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1 dead after drug overdoses at Wash. concert venue
SEATTLE (AP) - July 2, 2013
More than 25,000 people attended the sold-out, two-day Paradiso Festival, which featured dozens of electronic music performances Friday and Saturday.
Patrick D. Witkowski, 21, of the Seattle suburb of Des Moines, died Sunday at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee. He was identified late Monday by Chelan County Coroner Wayne Harris.
An autopsy found no physical injuries or pre-existing medical conditions that would have caused the death, Harris said.
Toxicology tests of blood and urine, with results expected in about eight weeks, should pinpoint a cause of death, he said.
Witkowski was one of seven people from the music festival who were taken to the hospital. Three remained in serious condition, said Kathy Hamilton, director of community relations.
Quincy Valley Medical Center, the closest hospital to the amphitheater, treated about 70 other concert-goers in its emergency room from Thursday through Sunday, spokeswoman Michele Wurl said, with at least 40 of the cases related to drugs and alcohol.
The small, rural hospital has no intensive care unit and serious cases were transferred.
"We deal with the Gorge all summer long," Wurl said. "What we're seeing this year is much higher acuity - more severe - in the drug use.
"They don't even know what they're taking," Wurl said. "They take a hit and 30 to 45 minutes later they take a second. So they get them maxing out one after another. ... We're not talking about too much drinking or smoking a little marijuana."
Some concertgoers were referring to a substance they called Molly.
Deputies handled 62 calls for service at the Paradiso Festival and arrested 23 people for various charges, including possession or delivery of controlled substances, trespassing, obstructing a public servant, assault and disorderly conduct, the Grant County sheriff's office said in a statement. The concert promoter contracts with the sheriff's office to supplement security.
The number of arrests is not unusual for a concert at the Gorge, said Undersheriff Dave Ponozzo. Some people seen by medical personnel were using Molly or MDMA, he said. MDMA is also known as ecstasy.
The sheriff's office said a 20-year-old Seattle man had been found disoriented but OK on Monday after wandering lost for hours. Sgt. Mike Crowder said the young<|fim_middle|>I found them to be very social people, many of who went out of their way to thank us for being there."
Most of the audience stays at a campground on the site overlooking the Columbia River about 120 miles east of Seattle.
Concerts at the Gorge put pressure on the Quincy Valley Medical Center emergency room, which typically sees about nine people a day. The Paradiso Festival was the third concert this year at the Gorge.
In a statement emailed Monday, festival co-producers Live Nation and USC Events said they were "committed to bringing people together to experience music in a safe environment."
"We wish to express our deep concern about reports regarding a 21-year-old man who died at Central Washington Hospital over the weekend," the statement added. "We extend our sympathy to his family." | man said he took Molly on Sunday and had a bad reaction.
"Most in attendance were very respectful people to us and to one another," Ponozzo said in an email. " | 37 |
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Some of the top selling wild edible guides include species that the authors have not eaten themselves. This practice seems dishonest and dangerous to me. Rest assured that all of the plants, trees, and mushrooms that I claim are edible are ones I have eaten myself. If I discuss a species I have not eaten, I will be transparent about this.
I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to be diligent in your plant identification and preparation. If you were an alien visiting a modern day grocery store and you didn't know what anything was, you wouldn't want to just pick a random item off the shelf and start eating it. First, you would want to learn the difference between food and non-food products, such as packaging around the food, cleaning products, soaps, detergents, notebooks, paper towels and toilet paper. Then, you might want to learn more about the food itself– can it be eaten raw or does it need to be cooked? Which parts of the food items are edible? How much can you eat without getting sick, etc.? As modern humans, we may not realize how much knowledge we have about the food in the grocery store because we've been learning about it our whole lives. We understand that it's dangerous to eat raw chicken, that milk turns if left in warm air for a long time, that potato sprouts shouldn't be consumed, that you shouldn't eat a whole shaker of cinnamon, and that rotten mushrooms are probably best left alone. If you didn't know these things, it would be fairly easy for you to get sick or even dangerously ill.
A majority of modern humans have an alien's level of knowledge about the edibility of our natural areas. This is not to say that amateur foragers should be afraid; rather, they should be diligent about learning and careful about what they put in their mouths. Foraging can be a very safe activity if one puts in the time to learn. I have been foraging my whole life, constantly challenging myself and pushing my boundaries, but always doing so with a safety-first mentality. I have eaten well over 150 wild plants and mushrooms and I have never gotten sick. Well-respected wild food authors like Arthur Haines and Samuel Thayer have pushed back against our society's prevailing notion that wild food is somehow more dangerous than cultivated food. I agree with them that it is not more dangerous, with the caveat that you know what you are doing when you forage. Ignorance kills. But, with patience, humility, and a desire to always find the truth, you will thrive.
When I lead foraging walks, I make it a point to describe the horrific ways you can die by eating the wrong plant or mushroom, so that folks develop a healthy appreciation for meticulous research. For example, eating a few bites of water hemlock can kill you in less than an hour, and the process is so horrific for some people that they end up biting their own tongue to shreds. Eating certain amanita fungi can also kill you, but over a much longer period of 5-7 days. Some deadly mushrooms reportedly taste fantastic and victims feel fine until several hours later when they begin vomiting and experience headaches and sometimes hallucinations. Days later, the victims will sometimes appear to make a full recovery, when in fact their kidneys are failing. Then, they eventually die of kidney failure.
To excel at safety, you should spend as much time studying poisonous plants as you do edible ones, so that you know exactly what they look like and where you'll likely encounter them. I recommend purchasing The North American Guide to Common Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms (2009) by Turner & von Aderkas. Although the authors are based in western Canada, they do a decent job of covering the poisonous plants and mushrooms that you'll likely encounter in the northeast. But, don't stop there. Read as many books as you can, and go on as many foraging walks as you can to learn from experienced practitioners. You'll quickly realize that there is a lot of misinformation out there, so I would never rely on one source, no matter how reputable it seems. Many authors overestimate the harm of poisonous plants and mushrooms, and many authors underestimate the harm. It takes time and patience to tease out the truth, but it is worth the time to ensure your safety and to thrive in your foraging journey.
One of the biggest disservices of most plant books is that they don't explain how the concepts of edible and poisonous are not dichotomous most of the time. In fact, many edible plants have poisonous parts or are poisonous if they are not prepared the right way. Moreover, there are varying degrees of edibility including very palatable, somewhat palatable but not harmful, and slightly toxic. I like to think of these complex relationships with two helpful visuals. One is a spectrum where very edible and very poisonous are on opposite ends and every plant in the plant kingdom is somewhere in-between.
I'll give you an example for each of these scenarios. If you store a wild grain improperly, it may develop ergot, a potentially fatal fungus. Some people are allergic to staghorn sumac and will experience a severe reaction if they eat it, whereas others are fine. Acorns have an abundance of toxic tannins unless you leach them. Plants found close to roads may absorb pollutants from motor vehicles, plants growing under power lines can have high concentrations of lead, and plants found around manicured lawns may be sprayed with toxic herbicides. Perfectly edible plants like sheep sorrel or curled dock that are consumed in high quantities may overwhelm your body with calcium oxalate crystals and could cause kidney stones. Wild cherries are edible, but the seeds, bark and leaves are not. May apples are edible only when fully ripe and yellowish brown. Burdock roots are an excellent vegetable in the early spring, but if the plant flowers over the summer, the root will literally be comprised of inedible wood by fall.
Check in multiple books (never trust one guide—including this one). I recommend cross referencing with at least five sources. Pictures can look very different in different books, and sometimes authors publish completely inaccurate information. It's more frequent than you would think. I've found shocking mistakes in almost all of the edible plant books I own. I will invariably make mistakes myself.
If you want to be extra safe, then I recommend going through the following steps when you eat a new plant or mushroom, but only after you are 100% sure of its identification. At each step, pay attention to how you feel and whether or not you notice any changes in your body. If you do notice a change, then it would be safe to avoid the plant for now until you can consult an expert or carry out more research.
There are a number of issues to be aware of when harvesting in order to be a good steward of the environment. They all revolve around the idea of being respectful of the ecosystem. Some edible plants are endangered or threatened and shouldn't be picked in many locations in the northeast, such as purple trillium. Others can be picked, but only in small quantities, or should be picked in a certain way. For example, if you pick a native species that is not abundant, then help spread some of its seeds within the area or pull out some invasive species that are blocking its access to sunlight. You might also just harvest the above-ground portion of the plant, leaving the roots intact to produce again. With some species I only harvest the leaves after the plant has flowered and produced a fruit, so that the plant has the full support of its leaves to power the flowering process. Fiddleheads and leeks, which are often subject to a "clear-cutting" approach from foragers, should only be selectively harvested so that a majority of the patch remains intact. When dealing with native species, never pick more than a third of the population in an area at a maximum. If the population seems small, then I will pick no more than 5% or 10%. If the population is only a few plants, then it's best to not disturb them at all.
You should also be conscious of what you transfer when you move plant material over long distances. Many natural areas are inundated with invasive species and invasive species are becoming an increasingly problematic issue. Some invasives like garlic mustard in terrestrial habitats and milfoil in aquatic habitats crowd out native species and ultimately lower biodiversity. Honeysuckle and glossy buckthorn are others that are particularly troubling. In some cases, especially aquatic, invasives can prevent access to important recreational areas and lower property values. Make sure you brush off your clothing and shoes when you leave a natural area. Also, make sure any material your bring with you gets fully eaten or otherwise destroyed in such a way that it cannot re-grow. With leaves and stalks, this isn't as important if it is a species native to the area it is traveling to. But, if it is an invasive, be extra careful to not transport seeds or destroy them. Don't just compost them or else they may end up growing in the compost.
Extra care should be taken when dealing with trees. Several fungi, insects, and diseases have been advancing on trees in the northeast. The historical elms and chestnut trees can attest to this issue. Now, the eastern hemlock, ash, and butternut trees all have powerful foes. This is why most states and campgrounds have banned the use of firewood from out of town. This is also why I make sure to compost the scraps from butternut shells far away from any butternut trees in the area, in case the butternut tree I harvested from was infected.
Treading lightly has its inherent benefits too. Not only are you preserving a future stock of food for yourself and others, but you will have a greater chance of seeing wildlife. When I was a kid I hardly saw deer in the woods. I usually only saw them on the road, crossing at night. As I learned to travel more slowly and carefully through the woods, I began to see deer all the time. When I'm walking with friends, I often tell them to lower their voices and pause once in a while to see what's around them. When we do this I'll often see deer while they won't even though we are standing beside each other. It takes a concerted effort to see things in the woods. Just looking for things isn't enough. Sometimes you have to stop completely, take in your surroundings, be patient, and wait until the thing you're looking for appears. The same logic applies whether you are looking for a deer lying directly in front of you or a black trumpet mushroom that looks exactly like a crinkled leaf.
It took me several years to learn some common sense methods to effectively harvest plants and mushrooms. My general motto is to keep yourself safe, keep your harvest safe, and avoid unnecessary frustrations.
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As a technology start-up headquartered in Asheville, Local Flavor AVL is an example of what economic development organizations are striving to achieve. Paul Szurek, CFO of Biltmore Farms, Chairman of the Asheville Buncombe County Economic Development Coalition's Board and a judge at the 2013 Asheville Startup Weekend, sees a bright future for Local Flavor AVL in both growth and job creation.
"Local Flavor AVL's success is great for our entrepreneurial economy, and can potentially help us attract more of such companies," said Szurek. "This app will further intensify the infatuation people have with Asheville that keeps them coming back again and again."
More information about Local Flavor AVL is available online at LocalFlavorAVL.com. To follow Local Flavor AVL on Facebook, go to facebook.com/LocalFlavorAVL/info. For the latest on local happenings and events, follow them on Twitter at @LocalFlavorAVL.
About Local Flavor AVL
The Local Favor AVL team, Asheville locals Ted Pate, Trevor Parker and Flori Pate, created an app that they themselves would use and recommend to their friends and families visiting Asheville. After a tireless 54-hour session at the Asheville Startup Weekend, the idea for the first-of-its-kind mobile app was born, and took first place honors. The app showcases the businesses, restaurants, events, non-profits, artists, musicians and more that deliver an authentic Asheville experience to visitors, newcomers and locals alike. More information is available at LocalFlavorAVL.com.
About Moogfest
Since 2004, Moogfest has been a gathering for the musicians that worked closely with Bob and his instruments. In 2014, Moogfest is amplifying its vision and becoming a 5-day event dedicated to the synthesis of technology, art and music. Moogfest honors the inventiveness of Bob Moog and the legacy of the analog synth with an experimental line up of daytime conference programming and landmark nightly performances. Moogfest takes place April 23-27, 2014 in downtown Asheville, N.C.
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Grand Seiko, the renowned luxury Japanese timepiece manufacturer, has partnered with Amsterdam interdisciplinary design studio BCXSY to create an installation for Design Miami/ which celebrates the brand's strong bond to nature. Titled The Journey of Birch, the installation is an imaginative, enchanting environment influenced by Grand Seiko's new award-winning "White Birch" timepiece which binds beauty, nature, and time together. The dial of the "White Birch" is inspired by the slender and strikingly beautiful white birch trees that thrive in the northern parts of Japan and which<|fim_middle|> the Japanese spirituality of time brought to life with the pride and spirit of Takumi (craftsmanship), into a fully immersive space where visitors can experience a multisensory journey of time.
Entering The Journey of Birch, visitors find themselves in a space that is an abstract interpretation of a birch tree forest; with indigo-colored panoramic murals, weaved with metallic substrate that shimmers when light hits its surface, creating a dreamlike atmosphere that feels both familiar yet surreal. The room is anchored by the centerpiece display, a three-ring clock that spans the height of the installation. Each ring has its own distinctly finished metal-rod, reminiscent of watch hands, that travels at its own interval, hours, minutes, and seconds. With the passing of time, each rod draws a circle in the sand that serves as the clock's base. Flanking the space are crate benches, fashioned to provide seating. The materials used for the benches and crates are a reference to travel, symbolizing the journey of the white birch from Japan to Miami, and the time in which it takes to make it. The benches are also equipped with headphones, which capture the sound of the clock hands moving in the sand. The final experience is one that engages the senses – sight, touch, and sound – and invites visitors to contemplate nature and their relationship with time.
SLGH005 "White Birch"
Inspired by the beauty of white birch forests, SLGH005, recently named the best men's watch of 2021 by the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève, captures the dynamism of the white birch tree forests near the studio in Shizukuishi, where all Grand Seiko mechanical watches are crafted. To look closely at the dial is to experience the exact same feeling that the visitor to these forests receives and to be brought closer than ever to the true and eternal nature of time. Its powerful hands and grooved, prominent markers ensure perfect legibility, its Zaratsu polished, distortion-free mirror finish, and delicate hairline finish alternate give the case a quiet and harmonious glow. The case has wide lugs and a low center of gravity that ensures that the watch sits easily and securely on the wrist. The high-beat watch is powered by the revolutionary Caliber 9SA5, which offers a power reserve of 80 hours thanks to its enhanced energy efficiency.
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Organized by Grand Seiko
Direction and Design by BCXSY
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Special Acknowledgement:
ABOUT GRAND SEIKO
Ever since its first creation sixty years ago, Grand Seiko has enchanted watch connoisseurs with timepieces that offer extremely high precision, supreme legibility and a uniquely Japanese aesthetic. Grand Seiko has revolutionized watchmaking with many innovations—including the Spring Drive movement, which offers a seamless seconds-hand motion and accuracy unlike any other mechanical watch and continues to do so today. Every Grand Seiko watch reflects the Japanese spirituality of time inspired by nature. Whether elegant, traditional, or sport, expect a new understanding of "The Nature of Time" from Grand Seiko. grand-seiko.com
ABOUT BCXSY
BCXSY is an Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary cooperative between designers Boaz Cohen (Israel, 1978) and Sayaka Yamamoto (Japan, 1984). Established in early 2007, BCXSY continues to carry out a wide range of projects, both in The Netherlands and abroad. Offering a balanced combination of two unique talents, the studio delivers one distinct narrative that is characterized by an emphasis on personal experience, human interaction, and emotional awareness. The artful intertwining of the specific and boutique with the universal and commercial is the hallmark of the BCXSY design experience. www.bcxsy.com
Grand Seiko Shinshu Watch Studio Virtual Tour
Join us for a virtual walkthrough of Grand Seiko's Shinshu Watch Studio with Mr. Masayuki Hirota of Chronos Japan. | grow in profusion near the Grand Seiko Studio Shizukuishi, where this timepiece is made. With its intricate textures, fine detail, and delicate subtlety, The Journey of Birch is a window that opens onto the distinctive natural environment of Japan and the exquisite craftsmanship of Grand Seiko.
For many of its timepieces, Grand Seiko finds inspiration in the ecosystems that surround its watchmaking studios. For The Journey of Birch, it was imperative to incorporate both elements of the natural world and the brand's Nature of Time philosophy, which celebrates | 111 |
Aw<|fim_middle|>'s Day gift!! | , thanks, Ashley! It's because you have such an awesome family yourself (and you're such an amaaaaazing babysitter, ha!)… Glad you enjoyed.
4, 7, 11, 16!!! 18 through 27 I have yet to experience. Got me misty eyed..great list!!!
#7 and #12. Most of all #1. Thank you for these happy tears today!
#21 for sure. "And really, knowing yourself and knowing your child, it could go either way. " Yep – that's how report card day is every quarter in our house….
What a wonderful collection of the everyday moments mothers have with children. Such a blessing. Happy Mother's Day!
Oh, I feel the same way!
Beautifully written. I can relate to so many of these with my boys. Times to treasure and laugh about. Thank you for sharing your heart.
With all my kids grown and off on their own, I can totally relate to every single one of these! They brought back sweet memories. Thank you for that wonderful Mother | 224 |
Abstract: The Milky Way is the most observationally accessible galaxy in our Universe. In many ways it is also a "typical galaxy," making it an important benchmark for studying galaxy formation. For this reason, uncover<|fim_middle|>otropic - and I will highlight the potential Gaia holds for testing this prediction in the Milky Way. | ing the formation history of the Milky Way is the key goal of major ongoing surveys such as APOGEE and Gaia. However, observations of the Milky Way span a complex multi-dimensional space which necessitates sophisticated modeling to interpret. In this talk, I will highlight some recent achievements utilizing state-of-the-art simulations to aid in our exploration of the Milky Way's formation and evolution. In particular, I will discuss recent APOGEE observations of the Milky Way's disk and the role radial migration has played in redistributing stars within it. I will also discuss observations and simulations of kinematics in the Milky Way's stellar halo, emphasizing how measurements of kinematic moments hold power for constraining the merger history of the Milky Way. Finally, I will discuss a strong prediction of LCDM - that stellar halos are radially anis | 168 |
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The part of Hutchinson Island that's in St. Lucie County, Florida, runs south to<|fim_middle|> down for an Italian seafood dinner at two restaurants in Fort Pierce, on the island. Capone's Hideaway (caponeshideaway.com) is an Italian seafood grill. House specialties include fish prepared in cream, pesto or wine sauces as well as several pasta dishes. Goodfella's Pizza (goodfellaspizzaonline.com) offers New York-style gourmet pizza by the slice or the pie. It also has calzones, stromboli and sub sandwiches, as well as pasta entrees.
Seafood Specialty
Mangrove Matties (mangrovematties.com) in Fort Pierce specializes in fresh fish of the day, shrimp, Florida crab cakes, salmon and more. Appetizers include raw oysters, shrimp, a fish dip, clams and fried calamari. The restaurant is open for lunch, dinner and a Sunday champagne brunch. The Landing Restaurant (thelandingrestaurant.net) is an open-air restaurant at the Nettles Island Marina in Jensen Beach. House specialties include the seafood gumbo, Kokomo scallops and coconut shrimp. The restaurant also serves pasta dishes, steak, salads, sandwiches and small plates.
Surfing Lore
It's about the surf talk as well as the food at Bluewater Beach Grill (bluewaterbeachgrill.com) in Fort Pierce. The grill serves lunch and dinner, and the menu varies often. You can get fresh conch fritters, smoked fish spread and fresh oysters from the raw bar. There are salads, soups, burgers, tacos, hot dogs and sandwiches including crab cakes and po' boys. The platter entrees include meatloaf, steak, chicken, ribs and fish. The grill is known as a place where locals and surfers gather to talk about surfing lore.
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Places to Eat in New York» | Jensen Beach Park and north to Avalon State Beach on the island. The Atlantic coast island is known for its sandy beaches, water recreation and sunny skies. The island has a variety of restaurants where visitors can experience the culture and the local seafood.
Quick Eats
You can grab a quick bite to eat at a couple of places on the island in the town of Fort Pierce. Archie's Seabreeze (archiesseabreeze.com) has been open since 1947 and serves more than 25 choices of burgers, hot dogs and sandwiches. There is an equally lengthy menu of domestic and imported beers. Other house specialties include nachos and peel-and-eat shrimp. At Subway (subway.com) you can pick up a breakfast sandwich or foot-long all day. There are also soups, salads and sides.
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Claud Gardner was<|fim_middle|> case of arthritis and had to retire from the ranch.
Claud Gardner died in 1950. | born in San Angelo, Texas in 1894. His parents were Mabrey Gardner and Ellen Lowe Gardner. They had 10 children, 7 boys and 3 girls. The family came to the Willcox area in a covered wagon when Claud was just a small boy. Mabrey raised horses and raced them all over Texas and Arizona. He had some of the finest horses around. Therefore, it was natural for Claud to take an active interest in horses and cattle.
He began working on the ranches in the area when he was 16 years old. Claud was a ranch hand, along with Juan Leon, on the Sierra Bonita Ranch and the M.K. Ranch.
Gardner joined the Army during World War I and served in the Field Artillery from 1916 to 1918. Returning from the war he bought 16 sections of land and started a ranch, raising Hereford cattle and quarter horses. Claud was a good cattleman and an excellent roper, entering all rodeos.
Claud married Ruth Clark in Safford on March 23, 1926 and the happy couple moved to their ranch in Bonita. Ruth was the sister of Fay Clark Allen, mother of Rex Allen. Two children were born to them, Claudine and Elden.
Claud once sold a horse that he often wished he'd kept. The horse was named "Soap Suds" and Claud sold him to Will Rogers. Rogers said that "Soap Suds" was his favorite horse. There is a statue of him in the Will Rogers Museum.
A severe drought hit the area in 1932 and Gardner developed a painful | 347 |
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A new wing for the Corning Museum of Glass that features an 'energy smart' innovative design and takes glass to an entirely new level.
The Corning Museum of Glass North Wing Expansion provided additional space required to accommodate complex, large-scale installations of contemporary glass artwork, as well as the 440,000 annual visitors from around the world. The 100,000-square-foot Contemporary Art + Design Wing expansion, managed by the joint venture team Gilbane+Welliver, consisted of a new 26,0<|fim_middle|> mezzanine with 360-degree views of the glass making shows below.
The world's premier institution dedicated to glass created a variety of construction challenges due to the tight schedule, remote location, small footprint and complex design. A collaborative approach allowed Gilbane to deliver a high quality project within the tight three year timeframe and with no cost overrun. The slightest imperfection had potential to distract from the art, so every step was subject to scrutiny before precise execution occurred to ensure an unsurpassed level of quality.
Throughout the project's three-year duration, the museum remained fully operational. This was achieved through strict coordination, ongoing communication and leadership from the project team. Upon the ribbon cutting in March 2015, the new wing became the world's largest exhibition dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art in glass.
Corning Museum of Glass won the Construction Management New award at the AGC Alliant Build America Awards, held in San Antonio in March, 2016. | 00-square-foot gallery space and the retrofit of the adjacent Steuben Glass Factory Ventilator Building to house the Hot Shop Amphitheater, a venue for hot glass shows and live glass design sessions held by world-renowned artists. Additional museum spaces completed in the expansion included a new administration suite, conference room, mechanical room, public restrooms, and a large elevator, which was installed to simplify the process of moving larger pieces of artwork into the gallery.
Thomas Phifer and Partners' design vision culminated in a custom glass façade and skylight system with a mixture of transparent, semi-transparent, and opaque panels to welcome natural light and elevate the beauty of the museum's exhibits. At its core, the new wing is supported by a unique serpentine wall system that defines the five mail gallery spaces. The iconic structure of the existing 64 year-old Ventilator Building was maintained by stripping it down to the steel frame, reinforcing, and recladding it with custom black metal panels. The space now houses 500 amphitheater-style seats and a | 217 |
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Save the Children Nigeria Recruitment, Thursday 14, June 2018 – Save the Children is the world's driving autonomous association for kids. We work in 120 nations. We spare kids' lives; we battle for their rights; we enable them to satisfy their potential. We cooperate, with our accomplices, to move leaps forward in the way the world treats kids and to accomplish prompt and enduring change in their lives.
This role domiciled in the NJR4 and IHA Projects provides direct services to beneficiaries on the field in Project's Communities implementing nutrition interventions (Community Management of Malnutrition [CMAM] and Infant, MUAC screening and referral and Infant and Young Child Feeding [IYCF]) as agreed with the donor.
The Nutrition Field Volunteer will also work with the Local Partners (EYN Nutrition Officers and Field Assistants) in ensuring quality delivery of nutrition interventions in the Project locations.
Minimum of ND, NCE in Nutrition, Health, Public Health, Social Science or any related fields.
Familiarity with the local culture of typical communities.
Conduct quality nutrition (MUAC) screening for children under-5 in target Communities<|fim_middle|> practices of our organization.
I am so much interested in this job, if I can be given the opportunity, I will be glad and the organisation will not regret they do. | .
Carry out weekly follow up visits on nutrition beneficiaries.
Support OTP Services in target communities together with the health team.
Conduct as well as supervise to ensure quality IYCF counselling sessions provided during Support group meeting.
Conduct quality food demonstration sessions are in Project supported Communities.
Carry out IYCF sensitization at various vendors' outlet during food distribution as may be assigned.
Build capacity of Mother and father Leaders by providing on-the-job training IYCF-E.
Participate in nutrition assessment/surveys as approved by Donor.
Collect quality data collection of activities conducted in the Communities.
Promote increasing awareness of appropriate nutrition behaviours in project communities by ensuring behaviour change materials are visible in supported communities and health facilities.
The Programme Operations Coordinator (POC) will support the Emergency Response teams to ensure effective reporting, both internally and to donors, as well as supporting proposal development for response interventions.
This will include ensuring that monitoring meetings are held at least monthly to review both programmes spend and indicator and activity implementation.
The coordinator will work closely with the Deputy Team Leader, Thematic Programme Managers, and Awards Manager to ensure that the programmes are implementing and reporting in a timely and efficient manner.
The POC will provide support to field-based teams on report writing, and develop the capacity of staff for donor level writing.
Coordinate with the Deputy Team Leader to ensure timely situation reports, in addition to the provision of a bi-weekly update on programme activities.
Ensure that budget-monitoring reports for the programmes are responded to in time and with the correct information.
Support as needed on proposal development, working with the PDQ Director and Technical teams as needed.
Ensure appropriate risk assessments for new awards and opportunities are completed.
Work with the DTL to ensure actions agreed by the response team are effectively tracked and followed up.
Ensures effectiveness of how teams are sharing and storing documents so that documentation is compliant with donor requirements and internal guidance. Also, ensuring that teams are maintaining their individual team filing requirements.
Contributes to knowledge management by supporting the documentation of best practices and sharing across field offices.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed as received. Save the Children reserves the right to change the closing date, if considered necessary. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Applicants are advised that Save the Children International does not use a third party for employment and also does not require any payment or expense during the entire recruitment process. Any request in this direction should be immediately reported as contrary to the values and | 507 |
Happy Hump Day from Reno!
Life will never be the same for me after August 14th, 2011, and I am still riding my adrenaline wave from this weekend's crushing of the Lake Stevens Ironman 70.3! It feels fantastic to have planned, anticipated, hoped, and trained for such an awesome event, and then to come in the top 10% is just additional icing on the<|fim_middle|> I have no bloody idea what the next 25 years will hold, but it's going to be exciting. Life has an interesting way of preparing us for what is to come, and it always seems to happen at just the right moment. There's a good chance that I would've bonked on the 13 mile run had I not completed a marathon, and yet I broke my personal record for a half marathon while in the middle of my half Ironman! That's pretty sweet. I didn't know what to expect from my adventure on August 14th, but I do know that these past years as an athlete had prepared me, and in hindsight, I was more than adequately prepared.
Celebrate! – It may seem like this would be the easy part of the adventure, but it's pretty tough for me to enjoy my victories for any period of time longer than a day or two. Absolutely I'm pumped, but that excitement is what drives me to bigger and better things too! There's no point in doing something if you won't enjoy it, so celebrate the little things, or in this case, a big thing (70.3 miles is kind of a big deal)! As always, learn from the negative but focus on the positive.
Who's ready to start training for a 2013 Ironman with me!?
Finally get to see the picture! | cake. The picture from the finish line doesn't do my excitement any justice (yes, I found the energy to leap at the end).
Hone your skills – Until the completion of these 70.3 miles, I felt that college graduation was a pretty big deal, and not to take away from that moment, but my success at Lake Stevens was the crowning achievement for me since graduating, if not for the past five years. My pathway for triathlon has taken me from the noob stage in 2007 to half-Iron bragging rights in 2011. The awesome thing about triathlon is there is always room for improvement, always seconds (or leg hair) to shave, and ways to build upon your fitness level. Each year gives me the opportunity to find something new and exciting, whether skills, event locations, sport efficiency, or gear, and give it a test run. You really can't fail unless you rollover and quit!
Man up to the unknown – It seemed appropriate to do my 25th endurance event just a month shy of my 25th birthday. My college and post college life has been full of adventures, experiences, foreign countries, interesting food, new hobbies, ultra-endurance competition, and awesome friends, and all of these experiences combined to prepare me for what is coming in the future. | 278 |
In February and March 2016, we ventured back to Ahmedabad for our second Product Development Pilot to continue refining Barakat Bundle with our fantastic partners and<|fim_middle|> missions and we encourage you to check them out and support them if you can! The further we advance in our venture the more we appreciate the guidance and expertise of incredible partners like you!
Amanda Hahnel is the Director of Operations for Barakat Bundle. | many mothers. We were able to develop our distribution model and continue to iterate on Barakat Bundle. As always, by the time we left India we were excited to incorporate our learnings into Barakat Bundle and looking forward to our return!
As soon as we got to Ahmedabad, we started iterating and developing our 'ghodiyu' (i.e. traditional Indian cradle). We collected different prototype iterations of the ghodiyu frame and fabric that we had commissioned from local Indian artisans. It was amazing to see the ideas from our last Product Development Pilot that Agenda 28 helped design come to life and were once again impressed by the input from our thoughtful manufacturing partners. Yet again, we confused the hotel staff repeatedly by streaming through the lobby with various assortments of ghodiyus and baby items day in and day out!
After collecting the prototypes from across Ahmedabad, it was time to take Barakat Bundle to SEWA Rural, an amazing hospital and development collective that serves the rural tribal area of South Gujarat at Jhagadia. We travelled by train with our Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) colleagues, Dr. Bharati Sharma and Dr. Minjan Patel. We were relieved to be in an air conditioned car on the train – turns out that actually meant that there were approximately 40 fans bolted to the ceiling of our car running on all cylinders for the duration of the trip!
Once we got to SEWA Rural, they shared their long-history of supporting their community by providing medical services, education services, and local employment. We were able to see vocational training centers where they both trained and employed locals in trades such as welding, sewing, baking, and more. Understanding the interconnected nature of the provision of any kind of service (demand side) with the creation of any kind of opportunity (supply side) in India made us really take note and focus on how we source all the items in Barakat Bundle.
In collaboration with SEWA Rural and IIPH, we conducted focus groups to test our new audio info pamphlets and distributed 25 Barakat Bundles to new mothers. Since then, local health workers have provided postnatal education on Barakat Bundles in their local communities and will revisit the mothers after one month to collect feedback and improve our model. We are incredibly thankful to The Baby Box Co. for donating the boxes (mattresses, blankets, and hats) and ayzh for donating the clean delivery kits we were able to provide mothers. They are both great companies with incredibly social | 520 |
Home > Vocal > Vocal - Danish<|fim_middle|> most prominent in opera performances and lieder singing in Germany in the period between the wars. Schlusnus was renowned as the leading Verdi baritone at the Berlin State Opera for almost 30 years (1917-45) and also gave more than 2000 lieder recitals all over the world….He had a warm, exceptionally smooth, and beautiful voice with the strong high register needed for some of the big Verdi roles."
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"…the baritonal paragon of Belcanto during that era just may have been a German. Rarely have I been as surprised as I was by Heinrich Schlusnus' 1937 'Il balen'. He sang it in German – yet the vowels, the legato, the style, were flawlessly Belcanto. He made a better Italian than the Italians! Schlusnus deserved the popularity and affection that his audiences offered him."
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4 hours MACD ? The MACD for BTC/USD is about to move into the bullish zone.
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Birding in Michigan I Top 10 Bird Watching Spots in Michigan
Michigan's many lakes, rivers, and forests create the perfect habitat for over 400 species of birds, making it one of the best places in the US to go birding. But with so many species and so many places to see them, where should you go?
Below are ten of the best spots in Michigan to enjoy some birding while on vacation or visiting friends and family.
i. Kensington Metropark Nature Center – Milford, MI
As one of oldest and largest nature centers in Michigan, Kensington Metropark is located adjacent to Lake Erie, where more than 200 species of birds have been spotted by park visitors. Park wildlife includes white-tailed deer, coyotes, foxes and various wild turkey varieties.
For birders looking for a challenge, you can compete with other birders to see who can tally up the most species in a 24-hour period during its annual Big Day event. Bird watching isn't all Kensington Metropark has to offer: Activities include paintball and canoeing.
ii. Huntington Woods Nature Center – Huntington Woods, MI
To see and hear a variety of birds, head to Huntington Woods Nature Center. Its 437 acres are home to various bird species, including white-tailed deer, bald eagles and a great blue heron. There are more than 6 miles of trails for visitors to explore during their visit. Don't forget your binoculars!
iii. Lake Erie Metropark, Brownstown, MI
Wildlife watching is one of Michigan's favorite outdoor activities, so if you are a birdwatcher or just want to learn more about birds and other wildlife, head on down to Lake Erie Metropark! Birds such as common mergansers and sandhill cranes are frequent visitors at Lake Erie Metropark.
The preserve boasts miles of trails for hiking and biking, but be sure to keep your eye out for wildlife along with beautiful views. The park also offers canoe rentals (canoes can be taken out on multiple waterways) as well as boat docks that you can fish from. Head on over here and find yourself immersed in nature!
iv. Peltier Pond National Wildlife Refuge – Saginaw, MI
The Peltier Pond National Wildlife Refuge is an amazing birdwatching destination, boasting over 200 species of birds including many endangered or threatened ones. In addition to its 400-acre wetland habitat, it also has 40 miles of hiking trails and 10 miles of biking trails for visitors to explore.
The refuge is open year-round, although hours vary depending on season and weather conditions. The best<|fim_middle|> lots of protein.
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Delaware State Bird: Pictures and Fun Facts | time to visit is during peak migration times, when you're likely to see large flocks of geese flying overhead. Keep an eye out for great blue herons, barred owls and bald eagles throughout your stay!
v. Herrick Lake National Wildlife Refuge – Grand Rapids, MI
This spot is a short drive south of Grand Rapids on I-96. The refuge is open every day of the year, dawn to dusk, and offers trails that are great for hiking or jogging and birdwatching. There's also a nature center that houses exhibits on local wildlife and hosts children's events.
The Herrick Lake National Wildlife Refuge is one of three sites in Michigan managed by Tri-City National Wildlife Refuge Complex (NWR). It was established to help protect migratory birds from oil spills during their seasonal travels through West Michigan.
Over 100 species of birds have been recorded at Herrick Lake NWR over time, including wood ducks, belted kingfishers, bald eagles, red-tailed hawks and many more.
vi. Clay Bank Lake – Romeo, MI
The clay banks that give Clay Bank Lake its name are one of its most popular attractions. Though it has a reputation for being one of Michigan's dirtiest lakes, it also attracts birds like godwits, marbled godwits, ruddy turnstones, and American avocets.
There are ample hiking trails around the lake, which are perfect for spotting waterfowl, shorebirds and even eagles. Clay Bank is home to more than 200 species of birds. Bring your binoculars and bird-watching field guide when you visit!
vii. Lower Huron River Bird Refuge – Wyandotte, MI
The Lower Huron River Bird Refuge is a great location for bird watching. It is located on Milford Road, near 26 Mile Road. There are several parking lots and open areas to walk and observe various birds. This area was once called Bird Town USA because of all of its wonderful migratory bird populations, including warblers, kingfishers, herons and more!
viii. Maple Swamp – Jackson, MI
Michigan is home to all four species of North American woodpeckers, and that's something I believe every birder should witness. There are only two places in Michigan where you can see them all at once: Maple Swamp, a 16-acre conservation area that borders I-94 near Jackson; and Arcadia Dunes, a short drive from Saginaw.
A plethora of wildlife thrives here, including many birds such as great blue herons and peregrine falcons. But if you want to spot an osprey or a goshawk, you'll need to check it out mid-summer when they're nesting.
ix. Carman Millpond – Ann Arbor, MI
Carman Millpond is one of the most important waterfowl stopovers in Southeast Michigan. The best time to spot waterfowl is early fall or late spring, but you can see some nice variety at any time of year.
Bald eagles are often spotted here and it's not uncommon to catch a glimpse of wood ducks, mergansers, blue herons, great egrets and more. Be sure to visit during migration season – roughly mid-April through early July.
In addition to birds, Carman Millpond has several hiking trails for birdwatchers looking for close-up looks at avian species. To reach Carman Millpond from Ann Arbor, head north on S Huron River Dr toward S State St.
x. Eckert Lake – Fowlerville, MI
Eckert Lake is a great place to bird for a few reasons. It is located on Eckert Lake, making it accessible by boat, canoe or kayak for some added fun. The water level here fluctuates with each season, so spring and summer might be more ideal times to go if you plan on using water transportation.
However, during cold months and wintertime when there are fewer people out on the lake, winter can be a great time to bird as well. Whatever time of year you choose, birding at Eckert Lake will reward you with yellowthroat sparrows and red-breasted nuthatches among other avian creatures—it's definitely one of Michigan's best birding spots!
Birding in Michigan FAQ
What is birding?
Birdwatching, or birding, is an activity that involves watching birds and wildlife to identify species and behaviors. The hobby has become a popular global pastime; more than 50 million people worldwide regularly engage in birdwatching. It is most popular in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America.
In North America alone, about four percent of people are core birders (meaning they observe birds on twenty or more days per year), another thirty-three percent are casual observers. Birders age 15 years or older make up a total of roughly 80 million individuals. People who do not identify as birdwatchers can also enjoy watching birds as a leisure activity.
What is best time for birding in Michigan?
Although birders will travel far and wide to find a new species or a rare sighting, they agree that there's something magical about being able to see birds right where you live. You can get up early and be back home at noon, tired but happy.
Birding is more convenient when you live close to where you want to go birding, says David Anable, past president of Massachusetts Audubon Society.
The best time for birdwatching in Michigan is roughly from mid-March through mid-June—the height of spring migration. If seeing birds from many different parts of North America is your goal, then late April through early June is also a good bet as many eastern birds are winging their way west.
What do bird eat?
Birds have a varied diet. Their dietary habits vary with species, season, location and abundance of prey. Strict carnivores eat flesh exclusively while some herbivores also consume insects or other animal products.
Most birds hunt invertebrates and vertebrates alike for food; only one species is known to feed exclusively on blood. Some eat carrion and a few scavenge; still others sieve terrestrial vegetation for insects and larvae.
What do I feed?
While many bird feeders will attract some birds, you may want to try our list of seeds that attract more species. Black oil sunflower seed is a classic choice and can be used for small or large-sized birds.
Another favorite is niger seed, which will bring a wide variety of beautiful songbirds like grosbeaks and sparrows to your yard. Finches love niger because it's small enough for them to swallow whole, while they love black oil sunflower because it has plenty of fat content.
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Shelby Houlihan continues to dominate distance running in America, whether it's on an oval or grass.
The Sioux City native finished a furious kick over the final half mile to distance herself from Molly Huddle, Aliphine Tuliamuk and Marielle Hall to claim the USATF Cross Country Championships women's senior race in Tallahassee, Fla., on Saturday. The Nike Bowerman Track Club athlete surged to the victory in 32 minutes, 47 seconds for the 10-kilometer race. Houlihan now qualifies for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, on March 30.
Houlihan, an Arizona State graduate, was one of five BTC athletes in the top 10 through the early stages, which included former Dowling Catholic and Missouri star Karissa Schweizer. Schweizer was dropped by the top five of Houlihan, Huddle, Hall, Tuliamuk and Amy Cragg after the halfway point.
The list of contenders became four when Cragg was dropped by the top group with two miles to go. Houlihan then outkicked Huddle to win by a big margin of eight seconds. As reported a week ago, Houlihan was competing in her first cross country race in four years and her first 10k.
"Had a lot of fun getting back on the grass today," Houlihan wrote on Instagram. "L<|fim_middle|> the 600 meters, Iowa junior Taylor Arco finished third overall in 1:32.05 while sophomore teammate Aly Weum was fourth in 1:32.81 while freshman Payton Wensel was fifth in 1:33.48.
In the men's 5,000, Iowa freshman Noah Healy was third overall in 14:24.11.
In the women's mile, Iowa freshman Grace McCabe ran 4:55.59. She finished 20th overall.
Former Iowa Central great Adva Cohen picked up a win at her home New Mexico Collegiate Classic. The sophomore took the win in the women's mile in 4:45.98 Saturday and followed with a runner-up finish in the 800 in 2:10.10.
Drake University senior Kevin Kelly's outstanding season continued at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday. Kelly smashed the mile record by nearly three seconds by running 4:01.47. The previous record was set by Chris Mares in 1981. Kelly finished third overall. Also, former Center Point-Urbana prep Josh Yeager finished 10th in the same event in 4:09.12.
In the women's mile, former Crestwood prep Ellie Friesen finished seventh overall in 4:57.79. Friesen is a South Dakota State freshman.
In the men's 3,000, Runablaze Iowa's Jay Welp took seventh overall in 8:29.03. | ining up and racing with my teammates made it even better. Great job to everyone that competed! Next up, USATF Indoor Championships!
Houlihan will now turn her attention to defending her two titles at the USATF Indoor Championships at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Facility in Staten Island, N.Y., from Feb. 22-24. She hopes to qualify for the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, from March 13-15.
Schweizer finished seventh overall in 33:28.2 and ended up on the American team for Denmark with other Americans ahead of her pulling out of the event.
Also, former Iowa State runner Samantha Bluske finished 17th in 34:32.8. Bluske now resides in the Tuscaloosa, Ala., area.
In the senior men's race, former Iowa State runner Hillary Bor and former Iowa Central Community College athlete Stanley Kebenei were among five American Distance Project athletes that fought for the 10k win. The five were together until the last half mile, when Shadrack Kipchirchir and Emmanuel Bor dropped Bor, Kebenei and two-time defending champion Leonard Korir.
Kipchirchir held off Emmanuel Bor for the victory, with both men finishing in 28:53. Bor, the winner of the Great Stirling cross country race last month, took fourth in 28:57. Kebenei ended up fifth in 29:04.
Former Iowa Central runner Frankline Tonui ended up a strong 11th in 29:37.7. Sioux City native and fellow former Triton Biya Simbassa was 12th in 29:40.9. Taking 37th was Runablaze Iowa's Stanley Linton of West Des Moines in 31:56.3. Former Iowa State runner Guor Maker finished 43rd in 32:35.7.
In the junior men's 8k race, Iowa State freshman Chad Johnson finished 10th in 25:02.5. The winning time was 24:38.7.
Turning now to the colleges and indoor track, where Iowa State redshirt senior Dan Curts had another strong day in Boston. Competing at the Bruce Lehane Scarlet & White meet, Curts finished third in the mile in a personal-best 4:00.56 to land seventh in program history. Curts was beaten by only two professionals, Eric Avila (3:58.17) and Rob Napolitano (3:59.90). Curts, who ran 7:55.26 in the 3,000 a week ago in Seattle, ranks in the top 15 in NCAA Division I for both events. Curts' previous best for the mile was 4:02.54 at last year' Iowa State Classic.
Freshman Milo Greder ran in the 1,000 in Boston and was sixth overall in a personal-best 2:27.23.
At the Camel City Invitational in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Saturday, Iowa State junior Edwin Kurgat battled the professionals in the elite 3,000, finishing fifth in 7:59.22. He was the second collegian. Kurgat is outside the top 20 for qualifying for indoor nationals. In the elite mile run, Cyclone junior Festus Lagat finished fifth in 4:04.99.
There were several fantastic performances at the Meyo Invitational hosted by Notre Dame. Iowa senior Mar'yea Harris set the school record in the 600 meters in 1:16.60 on Friday.
On the women's side, former Northern Iowa runner Brette Correy-Jensen won the 800 meters in 2:06.73. The former Western Dubuque prep was two-tenths ahead of Grand Valley State's Rachael Walters in the fastest heat. Also in Heat 5, Northern Iowa senior Lyndsie Schinkel was seventh and seventh overall in 2:09.52. Schinkel is a former Ankeny High prep. Iowa junior Taylor Arco was ninth overall in 2:10.47.
In the men's 800 meters, former Iowa runner Carter Lilly was the overall winner in 1:49.82. The Sioux City native topped Iowa junior and runner-up Matt Manternach by .29 of a second for the win.
In the men's Meyo Mile, Iowa junior Nathan Mylenek finished ninth overall in 4:04.88.
In the Ryan Shay 3,000, former Dowling Catholic runner Matthew Carmody finished sixth overall in 8:13.13. Carmody is a Notre Dame freshman. Carmody was right ahead of Karim Achengli of Northwest Missouri State, was seventh in 8:19.47. Achengli is a former Iowa Central runner.
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Milwaukee Mile
There was a horse racing track on George Stevens's Farm when it was bought by the Agricultural Society of Wisconsin in 1891. It had been there for at least 15 years. The intention of the Agricultural Society was for the land to be used as a permanent site for a Wisconsin State Fair. With the development of the automobile, the organizers of the State Fair decided in 1903 that they would use the little oval for car races and the first event was won by William Jones of Chicago. That first race also witnessed the first fatal accident at the circuit when Frank Daly crashed his Arrow - which was owned and had been built by none other than Henry Ford - and was killed. There was great enthusiasm for car racing and in 1907 Milwaukee hosted a 24 hour endurance race and there was a second such event the following year.The track became a regular venue for the National Championship with several events being held each year and the great drivers of the day all making their impact in the record books. In 1920 the track was upgraded with the construction of concrete walls around the perimeter but the track was still shared between automobiles and horses. In the 1920s the track declined as the board tracks dominated the racing scene but in 1929 a new promoter Tom Marchese took over and in 1933 Champ Cars appeared at the Milwaukee Mile and the race was won by Wilbur Shaw. The National Championship returned in 1937, 1938 and 1939. The infield was also used as a venue for football games and the Green Bay Packers regularly played there.After the war racing revived in September 1946 with Rex Mays winning the first event. The following year the track hosted a race following the Indianapolis 500 and that tradition remains to this day. The venue became one of the busiest in the United States with stock cars also becoming part of the Milwaukee calendar.In 1954 the decision was taken to pave the track while a quarter-mile dirt oval was built in the infield for weekly events and horse racing continued on a half-mile oval until 19<|fim_middle|> was Jim Melvin, who was managing the Milwaukee track by then.But by 1992 the track was deteriorating and was in danger of losing its CART round. CART team owner Carl Haas was given a contract to manage the track and renovation work began. New walls were built and the track resurfaced in 1996 with more seating added and better debris fencing. | 59. There was even a 1.2-mile road course in the infield.In the 1960s Jim Clark made history at Milwaukee when he won the first Champ Car victory with a rear-engined car in 1963 and it was at Milwaukee the following year that AJ Foyt scored the last win for a traditional Champ Car roadster.The track was resurfaced in 1967. Marchese decided to sell the facility to John Kaishian, a local short track racing promoter and this guaranteed that progress continued. In 1980 the newly-formed CART held its first race at the track and CART's first president | 136 |
resist highlights the issues in mandurah
the rope has been pulled and the issues decided
the people of mandurah have debated the big issues of their region by taking part in pvi collective's work resist.
following a consultation period where local residents shared issues that concern them, the action to take on each topic was decided via a traditional tug of war. in many cultures around the globe a tug of war has<|fim_middle|>. | been traditionally used as a way of settling disputes and pvi collective's work takes inspiration from these customs.
in a series of rounds beach goes, and attendees of the mandurah arts festival put their muscle behind issues that they felt passionate about, pulling as hard as they could for victory.
some of the issues that were debated via a pull of the rope throughout the afternoon include funding for public schools, support for the local lgbtiq+ community, improving young people's mental health, caring more for the environment, supporting local businesses and encouraging the use of renewable materials over single used plastics.
people also pulled hard to show their support for encouraging electric cars, encouraging empathy, environmentally sustainable water use, improving job opportunities for young people and discouraging urban sprawl in favour of in-fill development.
since it first debuted in Santiago, Chile, pvi collective's resist has travelled to communities around the globe highlighting the issues that local people are most concerned about. the outcomes of resist's mandurah tug of war will be presented to the town's mayor | 210 |
Meet Paddington Bear in Guildford as The Village hosts free family event
Meet the polite and helpful bear at the summer pop up
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You may spot a most unusual bear if you stop by The Village in Guild<|fim_middle|> . | ford this week.
None other than the fluffy, marmalade-loving bear himself, Paddington, will be paying a special visit to Surrey.
If you stop by the summer pop up village in Commercial Road, your little ones can meet and greet the polite and helpful bear for free.
A sunny 17 snaps from The Village Guildford opening day
Paddington will be making appearances throughout the day on Thursday (August 24).
Little ones can share hugs and snaps with Paddington for free at 11am, midday, 1.30pm, 2.30pm and 3.30pm.
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Visitor guide to town's pop-up village
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The Village is open Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 10pm, and Sundays from 10am to 6pm until December.
Keep up to date with the latest news from around the county via the free Get Surrey app.
You can set up your app to see all the latest news and events from your area, plus receive push notifications for breaking news.
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Your portrait!
(From "The Physician!" 1855. This one is longer — but choice!)
"Those who are whole do not need a physician — but those who are sick!" Matthew 9:12
The world is one vast hospital.<|fim_middle|> every one of His patients immortal — and surrounds them with all that can make them holy and happy forever! | Jesus is the only physician in it; He has healed thousands, He will heal thousands more. But multitudes reject Him; they imagine they can do without Him; they think that they are whole — and therefore do not need a physician.
Sin is the disease of the soul. The sinner's state, is a diseased state. He is sick — mortally sick. His sickness is hereditary. He inherited it from his parents. He brought it into the world with him. That is true of all — which was spoken by David of himself, "Behold I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me!"
Sin is increased by wicked habits. We go astray from the womb, speaking lies. We contract the habit of sinning — so that to sin becomes as natural to us, as to breathe.
The disease of sin is contagious. We contaminate others — and others increase our sickness. "Bad company corrupts good character."
The progress of this disease is constant — it spreads daily — almost insensibly, and especially from neglect.
Sin produces great weakness, so that the sinner cannot of himself, do anything really good.
Sin not only makes us weak, but stupid — so that we become careless and foolish. We are dying of disease — but are unconcerned about it! There is a skillful physician at hand — but we refuse to apply to Him!
Sin has destroyed all our moral beauty — and left us loathsome, unsightly, and wretched! It produces innumerable and horrendous pains — and surrounds us with sorrows, cares, and woes!
Sin brings us to death — not only separating the body from the soul — but separating the soul from God!
Sin is the forerunner of eternal and unmitigated weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth!
There is no sickness like sin — yet this disease is universal. All are sick! "Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin. There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good — not even one!" Romans 3:9-12
This disease affects every part of man, "The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint. From the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is no soundness in it — only wounds and bruises and putrefying sores!" Isaiah 1:5, 6. Man is one mass of moral disease! Every power and faculty is disordered. All the elements of destruction are within himself. He deeply needs a physician, for he is dreadfully sick; so sick, that there is but a step between him and damnation!
My dear reader, this is your state! The Holy Spirit has given your portrait in the passages you have just read.
Can you recognize the likeness? If not — your eye is diseased!
Do you feel alarmed at the representation? If not — your conscience is diseased!
Are you determined at once to apply to the physician? If not — your heart is diseased!
The plague spot is upon you! You are very far advanced in a moral and spiritual cancer — which is secretly hurrying you to eternal death and damnation! O may the Lord…
open your eyes — that you may see your dreadful state;
enlighten your conscience — that you may be alarmed at your condition;
and quicken your soul — that you may flee to Jesus and receive health, healing, and everlasting soundness from His hands!
Jesus is the best physician. His work is to heal souls. He is every way qualified for His work.
He is a wise and skillful physician. All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Him — and He employs them for the good of souls. He has been employed in healing sinners for six thousand years — His skill has never been baffled, nor has one patient died under His hand yet!
He is a kind and tender physician. Not one harsh word is ever spoken by Him, to a poor broken-hearted sinner; nor does He ever refuse to attend to any case. His kindness is such — that He weeps with those who weep! And His tenderness is so great — that it is said in reference to all His patients, "In all their afflictions — He is afflicted."
He is a friendly and faithful physician. There is nothing forbidding or austere in His manner, nor does He ever deceive. Friendship has erected her throne in His heart, and built her mansion in His bosom; and He is ever faithful to His word, and to the poor sick sinner who applies to Him.
He is a willing and accessible physician. Willing to heal anyone who is willing to be healed by Him — and to go anywhere to perform His miracles of mercy. As when applied to of old, He said "I will come and heal him!" Just so now! He stoops to the beggar in the dust, and visits the needy on the dunghill. He is always ready at hand. You need no messenger to send and fetch Him — He is within hearing! He is nearer than anyone else — He can hear the softest whisper of the heart!
He is the great physician, no one can be compared to Him for qualifications or success.
He is the good physician, no one beside Him can be found — who so kindly, so freely, and so effectually heals every applicant! His blood is the true balm of Gilead.
It is not only His work — but His delight to heal sin-sick souls! And He heals them all freely, certainly, and perfectly! His terms are, "No Money! No Price!" Those whom He restores to health — will enjoy health forever. He makes | 1,202 |
<|fim_middle|> Kahn, one tree woodworks, Tiny homes on the move, tohner jackson. | I've only spent a few hours so far with the book and it's already sent me into day dreaming mode about adventures and alternate ways of living out there on the road or water. This book like all of the Lloyd Kahn books serve as a sort of inspiration guide-book it's full of free thinking and artistic people who are among a growing trend of people who are attempting to down scale their life's and simplify what we are doing with our time. Smaller spaces mean less stuff,less stuff means less to take care of,less to take care of means more time and more money,more time and more money means freedom. These core philosophical beliefs are not always supported or represented very well in the mainstream media. This book is proof that there is a movement afoot and to simplify is at the top of the list ,be it a French woman who sailed her boat with no engine to the canary islands or the English artist who built a tiny home on the back of a 1959 French army truck or even a homebuilder/woodworker from Texas who is doing his best to build a more simple existence.
I can't even begin to express how excited I am about this. Great quotes, great shots, great job. Ordering my copy right now.
Thanks! Pretty f-ing cool. You will really dig this book but after reading it I think it might be hard to not go out and buy a vanagon.
I'm only half-heartedly fighting that battle as is. Maybe this book will be the push over the Vanagon edge.
I'm working on intermittent wi-fi but this…you little fooker…I am as happy and proud as if I did it myself. TOHNER EFFIN' JACKSON HITS ONE OUT OF THE PARK! THE CROWD IS GOING WILD! THIS IS HUGE! HOORAY! HOORAY!
Really, dude. I really am proud for you. You deserve this.
I think maybe the old saying "even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then" may apply to how I got into LLOYD KAHNS book. But I'll take luck any day and I'll keep working for that next acorn. Because the one thing I know is a blind hog has to work harder then everyone else to find that acorn…..but when he does,, it taste pretty good.
Congrats on being included in the book. I'll look for that and when I see it in a bookshop I'll tell people I know you! Mark.
It's pretty cool being a part of a book from such an iconic author/publisher that I have been a fan of for many years. Many of his books on architecture make me feel like some of the (crazy) stuff that I build that seemingly makes no sense and even I don't even really know why I build has a purpose and possibly even a following. Please keep your eye out for the book it's really cool lots of interesting people doing creative stuff. Not only can you tell people you know me but that I'm a fan of your carving.
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I find myself not only rebelling against societal norms and pressures, but also those I set myself. Sometimes, I am indeed my own worst enemy.
One of the ways I find myself dealing with those feelings is by doing something random. Something different. Something that breaks up the monotony that can settle into the crevices of every day life.
Feeling constricted by the confines of the schedule I personally have laid out? Throw it all out the window and declare it book day, my self-declared roving holiday celebrating books.
Too much stuff to get done and not enough time to get it done? That would be the perfect time to start learning the 1920's Charleston.
Making too many staid purchases like cat food and paper towels? Make sure that the dish brush is a whimsical pink elephant.
And after telling myself that I'm just not into tofu, I found myself throwing a package<|fim_middle|> tofu out of the package and blot with a paper towel to remove the moisture. Slice the tofu into slices about 1/2-inch thick. Heat canola oil in a saute pan (I used my trusty cast iron) over high heat. Add tofu slices. Brown one side, then flip and finish browning the other side. Remove from pan, serve with the soy sesame sauce, some slices of apple, and a generous sprinkling of green onions and sesame seeds. | into the grocery cart.
Here I pan fried slices of tofu, drizzled them with a soy-sesame-apple sauce, and then served with scallions, sesame seeds and slices of granny smith apple.
Rebelling against yourself can lead to a surprisingly delicious dinner. Being your own worst enemy can bring you full circle into being your greatest ally.
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What are Fireplace Inserts?
A fireplace insert is a self-contained heating appliance made of steel or cast iron that fits into an existing masonry fireplace. The significant advantage of inserts is its closed combustion system, which increases its efficiency and minimizes heat loss. They are available in both natural gas and propane models.
Gas fireplace inserts use an electronic ignition system to light the fire. It's as simple as flipping a switch. Many models also have a remote control allowing the user to ignite the fireplace and control the flames without getting off the couch. Other features include automatic timers and thermostat controls.
Types of Gas Fireplace Inserts
There are essentially two main types of gas fireplace inserts: vent-free and direct vent. Vent-free inserts are just like the name suggests — they do not require a chimney or vent to release combustion byproducts to the outside. On the other hand, a direct vent fireplace insert requires a vent to draw in oxygen and release combustion gases externally.
The type of gas insert to choose also depends on your preferences and needs because each has its advantages and disadvantages. For instance, a direct vent fireplace insert generates more heat, has a more realistic flame experience, and produces much fewer emissions than a traditional fireplace. However, it requires a chimney or external vent to operate.
On the other hand, vent-free inserts are more flexible because it doesn't require a chimney or vent. They can be installed practically anywhere in the home, even inside a fireplace with an inoperable chimney. However, they produce less heat than a direct-vent insert. Although considered safe, vent-free inserts release a small amount of emissions into the living space.
Why Convert Your Traditional Fireplace to Gas?
Gas fireplace inserts significantly increase energy efficiency and reduce heat loss. Traditional fireplaces have a heating efficiency of around 20% – 30%, which means they lose up to 80% of the heat they generate. Gas inserts are much more efficient, with 80% – 98% heating efficiency. Gas fireplace inserts also burn cleaner, have less waste, and are more convenient to operate with a switch or remote control. They also eliminate the hard work of sourcing firewood. They also produce very little smoke and creosote, making them safer to operate and easier to clean and maintain.
Ready to make the switch from wood fuel to gas fuel? We have a large selection of gas fireplace inserts in many aesthetically pleasing styles and sizes to meet your home heating needs. Contact us to schedule a free in-home estimate.
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The Hair on Hide Horn Chair<|fim_middle|> for customers...the best part about working with Greenhouse is the way y'all answer the phone. You know my account information and my name. I may get a different person each time but they all are able to have the information." And seeing designs like The Hair on Hide Horn Chair are some of the best parts of working with
people like Robert Carbajal.
Keep an eye out for more of Robert's work coming up soon here on the GH blog!
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If I were to ask you to imagine a piece of furniture hand-crafted in Texas, the first thing that popped into your head might involve cowhide, horns, perhaps a few spurs...something diamond-studded...and then maybe you would shake your head and think that was a little too obvious. And in this case you would be wrong...sort of. As it turns out, the classic images of Lone Star orient are precisely what Robert Carbajal intended to use as he assembled (from ground-up) what we are affectionately referring to as The Hair on Hide Horn Chair.
What started out as a job for a taxidermist was quickly passed, along with the horns, to Mr. Carbajal who retreated to his office in Waco where the creative juices regularly flow. According to our own Tiffany Tolliver, Robert's account manager here at Greenhouse, no one should have been very surprised at the unique concept Mr. Carbajal produced: "I love working with Robert on his jobs and love hearing about the interesting ones that come up. It can be a challenge sometimes, but I enjoy being able to research fabrics for special projects that customers bring to him. If it involves fabric and furniture, I think he will try just about anything!"
Obvious skill, and willingness to take on challenges has kept the Carbajal upholstery business in operation for over over 40 years in Waco, since Robert's father started things up in 1973. Aside from the Horn chair, which has been a hit, producing 12 orders from New York to California, Mr. Carbajal regularly builds furniture for charity auctions. Reclaiming frames from garage sales and places like Goodwill, some of his exploits include a chair he covered in canvas and had children paint with their own hand prints, and a pair of wing chairs for Texas A&M he recovered and embroidered with initials which sold at auction for $9k.
Working with Greenhouse Fabrics gives Robert access to our extensive library of options which he obviously needs for his various assignments: "The account specialist (has) been a great help locating fabric substitutions. It's like having my own assistant going through all the samples and locating swatches | 449 |
Stately and elegant, this house plan features a hip roof and brick accenting. A portico makes a grand entrance to the open interior. Columns punctuate the dining room and great room, while an island highlights the kitchen. The utility/mudroom includes a sink and shelves. Note the bonus room and loft.
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North East India Travel Guide North East India is an untainted region in India. Surrounded by Bhutan , China , and Myanmar , and almost cut off from the rest of India by Bangladesh , there is little<|fim_middle|> India guidebook. Thrown across the farthest reaches of India, obscured from the greater world by ageless forests and formidable mountain ranges, the Northeast States are one of Asia's last great natural and anthropological sanctuaries.... North East India Tourism. The land of charismatic beauty, of ruddy mountains and beguiling picturesque charm, of glistening streams and pristine valleys, of the dense green forests and revelling bounteous nature, North- East teeters on the farthest brink of the country.
North East India is the easternmost part of India. The region consists of the seven states (popularly known as seven sisters). Sikkim & a part of North Bengal are the recent inclusions. North East India is now an upcoming destination because of the rich ecological & cultural heritage. Distinct from the other states of India, this region shares some common ethnical features with the Nepal... Traveling in North East India used to be rather inaccessible due to the requirement for permits. Luckily the government has relaxed rules on permits to encourage more tourism in North East India but you need to carefully check the latest information to see whether you need a permit.
Traveling in North East India used to be rather inaccessible due to the requirement for permits. Luckily the government has relaxed rules on permits to encourage more tourism in North East India but you need to carefully check the latest information to see whether you need a permit. | to no international tourism here.... North East India Explore the Richest Part of India with us! Experience the serenity, spirituality and simplicity of North East India with us. We are a trusted inbound destination management company giving shape to your dream holiday to North Eastern part of India.
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Research tells us that all existence is energy in a single type or another. Further, this energy is certainly endless, changing and morphing from one form or type to another. Each 'energy form' provides its personal particular design of frequencies, or vibrations. When one type encounters a coordinating regularity in the type of a musical technology take note, the type will start to vibrate in compassion with the notice in sympathetic resonance. A solid more than enough vibration can also trigger a type to restructure itself, as provides been observed with malignancy cells, crystal clear eyeglasses, drinking water deposits etc. With the Himalayan dishes,(also known as Tibetan Performing Containers) every notice creates sympathetic resonance with every various other notice creating harmonic overtones that commence the curing procedure.
Allow all of us, for a minute, appear at the difference between recovery and curing: Healing is an end item or limited end result. Dictionary meanings define it as "the full natural quality of a infected condition" or " the eradication of disease, stress, bad".
Recovery is a motion from disharmony to equilibrium, from duality to non-duality or Divine Understanding. The trip of curing after that is certainly a religious arising with outcomes on our physical well becoming. As we awaken, our perspective adjustments. As our perspective changes, our vibration changes. As our vibration changes, our mobile make up changes. The adjustments can not really take place as independent organizations- they affect the entire of who we are and prolong definitely. This hyperlink between body and nature provides been very much disregarded by the medical career but the hyperlink can be quite apparent.
Recovery is a procedure where we are released from an ego centered finite perspective of ourselves in the globe and move into our substance where our vibratory energy is connected with the galaxy. Recovery can business lead to becoming healed. But<|fim_middle|>icated on religious arising. The dishes can become noticed as great instructors. They bring the Buddhist Voidness theories which purport that nothing at all is present separately of anything else. Each notice from these sacred devices contains all various other records and herein is situated their magic. Although having a range of harmonics, the fundamental vibration of each dish can be seated in the Sanskrit rule OM. This is normally the vibration that our minds entrained with. This primordial audio is definitely the excellence of the galaxy. The following sympathetic resonance between human brain and dishes reawakens the inbuilt happy self in us.
Our behaviour, beliefs and behaviors will either participate with or sabotage the therapeutic potential as very well. Positive considering can reinforce your immune system program and switch your existence. The mixture of the sound vibration of the dishes with positive creation and affirmations will significantly improve the curing knowledge.
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How? We right now understand that different pulses induce different brainwave centers. We also understand that we can create brainwave entrainment through a procedure of sympathetic resonance and that we normally entrain or fall into vibrational stage to the most powerful vibrations in our instant environment. Our body is definitely a ideal transmitter of vibration, becoming 70% drinking water Additional, nerve packages in our spine transmit vibrational physical data to mind control and limbic program (our psychological digesting middle). Putting dishes straight on the body considerably boosts their performance. The dishes vibrate at the rate of recurrence of excellence, normally known as the Sanskrit mantra AUM. They produce harmonic overtones in which each be aware contains all additional records and non-e is certainly a different organization on its very own.
Their sound entrains us into health by entraining our energetic system to resonate with them in their perfection. In the world every dissonant chord is inclined toward getting a equilibrium.
And that's what they help our bodies to do. The harmonic resonance of the dishes actually extracts us back again into a even more general dynamic stream. They efficiently transmit their relaxing and relaxing vibrations through our 70% drinking water body in a method that impacts our whole anxious and immune system program and starts the rest response getting us into a Theta brainwave condition (waking up desire condition that is certainly house to creativeness, motivation, instinct and where we can allow proceed of our ego limitations, of our awareness of our physical condition and connect with the nonphysical, non dualistic.) The audio vibrations of the dishes stability our best and still left mind and with replication in combination with creation can keep us in the Theta condition for much longer and much longer intervals of period. The vibrational sound from the Himalayan dishes initializes our parasympathetic anxious program and assists to increase the disease fighting immune system cells while also reducing our tension response and creating cardio respitory synchrony (the coordinated movement of our human brain, respitory and center price mounds). Our capability to heal from any disease is usually predicated on our body's capability to accomplish cardio-respitory synchrony and this can be precisely what can be attained by hearing to the dishes. When they are positioned straight on your body, as in a personal program, after that the recovery potential can be significantly improved because you are getting the vibrations in your muscle groups and organs in addition to hearing them. In additional terms Vibrational Audio produces the ideal physical/religious pot required for curing. Dr Mitch Gaynor, Movie director of Oncology at the Cornel Cancers Avoidance Middle claims: "'Sound can redress unbalances on every level of physiologic working and can play a positive part in the treatment of practically any medical disorder.
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Well, you definitely have more to show for last month than I do! I think I said this on Instagram already, but I'll say it again: I love the red!
P.S. I didn't realize Gretchen wasn't co-hosting the link-up right now, and my post reflects that. Haha. Oh well ... I'm sure I won't be the only one!
Definitely not the only one. And I was too lazy to take her link out of my post, so yeah.
I love your hair! It's weird how sometimes in the months that feel most busy when you look back you can't really specify what you were actually busy doing.
I love your new haircolor! I can't pull off red, my skin color goes better with cool tones, but I always admire red-toned hair! I've occasionally thought about watching Downton all over again, but that will be quite the emotional journey!
Your hair looks great! Did you see that we're getting more snow this weekend? Why won't it stop!!
I love your new hair colour!
I love your hair! It looks great!!
I feel like reading as a coping mechanism is one of the more healthier coping mechanisms I have heard of. I appreciate you hosting and showing up whenever you wish to! Thank you!
I love your new hair colour! It suits you. Cute St Paddy's photos too, glad you celebrated and ain<|fim_middle|>reads notifications from you, lol. I absolutely love the bit of red that you added to your hair, it really suits you! | 't nothing wrong with a box mix and some booze.
Slow months can be good months sometime, I hope it turned out that way for you. I like checking in with everyone in the link up so I'm glad you're continuing, hopefully Gretch will be back when she can.
I never finished Downton...after two of the main characters left, I lost interest. I used to feel so bad for Mary (seasons 1 and 2 were so great too) but she reallllly started to bother me. And the whole Edith storyline was painful to watch.
Yay for for making it back to the gym!
I'm glad you are going to still do the link-up. I love seeing what everyone is up to! Yeah, it needs to stop snowing...I hear more is coming Friday night so we'll see. Sigh. Spring? Where are you?
And I'm almost always better with my head in a book!
I constantly have my nose in a book too these days as you know. I am starting to think it's unhealthy because I would literally rather read than doing anything else...and there are other things to do, you know? I blame it on winter weather in spring and having busy friends. Those baileys brownies sound delicious!! And I love your hair like that too.
I am finishing my post right now so it will be up soon!! I love that you do this link up.
It sounds like you did some fun things this month! And getting lost in a book isn't a bad thing :) I love your hair color!!
Spring hates us... LOL! I keep saying that spring is having a a hard time downloading. Cool accent color for your hair!
Reading is a coping mechanism for me too. Sometimes a good one, sometimes not.
Love the red in your hair and the gratuitous kitty photos of course.
p.s. your linkup button goes to Gretch's site, not sure if you wanted to change the HTML even if you don't want to re-design the whole shebang.
Your hair looks awesome!!! I am glad you are keeping the link up alive, it always gives me a place to start for the month. Your bailey brownies sound awesome. Maybe you arne't an extravagant baker, but you are a genius for replacing the water with bailey's. All I can hear is hell no H20 from Coyote Ugly now. Hahaha. Hopefully it will warm up for you guys this month. I know you hate the cold.
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Stock brokers working permanently from home is worth considering: Ajay Tyagi
3 min read . Updated: 22 Jul 2020, 12:25 PM IST Jayshree P. Upadhyay
Sebi chairman Ajay Tyagi said that the pandemic has brought business to a standstill but the fund-raising activity during the lockdown suggests that the situation is not all that bad. (Mint)
Currently, this has worked without a glitch, said the Sebi chairman, adding that its downsides will also be analysed.
Mumbai: The covid-19 pandemic has thrown up extreme challenges as well as opportunities for reforms, said Ajay Tyagi, chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), at the capital markets summit organized by industry body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) on Wednesday.
One of the reforms being considered is to allow brokers to work and trade from home on a permanent basis, thereby doing away with an old rule preventing brokers from operating trading terminals from locations other than those reported to the exchange.
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"Stock brokers working permanently from home is worth considering. Currently the trading from home has worked without a glitch or default. At present working from home is a temporary relaxation. We will also analyse the downsides," said Tyagi.
The change comes after compliance relaxations given to brokers during the coronavirus lockdown allowed them to operate terminals from home or other remote locations.
Mint had reported on 15 June that Sebi was considering this move as lockdown trading experience has strengthened the argument that modern trading systems are entirely electronic and should not be reliant on location of things or people.
Tyagi also touched upon the issue of increased retail participation in equity markets. The number of demat accounts during the months of lockdown have increased suggesting that many of these investors are first-time investors.
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According to Sebi data, the number of new demat accounts opened in fiscal year 2020 was the most in at least a decade at 4.9 million, a 22.5% jump from the 4 million accounts opened in the previous year. Turnover of small individual clients of stock brokers had risen 140% since the beginning of June. Tyagi also noted that the number of new demat accounts in June was significantly higher at 1.02 million compared to the monthly average of pre-covid-19 period.
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Tyagi referred to the covid-19 pandemic as an unprecedented challenge which has brought business and economies to a standstill with no reference point to rely on. However, the fund-raising activity during the lockdown suggests that the situation is not all that bad.
"We have made a concentrated effort to ease fund raising methods for corporates. All possible methods of fund raising have been eased. Preferential issues rules were eased on temporary basis as a means to restructure stressed assets in absence of Insolvency Bankruptcy Code (IBC)," said Tyagi.
IBC has been suspended till the end of the year as a relaxation to help companies tide through the financial hardships brought on by the covid-19 pandemic.
The key fund-raising avenues eased by the market regulator includes fast tracking of rights issues, extension of offer documents, relaxing eligibility criteria for fast track of future public offers, relaxation of rules of buyback of securities, preferential allotment relaxations.
"Relaxation of qualified institutional placement (QIP) pricing norms is not in Sebi's radar," said Tyagi.
According to the Sebi chief, the development and reform of bond market should be done without loss of time. "Development of bond market needs to be top most agenda for policymakers," said Tyagi.
Today, trading and investment in corporate bonds is restricted to only top three categories of super rated bonds, almost 90%. He highlighted the need for more players such as institutional investors.
He also said that the unification of financial markets is needed.
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Set<|fim_middle|> or buffet. | the stage for that next big idea or gathering of great minds at the Discovery Centre on the Halifax waterfront. Interactive and exciting, the new home for the city's beloved science centre has unique event spaces to spark creativity and collaboration, and an airy atmosphere for large group gatherings.
Invite up to 1,200 guests to engage with 200+ exhibits housed over 40,000 square feet. From gallery settings to made to entertain, to boardroom environments to help your group get down to business, the Discovery Centre has versatile spaces ready to welcome you and your guests. And the Dome Theatre? It's out of this world. Treat guests to a spectacular star show or host a theatre-style presentation.
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Get<|fim_middle|>Tip: Pour Paleo sour cream into a squeeze bottle for a pretty drizzled effect. | your snack on with these sweet potato nachos topped with spicy ground turkey, sliced jalapeños, dollops of creamy avocado, and swirls of dairy-free sour cream.
Crunchy and packed with flavor, these Paleo nachos ditch the corn tortillas in favor of sweet potato chips. Pile them high with the suggested toppings or any of your Paleo favorites for a great game day munchie!
To make sweet potato chips, all you need is a few large sweet potatoes and a sharp knife or mandolin to get the slices as thin as possible. Drizzle the chips with olive oil and a sprinkle of salt, and bake them low and slow in the oven. This method creates crispy, crunchy potato chips with zero frying necessary!
Every great nacho platter is heaped with spicy, taco-seasoned meat. This recipe uses ground turkey seasoned with smoky paprika and cumin. You can also replace the turkey with shredded grilled chicken, sliced steak, or ground beef if you prefer.
Start by heating the ground turkey in a skillet, using a spatula to break it up into small pieces. Season with cumin, paprika and salt, and cook until browned.
Spread sweet potato chips out on a platter and top with the hot ground turkey. To top off the nachos right, finish with chopped tomato, red onion, fresh cilantro and dollops of creamy mashed avocado and Paleo sour cream. You can even pour Paleo nacho cheese over the top!
Heat a skillet over medium heat and add ground turkey. Break up into small crumbles using a spatula and cook 3 minutes.
Add cumin, smoked paprika and sea salt. Stir well and cook an additional 5-7 minutes.
Spread sweet potato chips on a sheet pan and top with ground meat, tomato and red onion.
Spoon mashed avocado over the top and finish with jalapeños, cilantro and a drizzle of Paleo sour cream. Serve immediately.
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One-and-Done: DeWanna Bonner and the Mercury Eliminated the Wings
Phoenix beat Dallas in their single-elimination playoff game, a format that provides the highest of stakes, but loses the tense buildup of a heated series
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Seven things from the Phoenix Mercury's 101-83 win over the Dallas Wings in the first round of the WNBA playoffs on Tuesday night:
I. With three and a half minutes left in the third quarter of the single-elimination playoff game between the Mercury and the Wings, the Mercury, who were in the process of opening up the game, found themselves in a bit of a pickle. DeWanna Bonner, who had played well all night and whose defense was very responsible for having helped turn a four-point Phoenix lead at halftime into a 12-point lead in that moment, had the ball 34 feet from the basket with only five or so seconds left on the shot clock and (it appeared) no real plan.
Brittney Griner, the Mercury's All-Star center, was Bonner's nearest teammate, and so Griner ran a quick pick-and-roll with Bonner to try to free up some space between her and her defender. Griner did so because she either wanted to (a) help Bonner get a shot off, or (b) help Bonner help someone else get a shot off. And it worked, but only partially. Because Liz Cambage, who was originally guarding Griner and who is like if the Death Star came alive and started playing basketball, stepped up into the empty space created by the pick-and-roll and made it way less empty. She stretched her arms up as high as she could get them to go, and she made the lower half of her body as wide as wide gets, and it seemed like that was that; Bonner looked trapped; a victim of circumstance and circumference.
Bonner didn't panic, though. She glanced up at the rim just enough so that Cambage had to come up out of her defensive position, then took one dribble to her left as Cambage misjudged the play, then pulled up from 9 feet behind the 3-point line as Cambage tried desperately to insta-grow her body enough to bother the shot. Bonner flipped the ball up toward the rim, then immediately began to backpedal in the other direction.
The ball was shot with far too much force (that much was obvious as soon as it left Bonner's hands), but it didn't matter. The universe had already decided it was going to reward her bravery. And so the ball bounced off the backboard, then somehow splashed through the net. The crowd went bonkers, several Wings players shook their heads at the luck, and the camera cut back to Bonner, who was laughing and bouncing and twisting her body back and forth as she celebrated what was by then, even with 13 minutes still left in regulation, what mostly everyone watching knew was a certainty: that the Mercury were going to advance to the next round of the playoffs.
DeWanna Bonner AGAIN from WAY downtown!
Bonner has tied her #WNBAPlayoffs career high with 4 triples. #WinOrGoHome pic.twitter.com/npz0ktVhXe
— WNBA (@WNBA) August 22, 2018
II. There's a chance that Liz Cambage, a breakout star this season and a legitimate MVP candidate, simply won't return to the WNBA next season because it doesn't pay enough. That is extremely sucky. It would be great if that didn't happen. (After the game was over, she hinted that she might be leaning toward playing in the WNBA again next year.) (That would be extremely not sucky.) (It would be great if that happened.)
The WNBA Needs Liz Cambage, but She May Not Need It
III. An elimination game in basketball is fun, yes. But basketball elimination games—at least on the professional level—are fun because of the buildup to them. If it's, say, a five-game series, then when you get Game 5 that means you've had four games of two teams firing missiles and swinging elbows at each other, growing angry with and resentful of each other, and taking jabs at each other on social media and in postgame press conferences and whatnot. That's a big part of what makes higher-stakes basketball so much fun. Because at the end of a tight, very contested series it's always extra clear how much someone fucking definitely does not want to lose to a specific someone else. I wish the WNBA didn't do the single-elimination games for the first two rounds of the tournament. (The league started doing it in 2016.) (Part of the restructuring included ditching the conference-based playoff seeding, which is fun and innovative and smart and good.) (But the single-elimination thing means we lost out on a proper series between the Wings and the Mercury and also the L.A. Sparks and the Minnesota Lynx.) (The Sparks beat the Lynx 75-68.) (I can't think of a ton of things more interesting than seeing what would've happened if you dropped Diana Taurasi and Liz Cambage into basketball's version of a prison cell for a week and a half.) (And that's to say nothing of the history that's already baked into the Lynx-Sparks rivalry.) (Here's a good thing on the rivalry from Ramona Shelburne that I read a couple of months ago when I was trying to learn everything about it.)
The Unshakable Bond of the Minnesota Lynx
IV. There was a play in the fourth quarter when Liz Cambage came roaring down the lane for a layup. DeWanna Bonner was there and in position to take a charge. Bonner skinnied her way out of it at the last possible instant. (This, FYI, was absolutely the right thing to do. You'd do better stepping in front of the asteroid from Armageddon than stepping in front of the asteroid from Australia.) But so she skinnied her way out of it at the last possible instant. And when they showed the replay of the drive from under the rim, you could see Bonner, after having dodged destruction, smile and look over at her bench and say something. You couldn't quite tell what she said, but Chasity Melvin tweeted that Bonner "looked over at her coach and said, 'I got babies at home,'" referring to the twins that she gave birth to last year, which is so much better and funnier than anything I was expecting.
V. This will be a thing that's interesting only to a very specific group of people, but to that very specific group of people it will be wildly important: A little after the game was over, an e-buddy of mine on Twitter sent me a DM. It was a picture of Brittney Griner (or, at the very least, someone who looked a lot like Brittney Griner from afar) sitting in a booth at a P.F. Chang's in Tempe, Arizona, a very short drive away from the arena where the game had been played. She had the best plus/minus of anyone in a win-or-go-home playoff game, and then she went and (probably) celebrated with a plate full of Asian fusion foodstuffs.
VI. Diana Taurasi put up 26 points and 12 assists despite sitting out for nearly all of the fourth quarter. This is, I would guess, the least she's ever been mentioned in a write-up of a game in which she was one of the two best players on the winning team, and certainly the first time it took all the way up until after a P.F. Chang's mention before her name appeared. (She didn't come back in until there were about four minutes left in the fourth quarter, shortly after which she buried a 28-foot jumper just to make sure everyone knew what the fuck time it was, which was an extremely Diana Taurasi thing for her to do.)
Diana Taurasi Plays Basketball in a Coat of Invincibility Armor
VII. The Phoenix Mercury visit the Connecticut Sun in the second round Thursday night.
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ThinkPad is one of the most popular Lenovo device series thanks to the traditional models and their durability. The E lineup, part of the ThinkPad family, targets consumers who need a durable and budget device. Lenovo ThinkPad E460 fits namely in this category, and this is why we decided to review it.
You may have read our review of Lenovo ThinkPad E560 (15″) or that of a 2-in-1 ThinkPad representative – Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 460. We were quite happy with these devices in terms of their performance, portability and reliability, and now we can't wait to test their brother ThinkPad E460.
Its performance is better than that of Yoga 460 thanks to its discrete GPU R7 M360, and we shall check how this will affect our temperature tests below.
The laptop used for this review is a testing sample so it did not come with a manual or a charger. Nonetheless, we can be certain that when you buy a ThinkPad E460, you will get a charger, power cable and user manual.
This E-series model is no exception to the traditional design of budget ThinkPad devices. Once you get it out of the box, you will notice the Lenovo logo on the lid, as well as the inscription confirming that you now own a ThinkPad device. As you may guess, the notebook uses the typical matte black color without unnecessary inscriptions – the design language is simplistic, as expected.
One of the first aspects that caught our attention is the low weight of the 14-incher – only 2 kg. And we must not forget that on the inside there is the discrete GPU R7 M360 (in comparison to Yoga 460 which counts on Intel HD Graphics). This is a key advantage that makes E460 a good choice if you need to have your mobile device at hand wherever you go. Additionally, the gray metal hinges stand out, while the corpus is reinforced with carbon fibers. The latter seems sturdy and durable – rather important for a business laptop.
When opened, the typical ThinkPad traits become visible. Also, the TrackPoint is red and sits in the middle of the keyboard. It allows you to move the mouse cursor, which is great if you are used to it and don't want to use Lenovo's touchpad.
As far as the keyboard is concerned, it preserves the traditional ThinkPad design. The ergonomic keys, called AccuType, are comfortable and easy to type because of their slightly peculiar design – they are "smiling" and slightly protruding in the middle, as well as decently spaced so that you won't press several of them at a time. Since it's a 14-incher, the NumPad block is not present which means slower input of digits but, on the other hand, ThinkPad E460 has a good number of function keys for quick access that facilitate your work.
Also, the touchpad is positioned below the keyboard. It is relatively big and comfortable despite E460's small size. Some of the configurations feature a fingerprint scanner on the right, but our unit did not have this. The touchpad ensures fast and adequate operation. Above it, there are three buttons (left, right and one for scrolling) that make your work even easier if you are using the TrackPoint.
Despite its compact size, ThinkPad E460 offers enough ports that you can use for peripheral devices, external drives, flash drives, etc. On the left, there is a headphones jack, USB 2.0 port, and Kensington Lock – fortunately for us the cooling vent is also on the left. Most ports are to be found on the right, which isn't exactly good if you want to use a mouse. On the right, you can observe two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, LAN Ethernet, as well as the DC power jack.
Lenovo ThinkPad E460's display uses a TN matte panel with a model number LEN40A0. It is 14″ (35.56 cm) and its resolution is 1366 х 768 pixels. The screen ratio is 16:9, the pixel density – 112 ppi, and the pixel pitch – 0.226 х 0.226 mm. It can be considered as "Retina" when viewed from a distance equal or greater than 79 cm (from this distance, the eye cannot recognize the separate pixels).
Lenovo ThinkPad E460 offers uncomfortable viewing angles. For the purpose of quality evaluation, we present to you 45° degree perspectives.
Before calibration we measured maximum brightness of 216 cd/m2, and maximum deviation of 11% across the surface. The average color temperature measured upon white surface and at maximum brightness is 7690 K.
To make sure we are on the same page, we would like to give you a little introduction of the sRGB color gamut and the Adobe RGB. Starting with the CIE 1976 Uniform Chromaticity Diagram that represents the visible specter of colors by the human eye giving you a better perception of the color gamut coverage and the color accuracy. Inside the black triangle, you will see the standard color gamut (sRGB) that has been used by millions of people in HDTV and on the web. As for the Adobe RGB, this is used by professional cameras, monitors and etc. for printing. Basically, colors inside the black triangle are used by everyone and this is the essential part of the color quality and color accuracy of a mainstream notebook. Still, we've included other color spaces like the famous DCI-P3 standard used by movie studios and the digital UHD Rec.2020 standard. Rec.2020, however, is still a thing of the future and it's difficult to be covered by today's displays.
The yellow triangle shows Lenovo ThinkPad E460's capabilities. A 53% sRGB coverage is<|fim_middle|>91 degrees. Additionally, the hottest point on the surface was slightly below the screen – 52 degrees – but we it did not cause discomfort.
ThinkPad E series targets users who are after quality on a budget. ThinkPad E460 answers this need, as you may see from the above tests. This compact and budget solution is a very good choice for those of you who are frequently on the go and need a relatively light mobile notebook at hand.
Additionally, this laptop is lightweight and offers "standard" build quality as a ThinkPad device – reinforced chassis and reliable metal hinges. This taken together with a very durable battery make E460 a notebook that suffices all requirements business users may have. Also, its sound is loud and clear, and the lows and mids are nice and clean, which is a plus if you are into music.
The only Lenovo E-series laptop with an IPS panel is ThinkPad E560. All other models feature a TN display. Having this in mind, ThinkPad E460 is not a good choice if you want to do some photo or video editing. This is also due to its poor sRGB coverage as well as limited viewing angles. What is more, you can avoid PWM only at maximum brightness (irrespective of whether the device is plugged in or counts on its battery). | insufficient for saturated colors.
Below you will see practically the same image but with color circles representing the reference colors and white circles being the result. You can see the main and additional colors with 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% saturation inside the sRGB gamut before calibration. The difference before and after calibration is noticeable.
The new profile has been set to 140 cd/m2 and 6500K white point.
We used X-Rite i1Display Pro as a calibrator tool.
Below you can see the results from the accuracy color checker with 24 commonly used colors like light and dark human skin, blue sky, green grass, orange etc. Color accuracy isn't bad – avg DeltaE 2000 = 2.03. Its contrast is low – 380:1 before, and 230:1 after calibration.
We present to you some of the colors in our color accuracy report in the below histogram.
Lenovo ThinkPad E460's display doesn't use PWM only at maximum brightness, irrespective of whether it's plugged in or counts solely on battery. However, if you are using a different brightness level, PWM will be present at a low frequency – 200 Hz, which can be harmful to people with sensitive eyes.
In conclusion, Lenovo ThinkPad E460's panel is not quite up to date. The main advantage of this notebook is its price. If you normally work with an external monitor and you are on a budget, then a purchase of this device will make sense.
Lenovo Thinkpad E460 has decent stereo sound. The lows and mids are clear and nice. However, there are some irritating deviations in the highs. The sound output has a very good maximum value.
Lenovo ThinkPad E460 features a 48 Wh battery that made us quite happy because the more powerful ThinkPad E560 has an identical battery. We expected even better results from the bigger brother because its 6-cell battery had to supply the ULV Intel Core i5-6200U and less powerful R7 M360 GPU (in comparison to E560 with its Core i7-6500U, Radeon R7 M370 and IPS panel). To confirm our high expectations we conducted our three mandatory tests – Web browsing, HD video playback, and gaming. As you may guess, we used the usual conditions – Wi-Fi and Power saver turned on, and screen brightness set to 120 cd/m2.
In comparison to E560, which held up for 4 hours, the result was much better here – 5 hours and 52 minutes.
Since we registered almost 6 hours in the previous test, we could not expect less than 4 hours of video playback – and we got 4 hours and 56 minutes.
In this test, most laptops we review register between 1 and 2 hours of play time. ThinkPad E460 held up for 2 hours and 46 minutes.
Here you can see an approximate comparison between the CPUs that can be found in the Lenovo ThinkPad E460 models on the market. This way you can decide for yourself which Lenovo ThinkPad E460 model is the best bang for your buck.
Fritz is a chess benchmark which tests the computing capabilities of the CPU with various chess moves. The Intel Core i5-6200U managed to get 5.537 million moves per second. In comparison, one of the most powerful PCs, Deep(er) Blue, was able to squeeze out 200 million moves per second. In 1997 Deep(er) Blue even beat the famous Garry Kasparov with 3.5 to 2.5.
Radeon R7 M360 is a graphics card based on the Tonga chip released in the second half of 2015. It supports technologies such as DirectX 12, Mantle, OpenGL 4.3, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan and FreeSync. The base operating frequency of R7 M360 is 1015 MHz, and there are two variants with either DDR3 or GDDR5 memory. In our case, it was 2 GB GDDR5 (and this is expandable up to 4 GB DDR3). The GPU performance has been increased over the previous generation equivalent model R7 M260. If we have to compare it to a competitive NVIDIA model, GeForce GT 920M has similar specs and both chips share similar performance.
This chip boasts not only the above-mentioned technologies but it is also energy efficient. The two processes Enduro and ZeroCore are the reason for this. On the one hand, the former automatically switches to the integrated GPU whenever R7 M360 is not engaged. On the other hand, the latter reduces the chip's energy consumption when the display is off. Thanks to them the machine needs less power supply, and thus they preserve both battery life and the device itself.
Here you can see an approximate comparison between the GPUs that can be found in the Lenovo ThinkPad E460 models on the market. This way you can decide for yourself which Lenovo ThinkPad E460 model is the best bang for your buck.
This final part of our review provides some insight as regards ThinkPad E460's cooling system, its hottest points, and the comfort after a continuous workload. To ensure accurate results, we put the laptop to a really harsh test, which is almost impossible to achieve if you are working with conventional software.
As usual, we begin with a 100% CPU stress test. After one hour Core i5-6200U maintained an average temperature of 67 degrees Celsius, and the maximum we reached was 69 degrees. Despite the not so low temperature and considering that this is chip is ULV, Intel Core i5-6200U preserved its maximum operating temperature of 2700 MHz, which is great news.
After an hour we launched the parallel GPU stress test so as to engage the complete potential of the cooling system. AMD GPUs are a tad hotter than those of NVIDIA, and the one in ThinkPad E460 is no exception. After the two most significant for the system chips had been fully loaded, the temperatures rose up to | 1,338 |
The Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) has appointed Dr. Peter Davies, one of the world's top Alzheimer's disease researchers, to its Medical, Scientific and Memory Screening Advisory Board. The Board is comprised of leading experts in the care, research and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Peter Davies, Ph.D., is the director of the Litwin-Zucker Center for Alzheimer's Disease at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. He is also a professor of pathology and neuroscience at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell<|fim_middle|>50 research papers. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Congress on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD), the City of New York Liberty Medal, the Ciba Geigy/Drew Award, the Metropolitan Life Award, and two MERIT awards from the National Institutes of Health.
AFA relies on members of its Medical, Scientific and Memory Screening Advisory Board for expert insight and opinions on scientific issues surrounding Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, as well assistance with the development of AFA policies, programs and advocacy efforts related to research and care. | . For more than 35 years, Dr. Davies' research has focused on the biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease. This includes exploring the underlying causes of some of the more disturbing behaviors associated with Alzheimer's disease, including agitation, hallucinations and aggression, as a means for identifying ways to treat them. His team's main area of research has been searching for the reasons why a normal brain becomes a brain with Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Davies has published more than 2 | 96 |
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The final number of guest catered for is the number of guests that will be charged for. The final invoice must be settled before the function date<|fim_middle|> ceiling and draping on the stage.
Not included in the hire fee: Chair covers, tie backs, overlays, centre pieces, flowers, food, drinks, draping on the ceiling, entertainment and waitrons.
Waitrons are available at R200.00 each should you require table service.
We do supply Champagne at R120.00 per bottle (JC Le Roux). Should you want to bring your own wine or champagne a corkage fee of R35.00 per bottle will be charged.
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This particular yarn is Soie Naturelle 3-ply — 100% noil silk. It's very nice yarn, slightly off-white with a hint of texture. This size gave me 22 wraps per inch, or 11 ends per inch, so my mini 31 x 31 loom (slightly smaller than a Weave-It) was required. (The 4-ply Soie Naturelle is a more Weave-It appropriate choice . It's available in three weight choices, but here's a link to the 16 ounce cone.) I'm really happy with Catnip Yarns' service and yarn choices.
Add hot water, soap, and agitation.
I rinsed it in cold<|fim_middle|> interesting. 'Shrinkage' can be caused by different reasons. One is the yarn itself may shrink. Another is the weave structure may collapse. Shrinkage is dependent on sett with any particular weave structure. For example, using the same yarn in all samples, I can do plain weave at 20 epi, 24 epi, and 28 epi. After finishing the samples will be different sizes. The 28 epi will shrink the least and the 20 epi the most. What this means is that the samples only predict the 'shrinkage' for both yarn, sett and weave structure. And that is really what you want to know anyway. In industry, you would have the yarn created to exact specs and samples that exactly predict your results. For hand weavers, we have to start with what we have. Which says your samples are indeed the way to go for a project.
Thank you Judie! Your knowledgeable commentary is always appreciated.
Wow Mae! Thank you for these wonderfully kind words. If you're on Facebook consider joining the Pin Loom Weaving Support Group. We have a lot of members who know a whole lot more about fiber stuff than I do. | water to make sure the piece would have a true washing machine-like experience. Soaked for a really long time because I got busy, but 15-30 minutes should have been sufficient. Removed from water, squeezed-not-wrung, rolled in a towel, stepped on towel to remove excess moisture, put outside in desert atmosphere to dry.
Shrunken square is shown on top of unshrunken square.
As you can see, the weave tightened up via the shrinkage. In this case, that's a desirable quality—the pattern shows up better. And the yarn feels softer now—also desirable.
I'm sure there's a way to figure out the percentage of shrinkage that went on here—I'll have my husband help me with that.
I'm planning a rigid heddle loom project with this yarn, so these samples will help me determine how much extra length and width I'll need when I warp up. (To tell the truth, I'll probably warp up the full width no matter what, but I'll make sure to add x% extra warp length.) To be a really High Achiever, I should probably warp up a larger pin loom and make another pair of samples to see if I accurately estimated my shrinkage percentages. Yeah, not happening.
Just wanted you to know, pin looms make nifty quick sampler looms.
Please see Judie's comment below for more expert commentary about shrinkage. Thanks, Judie!
Thanks Sue. Very interesting to see such a difference after washing.
I don't think it makes such a striking difference with acrylic and other synthetics, but the natural fibers change dramatically.
Shrinkage is an interesting topic in handweaving. With pin looms it becomes even more | 355 |
Tell Me About Yourself
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<|fim_middle|> end up in the rejection pile.
These answers, however, are all predictable. Nearly all strong applicants can describe themselves in this way. If you go back to the initial question—"Tell me about yourself"—you should recognize that these rather generic answers would not successfully display the characteristics that make you special.
To convey your unique personality and passions, you want to answer the questions in ways that show that you are you, not a clone of a thousand other applicants. And the interview is your best opportunity to do just that.
Remember, you don't need to steer away from the facts that you are friendly and work hard, but these points shouldn't be at the heart of your response.
What Makes You Uniquely You?
So, when asked to tell about yourself, don't spend too much time on the predictable answers. Show the interviewer who you are. What are your passions? What are your quirks? Why do your friends really like you? What makes you laugh? What makes you angry? What do you do best?
Did you teach your dog to play the piano? Do you make a killer wild strawberry pie? Do you do your best thinking when on a 100-mile bike ride? Do you read books late at night with a flashlight? Do you have unusual cravings for oysters? Have you ever successfully started a fire with sticks and a shoelace? Were you ever sprayed by a skunk taking out the compost in the evening? What do you like to do that all of your friends think is strange? What makes you excited to get out of bed in the morning?
Don't feel that you have to be overly clever or witty when answering this question, especially if cleverness and wit don't come to you naturally. However, you want your interviewer to come away knowing something meaningful about you. Think about all the other students who are being interviewed, and ask yourself what is it about you that makes you different. What unique qualities will you bring to the campus community?
You'll find that after a campus interview, you often get a personalized note from your interviewer thanking you for your interest in the college. The interviewer is also likely to comment on their conversation with you and point out something memorable from it.
Think about what that letter is likely to say: "Dear [Your Name], I really enjoyed talking with you and learning about __________________." Think about what will be in that blank. It certainly won't be "your high grades" or "your work ethic." Let your interview convey that information.
To be asked to talk about yourself is truly one of the most common interview questions, and you are almost guaranteed to come across it. This is for a good reason: if a college has interviews, the school has holistic admissions. Your interviewer is therefore really interested in getting to know you.
You should take the question seriously and answer sincerely, but make sure you are actually painting a colorful and detailed portrait of yourself, not a simple line sketch. You want your answer to be a substantive illustration of a side of your personality that isn't obvious from the rest of your application.
Also, keep in mind to dress appropriately for your interview and avoid common interview mistakes. Finally, remember that while you are likely to be asked to tell your interviewer about yourself, there are several other common interview questions that you will probably encounter, too. Good luck!
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by Allen Grove
Dr. Allen Grove is an Alfred University English professor and a college admissions expert with 20 years of experience helping students transition to college.
"Tell me about yourself." It seems like such an easy college interview question. And, in some ways, it is. After all, if there's one subject you truly know something about, it's yourself. The challenge, however, is that knowing yourself and articulating your identity in a few sentences are very different things.
Quick Interview Tips: "Tell Me About Yourself"
You are almost guaranteed to be asked this question, so be prepared.
Don't dwell on obvious traits shared by the majority of strong college applicants.
Figure out what makes you uniquely you. What interests or character traits separate you from your peers?
Before setting foot in the interview room, make sure you put some thought into what it is that makes you unique.
Don't Dwell on the Obvious Character Traits
Certain characteristics are desirable, but they are not unique. The majority of students applying to selective colleges can make claims such as these:
"I'm hard-working."
"I'm responsible."
"I'm friendly."
"I'm a good student."
"I'm loyal."
Granted, all of these answers point to important and positive character traits, and, of course, colleges want students who are hard-working, responsible, and friendly. And ideally, your application and interview answers will convey the fact that you are such a student. If you came across as an applicant who is lazy and mean-spirited, you can be certain your application will | 440 |
Historic New Orleans Collection brings past into present with new French Quarter museum & gallery
Former home of WDSU at 520 Royal has been transformed into a $38 million museum showcasing history of the French Quarter
Author: Dominic Massa
Published: 7:25 AM CDT April 4, 2019
Updated: 7:25 AM CDT April 4, 2019
NEW ORLEANS — For more than a century, 520 Royal Street has been one of the most recognizable spots in the French Quarter, but even if the Seignouret-Brulatour mansion and its famous courtyard are familiar to you, you're about to see it like you never have before.
The building opens this week after a $38 million renovation which has turned it into the newest property of the Historic New Orleans Collection. While the staff of the well-known museum and research institution is anxious to show visitors what's inside, just talking about the building gets them excited. That's because the new property, which has taken almost 15 years to complete, adds more than 35,000 square feet to the institution's footprint and doubles its publicly available spaces.
"The exhibit expansion that 520 Royal offers us is probably the greatest thing for us as an institution," said John Lawrence, director of museum programs. "Not only the permanent exhibition space, but the temporary exhibit space which is grand and purpose-filled and, I think, equal to any museum exhibition space in the country."
The exhibit space will be used for changing displays and a permanent one highlighting the history of the city's oldest neighborhood.
"Up until now, although there were many things to study individual aspects of the Quarter, there was not really single public museum space that could give people a view of the Quarter all in one sweep," he said. "When people enter these rooms, they'll be introduced to the French Quarter by a series of maps that show the district through time and then explore themes of transportation, communication, music, literature, art and populations."
Inside an exhibit space inside 520 Royal Street.
You'll learn about the French Quarter through more than 200 original objects, as well as photos, paintings, film and maps, both on paper and at your fingertips. A high-tech smartboard map in the building's first-floor visitor center allows users to explore spots throughout the French Quarter like a giant computer tablet.
"This is a place to begin exploring the French Quarter through a series of data points, buildings, and property ownership, about thematic elements of music or the slave trade or architectural history so people can kind of get a sense of what they might discover upstairs by exploring that," Lawrence said.
When Lawrence refers to "upstairs," he's talking about the top floor of the 3-story Seignouret mansion. The building dates to 1816.
"A lot of us know the building as the Brulatour mansion, since that is who purchased it in the mid-19th century, so we try to always refer to it as the Seignouret-Brulatour house," explained Daniel Hammer, the deputy director of the Historic New Orleans Collection.<|fim_middle|> 7, from 1 to 5 p.m.
The new exhibition center's regular hours will be 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Tuesday–Saturday, and 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, closed on Mondays. More information is available online at www.hnoc.org. | "That refers to the two major owners of the house from the 19th century, from its construction through basically the end of the 19th century."
The courtyard at 520 Royal, which has been restored by the Historic New Orleans Collection.
Another important name in the building's history is philanthropist William Ratcliffe Irby, who bought the property in 1918. He remodeled the home and offered it as a home for the Arts and Crafts Club, formed in the 1920s to give members of the city's burgeoning bohemian scene a space to meet and showcase their work. Members of the group also pushed for the preservation of the French Quarter, which was slipping into decline at the time.
Irby, who intended to use 520 Royal as his residence but died in 1926 before he could move in, installed a self-playing pipe organ, which the Historic New Orleans Collection has meticulously restored.
Like so much else in the building, seeing and hearing it takes you back a century or more. There's history here from the third floor to below ground. In 2013, Eyewitness News showed how archaeologists and crews working on the site had discovered an unknown well in the courtyard. Now you can see the well under glass and some of the objects they found are upstairs on display.
Many New Orleanians will remember the Royal Street building as the home of the city's first television station, WDSU. Its studios and offices were located here for more than 40 years from 1950 through 1996. Many live broadcasts even originated from the Brulatour courtyard, which became one of the most recognizable French Quarter courtyards as a result.
The spots where WDSU's newsroom and studios once stood, which were part of 20th century additions to the historic site, are now a memory, demolished and replaced with a ultra-modern exhibit space called the Tricentennial Wing The premiere show in that space, presented by the Helis Foundation, is called "Art of the City: Postmodern to Post-Katrina."
"It is a focus on New Orleans art produced in New Orleans and of New Orleans from 1984, the time of the World's Fair, to the present day, and we have a powerful collection of art by the most significant artists," said Hammer. "Much of it is from our collection, or institutions around town as well as from private collectors."
It's features the work of 75 artists and one mannequin. Yes, that's the figure of Ernie K-Doe sitting in a chair in the gallery space. The effigy is the one K-Doe's wife Antoinette traveled around town with after the musician's 2001 death. There truly is something for everyone in this new space.
The life-sized mannequin of singer Ernie K-Doe, on display. After his death in 2001, his wife transported this figure around town to the delight of fans.
"It's about having people learn and appreciate the city of New Orleans and the region that the city is in and the historic context of all of this area," said Priscilla Lawrence, president and CEO of the Historic New Orleans Collection. "We are about making people better citizens and better appreciators of our heritage."
In addition to traditional museum displays, all of which will be free and open to the public, the new facility features dynamic interactive displays and an immersive film experience created by filmmaker Glen Pitre's Côte Blanche Productions. The building also houses a large gift shop and Café Cour, a museum café run by Dana and Christina Honn of Carmo.
Like a collage of the famous courtyard that's on display here, taking a closer look at something often reveals a clearer picture. In this case, a closer look at the collage reveals mini-postcards depicting New Orleans icons. This new facility is designed to give visitors a clearer picture of an historic building and the neighborhood in which it stands.
"We see our historic buildings as part of our collection, they are texts that tell stories," Hammer said. "New Orleans is a place where you can find the stories of everybody who calls New Orleans home. Our mission is to retain the historic fabric and to bring it to new light and see their stories and their historic fabric."
A free public block party, with music and food and drinks available for purchase, will celebrate the opening of 520 Royal Street on Sunday, April | 930 |
Cash management, in all its various forms, is one of the primary features of any business. Whether you're paying the bills or making the money necessary to pay the bills, your business lives and dies by its efficiency in managing cash. And one app that's out to make paying the bills take a whole lot fewer skills to manage is PageOnce.
PageOnce offers cash management in both directions: incoming and outgoing. See, PageOnce is one of the rare services for your smartphone that allows bill payment; not even Mint and Intuit can offer that. It will allow for a listing of your income and your outflow, as<|fim_middle|> used to make your home expenses a whole lot simpler to manage too, thus giving you more time to put into other areas. Basically, as a time saving system, it's pretty nice indeed, though there is something of a down side here. The thing about PageOnce is that the app itself is free, but the various bill paying services it provides will be another bill, although it's a pretty small one at $4.99 a month.
And of course, some might wonder why they should pay PageOnce $4.99 to do what they could do elsewhere for less or even free, and the answer here would be "convenience". Instead of going to your bank, then to your cell phone provider, then to your credit card's page, you can do everything from that one app.
It's up to you, of course, whether your time is worth $4.99 a month, but it's worth a try just to see if you really save any time, if nothing else. | well as giving you access to the balances of your current cash accounts that you've tied into the app, as well as allowing you to select which account you want to use to pay a bill, which is great for tax accounting purposes. And once you set it up properly, you'll even get more information related to cash accounts, such as minutes on your smartphone bill, credit card charges, and what you owe on other bills.
You may be a little hesitant about handing over access to a large quantity of financial data to a smartphone app, especially considering how easy it is to lose the things…or have them stolen, which would almost be worse. But the folks behind PageOnce saw that coming too, and thus set up some security controls like a PIN number for the entire app, and the ability to go online from your home computer and lock access to the app should your phone turn up missing.
Essentially, PageOnce not only gives you access to everything you need to handle your business' expenses, but it can also be | 206 |
FIRST MINISTER OPENS SCOTLAND'S BRAVEST MANUFACTURING COMPANY
RBLI's Scottish social enterprise providing support to injured and out-of-work Scottish veterans has been officially opened by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Scotland's Bravest Manufacturing Company (SBMC) will provide employment and support for up to 1<|fim_middle|>015.pdf | 50 former military personnel over the next three years. The Bishopton factory produces commercial signage and bespoke engineering, as well as supplying fulfilment, print and mailing services.
The First Minister visited the Bishopton site and performed a formal opening ceremony today.
Speaking at the event, Ms Sturgeon said: "The activities of Scotland's Bravest Manufacturing Company are invaluable. I congratulate them on their on-going work that is supporting so many ex-service personnel and their families.
The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that the Armed Forces and Veterans community are able to access the best possible care and support, we are adamant that no one should suffer disadvantage as a result of their service.
We greatly appreciate the work carried out with, and on behalf of, Veterans by organisations such as Scotland's Bravest Manufacturing Company. It really brings home Scotland's commitment to supporting our Armed Forces community during the transition into civilian life and beyond."
She also met with veterans including William Baillie who was medically discharged from the RAF in 2000 after almost a decade-long career. Due to the onset his illness and further physical problems, William had not worked until finding Scotland's Bravest Manufacturing Company.
William said: "You can tell what is happening here at SBMC is incredibly unique and exciting and that's evident by the First Minister kindly taking the time to open the factory.
I am incredibly thankful to have come across Scotland's Bravest Manufacturing Company. I'm seeing veterans from a range of backgrounds all of whom are facing their own unique challenges come here and find a totally new lease of life."
SBMC began production in summer 2018 and has a client list that includes BEAR Scotland, Amey, Balfour Beattie and Network Rail along with many of the Scottish Local Authorities. As a not-for-profit organisation, all surplus revenue made by SBMC is channelled back into the enterprise to further employment opportunity to veterans.
The development was a response to a study into the employment support needs of Scottish veterans, which found that ex-service personnel are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as civilians across the country[1].
Michelle Ferguson, Director of SBMC, said: "We have enjoyed magnificent support from across the Scottish government since our foundation in our mission to provide fully supported, flexible working opportunities to our country's veterans and help them regain independence.
So we are delighted the First Minister was able to perform our official opening and see first-hand the work we are doing here to provide a genuine lifeline to vulnerable veterans, many of whom have been wounded in the service of this country. It was a pleasure to welcome her and I know the team here has taken great encouragement from her invaluable support."
Scotland's Bravest Manufacturing Company is a division of Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI) which celebrates its centenary this year, having been formed in 1919 to provide support for sick and wounded veterans returning from the battlefields of the First World War.
Steve Sherry CMG OBE, Chief Executive of RBLI, said: "The launching of Scotland's Bravest Manufacturing Company has come at an historic time for Royal British Legion Industries, our centenary year.
We have 100 years' worth of experience in providing veterans, particularly those who face challenges due to physical and mental disability, with rewarding and sustained employment, in industry-leading environments, helping them to regain their independence.
We are immensely proud to be working collaboratively with Scottish Charities, commercial organisations and the government to provide the best opportunities for veterans."
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Supreme Court Upholds Canada's Carbon Pricing Law
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The Supreme Court of Canada (the Court) has released a landmark decision upholding the constitutionality of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (GGPPA), in a 6-3 decision with 4 sets of reasons.
The majority of the Court (Chief Justice Wagner and Justices Abella, Moldaver, Karakatsanis, Martin, and Kasirer) determined that the GGPPA "sets minimum national standards of GHG price stringency to reduce GHG emissions" (para 80). The majority found that Parliament has jurisdiction to enact the law as a matter of national concern under the peace, order, and good government (POGG) clause of section 91 of the Constitution Act, 1867.
The majority strongly endorsed carbon pricing as an essential legislative tool. It found that "[t]here is broad consensus among expert international bodies […] that carbon pricing is a critical measure for the reduction of GHG emissions" (para 170) and that the matter of the GGPPA "is critical to our response to an existential threat to human life in Canada and around the world" (para 171).
However, the means used in the GGPPA to implement carbon pricing in Canada evoked three separate dissents (Justice Côté dissented in part and Justices Brown and Rowe wrote separate dissents) that would have struck down the GGPPA on the basis of the breadth of discretion afforded to the federal Cabinet, the supervisory jurisdiction that it affords the federal government, and the application of the POGG jurisdiction and the national concern test.
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WEBINAR: The Supreme Court of Canada's Decision on Carbon Pricing: Outcomes and Implications
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Resilient LLP and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) will co-host a webinar on the decision on Tuesday, March 30 from 3:00-4:00PM EDT. Lawyers involved in arguing the case will provide a briefing on the decision and discuss its significance for Canadian constitutional law and the implications for climate and energy policy in Canada.
A registration link and more information will be circulated with our detailed bulletin later today.
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In bright sunshine, Robert Shvartzman (PREMA Theodore Racing) collected the winner's trophy in the 30th and final race of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship season. The Russian, who had already been crowned as the best rookie of the year, crossed the finish line more than ten seconds ahead of second-placed Mick Schumacher (PREMA Theodore Racing), who had sealed the crown as the new FIA Formula 3 European Champion yesterday. Third place at the 4.574 kilometres long Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg went to Spanish driver Alex Palou (Hitech Bullfrog GP).
At the start of the final race of the 2018 season, Robert Shvartzman made maximum use of his pole position and led the field into the first corner. Next up were Mick Schumacher and Jüri Vips (Motopark). The Estonian, who was still in contention for runner-up spot in the championship, only managed to hold on to his third place until the hairpin. There, he became involved in a collision and spun. Alex Palou inherited third place from Ralf Aron (PREMA Theodore Racing) and Jehan Daruvala (Carlin). The latter retired after an<|fim_middle|> FIA Formula 3 Champion
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© d'ELIS PRO | off-track excursion on lap four. The Indian's retirement promoted Sophia Flörsch (Van Amersfoort Racing) into the top ten for a few laps, but she lost this position again on lap 16 as Vips made his way past the Munich-based racer in the process of his recovery. The Estonian went on to finish tenth.
Out in front, Shvartzman drove an undisputed victory home, followed by Schumacher and Palou. In the closing stages, the Hitech driver had to defend his position from a charging Aron, but managed to keep the Estonian at bay.
Daniel Ticktum (Motopark) finished fifth and was promoted to fourth place afterwards, enough for the Brit to claim runner-up position in the end-of-season standings. Guanyu Zhou (PREMA Theodore Racing), Ferdinand Habsburg (Carlin), Jonathan Aberdein (Motopark), Enaam Ahmed (Hitech Bullfrog GP), Vips and Artem Petrov (Van Amersfoort Racing) rounded out the top ten.
Robert Shvartzman (PREMA Theodore Racing): "My race was largely normal. Mick's start was better than mine, so initially, it was a bit close between the two of us. After that, I had a good pace and I managed to pull clear from the others. However, I also have to admit that my tyres were in a better condition than Mick's. All in all, I really enjoyed the race."
Mick Schumacher (PREMA Theodore Racing): "My start was okay, but then I made a slight mistake. After that, I rather had to look behind than to the front. Generally, I am happy with my second place, especially as Robert and I have secured another 1-2 for the team."
Alex Palou (Hitech Bullfrog GP): "First of all, congratulations to Robert and Mick, the two of them have done a great job both in this race and throughout the season. The Prema team has been really strong this year, too. Personally, I am happy to have made it onto the podium once more. Especially against Ralf Aron, I had to do my utmost because he was really fast."
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25 years after the Great Miners' Strike
Posted on 23rd April 2010 by ISJ
Jack Robertson
The year-long miners' strike which started in March 1984 marked a decisive turning point in the history of the class struggle in Britain. In the 20th century it is only matched by the General Strike of 1926. Normally presented as essentially an ideological clash between the prime minister at the time, Margaret Thatcher, and the president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Arthur Scargill, the strike actually marked the culmination of an extended period of class conflict going back to the mid-1960s, during which a number of deep-seated problems in British capitalism had remained unresolved. Of these, not least was how to deal with the underlying strength of shop-floor organisation which had emerged during the post-war boom years in a number of key industries, including coal mining.1
As we now know, the government eventually succeeded in beating the miners, but only through the biggest policing operation ever used in any industrial dispute in this country and by paying out astronomical sums to enable the electricity industry to run on oil rather than coal.
This article aims to look in some detail at three particular aspects of the strike. The first is the context in which the dispute took place, concentrating on the series of attempts made by successive Labour and Tory administrations to handle the nascent shop stewards movement. It will also look at the series of points in the dispute at which the miners came close to victory, and will attempt an overall assessment of the aftermath of this historic battle.
The rise of shop stewards' organisation
The strike had deep roots. Thatcher's priority was to deal once and for all with what she regarded as "the enemy within", the organised workers responsible for the explosion of militancy which had toppled the Tories in 1972 and again in 1974. Despite enormous setbacks in the late 1970s, workers' organisation in key industries—coal, engineering, the docks—still posed a serious threat and the miners were regarded by the Tories to be the biggest obstacle, not least because they were one of the few groups of workers to have survived relatively intact and they could still draw confidence from their great victories in 1972 and 1974.
To explain the origins of the special regard in which the miners were held, both by the government and by other workers, we need to go back to the period immediately after the Second World War when shop-floor organisation became especially strong in sectors such as engineering and the car industry as well as in the docks, in the print and in the coal industry. This strength was maintained despite a long process of depoliticisation that took place within the working class in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s.
For most of this period the leaderships of the largest manual unions (except for the Transport and General Workers Union, TGWU) were controlled by the Labour right wing and the largest white-collar unions were officially non-political. In many industries the collaboration of right wing, and occasionally left wing, Labour leaders with the employers during a period of capitalist expansion and rising real wages generally meant a very low level of industrial action.
But things were very different in some key industries. The largest of these was engineering where unofficial stoppages were the norm. Unofficial disputes did not necessarily represent a challenge to the right wing national union leaders. Most of them typically involved only individual sections in a particular factory or workplace; what was important was the way that workers in large sections of engineering and the motor industries had found themselves able, under conditions of full employment, to turn a system of payment by results called piecework into a mechanism for raising wages, section by section, far above the rates negotiated nationally between the employers and the right wing union leaders.
The shop stewards who negotiated over the piece rates in the section often came to be regarded by their members as much more important than the national officials. The outcome was that in engineering and motors, alongside the formal, national union structure dominated by the right wing, another informal structure emerged which was made up of an estimated 100,000 shop stewards.
By and large, these shop stewards did not have revolutionary politics. Probably no more than 5 percent were members of the Communist Party and the great majority would have had ideas no different to those of the average worker and often well to the right of many of the official union leaders. Nonetheless, the shop stewards were much closer to the workers they represented; they usually faced annual re-election, earned the same wages and were subjected to the same bullying from management.
Until the mid-1960s shop steward organisation as such was mainly a feature of the engineering industry, but there was a tendency for this form of rank and file organisation to be copied by manual workers in other industries. In two other very important industries there was a pattern of unofficial action without a formal stewards' system. One of these was coal mining, where there was a high level of strike activity—almost all of it unofficial—until payment by results was ended in the years 1966-70. The number of unofficial strikes involving miners was almost as great as in all the other industries put together. The unofficial action was made up of a mass of strikes by particular sections of face workers which were often independent not only of the national and Area leaderships of the union, but also of the pit level leadership.
The other important industry was the docks, where the casual system of employment of dockers by the day meant there could be no permanent stewards. This system also, however, led to innumerable disputes being led by unofficial activists organising around dock gate meetings and capable of exerting enormous pressure.2
Dealing with this "shift in the locus of reformism" (as a series of analyses in this journal put in during the 1960s) began to be regarded as a central problem by British capitalism as it came under increasing pressure on the world markets. In 1965 the Labour government set up the Donovan Commission, otherwise known as the Royal Commission on the Trade Unions and Employers' Associations, specifically to look into the problem and come up with ideas on how to tackle it.
In his final report the chairman of the Commission, Lord Donovan, rejected a frontal attack through the use of the law either on the stewards' system or on the plethora of unofficial strikes. Instead he suggested a long-term effort to bring the stewards under the control of formal union structures and to increase the importance of union full-timers in bargaining procedures (by moving to plant-wide bargaining rather than sectional bargaining, for instance).
This strategy was in line with what important elements in the ruling class were already doing when Donovan was published in 1968. In the car industry, for example, Ford already had a Measured Day Work payments system which did away with on the job bargaining between shop stewards and management over job times. Other car firms such as Rootes (later Chrysler) and British Leyland followed suit.
In coal mining the introduction of the National Power Loading Agreement in 1966 also did away with payment by results and, therefore, with the major cause of unofficial strikes. On the docks the Devlin Report recommended replacing casual day by day organisation with a formal system of stewards for the first time, as a way of decreasing the likelihood of strikes. Finally there was a general move towards productivity bargaining in an attempt to increase output per worker.
The aim was to begin a long-term process of establishing a climate in which management would increasingly have the upper hand when it came to imposing new working conditions and speeds. However, a section of the employing class did not like this "softly, softly" approach, but wanted tougher measures including the outlawing of unofficial strikes. It was a Labour government which took the first steps in this direction in 1969 when the employment secretary at the time, Barbara Castle, published a White Paper called In Place of Strife.
For the first time in the post-war period, legal curbs on union activity were proposed, but Labour was forced to retreat under pressure not only from union leaders, who feared the attack on unofficial strikes would damage them as well, but also from the networks of unofficial activists, who then went on to organise the first political strikes for nearly half a century against the government's anti-union legislation.
Labour's initial attack on the unofficial shop stewards' organisation was driven back but when the Tories were elected in 1970 under the leadership of Ted Heath they set out to renew the offensive. This time the result was the biggest and most political wave of workers' struggles since the 1920s. Unemployment was deliberately increased in the hope that this would intimidate workers but the onslaught against full employment backfired when a very popular work-in was organised at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in 1971.
Heath also attempted to enforce the new Industrial Relations Act but this provoked calls for protest action from the minority of activists associated with the hard left in the Communist Party, the Labour left and, occasionally, the revolutionary left. These initiatives met with a response from wide numbers of non-political union activists, producing official and unofficial one-day protest strikes in 1970 and 1971, and widespread unofficial action in support of the dockers in the summer of 1972.
At the same time, repeated attempts by the government to hold down wages through incomes policies and wage norms began to impact on other sections of workers who had not yet seen the benefit of the kind of "do it yourself" reformism achieved through informal stewards' organisation and section-by-section wage bargaining. These other groups of workers, many of them already low-paid, had been hit hardest by government pay policy and increasingly began to fight back.
Teachers and dustmen took part in strike action in 1969, there were strikes by Pilkington glass workers, manual council workers and Leeds clothing workers in 1970, by postal workers in 1971, and by gas workers, civil servants and hospital workers in 1973. Far from containing the shop steward forms of organisation, government action inadvertently encouraged their spread to whole new industries.
Shop steward organisation also spread to mining, where the switch from piecework to a national rate also began to backfire. Miners now began to display a united and nationwide anger over pay such as had not been seen for four decades since the General Strike. This took the form of unofficial strike movements in 1969 and 1970 before the national official strike of 1972.
At the same time, the left in the unions was given new life. The organisational structures of the Communist Party and the Labour left had declined in the 1950s and 1960s but networks of political militants remained in many industries and these were capable of providing at least some degree of coordination and focus for these struggles.
In engineering there was a national Broad Left organisation which was particularly strong in districts like Glasgow, Sheffield, Manchester, Coventry and London. On the docks there was a National Dockworkers Shop Stewards' Committee. In the coal industry the central focus was the Barnsley Forum, an unofficial network based in the Yorkshire coalfield.
These networks were re-energised as the struggle rose. The activists of the Barnsley Forum took the initiative in the miners' strikes, the convenors and stewards at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders tapped a massive reservoir of support for the "work-in" to keep the yards open, the dock industry shop stewards led the fight against the Industrial Relations Act that culminated in the release from jail of the Pentonville Five, and the Communist Party-led Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions (LCDTU) was able to call nationwide one-day strikes involving half a million workers against Labour's In Place of Strife in 1969, and against the Tories' Industrial Relations Bill in December 1970.
The nationalisation of miners' militancy
All these developments form an important part of the backdrop to what was happening in the mining industry in the lead up to the miners' two great victories, first in 1972 and again in 1974. At the time of nationalisation in 1947 miners were promised a future for their "own" industry and more of a say in its running. In practice, however, most of the bosses of the new state-run enterprise were exactly the same people who had run the private mines, with the addition of a new layer of bureaucracy in the form of top civil servants and ex-officers from the armed forces.
In reality, the main difference was that nationalisation made it easier bring about a more systematic rationalisation of the industry than had been possible under private ownership, since it drew the leadership of the mining unions into the decision-making process. A "tripartite" set-up developed between government, management of the National Coal Board and leaders of the mining unions which produced a series of strategy documents known as the "Plan for Coal".
This did not prevent the rapid run down of the industry from the late 1950s onwards, as new sources of energy such as oil and natural gas challenged coal. Between 1964 and 1970 the Labour government continued the pit closure programme initiated under its Tory predecessors, shedding 170,000 jobs to add to the 250,000 already lost—the fastest rate of contraction the coal industry had experienced since nationalisation.
In the post-war period the stance taken by leaders of the NUM had been that the only guarantee of stopping the decline was through the election of a Labour government. Instead, as we have seen, what happened when Labour came to power in 1964 was that the rate of closures intensified. This was coupled with a prices and incomes policy designed to put a brake on workers' pay demands, cuts in public expenditure and a sharp rise in unemployment. Whereas many miners had, until this point, often been quite happy to get out of mining when they had their chance during the period of economic boom immediately after the war—many of them taking up jobs in the car industry—this was no longer an option when both industries were beginning to contract.
As a result, the argument for meekly complying with the NCB's closure plans began to look increasingly untenable in the midst of the jobs massacre and attacks on pay. By the late 1960s the reactions of miners on the pit closure question were increasingly divided. Some were resigned to the idea that the term "uneconomic" essentially meant the Coal Board could shut pits as and when it saw fit. But a growing minority rejected this logic and were beginning to mount a serious challenge to the established, predominantly "moderate", leadership of the NUM.
Discontent was exacerbated by growing friction over pay. As in many other industries, coal had traditionally been cut using a piecework system which, because of constantly changing geological conditions, required regular and very localised bargaining. The upshot of this was that three quarters of all strikes recorded by the Ministry of Labour were in coal mining, but these strikes were generally very short and very small; rarely was strike solidarity displayed across a colliery, let alone beyond it.
As the use of heavy machinery to cut coal became more prevalent in the collieries, the numbers on piecework were first reduced and then eliminated altogether after the introduction of the National Power Loading Agreement (NPLA) in 1966. The idea behind the NPLA was that it would end the wide disparities in earnings which were inevitable under a piecework system, bring some order to the pay bargaining process and—most important of all—put an end to unofficial disputes and take control of wage bargaining out of the hands of pit representatives.
The trouble was that the changeover to the new system was a disaster. It led to pay cuts for some miners—particularly those working in the more productive coalfields—who had up until then benefited from the piecework schemes and who now found that the new flat rates were lower than their existing earnings. In effect this meant that miners in the two largest coalfields, Yorkshire and Nottingham, were expected to accept below-inflation pay rises until miners in the lower-rated areas caught up. The unforeseen effect of bringing in the national agreement was to "nationalise" dissatisfaction over wages throughout the entire industry.3 This dissatisfaction had been an important contributory element in the unofficial strikes that took place in the late 1960s which were no longer limited to single collieries and instead had spread like wildfire from pit to pit and to other areas of the country.
At the end of the 1960s opposition to the right wing leadership in the NUM which had held sway for nearly 50 years had begun to emerge in areas like South Wales, Scotland and Kent, but it was strongest in Yorkshire, where large-scale closures had started to be announced for the first time since nationalisation: in 1967 alone nine pits were closed in Yorkshire. The NUM leadership in the area had been firmly controlled by right wingers for the entire period since 1947.
Part of the challenge to the old leadership was growing signs that miners were not prepared to take lying down the repeated attacks on their jobs and pay. A series of unofficial disputes took place, the earliest of which was a strike over piecework in the Doncaster area in 1961. In 1969 and 1970 two unofficial disputes swept the Yorkshire coalfield and spread rapidly to other Areas of the union. What all this heralded was that growing rank and file anger was beginning to reshape the leadership of the NUM, crucially in Yorkshire, the largest coalfield in the country.
These strikes weren't organised by the full-time leadership of the NUM, who bitterly opposed them. Instead the activity and organisation came entirely from below via the branch leadership and the "panel" system (the Yorkshire Area of the NUM was subdivided into four smaller areas, each with its own "panel", or subcommittee). A key event in the development of the miners' rank and file organisation in Yorkshire was the formation of the Barnsley Miners' Forum in 1967. This galvanised the activists, and a prime mover in the organisation was Arthur Scargill, who at this time was a face worker at Woolley Colliery near Barnsley.
The forum held monthly meetings on Friday evenings in Barnsley and acted as a ginger group of branch lay officials. It played a key role in standing up to the right wing leadership in the Yorkshire NUM and invited speakers to its meetings from other areas, including leading lights in the emerging NUM "Broad Left" such as Lawrence Daly and Mick McGahey from Scotland, Emlyn Williams from South Wales and Jack Dunn from Kent. However, by far its most important function was in creating the network of militants which was to play an instrumental role in the unofficial mass strikes of 1969 and 1970, and which was later in the forefront of the miners' great victory over Ted Heath's Tory government in 1972.
The key to the miners' victory in 1972 was the devastating use of secondary picketing. There were two important versions of this—flying pickets and mass pickets. The flying pickets were contingents of strikers organised into relatively small teams to pick out selected targets, such as major power stations or pits which had not yet joined the strike, and attempt to close them down as rapidly as possible.
Contrary to media mythology, flying pickets were not about physical intimidation. Their job was to explain the strikers' case and appeal for the most effective solidarity that other workers could provide either through secondary strike action, bans on overtime or stopping the movement of coal. Much of the masterminding of this operation was centred on Yorkshire, where Scargill had by now emerged as leader of the rank and file network built through the Barnsley Forum. Between 1967 and 1972 this movement had already won a series of important battles with the Coal Board.
So, despite the fact that the leader of the NUM in 1972, Joe Gormley, was an out and out right winger, this relatively small but extremely determined network of miners was able to bring about one of the most devastating defeats ever inflicted on the ruling class in this country. And the linchpin of the victory was another form of picketing—the mass picket.
After the flying pickets had shut down as many pits and power stations as they could, the central focus of the 1972 strike shifted to Saltley in Birmingham, the largest coke depot in the country. The miners knew that if they could stop lorries moving in and out of this huge compound—where an estimated 138,000 tons of coke were stored—they would bring the government to its knees. However, the miners did not have the resources to achieve this on their own against an increasingly large police mobilisation. After nearly two weeks on the picket line at Saltley and daily batterings from the police, the miners sent out delegations to the car plants in the Birmingham area and didn't so much appeal for solidarity as demand it.
Shop stewards and convenors called mass meetings at all the major factories in Birmingham and, on the morning of 10 February 1972, workers began to flood out. What happened next is described by Scargill, as an estimated 15,000 car workers joined 3,000 miners on the picket line: "And then over this hill came a banner and I've never seen in my life as many people following a banner. As far as the eye could see it was just a mass of people… There was a huge roar and from the other side of the hill they were coming the other way… They were coming from every direction and our lads were just jumping up in the air with emotion".4
There were only 800 police to cope with this sea of people, nowhere near enough to handle the number of workers who had joined the picket line—the police were outnumbered by more than 20 to one. The chief constable of Birmingham was left with no choice but to give in to the pickets' demands and close the gates at Saltley in "the interests of public safety". The odds stacked against the police were so vast that there was no violence at all. One of the shop stewards who took part in the mass picket was quoted as saying, "For the first time in my life I had a practical demonstration of what workers' solidarity meant. We all felt so powerful. We felt we could rule the world".5
Effective mass picketing was absolutely crucial to the success of the miners' greatest victory in 1972. In their recent book on the miners' strike of 1984-85, Marching to the Fault Line, the Guardian journalists Francis Beckett and David Hencke dispute this version of the events that took place at Saltley Gates, considering them to be of relatively minor importance.6 There is a reason for this: it provides a spurious rationalisation for the much-repeated opposition to mass pickets voiced during the 1984 strike by politicians such as Labour leader Neil Kinnock, and also by NUM researcher Kim Howells (later a Labour MP and Blairite minister).
However, this is a preposterous rewriting of what was not only the defining moment of the 1972 strike and the point at which the government knew it was beaten but also one of the most significant moments in British working class history because it so brilliantly illustrated the power of solidarity action. The pity is that the lessons of 1972 and Saltley Gate were not more energetically pursued in 1984.
Beckett and Hencke imply that Scargill's version of what happened at Saltley is of a piece with his general tendency towards self-aggrandisement. In fact, Scargill's description of what happened is perfectly accurate and is one which was shared at the time by other participants in the struggle, up to and including the chief of police in the West Midlands and the home secretary, Reginald Maudling.
Maudling later said that the reason picketing had been so effective in 1972 was that other unions had given instructions to their members not to cross picket lines.7 And, putting the events in their proper historical perspective, the historian AJP Taylor wrote that, whereas the miners had been driven back to work by hunger in 1921 and 1926, as a result of the events at Saltley, "the miners have avenged the defeats of 1921 and 1926. I rejoice at the miners' victory and I record that February 19th will long be remembered as a glorious day in the history of the working class".8
Thatcher herself wrote in her memoirs:
In February 1972 mass pickets led by Arthur Scargill forced the closure of the Saltley Coke Depot in Birmingham by sheer weight of numbers…it was a frightening demonstration of the impotence of the police…and it lent substance to the myth that the NUM had the power to make or break British governments, or at the very least the power to veto any policy threatening their interests by preventing coal getting to power stations.9
The success of the miners' strike was only one of the high points in an extraordinary period which lasted throughout 1972 and was followed two years later by another strike that led to Heath's fall. As Royden Harrison noted shortly after, the miners had achieved a series of victories which were unprecedented in British history:
First, they compelled the prime minister to receive them in 10 Downing Street—which he had sworn he would never do—then they forced him to concede more in 24 hours than had been conceded in the last 24 years. Then two years later their 1974 strike led him to introduce the three-day week—a novel system of government by catastrophe—for which he was rewarded with defeat in the General Election. Nothing like this had ever been heard of before!10
It was exactly this conclusion that most concerned the ruling class at the time. Just as the miners' victory in 1972 was a massive inspiration for other workers, the humiliation of Heath's administration sent the next generation of Tory leaders—like Margaret Thatcher, Norman Tebbit and Nicholas Ridley—into apoplexy. Most of them were junior members of Heath's government at the time and for them the settling of scores with the miners and with other key groups of workers who had won such exceptional victories during the years of the Heath government became paramount.
The social contract and the erosion of shopfloor militancy
In 1974 the Heath government was effectively forced out of office by its inability to beat the trade unions. Its Industrial Relations Act had proved completely ineffective in the face of an official boycott by most of the unions and through mass unofficial action. Both of Heath's attempts to impose wage controls were wrecked when they ran into the resistance of the miners—in the spring of 1972 and the winter of 1973-4. Instead of shifting the balance of power on the shop floor towards the employers, government measures fanned the flames of discontent in industry; hostility to them provided a single political focus for forms of industrial militancy that had not previously had an overt political goal.
However, there were some important limitations on the militancy of these years: the electoral defeat of the Tory government in February 1974 was not due to a great shift leftwards among the majority of workers. The Tories lost because voters deserted them for other parties such as the Liberals and the Scottish Nationalists, but there was no dramatic swing to Labour. The new industrial militancy had not translated into widespread political militancy.
In addition, the swing to the left within the official structures of the trade union movement involved new faces in the bureaucracy rather than a rejection of the idea of collaboration. Typically, left wing union leaders were quite prepared to go along with Labour Party schemes for more state funding of private industry, for productivity bargaining and for planning agreements involving government, industrialists and the unions.
These ideas were accepted in turn by many of those who made up the networks of political militants which had been so important in the battles of 1969-74. The limitation of their politics was that they were based on an amalgam of left reformism and Broad Leftism, heavily influenced by the Communist Party. This had not prevented them fighting the fag-end of the Labour government in 1969, or the Tory government which followed, but these limitations became all-important once there was a new Labour government backed by left wing union leaders and, most importantly, shored up by the leaders of the two largest unions—Jack Jones of the TGWU and Hugh Scanlon of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (two unions which are now amalgamated as Unite).
Jones and Scanlon had impressive left wing credentials which gave them enormous credibility with the leadership of the shop stewards movement. Jones had taken part in the Spanish Civil War and had helped to build effective union organisation in the docks. Scanlon had also risen from the ranks in the Manchester engineering industry and had been one of the few national union officials to support industrial action against Heath's Industrial Relations Act, in the form of a one-day national strike.
Indeed, the very fact that Jones and Scanlon had been elected to the leadership of the two largest unions in the country was regarded as the pinnacle of achievement for the Broad Left union strategy, the main aim of which had been to oust the right wing leadership which had dominated for so many years. However, in placing virtually all of its emphasis on the election of "left" leaders the Broad Left neglected the maintenance of the rank and file organisation that was the backbone of the victories in 1972 and 1974. No attempt was made to warn the shop stewards that they should have no illusions in Jones and Scanlon, nor was there any recognition that the stewards would need immense confidence to act independently of the new left wing leadership if required.
As it turned out, this was precisely what was required, and when Jones and Scanlon swung their considerable influence behind support for Labour's austerity measures and against further strike action over pay and jobs, the leadership of the shop stewards movement lacked the political confidence to resist.
The employing class and the new Labour government that came to office in the spring of 1974 made a tactical retreat before the workers' movement to buy off discontent, and then worked with the union leaderships to undercut the base of the militancy. Major sections of big business decided they had little option but to go along with collaboration rather than confrontation with the union leaders and the Labour government, for a time.
Typically, the Economist, the major big business weekly, welcomed Labour's repeal of the Industrial Relations Act. It realised that the union leaders, including the Broad Left "terrible twins" Jones and Scanlon, would be prepared to police their own memberships in return for such friendly government action.
The employers' retreat in 1974 meant the collapse of the wage controls imposed by Heath and the spread of strike activity among sections of workers whose wages had been held down in 1973—including traditionally non-militant groups such as local government white-collar workers, nurses, bakers, lorry drivers and teachers. This came to a head in a 40,000-strong wave of strikes by lorry drivers, bus workers, dustmen, distillery workers and engineers in the West of Scotland during the winter of 1974-5. The new alliance of the government, the employers and union leaders was soon getting control over this wave of militancy, however. Jack Jones of the TGWU went out of his way to denounce the West of Scotland strikes and, as a result, they petered out without ever developing into a unified focus of opposition to the Labour government's policies.
The employers were also aided by the fact that the world crisis that had begun in the autumn of 1973 was pushing up unemployment. In 1974 the number of workers unemployed rose to two million. In the car industry the scale of job losses was already beginning to sap militancy and union leaders began to point to the rising level of unemployment and the high level of inflation as evidence that "chaos" lay around the corner unless workers collaborated with their bosses over pay and conditions.
Workers did not have the confidence to resist such arguments. They could possibly have done so had there existed a widespread network of revolutionaries rooted in the factories and strong enough to initiate an effective fightback; a mass spontaneous rebellion might even have developed against the government's policies—but neither was present in 1974-5.
In July 1975 the upturn of the previous decade suffered a serious blow. The government announced a statutory limit on wages and the union leaders agreed to police it. Again it was the Broad Left leaders, Jones and Scanlon, who played the key role in selling this; the alternative, Jones warned, was "the end of society as we know it".11
The following two years saw the largest decline in the living standards of employed workers of the 20th century and a collapse in the number of strikes. Whereas there were 2,974 strikes involving 1,253,000 workers between August 1974 and July 1975, there were only 1,829 strikes involving 591,000 workers over the next 21 months—the first phase of a downturn in the class struggle had begun. The decline in the level of industrial struggle in the face of an incomes policy imposed by the government and the TUC was not a new thing. The same had happened under the previous Labour government between 1966 and 1968. However, there were two important differences which gave the second downturn a more permanent character.
The first difference was that the role of the left union leaders in policing wage controls removed an important focus of opposition. The left had been in opposition in most unions under the previous Labour government and had used hostility to the effects of incomes policy to boost its own electoral fortunes. Now that left was using its influence to ensure that Labour's "social contract" was upheld.
The other key difference was the use of the lull in the industrial struggle by the employers and the government to induce workers to accept measures designed to weaken the old shop steward structures—ending "mutuality" (negotiation over things like machine times) in factories where Measured Day Work had already been imposed, removing leading stewards from the shop floor through participation schemes, and formalising procedure agreements.
Left wingers like Tony Benn who remained in the government helped to sell schemes for workers' participation in their own exploitation, which included the disastrous 1977 productivity scheme in the pits. Under such circumstances, it was possible for leading left wing stewards like Derek "Red Robbo" Robinson, convenor at British Leyland's Longbridge plant in Birmingham and a member of the Communist Party, to comply with the idea that their job was to help management to make the plant "viable"—which Robinson embraced to the point of denouncing a strike by his fellow toolmakers as "divisive".
The importance of these changes was shown in 1977-9: there was a revival of industrial struggle, but the impact of the strikes was rather different. Whereas in the period 1969-74 disputes involving one group of workers became generalised and supported by others, in 1977-9 they tended to remain isolated or were even denounced by their own side. In this way the Broad Left union leaders and the stewards who shared their politics crippled some of the key strikes of 1977, including the Heathrow engineers' strike, the Port Talbot electricians' strike the Leyland toolroom workers' strike. The most disgraceful example was the Swan Hunter strike in which the former leader of the UCS workers on Clydeside, Jimmy Airlie, accepted a management proposal to transfer work being carried out on a Polish ship to the Glasgow yards from Tyneside where the workforce was on strike, arguing: "If Newcastle are losing six ships through disputes, we will build them. If not us, then the Japs will".12
While the general shift in the unions under the Labour government of 1964-70 had been to the left, notably with the victory of Hugh Scanlon in the AUEW presidential election, under the 1974-79 government the shift went the other way, with diehard right winger Terry Duffy taking over the AUEW leadership from Scanlon.
The impact of these more general defeats was also beginning to be felt in the mining industry. Immediately after Heath's defeat by the miners in 1974 a new "Plan for Coal" had been drawn up between the Coal Board, NUM leaders and Labour, the aim of which was to head off any further confrontation with the miners. It not only conceded most of the demands made by the miners in their confrontation with Heath, but also promised that levels of coal production would be maintained and indeed increased over the coming decade, albeit with an increasing emphasis on production from a new generation of "super-pits". The new "Plan for Coal" marked the beginning of a phase in which the Labour government's industrial strategy, headed up by respected left wingers Michael Foot and Tony Benn, shifted back from the full-frontal assault attempted by Heath to a more cooperative and collaborative approach.
In line with the NCB's confident predictions for the future of coal, the major consumers—primarily the state-owned Central Electricity Generating Board and British Steel Corporation—also forecast increased demand for coal. All told, the Coal Board estimated that the demand for coal up to the mid-1980s was likely to exceed existing levels of output and could reach an annual total of 150 million tons. The plans laid for the coal industry by the Coal Industry Tripartite Committee envisaged the development of large centralised centres of coal production through sinking new pits, and linking up, rationalising and expanding existing pits. In addition, the Labour government and the Coal Board sought once again to change miners' pay, after the fiasco of the National Power Loading Agreement. They pressed for the introduction of a new Pit Incentive Scheme, which would allow wages to be based on productivity levels rather than a flat rate.
The scheme was opposed by Arthur Scargill, who had been elected president of the Yorkshire Area of the NUM in 1973, and by a number of other Areas. When a national ballot was conducted, there was a clear majority vote against the scheme. What happened next was to become a very important issue during the 1984-5 strike. The leadership of the Nottingham area decided to ignore the result of the national ballot and go ahead with the incentive scheme regardless. The main reason for this was that workers there were virtually guaranteed high bonus earnings because the seams in Nottingham were among the most productive in the country.
In the event, opposition to the introduction of the new scheme disintegrated in other areas and the divisions led to the opening up of huge pay differentials between collieries in the largest and most productive coalfields such as Yorkshire and Nottingham, and those in the "peripheral" coalfields of Scotland, Durham, South Wales, Lancashire and Kent. Even within districts and within individual collieries there could be large differences in take-home pay and this now depended much more on factors such as geological conditions and levels of investment than on the amount of effort put in by individual miners.
All this was taking place in coal mining at about the same time as the now notorious "Winter of Discontent" of 1979 which, although it did produce very impressive strike statistics, was of a completely different character to the upsurge of militancy of the early 1970s. These disputes were not called and organised by the shop stewards' network which had been at the forefront in the earlier part of the decade, but were led by the national officials of relatively new unions such as NUPE and NALGO (now both parts of UNISON) whose membership had grown massively throughout the 1970s, mainly in the public sector areas of education, local councils and the health service. Workers in these industries, many of them women, had been particularly badly hit by successive government attacks on wages in the late 1970s but did not have the traditions of independent shop-floor organisation which had featured so prominently during the upturn of 1970-74.
The Thatcher government: the ruling class on the offensive
The political beneficiary of the disillusionment with Labour that found expression in the winter of discontent was not the left, but Margaret Thatcher. The reason for this was twofold: the trade union leaderships, the Labour government and the employers had worked together for six years to exacerbate the weaknesses of the trade union movement and the swing to the left within the movement in the preceding period had benefited a Broad Leftism that was willing to justify opposition to strikes and support for class collaboration under a Labour government.
With Thatcher's election in 1979, the employers were determined to reap the rewards of weakened union organisation, and opinion inside the Confederation of British Industry moved sharply in a "confrontationist" direction. The same employers who had secretly welcomed a Labour government in 1974 as the only way out of a difficult situation for their class were overjoyed at its fall in 1979. Labour had done all the dirty work of which they thought it was capable, and they felt a government was needed that was less beholden to the trade union bureaucracy in order to finish the job.
The new Thatcher government set out not merely to hold the line against the gains made by the trade union movement in the early 1970s but, crucially, to carry through a decisive shift in the balance of class forces. Its strategy for doing so involved three separate components. Monetarist economic policies were aimed at imposing financial constraints on managers to shed labour, cut wage costs and increase productivity. In industry this meant refusing to intervene to protect firms from market pressures; in welfare services and local government it meant using the "cash limits" already devised by Labour to enforce cutbacks.
The Ridley Plan, drawn up by right wing Tory Nicholas Ridley in the wake of the fall of the Heath government in 1974, was a series of carefully timed set-piece confrontations designed to break the power of key unions, starting in industries where the unions were thought to be weak and leaving the most powerful groups of workers, like the miners and dockers, until last. Furthermore, the law was to be used to weaken the ability of unions to take industrial action and, by threatening their funds, to persuade their leaders to cooperate with the employers. Once again the aim was a phased attack, with mild legal changes at first and, as the unions got tied up by these, moving on to more radical measures.
The Thatcher wing of the cabinet believed that British capitalism was weak precisely because of the concessions made in the past to preserve "consensus". So they spearheaded a carefully phased employers' offensive right across industry. The most important attack, the victimisation of Derek Robinson at Longbridge in November 1979, set a pattern that was repeated again and again over the next five years. Management would, on each occasion, exploit the gap which had opened up between many stewards and those they represented and appeal over the heads of the unions to the mass of members. Whenever this looked as if it might backfire, they would look to dirty deals with national union leaders to regain control of the situation.
This happened at Leyland itself on a number of occasions in the first three years of the government—in April 1980 at the Land Rover plant in Solihull, in October 1981 over a wage claim throughout the company, and in November 1982 over the sacking of Alan Thornett. On each occasion it became clear that there was a hard minority in the plants who really wanted a fight, but in most cases this minority could win majority support only for a brief moment. There was no longer any strong current among the stewards ideologically opposed to action, as there had been in the "social contract" years, but on each occasion the minority found it could not hold the majority out in the face of concerted management attacks and desertion by the union leaderships.
The Thatcher government's forcing up of unemployment helped immensely in their offensive against the workers. Unemployment rose by about 250 percent in three years. These were the bitterest years of the downturn for trade union militants. Each defeat bred defeatism on the shop floor that paved the way for further defeats.
The Tory offensive also required attacks on industries where traditions of militancy were weaker. The first major confrontation was with the steel workers at the beginning of 1980, although it soon became clear that this part of the strategy was not going to be a walkover. Management made a deliberately insulting wage offer in an effort to humiliate the main union, the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC). It calculated that the union had a tradition of acquiescence; it had not taken national strike action since before 1926, the national leadership was very right wing, and there was little in the way of independent shop steward organisation or local branch initiative.
Nevertheless in the event the strike was extremely solid and militant, particularly in Yorkshire where the proportion of workers picketing turned out to be very high. The government found itself facing a harder fight than it had bargained for. However, the onset of a second phase of deep economic recession meant that industry could make do with depleted stocks of steel and the fragmentation of the class which had been so exacerbated by the years of social contract meant that other sections of workers did not automatically support the steel workers. The upshot was that scab steel streamed out of the non-striking private steel firms and was carried through the gates of hundreds of factories by lorry drivers holding TGWU cards.
Even so, the failure of the steel workers to break through did not mean that the Tories always had it easy on the industrial front. They had to beat a quick retreat in 1981 when the same South Wales miners who had refused to stand alongside the steel workers the previous year struck over the threat to their own pits and sent flying pickets out to other areas. Thatcher was forced to agree on a £400 million plan to keep pits open. Similarly, fear of the consequences held the government back from allowing port employers to impose compulsory redundancies which would have effectively ended the National Dock Labour Scheme.
The Tories also encountered resistance to their attempts to cut the living standards of National Health Service workers in the same year. The health service was hit by the biggest tide of militancy it had known as a series of one-day and selective strikes gained the enthusiastic support of hundreds of thousands of ancillary workers and nurses. However, the union leaders refused to even consider turning the selective and one-day strikes into an all-out strike until it was far too late, and the government again ended up the victor. In the aftermath of the health service strike it was able to go on the offensive, pushing through schemes to undercut wages, conditions and union strength.
The strikes in the steel industry and the health service (and on the railways) all showed that the Tories' attacks on wages and conditions could provoke outbreaks of militancy among sections of workers which had low strike rates in the past. The same phenomenon was to be seen with selective strikes involving print workers, civil servants (over pay, in the summer of 1981), telecom engineers (against privatisation in the autumn of 1983), teachers (in 1983) and local government white-collar workers.
The increase in strike activity recorded by these industries was not nearly sufficient to counter the downward trend in engineering and motors—let alone shipbuilding, which had been virtually decimated by the rundown of the industry. However, they did point to the way the government's attacks were creating a trend in the class that ran counter to the predominant current of demoralisation and defensiveness.
Different sections of the employing class had different expectations of the Tory government when it was elected in 1979. The divisions continued right through the government's first five years. In 1980, at the time of the steel strike, there was considerable feeling in the Tory cabinet and in publications like the Financial Times that the government's approach was misplaced. The same doubts were expressed a year later, after the retreat over pit closures, when the Financial Times's description of "a thoroughly disorganised government" summed up the feelings of some sections of industry. The Confederation of British Industry's conference that autumn was notable for the level of criticism directed at the government.
The division in the Tory Party was a relatively clear one between the Thatcherites and the "wets". On the one hand were those who thought the profitability and competitiveness of British big business could be saved by a combination of monetarism, confrontation with the unions and the "freeing up of market forces". On the other were those who still believed in the "corporatist" approach which had emerged from the crisis of the inter-war years, combining state intervention to build up nationally important industries and collaboration with the trade union bureaucracy to control the workers.
Looked at in one way, the Thatcherites had been resoundingly successful. In 1971 the chief constable of Glasgow had warned that troops might be necessary on Clydeside if the Heath government closed Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and destroyed too many jobs in shipbuilding. Ten years later, the manpower in those yards was being run down at breakneck speed with next to no resistance.
Similarly, in 1975, the Labour government had paid a massive bribe to keep Chrysler Linwood afloat because of the political consequences of not doing so. In 1981 the Thatcher government had no difficulty in simply allowing the plant's new owner, Peugeot, to shut it.
Yet looked at in a different way, its achievements were limited. To destroy one job in four in manufacturing industry and still fear pressure on wages was no great accomplishment. By the time of the 1983 general election the living standards of a sizeable section of workers had risen again to their 1974 and 1979 peak levels. This reflected the strength of the pound (itself partly a consequence of Thatcher's hard-money policies), which kept prices rising more slowly than the earnings of those still in work. Even in the public sector the government's successes were limited. It had held the line on wages for civil servants, teachers, steel workers, shipyard workers and rail workers. But the step by step approach of the Ridley Plan entailed turning a blind eye to the activity of very powerful groups like miners, power station workers or dockers.
In its issue of 27 November 1982 the Economist suggested the government needed to cut wages by an average of about 20 percent if it was to restore the rate of profit of British capitalism. All Thatcher's successes still left her a very long distance from achieving this goal. Indeed, she suffered from a paradox: one reason she had been able to win the general election of 1983 was because she could boast to many workers that they were as well off as they had ever been, yet that outcome was the opposite of the goals she had set for British capitalism.
A government which had seemed so full of determination and purpose in its first spell in office seemed directionless within a matter of months of winning a massive electoral victory. It had proved it could cut living standards and boost productivity while the economy was in decline. It had not proved it had a policy to cope with the economic expansion that British-based big business needed to really build up its profits.
The main sections of the ruling class were well aware that their victories in the previous decade still had not rolled back the defences of the working class movement to a sufficient extent for them to carry through a real onslaught on wages, and there was considerable fear of workers gaining a new confidence to fight as industrial production picked up. There were some signs by the summer of 1983 that these fears were beginning to be borne out. The number of strike days per thousand employees in mechanical engineering rose by nearly a third in 1983 and in "other manufacturing" by 70 percent. More than 60 percent of the recorded engineering strikes were over pay.
There was enough pressure on pay to worry the employers, but there was not enough successful action to overcome demoralisation among many groups of workers in manufacturing industry. The feeling of the shop floor was certainly not strong enough to stop the rightward swing of the union leaderships. Right wing leaders like Frank Chapple of the EETPU (Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union, now part of Unite) and Alastair Graham of the CPSA (Civil and Public Services Association, now part of the PCS) reigned supreme at the 1983 TUC congress, pouring scorn on the Broad Left leaders for being unable to mobilise their members and win victories to match their rhetoric, and the congress voted to back the "new realism" of collaboration with the government.
There was another important factor at work—a government with plans to renovate British capitalism through "market discipline" which had as yet failed to prove it could make a decisive breakthrough towards creating conditions for a new and higher level of profitability. As a result, the Tories moved to provoke a high level of confrontation in certain industries just as the mass of manufacturing employers were following a more non-confrontationist approach.
The first major offensive began in the most unexpected way in November 1983. Eddie Shah, owner of the Stockport Messenger, with the backing of the Institute of Directors, won an injunction under the Employment Act banning six skilled printers he had sacked from picketing at his non-union printshop in Warrington. When the picketing continued Shah went back to the courts, which fined the printers' union the National Graphical Association (NGA) £50,000; the union refused to pay and continued with plans for mass picketing.
The courts then imposed another £100,000 fine and sequestered the union's funds and a massive police operation was mounted to ensure that the mass picket of the Warrington print works did not stop the distribution of Shah's papers. NGA members and supporters who went to Warrington found themselves on the receiving end of the sort of police violence they had hitherto thought was a figment of left wing imaginings.
Prior to Warrington the main print employers had experienced how powerful the print unions, and the NGA in particular, could be. In 1978-9 Thompson Newspapers had locked out its workers at the Times for nine months and won next to nothing. In 1980 the employers in the general print had tried to resist the unions' wage demands and had lost.
The other employers put a lot of pressure on Shah to abandon his actions against the NGA but he wouldn't back down, and the NGA and TUC leaderships soon proved how right he was to stick to his guns. The NGA called off a strike which had closed Fleet Street completely, lifted the picketing at Warrington for seven days to allow "negotiations" and then, when the TUC general council voted not to support its defiance of the law, backed down completely. The confrontationist wing of the ruling class had won a major battle, not only by beating a powerful union, but also by showing the rest of the ruling class that the new laws could be used as a previously inconceivable method to batter unions.
Emboldened by this victory, the government announced that trade unions were to be banned from its secret communications centre, GCHQ. The decision stunned the main TUC leaders. In desperation, the civil service unions and the TUC promised the government a no-strike agreement at GCHQ if they could be allowed to continue to collect membership dues.
At the shortest meeting between any prime minister and any TUC leaders in half a century, Thatcher told them she was not interested. The TUC leaders stormed out of the meeting and angrily called for action, including strikes, on Tuesday 28 February. What had looked previously as if it would be no more than local half-day and one-day strikes turned into a massive protest. Though the support for the stoppage was patchy, it was greater in engineering and motors than it had been for any similar call since 1973.
But there was one workplace the union leaders were careful to exempt from the strike—GCHQ itself. Told by their own leaders not to take any "disruptive action" in defence of their own rights, the great majority of the workforce caved in to the government's demands the next day and signed forms agreeing to leave the unions. Once again, this time in the face of very widespread opposition, the hawks in the ruling class had achieved a victory.
Thatcher versus the miners, 1984-5
They did not waste any time before setting out to build on their victory. The day after the GCHQ strikes, 1 March 1984, the Coal Board told the National Union of Mineworkers that Cortonwood Colliery in Yorkshire was going to close in five weeks time. When there were protests at this, the new Coal Board chief, Ian MacGregor, made a speech in which he proclaimed his intention to shut 20 pits and destroy 20,000 jobs within a year.
There can be no doubt that the Thatcherites were staging a deliberately provocative action. They had seen how easy the victories had been at Warrington and GCHQ and believed they could now win a similarly easy victory against the union which many people saw as the advance guard of the trade union movement since its victory over the Heath government ten years before.
The Thatcherites assumed that one of two things would happen. Either the leadership of the NUM would get cold feet and back down without a real fight, as the NGA and the civil service leaders had, or it would call for a fight which would rapidly collapse in the face of an unenthusiastic membership. In either case, this most powerful of unions would quickly be humiliated.
The first thing to be said about the miners' resistance is that it was much greater than the Thatcherites expected. Statements by police chiefs in the summer of 1984 indicated that they had not expected their forces to be in the mining areas for more than a few weeks. Power supply figures show that the attempts to substitute oil for coal at the power stations did not take off in earnest until the autumn.
The Tories' optimism was based both on the ease of their victories at Warrington and GCHQ, and on the record in the mines during the two years since Arthur Scargill had been elected union president. Three ballots had been held on executive recommendations of industrial action—two over pay and one over support for South Wales miners who were already striking against pit closures. On each occasion the action was decisively rejected. Also there had been a ballot for general secretary, with the left standing Peter Heathfield, the well-known leader of the North Derbyshire miners, who had won by the narrowest of margins. The union leadership certainly recognised all-out strike action was not going to be easy to win: it had avoided calling for such action over the union's pay demand, opting instead for an overtime ban.
What the Tories did not take sufficient account of was something which had been apparent over the previous five years—the size of the minority which was bitter, angry and ready to fight if it could win majority support. This minority had made its presence felt in the pits again and again during the previous two years, just as it had in engineering and motors. There was a growing number of unofficial strikes arising out of arguments over bonus payments, productivity and managerial bullying at individual pits.
The aim of the NPLA, which ended payment by results in the pits in the late 1960s, had been to reduce the industry's traditionally very high level of unofficial strikes. To some extent it succeeded: in 1971 there were only 135 stoppages in coal mining, involving fewer than 10 percent of miners. But in 1982 there were 403 stoppages involving 225,000 miners and in 1983 there were 355 stoppages involving 133,000 miners.
The productivity scheme, which had tended to split the miners when it came to big national questions, was also generating increasing militancy in all areas and pits over local issues. The Coal Board was encouraged by the defeat of the union in the national ballots to apply pressure for increased productivity in each pit. Increased payments (for instance, for working in water) that used to be taken for granted now had to be fought for, and there was an appreciable increase in the level of harassment of miners by overmen and managers.
The result was a rash of local disputes. These strikes were often similar to those in the car industry—fantastic upsurges of militancy from young workers, but not accompanied by a level of organisation able to counter the pressure from officials for a settlement. The process of bureaucratisation at the workplace level had started earlier in the National Union of Mineworkers than in engineering or motors. In some places it existed even before the war, and nationalisation had given it a big boost.13 The rise of rank and file militancy in the late 1960s and early 1970s provided a counter-pressure to this trend.
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© 2020 International Socialism. (unless otherwise stated). You may republish if you include an active link to the original. | However, in winning the Area leadership, the left allowed the network of grassroots activists to dissolve into the bureaucratic machine at both pit and Area level. As the left took control of the union machine, its own attitudes began to change. Many of the officials began to feel that they played an indispensable role not just for the workers they represented but for the Coal Board as well, regarding themselves as partners with the Coal Board management in running the industry.
But what Thatcher and MacGregor forgot when they staged their provocations in March was that they were deliberately upsetting the very union full-timers who had been restraining the militant minority for the past year. The 1984 strike took off so rapidly in Yorkshire in its first week because the Area officials were giving the go-ahead to the same young "hotheads" they had condemned during the unofficial disputes a few months earlier
The attitude of Thatcher and MacGregor towards the officials was not an accident. The whole argument of the Thatcherite wing of the government was that it was possible to control the working class without making the concessions to the union bureaucracy that had been made in the past. For them, the whole array of consultation and review procedures that had to be gone through before pits could be shut was part of a larger obstacle to the revitalisation of British capitalism.
There was also something else at stake. The miners' union leadership was a living reminder of the militancy of the early 1970s. The Thatcherites felt they could only purge the memory of that militancy—and therefore dismantle the collaborationist structures that had been used to buy it off—if they could inflict personal humiliation on Arthur Scargill and, if possible, split the miners' union into Area-based fragments.
Most media commentators like to portray the 1984-5 miners' strike in the same light as the General Strike of 1926, with the miners again abandoned to their fate by the TUC. This portrayal glosses over the fact that, in the previous two confrontations between the miners and a Tory government, in 1972 and 1974, the miners had won famous victories and in 1981 Thatcher herself had been forced to retreat over a pit closure programme after flying pickets had brought half the nation's coalfields to a standstill.
The difference in 1984 was partly that the Tories had prepared much more carefully beforehand and were determined not to repeat the defeats they had suffered in 1972 and 1974. And whereas the miners' strikes of 1972 and 1974 had taken place against a background of rising militancy and confidence within the working class, the story in 1984 was entirely different. In the intervening decade the confidence of the rank and file had been severely weakened, firstly by the demoralising effects of the policies carried out by the Labour government between 1974 and 1979 and then by the savagery of the anti working class measures introduced by Thatcher after 1979.
If all the pressures of recent years had trapped Arthur Scargill in bureaucratic procedures and led him to distance himself from the militant rank and file trade unionism that had made his reputation, the strike pushed him back in a militant direction. As a result he stood and fought in a way that no trade union leader had done in living memory. Scargill still approached many issues in a very bureaucratic way, for instance refusing to openly criticise other officials when they blocked the militant action he knew to be necessary, but he did give a fighting lead.
Things were rather different with the Area leaderships. Their calculation was that British capitalism would want coal out of the most modern pits for the foreseeable future and would want to continue to bargain with them to control the workforce whatever the outcome of this particular confrontation.
At the same time, however, an immediate open retreat was very difficult for the leadership of the biggest and most important Area, Yorkshire. The memory of the early 1970s and the experience of the more recent disputes meant that there were large numbers of rank and file miners who wanted a fight.
The leaders of the main Areas, therefore, wanted to put on a display of strength sufficient to force the Tories and the Coal Board back to the negotiating table, but they did not see things in terms of a fight to the finish. It was this interaction between the militant, active, mainly young, minority in the pits and the interests of different sets of officials that explains the way the strike developed.
Most of the Area officials would have preferred a strike that was organised in a completely bureaucratic way, with miners stopping work on their orders and then simply sitting back and waiting for the government and the Coal Board to agree to negotiate—Mick McGahey, the president of the Scottish miners, went so far as to tell his members to stay at home and take a rest, and officials like Kim Howells, the South Wales NUM research officer, never hid their distaste for mass picketing—but they soon discovered that the purely bureaucratic strike was a non-starter. Branch ballots in South Wales and Scotland went against action, as did later Area ballots in Lancashire and Nottinghamshire, with Derbyshire and Northumberland splitting 50 50.
It was only when the Area officials, however reluctantly, went along with at least temporary mobilisations of the militant minority that they succeeded in pulling the majority of miners into the strike. This happened very quickly in Yorkshire, where a strike over another issue had already shut the South Yorkshire Panel, and in Durham and Kent. It happened too in Scotland and South Wales, where the officials reacted to the initial rejection of the strike call by organising a very high level of picketing, until all the pits were out. The combination of official support plus mobilisation of the active minority was unstoppable in the North East, Yorkshire, Kent, Scotland, South Wales and Derbyshire, and even the weakest of them, Derbyshire, held firm for nearly eight months.
However, the Nottinghamshire leadership was far from enthusiastic about the strike, which meant the ballot took place under precisely the conditions which had led to the unfavourable votes in Scotland and South Wales. The militant minority in Yorkshire did move across the county border into Nottinghamshire, despite the resistance of their Area officials, and got a good response from substantial numbers of Notts miners, but the Yorkshire Area officials did a deal with the Nottinghamshire leadership to withdraw the pickets while a ballot was held. The outcome is well known: only 26 percent of Nottinghamshire miners voted to support the strike and, by the time the Yorkshire pickets returned, the majority of the Notts miners were so accustomed to scabbing that they did so for the rest of the strike.
By the early summer the national leadership understood it could not win the strike without doing some damage to big business, and the easiest way to do this was to stop steel through a campaign centred on mass picketing. At first the Area leaderships gave dispensations for the steel plants to keep going—partly due to their cosy relations with local ISTC officials. When this brought upon them the wrath of both the national leadership and the active, militant minority in their own Areas, they staged a series of one-off actions which would never either escape their control or stop the steel plants. The Area leaderships then used the failure of the blockade of steel as justification for their claim that mass picketing was an outdated tactic.
This didn't prevent two massive confrontations between pickets and police outside the Orgreave coking plant near Rotherham in April and May-June 1984. Arthur Scargill backed the picketing, against the wishes of the Yorkshire executive, and the pressure forced the executive to change their orders. There were 5,000 pickets assembled at the coke works by 29 May. The police were vicious: horses, dogs and teams with shields and batons were sent to Orgreave from all over the country.
In scenes which at times resembled a medieval battlefield, 83 miners were arrested and hundreds injured. Nonetheless, with Scargill taking a lead, the pickets almost broke through. Scargill called for "all miners and the whole trade union movement to come here in their thousands", but the very next day the action was sabotaged by the Yorkshire leaders who turned their backs on the decisive battle of Orgreave, instead sending pickets off to Nottinghamshire once more.
The dead hand of officialdom had its effect again in the long defensive phase that the strike entered in the summer. What was important at this point was the basic job of holding the strike together—providing food, involving the majority of strikers in some degree of activity, however small, preventing outlying miners from getting isolated from the strike and falling under the influence of "return to work" movements, ensuring pickets were large enough to deal with police attacks, and moving pickets from the solid pits to those where cracks were beginning to show.
The officials were lacking when it came to all of these tasks. The Area officials were continually worried about things passing out of their own hands. They worried that petrol money for pickets would deplete their Area funds and tried to stop the most effective way for individual pits to keep their food parcels and kitchens going—"twinning" with other workplaces—because it was not under their control. They refused legal aid to those arrested during police attacks on mining villages and ran down mass picketing just as the drift back to work at outlying pits made it most necessary.
But the ineptness and even treachery of most Area and pit level officials is not, in itself, enough to explain the problems the strike faced. After all, the 1972 strike took place while the national and Yorkshire Area leaderships were still in the hands of right wingers, yet rank and file activists succeeded in taking control of that strike and leading it to victory.
The difference was that in 1972 there existed a network of experienced left activists in the branches. The Yorkshire Area leadership may have wanted to block action in the unofficial strikes of 1969 or 1970, or in the 1972 strike, but it could not do so because the network of left wing activists had strong enough bases of support in their own pits to take action even if the leadership condemned it.
In 1984, by contrast, very many of the experienced left activists had moved on to full-time posts at the pit or Area level. There was no left wing network left, either to exert some control over those who had won full-time posts or to provide some direction for the enthusiasm of young miners thrown into activity by the strike. Only that kind of network could have increased the chances of pulling Nottinghamshire out, built the momentum of the mass picketing of steel, and held the weaker Areas against the "return to work" movements of the winter of 1984-5.
The miners' strike showed how the Thatcherite offensive could force union leaders into a corner and give them little choice but to stage at least a token fight. It showed that a new, young, militant minority was being created in the working class which could lead to strikes taking on a level of militancy which was anathema to many of the official leaders. But it also pointed to the lack of a network of experienced socialist activists that was independent of the officials but had enough experience to stand up to them and provide direction for the new spontaneous militants.
Nevertheless, defeat for the government was only narrowly averted, mainly through the compromises of the union leaders. Food and other gifts from trade unionists poured into the coalfields. Meanwhile, the miners and their families showed determination and heroism in the face of hunger, police intimidation and attacks from social services. Women Against Pit Closures demonstrated how united the communities were.
The Tories had periods of panic during this time. In July, Norman Tebbit wrote to Thatcher and begged for an early settlement, stating that "we could not afford to go on to the very brink of endurance". In the autumn of 1984 the Tories' worst nightmare seemed about to come true. Members of the overseers' union NACODS were threatened with the sack unless they crossed NUM picket lines and NACODS members voted by 82 percent for a strike. Ian MacGregor was told bluntly that he had to give in: "You have to realise", Thatcher told him, "that the fate of this government is in your hands." Thatcher herself nearly fell apart as she realised the significance of this "major error", which "almost precipitated disaster".
The majority of miners fought on through the hard winter months. It was then that the suffering of the mining communities became greatest, as they were subjected to paramilitary police occupations, growing material deprivation, the legal sequestration of their union funds and the gradual emergence of a back to work movement. Finally, after the South Wales NUM (heavily influenced by the right wing of the Communist Party), forced the end of the strike, the majority of miners marched back to work on 5 March 1985, defeated but defiant. Although some drew the conclusion that the miners' defeat meant that other groups of workers couldn't win, there was also a deep admiration for the way the miners had fought back and a deep hatred of everything Thatcher stood for.
The limits of solidarity
Thatcher was not invincible, as she eventually found out when she tried to impose the poll tax. There were a number of points during the year-long dispute when the miners came within a hair's breadth of victory, as we now know from the testimony of leading figures in the NCB, the power industry and the Tory Cabinet, including Thatcher herself. As she later recollected in her memoirs: "The coal strike swung unpredictably in one direction then another—suddenly things would move our way, then equally suddenly move against us—and I could never let myself feel confident about the final outcome".14
The miners' fierce resistance forced the government to postpone action it had planned against other important sections of workers, in order to isolate the NUM. The refusal of the miners to give in meant that their strike was, unexpectedly, still going on when the annual pay round for the public sector began. The Thatcherites soon showed how "wet" they could be when expediency demanded it: concessions were made not only to powerful groups like the water and power workers, but also to postal workers, who had not taken national action since their defeat in 1971, and rail workers, who had been battered with TUC help only two years before. Thatcher intervened personally to increase the pay offer to rail workers, as, in her words, "it was vital that we keep the rail unions working".
The risks the government was running became clear in June and July 1984 when its scabbing operations to get coal and iron ore into the steelworks provoked two national strikes on the docks. As the pound fell to a record low, ministers insisted there were no plans to end the National Dock Labour Scheme, although the port employers had been pressing for its scrappage for some time.
MacGregor wrote later of the fears that basic trade union solidarity provoked in the Tories and their allies:
Peter Walker was particularly concerned by the incident; he thought it would mean the end of the whole of our strike as well. It must have confirmed all his fears that we would never win. I was asked to Downing Street to brief the prime minister. She seemed anxious that the dock strike, which had come out of the blue, could have a dangerous effect.15
The same soft approach was applied where other groups of workers took action in solidarity with the miners. British Rail sent home those workers who would not move coal trains, but it was careful not to sack them in case that provoked strike action.
Power station managements were equally cautious. No action was taken against workers in the Yorkshire power stations who blacked new supplies of coal; the policy seems to have been to avoid any confrontation which might lead to action by other power workers.
In line with this general approach both the government and public sector managements refused to bow to Tory backbench pressure to use the anti-union laws against the NUM. This they left to small employers and scab miners comparatively late in the strike.
While the government was taking a softly, softly approach, so too did the major union leaders outside the mines. At the TUC congress in September 1984 even right wing union leaders like Gavin Laird of the AUEW and David Basnett of the General and Municipal Workers Union (GMWU) made resounding promises of support for the miners. These leaders had been sorely offended by Thatcher's behaviour over GCHQ when she had effectively told them that she did not need them to mediate between capital and labour, and they saw the miners' strike as an opportunity to make her eat her words.
The union leaders wanted a display of support for the miners, providing it was under their own tight control and could be removed the moment Thatcher recognised their worth. So they offered verbal—and some financial—support, while putting most of their efforts into trying to devise conciliatory formulae for ending the strike. They veered to the left, verbally, at the TUC, yet six months later were delighted when they were invited to Downing Street—for the first time since being shown the door over GCHQ—to put their names to a formula for ending the miners' strike that even the most rabid right wingers on the NUM executive felt compelled to reject.
Some union leaders felt under more pressure from the Tory offensive than others. There is no doubt, for instance, that the TGWU leadership was upset by any idea of a threat to the National Docks Labour Scheme. It saw a carefully controlled, bureaucratically organised national dock strike as the ideal way to impress on the employing class the need to take the TGWU leadership seriously. But the moment it became clear that such a passive, purely defensive strike would be impossible to sustain at weakly organised ports like Dover which were not affected by the National Dock Labour Scheme, the TGWU leadership ended the strike for a compromise formula which solved nothing—as was proved six weeks later when it was forced into a second, much weaker, dock strike.
The TGWU's behaviour was matched by that of the rail unions. Looked at superficially, their record of solidarity with the miners was good: they ensured that the movement of coal by rail was reduced to a trickle of its usual figure. However, when spontaneous strikes broke out against British Rail management sending people home for refusing to move coal trains, the rail union leaders rushed to bring them to an end, with the unions themselves paying the minimum basic wage of those who had been sent home. Rail union leaders gladly accepted the small improvements made to their wage offer, even though the government's intention was clearly to isolate the miners.
Once the miners' strike had started, the government and the union leaders between them ensured that there was a relatively low level of struggle elsewhere in the public sector. The level of struggle in much of the private sector was already low because of the willingness of many employers to go for the pay and productivity/flexibility strategy.
This was the background against which miners looked for solidarity in other industries. Two things stand out about this: everywhere there was a powerful minority of workers who identified very strongly with the miners' case, but in very few instances did this minority win the majority of their fellow workers to take industrial action in support of the miners.
There are a number of indications of the size and commitment of this minority. There were large local "day of action" demonstrations in a number of localities in May and June; there was the mushrooming of support committees nearly everywhere during the summer and autumn; and there was the proliferation of twinning arrangements between individual pits and workplaces, union branches and support groups.
All of these activities took place on a wider scale than any other strike in living memory, including the successful miners' strikes of 1972 and 1974. Even the opinion polls reflected the size of the minority, indicating that about 35 percent of the population showed some support for the miners, and around 12 percent expressed uncritical support. This translated to something like five million adults wholeheartedly supporting the strike, with quite a high proportion of these to be found among the ten million trade union members.
Yet the instances of other workers taking industrial action in support of the miners can be counted on the fingers of two hands. There were the rail workers at Coalville, Shirebrook and Tinsely who refused to handle coal trains; the Sun printers who refused to print copies of the paper purporting to show Scargill making a Hitler salute; the Waterloo and Charing Cross rail workers who struck after the police had beaten up two of their officials on a miners' demonstration; the Sealink ferry workers at Harwich who struck against the arrest of one of their branch officials on a miners' picket line; the South Wales dockers who blacked a scab lorry firm; the power station workers in Yorkshire and at Didcot near Oxford and West Thurrock who refused to use "new" coal. Even the attempts at token strikes during the local days of action met with a much smaller response than those of the official TUC calls in May 1980, September 1982 and on 28 February 1984.
In the great majority of workplaces the minority who supported the miners were unable to deliver the industrial solidarity which would have brought victory. How are we to explain this? Common to most of the acts of solidarity was that they were in industries—the railways and the print—which themselves had suffered defeats in the previous couple of years, but whose organisation had not been smashed.
A similar pattern appears in the support which came for the day of action demonstrations and the workplace collections for the miners. As well as from the print and the railways this came from sections like local government white-collar workers (who were involved in defensive disputes in a number of localities in 1983-5), hospital workers (defeated in 1982), telecoms workers (defeated in 1983) and teachers (themselves involved in their first serious industrial action for 10 years).
The traditions of solidarity within the working class were having to be rebuilt in the course of the struggle itself. In 1972 it had been relatively easy for miners to gain the support of other sections, in 1984 it was a much more difficult task. A network of militants able to carry the tasks of solidarity did not exist when the strike began. Insofar as there were any networks in the unions, they were provided by the Broad Lefts, whose orientation towards winning positions meant they very easily accepted the same separation of the activists from the shop floor which made it impossible to carry the arguments to each individual worker.
In any case, the Broad Lefts were very weak when it came to numbers and influence in key sections of industry (so that, for example, neither the Broad Left Organising Committee nor the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions conferences had one tenth of the representation from key groups like engineers, car workers or dockers that had been found at the big Liaison Committee conferences of 1970-71).
Yet if the networks did not exist, very large numbers of individual militants did. Some of these were very good indeed in collecting for the miners, raising hundreds of pounds a week from those they worked with. Like those involved in the strike itself, those who identified with it were of two sorts—new, enthusiastic people with little experience of trade union activity, and union activists of some standing, but exactly the same weaknesses that beset the two groupings in the pits affected their supporters. The new people did not have the experience to confront union officials or shop stewards in their own workplaces who were not organising for real solidarity, and who did not understand the stress on workplace activity as opposed to street collections or holding fundraising benefits. And many of the experienced trade unionists had become so absorbed by their own positions within the lower ranks of the official movement that they failed to carry the arguments down to the shop floor.
Although the weakening of workplace organisation from the mid-1970s onwards helps to explain the limits to the solidarity the miners received, this cannot absolve the TUC for their failure to turn their words into deeds, or Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labour Party, for his shameful refusal to support the strike. The official leadership of the labour movement played a decisive role in isolating the NUM and hence securing its defeat.
Results and prospects
The Great Miners' Strike of 1984-5 was an epic struggle: the immense courage of the men and women of the mining communities deserves to be long remembered. But the strike ended in defeat. What were the consequences? Chris Harman wrote in the immediate aftermath:
There are two sorts of defeats workers can suffer. There are defeats like that which followed the 1848 revolution, the Paris Commune, the taking of power by Hitler in Germany, or the Pinochet coup in Chile. These set the workers' movement back years, or even decades, and when it re-emerges it has to start virtually from scratch.
There are other defeats which are best seen as interludes between battles. These are particularly prevalent after a period of working class advance which has lost momentum. Then the employing class goes on to the offensive against one section of the class after another, trying to wrest back what it lost not so long before.16
Seen from the perspective of 2010, the 1984-5 strike falls into neither of these categories. It plainly wasn't a world-historic defeat comparable to Germany 1933 or Chile 1973. The basic class organisation of British workers wasn't broken by the NUM's defeat. But neither was it merely "an interlude between battles", a prelude to a new and potentially more radical upturn, as we in the Socialist Workers Party expected at the time.
The Thatcher government certainly didn't emerge all-triumphant from the strike. Despite its re-election in 1987, it stumbled from crisis to crisis until the toxic combination of the failure of monetarism as an economic policy, the social revolt over the poll tax and increasingly vicious internal struggles over Britain's relationship to the European Community brought Thatcher herself down. These crises spilled over and doomed the administration of her successor John Major to debilitating failure and eventual electoral destruction.
Nevertheless, Thatcher's victory over the miners gave an enormous fillip to ruling class confidence. This was reflected in the successful attacks on other key groups of workers, notably Fleet Street printers and London dockers, the radical extension of the Tories' privatisation programme, and the 1986 Big Bang that deregulated the City of London, helping to lay the basis for the financial bubbles of the following decades. It was in the wake of the miners' defeat that in the late 1980s and early 1990s neoliberalism, invigorated also by the collapse of the Stalinist regimes, became a global brand—at once ideological orthodoxy and policy package—embraced by political and business elites around the world.
The strike had a severe impact on the British workers' movement. Within unions the "new realism" was immensely strengthened, for a generation of trade union leaders, along with many activists, the idea that strike action didn't work became entrenched orthodoxy. This created a vicious circle in which the relative weakness of rank and file organisation that had been revealed by the strike repeatedly allowed the union bureaucracy to prevent the beginnings of resistance developing into a new upsurge, which further undermined workers' self-confidence.
Despite his defiant rhetoric, Scargill himself fell victim to this syndrome when, in the autumn of 1992, the Tory government announced the closure of most remaining mines. Rather than tapping the surge of anger that the announcement provoked to press for solidarity action by the entire trade union movement, Scargill fell into line with the TUC's typically ineffectual response. The resulting destruction of the mining industry reduced the NUM to a pale shadow.
Kinnock, to his eternal shame, refused to support the strike. While the dispute lasted, he had to sit out the surge of enthusiasm for the miners that swept through the Labour Party. However, once the NUM had been defeated, he seized the opportunity to crush or marginalise the hard left—expelling the Militant tendency, breaking or incorporating the leaders of the left-Labour controlled local councils and humiliating Tony Benn in the 1988 leadership election. In all this Kinnock received strong support from the right wing of the Communist Party and its journal Marxism Today.17
This search for electoral respectability was rewarded with two more crushing defeats in the 1987 and 1992 polls. Nonetheless, Kinnock had created the conditions under which Tony Blair could become leader of the Labour Party and, in office, take Thatcher's neoliberal programme much further than she had ever dared. New Labour is thus the child of the miners' defeat.
But even a victory for the ruling class on this scale is subject to the remorseless logic of history. Marx wrote defiantly in 1873, after the defeat of the Paris Commune:
The fact that the movement of capitalist society is full of contradictions impresses itself most strikingly on the practical bourgeois in the changes of the periodic cycle through which modern industry passes, the summit of which is the general crisis.18
We are currently experiencing a very severe general crisis that represents the explosion of the contradictions inherent in the neoliberalism that Thatcher pioneered. Remarkably, this crisis has also been marked in Britain by the development of a new militancy among some groups of workers.19 There is a real possibility that rank and file organisation can begin to be rebuilt. Those who rebuild such networks should remember the Great Miners' Strike of 1984-5—to learn, to take inspiration, but also to avenge.
1: This article was written to mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the Great Miners' Strike and emerged from discussions between the author, Mike Simons, and Chris Harman, just before the latter's trip to Egypt. It draws heavily on an article written by Chris Harman, for a special edition of International Socialism, issue 29, devoted to the theme "The Class Struggle and the Left in the Aftermath of the Miners' Strike" that was published in the summer of 1985.
2: Harman, 1985.
3: Taylor, 1984, p88.
4: Darlington and Lyddon, 2001, p60.
6: Beckett and Hencke, 2009, p24.
7: Darlington and Lyddon. 2001. p216.
9: Thatcher, 1993, p340.
10: Darlington and Lyddon, 2001, p1.
11: Harman, 1985.
12: Cliff, 1985.
13: Henriques, Slaughter and Dennis, 1979.
14: Thatcher, 1993, p366.
15: McGregor, 1986, p268.
16: Harman, 1985, pp115-116.
17: For more on Marxism Today, see Callinicos, 1985.
18: Marx, 1976, p103.
19: Bradley and Kimber, 2009.
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Tom Eltang took an early interest in pipes and pipe making. From the moment he stared through a tobacco shop display window at age 6, at seeing a magazine that featured very nice pipes with yellow and black staining, he knew he wanted to make something like that with his own hands--he wanted to make pipes.
Eltang made his first pipe from a Pipe Dan kit at the age of 11. Later, he learned about pipe making from a man named Flemming, who worked at at a center that helped youth transition into working adults. Tom made some pipes there in the afternoons and evenings. He was next given a two-week tryout at the Larsen pipe factory, but discovered that was not the right place for him. He was not interested in the factory approach used there at the time, with it's focus on efficiency.
Pipe made by Tom for his interview with Anne-1Julie fresh out of High School, courtesy J. Rex Poggenpohl, who recently returned it to Tom from his collection
He was introduced to Anne-Julie at the age of 16 (August of 1974), and after showing her some of the pipes he had made, he received an apprenticeship. Julie taught Eltang harmony and balance in pipe shaping, as well as the predecessor tothe contrast staining technique for which he has become famous. He worked with Anne-Julie for three years, and than went to work for Pipe Dan where he did repairs and was also able to make some of his own pipes. Like many, Tom found the repair work was great experience in terms of how a pipe works or doesn't work. After three years with Pipe Dan, Eltang took a job working for Stanwell, where he regularly traveled through Germany demonstrating Pipemaking at tobacco shops. He worked for Stanwell till around 1980 when he went into business for himself, but he still sells some of his designs to Stanwell, even now.
During the slow pipe years of the 80's and 90's, Eltang had other jobs to support his family, including installing custom cabinetry for a Danish firm at Danish Embassies around the world. He returned to Pipemaking full time again in the late 1990's starting with long time local woodworking friend Kurt Hansen for a few years. When Elang created the Sara Eltang line of pipes, named after his youngest daughter, Kurt helped with the pipe cutting machine. Recently, he has become a partner in a well established Copengaen pipe shop, and has developed his own brand of pipe tobacco.
A pipe made for his father, courtesy J. Rex Poggenpohl, who recently returned it to Tom from his collection
Tom has the respect of nearly every pipe maker. His name often comes up in conversation with young pipe makers as a pivotal influence, and he has generously given his time to many up and coming pipe makers from around the World, many of whom made pilgrimages to his shop previos in Taarbaek or his newer one in "Charlottenlund".
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Tom Eltang opens a new workshop by Jan Andersson (Written Nov. 2003)
All were there! That is what you usually read in gossip papers when a first performance of a new play or some gala dinner has taken place and all celebrities have been there. In our world of pipes, this statement was absolutely true when Tom Eltang opened his new workshop in Copenhagen.
We have earlier mentioned that Tom has been very busy fitting up a new workshop and last summer it was ready. On the 15th of August the official opening took place. When I arrived in the late afternoon I was welcomed by the most delicious scents. This time it was not the aroma of delicious tobacco that attracted me, but that of a barbecue. I had earlier in the day been visiting some other places in Denmark and was very hungry, always the best spice of all. In the yard outside the shop there was a barbecue where you could get almost anything you wanted to eat or drink. As I understood it, I was not the only one who enjoyed both the food and the drinks.
A lot of people had met in Charlottenlund this day, in fact there was so crowding that it was quite difficult to move around in the shop. It was not easy to get a full picture of it all, but I am really convinced about one thing – this is a spacious and very well functioning workshop (what else could be expected when a creative person like Tom has made it all), but it is also a very pleasant and comfortable place, not only for Tom but also for visitors.
A great attraction was the new 7-days-set which was now shown for the first time. This is the second set Tom has made this year; I can not figure how he finds the time. The set was on a rotating plate so that you could see all the pipes. The cover of this issue gives you an idea of how beautiful it is.
As I mentioned in the beginning all were there. I have never before seen so many pipemakers and other people in the business in the same place at the same time. This proves that there is a friendship among Danish pipemakers; they look upon each others rather as friends than as competitors. That is also my experience from many meetings with various pipemakers.
I was only there for a few hours in the afternoon, but as I later have heard the party went on till late in the evening. We must congratulate Tom to this very successful opening and, most of all, to his new workshop.
Here is a link to a scan of an Eltang catalog from the year 2000: File:Eltang2000.pdf, courtesy, DanishPipemakers.com
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The Underground Business Incubator & Service Center is helping local entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground as part of the Emerge Fund for 2018.(Photo: JEFFREY M. SMITH, TIMES HERALD)Buy Photo
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Thousands of dollars of funding is available for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to set up in St. Clair County.
The 2018 Emerge Fund has $20,000 to split among several applicants to help build their business ideas. The fund comes from a collaboration between the St. Clair County Economic Development Alliance, the Community Foundation of St. Clair County and The Underground incubator.
Quentin Bishop, director of business attraction for the EDA and director of entrepreneurial services for The Underground, said budding entrepreneurs shouldn't be shy about pitching their ideas — there are plenty of investors eager to listen.
"The activity within the investing community is very high right now," Bishop said. "Deal-flow is what keeps attention on St. Clair County companies."
The Community Foundation of St. Clair County provided the funds, said Hale Walker, grant committee chairman and trustee. Community economic development is one of the foundation's top priorities, and the Emerge Fund advances that goal, Walker said.
Cities such as Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids get most of the attention for business startups in Michigan, Walker said.
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Recipients must set up their for-profit venture in St. Clair County and must participate in The Underground incubation program for at least 12 months. Business mentors and industry experts will be made available to consult with the recipients and help get their ideas off the ground. Determinations will be made within 30 days of application.
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The death of Sen. John McCain helped raise awareness about the plight of brain tumor patients and the lack of movement on developing new therapies for this disease over the past several years. But now, Houston-based Moleculin Biotech has launched a clinical trial that could be a game-changer if all goes well.
Working in conjunction with University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Moleculin has initiated a Phase I trial for WP1066, a molecule that Walter Klemp, chairman and chief executive officer of Moleculin, said is an entirely new approach to treating brain tumors. The first patient has been dosed in the early trial, the company announced.
"We're excited about opening a new chapter in the development of brain tumor treatments," Klemp told BioSpace Wednesday afternoon.
Moleculin's WP1066, a first in class drug candidate, is built from the chemical backbone of the active ingredient in propolis and is the first anticancer agent with drug-like properties that consistently inhibits the activated form of STAT3 within cancer cells. STAT3 is a target that has been long-sought because of its broad range of tumor-promoting effects. When activated, STAT3 proliferates the growth of tumor cells and supports the "evasion of the immune response and metastasis to distant organs," the company said. Because of its importance in supporting the growth of cancer cells in the brain, it's a significant target for therapies.
"This represents a major milestone for Moleculin. Being able to say we finally have a druggable STAT3 inhibitor gets people's attention," Klemp said.
Moleculin Chief Medical Officer Sandra Silberman said WP1066 inhibits STAT3, which controls not just proliferation, but also some immunologic function including cytokine release and T-cell infiltration. By inhibiting STAT3, it will allow the T-cell to penetrate the tumor, Silberman said. In animal and preclinical studies, Silberman said WP1066 has shown "extremely promising results."
The Phase I study at MD Anderson will not only include the standard dose escalation and tolerability studies, but adds a surgical aspect, which is standard of care when it comes to glioblastoma. When the time is right, MD Anderson will attempt to remove the tumors from patients' brains and see the effects of WP1066 and determine if the T-cells are penetrating and if they get a cytokine response.
"We're going to get a lot of information out of this," Silberman said.
Kemp added that is it indicative the community understands the importance of STAT3 as a target and that until now, it's been "difficult to find an agent that can do that."
Moleculin is eying dosing 15 patients in the Phase I trial. While the first patient has already been dosed, Klemp said the study will depend on the rate of trial recruitment, which could be slow. Practically speaking, Klemp said he anticipates a data readout in 2019.
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Thousands of women, men and children filled San Francisco's Embarcadero on Sunday morning, September 30th, many dressed from head to toe in pink. As the starting fog horn sounded (it was San Francisco, after all), the athletes took off from under a pink balloon arch and headed south towards AT&T Park.
The event was the annual San Francisco Bay Area Komen Ra ce for the Cure, one of hundreds of run/walk events scheduled across the country by the Susan G. Komen Foundation each year to create awareness, raise money, and support those affected by breast cancer. The San Francisco event has raised over $200,000 this year alone for research and treatment support.
Among the thousands of runners and walkers was Roxanne Cohen (right), wearing bib number 2 with a special pink numeral. Roxanne was one of many who participated in the event with a pink bib, meaning that they are either living with metastatic breast cancer or that they are considered a survivor of the disease. Cheerleaders greeted participants as they reached the finish<|fim_middle|>5K division can be found here. | line in front of the Ferry Building, celebrating what was a metaphoric journey for many, either for themselves or for a loved one.
Past the finish line, there was a ceremony for survivors, vendor booths providing healthy snacks, music, and entertainment in the nearby Justin Herman Plaza.
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Massage Therapy Program at Lambton College gets preliminary accreditation from governing body
Lambton's program was evaluated across seven standards
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Lambton College's Massage Therapy program has been formally recognized for its high education and training standards.
Following a two-year process, the popular diploma program was recently granted Preliminary Accreditation from The Canadian Massage Therapy Council for Accreditation (CMTCA), an independent body that sets standards and provides accreditation for massage therapy education programs across the country.
To achieve approval, educational programs are required to demonstrate that their entry-level program embeds the skills outlined in the Inter-Jurisdictional Practice Competencies and Performance Indicators outlined by the Council. In addition to the curriculum and teaching, programs are also evaluated on other aspects of quality value including student resources, leadership, and infrastructure.
Lambton's program was evaluated across seven Standards (Curriculum Content, Faculty and Learning, Student Support, Leadership and Administration, Human Resources, Resources and Infrastructure, and Quality Improvement) for which the program had to self-rate for 95 criteria and provided supporting documentation as evidence. The CMTCA then provides their own rating, and an overall score is provided.
Overall, Lambton received a score of 356 out of 380 accompanied by a number of commendations for various criteria.
"This is a process that helps guide our program towards continued excellence and gives our students confidence in the quality of the education they will receive at Lambton," says Silvana Macdonald, dean, School of Health, Community Services & Creative Design at Lambton College. "This is an amazing achievement for our Massage Therapy program and speaks volumes about the quality of the training we provide and the unique features of the coursework and facilities our students are exposed to."
Macdonald says the accreditation process is an important step in the growth of the profession, adding that discussion around national accreditation for Canadian massage education programs has been around for some years and is strongly supported by the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario.
The preparation and submission for Preliminary Accreditation is only the first step in the process. The College will next undergo a site evaluation to verify compliance with the standards prior to receiving final accreditation.
The Massage Therapy program at Lambton is offered as a two-year advanced diploma. The program is led by a team of experienced, professional faculty and utilizes a brand-new Massage Therapy Lab where students learn the practical aspects required to succeed in the profession. The new lab, housed within the NOVA Chemicals Health & Research Centre, boasts brand new equipment such as electric tables, hydrotherapy, and remedial exercise equipment. The lab can be sectioned off to provide privacy for public clinics or opened up to facilitate group learning. The entire space was designed to emulate the professional environment of a successful Massage Therapy practice.
Limited seats are still available in this program for September. To learn more, go to lambtoncollege.ca/mstc.
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Whether you're looking to see a familiar place with new eyes or want some direction when exploring a new destination, self-guided walking tours can be a fantastic — and thrifty — way to see a city.
That applies equally whether you're at home, interstate or overseas, and if you're looking for an easy staycation idea in Perth, Fremantle and surrounds, there are plenty of options available.
Perth city is particularly well supplied with free self-guided walks. Among those produced by the City of Perth are the Northbridge Art and Heritage Trail, which brings together street art and historic sites such as the Perth Boys' School and the Chung Wah Association. Meanwhile, the Convicts and Colonials Walking Trail. Meanwhile, the Convicts and Colonials Walking Trail explores the convict era of the Swan River Colony, and the This City is Wadjuk Country trail covers pre-1829 Aboriginal heritage in the CBD. Some of these also have audio-guides available. See visitperthcity.com.
If you've ever wondered about the history of the Kakulas Brothers store or the Perth Mosque, the Office of Multicultural Interests has produced a self-guided trail through Northbridge focussing on the history of the local multicultural communities. There are also East Perth and Kings Park to the CBD trails. See omi.wa.gov.au.
Take<|fim_middle|> the world. | an interactive journey through the history of gold mining in WA with the Heart of Gold Discovery Trail, produced by industry body the Gold Industry Group. Available as an app for Apple or Android devices, it includes audio stories, videos, photos and games, and takes in 12 sites from Elizabeth Quay to the Perth Mint. See goldindustrygroup.com.au/heartofgoldtrail.
Learn about the geology of Perth city and Rottnest Island with the Geological Survey of Western Australia's pamphlets, Rottnest Island: a geology guide, and Stepping Stones: two self-guided geology trails in the city. The latter highlights the various rocks used in buildings up and down St Georges Terrace, plus features of geological interest in the CBD. See dmp.wa.gov.au.
The City of Fremantle's Fremantle Story website is a great resource for all things Freo, including self-guided walking tours. Options include tours focussing on local heritage, street art, historic pubs, vintage shopping, literary connections and more. See fremantlestory.com.au/explore.
For something a little more esoteric, artist Asha Bee Abraham's Invisible Cities Project is an "audio treasure hunt" that collects stories and memories of locals, compiling them into a free app for Android and Apple devices. Exploring the connections between people and place, it's currently available covering Fremantle, Melbourne and Brunswick, Victoria. See invisiblecities.com.au/fremantle.
Rottnest Island, Guildford and the Peel region are among the destinations close to Perth with self-guided walking trails, many of them themed around history. See experienceperth.com.
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Trail's tale of flora and fauna well worth the walk
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Life's a beach in Margs for Natalie
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When it comes to travelling in WA, Natalie Gruzlewski turns to the Margaret River region, for its blend of nature, adventure and indulgence.
And the presenter of the hugely successful series Farmer Wants a Wife reckons it has some of the best beaches in | 528 |
Nah, of course I'm only messing. That whole 'camera seven' thing at the end was farcical and worthy of a laugh to start the writeup, but it was far from match-defining.
Before I don the green goggles, just from a pure rugby perspective, what a cracking match of test rugby this was. Absolutely absorbing from start to finish. Perhaps you disagree, because the scoring was quite low, and if you prefer contests like the over-a-point-a-minute one served up by the Springboks and England later the same day, then that's fine, but if it wasn't for the whole 'Ireland lost' thing I could probably watch this one over and over.
Yet harp on the boys in green I must, as it's kind of the whole point of this exercise. As you can see, I have steered clear of puns for this week's title because I want to focus on the way this Irish team approaches the game and the decisions we make.
Many say that Joe Schmidt plays 'conservatively'. Well, he certainly did nothing of the sort at Leinster, though the argument could be made when he got control of the national team. However, it's hard to think of that as completely a 'bad thing' because success was instantaneous, with Six Nations titles in his first two years.
Then, however, things started to regress a bit...we all know what happened at the RWC2015 and for a couple of years England had the ascendancy in springtime. With Joe committed to bring us at least as far as 2019, something had to be done to both improve our wider squad and also to adapt our style of play to one they all could buy into.
How has it been going? All Blacks hoodoo finally lifted, and the rest of 'The Rugby Championship' nations also defeated, not all of them at the Aviva either. Oh, and then there was a Grand Slam, that got us to number 2 in the world I seem to recall? Seems like we're doing alright.
Which beings us to Brisbane last Saturday. Confidence could not possibly be higher for the squad. Even the bookies, who could have easily gone with home advantage in their pre-match odds, thought we were going to shade it.
So what went wrong? For me it boils down to something very simple. The type of rugby that got us this far is one that demands levels of skill and accuracy that might be at phenomenal levels, yet are still ones that you should expect if you're meant to be the second best team on the planet.
Of course it's a risk to expect a virtuoso display from Joey Carbery when he knows Sext<|fim_middle|>, and while we have to be disappointed with this result, the series is far, far from over.
Of all the high-risk options we went for putting the gameplan together, the biggest one was the starting selection, giving something of a rest to a host of players involved in the Pro14 final, while still feeling confident of victory.
For the second test in Melbourne, we have to assume Joe is 'going for it' with his best available 23 (we'll hardly have a better time to give Tadhg Beirne a run), and when the lads look back over this one they probably won't even need the coach to motivate them to get the accuracy levels back up where they should be.
According to Pocock, the Wallabies can also get better...if that's the case then this could be one of the best three-match test series in recent memory, even better than the Lions last summer once we can avoid any awkward draws!
One final silver lining to be found in this result...we all want our teams to win every match, but the longer winning streaks get, the more they develop into a monkey on your back. We can afford to reserve judgement of this loss until we have seen how the boys can respond in tests 2 & 3. And the same goes for the 'James Ryan unbeaten start' thing - there's certainly no harm in having that bubble burst now! | on is waiting in the wings. Or to expect your kick chasers to deal with Israel Folau under a high ball. Or to expect your forwards to protect ball carriers when the likes of David Pocock and Michael Hooper are on the pitch. Or to expect your centres to shoot out of the defensive line and avoid being hoodwinked by the footwork treachery of Kurtley Beale.
It's a hell of a lot to ask. But when you've had those levels of success, haven't you earned the right to ask that of yourself? Especially when there's more success to be sought? World Cup semifinal? Dare I say final? Dare I even say winning the final? Dare I say getting the number one ranking?
Well I do dare say it. Because Joe and the boys are saying it with the type of rugby they're looking to produce out there, and while of course we should be critical when needs be and don't worry I will be, overall I can't see how this project could receive anything less than our full support despite this result.
Literally from the kickoff we were making statements of intent, putting down strong challenges to our opposition. Carbery took the kick, and put it short down the middle creating a contest to win the ball back. But guess what, the Wallabies and Israel Folau were up for the challenge, and not only that but they marched it back our way to earn a penalty and a 3-0 lead.
OK, time to kickoff again, and of course we won't try that 'down the middle thing again, right? Wrong. Again, short and down the middle. And again, Folau took the catch.
This was pretty much the pattern of the entire match. We had a seemingly endless supply of gauntlets to throw down yet Michael Cheika's men kept picking them up and smacking us about the face with them.
If I had to find a real flaw in our approach it would be Joey Carbery's decision making. That may be harsh in that he would have had a playbook to execute, but that's kind of my point. If he is tagged to emerge from Sexton's shadow at some stage, it's in games like this where he needs to start doing it.
Other times he seems to like taking the ball to the line himself and keeping defensive lines honest by chipping the ball over the top to himself, yet neither seemed to be on his radar on this day.
That said, there some spells of play where he was doing a good job keeping us rolling forward, with some stupefying passes from himself and Conor Murray. As the Wallabies closed in there was often only one path for the ball to reach an Irish hand in support yet they kept finding it. But as it turned out, it was never to be enough to get us a five-pointer.
Over and over again we were doing everything right until the very end. On four occasions we won ourselves penalties though we only converted three. Other times we were denied by the TMO with CJ named the 'culprit' both times...as you see from my intro I don't blame him for the one at the end yet although I do think he found grass with his effort at the start of the second half, he probably should have used the supporting Rob Herring who seemed to have an easier run in.
Of course that was far from our only mistake on the day, and in most cases they were done by the person you'd least expect in that particular category...Henshaw missed tackles, Rob Kearney dropped an easy catch, Sexton missed a kick to touch, and at a crucial point towards the end, our experienced front row came off the bench and got pinged at a scrum close to our line which led to the decisive try from Pocock.
Meanwhile the Wallabies at times were at the top of their game, especially when it came to intensity levels. Pocock stood out but there was also Beale, Folau among others. Cheika had them primed to keep us under pressure with a clever mix of crossfield kicks and quick series of long passes attempting to stretch our defence.
Yet they had their fair share of mistakes too, like Adam Coleman who first strayed ahead of the kicker on a restart and later was responsible for what would have been Folau's first ever try against Ireland being called back because he tackled Henderson without the ball several phases earlier.
This seems as good a time as any to talk about the ref, Marius van der Westhuizen. It's best I do it this far into the writeup in case I give the impression our defeat was somehow his fault. Still, some of his decisions were baffling to say the least.
We could debate all the decisions (that were contentious in both directions) all day but I just want to focus on one in particular that pretty much swung the match. The Wallabies had just nudged back ahead 11-9 and in the best of their many strong exits after restarts, they launched themselves back into our 22 on the strength of an amazing catch and offload from Folau which saw Genia kick forward towards our line.
Jacob Stockdale did incredibly well, or so I thought, to take the ball and withstand the onslaught of rushing Wallabies, performing the 'release and regather' manoeuvre Leinster fans have seen James Lowe do regularly over the past season. But the ref had other ideas, penalising him because he determined a 'ruck had formed'.
I have watched it several times, and I really wanted to see it, but I couldn't. The only conclusion I kept landing on was that MvdW watched him regather the ball and thought something had to be wrong with it and called the penalty, coming up with the explanation afterwards.
As I rewatched this match it was with the Aussie commentary and they are known for arguing contentious calls down to the finest detail...we'll never know for sure but I reckon even they wouldn't have said a word if the ref let Stockdale play on.
Let's just say that while I normally can't stand seeing players mouth off to the officials, Conor Murray's frustration after a knock on a few minutes later (when we still could have gotten back into the match) was totally understandable.
But as always, we can only control what we're doing | 1,298 |
Château de la Tranchade
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Location: Garat, in the Charente departement of France (Poitou-Charentes Region).
Notes: Château de la Tranchade in Garat (Charente) Anguienne dominates the valley on a rocky outcrop, strategic location to protect the southeast of Angouleme access. The portal, which dates from 1598, is crenellated parapet on battlements adorned with shells. It is surrounded by square turrets to the same settings. After crossing the bridge over the moat, one reaches the courtyard dominated by the imposing square tower built in the late fourteenth century. The buildings form two wings bracket supported on the dungeon. The East Wing, the gate and the cellars were built in the sixteenth century and the north wing in the seventeenth century. These buildings were included in the nineteenth century. The castle was bought in 1929 and restored by Mr. Gates and his wife, the widow wife of Count Amédée Lorgevil. Their descendants have ensured the restoration of the site after the 1999 storm that heavily damaged the area and some buildings as had then found out Mrs. Trautman,<|fim_middle|>. The great room of Chivalry, rehabilitated, hosts receptions since 2003, and events since 2007.
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Histoire du Château de la Tranchade sur Histoire Passion. | Minister of Culture came on site several days later. August 4, 1970 the facade and roof of the castle are classified as historical monuments | 31 |
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Replacing a broken or damaged car mirror is fairly straight forward for most vehicles. We will guide you through a typical replacement for a complete mirror unit, mirror glass and mirror cover.
This task can be easily completed with basic tools and should take around 15-20 minutes. If the mirror needs colour coding, we would recommend a trial fitting first before spraying.
First open the new replacement mirror, and check for any damage or problems before removing the old one. Hold it next to the vehicle to check it looks correct. Once you are happy, you can begin removal.
Open the car door and carefully remove the door corner panel, a plastic cover inside the door, in line with the mirror.
Disconnect the wiring plug for the mirror (only on electric mirror models). This is a good time to check the plug on the replacement mirror matches. You can even plug it in and check the operation on the new mirror before fully fitting.
To remove the mirror unit, there will usually be 3 screws to hold the mirror on the car. Remove these whilst supporting the mirror.
Once removed, clean the area of the paintwork and refit the new unit, checking the baseplate of the mirror sits well against the car.
Sitting in the driver's seat, reposition the mirror to the correct angle. For more information please see our mirror set up guide.
Remove the<|fim_middle|>ently prise off the cover, moving around the cover evenly.
If painting is needed, the cover should be offered up, but not fully clipped in place, it can sometimes be difficult to remove again.
Position the new cover, and apply light pressure in the areas where the clips are placed. You will hear them clip into place. Work around the mirror, checking all the clips are fully located. | new mirror glass from its packet, check for any damage and offer it up against the old mirror to check correct fitment.
Using a wad of cloth or thick gloves for your safety, press the inner top corner of the mirror inwards, this should release the clip on the back plate and free the glass. Carefully pull the mirror out of the unit, disconnect any cables (only on heated models).
Refit the new mirror glass by connecting any cables, and clipping the glass into position.
Check the glass is firmly in place, then sitting in the driver's seat, reposition the mirror to the correct angle. For more information please see our mirror set up guide.
Removing the old cover can be tricky. They are held on with a series of plastic clips, which can be delicate. G | 161 |
Rio de Janeiro is a vibrant, energized city known for its beaches, food, nightlife, breathtaking views from atop any of its high peaks, and culturally-rich mountainside favelas. If you're looking to live life in Rio like a local, we recommend staying in Santa Teresa, the city's hip, boho neighborhood that we've heard many locals refer to as the artistic hub of the city. The winding cobblestone uphill streets are dotted with restaurants, cafes, and shops. You'll find locals selling their wares on the streets and in stores, and a plethora of restaurants and cafes in which to relax and take a break<|fim_middle|> like Santa Teresa. You can see remnants of this era in the Portuguese architecture and tiling around the neighborhood. As for the building that Casa Cool Beans is in, it inhabits one of the only Spanish-style homes in the area, so Lance and David suppose it was built by a Spanish family in the 1930s after a fire destroyed a Portuguese structure that previously stood in its place. Interesting tidbit: Cirque du Soleil previously owned the property as a practicing ground. If this place was cool enough for Cirque du Soleil, it's certainly cool enough for us;)!
In opening the B&B, it was important to Lance and David to create an oasis for guests to feel they have a "home" in Rio. The rooms are situated around garden areas, and feel private, while taking breakfast on the patio feels like you're dining in the outdoor area of someone's home. They've decorated the rooms with creative touches from local artists, the art not overdone at all, but instead serving as small, colorful reminders that you're in Rio. They hired Sergio, who they label (and we agree) 'the BEST Manager ever'. He is a local Carioca who speaks impeccable English and has a really kind and knowledgeable presence. From offering you a parasol, or sun-brella as we like to call it, to helping you plan local tours, Sergio couldn't have been more friendly or helpful. All of the staff feels close-knit like a family, and does their best to prepare you for a comfortable and safe stay in Rio, even welcoming you to Santa Teresa with a free drink two blocks away at the neighborhood's most popular bar (and also an Anthony Bourdain favorite), Bar do Gomez.
Customer Service: The hotel's customer service is at the foundation of what makes Casa Cool Beans an exceptional place to stay during your time in Rio. Upon arrival, you'll be greeted in person by the hotel staff and have everything about the hotel, the room, and the neighborhood explained to you in great detail in order to get you quickly acquainted to the area. We especially appreciated David's descriptions on how to stay safe in Rio.
Location: We loved exploring Rio on foot to discover the artsy Santa Teresa neighborhood. There are multiple restaurants, cafes, bars, and boutique stores within a few blocks of the hotel.
Breakfast: The hotel's breakfast is perfect – it's hearty and the offerings are extensive. It's a buffet of meats, cheeses, homemade breads and pão de queijo, local fruits and fruit juice, coffee, tea, water, and hot chocolate. You'll also be served something warm and homemade – the offering changes each day, but can include scrambled eggs, omelettes, and pancakes. We love how friendly the breakfast staff is as well!
AC! Rio can get unbearably hot and sticky.
The room fridges are stocked with water, sodas, and beer that are very similarly priced to what you would get down the street at the store. We enjoyed being able to have drinks in the room without paying a massive mark-up for them.
The rooms are stocked with local bath and body products that are also available for purchase.
Pool & Terrace & Views: The hotel pool sits on the third level of the hotel property. It has a spacious terrace area perfect for laying out, soaking up the sun, and sipping on wine. The terrace offers mountainside views of the neighborhood. Walk up the hill a little to bit to get an elevated ocean view of Rio.
PRO TIP: Ask to book Room #7 for a room with a balcony or Room #9, which has the great views from the 4th floor.
Safety: A feature on Rio wouldn't be complete without mentioning safety. Casa Cool Beans welcomes its guest with a realistic and helpful approach to touring Rio in a way that focuses on acting in a way that draws the least amount of attention to oneself in order to be safe during your time in the city. The staff at Casa Cool Beans recommends going out without bags, cameras, watches or jewelry, and dressing down. Lindsay and I both roamed the city using these tips and we had no issues.
Enjoy your stay at Casa Cool Beans and the breezy ease and quirkiness of Rio's Santa Teresa neighborhood. Let us know your favorite sights, sounds, and flavors in Rio in the comment section below! | from the hustle of the big city below. Within Santa Teresa, Cultivar was one of our favorite hangout spots. Pretty non-descript in its ambiance, it was a great, casual place to interact with Brazilians and enjoy some of the most affordable street snacks we found in all of the areas of Brazil we visited. Regardless of the time of day, locals head to Cultivar for big bowls of icy cold acai and chewy warm, gluten-free pão de queijo made with tapioca flour.
If you're looking for a unique bed and breakfast in Santa Teresa, look no farther than Casa Cool Beans. There are many non-distinct hotel chains located in Ipanema and Copacabana, but we appreciated being removed from the really touristy areas of Rio at Casa Cool Beans.
David and Lance are the friendly, American owners of Casa Cool Beans. They opened Casa Cool Beans after having both taken separate trips and fallen in love with Rio in the 1980's. Lance's many years of hotel management at The Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts and David's outgoing nature and the fact that his parents had settled in Brazil, made opening a B&B there a natural and fitting next step for them to take together. They picked Santa Teresa for its history and charm. As you walk around the neighborhood, you'll notice large homes tucked atop the winding, narrow streets. When the Portuguese ruled Brazil, the ruling class moved away from the beach area to escape the heat in breezier areas, | 304 |
Field marketing of the past was a boots-on-the-ground activity, period. But today, there are various tools out there to get you the data you need to provide a much more complete picture of what's going on at a granular level in your stores. In real time, field marketers can do "what if scenarios" with multiple data overlays with comparisons and trends by market, by store, even by product. Then add the subjective findings to the analytics.
Here's a given: Every multi-unit, multi-market retail brand-based on a key performance indicator-has about 10% of its stores that are "underperforming" today.
Decisions at the market and store level usually fall under the responsibility of field marketing. As a field marketer by trade, my initial response would have been to start driving or hop on a plane to see what's up. Let's get boots on the ground. Visually assess the trade area. Observe operational integrity of the store. Talk to people.
Ask the questions, "How is this store or this market different from the rest of the system?", "What's actionable?", "Which levers do I pull to truly move the business?" Field marketing folks are pragmatic. With the right tool, field marketing managers can sit down with operators and guide them through where their business is leaking revenue.
Armed with Callahan's Intelligence Platform, you can start discussions with your operators or your superiors with quantitative observations.
Numbers are always the great equalizer.<|fim_middle|> my team and my gut and pull a trigger. Today, given the technology provided by Callahan's Intelligence platform and access to real-time data, I think we can push that confidence factor to 90%. | Segment the market into buckets of performance. Each bucket is probably worthy of its own set of tactics. Find common denominators of success and failure. Use comparable year-over-year data. Look for trends. Downward trends need to be fixed. Positive trends need to be amplified. Then step and repeat to scale. That's the power of a chain, of a brand.
2) Drill down. Here's where analytics meet field marketing. When driving up with the right dashboard, you already have a good start. Your job is to add the qualitative: Look and feel, trade-area personality, operational efficiency, etc.
The operations – how closely are the employees sticking to the ops manual and procedures?
I'm sure you've heard the phrase "paralysis by analysis." To me, that's a cop-out for lazy marketers. Data comes fast and in huge quantities. It can be overwhelming. Regardless, we still need to be informed and nimble. Whatever research or analytics process you use, watch out for allowing your analytics to drift off strategy. Be careful that you don't linger on decisions. If the process takes too much time, depending on the business vertical you're dealing with, the landscape may change.
Real-time data + field insights = data-savvy strategic marketing leadership.
Back in the day, if I had more than 50% confidence based on the data, I'd default to | 281 |
April 16 2018
The Heterotopias of Todd Haynes
Peter Johnson Publications film, queer theory 0
New publication by Victoria L. Smith:
Smith, V. L. (2018) 'The Heterotopias of Todd Haynes: Creating Space for Same Sex Desire in Carol' Film Criticism 42 (1)
Full text available.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/fc.13761232.0042.102
Using Foucault's concept of heterotopia (an "other space"), this essay contends space is key to understanding Haynes's Carol. It examines how Haynes, through his meticulous attention to framings, textures, color, and spatial relations, creates a queer counter space, time, and<|fim_middle|> are planned, produced and performed at British leisure camps today. | look—a rejection of early 1950s social and sexual propriety.
Irish Culture: Dancing Against the Tide
Peter Johnson Publications film, literature, media 0
New publication:
Ojrzyńska K. (2018) Dancing Against the Tide: Reconstructing Irish Cultural Identity in Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall in Villar-Argáiz, P. (eds) Irishness on the Margins. New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
The chapter examines the representation of Irishness in Ken Loach's film Jimmy's Hall, which tells the story of a rural dance hall founded in the early 1930s by Jimmy Gralton—a returned Irish emigrant who, due to his leftist sympathies, was the first and so far the only Irish person to be deported from the Republic. Analysing the film in the context of Irish heritage cinema, Irish dance traditions and Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia, Ojrzyńska argues that much as the film underscores the importance of the cultural dissidence flourishing in Jimmy's hall, it may also be considered as an instance of nostalgic romanticisation of the rebellious Irish spirit. In this respect, Loach follows certain popular cultural heritage policies that shaped twentieth-century mainstream Irish culture.
April 3 2018
heterotopias : architectural dwellings
Peter Johnson Art and Performance architecture, contemporary art 0
Just missed this exhibition in Paris but the website (see below) has a wonderful collection of images from the show.
"The exhibition shows a selection of art brut works related thematically to architecture heterotopias. Contrary to a utopia, a heterotopia indeed acts like a counter-space that Harald Szeeman would qualify as an "individual mythology." curator : Matali Crasset
Dec 2nd, 2017 – Jan 20th, 2018 Paris, 3-5 passage des Gravilliers
https://www.artsy.net/show/christian-berst-art-brut-heterotopias-architectural-dwellings
Butlins, Brexit and the Heterotopic Body ….
Peter Johnson Publications Agamben, nationalism, politics 0
In press:
O'Thomas, Mark (2018) There'll always be an England – Butlins, Brexit and the Heterotopic Body. Journal of European Popular Culture 9 (1).
http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/19492
This article addresses the role of entertainment and performance in the holiday camp today as a way of understanding its interface with contemporary concerns around the impact of mass immigration and consequent emerging nationalisms. Focussing on the British Butlins holiday camp, which still maintains its original base in the English north-east coastal town of Skegness, the article builds on the work of earlier studies of leisure camps (and camps in general), in locating the function of entertainment as a key engine in driving forward a sense of 'England' which is at the same time nostalgic and isolationist. Within the context of the UK referendum result on June 15 2016 to exit the European Union, alongside recent concerns of new manifestations of racism and the marginalisation of foreign nationals working in the UK, the paper addresses the paradox of the use of a mode that has the capacity to engender empathy as a way of objectifying the Other and consolidating a notion of a single sovereign state. Ultimately, while acknowledging the contribution made by contemporary philosophers such as Giorgio Agamben to the field, the paper revisits and finds Foucault's notion of heterotopias as a more dextrous way of conceiving of the ways in which entertainments | 795 |
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(ZDNet) Z<|fim_middle|> "Ultimately, in the future, we would like to make entanglement available for everyone. This means enabling quantum communications ultimately between local quantum processors anywhere on Earth. Yu should be imagining you have a very simple quantum device — a quantum terminal, if you wish," she explained, "and you use a quantum Internet to access a remote quantum computer in the cloud, [so] you can perform, for example, a simulation of a proprietary material in such a way that the cloud hosting provider who has the quantum computer cannot find out what your material design actually is."
Fulton also lists and describes the hurdles to creating a quantum Internet:
Classical control systems
Quantum transducers
Single photon-emitting qubits
Quantum memory systems
Available fiber
IonQ Announces Dave Bacon as New VP of Software and Denise Ruffner as New VP of Business Development. | DNet Senior Editor Scott Fulton III provides comprehensive coverage of IQT Europe's sessions and speakers who discussed the need for and development of the quantum internet to provide security for digital communications systems at risk in the era of quantum computing.
NOTE: Fulton's text is summarized here; the complete source article is in-depth and worth the time for those interested in the quantum internet as well as post-quantum security.
Fulton quotes individual speakers' presentation at length and provides thoughtful, editorial commentary as well.
Bruno Huttner, who directs strategic quantum initiatives for Geneva, Switzerland-based ID Quantique is cited. "The quantum threat is basically going to destroy the security of networks as we know them today. A quantum-safe solution can come in two very different aspects. One is basically using classical [means] to address the quantum threat. The other is to fight quantum with quantum, and that's what we at ID Quantique are doing most of the time."
Mathias Van Den Bossche, who directs research into telecommunications and navigation systems for orbital satellite components producer Thales Alenia Space, said "I don't see why you need a quantum computer to operate a quantum information network. Basically the tasks will be rather simple." Van Den Bossche's speculation is not meant to imply that quantum networking could be leveraged to bind together conventional, electronic computers. Quantum networks are only for quantum computers. But if he's correct, the problem of interfacing a classical computer to a QC's memory system, and communicating large quantities of data over such a system, may be solvable without additional quantum components, which would otherwise make each connected QC more volatile.
Professor Stephanie Wehner of Delft University, who leads the Quantum Internet Initiative at the Dutch private/academic partnership QuTech stated in her Keynote, | 361 |
I have always carried with me an ancient memory of a time when we lived in balance and harmony with the world and its people. It's more like a "feeling" or a "longing" I've held in my heart, for a time and way of living that I somehow knew was sacred, abundant, and harmonious. It was a world that revered both heaven and earth, and all of daily life revolved around this sacredness.
Children were taught from birth this reverence for earth and sky by the elders -the keepers of ancient memories – and this assured that the flames of wisdom and "right living" would burn on for generations.
Every life,<|fim_middle|> in the process of 'remembering' and awakening, without exception.
We've been asleep for so long to the joy and profound benevolence of this Universe.
Thrilled to know that you are walking along the path to freedom sister! | be it plant, animal, or human was honored for its place in the Great Eternal Oneness, for everyone knew about the invisible lines of love and life force that connected all to All.
To not give thanks, or not offer up a prayer of gratitude for the blessings of daily sustenance was considered sacrilege. No gift was too small to go unnoticed, for the web of life beheld every brilliant jewel of the Great Unknown, and when honored in such a way, would illuminate the soul of every living creature, bringing peace, balance and harmony to All.
It was a time of great divinity, before the need of external reminders; the temples, churches, statues, or gods. All people understood themselves as divine, and equality of all life was the natural order. Each person was bestowed immense admiration and paid homage to for their unique and sacred gifts, and those gifts were encouraged, brought forth, supported and celebrated with much humility, for this was divinity shamelessly expressed, as natural and necessary as the flow of breath.
In the hearts of the people, a tangible purity dwelled, and from this dwelling place, like a morning flower gladly surrendering her beauty to the sun, a good world evolved.
These are my memories of home, and we are returning. My heart has ached for lifetimes for the sweetness of that time, for that collective purity of heart when we all walked the road of freedom. We are on that journey now.
Enough of us have remembered, and we are walking, we are talking, we are gathering, we are grieving, we are purifying, we are changing, and we are waking up from the dark spell of mass hypnosis.
Like that morning flower, our hearts are opening to the grace of truth, beauty and harmony, and a good world will once again be birthed from within.
So beautifully written. I remember and have awakened. Still a process, but "pushing" through.
Thank you, Marci. We are all | 402 |
Dank with San Diego Symphony Review: Great Performance, but Unsatisfying
Jan 19, 2016 | Artists, Performance Reviews | 0 comments
Reviewer Garrett Harris felt something was "off" in his recent review of the San Diego Symphony's concert with Jeremy Denk…things got better…then technology reared it's ugly head.
Every piece of music on Saturday night was tied to the piano. The piano theme is part of the San Diego Symphony's Upright and Grand initiative for the piano<|fim_middle|> loop. That feeling of being trapped came back.
read more at sandiegoreader.com | and I'm enjoying the music it is producing.
The first piece of piano related music was a John Adams orchestration of a bizarre piano piece by Franz Liszt entitled The Black Gondola. The music was sparse and subdued, two things we don't associate with the flamboyant Liszt. Les Preludes this was not.
The beauty of the tutti string segments was legitimate and the horn solo was spectacular in its phrasing and tuning but the feeling of this music was muy triste. The music felt reluctant, almost as if it didn't want to be performed.
After intermission, it was time for the the Emperor, which began well.
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 with pianist Jeremy Denk was the second half of the concert. Denk is in the top tier of world pianists and his performance was engaging in that he allowed a sense of humor to sneak into the music of the first movement. It felt as though he wanted to do even more with the playfulness but decorum held him back.
Then it happened. Right at the top of the second movement a cell phone began to ring and ring and ring. I'll admit it threw me for a | 241 |
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I have to take the time to say though it's not in the best area of town, the Great American Music Hall is a lovely venue. It is the oldest nightclub in the city and was named this year's best place to see live music. It has an antique, elegant look to it inside but still maintains a modern and<|fim_middle|> Your Porch', that song is something special.
I think it's great you gave almost equal attention to all of the bands there and not the headliner. Openers are often forgotten and they deserve some words as well!
I agree about Steel Train they are a marvelous band and amazing musicians. It is great to find another fan.
I'm jealous you got to see this tour, I wasn't able to go. It is indeed a great lineup. Love the review.
goooood job girl! i remember wheen steel train opened for soco, i really liked them. i'll have to find their more recent songs and listen!
I love the details you put in here like setlists. Seeing Limbeck and The Format together would be a dream!
Looks like a fun show!
Awesome! Thanks for posting this, it is a great review. All of those bands deserve the recognition. | intimate feel.
While this was my seventh time seeing Steel Train live, the last time had been in 2004, and I nearly forgot just how great a live band they are. They played mostly songs from their upcoming album, the first one being "Alone on the Sea," which kicked off the set. You can hear the demo version of it on their Myspace page.
A few songs in was my favorite of the new songs, "Blackeye." It has a great vibe to it, and lead singer Jack Antonoff's vocals are superb: rich and strong but not overpowering. He is a vocalist I genuinely just love to listen to.
Next, the whole band gathered around the center stage microphone and sang "Road Song" with only guitar accompaniment. Featured on their first full-length album, Twilight Tales from the Prairies of the Sun, this song is an up-beat number about, well, being on the road. It features great harmonies and has a nice call-out to the name of the band itself several times in the lyrics, e.g. the line, "I passed my life by the course of steel train / and I'll ride to the end of the rails."
Nate Ruess, lead singer of The Format, came out to sing on the new track titled "Kill Monsters in the Rain." The blending of Nate and Jack's vocals brought a great quality to the song; their voices compliment each other perfectly.
The set ended with "Firecracker," which is backed equally by bongos as it is drums and has a throwback feel. Jack made sure to get the audience's involvement in the chorus especially, and the band's time spent on stage ended on a high note. It was clear they had won over a lot of new fans.
Next in the line-up was Limbeck. Their music is generally fun, catchy and easy to sing and dance along with. They opened with "Brand New Orange," which is one of their songs I do like. Truth be told, I have never been much of a Limbeck fan. Their style just isn't really my thing so I was kind of anxious for them to finish up, but by no means are they bad live - quite the opposite, actually.
The highlight of their set was easily "In Ohio On Some Steps"; of all the songs performed that night by all bands, this got one of the best audience responses. A large group of people sang along from all over the the theatre, creating a powerful echo as it came together as one voice.
I was really excited to see The Honorary Title because I hadn't been able to catch them live before. They opened with "Untouched and Intact," the title track to their new EP. Great way to start off their set as it introduces you to the twist to musicality and vocals these guys bring.
"Bridge and Tunnel" was next. This is one of my favorites, and the album it is on, Anything Else but the Truth, is one that was music-therapy for me, so I was happy to hear any of the songs from it. I've always believed this song is really led by the drums; it is what makes the transitions from verse, bridge and chorus so seamless.
"The City's Summer" is unmistakable, with the lead in being "Na na na na na" repeated over and over. It is a fun song, the kind that leads you to have it on repeat for hours and can't get out of your head for days.
Lead singer Jarrord Gorbel apologized to the crowd inbetween songs by saying they "have no idea what [they're] doing" set-wise. After a short pause, the band started into "Everything I Once Had." Insert extreme burst of happiness from me. This is possibly my favorite Honorary Title song. The allure to it for me begins with the unpolished feel; it makes it feel much more intimate. This is a song about a failed relationship, but it does not follow any typical cliches. You can't help but have your mood shift to the feel of the song; it really shows the personal quality this band has to their sound, with their ability to pull their listeners through an array of different emotions.
Next was another of my favorites, "Frame by Frame." The lyrics show off the poetic way Jarrod has with words. I would love to try and paint a better picture as to what these guys sound like, but it is hard to describe the sound of the band as a whole - they definitely fall under the indie category, but each song takes on such a new feel that it would be a shame to try and classify it all to one genre.
The band closed with "Cats in Heat," a simple yet still elegant song. The melody is beautiful; the verses are backed by a slow drum, but all instrumentation stops when transitioning into the chorus, showing off Jarrod's unique and mesmerizing vocals. It was a disappointment to see the set come to a close.
And, finally, our headliner, The Format. They opened with "Dog Problems," which is the perfect way to kick off a set as it starts a capella, with occasional piano pieces, before slowly easing into full band.
Next on the set was the ever-popular track from their album Interventions & Lullabies, "The First Single." (As a side note, I must fully recommend this album. There is not one bad song.) Now if there were ever a more properly titled song, I don't know what it is. It is the epitome of a perfect first single: it is inherently catchy, well-written with relatable lyrics, and fun to crank the volume up on and sing along to.
Segueing into "Wait, Wait, Wait," it shouldn't take you longer than this point in the show to realize the magic The Format has live. They capture the sound of their records, but enhance it greatly. I have never personally been or known anyone else who has been disappointed upon seeing these guys live.
A highlight was one of my favorite tracks from the band's most recent album, Dog Problems, "Time Bomb." Despite the sarcastic and bitter edge to the lyrics, it is such a feel good song. Not to mention it has some of my favorite lyrics from the album in general: "Starting now I'm starting over / tell the new wave kids their make-up kits can find me where self pity gets a breath of fresh air."
An emotional time stopper in "On Your Porch" is always something to look forward to. Nate's vocals take on a different tone from most other songs and emote the subject matter of the words in a heartbreaking way. I would be surprised to hear anyone not getting chills from hearing this. Even if you never plan to see The Format live, downloading this is a must. It's just one of those songs.
Now, to do a 180, "The Compromise" ended the regular set. Starting off with full band, it quickly dies down to guitar and vocals for the first few lines of the first verse, before delving back into complete instrumentation. It is another exuberant example of the band's success at creating catchy songs. The line "So it's your job to dance and smile the whole time" is really the most apt description of the reaction this song brings.
The encore featured a great mix of songs, the best in my opinion first being "Inches and Falling." The horns bring a new zest to the music, solidifying the anthem-quality to love this song speaks.
The show ended with the performance of "She Doesn't Get It," another of the best songs from the band's sophomore album. It has a bit of an electro feel in parts, all the while maintaining the original element the rest of the tracks showcase.
Overall, this night and line-up of bands did not fail in bringing a sold out crowd of hundreds of kids an amazing evening of music. Each band has their own unique sound, whilst still complimenting each other perfectly. Check out this tour if you get the chance!
wow, the format played a pretty long encore. i can't wait to see this tour!
Oh I love The Honorary Title! You are right, they are such a talented band. Wish I could have been there!!
Sounds like a great show. I'm jealous! You did a fantastic job on the review, especially with all the detail w/ the music. It makes reading more enjoyable!
Wow, what a great line up! You did an awesome job on the review. I love your details on the music and songs themselves, it makes reading fun for all of us. Thanks!
I just saw the concert last night in chicago. It was amazing, easily the best show I've seen all year. Every band played with loads of energy and got the audience involved. Only thing different about my show is that "Piebald" took the place of "The Honorary Title."
I've seen The Format a couple of times and you are dead on, they are amazing live. On the Porch made me cry! (Yes I'm a baby:)) I love your writing.
You know how I feel about Steel Train! I saw this tour (the first time around a few years ago) and it was amazing so it's great to see it featured here. Great job describing everyone!
nice job on this one. i love the details you put in about the honorary title, it brings their music to life. you write the best reviews.
i love your reviews t. =) your memory for nuances in songs and describing them is wonderful!
Love the detail and setlists for all the bands. Really brings the concert to life.
I recently saw this tour as well and I will echo that it was amazing. You did a much better job than I ever could at capturing the essence of each band. Your love for music comes through your writing and that is great to see.
no give it up? :( thats my favorite format song. something tells me you're too scared to goooo. anyway, another great review taylore. i'm rooting for you!
I love The Format too. Their new cd is really great and all of the songs sound good live. I agree with you about 'On | 2,098 |
It took me a few minutes to drag myself out of bed this morning (especially since I stayed up too late last night blogging!) and I know for a fact I wouldn't have done it if I hadn't told y'all I would. So, thanks for being here for me!
To use a Jillian Michael's expression, I admit to "phoning it in" just slightly on the last cardio circuit - though I'm not sure if it's considered phoning it in if you're still exhausted and still moving, but<|fim_middle|> at the same time, but with your weight more on one foot than the other. To make it harder, you land on both feet at exactly the same time. And I only single jump roped, instead of double.
But, hey, you're still getting dripped on by my sweat so I think it's all good.
You did it! AWESOME!!! Good for you. It really is amazing how accountable one suddenly feels when you've announced to the world what your goals are!
I just got back from a 2-mile walk (so I'm dripping, too!) and this evening, once the man's gone again for the week, I plan to do two 10-minute "spot" workouts again. | I digress. To make the oblique twists slightly easier, you land on your feet not exactly | 20 |
Here's Your Exclusive First Look at the Hunter for Target Pieces Returning to Stores This Fall
Mark your calendars for September 14.
By Caroline Hallemann
Courtesy of Hunter x Target
From Lilly Pulitzer to Missoni and Jason Wu, Target is known for buzzy collaborations, and this fall, it's taking designer partnerships to the next level.
To celebrate 20 years of the Design for All initiative, Target is bringing back select pieces from each of its most memorable lines, including the 2018 Hunter for Target collection. Fans of the classic British brand, which is known for its Wellies and rain gear, no doubt already have September 14 marked in their calendars, but today, T&C has an exclusive first look at which items are being re-issued for the anniversary.
The new line will feature six Hunter for Target bags: a large backpack, which is available in both black and blue ($40), a medium-sized backpack in yellow ($35), a bum bag in yellow ($20), a<|fim_middle|> Return to Target
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The collection's weekender bag, bum bag, and cooler backpack.
These bags will be part of a larger, nearly 300-piece collection that also features designs by Proenza Schouler, Erin Fetherston, and the aforementioned Lilly Pulitzer, Missoni, and Jason Wu, among many others.
"Two decades ago, when we first set out to make beautifully designed products affordable, we created a movement in retail and culture that proclaimed that design could be–and should be–for all. This Anniversary Collection takes our guests on a nostalgic journey through our designer collaboration history where they can discover products that they'll fall in love with all over again, or for some, for the very first time," said Rick Gomez, Target's executive vice president and chief marketing and digital officer, in a statement about the launch.
"We're so proud of this 20th Anniversary Collection and look forward to continuing to bring our guests more incredible, inspiring, and affordable design they can't find anywhere else."
The full line hits Target stores and online September 14, but you'll want to shop quickly. If the past is any indication, these pieces are sure to sell out.
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DoubleClick Launches Ad Campaign
By Christopher Saunders | July 16, 2001
Alley-based ad giant DoubleClick is launching a new advertising campaign designed to boost marketers' awareness of its full suite of products.
Created by new agency of record Grey Worldwide, the "Smart Tools, Smart Marketing" campaign seeks to communicate the company's online, offline and mixed media offerings to advertisers, marketers and agencies that might only be aware of a portion of DoubleClick's products.
"We have very high brand awareness overall ... among senior marketing executives, senior corporate executives, agencies and direct marketing executives," said DoubleClick's chief marketing officer, Susan Sachatello. "But that said, people only knew us in the business that we had been associated with them. We want them to understand the broader tools DoubleClick offers, and what DoubleClick is all about."
For instance, Sachatello said direct marketers know of DoubleClick's Abacus Direct database alliance, but aren't generally aware of its e-mail list services.
To that end, online creatives will appear in business and trade media, and include rich media banners and larger-than-banner Web ads, Unicast Superstitials and rich media e-mail. That effort is supported with print and direct mail components.
Sporting the company's familiar color scheme of maroon, black and white, and using<|fim_middle|>ay" trade campaign, ads in which featured a block of red clay formed into different shapes, representing various aspects of DoubleClick's product line. DoubleClick also previously used Ogilvy & Mather in Europe.
It will also be the first campaign in which a single set of creatives are used worldwide. DoubleClick said when it tapped Grey for its creative work that it had sought a single agency with international offices, to facilitate a single worldwide message. Following a recent reorganization, Grey also includes the online capacities of interactive shop Beyond Interactive, which participated in the campaign. | a simple layout and muted photos, the ads have a simple message: that DoubleClick offers more efficient, next-generation marketing tools.
In the larger-than-banner (300-by-250 pixel) execution "Chasing," copy reads, "Mass marketing was about chasing people. Try it." (As the user mouses over photos of people, they scurry away and stay patently out of reach.) "Smart marketing is having them come to you."
In the Superstitial ad "Labels," DoubleClick goes for a different approach. "Mass marketing was about labeling people," the copy reads, followed by flashes of terms like "cyberpunk," "generation x," "investor," and "empty-nester." "Smart marketing is knowing what labels people want," the ad continues. "A recent report found that targeted banner advertising is more cost effective in generating brand recall and interest than print or TV."
Similarly, an animated banner ad reads, "Mass marketing never expected people to answer back. (More than two thirds of people online participate in a promotion at least one a month.) Smart marketing relies on it."
Other creatives focus specifically on certain products. For instance, a 120-by-240 pixel vertical banner focuses on the company's e-mail list services. Copy on that execution reads, "Mass marketing was a lecture. Smart marketing is a conversation. With more than 35 million messages a day, DoubleClick delivers more e-mail than anyone worldwide."
The print execution, which ran in The Wall Street Journal, continues the idea of a dichotomy between the "old" and "new" marketing with a discussion of individual products: "Smart marketers employ multiple communication channels to better engage and understand customers. They're using DoubleClick's vast range of smart tools to do it, from online media and e-mail to offline transactional data, industry-leading targeting technologies and research."
All the executions include the company's new tagline: "DoubleClick. Smart Tools. Smart Marketing."
DoubleClick changes its tone with its rich media e-mail ad campaign, which Sachatello said both positions DoubleClick as an industry thought-leader and serves to educate marketers on the state of the online ad industry (ideally, making it appear more attractive).
The executions include streaming video clips of company executives giving speeches on the state of the industry, including one of chief executive Kevin Ryan at DoubleClick's recent client and partner event, Insight 2001.
"It's an interesting e-mail campaign," Sachatello said. "We recorded content from different meetings and are sending them out in video clips to customers and prospective customers -- to share with them not a sales message, but what's going on in the marketplace today. Customers want to understand ... and we're serving as an educator in the interactive marketing space."
Additionally, the new ads aim to endorse the industry by actually using many of DoubleClick's own products.
"We're using a lot of our own tools," Sachatello said. "We eat our own dog food here. We use these tools because they allow us to get the performance we want out of our marketing campaign."
The new push is the largest DoubleClick ad campaign to date, and will continue through the end of the year. Previous efforts included Digital Pulp's memorable "Cl | 668 |
Brad Stevens knows Celtics have to better in…
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Brad Stevens knows Celtics have to better in Game 5
ROUGH AND TUMBLE: Sixers center Joel Embiid bangs with the Celtics' Al Horford (left) under the basket.
By Steve<|fim_middle|> their cutters, and we just have to make contact earlier. You know, easier said than done."
Shane Larkin left Game 4 with a left shoulder injury and was still getting it checked yesterday. Stevens said he will likely know more about the situation at this morning's shootaround.
In any case, the Celts are clearly looking forward to getting the Sixers in the Garden after a frustrating night in Philly that featured some trash talking by the hosts and responses from the C's.
"Oh, man, I'm ecstatic," Marcus Smart told the Herald. "I'm ecstatic, man. We get to play in front of the greatest crowd in NBA franchise history, you know? We know what our crowd's going to bring, and we've just got to bring it to them and do our job on the court.
"I'm excited. I can't wait. It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun."
No matter how things go tonight, the Celtics are guaranteed to host a game on Sunday at 3:30. It will either be Game 7 against the Sixers or Game 1 of the conference finals against Cleveland. That latter series will begin that day even if it takes the C's until Friday to finish off Philly.
"We definitely can use a break," said Smart. "Everybody can. This is playoff basketball. It's not for everybody. That's why 30 teams weren't in it. Everybody can't do it. It's hard."
Foul mood
There has been much public criticism of the referees from Celtic followers regarding Game 4, but at least one fallacy needs to be corrected.
The argument that the league office sent specific officials to the game because the Celtics were ahead, 3-0, and they wanted the series to continue to draw more revenue is patently false. The NBA makes the referee assignments for the first four games of each series prior to its beginning. And it should be noted, as well, that the roster of refs shrinks each round, with the better rated officials advancing.
Some calls are certainly open to question, but as Stevens pointed out, the Celts were not as physical or alert as the 76ers Monday, which means they were reaching more. Philadelphia was getting a step on the C's on drives, which left the latter's defense out of position and was at least in part the cause for the discrepancy in fouls.
Steve Bulpett | Sports Reporter
Steve Bulpett is in his 35th season covering the Celtics. In addition to being the dean of NBA beat writers in continuous service with a team, he's also followed the Celtics as a home and away beat longer than anyone in franchise history. The native of Lynn and Swampscott is a graduate of the University of Dayton, where he pursued dreams of playing basketball and becoming a lawyer. Reality intervened on the court, but he found a way to stay involved in the game. He left UD with an intramural hoop championship (teammates with sportscaster Dan Patrick) and a journalism degree. In recent years, Steve has received APSE national Top 10 honors in feature writing and as both a beat writer and columnist.
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PUBLISHED: May 9, 2018 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: November 17, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
Brad Stevens was angry enough with the officiating in Game 4 to get called for a technical foul. But as he did Monday night, the Celtics coach again looked inward yesterday to explain the 103-92 loss to the 76ers.
The Celtics, now ahead, 3-1, in the conference semifinal, get another chance to close things out this evening in friendlier confines. And looking seems to interest Stevens only inasmuch as it reminds his club of issues it needs to correct.
"I've got no comment on the technicals," during a teleconference with the media yesterday afternoon. "That's not something that I'm going to talk about. I've said before I realize that the officials have a really tough job, and there's always going to be spirits and tensions running high in a long series.
"But at the end of the day, we didn't play well enough to beat Philadelphia. That has nothing to do with anything but Philadelphia and us, and we need to do better."
In addition to allowing 16 points off 15 turnovers, the Celtics gave up 16 offensive rebounds for 18 second-chance points and were outscored, 52-30, in the paint.
"They were clearly the more physical team (Monday) night," Stevens said. "There's no question about it, and they did a great job of establishing that early and obviously posted a number of different guys up and were very good down there. (It) obviously led to points in the paint, fouls, etc."
The Celts and Sixers wound up shooting the same number of free throws (26), though the C's were called for five more fouls and had players in foul trouble early.
"We've got to do a better job as a team playing without fouling, and it starts with transition and then it goes in to guarding the halfcourt and obviously finishing plays," said Stevens.
As for the glass, he said, "They were an outstanding offensive rebounding team coming into our series.. . . I think we have to do a better job of keeping the ball in front of us, we have to be more alert to | 504 |
Waltham Forest captain Adrian<|fim_middle|>, including a hat trick in his final game against Ilford on Saturday.
He was an almost ever-present on the heart of the Forest midfield, except for missing a few games through injury, and one where Sudbury in Suffolk was confused with Sudbury in north west London.
Clifton repeatedly refused offers from several other clubs in the division, including Maldon & Tiptree on more than one occasion.
Eventually, the lure of playing at a higher level was too tempting, and Clifton understandably chose to move on.
The club would like to thank Adrian for all his efforts during what has been a tough season for everyone involved, and wish him all the best at his new club and in the future. | Clifton has left the club to join Ryman Premier Division side East Thurrock United.
Clifton joined the club at the start of the season, and has contributed to the cause with goals in starts | 40 |
Posted on October 13, 2015 October 15, 2015 Articles Evolution Literacy, Blog Master Posting, Editorials The Standard Times, Excerpts from scientific<|fim_middle|> cells. Interestingly, despite radiation-induced damage in bacteria, laboratory colonies continued to persist, which led researchers to infer that these organisms had repair-mechanisms to reinstate the internal chemistry. In 1944, DNA was recognized as the material of heredity and UV-light as a deteriorating agent of its structure.
"…What I admire most in these investigators is their obsessive pursue of knowledge during a vigorous exploration of the intimacy of our inner molecules… [Their] story only grows in beauty…"
The first breakthrough in DNA-repair mechanisms was unexpected: Albert Kelner (US) discovered that, in response to UV-induced cellular damage, bacterial enzymes could reverse the process by using –surprisingly— light, and capturing its energy-particles (photons), which excite electrons in the enzymes' functional parts, thus jump-starting their repairing engines. The process was termed photo-reactivation and the enzymes photolyases. The story only grows in beauty.
Keep in mind that DNA is built of four "bases," called adenine A, guanine G, cytosine C and thymine T. Under ordinary circumstances, A always pairs with T, and G with C, hence forming the steps of the DNA's double helix, which is usually depicted as a staircase. In 1974–1976, Tomas Lindahl studied a frequent mutation in which G, rather than pairing with C (as G-C), had, as partner, the base U (uracil), a constituent of other molecules in the cell. Why? C and U are very similar, but when C loses some of its parts, due to predictable chemical contingencies, it can resemble U more closely. Thus DNA would temporarily accept the pairing G-U, but the cell would fix it by enzymatically chopping off U and restoring the correct coupling G-C. And Lindahl mapped, so elegantly, this entire process, which was labeled single-base excision repair. Later, it became part of the cell's toolbox for DNA repair mechanisms, of which numerous have been described.
Illustration: Johan Jarnestad – The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (click to enlarge).
In a separate study, Aziz Sancar experimentally manipulated with UV-light-induced mutations and characterized how the cell could fix errors via an alternative pathway, termed multiple-base excision repair, which included cutting off several bases, not only one, as described by Lindahl. Sancar knew that UV-light could make T behave strangely and pair with its homologue (T-T), rather than with A, as it normally does (T-A).
Let us imagine two parallel rows of DNA sequence in which the top one is G,C,T,T,C,G. Its complementary, bottom, pairing (following the rule A-T and G-C) would be C,G,A,A,G,C. However, UV-light damage can induce the Ts on the top row to pair with each other, as T-T, rather than with their corresponding As in the bottom, as T-A and T-A. Thus creating a bump loop on the top row (T-T), leaving the As in the bottom unpaired.
In 1983, Sancar plotted the entire mechanism of repair of the T-T mutation, which included multiple enzymes responsible for accurately cutting and restoring 12 bases in the top row of DNA, five prior and five post T-T. An amazing work.
By 1989, Paul Modrich had unveiled a third mechanism, which involved the fixing of DNA sequence mismatches, which randomly emerge during cell divisions. A process called DNA mismatch repair. It included even larger stretches (beyond 12 bases) of folded DNA, which specific enzymes would cut and restore to the correct sequence (watch VIDEO).
What is the value of curiosity-driven research? Because cancer, neuro-degeneration and ageing start with DNA damage, almost all we understand about them –including drug treatment— relies on the basic science of DNA repair mechanisms. — © 2015 by Evolution Literacy all rights reserved.
DNA Repair during evolution… Image from public domain Google Images
Suggested Readings:
Historical paper by Tomas Lindahl published in Nature 1993: Instability and decay of the primary structure of DNA.
Press Release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Scientific Background on the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Mechanistic Studies of DNA Repair, compiled by the Class for Chemistry of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Popular Science Background: DNA Repair – Providing Chemical Stability for Life.
History of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1901 – 2015.
Evolution Stands Faith Up: Reflections on Evolution's Wars By NOVA Publishers, New York Soft Cover. Find it at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Amazon UK.
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2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to Curiosity-Based Research
By Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C PhD — © 2015
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to Curiosity-Based Research
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"…Mutations are essential to evolutionary change; they provide the genetic variability that lineages of organisms need to persist over the eons. At the same time, evolution has equipped our cells with repairing mechanisms to fix, edit DNA errors that can be detrimental…"
If completely stretched into a single, long molecular chain, the DNA of a human cell would measure about two meters. During our lifetimes, our bodies would replicate enough DNA that, theoretically, it could be extended from Earth to the Sun, and back, 250 times. Ample opportunities to accumulate 37 trillion mutations while re-copying the genetic material.
DNA-repair, image by Tom Ellenberger, Washington University in St. Louis.
Yet, evolution has equipped our cells with repairing mechanisms to fix, edit such DNA errors. And this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Tomas Lindahl (Sweden), Aziz Sancar (Turkey) and Paul Modrich (US) precisely for discovering and characterizing –independently— these processes.
What I admire most in these investigators is their obsessive pursue of knowledge during a vigorous exploration of the intimacy of our inner molecules. As Modrich puts it "curiosity-based research is so important; you never know where it is going to lead." And it did lead them from almost extraneous observations of the harmful effects of UV-light on the DNA of bacteria to –four decades later— its applications to our current understanding of cancer, neuro-degenerative disorders and ageing. Another lesson for today's academic administrators infatuated with worshiping the science-for-profit model.
All began in the 1920s when American geneticist Hermann Muller (Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1946) found that X-rays could harm bacterial cells. By the 1940s, it was known to scientists that UV-light also had mutagenic effects on most | 495 |
How can it be reconciled?
"I need to find some uplifting fiction."
I'd been reading this book every night for a few months with my younger daughter, 10 year old Caroline...and, indeed, I found it to be my very favorite part of my day.
Sweet Anne just melted my heart every time.
But when Matthew comes to the train station to pick up the orphan boy he is surprised to find a little girl of about eleven years old.
Matthew is shocked to find this young girl...and shocked more when the train official says, "I asked her to go into the ladies' waiting room, but she informed me gravely that she preferred to stay outside. "There<|fim_middle|>7 years later, we have different craziness.
And a brand new deck of 365 beautiful days.
and you have a red carpet of days rolled out just for you.
There's this thing going around Twitter asking you to choose a word for the New Year.
This word is to serve as a guide, a motivator, a touchstone...a rudder for the year.
As a lover of words...this is a nearly impossible task.
Last year, I skipped the hype...too overwhelmed at the thought.
But, this year, my word found me.
If not, read this blog post about this lovely soul right here.
In preparing to meet Naomi, I listened to a beautiful interview with her on a podcast called On Being.
In it, she reveals a beautiful interaction with a student.
Naomi had traveled to Japan for a poetry-teaching trip.
She wrote this as a subliminal message.
like poems or poets or observations or ways to seamlessly include poetry in your life.
But she wanted students to consider it.
That's what a poem does."
After her trip, Naomi received a letter from one of the students in Yokohama, Japan.
"Here in Japan, we have a concept called Yutori.
It's a kind of living with spaciousness.
...and it allows you to see differently."
In that minute, Yutori captured me.
Like a song that gets stuck in your head, Yutori would not get out.
and spaciousness doesn't seem like a very common part of my life.
Maybe it's because I often feel distracted when I want to be present.
the idea of spaciousness has stuck to my heart like a sticky leaf.
I LOVE to dwell in possibility.
Soak up possibility like it is a warm bath.
So maybe Yutori is just a reflection of that.
Spaciousness makes room for possibility.
All I can tell you is that living with spaciousness, I feel different.
...and that is what I need in 2017.
My heart knows it intuitively.
So, my gift to you is this precious word.
The gift of feeling that anything is possible.
test out a few others.
Share with me the word that finds you.
Until then, let your head find some open space and rest.
Let your heart find comfort in plenty of room. | was more scope for imagination," she said."
Right there on p. 15 we meet Anne and we find out an important clue into her heart.
It had been a long time since my imagination was summoned, but Anne called to it like some sort of Emergency Broadcast System and it found its way back home.
Turns out that Anne's imagination was her defense against a difficult world.
When Matthew meets Anne she immediately showers him with all of her thoughts.
"Oh it seems so wonderful that I am going to live with you and belong to you.
I've never belonged to anybody - not really."
That sentence caught in my throat as I said it out loud.
I have had the privilege of belonging for my entire life.
So many many children ache for it.
I'm crushed to consider Anne's plight...even if for a moment.
It just makes me feel glad to be alive - it's such an interesting world."
She is on the look out for kindred spirits...and she finds them, plenty of them, in some of the most unlikely people, including a crotchety old woman and darling, shy Matthew.
Always be on the look out for a kindred spirit...they are all around.
She is stubborn, super smart, over dramatic and hilarious.
"What a splendid day! said Anne drawing a long breath, "I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one."
But, it was the very last chapter, The Bend in the Road, that sealed my Anne Adoration.
Anne has won a scholarship to college. This is a very prestigious prize since at the time very few women go to college.
But, as life does, hard things happened.
Precious Matthew, her biggest fan and best encourager, passes away in a shocking way.
Marilla, Anne's adoptive mother and Matthew's sister, is ailing and looks to be unable to care for Green Gables. Marilla, seeing no other solution, puts Green Gables up for sale.
Anne will have none of that.
She changes her plans and works to find a way to work as a teacher nearby.
She will stay at Green Gables with Marilla.
"I shall give my life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road.
I thought I could see along it for many a milestone.
Now there's a bend in it.
I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla.
...Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would blossom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams."
Anne's ability to handle the bend in the road with her one-of-a-kind grace and graciousness were just the lift up my heart needed.
Watching her think through the options and adjust so nimbly was a great reminder.
We are capable of so much goodness.
So...in this world where so much difficulty lies, what books have soothed your soul?
For Caroline and me, it's been sweet Anne.
Enjoying the pearls in our days.
My One Word for 2017...What's Yours?
It's 2017...which makes Y2K look kind of cute.
For those of you too young to remember, our computers weren't going to be able to handle moving from 1999 to 2000...we needed Y2K kits and preparation.
Now, 1 | 798 |
The Sweet Salt had a quiet year last year; I had plenty of other activities keeping me busy. But I wanted to kick 2018 off as I mean to go on and share a bit more about what I was up to last year; namely Kiwi & Roo-ing and being a Service Designer at Adaptive Lab.
Last year my working pattern was 4 days a week at Adaptive and then fitting K&R in around that. So Fridays, weekends and (sometimes!) evenings are cooking times. I also took a 4 week chunk of unpaid time off during the summer where I focused solely on cooking. (Oh and a holiday in Greece with my family) So feel pretty lucky… I get the benefits of working for a great company which I love; but I also get the flexibility to pursue my side project passion; aka my Side Hustle.
Adaptive Lab have been entirely supportive of me in my foodie endeavours. So much so that at the end of last year they asked me to speak at a quarterly event they run called Pi People. (Named as such because we hire people who are Pi symbol shaped in their skill set… an extension of the t shaped people philosophy coined by Tim Brown from Ideo). Pi People events are based on a theme and bring together interesting people talking about interesting things. The focus of the November event was all about Side Hustles; people like me who are balancing two different career paths and<|fim_middle|> no' are now my NY resolutions! | passions.
Or you can mosey on over to the Adaptive website for the video and a more detailed write up of my 7 lessons on their site.
Thanks for the inspiration. Side hustlin' and 'saying | 45 |
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the early school of psychology that claimed that we perceive and think about wholes rather than simply about combinations of separate elements. (12)
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A holistic form of structural psychology which opposes<|fim_middle|>, or a mathematical formula, but rather it emerges spontaneously by the parallel action of surface tension acting at all points in the surface simultaneously. This is in contrast to the "atomistic" principle of operation of the digital computer, where every computation is broken down into a sequence of simple steps, each of which is computed independently of the problem as a whole.
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kind of therapy that focuses on integrating thought, feeling and behavior.
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A theoretical approach that emphasizes the role of organized wholes (Gestalten) in perception and other psychological processes.
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the theory of Kohler and others that reactions are not to separate stimuli, but to situations perceived as wholes.
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a school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people's minds, rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object
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(psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties
A school in psychology that emphasizes the organized character of human experience and behaviour. Gestalt is a German word that means form, pattern, or configuration. Gestalt psychology thus emphasizes the study of wholes or whole patterns. Gestalt Therapy - An experiential therapy stressing awareness and integration, it grew as a reaction against analytic therapy. It integrates the functioning of body and mind. The basic assumption is that individuals are responsible for their own behaviour and experiencing. The approach is designed to help people experience the present moment more fully and gain awareness of what they are doing.
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A school of psychology founded in Germany in the 1910s.
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A system of psychological theory concerned primarily with perception that emphasizes pattern, organization, wholes, and field properties.
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Gestalt psychology (also Gestalt theory of the Berlin School) is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. The classic Gestalt example is a soap bubble, whose spherical shape (its Gestalt) is not defined by a rigid template | 380 |
It's almost time to change Mike Genge's name to Magic Mike.
Genge, the executive director of the Foundation of the Children's Treatment Centre of Chatham-Kent, had another successful fundraising idea come to fruition on the weekend.
I'm talking about the Over the Edge event at the Holiday Inn Express where about four-dozen people rappelled down the side of the 10-storey building, raising more than $92,000 for the foundation in the process.
The "Magic Mike" moniker might not be totally accurate, however, as the Foundation's staff and board deserves a great deal of credit as well.
The treatment centre is in the process of raising cash to build a new and larger home. It currently serves one in nine kids in Chatham-Kent. That support need is expected to increase to one in five by next<|fim_middle|>.
Brenna knew we were busy with the move and took it upon herself to raise her game at home to help.
Mary and I (OK, mostly Mary) took the opportunity to move some furniture on the weekend, and give the kitchen floor a good cleaning.
Suddenly we have our upstairs back to the way we like it again – well, except for the cat fur that seems to float by now and then. | year.
The centre's foundation has long held the Festival of Giving charitable event each April as a fundraiser for services at the treatment centre. It recently added the Festival of Golf to its list of events, where golfers pay $750 each to play a round of golf and stay fed and hydrated, win prizes and be very entertained.
When Genge mentioned the price tag to play golf, I thought he had lost his mind.
I was very, very wrong. The event is a hit, and raises tens of thousands of dollars each year.
Over the Edge, however, differs from the other fundraisers, in that it is a very family-focused event. There was a carnival-like atmosphere, with bouncy castles, food vendors and more set up in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Express to go along with the rappelling event.
Families came and went all day long, checking out the thrill seekers who walked down the side of the hotel, and watching their own children as they played at the carnival.
Nothing is ever small scale.
But then again, Genge said to me on the weekend that it's just as much work putting together an event designed to raise $10,000 as it is for one to raise $90,000.
Kudos to Genge and the gang for putting on another fun event and for always thinking big.
I had the opportunity on Saturday to get on the roof at the Holiday Inn Express to take photos. Genge asked if I wanted to go over and I politely declined (if "Hell no!" is polite).
But getting strapped into a safety harness and getting tethered to the rooftop was interesting. I'm not afraid of heights (Mary Beth is, however), so I was the guy to cover Saturday's event.
The Over the Edge guys, such as site and safety supervisor Ron Green, were great to deal with, letting me get close for my photos without getting in their way. Volunteers, such as Ike Erickson – who had to put up with me getting in HIS say periodically – were a treat to deal with as well.
My hats off to the participants who let me take pictures of them at the moment they stepped over the side of a building. As calm as many looked, you could see the underlying fear/thrill in more than a few eyes.
I felt very safe up there. But I can only imagine what it would have been like had there been a stiff breeze or gusting winds.
The past few weeks, with so much of Mary Beth's and my focus being on the move of The Voice office to 71 Sass Rd., we had not been so quick to clean up around the house.
Brenna quietly took it upon herself to set the tone at home. She recently cleaned her room – and I'm talking about a thorough cleansing of clutter and closet space.
Teens are well known for leaving clothes lying about, and even some dirty dishes. Brenna typically had clothes scattered on her floor.
But as I type this, she's kept things very clean in her room for more than a week.
And she took the cleanliness a giant step further. As she got out of school early due to exams starting last Thursday, Brenna cleaned up clutter in the living room, the bathroom and kitchen, complete with doing up leftover dishes from the previous night's dinner.
To say we were pleasantly floored when we got home would be an understatement | 696 |
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Connecting Canada from coast to coast to coast—completing a 60-year vision
March 26, 2018 Warren McLeod
The new Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway brings new hopes to northern Canadian communities
Former Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker had a vision: to connect Canada from coast to coast to coast. The idea initially took hold in the 1960s but then sat dormant for decades. Fortunately, by the break of the new millennium, the project began to gain traction. Government funding got the ball rolling and hope was growing in the industry—the project eventually broke ground in January 2014. Now, after nearly 60 years in the making, the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway is finally realizing Diefenbaker's dream by closing out the last 140-kilometer stretch of road infrastructure toward Canada's northern shores.
The project spanned three construction seasons and implemented winter construction techniques necessary for northern elements. Crews worked 24 hours a day. They worked in complete darkness. They worked in -40 Celsius temperatures.
Moreover, they had to move 5 million cubic meters of material in those conditions! To put that into perspective: think of a pathway that's one meter high and one meter wide. Now picture that pathway stretching from Vancouver all the way to Montreal.
I travelled from Yellowknife to Inuvik to participate in the official opening of the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway on November 15, 2017. I had been involved with the project since 2012, so I had thought about this day for a long time. But now that the day was here, how would it go? Would this road be everything we hoped and promised it would be? How would people in the community respond to it?
On my flight up to Inuvik, I remembered all the hard work, difficult meetings, accelerated schedules, and late nights. I recalled the various issues—delays, debates, client concerns—that made me feel like this day may never come. Now there I was in a crowded town hall, waiting for the official opening ceremonies to begin. It was both exciting and nerve-racking.
The first part of the ceremony featured several speeches by mayors and other government officials. We were even graced by the presence of her excellency, Governor General Julie Payette. But there was something different at work. The speakers were more passionate than political. You could feel the emotion in their voice. Something special was happening that day. Something historic.
_q_tweetable:I witnessed the realization of all the hard work and determination it took to turn a 60-year dream into reality. I could see it impacting every person there._q_The northern communities traditionally used an ice road to connect Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk each winter, but the new highway meant no more need for that. So, after the speeches, we watched a tribute video that chronicled the final season<|fim_middle|>
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© Stantec Inc | of the ice road. It was very emotional. The project wasn't just viewed as a highway—it symbolized the end of seasonal isolation for the Tuktoyaktuk community. It will forever change the lives of the people in the region.
Next up was the ribbon-cutting ceremony, followed by an inaugural convoy to Tuktoyaktuk. We gathered outdoors next to two large excavators that were championed on each side of the new road. After shivering for 10 minutes, the dignitaries arrived. The ribbon was cut, pictures were taken, and we were off.
You could feel the excitement as vehicles lined up. We were all anxious to hit the road.
I rode with engineer Walter Orr and videographer Phillippe Roulston. None of us had experienced the highway from end to end before, so it was very rewarding and special to see. We arrived in the Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk to greet the frozen Arctic Ocean before entering the final ceremony. Now, I haven't been to many ceremonies, but the events I have attended were certainly not held in a hockey arena. I thought we'd hear more speeches, eat more food, and head back to Inuvik for an early bedtime.
The place was full: 500 people were seated and another 400 were standing. There was drumming, there was dancing. There was food and fireworks. But the focal point? A 20-foot-high mural that hung from the roof and wrapped right around the perimeter of the boards. The illustrations, done by a local artist, depicted the historical timeline of the highway. It was breathtakingly beautiful.
Right there in that moment, all the insecurities, doubts, and struggles I experienced during the project melted away. I was elated. I witnessed the realization of all the hard work and determination it took to turn a 60-year dream into reality. I could see it impacting every person there. The members of Parliament were astonished, the northern leaders were delighted, and the contractors were thankful their work was valued as it was.
The new highway has changed the community of Tuktoyaktuk forever. Not only will they no longer be isolated but now it will be cheaper to trade and travel there. It will bring economic opportunities there. It will make the community healthier and stronger than ever before.
I built my engineering career in northern Canada to achieve one main goal: to improve the quality of life for the people who live in those remote communities. In my more than 20 years with Stantec, the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway is the best manifestation of my goal to date.
Warren McLeod is a lifetime resident of the North and has spent his entire professional career working as a cold-regions consulting engineer. He's worked primarily on projects based in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Russia.
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Q: What is agile methodology? Can any one explain about the agile methodology in simple sentences?
A: In one sentence this looks like this:
Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.
This is coming from the wikipedia definition, and I like it very much. I highlighted core principles.
A: I think nothing puts it better than the Agile Manifesto itself:
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
from http://agilemanifesto.org/
A: I would like to just also add what Agile is NOT. There are a lot of shops out there who claim to be Agile but in a way that just means they aren't interested in planning their projects and expect things done in an unreasonably short period of time.
Agile!=no project plan. It's tough to handle people who implicitly think that statement<|fim_middle|> remain relevant in order to ensure that the product remains valuable and relevant to the users providing feedback
*Self-organization and promoting cross-functional teams speaks to creating personal accountability within the team and empowering the team to determine how best to remove roadblocks in an efficient manner without being held back by preassigned roles and management hierarchy within the team
A: To me the most important idea is this:
Requirements changes are going to happen because we are forced to design software at the nadir of knowledge about what is needed (the start of the project) and requirements will only become clearer over the course of the project.
Traditional (Waterfall) approaches try to mitigate this change by locking everyone into a contract at the start of the project by having them sign off on comprehensive specs. This may work as a CYA, but it doesn't make anyone happy to deliver something that doesn't meet the needs of the users especially if their objections are met with "Well you signed off on it!"
Agile Methods are designed to embrace the inevitable changes instead of shielding the development team from them. It does this in a number of ways, chief among them are iterative development and continual involvement by stakeholders in the process. In my experience it leaves everyone involved happier in the end, although it can be more uncomfortable for some management types who are hardcore planners.
| is false because they tend to be management types and not always easy to contradict.
A: Agile is a lot of things and practices, but I think the core of it is just iterative development.
Iterative:
Think a bunch of very small waterfalls. That is, the waterfall method (requirements->spec->code->test), but instead of doing it over the course of a year or so, you do it over the course of a few weeks for a manageable chunk of the overall project. At the end of 'iteration/sprint/increment', you have a small but complete and tested set of additional functionality.
This allows you to rapidly change the course of the project if it turns out that what you're doing isn't what the customer wants, or the business needs change, or whatever. Hence the term "agile."
A: Andy has already linked to the Agile Manifesto, which I think just about covers it.
I think it's useful to look at where the Agile Manifesto came from as well. There were a number of methodologies out there which had some common elements and a lot of similar motivations: Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming (list from Alistair Cockburn). The people proposing those methodologies decided to come up with a marketing term to cover the things which they had in common so that the force of what they were saying would be enhanced.
Interestingly (according to what someone told me) there were a number of names on the shortlist which could have been picked instead of "Agile" - one of which was "Adaptive". I personally think that as a single word that sums up better what agile is really about better than "agile"!
A: Employing an agile methodology comes down to emphasizing the delivery of quality products over other aspects of product development and realizing that feedback from the user community is a vital part of creating quality products.
Contrast that with a traditional/waterfall development approach that emphasizes up-front design, documentation, and interface definition while de-emphasizing implementation and transitioning the product from development to release.
In my opinion there is intrinsic quality that a team can build into a product, I see this taking the form of verifying that a product functions as the development team intended and can reasonably accommodate foreseeable enhancements. There are also quality factors based entirely on perception that measure how well a product meets the needs of its users.
Agile approaches tend to deliver products iteratively, incorporating user feedback and developer feedback into each iteration, and promotes delivering each increment of functionality when it achieves minimum viability as a forcing function to elicit frequent user feedback and counteract the tendency of development activities to go on for extended periods of time without feedback from its users. To my mind, other aspects of an agile approaches tend to support these key tenets.
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*Emphasizing frequent customer collaboration generates user feedback while remaining flexible to changes in requirements allows product development to regularly integrate that feedback
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Through writing this very personal book on her son's suicide, Carol Anne emerges eventually, a different but stronger person, with a deep desire to help young people.
The Coldest Night tells the story of a mother's loss of her son through suicide. The author brings us from the moment she learned her son had taken his own life, through the post-mortem, the funeral and the subsequent months of bewilderment and shock as she and her family tried to come to terms with a changed life and family structure.
Carol Anne Milton has a special interest in nurturing the spirituality of young people and has led a school retreat team for the past eighteen years. Through writing this very personal book on her son's suicide, Carol Anne emerges eventually, a different but stronger person, with a deep desire to help young people suffering the pain of depression and suicidal ideation, and to continue to be involved in nurturing their spirituality which she believes is key to a healthy sense of self-worth and value.
'The Coldest Night'
A Day Like Any Other
'Under the Gaze of God'
A Changed Life
The Dark Cloud of Depression
The Why of Suicide
Suicide is a Spiritual Issue
127pp. Veritas Publications. To purchase this book online go to www.veritas.ie
Sometimes we hear people refer jokingly to a 'past life', for example, 'In a past life I was a such-and-such', meaning one had a previous career or relationship. For me there really are two distinct lives: my life prior to the death of my son, Alan, and the radically changed<|fim_middle|> of emotion can cause a person to conjure up all sorts of things – but this was real to me that day and it brought me some comfort.
When we arrived at the old graveyard overlooking the village of Glenealy, I sat down on the stone edge of the grave and looked down at the little village church, and behind that the 'fairy hill', which was inhabited – according to the stories my father told us when we were children – by mischievous leprechauns whose trickery on the local people was the subject of these exciting tales. This came into my mind that day, along with other sweet recollections of my childhood in this beautiful place. It was so peaceful here now, so tranquil, like a balm gently soothing the hurt in my soul. I remember wishing I could stay there forever and not have to return to the heartbreak and chaos from which I had been given brief respite. I wished that Noel, my children and I could stop the clock – and the pain – right here.
Very softly, into my mind came my father's voice: `That's the stuff! That's the stuff! Then my grandfather's voice saying: 'Carol Anne, Carol Anne'. Over and over these words were repeated, all very softly, all seeming absolutely real. 'That's the stuff' was always my father's way of saying, 'Good for you!' or 'Well done!' when we did well at something. My grandad was the only one in our family who had always called me by my full name, and it always sounded like 'Carlann' in his Wicklow accent. The memory of hearing those two distinct voices, soft and loving, stay with me to this day. Again, I make no judgement; if hearing these voices was a product of my intense grief and desire for consolation, so be it. If there truly is such a thing as the spiritual presence of our loved ones after death, I thank God. However, the fact that all this happened within a couple of hours on the same day, that each seemed to speak in his own voice, that each brought me – and continues to bring me – solace, and that this has stayed fresh in my memory for six years, makes me wonder … In my fear of being overwhelmed by the loss of Alan, in my trying to cope with the horror of his suicide, was my dad trying to tell me that I would survive, that I would be okay? Whatever the explanation, it brought me comfort in the aftermath of Alan's death.
Tags: Books, Healthcare | life my family and I had to learn to live following his death by suicide in 2002. When I look back on my life before that event – what I see as my own 'past life' – it was a relatively comfortable and secure life with the normal ups and downs, joyful and sad occasions, births, marriages and deaths that are part of everyone's life – the times of calm and the times of turmoil that exist in every family. My world consisted of my immediate family, my retreat work with young people, my extended family and my friends.
I felt blessed with my four sons, David, Stephen, Niall and Alan, and my daughter, Noelle, who at fifteen was showing signs of growing into a lovely young woman. My sons had all grown into intelligent, generous and compassionate men, aware of the needs of the world around them, but at the same time full of the mischief, exuberance and frequent outrageousness of young adulthood. My children had been my greatest source of joy since they were born and my gratitude to God for them flowed into a desire to work with young people, which I have been doing now for eighteen years.
Surrounding these elements of my life was, and is, my deep faith in a great and powerful Other, whom I call God – a word that I have long ago ceased to grapple with the meaning of and so am content to call the 'Unnamable'; something that is within me and within all living things. Many years ago I read somewhere the lines: 'God and I are a majority; no force can overcome us.' This stayed with me; I knew what it meant with my mind, however, today I know it with my heart and spirit. For me it is a truth because I am healthy and alive today. There is a permanent scar from the pain of the loss of my youngest son, but also a renewed capacity to feel joyful and to live life to the full having survived the horrendous evil that is the suicide of a beloved child.
I have written this book for parents, educators, pastors and for every young person who thinks that his/her life is not worth living and that he/she is not worth loving. It is written in order to tell the story of survival after the suicide of one's child, as well as to pass on information from my research into suicide and depression and how nurturing a healthy spirituality could go some way towards combating suicide being looked at as an option.
In the book I have moved from a personal account of the details of Alan's death to sharing my journey of research, questioning and my attempt at understanding depression among young males and why it is that a growing number of these complete suicide.
In the first three chapters I have described what it was like to hear that Alan had taken his life. Included here are the personal memories of that time contributed by my daughter, Noelle, my sons, David and Niall, Alan's girlfriend, Íde, and his godmother, Frances, who is also my cousin and friend.
Chapter four describes what it was like for us in the first weeks and months following Alan's death and how we had to learn to construct a changed life after losing a family member. Chapter five explores the features, forms and some common myths surrounding depressive illness, and chapter six examines suicide in a similar way. Chapter seven looks at the 'why' of suicide in an attempt to answer the unanswerable question.
In chapter eight I attempt to explore suicide from a spiritual perspective and to explain my belief that a healthy spirituality leads to a healthy self-esteem, an increased sense of our value and purpose in the world and how this helps me to live a life that is joyful and fulfilled. Finally, chapter nine deals with moving on from grief and the personal reflections of my family regarding how they have coped with a changed life after Alan's death.
One voice must lead the chorus that is represented in this book, but I feel that it is important to include the reflections of family members in order that the reader may receive a more complete account of our journey through bereavement and the grieving process. I hope that this doesn't interrupt the flow of the book, however, perhaps a parent or teacher reading will will think it worthwhile to show the reflections and reactions of Alan's siblings to young persons in their care. These young people may be able to identify with the feelings expressed here, or may see for themselves the destructive impact that suicide can have on the family and close friends of the deceased.
My deepest hope for young people is that they will come to know the immense value that their lives bring to this world, not their academic or sporting achievements – useful as these are – but how the very fact that they exist can enrich their family, community and the wider world. I hope that they will come to realise their immense power to be co-creators of a world of freedom, justice, truth, beauty and love.
I hope that we, the nurturers of our young people, who are the soul of the next generation, will have the wisdom to prioritise the importance of a healthy self-regard in our children over material success; that we will look within ourselves to discover that Other which provides a deep and authentic self-love, allowing us to love selflessly these precious beings who have been put into our care.
The title of the book was inspired by a poem that Niall wrote immediately following Alan's suicide, and with which I begin this story.
by Niall Milton
Tethered
My blood has stopped its frantic rush
My hands lie still at my sides
The wind caresses my unfeeling skin.
My depth I could not bear
Others' love I could not believe
So I chose this escape
And in my release, I hope
Not for happiness, but for peace.
Perhaps I will be found soon
My solitude ended
I almost see myself
From outside
My body like a ghost in the darkness.
Upon my action
My mind freed from guilt
For family, friend and foe
Freed from regret and pain
Freed from life and learning.
Perhaps I would retract
For the sake of five minutes
Perhaps I ought …
Perhaps the loss I cause will be fleeting
Then again, perhaps not.
'Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.'
Beginning the Day
Friday, 1 March 2002 began as any ordinary day would in our house. By 9 a.m. my husband, Noel, and our sons, Stephen (25) and Niall (24), had left for work. Our daughter, Noelle (15), had gone to school where she would complete her Junior Certificate mock exams that day. Our youngest son, Alan (22), was, I presumed, still asleep. My eldest son, David (28), lived and worked in Copenhagen at the time and has since married and settled in Denmark.
I finished breakfast and sat down in my favourite armchair by the patio doors leading out to the back garden, savouring the silence that ensued when my family had left, after the noise and the rushing around that was normal in our home as everybody prepared for their day. As much as I loved the vitality, the music, the voices, all the sounds and noises of our lively household, I deeply appreciated these times of tranquility, when I could gather my thoughts and prepare for my own day. I remember closing my eves for a moment and asking for the protection of all my family, something I had done every day since each of them in turn had moved from under my wing and into the wider world of school when they were children.
I was the coordinator of a school retreat team at the time and one of my tasks was to liaise with the religious education departments in schools, so I was waiting for two schools to open in order to finalise arrangements for upcoming retreats. Having made my calls, I was just about to stand up and go into the kitchen when I glanced outside and saw a row of gardai in yellow jackets moving down the back garden, side by side. There was a garda at the patio door beckoning me around to the front of the house. I opened the front door to find two young gardai waiting. I invited them in and asked what was going on. One of them replied: 'There's a young lad in a tree in your garden.' My first thought was that a young guy who was trying to escape would not have a chance against the burly gardai in the garden! Not once in those few seconds did my thoughts turn to anything more sinister.
We went into the room where I had been sitting moments ago and one of the men drew the curtains. The other garda sat beside me on a settee and asked if I had sons. I told him the whereabouts of David, Stephen and Niall, and as I was saying that Alan was upstairs in bed, an odd stirring began in the pit of my stomach. I thought it strange that they didn't stand back, but went ahead of me up the stairs, while I gave directions to Alan's bedroom from behind. I then began to realise that this was no hunt for a runaway youngster, and that 'young lad in the tree' meant something else – something that I would not articulate to myself. By the time I reached the room the curtains were drawn here also, as Alan's bedroom faced the back garden of the house. Alan's bed was empty and had not been slept in.
My immediate thought was that he had stayed in his friend's house, but as that was practically next door to our own it didn't make sense. Then I thought he might have stayed in his girlfriend's house, but ruled that out also because she had called late the previous night looking for him. He had gone for a drink with his friends, but would have let me know if he had been going somewhere after that. Standing in Alan's room, my mind searching desperately for possibilities that would explain his empty bed, I could feel my heart beginning to race and my throat constricting. I took a deep breath and told myself to get a grip on this silliness! There had to be a perfectly logical reason why Alan was not in his room. Maybe he had gone for a spin on his bike; maybe he had just gone for a walk. My mind would not accept what I knew in my heart.
Identity Confirmed
Downstairs once more, one of the gardai asked me to describe Alan, which I did, and the garda said he would go and check outside. I was glad of this, because it would prove once and for all that I was being silly in thinking it could be Alan. Any moment now, Alan would walk in the door having been for a swim. I brightened up: 'That's it! He went for a swim … or something … or anything. God, no … this will be perfectly okay, right?' Confusion. The young garda returned, took my hand and very gently said that from my description, it could be Alan. I told myself that there was still nothing certain so it would be okay. A second later, another garda came into the kitchen holding a bank card. He held it out to me, and as I read Alan's name etched clearly on the card, all hope died. Alan had carried out the final act that he believed would relieve him of the anguish with which he had struggled valiantly for the last three years of his life.
At that moment, my life and the lives of Noel and our family were irrevocably changed. The joie de vivre that I was beginning to recapture after the death of my father and my brother, in 1998 and 1999 respectively, was shattered as the bank card confirming Alan's identity was shown to me. I recall that as soon as I knew that it was Alan, that he really had gone from me, my immediate feeling was one of gratitude to God that Alan had been released at last from the agony of the unpredictable mood swings, the crippling anxiety and the periods of depression, which had dogged his life for years. This was a very fleeting sense of gratitude, barely lasting a second, and I have wondered why I can remember it so clearly, or indeed how I could feel grateful at all in a situation so terrible. I have learned since that this is quite a common initial reaction; that when depression, despair and previous suicide attempts have been experienced by a family, there may be relief following the final successful attempt, because the deceased is no longer in despair and the constant threat of suicide is over.
I only have snippets of memory of the time following this and I am inclined to confuse the sequence of events, but I do remember trying – and failing – to swing into 'mother mode', wanting to protect Noel, my sons and my daughter from this horror. We got everybody home except Noelle, whom we decided to leave to finish her exams. David would have to learn the devastating news over the phone. It was heartbreaking to watch as Niall and Stephen learned what had happened, and I felt so helpless that there was nothing I could do to alleviate their pain. The hurt on Noel's face as he tried to take in the horror of what had happened to his child is one of my most terrible memories of that day. Here was a father who had taken part in every moment of his children's lives, who had been involved in every stage of their growing up, who had taken them out for drives and treks in the mountains every weekend, talking to them about the wonders of nature, exploring with them old castles and cathedrals, teaching them the history of places they visited. Here was a father who had passed on to his children his love of the mountains and waterfalls, summer days and the joy of swimming and fishing in a river, who had so often brought them home, muddy and dripping wet after a day of adventure, who had so often lost patience with their squabbling in the car, threatening to throw them out and make them walk, until they all collapsed in giggles at their dad's irritation – all squabbles forgotten. Here was a man who deeply, deeply loved his children, and who now had heard that his treasured youngest son had just been cut down from the tree where his children, and he himself in his childhood, had played. I found this almost unbearable. I would have taken all his pain on myself if I had been able to. It was dreadful to watch his heart breaking like this.
Support from Neighbours and Friends
The day wore on in a haze of people coming and going; neighbours, friends and relatives bringing tray upon tray of hot and cold food; everyone crowding into the kitchen and around the table, from which neither Noel nor I had moved since morning. I remember looking at Noel and wondering how he was managing to chat about ordinary things to people. I realised that this was his way of coping with his devastation – being surrounded by people, being his usual sociable self. I recall being glad for him, however, I couldn't bring myself to enter into it. Listening, I silently screamed: 'Why are you not talking about Alan? How can you all talk about ordinary things when you can see what has happened?' I remember the rage I felt, when some well-meaning soul launched into a story of how sad they had felt at the funeral of some distant cousin or other. I was screaming inside again: 'I don't care about your cousin's funeral or the gruesome details of his terminal disease, or how his widow crumbled in a devastated heap on her way out of the church. Why can't you just shut up and either talk about my son or go!'
I wanted to run, to escape from the incessant chatter, to be alone with what had happened, to process this nightmare in my mind, and yet I was afraid to be without all these people, afraid to be left alone with the reality of what had happened. This is all I remember of a day that no parent should ever have to go through. Noel and Niall went to the hospital where Alan had been taken for an autopsy. Noel said that this was one of the more traumatic events of that time, knowing that Alan was there and not being allowed to see him, because they were about to begin the post-mortem examination. He hated the thought of what was about to happen to Alan's body and assured the person dealing with the formalities that Alan was not a heavy drinker, nor a smoker or any type of drug abuser, hoping that they would take his word for it and not carry out the autopsy. However, this is a legal requirement in all suicide cases. The post-mortem examination revealed that, in fact, Alan had quite a high level of alcohol in his blood at the time of death.
Glenealy
Some time between the Friday that Alan died and the removal of his body to the church on the following Tuesday, I felt strongly drawn to Glenealy, Co. Wicklow, where my grandparents and my father are buried. My godmother is there too, but my desire was to go to my beloved grandad and my dad, two people whom I had truly loved and whose love for me I had always been certain of. Noel drove me and I remember I had my eyes closed to block out everything around me. I couldn't bear to see life outside going on as usual. I felt safe in my own interior world. I was aware that Noel was coping better than I was by facing reality head-on, while I wanted to run from it. We didn't speak much and, soon after we began the journey, I silently pleaded: 'Where are you, Alan?' and had an immediate impression of Alan's face, radiant and smiling at me, saying: 'It's deadly, Mam!' This lasted for just an instant and then it was gone. 'Deadly' is not a word that I use, and six years later the memory of that couple of seconds is as vivid as when it happened. I make no judgement on this – I am aware that intensity | 3,711 |
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The U.S. government<|fim_middle|>. And that cycles back to the fear."
Gary Hager, president and founder of Integrated Wealth Management, believes that the volatility will last through early November, then start to dissipate. Once that happens, he predicts, investors will jump out of the trenches and dive back into the market, though the economic recession will last far longer, since stock movements tend to precede activity in the real economy.
"There are tons of people sitting on the sidelines watching a car wreck: 'Should I stop? Should I drive? Should I call somebody?,'" says Hager. "Our position is, if you're in the market, you've got to stay -- bonds are certainly safe, but where are you getting any return?"
"And if you're not in the market," he continues, "you have to look for opportunities. There are tremendous, tremendous buys."
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Three elements are causing a broad selloff and exacerbating one another's effect: A psychology of panic and fear, a weak economic outlook across the globe, and technical factors like the forced liquidation of
from margin calls. Scared investors started fleeing stocks en masse in September, and as prices hit certain benchmarks, there was more forced selling.
Daily announcements of weak
and new predictions of a global recession only lead to more selling, whether in stocks, commodities or other holdings that once seemed like refuge from the storm.
"Gold was safe haven mostly when people were trying to protect themselves from inflation," says Christian Menegatti, lead analyst at economic research firm RGE Monitor. "But I don't see any inflationary pressures around the corner -- in fact, I see the opposite, deflationary pressures."
Indeed, Nouriel Roubini, a leading economist and chairman of RGE, has predicted that the U.S. will suffer the worst recession in four decades. Roubini told a conference of hedge-fund managers on Thursday that there will continue to be a "massive dumping of assets" as hundreds of additional hedge funds fail, according to
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While weakness within the banking industry came as no surprise, reports only stoked fears of a continuation of stress in the financial sector. That stress has eliminated or necessitated the bailout or fire sale of several top firms this year, including
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The list of calamities Friday is long. The
fell as much as 500 points, before closing down 215. The dollar soared to multi-year highs against European and emerging-market currencies, sending commodity prices into a freefall. Oil fell as much as $5.19 per barrel to $62.85 at one point on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Through all the tumult, Treasury bonds rallied, with the yield on 30-year notes falling the lowest level since ordinary sales began in 1977. Prices move in the opposite direction of yields.
The situation seemed more dire early in the day, as futures on the S&P, Dow and Nasdaq were all halted in premarket trading after reaching the maximum decline allowed, following sharp declines in overseas markets. But the crash never came to fruition in the regular session, as stocks and commodities recouped some or all of their losses as the day went on, and the flight to Treasuries eased up a bit. For instance, gold was poised to post its biggest weekly loss, at one point dropping to $681 per ounce, before gaining more than 3% in a late-day rally.
The unprecedented volatility of late has placed some values out of whack with fundamentals and left some investors befuddled.
"Part of this frustration is that there's not a single event that we can point to that caused this global selloff -- first in Asia, then in Europe and now in the U.S.," says Hank Smith, chief investment officer with Haverford Investments. "If it's forced liquidation, we don't know how much leverage hedge funds have and we don't know what stage we are in. Are we almost near the end of this hedge-fund forced liquidation?"
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PORT ST. MAARTEN:— Representatives from the Ministry of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications (Ministry TEATT), Ministry of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure Management (Ministry VROMI), SXM Airport, Taxi Association DSTA, St. Maarten Tourist Bureau (STB), and Port St. Maarten, took a bus tour recently around the country along the route that taxis and tour busses will be taking passengers when the first commercial cruise ship calls start early December.
The objective of the bus tour was to see the country through the eyes of the visitor while driving along the designated routes. The tour allowed key stakeholders to evaluate and assess the current state of affairs along the identified tourism corridor and take additional measures where the clean-up of the destination is concerned in preparation for cruise ship destination calls.
An action list has been compiled of things that still need to be done. Cruise lines continue to send to the island assessment teams to review destination recovery efforts in preparation for cruise ship calls, and therefore, it is extremely important for clean-up/beautification efforts to continue full speed ahead.
Part of the assessment action list includes the following: cleaning of beaches with a refined finish; refined finish of temporary garbage depots in Cole Bay and at Kim Sha Beach area; removal of boats/containers on Great Bay Beach; beach promenade street lights to be repaired; clean-up of popular beaches; placement of temporary restrooms at popular beaches.
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"We are appealing to the general public to assist with the clean-up around your area. We call on businesses to do the same. During the tour we noticed some debris still in front of some business establishments, and have observed some unsightly areas along the airport strip.
"Clean-up should be done in a timely manner and done correctly thereby ensuring the cruise industry that we are open and ready. This is a crucial period in the cruise sector history of the country, and all hands are needed on deck to make sure we are ready for the first and subsequent cruise ship calls," Port St. Maarten Management said on Thursday.
Port St. Maarten is working closely with Ministry TEATT, the STB, the St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce & Industry to get the message out to the business community about being ready for the upcoming cruise ship calls.
The bus tour also included Mico Cascais, a 30 year veteran of the Cruise Industry both in Ship Board Management and Corporate Management. Mico is currently the Principal of Mico Cascais, Inc. a company focused on reshaping the story and experiences cruise guests will enjoy when sailing in the Caribbean.
The first cruise passenger experience will be one of discovery for the guests to return on another cruise to the destination in the future, and therefore, it is extremely important that the destination showcases itself in a manner that will shape future calls for the remainder of 2017 and going into 2018 and beyond.
Port St. Maarten Press Release
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Sound insulation describes the reduction in sound across a partition. The sound insulation across a good conventional, lightweight, office to office construction is typically in the order of 45 dB Dw.
This means that if the sound level in the source room is around 65 dB (a typical level for speech), the sound level in the adjacent room, the receiver room, will be approximately 20 dB (barely audible).
If sound levels are increased in the source room to 75 dB (raised voice), sound levels within the adjacent room will also increase to around 30 dB (audible). Sound insulation therefore describes the level of sound lost across a partition and not the level of sound within a adjacent room.
Privacy describes the perceived sound reduction across a wall. Privacy is<|fim_middle|> complex and takes into consideration receiver room volume, receiver room reverberation times and the area of the separating partition. The conversion between Rw and Dw should always be calculated.
Acoustic design for health and wellbeing.
Sound insulation in dwellings: Part 3: Material change of use (conversions) (GG 83-3).
MACH Acoustics: Subjective Evaluation and Conversion between RW and DW. | a function of both sound insulation and background noise. Background noise is made up of services noise and environmental noise sources breaking in through the facade or open windows, vents etc.
If the background noise within a room is increased by 5 to 10 dB, the perceived level of privacy across a partition is also increased by 5 to 10 dB. Therefore, when looking at required sound insulation levels on-site, it is important to consider both the background noise in the receiver room and the sound insulation across the partition.
The table below provides an illustrative representation of privacy. This table specifies two Dw levels for a partition, one for background noise levels in the receiver room of 35 dBA1, and the second for background noise levels of 40 dBA2.
Two parameters are used to describe the sound insulation of a partition, Dw and Rw. Dw represents the sound insulation between rooms on-site. Since these figures describe the final site requirements, Dw levels are specified by clients and Building Regulations. Rw represents the lab tested sound insulation of an element making up a partition wall/floor type. Due to flanking and other factors, lab rated sound reduction levels will not be achieved on-site.
Conventionally, there is a 5 - 10 dB reduction between a Rw lab tested figure and an on-site Dw figure. The conversion between Dw and Rw is relatively | 278 |
I've probably walked<|fim_middle|> have an excuse to do more of the things we love!
Now when I get the "Bro, the party was amazing" text, I counter it with "Dude, Jett rolled over last night, it was crazy! I wonder what she will do today!" Every day she's doing something for the first time and it's so cool to witness!
If you're about to have a child, prepare to start living for the first time. Prepare to love more. To care. To be aware. To pay attention. To sacrifice. To cheer. To make up hit records that no one will ever hear outside of the walls of your home. To become photogenic or a photographer. To learn how to celebrate the small victories in life that are often overlooked. To travel for purpose and truly experience wherever it is you choose to go. To provide a first.
When you have a child, life becomes this new, amazing movie that you won't want to miss a single scene of.
Remember, you can't TIVO life. | out of eleven million doors in my lifetime, but the hardest remains my home. Something shifted and it seems as if missing out on things happening outside my home isn't such a big deal anymore.
Being somewhat young parents, our friends find my wife and I boring because we always do the simplest things for fun: go to a movie, the park, an art gallery or museum, have wine on our balcony, read or just talk to each other. Before Jett was born, people constantly told us that our lives were "over," and we weren't going to be able to go out for years. Out of all the things people told us about parenthood, this was probably the most untrue. The truth is we have never felt more alive or more excited to get out and experience things! Now we | 161 |
We are excited at the Tabernacle that the Lord has allowed us to grow our radio ministry to include this station, as well as our blog talk cable radio broadcast. Friends, there is no limit to what God can do in our lives if we allow Him. We are blessed when we bless others. I am soliciting your prayers for this ministry. I already know that God will speak to your hearts and we will always meet our financial needs. Also, remember the fine folks at KKVV Radio Station as they seek to reach out to many more souls by expanding they're capacity to serve. Why don't you take a moment and give the fine folks at KKVV a call at 731-5588, and contribute to their growth. We can all participate<|fim_middle|> and the folks at Purrfect Auto located at 2050 Craig Road in North Las Vegas, in conjunction with the Tabernacle Christian Broadcast Ministry will give the vehicle away to one worthy recipient. All you have to do in order to have a chance to be selected is simply write a 200 words or less nomination letter explaining the hardship or urgent need for a vehicle. For more information about the car give-away call the Tabernacle at 664-2078, again that's 664-2078. Get started right away! Someone will receive a mechanically sound vehicle for Christmas! | in God's Kingdom work by becoming helpers one to another. Additionally, we want to thank Vons Supermarket for their weekly donation of goods. These allow us to lend nutritional support to sheltered women and children in Las Vegas. Friends, do you know anyone who can use a nice car--perhaps to get to work, shop or pay those bills? You can nominate them or yourself to be selected to be given a 2004 Hyundai Elantra. That's right! Manager Mark | 100 |
Mõned päevad on erilisemad kui teised!
Hetkel mil oskad kõige vähem seda oodata võib saada tõeliselt südantsoojendava au osaliseks. Suurimad tänud oma erilistele klientidele kes kõige paremas mõttes suudavad "silmad ette anda" oma tegemistes ja heades kommetes teistele. Suurimat edu neile!
Some days are just greater than other days!
In a moment when you can least expect it you will get part of such heart warming honor. Biggest thanks to so Special Campers who can show in best way being example to others in all what they do! Biggest success to YMCA Jongerenreizen younger´s and their leaders!
July 2013 - :"<|fim_middle|> uitzonderlijk vriendelijk en behulpzaam personeel, prachtige omgeving."
Nick and Mary Jane from Australia (in june 2013) - ... : "So we headed to our accommodation – we had booked a few nights at a caravan park on the north coast in the Lahemaa National Park. The GPS couldn't recognise the address – or maybe we just didn't know how to enter Estonian addresses, but as we had the coordinates, we were able to use them to find the Park. The drive from the Border to Võsu took about two hours and included a road-side stop for some lunch, but the scenery was soooo pretty. Lots of pine and birch trees, well-maintained roads, even the road-side verges had been mown & whipper-snipped to within an inch of their lives! The villages that we drove through were clean and tidy, with the houses in well-maintained condition. The Estonians were really putting the Russians to shame! When we arrived at Lepispea, our Caravan Park, the manageress spoke very good English and was chuffed to have Australian guests – she told us that we were the first Australians who had stayed at the Caravan Park!
She had information printed out in English about things to see in the area, walks in the National Park or Cycle paths – all in English!! Even the Caravan Park was a big improvement on the Russian parks we had seen (2) – more than one shower & toilet for the guests to use, staff who spoke English, information about activities or public transport. Yes, we had decided to stay there for 4 nights and we would catch the bus into Tallinn when we were ready to explore the capital.
July 2012 - :" Ein toller Platz, gute Verkehrsanbindung - Busverbindung nach Tallinn - bester Platz an der Küste - Wir haben viele radtouren gemacht. Sehr schöne Umgebung - viele versteckte Badeplätze in der Nähe. Einkaufsmöglichkeiten im Ort - zwei Restaurants in der Nähe. Wir haben den Bus nach Tallinn genutzt ca. 10.- € / pP. Die Rezeption ist sehr hilfsbereit. Wir fahren bestimmt mal wieder hin. " | Sehr schöner Platz, sehr hilfsbereite und nette Leitung, schöner Zuang zum Meer"
JanG/ august 2013 - :"We camped for four nights on the Lepispea campground in August 2013. This was after the high season in Estonia, which resulted in a very quiet campground, which added to the very positive experience. The showers and toilets are shared man-women, not overly luxurious, but good, with hot water and very clean. The campground has a fireplace and barbeque possibilities and there is a well equipped kitchen to be used by campers. But what really made this campground stand out during our Baltic trip was the sauna. It was all do-it-yourself, but heating up the fire and then enjoying the sauna with my wife and daughter was a great camping experience. But I could imagine that if you are earlier in the season and the camping is more crowded, it may be slightly less relaxed. Nevertheless, there is much to see and do in the national park and the lady of the campground was extremely friendly and helpful by doing trip suggestions and explaining which mushrooms to pick for dinner. Great value for money."
June 2013 - :"Bijzonderheden: ruime plaatsen, | 263 |
A tingle of excitement danced down Maisy's spine as she held the three rectangular tickets. She looked up at her parents and a squeak escaped her lips.
"Are we really going?" she asked.
"We're leaving as soon as you can get packed!" her dad said.
"Let us know when you're ready. But we need to leave in about an hour<|fim_middle|> set off to finish her task. | if we want to avoid heavy traffic and be able to stop somewhere for lunch," her mother said, as she followed Maisy's dad out of the room.
For several moments after her parents left, Maisy stood in the middle of her bedroom. She was still in her pajamas. Her hair was a mess, and her mind was a jumble of thoughts. There was so much to do. At least she had already eaten breakfast.
Maisy shook her head to clear it. She raced to the bathroom to brush her teeth and make herself presentable. When she returned to her bedroom, she was shocked to discover only fifteen minutes had passed. She was sure she had never moved as quickly on any other morning.
She removed her duffle bag from the back of her closet and began packing. She'd need more items for this trip than she would if she were doing something ordinary, such as sleeping over at Veronica's house. She picked out two pairs of her favorite pajamas. She was putting them in her bag, when her mother came back into the room. Reesie trailed after her, tail wagging.
Maisy reached for the wide box as her mother extended it to her. She undid the purple bow and plucked the lid off of the top. When she saw what was inside, she almost dropped the box. For the second time that morning, Maisy let out a little squeak. She smiled as she realized Veronica's bubbly personality was rubbing off on her.
She placed the box on her bed and touched the tan material of her new trench coat. It had a smooth texture and felt cool under her skin. She lifted it from the box and stared at her mother, speechless.
Maisy paused with one arm in her new trench coat. She hadn't yet realized she would be spending the weekend without her little pup to snuggle up with at night. Maisy had spent many nights away from home. But, this would be the first time her entire family would be gone, and no one would be home to take care of Reesie.
Her family had adopted Reesie from a shelter when she was about two years old, and Maisy had been in kindergarten. She was about six now, and Maisy worried Reesie wouldn't enjoy staying somewhere else.
Maisy let out a breath. Reesie liked Veronica and her little brother, Vince. She also got along with Veronica's Dalmatian puppy, Spot, even though he was now bigger than she was. The two dogs had only been together on a couple of occasions. But, they chased each other like old friends.
As her mother left, Maisy finished putting on her trench coat. She felt even more like a detective. She picked up her notebook and was pretending to consider a case, when she felt a tug.
She glanced down to see Reesie pulling on the edge of the new coat. The pup dropped it and stood on her hind legs. She sniffed as much of the coat as she could reach before dropping back to the floor and opening her mouth to grab it again.
Maisy said, "No, puppy," and picked up the tiny dog. She snuggled her for a moment before putting her back on the floor. With a final sniff, Reesie was satisfied that the strange, new object could be trusted. She pranced away and settled in for a nap in her cozy, little bed.
Maisy giggled and | 705 |
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Dmitry Gomberg + Don't Take Pictures
Muybridge's Horse is back from hiatus! And with something I'm really excited to share. In the spring, Kat Ki<|fim_middle|> the year and of life. While the life and work of a shepherd varies from season to season, there is constantly food and feast. Throughout Gomberg's story of the high mountain shepherds of Tusheti, the life and death cycle, and its effects on both the animals and their human caretakers, is explored in beautifully atmospheric color photographs that favor a lush earthy palate which compliments the harshness of the subject matter and the richness of the landscape.
You can read the full article and see more of Gomberg's gorgeous photographs by purchasing a copy of Don't Take Pictures Issue 5 or reading it online. In addition, an exclusive print of Gomberg's image Up to the Mountains in the Fog is available for purchase through Don't Take Pictures beginning today; find more information here.
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To contact Emma, email muybridgeshorse@gmail.com | ernan of the wonderful print and online magazine Don't Take Pictures asked me if I'd be interested in contributing an article to the next issue. Having written for the Rule Breakers series of the magazine's blogzine component last year, I happily accepted and chose to interview photographer Dmitry Gomberg about his project The Shepherd's Way. The images in Gomberg's series document the time he spent among the shepherds and cheese makers of the Caucasus Mountains. An excerpt from the article, which focuses (naturally) on the presence of animals and death in the series, is below.
Gomberg did not set out to make a statement about the shepherds that he lived with and photographed in the Tusheti region of the Republic of Georgia. A photographic storyteller, he found himself fascinated by a lifestyle that he had never seen before. Born in Moscow in 1980, Gomberg moved to New York in 2000 and changed professions several times before pursuing photography at the International Center of Photography. While living in New York, he made friends with a group of Georgians who invited him to the tiny mountainous nation. Having grown up watching Georgian cinema, reading the literature, and listening to his father's stories of traveling throughout the Soviet Union, he was already enchanted by the place. He readily accepted his friends' invitation and travelled to Tusheti, Georgia, where he was introduced to Vazha, a brigadier and the leader of the shepherds. Gomberg joined Vazha and his cousin, Sasha, on a journey leading a flock of sheep from winter fields to the mountains. Their main goal was to keep the sheep alive.
Gomberg's photographs document the time he spent in Tusheti and the lives of the people he met, but also include landscapes, candid portraits, and still lifes. The comprehensive series contains images of a rustic lifestyle: people making bread and cheese, spinning wool, and preparing meals; men wrangling flocks of sheep over stunning mountain passes; and animals grazing and shuffling along on green grass and in deep snow. It is fitting that in this digital age, Gomberg uses film to document a way of life that seems to be from an earlier century. Made from 2008 to 2013, these pictures address the seasons, both of | 481 |
The French National Museum of Natural History, founded during the French Revolution but established already in 1635, is the National Natural Museum of France, composed of 12 sites throughout the Country, with four sites located in Paris.
The main museum is situated in the 5th arrondissement at<|fim_middle|> it contains recreational acivities dealing with visual and tactile illusions, memory tests and physic experiences.
Digital and IT Room: here experts hold conferences and workshops about technology. | the Jardin des Plantes, one of the seven departments of the National Museum of Natural History. Here there are laboratories, exhibition galleries, a zoo and educational institutions. In fact, this is also a botanical school where scientists construct gardens to make research about biotic diversity. The museum is committed to two main missions related to nature and environmental awareness.
First of all, it is a research centre of the Sorbonne University: here, researchers do laboratory work, but also organize worlwide expeditions to collect evidence for their studies and to expand its collection. You will find taxidermists conducting experiments on specimens, gardeners trying to growing plants in different climates, and many other experts working in order to promote nature.
The other mission is to share knowledge through educational activities and experiments, in order to make understand easily to everyone the importance of nature and its protection.
Accessible every day except on Tuesdays, from 10am to 6pm, this is an interesting and educational idea for both a family or a school trip.
The Palais de la Découverte is a science museum dedicated to educational activities and experiments, reason why it is a popular attraction for many school trips to Paris.
Located in the west side of the Grand Palais, 8th arrondissement, it was built in 1937, while in 2010 it was combined with the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie to form the Universcience institution. Today it hosts both permanent and temporary exhibitions and it is open from Tuesday to Sunday. In this museum, you will assist to interactive experiments of mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology and biology, all explained by scientists.
Experiments are carried out in specific and equipped rooms. Here are some of the activities organized by the museum.
Planetarium: in this cupola, there is reproduction of the skies and its stars. Here, you will also be able to observe visible galactic and extra-galactic elements in space.
Chemistry Room: it is composed of different sections, where you will experience wonderful chemical phenomena and understand better the composition of the world.
Earth Science Room: here you will learn everything about climate change, volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, but also about spieces evolution.
Mathematics Room: in this section you will definitely enjoy maths, solving problems and playing games with experts.
Physics Room: you will assist to experiments in different rooms related to electromagnetism, nuclear physics, fluids etc..
Life Sciences Room: it is an area dedicated to the analysis of communication between animals and the composition of the human body.
Eureka Room: | 538 |
Argentinian couple<|fim_middle|> they bought from the North Otago Club, and would be on hand to help Mr and Mrs Tacchini get settled.
As for changes, along with dropping "1871" from the restaurant's name, a new menu would be introduced from today and some of the decor would be changed, Mr Tacchini said.
The menu would not be strictly Italian.
"We'll have a mix of cultures but we want to continue having things like our own handmade pasta."
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New Cucina 1871 and Tees St Cafe owners Pablo and Yanina Tacchini with former owners Lynn Stevens (left rear) and Mary Claire Anderson. Photo: Daniel Birchfield.
An Argentinian couple have cemented their relationship with Oamaru after buying two popular local eateries.
Pablo Tacchini and his wife Yanina recently took ownership of Italian restaurant Cucina 1871 and neighbouring Tees St Cafe, on the corner of Tees and Itchen Sts, after they were approached by previous owners Lynn Stevens and Mary-Claire Anderson.
Mr Tacchini was executive chef at Cucina 1871 for several months after it opened in November 2013, before working in other restaurants.
The Tacchinis came to Oamaru in 2008, after what was originally planned to be only a holiday in New Zealand.
Mrs Tacchini said the couple, from Buenos Aires, had always talked about moving to Australia or New Zealand, and settled on the latter because of the number of jobs available for experienced chefs.
Those opportunities, as well as Oamaru's small-town appeal, were the major factors that led to the couple's move here.
"Basically, we felt that it was a really good place to raise a family," Mr Tacchini said.
He has worked as a chef at Northstar, Riverstone Kitchen and Fleur's Place in Moeraki.
A couple of months ago, he spent time working with top chef Michael Meredith at Meredith's, in Auckland, widely regarded as one of the finest restaurants in the country.
"I approached him and we got talking," Mr Tacchini said.
"The whole idea was to go to a really good place and try to learn a few ideas and techniques and bring them to Oamaru."
In Cucina 1871, to be renamed Cucina, the couple had realised a lifelong dream.
"We always thought one day if we could own our own restaurant, it would be this one because we have always loved this corner.
"I've always been a chef and it's a natural progression. If you're a chef and don't want to own your own restaurant, you should change your profession."
While it had been a stressful time, it was "really exciting".
Mrs Anderson said she had always hoped the couple would be willing to take over the restaurant.
"We always thought Pablo would like to have his own place and we had always wanted to give him the first opportunity to take this place over," she said.
"It probably happened a bit sooner than we thought, but that's the way it worked out."
Mrs Stevens and Mrs Anderson still own the building, which | 560 |
Stacy Lieberman
An innovative and inclusive leader, Stacy Lieberman is an expert in the dynamic fields of arts and culture in Los Angeles. Currently the President and CEO of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Stacy has more than 20 years of experience in senior positions at iconic L.A. arts, non-profit, and educational institutions such as The Broad, the Autry Museum of the American West, and the Skirball Cultural Center.<|fim_middle|>. She serves on the board of Los Angeles' Downtown Center Business Improvement District and on the Council of American Jewish Museums Advisory Council, the Cultural Diplomacy Leadership Council of the Meridian Center for Cultural Diplomacy, and the development committee at IKAR, among others.
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Shawn Rubin | Throughout her career, she has been dedicated to sharing stories and welcoming visitors and students of all ages and backgrounds to experience educational, arts, and cultural opportunities. A mission-driven, collaborative, and leading-edge executive, she is known for enhancing the narratives of public institutions to help them engage more broadly with local communities. She has a track record of success in building awareness and support, expanding access, prioritizing equity, and developing mutually beneficial partnerships.
As the new president and CEO of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Stacy has come full circle from her early career in book publishing, and is enhancing the vision for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles to uphold the Los Angeles Public Library's critical mission to provide free and easy access to information, ideas, books, and technology that enrich, educate, and empower every Angeleno. She sees this mission as more urgent than ever in this age of growing inequities, disinformation, book bans, and digital divides.
Prior to being named president and CEO of the LFLA, Stacy was deputy director at The Broad and led day-to-day operations and external affairs for the popular contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles which welcomes more than 900,000 visitors annually. There, from 2017-2022, she guided the institution through its start-up years and many successful new initiatives, including the award-winning Diversity Apprenticeship Program. From 2012 to 2017, she was executive vice president and deputy director at the Autry, where she steered the implementation of a visitor centered strategic plan; helped launch an $80 million comprehensive campaign; served as project director of California Continued, reimagined galleries, a garden, and immersive media room devoted to Indigenous California and the environment; and earned an LA Area Emmy Award as co-executive producer of the documentary Tending the Wild. Previously, Lieberman was director of external affairs at the Skirball Cultural Center, one of the world's leading Jewish cultural organizations, where she helped launch Noah's Ark at the Skirball, the interactive, hands-on family destination. She has also held marketing or communications positions at California State University, Northridge; Getty Publications, Los Angeles; Wayne State University Press, Detroit; and St. Martin's Press, New York.
Lieberman received a bachelor's degree cum laude in English and French from Tufts University and a master's degree in English from Wayne State University | 499 |
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