you can buff out with some novus or something? | few other art blades including ones that light up.
All in all, it's a great game. I'd suggest just giving it a good cleaning and enjoy the game.
EDIT: LEDs are controversial on this game, but IMO if you do them tastefully they really add to the game as well. You need to use an LED OCD though which is not cheap. Don't try to do LEDs without one, there is too much dimming in the game that will cause LEDs without the OCD to just flicker too much.
EDIT: LEDs are controversial on this game, but IMO if you do them tastefully they really add to the game as well.
The incandescent bulbs do look good in this game; however, LEDs are the way to go if | 152 |
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Come to<|fim_middle|> outcomes due to increased access to fresh fruits and vegetables, land and farmer preservation, and more. The guide focuses on land use and planning issues that arise as elected officials, town managers, Cooperative Extension agents, and community leaders work together to establish local food systems in their communities. It provides guidance on collaborating for growth in local food systems, including advice on creating a local food policy council, conducting a local food systems assessment, and incorporating local food systems into economic development strategies. The guide also provides ideas and resources for growing an area's "local food economy", including supporting farmers markets, roadside stands and mobile markets; increasing local foods in groceries, convenience store, and corner markets; establishing more community gardens; supporting urban agriculture; repurposing vacant, publicly-owned land for food production, processing, distribution, and sales; and increasing agritourism. Published May 2013 by the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS).
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Before the collaborative partnership, Grigorjevaite was a Creative Director at The Collective magazine, visiting lecturer of a Fashion and Communication Course at John Moores University, and Board Member of Trustees at The Merseyside Youth Association. Janciauskas was completing his PhD in Psychology after originally studying photography in Lithuania where he worked and studied under Tomas Kauneckas in Ciklopas (Cyclopes), one of the leading photography studios in the Baltic states. Both Grigorjevaite and Janciauskas were from Lithuania and collaborated to form Sane Seven.
After joining together as a team, the duo became known for their creative portraits. In 2016 they held an exhibition during the International Festival for Business that featured unconventional portraits of business leaders, philanthropists and entrepreneurs including Terry Leahy; Michael Bibby; The Earl of Derby; and others. The duo won 2017 MIFA Award for Advertising Photographer of the Year. In 2021, Sane Seven won Gold in a professional portrait photography category at the New York Photography Awards.
In 2017, the duo published a book about business success aimed at inspiring young entrepreneurs titled | 294 |
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A Georgian watching the state's two U.S. Senate runoffs could be excused for believing the presidential race didn't end last month.
Television ads, campaign rallies and debates for the races are hammering the same national narratives that consumed Georgia and the rest of the country for the last year, centered around President Trump, now-President-elect Joe Biden and which man's vision will control Washington next year.
With control of the Senate still in play thanks to the state's two unresolved races, in Georgia the campaigning never stopped, albeit with some twists.
Now the debate is about whether the state's two Republican incumbents back Trump's false claims of winning the state, or conversely, whether the Democratic challengers would help Biden, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) enact a liberal agenda in Washington.
Discussion of local priorities has been swept aside largely by national personalities like Trump, Schumer and AOC, as Ocasio-Cortez is known, and by debates over the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and reforming the police.
"Georgia issues have been pretty much ignored" in the Senate race, said Charles S. Bullock III, a University of Georgia political science professor. "You hear nothing at all directly about what a candidate would do to improve the conditions of Georgians."
No talk of an infrastructure plan to improve traffic around Atlanta, or of supporting the Port of Savannah, an economic engine in the state. When "Georgia" pops up in campaign ads, it's usually just in the tag line at the end — not in the content of the ad.
Without Trump at the top of the ticket to motivate voters of both parties, Republicans and Democrats in Georgia instead are tapping into red-meat politics, hoping to light a fire under as many loyalists as possible to ensure they vote. Gone is any attempt to reach independents or change minds though nuanced messaging.
Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are hoping their die-hard supporters will be driven by a desire to prevent Democrats from controlling the Senate, which will happen if both of their challengers, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, respectively, are elected.
The Nov. 3 election left the party balance in the Senate next year at 50 Republicans and 48 Democratic seats, including two independents who caucus with the party. If Democrats win the remaining two seats, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris can vote with them to break a tie.
With Biden in the White House and Democrats in control of the House, holding on to the Senate is the GOP's only hope of blocking Biden's agenda and a slew of Democratic-backed bills. Republican messaging is that a vote for incumbents Perdue and Loeffler is to "hold the line" and<|fim_middle|> Plan! This Business Plan has helped thousands of People!Make Serious Money with Our Simple Business Plan! This Business Plan has helped thousands of People! ATLANTA — Democrats moved […]
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In an astonishing $134 million in television ads that have run in Georgia since Nov. 4, $40.8 million worth of them have mentioned Biden, Schumer, Ocasio-Cortez or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), according to a review of ads compiled by Advertising Analytics.
The ads, from Republicans or their allied groups, warn of the liberal policies they say Democrats will pass if granted control of the Senate, such as the Green New Deal, "Medicare for all" or adding seats to the Supreme Court.
"The average Georgian has to decide: Do you want to slow down Biden, in which case you have to elect Perdue and Loeffler, or do you want to help Biden, in which case you've got to vote for Warnock and Ossoff," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who represented an Atlanta-area district in the 1990s.
Democrats, meanwhile, are hoping to keep the focus on Trump, trying to force Loeffler and Perdue to take sides in the state GOP's internal battle over whether to acknowledge Biden's victory or continue to appease Trump.
In a recent debate, Warnock goaded Loeffler to directly answer whether Trump had won the election, a question she dodged five times over the hour. She did say she backed Trump's "right to use every legal recourse available."
Republicans have backed Trump's efforts to get the courts to block Biden's election from being finalized, a point that Democrats hope will sully their rivals' image among GOP voters who don't support the president or his efforts to fight the election results.
Democrats have made oblique references to Trump in their ads, such as one depicting Perdue repeating many of the themes Trump said during the early days of the pandemic.
They say the independence of Georgia's senators is going to be important to whether the Senate is able to accomplish things, like a new COVID-19 relief bill.
"These are our two United States senators, and who we select is going to be important in terms of Georgia's future," said Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.).
But as challengers, the Democrats have also focused significant attention on trying to muddy Perdue and Loeffler amid allegations that they improperly used information received as part of their Senate jobs to sell stocks as the COVID-19 pandemic first came to the United States. Since early November, Democrats and allied groups have run about $27 million worth of ads against Loeffler and Perdue mentioning the stock sales, according to the ad data. Loeffler and Perdue have denied any wrongdoing.
Republicans are favored in the Jan. 5 runoffs, but the results are expected to be close. The GOP has long had an edge in Georgia, but Democrats are gaining. When Biden narrowly won the state, it was the first time since 1992 that a Democratic presidential candidate had done so.
National figures are visiting the state at a steady pace. Biden is scheduled to campaign there Tuesday for Warnock and Ossoff. Trump has held a rally for Loeffler and Perdue and Vice President Mike Pence plans his third trip for Thursday.
The lack of attention to local issues isn't surprising. Senate races have increasingly become proxies for how voters feel about national politics.
"We've seen for several election cycles now that all politics is no longer local," said Jessica Taylor, who analyzes Senate races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
The nationalization of Senate races became blindingly clear in 2016, when their outcomes aligned perfectly with those of the presidential race in each state that had a Senate contest. This year, Republican Sen. Susan Collins was the only senator who overcame that trend, winning in Maine when Trump couldn't. It takes a strong personality and brand to overcome the dynamic, Taylor said.
Perdue, who has been in office for one term, and Loeffler, who was appointed to her seat one year ago, don't have that decades-long brand.
Some say that control of the U.S. Senate — though not a local issue — will be just as important to Georgians as it will for all Americans.
"Although it has drawn national attention," Johnson said, "this is still an election about Georgia."
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Q: VBA Script runs in Excel but not CMD/Powershell I have a VBA script in Excel which works fine but when saved as script_name.vbs and executed in cmd/powershell as cscript.exe script_name.vbs it throws the error:
dir_path\script_name.vbs(30, 37) Microsoft VBScript compilation error: Expected ')'
Firstly I apologise. This seems like a well-worn question but no answer I could find explains any reasons why my particular VBA script won't work.
I learnt that you cannot Dim As when running vbs on the cmd line so I removed that, and then got the above error. No question I found seems to indicate to me as to why.
Help much appreciated!
Thanks
FYI: The macro is to iterate through all files which have passwords in a folder and
*
*Attempt a number of any possible passwords to open the file
*Same again for workbook protection passwords
*Unhide all worksheets
*Save the file
*Move onto the next file
Sub BAUProcessVBA()
Dim wb
Dim ws
Dim myPath
Dim myFile
Dim myExtension
Dim i
'Optimize Macro Speed
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.EnableEvents = False
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
myPath = "C:\blah\dir\"
'Target File Extension (must include wildcard "*")
myExtension = "*.xls*"
'Target Path with Ending Extention
myFile = Dir(myPath & myExtension)
'Loop through each Excel file in folder
Do While myFile <> ""
'Set variable equal to opened workbook
Debug.Print myFile
On Error Resume Next
Set wb = Workbooks.Open(Filename:=myPath & myFile, Password:="pw1", IgnoreReadOnlyRecommended:=True, ReadOnly:=False)
Set wb = Workbooks.Open(Filename:=myPath & myFile, Password:="pw2", IgnoreReadOnlyRecommended:=True, ReadOnly:=False)
On Error GoTo 0
'Ensure Workbook has opened before moving on to next line of code
DoEvents
'Remove workbook protection and, unhide all tabs, save the file
On Error Resume Next
wb.Unprotect "pw1"
wb.Unprotect "pw2"
On Error GoTo 0
On Error Resume Next
wb.Password = ""
On Error GoTo 0
For Each ws In wb.Worksheets
ws.Visible = xlSheetVisible
Next ws
'Save and Close Workbook
Application.CutCopyMode = False
wb.Close SaveChanges:=True
Application.EnableEvents = False
'Ensure Workbook has closed before moving on to next line of code
DoEvents
'Get next file name
myFile = Dir
Loop
'Reset Macro Optimization Settings
Application.EnableEvents = True
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
A: You seem under the impression that Visual Basic for Applications vba and Visual Basic Script vbscript are identical languages. That is not the case. They may be more closely related than<|fim_middle|>. The filepath_incl_filename must contain the full path AND the filename whereas filename must contain ONLY the filename. Yes, it must be provided like this.
*Copy the filepath where run_macro.py is located and press win+r and type 'cmd' to open the cmd terminal, then type cd <filepath from clipboard> and press enter
*Now type python run_macro.py
*So long as you get no errors and it appears to "freeze" then that means it's working. Otherwise, you will need to debug the errors.
Code:
import win32com.client as wincl
def run_excel_macro(filepath_incl_filename=r'raw_filepath', filename='', module_name='', macro_name=''):
"""
:param filepath_incl_filename: Must be r'' filepath to dir with filename but also include the filename in the filepath (c:\etc\folder\wb_with_macro.xlsm)
:param filename: Filename of xlsm with the Macro (wb_with_macro.xlsm)
:param module_name: Found inside 'Modules' of macros within that workbook
:param macro_name: The 'sub name_here()' means macro is called 'name_here'
:return: Nothing. Executes the Macro.
"""
# script taken from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19616205/running-an-excel-macro-via-python
# DispatchEx is required in the newest versions of Python.
excel_macro = wincl.DispatchEx("Excel.application")
workbook = excel_macro.Workbooks.Open(Filename=filepath_incl_filename, ReadOnly=1)
excel_macro.Application.Run(f"{filename}!{module_name}.{macro_name}")
# Save the results in case you have generated data
workbook.Save()
excel_macro.Application.Quit()
del excel_macro
Code2
run_excel_macro(
filepath_incl_filename=r'',
filename='',
module_name='',
macro_name=''
)
| Visual Basic .Net vb.net and VBA or VBS, but they are still different languages.
Which is why we have different tags for all of them.
Now, to tackle your question:
VBA has got the Microsoft Office Object Library reference, which means native support for office objects.
Application doesn't exist in vbs, so you need to create that object: Set Application = WScript.CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Excel constants don't exist:
xlCalculationManual = -4135, xlCalculationAutomatic = -4105 and xlSheetVisible = -1
Dir doesn't exist, so you need to create a FileSystemObject
Named arguments don't exist, so you need commas:
Set wb = app.Workbooks.Open(myPath & myFile, , False, , "pw1", , True)
And DoEvents doesn't exist either.
A: To solve this problem I have used Python to open Excel and execute the Macro I want. Below is a function that should work for anyone.
Things I have learnt: If you have VBA code in Excel and want to run it without Excel then you cannot just save this as a .vbs and execute it on the command line with cscript.exe.
VBS and VBA are different languages.
Therefore, a quick tutorial for those stuck at the same problem but are unfamiliar with Python:
*
*Download and install Python ensuring python is added to PATH. This script was written and successfully executed with Python 3.8 64-bit for Windows. https://www.python.org/downloads/
*Save the below in a file called run_macro.py
*On the last line of run_macro.py, with no indentation, type what is below within Code2
*Carrying on with Code2: Inside of the quotes 'like this' type in what it's asking for | 374 |
Family Mass gives are students and families an opportunity to worship as a community. Children will it in the front pews of the church for a sermon directed to them. They will have the opportunity to ask Father Mark questions and dialogue directly with him about their lessons or the readings. Children will sing in the Children's Choir, introduce the Scripture reading, lead the intentions, and present the gifts at offertory.
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By signing and submitting this form to Saint Anthony's Youth Formation Office, I acknowledge the expectations of myself and my child(ren) enrolled in the Faith Formation Program outlined in the Youth Formation Handbook.
Grades 1 -3 meet weekly in the Parish Center. Having been begun their faith journey at home, they are now introduced to learning about God in small Christian communities with their peers.
Grades 1& 2 meet Monday at 3:45 or 5:00 p.m. Classes begin September 17th<|fim_middle|> students in Grades 9 and 10 also study in small Christian Communities.
The 9th grade curriculum is morality and living a Christ-like life.
Grade 10 students make final preparations for Confirmation. Their preparation includes working with their sponsors as well as in small Christian communities of their peers to learn the Sacrament of Confirmation. | .
Grade 3 meets Saturday, 9-10:30 a.m. First class is September 15th. There is a parent meeting during the first class.
Grade 4-6 parents and students meet once per month as a faith community. They follow up the gathered lesson with faith sharing activities at home.
Grades 7& 8 study bi-weekly in small Christian communities of peers. Their curriculum includes Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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Protection by Design in Williamsburg<|fim_middle|> | , Va., says the speed and interactivity of new Salez Toolz APEX software enabled the company to close 1,200 projects so far in 2015.
The "Create" screen in APEX shows the Product Grid with pictorial icons that make it easy to identify different package types such as speakers, keypads, cameras. The expanded Product Grid allows it to scroll up to 20 packages per column, 200 for a single system. Navigation wheels have been added to the right allowing for selection of Rooms and Systems (Product Categories).
Whoever says that software can't make a difference in your business needs to speak with Paula and Robert Sheldon, owners of Protection by Design in Williamsburg, Va.
Using Salez Toolz from Abacus Prime, the duo recently negotiated with a new homebuilder to be their exclusive contractor. They set up a satellite office, staffed it with a single salesperson and a copy of the Salez Toolz mobile app.
"Within the first two months and without any support our salesperson closed over $200K," says Paula Sheldon.
They went on to close over 1,200 projects and this year added another salesperson and are already tracking a 50 percent increase.
"We're now getting ready to bring this into our custom division and are very excited about the time this will save us," she adds.
The software visually engages customers with a presentation of an integration company's technology solutions, rather than randomly searching through a catalog of SKU's and specs. This lifestyle image along with an estimated installed price gives customers the ability to make decisions quicker. Customers have their budget in minutes, then sign and deposit right on the salesperson's mobile device or online.
CE Pro spoke with the two principals of Abacus Prime, Mark and Susan Sipe, who explained some of the upgrades to the new Salez Toolz APEX software. | 394 |
I'm beginning to wonder whether the many attempts at creating what we used to call webisodic serial video programming on the Web actually have a better home on devices. After all, most Web video series were conceived as bite-size streaming media content. Portability is in their DNA.
'Mobile Blinders' At Retail: Another Opportunity To Turn Mass Into Me Media?
Increasingly, magazine publishers and candy and soda manufacturers appear to be worried that the checkout experience where they rely on impulse buying is being clouded by mobile phone<|fim_middle|> to recognize that you don't build a company on getting people to engage in behavior that most of us regard as silly. | use. According to Bloomberg, the perceived phenomenon is moving some marketers -- especially in the magazine and soda segments -- to look for other places at retail to intercept the shopper.
Even in these early stages we are seeing how mobility will profoundly alter media consumption. Content can now find new circumstances, and "mass" media is in its last days.
As cable niche networks cater to specific tastes and the DVR lets us cherry-pick programming disentangled from their grid, the brand value of the traditional TV network is debatable at best. Do many of us really identify CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC prime time with specific types of programs? Do they have a tone and spirit that unifies the grid across morning, day and nighttime parts?
Having the full TV/DVR/On Demand experience truly mobilized means that the user is able to map their own video consumption against a range of new use case, modes and even moods.
Agencies and marketers were chasing the cool kids at SXSW. Everyone wants to figure out a way to be "authentic" at scale.
Even marketers give themselves only average marks in their mobile executions, while agencies scold that brands have rushed in without enough of a plan.
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Cancerwise
Caring for scar tissue after cancer surgery
BY Kellie Bramlet Blackburn
More than half of cancer patients undergo surgery as a part of their cancer treatment. Just about every patient who has surgery will have a scar.
Scars are actually a sign that the skin is healing. They form as the skin grows new tissue, pulling together the wound by creating collagen, which then forms scar tissue.
But scars can have uncomfortable or even painful side effects – or serve as unwanted reminders of cancer treatment. Margaret Roubaud, M.D., answers common questions and advice for dealing with scars after cancer surgery.
What are the different types of scars?
A few different types of scars may result following surgery. The most common are:
Flat scars: Flat scars may become lighter or darker than the surrounding skin, but they're not raised or sunken.
Keloid scars: Keloid scars are thick, dark irregular clusters of tissue that grow beyond the borders of the original incision. They're formed by collagen after an incision has healed.
Hypertrophic scars: These are similar to keloid scars, but they only appear at the original site of the incision. They may be raised or darker in color.
What helps a scar heal after surgery?
There are three things to help reduce the appearance of scars:
Moisturize. A high-quality moisturizer can lock in natural moisture and oils, keeping your skin hydrated.
Use sunscreen. Sun exposure can cause scars to grow darker, or hyper-pigment. Use a sunscreen with SPF 60 or greater and try your best to keep out of the sun during the first year after surgery.
Massage the scar. Once your scar has healed, you can massage it. This provides moisture and flexibility to the scar, which promotes collagen remodeling and helps the scar heal.
What's the best scar treatment after surgery?
There's no magic potion. But any high-quality moisturizer, whether that's lotion – shea butter, or coconut oil– can make a big difference.
There are lotions available at every price point that can help reduce the appearance of scars. In addition to moisturizer, silicone sheets that essentially look like band-aids and help increase hydration, keep out bacteria, and reduce itching and discomfort.
How long does it take a scar to heal?
Scars take at least three months to stabilize. About six to 12 weeks after they first appear, they'll start to soften, and the color will fade. At about the one-year mark, they've finished developing.
It's important to remember that scars often look worse as they heal before they look better.
Are there any side effects associated with scars?
Scars aren't just cosmetic. They can cause pulling or pain, particularly if they're in a sensitive area. Depending on where they're located, they can impact movement or function. Scars may require additional surgery if they are affecting a patient's quality of life, not<|fim_middle|>erness or drainage are all signs of infection.
Cancer patients should also look for a care team that includes a plastic surgeon who can help them deal with any scarring that occurs during treatment.
Request an appointment at MD Anderson online or by calling 1-877-632-6789.
Read More by Kellie Bramlet Blackburn | just because the patient doesn't like the way it looks.
Is there any treatment available for scars?
Most scars are fine with massage and some moisturizer and won't require additional care. But for more severe scars, the following treatments are available:
Injections: Corticosteroid injections can reduce the size of keloid scars.
Laser treatments: Laser and light treatments can make scars less noticeable by causing blood vessels to recede once the scar has fully healed.
Scar-revision surgery: If a scar is causing significant functional or aesthetic deformity, surgeons can revise the scar. This may require excision and reclosure, or, if the scar is quite contracted, it may require plastic surgery solutions, such a local tissue rearrangement. This can not only reduce the appearance of the scar; it can also help improve movement and mobility.
What should cancer patients specifically know about scarring?
Everyone, but cancer patients especially, should keep an eye on their scars because of the risk of infection. Redness, swelling, tend | 205 |
Headphones come in a plethora of shapes, sizes, and quality levels — there are so<|fim_middle|> result is an incredibly nuanced experience for the listener. The subtleties of the recordings aren't drowned out, ensuring that the entire musical vision of each song's creator is heard.
Pros: Delivers high-level sound quality; slick design; stellar comfort.
Cons: Tethers listener to phone, etc. | many options, in fact, that it can be overwhelming to know what to purchase. In the sea of competition, companies often differentiate their products by focusing on a particular niche. The following two audio specialists have done just that. For purest, 1More has created a set of earbuds that brings music-studio sound quality to the listener, while Treblab has made comfort a priority with its Bluetooth-enabled headphones. Read on to learn more about these two products.
Dealing exclusively in wireless gear, Treblab has multiple earphones and speakers in its catalog but only one headphone — the Z2 wireless HD. One of the Z2's outstanding features is the comfort of the earmuffs. "We use a special leather-like material …[that's] made to be super soft." Indeed, the cushiony, supple feeling allowed for hours of wearing without discomfort. They also extinguish background din, thanks to the noise-canceling feature. As for what is to come for Treblab? "In the future, we are going to expand to more sports-related products, like fitness trackers, possibly," Malamud revealed. "We're thinking about developing special earphones for swimming." Stay tuned.
Pros: Affordable; comfortable design; nice noise-canceling option.
Cons: Had glitchy connections with some Wi-Fi.
The Quad Driver's superior sound also comes via "a melding of technology between dynamic drivers and balanced armatures" and the design of the acoustic chambers. Add to that input from Grammy-nominated sound engineer Luca Bignardi, who "tunes all of our headphones," and the | 333 |
The role of the Jury in a criminal trial
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Juries are vital part of the Australian legal system. Juries are comprised of men and women from the community- randomly selected from the electoral roll.
The responsibility of the jury is to consider the facts of a case as presented by the Crown (Prosecution) and the Defence and decide whether any offence has been proved beyond reasonable doubt.
The jury is assisted<|fim_middle|> form of a closing submission. At the conclusion of the addresses to the jury, the Judge will then 'sum up' the case. The jury will then retire to deliberate. Deliberation may take minutes, hours, even days.
If a jury returns a verdict of not guilty- the accused is discharged and allowed to go free. If the jury returns a guilty verdict- the Judge will then commence the sentencing proceedings. The jury plays no part in sentencing the accused.
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NextCharge of WoundingNext | by the Judge who explains elements of the law. The Judge is also entitled to assist the jury to understand the facts revealed by the evidence put forward by the Crown and the Defence.
Most importantly, it is the members of the jury alone who bear the responsibility in determining the facts of the matter and deciding whether the accused is guilty or not guilty.
If you have been selected for jury service, you will receive a summons. A summons is a legal notice which requires a person to attend, give evidence or produce documents. In this case- the summons requires you to attend court. Being issued with a jury summons, does not mean you will serve on the jury. Who actually servers on the jury is decided during a further selection process called empanelling.
Empanelling is the process where your name, along with your suburb and occupation are placed in a rotating box. The Judge's Associate then randomly selects jurors from this box.
Once a juror's name is called, the Crown may call 'stand by' or the Defence may call 'challenge'. In the event this happens, another name will be called. If your name is selected, and you are not 'stood by' or 'challenged' you will be sworn in as a juror. This process is repeated until there are twelve jurors in the jury box.
Once empanelled, the charge, names of the prospective witnesses and the importance of acting impartially is pressed upon the jury by the Judge. The Judge will ask any juror who believes that they cannot act impartially in the trial to identify themselves.
Once this process has been completed, the trial will begin.
The Crown will 'open' the case with a brief outline of evidence to be called. The Crown will then call each witness, one by one. Each witness will be first questioned by the Crown, and then cross-examined by the Defence. The Crown does have the ability to re-examine a witness in some circumstances.
At the close of the Crown case, the Defence may call their own witnesses and the process is repeated.
At the conclusion of both the Crown and Defence case, both parties may address the jury in the | 435 |
Sports Direct Fitness is the leisure division of Sports Direct the UK's number one sports retailer.
Sports Direct Fitness are the newest business venture of the international retail giant Sports Direct and we are taking the fitness world by storm.
In our world the passion and ambition of our people have kept us moving. Their passion for fitness is second to none, their knowledge and service levels hook the customer, their drive and ambition to be the best is unrivalled.
We now require a truly exceptional, driven and proven General Manager to help take us to the next level. If you have a "reach for the stars" attitude and<|fim_middle|> and the membership needs.
Proactively manage the club succession, development and recruitment plan to ensure the club is fully staffed and productive at all times.
Recognise great performance and manage poor performance issues in a timely and effective manner.
Encourage full participation in the Team Engagement survey and act on feedback.
Drive positive Member Retention through supporting members to achieve their goals. | go above and beyond then take a look at our careers…. They are out of this world!
Delivering member growth year on year through sales and retention processes ensuring a positive contribution is made to P& L reports by way of managing membership yield and joining fees.
Provide training and development for the team as required.
Know your market well through strong competitor analysis reports.
Plan your team to ensure the quarterly set targets are achieved through mapping external and internal outreach.
Monitoring your clubs sales performance to meet with company KPI's.
Effectively lead, manage and execute all sales promotions delivered by Head office.
Utility management of the facilities.
Ensure Brand standards are in place to meet company and member expectations.
Management of leaver control through debt recovery systems. .
New member journey through PT, Gym floor interaction/challenges and group exercise engagement.
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Former WWE Referee On Vince McMahon Settling Hulk Hogan Vs. Randy Orton SummerSlam Finish In 2006 - Wrestling Inc.
Hulk Hogan's career in professional wrestling spanned thirty years before his final WWE match at SummerSlam 2006. Twelve years have passed since Hogan defeated Randy Orton to close their feud leaving one icon the Legend Killer couldn't topple.
Former WWE and current Lucha Underground referee Marty Elias said he will never forget his first SummerSlam and for good reason. He recently wrote an article for The Sports Daily which chronicled his backstage experience before 2006's Biggest Party Of The Summer.
Sgt. Slaughter, who was an agent for WWE at the time pulled Elias to the side on the day of 2006's SummerSlam event. The WWE Hall Of Famer asked Elias, "so what match do you think you have tonight?" Elias replied stating how lucky he was just to get the opportunity to be there and Slaughter replied, "don't start crying on me kid, go make the best of this match and enjoy it. Stuff like this doesn't happen to everyone."
Elias was informed he had the assignment of officiating Hogan's match against Orton and he couldn't believe it. When Elias heard this news, flashbacks and reels playing Hogan's career highlights flashed through his mind. He later found out that John Laurinaitis assigned Hogan vs. Orton to him because Johnny Ace believed in Elias.
Orton was informed that Elias would be officiating his SummerSlam match and all they were doing at that point was waiting for Hogan so they could lay out the match. Once The Hulkster was ready to talk, there was an issue about who would win. They batted around different scenarios until Vince McMahon came into the dressing room and spoke to Hogan. McMahon made it clear that Hogan was going over and that they would discuss things further later.
Hogan demanded a spot where he wanted to get the crowd as Elias counted to three without noticing The Hulkster's foot was on the bottom rope, which eventually became part of the finished product as well.
"Brother, you really need to sell the moment and sympathize with what just happened!" Hogan told Elias as he instructed him how to act during this key moment. Elias couldn't believe he was receiving pointers from a legend like Hogan and he was el<|fim_middle|> in the Gorilla Position.
Elias approached Hogan as the show started to make sure everything was still okay and then he went to see Orton. While speaking to The Viper, Elias was told, "have fun, I know what you're feeling! I remember seeing Hulk Hogan wrestle my dad (Cowboy Bob Orton) when I was young, and to be wrestling him today, is surreal man!"
Hogan defeated Orton on August 20th, 2006 inside a packed Boston's TD Garden. This match was Hogan's final contest inside a WWE ring, and he left with his hand held high. Elias said the match went on without a hitch, and Hogan even stopped him later in the night to tell him that he did a good job. | ated to write his name next to the WWE legend's on the lineup board | 15 |
Next of Kin - An Interactive Murder Mystery Game
Susan Haley
Published by Haley Productions
This set on an Estate owned by Hamilton Sugarbaker, a sickly patriarch whose last wish is for his family to gather for what could be their last<|fim_middle|> need | time together before he passes on
And now he must decide who will be the beneficiaries of his vast estate
8 PRIMARY SUSPECTS - (they will have full knowledge of the mystery & be given a complete script):
Hamilton "Big Daddy" Sugarbaker - A very, very rich man from Atlanta, Georgia who moved to (your state/county) 6 months ago after the disastrous failure of his second marriage
Bobbie Joe Butler - Hamilton's nurse, confidante, and friend (can be played by a male if necessary)
Rhett Sugarbaker - Hamilton's oldest son. He'll do anything to make money-anything
Ashley Sugarbaker - Hamilton's youngest son. He's a struggling poet - ana a bad one - who's embittered by his lack of success, but who still believes, despite his failures, that he's a true "artiste"
Philly (Philomena) Sugarbaker - Hamilton's jailbird sister who spends her time leaching off him
Savannah Sugarbaker - Hamilton's neurotic (insane?) second wife
Scarlett Sugarbaker - She comes from the wrong side of the tracks and it shows
Melanie Sugarbaker - Ashley's supportive but very eccentric wife. An 'interpretive dancer'
SECONDARY SUSPECTS - (Optional - Remember, EVERYONE will be actively involved in this mystery because it will be their job to solve the case and because you'll be encouraging them to come in costume and in character. Use any and all of these secondary suspects if you have "extra" cast members you want to use. You will NOT give them a script but you will give them a description of their character and let them run with it):
Mercy Bloomer - Big Daddy's accountant
Cornelius Bliss Big Daddy's ex-foreman at his Acme Bottle Capping company in Atlanta. Ex because he was caught doing something he shouldn't have
Dr Billy Kildaire - Big Daddy's doctor
Ms Beula Busty, Esq - Bid Daddy's lawyer
Wilbur Ernest Fudge - Big Daddy's milkman and witness to his will
These audience-participatory Murder Mysteries are distinctive in that everything from arguments to clues to the actual murders happens in the middle of the audience enabling them to participate and witness every action first hand. None of the dialogue is scripted - it's all improvised - the role of the guests is to actively solve the case by asking the suspects questions, following them, eavesdropping on their conversations, and so on - whatever it takes to discover whodunit
NUMBER OF PLAYERS - Up to 125 plus the Primary Suspects (your cast)
LENGTH OF MYSTERY - Approximately 2 hours.
HOW IT WORKS: You'll need to provide 6-8 people willing to take part in the mystery as the primary suspects, victim(s), detective and killer (see below). They'll have full knowledge of the script, which means they'll know "whodunit". The rest of your guests will take on the role of Detective and it will be their job to solve the case. Everyone, therefore, will have a crucial part in the mystery. The game lasts about 1 ½ to 2 hours but you can, of course, make it longer by allowing more time between the scenes/action
Your guest actors won't have to memorize a lot of dialogue but they will have to be familiar with a sequence of events or timeline that will move the mystery through the clues, the murder(s) and the solving of the crime. They'll also have to carry out certain actions (like arguments) and suspicious activities to set themselves up as Primary Suspects
NB - This type of mystery game is geared towards groups of 15 or more. All scripts are rated PG-13, contain adult themes and may not be suitable for children
THE USUAL SET UP WITH A DINNER IS AS FOLLOWS :
Upon arrival, the guests receive a program that will be a guideline for the mystery (included in this package). The primary suspects start to mingle in character, usually during the reception, and begin setting up the mystery with clues, arguments, gossip, that sort of thing. Just about the time the first course is served, the guests witness the (1st) murder. The mystery continues to unfold with more dramatic action and more clues that will lead to the mystery's conclusion. The "detective" character then allows the guests to asks his primary suspects any final questions and has the guests fill out their detective evidence record (which they receive with their programs). The solution is dramatically revealed around the time dessert is served
ALL WHODUNIT PACKAGES INCLUDE:
1. Program master (you will provide this program to all participants. It will be their guide to the mystery by providing the basic plot of the mystery, the primary suspect list and the "rules" of the game.)
2. Solution sheet master
3. Invitation master
4. Outstanding and Bumbling Detective certificates
5. Cast guidelines and suggestions
6. Supply list and prop use instructions (if applicable)
7. Paper props (for example, a medicine label or a will)
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Bygones and Byways
Bygones and Byways is an independent, private publication focusing on South African family history, genealogy, heritage and history. In publication since April 1997. The history of little-known places and people, what is available in old records, and more. All articles researched and written by Anne Lehmkuhl. COPYRIGHT ANNE LEHMKUHL, no article can be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission. Click here to contact me
SOUTH AFRICA'S CENTENARIANS
Corrie WIJNBEEK lived through two World Wars (28 Jul 1914 – 11 Nov 1918 and 01 Sep 1939 – 02 Sep 1945), the Spanish Flu (1918 – 1920), the Great Depression (Aug 1929 – Mar 1933), and the current COVID-19 pandemic. She passed away on 13 July 2021 at the age of 108 in Swartruggens.
She was living with her son, Dirk WIJNBEEK (75) a Gereformeerde Kerk minister, and his wife Nelriet, who looked after her.
Cornelia Geertje VAN DER BURGH (aka Corrie) was born on 18 February 1913 in Den Haag, The Netherlands. She was married on 08 December 1937 and had five children. During WWI, her husband, Dirk Hendrik Petrus WIJNBEEK (13 Jan 1914 - Jul 1981), was a prisoner-of-war in Germany, and one of her sons, Dirkie, died at home. She immigrated to South Africa in 1949 with her husband and four children. They rented a home in Johannesburg before buying land in Bodmin Street, New Redruth, Alberton, and building a house. Dirk Hendrik Petrus worked in the paint business in Alberton, where Corrie lived for 58 years.
In those early years in New Redruth, the roads were still untarred, and there was no sewage system in place, a night wagon came through twice per week to empty the buckets.
A daughter, Yvonne, and her husband Willem RAS, were killed in a car hijacking on the N12 near Eldorado Park in 2008.
Her other son, Marinus (28 Aug 1939 - 02 Aug 2020) was a well-known scientist, journalist and SABC TV presenter. He was a lecturer for 9 years before he joined the SABC as science editor. In 1979 the SABC started broadcasting the Afrikaans science magazine show Brandkluis for 4 seasons, in which Marinus as presenter discussed science subjects. He immigrated to the Netherlands in September 1996 with his wife, Annatjie. He was the founder of Kempton Park Technical College.
Another daughter is Beatrix VAN DER WALT who lives in Brackenhurst, Alberton.
After a break-in at her flat in Alberton, she moved in with Dirk and Nelriet. In 2013 they moved from Steynsburg in the Eastern Cape to Swartruggens.
She had 14 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren.
At the time of her death, Corrie was the second-oldest living Dutch emigrant, after Catharina VAN DER LINDEN (born 26 August 1912)of Adelaide, Australia.
Videos: https://youtu.be/vTYBDtNUFkc and https://youtu.be/LXGmy8R1osc
Ella Johanna POTGIETER, age 101, tested positive for COVID-19 in June 2021, and survived. Ella Johanna THERON was born on 22 July 1920 in Middelburg, Eastern Cape. Her family moved to Pretoria when she was 4 years old. She attended Laerskool Oost-Eind in Sunnyside, and Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool. Ella is the high school's oldest living past student, celebrating her 100th birthday in the school's century year. She left school in Grade 10, to work on the family farm in Rosslyn. She married Barend Jacobus Daniel POTGIETER (14 Aug 1916 - 12 Oct 1988) on 08 November 1941. She worked as a school secretary at Laerskool Akasia for many years before retiring in 1982. Ella currently lives in Pretoria North with her daughter Welma JACOBSZ. Ella has three children - two daughters, and a son who died four years ago. She has 8 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Shariefa
Shariefa KHAN (100) has finally returned to District Six, where she once lived with her husband and six children until the Group Areas Act evictions of the 1960s. On 17 June 2021, she received the news that she was getting a new 2-bedroom flat in Russell Street. She had applied for a house in 1996 and is the oldest living District Six land claimant. She is one of 108 people who were due to move into their new homes this July, but a construction snag has caused a delay.
On 11 February 1966, the government declared District Six a white area and shortly thereafter, the family received a letter that they would have to move. Shariefa and her husband, Dawood, lost their house and their Bombay Cafe (aka Dout's Cafe) at 238 Hanover Street in the evictions in 1968, the buildings were bulldozed. Dawood (aka Dout) was a chef. The family lived in Bailey Flats in Hanover Street, close to the Avalon Bioscope. Their cafe was famous for its Indian and Cape Malay cuisine. The family was forced to move to Rylands Estate on the outskirts of Cape Town in the then newly-formed Cape Flats.
She's been living with her daughter, Sumaya MUKADAM (59), a caterer, in Connaught Estate, Elsiesrivier. Another daughter, Nadiema KHAN (68), will move in with her mother in the new house to care for her as Shariefa had a stroke in stroke in December 2020 which left her whellchair-bound.
Shariefa was born on 25 April 1921in Vryburg, North West, to Ahmad Khan DESHMUKH and Gadija MALLAK - who were Indian immigrants to South Africa. Her family moved to Cape Town in 1928, first living in Muizenberg and later in Kensington where her father had the first halaal butchery in the area. She had eight siblings but only one younger sister is alive and she lives overseas. Shariefa married Dawood KHAN, also an Indian migrant living in District Six.
Dawood died in 1978 at age 63 of heart failure. Shariefa started making samoosas for an income, working into her 90s. Of her six children, only three are alive - Sumaya, Nadiema, and Rashida DA COSTA (63) who lives in Crawford, Cape Town. A daughter, Shamsunisa, died at 21, and another daughter, Zainab, died at 12 in an accident in front of the family's cafe. Her only son, Abdullah, died at age 72. She has 17 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.
Bredenkamp twins
Hendrik and Anna BREDENKAMP, twins born on 31 August 1919 and originally from Bultfontein in the Free State, celebrated their 100th birthday in Garsfontein, Pretoria. The wheelchair-bound twins were the last surviving of 11 children. Anna never married and worked as a missionary in Malawi for 26 years, after which she did counselling work with soldiers at 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria. Besides Afrikaans, she was fluent in English, Zulu and Chichewa. Anna died on 28 July 2020 of COVID-19, at Serene Park Retirement Home in Garsfontein.
The twins lived at Serene Park Retirement Home, with Hendrik living in a private unit across the road with his son Gerhard.
Hendrik was a Magistrate in the Free State, and later the Chief Magistrate in Pretoria. He was also fluent in English, Zulu and Dutch. He married Mona Marie Catharine BAASCH on 26 January 1946 and they had five children. Mona died on 18 October 2002 in Pretoria. Hendrik has 13 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
Tossie GOUWS celebrated her 100th birthday on 15 February 2021 at Ons Tuis Riviera Retirement Home in Pretoria. She's lived at Ons Tuis since May 2014.
Hendrika Margaretha MEINTJIES was born in Klerksdorp, where she grew up. She outlived two husbands, VAN ZYL and GOUWS. Her oldest daughter is 80 years old, another, Tersia KLEYNHANS is 72. Tossie had 6 children, and has 15 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and 6 great-great-grandchildren.
She once sent some of her smocking work to Princess Anne. Tossie was also a baker and cook. At one stage, she and her husband owned a furniture store, and she was a regional manager for Russels. Video: https://youtu.be/GDdaWC8KiPE
Katriena, Jan (back), John-Will, Benjamin
Katriena STRYDOM of Rietvallei farm, near Robertson, was born on 28 June 1919. She grew up in the area, and worked on the farm in the house and in the vineyards. Her first work was as a shepherd on Chris VILJOEN's farm.
Her mother died at age 106. Katriena had 9 children, of which 5 are deceased. She has 25 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren, including Benjamin LOUW (grandson) and John-Will ARENDSE (great-grandson).
Janet ROBERTS died at age 101 at Huis Weltevrede in Welkom on 01 June 2014. She was often seen at rose shows, and at age 95 was still doing her own laundry and ironing. Her son, Ian, visited her every day, and until a few weeks before he passing, they would go out forice cream or waffles evey day.
In her younger years she was a league tennis player in Virginia. She stopped playing tennis at age 79.
Janet ARNOT was born on 07 February 1913 in Roodepoort. She married William Robert Charles ROBERTS on 01 June 1940, and they settled in Virginia in 1952. He worked at the Harmony Gold Mine. They had two sons, Ian and Clive. Janet had 2 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild.
Miss Mary SWART of Huis Klippedrift in Napier celebrated her 100th birthday on 04 June 2015. She moved to Huis Klippedrift in 2015.
Maria Carolina SWART (aka Miss Mary) was born on 04 June 1915 on Heuningberg farm in Bredasdorp. She died on 18 Julie 2017 at age 102 in Napier.
Her father donated a small hall on his property to the African People's Organisation so that they could have a meeting place. Her sister, Susan and husband Jack VAN RENSBURG, fought to save the buildings that now house the Shipwreck Museum in Bredasdorp. In 1967, the authorities planned to demolish the old Independent Church building and hall. The community joined hands and after a large donation from Gideon ALBERTYN, they raised funds for a museum fund. The buildings, which belonged to the Anglican Church at that stage, were bought under the auspices of the municipality and declared a National Monument. The church building houses the Shipwreck Museum and the old hall next door houses the village museum. Miss Mary was an active member of the Friends of the Shipwreck Museum.
Lydia RADEBE of Villiers in the Free State turned 100 in August 2019. She was born on 13 August 1919 on a farm near Villiers.
In 1995 she received the first low-cost 3-room house built in Qalabotjha, Villiers, where she lived with two granddaughters. For her 100th birthday the community made repairs to the house.
Gerty LÖTTER of Robbertsz Street, Brandwacht in Stellenbosch celebrated her 100th birthday on 29 April 2019. She was born in Hopefield. She lived in Somerset West for many years before moving in with her daughter, Rita DE JAGER. Gerty was the youngest of 9 children and outlived them all. She also outlived her son. Gerty died in November 2019.
Willie SMIT turned 100 years old on 10 June 2021, a few days before moving to Ons Tuis Rivera in Pretoria.
Willem Frederick Jacobus SMIT was born on 10 June 1921 near Boksburg, one of six children. Three of them are still alive. He started an apprenticeship at Simmer & Jack Mine, and worked until his 40s on the gold mines in the Welkom area. He left to farm with sheep and cattle on the Highveld, together with his wife Henriëtte and their 4 children ((of whom two daughters are still alive). They later retired to Hartenbos for a few years before moving to Pretoria. He outlived Henriëtte and 2 children. Willie has 7 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild.
Chithekile MaGumede HLABISA, 101, survived COVID-19 and later received her vaccination. One of her daughters, Nelisiwe HLABISA, died from COVID-19. Chithekile lives in Ward 1 near Mzingazi in KwaZulu-Natal.
Eunice FICK from Bellville, Cape Town, celebrated her 102nd birthday by getting the COVID-19 vaccine on 26 May 2021. Eunice DE JAGER was born in Oudtshoorn and has lived in her flat behind Eureka Retirement Home in Bellville for 26 years. Welhma LISHMAN is one of two daughters.
Eunice has 7 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Her husband, Gabriel Stephanus FICK (aka Kokkie), died on 04 September 2009 at age 94. They were married on 14 March 1945. She is one of Die Burger newspaper's oldest subscribers, having had a subscription for more than 50 years. Her father was also a subscriber.
Coba SCHABORT of Bloemfontein celebrated her 104th birthday on 29 April 2021, spending the day with her two daughters, 9 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Her daughter, Annalet NEL, lives with her in a townhouse in Langenhoven Park. Helene WILKE is her other daughter.
Coba is the oldest member of the Voortrekkerbeweging, having been a member for 90 of their 101 years. She received an honorary award from them in their centenary year.
She grew up in Reivilo, in North West province. The town was named after her father, A.J. OLIVIER. Coba survived the Spanish Flu pandemic, having been infected in 1918.
JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN - BLOEMFONTEIN'S MOST FAMOUS BABY
John Ronald Reuel TOLKIEN was born in Bloemfontein on 03 January 1892, the son of Arthur Reuel TOLKIEN, an Englishman who had taken up a position with the Africa Bank Corporation, and his wife Mabel SUFFIELD (1870–1904). Arthur arrived in Cape Town in 1890, and in 1891 he was transferred to Bloemfontein. He sent for his fiancée, Mabel, and they were married on 16 April 1891 in the St. George's Anglican Cathedral in Cape Town. In 1895 when JRR was three years old, his mother took him and his brother, Hilary Arthur Reuel (born 17 February 1894) back to England. During their absence, Arthur fell ill with rheumatic fever and died of severe brain haemorrhage on 15 February 1896. Arthur's funeral service took place at the Anglican Church in Bloemfontein, and he was buried at the President Brand Cemetery on the corner of Church and Rhodes Avenue.
Handwritten Christmas card photo of the Tolkien family, sent by Mabel from Bloemfontein to her relatives in Birmingham, on 15 November 1892. Mabel is seated, the nanny is holding baby JRR then ten months old. The cook and a servant are also included. The original photo was sepia, Mabel had coloured in some sections and added the writing.
In 1992, Arthur's grave was located after a long search made difficult by the lack of a gravestone. Sarel THERON, who worked for the Department of Parks and Recreation in the Boemfontein Municipality, eventually found a burial register for the President Brand Cemetery. Together with Frans VAN DER WALT, who was responsible for the cemeteries, they located the grave using three registers that finally showed the grave was in Block D, Row 3, Grave number 20. A new tombstone was placed on the grave in 1994 by the Tolkien family and and the South African Tolkien Society.
Arthur Tolkien's grave in Bloemfontein
Arthur was born in Handsworth, Stafford, England, in 1857, the eldest child of John Benjamin TOLKIEN and Mary Jane STOWE (circa 1834, Birmingham; died 13 February 1915, Newcastle upon Tyne). His father had previously been married to Jane HOLMWOOD (circa 1806, Fareham, Hampshire; died 1854, Worcester) with whom he had four children:
1) Jane (born circa 1836, Marylebone, London)
2) Emily (born June 1838, Marylebone, London)
3) Louisa (born June 1840, Marylebone, London)
4) John Benjamin (born March 1845, Birmingham, Warwickshire; died 1883, London)
He married Mary on 16 February 1856 at All Saints Parish Church, Birmingham, Warwickshire. They had the following children:
1) Arthur Reuel (born 1857, Handsworth)
2) Mabel (born 1858, Handsworth; died 1937)
3) Grace Bindley (born 1861, Handsworth; died 1904, Kings Norton, Worcestershire)
4) Florence Mary (born 1863, Birmingham)
5) Frank Winslow (born 28 July 1864, Birmingham; died 24 April 1867, West Bromwich)
6) Howard Charles (born 27 December 1866, Birmingham; died 27 October 1867, West Bromwich)
7) Wilfrid Henry (born 1870, Handsworth; died 08 August 1938, Essex)
8) Laurence George H. (born 1873, Moseley, Worcestershire)
John Benjamin was born in 1807 in Middlesex, London. He died on 01 August 1896 in Kings Norton, Warwickshire, England. He was a piano maker, teacher, and tuner. Arthur did not follow in his father's footsteps into the family trade in pianos, instead he became a bank clerk.
The Africa Bank Corporation was a double-storey sandstone building on the corner of Maitland and West Burger Street. The family lived in the top floor. The building later became a Bradlows furniture store. The building was demolished in 1933 and replaced by an Art Deco building that is still there. A bronze plaque was placed on the building in 1984, but was stolen in 1997. Thanks to an alert policeman, it was recovered a few days later, and is now kept at the Hobbit Boutique Hotel in President Steyn Street.
After Arthur's death, Mabel had no income, so she moved back in with her parents in Kings Heath, Birmingham. In 1896, they moved to Sarehole, a Worcestershire village. Mabel taught her two children herself, teaching them art, calligraphy, maths, science, English literature, and reading Latin and French. JRR liked to draw landscapes and trees, but his favourite lessons were languages.
Mabel became a Catholic in 1900, despite her Baptist family's protests. This led to her family stopping financial assistance to her. In 1904, when JRR was 12, Mabel died of acute diabetes at Fern Cottage in Rednal. She was buried at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. The young boys stayed with their aunt, Beatrice SUFFIELD, for a short while. Prior to her death, she assigned guardianship of her sons to her close friend, Fr. Francis Xavier MORGAN of the Birmingham Oratory. After her death, JRR grew up in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham and attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, and later St. Philip's School. In 1903, he won a Foundation Scholarship and returned to King Edward's where he was one of the cadets from the school's Officers Training Corps who lined the route for the 1910 Coronation Parade of King George V.
JRR was known as Ronald by his family, and had the nickname Tollers. While in his early teens, JRR's cousins, Mary and Majorie INCLEDON invented their own language called Animalic. Mary and others, including JRR, went on to invent a more complex language they called Nevbosh. His own first invented language was Naffarin.
The 1901 England Census shows JRR living in Kings Norton, Kings Heath, Worcestershire, with his mother and brother. The 1911 England Census shows him boarding at 4 Highfield Road, Edgbaston, with his brother Hilary (occupation: hardware merchant's clerk).
In 1911, JRR went on a summer holiday to Switzerland. In October 1911, he began studying at Exeter College, Oxford. He initially studied Classics but changed his course in 1913 to English Language and Literature, graduating in 1915 with first-class honours. At Oxford he was friends with Clive Staples LEWIS, who went on to write the Narnia Chronicles. Every Monday morning the two would meet to read each other's writings. They later formed a group of writers called The Inklings.
At the age of 16, JRR met Edith Mary BRATT, when he and his brother moved into the boarding house where she lived. She was also an orphan, and a Protestant, which did not please Fr. MORGAN who forbid JRR from having contact with her until he was 21. He obeyed this prohibition, with one early exception, over which Fr. MORGAN threatened to cut short his university career. The day he turned 21, JRR wrote to Edith, asking her to marry him. Edith replied that she had already agreed to marry another man, thinking he had forgotten her. They met up, after which Edith returned her engagement ring and accepted JRR's proposal. She reluctantly converted to Catholicism, after which her Protestant landlord evicted her. They couple were married at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick, on 22 March 1916. Mary was born on 21 January 1889 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, and died on 29 November 1971 in Poole, Dorset. She served as the inspiration for his fictional character Lúthien Tinúviel, an Elven princess and the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar. The couple are buried side by side in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford; below the names on their grave are the names Beren and Lúthien: in Tolkien's legendarium, Lúthien and the Man Beren were lovers separated for a time by Lúthien's father King Thingol.
Edith and JRR
JRR and Edith had the following children:
1) John Francis Reuel (16 November 1917 - 22 January 2003). Became a Catholic priest in 1946.
2) Michael Hilary Reuel (22 October 1920 - 27 February 1984)
3) Christopher John Reuel (born 21 November 1924). He married Faith FAULCONBRIDGE in 1951. Their son Simon Mario Reuel was born in 1959. They separated in 1963 and divorced in 1967. He next married Baillie KLASS (born 1941, Winnipeg, Canada) in 1967. They have two children: Adam Reuel (born 1969) and Rachel Clare Reuel (born 1971)
4) Priscilla Mary Anne Reuel (born 18 June 1929)
JRR in World War I
When World War I broke out, JRR did not immediately volunteer for the British Army as he was completing his degree. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1915, after graduation. After training as a Signals Officer, he was sent to the Somme. In between terms behind the lines at Bouzincourt, Tolkien participated in the assaults on the Schwaben Redoubt and the Leipzig Salient. JRR and Edith developed a secret code for his letters home so that Edith could track his whereabouts on a map of the Western Front. In October 1916, as his battalion attacked Regina Trench, JRR came down with trench fever and was invalided to England on in November. By 1918 all but one of his close friends were dead.
In 1921, while teaching at Leeds University, the University of Cape Town offered him a position. However, Edith was still recovering from the birth of their son Michael in 1920, and JRR turned the offer down. In 1922 he became a Professor of English at Oxford. He became a Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945, and then Professor of English Language and Literature at Merton College, Oxford from 1945 to 1959.
He started writing The Hobbit in the early 1930s. It was published on 21 September 1937. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he started writing The Lord of the Rings, taking 12 years to complete. It was published in three volumes over the course of a year from 29 July 1954 to 20 October 1955. The three volumes were titled The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. Sir Stanley UNWIN, his publisher, said of The Lord of the Rings: ''a book for all times which we will be selling long after my departure from this world... a great work''. The Lord of the Rings was released as a film in 2000. After he retired, JRR started work on completing The Silmarillion, which was inspired by his relationship with Edith. It was only completed after his death by his son, Christopher, and published in 1977. JRR died on 02 September 1973 at Bournmouth, England. He was buried at Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford.
JRR at the Botanical Garden, Oxford. This is probably the last photograph of him, and was taken by his grandson Michael George in 1973.
In 2003, Bloemfontein launched a Tolkien Route. Sights on the tour included Arthur's grave, and the St. George' Anglican Cathedral where JRR was baptised on 31 January 1892, and a bronze plaque can be seen next to the baptismal font. This was followed by a visit to where the Africa Bank Corporation building stood. The tour ended at the Hobbitt Boutique Hotel in President Steyn Street, where each of its seven rooms is named after one of the hobbit characters in The Hobbit. The privately owned Hobbit house has hosted dignitaries, including the Duke of Kent, and JRR's daughter Priscilla. It is owned Jake UYS, who was chairman of the Haradrim Society, a Tolkien society for Afrikaans speakers in South Africa founded in 2000 and now defunct.
It is often claimed that the Amatola Mountains in Hogsback, Eastern Cape, served as inspiration for JRR's stories, and that his family visited the area when he was a baby. No factual evidence has been found for this claim. It is said that while serving in the Royal Air Force, JRR's son Christopher was stationed in nearby Queenstown and visited Hogsback several times. He sent his father sketches and descriptions of the mountains and forests, which might be the root of this claim. Christopher drew the original maps for his father's The Lord of the Rings, which he signed C.J.R.T.
I have not found reference to him being in Queenstown. Christopher enlisted in the Royal Air Force in late 1943 and was sent to South Africa for flight training at 7 Air School in Kroonstad, and 25 Air School in Standerton. He was commissioned into the general duties branch of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 27 January 1945 as a pilot officer on probation. He transferred to the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve on 28 June 1945, and promoted to Flying Officer on 27 July 1945.
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MARY "PICKHANDLE" FITZGERALD - A WOMAN OF MANY FIRSTS
Mary SINNOTT was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1882, one of five children born to Thomas SINNOTT and Margaret DUNN. The family was Catholic. Her eldest siblings were Dorothea / Dorothy Eleanor (Dorrie) and Dennis, and her younger siblings Sarah and Barbara (Babs). Her mother's family had roots in County Meath. Mary attended Presentation Convent in Wexford, where she learnt shorthand, typing and bookkeeping.
Thomas left Wexford for America, where he found employment as a representative for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. A few months later, he set sail for Cape Town. Having decided that the town had good prospects, he returned to Ireland to prepare the family for immigration to South Africa. In 1900, he left for Cape Town, with Mary who was then an attractive, red-haired, fair-skinned teenager. The rest of the family was to follow once they were established in Cape Town.
Shipping records list the following passengers on the Garth Castle departing from Southampton on 15 December 1900 for the Cape:
Miss M. SINNOTT (age 17, born ca 1883, single)
Mr D. SINNOTT (age 20, born ca 1880, single)
Miss S. SINNOTT (age 14, born ca 1886, single)
Mr F. SINNOTT (age 45, born ca 1855)
In Cape Town, Thomas started selling sewing machines, at 10 guineas each, on 28-month installment plans. Mary found work at The Castle, the headquarters of the British military in Cape Town, working for Colonel LONG as a typist. Dennis found work with the Tramways Department, where he later fell from a tram and died from his injuries. After Dennis' death, Barbara took John Brick FITZGERALD, tram conductor and a friend of Dennis, home to meet the bereaved family. Mary later married John at the Catholic Church Cathedral, and they went on to have five children - Mary (died at 6 months of age), Sidney, Kathleen (Kathy), Margaret (Peggy) and Thomas (Tommy).
Soon after the end of the Anglo-Boer War in 1902, the Sinnott and Fitzgerald families left Cape Town for Johannesburg by train. They settled in Belgravia. Margaret looked after Mary's children, and Thomas carried on selling sewing machines. John applied for a job with the City and Suburban Tramways Company and was employed as a tram driver. Mary found work as a typist for the Transvaal Miners' Association. She always wore an ankle length dress or skirt in maroon, olive green, navy or black, with a crisp white blouse and a tie; with shoes, hat and handbag imported from England.
She was very concerned with the miners' well-being and often rode around the mines on her bicycle, collecting funds to bury phthisis victims properly. Phthisis is caused by the accumulation of mine dust in the lungs. She accompanied Union officials to gatherings that they addressed, and later started addressing these gatherings herself. She became very popular with the miners. In October 1909 she attended the South African Labour Party conference, the only woman among 54 delegates.
By 1911, when the workers on Johannesburg's tram system went out on strike, Mary was a prominent labour activist. She lay on the tramlines, preventing scab drivers leaving the depot. The police arrived at the strike armed with pickhandles, In the subsequent clashes at Market Square, some of the pickhandles ended up in the hands of the strikers. They carried these to protest meetings, and this is how Mary earned her nickname of Pickhandle Mary.
In 1912 she attended a meeting chaired by Dora MONTEFIORE, a British sociologist and suffragette, to form the short-lived United Socialist Party. Mary also met Constance Antonina (Nina) BOYLE, another British suffragette and a journalist. She was one of the pioneers of the women's police service in Britain and in April 1918 was the first woman to be nominated to stand for election to the House of Commons. Two of Nina's brothers served in the Anglo-Boer War and Nina lived in South Africa at the time, working in the hospitals and as a journalist. While in South Africa she began to pursue her interest in women's rights, founding the Women's Enfranchisement League of Johannesburg. She returned to Britain in 1911. This friendship led Mary to campaign for women's votes and equality of pay and opportunity. The Women's Industrial League, which she founded, organised low-skilled female workers. She orgainsed a work boycott by Johannesburg waitresses which resulted in their improved pay and conditions.
She was also involved in the miners' and general strikes of 1913 and 1914. Jammed against a wall by a police horse during the 1913 strike, she used her hatpin on the horse to free herself. She shouted defiance at the police and encouraged the strikers to stand firm. On 04 July 1913 a scuffle broke out between police, mounted soldiers and a riotous crowd in Market Square. The police were assaulted after strikers attacked them with stones. Strikers set fire to Park Station and the offices of The Star newspaper. Shop fronts were smashed, followed by looting. The strikers refused to disperse and fired shots at the military. One of the ringleaders, a tall red-headed miner from Nigel named Johannes L. LABUSCHAGNE, twice walked into the street, threw out his arms and shouted, "Shoot me!" The second time, when the crowd behind him began to move forward, he was shot dead. A 13-year old boy, Monty DUNMORE, was shot through the back while selling Strike Heralds to the crowd outside the Rand Club, and horses were killed in the crossfire. After the arson attacks, Mary was arrested for inciting workers to commit public violence. She refused to have her fingerprints taken and was imprisoned for six weeks at the Johannesburg Fort before the trial at which she was acquitted. She was the first woman to be imprisoned and tried for strike activities.
Mary addressing strikers in Market Square, 1913
Mary was at the front of Labuschagne's funeral procession. At a subsequent meeting of the strikers addressed by General Jan SMUTS, she jumped up on the platform, holding a baby. "This is Labuschagne's baby, the child of the man that you shot," she shouted. The meeting descended into anarchy.
The 1914 general strike was catalysed by the government's decision to retrench railway workers in the National Union of Railway and Harbour Servants on Christmas Eve 1913. Martial law was imposed from January to March 1914. After the strike, General Smuts, then acting Minister of Mines, ordered the deportation to England of the instigators. They were J. T. BAIN, Archibald (Archie) CRAWFORD, R. B. WATERSON, G. MASON, D. MCKERRALL, W. LIVINGSTONE, A. WATSON, W. H. MORGAN and H. J. POUTSMA. Protests against the deportations followed, and the government rescinded the order, but not before the nine deportees were taken from their prison cells at night (without trial), taken by special train to Durban under armed escort and put aboard the steamship Umgeni, which sailed from Durban for London on the morning of 30 January 1914. The Umgeni arrived in London on 24 February 1914.
Mary first met Archibald CRAWFORD in 1911. Born in Scotland, and a fitter by trade, he came to South Africa as a soldier during the Anglo-Boer War. He became a foreman in the Pretoria Railway's Works soon after, until he was dismissed in 1906 for agitating against retrenchment. He became a trade union activist and a Labour councillor, and published the Voice of Labour between 1908 and 1912. They also printed The Strike Herald, which often publish the names of scab workers. When Archie was deported in 1914, Mary joined him, although still married to her husband and pregnant. She gave birth to her last Fitzgerald child in England.
Archie encouraged her to stand in the first Johannesburg Town Council elections in 1915, after women had received the municipal franchise. She won a seat, becoming the first woman to hold public office in the city. She served from 10 November 1915 to 26 October 1921, becoming chairman of the Public Health Committee in 1915, and deputy mayor in 1921 to Mayor John CHRISTIE. On her retirement she was presented with a car bought by public donations, the first to be owned and driven by a Johannesburg woman.
Mary's election poster
Between 1915 and 1918 union membership increased greatly. Unions were getting more organised, and needed to print more pamphlets. Mary trained as a printer, qualifing as a master printer, and becoming the first female printer in Johannesburg. She became co-owner Modern Press with Archie, which printed Voice of Labour. When Voice of Labour became defunct, they produced the Weekly Herald. In 1929 Mary had to abandon Modern Press.
In 1918, Mary divorced John, who although a striker, had remained uninvolved and unhappy with her activities. She married Archie in 1919 and they set up home in Bramley. In 1921 Mary took part in a strike in Durban and in the same year was appointed by the government as an official adviser to her husband at the International Labour Organization conference in Geneva. This trip made her unpopular with workers.
After 1921 Mary seemed to lose interest in union and political activities. She did not stand for Council again in 1922. Mary and Archie's only child, also Archie, was born in 1922. The Communist Party won leadership of the South African Industrial Federation, ousting Archie. He remained in the trade union movement, and Mary settled into domesticity. In 1924 Archie became ill with enteric fever, and died in hospital. After Archie's death, she took no further part in public life. From 1926 she withdrew almost entirely from public view and after a stroke spent her last years living with her daughter. She died in Johannesburg on 26 September 1960, and was buried at the Brixton Cemetery, alongside Archie.
In 1939 the Johannesburg City Council approved a motion to name the square in Newton, the Mary Fitzgerald Square. The square was previously known as Aaron's Ground and was initially a wagon site, but was used for the many strikers' meetings. The council never got around to the official dedication, and it was only so renamed in 1989. The pickhandle she is said to have used was kept at the Africana Museum in Johannesburg. In September 2005 a plaque in her memory was unveiled at Mary Fitzgerald Square - her son, Archie, was 81 when the plaque was unveiled.
Mary's father died in 1916.
Her sister, Dorrie, married Frederick William BROOKS (born in Grahamstown). She died in 1972, as did Frederick.
Sarah married James KELLY. She died in 1966, he died in 1951.
Mary's son, Tommy, had a daughter Glenda who married VAN OERLE.
A small brewery has named a brew after Mary - Pickhandle Mary Malted Oats Stout.
A book, Mary 'Pickhandle' Fitzgerald: Rediscovering a Lost Icon, was written by Frances Hunter, a South African journalist who now lives in Sante Fe, California.
Labels: Johannesburg, Mines, Women
BOERS IN ARGENTINA
After the Anglo-Boer War, Boers not only trekked to other parts of Africa, they also looked further afield. Argentina was the focus of a large group of Boers. Today, many of their descendants are still found in the Comodoro Rivadavia and Sarmiento areas. Between 1903 and 1909, up to 800 Boer families trekked by ship to Argentina's east coast. Some of Argentina's wealthiest sheep farmers are descendants of the first Boers.
Mr. GREEN and Mr. VIETMA were sent from Argentina to recruit new settlers in South Africa. Louis BAUMANN of Bloemfontein was one of the first Boers to move to the province of Chubut, Argentina. Ds. Louis P. VORSTER (Gereformeerde Kerk) of Burgersdorp undertook an investigative trip to Argentina. Upon his return, many Boers joined the new trek.
In October 1905, 322 Boers left Cape Town on board the Highland Fling. A few of the Boers' servants accompanied them. The ship had arrived in Cape Town in with a load of mules from Argentina, and was refurbished to carry the passengers. They arrived in Buenos Aires, and 17 days later boarded the Presidente Roca for Chubut, arriving in Comodoro Rivadavia on 05 December 1903. Comodoro Rivadavia, 2 500 km south of Buenos Aires, is the capital city of the Chubut province. The Boers settled here on land given to them by the Argentinean government. The government wanted to populate the area and recruited foreign settlers.
Once at their new destination, they found that the land was not suitable for farming, but that sheep farming was a good alternative. There was no fresh drinking water on the land, and drinking water had to be brought in by wagon. The Boers asked for a rig from Buenos Aires to drill for water. In 1907 they hit the the first oil well. If the law had been different the Boers would've been super-rich, as most of the oil was found on their land, but in Argentina the State owns all mineral rights.
In 1925 heavy snowfall led to a large loss of sheep, and many of these Boers had to start all over again. In 1934 there were still 900 Boers in Argentine, mostly in the Chubut province. Today, Comodoro Rivadavia is a city of more than 130 000 people. It has an Air Force base, from which Argentina orchestrated its attack of the Falkland Islands. Driving outside Comodoro Rivadavia one sees oil pumps everywhere.
In 1934, Senator Francois Stephanus MALAN visited the Afrikaans community in Argentina in answer to a plea for church and school aid. In 1938, about 600 Boers were repatriated to South Africa, helped by the South African government and churches.
The Afrikaans service of SABC Radio broadcast two programmes about the Afrikaners in Argentina, "Springbok op die Pampas" in 1979 and "Van Pampas tot Springbokvlakte" in 1980. In 1991 only two of the original settlers were still alive.
In 1992, there were approximately 1 000 of Boer descendants left in Argentina. The older descendants still spoke an old version of Afrikaans and surnames such as BOTHA, GRIMBEEK, HENNING, VENTER, VISSER can still be found. They have an annual festival where traditional dance, dress and food are offered. Many of the men have married Argentinean women. They and their children speak Spanish.
In early 1992, a tour group of 107 South Africans, visited Patagonia for 2 weeks. The visit was organised by Ollie VILJOEN, producer of the SABC-TV's "Spies en Plessie" programme. The local newspapers, radio and TV took photos and did interviews with the 1992 visitors.
Amongst the visitors were many descendants of the original Boer settlers. One of them was the widow Johanna VAN DER MERWE (then 83 years old) from Bellville, Cape. She returned to South Africa with her parents in 1938. Johanna was married three times. Two of her sisters were also in the tour group. Her younger sister was born in Comodoro Rivadavia. She lives in South Africa and married a son of Pieter Hendrik HENNING (author of 'n Boer in Argentina, published in 1942 by Nasionale Pers). He was involved in the repatriation scheme of a large group of Boers in 1938.
Enrique Carlos GRIM<|fim_middle|> to France after April 1917 with daughter Raymonde. She was back in the USA in October 1917, joining her sister, Juliette, at the Washington Hotel in New York. Anna continued criss-crossing the USA giving talks at patriotic lectures and raising funds, as can be seen from numerous newspaper reports in the USA. She started selling floral boutonnières in September 1918, raising funds this way for French orphans. She returned to France in November 1918, when her tours were cut short by the Spanish Flu outbreak.
In France, Anna founded the "La Ligue des enfants de France et d'Amérique" in December 1918, officially setting it up in Paris. It was affiliated to the French government and the poppy was used as its emblem. Through her foundation she organised French women, children and war veterans to make artificial poppies out of cloth. She saw that artificial poppies could be sold as a way of raising money to help the French people, especially orphaned children, who were suffering as a result of the war. She became known as the Poppy Lady of France. In the USA, Anna set up her foundation as the "American and French Children's League" in 1919, having returned to the USA in March 1919. She gave her last residential address in France as Vendeuvre, Calvados. Her husband Eugéne was still working in Sudan, and her daughters were in Vallon with her mother. Her sister Juliette was living in Lincoln, Nebraska. Anna spent the year speaking and fundraising across the USA for the US Victory Loan and French orphans.
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 06 June 1919, a homecoming celebration was arranged for the US 32nd Division. A few women volunteers set up a stand selling doughnuts and coffee. One of the volunteers, the widow Mary HANECY, decorated the stand with poppies but the poppies were taken by Americans who left a donation on the counter. The volunteers used that money to help disabled veterans. Mary saw the potential for a fundraiser for the Milwaukee American Legion, and suggested they hold a Poppy Day for Memorial Day. In 1920 on the Saturday before Memorial Day, the American Legion distributed 50 000 poppies. Donations totalling $5000 were received and used for veterans' rehabilitation. Mary was given a Certificate of Appreciation by the American Legion in 1932.
Mary Ann CALDWELL was born in 1861 in Milwaukee to Irish parents. She married John Joseph HENNESSEY, a fire-fighter. He died in January 1910 while fighting a fire. The surname gradually changed to HANECY. Mary died on 11 September 1948.
WWI ended on 28 June 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles was signed. Anna continued fundraising tours to raise money for the widows and orphans. In the last four years of the war, she had given more than 500 talks in 30 states, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean nine times. In 1919 she was awarded a U.S. Victory Liberty Loan Medal for her service during the US Liberty Loan campaigns.
In September 1920, the American Legion held it's annual conference in Cleveland, Ohio. It was here that it became the first of the WWI allied veterans' groups to adopt the poppy as a remembrance emblem, after Anna was invited to speak about her "Inter-Allied Poppy Day' idea at the conference. For the first US National Poppy Day in 1921, it was agreed all distribution proceeds would go to Anna's foundation work in France.
After the American Legion officially adopted the poppy, veteran groups of the British Empire nations soon did the same. Anna decided to introduce the poppy to other nations who had been allies of France during WWI. During 1921 she visited or sent representatives to Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand.
Field Marshal Haig (left), Field Marshal Smuts (centre) and General Lukin (right) in Cape Town, 1921
Members of veterans organisations in Great Britain, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand came together to form the British Empire Services League in Cape Town on 21 February 1921. Three prominent soldiers, Field Marshall Douglas HAIG, Field Marshal Jan SMUTS and General Henry LUKIN headed this inaugural meeting in the Cape Town City Hall. Field Marshal HAIG went on from this meeting to start what is now known as the Royal British Legion, and Field Marshal SMUTS and General LUKIN went on to start what is now known as the South African Legion. At this conference the Haig Poppy (named after the Field Marshall) was adopted as the official remembrance symbol.
Anna travelled to Canada, where she met with representatives of the Great War Veterans Association of Canada. This organisation later became the Royal Canadian Legion. The Great War Veterans Association adopted the poppy as its national flower of remembrance on 05 July 1921.
She visited Field Marshall Douglas HAIG, president of the British Legion, and persuaded him to adopt the poppy as the Legion's emblem in 1921. It was also Anna who suggested that the Legion sell artificial poppies to raise money. The Legion signed on and 1.5 million poppies were ordered for 11 November 1921. The first Poppy Appeal made £106,000. Initially the poppies were made by the French women and orphans, and later a poppy factory was set up in South London. By the end of the 20th century, the British Legion was selling over 32 million poppies per annum.
Australia adopted the poppy as from 11 November 1921. Anna's foundation sent a million artificial poppies to Australia for the 1921 Armistice Day commemoration. The Returned Soldiers and Sailors Imperial League sold the poppies for one shilling each. Of this, five pennies were donated to Anna's French orphans, six pennies were donated to the Returned Soldiers and Sailors Imperial League and one penny was received by the government.
In September 1921 Anna sent a representative to the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association (NZRSA).They placed an order for 350 000 small and 16 000 large French-made poppies. Unfortunately the delivery did not arrive in time to for 11 November and the Association decided to hold the first Poppy Day on 24 April 1922, the day before ANZAC Day. The first Poppy Day in New Zealand raised more than £13 000. A proportion of this was sent to Anna's French orphans, and the remainder was used by the Association for support and welfare of returned soldiers.
In 1922 the American and French Childrens' League was disbanded. Anna left the USA in early 1922 for England and France, continuing her work with poppy campaigns. She was in charge of the 1922 Poppy Day arrangements in Canada, for that November's commemoration. Most of those poppies was made by unemployed ex-service men in Canada, with the small balance coming from Anna's French widows and orphans. For the 1922 US Poppy Day, Anna asked the American Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) to help her with the distribution of her French-made poppies. In March 1923, 2 million French-made poppies were sent to the USA, ordered by the American Legion, for their 1923 Memorial Day poppy drives. Anna was also involved in arranging poppy supplies for Australia and New Zealand until 1927 and 1929 respectively.
Following the distribution of the French-made poppies in 1922, the VFW agreed in 1923 that American veterans could also benefit from making and selling poppies. From 1924 disabled ex-servicemen started making poppies at the Buddy Poppy factory in Pittsburgh. Buddy Poppy was registered as a U.S. Patent in February 1924. The Buddy Poppy programme has continued to raise money for the welfare and support of veterans and their dependants. There are now 11 locations where the Buddy Poppies are made by disabled and needy veterans. More than 14 million Buddy Poppies are distributed each year in the United States.
From 1924 until WWII started, Anna travelled to New York about twice a year from France. In February 1925, Anna was with Juliette in New York when her husband Eugéne arrived on St. Valentine's Day for a two week holiday. She listed him as her next of kin whilst travelling until November 1935, and in December 1938 she listed her daughter Raymonde as next of kin. It is not known whether Eugéne died or they separated. Anna then opened a French antique business in New York. Her sister Juliette and friend Blanche managed it at least until April 1940, when they are listed in the 1940 US Census at an antiques business at 200 E 60th Street, New York. Anna was in France at the time the US 1940 census was taken, and is travelling from Nazaire on the ship Champlain in 19 May 1940 to New York. She most likely spent the WWII years in the USA. After the war, she left the USA in July 1945 and returned in November 1945 from Le Havre. She did these trips about twice a year. From 1946 to 1956, Anna flew into New York from Paris, instead of sailing, with her address given as 957 3rd Avenue, New York.
Anna died on 16 April 1961 at le Square Charles Dickens 5, Paris, where her daughter Renée lived in one of the apartments above the Musée du Vin. She was 83 years old. History has not always been kind in remembering that it was Anna GUERIN who started the national Poppy Days in the USA and the Allied countries - let us remember her as such, it was her life's work.
In early 1941 Anna wrote about her work regarding her idea for an "Inter-Allied Poppy Day". This writing about the history of the National Poppy Days was sent to Moina MICHAEL. It is today in the Moina Michael papers held at the State of Georgia Archives. In her writing, Anna mentioned that she had organised Poppy Day in Canada with two ladies, her sister Juliette Virginie BOULLE and Anna's friend Blanche BERNERON, the widow of Eugène BERNERON. Anna then left them in Canada and travelled to England, Belgium and Italy. She mentioned that she "was sending Colonel MOFFAT to South Africa (Natal), Australia and New Zealand" to organise there. As far as is known, this is the only reference connecting Anna to South Africa. Colonel MOFFAT's ship "Aeneas" stopped in Durban (Port Natal), and later at Cape Town enroute from Melbourne to Liverpool.
In South Africa, the South African Legion still holds a few collections in malls to raise funds to assist in the welfare work among military veterans. They do not sell the poppies but accept donations in return. When you buy a poppy for Remembrance Day, you pay tribute to those who died, and you are helping those who survived and bear the scars of war.
HOW AND WHEN TO WEAR A POPPY
The poppy campaigns usually start two weekends prior to Remembrance Day, 11 November. The poppy can also been worn at the funeral of a veteran or a special occasion connected to veterans.
The most common place to wear a poppy is on the left, over the heart or on the left lapel of one's jacket.
The leaf of the poppy, if there is one, should be positioned at the orientation of 11 o'clock, to symbolise the 11th hour of the 11 day of the 11th month - the time that World War I formally ended. The red represents the blood of all those who gave their lives, the black represents the mourning of those who lost their loved, and the green leaf represents the grass and crops growing and future prosperity after the war destroyed so much.
The poppy is not for sale, they're distributed and donations of any amount are encouraged in exchange.
If you don't keep your poppy, you can leave it on a veteran's gravestone or on a cenotaph as a sign of respect and honour.
Labels: Military
THE CURRIE CUP
Reverend Ogilvie
The Currie Cup has been South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, featuring provincial / regional teams. The Currie Cup is one of the oldest rugby competitions in the world.
Reverend George "Gog" OGILVIE (born 1826 in Wiltshire, England) is credited with introducing rugby to South Africa, following his appointment as Headmaster of the Diocesan College at Rondebosch in 1861. This game was the Winchester football variety, which the Reverend had learnt during his school days at Hampshire School. The first games were often reported in the local newspapers and featured teams such as "Town versus Suburbs" and "Home versus Colonials".
It was at a farewell reception for the British Isles rugby team, which was leaving for a tour of South Africa, that Sir Donald CURRIE (17 September 1825 – 13 April 1909), a British ship owner, handed over what was to become the Currie Cup. The reception was held at the Southampton Docks in June 1891. On the 7th July thanks to the sponsorship of Cecil RHODES, the first British Isles rugby team arrived in Cape Town aboard the Dunottar Castle. They were mainly Scottish and English players captained by the Scottish wing William Edward MACLAGAN (5 April 1858 – 10 October 1926). Their first match was against the club Hamiltons which they won 15-1. The only try by the home team was scored by Charles (Hasie) VERSVELD, brother of Loftus VERSVELD. The Cape Times carried reports.
Sir Donald Currie
The first international match in which a South African team played was against the British tourists on the 30th July in Port Elizabeth. The South Africans were captained by Herbert Hayton CASTENS. In 1894 he was also the captain of the South African touring cricket team to England. Herbert was born on the 23rd November 1864 in Pearston, Eastern Cape, and died on 18 October 1929 in Fulham, London. The British beat South Africa 4-0 in that first Test. The 1891 British team won all their matches.
Herbert H. Castens
The golden cup given to the British team was given to Griqualand West during the British team's farewell reception in September aboard the Garth Castle, but there was no team representative present. Griqualand West were deemed the best opposition team by the tourists. In an early show of typical South African rugby rivalry, Western Province supporters were not happy that Griqualand West was awarded the trophy. They claimed that the hard and grass-less playing field in Kimberley gave them an unfair advantage.
Sir Donald wanted the cup to become a floating trophy for South African inter-provincial champions. Griqualand West later donated the trophy to the Rugby Board, who made it the prize for the Currie Cup competition. The cup was insured for £40 when it was put on display, shortly after its arrival, in a window shop in Adderley Street. The words "South African Football Challenge Cup" were engraved on the cup.
Undated Currie Cup
Although the cup bears Sir Donald's name, the competition has its roots in an inter-town competition that started in 1884. By the time the South African Rugby Board was founded in 1889, it was decided to organise a national competition. The first tournament was held in Kimberley and was won by Western Province. The winning team received a silver cup donated by the South African Rugby Board. This cup is on display at the South African Rugby Museum in Cape Town. The cup donated by Sir Donald was competed for from 1892 onwards. The 1892 tournament was played in Kimberley from the 12th – 23rd September. It was won by Western Province. The other teams were Natal, Griqualand West, Border and Transvaal. Christiaan BEYERS, who later became a Boer General, was part of the Transvaal team.
In the early rugby years there were no Cup finals. The team that finished at the top of the log was declared the champion. In the early 1900s, the Currie Cup was not competed for annually. The first Currie Cup final was played in 1939 at Newlands where Transvaal beat Western Province. The format varied and finals were held intermittently up until 1968. In its early days and until 1920, the tournament lasted a week and was played in one town. The competition was also interrupted by the two World Wars. The first annual Currie Cup final was held in 1968 when Northern Transvaal, featuring Frik DU PREEZ, beat Transvaal.
Politics was already casting its shadow over South African rugby way back then. In 1895, the 15 British soldiers representing Natal in the Currie Cup tournament had to get permission from Paul KRUGER to enter the ZAR in their uniforms. At this tournament's official dinner, officials and players made toasts to KRUGER and Queen Victoria. During the 1899 tournament, Western Province, Transvaal and the Free State stayed away because of the Anglo-Boer War. The 1908 Currie Cup tournament, held in Port Elizabeth, was the last one held in Sir Donald's lifetime.
In the 1898 tournament, the Transvaal team faced tragedy when their fullback David Gill (Davey) COPE was killed in a train accident at Mosterthoek on 16 August 1898 while on his way to the tournament in Cape Town. A week later another Transvaal player, Boy TAIT, died of injuries sustained in the same accident.
The Currie Cup is such a big part of South African rugby, that it is not well-known that there were other Currie Cups involving other sports. All the cups were donated by Sir Donald.
On the 5th January 1808, a cricket match between two teams of English officers took place in Cape Town. In 1862, an annual fixture "Mother Country versus Colonial Born" was staged in Cape Town. In March 1889, the English cricket team played in a Test match against South Africa at Port Elizabeth. Sir Donald sponsored the English team's tour of South Africa. When the team left England, he gave them a cup to be presented to the best South African team that they faced. As with his request for the rugby cup, the trophy was then to be used in domestic competition. The cup was inscribed with "To the Cricket Clubs of South Africa, 1889?. In 1890 the Kimberley cricket team became the first team to be awarded cricket's Currie Cup. Cricket's Currie Cup tournament was later renamed the Castle Cup. When the Wanderers Clubhouse caught fire in 2004, the silver Currie Cup was lost in the fire.
In 1899 he donated a cup for water-polo tournaments. A year later, Western Province won the first water-polo Currie Cup at the first inter-provincial swimming and water-polo tournament.
Another Currie Cup was given by Sir Donald to the Cape Town Highlanders.
Labels: Rugby, Sport
MUSICIAN MIKE RUTHERFORD'S SOUTH AFRICAN ROOTS
Mike RUTHERFORD (62), founding member of Genesis and currently of the band Mike and the Mechanics, has some interesting connections to South Africa. Not only does he own a house in Cape Town's Bantry Bay, but some of his ancestral roots are also in the fairest Cape.
He was born Michael John Cloete Crawford RUTHERFORD on 02 October 1950 in Guildford, Surrey. His father, William Francis Henry Crawford RUTHERFORD, CBE, DSO (1906 Streatham, London - 1986, Surrey) married Annette Jessie Downing WILSON (1908 Cheshire - 1993, Somerset) in 1937 at Westminster, London. He was involved with the sinking of the Bismarck.
William was the only son of Colonel Nathaniel John Crawford RUTHERFORD, DSO, MB, RAMC (1874 - 1960, Surrey) and Lilla Roberta JACKSON (1883, Wynberg, Cape - 1979, Hampshire). William joined the Royal Navy in 1920 and served until 1956, retiring as a Captain. Nathaniel served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was the author of two books, Soldiering with a stethoscope, and Memories of an Army Surgeon.
Lilla Roberta JACKSON was the daughter of Charles Henry JACKSON (1838, Devonshire, England - 1905, Vredenhof, Wynberg, Cape) and Johanna Reneira Catherina CLOETE (1855, Cape - 1895, Wynberg). Charles married Johanna in June 1874 in Cape Town. He served as a Captain in the 86th Regiment of Foot. They are both buried at St. John's Cemetery in Wynberg.
Charles and Johanna had the following children:
Anna Augusta born in 1875, died in 1949, married Francis William Cubitt CHIAPPINI
Henry born in 1877
Lucy Arabella Bettina born in 1878, married Frank HARVEY
John Sidney born in 1880, died 1927
Lilla Roberta born in 1883, married Nathaniel John Crawford RUTHERFORD
Dirk Cloete van Alphen born in 1885 at Alphen Farm, Constantia, died in 1976 at Silkaatsnek Farm, Brits. Attended Bishop's Shool in Cape Town. He was a member of the Springbok rugby team that toured the UK in 1906-07. He also played cricket for Western Province and Transvaal. Also known as Dirk Cloete JACKSON.
Charles Goss born in 1888
Munton Francis born in 1890
Raneira Catherina
Some of the children were baptised at St. John's Anglican Church in Wynberg, where family members are buried in the church's cemetery.
Johanna was the daughter of Dirk CLOETE (1820, Wynberg - 1894, Wynberg) and Johanna Reiniera Catherina VAN OOSTERZEE (circa 1823 - 1891). Her parents married in March 1843 in Cape Town. Dirk was also known as David. The family lived at Alphen Farm in Constantia.
The history of Alphen dates back to the early 18th century, when 5 morgen and 200 square roods of garden land were granted to Theunis VAN SCHALKWYK. More land was added over the years, until in 1765 it was consolidated into a single property some 16 morgen in extent. In 1850 Johannes Albertus MUNNIK bought the estate, and after his death in 1854, Dirk CLOETE acquired the estate.
The Cloete family of Alphen can be traced back to Dirk CLOETE who lived on the farm Nooitgedacht and farmed there until his death in 1833. Dirk's son married Anna Gesina BORCHERDS, and their only son married Reiniera Johanna VAN OOSTERZEE after which they moved to Alphen. Their descendants are known as the Alphen Cloetes.
Alphen has remained in Cloete family hands for over 150 years and today is owned by The Alphen Trust whose trustees administer the estate for the Cloete family.
a) Jacob CLOETE arrived at the Cape from Cologne, believed to be in 1652, in the service of the Dutch East India Company. Jacob was one of the first free burghers at the Cape, in August 1657, receiving a farm in October 1657, situated on the Liesbeeck River. A free burgher (vryburgher / vrijburgher) was a soldier or employee of the Dutch East India Company who was released from his contractual obligation to the Company and given permission to farm, become a tradesman or work for another employer. In 1671 he returned to the Netherlands, and later returned to the Cape as a Corporal. He was mysteriously murdered on 23 May 1693 by deserters near the Castle. He was married to Fytje (Sophia) RADEROOTJES, who arrived at the Cape in 1658 from Cologne with her brother Peter.
b4) Coenraad CLOETE (1663 - circa 1703) married Martha VERSCHUUR in 1693
c2) Jacobus CLOETE (born 1699) married Sibella PASSMAN
d2) Hendrik CLOETE (1725 - 1799) married Hester Anna LOURENS in 1753
e8) Dirk CLOETE (1767 - 1833) married first to Sophia Margaretha MYBURGH in 1792, and second to Anna Elizabeth VAN DER BYL in 1800 in Stellenbosch.
f1) Hendrik CLOETE (1793 - 1838) married Anna Gesina BORCHERDS (1794 - 1870, Stellenbosch)in 1813.
g2) Dirk CLOETE (1820 - 1894) married Johanna Reiniera Catharina VAN OOSTERZEE in March 1843
h?) Johanna Reneira Catherina CLOETE (1855, Cape - 1895, Wynberg)
Johanna Reiniera Catherina VAN OOSTERZEE was the daughter of Dr. Johannes Knockers VAN OOSTERZEE (1793, Cape - 1829, Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Augusta Wilhelmina Magdalena THALMAN (born 1804, Batavia). Johannes was a medical doctor in Cape Town and Leiden. He married Augusta in August 1819 in Cape Town. Johannes' father, Willem Johan VAN OOSTERZEE, was born circa 1765 in Sas van Gent, Netherlands. He was in the service of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape, where he was a merchant and bookkeeper. He married Reineira Johanna Catharina KNOCKERS (born 1762) in June 1789 in Cape Town.
Mike RUTHERFORD received his first guitar at the age of 8. He was a bassist and backing vocalist with Genesis in the early days, and often played rhythm guitar and twelve-string guitar for the band. In 1977 he became their lead guitarist. He wrote the lyrics to many Genesis songs. He formed Mike and The Mechanics in 1985, and in 2010 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Furthering his South African connections, he bought a plot of land in Bantry's Bay from a cousin in 1995, and eventually built a house. He has also ridden the Cape Argus Cycle Tour, and is involved in a music education project with Pieter Dirk-Uys in Darling. Last year he recorded a new version of his song, The Living Years, with Cape Town's Isango Ensemble. He lives mostly in Surrey, England, with his wife Angie. They were married in November 1976 and have three children: Kate, Tom and Harry.
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Starting research | BEEK was born in Argentina but returned to South Africa with his parents. His parents farmed in the Prince Albert area but Henrique soon returned to Patagonia, where he became a wealthy man and married Petronella (Tant Nellie). Together with his two sons, he had a large amount of Merino sheep on the 180 000 acre farm La Begonia. He also provided water and gas to Comodoro Rivadavia. Another business sideline was the oil pumps on his land which produced millions of litres of oil every day. In October 1991, the New York Times interviewed Henrique, then age 79.
In Sarmiento, a Spanish-speaking shop keeper is a Boer descendant, Martin Sebastian VIVIERS. The local Reformed Church was built by the Boers. Another descendant is Nicholas AYLING who owns El Rancho Grande, the only restaurant in town, and farms sheep on the family farm, Media Luna. His mother is Maria Francina AYLING (maiden name VENTER) and known as Bee. Her grandfather was C.J.N. VISSER from Barkly East, one of the leaders of the trek. A bay north of Comodoro is called Puerto Visser after him. Bee lived in Cape Town during the 1930s and attended Jan van Riebeeck High School. She also attended the laying of the Voortrekker Monument's corner stone in 1938. When her father died, her mother inherited Media Luna and returned to Argentina with the children. Bee met and married Eric AYLING, a British expat in Buenos Aires. In his book, My Life in Patagonia, Eric describes his Afrikaans bride as "very handy and capable in all moments of trouble".
Nellie BLACKIE (maiden name VAN WYK) was five years old when she arrived in Patagonia with her parents. She married Enrique BLACKIE (63 years old in 1991) and they had 10 children. They farmed northwest of Sarmiento. In 1992, Nellie was a pensioner and living in Comodoro Rivadavia. In 1992, Hester VAN WYK (then 83) was one of the oldest original settlers.
In late 1996, Ester Vera Kruger DE PIERANGELI, a Boer descendant, visited South Africa to look for family members. In 1992 she was the wife of Comodoro Rivadavia's Mayor.
Today, a documentary feature film is being made to commemorate the 100 years history of the Boers in Argentine.
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TWO MINUTES OF SILENCE AND POPPY DAY
The Two Minutes of Silence on 11 November at the 11th hour was the idea of Sir James Percy FITZPATRICK. He was born in King William's Town in 1862 and died in Uitenhage in 1931, eldest son of James Coleman FITZPATRICK, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Cape Colony, and his wife Jenny, both from Ireland.
On his father's death in 1880, he left college in order to support his mother and family. In 1884, he went to the Eastern Transvaal goldfields where he worked as store man, prospector's hand and journalist, and as transport-rider. In Barberton, he became editor of the Gold Fields News.
As a transport rider on ox-wagons he worked on a supply route through the Lowveld, along the Old Delagoa Road, which was used between May and September (the dry disease-free winter months) by transport riders from the Lydenburg Goldfields (Spitzkop, Macmac, Pilgrim's Rest and Lydenburg) to Lourenço Marques. This time of his life, when he was pioneering in the Lowveld, are vividly described in his book Jock of the Bushveld, and served as the setting for many of his Jock's (a Staffordshire Bull Terrier) adventures. It was Rudyard Kipling, a family friend, who persuaded Percy to write the book. A London artist, Edmund CALDWELL, was brought to South Africa to visit the Lowveld and draw the book's illustrations. Percy later became a government official and politician, which led to his involvement in military topics and eventually the Two Minutes Silence on 11 November.
The silent pause tradition has its roots in Cape Town, and in part with the Noonday Gun on Signal Hill.
Our own Tannie Mossie (Joan ABRAHAMS of Bloemfontein) wrote a well-researched book in the 1990s about this - "Time from Africa - A two minute silent pause to remember - 11:00 on the 11th of the 11th month." The book also shows the correct silence - one minute for the dead and one minute for the survivors (on 11 November) and one minute for one person or two minutes for more than one person (for other remembrance ceremonies).
Sir Harry HANDS K.B.E. was the Mayor of Cape Town in 1912 - 1918. He was also the first accountant at Old Mutual. In February 1918 the War Recruiting Committees of the Union of South Africa conference took place at Cape Town's City Hall. As a result, a recruiting drive was begun on 08 April 1918. The drive was inaugurated by church services throughout the city, with the official service held at St George's Cathedral and attended by Mayor HANDS and the city's councillors.
Shorty thereafter, Mayor HANDS received a telegram notifying him that his eldest son, Captain Reginald Harry Myburgh HANDS, had died on the Western Front. At the outbreak of the war he joined the Imperial Light Horse and was sent to German South West Africa. He transferred to the South African Heavy Artillery and was posted to the Western Front, where he was seconded to the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was promoted to Captain and became second-in-command of his Battery. During the Germans' final large offensive, begun on 21 March 1918, he was gassed, and died of gas poisoning on 20 April 1918.
The Mayor was sitting in his office at City Hall with his friend, Councillor Robert BRYDON, when they heard the 11:00 hour stroke of the clock in the Clock Tower. Still in the office, an hour later they heard the Noonday Gun, fired from Signal Hill. Mr. BRYDON then suggested a silent street pause similar to the Angelus prayer tradition observed daily at noon at many churches. The Noonday Gun was suggested as the signal to start the silence.
On Monday, 13 May 1918 the following was published in the Cape Times newspaper:
"Pause for three minutes.
In some places in the Union it has been the practice during the past few weeks to call halt at midday in order to direct the minds of the people to the tremendous issues which are being fought out on the Western Front, and to afford a minute or two for silent prayer for the forces of the Allies engaged there.
This seems to be an excellent example to copy. And I now appeal to all citizens to observe the same practice in Cape Town as from tomorrow (Tuesday). Upon the sound of the midday gun all tramway cars will become stationary for three minutes and other trams should halt wherever it may be, for the same period.
Pedestrians are asked to remain standing wherever they may be when the gun sounds and everyone, however engaged, to desist from their occupations and observe silence for this short spell. Employers can greatly assist by advising their staff to this effect. I cannot conceive anything more calculated to bring home to us the critical time through which we are passing and it's responsibilities for all of us and I hope most fervently that all our citizens will help to make the recognition of the solemnity of the occasion as real as possible.
(Signed) H. Hands
Mayor of Cape Town"
During the first observance, Mayor HANDS stood on Cartwright's Balcony. Afterwards he decided that 3 minutes was too long, and the following was published in the Cape Argus newspaper on 14 May 1918:
"His Worship decided that the pause will retain its hold on the people if it is altered to two minutes instead of three, and that this change will not in any way diminish the power of its appeal. Consequently the pause will be two minutes tomorrow, when Bugler BICCARD will again sound 'The Post'."
This pause was seen by the Reuter's correspondent in Cape Town, who cabled a report to London. This was distributed all over Great Britain and re-cabled to the other Dominions. Within a few weeks Reuter's agency in Cape Town received press cables from London stating that the ceremony had been adopted in two English towns and later by others, including towns in Canada and Australia. The observance of the daily midday Two Minute Silent Pause of Remembrance in Cape Town continued until 14 May 1919. Mayor HANDS retired from office at the end of his term in September 1918. On 02 August 1919, he again stood on the balcony of Cartwright's next to the bugler for the Last Post ceremony during the Peace Celebration.
Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
Sir James Percy FITZPATRICK, author of the classic South African story, Jock of the Bushveld, attended a church service in Cape Town in 1916 where a moment of silence was held for dead soldiers. Mr John Albert EAGAR, a Cape Town businessman, had suggested that the congregation observe a silent pause to remember South Africans lost in battle.
Sir Percy's son, Percy Nugent George, was a Major in the Union Defence Force. He was killed in France in 1917.
Major P.N.G. Fitzpatrick
South African Heavy Artillery, 71st Siege Battery
Died 14 Dec 1917, age 28
Born in Johannesburg.
Volunteered on 04 Aug 1914 and served in the Rand Rebellion and German South
West Africa with the Imperial Light Horse.
Buried at Red Cross Corner Cemetery, Beugny
A two minute silence was held in Cape Town on 14 December 1918, a year after Percy Nugent's death.
When Sir Percy heard that 11 November 1918 was going to be observed as Armistice Day in London, he asked for a two minute silence throughout the British Empire as a tribute to dead soldiers. WWI ended on 11 November 1918 with the guns stopped on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Sir Percy proposed this observance to Lord Northcliffe but was disappointed by his reaction. He therefore approached Lord Milner, who forwarded the proposal to King George V's private secretary, Lord Stamfordham. On 7 November 1919, The Times of London carried this message from the King:
"Tuesday next November 11, is the first anniversary of the Armistice, which stayed the world carnage of the four preceding years…it is my desire and hope that at the hour when the Armistice came into force, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, there may be, for the brief space of two minutes, a complete suspension of all our normal activities. During that time, except in the rare cases where this may be impracticable, all work, all sound and all locomotion should cease, so that, in perfect silence, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the Glorious Dead".
Sir Percy was in California on business to look at their citrus industry when he read on 12 November 1919 that the first Two Minutes Silence had been observed in England the previous day. The Times newspaper reported:
"Throughout the British Empire, from the jungles of India to the snows of Alaska, on trains, on ships at sea, in every part of the globe where a few British were gathered together, the Two Minute Pause was observed".
On 30 January 1920, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick received a letter signed by Lord Stamfordham, the King's Private Secretary:
"Dear Sir Percy, The King, who learns that you are shortly to leave for South Africa, desires me to assure you that he ever gratefully remembers that the idea of the Two Minute Pause on Armistice Day was due to your initiation, a suggestion readily adopted and carried out with heartfelt sympathy throughout the Empire". Signed Stamfordham."
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick was also the prime mover of the project to purchase land from France on which the Delville Wood Memorial was built. He was also chairman of the committee in South Africa which raised funds to build the memorial. One of his first tasks was the replanting of the actual forest, which was accomplished with acorns collected from a tree at Franschhoek, grown from one of six acorns brought from France by a French Huguenot when he fled from France in 1688.
On 10 October 1926 Sir Harry HANDS attended the special service held in Cape Town, which was timed to synchronise with the ceremony at the unveiling of the Delville Wood Memorial in France. The service was held at the Noonday Guns of the Lion Battery on Signal Hill and was arranged by the South African Heavy Artillery Association.
The Two Minutes Silence began to be applied to other events too. When Alexander Graham BELL died in 1922, the whole USA phone network observed a two minute silence. In 1995, as part of the 50th anniversary of VE Day, a two-minute silence was held in many Allied countries. The Two Minutes Silence is has been used to mark major disasters, such as September 11. In 2005, a three minute silence was held to pay tribute to the 150 000 people that died in the Asian tsunami.
THE RED POPPY
The poppy story goes back to 1915 when a Canadian soldier from Guelph, Ontario, Major John Alexander McCRAE, was serving in France as a doctor during WWI. He initially served at a First Aid Station between Poperinghe and Ypres, where he wrote his now-famous poem.
The 22-year-old Lieutenant Alexis HELMER took a direct hit from a German shell at Ypres on the Western Front one May morning in 1915. He was buried at sunset. The officer who spoke over his grave as the battle raged around them was his close friend Major John McCRAE. The next day, 03 May, after a night of tending to chlorine gas victims, he looked out from his first-aid post onto a sea of wooden crosses — his friend's the latest, mingling with the wild red corn poppies that grew there. Then he tore a page from his dispatch book and began to write. In 20 minutes, it was done:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
It was first published on 08 December 1915 in the British magazine, Punch. John McCRAE's words were a lament for the sorrow and loss of war, not a glorification of it. They honoured not slaughter but sacrifice, our humanity not inhumanity.
Later he was appointed as Commanding Officer at the 3rd McGill Canadian General Hospital in Boulogne. He died there of pneumonia and meningitis on 28 January 1918. To honour him, comrades searched fields for poppies to lay on his grave but, in the dead of winter, found none. So they ordered artificial poppies to be made in Paris and woven into a wreath.
Lt. Col. John A McCrae
In 1916 artificial poppies were distributed in England for charity at some venues, such as St. Michael's War Work Party, in South Shields, in August. The Sleights Red Cross Hospital held a Poppy Day in Whitby to raise funds for their hospital's war effort. Also in August, there was a Poppy Day in Nottingham to benefit orphans.
On 09 November 1918, Moina Belle MICHAEL, a professor at the University of Georgia in the USA, was working in the YMCA Overseas War Secretaries' headquarters during its training conference at Columbia University in New York City. In the Ladies Home Journal magazine that day, she came across McCrae's poem and was so moved that she vowed to always wear a red poppy in remembrance. That same month she wrote an answering poem in reply, We Shall Keep the Faith:
Moina Michael
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
She was given $10 by the conference delegates as thanks for her work, and this she spent during her lunch break buying 25 red silk poppies at Wanamaker's department store. She pinned one to her coat and distributed the rest amongst the delegates, asking them to wear them as a tribute to fallen American soldiers. After returning to the University of Georgia in 1920, she taught a class of disabled veterans. Realising how much support they needed, she thought of selling artificial poppies to raise funds for America's disabled veterans. She was born in Good Hope, Georgia in 1869, retired in 1938 and lived in Athens, USA, until her death in 1944. By then poppy sales in the USA had raised more than $200-million for the rehabilitation of war veterans. Her autobiography is titled The Miracle Flower: The Story of the Flanders Fields Memorial Poppy (1941).
By 1918, the poppy's symbolism had increased. Men serving in France and Flanders had been sending picked poppies back to loved ones in their letters. In April 1918 American women gave out poppies in New York after accepting war effort donations.
In September 1920, the American Legion held it's annual conference in Cleveland, Ohio. Present was a French woman, Anna E GUERIN, representing the American and French Children's League.
Anna Guérin, in the 12 June 1918 issue of the Wichita Daily Eagle, Kansas.
Anna Alix BOULEE was born in 1878 in Vallon, Ardèche, France. She married Paul RABANIT in November 897 in Vallon. He was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba in 1871. After his mother's death in 1887 in Cuba, his father took the two sons to New York in May 1879. Soon after the marriage, Paul and Anna sailed to the French colony, Madagascar, where they settled in Tamatave. There Anna opened a school in 1899 and ran it until she returned to France in 1909. The couple had two daughters there, Raymonde in 1900 and Renée in 1901. They couple divorced in 1907.
In October 1910, Anna married Constant Charles Eugène GUERIN in Paris. He was a Judge, and working in Kayes, French Sudan. They had met in Madagascar. After the marriage he returned to Sudan. Anna and her daughters moved to England, where Anna worked as a lecturer for the Alliance Française organisation, lecturing all over the UK.
In October 1914, Anna left Liverpool for the USA, onboard the Lusitania, arriving in New York. Her daughters remained at boarding school in England with her mother. Her husband was then in Lyon as a French attaché at the World Fair. When WWI broke out, the World Fair was closed down and become part of an official mission to the Congo, after which he enlisted in the French military, until he was sent back to Africa in 1916 on behalf of the French government.
Anna initially went to the USA as an Alliance Française lecturer. Once there she lectured all over the country at many First World War patriotic drives before the USA entered the war, and became a fundraiser, during and after the war, for the war effort and for France. She lectured in the USA from October 1914 until May 1915, after which she returned to France. By September 1915, she was at the Waldorf Astoria with her daughter Raymonde, when her daughter Renée arrived in the city from Bordeaux. Anna left the USA with her daughters some time after March 1916, as she returned to the Waldorf Astoria in September 1916 from Bordeaux with daughter Raymonde. She returned | 4,661 |
Located south west of Launceston, the historic town of Longford is the centre for the local farming district. The town is known for its convict-built houses, mansions and gardens. There are also some nice arts and crafts stores and place to eat.
Located south of Launceston, Evandale is a Georgian village, best known for its 19th<|fim_middle|> history, design, engineering and style. | -century buildings and relatively untouched streetscape. They have a good market every Sunday with more than 100 stalls of crafts and food. In February there is the Evandale Village Fair and the National Penny Farthing (old fashioned bike) Championships.
The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery is one of Australia's largest regional galleries showcasing collections of Australian colonial art, decorative arts and design, Tasmanian history, and natural sciences.
Is a collection of traditional and contemporary motor vehicles for all who appreciate | 100 |
VivoCarat, a leading online jewelry marketplace in India, has raised $50,000 in seed funding from a group of individual investors. The funds will be used for product development, team building, and marketing.
Founded in early 2016 by Ritesh Oza and Abhijith Shetty, VivoCarat is an online marketplace of diversified jewelry brands that showcases striking and spectacular products at an affordable price. It offers a range of new-age contemporary jewelry items, suitable for both special occasions as well as daily wear.
"Each product at<|fim_middle|> designs. Besides from providing an online platform to the associated brands; it also helps accelerate their business by providing them a host of value added services.
VivoCarat ensures all the gold products are B.I.S hallmarked. Also, all diamond products areG.I.A, I.G.I, I.G.L and S.G.Lcertified.
Also read- FAN OF VINTAGE SMARTPHONES? YOU MIGHT HAVE TO RETHINK! | VivoCarat is listed into collections considering the needs of the customers and sourced from group of handpicked jewelers renowned for their design excellence and aesthetics. We add a minimum of 100-150 new designs on the site every month and will continue to bring more varieties for customers across the country. VivoCarat has successfully managed to join hands with more than 30 reputed brands across Mumbai & other cities like Jaipur, Surat, Kolkata and New Delhi." said Ritesh Oza, CEO and Co-founder at VivoCarat.com.
When it comes to brand collaboration, Vivocarat has successfully managed to join hands with reputed brands that deliver some of the best craftsmanship, believe in authenticity and innovative | 146 |
Catalyze 2022: Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin
Bill DeYoung
We're asking thought leaders, business people and creatives to talk about 2022 and give us catalyzing ideas for making St. Pete a better place to live. What should our city look like? What are their hopes, their plans, their problem-solving ideas? This is Catalyze 2022.
Shortly after the turn of the New Year, the Kriseman administration, in residence at City Hall since 2014, will say goodbye.
It's a bittersweet moment in time for Dr. Kanika Tomalin, St. Petersburg's Deputy Mayor and City<|fim_middle|> Daily Spark
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The Catalyst interview: Tom Rush | Administrator, who'll re-join the private sector as Eckerd College's vice president for strategy and chief operating officer.
"I'll always be serving this city in some capacity, all the days I'm fortunate to call it home," says the St. Pete native. "For the immediate future, that's going to manifest at Eckerd College, which is one of the treasured assets of our community. Higher education and increasing access to it, I think is one of the most important elements of the formula that it's going to take for our city to continue its rise and trajectory."
Tomalin, who spent eight years in the front row for the city's unprecedented 21st century growth spurt, said she continues to be optimistic about the future.
"My wish list for St. Petersburg is very long, and obviously goes well beyond 2022," she explained. "But I specifically look forward to St. Pete 'normalizing the novel.' We have become a very progressive city that is defined by big ideas and innovation, and civic engagement, and some pretty significant advancements.
"I would love it if the momentum carries, where the seeds that've been planted are really cultivated, and those things that we do now as novelties just become part of the culture. For example, the ferry as a regional transportation option, not a novelty or a way to just recreationally cross the bay to have a fun weekend. It can be an actual commuter mode. And we need more regional approaches to transportation."
On an even more practical, grassroots level, "'Open Streets' was such a huge hit on Halloween. Closing Central – people loved that! That's not something we have to wait for one day a year to do."
She has no delusions about the city's rapid development and expansion, and what that might mean for its reputation as a quirky, accessible cultural hub.
"There is nothing mutually exclusive about development and culture and charm," Tomalin asserts. "Some of the cities that really define America and are great are the largest, and also known for the individual character of their neighborhoods. And history, and the way it's preserved.
"We wrote it right into our vision, one of the first things we did when we came. So that we honor our past while we pursue our future. I think both are required for the city's best future.
"It's a false narrative to assume that one comes at the total cost of the other. It's all about balance. As cities go, I think there always needs to be a balance between what is an innovation for that city, and an understanding of innovation overall."
As for politics, don't count Kanika Tomalin out just yet. "I am fully embracing this next chapter, but life's a whole book – a lot of chapters," she said. "I would be so fortunate to find my way back to public service some day. I think there's certainly a time and a place for that."
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Dr. Wei Zheng received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he studied ion channel pharmacology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular biology. Prior to joining the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2005, Dr. Zheng spent 12 years as a researcher at pharmaceutical companies, including Berlex, Amgen, and Merck, where he gained broad experience in drug target and lead discovery in cancer and in cardiovascular, autoimmune, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases.
At the NIH, Dr. Zheng has collaborated with many NIH and academic investigators on high-throughput screening and probe discovery projects that led to the identification<|fim_middle|> neglected diseases with a focus on the lysosomal storage diseases. Currently, he is leading a group of biologists to support pre-clinical drug development as part of the Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program. Dr. Zheng's group is also working on using patient derived induced pluripotent stem cells as a cell-based disease model for evaluation of drug efficacy.
Human cells differentiated from patient iPS cells are a good disease model system for drug discovery as well as personalized medicine development. | of more than two dozen small molecule probes for use as research tools. He also has conducted drug discovery and development research for rare and | 26 |
Port<|fim_middle|> I started to feel good about myself and was a lot more confident (breaking bad habits). If it wasn't for the gym I probably wouldn't be who I am now. I found myself bonding with people and making strong friendships that will last forever.
The Saint John Regional Hospital Foundation, under its MindCare New Brunswick banner, raises and distributes funds to numerous programs across New Brunswick that promote mental wellness and provide expert services to those living with mental illness. | age Atlantic staff and youth are pleased of the grant award from MindCare New Brunswick in support of the physical wellness program at their residential rehabilitation treatment centre at Cassidy Lake.
The use of the weight and cardio equipment is part of the everyday programming for the Portage Atlantic youth. Having the equipment assembled, inspected, and refurbished in some cases, are essential components of providing a safe gymnasium environment at the Portage Atlantic Lewis Fitness Centre.
"I would like to express how much the gym and equipment mean to me. Honestly, coming back to Portage for the 3rd time, I was very unfit and mentally unstable. I was always unmotivated, falling asleep half way through the day and always complaining about doing things. I wasn't sure if it was my mental/physical health, or just me acting on old patterns.
I eventually started to participate in activities and found myself having fun. Little by little | 182 |
I don't think any of us need an introduction to Scott Monty. One thing you may not know is that he is now with SHIFT Communications. But that's not the point of this post.
I listen to several of the TWiT podcasts on a weekly basis and one of their newer shows, Marketing Mavericks, has caught my attention. Check out this gem from a recent talk with Scott Monty on the show.
So what does Scott suggest? It's basic stuff for many but tends to be forgotten. Use social media the right way.
Listen to what your customers actually want.
Combined social with email and CRM. Truly provide content that matters to them.
I see this time and time again. The single most common statement that really summarizes the idea that social media is a mass broadcast tool comes in the form of an interaction between a social media manager and the business.
"Hey -<|fim_middle|> for representing brands in the social space need to do a better job of changing mindsets and encouraging their peers to understand the value of the conversation. | can you put this on Twitter for us?"
That simple business request, while seemingly innocuous, is at the root of the use of social media as a mass broadcast tool instead of a two-way communications medium. And it's not the fault of the business. Those responsible | 54 |
In 2017, the Schunk Group achieved sales of 1.2 billion euros. Arno Roth.jpg: Dr. Arno Roth is CEO of the Schunk Group.
2017 was a successful financial year for the Schunk Group, with the technology company increasing its sales to 1.2 billion euros.
The Heuchelheim (Hesse) company saw 5.1 percent higher turnover than in the previous year. With this number, the Schunk Group grew significantly faster than the global economy, which recorded growth of 3.7 percent in 2017. The technology group's equity ratio rose to around 66 percent. "This once again demonstrates the great financial strength and stability of the Schunk Group," Dr. Arno Roth, CEO, summarized.
From a regional standpoint, the Schunk Group saw growth in each region in 2017. America and Asia, the technology company's strategic growth regions, have developed especially well. In Asia, turnover increased primarily due to increased sales activities in China, India and Southeast Asia. In North America, growth is attributable to sales success in the U.S. and Mexico; in South America, sales increased in Brazil, where the Schunk Group benefited from a renewed increase in demand.
While the Schunk Group invested a total of 74 million euros in 2017, around 97 million euros are planned for this year. Major individual investments include a new production hall at the Heuchelheim site, the construction of a new technical center and the expansion of an office building at the Reiskirchen-Lindenstruth site, and the construction of a new production hall at the Wettenberg site. The Schunk Group is also investing in modernizing and expanding its sites' machinery and equipment.
"Schunk's employees<|fim_middle|> our systems helps us to expand our innovative leadership," Dr. Roth explained. | are and will always be the foundation of its success," Dr. Roth emphasized. In fiscal 2017, the number of employees increased by around three percent to an annual average of 8,262. The Schunk Group has created more than 200 new jobs worldwide, with a large portion of them coming on the back of the capacity expansion at the Mexico site.
Due to the strong financial stability of the Group, employees will once again reap the rewards of the profits for fiscal 2017: a total of 26.5 million euros will be distributed to them in 2018. "Depending on the employees' location and amount of time that they have been with the company, this results in each person receiving up to 6,000 euros in company profits – quite a considerable sum," explained Dr. Roth.
In addition to profit-sharing, Schunk Group employees benefit from the Group's excellent training and development opportunities. An example of this is CAMP (Corporate Advanced Management Program), the internal management training program that will be open to all global employees in the future. "In this way, employees from all of the Group's companies will be systematically prepared for management tasks according to a Schunk standard, and developed into competent managers," said Dr. Roth.
In addition, the Schunk Group's Global Graduate Program prepares motivated university graduates with outstanding academic achievements for demanding international assignments within the Schunk Group.
When it comes to the strong level of competition for university graduates, the Schunk Group is breaking new ground in its recruiting practices. In 2017, the technology group hosted the internal university fair known as Campus@Schunk for the first time, allowing students to become familiar with career opportunities within the Schunk Group. The event included factory tours, lectures, a panel discussion and a presentation of the four divisions of the Schunk Group. Personnel department employees were strongly engaged with the students in an application review. "The first Campus@Schunk was a complete success," said Dr. Roth in hindsight: well over 300 students accepted the invitation, some of them coming from afar.
The quality of the education of skilled workers has traditionally been very important to Schunk: in addition to an education center and regular in-house instruction and courses, project work and excursions ensure that the training is qualified and diverse. After successful completion, and once personal and professional suitability has been determined, the Schunk Group takes on its trainees for an indefinite period of time.
In 2018, the Schunk Group will introduce a wealth of innovations and technologies onto the market. One of these is the energy-saving Leading Energy Efficiency Footprint (LEEF) technology for environmental simulation. LEEF was jointly developed by German and American engineers especially for the American market and is used in climate chambers in which highly diverse products can be tested under different environmental conditions. Compared to conventional climate chambers, LEEF test chambers have up to 40 percent lower energy consumption, 60 percent faster temperature change rates and 70 percent improved accuracy for controlling temperature and humidity levels.
Another Schunk Group innovation offers considerable advantages to customers from the process industry: graphite rupture discs. Rupture discs are pressure relief devices that protect a vessel or system from overpressure or underpressure by bursting a one-time-use membrane. When using aggressive gases or liquids – for example in the petrochemical or pharmaceutical industries – the demands on rupture discs are very high. Such rupture discs are usually made of corrosion-resistant metal alloys. Thanks to its materials expertise, the Schunk Group has now developed rupture discs made of graphite that meet the highest demands. A coating of pyrolytic carbon makes these rupture discs more resistant, with up to twice as much temperature resistance and significantly higher corrosion stability compared to conventional products.
2018 promises to be a challenging year for Schunk, as growth rates in its two core markets – the automotive and rail industries – are predicted to decline. "However, we assume that the overall economic environment will not change much," said Dr. Roth, with regard to the current financial year.
Schunk is therefore sticking to its medium-term goals. Up to this point, organic growth has turned out to be greater than planned. The Schunk Group is very particular in its acquisitions and strictly selects takeover candidates according to whether they strategically fit the company, said Dr. Roth. In 2017, the Schunk Group acquired 24% of the shares in KFE Kompetenzzentrum Fahrzeug Elektronik GmbH in Lippstadt. KFE conducts tests to develop electric mobility. "With this investment, we are strengthening the research and development activities of the Weiss Technik Division. Direct access to a user of | 971 |
The future of the social dialogue at Community level
On 18 September 1996, the European Commission adopted a /Communication
Concerning the Development of the Social Dialogue Process at Community Level/
(COM(96) 448 final). Launching the Communication, the commissioner
responsible for social affairs, Padraig Flynn, said that the time had come to
reform and adapt the social dialogue in view of the new challenges facing the
European Union in years to come. The Commission was" aiming at a
rationalisation of structures and an optimal allocation of the resources
available".
Socijalni dijalog, Collective bargaining, Agreements, Social partners, Industrijski odnosi, Radni odnosi i socijalni dijalog
Employers and unions disagree on the duration of new collective agreements
1997's collective bargaining in the private sector is concentrating on three
main issues: 100% wage compensation during maternity leave; further
negotiations over the pension scheme initiated in 1991; and a limited wage
increase to allow for inflation. The social partners in the different
bargaining areas are largely in agreement on the content of the new
collective agreements, but the central social partner organisations - the
Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) and the Danish Employers'
Confederation (DA) - still cannot agree whether the new collective agreements
should be of two or three years' duration.
Paper industry agreement reached after conciliation
On 6 February 1997, theSwedish Paper Workers' Union and the Employers'
Federation of Swedish Forest Industries told the conciliators Lars-Gunnar
Albåge and Rune Larson that they accepted their proposal for a national
collective agreement on wages for 1997. There had been two stumbling blocks
in the negotiations: the trade union's claim for a reduction of annual
working time by 25 hours; and the employers' insistence on an agreement that
would run for at least two years. The outcome is an agreement on wages only,
that runs for one year, backdated to 1 January 1997.
New national agreement on continuing training
At the end of 1996, the major trade unions and employers' associations signed
the Second National Agreement on Continuing Training (II Acuerdo Nacional de
Formación Continua), which was later endorsed by a tripartite agreement
between these organisations and the Government. The new agreements build on
certain basic aspects of the continuing training system in Spain that was
started in 1993, though they also introduce some important innovations.
Socijalni dijalog, Radni odnosi i socijalni dijalog
Positive experience with working time flexibility at Akzo Nobel
In accordance with its 1995 collective agreement, Akzo Nobel has evaluated
the effects of "working time differentiation" and more flexible working hours
on employment. Since the effects appear positive, a 36-hour week is expected
to be introduced by 1 July 1997.
Renault closes assembly plant in Vilvoorde without prior notice
This action, which came as a complete surprise to the 3,100 employees, is
part of the French-owned motor manufacturer's "new industrial strategy" of
concentrating production to cut its financial losses. Michel de Virville,
managing director of Renault, announced the closure adding that:
Telecom offers personal contracts to managers
Telecom Eireann's plan to introduce personal contracts for 300 of its
managers who report directly to senior executives must be seen in the context
of the company's effort to implement a major programme of change to meet the
requirements of EU-driven deregulation requirements. A Telecom redundancy
package was also reactivated recently, one of several in recent years, as the
company seeks to reduce costs. It is also to enter talks with the union
representing general workers in Telecom, the Communications Workers Union, on
a proposed IEP 110 million cost savings plan.
Metalworking collective agreement signed after nine months of negotiations
On 4 February, following a mediation proposal by the Government, the national
metalworking collective agreement was signed. Negotiations had lasted for
nine months and were marked by moments of breakdown and conflict which
resulted in strikes. The metalworking settlement, which covers some 1.5
million workers, is Italy's most important industry-wide agreement. It will
strongly influence both the forthcoming renewals of contracts in other
sectors and the evaluation of the July 1993 tripartite central agreement on
incomes policy and collective bargaining structure, planned for June 1997.
Plaća i dohodak, Collective bargaining
Strikes focus on earlier retirement
In January and February 1997, many French towns were hit by public transport
strikes, affecting bus, tram and underground rail services. The strikers'
demands differed somewhat from town to town but certain themes have been
common. such as: improvements in working conditions; better protection from
crime and delinquency, two consecutive days off in a week; and less taxing
route schedules. Strikers have also been demanding pay rises and a reduction
in the working week to 35 hours or less, with the recruitment of new
personnel to take up the slack. Demands for the right to retire with full
pensions at the age of 55, along with systematic replacement of retiring
employees by new recruitment, have also been frequently voiced.
Umirovljenje, Industrial action, Social protection, Umirovljenje, Social policies
Future of the Post Office under debate
In February, the Communication Workers' Union (CWU) launched a consultative
paper aimed at influencing the pre-election commitments of both the
Conservative Party and Labour Party. The union, which is firmly against
privatisation of the Post Office, has called for legislation to turn it into
an independent corporation, with the level of dividends pegged at 40% of
post-tax profits. The union feels that its proposals will have equal appeal
to all political parties because of the weight of public opinion opposing
privatisation.
Sectoral social dialogue
Eurofound's representativeness studies are designed to allow the European Commission to identify the 'management and labour' whom it must consult under article 154 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). This series consists of studies of the representativeness of employer and worker organisations in various sectors.
This series reports on developments in minimum wage rates across the EU, including how they<|fim_middle|> last 30 years. It covers issues such as employment status, working time duration and organisation, work organisation, learning and training, physical and psychosocial risk factors, health and safety, work–life balance, worker participation, earnings and financial security, work and health, and most recently also the future of work.
European Restructuring Monitor
The European Restructuring Monitor has reported on the employment impact of large-scale business restructuring since 2002. This series includes its restructuring-related databases (events, support instruments and legislation) as well as case studies and publications.
Challenges and prospects in the EU
Eurofound's Flagship report series 'Challenges and prospects in the EU' comprise research reports that contain the key results of multiannual research activities and incorporate findings from different related research projects. Flagship reports are the major output of each of Eurofound's strategic areas of intervention and have as their objective to contribute to current policy debates.
Eurofound's European Company Survey (ECS) maps and analyses company policies and practices which can have an impact on smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as the development of social dialogue in companies. This series consists of outputs from the ECS 2019, the fourth edition of the survey. The survey was first carried out in 2004–2005 as the European Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance.
National social partners and policymaking
This series reports on and updates latest information on the involvement of national social partners in policymaking. The series analyses the involvement of national social partners in the implementation of policy reforms within the framework of social dialogue practices, including their involvement in elaborating the National Reform Programmes (NRPs).
New forms of employment
This series reports on the new forms of employment emerging across Europe that are driven by societal, economic and technological developments and are different from traditional standard or non-standard employment in a number of ways. This series explores what characterises these new employment forms and what implications they have for working conditions and the labour market.
European Company Surveys
The European Company Survey (ECS) is carried out every four to five years since its inception in 2004–2005, with the latest edition in 2019. The survey is designed to provide information on workplace practices to develop and evaluate socioeconomic policy in the EU. It covers issues around work organisation, working time arrangements and work–life balance, flexibility, workplace innovation, employee involvement, human resource management, social dialogue, and most recently also skills use, skills strategies and digitalisation.
Explaining convergence: Geographical divide and impact of COVID-19
studenog 2022
This report explores the drivers of economic and social convergence in Europe, using a selected set of economic and social indicators to examine trends in the performance of individual Member States. It also investigates what role the Economic and Monetary Union plays in convergence, particularly in southern and eastern Member States. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on convergence is analysed and initial conclusions are drawn about the impact of EU recovery packages and their ability to prevent divergence.
Social policies, Promicanje socijalne kohezije i konvergencije, COVID-19, Labour market policies, Praćenje konvergencije u Europskoj uniji, Inequality
Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Textiles and clothing sector
This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the textiles and clothing sector. Their relative representativeness legitimises their right to be consulted, their role and effective participation in the European sectoral social dialogue and their capacity to negotiate agreements. The aim of this Eurofound study on representativeness is to identify the relevant national and European social partner organisations in the textiles and clothing sector in the EU Member States.
Representativeness, Socijalni dijalog, Social partners, Radni odnosi i socijalni dijalog
EWCS extraordinary edition 2021: Overview report
prosinca 2022
This report analyses how working conditions, job quality and working life outcomes – such as work–life balance, health and well-being, and sustainability of work – changed between February 2020 and spring 2021. Following up on responses to the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) 2020, it explores the differences between three distinct groups of workers: those teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic, those who continued to work on their employers' premises as frontline staff, and those who were furloughed or worked reduced hours.
Radno vrijeme, Uvjeti rada i održivi rad, Working conditions, Teleworking, Sustainable work, Ravnoteža između poslovnog i privatnog života, Health and well-being at work, Kvaliteta radnih mjesta
Scenarios on digitalisation and transition to a carbon neutral economy
With the expansion of telework and different forms of hybrid work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important for policymakers to consider both the opportunities and the negative consequences that may result. This report will explore potential scenarios for such work. In doing so, it will identify trends and drivers, and predict how they might interact to create particular outcomes and how they are likely to affect workers and businesses. Policy pointers will outline what could be done to facilitate desirable outcomes and to avoid undesirable ones.
Working conditions, Teleworking, Work organisation, European Green Deal, Zapošljavanje i tržišta rada, Predviđanje učinka promjena i upravljanje njime, Digitalno doba: mogućnosti i izazovi za rad i zapošljavanje, Just Transition
Building on previous work by Eurofound, this report will investigate intergenerational dynamics over time. During the 2008 double-dip recession, worrying intergenerational divides appeared in many Member States, and while some of the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is universal, early data suggests disparities across demographic cohorts. Eurofound will examine how different age groups may have been affected in terms of their health, labour market participation, quality of life and financial needs, both in the short term and in the long term.
Social policies, Mladi, Health and well-being at work, COVID-19, Labour market participation, Životni uvjeti i kvaliteta života, Starenje radne snage
Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Professional football
This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the professional football sector. Their relative representativeness legitimises their right to be consulted, their role and effective participation in the European sectoral social dialogue and their capacity to negotiate agreements. The aim of this Eurofound's study on representativeness is to identify the relevant national and European social partner organisations in the professional football sector in the EU Member States.
Representativeness, Socijalni dijalog, Social partners, Collective bargaining, Radni odnosi i socijalni dijalog, Industrijski odnosi
Rural-urban polarisation
travnja 2023
The urban-rural divide in EU countries has grown in recent years, and the depopulation of certain rural areas in favour of cities is a challenge when it comes to promoting economic development and maintaining social cohesion and convergence. Using data from Eurofound and Eurostat, this report will investigate the trends and drivers of the urban-rural divide, in various dimensions: economic and employment opportunities, access to services, living conditions and quality of life.
Quality of society, Javne usluge, Promicanje socijalne kohezije i konvergencije, Zapošljavanje i tržišta rada, Digitalno doba: mogućnosti i izazovi za rad i zapošljavanje, Životni uvjeti i kvaliteta života, Just Transition, Innovation
Affordable and adequate homes - The cost of and access to housing in Europe
Adequate, affordable housing has become a matter of great concern, with an alarming number of Europeans with low or lower household incomes unable to access any, especially in capital cities. Housing was a key factor in people's experience of the COVID-19 pandemic: its quality and level of safety significantly affected how lockdowns and social distancing measures were experienced, with those who had no access to quality housing at higher risk of deteriorating living conditions and well-being.
Javne usluge, Plaća i dohodak, Subjective well-being, COVID-19, Životni uvjeti i kvaliteta života
Human and ethical implications of digitisation and automation at the workplace
The use of artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and the Internet of Things technologies in the workplace can bring about fundamental changes in work organisation and working conditions. This report analyses the ethical and human implications of the use of these technologies at work by drawing on qualitative interviews with policy stakeholders, input from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents and Delphi expert surveys, and case studies.
Structural change, Working conditions, Work organisation, Predviđanje učinka promjena i upravljanje njime, Digitalno doba: mogućnosti i izazovi za rad i zapošljavanje | are set and how they have developed over time in nominal and real terms. The series explores where there are statutory minimum wages or collectively agreed minimum wages in the Member States, as well as minimum wage coverage rates by gender.
Eurofound's work on COVID-19 examines the far-reaching socioeconomic implications of the pandemic across Europe as they continue to impact living and working conditions. A key element of the research is the e-survey, conducted in three rounds – in April and July 2020 and in March 2021. This is complemented by the inclusion of research into the ongoing effects of the pandemic in much of Eurofound's other areas of work.
European Working Conditions Surveys
The European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) launched in 1990 and is carried out every five years, with the latest edition in 2015. It provides an overview of trends in working conditions and quality of employment for the | 192 |
WHY CELL PHONES AND MAHJ DON'T MIX…
Once again we have an article from Lorraine Yapps Cohen, from the Yahoo Contributor Network, about something we all deal with…
Mah Jongg and Cell Phones Don't Mix
What Happens when New Technology Disrupts an Old Game
Lorraine Yapps Cohen, Yahoo Contributor Network
This is an account of an old Chinese game, Mah Jongg, and new technology, cell phones. The
two do not mix. The story is non-fictional, although the names have been changed to protect
both the innocent and the guilty. Read on and be amused by the unexpected distractions
afforded from devices designed for convenience.
Car on Call
When in San Diego, I play Mah Jongg weekly at a local community center. The parking lot is
always full, so husband, Roger, drives me over in his screaming yellow German hot rod. The GT3
was the car on call for the day, and Roger was glad to deliver me to any destination in it. I
should call him at home from my cell when I'm done playing.
I have settled in, even if temporarily, with a particular table of Mah Jongg players among the many convened for play this day. These ladies regularly play together, with an occasional irregular like myself joining the table as the fifth.
Doris is a nice lady from St. Louis. (One always starts conversation with where you're from, followed by a short synopsis of how you got to San Diego, because nobody in San Diego is FROM San Diego.) Doris is straightforward<|fim_middle|>ONES AND MAHJ DON'T MIX…"
S1 May 14, 2014 at 11:25 am
Wonderful story! We all know Barbaras and Nadias. | , no nonsense, un-gossipy, pretty regular kind of gal. No unnecessary flutter, no hard edges, and socially sympathetic. She summered in San Diego then moved here permanently 39 years ago. I like Doris. I'd say she's a native now.
Carolyn is a very slender dark-haired gal from Nu Yawk (this is Easternese for New York). Carolyn doesn't say much and is a bit unsteady on her feet. She has a son my age (I'm a senior citizen), which explains why she's unsteady on her feet. We talk about our sons. We all have sons. Carolyn's only complaint about her son is that he's not married to his girlfriend of 20 years. I voice the same complaint about my son, only that the numbers are smaller.
Helen is also from St. Louis. Her favorite color is lime green. You can tell. Her entire outfit was lime green, complete with a silver ring set with a lovely large peridot stone the same color–you guessed it: lime green–as everything else she had on. Helen is quiet and moves slowly, but her mind is quick as a whip. She plays Mah Jongg as if it were a walk in the park and quietly wins most games as if she were a stoic from Seneca.
Nadia was at our table. Nadia is a somewhat heavy set Roumanian lady. She's smart and tolerates no baloney….choosing perhaps to eat it instead. "I whipped her." Nadia was referring to Barbara, another large lady at another table whose weight always seems to be the subject of pre-Mah Jongg discussion. (There is no discussion of anything during Mah Jongg.) Nadia beat Barbara badly last week at Mah Jongg and apparently wiped her out of her supply of quarters, something Barbara usually does to others. Nadia has that heavy Roumanian accent so you can't tell whether she's whipping or wiping or what. I was not at Mah Jongg the week before, so I'm not exactly sure what went on, but whatever it was, there remains no love lost between the two big gals.
TEE-unk
So, we're playing along. The games go quickly. These gals are out to play Mah Jongg and anything distracting from that is dealt with in short order. TEE-unk. I'm getting within one tile of winning on several games. Close, but no cigar. I'm not as smart as these gals and I need to really focus on the game, but something keeps breaking my concentration. TEE-unk. I now realize my cell phone, buried deep in my deep pocketbook, is TEE-unking its low battery condition with that odd familiar signal. Excusing myself from the game for a moment (and risking the wrath of my avid play mates with an annoying game delay), I go to my bag and dig around for the offending device. Deep gropes find the friggin' phone and I turn it off. If looks could kill, I would have been dead on arrival back at the table.
Play resumes and I'm still losing. TEE-unk. Wait a minute. (One cannot wait a minute as I just held up the game for a minute already.) I just shut my phone down but there's something still TEE-unking. "It's not mine, mine is off, I can't do anything about it….let me just concentrate on the game" is what I'm thinking. Heaven forbid I should delay the game any more. TEE-unk. Heads down in concentration but eyes rolling upward, all four players at my table were now unable to conceal their annoyance.
"Shut tit TOFF." Nadia's Roumanian accent was unmistakable, not to mention comandeering. The demand straightened backs in their chairs as the announcement was made to the entire room, not just our table. All in the room remained motionless. Eyes peered above their reading glasses and a lot of blinking in silence went on. Nadia was not to be ignored, although everybody was immobilized with alert.
I humbly announced to the table that the TEE-unk was not my phone although it surely sounded just like my unmistakable low-battery TEE-unk sound does, but my cell phone was now off. More peering above the reading glasses around the room. No one seemed to know what to do or how to respond to Nadia's general announcement. Complete silence rather quickly evolved to the quiet clicks of tiles resumed in play. Life would go on. Mah jongg would continue.
More TEE-unk
A couple of very ill-tolerated TEE-unks later, Barbara got up and checked her pocketbook. Out came her cell phone and delivered an unmuffled TEE-unk with clear-as-a-bell clarity, thereby identifying the offending phone with certainty, and glaring eyes signaling some real offense all around the room. Barbara put her phone back in her pocketbook, returned to her table, and resumed playing Mah Jongg. TEE-unk. Barbara mumbled something about not knowing how to shut her cell phone off.
Completely incredulous but uncertain of Barbara's inaudible declaration, Nadia announced, "You dunt no how to shut tit toff…like you poot tit ton, but weeth za rrred butt ton." It was not a question. It was a command. Delivered in a tone that required immediate action. By somebody. By anybody.
Unfortunately, Barbara was concentrating on her Mah Jongg, or pretending to, and her phone proceeded to TEE-unk. Nadia got up, uninvitedly went into Barbara's pocketbook, shut off the phone, and quietly returned to the table to resume a now blessedly quiet game of Mah Jongg.
Everybody was relieved while nobody said a word. No thanks went to Nadia for shutting up Barbara's phone, but you could sense the whole room was grateful that Nadia took things into her own hands and acted like the generalissimo you know she is. Barbara did not so much as look up but continued to play Mah Jongg in what must have been either complete humiliation or total oblivion. We'll never know which.
Back at my table, Doris did want to know whether Nadia told Barbara explicitly that she shut off her phone. After all, Barbara might really be incapacitated now. Doris's concern: "She might not know how to turn it back on."
So, I lost my shirt at Mah Jongg that afternoon. But I got a nifty ride home in a nifty yellow hot rod, by a nifty man whom I can call my husband, whom I called on a phone I know how to turn back on.
This entry was posted in Mah Jongg and Me and tagged cell phones, mah jongg, new york, San Diego, St. Louis on May 14, 2014 by Mah Jongg and Me.
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The Chautauqua County Courthouse<|fim_middle|> Street in Sedan, is the seat of government of Chautauqua County, Kansas. Sedan has been the county seat since 1875. The courthouse was built from 1917 to 1918 by contractor Louis Fred Nebelong.
Architect George P. Washburn & Sons of Ottawa, Kansas designed the courthouse in the Classical Revival style. The courthouse is two stories and faces east. It is constructed of red-colored brick, limestone, and concrete with a flat roof. It is located on spacious landscaped grounds in the center of the city. The front has a portico supported by four Ionic columns which rise to a wide header at the roof.
The current courthouse is the second structure used as a courthouse. The first courthouse was a stone, two-story structure built in 1875-77 by H. B. Kelly.
George P. Washburn & Sons also designed courthouses in Anderson County, Atchison County, Butler County, Doniphan County, Franklin County, Harper County, Kingman County, Miami County, Pratt County and Woodson County, and Beaver County, Oklahoma.
See also
List of county courthouses in Kansas
External links
Chautauqua County at American Courthouses
Historic postcard images
Buildings and structures in Chautauqua County, Kansas
County courthouses in Kansas
Neoclassical architecture in Kansas
Government buildings completed in 1926 | , located at 215 North Chautauqua | 12 |
At Sass & Belle we enjoy spreading the love and are extremely proud to have a partnership with the children's charity, War Child.
'War Child is a wonderful charity that sheds<|fim_middle|> range of Christmas decorations, donated to War Child. | a light on the most vulnerable children in terrible war-torn conflicts. The work that War Child do to directly aid children in the most dangerous countries in the world and the on-going support, education and relief that they provide for those families is absolutely incredible. As a father, it is needless to say that these issues are close to my heart. Millions of children depend on the hard work of War Child and it is imperative that its work continues. This is why Sass & Belle are incredibly proud to support War Child.' - Richard Stone, M.D. Sass & Belle.
War Child is the only specialist charity for children affected by war, delivering high-impact programmes to rebuild lives in countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Uganda. The charity aims to reach children early in the conflict and support them to deal with the traumas, equipping them with the skills to go back to school and providing training to young people so they can support themselves. From helping Syrian children access education to enabling girls to escape life on the streets in the DRC, War Child puts children at the centre of the solution.
By keeping children safe, giving them an education and equipping them with skills for the future, War Child's work is life-changing.
We are proud to announce that over the last 2 years we have raised a total of £25,116.
We created many campaigns in the last two years to help raise funds for War Child.
Sass & Belle X War Child | The Gift of Giving
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Sass & Belle X War Child | Decorate to Donate
This campaign saw 20% of all sales made online from our magnificent | 358 |
Stream The First Volume Of Sufjan Stevens' New Album Convocations
New Music April 8, 2021 12:00 PM By Peter Helman
Last September, two days after the release of Sufjan Stevens' new album The Ascension, his biological father died. In response to that loss, Sufjan is releasing Convocations, a massive five-volume instrumental album made up of five song cycles each representing a different stage of mourning: Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations, and Incantations.
"This is not a personal record, but a universal one," journalist Grayson Haver Curr<|fim_middle|>, the unknown, the absolute joy of memory. This is also an album made in lockdown, when we were all cloistered in whatever space we had. So long as the science and statistics hold, Convocations arrives just as we begin to emerge from a year whose losses we will calculate for a lifetime."
Sufjan is releasing one volume of Convocations per week until the entire thing is out in May. First up? The 10 tracks, including the previously released "Meditation V," that make up the first volume, Meditations. Livestream Meditations below starting at 12PM ET.
Convocations is out 5/6 on Asthmatic Kitty. Pre-order it here. | in writes of the album in its Bandcamp description. "Convocations is built on a shared experience that seeks to be honest about how complicated grief can be in these difficult times—the pain, the anxiety | 40 |
The least healthy meal of the day for most women is lunch. Because unhealthy habits are difficult to change, it requires determination and drive with a blend of support to make the changes long-term. Sounds like a lot, but a healthy lunch is worth the effort and will help you achieve your weight goals faster.
How you fix and present healthy foods will effect whether you regularly integrate them into your daily life. If you're re-trying a food that you previously didn't care for, change the cooking technique or seasoning used. Try using flavored vinegars or small amounts of different types of oils such as coconut oil, sesame or grape seed oil. It can take up to 20 exposures to a new food for someone to accept it. Keep experimenting.
Commit to packing your lunch for work at least 4 days per week for 30 days. You can use leftovers from healthy<|fim_middle|> fruits such as apples hold up well. Hard boiled eggs, 0% Greek yogurt and string cheese work as wholesome afternoon snacks. If no refrigeration is available, pack a small lunch sack with ice packs.
Managing your food during the work day allows you to control the cost, and nutrition of your food and gives you energy to power through your afternoon. | dinners, hummus and vegetables, or whole wheat wraps stuffed with vegetables and 2 oz. protein. Use a thermos to bring chicken and vegetables low-salt soup with a piece of whole fruit. Make quickly by using organic chicken low salt chicken stock, and adding frozen vegetables and ¼ cup barley or quinoa. By packing your lunch, you will save cash, control the salt, sugar, unhealthy fats and calories AND eat more nutritious food that won't leave you tired all afternoon.
Try making your own 32 ounce green tea drink. Use two tea bags and seep. Cool and add to remaining water. Add Pure Lemon (all natural) or fresh squeezed lemon juice. You can make your own lemonade the same way. This helps you avoid soda machines and 4 cups of bad coffee at work. You will realize a cost and nutrition benefit doing this.
Pack snacks for mid-afternoon that you can keep in your desk or fridge at work. Pre-make 2 ounce bags of no-salt roasted almonds, walnuts, sesame and pumpkin seeds. 2 ounce baggies of no-salt pretzels or whole | 230 |
NC Zoo Society Seeking Donor for Gorilla Exhibit
Asheboro, NC - The North Carolina Zoological Society is seeking a sponsor to help pay for a shelter structure at the N.C. Zoo's Gorilla Exhibit that would include the right to name the Zoo's new baby gorilla born just last week.
The Zoo Society, the non-profit support organization for the North Carolina Zoo, is searching for a $100,000 contribution to construct a shelter over one of the visitor overlooks at the half-acre Forest Glade gorilla habitat in the park's African exhibit region.
The gorilla exhibit has<|fim_middle|> 16-year-old female, gave birth around 7 p.m. Friday to a four-pound male infant. Four weeks earlier the zoo had its first successful gorilla birth in 23 years when "Jumani," age 12, also gave birth to a healthy male baby named "Bomassa" by keepers. The father of both newborns is 19-year-old "Nkosi".
While it is zoo tradition for keepers to name baby animals, the need for the overlook shelter provided a special opportunity for a potential sponsor, according to Cheryl Turner, interim executive director for the Zoo Society. The donor would also be recognized in signage at the gorilla exhibit and the zoo entrance.
Interested individuals can contact Turner for more information at the 336-879-7284 or by email at [email protected] The sponsorship will be recognized as a donation to Zoo Society, a 501(c)3 private non-profit.
The zoo is an agency of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Dee A. Freeman, Secretary; Beverly E. Perdue, Governor. | two viewing areas, one already covered to provide both gorillas and visitors with protection from the elements as well as summer shade and heating elements in winter. But a second, larger overlook is unprotected.
According to zoo officials, adding a second shade structure will ensure that two new gorilla babies born in August and their moms can always find a comfortable place to sit and be close to visitors.
On Friday, August 31, the zoo saw the birth of its second baby gorilla in less than a month. "Olympia," a | 108 |
Blazer Motorsports gives students hands-on skills crucial for job market
Written by Haley Herfurth
Blazer Motorsports finished in the top 25 in the 2010 Baja SAE competition. Help send the team to its national competition Memorial Day weekend.Across UAB, faculty, staff and students are creating all the time: new online courses, robotic freezers, interesting takes on literature and history, innovative medical devices, artificial tissues and — at the Materials Processing and Application Development Center — all-terrain vehicles.
The pieces come from all over campus, which houses a first-class materials lab, a foundry, a custom fabrication shop and a computer numeric control lab. Then they are assembled by Blazer Motorsports, an automotive-design team of students, into a custom-designed, hand-built ATV ready for competition on the world stage.
This year, the competition takes place May 26-28 in Pittsburg, Kansas, and the team hopes to raise $10,000 to cover travel expenses for the car and the team. The Baja SAE is an intercollegiate competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers that challenges students to design, test, build, fund, promote and race a single-seat off-road car using a uniform set of specifications.
"Each team designs a prototype car they want to convince an investor to produce," said Steve Thompson, the mentor for the 2017 team and field project manager in UAB's Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Steve Thompson (far left) and members of the Blazer Motorsports team also raced a car for the first time this year in the Shell Eco-marathon competition April 27-30, placing No.16. The seniors — Muhannd Aloqaybi, Aindreas Atanas, Jay Madison and Kaylee Harris — opted to miss their graduation ceremony to compete in the Eco-marathon.
Benefits of Baja
Thompson has been at UAB for three years; he came to Alabama from Nebraska at the behest of Dean Sicking, Ph.D., a professor of engineering who previously worked at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and would often use Thompson's private custom-fabrication business for special projects. When he moved to Birmingham, that tradition continued — Thompson's business built UAB's state-of-the-art helmet-testing system, housed at Barber Motorsports and used to research brain injuries in football.
Unlike other mentors on campus, Thompson is neither an academic nor an engineer; in fact, Thompson had never worked with students before agreeing to head the Baja team. But he knows exactly what he hopes students can get out of the experience.
"The project teaches students how to turn concepts into reality — how to solve real-world scenarios, not just hypothetical textbook situations, then create a project and analyze it," he said. "A lot of these students have never done these types of projects or have never used tools."
Hands-on experience is indispensable in the job market, Thompson said, and he is passionate about helping Blazer Motorsports raise travel funds for the competition, which often brings the job market right to the students. Shell Oil, General Motors Corp. and Exxon Mobile are among the companies that often have engineers on the lookout for future graduates with promise at these events. This past year, a UAB team member was hired by GM after meeting one of its engineers at an event.
"This project teaches students how to turn concepts into reality."
Thompson said the value of Blazer Motorsports extends beyond manually assembling a car to wider applications and opportunities for students of many disciplines. He added he hopes to raise up to $20,000 through the crowdfunding initiative to give the students an advance buffer for next year's competition.
"People have this misconception that if you're going to be on this team, it's all just building the car, but that's maybe 40 percent of it," he said. "It's all these other things people don't realize. It's way more than just building a car."
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An unexpected two inches of snow quickly turned to ice and left many faculty, staff, students, travelers, patients and family members stranded and in need of food and shelter this week. That's no small feat when you realize that if UAB were a city — its daily population would rank among the state's top 20 largest.
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Lehwaldt, Johann von
Hierarchical Path: Seven Years War (Main Page) >> Personalities >> Lehwaldt, Johann von
Johann von Lehwaldt (aka Hans von Lehwaldt)
Major-General (1740-44), Lieutenant-General (1744-47), General of Infantry (1747-51), Field-Marshal (1751-68)
born June 24, <|fim_middle|>.
In 1762, when Russia ceded back East Prussia, Lehwaldt became governor of the province.
In 1768, Lehwaldt died in Königsberg.
This article borrows most of its texts for the period before 1756 from the following Wikipedia articles
Hans von Lehwaldt, retrieved on February 18 2014
Johann von Lehwaldt, retrieved on February 20 2014
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 4 Groß-Jägersdorf und Breslau, Berlin, 1902, Anhang 12
The section on Lehwaldt's career between 1756 and 1762 is mostly derived from our articles depicting the various campaigns, battles and sieges.
Retrieved from "http://kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Lehwaldt,_Johann_von&oldid=9650" | 1685, Legitten near Labiau, Prussia
died November 16, 1768, Königsberg, East Prussia
Field-Marshal Johann von Lehwaldt circa 1756 - Source: Wikimedia Commons
Johann von Lehwaldt was of an old noble family originating from Lusatia. His mother, Marie Esther, came from the old Prussian family of the Barons von der Trenck.
In 1699, Johann von Lehwaldt joined the Prussian "Weiße Grenadier-Garde".
During the War of the Spanish Succession, in September 1702, Lehwaldt experienced his trial by fire in the siege of Venlo. On August 13 1704, his battalion fought in the Battle of Blenheim. On September 16, Lehwaldt was promoted to ensign. From September 29 to October 6, he participated in the siege of Hagenau.
On July 30 1722, Lieutenant-Colonel Lehwaldt was appointed commander of Hesse-Kassel Infantry.
On July 30 1729, retroactively to June 30 1728, Lehwaldt was promoted to colonel.
On August 17 1738, Lehwaldt was appointed Chef of the former Jung-Kleist Infantry.
On the eve of the War of the Austrian Succession, on July 30 1740, Lehwaldt was promoted to major-general. In 1742, he took part in the Battle of Chotusitz and was later awarded a Pour le Mérite. On February 4 1744, he received the Order of the Black Eagle. On May 14 1744, he was promoted to lieutenant-general (retroactively to October 22 1743). On February 14 1745, Lehwaldt defeated Wallis' Austrian forces near Habelschwerdt. He also took part in the battles of Hohenfriedeberg and Kesselsdorf. On May 29 1747, Lehwaldt was promoted to general of infantry. On July 18 1748, he was appointed governor of East Prussia.
On December 22 1751, Lehwaldt was promoted to Field-Marshal. Frederick II also awarded him a diamond-covered portrait of the king on a blue band. Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock and Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow were the only other recipients of this medallion.
On June 25 1756, Field-Marshal Lehwaldt informed Frederick that a Russian Army of some 70,000 men was being formed in Livonia. Frederick immediately made Lehwaldt commander-in-chief on the East Prussian theatre of operation, granting him a large autonomy. On July 8, Lehwaldt informed Frederick of the retreat of the Russian Army. On July 12, Frederick sent orders to Lehwaldt to return the regiments of his army to their quarters.
During the Winter of 1756-57, Frederick sent Field-Marshal Lehwaldt with a large detachment to East Prussia and the Baltic region to guard against a potential Russian invasion. After assembling the West-Prussian militias and merging them with his regulars, Lehwaldt had some 30,000 men for the task.
In June 1757, Lehwaldt assembled his army and advanced to Insterburg (present-day, Tschernjachowsk in Russia), with a corps farther on towards Memel (present-day, Klaipeda in Lithuania) to observe the movements of the Russian army. On July 14, Lehwaldt quit his camp at Insterburg and encamped in the neighbourhood of Wehlau (present-day, Znamensk in Russia) to cover Königsberg. On August 29, Lehwaldt left his camp at Wehlau with about 25,000 men and advanced to attack the Russian army (about 80,000 men). He encamped at Gross-Jägesdorf not far from the Russian camp. Lehwaldt tried to reconnoitre the Russian positions but obtained flawed intelligence which led him to attack the Russian centre when he thought that he was advancing against their left wing. On August 30, Lehwaldt boldly attacked the Russians at Gross-Jägersdorf but was defeated and forced to retreat to his camp at Wehlau. A few days later, Lehwaldt lifted camp and moved to Paterswalde (present-day, Bolshaya Polyana in Russia). On September 13, the Russians remaining idle for a while began their retreat from East Prussia heading for Russia through Lithuania. The small Prussian army under Lehwaldt prudently followed the retreating Russians from a distance until they returned to Poland. On October 6, when Frederick realised that the Russian Army was in full retreat towards Poland, he sent order to Lehwaldt to redirect his efforts against the Swedes in Pomerania. On October 17, Lehwaldt, who was now at Tilsitt (present-day Sovetsk in Russia), received Frederick's order. Lehwaldt left two battalions to guard Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad) and Pillau (present-day Baltiysk), deployed a cavalry cordon along the Memel and immediately marched towards Pomerania with a force of 24 battalions and 50 squadrons (about 25,000 men). On his way, Lehwaldt left 2 garrison battalions, 80 hussars and some garrison artillery in Prussia. On November 22, the head of Lehwaldt's column reached Stettin. Between November 28 and December 3, Lehwaldt's covering force took position along the Peene River between Anklam and Demmin. Lehwaldt recovered most of Prussian-Pomerania.
On January 2 1758, Lehwaldt crossed the Peene at the head of a small Prussian army and advanced into Swedish-Pomerania. On January 4, Anklam capitulated. By January 6, Lehwaldt had completely bottled up the Swedes in Stralsund and Rügen Island. A small Swedish force also remained in the entrenchments of Peenemünde. Lehwaldt's army wintered in Swedish-Pomerania, blockading Stralsund. At the beginning of March, unsatisfied by the poor results obtained by Lehwaldt, Frederick replaced him by General Count zu Dohna.
In 1759, Lehwaldt became governor of Berlin.
On October 3 1760, Lehwaldt, then governor of Berlin. Repulsed a first attempt by a Russian force to capture Berlin. However, on October 9, with the arrival of an Austrian Corps, he was forced to capitulate in front of this much large Austro-Russian force. advanced against the city, and captured and looted it | 1,554 |
Tyre compounds released for first four races of 2020!
by Adam Newton
It's less than 100 days until the next Grand Prix, and whilst that sounds a long way away, tyre choices for the first four races have been made! The season kicks off in traditional style in Australia, before moving to the exciting night race<|fim_middle|>!
Read more about: Formula 1 pirelli | of Bahrain.
After that, it's a venture into the unknown with the Vietnam Grand Prix, and then F1 stays in the Far East for the Chinese Grand Prix.
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And Pirelli have been busy selecting the tyres, and they've been a bit boring with the picks! Every single of these four races have the same tyre choices, with the C2 hards, C3 mediums and C4 softs in action.
In more tyre news, it was recently decided that F1 will keep the Q2 tyre rule, where any driver reaching Q3 will have to start the race on the tyres they set their fastest time in Q2.
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Corporate Travel<|fim_middle|>Europe was CTM's top performing region by growth percentage, with an underlying EBITDA of $34.2 million up 86 per cent on the prior corresponding period. The performance was underpinned by a combination of increased online business activity, CTM's SMART Technology suite and strong organic growth.
CTM North America provided steady revenue and profit contributions, with underlying earnings of $38.9 million on a constant currency basis, up 8 per cent on the previous year. The region secured several strong global and regional wins in the second half of the year and, with new CTM SMART Technology soon to be releases and a strong management team in place, the business is well positioned for the long term.
CTM Asia had a strong second half for the year after ticket prices steadied in January 2018. It recorded underlying EBITDA of $20.2 million on constant currency, up 12 per cent on the previous year.
The business has completed its CTM SMART Technology roll-out in the region, including the Lightning online booking tool, resulting in strong client wins and automation gains.
"We remain committed to delivering superior results for clients through a consistent value proposition, including innovative customer-facing technology solutions underpinned by a highly personalised service offering, and delivering a return on investment to our clients," Mr Pherous said.
CTM expects full year underlying EBITDA for FY19 to be in the range of $144-150 million, representing approximately 15-20 per cent growth on the previous corresponding period.
CTM is an award-winning provider of innovative and cost-effective travel management solutions to the corporate market. Its proven business strategy combines personalised service excellence with client facing technology solutions to deliver a return on investment to clients. Headquartered in Australia, the company employs approximately 2,350 FTE staff globally and provides local services solutions to clients in more than 70 countries. | Management (CTM, ASX: CTD) today reported its strongest ever full-year results, with earnings (EBITDA) of $125.4 million reflecting a 27 per cent increase on the previous year. CTM Managing Director and founder Jamie Pherous said the performance reinforced the company's global expansion strategy, with organic growth contributing $18.9 million to its profit growth.
CTM's global operations continued to grow, recording $4.95 billion in total transaction value, up 19 per cent, with revenues up 14 per cent, reflecting the efforts of CTM's hard-working team to win and retain customers.
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The architecture of modern China represents some of the world's most daring design plans and visually stunning achievements. Tourists who visit China will marvel at the feats accomplished by some of the most respected architects the world has ever seen.
Beijing International Airport
The first site most visitors see when they arrive in China is Beijing International Airport. The airport<|fim_middle|>Modern Chinese Architecture
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At the time of its construction, this terminal represented the world's largest man-made structure in terms of floor space. Beijing International Airport has an indoor garden, a children's playground, and over 70 food establishments in Terminal 3 alone.
Shanghai World Financial Center
The Shanghai World Financial Center is known for far more than the offices that call the building its home. Completed in 2008, SWFC took over 10 years to complete due to financial shortages and construction delays. Since its completion, it has won numerous architectural awards.
Tourists are welcome at SWFC's observation deck, which at 474 meters (1,555 feet) above ground is the world's highest enclosed viewing platform (the highest outdoor observation deck is on the Canton Tower). Our Shanghai tours include a visit to SWFC.
Those who are not afraid of heights might consider staying at the Park Hyatt Shanghai, the world's second highest hotel.
The National Aquatics Center, or The Water Cube
The Water Cube
The Water Cube, as it is colloquially known, was constructed for use during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. Now, visitors can both marvel at the architecture of the building and enjoy the indoor atmosphere as well.
Among the offerings of the Water Cube are a restaurant and bar, a full-service spa, a shopping area, and Water World, a family water park.
The National Stadium, or The Bird's Nest, Beijing
Along with the Water Cube, the National Stadium was designed chiefly for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It is often referred to as the Bird's Nest due to the outer "nest" of additional steel that was incorporated into the design in order to hide the numerous steel trusses.
The National Stadium can hold up to 80,000 people. Because of its versatility, it has been used for a winter theme park, the Supercoppa Italiana, and multiple other events. Currently, the National Stadium's chief income is as a tourist attraction. It reportedly draws more than 20,000 tourists every day.
Our Beijing Highlights with Olympic Glories tour includes an exterior view of the Water Cube as well as the National Stadium.
National Center for the Performing Arts
The titanium and glass dome that encapsulates Beijing's National Center for the Performing Arts was completed in 2007. The building is surrounded by a man-made lake, requiring guests to enter via an underground hallway.
Known by locals as the Bird's Egg due to its resemblance to an egg floating in water, the building is home to an Opera Hall, Music Hall, and Theater.
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Linked Hybrid in Beijing is an apartment building that has received numerous awards for its unique structure and design.
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Alisa Coleman is the Chief Operating Officer of ABKCO Music & Records, Inc., overseeing the day-to-day operations as well as the business development and global licensing of the music publishing, record, and film catalogs for one of the foremost independent entertainment companies in the world. ABKCO's catalog includes compositions, recordings, and films by Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, Bobby Womack, Eric Burdon, The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Marianne Faithfull, Pete Town<|fim_middle|> she was able to quadruple their synch licensing by building bridges back into the music supervision community and expanding into the new media and technology arenas. She likes to make deals that go beyond licensing to include promotional components, working with the licensing partner to find the best path to success for the song, the partner, and for ABKCO. | shend, Ray Davies, and The Kinks; the Cameo Parkway master recordings; and the works of cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Coleman first joined ABKCO in 1985, as an assistant in the licensing and royalty departments, and has gone on to work in every division of the company. In 2016 she was named the company's first COO. During her tenure at ABKCO, she has greatly expanded the exposure of the company's legendary catalog, increasing its reputation and value, and is known for her innovative deal structures that focus on the long-term value of intellectual property and licensing partnerships.
ABKCO had been historically reticent with synch, digital, and derivative work licensing; in the first five years Coleman ran the licensing department, | 163 |
Depositions can make or break your case, and this is your chance to learn from<|fim_middle|> 2012, from Noon – 1:30pm at the Oregon Electric Station (27 E. 5th, Eugene). Please bring cash or a check in the amount of $14 made payable to OES and pay on site. No credit cards please. RSVP on the LCBA website by Tuesday, February 7, 2012. To register online click here. For questions or additional information, please contact Bonnie Williams at (541) 346-3608 or bonniew@uoregon.edu. | two masters of the craft. Litigators Bill Barton and David Markowitz will demonstrate powerful, practical methods for getting the most out of your depositions, including the best ways to defend depositions, and effectively use depositions at trial. Whether you are new to trial practice or want to refresh your deposition skills, this presentation by two of Oregon's finest litigators is an opportunity not to be missed. An application for one general CLE credit will be made with the Oregon State Bar. The lunch will be held on Thursday, February 9, | 109 |
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Eminent domain fears in Seaside: The Monterey Herald, 8/25/07
Posted August 27th, <|fim_middle|> said. They include obsolete buildings, and areas of high crime and with out-of-date building codes.
Assistant City Manager Jill Anderson said imposing eminent domain would be a "last-resort scenario."
"It is in (the city's) best interest that we create a win-win proposition for all concerned. Something that would be satisfying financially, emotionally and otherwise for everyone," she said. "It only makes good sense. The important thing to remember is that this is a discussion, and only a discussion, about amending plans to reflect today's redevelopment realities."
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Tags: California Eminent Domain Law eminent domain eminent domain attorney eminent domain california eminent domain law eminent domain lawyer los angeles seaside the monterey herald | 2007 filed under In the News.
By Andre Briscoe
A workshop this week aimed at educating the public and Seaside city officials on the rules governing California redevelopment did little to ease fears of at least one property owner, who is worried his home could be a victim of the city's development plans.
Ernest Glover, president of Southern California-based GRC Redevelopment Consultants, outlined the city's two major redevelopment projects, explained California redevelopment laws, and outlined steps the city would have to take to exercise its power of eminent domain to seize land slated to become the West Broadway Urban Village project.
That project would include 40 acres stretching from Canyon Del Rey and Del Monte Boulevards past Fremont Boulevard to the upper Broadway area.
Saif Ataya, whose home sits on the 300 block of Amador Avenue, said he worries that another proposal, Reggie Jackson's hotel and conference center on 5.7 acres, would force his family to sell and move.
Ataya said he has received little information about the project.
"I don't want to seem like an obstacle, … but from the bottom of my heart I feel that there is a lack of communication between the city and residents," said Ataya. "I was born and raised in Iraq, and my family home was taken. It was similar to eminent domain. This kind of thing makes me remember the system over there. I'm just afraid something like that will happen here."
City redevelopment agencies can acquire property, but it must be authorized within the city's redevelopment plan and must be used in the public interest, such as to clean up blighted areas, said Glover. Among the factors considered to be "public interest" are economic development, community and neighborhood revitalization and historic preservation.
A recent Supreme Court decision permits local governments to exercise eminent domain to turn some private property over to a private developer for the purpose of economic development.
The city has two redevelopment project areas: the so-called "Merged Project" area and the old Fort Ord area. Fort Ord land was acquired after the Army base closed in 1994.
The merged area, formerly seven separate project areas within the city, was formed in 1996. The agency's power to exercise eminent domain within these project areas expires in April 2008.
In 2006 the California legislature revised community development law limiting to 12 years the time a city's redevelopment agency can impose eminent domain. An extension to that time limit can only be made by an amendment to the redevelopment plan.
City staff members will recommend that the City Council proceed with plans to extend the agency's authority during the Sept. 20 council meeting.
Even if the city decided to use eminent domain, the process is tightly regulated, Glover said. Safeguards are in place to ensure that the rights of property owners are protected and that they are treated fairly, he said.
"You have to show that you need it, not that you just want it," said Glover. "You have to show that an area is predominantly blighted. The whole idea is to avoid a long drawn-out process. It's not nice for the owner and it's not nice for the council or the city.
"The agency has to go as far as it possibly can to make sure that whoever is being displaced by eminent domain or any other action comes out whole. … You can't just put them out there with nothing. You have to make them whole, or better than whole."
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Instead of using a law firm, if you are the organizer in the formation of your LLC, you will need a Statement of Organizer to document the ownership of the LLC after the formation.
In forming an LLC, the organizer is responsible for filing all required documents with the state and other associated tasks.
As such, the organizer does not have to be an LLC member if an attorney is hired to set up the LLC. Upon successfully forming an LLC, the organizer would relinquish their role with a Statement of Organizer, also transferring the LLC ownership to its members.
What Is a Statement of Organizer?
The Statement of Organizer is an internal document formally relieving the organizer of their duties and assigns the LLC ownership to its members. In effect, the LLC members are the owners, not unlike the shareholders of a corporation.
Alternatively, a Statement of Organizer can be used to record all the resolutions reached in an LLC's initial organizational meeting.
The laws do not require the Statement of Organizer of any state. However, the use of one eliminates any contest to the owners of the LLC. If the LLC's organizer is the sole owner or member, a Statement of Organizer might not be necessary. In that case, the articles of organization (also known as the certificate of formation in some states) may be adequate.
An LLC organizer can insist on filing a Statement of Organizer to distance themselves from any liability arising out of the LLC.
Other Names for Statement of Organizer
Depending on your state, a Statement of Organizer may also be known as:
Statement of LLC Organizer
Statement of the Organizer
Statement of LLC Organizer in Lieu of Organization Meeting
Who Needs a Statement of Organizer
Theoretically, anyone of legal age can be an organizer of an LLC. Preferably, that is someone unrelated to the LLC and without the intention of serving as a member or manager. As a non-member, the organizer will step down after their duties and transfer future responsibilities to the LLC members.
It is not uncommon for an organizer to issue a Statement of Organizer even if they intend to remain with the company in another capacity. If that is the case, the resolution would be included in the statement.
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Execution Date: The date when the Statement of Organizer is made.
Signature: The organizer or organizers must sign the statement for it to be valid.
Statement of Organizer Terms
LLC: The limited liability company is a business structure in the United States that is a hybrid of the corporation and sole proprietorship. Like a corporation, an LLC is a separate entity and limits the owner's liability, but the income is treated as the owner's income (like a sole proprietorship.)
Member: A person or entity owning an interest in the LLC.
Managing Member: A member (see above) who is also tasked with managing the LLC.
Manager: A non-member manager (see above two entries.)
Articles of Organization: The documents filed during the LLC's initial formation, which may contain rules and regulations governing the operations and management of the LLC.
Incorporator: The corporation's version of an LLC's organizer.
Statement of Organizer Signing Requirements
The organizer or organizers must sign the Statement of Organizer. Notarization is not required.
What to Do with Your Statement of Organizer?
The Statement of Organizer is to be kept in your LLC's record. It does not have to be filed with any federal or state agency or recorder.
What is an organizational consent in lieu of meeting?
With an LLC organizational consent in lieu of meeting, you can approve any decisions made regarding the management of the LLC in writing as opposed to holding an organizational meeting of the organizers of the LLC (or incorporators for a corporation).
What does it mean to apostille a Statement of Organizer?
Rather than notarizing a document for domestic use, an apostille is an internationally recognized certificate of authenticity. The certificate would be attached to your Statement of Organizer for presentation to a foreign entity.
What are the considerations when choosing an Organizer?
The name of the organizer of an LLC is public information. As you may know, the formation of an LLC requires a public announcement in a local newspaper Therefore, you may not want to select an organizer whose name may arouse public objections or outcries. The formation of an LLC can be more involved than that of a corporation, and thus the common practice is to delegate the task to a company formation attorney, in which case, as the organizer the attorney would also issue the Statement of Organizer to hand over the running of the LLC.
Which US states allow multiple organizers?
In most states, the standard form only has space for one organizer when applying to create a new LLC. That may or may not mean that more than one organizer is not allowed. However, Pennsylvania and California have space for two organizers.
What happens if you don't have a Statement of Organizer?
As an organizer, even if you are staying on as a member or manager of the LLC, it is highly desirable to document the transition. If not, a Statement of Organizer may be even more necessary to disassociate yourself from the LLC.
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Name of the Company: The name of the LLC should be prominently displayed.
State of Formation: The state where the LLC was formed and whose laws are in effect.
Name and Address of the Organizer: Full legal name of the organizer and their address.
Resolutions: All the resolutions made at the LLC's organizational meeting almost always includes the transfer of management | 78 |
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Game Tape: Anthony Tolliver Has Stepped Up In Karl-Anthony Towns' Absence
Anthony Tolliver is doing his thing
By Jake Paynting@jakepaynting Feb 25, 2019, 12:09pm CST
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From the day Karl-Anthony Towns first arrived in Minnesota as a fresh-faced 20-year-old, the two-time All-Star has been an NBA iron man. 303 straight appearances to begin his career speaks for itself.
That incredible streak, unfortunately, came to an abrupt end after a car accident placed him in the NBA's concussion protocol, forcing him to miss the Timberwolves' last two games against the New York Knicks and the Milwaukee Bucks.
Without their franchise star, nobody would have been surprised if the team flopped against a struggling Knicks squad, or got absolutely destroyed against a lethal Bucks team that currently holds the best record in the league. Towns is vital to what the Wolves do on both ends of the floor.
In his absence, an unexpected hero came along. A man who has often been neglected and misused this season. A man named Anthony Tolliver. With his two biggest nights of the season, the 33-year-old helped the Wolves win in New York and hang around with Milwaukee until the last few minutes of the fourth.
In the 50 games prior to the last two, Tolliver had only broken the 20-minute mark in six games. His lack of minutes came from a combination of Dario Saric's arrival via trade, and Tom Thibodeau's complete unwillingness to use more than nine players in his rotation. What Tolly has done over the last two games is the perfect example of why he can and should be hitting that mark regularly.
In the Wolves' first and only appearance in Madison Square Garden, Tolliver dropped a season-high 16 points (5-9 FG, 4-5 3PT) and three rebounds. He rewrote that season-best point total with 17 points (6-8 FG, 5-7 3PT) in Milwaukee, while adding five rebounds and one earth-shaking block on MVP favorite Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Without<|fim_middle|>', but i got high and he was able to block that shot. That was a great play by him ... I hope next year he's not underneath the basket because I'm going to make sure next time I get it done," he said.
When Tolliver was asked by Zone Coverage's Dane Moore about the block, he sounded like he was relieved not to get put on another poster.
"He's dunked on me plenty of times in his career. Finally I was able to get one back on him. I basically just said, 'hey, if he spins baseline, I'm going and jumping.' If you don't have that thought process, it's going to be too late," said Tolliver.
It was probably one of the best plays of Tolliver's 10-year career, but it wasn't the last thing he did for the night. He tied up the score a few minutes later with his fourth triple of the first half and added his fifth on another game-tying long-range bucket with six minutes remaining in the game.
Considering how well he was playing, Tolliver probably wasn't used down the stretch as much as fans might have wanted. Even so, it was an excellent night from the veteran and another example of Ryan Saunders getting the most out of a roster that's been plagued by injuries. | Towns out there to eat up post touches and operate in the pick-and-roll, Ryan Saunders needed a new way to derive offense. Enter Tolliver's long-range proficiency. He is a master at staying shot-ready and firing with a high and quick release, and he devastated a woeful Knicks defense all night with those qualities.
He was a shot-making machine in the pick-and-pop. Whether he connects or slips the screen, he quickly bounces out to the 3-point line, sets his feet, and launches. His first nine points in NY came from this action, which provided a huge boost for the Wolves as New York dangerously hung around on the scoreboard.
As Fox Sports North broadcast analyst Jim Petersen noted on air, Knicks rookie Mitchell Robinson is a high-caliber shot-blocker, which leads him to drop into the paint to try and thwart ball-handlers in screen actions. With Robinson back peddling to begin the play, it gave Tolliver ample time to get off his shot. That's all AT needed to make his man pay consistently.
He isn't just a pick-and-pop master though, Tolliver can frustrate opponents in any kind of spot-up play. So far this season, the former Piston is nailing 38 percent of his catch-and-shoot treys.
When the Knicks defense started to zero in on the pick-and-pops that hurt them earlier, Tolliver snuck from the left corner to the left slot and buried his fourth long-range bucket of the night. Derrick Rose was telegraphing his pass to Luol Deng in the post, so the Knickerbockers defense forgot about Tolliver for a split second. Just like his previous attempts, he made them regret it.
The 6-foot-8 forward specializes in shooting but he has also shown that he can provide above-average defense, too. Just 30 seconds after the aforementioned triple, he got a bucket-saving fingertip on an Emmanuel Mudiay dunk attempt, after Tyus Jones and Keita Bates-Diop got muddled up on the perimeter.
Watch the entire 3-and-D sequence here:
His block on Antetokounmpo was the one that filled the highlight reels, but stopping a bouncy Mudiay at full speed was another crazy impressive play. Without Towns' size and length affecting would-be scorers, it was a godsend to have Tolliver out there protecting the rim.
To cap off an awesome night in the Big Apple, he pulled his offensive game off the 3-point line and took it to under the rim. After slipping out of an off-ball pick for Tyus Jones, Tolliver sent rookie Kevin Knox the wrong way on a pump-fake, squirmed around a confused Noah Vonleh, and finished the layup with a nifty reverse up-and-under move.
Against an 11-win team like New York, most NBA players are capable of getting hot and having a big night. It's a lot harder to do so against the hottest team in the league, but Tolliver was up for the challenge.
Once again, he made his living from behind the arc. Giving the best defensive team in the NBA a steady dose of pick-and-pop and spot-up buckets. He started in the left slot with a wide open triple after a defensive breakdown. Two minutes later he was sliding out of a screen and nailing one in Nikola Mirotic's grill.
Just to make sure we didn't think his driving bucket from last game was a fluke, he pulled off another impressive finish at the rack to continue his torrid first quarter start.
Thanks to his hot shooting, Tolliver got Ersan Ilyasova to over-commit on the perimeter and took it hard at the Greek Freak — finishing over him with a deft touch.
It seemed like he couldn't get any hotter, then he burst into flames. First he connected on a trademark pick-and-pop splash at the top of the key, the very next play he provided the fans with one of the best blocks you are likely to see this season. A block that topped Sportscenter's Top 10 plays of the night and propelled the Timberwolves momentum for the rest of the half.
When he was asked by Journal Sentinel's Matt Valazquez after the game about Tolliver's denial, Antetokounmpo was quick to heap praise on Tolliver's effort, before issuing a warning.
"No, I didn't expect that, but he's a solid defender, a really good defender. I looked at the tape and was like, 'Maybe I did not get as high as I thought | 939 |
ABM: Back to basics
"When people start ABM initiatives, the question they often skip is, which accounts should I be after? In the end, AB<|fim_middle|>B marketing and sales teams likely have an ABM strategy in place, but as we enter year two of the pandemic, it's critical to confirm that the basics are in place.
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Salesforce makes latest move in CDP race | M only works if you know which accounts are likely to buy, and what you can sell them."
A simple message delivered by Gil Canare, former Senior Research Director at SiriusDecisions, now a B2B marketing tech practitioner again. But what's easily understood is not always so easily implemented — even in a business environment where getting the basics right is critical.
Can these accounts buy? "Especially now," he went on, "there are a lot of external factors, like are these accounts even in a position to buy? Are they retrenching? Are they expanding?" Companies struggling with their ABM strategy might not have figured out where best to direct their efforts.
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Canare was speaking on an episode of MarTech Live back in November. It's not only a question of targeting the right accounts, but targeting them at the right moment: they may have been in market for something like your product, but already have bought it from a competitor, or they might be putting the need on the back-burner until Q1 next year. How should you go about identifying in-market accounts?
Three things to consider. "I break that problem down into three parts," said Canare. "The first part, which in this kind of market is really important, is capability to buy. Could they really buy? You have to look at it dispassionately; look at the firmographics, look their financials. Once you've figured out that, the next step is: are they looking? That's where intent comes in. And the last part is, are they likely to buy from you, which is propensity."
Take a deeper dive into advice from Gil Canare and ABM consultant Pam Didner here.
Another simple but important rule for marketers: find out what the sales team thinks. If marketing is not talking to sales? "That's a giant red flag," said Canare. The capability research discussed above can be done through third-party sources, but also through talking to your sales people, Canare explained. "That capability question is paramount right now."
Digital engagement. When it comes to how to engage with accounts, Canare recommends taking a look at what has changed between a year ago and now. "One of the channels that has been shut off, largely, is that informal, always-on sales channel. When I was at SiriusDecisions, a lot of time was spent just hanging out in clients' offices, and having these really serendipitous conversations that frankly the sales teams are not having right now."
Sales teams are exploring ways to re-create that kind of spontaneous engagement. But if sales conversations are more like digital conversations now, that creates an imperative for the digital customer journey to not just be a series of discrete points in time, but to be connected to these sales conversations. "There can't be two parallel streams any more, where you have a set of sales conversations supported by digital: now it's all digital."
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What do I care about - oh so much, so much - there is no shortage of things, stuff and ideas that I care about - from interest, curiosity, love and passion. I feel very much like a renaissance woman - I find everything interesting, sometimes fascinating. Hehehehe... The first sentence in part 3 resonated with me - feeling conflicted ( for me it's a clear cut fear) about making<|fim_middle|> ideas with what I have now - on hand and the colours are fairly clear cut - although as I was thinking it through - I realised that while blue and white are associated with ice - equally they can be the colours of flames - and this connection is interesting to me.
This exercise has been brilliant to undertake as I have been able to retrieve a 'stalled' idea and have now had some steps to help me take it forward. | a choice , about risking missing out on an opportunity. HA! that s me - I become stuck, and am unable to choose and unable to make a decision.
Mining content: working through the exercise I came back to some ideas that had been ruminating for the longest time with me - and that have had previous tentative steps taken to explore them. The exercise has helped to galvanise my thinking and given me a more disciplined approach to working with the idea.
Part of stream of the consciousness writing revealed a commonality around beginnings, basics and fundamentals - kind of an obsession with 'building blocks' in all their widest and broadest contexts. The ideas that have been ruminating for some revolve around elements like fire and ice - so this is where is I am starting - a series about the elements.
So to translate and say something about the elements - in textiles - that's now percolating.
Thinking and planning - I've got the beginnings of the visual elements - tentative words/ideas, I have started to think about the tools and equipment I could use and what is needed. At this point I'm thinking that I could actually produce some samples and play with the | 238 |
The Reporter pickup concept vehicle has been presented by Mercedes-Benz Technology. MBTech introduced the concept at the 63rd IAA Commercial Vehicles in Hanover. The company says that the Reporter is more than a design study – with a DualX E-Drive drive solution, the vehicle is both a plug-in as well as a full-hybrid vehicle with an all-wheel drive system. This includes a 70 kW electric motor powering the rear axle and an independent 1.2 liter, 4-cylinder natural gas combustion engine with a gas exhaust turbo<|fim_middle|> electronics of the vehicle, including the air conditioning.
There are also three driving modes that the driver can choose from. These are: an "eco" mode that enables emissions-free city driving; "4range" for long-range economical driving and "4dynamic" in which maximum power will be available for all-wheel drive performance. | charger that powers the front wheels.
The power plant (1.2 liter) works as a range and performance extender, helping the Reporter to get top speeds of 130 km/h (80 mph) with a range of around 300 km (186 mi) in the European Driving Cycle.
The concept features a special "Solar Top" – which is not really a proper solar panel, but generates about 266 Watts that helps to take some load off the 12V battery and simultaneously power some of the | 112 |
When it comes to accessories, back pack has never<|fim_middle|> modern: the lines are pure, and the details sharp.
I could pack my camera, laptop, notebook, reading material -all fit easily- and carried it around during my fashion season travels…and certainly enjoyed the comfort and convenience of it.
While a back pack doesn't fit my everyday lifestyle (simply because I do not carry much more than a camera on a daily basis), my experience with Mandarina Duck certainly reconciled me with my old back pack memories, and the Osaka now has its place on my travel must-have list. | really been part of my vocabulary, something about it never resonated well with me. This season however, I considered breaking away from my habits while traveling, initially not without any reservations.
I decided on trying the Osaka back pack by Mandarina Duck and realized that while I had given this specific accessory the cold shoulder, the brand had given it some serious thoughts. Not a stitch evokes the school boy paraphernalia, nor echoes a survivalist sensibility. Instead, the white leather and canvas are beautiful and rich, the lining and proportions of the shoulder straps generous. Designer Denis Frison's manages to be elegant and | 126 |
<|fim_middle|> membership with it? And when will its next version be released? | I'm on Windows 8. I have the Fritz/ChessBase GUI since I bought both Fritz 12 and Houdini 3 Pro.
I would like to know how exactly can I download and install the free latest version (and most powerful version) of Stockfish.
But after I click on the big green button that says "Download Stockfish 5 for Windows" I don't know what to do. Should I select "Save File" or "Open with"? And after that what do I do?
Please try to explain it step by steps because I'm not that good with computers.
@AlwaysLearningNewStuff: Thanks for your answer, but I did not succeed. I downloaded the file. I moved it to C:\Program Files (x86)\ChessBase. I clicked on "Create UCI engine".
Then I clicked on the "..." button (which looks to be the "Browse..." button). I went in C:\Program Files (x86)\ChessBase.
But then clicking on one of the three files does not work.
That should do it. I think that the procedure is the same for ChessBase. To use StockFish instead of Fritz, press F3, select StockFish from the list of engines in the dialog box that pops, and click OK button. Wait a few seconds and you will be good to go.
That's all, if you need further help leave a comment. Best regards.
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Young lacrosse hopefuls across San Diego County will get the opportunity to sign up<|fim_middle|> the game. By learning the basic skills of the game, players can build the confidence needed to progress to the next level of training. Additionally, parents are taught the basics of the game to increase their knowledge and comfort level. | for TRYLAX, a level-one introduction to lacrosse presented by Adrenaline Lacrosse, Sundays Oct. 27- Nov. 17.
TRYLAX camps will take place at two San Diego locations: Earl Warren Middle School, 155 Stevens Ave. in Solana Beach; and Robb Field, 2525 Bacon St. in Ocean Beach. Fees are $125 per player and include a starter lacrosse stick.
Designed for children in kindergarten through eighth grade, the camps meet in four, two-hour sessions expressly designed for beginners.
Trained Adrenaline coaches guide players and parents through specific progressions of the fundamentals of | 137 |
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and intersecting lines, 1883.
In the late 1840's the Aurora Branch Railroad was built to better connect Aurora with Chicago. The railroad maintained important repair shops and roundhouses at Aurora. Its connection at Aurora to Galena, on the Mississippi River was the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad. These railroads were early parts of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.
The lines were renamed, first in 1852 as the Chicago & Aurora Railroad and later in 1855, after linking with the Illinois Central, as the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.
The Illinois Central Railroad was a successful railway which connected the northern states with the<|fim_middle|> and Illinois. It was published in 1883 by Rand, McNally & Co. | southern states. It began in the early 1850's with a land grant for a line to run from the top of Illinois to the bottom.
In the 1860's the Illinois Central added a line leading into Iowa.
Later in the 1870's and 1880's the railroad acquired existing lines in southern states, expanded connections, and eventually covered more than 3,000 miles, with lines crossing Mississippi from New Orleans to Louisville, and in the north, expansion westward through Wisconsin and the Dakotas to Omaha, Nebraska.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Illinois Central Railroads were two of the most popular railroads of the 1880's.
This detailed map of the midwestern states shows relief by hachures, drainage, cities, towns and counties. Railroad network is color-coded. Displayed are portions of Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin | 198 |
Gameday: U.S. Goes for Gold at Under-18 Women's World Championship
By USA Hockey, 01/02/20, 6:00AM EST
Puck drops against Canada at 2:30 p.m. ET; Stream live on IIHF.com
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Tag(s): Women's U18 World Championship 2020 IIHF U18 WWC | -18 Women's National Team aims to win its eighth gold medal at the International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 Women's World Championship when it faces Canada tonight at the Ice Rink Vlado Dzurilla in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Puck drop is slated for 8:30 p.m. local time/2:30 p.m. ET. The matchup will be streamed live on IIHF.com.
GAMEDAY - The U.S. is 7-4-4-2 (W-OTW-OTL-L) record against Canada all-time in IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship play. The U.S. and Canada last squared off Sunday in the third contest of the tournament, falling to the Canadians 2-1. Lacey Eden (Annapolis, Md.) scored for the United States and Skylar Vetter (Lakeville, Minn.) made 36 saves in the loss.
CLASH OF THE CHAMPIONS - Team USA and Canada have faced off for gold in 11 of the 12 previous U18WWCs, with the U.S. holding a 6-5 advantage in those contests. Five of those 10 contests have gone into overtime (2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2008), with the U.S. winning two.
STREAKING OUT - Lacey Eden (Annapolis, Md.) has recorded a point in every game of this year's tournament, including the lone goal in Team USA's 2-1 loss to Canada. The forward also tallied an assist on Ella Huber's (Northfield, Ill.) game-winning goal against Russia, the game-winning assist in the United States' 4-1 win over Finland and the second goal in Team USA's 3-0 win over Russia in yesterday's semifinal. Eden's four points (2G-2A) currently lead the U.S. in scoring.
SUPERIOR GOALTENDING - Team USA's goaltending has been dominant throughout the tournament. Netminders Amanda Thiele (Milford, Mich.) and Skylar Vetter (Lakeville, Minn.), entering today's semifinal with the top save percentage and lowest goals against clip. Vetter ranks among the top goaltenders in the tournament with a .937 save percentage and 1.52 goals against average. Thiele has recorded shutouts in each of her tournament starts, both against Russia.
2020 U.S. Tournament Schedule
Time (Local/ET)/Result
Venue/Location
Stream/U.S. Player of the Game
Thurs., Dec. 26 Finland
Preliminary W, 4-1 Ice Rink Vlado Dzurilla
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Fri., Dec. 27 Russia
Bratislava, Slovakia Ella Huber Stats
Sun., Dec. 29 Canada
Preliminary L, 1-2 Ice Rink Vlado Dzurilla
Bratislava, Slovakia Makenna Webster Stats
Wed., Jan. 1 Russia
Semifinals W, 3-0 Ice Rink Vlado Dzurilla
Bratislava, Slovakia Lacey Eden Stats
Thu., Jan. 2 Canada
Gold-Medal Game W, 2-1 (OT) Ice Rink Vlado Dzurilla
Bratislava, Slovakia Skyl | 737 |
Editorial: Caution: Study One-Way Traffic On Cape Fear First
By Super User / Editorials / Wednesday, 17 September 2014 00:00
By WILLARD KILLOUGH III
The old saying, "Measure twice, cut once" comes to mind when considering a recent proposal to convert Cape Fear Blvd east of Lake Park Blvd to a one-way traffic pattern leading to the intersection of Canal Drive and Harper.
Just eyeballing the idea and diving right into a new one-way traffic pattern is not the way to operate. Carolina Beach learned a couple of years ago why it's not a good idea to rush into a new traffic pattern just because there's an existing project going on, time if of the essence and a decision has to be made soon in order to make a change.
That was called a "Road Diet". Time was of the essence. The North Carolina Department of Transportation was getting ready to finalize work on Lake Park Blvd and needed to know if the Town wanted the same four lane traffic pattern, or, a new two lane pattern with a center turn lane and bike lanes on<|fim_middle|> and Canal Drive.
If traffic is to enter Cape Fear Blvd from Lake Park and travel one way to Canal Drive and Harper Avenue, the intersection at Harper and Canal could become the nightmare of four way intersections in our area. Canal to the north with two way traffic; Harper with two-way traffic on the west; the Hotel with a parking deck on Harper to the east of the intersection and the one-way traffic dumping into that intersection from the south. Sounds like a lot of fun if you enjoy hypertension.
How will this impact other area intersections? Intersections at Lake Park Blvd and Harper Avenue as well as Cape Fear Blvd will see an impact on some level. Whatever that impact is (positive or negative) needs to be discussed based on the latest traffic counts and studies of flow in the area. If the purpose of changing to a one-way pattern is to improve pedestrian safety in the Boardwalk area, will it be any more safe with slow moving (5 mph or less) vehicles going one direction with people walking out in front of them or vehicles traveling in both directions with people walking out in front of them? Perhaps the traffic isn't the majority of the problem. Maybe crosswalk signs with a red light would keep everyone alert. Attend the September 30th public meeting | either side.
Instead of testing the new "Road Diet" pattern, the Town went ahead and painted permanent lines. After many months of traffic backing up in the summer from Carolina Beach into neighboring Kure Beach and the Town paying consultants to fly in and tell us everything would be fine if we installed roundabouts at major busy intersections, the Town Council finally made the hard decision to cough up a couple of hundred thousand dollars to grind the painted lines and road up, repave it and return Lake Park Blvd to a four lane road.
The lesson of that story? Don't rush. Test it first. Save lots of money and heartache.
The currently proposed one-way pattern is much smaller in scale, but it's located in the heart of our Central Business District.
The Town says the idea has already been studied. That study was done prior to a new Hampton Inn Hotel being approved for construction at the intersection of Harper Avenue | 184 |
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Website: http://www.olmchurch.org/history
Our Lady of the Magnificat Parish, like so many others, had an interesting beginning. Eighty acres of land were bequeathed to the Diocese of Paterson in 1952 by Henry Wise Miller and his second wife, Audrey Frazier, specifically for a future parish in Kinnelon. At that time there were three stone cottages on the property and Henry was in the midst of constructing a Chapel in honor of his first wife, Alice Duer, a columnist, screen writer and poet who's most famous poem is The White Cliffs (of Dover). As a young man during World War I, Henry served with the Red Cross in England. Being a devout Anglican, he frequented an Anglican chapel located at the Cotswolds edge in this parish ofHarescombe, Gloucester, England. That chapel intrigued him so much that many years after the war; he began to construct a chapel in Kinnelon which resembled that 13th century original. While showing the design of the chapel to Bishop James A. McNulty of the Diocese of Paterson, Henry told the Bishop that he had a devotion to Our Lady and he especially liked her Canticle, The Magnificat. The Bishop suggested that the chapel be called Our Lady of the Magnificat. Bishop McNulty dedicated the chapel on July 2, 1954, assisted by Msgr. Joseph M. O'Sullivan. Shortly thereafter, Henry died and the first funeral Mass held in the chapel was for Henry on Sept. 15, 1954. He is buried in the parish cemetery. Visit our website to read more.
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L'expédition Washburn de 1870 explora la région du nord-ouest de l'État américain du Wyoming. Cette région deviendra quelques années plus tard le parc national de Yellowstone. Conduite par Henry<|fim_middle|> l'U.S. Army, dirigée par le lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane, l'expédition suivit en général le chemin de l' qui s'était déroulée quelques années plus tôt.
Durant l'exploration, la région du Yellowstone composée de lacs et de montagnes fut cartographiée et le milieu naturel fut également étudié. L'expédition visita Mammoth Hot Springs. En apercevant le rejet régulier d'un geyser, ils le nommèrent Old Faithful Geyser (vieux fidèle) car celui-ci entrait en éruption toutes les heures.
Un membre de l'expédition, écrivain du Montana du nom de Cornelius Hedges écrivit par la suite un grand nombre d'articles pour un journal du Montana. Hedges était en faveur de faire un parc national de la région comme l'avait proposé le gouverneur du Montana Thomas Francis Meagher.
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Doriot Dwyer Interview - Part I
Powell player Doriot Anthony Dwyer is a living legend and pioneer of the flute world, having been the first female to hold a principal chair in a major U.S. symphony orchestra. Dwyer won the principal flute chair for the Boston Symphony<|fim_middle|>Posted by Powell Flutes at 11:48 AM
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Let's Get This Poulenc Started - Cindy Ellis | Orchestra in 1952 and held that position through 1990. Prior to Boston, she performed as second flutist with the National Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and as principal flutist with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. She also performed as a studio musician in Los Angeles and with Frank Sinatra and the Ballets Russes in New York. She attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music.
ICA Classics released a three-part interview with Ms. Dwyer, and in this video clip, we see the very first of the three segments. Dwyer recounts her earliest introduction to music at home, listening to radio broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera. Her familiarity with the operatic literature proved helpful later in her private lessons with then principal flutist of the Chicago Symphony, Ernest Liegl. Traveling 100 miles from her hometown into Chicago for private lessons, she remembers the hour-long lessons, which consisted of at least one etude followed by orchestral studies. In this interview, she discusses opera as a genre that she did not necessarily prefer, but that she enjoyed because it was challenging -- and thrilling. She recalls having to sight-read an opera during her days with the National Symphony. She credits experiences such as that one to preparing her for the Boston Symphony. Dwyer explained that she would not allow herself to be distracted and did not want to "slip," She said, "I didn't think it was possible to lose track of where I was, because it was just so interesting, but that's exactly where people lose track..." Commenting on her position as a female orchestral flutist in the 1940s, Dwyer remembers her conductor in Washington, D.C. She says, "They never expected me to me good at all, because I was a girl -- think of that! But, (the conductor) never said he was surprised, because if he did, it would mean he didn't expect much from me, and he didn't want me to feel that way."
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Third Grade Students Learn the Power of Words and Literacy
Reading Challenge: Maintaining consistency in serving a highly transient student population with a large number of English language learners.
At Red Rock Elementary School in Gallup, New Mexico, third grade teacher and MindPlay Administrator Grace Lueras is challenged with ensuring her large population of English Language Learners (ELL) and students from transient families receive the strong and consistent foundation in reading literacy that will lead them to success.
"We are within the top 20 poorest counties in the nation and have a disproportionate amount of ELL students from many countries," says Lueras.
English is not the primary language spoken in the homes of many of Red Rock's students. They struggle with the different English sounds compared to their native language sounds, says Lueras, and when students change schools in the middle of the year, that often halts gains in literacy they have made in the first semester.
Solution: When Lueras learned about MindPlay Virtual Reading Coach (MVRC), she was encouraged that the online program could come to the aid of students from nomadic families. "I got excited about MVRC because our students could now have consistency if they went to another school," she says.
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"This is difficult with 20 outdated computers," says Lueras, "but we decided to work with what we had because we knew this was the best for our students."
To motivate students, Lueras highlighted the power of words and the importance of speaking well. "I told them, 'If you want to have people listen to you, you have to do it with words. It takes words to explain what you are thinking, what you expect, and what you need.' I impress upon them that if they put in the time, reading will give them power they can carry through the rest of their lives."
Impact: Between August 23, 2016 and January 18, 2017, Lueras's third grade students made a .57 reading grade level gain through approximately 18.5 hours of usage.
MVRC also gave a great boost to a high proficiency ELL student who loved to read. The student stretched himself to read lengthy novels that were two levels above his grade level, but he had to use a dictionary. It took him four weeks to read a novel. After four months on MVRC, he finished a novel in two weeks because he no longer had to look up the words. His MVRC reports showed that he achieved over one year's growth in four months. He worked at home on the program because he believed Lueras when she told him it would improve his reading.
A special education student struggled with five particular sounds for approximately three years. At the onset of the school year, Lueras was not aware of those sounds or how the student would respond to MVRC. Within the first week on MVRC, the program identified the sounds, and after three months, she had mastered them.
An ELL student with high fidelity on MVRC was on grade level but improving faster than expected. Her in-class spelling grades have gone from Cs and Bs to As consistently. Her ability to express herself in writing is now equal to her verbal expression. When Lueras tells her that she needs an article or a verb, she says, "Oh, I remember that from MindPlay; or we did this on MindPlay."
"I can tell that she is getting a rich understanding of how the English language works," says her teacher.
Lueras says she loves that a speech therapist is part of the MVRC program because it allows visual learners to see the lips moving and auditory learners to hear the sounds pronounced the same way each time. "In many classrooms, spoken sounds vary by the accents of the speakers, making it hard for students to pin down those sounds. MVRC pinpoints that sound for a student until they have it in their long-term memory. I have seen a huge improvement with my lowest to highest performing ELL students.
"I have been able to see the growth on a week to week and month to month basis, not just at a year-end evaluation. I am intrigued and excited by how quickly the algorithm pinpoints exactly what each child needs, has multiple ways of teaching, and collects data. I want all of my students to have every opportunity to know their capabilities, and I impress upon them that literacy is a huge part of preparing them to reach for their dreams."
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Members of Cub Scout Pack 25 helped unload donations to their food drive to benefit Operation Blessing at the Canfield United Methodist Church on Dec. 15.
Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Members of Cub Scout Pack 25 collected donations for their first food drive to benefit Operation Blessing at the Canfield United Methodist Church.
Canfield's Cub Scout Pack 25 conducted a food drive to benefit the Canfield Operation Blessing this Christmas season.
The Cub Scout Pack, under Cub Master Jason Henry, collected food three different ways to reach out to the community, with the culmination of the food drive at Canfield United Methodist Church on Dec. 15. The scouts began the week of Nov. 27, by distributing paper bags to their neighbors, families and friends and picked up the bags by Dec. 14. The scouts also asked the congregation of Canfield United Methodist Church to bring a donation to church services on Dec. 9. They also distributed flyers at Hilltop Elementary School asking anyone who can help to bring their food donations to the church on Dec. 15.
"This is the first time we have done a food drive and we wanted<|fim_middle|> until 1 p.m. | to teach the cubs how to do one. We did the food drive in bits and pieces to show the cubs how easy it is. We wanted to teach them that all the little things they do can add up and make a big difference. They are little, so they don't realize how they can make a big difference. I think this food drive has taught them they can," said Shannan Jursa.
Canfield's Operation Blessing's mission is to make sure that food is available for one to two weeks at the end of the month for those who qualify and to be a listening ear for many who live alone or who just need to have a friendly person offer them comfort. They are a non-government funded food pantry distributing food to Mahoning County families or individuals the third Thursday of every month from 10 a.m. | 171 |
Myrica rubra, also called yangmei ( ; Cantonese: ye<|fim_middle|>1500 m. It is native to Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang. Provinces of China. Also naturalized in Japan, Korea, Philippines.
The tree is used as ornament for parks and streets. It is also a traditional tree used in composing Classical East Asian Gardens.
Some cultivars with large fruit, up to 4 cm in diameter, have been developed. Besides fresh consumption, the fruits may be dried, canned, soaked in baijiu (Chinese liquor), or fermented into alcoholic beverages. Dried fruits are often prepared in the manner of dry huamei (Prunus mume with flavorings such as licorice). The juice has been commercialised under the brand name "Yumberry" under which name it is trade-marked in the EU.
The medical literature is diverse, with studies of phytochemicals from bark, leaves and fruit. Significant progress has been reported on polyphenols, particularly ellagic acid, tannins and anthocyanins, antioxidant activity, anti-cancer and anti-viral properties.An extract from fruit called myricerone blocks a receptor for the peptide, endothelin, an important mediator of blood vessel constriction, indicating potential for drug development.
In Japan, it is the prefectural flower of Kōchi and the prefectural tree of Tokushima . The plant's name appears in many old Japanese poems. | ung4 mui4; Shanghainese: jɑ̃.mɛ), yamamomo ( ; kanji: 山桃; katakana: ヤマモモ, literally, "mountain peach"), Chinese Bayberry, Japanese Bayberry, Red Bayberry, or Chinese strawberry tree (and often mistranslated from Chinese as arbutus) is a subtropical tree grown for its sweet, crimson to dark purple-red, edible fruit.
It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree growing up to high, with smooth gray bark and a uniform spherical to hemispherical crown. It is dioecious, with separate male and female plants. It tolerates poor acidic soils. The root system is deep, with no obvious taproot.
The fruit is spherical, in diameter, with a knobby surface. The surface color is typically a deep, brilliant red, but may vary from white to purple. The flesh color is similar to surface color, or somewhat lighter. The flesh is sweet and very tart. At the center is a single seed, with a diameter about half that of the whole fruit.
It is native to eastern Asia, mainly in China , where it has been grown for at least 2000 years. Chinese cultivation is concentrated south of the Yangtze River , where it is of considerable economic importance. Its niche is forests on mountain slopes and valleys at altitudes of 100- | 296 |
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NEW YORK, NY – There are many things that make New York City a special place to be during the holidays. Nowhere else can you see the ice skaters at Bryant Park, the amazing window displays in the big department stores, and the spectacular Rockefeller Center tree. Then, of course, there are the markets. So. Many. Markets. How to decide?
The NY Handmade Collective, formerly known as the Etsy NY Team, calls this great city home, and wants to extend its joys of the season to your shopping experience! Our 11th annual Holiday Handmade Cavalcade stands out from the crowd of events by featuring over 60 makers based in the tri-state area at three exciting locations in two boroughs.
Our first market will take place on Small Business Saturday weekend, November 24-25, from 11am-6pm at the Invisible Dog, located at 51 Bergen St. in Brooklyn. Next up is our week-long pop-up inside Chelsea Market, December 3-9 from 10:30am – 7:30pm, 75 9th Ave. in Manhattan. Finally, on December 15-16, visit us at the Brooklyn Historical Society from 11am-6pm at 128 Pierrepont St. in Brooklyn.
We are so proud to be the only all-volunteer, vendor-run handmade market in NYC, and we bring the same imagination that we use in our work to the production of our retail events. Each Cavalcade marketplace will offer a carefully crafted selection of vendors to make sure you have the greatest variety of handmade goods to see, feel, touch, smell, and fall in love with, including jewelry, greeting cards, art, beauty products, clothing, baby items, and more. We'll also have interactive demos courtesy of Blick Art Materials, for you to get in touch with your inner artist, and we'll be giving away special gifts and prizes via our raffles!
We know our sense of community shines through when we come together, and this is one reason why our 2017 Cavalcade drew more than 30,000 visitors. Our personalized service, which allows us to connect with customers in a unique and meaningful way, is the final step in our creative process, which we think results in happier gift-givers and recipients!
For 2018, we're thrilled to be sponsored by partners who share our appreciation for handmade goods, quality, and craftsmanship: Blick Art Materials, Etsy, Fine & Raw Chocolate, and Pilot Kombucha.
About Blick Art Materials
Blick Art Materials is a family-owned and -operated business that has served artists since 1911. Its wide selection and dedicated staff proudly cater to the full spectrum of makers, from students and hobbyists to professional artists, educators, and designers. With exceptional service and integrity, Blick aims to provide its customers with the tools, assistance, and training they need to reach their creative potential. For more information, visit dickblick.com.
About Etsy
Etsy.com is the world's most vibrant handmade marketplace, offering millions of unique items from sellers in more than 150 countries. Etsy connects shoppers with independent creators and designers to find inspiring handmade goods, while providing artists and makers a platform on which to build their own businesses. For more information, visit etsy.com.
About Fine & Raw
Fine & Raw was launched in a loft in Williamsburg, where its first small chocolate batches were created and shared with friends. Since then, it has grown into a collaborative team of makers who are dedicated to quality, craft, and sustainability. Its artisanal chocolate is sweetened with coconut sugar, which enhances the deep, rich flavors of the unroasted cacao and maximizes the nutritional and health benefits of raw chocolate. For more information, visit fineandraw.com.
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Pilot Kombucha has been brewing raw artisanal kombucha in NYC since March 2015. Its mix of organic and fair trade ingredients delivers more nutritious bacteria so you feel good when you buy it AND when you drink it. Pilot is always searching for new combinations, new brews, and new processes to better nourish busy New Yorkers and make sure they feel good, no matter what. For more information, visit pilotkombucha.com
Admission to the Holiday Handmade Cavalcade is free and with every purchase, shoppers will receive a raffle ticket and a chance to win prizes made by the talented members of the NY Handmade Collective, as well as special gifts donated from Fine & Raw and Blick.
For more information about the NY Handmade Collective's Holiday Handmade Cavalcade, visit www.handmadecavalcade.com.
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The NY Handmade Collective, formerly known as the Etsy NY Team, is an eclectic group of independent artists, artisans, designers and crafters from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut united through Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade goods. With more than 200 members working in a variety of media, the team forms a strong, supportive community, which provides a forum for artistic growth and professional development. For more information about the NY Handmade Collective, visit www.nyhandmadecollective.com.
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There used to be blankets of snow here.<|fim_middle|> bruises and black eye a month ago. | The few trees were bent under the weight of it, and the dirt underneath never saw the sunlight. It was an endless expanse of white. But everything started warming up.
The glass figurine was small enough to fit in the palm of her hand. It was a bluish green with some light brown mixed into it. She watched as a lady at a random craft fair molded the hot glass into a cute bird.
Ahead of me through the trees, I see what may be a town and even a fishing boat in the river. My pace quickens. The small dirt road leads me around a corner, and my progress is halted by the strangest of sights.
The sun was already well on its way to the top of the sky by the time he opened his eyes. In his little corner of the woods, time allowed him the luxury of sleeping in. But he had earned this one luxury by giving up all of the rest.
The standalone portico's roof was made of spaced wooden slats, letting sunlight through in stripes across the brick floor. As she walked through it, she thought it to be a good representation of the barred members of society, living in shadows while the rest were allowed to freely shine.
Nothing was going through his mind. The fear was too big for there to be any thoughts. He could only focus on the panic fueled action of running from what was sure to be the beating of a lifetime, far worse than the | 291 |
The Lord Jesus will return again soon. He will set everything aright.
We sometimes find ourselves in the middle of an impossible challenge. Yet, many of<|fim_middle|> Unbelief, Kingdom of Heaven, Lord Jesus, New Covenant, Real Christianity The Nature of the Church, Unreal Christianity. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment. | us also know that, with God, all things are possible.
The Lord God is righteous. He created everything. Mankind has rebelled against God and sinned. Mankind has brought gross corruption to this planet. The corruption continues to grow exponentially. God has never left the planet, but has been outvoted. It does not mean that He does not remain all-powerful or that He cannot act. It merely means that one must choose. One must develop eyes to see. One must know that God cares and has solutions.
But one must also know that because of the extreme interconnectivity of everything on the planet, anything done affects other things unseen, and as is often the case, the "solutions" of sinful rebellious humanity only make things worse.
(2) Those who surrender to him and honor him the most receive the greater benefits.
Hence, if a person is sold on this world instead of the Kingdom of God, if one loves mammon, if one loves imbibing the lusts of sinful flesh, and if one cares little or nothing for a God-given conscience that warns one of illicit behavior and the certain eventual results thereof, then one will end up falling directly into the devil's trap.
However, because of the nature of the devil's sly and deceptive game, a person on the wrong path never knows the full extent of a trap being set or that he or she is heading directly for it. It is only afterwards, after one has been trapped and is beset with the terrible effects of the imprisonment thereof, that one recognizes one has been deceived.
It should be obvious, therefore, that the best, most influential, and most successful human agents of the devil are those which appear as the very opposite and are in positions of well-accepted authority. Looking up to them, listening to them, obeying them, and even following them leads one to the very trap we have thus discussed.
You will know these people because they never acknowledge the absolute authority of the Lord Jesus. Never. Not even the so-called Christian religious authorities.
This should open a few eyes but such is a rare event. If the Lord had to actually appear in all His powerful radiance to the murderous, hateful, ultra-religious Phariaical Saul to get his attention, even to the point of knocking the little weasel off his horse and on his backside, what makes everyone else so special? The fact is that the Lord most often has to do the same thing to every one of us to gain our attention and eventual salvation.
Of course, there is no possibility of being deceived by the fake shining agents of the devil if one follows the Lord Jesus, who is God and has revealed Himself as God. Yet, strangely enough, He is not perceived as God, as the one supreme leader of the Universe, even by most Christians, because of the devil's deceiving influence, and this is why most people never really submit to and exclusively follow the Lord.
It is the rejection of the Lord Jesus that causes the acceptance of false leaders and their false agendas. It is the acceptance of the Lord Jesus as the Master and sole authority of one's life that causes complete rejection of anyone and everyone else who would stand in His place, especially those within the religious realm, and especially those within the "Christian" religious realm.
Most Christians fail and their lives never come to full fruition simply because they have accepted other leaders as the sole authorities in their lives rather than the Lord.
Those who never fully accept the Lord Jesus do so at their own peril. Until the trap is sprung they never see it coming.
"While so engaged as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, at midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining all around me and those who were journeying with me.
"And I said, 'Who are You, Lord?' And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
If a person has never experienced a great trap-freeing experience as the apostle Paul did—if one has never been born again spiritually—then one remains in the trap, otherwise known as the dominion of Satan.
And one remains deceived by some very influential people who have actually embraced the dominion of Satan because of the earthly benefits they have been granted. For most people, of course, there are few benefits or none at all.
In Part 2 we will look further into how the Lord Jesus can fix things, rearrange things, and set things aright in order to bring blessing to His children.
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Brookhaven Park Conservancy | Enjoy Your Park!
Once again Brookhaven Park was the site of Atlanta's Chili Cookoff. Chili and Brunswick Stew competition was stiff on the professional and amateur sides, but thousands of attendees were the real winners as they enjoyed live music, delicious recipes, beautiful October weather and the wide open spaces of Brookhaven Park.
A big thank you to Primo Ceramic Grills for donating an LG300, Made in the U<|fim_middle|> not currently appear to be a solution acceptable to both parties for the front half of the park. Therefore, at this time, no improvements can be made to the park due to the City not owning the land.
Greenberg Farrow also presented budgets for each of the other park plans presented that totaled approximately $28 million. For detail, see coverage provided in The Brookhaven Post. | .S.A., All-in-One Grill for raffle. Proceeds from the raffle went to the Brookhaven Park Conservancy. The Primo contingent entered a fascinating, triple-smoked, alligator chili.
Oglethorpe University students joined Brookhaven Park Conservancy on August 26, 2017, to spread mulch around the large tree island and the trees lining the nearby walk way at Brookhaven Park. This is the fifth consecutive year that student volunteers from Oglethorpe have joined us in connection with their annual day of service to the community. Approximately ten students volunteered, most of whom were freshmen.
Brookhaven Park Conservancy, Inc. ("BPC") is initiating a series of Children's Play Days in Brookhaven Park! Play promotes healthy child development. Unstructured free play is the best type of play for a young child since it allows children to use their imagination and creativity, according to raisingchildren.net. Besides that, IT'S FUN!
Our first Play Day in Brookhaven Park will be Sunday, October 30, 2016 from 3 to 5pm in the Brookhaven Park Picnic Pavilion. Children under 10 accompanied by a parent are invited to participate in this free event to paint a pumpkin that they can take home.
Professional photographer, Debbie Young, will be taking individual Fall photographs of children that will be emailed to parents in digital form for free. Halloween costumes are welcomed! There will also be free popcorn! Special thanks to Kroger who is providing the pumpkins, paint and water and to Erin Mosher, of the Mosher Group at Keller Williams, who is providing our marketing materials. Please try to walk to the park and as there is very limited parking in the park.
Brookhaven Park Conservancy, Inc. ("BPC") is pleased to announce it received a $1,000 grant from Wells Fargo Bank in connection with its Community Connection Grant Program. Thad Ellett, BPC Board Member, accepted the award in a Days of Giving Celebration at the Carter Center on September 20, 2016. Special thanks to Brookhaven Branch Manager Yahima Ottey who nominated us for the grant.
Brookhaven Park Conservancy, Inc. received its letter of determination from the IRS in May, 2016 providing it tax exempt status. Donors to the Conservancy can now deduct contributions from their federal taxes.
Join the fun! Brookhaven's second annual Bark in the Park takes place in Brookhaven Park Saturday, June 4 from 10am – 2pm. Don't miss the chance to enjoy music, dog trick demonstrations, dog-related vendors, pet adoptions, food trucks and beverages! All dogs will receive a gift and must be on a leash! Free admission.
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A big thank you to all the volunteers who turned out to help us celebrate Earth Day by improving Brookhaven Park. In addition to BPC board members, we had 19 community volunteers that joined us, including 7 from Oglethorpe University, the largest turnout of any of the Earth Day Brookhaven park events! The Earth Day events were coordinated throughout Brookhaven's Parks by PARC Brookhaven.
Stay Tuned….we still have mulch to spread and some more benches to paint so Brookhaven Park Conservancy will be hosting another volunteer day shortly to finish the job. We will send a newsletter to alert you to the date.
In the meantime, here are photos of some of our awesome bench painters who completed painting 11 of the 18 original Dekalb benches along with the picnic table in the trail area. The metal paint sprayer failed us, so we will be back to finish out the metal.
Thad Ellet organized the event for BPC and trained the volunteers on the steps to properly paint the benches.
We made great progress adding fresh mulch to the tree island in the field area. The mulch was placed at the bottom of the hill instead of the requested top of the hill, so special thanks to Kathy Veitch who brought over some tarps to help move the mulch uphill. This was a workout and we hope there were not too many sore muscles!
Check out the trash we collected from around the park!
Trash picked up around the Park.
Mike Elliot grilled hot dogs to feed our hungry volunteers in the Pavilion. All the activity attracted the observation of one of the frequent Brookhaven Park visitors. Thanks, Jon, for the fabulous photo!
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Brookhaven Park Conservancy has partnered with PARC Brookhaven to host a volunteer work day in the Park to celebrate Earth Day. Please join us if you can!
Now that the sheep have cleared many overgrown areas in the Park, we are seeing all kinds of accumulated trash and want to clean it up before the areas grow back. We also want to paint the older park benches.
Sound like fun? Join us at 10am on Saturday, April 23, at the large picnic pavilion to register, sign a liability waiver, and get assigned to a paint or clean up team. We will provide the painting equipment and trash bags and the City is providing the paint. Please wear clothes appropriate to go into the ungroomed areas of the Park (jeans recommended), including closed toe shoes.
We are pleased to announce that our great volunteer partners at Oglethorpe University will be joining us to help out and celebrate Earth Day.
This is is one of five events that PARC Brookhaven is coordinating with Brookhaven's conservancies and Friends groups. That same morning, clean up activities will take place in Blackburn Park, Ashford Park, and Murphey Candler Park. In fact, Murphey Candler Conservancy is hosting a food trunk event the night before, April 22, at its Park to celebrate Earth Day. Briarwood will kick off the Earth Day week of activities on April 16 by planting three raised beds and cleaning up its Community Garden.
So that we can plan our rental equipment and teams, please email us through the "contact us" page of our website to let us know if you plan to join us or have any questions. We look forward to spring cleaning in the Park with you!
The City of Brookhaven Parks and Recreation is now hiring summer lifeguards and pool managers.
Final Master Plans for all the Parks except for Brookhaven Park were presented to the City Council at its Work Session yesterday, February 9. Liz Cole of Greenberg Farrow, the engineering firm that the City contracted with to create the plans, reported that the plan for Brookhaven Park was not included in the presentation for a couple of reasons. First, at the time the plan was started, there was a strong sense the park would be acquired soon; however, those negotiations have not come full circle. Second, there was difficulty creating acceptable programming for the site. She indicated that the location of the DeKalb Services building, an area suitable for parking but unavailable, made it hard to add parking to the park in a location acceptable to everyone. Further, there are structures that need to be looked at more closely. She noted that there exists a lot of pressure on the park by multiple users and the size of the park makes it hard to accommodate all the users' needs at this time. Ms. Cole pointed out that while the draft plan provided for two off leash dog areas, there was feedback from some in the community that the areas were not big enough to accommodate their needs.
Councilman Bates Mattison expressed a desire to move forward with a phased plan that worked around DeKalb Services and focused immediately on improving the back portion of the park so that users could have certainty around what the park would look like. This conversation evolved into a discussion about the ownership of the Park. Brookhaven City Attorney Chris Balch reported that DeKalb County is not willing to transfer the back portion of the Park without an agreement on the front portion and there does | 1,674 |
Posted on November 4, 2010 by howard
Any player/Any era: Joe DiMaggio
What he did: In 13 seasons between 1936 and 1951, all with the New York Yankees, the Hall of Fame centerfielder hit .325 with 361 home runs and three American League Most Valuable Player awards. Had DiMaggio not lost three prime years to World War II, battled injuries, or retired at 36, he may have had 500 home runs and 3,000 hits. Regardless, he's an all-time great.
Era he might have thrived in: DiMaggio probably would have thrived playing whenever. In fact, he may have been good enough to succeed where few did: Candlestick Park in the 1970s and '80s, with his hometown San Francisco Giants.
Why: I was motivated to write this column after the Giants clinched their first World Series since 1954. A reader recently sent me an email with the header, "Joe DiMaggio Lucky to be a Brownie," suggesting DiMaggio could have raked on some abominable, but good-hitting St. Louis Browns teams of the 1930s and '40s. I agree DiMaggio could have boosted his lifetime numbers playing for bottom-barrel clubs in St. Louis. In San Francisco, though, he may have helped toward a greater good.
I'm preparing something for Friday on players and personnel affiliated with the Giants near-miss clubs over the years, and on Wednesday, I talked to Hank Greenwald who broadcast for San Francisco from 1979 through 1986 and again from 1989 through 1996. I asked Greenwald what kept the Giants from a championship, and he suggested Candlestick, saying the park factors cost the team a few wins a season.
With its fierce winds, persistent chills, and vast confines, Candlestick surely got the best of most Giants hitters with few exceptions. Essentially, from Willie Mays' departure in 1972 to Will Clark's arrival in 1986, Candlestick was the place would-be successors went to die. DiMaggio might have been the bridge. I ran some conversions, and if DiMaggio played his entire career in San Francisco, say 1975 through 1990, it would have been fairly similar in trajectory and lifetime numbers to Jim Rice, another star who struggled with injuries and retired at 36.
Here's a chart with DiMaggio's converted numbers and Rice's actual stats:
AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA
DiMaggio 8091 1415 2423 426 142 399 1569 34 869 447 .299
Rice 8225 1249 2452 373 79 382 1451 58 670 1423 .298
Since the Baseball Writers Association of America inducted Rice on his fifteenth try, I'm guessing DiMaggio would make it sooner. He wouldn't be a first-ballot pick, but then, he wasn't in real life.
On a side note, I gave DiMaggio credit for the 1943-45 seasons he lost playing in World War II and used those for his 1982-84 years with the Giants. I took DiMaggio's 162-game averages if he'd played every year of his career on the 1982, 1983, and 1984 Giants and then converted the stats to 117-game seasons, the average number of contests DiMaggio got in during his actual career. My method isn't perfect, I realize, but it gives a general idea of how DiMaggio may have fared and what those years may have added to his lifetime totals.
The big winner here is the Giants, who get good work from DiMaggio at the right times (plus excellence at plenty of rotten times– his 1941 season converts to 28 home runs, 108 RBI and a .330 batting average for the 75-86 1980 Giants.) DiMaggio's 1948 season, which I used for San Francisco's 1987 NLCS club would equal 39 home runs, 150 RBI and a .309 batting average, good perhaps for a Giants' championship and a DiMaggio MVP. He'd decline in 1988, along with his team, but rebound in 1989; his 1950 season converts to 29 home runs, 100 RBI, and a .271 batting average. Clark and Kevin Mitchell would be the bigger stars by then but it would be a great final year in the sun for DiMaggio, perhaps enough for the Giants to beat the A's in the Battle of the Bay.
DiMaggio's numbers drop again in San Francisco for his possible final season, 1990, but in this era, he might capitalize on his '89 season and go to the American League as a free agent to DH another few years. Perhaps DiMaggio would get 3,000 hits and close to 500 home runs. DiMaggio might not have the reputation he still enjoys, even in death, but he'd be a player worth celebrating– perhaps more so.
Any player/Any era is a Thursday feature here that looks at how a player might have done in an era besides his own.
Others in this series: Albert Pujols, Barry Bonds, Bob Caruthers, Dom DiMaggio, Fritz Maisel, George Case, Harmon Killebrew, Home Run Baker, Jackie Robinson, Jimmy Wynn, Johnny Frederick, Josh Hamilton, Ken Griffey Jr., Nate Colbert, Pete Rose, Rickey Henderson, Roberto Clemente, Sam Thompson, Sandy Koufax, Shoeless Joe Jackson, The Meusel Brothers, Ty Cobb<|fim_middle|> Joshua (1975), Dan Gladden ('84), and Brett Butler ('90) had seasons batting greater than .300, and only Chili Davis ('82, '83, and '87) hit more than 10 home runs in a season.
Alvy says:
I would have loved to see Dimaggio in a small park like Ebbets or Wrigley Field. Joe D. had great power considering where he played. He many have had some amazing homerun season in any post deadball era in a better ball park.
The most amazing thing about Joe D. aside from his many, many skills is his sheer home run to strike out ratio. He had more home runs than strike outs in 7 of his 13 years in baseball. That has never happened with a power hitter before or since. I think that is the most amazing hitting stat in baseball– a power hitter who stikes out less times than he hits home runs, amazing!
Not even Ted Williams could come close to that mark in a much longer career. Ted Williams accomplished that feat in only 3 of his 19 years, and in one case it was the year he'd been in Korea and had played in only 37 games.
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4 Replies to "Any player/Any era: Joe DiMaggio"
vinnie says:
Very interesting. In effect, he becomes kinda, sorta, an upscale Jack Clark, during his Giant tenure but with more sustained consistency and fewer injuries.
Graham Womack says:
Hi Vinnie, I couldn't help but notice the Jack Clark similarities too, but it seemed like DiMaggio would perform better, stay a Giant longer, and have more of an impact.
Joe DiMaggio's would-be 1980 season that you mention would replace Bill North's actual 1980 season. As the Giants' regular centerfielder in '80, North batted .251 and hit 1 HR in 128 games. In the 16 seasons from 1975 to 1990, the Giants had eight different seasonal leaders in games played in centerfield, so if nothing else DiMaggio would have lent stability at a key position in the lineup. Of course, Joe D's batting would have been a consistent upgrade in average and power compared to those other CFs, as only Von | 241 |
Q: Background Subtraction for short videos I was going through this paper:
Adaptive Background Mixture Models for Real-Time Tracking(1999) by Chris Stauffer, W. Eric L. Grimson
Their method is ok for a long video where one can start making blobs after some<|fim_middle|>mentation by Tracking Spatial-Color Gaussian Mixture Models looks like a really fast-to-initialize method. I'm not sure it can achieve segmentation on the first frame though.
A: Statistical Background Subtraction for a Mobile Observer (Section 4) also handles this issue of background not yet confirmed. Facing some issues in understanding.
| time when the gaussian mixture models gets stabilized.
But this won't apply for short videos e.g. http://cvrc.ece.utexas.edu/SDHA2010/videos/human_interaction.zip
Here from the first frame itself, some portion is actually part of foreground.
Can anyone point out me some paper(s) where this problem has been handled?
Thanks,
Kaushik
A: Monocular Video Foreground/Background Seg | 89 |
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https://www.spenceloa.com/verify-authenticity<|fim_middle|> Young Award in 1996 after posting a record of 24–8, equaling the most victories by an NL pitcher since 1972. Though predominantly known as a starter, Smoltz was converted to a reliever in 2001 after his recovery from Tommy John surgery, and spent four years as the team's closer before returning to a starting role. In 2002, he set the NL record with 55 saves and became only the second pitcher in history (joining Dennis Eckersley) to record both a 20-win season and a 50-save season. He is the only pitcher in major league history to record both 200 wins and 150 saves. Smoltz was one of the most prominent pitchers in playoff history, posting a record of 15–4 with a 2.67 earned run average (ERA) in 41 career postseason games, and was named the Most Valuable Player of the 1992 NL Championship Series; Andy Pettitte later broke his record for career postseason wins. Smoltz led the NL in wins, winning percentage, strikeouts and innings pitched twice each, and his NL total of 3,084 strikeouts ranked fifth in league history when he retired. He also holds the Braves franchise record for career strikeouts (3,011), and the record for the most career games pitched for the Braves (708) since the club's move to Atlanta in 1966; from 2004 to 2014, he held the franchise record for career saves. Smoltz left the Braves after 2008 and split his final season with the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals. Since retiring as a player, he has served as a color commentator and analyst on television. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015, his first year of eligibility.
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John Smoltz, nicknamed "Smoltzie" played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1988 to 2009, all but the last year with the Atlanta Braves. An eight-time All-Star, Smoltz was part of a celebrated trio of starting pitchers, along with Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, who propelled Atlanta to perennial pennant contention in the 1990s, highlighted by a championship in the 1995 World Series. He won the National League (NL) Cy | 114 |
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A Man Among Men
Lenny came up out of the subway at eight-thirty in the morning. As he walked along Lehigh Avenue to the machine shop where he worked, snow began to float down out of the slate-gray December sky. The thick flakes struck his cheeks coldly before melting and running down his face. What do you know, he thought, a white Christmas.
From time to time, as the morning wore on, Lenny looked up from the workbench where he was cutting threads into quarter-inch bolts. Beyond the shop's grimy windows, the snow fell, heavily, steadily.
At eleven o'clock, the foreman came around and told the men at the benches to go home before the weather got worse. Big deal, Lenny thought. It was Christmas Eve; the shop would close at twelve-thirty anyway. Lenny collected his pay envelope, counted the contents to make sure that every cent of the $187.63 owed him was there, and went out into the snow. Lenny didn't mind the wet stuff. It was good to be out of the shop before noon, away from the smells of hot oil and just-shaved metal and the endless high-pitched whine of the cutting machines.
Too early to go home, Lenny thought, as a grimy subway train carried him southwards beneath Broad Street. Rita wouldn't want him hanging around the house. Not on Christmas Eve. She had things to do. And he himself was in no hurry to go back to the narrow rowhouse, the faded wallpaper, the worn carpets, the scratched furniture. The kids would be running around, and Rita would be yelling at them, and if he was there, she would be yelling at him to yell at them. He could take a pass on that. He had money (he tapped his shirt pocket and felt his pay envelope); he could kill a couple of hours at Gallagher's, have a few beers. Maybe there'd be a football game on television, an early bowl game, of which there were so many. Maybe some guys he knew would get off early too and stop in for a drink. They could shoot the shit about why the Eagles didn't make the playoffs again. And even if none of that happened, it would still be better to spend the afternoon drinking in the tappy instead of enduring all the noise and running around in that crowded little house with Rita and the kids.
After the subway, Lenny rode a bus west on Snyder Avenue. The windows were fogged up; Lenny could hardly see out. The snow had slowed the traffic; the bus inched along. Lenny got off at Gallagher's corner. Half-hidden by the falling snow, the digital clock on the bank across the street said 12:22. The snow crunched under Lenny's feet as he trudged across the sidewalk to the front door of the taproom. Some of the snow got in under his trouser cuffs, wet his socks, chilled his ankles.
Lenny blinked as he stepped into the half-light of the taproom. Four men were in the bar, three customers perched on stools in front and the bartender behind. Lenny knew them all. The customers were older men who spent most of their time and most of their Social Security and pension money in Gallagher's. Gaunt, gray-haired, red-faced, sad-eyed, they looked like three feuding brothers as they hunched separately over shot glasses and beer mugs. The bartender, a burly man named Tim with little pig eyes in his fleshy face, wore a stained apron reaching from his waist to his shoetops. The television on the wall over the back corner of the bar was turned off, but in the background the jukebox played Christmas carols.
Melted snow lay puddled on the black-and-white checkerboard squares of the linoleum floor. Lenny started yet another puddle by stamping the snow off his shoes. As he climbed onto a bar stool, the bartender came over, peered at him out of those little eyes, and said, "Lenny, good to see you. Got off early, eh? That's nice. What'll it be?" Lenny smiled. It pleased him to be known at Gallagher's. The bartender almost sounded sincere.
Lenny ordered confidently, in his element, a man among men. "Just a beer, thanks, Tim. Schlitz, a draft." Lenny's father had been a Schlitz drinker, fond of repeating the words of a television ad – "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer." Draft beer was better than bottle beer, his father always said. More taste, less gas. A man who orders Schlitz by name knows what he is doing.
Lenny fished a ten-dollar bill out of the pay envelope and laid it on the bar. Tim the bartender brought the golden, creamy-headed beer in a ten-ounce glass and set it down on a cork coaster that said "Michelob Light." He picked up the ten, rang up the beer on the register, then put three ones and a five down in front of Lenny.
Lenny took a first long pull at the beer, then licked the foam off his lips. He always liked that first bitter taste of beer. It put him in a different world, the world of grown-up men. It reminded him that he was long removed from those years in his late teens when someone else, someone just twenty-one, had bought the beer in Gallagher's, quart bottles of it, and carried it out to the car where Lenny and his friends were waiting to take the beer to a deserted playground and drink up the beer, a quart per man, in the shadows.
Lenny took a second, smaller sip of his beer. He remembered his father drinking beer at the kitchen table, drinking slowly and steadily after a day spent shuffling bills of lading in the traffic office of the old Reading Railroad. Lenny tried to drink the same methodical way himself. As a boy, he had sensed that his father didn't have a great job, but it had not mattered once his father got home and was sitting at the kitchen table with his beer. There he was in control, he was the man. Sometimes, when Lenny's father was late coming home from work because he had stopped at the taproom, Lenny's mother referred to him as "the toad." The name had made Lenny recoil in pain. He put the memory aside and took another swallow of beer.
"White Christmas, huh?" he said to Tim the bartender, who was rinsing glasses at the sink under the bar.
"Yeah. Well, maybe. Radio says this'll be only three, four inches, let up in a couple of hours. Melts fast, you know. Anyway." The bartender shrugged his shoulders. The weather was not his concern.
"Not very busy," Lenny said.
"It's early," the bartender said. "People'll be in. Payday, with Christmas tomorrow. Want some pretzels? Potato chips? Free. On the house. You know, Merry Christmas. All that shit."
"No. I'm good with just the beer for now." Lenny looked up. Liquor bottles rose in long glassy rows in front of the mirror that ran along the wall behind the bar. Somebody had strung a set of tiny blinking red and green lights along the edges of the mirror. Somebody had also hung a paper "MERRY CHRISTMAS" sign across the top of the mirror. The letters were red and shiny, with silver trim. The sign sagged in the middle.
Lenny drained the rest of his beer. He caught Tim's eye and raised his glass. The bartender refilled the glass at the tap, foam welling up over the rim and running down its side. The bartender let the head settle, then pumped another few ounces of beer into the glass. He wiped off the bottom of the glass with a rag, then brought the glass back to Lenny. He took two more dollars from the wet patch of bills on the bar and punched the register. The three older men sat in silence, sipping their own drinks, staring straight ahead.
Strange, Lenny thought. Christmas Eve; peace on earth, good will to men; let the good times roll. But the bar was dead. He tried to remember guys he knew who drank at Gallagher's. "Quinnie been in lately?" he asked the bartender.
"Nope. Haven't seem him for . . . must be months."
"What about Sprockets? Beep? Oscar? Any of them been around?"
"Naw. Ain't seen them. Maybe they drink somewheres else now."
It was obvious<|fim_middle|> little tired."
"What do you mean, 'not drunk'? You reek of booze. The whole house does. They can probably smell your breath down at the corner."
"Leave me alone. I'm telling you, I'm all right. Just tired. Be O.K. Just let me be."
The children's feet pounded on the stairs, then Lenny heard their excited voices in the living room. His head was bowed, nodding gently from side to side. "Have it your own way," Rita said, and stomped out of the kitchen.
Lenny pushed himself up from the table. He took a fresh bottle of beer out of the refrigerator and went out to the living room. Leaning against the archway to the dining room, he watched the children open their presents. They were chirping with joy. Rita had done good in picking out their presents, but hey, that was her job. His job was to provide the money, and he'd done that, hadn't he? He nodded to himself.
Jennifer looked up and saw him. "What are you saying yes about, Daddy?"
Lenny shook his head. "Nothing. Just thinking. Thinking how Santa Claus was real good to you guys." He went back to the kitchen.
After a while, an hour or so, Rita came in. First she turned on the oven. Then she set about preparing breakfast. While she and the children ate French toast, Lenny drank from his beer bottle. Lucky he had thought to buy a case last week and stick most of it in the refrigerator. Once the breakfast dishes were washed, Rita took the turkey out of the refrigerator and put it in the oven. She went out to the living room, where the television set was on again. More carols.
The phone rang. Jennifer picked it up and called to her mother. Lenny heard Rita talking into the phone, but could not make out what she was saying. Eventually she hung up and came out to the kitchen.
"That was Elaine. She wants me and the kids to come over and visit. Her and her kids are lonesome. Her husband had to work today."
"What about me? Ain't I invited?"
"She didn't say anything about you, and I didn't ask. I don't want you staggering over there and mortifying me and the kids." She paused. "Look, we'll only be gone half an hour. Till ten-thirty or so. I promise. You'll be O.K. here, won't you? Besides, you wouldn't enjoy it. You wouldn't want to play with the kids, and you don't want to talk with me and Elaine, do you?"
Lenny was silent. Rita was right, but he was not going to give her the satisfaction of saying so.
Rita took his silence for consent. "All right. Just half an hour." Then she was gone. Lenny heard her and the kids dressing for the short trek across the snowy street. The kids were asking to bring one present each with them, and Rita said yes. The front door opened and closed, and the house was suddenly very quiet. The kids had turned off the television before they left. That was not like them. The kitchen clock said five after ten. Lenny took out another bottle of Schlitz, popped the cap, and took a long greedy pull at it. Too much beer and not enough mouth, he realized, as beer dribbled out of his full cheeks and down his chin. He sank back onto his chair. He sat there quietly for a long time, his eyes closed, taking an occasional swallow of beer. The aroma of the turkey roasting in the oven began to fill the kitchen. Lenny breathed deeply. Always liked that smell, he said to himself. He thought again of Christmas Eve when he was growing up, of his father, a small man in some ways but big inside, sitting at the kitchen table with tears from the onions streaming down his face, helping his mother stuff the turkey. He thought too of the night before, how Rita had stuffed the turkey alone while he had sat silently by, watching, drinking. He shook his head. Something was wrong.
He opened his eyes and looked at the clock. Eleven-thirty. Where was that bitch? Should have been back by now. Lenny knew why she wasn't. It had been coming since yesterday. She didn't want to be with him – her husband, the father of her children – on Christmas Day. She would rather spend the time with her pathetic girl friend. Well, he'd teach her not to make a fool out of him. Somehow he'd teach her. The smell of the roasting turkey was warm, comforting, homey. Oh, he would teach her all right.
Lenny got up from the table and opened the oven door. Warm air flowed out over his face and chest. He stepped back. The turkey, already golden brown, sat in a large black oval roasting pan. He reached into the oven and hooked two fingers over one of the pan's handles. The hot metal seared his fingers. He snatched his hand away and looked for potholders. He pulled three of the drawers in the cabinets near the sink onto the floor before he found two. He used them to pull the roasting pan out of the oven. Christ, this is a big turkey, he thought as he hefted the pan.
Turkey drippings sputtered and popped in the bottom of the pan as Lenny carried it through the house to the front porch. The lights on the Christmas tree blinked merrily. Lenny set the pan down and opened the front door. The street was quiet under a gray sky, the snow lying thickly on sidewalks and the roofs of parked cars. Down the street, near the corner, a young man was using a broom to brush snow off a parked car.
Lenny stooped down, his hands protected by the potholders, and picked up the roasting pan. In the open door, he swung the pan backward, then forward. As it came forward, Lenny let go of the potholders. The pan, turkey still inside, sailed out a couple of feet into the icy air, then plummeted abruptly into the snow. It hit on an angle, and the turkey tumbled out. The potholders fluttered down nearby. Drippings turned the snow around the turkey golden brown.
Lenny looked up and down the street. The young man near the corner was staring at him, his broom suspended in midair. Lenny went down his front steps, tramped deliberately across the street, and climbed the short flight of steps to Elaine's front door. A little girl, one of Elaine's kids, opened to his knock.
"Where's my wife?" Lenny asked. It was like yesterday afternoon in Gallagher's, easier to think of what he wanted to say than to say it. He hiccupped. He suddenly realized that it was very cold and he was coatless. He was shivering and his teeth were chattering.
Rita came to the door.
"If you want your fucking turkey," he said, "it's down there." He turned, almost losing his balance, and pointed to the browned bird, half-buried in the snow. Swinging awkwardly back toward Rita, he said, "The next time you say you'll come back in half an hour, you make goddamn sure you're back in half an hour."
Lenny turned, half-slid down Elaine's steps, and retraced his path across the street, kicking the overturned roasting pan along the way. He went into his own house, slamming the door behind him. In the kitchen, he opened another bottle of Schlitz and sat down at the table.
A few moments later, Rita came into the kitchen with the roasting pan; the turkey, dusted with snow, was inside. Her eyes were angry, determined; she did not look at Lenny or speak to him. She put the turkey back in the oven, shut the door, and checked the temperature control. Then she turned to face Lenny.
"You're nothing," she said. "A worthless, useless, drunken, good-for-nothing bum."
"You asked for it, bitch," Lenny said. "You're lucky it wasn't the fucking tree." He wasn't nothing. He was a man, big inside, where it counted. If she had asked, he would have helped her to stuff the fucking turkey. | ; Tim had no interest in conversation. Lenny's questions sounded dumb, even to him; he didn't ask any more. The bartender walked down to the far end of the bar, where no one was sitting, spread out a newspaper, and began to study the racing results. A real barrel of fun.
By four in the afternoon, Lenny had put two more tens on the bar. He had also made three trips to the tiny, foul-smelling toilet in the hallway beyond the end of the bar. The last trip, he'd had to steady himself with one hand on the damp, sweating tank above the bowl. The toilet's tile floor was always wet, guys missing the bowl usually, but today, maybe from melted snow too. The toilet was one thing Lenny had against Gallagher's. Couldn't Gallagher pay some nigger to come in and clean the fucking bathroom out once in a while? Lenny could never figure out why the stench from all the shit and all the piss didn't get out and stink up the bar too. He was just happy he did not have to go to the toilet as often as bigger guys did. They ragged him about it. "Scrawny little guy like you," they would say, "and all the beer you drink, and it's like you never have to piss." They would shake their heads, and Lenny would square his shoulders and give them a little shrug. "It's a gift," he would say.
The taproom had filled up now. The customers were all men. Very few women showed their faces in Gallagher's. Lenny liked that. Gallagher's was a man's world. The air was hazy with tobacco smoke. Lenny knew a few of the later arrivals, not really well, but well enough for them to buy rounds of beer for each other on Christmas Eve. Lenny liked standing guys to beers and being stood to beers himself. The holiday spirit. God rest ye merry gentlemen. All that shit.
More than three hours at the bar now, and Lenny could feel the beer taking hold. Every couple of minutes, he found himself gasping for air, and though his head was clear, his words were coming out slurred. He looked across the bar into the mirror behind it, and had trouble focusing his eyes. Maybe it was time to go home. Shouldn't get drunk on Christmas Eve. New Year's Eve maybe. Not Christmas Eve.
Lenny slid most of his change off the bar. Mr. Personality with the dirty apron could have the rest. The bills were soggy. Bar was like a fucking lake. Pig-eye bartender ought to wipe it off once in a while. Lenny spun around on his stool and eased onto his feet. He made his way along the row of backs towards the door, patting the shoulders of a couple of men who had stood him beers, saying "Merry Christmas" as he went. One of them, a big guy named Paulie in a Roofers Local 30 jacket, half-turned, put a hand out and grabbed Lenny's arm. Most of the time Paulie was all right, but he could get belligerent after a few beers, start busting balls.
"Hey, where you goin'?" Paulie said. "You leavin' already? What are you, some kind of faggot?"
Lenny shook off Paulie's hand, tried to keep it light. "Gimme a break. Just gotta get home. You know. The wife. Kids. Christmas Eve."
"Oh, so that's the way it is. I take it back. You ain't no faggot. You're just pussy-whipped."
So much for keeping it light. "Fuck you, Paulie," Lenny said. "You got it all wrong."
"Oh, no? Guess again, pal. The old lady don't give me no orders." Paulie turned back to his beer. Lenny shook his head, blinking at Paulie's broad back, before continuing on his way down the bar. No question, bars attract assholes.
Outside, the snow still floated down out of a darkening sky. Cars crept along Snyder Avenue, their headlights picking up the falling flakes, their clanking tire chains muffled by the snow, their exhaust pipes billowing vapor. A cold wind whipped at Lenny's face, driving snowflakes into his eyes and mouth. He hunched his shoulders and started along the avenue, plunging through knee-high snow. Three or four inches my ass, he thought. So much for know-it-all bartenders. As he lurched ahead, the ground rushed up from under the snow to meet his feet, jarring his knees at each step. Pussy-whipped, Paulie had said, pussy-whipped. Fuck him. Just another asshole. With the wind. the snow underfoot, and the beer, Lenny was having trouble keeping his balance. He was relieved when he turned into his own street. The wind died as the rowhouses cut it off.
The previous owner of Lenny's house had installed an iron railing for the front steps. Lenny hauled himself up the railing hand over hand. Rita and the kids, Jason and Jennifer, were on the enclosed porch, trimming a Christmas tree. Rita had picked the kids' names. Lenny had thought she was getting above herself, but what the hell, if she was going to raise them, she could name them.
Lenny opened the door and stepped onto the porch. "Merry Christmas," he said. His head was clearer now. The walk in the cold and the snow had done him good.
"Hi, dad," the kids said in unison. Jason was small, dark, lean. Like his old man, Lenny thought. Jason had been born six months after the marriage. Her parents, his too, had said it was the right thing to do, and so they had done it. Jennifer was pretty in a plump sort of way, reminding Lenny of the way Rita had looked that glorious summer when they would drive to League Island Park at night in his old junk heap of a car and crawl into the backseat and do the deed right there. The glory had gone out of the summer the morning Rita called him up and said she had missed her period. That had been eight years ago. Lenny had been feeling squeezed ever since. Rita's good looks were beginning to fade, her plumpness turning to fat.
"About time you got home," Rita said. She was wearing an old sweatshirt and baggy jeans, and she had not bothered to put on any makeup. "Take your jacket and shoes off and leave them out here. Don't go tracking that snow into my living room."
Wordlessly, Lenny complied. Welcome home, he said to himself. He padded through the house in his stocking feet, back to the kitchen. He took a tall brown bottle of Schlitz from the refrigerator. Pussy-whipped. Fucking Paulie. Lenny opened the beer bottle and went back to the porch, where he leaned against the door frame and watched Rita and the kids as they worked on the tree. It was a scraggly little thing, and they were throwing handfuls of tinsel at it, trying to fill the open spaces amid the branches.
Lenny pointed at the tree with the beer bottle. "That the best you could do?"
"Yeah," Rita said. "Unless I wanted to pay a fortune for a bushier one, but since you don't make a fortune, I didn't want to. O.K.?" She paused and looked at him. "Is that all you have to say? On Christmas Eve?"
Lenny said nothing. Christ, he thought. What a bitch. Always putting him down. In front of the kids too. He took another swallow of beer and inspected the tree more closely. In spite of the tinsel-throwing, the children had missed a space near the top. He left the doorway, weaving a little as he walked. He put the bottle down and took a handful of tinsel from Jennifer. "This is how it's done," he said, but as he tossed the tinsel at the top of the tree, he nudged a lower branch with his knee. The tree swayed on its stand.
"Hey," Rita cried. "Get away from there. You'll knock it over." She looked hard at him. "That isn't your first beer, is it?"
"No. I stopped at Gallagher's for a few. What's wrong with that?"
"I thought so. Well, why don't you just go get lost for a while. The three of us, we'll finish this."
"O.K. Excuse me for trying to help. Big mistake on my part. Don't worry. You won't get no more offers of help from me."
He picked up the beer bottle and went into the dining room. From a side compartment in the buffet, he took a bottle of Seagram's Seven. He brought both bottles out to the kitchen and set them on the table. He took a shot glass out of the cabinet over the sink, sat at the table, and poured himself a shot of whiskey. The liquor sloshed over the rim of the glass onto his fingers. He licked them clean, the fiery edge of the alcohol searing his nose and throat. He raised the shot glass, said, "Merry Christmas everybody," and drank off the whiskey, chasing it with another swallow of beer. The warmth of the liquor spread through his body. He poured a second shot, drank it down, then returned the liquor bottle to the buffet. Better not give the bitch something else to yell about.
Lenny was still sitting at the table when Rita came into the kitchen twenty minutes later. Ignoring Lenny and the bottle of beer on the table, she took a bowl of leftover spaghetti and meatballs out of the refrigerator, emptied its contents into a pot, and set the pot on the gas range to heat. The recipe for the meatballs and the tomato sauce came from Rita's aunt. They had it for dinner at least once a week. It tasted all right the first time around; leftover and reheated, it was too dry for Lenny's taste. Rita's family called the tomato sauce "gravy." Strange.
"You want any?" Rita asked when the spaghetti was hot.
"I'll pass." He liked turning Rita down when she offered him food. It gave him a feeling that he was in control, no longer a scrawny little guy with a dead-end job cutting threads into bolts in a rundown machine shop.
Rita would not let it go. "You gotta eat something. You can't live on beer. You'll pass out if you don't eat. You'll probably pass out anyway, all the drinking."
"Leave me alone. I'm O.K. I'll be all right."
"Have it your way." She went off to the dining room to serve the kids.
Afterwards, Lenny watched as Rita, brisk and business-like, sat at the kitchen table and stuffed the turkey. The children were in the living room, watching Christmas shows; Lenny could hear the carols. He remembered his father, the night before every Thanksgiving and Christmas, helping his mother stuff the turkey. His old man would sit there in the kitchen, maybe a little tight but it didn't matter, breaking up slices of stale bread, chopping stalks of celery, and with tears streaming down his cheeks, cutting up onions, all for the stuffing. Lenny did not volunteer to help Rita, and she did not ask him. He sat and watched and drank his beer, the third since he came home.
Later, after the children had gone to bed, Rita's friend Elaine from across the street came over to visit. Elaine's husband was a cop and worked funny hours. She was always looking to Rita for company. Lenny retrieved the Seagram's bottle and mixed highballs for them. He served the drinks, then wiped up the rye and ginger ale he had spilled in making them. The women sat in the living room with their highballs, talking. Lenny sat in the kitchen with another Schlitz. His father had always made himself scarce when his mother's friends had visited their house. Let them talk, Lenny thought. What fucking Madonna was doing, what fucking Oprah said last week. Jesus Christ. Gimme a break.
After Elaine left and Rita was sure the children were asleep, she went upstairs to bring down their presents. She had bought all the presents. Early in the marriage, when she and
Lenny only had Jason, they had shopped together at Christmas time. They didn't do that anymore. Hell, Lenny thought, they didn't even buy presents for each other anymore. A couple of weeks ago, he'd given her a couple hundred for the kids' presents and an extra three twenties for her to go and buy something for herself. Tomorrow, he would probably get one of those twenties back, in a paper Christmas gift wallet.
Rita poked her head into the kitchen. "Wanna come out and look at the toys and decorations?" She looked and sounded friendly enough. About time.
"Yeah. Sure."
He bumped into the kitchen table as he got up. In the living room, the kids' presents were arranged in two neat, colorful piles. A blonde doll leaning against one pile marked it as Jennifer's; a black-and-white soccer ball marked the other as Jason's. The toys and gift-wrapped packages stood out against the threadbare carpet and the battered furniture.
"Very nice," Lenny said.
"You haven't seen the tree yet."
They went out onto the porch. The tree was draped with ornaments and tinsel, and lit by strings of lights that blinked red and blue and green and gold. The tinsel and the glass in the porch windows shimmered in the blinking lights. Lenny had to admit, it was kind of pretty. You had to look real close to see the open spaces.
"Not bad," Lenny said, "especially for a tree with no branches."
"Get off it, will you?" Rita said. "I'm going to bed now. You coming?"
"Yeah, yeah. I'll be up in a little while."
Lenny heard her footsteps on the stairs. He looked around the porch. Other than the tree, a paper poster of Santa Claus taped to the inside of the front door window was the only decoration.
Lenny considered going upstairs. Rita would be good for a quick kiss, nothing more. She would say she was too tired or, what was worse, she would tell him he was too drunk to get it up. She might be right. Beaucoup beers since noontime and a couple of shots of Seagram's too. Even if he could get it up, she might not want to, and he would not force her. He had done that before, and it had never been good. He went back to the kitchen and opened another bottle of Schlitz. Last one of these for a while, he told himself; he was beginning to feel bloated. The kitchen clock said eleven-thirty. He went back onto the porch, opened the front door, and looked out.
The snow had stopped. Bulky figures in overcoats and parkas were trudging along the street, on their way to midnight Mass at St. Thomas's. They said you had to get there real early if you wanted a seat on Christmas Eve. Well, Lenny thought as he leaned against the door frame and lifted the bottle of Schlitz in salute, you're welcome to my seat. He chuckled at his own wit.
Lenny liked to look at the street after dark at this time of the year. Snow or no snow, there was a warm rosy glow to it. From inside and outside the enclosed porches, Christmas lights were gleaming. The lights of the city reflecting off low-lying clouds filled the sky with a soft pink haze.
Lenny went back inside. In the living room, he turned on the television to the local news and sank down on the couch. Before long, he dozed off. When he woke, the screen was filled with men and boys in long robes moving around an altar. A solemn voice said viewers were watching the midnight Mass from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. That's about enough religion for me today, Lenny thought. He got up and switched to a rerun of David Letterman. Back on the couch, he squinted at the screen. He had trouble keeping his head up. The raucous laughter of Letterman's studio audience faded away. Lenny slept again.
He woke to the national anthem. A rippling American flag filled the screen. Was the station was going off the air or coming on? Lenny turned off the television, then went to look at the kitchen clock. Two-thirty. Going off then. Yeah. Lenny sat down at the kitchen table, folded his arms on the table, lowered his head to them, and fell asleep.
The next thing Lenny knew, Rita was shaking his shoulder, not gently either. "C'mon, Ernie, wake up. Let's go. It's almost seven. They'll be down any minute now."
Weakly, Lenny pushed her hand away. His head bobbed up and down. It was hard to lift. He could not look her in the eye. "What you want? What's matter?" His voice was hoarse. His throat felt clogged. He coughed to clear it.
"Jesus Christ," Rita said, "don't you remember what day it is? It's Christmas, and the kids'll be coming down to open their presents. I don't want them to see you drunk at the kitchen table at seven o'clock on Christmas morning."
"I'm all right," Lenny said. "Not drunk. Just a | 3,698 |
<|fim_middle|> all of her new Soccer Shots friends!
Coach Lauren grew up in Colorado and started playing soccer at the age of 4. She attended The University of Nevada on a soccer scholarship and graduated with a degree in Communications. Coach Lauren hopes that she can provide a positive experience for all kids so they can grow up enjoying soccer just as much as she did. When she's not coaching or working in Boulder, Coach Lauren can be found traveling or playing with her dog, Remy. | Coach Patrick is currently serving as our Executive Director and our Director of Coaching and has been watching and playing soccer since he was a mini! He played all the way up until high school and has not stopped watching. Coach Patrick graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in Sport and Recreation Management. He has coached others since the age of fourteen in various sports, but soccer is his favorite.
Coach Erica is our Director of Partner Relations and she grew up in Ohio, where she graduated from Youngstown State University with an Early Childhood Education degree. She has been teaching since 2006, and even coached for Soccer Shots (Columbus) before moving to Colorado in 2012. Coach Erica used to live and play in the snowy mountains of Summit County and has recently moved to Denver. She enjoys traveling, camping, and hiking with her husband, Jordan, and dog, Teddy. When she's not carrying around her bag of soccer gear, you can find Coach Erica on her bike or practicing yoga.
Coach Jake is our Director of Operations and has been playing soccer for as long as he can remember. He came to Denver in 2013 to attend the University of Denver, from which he graduated with degrees in Biology and Film Studies and Production. When he's not teaching his friends new skills on the field, you can find Coach Jake pursuing his hobbies of filmmaking, ice hockey, skiing, and go-karting, or working on Bandolero race cars in the pits of the Colorado National Speedway.
Coach Justin is our Director of Development and has played soccer since he was four years old. He has played on various club teams up through high school, as well as for three years at Missouri Valley College. Coach Justin received his Bachelor's Degree in History with a minor in Communications from the University of Missouri St. Louis, and is currently pursuing his Masters in Education. Coach Justin moved to Denver with his wife Mecayla from NYC. When he is not coaching or playing soccer, Coach Justin enjoys fly fishing, hiking, camping, and watching his favorite sports teams: Chelsea and the St. Louis Cardinals! Coach Justin is very excited to teach the game of soccer to all of his friends!
Coach Amanda is one of our Program Coordinators and she grew up in Iowa, where she graduated from the University of Iowa with an Elementary Education degree. She has been teaching preschool in the Denver area since moving to Colorado in July. She loves working with students, and getting to be a fun and exciting part of their day! When she isn't coaching soccer, she is outside climbing, hiking, or running!
Coach Hannah is our Social Media Coordinator and she grew up in Pennsylvania where she coached Soccer Shots for three seasons! She has been playing soccer since the age of six, and played at the collegiate level at Penn State Harrisburg. She loves teaching her soccer friends the most important rule of soccer shot, which is to have FUN! Coach Hannah has a master's degree in sport management, and loves kayaking and hiking when she's not coaching.
Coach Kevin is our Development Coordinator and he grew up in New York and has been playing soccer since he was 3 years old. He played throughout High School and played D1 with the University of Nevada Las Vegas where he majored in Hotel Management and minored in marketing. When Coach Kevin isn't teaching or playing soccer, you can find him hiking most trails in Colorado, cheering on his favorite futbol team, Arsenal, cooking a great meal, camping, exploring and spending quality time with family and friends.
Coach Sean is one of our Program Coordinators and he is from South Dakota and has been playing soccer since he was 3 years old. While getting his Bachelor's degree in Exercise Science from the University of South Dakota, he coached soccer at the high school level. When Coach Sean isn't on Soccer Island, he is probably watching his favorite Minnesota sports teams (Vikings, Timberwolves, Twins), playing his ukulele or hanging out with his cat, Ruby.
Coach Alex is originially from Colorado and she has been playing soccer since she was a mini! She played all through college at the University of Maryland and the University of Southern California. She loves watching soccer, hiking in the summer, and snowmobiling in the winter. She's super excited to be giving back to the community and can't wait to meet her new friends on Soccer Island!
Coach Brandy was born and raised in Clarksville, Tennessee and has recently graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Psychology. She has loved soccer ever since she was a little girl and has played competitively until she achieved her dream of playing Division 1 collegiate soccer all four years at UTC. Her dream job is to become a clinical and sport psychologist for college athletes one day. Brandy enjoys coaching soccer because she wants to make a positive impact in children's lives by encouraging and motivating them. She desires to build confidence within each child's own abilities and create a fun and enjoyable environment to learn soccer. When she's not coaching soccer, she likes to go on runs with her two Golden Retrievers.
Coach Chris grew up in Reno, NV and has a passion for soccer. He is currently at the University of Colorado, Denver where he is studying public affairs with an emphasis in nonprofit organizations. When he is not on Soccer Island he is playing with his dog, Tanna, and swimming.
Coach Cody was born in Colorado and has lived here for his entire life. He started playing soccer when he was 5 and played all the way through high school. When he's not on Soccer Island, he loves doing stuff outdoors like hiking 14ers or going skiing and he's super excited to help his new friends get better at soccer!
Coach Dan grew up in Littleton, Colorado and has been playing soccer since he was 4 years old. While studying Sport Psychology at John F. Kennedy University in California, Coach Dan coached middle school soccer and various other sports but soccer has always been his favorite. While not on Soccer Island, Coach Dan enjoys playing soccer, golf, and basketball, hiking in the mountains, and playing with his dog Howie!
Coach Daniel is originally from Mississippi and played soccer for 15 years. He ran cross country and track at Mississippi College where he graduated with a Kinesiology degree. He is licensed to teach P.E. and Health as well as a Certified Exercise Physiologiest with the ACSM. Coach Daniel loves nearly all forms of exercise and is still an avid runner!
Coach Geoff grew up in Boulder, Colorado and has played soccer since he was 5 years old. He received a Biology degree from University of Northern Colorado, where he played for the club soccer team. When not on Soccer Island, Coach Geoff enjoys camping, skiing, and watching all kinds of different sports, especially the Broncos.
Coach Jessie began playing soccer at the age of 5. She started to play competitively on a travel team at the age of 12 and continued her love of the game throughout high school and college. She graduated from the University of Missouri with her Bachelor's of Science, with an emphasis in Human Development and Family Sciences. Coach Jessie can't wait to share her love of soccer with | 1,473 |
Annie Tem<|fim_middle|> the stuff of life. | pest is one of Britain's best loved cartoonists. In 1994 Annie embarked upon her current internationally acclaimed cartoon strip Tottering-by-Gently for Country Life Magazine.
Tottering-by-Gently is a village in the fictional county of North Pimmshire, where Lord and Lady Tottering reside at their ancestral home, Tottering Hall. Annie Tempest's prints are based on Lord and Lady Tottering (Dicky and Daffy), their daughter Serena and their grandchildren, Freddy and Daisy. Through Dicky and Daffy's extended family, Annie Tempest casts her gimlet eye over everything from inter-generational tensions, the differing perspectives of men and women, to dieting, field sports, and much much more.
Her now international following proves that she touches a note of universal truth in her exquisitely detailed and beautifully executed cartoons as she gently laughs with us at | 181 |
UPEC Industrial Group
Ukrelectromash Engineering Center
"Kapitan" Well pumps
"BC" Irrigation pumps
Feed mills
Booklets and Catalogues
SKB Ukrelectromash
The UPEC Industrial Group
The UPEC Industrial Group is one of the largest Ukrainian private companies which occupies a leading position in several product segments and in manufacture of components for the largest conveyors of the CIS and brings together a number of leading engineering companies and engineering centers with more than half a century history.
The Company was founded in 1995 and now it is being developed as a client-oriented engineering industrial group.
The UPEC develops and manufactures bearings, electric motors, pumps and electric turbocompressors, CNC grinding machines, transmissions and chassis, air-cycle climate-control systems, trailed agricultural machinery as well as other machines, equipment, assembly units and components for railway, automotive, agricultural, energy and electric machine, defense, metallurgy and other industries.
The Industrial Group heads for revolutionary engineering and production re-equipment, based on respect to traditions of our brands and provision of engineering continuity of manufactured products.
Being a company oriented to future, the UPEC is investing its<|fim_middle|> people, knowledge and ideas"
Development and production
Scientific and technical facilities of the company include: the Joint Engineering Centre, Specialized Engineering Centers: Ukrainian Design-Engineering Bureau of Bearing Industry, Ukrainian Design Bureau of Transmissions and Chassis, Special Design Bureau SKB Ukrelectromash, Experimental Design Bureau of Grinding Machines, Air Turbo Technology Department.
The UPEC Industrial Group incorporates a number of leading machine-building enterprises with more than half a century history:
Kharkov Bearing Plant (HARP)
Oskol Bearing Plant (HARP-Russia)
Lozovsky Forging Mechanical Plant (LKMZ)
Kharkov Electro-Technical Plant Ukrelectromash (HELZ)
Kharkov Machine Tool Building Plant (HARVERST)
Ukrainian Casting Company (ULK)
Also the Industrial Group includes service enterprises: Transservis, Energoprom and others.
The UPEC Industrial Group's range of activity affects the interests of huge number of people: about 8,000 people are employed at the Company's enterprises. The Company's work contributes to the development of the hi-tech industry, and, consequently, to the growth of all Ukrainian economy and welfare of its citizens.
THE UPEC'S DIVISIONAL STRUCTURE
The products of the UPEC Industrial Group are presented on the market by divisions: Railway, Automotive, Electro-Technical, Machine-Tool and Agricultural.
Divisional structure enables to meet all customer requirements as fully as possible, so far as engineering, design and production resources of the Industrial Group are involved in task solution set by the customer.
Railway Division supplies components for production and maintenance of traction and rolling stock to companies and railways of the CIS countries.
Automotive Division cooperates with the leading assembly-line companies of automotive, agricultural, and road construction machinery.
Electro-Technical Division supplies induction electric motors, electric pumps of general and special purposes, including borehole pumps, feed cutters for livestock farming.
Machine-Tool Division develops, manufactures and upgrades roll and cylindrical grinding equipment for metallurgy and other industries.
Agricultural Division provides complex support to agricultural manufacturers and operators with modern equipment. It supplies high-performance and energy-efficient machinery for modern resource-saving tillage technologies, spare parts for agricultural machinery; it performs warranty, post- and non-warranty maintenance of agricultural machinery.
Following the results of 2012 the consolidated gross sales of the UPEC Industrial Group without transfers has amounted UAH 1 629 225 000, which is nearly 26% or UAH 575 948 000 less than in 2011 and is almost at the same level as in 2010 (the growth if compared to 2010 has amounted 2.7%).
For more information you can visit our website.
SKB Ukrelectromash LLC
37, Iskrynskaya Str., Kharkiv,
61001, Ukraine
Marine Low-Noise Induction Motors of 2DMSh Series
Marine Motors Series
Built-in Motors Series
Motors of Increased Speed,(400Hz)
Motors with Outer Rotor for Centrifugal Fans
Variable Frequency Motors
Motors for Nuclear Power Plants
Motors Series with Increased Reliability and Durability
Free, non-commercial usage of information from the site is acceptable, but with the obligatory active index link to www.ukrskb.com.ua | considerable funds into research and engineering developments. The Group's innovation activity is coordinated by the Scientific and Technical Council.
THE UPEC MISSION
To develop machine building industry as the foundation of economic development of the Company, the region and the country.
To preserve and multiply the best engineering traditions, and at the same time to integrate into the global technological space.
To create innovative products which make us and our customers stronger and the world around us more perfect.
To create a new generation of globally competitive high-tech products, which will provide sustainable development of the Company and prosperity growth of its personnel.
"Our values are | 120 |
(1) "Federal poverty level" means the most recent poverty income guidelines published in the calendar year by the United States department of health and human services.
(2) "Program" means the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program established by this section.
(<|fim_middle|> Jan. 1, 2013. | 3) "Qualified individual or family" means an individual or family who resides within the state of Kansas and whose household income is positive and not more than 200% of the federal poverty level for the tax year prior to the year in which the application is submitted.
(4) "Participant" means a qualified individual or family who has been approved for a matching grant under the program.
(5) "District" means a congressional district of the state of Kansas.
(6) "Application" means an application for a matching grant under the program.
(7) "Third-party contributor" means any individual or organization who contributes money to a family postsecondary savings account established pursuant to K.S.A. 75-640 et seq., and amendments thereto, other than the account owner who established such family postsecondary savings account for the benefit of the participant.
(8) Words and phrases have the meanings provided by K.S.A. 75-643, and amendments thereto, unless otherwise provided by this section.
(b) There is hereby established the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program. The purpose of the program is to encourage the establishment of family postsecondary savings accounts pursuant to K.S.A. 75-640, and amendments thereto, by qualified individuals and families.
(5) adopt any rules and regulations and policies deemed necessary for implementation and administration of the program.
(d) Applications shall be submitted to the treasurer in the manner and form required by the treasurer. Applications shall be accompanied by any information deemed necessary by the treasurer. Applications must be submitted each year using the applicant's household income from the previous tax year.
(e) Beginning in calendar year 2009, the treasurer may approve no more than 300 applications from a single district. If 300 applications from residents of a district are not approved in calendar year 2009 or any year thereafter, the treasurer may approve additional applications submitted by residents of the remaining districts up to the program total of 1,200 applications per year. Applications shall be approved on a first come, first served basis. The treasurer shall provide written notice, to an applicant, of the approval or nonapproval of such person's application.
(f) The amount of contributions made to an account by an account owner who establishes a family postsecondary savings account for the benefit of a participant pursuant to K.S.A. 75-640 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall be matched by the state on a dollar-for-dollar basis if the account owner contributes at least $100 to a family postsecondary education savings account for the benefit of the participant during the calendar year for which the application has been approved. The aggregate of all matching amounts for any family postsecondary savings account shall not exceed $600 in any calendar year. All contributions by a third-party contributor shall be deposited in the matching grant account for the participant established by the treasurer or another similar account for which the withdrawals are restricted as required by subsection (h).
(g) Between January 1 and January 31 of each state fiscal year, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer from the state general fund to the Kansas postsecondary education savings program trust fund the amount, as certified by the treasurer, necessary to meet the matching obligations under subsection (f) for the preceding calendar year, except that the amount transferred from the state general fund to the Kansas postsecondary education savings program trust fund shall not exceed the maximum amount specified by appropriation act for such purpose for that state fiscal year. On or before January 31 of each year, the treasurer shall transfer from the Kansas postsecondary education savings program trust fund to the account of each participant the amount determined by the treasurer to meet the matching obligation due to such participant under subsection (f) for the preceding calendar year.
(h) The treasurer shall ensure that all withdrawals of matching funds are used for qualified withdrawals under K.S.A. 75-640 et seq., and amendments thereto.
(i) The treasurer shall prepare and submit to the governor and the legislature a report on the program on or before January 31 of each year. Such report shall include the number of accounts opened under the program, the amount of moneys contributed to such accounts by the participants, the amount of matching moneys transferred by the treasurer pursuant to subsection (g), the average income of the participants, an analysis of the success of the program in meeting the purpose of the program and any other information deemed appropriate by the treasurer.
(j) The provisions of this section shall be part of and supplemental to the Kansas postsecondary education savings program.
History: L. 2006, ch. 189, § 3; L. 2009, ch. 113, § 1; L. 2012, ch. 118, § 1; | 1,041 |
from wordfreq_builder.tokenizers<|fim_middle|> text = "Il est le meilleur livre que je ai jamais lu"
result = cld2_detect_language(text)
eq_(result, 'fr')
def test_language_recognizer_2():
text = """A nuvem de Oort, também chamada de nuvem de Öpik-Oort,
é uma nuvem esférica de planetesimais voláteis que se acredita
localizar-se a cerca de 50 000 UA, ou quase um ano-luz, do Sol."""
result = cld2_detect_language(text)
eq_(result, 'pt')
| import cld2_surface_tokenizer, cld2_detect_language
from nose.tools import eq_
def test_tokenizer_1():
text = '"This is a test," she said, "and I\'ll bet y\'all $3.50 that it won\'t fail."'
tokens = [
'this', 'is', 'a', 'test', 'she', 'said',
'and', "i'll", 'bet', "y", "all", '3.50', 'that',
'it', "won't", 'fail',
]
result = cld2_surface_tokenizer(text)
eq_(result[1], tokens)
eq_(result[0], 'en')
def test_tokenizer_2():
text = "i use punctuation informally...see?like this."
tokens = [
'i', 'use', 'punctuation', 'informally', 'see',
'like', 'this'
]
result = cld2_surface_tokenizer(text)
eq_(result[1], tokens)
eq_(result[0], 'en')
def test_tokenizer_3():
text = "@ExampleHandle This parser removes twitter handles!"
tokens = ['this', 'parser', 'removes', 'twitter', 'handles']
result = cld2_surface_tokenizer(text)
eq_(result[1], tokens)
eq_(result[0], 'en')
def test_tokenizer_4():
text = "This is a really boring example tco http://t.co/n15ASlkase"
tokens = ['this', 'is', 'a', 'really', 'boring', 'example', 'tco']
result = cld2_surface_tokenizer(text)
eq_(result[1], tokens)
eq_(result[0], 'en')
def test_language_recognizer_1():
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U.S. Catholic Sectors
Small grant from nonprofit funds Eagle Scout project, school and community project, and a teacher honor all in one
A Catholic Climate Covenant small grant awarded to Notre Dame High School in Elmira, New York was used the funds to purchase a greenhouse and a compost bin.
As part of his Eagle Scout project, one of the students organized a community effort to build the greenhouse. The school has<|fim_middle|> a vegetable garden. In the upcoming school year, they also plan to partner with the cafeteria to compost kitchen waste.
This Laudato Si' awareness and engagement campaign for U.S. Catholics is brought to you by Catholic Climate Covenant and its partners.
Copyright © We're all part of God's plan(et) | Website: CEDC | been using the greenhouse to grow plants for their campus Monarch Habitat. They dedicated the greenhouse to a former teacher and administrator who has been very devoted to Catholic education, particularly in life sciences.
The school will continue to use the greenhouse to support their Living Environment, Advanced Biology, and Environmental Science classes. Their next step is to expand the monarch garden, and hopefully start planning | 74 |
You've created or inherited an MS Access database that used to meet your team's needs<|fim_middle|> data corruption also increases with the database size.
MS Access fills the need for simple and effective information tracking and sharing within a team. As a database matures, it is common for teams' to face one of the situations above. Is your database facing one or many of the issues above? If so, it maybe time to seriously evaluate the current situation and create a plan to move to an enterprise level solution. | . Now you are facing new requirements or the database is not working as well as it once did, and are pondering whether it's a good time to move to a better solution.
Businesses need up-to-date data to make good decisions. In order to deal with the increasing amount of data, companies rely on various database applications. With data accumulating across various applications, desktops, websites and file servers, workers have turned to simple, do it yourself applications. MS Access is one of these applications.
MS Access enables workers to quickly build effective applications without requiring the skills of a professional developer. It fills the need for simple and effective information tracking and sharing within a team. The database can be quickly modified, customized to the team's process, and reports can be created with ease — all without involving IT.
A common scenario begins with the need for a small application to meet a business need. MS Access is able to effectively meet the immediate need, but because the application solves critical business needs, more and more people start using it, and making requests until it is a heavily relied on within the entire company. As these requirements increase, the application's stability and performance start to decline. This example illustrates a challenge organizations can face when the usage of an application has outgrown its original intent.
There are different ways your MS Access can outgrow its original design.
Is your database being accessed by more than 10 users? How many access the database at the same time? Are they all running reports or queries? A professionally designed and well-tuned Access database can theoretically support up to 20 concurrent users with decent performance. Unfortunately, few Access databases are well-designed and implemented with best practices. The result is that many solutions don't reliably support more than a few users. Even with proper design, MS Access has many technical limitations that prevent scaling.
Have your requirements on how to access the data changed? Do you now need to access the data from a mobile device? MS Access databases are not accessible from the Web. If that's a new requirement you may need a new solution.
How important is the data you are accessing? Do you need to be available all the time without errors? Do you need a quick way to restore after a crash? What about back ups? Data stored in Access database can easily become corrupted. Furthermore, backups must usually be done manually and can only be reliably performed when no users are connected, which can be difficult in a multiuser environment.
All users have read and write access in MS Access. Do you need tighter controls on what each user is allowed to do? It's possible to create the illusion of security in Access with some custom forms, but Access is not intended to support user roles and is unsecure at its core.
Access uses a file share-based database engine. Unlike client/server solutions such as Microsoft SQL Server, file share databases are not optimized for large datasets. Access slows to a crawl when a database gets too large. The risk of | 604 |
<|fim_middle|> writer, philosopher, Freemason and prominent theosophist of his day. This particular piece is a lecture he gave in 1905, and he discusses consciousness, the inseparable duality of love and beauty, Plato's world of ideas, the divine mind and other related topics. | Showing results by author "C Jinarajadasa"
C. Jinarajadasa was a writer, philosopher, and prominent Theosophist of his day and a Freemason. In this particular piece, originally from 1908, the author examines the life of Gautama and the religious reformation in Hinduism, which he championed at the time. The author lays out the four efforts, the ten meritorious acts, and the five meditations. He quotes from Plato and others, discusses Theosophy and somehow connects it all to the state of Nirvana, which he discusses at some length.
Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa was a writer, philosopher, Freemason, and prominent Theosophist of his day. In this particular piece, a lecture given in 1911 for the 36th annual convention of the Theosophical Society, the author speaks on reincarnation, consciousness, and the soul.
C. Jinarajadasa was a writer, philosopher, prominent Theosophist of his day, as well as a Freemason. In this particular piece (originally published in 1915), the author takes a scholarly examination and ritual dissection of the Catholic Mass. Among the many topics that he discusses are: the creed, the altar, the vestments, the collect and epistle, commemoration of the dead, Prajapati, and more.
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Dea will rejoin the Penguins after the club snatched him off the waiver wire Thursday, Jonathan Bombulie of TribLive.com reports.
Since the Penguins were originally trying to move him to the minors, the team will be able to immediately ship Dea to AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. In 20 games with the Devils, the center notched five points, six PIM and 19 hits. While Derek Grant should continue to fill the fourth-line center role, the Pens are high on Dea and could give him a look sooner rather than later with Matt Cullen (lower body) sidelined.
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Brandon Pirri has been placed on waivers by Chicago.
Pirri had two shots and a minus-2 rating in 11:29 of ice time during Chicago's season opener, but he has been a healthy scratch for the past three games.
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Shayne Gostisbehere skated on his own Wednesday and could be ready to return to the team when they come back from their road trip.
Gostisbehere has not played yet this season after being put in COVID protocol, but it sounds like he could be available relatively soon. He posted five goals and 12 points in 42 games last season.
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Mark Friedman will suit up in Thursday's game against Boston.
Friedman will make his season debut after Philippe Myers was injured on Tuesday night. He picked up one assist in six appearances with Philadelphia last season.
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Connor Bunnaman will be in the lineup on Thursday night against Boston.
Bunnaman will make his season debut as Philadelphia's fourth-line center. He will skate between Michael Raffl and Nicolas Aube-Kubel. He is getting a chance to play because of injuries to Sean Couturier and Morgan Frost.
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Philippe Myers is considered week-to-week because of a fractured rib.
Myers was injured in Tuesday's match against Buffalo. He logged over 20 minutes in Philadelphia's first two games of the season. Myers hasn't earned a point through four contests this year, but he has been credited with five shots, 10 hits and two blocks.
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Morgan Frost is out indefinitely with a dislocated left shoulder.
Philadelphia has placed him on injured reserve. The team intends to provide more details on Frost's timeline for a return soon. He was injured in Tuesday's game against Buffalo. Frost has played in two games with the Flyers this season and was serving as a replacement in the lineup for the injured Sean Couturier.
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Travis Hamonic was hurt during Wednesday's contest.
Hamonic left the game in the third period after being smashed along the boards. There was no update on Hamonic's status following the contest.
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Alexander Edler was hurt during Wednesday's game against Montreal.
Edler exited the contest early in the second period and didn't return. It's not clear what caused Edler's injury, but the Canucks labeled it as upper-body. We'll have to wait for more information.
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Vince Dunn recorded an assist in a 2-1 shootout loss to San Jose Wednesday night.
It was Dunn's first point in four games in 2020-21. He scored nine goals and 23 points in 71 contests last season.
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Penguins GM Jim Rutherford isn't too worried about Tristan Jarry's slow start.
Jarry has a 7.57 GAA and .727 save percentage in two games this season. "I think it's too early to make an assessment," Rutherford said. "It's not the way anybody wants to start your new role as the Number 1 goalie. You prefer to start it in a different way. But I'm not concerned with what I've seen." It is definitely too early to draw any conclusions. Jarry's got a tough road ahead of him just given the nature of the division the Penguins are playing in, but it wouldn't be surprising to see him bounce back and be at least okay by starter standards.
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Colin White skated alongside Cedric Paquette and Austin Watson during Wednesday's practice.
White was a healthy scratch for two of the Senators' first three games, but he might draw into the lineup on Thursday. It's worth noting that he registered an assist in the one game he did play this season.
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<|fim_middle|> in desalination and management of water and power-generation he said. | Kuwait University's faculty of engineering has launched the Gulf state's largest ever water desalination and management project.
The project will be implemented jointly by the Kuwait University and the Kuwait Centre for Natural Resources and the Environment (CNRE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA.
Announcing the project, faculty of engineering's Professor Bader Shafaqa who heads up the project said the budget for the five-year project is about US$ 5.5 million. It will be financed by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, he added.
He went on to say the water desalination project mainly aims to study the dynamic and environmental sustainability of water management in Kuwait through developing new ideas.
A large quantity of effluent water from desalination plants in Kuwait with high salinity and containing chlorine and chromium flows into the Gulf. Shafaqa said the project focuses on some key topics like using electrical techniques | 187 |
Although I was fresh off the plane with bags checked in on my first day I was fortunate to get a ride from the hotel owner for my first official trip to Oistins Fish Fry. Similar to what I've seen at the Fish Fry in Nassau, Bahamas this is a place I recommend everyone visit, especially when you're looking for a bang for your travel buck. Also don't forget its about 2 Barbados dollars (BBD) for every 1 US Dollar, so with proper budgeting spending cash will not hurt at all. The area is lined up with all types of vendors from the obvious seafood options, ice cream, etc. You can't go wrong with checking out Mo's Seafood for the win :).
Also if you happen to be in a cooking mood, there's a neighboring fish market where you can purchase some fresh fish for your next meal!
During my first day in Barbados I pretty much relaxed at MoonRaker Hotel, but fortunately I was able to linkup with Ms. Cheryl Collymore. Cheryl is an expat from the U.K. who decided to exercise her Bajan citizenship and move to the island of her family's origins. With a background in engineering working for numerous big name companies in Europe she's put her expertise to good work for Caribbean businesses including distilleries. This is key as Cheryl is the founder of the Beer and Rum festival in St. Maarten.
The Caribbean Rum & Beer Festival takes place Nov. 4th – 5th in St Maarten. Click the picture for more details from the site!
During our talk we of course had a bit of rum including El Dorado, Doorlys 12 year, and Cockspur Rum from the Tiki Bar in Accra Beach. Out of the 3 the Doorly's 12 Year Rum was definitely my favorite and we intend on doing a rum review of it soon!. After a great and inspiring<|fim_middle|>acat on your way to silver sands!! It won't disappoint!!
Fried Seacat late at night!
RumRunners vs Barbados: We're Here! | talk she was kind enough to drop me home but not before introducing me to something called fried "seacat". Now I was a little thrown off by the name but as it turns out "seacat" is really just another word for octopus and it tastes great!!. There was a late night stand serving it fresh with some hot spicy sauce and its texture was a little chewy but actually tougher then a fried calamari or conch. I loved it! If you do go to Barbados ask someone where you can get the se | 109 |
A team of University of Notre Dame MBA students won first place and a cash prize of $5,000 in the 22nd Annual International Case Competition (ICC). Christopher Kunnen ('18), Austin Gilbertson ('19) and Zachary Kozak ('18) bested 10 schools from top universities across the U.S. in the competition hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business.
The contest, held Nov. 10-11 in Pittsburgh, is intended to provide participants with experience in synthesizing information under time pressure, organizing and prioritizing issues, applying decision-making skills, working in teams, and developing innovative solutions. ICC also connects leading operations talent with multinational sponsor companies for networking and recruiting opportunities, according to Tepper's Operations Management Club, which organized the<|fim_middle|> second place, while Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business took third.
Corporate sponsors included Eaton, Amazon and Emerson. Eaton, a global power management corporation, served as lead sponsor and developed the case for the teams. The case focused on operations strategy, supply chains and sustainability, and represented a significant opportunity for students to solve a current operational business challenge. | event.
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ISM is pleased to announce it<|fim_middle|> place for a few disabled parking spaces. | will be holding its first General Assembly Meeting on Monday September, 2nd from 7:00pm-8:00pm in Room 1201 of the Music Building. This meeting will cover all of the information that you need to know to audition and on the ways you can be involved with ISM this semester.
This is an excellent opportunity to meet the The Board of Directors for ISM as well as the Director and Production Staff for The Wedding Singer. We highly encourage you to attend the meeting, however if this is impossible due to the holiday, we understand. ISM will send out a summary email of the meeting. Your absence will not count against you in your auditions. In addition auditions, we are still looking to fill several positions on our production staff and we are looking for stage crew members as well as orchestra members. All questions can be answered at the meeting on Monday, September 2, at 7:00pm or you can contact us at Board@IlliniStudentMusicals.org. We hope to see you there!
By Matt Bleck in Uncategorized on August 29, 2013 .
My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing "Little Shop of Horrors" last year. Unfortunately, because of the parking situation, I don't know if we will be able to attend anymore. He is disabled and has a hard time walking. Is there a way of coming up with a couple of disabled parking spaces next to the building or do you have any suggestions of where to park? We met another lady on the way out, that was in the same situation.
Thank you for continuing to support Illini Student Musicals. It means a lot to us that you enjoyed the show. The Board of Directors of Illini Student Musicals has been discussing this situation and are currently working on a solution. We feel terrible that this situation occurred and will do our best to correct it. SOme Ideas we had considered were consulting with the Champaign/Campus Police Department and reserving some spaces directly outside of the building to make access to the theatre more accessible.
We will continue to work on this and reach out to all of our patrons. I urge you to contact me directly to discuss it further or share any ideas that you may have as it is impossible for me to email you directly.
I look forward to hearing from you to correct this situation. Thank You for bringing it to my attention.
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