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15 Humans With Real Superpowers
Ever wanted to see through walls or be strong enough to lift a car? Or maybe having the ability to sleep in freezing temperatures is more your thing? Well these next ten people will make you super envious and a little curious as well. From the wacky and strange to the downright unbelievable their powers will have you thinking you're watching a super hero movie.
15. Wim Hof – The Iceman
Tummo is a form of breathing found in Tibetan meditation. The purpose of tummo is to gain control over own body through mental concentration. People with this technique can generate heat throughout their own body.
Dutch daredevil Wim Hof (born 1959) is the first Westerner to learn this ancient meditation technique. While it is known by Tibetan monks for thousands of years. Wim Hof claims that anyone can learn this meditation by doing certain breathing exercises. However, to ordinary people this technique seems supernatural.
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Wim Hof can tolerate freezing temperatures with almost no clothing. Known as the Iceman, Hof performed mind-blowing stuns. He climbed mount Kilimanjaro in freezing temperatures wearing only shorts. Also in shorts, he performed a full marathon above the arctic circle in Finland with temperatures around -20°C (−4 °F). Another marathon was performed in the Namib Desert, that Hof run without drinking any water. Wim Hof holds 20 world records. He is the person who can take the longest ice bath.
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Wim is teaching other people to use his technique. Which was recently criticized as four men drowned while practicing the breathing exercise in the water. However, Hof has warned that the method needs to be practiced in safe environment<|fim_middle|> after seeing it only once.
Stephen was born mute and was diagnosed with autistic. At the age of five he expressed deep interest in drawing. When he was nine years old he pronounced his first word "paper" as a response to his teacher taking away his drawing materials.
From young age Stephen was fascinated with sketching landmark buildings. While drawing he discovered his remarkable talent. The artist has perfect photographic memory. Just from a brief helicopter ride he is able to memorize skyline of any city and reproduce it with incredible details and accuracy. Stephen reproduced a drawing of four square miles of London after just one ride above the city. He has also drawn landscapes of New York City, Rome, Dubai, Hong Kong, Madrid, Frankfurt and Singapore on giant canvasses.
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Stephen Wiltshire was featured in many TV documentaries. In addition, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services in art.
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14. Louis Cyr
Louis Cyr is the type of man you need during an argument. Since his death in 1912 not one man has surpassed or taken his title of the strongest man to ever live. While his strength can be somewhat attributed to his Amazonian mother (she was 6 ft 1) it's also been said from a young age he worked in a lumber yard. No doubt building muscles most other 12 years didn't quite have yet. During the height of his fame he wrestled a giant and won, lifted 500 pounds with one finger and back lifted 4,337 pounds. In the end what killed him wasn't the angry giant but kidney failure.
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13. Nina Kulagina
Nina Kulagina wasn't your typical housewife. She claimed to be telekinetic, that means she could apparently move objects using only her mind. One of her most famous experiments was when she made the heart of a frog beat faster and then slower, eventually stopping the frog's heart. While a lot of this is mere speculation since at the time Kulagina was considered one of Soviet Russia's secret weapons. She even managed to remove the yolk from an egg without ever touching it. Don't believe me? There are plenty of documentaries on the infamous Russian Super Human.
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12. Stig Severinsen
Stig Severinsen or the human dolphin as some call him has the ability to hold his breath for ridiculous amounts of time. The freediver holds a number of different records but his most famous one was holding his breath for a staggering 22 minutes. Think of what you could do with that time! Make yourself a cup of coffee or watch a TV show. What makes Severinsen super human is that once he's in the ocean, it's as though he truly is part dolphin. In 2014 he swam 236 feet in ice water with nothing but goggles and his swimmers, and people complain about a cold shower?
11. Isao Machii
Isao Machii isn't your typical ninja. He is said to have abilities beyond a normal Samurai. Not only can he slice a flying BB gun bullet in half with his sword but he can also slice tennis balls, straw mats and pretty much anything else you chuck at him. With apparently heightened hearing and sight, this modern day Samurai is anything but normal. Just like Severinsen Machii has a plethora of Guinness World Records to his name.
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10. Harold Williams
Harold Williams was an impressive man, with an even more impressive mind. The polyglot is said to be one of the most accomplished of all time. In his lifetime he managed to learn and remember 58 languages. From Old Irish to Tagalog this linguist had the ability to not only talk to pretty much everyone in the world but also curse at them, now that is a talent. Some believe that Williams had somewhat of an identic memory where once he read something he was able to remember it without really thinking too much.
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9. Daniel Browning Smith
Daniel Browning Smith or as he likes to be called Rubberboy, has gotten himself into some pretty tricky situations. This extreme contortionist is said to be the most flexible person in history and if you've seen some of his performances you can see why. He can dislocate his arms and legs on command and rotate his torso 180 degrees. Even though sceptics say it isn't that incredible just more genetics and practice, I'd like to see them try and fit through a tennis racket!
8. Mark Rutzen
Mark Rutzen may not be able to do triple back flips or see through people's skin but this daredevil rides on the back of great white sharks. That's right he uses the most feared predator in the world as a taxi. Part human and part shark Rutzen is also a conservationist who has logged more free diving hours with great white's than any other person. It is also said he is one of few people who can actually communicate with sharks through understanding their behaviours and patterns.
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7. Veronica Seider
Veronica Seider has potentially the best eyesight in the world. She not only holds the record for smallest object seen at a distance she is said to have 20 times better vision than the average person. While most have 20/20 vision, Seider has 20/2 vision meaning she can see objects 20 feet away as though they are only 2 feet away. Basically she is a real life mutant from X Men.
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6. The Godhand
The Godhand is more super human than anyone else on this list, why you ask? He used to fight and kill raging bulls with his bare hands. Don't believe me? The Godhand whose real name was Choi Yeong-eui would hold public demonstrations and performances to prove his strength. Not impressed yet? Just remember how the matadors of Spain struggle to survive a round or two with those bulls, Yeong-eui conquered the beasts 52 times. Apparently three of those were killed with one single blow. Not to worry though Godhand was never killed by a bull. What got him was lung cancer at the age of 70.
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5. Natasha Demkina
Natasha Demkina is Russian woman who claims to literally have X Ray vision. From the age of 10 Demkina said she could see people's organs and apparently see whatever medical issues lay beneath the skin's surface. While her ability has been difficult to prove the Discovery Channel's documentary on Demkina showed that she could in fact pin point where a patient had fractures and metal pins in their bones. While she garnered a fair amount of attention in the early 2000's she now works as a medical research assistant using her special abilities.
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4. Daniel Kish – The Blind Man Who Can See
Daniel Kish (born 1966) became blind before he turned 13 months old. Although Daniel has no vision, he can actually see.
Daniel developed advanced hearing to a point where he can behave and function quite normally. He is able to maneuver in heavy traffic, climb trees and even do camping just by himself. His hearing advanced so much that it almost become a superpower.
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His technique is known as echolocation. Daniel's sense of orientation is lead by hearing. In fact, his method is similar to navigation technique of bats and dolphins. Daniel Kish clicks his tongue and listens carefully to the sound reflection from the objects around him. By doing these he can determine the distance to the objects.
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Today Daniel is an expert in echolocation. He is the only blind person to be Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist. He has taught some form of echolocation to over 500 blind children all over the world.
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3. Tim Cridland – Man Who Can't Feel Pain
Tim Cridland (born 1963) is better known as Zamora the Torture King. He is a famous American sideshow performer.
Tim started performing at the Jim Rose Circus. He acting is quite different from other similar circus performers. Zamora performs not only standard sword swallowing but deep piercing throughout his body and through his jaw as well. He also performs body skewering, fire eating and electrocution. Tim is pushing the boundaries of possible quite far.
Tim Cridland appeared on many shows, including Ripley's Believe it or Not, the National Geographic channel and Stan Lee's Superhumans.
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2. Scott Flansburg – The Human Calculator
Scott Flansburg (born 1963) is often called a mental calculator. Scott is famous for his ability to add, subtract, divide, multiply and even find square and cub roots in his head almost instantly with accuracy of a calculator.
In 2001 and 2003 he broke a world record for speed and mental calculation. He is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the "Fastest Human Calculator". Before that he proved that he can add the same number to itself more times within 15 seconds than someone is able to do it with a calculator.
Scott was featured in numerous shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Stan Lee's Superhumans. He has also written books "Math Magic" and " Math Magic for Your Kids".
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1. Stephen Wiltshire – Best Photographic Memory
Stephen Wiltshire was born in 1974 in London, UK. He is famous for his ability to draw a landscape from memory | 1,844 |
What is the future of e-commerce? How can<|fim_middle|>, and remain committed to helping merchants and policy makers to deliver for tomorrow's customer. | both merchants and regulators keep up with changing consumer demands? How can small merchants compete? These were just some of the questions that were discussed at the 9th Annual European e-Commerce Conference in Brussels, March 8th.
I was honoured to be a keynote speaker alongside MEP Anneleen Van Bossuyt, as well as a senior official from the European Commission. The focus for the policy makers was how to achieve a regulatory framework that simultaneously supports digital growth while keeping consumers safe. For me, it was an exciting opportunity to share how Visa helps consumers, merchants and economies thrive.
Merchant challenges are driven by consumer demands. Consumers expect to be able to transact from apps on their mobile devices, through wearables, on their computers and in person, and expect merchants to recognise them as they move across devices, online and in-store. The complexity of the emerging marketplace is daunting for merchants of any size, but it can be especially difficult for the small businesses that drive two thirds of employment and over half of the economic activity in Europe.
It is not all challenges and obstacles for smaller merchants. E-commerce is opening up markets and opportunities that would never have been possible in an offline world. Small merchants can now address customers that previously were unreachable. 25 years ago, the customer base of a small merchant was limited to the population within physical proximity and the occasional tourist, those who could walk, drive, train, or bus to the store. Now, there is practically no limit to where a merchant can find a customer.
Visa's role is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. With this in mind, one of the ways we support consumers and businesses is to help them manage their cash flow and capital, whether through faster payments for those in the gig economy or point of sale financing options that help the merchant get paid quickly while the consumer is able to budget as he or she wants.
The number of settings and ways that people will pay is likely to explode over the next several years. It has taken Visa nearly 60 years to get to over 40 million points of interaction between merchants and consumers. Those points of interaction are expected to increase massively over the next five years, driven by the Internet of Things, wearables, mobile Point of Sale, other technologies and changing consumer behaviors.
Following the keynote session, a number of innovative small merchants showcased how they are experimenting with new ways to engage the consumer, including Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence, and how these can augment the commerce and payment experience. An example is sending a virtual technician to your kitchen to support new product choices.
As the world continues to move from cash and cheque to digital interactions, Visa is investing more than ever in our global assets, infrastructure, and digital capabilities to reshape the future of commerce. We will continue to explore many of the disruptive changes facing merchants in Europe | 588 |
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I have really enjoyed sharing some personal thoughts from an assortment of Scriptures, books and life experience on this subject of God's plans for our lives. My first ever blog series. Think I might do it again sometime. Thanks for tuning in.
It really is true that our lives are a whole lot more about the journey than the destination. However, it is equally true that we set goals and standards of success in front of us to help us stay focused on the journey.
This is where success comes in. I have a friend who really doesn't like the idea of all America's<|fim_middle|>shoot for the moon, then at least you'll land among the stars."
There really is a lot of truth to setting goals, dreaming dreams and defining what success means for your life. It's not a must or a cure all, but it can be a huge help to discovering and pursuing God's purposes for you.
The Apostles had such a goal, in the words of Christ, "go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." It was clear and big. I'd encourage you to set a similar sized definition of success for your life.
Success is different for everyone. It depends on their upbringing, life's experience and more. Yet each of us can and should set expectations for ourselves. Hopes. It's those types of things that help us live beyond what we are and make the world a better place.
This is your picture of success. It will change and morph as you get older, but many things will stay the same. Write down aspirations. Even if they seem crazy, write them down and put them somewhere appropriate as a reminder. Some people call this a bucket list, others call it something else. I personally like to have goals for the next few months, next year and life long goals. If I reach these, I know I will sense I am successful.
2. Write down steps to your dreams.
This is the piece missing from most people's ambitions. I wouldn't even be able to count how many people I've known who had massive vision, but so few practical ways to get there it was clear they never would. Set daily, weekly, monthly and yearly habits and steps to reach your dreams. This list is even more important than your bucket list to keep in front of you as a constant reminder.
God goes beyond our dreams and ambitions. Ephesians 3:20 says "God who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask or even imagine ... according to his power which is at work within us." We trust and rely on him that he is working behind the scenes to set up divine appointments and divine opportunities in order to show his glory through our lives and through our God sized dreams! | success and winner teachings. He believes Christ has called us to serve with humility. Here's the catch - you define your own success in life. You can even call it another word ... dream, vision, hope, landmark, end goal, end point, significance, etc. Bottom line: where are you going? What do you want to do? Why do you want to do it? What is your life all about. This is defining success for your life. This is creating goals for who you hope to become and what you hope to accomplish.
John Maxwell has said, "if we aim at nothing, we will hit it every time."
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Conventional swimming pools are pointless here in Ireland, as we can only use them for around three months a year. But a natural swimming pond can be a haven for wildlife when you aren't using it for luxurious swims. The idea of wild swimming at home is a movement gaining momentum as people realise how inexpensive it is to build a natural swimming pond. David Pagan Butler of Organic Pools tells us how we too could have a little piece of paradise in our garden.
This is a natural swimming pool. The swimming area is in the middle, and the outside area is for plants and animals that keep the pool conditioned. The water is gently circulated by a system of bubble-powered pumps.
A natural swimming pool is simple to construct and works perfectly. Indeed there are many people who would have you believe this is too complicated for the nonprofessional. That is nonsense. It is hard work but deeply rewarding and completely achievable.
Why do we smile, or for some of us, struggle to contain our gushing beams of joy, the first time we see a natural swimming pool? Is it because inside we know this is so right, giving something back to nature by the creation of a small wilderness? Perhaps we have always secretly wanted to jump into deep luscious pools of freshwater but have been frightened off by decades of myths listing battalions of hazards awaiting any adventurous swimmer.
Today, flourishing on a tide of awareness, we see living freshwater with fresh vision. Thankfully now, we can jump in as happily as an otter. A natural swimming pool, or the name I prefer – organic pool, has been the most magical addition to our home. It is a beautiful place to observe nature throughout the seasons, bringing us closer to wildlife. The multitudes of species that now live in the pond are an endless fascination to my children, who spend hours observing them from the small jetty which traverses the shallows, dangling down their nets to catch water boatmen or dragonfly larvae for a close up look at these incredible creatures.
Then come the birds, visiting the pond in the morning and evening. The grey wagtails, skylarks, dunnocks, gold finches and the formations of swallows circling and skimming the surface to drink or bouncing with delicious splashes to bathe. Dragonflies patrol, snapping up crane flies and cabbage white butterflies and buzzing into skirmishes with intruders. House martins peck at the water's edge collecting mud for nests. Bats flit in and out of their invisibility cloaks in the evening glow reflected on the pond. And sometimes, in the skidding sunbeams of the morning, I may catch the iridescence of a kingfisher feeding on water beetles.
Haven't got a lot of space? Then perhaps you'd prefer a beautiful plunge pool.
This pond has become another stepping stone for wilderness. Local native flora and fauna has found its way in and flourished, increasing local biodiversity. If we create more ponds we will contribute to re-establishing our countryside's diminishing freshwater network. And of course there is the swimming. Our children are learning to swim in a healthy environment free from the unpleasant effects of disinfectants found in most pools. I imagine, one day we will look back and wonder how we ever thought it was reasonable to let our children swim in anything other than natural water. Until now only people with a fair amount of cash, typically from around €70,000, have been able to consider having one of these pools built for them. But there is a different way.
I built my organic pool, an 180m2 pool, for roughly €8,000. And knowing what I know now, I could do it for considerably less. It takes a lot of work but, after all you'll be saving tens of thousands of euro by building it yourself, and I can't think of any work more rewarding than creating a pool.
You can even make a sandy beach for your natural pool.
Once you see how easy it is to construct one of these pools, the process will be demystified and you'll think it's a project you could happily be immersed in. Organic pools work with nature to provide clean healthy water for swimming. Plants and animals in the pond condition the water without the use of chlorine or other disinfectants. So the water doesn't sting your eyes, bleach your skin, corrode your teeth or make your swimming trunks fall apart. Instead, the water holds a vibrant and diverse ecosystem, teeming with micro-organisms that constantly filter and devour any human pathogen that has the misfortune to plop in.
The key to promoting a diverse eco-system is to prevent one species from dominating the pond. In a poorly created pond the usual dominating big baddy is blanket-weed. Blanket-weed (Cladophora superphylum) is the most common filamentous alga forming dense swathes over ponds in bright warm weather where phosphate and nitrate levels are high. The key to<|fim_middle|>, reducing the amount of detritus making its way into the pool. It may still take many weeks or months to fill the pool, but if you are making the pool yourself, you will find that it fills up as you are working on the project.
Is Your Honey The Real Deal? | control the growth of algae is to restrict the nutrients entering the pool. If the nutrient level is low enough, plants successfully compete with algae. As the plants grow they accumulate the nutrients in their structure and further deprive the algae from flourishing.
As well as plants there are other vital allies – the myriad of micro-organisms that make up the zooplankton living in every cubic millimetre of pond water. Foremost amongst the zooplankton are daphnia. These tiny crustaceans are essential to promoting clear water by filtering out, and consuming, suspended particles of algae. We need to look after them. This is the main reason an Organic Pool shouldn't have fish – they eat the daphnia.
Algae will never disappear completely, after all they are wild plants and part of the healthy eco-system, but in a properly functioning pool most of the algae will be confined to the margins or hardly visible at all. In the Organic Pool, the area is divided into two sections, the swimming zone and the regeneration zone. The regeneration zone contains the plants so is also referred to as the planted zone. The pool has the deep swimming zone in the middle surrounded by the planted zone. The planted zone should represent at least half of the total area of the pool, and it is here that most of the water conditioning occurs.
The water is circulated throughout the whole pool. If a pool is large enough, with enough deep areas, then it can rely upon natural convection currents and surface wind movement to maintain the water circulation. If the pool is smaller, or the regeneration zone proportion of the whole is reduced below half, then technical equipment can provide the circulation and filtration. Conventional chorine pools can expect a build-up of chemical residues, so the pool needs to be drained out and the water changed from time to time. The water in an organic pool, on the other hand, never needs to be changed because it is constantly being maintained by the pool's ecology. This equates to a huge saving in precious water resources.
Because tap water contains chemicals that interfere with how a natural pond works, it is better to fill your pool with rainwater. All the rainwater that falls on our house is collected and pumped to the pool. Even better, it is quite simple to construct devices to divert the first flush of roof water away | 472 |
Freed from the Past | Victory - Honor God. Make Disciples.
Struggles in his past made it hard for Pao to believe that God could rewrite his story and free him from all the pain, guilt, and shame. But God proved to him that He can make all things new. Here is his story.
I grew up having a deep hole in my heart.
All my life, I have never seen my dad. He was already married to another woman when he met my mom. It was not easy to grow up without a father and even harder to know that I am a product of a wrong relationship. It was difficult to carry the guilt and shame that went along with that knowledge.
In high school, I battled with identity issues. But instead of opening up to someone about what I had been feeling, I tried to cover it up by performing well in school. Seeing people getting ridiculed for acting different than what was expected of them made me feel afraid. I did everything I could and even entered a relationship prematurely just to dispel any possible doubts or suspicions about my gender identity.
But when I went to college, I suddenly started to embrace the identity I thought I was running away from. I entered relationships that were not pleasing to the Lord, and did things that only pulled me away from God. I thought I had freedom by doing things that only pleased myself. But I was so wrong.
In 2009, my classmates invited me to attend a youth service at Victory Fort. I started attending regularly without really taking things seriously nor having the heart to honor God with the way I lived my life. But things changed after a while. I started feeling empty while doing the things that gave<|fim_middle|> Christ in my life and resolved to follow Him—no matter how hard. No turning back.
After I made a decision to follow Christ, He gave me the grace to withdraw from my old ways and led me to people who helped me grow in my faith. I attended discipleship classes and felt that He was preparing me to serve full-time in the ministry. Little did I know, He was actually preparing me for something bigger.
Before I went on a short-term missions trip abroad, I met Jill. She was my schoolmate and she knew my past. Jill went through a lot in her family so I started praying for her. At that time, I was just asking God to help her grow in her faith and overcome her family's plight. I did not know that eventually, I would ask God for something else.
During my missions trip, God dealt with my growing feelings for Jill. I prayed and tried to run away from the idea of actually pursuing someone. I knew it would be difficult for her and for me. Jill knew everything about me; I feared that she would reject me because of my past. But God gave me the courage to overcome all my doubts. After my missions trip, I admitted my feelings for Jill and told her about my intentions to pursue her.
Jill did not say "yes" right away, but after three months of praying about it, she allowed me to pursue her—regardless of what she knew about my past—and eventually agreed to enter into a relationship with me. God gave her the grace to love and accept me for who I had been and who I am now.
Last year, after another short-term missions trip, I proposed to Jill. It was amazing how God prepared our hearts for it and allowed us to have a new beginning with Him. Now, we are married and believing God for greater things next year as He takes us on a new journey together.
We can live a life free from guilt and shame because we have a God who loves us no matter who we were and what we have done. Only He can take us from a place of pain and loneliness to a place full of His love and grace. We can start anew and move forward—no turning back. | me temporary joy. I grew tired of jumping from one relationship to another. I felt empty. I felt a deep longing in my heart.
On July 9, 2011—while struggling to deal with so many things in school and in my personal life—I cried out to God. I emptied my heart to Him and poured out all my thoughts and doubts. I texted my classmates and asked them to join me in attending the youth service. I did not know that God had already planted seeds of His Word in my heart. That same day, I accepted | 115 |
La tour de l'horloge de Salon-de-Provence est une tour horloge du , protégé des monuments historiques, situé sur la commune de Salon-de-Provence, dans le département français des Bouches-du-Rhône.
Histoire
En 1626, la communauté de Salon décide de l'érection d'une tour avec une horloge en remplacement de l'ancienne porte de ville Farreiroux qui a été démolie. Les deux étages de la tour sont achevés en 1630 et le troisième étage, dont la construction a été décidée des années plus tard,<|fim_middle|>urs, boitiers électronique, antenne satellite. De ce fait, une coupure électrique arrêterait l'horloge.
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Tour horloge en France | est achevé en 1664. En 1792, les armoiries royales situées sur écussons au dessus des passages de porte ont été remplacés par l'inscription « La loi ». La tour suit plusieurs campagnes de restauration au fil du temps (1785, 1890, 1912). Elle subit le tremblement de terre de 1909, qui fige l'heure de l'horloge sur 9h10.
La tour est protégée des monuments historiques : le beffroi et la cloche en fer et bronze sont classés par arrêté du , le reste de la tour est inscrite par arrêté du .
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La tour maçonnée est composée de trois étages surmonté d'un campanile renfermant une cloche. Le style rappelle les « tours chinoises » et la partie inférieure bénéficie d'une architecture ionienne. L'emplacement de la tour permet au vent dominant, le Mistral, de porter le son des cloches vers l'intérieur de la ville.
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Plusieurs cadrans sont répartis sur les côtés de la tour. Sur le côté extérieur à la ville, un cadran expose les phases de la lune alors que sur le côté intérieur, un cadran donne l'heure ainsi que le semainier. Les jours de la semaine du semainier sont évoqués par diverses figures : Soleil (dimanche), Lune (lundi), Mars (mardi), Mercure (mercredi), Jupiter (jeudi), Vénus (vendredi), Saturne (samedi). À l'intérieur, toute l'ancienne machinerie mécanique a été remplacé par des « moyens modernes » : mote | 410 |
POLSON — The Polson Pirates stayed busy with four duals last week, winning three and getting edged in one other.
Polson earned two dual wins over Whitefish, on the road Tuesday and in Polson on Friday. The Pirates won the first dual 78-3 by winning eight matches by pin and five by forfeit. Polson took the Friday dual 75-6, winning seven matches by pin and another five by forfeit.
Freshman Nate Brooks took a big step forward as he pinned fourth-ranked Dalton Rice of Whitefish twice over the course of the week.
"Nate is really coming along. I've got a lot of freshmen who are stepping up," Polson head coach Bob Owen said.
On Saturday, the Pirates travelled to Frenchtown for a pair of duals against Frenchtown and Corvallis.
Polson was edged by Frenchtown in the first dual 44-42.
Winning by pin for the Pirates were Craig Feistner (98), Nate Brooks (130), Jacob Young (135), Chris Cote (152), Ty Fouty (160), Brock Picard and Kaden Thomas (heavyweight).
Nick Howell made it back from injury into the lineup, though he lost a major decision at 125 pounds.
But the real difference in the match was the bout at 140 pounds, according to coach Owen. Polson's Mike Devlin was in the match, but got caught on his back in the third period and lost by pin, giving Frenchtown six big points.
"That one killed us ... but I think we can turn that around (next time)," Owen said.
The coach was pleased to see Ty Fouty win the 160-pound match, pinning Eli Endreland in 1:37. Fouty, who normally wrestles at 152 and ranked fourth in the state, is feeling the waters at 160 before divisionals and state.
"Ty looked real good against Endreland," Owen noted.
Later in the day Polson beat a tough Corvallis squad 45-39 with five pins in the heaviest four weights and at 98 pounds.
Winning by pin was Feistner (98), Devin Kamarainen (171), Picard (189), Josiah Clairmont (215) and Thomas (heavyweight).
"That top end looked very good," Owen said, adding that Thomas' win was his first over Jeff Markett. "It was a nice match for Kaden. He dominated the match up until the pin."
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Hwt - Josiah Clairmont, P, pinned Wolf Zinke, :40.
Hwt - Kaden Thomas, P, pinned Devonte Wilson, 1:51.
Hwt - Kaden Thomas, P, pinned Jeff Markett, 5:20. | up the final week of regular season wrestling with dual against Columbia Falls in Polson Tuesday night and a final dual in Ronan on Friday, starting at 6:30 p.m.
The Northwestern A Divisional wrestling tournament will follow in Polson at Linderman Gym on Saturday, Feb. 6.
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KIDS COUNT Data Center and Data Book
KIDS COUNT Network
Our signature resources tracking the well-being of children over time and across states in order to provide high-quality, unbiased information and encourage action on behalf of kids and families.
State policy environments and budget constraints make protecting and expanding investments in kids and families difficult. Casey's national data resources — the KIDS COUNT Data Center website and the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book — are critical tools in helping advocates, nonprofit leaders, funders and policymakers achieve targeted policy wins, deliver more effective programs and allocate funds most appropriately.
The KIDS COUNT Index
The KIDS COUNT Data Center is an online resource that provides data on child well-being over time from the most trusted national sources and from more than 53 state- and territory-based organizations. The KIDS COUNT Data Center houses hundreds of key child and family well-being indicators and more than four million data points at the national and local levels. A mobile version of the KIDS COUNT Data Center is available.
The KIDS COUNT Data Book provides a detailed picture of how children are faring in the United States, ranking states on overall child well-being and domains. The Data Book also contains key indicators covering economic well-being, education, health and family and community. Each year, the release of the Data Book generates significant media attention and a unique opportunity to discuss ways of improving the lives of children and families. View the latest Data Book.
While the Data Book takes a holistic look at child well-being, KIDS COUNT regularly releases data snapshots and reports on policies and other major issues. Recent policy reports have focused on ensuring equal access to opportunities to all children, kinship families and investments in early childhood development, while data snapshots have examined trends in juvenile incarceration and reading proficiency. View all KIDS COUNT publications.
To ensure child advocates and policymakers have access to high-quality measures of child well-being, we advocate at the federal level for investments in data collection, such as the National Survey of Children's Health, the National Vital Statistics System, the decennial census and the American Community Survey.
The most visible KIDS COUNT product is the KIDS COUNT Data Book, which for 25 editions has used a set of indicators to track the well-being of children at the state and national levels. The Data Book includes a ranking for each state based on a composite KIDS COUNT Index that combines key indicators into an overall measure of child well-being. The variables in the index represent several dimensions of child well-being, reflect outcomes for children at different stages of life and are measured consistently across states over time. The index consists of the following 16 indicators:
Percentage of children in poverty
Percentage of children whose parents lack secure employment (no full-time, year-round work)
Percentage of children in households with a high housing cost burden
Percentage of teens not in school and not working (ages 16-19)
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A child's early development from birth through age 8 is essential to making an effective transition into elementary school and for long-term academic achievement. | children not in preschool (ages 3-4 )
Percentage of fourth-graders not proficient in reading
Percentage of eighth-graders not proficient in math
Percentage of high school students not graduating on time
Percentage low-birthweight babies
Percentage of children without health insurance
Child and teen death rate (per 100,000 children ages 1-19)
Percentage of teens who abuse alcohol or drugs (ages 12-17)
Percentage of children living in single-parent families
Percentage of children living in families where the household head lacks a high school diploma
Percentage of children living in high-poverty areas
Teen birth rate (per 1,000 teens ages 15-19)
The Data Book also ranks states in the four key domain areas.
View the latest KIDS COUNT Data Book
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We fund a network of organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia that contribute state and local data on the well-being of their children, as well as advocate for the well-being of their state's kids and families.
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Our national outreach partners help elevate KIDS COUNT data and analysis through a larger network of nonprofits, philanthropies, advocacy organizations and researchers. Each year, these partners work to share the latest KIDS COUNT research with their respective stakeholders.
The Population Reference Bureau analyzes demographic and trend data for the national KIDS COUNT project, including the KIDS COUNT Data Center. The organization also is a thought partner on indicator development and index construction.
Child Trends analyzes the National Survey of Children's Health for Casey reports and the KIDS COUNT Data Center and promotes the survey as an important resource to federal lawmakers.
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Percentage of Kids in Concentrated Poverty Worsens in 10 States and Puerto Rico
The Annie E. Casey Foundation today released "Children Living in High-Poverty, Low-Opportunity Neighborhoods," a KIDS COUNT data snapshot that examines where concentrated poverty has worsened across the country despite a long period of national economic expansion.
Judge William Thorne on the History and Healing of American Indian Families
Lisa Hamilton interviews William Thorne Jr., a member of the Pomo and Coast Miwok Indian tribes and a retired juvenile justice judge with 34 years of experience in tribal and state courts. Their conversation explores how past federal policies have harmed American Indian children and what these communities are doing to help their own families heal.
Dr. David Nichols Talks Child Health Gains and Challenges
In this episode of CaseyCast, Lisa Hamilton interviews David Nichols, who is a pediatrician and president and CEO of the American Board of Pediatrics. Their conversation covers a wide range of topics, including the rise in mental health issues among kids, the importance of the 2020 census and the pivotal role that parents play in child well-being.
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2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book
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Race for Results
The new Race for Results Index compares how children are progressing on key milestones across racial and ethnic groups at the national and state | 710 |
Considering building a new home or remodeling your existing home? Selecting the right custom home builder is the most important decision you can make. Ask yourself these five questions before making your decision.
Do you like the Builder? Building a custom home is a huge investment in time and resources. Make sure the builder you are working with appreciates that and works to exceed your expectations. It is important to take personality into<|fim_middle|> the Park Hyatt and new homes in Winnetka and Glencoe. View this short video of our newly completed home at 310 Myrtle, Winnetka. | account when making such a big decision.
Do you like the Builder's work? All the personality in the world does not mean a thing if the builder's work is not top notch. Selecting a company that produces quality work is paramount. Quality never goes out of style. Good workmanship stands up to scrutiny, and a good custom home builder will welcome questions and concerns and put you at ease.
Does the Builder have a good process? Finding a builder that provides impeccable customer service and a smooth process for completing your project will make for a great experience. Your Builder should be responsive, have an established selection process and make themselves available for meetings and questions. Additionally, will the builder have time to focus on your project or provide day-to-day supervision delegated to project managers and site supervisors? The importance of good communication skills cannot be overstated.
Does the Builder have good relationships with subcontractors? A home is only as good as the subcontractors doing the actual work. You should be able to ask who the subcontractors are, how long they have worked with the Builder, and how experienced they are in their field. A good custom builder will retain good, reliable, experienced subcontractors.
Does the Builder have a good reputation? You should thoroughly vet your custom builder before signing on. Ask for references and testimonials. Ask the builder's references how they thought their building process went, if they encountered any issues, how the builder solved those issues and if they would build another house with that builder.
At Newgard Custom Homes, we are a boutique luxury home builder. We choose to focus on a small handful of projects at a time, giving us the opportunity to stay actively and personally involved in each project. Through every step of the process, we work directly with clients, architects, interior designers – ensuring that every detail is carefully planned and constructed in a clean, efficient, beautiful and cost efficient manner. We pride ourselves on meeting and exceeding expectations. Contact us today.
If you wait long enough, everything comes back in style. Brass and gold are back, but this is not the shiny brass of the 1980s. Today's brass has a satin finish that is more understated and luxurious. And the look is all about mixing different metals and textures. As in our latest powder room design shown above, brass hues can be used to warm up white marble and grey tones. Don't be afraid to introduce just one or two elements of brass, such as lighting or hardware to contrast with silvery finishes to create an eclectic look.
We are excited to be working a mix of different types of projects, including a gut rehab of a large condominium in | 531 |
Posts tagged 'Justin Bieber'
Christian Be<|fim_middle|> saw the girls who were pulled on stage during "One Less Lonely Girl".
There were several clips of Justin singing with other singers, Miley Cyrus, Boys II Men, Usher, Jaden Smith, Ludicris, etc.
We meet his voice coach who has a huge role in his life. We also see how Scooter Braun discovered him on You Tube and did everything he had to do to get Justin to the USA to launch his career. Radio stations and record labels weren't interested in him and they had to work hard to get his music played on the radio! His first concert was in front of 40 fans at a water park in the rain! You see Kenny his body guard, his stylist, and his friends from Canada.
You get the sense that Justin has a team of caring committed people that are going to keep him grounded, humble, and healthy. The team prays before each performance. The one time Justin had to cancel a show due to poor health, you see how upset he is to disappoint his fans and how his "team" tries to help him cope!
The special 3D effects are amazing. You see every freckle and zit on each fan and at one point Justin stands in front of a screen and flips his hair. It's so amazing and high definition!
This movie is very fun and enjoyable. It has a great mix of documentary, music and humor!
Go see it in February! | adles Caitlin Beadles
Christian Beadles Caitlyn Beadles, a set on Flickr.
Christian and Caitlin Beadles met Justin Beiber when he moved to Atlanta. Caitlin dated Justin and Christian became friends with Justin before he got famous. They are also well known for their You Tube videos. They love God and are very close to each other. Cristian was in the Eenie Meenie video with Justin Beiber and Sean Kingston. Caitlin was in the video "One Time"
In 2009, Caitlin had a very serious jet skiing accident where she almost lost her leg. She actually was close to death and had a long recovery in the hospital. They spend a lot of time in LA. Christian is really comfortable with fans and uses Twitter to invite them to meet them up at City Walk LA.
I met them at the Cody Simpson/ Greyson Chance concert. Caitlin is a little more quiet and shy but she's really sweet.
Christian also hangs out with Christian Fortune. They have a lot in common.
Their Twitters are @LittleCBeadles
and @GodsGirl8494
I hope you enjoyed learning more bout these 2 nice people.
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Meeting Justin Bieber Never say Never Screening
My Fan Encounter 11/19/09
I met Justin Beiber on November 19, 2009 at Universal Citywalk in Los Angeles. The first 500 people who pre ordered his My World CD about a month before then received wristbands and were able to get their CD's autographed following a free concert. My mom and I lined up at 4am and waited until the store opened. We were all alone in front of that store for hours.. finally a few other fans lined up behind us.. We pre-ordered 3 Cd's for $10.00. We invited my friends at school to join us but no one was interested. November 19th finally arrived and we tried to sell our 2 extra CD's to people. I guess people thought we were tricking them and it took a while for people to buy them from us so we didn't lose any money. The 500 people who pre ordered th CD's were allowed to enter a blocked off area in front of the stage and by the time Justin did take the stage 1000's of screaming fans were packed in the surrounding area. There were several warnings to back up because the fans in the very front were being pushed into barricades. Justin came out and also asked fans to back up saying that fans in the front were getting "squished". After the last song all the fans tried to rush the stage but only the 500 with wristbands were allowed to go on stage and get thier CD autographed. The people were saying we had to put our cameras away but my mm got pretty up[set since we were the FIRST people to pre oder the CD. So one of the workers took my mom's camera took the picture above and Justin signed my CD. When he saw my shirt, he said "I like you shirt! You're awesome" and he gave me a high five!
One year later, Justin has written a biography, performed all over the world and filmed an amazing 3D Movie called Never Say Never 3D
My mom and I were invited to a screening at the Paramount Studios Lot. We aren't famous and we don't know anyone who worked on the film. We just got invited from an E-mail to Girl Scout troops. I also saw some recruiters outside of a theatre in Burbank. We weren't sure it was Never say Never 3D but the paper said, "You are invited to a private screening of a highly anticipated Musical 3D movie.
Well, we arrived at the lot early and a long line had already formed. We were given a survey asking our ages and what shows we've seen and what musical artists we liked! Soon we were led on the lot and offered popcorn and water! Once the theater was full a man came to the front and said, "Thank You for coming. You are the first people in the world to be able to watch Justin Beiber's Never Say Never 3D! The crowd applauded as many had already guessed correctly that this was the movie we'd see.
The movie starts out with You Tube clips of baby animals sneezing and babies laughing, then a video of one of Justin's early performances played. We next see Justin backstage at Madison Square Gardens preparing to take the stage. We then go back to 10 days before and the movie follows Justin and his incredible team as they handle the ups and downs of those 10 days. Often baby pics and video clips of his early days were played as well. We learn about his mom having him as a teenager, his dad leaving them when Justin was 10 months old and how Justin began to play drums and sing at a very young age. We saw his grandparents interviewed and how important they were helping raise Justin.
The fan clips were so funny! Before concerts, the film crew would pull some fans aside and film them talking about Justin Beiber. One amazing thing that was covered was how before shows 20-30 tickets were held back and Scooter and Patty or others would go out and find fans without tickets and surprise them with great seats. Also, we | 1,136 |
OCTOBER 29, 2011 First let me tell you that we have just completed two incredible weeks in Italy. Contributing were the incrediblly unseasonal weather; our wonderful tour guide, Paola; our hosts, Stefano and Sergio, at the castle-villa Fabbroni; the artisans who welcomed us into their worlds and in some cases their homes; and lastly our guests and fellow travelers. One more mention is our guide's mother, who hand embroidered an EVOO logo in yarn on a "memory tote bag," that she first sewed together! Paola's mom is in her 80's and she was already asking Paola what she might do for our next culinary tour. The totes were presented on our first night together and used daily by our guests. Every aspect of our tour here has been greater than we imagined.
Our farewell dinners served to reinforce our opinions because each person holding the olive branch had to share something they were thinking. But perhaps I should start from the beginning. Our little group of 17, including Paola, our guide, and us, were called to breakfast daily around 8 AM. We would be greeted with American coffee, assorted fresh<|fim_middle|> I truly knew we had a successful tour. Our guests shared that the greatest part of this tour is that it is one of a kind. We went where tourists do not go. We were told that the passion exhibited by our hosting artisan vendors was priceless. That the friendships forged during our time together were unexpected. And that we as a group of people going through this life have a shared a one of a kind experience during this our first culinary tour of Italy. | bakery pastries, a veggie omelet, sliced or baked tomatoes, fresh whole fruit, choice of three cereals, yogurt, salami, ham, and orange juice. The bus would arrive about 8:45 and we were to be aboard by 9 or 9:30. Anyone late to board was to supply the group with gelato! (Lenore was a few minutes late one morning herself–and she paid up with chocolates at the farewell dinner.) Typically we would drive to our destination for a tour, lesson, and before long, lunch, after which we would purchase products made by our hosts. Back at the villa we would enjoy about an hour of free time to explore, nap, or refresh for dinner. We had two dinner classes in which we prepared recipes under our chef-hosts'guidance; or it was a dinner prepared for us by them. Only once were we on our own for dinner, and that night Lenore and I prepared the sausages we made during our visit with a butcher as well as some steaks and burgers. Food was ample and "typical" the entire week.
On our last night, after a full day in Lucca, shopping and having a bakery lesson and lunch, we got back to the villa about 5PM. It was enough time to refresh for the farewell dinner that our hosts prepared for us. Without going into detail, let me just say that our guests and I really wanted to see some veggies by the end of the week, so we asked for a vegetarian menu. Eggplant parmesan fried stuffed celery, artichokes, salad, ricotta pie, and a fruit salad dessert. Just right. Since our farewell dinner was on Saturday, our villa happened to be hosting several other groups, so we shared the dining room with them. But they were amenable or at least tolerant with our olive branch game.
You see after each dinner at the villa, Lenore would place the olive branch (plucked from the orchards on the first day) over a guest's head. She then asked a question or requested some information about themselves or what they were thinking. Each person then shared their thoughts. On the last day each week, we passed the branch around so that each guest could tell us one "take away" from the trip. This is when Lenore and | 480 |
Peterson, Eugene. The Pastor: A Memoir.
Isn't it amazing how God shows us things not too early and not too late, but rather He shows us things at the right time? I love the way God works! He never gets caught off-guard.
I came across this quote and I needed to read it today. I highlighted it this past spring when I read this book. It was today of all days that it was brought to my attention. Those who know me best know how much my task list runs my day. It's not necessarily a bad thing -- task lists help me stay organized and they help my stay on top of everything that needs to get done. But I confess that for the last couple weeks my task list has blinded my heart from "being" in the kingdom of God.<|fim_middle|> destination. I don't want to miss the journey of ministry. I want to pay attention and call attention to what's going on right now between men and women and between us and God. We cannot let the destination distract us from the value of the journey. | What I mean is that for the last several weeks my task list has kept my focus on the end task or the completed project. It reminds me of everything that I need to get done. It focuses my attention on the finish line. The problem is that at times I am oblivious to the process as I look at just the end -- the finished product.
Some of you know that there had been a period in my life that I was a truck driver. I enjoyed being a truck driver. The journey from point A to point B was alone time for me. It recharged my batteries and strengthened my soul. But I soon became oblivious to the journey and started being anxious about when I would get to point B. Soon, the journey became a chore and unenjoyable because I was focused on the destination.
Ministry is about the journey as much as it is about the | 176 |
Nitcher won his second consecutive state championship, winning the 135-pound division 5-<|fim_middle|> a tough match to Taylor Wuthnow of Abilene 7-2.
"We're going to miss these seniors, but what they have done has rubbed off on the other kids," Shelton said. "This isn't a flash in the plan. We are a good program because of our seniors." | 0 over Colton Eck from Andale, while Blair defeated Sam Son of Chanute 6-1 at 152 for his third championship.
With 178 wins, Nitcher leaves Valley Center as the career wins leader, while Blair is the only Hornet wrestler to win three state titles.
The duo led Valley Center to a second-place finish, its highest state tournament placement.
"I'm happy for the fans, the team and the community that they got to see those two — they put on a show tonight," Valley Center coach Brian Shelton said. "This is their team and they led on the mat, in the classroom, in the hotels — wherever they could. I couldn't be more happy for them."
Ever since his loss to Taylor Moeder of Lenexa St. James in the finals of the Derby Invitational, Nitcher has worked tirelessly on establishing the pace and being in charge of the match.
"Coach Shelton has been telling me to continue to stay on top and put pressure on," Nitcher said. "I needed to be the one who sets the tone."
It didn't take long for Nitcher to do that against Eck.
Following a takedown early in the first period, Nitcher was the aggressor. He constantly went after Eck and eventually wore him out.
"He rides you and rides you and it takes a toll," Eck said. "He was always coming at me and I never could adjust."
After recording a near-fall in the second period, which put his lead at 5-0, Nitcher continued his pressure and wanted to "take the fight out of him."
"In that third period, I got to my feet a couple of times, but I got outside the mat," Nitcher said. "Obviously, up 5-0, I didn't want to do anything stupid, but I needed to stay aggressive."
Earlier this season at the Rose Hill tournament, Blair faced Son and jumped out to a huge lead and cruised to a 11-3 victory.
Blair felt like if he could establish momentum early in the championship match, then Son would feel the same way he did at Rose Hill.
It took just a matter of seconds for Blair to record his first takedown and followed that with a reversal in the second period for a 4-0 lead.
"I wanted to get a lead and get in his head a little bit," Blair said. "I knew that if I got a big lead again, he would know he was going to lose."
For good measure, Blair took down Son for a final time late in the third period.
"Nobody ever recorded a takedown against Cade all season, which makes it impossible for him to lose," Shelton said. "There is no slowing Cade down. It's always all guns-a-blazing with him."
Valley Center's other finalist — Titus Hopper at 215 — lost | 602 |
Spokane folk singers
Folk Singers are a fun entertainment option for those looking to stick to particular ethnic traditions. Whether it's those of European, Asian, Middle Eastern, or Latin American decent, GigMasters has a number of Folk Singers in the Spokane, WA area for you to choose from.
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Spokane, WA Folk Singers
Please note these Folk Singers will also travel to Millwood, Sunset Hill, Mead, Veradale, Marshall, Airway Heights, Colbert, Greenacres, Valleyford, Four Lakes, Liberty Lake, Mica, Nine Mile Falls, Otis Orchards, Newman Lake, Medical Lake, Espanola, Chattaroy, Spangle, Reardan, Rockford, Deer Park, Cheney, Ford, Post Falls, Fairfield, Clayton, Edwall, Elk, Tumtum
Top Folk Singers Near Spokane, WA
Rusty Jackson
Country Singer from Post Falls, ID (21 miles from Spokane, WA)
Do you need great entertainment? Rusty Jackson plays is an Americana singer songwriter with two albums released. He also performs top hits - country, rock, pop, classics, blues (along side his original songs). We will work with you to create the perfect show tailored to your needs. Rusty performs solo, as a one man band - perfect for small venues, parties or dinner shows. Rusty can also bring his full band - great for festivals, larger venues, weddings and dancing. Rusty's... (more)
Ian Dobson
Steel Drummer from Seattle, WA (228 miles from Spokane, WA)
IAN DOBSON'S PAN LEGGO means IAN DOBSON'S STEEL DRUM PARTY!!!! AS A STEEL DRUM, SALSA, AND WORLD MUSIC EXPERT IAN HAS BROUGHT THE CARIBBEAN TO EVENTS FOR OVER 10 YEARS Ian attended Oberlin Conservatory of Music and began playing steel drum music in 1995. Ian Dobson's Pan Leggo offers fabulous party activities centered on dancing and singing, and a wide repertoire of world music styles. When he's not bringing his 'steel drum party' to various private events you may find him playing at... (more)
James Anaya
Soul Singer from Seattle, WA (229 miles from Spokane, WA)
James Anaya is a soul man with soft hands. Hailing from Seattle, WA, James Anaya is a lover, singer, and songwriter of some of your most favorite genres. Primarily singing and playing sultry soul mixed with a drop of rock n roll. James has the ability to sing folk, country, jazz ballads, rock as well as your favorite top 40 tunes. You can find James playing around at some of the most popular venues in town. Sometimes with his band, James Anaya & The Current, or sometimes solo. James... (more)
Veronica Malki
Singer Guitarist from Seattle, WA (230 miles from Spokane, WA)
Veronica Malki is a Seattle-based performer with 20 years of professional music experience. She has a rich voice, great song selection, and is a joy to work with. She offers entertainment in the form of covers, originals, or a mixture of<|fim_middle|> From playing solo acoustic shows, with a full band or anywhere in the... (more) | both. Her style ranges from rock to RnB and folk to flamenco. Gigs range from wineries and cafes to weddings and corporate events. She also has a children's music repertoire for toddler birthday parties and celebrations. Veronica has performed all over the... (more)
Kevin Karrick - Guitarist, Vocalist
Guitarist from Portland, OR (293 miles from Spokane, WA)
I offer personalized, solo performances for special events, such as festivals, wine tasting, parties, weddings, and corporate events. My guitar work is perfect for wedding ceremonies, and for creating the groove for receptions and parties. When called upon, I love to sing acoustic and jazzy pop music. My repertoire includes popular tunes from James Taylor to Stevie Wonder, and classical favorites from Bach, Faure, Handel, Pachelbel and more. In Colorado I played all along the Front... (more)
Melanie Dekker
Singer Guitarist from Vancouver, BC (281 miles from Spokane, WA)
Melanie Dekker - a voice like chocolate. Dekker is a roots-pop sensation home to Deep Cove, BC, with a new Creative BC supported album, "Secret Spot" fresh out of the gates! This is Dekker's 7th self-written album, though she's known to sing 100's of your favourite songs as well. Her dutch background gives her an easy going, straightforward style, while her energy undoubtable moves you. From subtle private events to fiery big stages. From special one night only events to 40 concert... (more)
Pop Acoustic Guitarist from Manzanita, OR (337 miles from Spokane, WA)
Anica's live music is a mellow mix of acoustic pop, folk, and alternative. She has amassed 1m+ streams on SoundCloud and has seen support from various non-editoiral playlist on Spotify eg) The Edge Of (Neo Mellow, Neo Soul, Hollywood). Her music has been featured on TV shows such as Love Island (ITV), You Me Her (Netflix) & The Fosters (ABC). Previous syncs from ABC's Once Upon A Time, MTV's Shannara Chronicles, Netflix's You Me Her, ITV's Love Island, and Warner Bros' All American. She has... (more)
Folk Singer from Milwaukee, WI (1456 miles from Spokane, WA)
Singer Guitarist from Jersey City, NJ (2168 miles from Spokane, WA)
Acoustic Guitarist from Portland, ME (2255 miles from Spokane, WA)
Singer Guitarist from Willoughby, OH (1797 miles from Spokane, WA)
Fiddler from Lee, NH (2235 miles from Spokane, WA)
Singer Guitarist from Las Vegas, NV (802 miles from Spokane, WA)
Singer Guitarist from Saint Simons Island, GA (2204 miles from Spokane, WA)
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Violinist from Rapid City, SD (725 miles from Spokane, WA)
Singer Guitarist from Fort Collins, CO (779 miles from Spokane, WA)
Singer Guitarist from Malibu, CA (943 miles from Spokane, WA)
Singer Guitarist from Reynoldsburg, OH (1787 miles from Spokane, WA)
Variety Singer from Atlanta, GA (1952 miles from Spokane, WA)
Acoustic Guitarist from Minneapolis, MN (1159 miles from Spokane, WA)
Bobby Jo Valentine
Pop Acoustic Guitarist from Los Altos, CA (751 miles from Spokane, WA)
Bobby Jo Valentine is an award-winning singer/songwriter, wedding musician, and recording artist based out of the Bay Area of California. With over 35 5-star reviews in a row across several wedding and corporate website, Bobby Jo Valentine is the premier choice for any event requiring, upbeat, soulful, acoustic music. Both professional and friendly, energetic and warm, current and timeless, he is available to travel nation-wide to share his talents, and has done so, flying to Hawaii and... (more)
Pop Singer from New York City, NY (2170 miles from Spokane, WA)
Pop One Man Band from Monroe, NY (2142 miles from Spokane, WA)
Leonardo Armijo
Acoustic Guitarist from Denver, CO (823 miles from Spokane, WA)
Leonardo Armijo is a personable and talented multi-octave singer-songwriter looking to make your next event. He is professional and dynamic with a wide range of material and deep sense of joy. If he doesn't know them already, he can learn the songs you're looking for and make your event one you'll never forget. **For Reviews, Please visit the website GigSalad or Thumbtack and search Leonardo Armijo. Thank you!** | 1,033 |
The dashboard pictured below has been put together by BIME to show the sales data of a fictional shoe store. It is a standard<|fim_middle|> eye-catching and colourful charts. However this does not sacrifice functionality.
The top row of the chart provides a profit analysis using a series of horizontal bar charts. This gives a concise but informative breakdown of profit figures per sales channel, per order priority and per product container. These results can also be filtered to provide additional information. A pie chart occupies the centre of this dashboard, with staggered segments for easier readability. This chart breaks down profit figures per product, and can be filtered by state. This information can also be filtered by state.
There is an unusual line chart at the lower end of the page that gives a profit breakdown over time. The graphics and colour scheme are quite attractive here, and the data can be filtered by sales channel. Finally there is a series of sparklines at the base of the dashboard, giving further sales information in a series of sparkline charts. This display can be shown in tile format, with all of the sparklines arranged side by side, or in a 3D cover layout, where each chart can be viewed in isolation.
Overall this is a well laid out dashboard, with many interesting and innovative approaches to graphics and display. | sales dashboard with a variety of charts providing a detailed overview and analysis of the data. This is a very attractive dashboard, with | 25 |
Unplug sensitive appliances<|fim_middle|>. Stock up on drinking water and canned or dried foods. Be sure to include a non-electric can opener with your supplies. Have at least a week's supply of prescription medications on hand. Fill your car with gasoline. Have cash available. | such as the TV, VCR, computer and microwave. If the power goes off, turn off all major electrical appliances.
Keep refrigerator and freezer doors closed. If you lose power, frozen food will generally keep for 48 hours. Discard perishable food that has been at 40 degrees for more than two hours. Odor or appearance is not an indicator that food is safe. When in doubt, throw it out.
If you use an emergency-heating source such as a wood stove, kerosene heater or fireplace, keep fuels away from the flames and ventilate properly. Never leave a fire unattended.
If it seems likely that your home will be without heat for several days, drain your water pipes.
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The last sentence is the philosophy that I started teaching with and tried very hard to stick to: conceptual understanding, by itself, was enough. Memorization somehow diminished conceptual understanding,<|fim_middle|> pure memorization might produce) and some well-designed practice can be more effective to build understanding than either alone. We need to be more discerning about when memorization can hurt and when it can help: I agree that memorizing FOIL or "do the same thing to both sides of an equation" before students understand the concepts behind them will likely short-circuit some important thinking. But memorizing formulas or facts after we have been immersed in them is an important by-product of the thinking.
1) Practice doesn't have to be a lot or long. I can give students practice in quick little shots, literally 2 or 3 minutes.
2) Spaced rehearsal - very short intervals at first, and longer intervals later on, for a long time. That means the first time I review that formula for the area of a trapezoid or ask them about 6 to the power of -2 will be a day after they learned it, then a day after that, not two or three weeks after the unit test. But I will review it after the test, and then another week or so after that, and so on.
I think this has the power to transform my teaching. Clearly there are lots of ways to review material - pure drill, math talks, patterns, quizzes, word problems, find the one that's different in a multiple choice - you just use it in some form or other. By putting some thought into how I pace the sessions, I can invest just a few minutes a day to help my students keep those tools at hand. | would actually harm it, and if you needed to have the students memorize something, then you hadn't taught it correctly. I actually found myself discouraging students from memorizing formulas or procedures.
But after 20+ years of teaching math, I find that conceptual understanding doesn't always "last longer." As I mentioned in my previous post, there are lots of topics that my students explore during the year that they discuss and understand but have forgotten 6 months later: formulas for geometry, 5^0, etc. I have also had a significant number of students who do not internalize or generalize ideas for themselves as easily as others. For those students, development of concepts and memorization can proceed in parallel, and need not take away from each other. A combination of good thought-provoking questions (designed to uncover some of the misconceptions | 173 |
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Why smoking SHOULD be allowed at Derriford Hospital
Karen Gadd has been smoking for five decades - and says she has no reason to stop
Karen Gadd
I started smoking at a very early age, around 14 years old, writes Karen Gadd.
I was out working full time at the age of 15 years and five months old and the habit carried on with me, as it did not have the bad press it gets nowadays.
There was no advice against smoking around at that time.
At the age of 62, I am still a smoker and I am sure if I didn't smoke today, I would be costing the NHS a lot more to battle anxiety and depression.
Although every single ailment I have always has the 'catchphrase' from doctors about kicking the habit, not once have I really been given a good reason to quit.
I will take full responsibility for my health when it comes to smoking. I consider that society today brings on way too much stress to enable me to give up completely. Which opens up the issue of my current retirement age... at 62 years old, I feel ready to retire, but no, not until I am 66!
The shocking number of people smoking outside Derriford Hospital
My dad was a smoker since joining the Royal Navy as a young lad. I remember being sent to the shop for some Players cigarettes when he had run out of the 'blue liners' from the Navy.
Although he did give up for a few years at one time, he still went on to smoke until he died in 2009 of pancreatic cancer - nothing to do with smoking.
Derriford Hospital banned smoking on site in 2012
Apparently this is the most aggressive type of cancer and after becoming ill at Christmas of 2008, he was finally diagnosed at the end of January 2009, by which time it was too late for him to consider any further treatment.
He died on March 5, some four to five weeks later.
My dad was a hero; he served in the Royal Navy and was awarded the George Medal back in the 1970s.
We met with his consultant just after he had been diagnosed who sadly explained everything, and our first question was about smoking.
Why people are fed up with smokers at Derriford Hospital
No, it wasn't down to that. He also urged us not to take away his cigarettes as this was a very distressing time for him. And so yes, we used to take him outside for a quick smoke.
It was not ideal but we were not going to deny him. So we allowed him to smoke outside all wrapped up in the cold. Dare anyone had said anything to us; we had our reasons.
Karen has smoked since she was 14 and wanted to have her say
So this brings us on to the subject of smoking outside Derriford Hospital, which in itself is a very stressful place. For me alone it brings back bad memories of having lost a partner there in 1990, along with memories of dad.
I am sure no one really wants to stand outside of the main doors smoking, but given that there is nowhere else you can go, with all the stress that goes with the place, I can understand why those do it. There should be a room somewhere in Derriford where just those who are very ill,<|fim_middle|>"We do recognise that in some circumstances, people may not be thinking clearly as they light up a cigarette, and in these cases when they realise they are on a Smokefree site, they will move away.
"However, as this [Plymouth Live] report unfortunately shows, there is still a small minority of people who, for whatever reason, ignore our attempts and continue to smoke in the areas close to buildings, and more generally in the grounds. We have installed a significant number of posters, including some designed by children, to reinforce the messages.
"We also encourage staff to politely ask people to move if they see them smoking – although many do not like to do so for fear of confrontation. To help we have now installed a tannoy system at the entrances that uses automated messages to remind people not to smoke.
"Unfortunately, whilst smoking within buildings is illegal, smoking within NHS hospital grounds is not. Therefore we have no legal power to stop people smoking, nor to ask them to move on, which limits what we can do."
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So many are quick to judge, but you don't know what those standing outside smoking have just gone through. I cannot say I have never smoked outside the front entrance, but I don't do it on regular trips up for physio.
At times when I have left the place devastated, I was probably not aware of what I was doing anyway. I don't think the smokers are to blame, why were the smoking areas in Derriford taken away altogether?
Smoking is an addiction, and even more so in times of distress.
Derriford Hospital should bring back smoking areas.
Derriford has many signs and posters up to promote the smoke-free site
Hospital's response to smokers
Stuart Windsor, director of estates and facilities at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, said the hospital believe the "majority of people" who are in hospital or visit the site support the smoking ban - but unfortunately there are a minority of people who ignore the hospital's attempts to discourage smoking.
Mr Windsor said: "The Trust promotes a policy that discourages smoking within its grounds. Coming to or being in hospital can be a very anxious time and so it's important that the environment in which our patients and their loved ones wait in or are seen and treated in, is as comfortable as it can possibly be. This was one of many reasons we become a Smokefree site over six years ago.
"It's fair to say that the vast majority of people who are with us in hospital or who visit our site have supported us with our decision and the measures we have introduced. They know that smoking outside of entrances, windows and buildings, such as the children's theatre at the front of the hospital, is not acceptable.
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Bouldnor Cliff (G-B): DNA evidence shows surprise cultural connections between Britain and Europe 8,000 years ago
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Barley ears (stock image). New evidence shows wheat reached Britain 2,000 years before the arrival of wheat farming Credit: © Diana Taliun / Fotolia
The ancient British were not cut off from Europeans on an isolated island 8,000 years ago as previously thought, new research suggests.
Researchers found evidence for a variety of wheat at a submerged archaeological site off the south coast of England, 2,000 years before the introduction of farming in the UK.
The team argue that the introduction of farming is usually regarded as a defining historic moment for almost all human communities leading to the development of societies that underpin the modern world.
Published in the journal Science, the researchers suggest that the most plausible explanation for the wheat reaching the site is that Mesolithic Britons maintained social and trade networks spreading across Europe.
These networks might<|fim_middle|> interest only when analysing DNA sequences."
The research builds on the work of the Maritime Archaeology Trust, who also collected the sediment samples from the site. The Trust's Director, Garry Momber, commented:
"Of all the projects I have worked on, Bouldnor Cliff has been the most significant. Work in the murky waters of the Solent has opened up an understanding of the UK's formative years in a way that we never dreamed possible.
"The material remains left behind by the people that occupied Britain as it was finally becoming an island 8,000 years ago, show that these were sophisticated people with technologies thousands of years more advanced than previously recognised. The DNA evidence corroborates the archaeological evidence and demonstrates a tangible link with the continent that appears to have become severed when Britain became an island."
The research is published in a Science paper entitled: 'Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8,000 years ago'.
O. Smith, G. Momber, R. Bates, P. Garwood, S. Fitch, M. Pallen, V. Gaffney, R. G. Allaby. Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8000 years ago. Science, 2015; 347 (6225): 998 DOI:10.1126/science.1261278
Garry Momber of the United Kingdom's Maritime Archaeology Trust explores an 8000-year-old underwater site where domesticated wheat was found. ROLAND BROOKES/THE MARITIME TRUST | have been assisted by land bridges that connected the south east coast of Britain to the European mainland, facilitating exchanges between hunters in Britain and farmers in southern Europe.
Called Einkorn, the wheat was common in Southern Europe at the time it was present at the site in Southern England -- located at Bouldnor Cliff.
The einkorn DNA was collected from sediment that had previously formed the land surface, which was later submerged due to melting glaciers.
The work was led by Dr Robin Allaby of the University of Warwick, in collaboration with co-leads Professor Vincent Gaffney of the University of Bradford and Professor Mark Pallen of Warwick Medical School, the Maritime Archaeology Trust, the University of Birmingham and the University of St. Andrews.
Dr Allaby, Associate Professor at the University of Warwick's School of Life Sciences, argues that the einkorn discovery indicates that Mesolithic Britain was less insular than previously understood and that inhabitants were interacting with Neolithic southern Europeans:
"8,000 years ago the people of mainland Britain were leading a hunter-gatherer existence, whilst at the same time in southern Europeans farming was gradually spreading across Europe.
"Common throughout Neolithic Southern Europe, einkorn is not found elsewhere in Britain until 2,000 years after the samples found at Bouldnor Cliff. For the einkorn to have reached this site there needs to have been contact between Mesolithic Britons and Neolithic farmers far across Europe.
"The land bridges provide a plausible facilitation of this contact. As such, far from being insular Mesolithic Britain was culturally and possibly physically connected to Europe.
"The role of these simple British hunting societies, in many senses, puts them at the beginning of the introduction of farming and, ultimately, the changes in the economy that lead to the modern world."
"The novel ancient DNA approach we used gave us a jump in sensitivity allowing us to find many of the components of this ancient landscape"
Commenting on the research's findings Professor Vincent Gaffney, research co-lead and Chair in Landscape Archaeology at the University of Bradford, said:
"This find is the start of a new chapter in British and European history. Not only do we now realise that the introduction of farming was far more complex than previously imagined. It now seems likely that the hunter-gather societies of Britain, far from being isolated were part of extensive social networks that traded or exchanged exotic foodstuffs across much of Europe.
"The research also demonstrates that scientists and archaeologists can now analyse genetic material preserved deep within the sediments of the lost prehistoric landscapes stretching between Britain and Europe. This not only tells us more about the introduction of farming into Britain, but also about the societies that lived on the lost coastal plains for hundreds of thousands of years.
"The use of ancient DNA from sediments also opens the door to new research on the older landscapes off the British Isles and coastal shelves across the world"
Co-lead Professor Mark Pallen, leader of the Pallen Group at the University of Warwick's Medical School, explains how the researchers employed a metagenomic approach to study the einkorn DNA:
"We chose to use a metagenomics approach in this research even though this has not commonly been used for environmental and ancient DNA research. This means we extracted and sequenced the entire DNA in the sample, rather than targeted organism-specific barcode sequences. From this we then homed in on the organisms of | 690 |
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Without collaboration, Movimento would not be where it is today, with nearly 100 members from more than 20 different countries. Because of that, we wanted to take this opportunity to highlight some of the amazing things our collaborators have done and show you why we believe collaboration is so important.
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"The team behind Dao Archviz created a series of scenes with a common theme, rising up from the rubble. We are all in a position at the moment where we need to push through the negative and keep moving forward. Either we are weighed in by rubble, feeling isolated and alone or stuck somewhere. We believe it's our duty to keep moving forward for the whole design scene.The pieces in this virtual exhibition are from all over the world, designers from Korea, USA, Turkey, Scotland and many more, set within extraordinary scenes of exaggerated architecture and a variety of materials and textures."
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Following his experiences in the field of interior decoration, he also works as a set designer for fashion photo shoots. His work aims to combine with a poetic and creative touch, imagination, reality, elegance and attention to detail. Whilst his in-depth research encompasses different styles specializing in a balance of chromatic dichotomy.
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"Movimento, together with Visual Pleasure magazine has co-curated a visual tribute to Milan Design Week called 'Omaggio'. It includes a global selection of pieces from the members of Movimento Club with interior styling by Bruno Tarsia and 3D visualisation by Rolig Design.
The scene, designed by Bruno Tarsia, is a piece of architecture like no other, each room flows effortlessly into the next, walls seem to stretch into the night sky, forms are repeating yet always unexpected. All of this sits within dreamy landscapes of sand dunes and still skies, almost as if we are in a dream, visiting all of the exhibitions we are missing without Milan Design Week this year. The pieces have been gathered from all corners of the world including Mexico, Australia, South Korea, Slovenia, USA and The Netherlands."
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A Short History of Los Angeles
In order to understand why Los Angeles, California transformed into the diverse and unique metropolitan region of today, we need to take a look at the past. Unlike many cities around the world that grew uniformly, spreading out as the population did, Los Angeles had numerous influences that shaped certain districts faster or slower than others.
Foundation and Growth
In 1781, Los Angeles was founded under a different name. Back then it was called El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, and the population till 1800s was but a mere 315 people. It wasn't until gold was discovered in California in 1848 that Americans started pouring into the region in droves and LA with its surrounding areas saw an explosion of development. By 1870, its population of 315 had grown exponentially to over 5,600 people.
By the late 19th century LA saw people migrating to the city for the pleasant weather and orange production. In 1876 a railroad connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles opened, aiding in further industrialization. After oil was found in LA in 1892 the population saw another swift increase. When the calendars turned to 1900 LA already had a population of over 100,000.
Early 20th and 21st Centuries
Up to the 20th century a<|fim_middle|> stronger with each challenge, but the communities interconnected further and became more diverse. Groups from all of the world continued to settle throughout the city limits and LA flourished.
Los Angeles is currently a booming hub of culture that spans 465 square miles over 7,366 miles of roads and streets, and a vast infrastructure of homes, publicly owned buildings, and one of the world's grandest harbors. Millions of people from around the world land at the LAX international airport to see the wonders of LA on daily basis, and the city has become the setting for movies, books, and television show times. But none of this would have happened if it wasn't for the varied and ethnic community that brought pieces of their culture together.
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In 1939, the population of Los Angeles had reached an astounding 1.5 million. By this time a number of famous landmarks had been constructed such as Hollywood, the Biltmore Hotel, City Hall, Union Station, and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel— an add-on to LA's glamour and sparkle.
But LA didn't always know prosperity. The 1930s also brought about the Great Depression and rolled right into WWII. Many Japanese citizens of LA were interned, and in 1943 the Zoot Suit riots threw the city into turmoil. Another series of riots in 1965 rocked the city again. In 1994 Los Angeles was shaken by a 6.7 magnitude earthquake.
Nonetheless through all the pandemonium, Los Angeles remained true to its nickname as the City of Angels. Not only did the city grew | 239 |
Look, you know what this is and you're going to buy it. One of the greatest TV series ever and two fantastic movies in one amazing Blu-Ray set? There's no good reason to not pick up the Batman: The Animated Series set when it drops next week. Warner Bros. are certainly paying attention to the incredibly high anticipation, too, as they've upped the production order of the limited edition set to 70,000 units. So if you wanted to get some of those adorable little Funko figures for yourself but missed out on the preorder, you still have a chance.<|fim_middle|> dozen members of the cast and crew, detailing the intricacies of production behind the landmark animated show.
Batman: The Animated Series will hit BluRay on October 30.
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BURBANK, CA (October 25, 2018) – Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has increased its run of Batman: The Complete Animated Series Deluxe Limited Edition to 70,000 to accommodate overwhelming demand for the most anticipated Blu-raybox set release of 2018. Remastered for the first time since its broadcast airing from 1992-1995, the stunning box set for $112.99 SRP will be availableon October 30, 2018.
The impressive Batman: The Complete Animated Series Deluxe Limited Editionpackage features approximately 2,700 minutes of entertainment spread over 10 Blu-ray discs, plus the two bonus discs – not counting 11 specially-selected episodes with audio commentaries by cast and crew. In addition, Batman: The Complete Animated Series Deluxe Limited Editionincludes an exclusive ensemble of collectibles highlighted by three Funko mini-figurines (Batman, Joker, Harley Quinn) and seven beautifully-designed lenticular art cards. The entire box set is housed in a stunning layflat-book with a dazzling slipcase. And a digital copy of all 109 episodes is included in the box set.
Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the Emmy Award-winning series captured the imaginations of generations, setting the standard for super hero storytelling for the past quarter-century with its innovative designs, near-perfect voice cast and landmark approach to DC's iconic characters and stories. Batman: The Complete Animated Series Deluxe Limited Editionbox set includesall 109 thrilling episodes, plus two bonus disks containing the recently-remastered, fanfavorite animated films Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, The box set's premiere bonus feature is, The Heart of Batman, an impressive 90-minute documentary on the making of Batman: The Animated Series that includes interviews with nearly three | 411 |
On August 22nd, 1924, The Civic Club of Lake Forest Park was incorporated for the purposes of "First, to cultivate a more friendly feeling and a better understanding among the residents of Lake Forest Park and vicinity. Second, to develop a community spirit and promote the welfare and betterment of the people of this vicinity. Third, to acquire and hold property, to construct buildings to house its meetings and other community purposes and do such other acts as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this organization."
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Review: 'Beirut' Is a Solid Espionage Thriller Set Against an Unnecessary Political Backdrop
By Dustin Rowles | Film | April 15, 2018 |
Brad Anderson's Beirut feels a lot more complicated than it actually is. Set in 1982 Beirut weeks before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the movie operates against the backdrop of a geopolitical clusterfuck. Israel is looking for an excuse to go to war with Lebanon; the Palestinian Liberation Organization is trying to maintain a ceasefire, and a group of Palestinian terrorists just want to watch the world burn. America, guided by Henry Kissinger, has its own agenda, as well, and it's not exactly on the up-and-up.
Strip all the geopolitics away, however, and Beirut is basically a fairly easy-to-follow hostage thriller. The Palestinian militia kidnaps a CIA agent, and a former American diplomat, Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm), is called in to handle negotiations.
Back before the Lebanese civil war, Skiles was living a nice life in Beirut until his wife was killed in a stand-off with terrorists. Cut to seven years later, and he's pulled away from his union negotiation gig in Boston, where he's drinking his pain away.
The drinking doesn't end when Skiles is called back into Beirut against his wishes in order to help free the CIA Agent, formerly Skiles' best friend, and no one better knows better than Hamm how to find the line between drunkenly surly, dissolute, and charming. For his part, Skiles distrust all the operators — the Americans included — and has to navigate all of their agendas in order to save his friend with only one trusted confidante, another CIA Agent played by Rosamund Pike.
It's a very John le Carré kind of movie, or Bourne without any action (Skiles' only weapon in the film is his negotiating skills) — it's a spiritual prequel, so to speak, to screenwriter Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton. It also doesn't ask of its audience to pull<|fim_middle|> in a movie, which features no Lebanese actors and is filmed in Morroco.
In fact, the movie didn't really even need to be set in Beirut — the Lebanese Civil War backdrop only gives it the illusion of gravitas, but ultimately doesn't play a particularly crucial role in the film, unless one considers Arab children running around with guns crucial to the story. It's a fictional plot that could have been set anywhere by substituting these warring factions with different warring factions and leaving the hostage storyline — the meat of the story — intact.
The movie, however, belongs to Hamm — and to a lesser extent, Pike — and though he could have played the role just as well in Paris or Moscow or New York, he is terrific, oozing sweat and bourbon vapors in a role that feels as well suited to him as Don Draper. It has plenty of problems, but as an espionage thriller, it provides a solid two hours of entertainment.
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Beyoncé Performed At Coachella, And Every Other Artist May As Well Pack Up Their Things And Go Home | for any particular side politically — they're all driven by uncomfortable agendas, but at least the militia group is transparent about it. The only agenda that Skiles is driven by is personal, and I won't spoil the intricacies of that except to say that he has both a close connection to the hostage and the militia leader.
Beirut is not without its shortcomings. The trailer was met with considerable criticism for giving short shrift to the Lebanese characters, and the movie itself doesn't fare much better. Both the Israeli and Arab characters are paper-thin caricatures, while the American supporting characters are better developed but shady (Shea Whigham (playing nearly every Shea Whigham role) and Dean Norris — almost unrecognizable with hair — acquit themselves well). The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee was also right to call out the film for its simplistic portrayal of Arabs and regional politics — the film lays out the warring factions, but it does nothing to explain why they are fighting or what is at stake. There's also barely a Lebanese presence | 211 |
Buyers are circling Reading Royals
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Reading's civic center that's trying to sell the Kelly Cup-winning Reading Royals hockey team says there's a lot of interest in the team.
Berks firm to build $4M university project
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Kinsley Construction Inc., which has an office in Wyomissing, earned a contract to build the first part of the West Campus Housing Project at Immaculata University in Immaculata, said Jack Hoy, business development manager for Kinsley.
Milling company breaks ground on $2.9M warehouse
Custom Milling & Consulting Inc. in Fleetwood broke ground Tuesday on a 33,000-square-foot property, next to its existing site, that will become a new warehouse and production facility by next summer, bringing with it up to 10 more jobs.
St. Joseph opens third urgent care facility
A new 8,000-square foot urgent care and family medical center for St. Joseph Regional Health Network opened today on East Avenue in Strausstown – a facility that promises to fill a community need.
Penn National spinoff buys Illinois casino for $140M
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Bear Creek Ski Resort gets an early start
James Issarti and Joey Hook couldn't wait to hit the slopes.
The 14-year-old snowboarders from Longswamp Township arrived at Bear Creek Mountain Resort as soon as it opened at 8:30 a.m. Sunday to catch some of the first runs of the season.
Customers Bank plans stock buyback
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The board of directors of Customers Bancorp Inc. of Wyomissing, the parent company of Customers Bank, today authorized a stock repurchase plan to acquire up to 5 percent of its current outstanding shares at prices not to exceed a 20 percent premium over the existing book value. | Leave a comment
Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. of Wyomissing, the company which spun off from Penn National Gaming Inc. on Nov. 1, has made its first acquisition.
Pennsylvania accepting 2014 applications for historic preservation grants
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission is accepting applications for Keystone Historic Preservation Project and Construction Grants for 2014.
Kutztown University could get $165M facelift
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Market-style dining and Starbucks coffee are some of the amenities that students of Kutztown University could soon enjoy as part of the school's major renovation plan.
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SOUTHERN SUPER SERIES HEADS TO WORLD SERIES DURING SPEEDWEEKS FOR FIRST TIME
(Dec 19, 2022) The newly rebranded ASA Southern Super Series presented by Sunoco, will open its 11th season with a new event in 2023, joining the World<|fim_middle|> to bring SSS, CRA, and the Midwest Tour under one umbrella. Not only will this make crossovers much easier on competitors, but it will also lead to some great excitement under the ASA STARS National Tour banner. The World Series at NSS will be a good indicator for what competitors can expect.
"There are so many exciting things happening in the short track pavement world for 2023." Track Enterprises President Bob Sargent stated. "Our joining forces with Tim Bryant and the Southern Super Series, and especially with a race at New Smyrna during Speedweeks, only makes us feel stronger about the unified efforts we've all worked so hard on."
Complete details for the Clyde Hart Memorial will be available in the coming days.
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© 2021 - 2022 by The Southern Super Series - Created by Hype Motorsports Management | Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at New Smyrna Speedway in Florida. The series will now sanction the Clyde Hart Memorial on Tuesday, February 14th.
After January's SpeedFest in Cordele, Ga., a traditional non-points event with CRA: Champion Racing Association, the SSS will have their first of 12 points paying events. This will be the first time ever that the series has been part of the February World Series during Speedweeks extravaganza.
"It is our intention to align ourselves with only topnotch organizations, to protect the integrity of the World Series here at New Smyrna Speedway," stated track owner Jane Hart. "We believe we are spot on with our Clyde Hart Memorial being the opening points event for the ASA Southern Super Series."
In the most recent series' visit, New Smyrna Speedway defending track champion Brad May outdueled the Southern Super Series regulars last July, winning the Bash at the Beach. May had his work cut out for him as former All American 400 winner, Matt Craig took second, Jett Noland was third, Jake Garcia fourth, and standout Super Late Model driver Bubba Pollard was fifth.
The Southern Super Series has formed a new alliance with Track Enterprises, in Macon, Illinois, | 259 |
With NIH Funding, Freedman Lab to Use Kidney Organoids to Predict Adverse Effects of Genome Editing
Human kidney organoid showing podocytes (red) and proximal tubules (green). Structures such as these can be used to study the effects of genome editing and make it safer for human use.
Nearly 40 million Americans are impacted by chronic kidney disease, a family of progressive conditions associated with widespread health complications, including higher risk for heart disease. When kidneys fail, the primary interventions, dialysis and kidney transplants, are not cures and come with significant side effects and a heavy economic burden ($114 billion a year in Medicare costs). Altogether, kidney disease is the ninth leading cause of death nationwide.
Now, major funding from the NIH will fuel an exciting new project that will allow scientists at UW Medicine to help pave the way for a game-changing approach to treating inherited kidney diseases – a significant and growing health crisis: 15% of kidney disorders are caused by a single-gene mutation, and other mutations contribute to the risk of chronic kidney disease.
Specifically, the four-year grant will support a collaborative effort between the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley to use kidney organoids to predict the adverse effects of genome editing, enhancing the safety of a future approach to treating inherited kidney diseases. The project is part of a new NIH consortium known as SCGE (Somatic Cell Genome Editing) that will focus on developing safe, effective genome editing technology and moving therapies to the clinic.
The UW research team will be led by Benjamin Freedman PhD, an Assistant Professor in Medicine/Nephrology, the Kidney Research Institute, and the Institute for<|fim_middle|> yielded encouraging results, including the identification of new molecules that reduce symptoms of genetic disease in these systems.
Exploring Responsible Gene-editing Therapies for Inherited Kidney Diseases
Benjamin Freedman, PhD, an Assistant Professor in Medicine/Nephrology and an ISCRM faculty member, will use kidney organoids to help make future genome editing therapies safer and more effective.
Collectively, Freedman and the other UW researchers bring an expertise in kidney organoids, the cell biology of the kidney, and the nature of kidney disease. Their counterparts at UC Berkeley are leaders in the field of genome editing, including Jennifer Doudna, PhD, a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, who invented CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to readily 'cut and paste' DNA in living cells.
Freedman explains the importance of exploring responsible gene-editing therapies for inherited kidney diseases. "Genetic kidney diseases impact more than half a million people in the United States alone. If we can learn to safely repair the mutation that causes the disease, we can offer a way to treat patients that is much more effective than any current intervention." Freedman emphasizes that dialysis and transplants – two of the most common treatments for kidney diseases – are expensive, hard on patients, and in short supply (kidney transplants are available to less than 20% of patients each year).
The shortcomings of dialysis and transplants make gene therapy an appealing solution that addresses the root cause of the problem. The primary aims of the NIH-funded effort are to ensure that gene editing does not have unintended side effects that do more harm than good. To do this, the team will screen different gene therapies for their effects on normal kidney function and the risk of renal cancer or autoimmune disease.
"Our hypothesis is that gene editing will cause adverse effects, but that these effects are predictable and controllable," says Freedman. "Our goal is to prove this using laboratory models like organoids and kidneys on chips so we know the approach is safe before we ever involve a human patient."
Joining Freedman on the UW research team are ISCRM colleagues Hannele Ruohola-Baker PhD, a Professor in Biochemistry, and Julie Mathieu PhD, an Assistant Professor in Comparative Medicine. Ruohola-Baker will investigate how genome-editing therapies affect metabolism in the cells. Mathieu adds CRISPR expertise to the UW research team. Several additional faculty members from ISCRM and other departments are also on the team.
How broad are the implications of developing responsible genome-editing methods? "This is a new paradigm for therapy development," says Freedman. "We're looking at the kidney. But the liver, heart, and lungs all have similar challenges. Our hope is to create a model for doing this work in human organoids, which are faster and more humane than animal models, and can be more directly compared to human patients." | Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM). Freedman and his lab have invented stem cell-derived organoids to study how kidney diseases begin and how they can be treated. Human kidney organoids and kidney-on-a-chip technology have already | 48 |
Utah Jazz wins 5th consecutive game, overcoming Kemba's 47 point night
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The Utah Jazz remain the hottest team in the Western Conference, winning their fifth game in a row.
<|fim_middle|> some of the league's best defense, the Utah Jazz are a team to watch out for in the postseason. Utah is allowing just 106.1 points per game this season, representing the best defense in the Western Conference. With a strong home record and a deep squad depth, the Jazz are a darkhorse to make a run in the west, especially considering their current form. As it stands, the Jazz would match up with the Rockets in the first round, but with five games left to play, things are likely to change with matchups in the wild Western Conference.
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Kemba Walker will 'forever love' Michael Jordan | The Jazz beat the Hornets 111-102 on Monday night. Kemba Walker had a huge game in a losing effort, leading all scorers, dropping 47 points on 15-28 shooting. Donovan Mitchell led the Jazz in scoring with 25 points, but Rudy Gobert was the difference-maker. The big man went off against the Hornets, scoring 18 points and collecting 18 rebounds in the big win.
The Jazz are hitting their peak at the perfect time. The Western Conference is heating up, but Utah has been able to survive the pressure, and has put together a great run as the regular season is coming to an end. Utah is riding a five game winning streak, and has three more winnable games on the schedule, with the Suns, Kings, and LA Lakers up next.
Utah's winning streak has allowed them to maneuver up the standings in the Western Conference. With a 9-1 record in their last 10 games, the Jazz have climbed to the fifth position in the West, and have an outside shot of sneaking into third place with the right results from Portland and Houston.
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53.I don't like to take risks.
54.I can easily work out what another person might want to talk about.
55.I can tell if someone is masking their true emotion.
56.Before making a decision, I always weigh up the pros and cons.
57.I don't consciously work out the rules of social situations.
58.I am good at predicting what someone will do.
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1.I can easily tell if someone else wants to enter a conversation.
2.I prefer animals to humans.
3.I try to keep up with the current trends and fashions.
4.I find it difficult to explain to others things that I understand easily, when they don't understand it the first time.
6.I really enjoy caring for other people.
10.People often tell me that I went too far in driving my point home in a discussion.
12.Friendships and relationships are just too difficult, so I tend not to bother with them.
13.I would never break a law, no matter how minor.
14.I often find it difficult to judge if something is rude or polite.
16.I prefer practical jokes to verbal humor.
19.I can pick up quickly if someone says one thing but means another.
20.I tend to have very strong opinions about morality.
22.I find it easy to put myself in somebody else's shoes.
23.I think that good manners are the most important thing a parent can teach their child.
24.I like to do things on the spur of the moment.
25.I am good at predicting how someone will feel.
26.I am quick to spot when someone in a group is feeling awkward or uncomfortable.
31.I enjoy being the center of attention at any social gathering.
32.Seeing people cry doesn't really upset me.
33.I enjoy having discussions about politics.
34.I am very blunt, which some people take to be rudeness, even though this is unintentional.
35.I don't find social situations confusing.
36.Other people tell me I am good at understanding how they are feeling and what they are thinking.
37.When I talk to people, I tend to talk about their experiences rather than my own.
38.It upsets me to see an animal in pain.
39.I am able to make decisions without being influenced by people's feelings.
40.I can't relax until I have done everything I had planned to do that day.
41.I can easily tell if someone else is interested or bored with what I am saying.
42.I get upset if I see people suffering on news programs.
43.Friends usually talk to me about their problems as they say that I am very understanding.
44.I can sense if I am intruding, even if the other person doesn't tell me.
45.I often start new hobbies, but quickly become bored with them and move on to something else.
46.People sometimes tell me that I have gone too far with teasing.
47.I would be too nervous to go on a big rollercoaster.
48.Other people often say that I am insensitive, though I don't always see why.
49.If I see a stranger in a group, I think that it is up to them to make an effort to join in.
50.I usually stay emotionally detached when watching a film.
51.I like to be very organized in day-to-day life and often makes lists of the chores I | 649 |
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Jack Andraka's Test for Pancreatic Cancer
After a family friend dies of pancreatic cancer, high school sophomore Jack Andraka creates a better test for the disease for earlier diagnoses and treatment.
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Jack Andraka was a freshman in high school when a family friend died of pancreatic cancer. Coincidentally, he and his father, a civil engineer, had been testing the water in Chesapeake Bay using carbon nanotubes. Smithsonian Magazine then describes Jack's "aha" moment during his biology class his freshman year,
"The Science paper he was covertly reading at his desk was about applications for nanotubes. With half an ear, Andraka listened to his biology teacher lecture on antibodies, which bind to particular proteins in the blood. Suddenly, the two ideas collided in his mind. What if he could lace a nanotube network with mesothelin-specific antibodies, then introduce a drop of a pancreatic cancer patient's blood? The antibodies would bind to the mesothelin and enlarge. These beefed-up molecules would spread the nanotubes farther apart, changing the electrical properties of the network: The more mesothelin present, the more antibodies would bind and grow big, and the weaker the electrical signal would become. Other scientists had recently designed similar tests for breast and prostate cancers, but nobody had addressed pancreatic cancer. "It's called connecting the dots," Maitra says."
Based on this insight, Jack wrote up an experimental protocol and emailed it to 200 researchers. Anirban Maitra, a Johns Hopkins pathologist and pancreatic cancer researcher, is the only one who responded:
"Andraka wrote up an experimental protocol and e-mailed it to 200 researchers. Only Maitra responded. "It was a very unusual e-mail," he remembers. "I often don't get e-mails like this from postdoctoral fellows, let alone high-school freshmen." He decided to invite Andraka to his lab. To oversee the project, he appointed a gentle postdoctoral chemist, who took the baby-sitting assignment in stride. They expected to see Andraka for perhaps a few weeks over the summer.
Instead, the young scientist worked for seven months, every day after school and often on Saturdays until after midnight, subsisting on hard-boiled eggs and Twix as his mother dozed in the car in a nearby parking garage. He labored through Thanksgiving and Christmas. He spent his 15th birthday in the lab."
Based on his work, Jack went on to win the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering grand prize of $75,000.
There are criticisms that both Jack himself and the media have overhyped his discovery. Forbes put it this way,
"In one of the first stories about Andraka, Forbes Managing Editor Bruce Upbin asked: "Wait, Did This 15-Year-Old From Maryland Just Change Cancer Treatment?" Nineteen months later, I feel safe answering: No,<|fim_middle|> Higher Ground Education, Inc. All rights reserved. | he didn't. And I think it's unfair to him, and to the work he did do, that we expected him to. Because what he did -- creating a cool biosensor while still in high school -- was pretty neat on its own."
To his credit, he has been open in public concerning the bullying he experienced after coming out as gay,
DtL: Have you ever experienced bullying?
Jack: I experienced pretty severe bullying when I was in 7th and 8th grade especially when I came out as gay. Many of my teachers that previously supported me, humiliated me in front of the class, I was ostracized by my classmates, and I had to eat my lunch alone in the bathroom. Because of this I struggled with depression and attempted suicide. However, what really helped me overcome this was throwing myself into my research and working on improving myself while trying to ignore the people that bullied me and sticking with the few friends I had. It definitely was difficult but eventually I got through it and I'm so glad.
It is important to publicize the bullying that many teens experience at many schools, especially LGBTQ+ youth.
Finally, Jack also competes on the national junior whiteater rafting team.
He is certainly an amazing teen doer and thinker, and an inspiration to those applying for the Academy of Thought and Industry's "Best Teen Thinker and Doer" scholarship competition!
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American Dream Conference Recap
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From left to right: Will Guzzardi, Erika N.L. Harold and Lamont J. Robinson Jr.
Clara Ochoa is no stranger to community service, but this time felt different for the 22-year-old criminal justice major. Ochoa sensed urgency.
A committed volunteer, Ochoa was preparing a meal for people experiencing homelessness during one of six service events on American Dream Service Day.
"Stop spending so much time on your laptops and phones," she suggested when asked how young people can make a difference. "Know that it's the little things we do in life that count — and that means getting involved, even if it's at the most basic level."
Clara Ochoa at American Dream Service Day
That kind of call for involvement and activism defined the fourth annual American Dream Reconsidered Conference, where experts stressed the power of community to tackle problems.
A group of young Illinois political leaders, who opened the five-day conference, said that their campaigns grew momentum from talking to as many neighbors as possible and speaking out at local gatherings.
"When you speak from the heart about issues, you are seen as part of a movement," said Will Guzzardi, a two-term Illinois state representative who told of first getting his foot in the door as a journalist. "It gave me a network to start with," he explained. "It helped … to show up for things before actually running for office."
"It's the little things we do in life that count — and that means getting involved, even if it's at the most basic level."
— Clara Ochoa (BA Criminal Justice, '20)
With the advantage of community, Americans can make change — even at the global level, according to Kelly T. Clements, United Nations deputy high commissioner for refugees.
"There are all kinds of things you can do locally," said Clements. "Contribute to your local church … talk about the refugee situation in human terms in your community … have a conversation that brings people together."
Without collective effort, monumental goals like reducing violence in Chicago neighborhoods cannot be achieved, according to panelists at the "New Architecture of Violence Reduction in Chicago" session. The event, sponsored by the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago and the Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy, brought together leaders from community service providers that combine to make an impact on Chicago's high-risk neighborhoods.
"There isn't just one institution" working to achieve violence reduction," remarked Miguel Cambray, director of employment at READI Chicago. "It's about collaboration."
"It is relationship building," added Teny Oded Gross, founder and executive director of the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago. In the grassroots-led violence-reduction initiative, strength depends on the condition of all 77 Chicago communities, and the ultimate aim, according to Gross, is to "keep surrounding walls until they crumble."
From left to right: Vaughn Bryant, Miguel Cambray, Ric Estrada, Ernest Cato III and Teny Gross
Roosevelt biology student Tatiana Sosa has been doing a little of that on her own, chipping away at Chicago poverty with visits each winter to Lower Wacker Drive, where she delivers food, blankets and clothing<|fim_middle|> to ask how they could stay involved after the conference, Davis had advice on how to keep the flame alive. "Get together and make something happen," he said.
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At the fourth American Dream Conference, community leaders tackled questions about immigration, citizenship and American identity.
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From the West Side to the Southeast Side, winners of a Roosevelt social justice award are fighting for a more equitable Chicago.
In a new exhibition, Chicago College of Performing Arts students give voice to the accounts of detained immigrants. | to people experiencing homelessness.
"There's so much hate and negativity out there," said Sosa. "What we need to do is give people hope that their lives can be better." On American Dream Service Day, the biology student made meals for people experiencing homelessness with Breakthrough Manna Ministry.
Attended by faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the University, this year's American Dream Service Day included large-scale efforts to assemble hygiene kits and deliver them to area shelters.
"Contribute to your local church. Talk about the refugee situation in human terms in your community. Have a conversation that brings people together."
-Kelly T. Clements,
U.N. deputy high commissioner on refugees
"This is the first time I've done this, and it's changed my way of thinking," said psychology student Giselle Garcia. She views donations of small essentials as vital for making a dent in the struggle with poverty.
"I've always tried to take advantage of service opportunities like this," said Karina Herrera, president of the United Nations Student Association and Roosevelt's ONE.org chapter. Herrera earned her bachelor's degree in integrated marketing communications at Roosevelt before returning for her master's in public administration.
"We want the United Nations Global Fund to be fully funded," she said. "This is a necessity — and an experience — that emphasizes investment in public health around the world today."
President Ali and volunteers at The American Dream Reconsidered Conference Service Day
On American Dream Service Day, her organization hosted a letter-writing campaign where students wrote hundreds of messages to their representatives about the fund, which provides medications, supplies and research for cures to life-threatening illnesses.
The importance of access to public health was also a focus at the conference's "Listening to Community Voices" luncheon. The Robert R. McCormick Foundation sponsored the session, which brought together leading service providers to discuss how corporate organizations can make a difference in the communities they serve.
Laron Taylor, director of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSI) Blue Door Neighborhood Center serving Chicago's Roseland and Pullman areas, talked of operating at a "hyper-local level." Issues like health care often intersect with other community needs, dependent on local context.
"We are seeing an intersection of systems — education, transportation, health and housing being some that are coming together," added Clarita Santos, executive director of community health initiatives for BCBSI.
Listening to Community Voices Luncheon
Many at the luncheon concluded that "holistic thinking" by providers will be the way forward, not only in solving individual problems, but also in building stronger communities.
That concept also carries over to grassroots organizing, which requires melding of parts into a whole, according to Ben Wikler, new chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, who previously was a senior advisor at moveon.org. "It becomes an "us' rather than a 'me' pursuit," said Wikler at the "Activism and Grassroots Change" panel. "Identify your gift … Find something you care about and get started … You'll find people that have different gifts," a good thing as "the work requires so many gifts."
Raneen El-Barbarawi, an international studies student who volunteered with the service day's letter-writing campaign, agreed with the principle of collaborative effort.
"This is not just a you or I problem," said El-Barbarawi. "It's an everyone problem … Just because these things don't impact you directly doesn't mean you shouldn't get involved."
"Find something you care about and get started."
Ben Wikler
"Activism and Grassroots Change" panel
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Charles H.F. Davis III, director of research and chief strategy officer at the University of Southern California's Race and Equity Center, gave the final lecture of the conference. The Ida B. Wells Lounge overflowed with students in green service day t-shirts.
"There is power in this room," he said. "If we all work together, something miraculous can happen. Can you see it? Can you feel it?" Davis asked students to repeat after him: Power. Transformation. Miracles. "I want it. I need it. I gots to have it," everyone shouted together.
"This is a rehearsal you are preparing for the stage that you do not yet know is coming," he said.
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Milan Music is releasing some Digitally Re-Mastered Selections of Classic Film Soundtracks. One of them is 1949's "Le Troisieme Homme": Orson Welles starred as Harry Limes in a film that is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of film noir. The Third Man was an international sensation, further cementing Welles' status as a legend of American cinema and winning the Grand Prize at the 1949 Cannes Film Festival. Filmed in Vienna, this masterpiece was applauded for its atmospheric cinematography and complex plot. The film's climactic confrontation in the sewers of Vienna is one of the must-see moments in the history of cinema. The pioneering original musical score, composed by Viennese musician Anton Karas, was only performed on the zither, the harrowing sound perfectly complementing this dark classic. This release also features instrumental pieces from Welles' lengthy career as actor, director, writer and producer, with the best tracks taken from the soundtracks to Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and Jane Eyre (1943), all composed by Bernard Hermann; and The Lady From Shanghai (1947), Macbeth (1948), Mr Arkadin/Confidential Report (1955) and Touch of Evil (1958) by Henry Mancini. This ost is a true must have for old and new cinema fans.
Widowspeak is an American rock & roll band.The new album "Almanac" is out now worldwide on Capt<|fim_middle|> on new brands. MAREUNROL'S was established in 2002 by the fashion designers Mārīte Mastiņa and Rolands Pēterkops. They are based in Riga, Latvia and winners of the 24th festival of photography and fashion Hyeres 2009. Mārīte and Rolands studied at the Riga Design Art College and Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts. MAREUNROL'S collections are concept based where clothes are often accompanied by specially designed sets, video projections, installations and anything can help in revealing their concept. Their clothes can be considered avant-garde, but in reality it's wearable fashion, it's made for the public and made to generate emotions.
Born in Stuttgart in 1930, Herzog lived all the dramas of the second world war. Evacuation from his city during aerial bombardments and loss of his parents for consequences related to the conflict. As nothing was really keeping him in Europe, Herzog arrived in Canada in 1952 and never left. After a brief period in Montreal, he moved to Vancouver where he is still a resident. Since very young he took photographs but it's in Canada that he started shooting seriously and non stop. His work mainly focus on working class, accidental photography, reality and sometimes architecture. His approach is sincere, ironic and candid. A selection of his vintage pictures is currently on display at Laurence Miller Gallery New York until the 26th of January. Don't miss it.
Today is the day. Today it's the beginning of the new year's fashion calendar. The very first appointment, as usual, will be Pitti Uomo in Florence. Untill the 11th, Pitti will be the world's most important platform for men's clothing and accessory collections and for launching new projects in men's fashion. The place to be. Pitti Uomo focuses its attention on fashion's ability to be a marketing and communications paradigm for merchandise categories and industries with its multidisciplinary nature: fashion, design, architecture, entertainment, art. These days are both a discovery and a trade fair, a business event, evolved into a fashion event, serving one of the most important and dynamic sectors of Italy's economy. Later in January the fashion carousel will continue in Milan and Paris. Year 2013, here we come! | ured Tracks. Watch the last video 'Locusts' on You Tube or follow them Here.
How long is January? It's a never ending month, the time doesn't pass here. Writing form the north part of Italy where the sun doesn't comes out since 3 weeks and where the presence of fog, rain, snow is constant. So don't ask me why I can't cope with winter 2013-2014 fashion shows. The future is also a deluxe item we cannot afford, the present? Visualizing ourselves in spring clothes that are already popping in stores can be much more productive. So my present is made also by this lovely American brand called Orley. Lively, simple, joyful and with a terrific line of ties and accessories I would wear. Orley is a knitwear label designed by Matthew Orley, Alex Orley and Samantha Florence that is specialized in mixing craftsmanship and design to create unique, exciting, tempting clothes. Humor and elegant in a casual way, this brand look out onto spring season with a series of simple elements that are never stolen quotations but re-contextualized references. Indeed a brand to follow, to support… and to buy!
Malbogen is a project by Judith Drews and Kristina Brasseler. Illustrators from Berlin's Atelier Flora, they founded a website of coloring in sheets designed by renowned illustrators that have been available as free downloads. A delight to kids and adults around the world, with over 100 motifs to choose from, the project is finally developing into paper. Republic, a print and publishing company, has recently released their first print version available as a 24-page book in A4 format, or a graphic portfolio with 12 images in A3. The prints were made using a Risograph, which provides particularly vibrant colors, on selected papers. Created for all kids that love coloring in and parents in search of an alternative to the classics, the book comes as a recommendation to those who like to combine a designer purchase with supporting a good cause. A donation from each copy sold will be made to the 'Save the Children' charity.
Usually, the globe is intended as a three-dimensional scale model of the earth or other spheroid celestial body such as a planet, a star or the moon. The word "globe" comes from the Latin word globus, meaning round mass or sphere but it also refers to a spherical representation of the celestial sphere, showing the apparent positions of the stars and constellations in the sky. Take a look at collection of stylish and contemporary globes by Danish company Atmosphere which are both a modern lamp and a ball globe. Their collection contains, among other standing floor lamp design with a large ball, small balls on the table and many other creative models with a variety of color combinations. Unique and functional, the forms allow you to select a globe then customize the interior. Along with their modern look of these lights at the same time the ball is full of all geographic information. Education meets decoration in this nice design by Claus Jensen and Henrik Holbaek.
With everyone trying to find out the last hot designer and opening special talents agencies, the world seems a happier place. Tons of newness in the air, tons of new names popping out, but what's the point if you check this designers out 6 months later and they are disappeared? The good thing is that the new is always knocking at the door, the bad thing is that clients are romantic and they want their relationships (with designer) to last forever. MAREUNROL'S, good very good, is destined to last more than two season for sure. Having a panoramic view to their work in the last 10 years I can perceive a continuity and a strength I rarely seen | 771 |
Spring is just around the bend and we're all excited for lighter eating and the bounty of shoots and early veggies coming into our lives. Join Jody in making a detox friendly lentil soup, a shoot-based spring salad, and stuffed<|fim_middle|> it a pleasure and a privilege to be able to share her knowledge with others, helping people connect through food as a way of spreading love in these challenging times. | greens. A great class to boost your greens intake and get ready for spring.
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Sharing a meal that was made from the heart is one the main reasons why Jody Shenkarek loves to cook. As one of the co-founders of the beloved family restaurant Café Mosaics, Jody ran a kitchen for 12 years before working as a food educator concentrating on plant-based recipes. She considers | 128 |
Since launching FullFunnel, we've been on the lookout for a reporting solution that would allow us to automate our full funnel reporting. As a sales and marketing outsourcing firm, we need to be able to clearly report on marketing and sales results in a way that our internal and external stakeholders can quickly and easily comprehend.
Finding a way to do this has not been an easy task. Not only do we use multiple different tools for our services, but our clients use different tools too. Some clients use HubSpot CRM, while others use Salesforce CRM. Some clients have years of historical data in Google Analytics, while some prefer HubSpot's marketing analytics reports. We run ad campaigns in Adwords and Facebook, and sometimes help boost our client's social media results on Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook too. Most of the dashboarding solutions we've tested don't pull from all<|fim_middle|> our team, as well as our clients, to constantly have an eye on the most important data. Now, we can instantly see leading indicators, such as web traffic and leads, down-funnel KPIs like pipeline creation and revenue, and ROI calculations like cost-per figures.
FullFunnel takes advantage of two key Databox features to provide transparency to both internal and external stakeholders.
The FullFunnel offices are equipped with TVs that loop Datawalls with our clients' performance data displayed for the entire team to see. This leads to extra scrutiny and thus collaboration that drives improved results.
For our external stakeholders (our clients), we recommend they download the Databox app so they can receive daily updates on their mobile phone. The custom Datacards that we build for them are quick to view and easy to understand, but give them all the information they need to know they're getting the return on investment they desire. This transparency ensures that we are always on the same page as our clients and helps to drive efficiency in our meetings. Instead of reporting numbers, we can dive right into conversations about improving the numbers.
As an early partner of Databox's who has picked up the platform very quickly, they asked us to share our approach on their blog. You can read our full process in the article, "The Busy Executive's Guide to Full Funnel Reporting".
But, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. If you'd like help automating your sales and marketing reporting processes, request a consultation with one of our experts. | of these data sources. One even required us to download our data from different sources and upload them every month.
We're happy to report we've finally found a solution, Databox, that automatically pulls data from the majority of the software our clients use, and automates the creation of real-time mobile, desktop, and TV dashboard reports.
Before we discovered Databox, our team spent hours each week aggregating data from multiple sources and compiling it into a palatable format. We'd put data into spreadsheets, create graphs, and paste the graphs into word documents and powerpoints.
With Databox; however, we are able to pull multiple sources of data into one report with just a few clicks of a mouse. We've created templates for our core funnel metrics reports that make it even easier and quicker to roll out new reports.
Not only has Databox drastically cut down on the time our team spends creating reports, it has lead to improved reporting too. The reports combine data from different sources, calculate important conversion and "cost-per" metrics, and look good too. They're also available to us and clients in the browser and a mobile app. No spreadsheets, powerpoints, or word documents needed.
Now, we can spend more time analyzing data and taking action on our findings and less time running reports.
Clear and concise reporting has always been critical for us. We can't show the value of our sales and marketing programs without it, and we can't improve our results if we don't know what's working.
In the past, we've relied heavily on our teams to log in to multiple tools, check stats, and adapt their programs since we didn't have an organization-wide, all-in-one-spot view of all our client's data before.
Now, we pull every datapoint from every client into Databox to make our key performance metrics accessible in real-time to all the relevant stakeholders. This allows | 389 |
In an Uncertain World
Release on 2003-11-18 2003-11-18 by Robert Rubin
Author: Robert Rubin
Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not only a harbinger of things to come during what would prove to be a rocky period in the global economy; it also captured the essence of Rubin himself--short on formality, quick to get into the nitty-gritty. From his early years in the storied arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs to his current position as chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup, Robert Rubin has been a major figure at the center of the American financial system. He was a key player in the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. With In an Uncertain World, Rubin offers a shrewd, keen analysis of some of the most important events in recent American history and presents a clear, consistent approach to thinking about markets and dealing with the new risks of the global economy. Rubin's fundamental philosophy is that nothing is provably certain. Probabilistic thinking has guided his career in both business and government. We see that discipline at work in meetings with President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, Alan Greenspan, Lawrence Summers, Newt Gingrich, Sanford Weill, and the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan. We see Rubin apply it time and again while facing financial crises in Asia, Russia, and Brazil; the federal government shutdown; the rise and fall of the stock market; the challenges of the post-September 11 world; the ongoing struggle over fiscal policy; and many other momentous economic and political events. With a compelling and candid voice and a sharp eye for detail, Rubin portrays the daily life of the White House-confronting matters both mighty and mundane--as astutely as he examines the challenges that lie ahead for the nation<|fim_middle|> been at the center of both worlds.
Authors: Robert Rubin, Jacob Weisberg
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in
Rational Choice in an Uncertain World
Authors: Reid Hastie, Robyn M. Dawes
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01 - Publisher: SAGE
In the Second Edition of Rational Choice in an Uncertain World the authors compare the basic principles of rationality with actual behaviour in making decisions. They describe theories and research findings from the field of judgment and decision making in a non-technical manner, using anecdotes as a teaching device. Intended
Public Policy in an Uncertain World
Authors: Charles F. Manski
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-14 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Manski argues that public policy is based on untrustworthy analysis. Failing to account for uncertainty in an uncertain world, policy analysis routinely misleads policy makers with expressions of certitude. Manski critiques the status quo and offers an innovation to improve both how policy research is conducted and how it is
Authors: Bradley Trevor Greive
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10-01 - Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Bradley Trevor Greive's (BTG) 'Tomorrow', extends his remarkable reputation for creating profound books from life's most basic and enduring questions. 'Tomorrow' reflects on staying sane in a world of change, conflict, confusion, and seeming madness. More than dealing with change, though, 'Tomorrow' advises readers on how to maintain their footing
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-04-13 - Publisher: SAGE
This text provides a practical introduction to basic theories and research in the field of judgement and decision making in a non-technical manner.
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Early registrants for Left Coast Crime 2004 not only save (cost is $15<|fim_middle|>. | 0 vs. $175 after October 20) but also get first consideration for panel slots.
The LCC convention for mystery authors and aficionados includes a variety of special events: Opening Reception at the Monterey Aquarium; Noir Film Night with Eddie Muller; Award and Guest of Honor special luncheon; Continental Breakfast daily; Bookbag and free books; the Dealers Book Room (where you can find great books); plus the opportunity to meet fans, writers, editors, agents, publishers in fantastic Monterey, one of the most beautiful sites in America.
And, there's more. There will be several special publications available only to registered participants: Program book; book of original short stories written for LCC by guests of honor Walter Mosley, Sharan Newman, Judy Greber (Gillian Roberts) and Richard Lupoff; Bibliography of attending authors; and pocket program.
or write to: Noemi Levine, 2625 Alcatraz Ave #332, Berkeley, CA 94705 | 208 |
Renowned<|fim_middle|> his cutting craft at the likes of NO6 and Arcade Edit. Along the way, he's played a pivotal role in notable campaigns including the Cannes Titanium Lion/One Show Gold-winning "Project Daniel" for Intel, Tim & Eric and Jeff Goldblum's offbeat, entertaining collaboration for GE, and Loctite's lauded "Win at Glue" Super Bowl spot.
When asked what he feels are his favorite career highlights to this point, Brown reflects on his unique experiences.
New York and Santa Monica, CA-based EXILE is an offline editorial and finishing boutique founded in 2014 by Executive Producer CL Weaver and award-winning editors Kirk Baxter, Matt Murphy and the late Eric Zumbrunnen. | bicoastal editorial and finishing boutique EXILE has bolstered its roster by bringing on multi-talented, award-winning editor Kyle Brown.
With nearly a decade's worth of experience in the editing suite, Brown has established | 45 |
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Already-strong case for Yellen strengthens further, and a word about the inanity of "market" preferences: With the exception of certain commentators who get paid ostensibly to act like inveterate morons, nobody has doubted Janet Yellen's record of analytical prescience in the past decade. The examples presented by Bill McBride, and which date back more than eight years, along with the 2007 FOMC transcripts are enough to understand why. Not that Yellen can predict the twists and turns of the economy with perfect clarity--nobody can--but rather she has consistently shown a deep early understanding of the underlying pressures building in the economy and the scale of their potential consequences.
This particular plank of support for a Yellen candidacy was reinforced by the Wall Street Journal's analysis on Monday of FOMC forecasts since 2009. It turns out that she has also been successful, more than any other FOMC member, at predicting the short-term trajectories of the major economic indicators. Obviously there's no guarantee that this would continue, but at the very least this serves to further disprove one very peculiar notion given by Ezra Klein's sources last week for preferring Larry Summers to Yellen--specifically the notion that "the market" trusts Summers more, because (we guess?) he'll be a tough manly man on inflation while she's a homeless-hugging San Francisco hippie female person who will let the US economy revert back to the hellspun apocalyptic landscape of the 1970s, ushering in another era of frozen wastelands and broken homes and shattered dreams.
The thing that annoys me most (besides whoever-it-was who told Ezra Klein that the President was on the point of choosing to nominate Larry when the President was not) are people who say: "Janet Yellen is wonderful, but…"
Janet Yellen would be a wonderful choice for Fed Chair--one of five who I think are head-and-shoulders above other candidates in their triple qualifications for the job: the requisite experience, a modern marked-to-market view on the economy, and feeling the force of the dual mandate in their viscera.
Perhaps we're being harsh. But it's strange to think that the fickle, idiosyncratic preferences of "the market" should be a determining factor…. The actual preferences of self-interested market participants should… be only a minor consideration. And in any event "the market" is a blobby amorphous concept…. Furthermore, there is no reason now to necessarily prefer someone with better perceived inflation hawk credentials. Much of the world is confronting powerful disinflationary forces, from the slowdown in emerging markets to demographic problems in the developed countries to the expected rise of automation-enabling technologies. Maybe that too will change, but this isn't the 1970s, is the point.
Surely it should matter more that whoever is in charge have sound judgment and proven analytical chops. And given that Yellen was discussing housing as a bubble back in 2005, it's not as if she's afraid to signal warnings about frothy markets during relatively better times….
Fast forward to her days leading the San Francisco Fed, where she warned, as early as 2005, that the titanic real-estate market was heading for an iceberg. Ms. Yellen was frustrated that the Fed's Board of Governors would not even issue regulatory guidance to curb disgraceful lending practices like piggyback loans that exceeded 100% of the house's value, or loans with little or no documentation. When the board finally did so, she was dismayed at how weak the guidance was. She later told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Committee: "You could take it out and rip it up and throw it in the garbage can." The guidance, she added, "wasn't of any use" to the San Francisco Fed.
Feisty, but true. Had Washington listened to her, it would have cracked down on bad lending practices sooner, and the crisis would have been less devastating…. So much for the lack of toughness. See also Carola Binder….
The politics is unavoidable, of course. But we would just emphasise again that strictly on the merits, you hardly need to make an anti-Summers case to prefer Yellen. She is a uniquely stellar candidate for the gig, and that's why she should get it.
That could be right… but Yellen is no slouch here. The vignette related by Blinder is one example, and remember also that she threw down with Greenspan in the mid-1990s about the advantages of maintaining a positive inflation target rather than bringing it down to zero. She continues to be responsible for the evolution of communications policy in the Bernanke<|fim_middle|>" approach to monetary policy is NGDP targeting in all but name only.
That's not such a bad record of fighting for unpopular or creative ideas. So given the extent of her other advantages, we don't think this argument is enough to give Summers the nod. | Fed, which has been imperfect but often inventive. And her recommended "optimal controls | 17 |
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TheChicGeek says, "The last dunhill fragrance, 'Icon', back in 2015, set the standard for the modern range of dunhill men's fragrances. I was a fan - see more here and four incarnations later, it's time for something new.
'Century' is their latest offering. The perfumer is Carlos Benaim and features refreshing top notes of bergamot, grapefruit and mandarin. A base of sandalwood, warming olibanum - frankincense - and fragrant neroli sits on sandalwood, musk and cypriol
As somebody at the press launch said, this smells like a posh body wash. The type that stays on your skin in a soft, soapy and background kind of way. That's not to be derogatory and there are plenty of people who don't want shouty fragrances. This is very subtle and warm, with the mixture of neroli and sandalwood, and, pleasingly, is an easy wearer in a quality and sophisticated way. It's just not something you'll be able to pick out distinctively in a line-up, but it's still good at what it does.
The bottle is one of the best I've seen for a while. It's very Verner Panton - the designer was a major influence for SS19 - see SS19 Milan/Paris Trends Scrapbook here - and looks like a paperweight from the 1960s. It's disappointing the magnetic, curved top doesn't fit perfectly into the recesses on the side. This probably says more about me being on the spectrum than anything else!
This is an accomplished fragrance from dunhill and makes their collection of fragrances some of the best packaged in the mainstream men's market."
Left - dunhill London - Century - 7 | 391 |
Juanita High graduate Dominic Paribello overcame a major leg injury and will play football again at Kentucky Christian University. Andy Nystrom/ staff photo
Juanita High's comeback kid
Paribello recovers from leg injury, set for college football.
by Andy Nystrom
Friday, June 28, 2019 2:36pm
With piercing eyes that could send a quarterback scampering in the opposite direction, Dominic Paribello said he didn't think he was ever going to don football pads and a helmet again.
Even if he could, the recent Juanita High graduate — who was sidelined for two seasons following a pair of surgeries for a left femur fracture and has since recovered — didn't know if he wanted to play the sport anymore. He was also unsure if anyone desired to include him on their team.
Someone does.
Out of the blue in the early months of 2019, dad Greg received a call from an old friend and coach at Kentucky Christian University. The Knights wanted to offer Dominic a scholarship to play defensive tackle/nose guard for their squad, which competes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
The 6-foot-1, 325-pound athlete with a plate and 10 screws in his knee accepted and he'll soon be traveling to Grayson, Kentucky to put those pads and helmet to good use.
Dominic, whose childhood dream was to play college football, is up for the challenge that awaits.
"Overall, I'm just blessed, 'cause when I got hurt the first time, I was like, 'I'll be good, I'll be able to have another year to show the teams what I can do,' but knowing that I couldn't play my senior year was really low for me," said Dominic, who works out with Greg at 4:30 a.m. every morning in the gym to continue to build his strength.
On the KCU interest and scholarship, Dominic added: "That gave me a lot determination to know I want to get better and get stronger and get back to 100 percent to be able to go play football again."
Greg said that doctors cleared his son to train on Feb. 27, 2019 and the time in the gym has brought the two closer together.
Dominic played freshman, junior varsity and some varsity football his first year at Juanita and started every varsity game his sophomore year.
In a televised game on Real Sports on Sept. 7, 2017 — Juanita's first game of his junior year against Kennedy — Dominic and a teammate were trying to make a tackle when his fellow Rebel's helmet connected with Dominic's left knee.
Greg, who has coached Dominic since he was 6, said "that was the hardest game I've ever coached in my life watching him from on the sidelines."
After some complications, two surgeries, emotional battles and spending 15 months on crutches and in a wheelchair, Dominic slowly began working out. The call from Greg's friend at KCU, who watched Dominic since he was young and was further impressed with his sophomore highlight reel, changed the game for the Rebel.
"It was a blessing," Greg said. "I think that was motivation for him to hit the gym even harder with me."
Taking up the shot put and discus for the Rebel track and field team in the spring gave Dominic a further physical and mental boost. Dominic wanted to prepare for football and get back on the field to play a sport. He sat on the sidelines long enough.
In Dominic's first year on the track and field scene, he finished second in the shot put with a personal record of 46-4.75 feet at the 3A KingCo championships. His previous PR was 42-5.5. He ended up taking sixth in the district at 45-2.25 in the shot, and sixth in KingCo in the discus with a PR of 110-11.
All the while, Dominic lost weight and got faster and more athletic while throwing, which will put him in a solid position when football season commences.
Plowing through adversity and making his body healthier after lots of treatment has<|fim_middle|>, I wear 52 because of him. He's one of my idols in my life.
What special skill would you like to learn?
To be great at what I do, great at football.
Scheffler recalls his LW days following stellar Auburn season
Cosgrove is a Miner threat on the baseball diamond | made him a more humble person, he said.
"I just take every step single and just try to get through the day as good as I can," Dominic said. "I can't just take this for granted. It's really life changing just as a person, just knowing that I went over this little bump in the road that I think I can keep going."
The Reporter asked Paribello a series of questions to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into his life:
What's your favorite movie of all time?
This is a hard one. One of my favorite ones is probably "The Avengers," the new one.
What superpower would you like to have?
It would definitely be super strength.
What's your favorite restaurant in the area?
Red Robin's the easy one.
I'm really impatient, and I don't like waiting on people.
What's your dream vacation spot?
The Bahamas. Somewhere really nice and have nice water that's actually clean you can swim in.
If you could go to dinner with one person, who would that be?
Ray Lewis, that's my favorite football player | 221 |
Drinkbox Studios Presents: Nobody Saves the World
by Ian Campbell, Lead Designer, Drinkbox Studios • Mar 26, 2021 @ 11:02am
Howdy! I'm very excited to share what we revealed during today's /twitchgaming Showcase: [email protected] – Drinkbox's new game, Nobody Saves the World. And by "Nobody," I mean you; you play the hollow-eyed baby-thing Nobody (and you're going to save the world).
The Calamity is spreading monsters and gross corruption everywhere. The wizard hero Nostramagus is nowhere to be found, but you've stolen (borrowed?) one of his magic wands and are taking matters into your own tiny hands. The wand lets you morph into many unique forms — a rat, knight, horse, mermaid, robot, and lots (LOTS) more! It's up to you to master these forms and their powers to defeat the Calamity.
After tackling platformers (Mutant Blobs Attack!!!), metroidvanias (Guacamelee!) and dungeon crawlers (Severed), we wanted to try making an Action-RPG the Drinkbox way. To us, that means getting rid of our frustration points, and adding as much charm and variety as possible.
For example, you don't grind enemies to level up or unlock forms in Nobody Saves the World. Instead, you complete quests. There's lots of quests to complete and while some are serious ("kill 10 enemies without getting hit") some are less so ("fall in love," "get sat on"). Early on, you'll learn to mix and match the abilities of your forms, opening a bazillion combos. A knight that bites everything<|fim_middle|> be a giant rotting pumpkin or a crashed UFO. Dungeons are procedurally generated to make sure the game stays fresh and gets increasingly difficult the further you go. There's always a new dungeon, form, quest, or challenge just around the corner.
A final bit of excitement to leave you with: we're super jazzed to have composer Jim Guthrie (Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Below, "Indie Game: The Movie") on board for the soundtrack! As usual, Jim's work is absolutely incredible, and we can't wait for you all to hear it.
Nobody Saves the World will be available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows 10 PC later this year, and will be available on launch day with Xbox Game Pass. We'll have even more to announce as we get closer to release, so please look forward to it!
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Mar 26, 2021 @ 12:33pm | like a rat? A robot that gallops around like a horse? You bet!
As you explore the game's vast overworld, you'll discover dungeons and battle through them to push back the Calamity. A dungeon might be a castle or cave, but it might also | 56 |
Starting your very own business that runs from home seems to be the answer for anyone that wants more flexibility. However, running a business from home has its own unique set of challenges and here are some things you should not do in order to avoid them.
Make sure that you have a set of goals for both the long-term and short-term. Start each day with a feasible plan so you can make the best of your time and see results. You may choose to make a to-do list or write tasks into your planner so you at least have an idea of what you need to do that day. Of course<|fim_middle|> This makes it easier for you to get distracted, be it a phone call or a television program. Also, do not do chores when you know that it is time for work. As mentioned earlier, plan the day so you have time allocated for work, chores, and various other things that need to be done. If your family is a source of distractions, explain to them that you need your work hours and will only cater to the most urgent of pleas. | , do not forget to pencil in some free time each day to take care of any surprises that may arise.
In an office setting, the employees who work late into the night are the prime candidates for burnout. Just because you are working from home does not mean that you must be available constantly. Set a time when you are supposed to be done and follow it. Turn off or disable your business phone (i.e. RingCentral) and turn your home back into what it really is – a place for rest.
Your home is in danger of being abused if you do not set rules for your employees. Let them know what behavior is and is not acceptable. Make sure they respect your home by not making messes or doing things that are clearly unacceptable, such as using your home phone when you have a business phone. After all, it is your home and not their office at the end of the day.
Co-workers are the immediate recipients of anything you want to say about work in an office setting but when your business is running from your home, there may be no co-workers to speak of. While it is healthy to speak to your friends and family about work every so often, doing it too much will prove to be tiresome for them. Make it a point to have other contacts that can relate to what you are doing so you leave your loved ones for much more pleasant topics.
More often than not, you will be alone most of the time when running a home business and it will not be difficult to fall into the trap of conducting everything virtually which could lead to loneliness. Take the time to conduct meetings out of your home office to meet people personally. Not only is this good for you, it will also be better for your business since you will be building relationships.
When working from home, there is no boss or immediate superior to keep tabs on you and make sure that you are working. | 382 |
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Adventurers of the Year
Adventurer Alastair Humphreys
A seasoned world wanderer launches a campaign to create local adventures for everyone.
"Break down the elitism in adventure—that was my goal," says Alastair Humphreys. The 35-year-old Brit has ridden his bike 46,000 miles around the world, crossed Iceland's rugged glacial highlands on foot, and set his sights on the longest unsupported journey to the South Pole. But in 2011, Humphreys never left his native U.K. He barely even left the county.
Instead he embarked on a year of microadventures—small, local trips that began and ended at his doorstep. He hiked Britain's most reviled stretch of road, the M25, a clogged transit artery that circles London through the swelling suburbs. He swam the Thames, used public transport to get out of the city and sleep out underneath the stars, and spent four days living off the land. Advanced Base Camp was his home in London's suburbs.
"Each trip ticked all the boxes of adventure. It was cold. It was physically challenging. I talked to people I wouldn't have otherwise met," says Humphreys. What he learned was clear—we find adventure by stepping outside of our day-to-day norms.
To share his idea and inspire others, Humphreys devised a series of ten challenges in the form of four-minute video trip reports encouraging would-be adventurers to sign up for a race, to take advantage of the hours before and after work, and to pick a random point on a map and visit it. The idea caught on through Twitter. Word spread and people began sending in trip reports and homemade videos via Twitter. They came in from as far away as Japan. This year the idea traveled farther than the adventurer.
"My hope is that come December, I will have other microadventurers who have taken this journey with me from that first challenge all the way to our final challenge, which will end up being quite a worthy adventure," says Humphreys, who plans on revealing his final challenge at the end of the year. "In life it doesn't matter what you do, just that you get off your backside and do something."
—Fitz Cahall
Adventure: How did you come up with the concept of microadventures?
Alastair Humphreys: I started to think that it was possible to have an adventure anywhere. That it was really just a state of mind, committing to get off your backside. If that were true, I figured you could do this anywhere.
I decided to do the most provocatively mundane adventure that I could think of—the M25, the highway that goes around London. It's filled with traffic. Everybody hates the road. I walked a lap of the M25. I set off in January. It was cold. It was snowy. It was physically challenging. I saw new places. I saw some beautiful places, which I hadn't expected to find at all. I met interesting people. That week ticked all of the boxes that my four-year bike trip around the world ticked. I came back buzzing. It was quite stupid and silly, but it had been a genuine adventure.
A: To a certain extent do you think all adventure is like that?
AH: In many ways it is totally pointless to trudge to the top of Mount Everest, risking life and limb just so that you can get to the top and turn back around again. It's not really about what people do, just that they do something. It's great to pause and slow, to think about what's going on in your life or about the environment. All adventure is a vessel for getting to the more important things in life.
A: With the economic troubles, riots in the streets of London, people tightening down on travel, it seems like maybe we are ready for an idea like this.
AH: The riots were pretty shocking. It was young people who were bored and angry. It feels like there is no hope. I didn't hear about it for the first day because I was sleeping on a clifftop in Wales, just having mountain biked through some gorgeous countryside to sleep underneath the moon and the stars. I came back to find that all hell had broken loose. I just wished I could take a busload of rioters and show them these wonderful places on our doorstep here in the U.K.
A: Your series of video adventure challenges took off on Twitter. What were the challenges?
AH<|fim_middle|>ed in a lake. Jumped on the train and was back home by nine o'clock.
A: What was you favorite microadventure?
AH: The River Thames is thought of as this horrible river. If you go a little ways out of London it becomes a nice countryside river. I decided to swim it. If you jump into the river, the banks are a meter above your head and you can't see any houses at all. You feel like you are completely in wilderness. I spent two days swimming down the river, sleeping on the banks. | : I started with something tiny that everyone could do, so that they could join. My first challenge was to enter a race. It could be a five-mile race. It forced people to break up the mundane. The second was to go away for a weekend, grab some friends, jump in the car, go climb a hill, go to the pub. Break the routine. By the third one, it really started to get a good response. We always talk about the nine-to-five life, the office life. What about your five-to-nine? That's 16 hours a day. I decided to do something in those hours. I took the train, slept on top of a hill. Woke up. Jump | 146 |
Because today is the last day of Oktoberfest, Teach a CEO and CEO Blog Nation provide a list of three things that entrepreneurs and business owners can learn from the holiday.
Oktoberfest is a 16-day festival celebrating beer and is held in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The celebration takes place from late September to the first weekend in October. This year the festival kicked off with the Munich Mayor tapping the first keg on September 22, 2012 and is ending October 7, 2012. It is heralded as one of the most famous events in Germany and is the world's largest fair, with over 6 million people from around the world arriving for the extravaganza. For people that are native to the area it is not known as Oktoberfest, but instead called "die Wiesn"–the colloquial name of the fairgrounds.
1) Alcohol is Close to a Recession Proof Business – The Munich Oktoberfest began in 1810 as a wedding party thrown by King Joseph Maximilian of Bavaria to celebrate his marriage to Princess Theresa of Saxony. Over 200 years later King Joseph Maximilian's party has become a celebration with over 6 million people attending from across the world. For entrepreneurs and<|fim_middle|> invest in areas where there is a demand and opportunity. | business owners mulling over which industries to invest in alcohol is one that is always afloat.
2) Put on A Good Show – Oktoberfest is an event that includes music, food and beer. Entrepreneurs and business owners that are hoping to attract customers and clients should remember that putting on a "show" and entertaining and providing your target audience with what they want and need helps.
3) Go Where The People Are – Businesses are profiting from the Oktoberfest because they know that over 6 million people are there for the holiday. When running a business and making decisions about where to invest precious resources like capital and time, remember that you should | 131 |
Tomsk State University: TSU has begun awarding diplomas to 2021 graduates
By iednewsdesk On Jun 28, 2021
Faculty of Geology and Geography master's students are the first in series of graduation ceremonies at Tomsk State University. This year, graduates receive the coveted diplomas in person, within the walls of the Alma Mater, with all epidemiological safety measures.
By tradition, this solemn event takes place in the assembly hall of the main building of the university, where the vice-rector and dean of the faculty say parting words to the graduates. If necessary, for those who cannot attend the ceremony in person, the faculties will organize a broadcast on the TSU YouTube channel.
– We would very much like the diploma you received to help you in your professional search, and that the knowledge you received within our walls was needed and in demand. At the same time, it is important to understand that now the world is different and it is no longer possible to get a diploma and work in one specialty all your life. Experience shows that people change their sphere of activity 5-6 times in a lifetime. So don't forget university, always come back for more knowledge. I congratulate you on your graduation from the magistracy, and wish you success in your life and profession, – Evgeny Luk<|fim_middle|>…
University of Mannheim experts receive prestigious fellowship
Researchers at Göttingen University develop new method for X-ray colour imaging | ov, TSU Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, told the graduates.
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University of Mannheim Prof, receives the "Opus Magnum" grant from the Volkswagen | 95 |
Born in the O.C, but with Mexican roots, Adolfo Sanchez definitely knows how to dress women.<|fim_middle|> turning art into fashionable items. Not without a reason some of his influences include designers Alexander Mcqueen, Jean Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler.
Sanchez mainly focuses in the concept of wearability and the premise that 'art should create something that speaks curiosity', which clearly reflects in his custom creations, his ready-to-wear collections and his accesories line.
With a love for metallic fabrics, a devotion for clean lines and being faithful to polished textures, this designer takes 'edgy' to a whole different level, where those of us who are more of a classic 'kinda' gal' can also feel identified. There's somewhat of a classy- edgy appeal to his work that's simply irresistible.
* Adolfo, please describe the woman you design for.
The woman I design for is a strong independent woman in her late twenties, early thirties. She is modern and adventurous both in her style and her personality.
* If you had to choose 1 favorite textures & 1 favorite color to work with, what would they be?
* What was the inspiration behind your SS2012 collection?
Last season, Fall/Winter 2011, I wanted to create a dark collection that's aesthetic was wearable for woman from east to west. This Spring/Summer 2012 collection, however, I wanted to create softer designs, inspired in the 1920's but with a modern look to them. I used my usual dark colors combining them with pastels and always giving some edge to the designs.
* Adolfo Sanchez seems to be a household name in Hollywood. Lady Gaga and Kim Kardashian have chosen your designs. Which other celebrities would you love to see wearing Adolfo Sanchez?
If I had to pick a person/celebrity that I would love to work with i would say the always amazing Grace Jones!! I like dressing woman that are in full control of their style; when she actually wears the garment instead of the garment wearing her.
Seems to me that Adolfo Sanchez has the key to looking gorgeous ladies!
A SPECIAL THANKS TO ADOLFO SANCHEZ & LAURA GIMBERT FOR PROVIDING THE CONTENT FOR THIS ARTICLE. | His signature ready-to-wear line, launched back in 2006, summarizes an ideal combination of texture, daring silhouettes, and striking allure, the perfect choice for all the contemporary, independent women out there in search for a way to look effortlessly chic .
His secret in is cleverly mixing soft and elaborated details, experimenting and | 70 |
Rouxbe is the world's leading online cooking school. Rouxbe offers instructor-guided certification cooking courses for cooks of all<|fim_middle|> Creative Director, and User Experience expert, Cristene Gonzalez-Wertz, uses Rouxbe as an example of design elegance in her examples of online success. She is quoted as calling Rouxbe "Fabulously smart, elegant".
We began working with Rouxbe back in 2009. The focus was clear from the start — teach people to cook.
Far better than local cooking classes I've attended at real culinary schools for a fraction of the price.
We designed a patent-pending recipe player that guides the user step-by-step from the first chop to plating the food. Viewers can control their experience, drilling down to related technique videos.
Rouxbe is clearly an effective learning program for novices and advanced cooks alike.
Rouxbe has created an exceptional culinary training tool that can reach aspiring chefs on a scale not previously thought possible.
People can manage their cooking school progress, set goals and count on Rouxbe to help them become a confident cook. | levels using intuitive learning technology.
When we started working with Rouxbe, it was not much more than an idea within a PowerPoint document. We helped define the business strategy, pricing model, and brand for this online offering. We designed the website from the ground up. We also architected, designed and implemented a proprietary Recipe Player to play step-by-step videos. The website has been awarded the coveted Adobe Site of the Day award. Rouxbe continues to win high praise for it's ease-of-use, deep focus on the cooking experience and clean design including from top-websites such as Lifehacker. IBM | 122 |
The Hunter Valley provides visitors with many wonderful events throughout the year. Here in Broke Fordwich, we have a series of annual events to delight anybody who loves wine, food, culture and music.
"Once a culinary wasteland, the Hunter Valley is now populated with pioneering foodies making the most of its rich bounty. Larry Writer takes a gastronomic tour of Australia's oldest wine region, sampling dishes worthy of its award- winning drops.
The M1 is a soulless name for a road to culinary utopia but here I am, powering up the motorway from Sydney towards NSW's Hunter Valley, my imagination replacing the broken white line with rows of plump, purple grapes. In less than two and a half hours I have turned left on the B82 at Cooranbong. Had I set my GPS, it would have declared, unnecessarily, that I'd "reached my destination" as – cruising through fatlands and past plunging ravines and soaring escarpments – it's clear I've left all traces of the metropolis behind. Unconsciously slowing down, I marvel at the rolling foothills patchworked with vineyards that stretch as far as the distant Broken Back<|fim_middle|> us know that you are human and helps us block spam by automated programs.
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Interventional Radiology (IR) is a field of medicine that uses minimally invasive techniques and imaging guidance to perform procedures that can replace conventional surgery. Advanced imaging such as ultrasound, X-rays, CT scans, MRI<|fim_middle|> instruments are navigated, under image guidance, to the target area. Image guidance includes X-rays, magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT) scans and ultrasound.
At MedStar St. Mary's Hospital, our subspecialty-certified interventional radiologists work with oncologists to diagnose and treat cancer. After biopsy, tumors often can be treated with minimally invasive techniques, including chemoembolization, radioembolization, and ablation. | scans and other methods, allow interventional radiologists to see inside a patient's body in order to treat complex conditions with minimally invasive procedures. IR can reduce hospital stays, lessen the chance of complications and save lives.
MedStar St. Mary's team of interventional radiologists can treat diseases or conditions in almost any area of medicine. For example, IR specialists can break up clots inside arteries, block off blood vessels that feed tumors, treat varicose veins, deliver cancer treatment directly to a tumor through its own blood supply, drain blocked organs, and perform biopsies—all by way of tiny incisions, into which surgical | 128 |
Infographic highlights the challenges of the 'learn now, lecture later<|fim_middle|> classroom — but the infographic is as good a place as any to start.
Are you considering a move to the flipped classroom? Do you agree with the points below? Let us know in the Comments section. | ' approach.
If you're like many of the educators I've been talking with recently, by now you've considered what transitioning to a flipped classroom might mean for your students — and, let's be honest, for you, too.
There's no denying that the emerging flipped classroom model, where teachers record lessons to be watched by students on their own and rededicate classroom time to instructor-led drill and practice, presents some intriguing possibilities.
For one, it gives teachers more time to spend with individual students. For another, lectures can be watched and re-watched, so students can learn and digest information at their own pace.
But, as with almost any wholesale instructional change, the transition does not come without its share of potential problems. Some critics say recording lectures for home viewing could lead to hours of homework for students. Still other critics say the digital divide threatens to keep students who don't have unfettered access to digital and mobile devices from doing the work.
To help determine whether the flipped classroom is right for you and your students, editors at Edudemic recently published this infographic, which hashes out the positives and negatives of the approach. This is by no means an exhaustive list. Educators are sure to inject their own nuances to overcome some of the obstacles encountered in the flipped | 258 |
Any industry professional will tell you that 2013 was a huge year for OFM! This innovative furniture and seating manufacturer brought to market a plethora of cutting edge products for every area of business. From stylish reception seating to innovative tables, those looking for modern style found ideal solutions sure to earn them daily praise and design compliments. Enjoy today's product showcase highlighting the best products OFM had to offer in 2013.
First up, the new 304-P Smart Series Chair available in both white and black. This designer stack chair is the perfect choice of training areas, reception spaces, and office lounges looking to capitalize on the modern style craze. The 304-P offers a 300 lb. weight capacity with it's sturdy steel frame. The built in handle makes for easy carrying while accessories such as the optional dolly and hard wheel casters take this unique seating solution over the top. The plastic seat, back, and arms offer easy to clean surfaces that work great in healthcare environments as well as high traffic office areas. For the price and value, the 304-P is an absolute winner in the workplace.
Second on our list of top OFM products is the GT4794 Glass Top Conference Table with Metal Legs and industrial style. If it's wow factor you want, the GT4794 has it! The clear tempered glass makes for a neutral tone that works well with wood and laminate tones. While other manufacturers are still clamoring to answer the demands of consumers in search of stocked glass conference furnishings at an affordable price point, OFM was the first to hit it big in this market. Look for these trendy tables to be a huge hit in 2014 and beyond.
Reception area makeover projects were extremely popular in 2013. That being said, OFM introduced popular lines like the Net collection which offer outstanding style and workplace benefits. Products like the NB-3G model beam chair come in your choice of 7 designer color options. This line of metal mesh seating works extremely well in both indoor and outdoor applications as the steel construction offers<|fim_middle|>. Matching sofas are also available to compliment this line of modern office lounge chairs and complete your guest waiting area to perfection. Standard Distinct series features include a 500 lb. weight capacity, upholstered arm caps, fully supportive frame, nylon foot glides, and as an added bonus all units ship fully assembled.
The OFM 810-LX Avenger chair was an absolute hit in 2013. This heavy duty big and tall solution offers a 500 lb. weight capacity and polished frame accents that showcase it's luxury appeal. This line of office chairs by OFM is a top choice of office executives as it's over stuffed look offers class and elegance in the workplace. Standard ergonomic features like the gas lift seat height adjustment make for user friendliness that's hard to top. Other comforting attributes include a 5" thick extra wide padded seat, 1" thick leatherette padded arms, high back design for full body support, and 28" 5 star base. The Greenguard Certification is also a nice factor for eco friendly buyers to consider as this chair is manufactured of sustainable materials that improve indoor air quality while helping to reduce our overall carbon footprint.
Last but certainly not least, the ORO300 tablet arm executive chair brought a new level of versatility to the workplace. This versatile seating solution is available in a choice of cream or black leatherette upholstery to match your individual decor needs. Stylish wood grain accents on the frame and arms provide a classy touch that takes the ORO300 over the top. The 300 lb. weight capacity makes this line of designer executive chairs a comfortable choice for most users. Additional models from the ORO line are also available for the big and tall crowd. At a modest price point, this chair is an excellent value that's sure to improve your functionality in the office. | excellent durability. Additional models from this collection are available that can accommodate up to 5 guests comfortably. The moveable glass side tables are also a nice feature that add contemporary style the Net series beam chairs. Rest assured, these trend setting products are sure to impress in lounge, waiting room, and modern lobby seating applications.
In addition to the Net series, OFM also made huge waves with the all new Distinct collection. Models like the 831 Distinct Series lounge chair available in your choice of three anti microbial upholstery options feature metal bases and out of this world style | 116 |
Everything you need to get started, including 1000 red wiggler worms! The Worm Factory 360 composter uses worms to break down organic waste. Its compact design makes it perfect for use in any household.
It is easy to recycle kitchen scraps and paper into nutrient-rich fertilizer for your plants.
Managing the Worm Factory 360 takes less than 15 minutes a week. Add worms and your organic waste to the bottom tray. Once that tray is filled add another. The worms migrate upward leaving their compost behind. It works year-round inside or outside.
Composting with the Worm Factory 360 uses worms to do the work of breaking down waste and is more efficient and easier to manage than a traditional backyard compost pile. Worm compost has been proven to have ten times the nutrients of traditional backyard compost. As well as, its compact design makes it perfect to be used in any household.
Worm composting makes it easy to recycle kitchen scraps, paper waste and cardboard into nutrient- wealthy fertilizer in your plants, creating a more sustainable way<|fim_middle|> other trays can take as low as a month depending at the waste added. If you harvest your finished compost from the bottom tray, you are going to have an empty tray to stack on top again.
The nutrient-wealthy finished compost can be utilized to your garden, raised beds, container gardens, or on houseplants. Although you are not a gardener, the Worm Factory 360 helps you reduce your affect and provides a substitute for throwing your waste into the landfill.
The whole thing you want to get began, including 1000 red wiggler worms! The Worm Factory 360 composter uses worms to break down organic waste. Its compact design makes it perfect to be used in any household.
It's easy to recycle kitchen scraps and paper into nutrient-wealthy fertilizer in your plants.
Managing the Worm Factory 360 takes not up to 15 minutes a week. Add worms and your organic waste to the bottom tray. Once that tray is filled add every other. The worms migrate upward leaving their compost in the back of. It really works year-round inside or out of doors.
The finished compost can be utilized on any plants. Composting with the Worm Factory 360 uses worms to make recycling your household kitchen waste quick and easy.
Worms will ship seperately after the Worm Factory to allow time to prepare the worm bin. | of life. The worms work 24/7 to efficiently produce highly really useful, wealthy compost packed with microbes and water soluble plant nutrients.
The Worm Factory 360 is simple to set up and operate. Managing your Worm Factory 360 takes not up to 15 minutes a week. Simply add a handful of worms and your organic waste such as kitchen scraps and shredded paper to the bottom tray of the Worm Factory 360. The worms will start processing the food. Once the bottom tray is filled add every other tray. The worms migrate upward to the latest food source leaving the bottom tray full of nutrient-wealthy compost. You'll do that year-round inside or out of doors, and harvest compost as much as once a month!
Your first tray will take about three months to change into fully composted by the worms. After the first tray is composted the | 181 |
Scientists develop new way to identify breast cancer tumors
research team led by USC scientists has developed a new way to identify molecular markers of breast cancer tumors, a potentially lifesaving breakthrough that could lead to better treatment for millions of women.
Aided by machine learning, the researchers taught a computer to rapidly sort images of breast tumors to identify which ones had estrogen receptors, a key to determining prognosis and treatment options. That's a big step forward from microscopes and cell biopsies in use for more than a century, according to the scientists.
The work opens a new pathway for breast cancer treatment that promises faster results for less cost for more people worldwide, said David B. Agus, professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He is also CEO of the Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC.
The findings appeared in Nature Partner Journals Breast Cancer.
An imaging technique that takes advantage of machine learning technology allows scientists to obtain results quickly, in contrast to traditional, more expensive methods that could take weeks. Image courtesy of Rishi Rawat
"It's the beginning of a revolution to use machine learning to get new information about breast cancer to the physician," Agus said. "We can use it to detect better treatments, get information to patients faster and help more people. We're unleashing this power to give new information to physicians and help treat cancer."
How to identify breast cancer tumors
Except for skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States. While deaths have declined, it remains the second-leading cause of cancer death among women and<|fim_middle|> one group to train a convolutional neural network algorithm, which is used to enhance visual imagery, and another to test the machine. When they compared the two sets, they found a strong correlation, providing high confidence that an algorithm can predict the estrogen receptor status of the tumor.
"We can use this technology to identify the molecular markers of the tumor and in the future will identify which therapeutics the tumor will respond to. Machine learning helps us get this information to patients sooner and may transform cancer care in the developing world where precise breast cancer marker assessment is in short supply," said Rishi Rawat, a graduate student in the Keck School of Medicine and first author of the study.
So far, the research findings demonstrate that the new technology has the potential to improve clinical care. Validation studies are under way – an important step before it's ready for use in the doctor's office.
Source: USC | the leading cause of cancer death among Hispanic women.
About 237,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in U.S. women and about 41,000 die from the disease each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The key to identifying and treating cancer is knowing the nature of the tumor. Cancer cells that contain receptors for estrogen and other hormones respond differently to cancer drugs that target these mechanisms. While doctors use these characteristics to classify tumors and select treatments, testing for markers is a slow and inefficient process.
For example, assays can be inconsistent depending on the laboratory doing the testing. They're also expensive, take weeks to do and are unavailable in many developing countries.
"If you're diagnosed with cancer, it'll be a few weeks before you get a call from the doctor saying they've identified a marker," said Dan Ruderman, one of the study authors and assistant professor of research medicine at the Keck School of Medicine. "With machine learning technology, we can tell you the same day, so there's less delay, less stress and potentially better outcomes. It's going to enable us to identify the right drug and dose more quickly. It's a big step toward personalized medicine."
Molecular markers identify breast cancer tumors
While machine learning has been used before for cancer detection, the USC study adapted the technology to more clearly focus on telltale markers of a cell's nucleus. The key was to extract parameters describing the shape of nuclei, and feeding these into a large neural network that could learn relationships between nucleus shape and molecular markers.
The scientists used publicly available hematoxylin-eosin stained histopathology images — the cell-stained slides doctors have used for more than a century. Next, they ascertained clinical status for 113 cancer patients, then split the patients into two groups, using | 377 |
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook will add 3.5 billion users by 2030
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told employees that the social network aims to have five billion users by 2030, according to a report from USA Today.
The report does not quote Zuckerberg directly, but said he made the comments at an event hosted in honour of "Friends Day," which marks the 12-year anniversary of Facebook's founding.
Facebook currently has 1.5 billion users, according to the company, meaning that the 3.5 billion user increase would more than double its size.
Facebook also published a study that claimed everyone on the network was connected by 3.75 degrees of separation, lower than the six degrees it's commonly accepted connects everyone.
"We want to finish connecting everyone [and] we're going to do it in partnership with governments and different companies all over the world," said Zuckerberg, according to USA Today.
The company has recently faced criticism in India over its "Free Basics" programme which aims to bring more and more people online. However, activists argue that Facebook will have too much control over the websites and services people can use. Facebook denies this.
Zuckerberg also talked about the company's $2 billion (£1.4 billion) purchase of Oculus, a company that makes virtual reality headsets and software.
"You can convey emotions through text, and photos,<|fim_middle|> medium becomes mature," he said, according to USA Today.
"We're reaching this period where video is going to be primary thing we use on the Internet, because of the emotional weight of it," he continued.
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By Amie Sheridan, Correspondent 2.3.2015
This year, a live stream of Super Bowl XLIX was made available on NBC Sports Live Extra for desktop and tablets. The live Super Stream was available free of charge and without authentication barriers from noon to 11:00pm ET on Sunday. In addition to the main event, the stream included pregame, halftime show, postgame and a new episode of NBC's "The Blacklist." The NFL retained the exclusive right to stream the game on smartphones, and this access was restricted even further to Verizon wireless subscribers only. NBC Sports Live Extra is an ad-supported free download, developed by NBC Sports Group and Adobe. This review was conducted on an iPad 2 version 8.1.3, with Xfinity Wi-Fi service.
MOVING THE CHAINS: Much like the Super Bowl live stream on Fox Sports Go last year, NBC offered a straightforward experience that included nothing more than the live video feed and a rotating banner ad beneath it. Watching the game in the app was largely the same as live TV, but with a slight delay and different advertising. From Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir, to Bob Costas, Katy Perry and postgame interviews with Tom Brady and co., NBC's Live Extra Super Bowl coverage rolled on. In addition to the Super Stream, users could toggle away to view other content within the app like Golf Channel Live and highlights from recent EPL matches.
FUMBLE ON THE ONE: Aside from the live Super Stream, the app offered no special features for commercials, game stats or social media activity. This feature shortfall was due to NFL rights restrictions. Meanwhile, the stream was slow to load at times and the app crashed here and there. When locking and unlocking the iPad, the live stream would pick up where it left off -- sometimes several minutes earlier -- and would not respond to a tap of the "live" button, which meant that the app had to be closed and re-opened (and users had to sit through another ad or two) to return to live action. In the same vein, the feed did not always restart in a single try. The live stream was not super-saturated with advertising, but many of the same advertisements ran throughout the day. Some might call this effective; others might call it irritating. I certainly noted the four-door Mini-Cooper bulldog ads. So, mission accomplished?
FINAL SCORE: NBC Sports did not deviate far from business as usual with its digital access to Super Bowl XLIX. The Super Stream simply sat in the app's programming lineup as if it were a regular daily event. No bells. No whistles. Just an 11-hour, authentication-free stream of the Big Game and ancillary programming. Overall, the stream itself rendered well, and advertising was not overly obtrusive, but feed interruptions and crashes did diminish the quality of the experience.
Amie Sheridan (amie.sheridan31@gmail.com) is a freelance writer in Philadelphia. See Sheridan's previous App Review submissions for THE DAILY:
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An Eccentric Visual History of Our Most Basic Shapes
by Allison Meier February 5, 2016 February 5, 2016
Bruno Munari, X Hour (all images from 'Bruno Munari: Square Circle Triangle,' courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press, unless otherwise noted)
The square, circle, and triangle are the most basic shapes on Earth, supporting structures both synthetic and natural. In the 1960s, Italian artist Bruno Munari explored the visual history of these shapes in three books, which Princeton Architectural Press recently compiled into Bruno Munari: Square Circle Triangle.
Cover of 'Bruno Munari: Square Circle Triangle' (click to enlarge)
"A circle drawn by hand showed the skill of Giotto," Munari writes in the 1964 La Scoperta del Cerchio (The Discovery of the Circle). "The first thing a child draws looks like a circle. People spontaneously arrange themselves in a circle when they need to observe something close up, and this led to the origin of the arena, the circus, and the stock exchange trading posts."
Munari had published La Scoperta del Quadrato (The Discovery of the Square) a few years earlier in 1960, and then La Scoperta del Triangolo (The Discovery of the Triangle) — specifically the equilateral triangle — in 1976. The books are fascinating to explore together in this new reissue, which guards Munari's original black-and-white design in a square-shaped book. Munari created over 60 books for various audiences during his lifetime (they were chronicled in last year's Munari's Books by art historian Giorgio Maffei), and he mainly intended the shape books for fellow designers. "Knowing everything about this simple, basic shape, in all its aspects and formal and structural possibilities, is a great help to designers," he writes in Triangle. However, there's a broad appreciation possible for this eccentric exploration of the three shapes through Munari's omnivorous approach. He never nails down what any of the shapes are, yet looks at every aspect of what they mean, where they appear, and even their significance in language. In Square, he writes:
As tall and as broad as a man with his arms outstretched, the square has always been used, from the oldest writings and rock engravings made by early man, to signify the idea of an enclosure, a house, a village. Enigmatic in its simplicity, in the monotonous repetition of its four sides, its four identical corners, it can generate a whole series of interesting figures.
Pages from 'Bruno Munari: Square Circle Triangle'
The subjects are all arranged alphabetically (according to their Italian names), adding a level of objectivity; Square, for instance, begins with the Hellenistic plan of the Agora of Ephesus and a 1951 Josef Albers painting, and concludes with a sculptural model by Mary Vieira and blocky Chinese calligraphy by Wang Hsi-Chih. Much of the information can feel random, with just two pages in Square including the Chinese character for mouth, the Sumerian word for house, the square Tokyo home of architect Makoto Masuzawa, the proportions of a French cathedral, and a photograph of the early computer "electric brain."
Still there are symbolic patterns that emerge, such as the circle that often "deals with the divine." Munari includes the sun disk of the Egyptian god Ra, the ouroboros biting<|fim_middle|>itects Brought Built Spaces to Life
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Cincim says:
Amazing that the basics of #Design still come down to a #Square #Circle and a #Triangle | its tale symbolizing eternity, a Raphael painting of the Madonna, magic circles, a Gothic rose window, and the crown of thorns. He also can never resist a bit of whimsical wit, and at the end of Circle throws in a monowheel — a circular bicycle.
Even if you're not a designer, the trilogy on shapes encourages a closer look at the repeating structures around us and their deep human and natural histories, in which the simple square can simultaneously be an ancient symbol with "the power to drive out the plague," and the boundaries for a game of chess.
Pages from 'Bruno Munari: Square Circle Triangle' (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
Roof Covering (courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press)
Tangents (courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press)
Boschin (courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press)
Electronic Brain (photo by Eredi Ugo Mulas)
Banana (courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press)
Folding Chair (courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press)
Bruno Munari: Square Circle Triangle is out now from Princeton Architectural Press.
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Studio Ghibli<|fim_middle|>, Television | 's Ni no Kuni is set to release on Netflix this January
by Fern Estrebello
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Bela, JC ready to break our hearts for the third time
The English dub version of Studio Ghibli's Ni no Kuni is set to be available in Netflix this month!
Ni no Kuni is a story about two high school students trying to save their childhood friend in this world and another one. The characters Yuu and Haru went to another dimension after a near-death experience saving Kotona. After gaining access to the fantasy world, once again, the story repeats itself saving their pal.
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The movie is known for its 2011 JRPG Wrath of the White. It is a product of the collaboration of Japanese game developer Level-5, the master composer Joe Hisaishi and of course world famous animation Studio Ghibli.
In 2011, the game received a lot of amazing reviews. A lot of critics praised the game for its heartfelt story told through Studio Ghibli's animated cutscenes. A story about a child brought to another world in search of saving his dearly departed mother. This is quiet unusual for a context of JRPG's whereas it has the genre somewhat maligned by tropes and clichés.
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Meanwhile in 2018, Level-5 released a sequel, Revenant Kingdom, a different game but equally ambitious to its predecessor. However, it gained a lot of reviews where critics expressed their disappointment as Studio Ghibli didn't return to collaborate. Unexpectedly, just after a year, a new Ni no Kuni project happened in the form of film.
'Hayop Ka! The Nimfa Dimaano Story' is a whimsical approach to reality
Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies, Ponyo and Whisper of the Heart – these are just some of the notable works of Studio Ghibli.
Ni no Kuni will be available on the streaming platform on January 16, 2020.
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The Holy See commends the Presidency of France for bringing this extremely important topic to the attention of the Security Council and to the International Community.
The long history of peacekeeping operations, with their successes and shortcomings, offers a rich reservoir of lessons learned with which to develop parameters for more effective strategy in conflict prevention and conflict resolution, as well as in defining mandates and rules of engagement.
The same history tells us about the evolution in the mandates that peacekeeping missions<|fim_middle|> in the Country.
The Holy See follows with interest the activities of the UN peacekeeping missions in different hot spots in the world and reiterates its commitment to collaborate, where possible, in the work of conflict prevention, conflict resolution, post-conflict stabilization and peace consolidation. | have been receiving from this Council. For instance, one might presume that an essential mandate of peacekeeping operations has always been the protection of civilians. Yet this is a relatively recent development. In fact, the first peacekeeping operation to receive the explicit mandate to protect civilians was the UN Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone in 1999.
While my delegation considers the protection of civilians a positive evolution of UN peacekeeping mandates, paradoxically it also points to the disturbing fact that more and more civilians are being targeted during armed conflict and indeed used as weapons of war. This is one of the saddest developments in the evolution of armed conflict. In the early 1900s, around 5 percent of fatalities were civilians, while in the 1990s, over 90 percent of the fatalities were non-combatants. Recent reports and studies unanimously affirm that deliberate targeting of and indiscriminate attacks on civilians are increasing. Untold violence willfully inflicted upon civilian populations and the defiant violations of international humanitarian law in many current conflicts are all too flagrant.
My delegation thus believes that in all cases where mass atrocities and other forms of attacks against defenseless civilian populations are being perpetrated or are most likely to happen, the protection of civilians in armed conflict must be a critical component of peacekeeping mission mandates. It would be one of the primary yardsticks with which to measure the success or failure of a peacekeeping mission. Every peacekeeping operation should be, at the end of the day, all about saving lives.
The evolution in UN mandates also tells us that peacekeeping missions have become much more than instruments for restoring peace after conflicts have erupted. Considering the decisive importance of both prevention and post-conflict peace consolidation, peacekeeping missions must also be deployed to prevent latent conflicts from exploding into open violence and to prevent post-conflict situations from descending again into violence.
While conflict prevention is primarily a function of diplomatic negotiations and mediations and post-conflict reconstruction and peace-building are often seen as the work of development experts and social scientists, particularly grave cases warrant a preventive peacekeeping mission to realistically stop latent conflicts from exploding, thus sparing populations from the scourges of death and destruction. In the same manner, lessons learned suggest that pulling peacekeeping missions too early can be extremely costly in every way.
A sure way to protect civilians during armed conflict is the preventive strategy of arms control. The Holy See renews its call upon arms producers and States to limit the manufacture, sale and gifting of horrendous weapons that are later used to terrorize the civilian population or destroy civilian infrastructure.
In the name of Pope Francis, my delegation wishes to express deep appreciation in particular for the work of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic. Without ignoring the disturbing allegations of crimes committed by some peacekeepers and without underestimating the danger that the Country could still fall back to violence, MINUSCA has contributed substantially to calming down the situation, to assisting the displaced and those victimized, and to maintaining an atmosphere that is conducive to the pacification of the population, the regular functioning of the institutions and the return to normal life. The multidimensional mandate of MINUSCA overall augurs well for the reconstruction and institutional capacity building efforts that underpin durable peace and sustainable development | 657 |
We have had raised bed strawberries in the past, but cannot decide where we want to make the permanent home of our strawberries this year, so we are going to do container<|fim_middle|>.
We took a drill and put holes in the bottom of the container. This will allow the water to flow through the container and drain.
Decide where you want to put the contain before filling it. It is going to get super heavy and depending on the size, you may have trouble moving it once all the dirt is in it.
Place a layer of stones at the bottom. This will keep the dirt from coming out of the holes in the bottom.
You can then add the dirt into the container, leaving space about 6-8″ from the top.
Add in your strawberries, spacing them out to allow for space for the plants to fill in the gaps in between.
Water the plants and they should be flower and you will have strawberries before Summer's end. | garden for our strawberries.
We had an old insert to a bathtub and I thought this would make a perfect raised garden for strawberries | 25 |
Over 99 film screenings & music concerts pack the schedule at this annual citywide celebration from April 20-23, 2017.
The Chicago International Movies & Music Festival brings four days of over 99 exceptional films and exciting concerts to Chicago's eclectic Chicago neighborhoods from April 20-23, 2017.
CIM<|fim_middle|>, and all the recent CIMMfest news at cimmfest.org. | Mfest originated from a love of music and film. Musician Josh Chicoine and filmmaker Ilko Davidov imagined the fest and made it a reality nine years ago. Today, the fest is a popular celebration with thousands attending each year. The international films include documentaries, fiction, concert films, shorts, and music videos from all countries and cultures. The music portion of this event recently expanded with more than fifty bands and twenty venues participating since 2013. Learn more about the seventh annual CIMMfest at cimmfest.org.
Choose between access to 200+ events for the full four-day experience or a jam-packed day of various concerts and screenings. Buy tickets at cimmfest.org.
4-Day Festival Passes: Get access to all four days of 200+ CIMMfest events, plus reserved seating at one headliner event for $79.
4-day Festival + Conference Passes: Get access to all four days of 200+ CIMMfest events, plus reserved seating at one headliner event for $99. In addition, attendees with this pass can enjoy the film and music conference, panels, workshops and much more.
VIP Passes: Get access to all four days of 200+ CIMMfest events, plus reserved seating at four headliner events for $149. In addition, experience ALL there is to offer at this year's CIMM festival including the film and music conference, panels, workshops, networking events, VIP Schwag Bag and much more.
Tickets for individual screenings and shows are also available for purchase-prices starting at $12. Buy tickets by clicking on individual shows listed in the 2017 movies and music lineups.
Get the full CIMMfest schedule and find information on parking, room bookings | 369 |
Now time for a debutante in my analytical work – ICON. The target for the ICON Project is to build a decentralized network which will allow independent blockchains to interact with one another without intermediaries. History of the price swings of the ICX are typical for the cryptomarket. We do have a huge rise at the every beginning<|fim_middle|> sell signal but is currently less likely to happen. | . Bonanza in December and January and after that a huge drop, which erased vast majority of the profits. The last stage is a slow recovery, which is characteristic for most of the coins on the market.
The current sentiment on the ICX is very positive. What we have here is the price being in a sideways trend but in the same time in a pennant formation (pink lines), which is a trend continuation pattern. The pennant is created after an upswing, which promotes the further rise. In addition to that, we are above mid-term horizontal support on the 4 USD (green), which is with us since the end of March.
Taking all that into the consideration, we do have a buy signal. This will be on as long as we stay above the 4USD. Comeback below that level will trigger the | 169 |
Apple unveils<|fim_middle|> his internationally renowned Mac-based design studio that he runs from his office at home in Sheffield.
Apple also takes time to speak with the founders of London-based design studio (Airside), a firm which uses sound, images and movies in "interesting ways", with an extensive client list that includes Panasonic.
A third report looks at New York graphic design studio 2x4. The studio has moved from its traditional roots to become a multimedia-focused powerhouse with a wide client list, creating everything from print to motion graphics.
Cristian Jofre talks about how Macs are used at MTV, and shares his vision of a socially connected world and its impact on turning passive consumers into active content creators. | new Pro user website
Apple has significantly upgraded its Pro website, introducing in-depth video reports taken from cutting-edge applications of its technologies across a range of disciplines.
By Macworld staff , | 29 May 06
Announcing its new content feast, Apple says: "Design, photography, music, film, motion graphics - unbound by discipline, creative pros are drawing from any or all of them to redefine the work they do."
The company has published a series of video profiles, in which real practitioners talk about how they are using Apple technology to achive new results.
The first video chats include artists, designers, video producers and more. The reports explain the importance of Apple solutions in creating the visual, sound and design experience. Participants also speak candidly about what they have learned in their professions in discussions which should hold value for many professional Mac users.
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Posted on December 1, 2015 December 8, 2015 by Rodney Twelftree
Episode Title: "Red Faced"
Original Broadcast Date: 12-1-2015
Control. A well-established trope among the superhero comic fraternity is the constant fear of what happens when heroes lose control of. It's been a long-running plot device that the comic Batman has a Kryptonite ring hidden in the Bat-cave for the very purpose of stopping Superman should the Man of Steel ever lose control, and need stopping. It was touched upon (very) briefly in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, and now it's Supergirl's turn. After preventing a pair of road-ragers from ploughing through a footpath full of school kids, and inadvertently injuring the drivers before being portrayed as an out-of-control menace (by Maxwell Lord, of all people), Kara needs a bit of release from her pent-up anger; taking it out on a recently arrived military creation codenamed Red Tornado.
Given the propensity for people to fear what they don't understand, or can't control, Supergirl was always going to have to tackle the idea that not everybody loves her presence on Earth, least of all not the bullish General Lane (Glen Morshower), who despises Superman and obviously has a thing against aliens on Earth. For Lane, it's all about control, and he sees the military industrial complex as the ultimate iteration of control; with Supergirl, and to a degree Superman, on Earth, this control is near redundant given their abilities, which makes Lane's decision to pit the Girl Of Steel against the prototype Red Tornado, a humanoid<|fim_middle|> Cat's eventual maternal bonding moment with Kara after a particularly spectacular blow-up in the CatCo offices. Again, it's about control: Cat can't control her mother, and the frustration borne of this leads to confrontation.
Then there's the villain of the week, the iconic DC character Red Tornado. Played in both human and robotic form by Iddo Goldberg, the Tornado look vastly similar to Marvel's VISION, although they are vastly different beings. The Tornado's symbiotic relationship with his creator, Dr T. O. Morrow, isn't capitalised on (or even explained) anywhere near enough for my liking, although the final battle between Supergirl and Morrow's creation is one of the best thus far – leastways in terms of giving Kara a chance to absolutely cut loose with her heat vision. In all honesty, though, I felt like the Tornado was underused, and the fate of the character seems over and done with which makes his brief, underused, throwaway appearance a little lot disappointing.
Overarching subplots involving Hank Henshaw's relationship to Alex Danvers' thought-dead father are brough up again, although reveal little more than the fact that Henshaw is still hiding more than he's revealing. Not to mention his predilection for strolling the corridor of the DEO's headquarters with his eyes glowing red like some bizarre devil-thing; I'm not entirely sure he's being careful to keep those secrets secret, you know… And the puzzling idea that the DEO would need to go off base, to visit Maxwell Lord, to get his help to track the AWOL Tornado; why exactly? The series looks to be setting up Alex and Maxwell for a romantic interlude, which will no doubt bring the conflict between them and Kara to a head down the track, but it doesn't seem genuine, or organic. It feels more like a plot device to further some tension if only to create another episode to handle the inevitable showdown. I don't buy it, and I don't like it.
"Red Faced" has plenty going for it in the character development stakes, but loses some points for mishandling the Red Tornado, who is given secondary status when it would have been awesome to see him take centre stage. The arrival of Sam Lane is welcome to spice up the antagonism in such an overt manner, while the shrill camp of Calista Flockhart's Cat Grant in the opening episodes has mellowed to a more rounded, approachable, and altogether not-dislikeable character with flaws. And it's nice, finally, to see Supergirl actually cut loose for a change. One gets the sense she's been holding back until now, but her unresolved anger issues being channelled into battle make her a formidable adversary heading further into the season.
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Gotham S:02 E:11 → | artificial lifeform, akin to poking a bees nest with a big stick and then blaming the kid next to him. Morshower's Sam Lane towers over this episode, not in the sense that he dominates it, but of all the subplots going on here, his relationship with Supergirl and the DEO is prime fodder for the series' development of the young heroine.
Lane's desire to control things includes his younger daughter, Lucy (Jenna Dewan-Tartum), who happens to be back together with former fiancee Jimmy Olsen (Mehcad Brooks), a fact Lane Sr doesn't like. He flat out tells Jimmy he doesn't approve of their relationship, and that he'd do anything to protect his daughters from those he considers "unworthy". Jimmy takes it in his stride, of course, but a funny scene later on, where he and Kara engage in a little punching-bag venting (funny because Kara uses an elevated car as her "bag") draws out some character development that's revealing to all.
Also in frame is Cat Grant's mother, Katherine, played by the divisive and controversial real-life actress and journalist Joan Juliet Buck. Considering Katherine's disdain for her daughter, only matched by Cat's contempt for her mother, it's as an appropriately on-point piece of casting as I think I've ever seen in a serial show; the Grant's respective needling of each other, and their prickly relationship which would evaporate if it weren't based on their DNA bond, is a key element to | 309 |
John Farrar (July 1, 1779 – May 8, 1853) was an American scholar. He first coined the concept of hurricanes as "a moving vortex and not the rushing forward of a great body of the atmosphere", after the Great September Gale of 1815. Farrar remained Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University between 1807 and 1836. During this time, he introduced modern mathematics into the curriculum. He was also a regular contributor to the scientific journals.
Life and works
After attending Phillips Academy, Andover, and graduating from Harvard in 1803. In 1805, he was appointed Greek tutor at Harvard. Farrar was chosen Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1807. He retained the chair till 1836, when he resigned in consequence of a painful illness that finally caused his death. His second wife, Eliza Ware Farrar (née Rotch), was<|fim_middle|> Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
Harvard College alumni
Members of the American Antiquarian Society
Mathematicians from Massachusetts
Phillips Academy alumni | Flemish. She married him in 1828. She authored several children's books.
Farrar maintained weather records between 1807-1817 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. For the 23 September 1815 hurricane, he particularly noted the shape as "a moving vortex". He also observed the veering of the wind, and its different times of subsequent impacts on the cities of Boston and New York City.
Farrar was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1808, and a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814.
In 1815, Farrar made efforts to build an observatory at Harvard. However, despite of continuing efforts, the project failed to take off due to lack of funds.
In his capacity as Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, he reformulated the mathematical curriculum and introduced modern mathematics. He prepared the Cambridge mathematical series. He was also the first to translate mathematical works from European languages to make them available for American undergraduates. He published a translation of Lacroix's "Elements of Algebra" (1818), which he followed by selections from Legendre, Biot, Bezant, and others. Harvard, the U.S. military academy, and other institutions at once adopted these works as textbooks. He regularly wrote for the scientific journals North American Review and Memoirs of the American academy. After Farrar's death, Eliza Farrar donated her husband's collection of books to form the original collection of the Lincoln Public Library.
Notes
References
Elliott, C.A. and Rossiter, M.W. (1992). Science at Harvard University: Historical Perspectives. Lehigh University Press. .
Fitzpatrick, P.J. (2005). Hurricanes: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO.
Ludlum, David M. (1963). Early American Hurricanes, 1492-1870, The History of American Weather. Boston: American Meteorological Society.
Norcross, B. (2007). Hurricane Almanac: The Essential Guide to Storms Past, Present, and Future. Macmillan Publishers.
External links
Official website at Harvard
Farrar, John. (1827) An elementary treatise of Astronomy. Printed by Hilliard, Metcalf and Co, Boston, 1827
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I'm #blessed to have a<|fim_middle|> ample room for the little one to move around. They also have a gluten free menu here – most impressively, they have a gluten free fettucine ready to go so guests can still enjoy the delicious Italian fare. The pasta portions are smaller, which is in keeping with traditional Italian way of enjoying a meal where pasta isn't the centerpiece, but rather, one course of a diverse meal.
The decor was chic with dark tones and it is a great spot to meet one-one, have a casual drink, gather with a small group, or even have a small party – they have rooms that are off to the side but still very much within the overall vibe of the restaurant.
Tags: chicago, chicago dining, places to eat in chicago, rancic, restaurant review, river north, rpm italian. Bookmark the permalink. | foodie bestie who starts lining up places to eat the next time I visit, right after I leave. RPM Italian in Chicago's River North neighborhood boasts a modern, contemporary, shareable menu featuring local ingredients wherever possible. Read on for what we ordered, a review on the dishes + service, and overall rating of RPM Italian!
We were last in Chicago the previous fall, and now we got a chance to explore some places this spring. The first is one of a pair of restaurants (RPM Italian & RPM Steak) by celebrity couple Bill and Giuliana Rancic, Chef Doug Psaltis, RJ, Jerrod and Molly Melman. Giuliana is Italian, born in Naples, and I expect the inspiration for this cuisine of this restaurant may come from her taste.
at 52 W. Illinois St. Chicago, IL.
If you have Spotify, listen to this lovely album and get in the mood for Italian food, romance.
RPM Caesar Wedge Salad with White Anchovy – excellent dressing, flavorful, fresh to begin our meal.
Potato Gnocchi with Ramp Pesto and Aged Goat Cheese – Gnocchi is a go-to pasta dish when I eat out. I love the texture and bite when done well. We weren't sure about the taste profile of Ramp Pesto and Aged Goat Cheese, but this was my favorite dish of the night. Plus, the Ramps (similar to a green onion or leek) added a bright flavor with earthy notes, and the aged goat cheese was more mild, a little nutty, and more like a hard cheese like a parmesan dusted on top than a stronger goat cheese.
Eggplant Parmesan – You may be familiar with veal parmesan, or chicken parmesan but eggplant parmesan is actually the original way Italians enjoy this layered dish. The eggplant parmesan highlighted the flavors of the eggplant and was prepared and layered very well. It is a balanced dish, and I highly recommend it as a hearty pasta option that isn't too heavy. The sauce was very nice, and it comes in a cast iron pan after being cooked in a wood fire stove.
Short Rib Bolognese – The sauce makes the bolognese. Well, so does the bite of the pasta – how well the thickness of the noodles complements the thickness and spice of the sauce. This dish features hand-cut pappardelle (a flat long noodle) and rosemary.
Nebbiolo Red Wine – deep, balanced, delicious and fruit forward without excess sweetness.
The service was excellent, and they accomodated food allergy and a child expertly. Despite the upscale dining, RPM's having a kid's cup on hand proved a helpful detail and made it easier and they also offered us a booth with | 575 |
Blood Hook (1986)
... aka: Carnada (Bait)
... aka: Ihmiskalastaja (Human Fisherman)
... aka: Leichen an der Angel (Corpses on the Hook)
... aka: Muskie Madness
... aka: Pêche Humaine (Human Fishing)
James (Jim) Mallon
Mallon started as a production manager while Mystery Science Theater 3000 was still at KTMA in Minneapolis before moving up to become director, writer and / or producer of the series for all eleven seasons lasting from 1988 to its cancellation in 1999. I make no bones about my dislike for MST3K and what it stands for. Do I really need to see silhouettes at the bottom of my screen ridiculing cheap movies for a cheap laugh? Nope, not at all. I could do this with friends if I wanted and certainly don't need to be spoon fed scripted "witty" one-liners the entire time I'm trying to watch something. It also makes it damn near impossible to give a film a fair shot when it's being mocked the entire time you're watch it. For me, the MST3K format is nothing more than a distraction that completely takes all of the fun out of watching cheap / bad / weird / dated movies and strips many of these films of their charm. Mike and the robots are basically the equivalent of obnoxious, attention deficit teenagers in a theater who won't shut the hell up and can't put down their cell phones for 10 minutes. One's enjoyment of the show probably just boils down to personal taste, but it's just never worked for me. I've heard many fans say they couldn't make it through most of the movies featured on the show without the commentary. I think that says it all right there.
The fallout from MST3K, not necessarily the show itself, is probably the most annoying thing about it. Especially grating are many of the show's die-hard fans, who call themselves MSTies. Not to generalize, but I've encountered too many<|fim_middle|>loks - 1986 Results
Started many moons ago by Prof-Hieronymos-Grost, the Orloks were a yearly poll on the IMDb horror boards where users submitted Top 5 lists of their favorite horror movies for each year. All of the results were then tabulated to come up with a definitive list of the year's most-liked genre offerings. Alas, when the good Professor decided to depart the boards years ago, the awards went with him... that is until now. IMDb-er seth_yeah - taking on responsibilities as both host and calculator - has decided to bring back this long-standing tradition in 2015, and now the awards will have a permanent place right here on this blog. Scoring is rather simple and done on a weighted system where first choice receives 5 points, second choice 4 points, etc., with a +1 bonus then awarded to the #1 selection on each list. IMDb release years are being used, but it is left up to voters to determine what they may or may not consider horror (which may be in conflict with IMDb's genre labeling system). If you'd like to participate, head on over to the IMDb HORROR BOARDS to vote! So without any further ado, the results...
1. The Fly
Canada, UK, USA / 54 points / David Cronenberg
2. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
USA / 40 points / John McNaughton
3. From Beyond
USA / 32 points / Stuart Gordon
4. Tras el cristal (In a Glass Cage)
Spain / 29 points / Agustí Villaronga
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
USA / 20 points / Tobe Hooper
Making the Top 10:
6. Hitcher, The / USA / 19 points / Robert Harmon
7. Aliens / UK, USA / 15 points / James Cameron
8. Dèmoni 2... l'incubo ritorna (Demons 2) / Italy / 14 points / Lamberto Bava
9. Night of the Creeps / USA / 11 points / Fred Dekker
10. Blue Velvet / USA / 10 points / David Lynch
Others receiving votes:
- April Fool's Day / USA / Fred Walton
- Chopping Mall / USA / Jim Wynorski
- Dark of the Night (Mr. Wong) / New Zealand / Gaylene Preston
- Dead End Drive-In / Australia / Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Deadly Friend / USA / Wes Craven
- Fair Game / Australia / Mario Andreacchio
- Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives / USA / Tom McLoughlin
- Ga, Ga - Chwala bohaterom (Ga-Ga: Glory to the Heroes) / Poland / Piotr Szulkin
- Gothic / UK / Ken Russell
- House / USA / Steve Miner
- Hunter's Blood / USA / Robert C. Hughes
- Il miele del diavolo (Dangerous Obsession; Devil's Honey) / Italy, Spain / Lucio Fulci
- Krysar (The Pied Piper) / Czechoslovakia, West Germany / Jirí Barta
- Little Shop of Horrors / USA / Frank Oz
- Madamu Sado: Mesu jigoku (Madame de Sade) / Japan / Yoshihiro Isomura
- Manhunter / USA / Michael Mann
- Matador / Spain / Pedro Almodóvar
- Maximum Overdrive / USA / Stephen King
- Neon Warriors / USA / Joseph Mangine
- Psycho III / USA / Anthony Perkins
- Quest, The (Frog Dreaming) / Australia / Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Screamtime / UK, USA / Michael Armstrong, Stanley A. Long
- Slaughter High / UK, USA / George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, Peter Litten
- Spookies / USA / Thomas Doran, Brendan Faulkner, Eugenie Joseph
- Vamp / USA / Richard Wenk
- Vendetta dal futuro (Atomic Cyborg; Hands of Steel) / Italy / Sergio Martino
- Witchboard / USA / Kevin S. Tenney
- Yuan Zhen-Xia yu Wei Si-Li (The Seventh Curse) / Hong Kong / Ngai Choi Lam
Links here will be connected when the time comes.
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Labels: Orlok Awards | MSTies in my day who insist all of the movies featured on the show are awful or else they wouldn't be on there. They end that perception with a period as if it's not even up for debate. When they're not telling detractors the humor must be over their head if they don't find it funny, they're flocking to sites like Amazon and IMDb to down vote the features and prove they can't independently write reviews about movies without quoting one-liners from the show. To many of them, Devil Doll (1964) is on the same playing field as, say, the same year's The Creeping Terror. And PHASE IV (1974) is just another MONSTER A GO-GO (1965), right? Having to read countless moronic comments like "Mario Bava was a hack. His movies were even on Mystery Science Theater 3000!" is enough to have me put a period at the end of my STFU.
With hundreds of "turkeys" at their disposal, when the series decided to make a feature film version they selected This Island Earth (1955) of all things. To me, that shows a certain disdain for classic films instead of an appreciation of them. It also sets in motion a type of thinking that a film should be judged primarily on when it was made, how much it cost to make and all qualities superficial, with no real appreciation for the film's ideas, inventiveness or historical significance when applicable. Most of the people blasting everything featured on MST3K haven't actually watched the movies they insist on critiquing. Not really. They're not giving these films a chance and opting for a highly-altered form that tinkers with not only the original film but their perception of said film. Sometimes focusing entirely on where films go wrong keeps one from appreciating where they go right. Hey, you can point and laugh at the Venusian monster in IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956) or you can appreciate that the film deals sincerely with the importance of human emotion.
Unfortunately, once the series was finally canned, series alum like Kevin Murphy and Trace Beaulieu continued riding the gravy train with similar dreck like Cinematic Titanic and RiffTrax. Even more unfortunately, a lot of the films riffed on are harder to find in their original form than they are with the stupid commentary attached. There are still obviously legs on this concept, though, and plenty who enjoy this kind of stuff; something made crystal clear by a successful Kickstarter fundraiser held last year that raked in over 5,700,000 dollars (!) for MST3K to be revived with 14 new episodes. Blood Hook is what some of these guys (Mallon directed and co-wrote the original story along with his wife Gail Anderson and two others, and Murphy is credited as key grip) were up to before goofing on other people's movies. And I actually found this more entertaining than any episode of MST3K I've ever seen. This is a gimmicky, intentionally goofy, cheap, stupid little regional flick but it's more honest, sincere and genuine than what came later. For better or worse, it is its own entity, not one completely reliant on the work of others.
Seventeen years after his grandfather was yanked into a lake never to return, rich kid / wannabe musician Peter van Clease (Mark Jacobs) decides to make a return visit to his family's cabin in the small town of Hayward. Wisconsin. Coming along for the trip are his girlfriend Ann (Lisa Todd), "punk" friend Rodney (Patrick Danz), Rodney's snobby Valley Girl girlfriend Kiersten (Sara Hauser) and third-wheel Fenner (Christopher Whiting). Upon arrival, they meet crazed, always-ranting caretaker Wayne Duerst (Paul Drake), who chews out Rodney for playing his "headache machine" and thinks the world has gone to hell, and his equally-unhinged son Evelyn (Bill Lowrie), pronounced "Evil-In;" a beer-swilling, shell-shocked war vet who sits in the front yard polishing his machine guns and goes on and on about "vibrations." An old 45 of a song called "Fishing For Your Love" starts triggering flashbacks in Peter about that fateful day his grandpa disappeared but his girlfriend can't understand why he won't just go to the police if he suspects foul play.
The entire town is filled with tourists for the annual "Muskie Madness" fishing tournament and we meet a handful of other strange, eccentric types who give Old Man Duerst and his son a run for their money in the red herring department. First, there's sinister German bait shop owner Leroy Leudke (Don Winters), who feeds mysterious chunks of meet to something in a tank. And then there's local fishing champion Denny Dobyns (Dale Dunham), self-proclaimed "Muskie Maniac," who accuses others of cheating when he's planning on substituting a big fish he's raised at home for one he's caught. A jerk urologist, his loon / On Golden Pond-obsessed wife and their two bratty kids also roll into town. Perhaps most amusing of all is contest hostess Bev D. (Sandy Meuwissen), a single mother who is so exercise-obsessed she often forgets she has a toddler to raise. When asked whether she's worried if a bear will eat her son (who's kept in the front yard in a playpen while she's out jogging), she nonchalantly replies, "Well he might. I make sure he doesn't have any sweets before."
Someone takes it upon themselves to start killing everyone they can sink their bobber into. The killing mechanism in this film is as unique as it is ridiculous, with the psycho fisherman casting a line, literally hooking the intended victim and then reeling them right into the water and into his clutches. When caught, people are treated just like normal fish would be: pierced through the chin and out the mouth with a metal rod and kept on a stringer under a dock. Bodies are then chopped and / or ground up. Everything's explained by some silliness involving a metal plate from a wartime injury, the sound of cicada's (?!) and certain musical notes in the theme song, which makes up something called "The Devil's Tritone."
Aside from the novelty of having a fisherman killer who treats his prey as the catch of the day, what makes this film slightly more entertaining than your average low budget mid-80s slasher is its humor and colorful supporting characters. It's every bit as dumb as it sounds, but there are at least few laughs to be had here so it has that much going for it. Still, due to budgetary (and perhaps imagination) restraints, this doesn't seem to go as far as it should have. The kills are silly, repetitive and not as gory as most would like for this kind of film and the premise wears itself completely out after about an hour when the film runs out of steam. Even a potentially amusing cast-off between our hero and the killer at the very end seems dull and tired by that point.
Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz are listed in the opening credits as the executive producers but the film was first released on VHS here in American on the Prism label. Troma then handled the subsequent releases, including a (pretty substandard) DVD release on one of their "Troma Triple B-Header" sets. That release also comes with the killer lawnmower Jaws parody Blades (1989) and almost completely zombie-free ZOMBIE ISLAND MASSACRE (1984).
Labels: backwoods psycho, boat/ship, dismemberment, hook, Lloyd Kaufman, psycho/serial killer, slasher, Troma
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When you visit Florence as we did this week, you cannot avoid seeing the Duomo and you will almost certainly walk past it, even if it is not on your list of things to do. Cathedrals took hundreds of years to build and when the Duomo in Florence was started no one knew how they were going to build the giant dome that was planned. The solution to building the dome was found by Filippo Brunelleschi, Renaissance man and Florentine. After losing out to Ghiberti in a competition to make the Baptistry doors, he spent a few years in Rome studying how the Romans had done things. Still, no-one knew his idea would work until the dome<|fim_middle|> not hemispherical in shape and there is actually an inner and outer dome that were connected together with wooden supporting beams. The domes supported themselves as they went up and Brunelleschi designed many of the winches to take materials to the top – machinery that Leonardo da Vinci would have seen and no doubt studied as he grew up. If you climb to the top of the dome you actually walk between the inner and outer domes, look for the herring bone brick patterns that give the dome extra strength.
It was an overcast cold winter's day, not the best conditions for taking outdoor photos, so I decided to concentrate on capturing a few details around the Duomo, the Bapistry and Giotto's Bell Tower. | was built, the dome is | 6 |
In spite of extensive efforts, material weathering testing still requires improvement. This book presents findings and opinions of experts in material degradation testing. The aim is to improve testing methods and procedures. Materials are presented to show that photochemical degradation rate depends on a combination of environmental factors such as UV radiation, temperature, humidity, rain, stress, and concentration of reactive pollutants.
The potential effect of each parameter of degradation on data gathered is discussed based on known results from a long experience in testing. This book contains data obtained in laboratories<|fim_middle|> weathering experiments which may be used as patterns for selection of parameters and techniques for new studies. The areas of research that still require more attention in future studies are clearly indicated. | of the largest manufacturers of UV stabilizers and chemical companies that manufacture durable materials. The book gives details of testing procedures and choice of parameters of exposure which are crucial for obtaining laboratory results correlating with environmental performance of materials.
In addition to exposure conditions, the book contains many suggestions on sample preparation and post-exposure testing. The effective use of these methods shortens testing time of materials and determines acceleration rate of testing. The book also gives examples of complete, well-designed | 93 |
Expect the unexpected some will say.
Trust all is well no matter how it looks.
Our trip to Hawaii is one of those moments in life that just came and went.
The people were awesome, loving and wonderful.
The retreat was inspiring and transformative.
The weather was beautiful, as always.
And I spent 80% of my time sick in bed.
Oh well! I get to return in July for another fabulous, healing and inspiring retreat.
I actually received healing, transformation and lots of rest.
I totally love being there once or twice annually.
The place we stay is exceptionally beautiful, quiet and peaceful.
These were some of my self consoling thoughts.
What did I learn?…Since Everything is my teacher and my teaching.
Some listen to their minds.
Some listen to their bodies.
Some listen to their Spirit or Higher Self.
Singing, Treasure-Mapping, MasterMind, Moving Meditation, Inner Listening, Writing Our Story, Poetry, Chants, Remembering Our Inner Truth, Living on Purpose, Gathering in Prayer, Owning our Wholeness, Learning from All Life, Being Holy Present and the Present We All Are.
You can choose the way of gratitude or complaining.
You can choose the way of Light or of Darkness.
You can choose to awaken or go to sleep.
You can choose what to share and what to keep.
You can choose how to love or what to fear.
You can choose when to cry and when to cheer.
You can choose to live in heaven here or create your living hell.
You can choose to how you live and how you die.
You can choose to build a tunnel or learn to fly.
Life and how we live it is our choice.
No matter what the external circumstances, we are at choice in how we respond.
Historical and hysterical reactions will yield the same old results.
To take full responsibility for our own experience is our creative power.
Let us celebrate and be grateful we have the choice.
Hope you come to HI on spiritual retreat with us next time….
July 17th, 2007 and again next year….
Listen to the birds celebrate.
Notice the changing color in the leaves.
Feel the earth, mud and new grasses.
Life springs forth all around us.
There is ever present renewal.
Everyday even in the winter, there is new life.
Babies are born, cells are regenerated.
The eternal cycle of life and renewal is constant.
It is in our appreciation that hope is born.
It is in our joy that we inspire creativity.
It is in our consciousness that we kindle our faith.
It is in our willingness that we are born again.
Happy willing learners are curious and eager.
Faithful followers listen and learn.
Innocent wisdom lets go with the promise of renewal.
The children of God and Goodness are forgiving and hopeful.
Celebrate the Eternal spring that lives within.
In each and every moment fall in Love.
Lifting my heart in joyful gratitude and praise.
We are about to spring into spring.
What is the crop you want to plant, tend and harvest this year?
How can you clarify your focus and spiritual direction?
Look within your own heart and mind.
See what your life is showing you.
Ask of your higher Self where you can contribute to yourself, source and your world.
Give yourself the gift of daily Loving Reminders in whatever form is best for you.
Take each moment of each day as gift and give it your best attention and gratitude.
Let life teach you day by day and person by person what you can do and where to give.
It is in teaching that we are learning.
It is in loving that we feel loved.
Your life is your garden.
It is in tending the garden you are given that you realize your free choice and limitless abilities.
You can leave your garden barren.
You can work hard and tend it with care for a fulfilling harvest.
You can haphazardly plant a few ideas and then let it just idly grow with weeds and all.
You are responsible for the garden of your life.
Enjoy the experience with gratitude and joy.
Off to HI on Thursday for a week. How about joining us in July?
Where Is Your Life Leading?
Are you going for the reward at the end of the journey?
Are you enjoying the experiences along the way?
Are you impatient to get home again?
Are you stopping and lingering with special people and places?
Are your trusting it all holds a gift for you?
Are you blessing every step you take?
Do you see the sacred and the profound in the simple moments?
Are you a gift giving itself generously?
Are you a needy hungry child waiting to be fed and patted on the head?
Are you in search of Camelot or the Holy Grail?
Are you waiting for the Messiah to lead you out f the wilderness?
Are you feeling entitled to be clothed and fed without sharing your Self?
Is there more to life than what you know?
Is there a happiness beyond momentary plaeasure and pain?
Are you seeking gains that can be lost again?
Are you attached to holding one special time or person in place?
What happens if you let go and trust that love is enough?
What happens if you see it all as gift to be received ad joyously given?
What will be when you see it is all abundantly here right now?
What if you could simply appreciate everyone and everything as it is?
Enjoy each precious present moment.
When you are glad, you give freely to source, to Self and to All Comes your way.
Make today your day of Thanks Giving..
This Week we are in Alameda on Monday.
In the Pleasant Hill Office on Tuesday.
In Kona, Hawaii beginning Thursday3/22 until March 29th.
You can call on my pager and voicemail anytime for phone coaching and counseling.
800-919-2392 Available and on Call for God and Good for All.
This weekend is our Stewardship and Service Facilitation Weekend for the Reunion Living Ministry Program.
To be an effective steward is to recognize everything is Gift.
To appreciate the gifts we have received is to take impeccable care of them with gratitude and love.
Many on the planet at this time take for granted all that we have as though we are entitled to great goods and abundance.
We are raising our children to take for granted and be unappreciative of what is given.
Without respect and responsibility for our bodies, our lives, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, how can we be respectful and responsible for and to one another.
It sometimes seems that because we were born, we are meant to rule the world and all that is in it.
Ie. If we are given a toy, we can choose to play it, set it on a shelf with no appreciation or use, throw it away or destroy it without thought.
The air we breathe is gift.
The water we drink is part of our bodies, the essence from which we live.
The earth on which we live and move and build our homes is sacred.
The people with whom we gather in sacred ceremony or to do holy work are sent by God.
The holy work we do is to be honored and valued.
The words we speak to one another are creating what we speak of.
The thoughts we think are each one a prayer to which the universe responds with YES.
It is time to make our lives holy.
It is time to treat our selves with respect.
It is time to recognize our very existence is a miracle.
It is time to give honor and praise to the Creative Power of Love, of God and Goodness for All That Is.
to really see and value, the One who lives within. Let us not forget.
Teach each child to enjoy the rain, the sun, the wind, the trees, the birds, the grass, the flowers and to love one another.
Having fun everyday can make life happy, healthy, fulfilling and productive (for those of us who like to get things done!).
Consider creating a positive sight or sound, flavor or fragrance to each day of your life.
Wear a special pin, scarf or hat.
Buy or pick some flowers to give or set on your desk.
Listen to upbeat or inspirational music on the way to work and home.
Sit or walk outside for 10-15 minutes and listen to the sounds of birds and nature.
People watch while you are eating lunch and send them all your love and blessings.
Write a poem or love song and share it.
Listen to your guardian angel, your inner guide or the God you know who loves you.
Send a thank you note to someone who you admire and appreciate.
Call that person who comes to mind who needs to hear from you today.
Sing or say a positive mantra (chant) to yourself in your mind all day.
Smile or greet everyone you encounter all day.
Remember you are the light and shine it brightly.
Be appreciative for the life you have and all you give all day.
Give yourself a really balanced day of work and rest, play and learning.
Take some time just to smell the flowers and do what you love.
Clear some clutter in your mind, your home or your relationships and rejoice.
Honor your ancestors with simple gratitude for what has brought you here.
Write a letter of love and appreciation to yourself from the Highest within you.
Decorate one room of your home with flowers, new accessories or just making it beautiful.
Lots more ideas where this came from….
Just listen within: How can I make this day more wonderful?
Use it in good health if it resonates with you!
Father God, I thank You for creating me in Your image. I praise You that I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I confess that You are the God that heals, my Great Physician. I ask You to heal my body from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. I pray that You would regenerate every bone, joint, tendon, ligament, tissue, organ, and cell of my body. This is the day that the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be glad in it.
What Do You See and Hear and Do?
Yes, we are joined in our commitment to love, serve and remember God.
Some of us are focused on Self, some on relationships and some on the whole Universe.
Each one of us must serve in the way that touches our heart and teaches us.
I thought you were sharing what you are learning and remembering from within.
This is what and how I share...I never saw it as saying anything about my ego or yours.
I do not flatter you or praise your ego.
I love, respect and value your True Self and Essential Self, because that is what I see and hear.
I actually don't believe your false humility or false arrogance.
They are simply the egos disguise.
I love and believe in the Authentic You who is a child of God, seeking only to live and give her very best to all she is given to serve. Blessings on your inner listening and your willingness to follow.
This response to an email I received gives you a glimpse of what is true for me. I seek and fid the spiritual truth in each individual.
I naturally look for the Good, the Gift, the Joy, the Blessing, the Teaching, the Reminder, the Love that lies therein.
Recently I have had a close encounter (volunteered to facilitate a conflict resolution) with someone who held heavy toxic or negative energy and rage, underneath was hurt and fear and under that was a deep desire for peace and love. While the toxins poured out, it was my holy and healing work to flush the cosmic toilet. And yes, there were some moments of release and hope, even glimpses of light and healing present. There was a willingness to do the healing work needed to proceed until a few days of deliberation and interference by professionals, friends and others probably re-stimulated all the past pain and suffering. The result was taking a position without doing the inner work and an unwillingness to keep the healing agreement. Judgment of both message and messenger was the result.
In all this the teaching and learning is to trust the Goodness in all things. Trust our united healing and holy intention.
Trust there is an abiding and deep desire to heal what no longer exists and begin life anew.
I trust this is so and know that each one is doing the best they can with what they believe and know.
Secondarily, I am convinced that we live in a world of choice, freedom of choice.
We can choose to live in fear or in love.
We can choose to carry the past with us or relinquish it knowing it is gone.
We can step away from our mistakes or punish ourselves endlessly for making them.
We can blame someone for the pain in our lives or give ourselves the nurturing and faith to heal the pain.
We can practice vengeance and retribution or forgiveness and renewal.
Life is our work of spiritual art. We are creative.
We create beauty or ugliness, joy or pain, healing or woundedness simply with our focused thoughts, words and deeds.
It is not always easy remembering to choose the highest and best, but when we listen with our hearts we know what is right and good, what is fair and true. In this we always return to Love.
In this uneasy or rocky month of two lunar eclipses and other energies , hang on with much love, forgiveness and gentle inner listening .
One of my readers is sending me wonderful synopses of her reading material.
I am sending this on as I believe it may spark your interest and Wayne Dyer and I are similar in philosophy and outlook.
How do you personally define it?
If you could let go of what society, your parents or teachers have taught you, how do you want your life to be successful?
When we devote our self to our true values, we are in alignment, focused and give and receive support for our desired outcome.
So much of our life energy is wasted on following another's ideas or dreams for success.
searching endless for what will make us happy.
Seeking what we truly want always yields finding what we are devoted to.
When we have split focus, we yield spit or ambiguous results.
Life is really about exploring and experimenting until we discover who we are, why we are here and what we really want to experience.
It is very helpful, effective and rewarding to listen within to the Truth therein.
What are you willing to give or do, receive or undo to fully actualize whole life success?
This is a major part of my coaching. to assist people in giving up delay, distractions and detours, to clarify what is truly their part to play in the greater whole and to live in integrity with their inner truth. Ask yourself what is in the way of your success.
and simply choose again to do whatever you can to support your whole life success.
Every single person who's drifted in and out of your life is a part of your Divinely chosen experience.
So, give thanks for all of these people, and take serious note of what they brought you.
Commit to thinking about what you want, rather than how impossible or difficult a dream may seem.
When you know rather than doubt, you'll discover the necessary ability to carry out your purpose.
and who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them.
If there's a pattern of seeing others as failures, you need to notice this pattern as evidence of what you're attracting into your life.
if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must put forth what you want to attract.
Be consistently aware of the need to serve God and serve others in any and all of your actions.
Be aware that anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.
If you find yourself being treated in a way you resent or that turns you into a victim, ask yourself this question: "What have I done to teach this person that this behavior is something I'm willing to tolerate?"
Don't allow the approval and attention of others to destroy you. Remain humble and grateful for all of your accomplishments, and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work in your life.
Make an internal commitment to respect yourself and feel worthy of all the Universe has to offer.
More light. More light. More light.
More time to enjoy the beauty of spring.
More time to enjoy the birds that sing.
More time to know the ones we love.
We have an extra hour of daylight.
What you choose becomes your gift to yourself.
What you choose demonstrates how you value your worth.
What you choose is a living testimony to your life purpose.
What you choose reflects how happy and fulfilled you are.
With gratitude and joy, life is enhanced.
With judgment and fear, life is diminished.
With forgiveness and love, life is improved.
With complaints and criticism, life is depressed.
Live for the purpose of enjoying and you find joy.
Live for the purpose of accomplishing and you find success.
Live for the purpose of giving and find gifts.
Live for the purpose of freedom and you find infinite possibility.
What are you choosing. How are you using your time?
Where you are spending your time, energy and money demonstrates what you value.
people, attitudes and objectives that are important to you. This is a quick exercise to help you uncover your purpose.
What a fabulous list…true, clear and relatively easy to assess and implement. Are you willing and able to be honest with yourself, to discover your own blocks and celebrate your own successes?
The beginning of any movement, undoing, forgiveness, transformation is full awareness.
Do you appreciate and enjoy your individuality and uniqueness?
Are you able and willing to fully respect and cooperate with others?
Do you invite helpful suggestions and dialogue?
Are you able and willing to say "no" when it is in your best interests?
Do you mind your own business?
Do you encourage and inspire others?
Do you fully appreciate and enjoy life's successes?
Are you able to relax and trust all is well much of your day?
And…forgive yourself for believing them and living in a way that denied the best for you.
Someone gave me this piece from her 12 step group. I consider it the third essential commandment in healing humanity of its codependence and teaching responsibility, respect and cooperation (my three key values for functional relationships.
Silver Rule: "Never do for those what they can do for themselves."
My Mother and probably her mother before her, in a long lineage of raising responsible and respectful children, taught and demonstrated "Give your children as much responsibility as they can handle..and a little more to grow into." My experience growing up was, there is nothing I cannot do and do well with a little willingness to learn and enjoy the learning." I was pleased with the learning and maturing process. I never felt criticized nor praised. I always felt loved." Therefore, I never learned to look to others to do for me. I never learned to look for others' approval of my achievement. I never learned to believe that others evaluation was the source of my worth. I learned what I was given came from God. What I did with what I was given was up to me. Only this could I be proud of…my willingness to fully utilize the gifts, talents and resources I had for the Greater Good.
And so here I am, joyous to be able to share all I have been given.
When you help someone when they can<|fim_middle|> duality, the land of separation from God.
Therefore, they are not real in the Eternal sense, and are not created or known by God.
This is a very deep and important question to ask ourselves and listen within.
The Voice of God speaks to each of us in the most loving and reassuring language we can hear.
"Forgiveness is our function as the Light of the World".
When we remember only Love, we are healed and whole and Holy Happy!
Betty Lue, again much appreciation and gratitude for the loving reminders. I wanted to let you know that I am re-discovering the power of expressing thanks for EVERYTHING - every person, situation, circumstance. In doing this it is becoming a feeling incorporated into the cells of my body as I feel the thankfulness on a physical level now - not just as a mental mantra. As such my judgments are quickly dissipating and now I am even able to catch myself right in the middle, or right after, I have made some judgment of another or a situation. Then I send blessings to the person or situation simply saying blessings! Also, I say thank you to the person and/or the situation. This is truly a universe of infinite abundance and the attitude of gratitude I am adopting is bringing forth the realization of that in my conscious awareness. The awareness of this infinite abundance boggles the mind but enlivens the heart. I was looking at some photos taken by Hubble and one of them was of the Sombrero Galaxy. It has 800 million stars (our Milky Way 200 million). Looking at these deep space objects continues to open my awareness to the fact that THERE IS NO LACK in the universe. Lack is only a narrow perception of a narrow slice of perception. THERE IS ONLY ABUNDANCE and the evidence is every, every, every where here and now.
Here is one expression of what gratitude can do.
Whatever you think you want or need, be grateful that you have it and it will be so.
Literally giving thanks is the fastest way to manifest the True gifts we desire.
So much of life is spent wishing, complaining, ignoring, wanting it better, not valuing what we have.
Therefore we continue creating the experience of not enough and lack.
No matter the hurt, upset or problem, be grateful.
When unsure or feeling lacking or limited, be grateful.
Gratitude alone will awaken the spirit in you to see the gifts all around you.
Gratitude will grow and increase what you appreciate.
When you recognize your gifts of creativity, love, wisdom, renewal, you will be grateful.
When you are grateful to be right where you are, you will see the gifts within you.
The realization of gratitude (and forgiveness) as the true healers of the human experience sets us free.
When lost, confused, moving too fast, caught up in some drama, it is essential we stop, look around, and listen within.
Suspending all activity of mind, speech and body allows a moment of rest and quiet.
Stopping even with a deep breath or sip of water is often enough to notice what is happening.
To look around both within and outside is assessing where we are to get our bearings.
To listen within requires a trust in the inner guidance system and service that is always present.
When caught in the maelstrom of human emotion, rather than be consumed, we need to stop.
When carried away by the events of the day, we must look around to see where we stand.
To be directed by a fear-based and ego driven mind is to add more upset and urgency.
Turning away from people at our desk.
Into soothing music on a headset.
In the shower or bathtub.
Forgiveness of everyone and everything.
Gratitude for all good things.
Giving to someone with joy and love.
Creating something beautiful and good for all.
Volunteering with those who really value our time and energy.
Only doing what fills and nourishes us.
Cleaning up our room, our desk, our lives.
Completing projects that have haunted us.
Sit and listen within for the highest good writing it all down.
Love created you for the purpose of Loving.
We are all here to be truly helpful and healing.
Healing is experiencing and extending inner peace.
When we recognize and forgive all blocks to the awareness of Love's Presence we are at Peace.
Only love is real. Everything else is a call to remember Love.
I am loving you and me with every Loving Reminder!
The life of this couch is very good.
The life of this Grandpa is very good.
The life of those who are willing to be present, happily giving is so very very Good!
Just sit still and be ready to give to those who come your way!
In this busy world of unlimited distractions, it is easy to get off track.
When we are multitasking, each task only gets a portion of our energy.
When we try to do several things at once, make sure none of them are important.
When we use our energy in divergent ways, we yield mixed results.
When I am focused on leading a congregational service, I must focus.
When I write these loving reminders, there are no interruptions.
When I am creating a new workshop or program, I set aside all other activities.
When I am in a meeting, my heart and mind are focused on the goals of that meeting.
Commitment to the fulfillment of the desired goal or outcome and focus on that outcome are paramount in the accomplishment for the highest good.
Commitment means not quitting or withdrawing our trust and freedom (=LOVE).
Focus means not wavering in where we are placing our attention, affirmation and creativity.
You will notice that great achievers are those who give full energy and intensity to their task.
You will notice that scientists, healers and holy men do not tolerate distraction or interference.
Where there is passion, there is intensity.
Where there is commitment, there is consistency.
Where there is genius, there is respectful intention.
Where there is connection, there is total focus.
Focused work is a creative meditation.
When you cook, be quiet and stay focused.
When you clean, be grateful and stay focused.
When you are relating to someone, choose non-distraction and focus on listening with your heart.
When you are creating, quiet your mind and listen within.
Things are accomplished and completed very quickly.
The results are always beneficial.
You can hear within when there needs to be some variation or change made.
The feeling of enjoyment and fulfillment is very satisfying mind, body and soul.
The best way to enjoy learning and experiencing life is with total focus.
Your cheek and mine! Good focusing!
Up at 5AM and off to renew the Home of Truth spiritual Center with a fabulous Team of volunteers from 8:30-1:30PM….so no time to do the Loving Reminders. Spent the afternoon and early evening with appointments in the Pleasant Hill Center, so here I am. Another full day always rich with surprises and lots of love and joy shared. Beginning the morning with the Willing Ones, Inner Listening at 9AM, Sunday Services at 10:30AM , followed by a kitchen planning meeting (there are two kitchens now), and then a workshop on Practical Feng Shun: A spiritual Practice. This afternoon I will take a walk and a nap, work on two upcoming programs and flyers and get ready for our minister's meeting and our Conscious Healing Class tomorrow eve. It seems like a lot, … But remember, I have done most of this many times with the guidance and inspiration of spirit. Much of my life is present moment, spontaneous expression of the Love in me, so there is little to plan and prepare.
My talk for Sunday Services this morning is: Love, Serve, Remember.
The way I Love unconditionally is to give my best to everyone I encounter.
This means for me, meeting my grandchildren, my partner, my clients, my ministry students, the grocery clerk with the best in me. They are all treated differently and all equally loved, according to the current state of our relationship, the time involved, the circumstances…and they are each given the best I have in the moment. I am loving everyone without condition. Where I withhold love, I deprive myself.
The way I serve from my heart is to do everything I do with joy and gratitude. I am thankful to be able to serve in the ways in which I am guided. I do not sacrifice or martyr because it yields resentment and blocks the flow of creativity, healing and authenticity. It is good for everyone when it is good for me.
The way I remember God is to listen within moment by moment. I give thanks for the life I have. I enjoy the precious moments of connection both within and with others. I freely share my love for God by giving to each one as god would have me treat and teach my brothers and sisters. Since God and Goodness created us all as Good, it is my function to forgive anything which may interfere or cause me to forget. I spend my life remembering God, remembering Love, remembering who I AM and what is my holy purpose.
To Love, Serve and Remember is my daily Loving Reminder.
Remember it is a gift to share these Loving Reminders with you.
Please share them with others.
Spiritual Principle is ineffective without our activity.
Clearing our limited thinking with conscious correction and forgiveness is key.
We must recognize and actively release and erase all that is not wholly true and loving.
Where we are blocked in consciousness, we cannot let the sun shine through our words and deeds.
Where we insist on allegiance to an idea and imprinting planted by our ancestry, we cannot know Truth.
Where we declare and affirm limitation, lack and insignificance, we create that experience consistently.
Where we doubt and fear change and transformation, we are stuck with our habits of mind and behavior.
God works through us with our consent and invitation.
We are at choice in how we choose to think and feel.
We are at choice in how we speak and treat others.
We are at choice in how we respond to life's events.
God is the force for Good.
God is the creative Power of Love.
God is the unlimited healer.
God is the all-knowing Presence of Infinite Possibility.
Our work is to clear our learned thoughts of ill will and evil.
Our work is to unleash the natural Love in us by letting go of learned fear.
Our work is to free ourselves from the cultural belief in limitation.
Our work is to release our limited perceptions and open to the Highest good for All.
We can do the work everyday by taking full responsibility for learning from every encounter.
We can celebrate all experiences as opportunities to learn what is True and Loving.
We can enjoy this life of giving the Best we have by listening within to the voice for Love.
We can honor the gifts we are given by sharing them freely to those who receive with gratitude.
We are each the gift.
It is in sharing the gifts we have and the gifts we are, that we come to recognize the true nature of God.
Life works when we live it fully with gratitude and joy.
Life is like an elephant ride for an infant.
We all need Grandma's hand and smile and gentle support.
Give your loving touch and encouraging support to someone today!
What if our self worth is based on how respectful and responsible we are?
What if the missing piece in life's puzzle is just that: Our self esteem is dependent on our ability to respond with happy willingness in all circumstances and relationships!
Do you treat everyone with respect?…including yourself?
Do you refrain from swearing, blaming and criticizing?
Do you take responsibility for your self care, your health, your finances?
Do you easily acknowledge you are wrong, mistaken or wish to change your behavior?
Do you keep your home, your vehicle, your office clean and orderly?
Do you keep your agreements and complete projects on time?
Do you maintain your finances impeccably, spending wisely?
Do you ask for help when you don['t know or cannot do what is yours?
Do you leave every place and person a little better than the way you found them?
Do you seek to give the best rather than get the best?
Are you a happy willing participant in life offering to create what is good and healthy in all ways?
I notice when I cannot give my best because I am tired, overwhelmed, critical or fearful, I lose energy and confidence. I recommend to myself that I step up and do first things first.
Take care of my spiritual, mental, physical, financial, relationship health first.
Take care of my home, office and business affairs.
Take care of my commitments and chosen responsibilities.
When I am impeccable in caring for what I have, I am confident, strong and resourceful.
When I have too much to care for with excellence, I am called to simplify my life.
Bless us all for being honest with ourselves. | help themselves, you are creating dependence and weakness.
When you give to clear your own fear and worry, you are giving the other your problem.
When you treat another as though they need help, you are affirming their neediness.
When you take care of others to feel good about yourself, you are weakening their self worth.
When you teach others how to care for themselves, you are empowering and building confidence.
When you feed a man a fish, you feed him only for today.
When you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
Let us begin to allow everyone to grow up by teaching principles to live by.
Let us begin to teach respect and responsibility by believing in others.
Let us begin to create a functional and cooperative world by using education and demonstration.
Let us begin to love one another with the Silver Rule of letting others learn with natural consequences.
Your workplace, employer and co-workers?
teachers of how to get rich and how to stay poor, teachers of health and teachers of illness, teachers of faith and teachers of fear.
When we are greedy learners we may learn from everyone and get confused about the conflicting messages.
When we are lazy learners, we may let any message be learned and act on it.
When we are selective learners, we may choose a theme for what we listen to and believe.
We have choice in what we learn and from whom we learn.
Pay attention to the lives of those you allow to teach you.
Notice the experience you have within yourself, when you receive the teachings.
Ask yourself if the messages resonate with what is true for you and your life purpose.
Receive what is good and healthy and empowering for your highest good.
Let the rest go with your gratitude and blessing.
We are here to explore and experiment with inner and outer teachings and teachers.
As we become more awake and aware, we can choose more consciously for that which serves us.
The end result is a willingness to listen within for the Highest Truth and the way that works for us.
Emancipation, maturity and the rite of passage into full responsibility questions all external teachings.
We come to recognize that it is healthy and healing to let go of old ways that no longer work.
We forgive ourselves for lingering in historical patterns that are self-defeating and diminishing.
We stop wishing it were different and hoping things will change.
We become the change in our lives.
There is an inner teacher waiting for your full attention and willingness to listen within.
"No" teaches others to think and say and act out "No".
"No" often is energized by anger and fear.
Rather than block the flow, create a way to say "Yes."
Yes, you can trust me to hear you.
Yes, I hear what you believe.
Yes, you deserve an opportunity to share.
Yes, you have a right to be heard.
Yes, you are loved, respected and supported.
Yes, you are a child of God.
Yes, you can do whatever you envision, really desire, commit to achieve and take action.
Yes, the universe offers unlimited opportunities.
Yes, we are all in this together.
Yes, life works when we do the work.
Yes, I want you to come with me.
Yes, this is the time to eat.
Yes, we are going to go to bed now.
Yes, you will sit here, until you are ready to do your chores.
Yes, I know you can keep your agreements.
Yes, you love me and want to treat me with respect just as I do you.
Use your creative mind to transform all negatives into positives.
Yes, I am choosing to live in a universe of love where we can trust that all is well.
Loving you with a BIG YES!
A reader is asking about the practicality of forgiveness and how it works.
Forgiveness is a spiritual tool that simply open our channels to return to Love.
Where there is hatred, fear, anger, guilt, there is blocked flow of Love.
Where there is blocked flow, there is constriction and lack, littleness and limitation.
What we are sending out begets what we are receiving.
When we are withholiding the loving Essence we are, we are receiving limited Love from the Universe.
Blocks in one direction also block the other direction.
The healing work is to open the flow both giving and receiving with joy and gratitude.
When we are loving, we create an energetic Love aura which surrounds us.
In that Love, we are free from pain and hurt, blame and anger.
When our 'e motions" are truly "energy in motion", our whole life benefits.
Forgiveness is the tool to free our energy and return to Love.
Therefore, forgiveness is a gift to ourselves.
When we are forgiving of ourselves and others, we feel more alive, creative and open.
When we have forgiven our world (our one true function), we can experience the joy of being.
When we return to Love we are empowered with Spiritual vision and creativity.
In forgiveness we are the transformers and healers of humanity.
With forgiveness we remember our true essence and identity.
As forgivers, we see ourselves as healed, whole and holy.
True forgiveness returns us to our natural state of Love.
Perfect Love is the reason for our being here.
Perfect Love gives us everything.
Perfect Love is the gift we bring.
Could you help me to understand what God is?
What a beautiful question for us all to ask ourselves.
God is Love and Love is God. Love is the creative power, the Force, the Infinite, All powerful Presence. Because we are individuated drops of God-ness, we represent that unlimited powerful creative potential here in physical form. In our separation from our Goodness, we have made up the opposite or a duality of experiences. Some say this duality is illusion. Some deny there is anything other than God to create the experience of only God. Some fight against the evil. Some condemn the sins of others and stop loving in their condemnation. Some are afraid and withdraw from the world in ivory towers, caves of meditation, institutions of contemplation and mental isolation. We each have our own way of believing and dealing with what appears to be the "reality" here in bodies. To find our own belief is to make it true for us. To find what brings you peace is your quest.
There is no external Truth for all beings. There is only the Truth that makes you whole.
My truth is that our Source and Creator loves the True Creation, the truth of whoWe Are.
God sees us with Love and wants only happiness for us all.
To be happy, we must suspend our judgments of ourselves and one another.
To remember our loving Self and the Love in which we are created will return us to Wholeness.
Forgiveness is the tool the Holy Spirit gave us to clear our fear and judgments of one another.
Gratitude and praise of Good and God appreciates and grows that Goodness.
With full appreciation of all creation, we come to realize God.
In other words, evil, bad, disease, death, accidents and wars were not created by God.
They are a temporary worldly belief system created by the co-creative minds of those who are separate from their intrinsic state of Goodness and God.
We experience "not Godly" things only here in | 1,474 |
to my hometown and did not know how to go on. So I did …. nothing!
thought: Why don't<|fim_middle|>11. | they understand my situation? Why don't they see that I need more time?
just passed the entrance when I suddenly heard the laughing voice of a young woman: "To err is human!" Obviously she hadn`t said that to me, but I felt deeply touched by these words. A little bit irritated, I walked on to my favorite place in that library.
Suddenly, a funny thought came in my mind: Why not take first a walk through the library! I do not know why, but I gave in that thought and started to walk aimlessly and "blindly" through the corridors. At last I stopped in front of a book shelf and took a book out of it. I really had not expected much from it, but now I read with surprise its title, About the Error.
Immediately young woman`s voice at the entrance came back to my mind: To err is human! What a coincidence! Well, coincidence is surely the wrong word. It looked more that way, that I had to find this book. And so I sat down and started reading the book.
When I closed that book two hours later I felt a big relief. Now, I was able to understand and forgive my critics. They had been mistaken, but they had acted – humanly. And perhaps, who knows, was my own blindness much bigger than that of the others. This also would have been – very humanly!
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Review: WILDLING
by Patrick Bromley
A new take on an old monster.
The new horror film Wildling, co-written and directed by Fritz Böhm, re-examines the werewolf myth as a coming of age story. While not a conventional werewolf story in terms of a character being bitten and changing with the arrival of the full moon, it's very much a tale of a young woman coming to terms with the "animal" self that goes hand in hand with sexual maturity. It's a movie about father figures attempting to delay womanhood and mother figures who understand the natural order of things. It means well, even when it doesn't have a lot to say.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl's Bel Powley plays Anna, who begins the film in isolation and raised by her daddy Brad Dourif, who regularly gives her injections to delay puberty and tells her that Wildlings have killed all the other children and want to kill her, too. Once she reaches 16, she is "rescued" by the town sheriff (Liv Tyler), who brings Anna home to live with her and her younger brother. But then the killing starts.
Wildling is the hardest kind of movie for me to write about: a smaller, independent genre film that's executed well and can use the signal boost of positive word of mouth, but which is hard to recommend too enthusiastically because it does very little that I haven't seen done in movies already. There's certainly more of a folklore approach to the monster of Wildling that feels somewhat novel, in particular a backwoods character played by James Le Gros who pops up from time to time. The performances are all really strong, in particular Powley at the center and a welcome Liv Tyler bringing warmth and authority and decency to the film just by basically being herself. The direction is elegant and evocative of the mood Böhm is trying to capture, demonstrating a strong understanding of how to use lighting and location.
So why can't I get more excited about Wildling? It's executed well on just about every level and features standout performances from Powley, Tyler, and Brad Dourif. It's not a movie of which I have much criticism, except that the ground it covers feels familiar. Everything from Ginger Snaps to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series have approached adolescence with the werewolf metaphor; the difference is that Ginger Snaps also took a position on what it means to become both a woman and a monster (and I am not equating those two things by placing them in such close<|fim_middle|> movie.I watched it with my mother and I was obsessing over Bel Powleys eyes.She is so gorgeous.Her eyes are gorgeous but i really like this movie but i would not watch it again.
#1timething | proximity; I'm suggesting the movie did two things at once). Parallels were drawn, yes, but only in the way that the changes Ginger was undergoing made her seem more distant and alien to her younger sister and the kids who knew her as she was, not as who she was becoming. Wildling is different in that almost every supporting character is only getting to know Anna at this pivotal point in her life, which gives them no frame of reference for these changes. The most interesting in the stuff involves Anna's relationship with Brad Dourif; their scenes together play like a really cool short film that opens the movie, but then Dourif vanishes for a lot of the running time. The lack of any other established relationships strands some of the transformation stuff because it's hard for us to see how Anna is changing when we don't know what she's changing from.
Bel Powley is good enough in the lead role that her performance alone helps shift the focus of the story from one of a family or a community watching a girl become a monster to that of a girl living in fear of becoming a monster herself. And that works! It's just still not enough for me to recommend Wildling as more than a well-done coming-of-age horror film that executes but doesn't transcend. It's a good movie that doesn't add much to its particular subgenre, a well-acted and well-directed effort that I'm unlikely to revisit.
Wildling is currently playing in limited release and on VOD from IFC Midnight.
Posted by Patrick Bromley at 12:00 PM
Labels: 2018 horror movies, 2018 movies, liv tyler, werewolf movies, wildling
Chaybee April 16, 2018 at 12:05 PM
I agree fully with this review. It was good but nothing I would revisit. Am looking forward to more from the director.
Wraith76 April 22, 2018 at 6:50 AM
This movie was surprising and sweet, totally unexpected without previewing reviews by...well, lets face it, a dude who obviously didn't grasp the feral feel of the film.
Nice try at reviewing, though. Better stick to Star Wars, Honey.
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We always love hearing from our followers, and we were recently blown away by one story from Catherine and Michael in Sorrento. Like us, Catherine and Michael are huge fans of street art. So much so in fact, that they've turned their own house into a sensational gallery of murals!
Check out this fabulous video by Eggcup Productions to see how<|fim_middle|> Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails." (H. Jackson Brown Jnr).
We also thought that this was a lovely way to honour the house's history, having been built by a ship's captain in 1962. Andrew's piece is not only a wonderful rendition of the quote, but it is an absolute work of art and a daily reminder to our daughter to be brave and adventurous!
Steve Browne and I chatted about his piece, which is in the middle child's Conversation Pit. We wanted a piece of art that the teens could interact with and form a great backdrop for their gatherings. I asked if he had ever painted a sloth before as it was my daughter's favourite animal and he said "a sloth painting would be fun!" It was amazing watching Steve create "Geoff the Sloth" as circular paint strokes became the animal. As Steve said "One of my favourite things about being an artist is creating new life in spaces by inventing characters who wouldn't have existed unless we were there."
Chris was posed the ultimate challenge - to create a piece over the space of three round soakwell planters. His "Sorrento Tide" creates one artwork facing into the garden spanning all the soakwells both internally and externally. And, as the only piece of Street Art, actually on the street, there is another completely different piece of art for the neighbourhood to enjoy. It is a magical piece from every angle.
Amok Island created Larry the Lizard, inspired by the height of the wall of our courtyard wrapping around the window and the fading blue paint of the old house. Larry is a Pilbara Rock Monitor Lizard with extraordinary natural gradient in its colours. As fate would have it, just like last time Amok Island was at our house, it was a blistering hot day when he took on the task of creating his piece. Larry is such an extraordinary character that Amok Island has now done a canvas for us of Larry's home in the desert and we are renovating the old courtyard so everybody can hang out with him!
What do others think of your murals?
These works of art have proven so popular that we have already had school art excursions to come and see them, which is a wonderful way for our private street art to become public art once more.The artists were so generous with people dropping in for a sticky-beak and this is one of the things I love most about street art -that it is accessible to all and that the artists are so generous in the way that they interact with their viewing public.
I love that their art is open and free, that it makes people smile and that it improves the happiness of the community we live in. I love art that has the ability to surprise, challenge and create wonder. I love that in this world, that all too often focuses on negativity and hate, these Western Australian artists have created curiosity and joy not only in our home but also all over our State. They are extraordinarily talented but also genuinely nice guys who are great for a chat!
Do you plan to add any more artworks to your home in the future?
This is definitely not the end of our little project. Kyle thinks we might have the most "on-wall" street art in a home in Perth and we still have a couple of little spots to fill (and our eye on a couple of female artists!) We are also starting a collection of smaller pieces, our "gallery on a shelf."
Do you see your investment in these murals as adding value to your home?
We have never considered the investment value of having the art on our walls - as two social workers by trade, we have always invested in life value and things that build community. And with our little Sorrento Street Art Festival, that investment has paid off in bucketloads of joy and inspiration.
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Hi Catherine, thank you so much for sharing your murals with us! Have you always loved street art?
I have loved street art for a long, long time. When I was at Uni in the 80s, one of my friends was working with street-kids and another was studying graffiti artists and I was amazed at the phenomenal art some of these young people were producing.
I remember as a student working with young offenders and one of the young boys came up to work on a farm in Badgingarra. He showed me his drawings and he ended up painting this amazing mural on a rainwater tank on the farm. 30 years later I still love public art in all its forms and the rest of the family have fallen in love with it too.
Your gallery includes murals by Amok Island, Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Andrew Frazer, Chris Nixon and Steve Browne. What inspired you to choose these particular artists for your project?
We got to know Amok Island quite a few years ago when he featured as an emerging artist in the STM magazine.We had been looking for an artist to paint a mural on the wall out the back of our house on the side of the neighbours' very old garage. We knew immediately that he was the right artist for the job and he painted our first piece, a 10 metre fish on a stinking hot day back in 2013. This fish has become the backdrop of many parties in the backyard and looks incredible behind the 'coral' of our pomegranate tree.
Amok Island's work has literally exploded both here in Perth and all over the world, and we just love seeing his pieces popping up as we are out and about.
Not long after this first commission, I was given the opportunity to write a feature article about Street Art for the ED! Liftout in the West Australian. Through FORM I was able to interview Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Chris Nixon, The Yok and Phlegm as well as Amok Island. At the time, it was just so interesting to get to hear their ideas and philosophies behind their work, never knowing that one day I would have the privilege of having some of their pieces in our own home.
I met Andrew Frazer through Kyle at a Fremantle Press event when they were both talking about children's books they had written. I immediately loved Andrew's irrepressible passion for both art and building community.
Our family had just finished dinner at the Francoforte Spaghetti Bar in Northbridge a couple of years ago when we stumbled upon an artist painting as part of the FORM festival. It was Steve Browne, who passed our youngest daughter a brush and invited her to join in. It is this generous spirit and great sense of humour that has led to a genuine and ongoing friendship with him.
When we decided to renovate our old house in Sorrento last year, we knew from the start that wanted to included street art. It just seems to fit with our place, with the laneway out the back and the recycled bricks and wharf-boards. Our builders, Banksia Building Group were onboard from the start, wanting to create the perfect backdrop for the artists to use. We were absolutely thrilled when all of the artists we had admired for so long were genuinely excited about working with us (and together) to create a little bit of wonder.
Did you already know what imagery you wanted painting on each wall, or did you give the artists free reign?
The briefs were different with every artist depending on the space they were working in. Kyle Hughes-Odgers' piece was on a large concrete wall that formed one side of our youngest daughter's Secret Garden outside her new room. We gave him no instructions other than the dimensions so Kyle knew nothing more about the area until he turned up on the first day with his own "Secret Garden" creation. I see this piece first thing every morning and it never fails to make me smile. Not a bad way to start the day!
I am absolutely enthralled by Andrew Frazer's typographic skills and asked him to recreate my favourite quote on the door to our youngest daughter's bedroom: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. | 903 |
I'm afraid this is a bit of a joke, I couldn't resist it, but as Lewis Carroll was so knowledgeable – wise - about every possible technique known to produce spiritual experience it seemed worth adding, especially as they got treasure and at the end and Alice gets a cone ………..
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
'What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone, 'was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'
'What IS a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not<|fim_middle|>.
'Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.
Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying 'We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble'; and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered.
Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could.
Alice in Wonderland - Ch 03 - A Caucus race and a long tail | that she wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.
'Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do it.' (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)
First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, ('the exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One, two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out 'The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, 'But who has won?'
This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, 'EVERYBODY has won, and all must have prizes.'
'But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices asked.
'Why, SHE, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a confused way, 'Prizes! Prizes!'
Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. There was exactly one a-piece all round.
'But she must have a prize herself, you know,' said the Mouse.
'Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. 'What else have you got in your pocket?' he went on, turning to Alice.
'Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly | 460 |
Home 2018 magazine Enveloped in heartache, Germany makes canoe polo history
Enveloped in heartache, Germany makes canoe polo history
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#ICFcanoepolo #canoepolo | freely when the German men's team broke through to win the 2018 ICF Canoe Polo World Championships in Welland, Canada, in August.
The emotions weren't confined to the men's team. There was barely a dry eye in the house, among a crowd who knew the journey the players had been on to get to the top of the podium.
On the eve of the 2018 World Championships, Fiete Junge, a popular member of the German men's team, died from a sudden illness. He was just 26-years-old.
It devastated the international canoe polo community and left the German team distraught. How could they possibly go on? A team which had been dreaming of winning its first ever world title now faced an enormous challenge just to get on the plane for Canada.
But they re-grouped, dug deep and decided the show must go on – especially to honour the memory of their late teammate.
When they arrived in Welland, their equipment was waiting for them. Fiete Junge's kayak and other equipment was there, packed before his death. It was yet another reminder for a team struggling to hold it all together.
Also hanging over their heads was their terrible record at the sport's premiere event. In the 24-year history of the canoe polo world championships, Germany had never won the men's competition. On five separate occasions they had finished runner-up.
It didn't make sense, because the German men's team has a cabinet full of shiny trophies. But the dust was thick in the space reserved for a world championship trophy.
So against all the odds, 2018 was the year it finally happened. The final never looked in any doubt, despite the flair and tenacity of the defending world champions, Italy. Flair and tenacity are wonderful attributes, but sheer emotion will win out on most days.
The Germans could run through a brick wall in the gold medal match. For the record, the final scoreline read 4-1 – although it's doubtful many people remember the score.
"It's a very emotional win for us," German coach Bjorn Zirotzki said as he waved Junge's vest to the crowd.
"All the circumstances, all the bad things that happened, it's unbelievable that we were able to make it.
"We are not a team of superstars, we are a superstar team. The last time we met with Fiete we talked about how we wanted to be world champions. He would say all the time hey guys, let's do this, so we did it for Fiete, we did it for us, we did it for the team.
"It's unbelievable what these guys made, it's unbelievable what has happened to us in the past couple of weeks. Normally it's not possible to do it, but we did it."
German captain Jonas Vieren said his team was under enormous pressure, after winning five silver medals, and also dealing with the emotional circumstances.
But he said those pressures also spurred the team on.
"We fought for this for several years," he said.
"Finally we have won the World Championships. We had won all the other championships, but we could never win this one.
"With all the events before the championships, it's a special and very emotional moment.
"It was a tough time before the championships, but the team came closer together. We just tried to play polo here, and paddle for him as well, and it was enough to win the world championships.
"And we won it for him."
The victory for the German men's team overshadowed yet another outstanding performance by their female teammates, who notched up a remarkable sixth world title.
In 13 world championships, the German women's team has finished out of the medals only once. They didn't have it all their own way against Great Britain in the 2018 final, but the 3-1 final result was a fitting scoreline.
"It's been like this for as long as I've played, that's just how it feels and it's no different for us," captain Elena Giles said.
"We have a coach who is a big thinker, and we talk about tactics. We have two or three very good players in defence, and I think we are forgiving for what is going wrong.
"We don't focus on that too much, we've been taking on new, younger players on the team every year, and that allows us to develop them into our culture and into the game we are playing, and it's been working really well."
Germany also won the women's U21 gold, their fourth in a row, but a clean sweep of the medals was prevented in the men's U21, with Great Britain holding out the Germans in the final.
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Pictures and slideshows about travel and landmarks.
Scenes in Key West from visits in 2007 and 2016. Second part.
We visited Key West two times with almost decade interval in May of 2007 and January of2016. First time it was bus excursion that was promotion for attending timeshare presentation. Second visit was a cruise stop on the way to the Mexico Rivera. We were struck by ocean degradation at public beach, visited Hemingway house museum, most south point of USA and just walked around.
Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. Key West, Florida. Part 3.
The main tourist attraction for me in Key West is Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. Not only because I loved books of Hemingway. The action of "Islands in the Stream" is at most part inside the home museum. It is special feeling at first have pure imagination of the place reading the book and much later in life to see it own eyes<|fim_middle|> At Grand Bahamas had a taxi ride to the beach area and spent day at Great Stirrup Island that is the property of the cruise line. | The staff care about this home with good care even keeping cat population as they was Hemingway time.
Sunday at Cape Cod by CapeFlyer in July 2018.
Arguable the cheapest and most relaxing option to get summer Cape Cod experience is CapeFlyer train from Boston to Hyannis with discount Sunday roundtrip tickets $15 for one. Bike is free. We tried it last weekend and there is slideshow about.
We had two trips to Bahamas with NCL ships. We were at Nassau with its Paradise Island with Atlantic tourist complex, Elizabeth Stair, Fort Fincastle. | 122 |
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The S8 Plus is slightly larger –<|fim_middle|> top features. | as you'd expect for a Plus model. iPhone XS, on the other hand, has some extra features that you'd expect from a more recent phone. It has a dual lens camera, for example – which gives a range of options including optical zoom, so you can get closer to your subject without loss of quality. Plus, the TrueDepth front camera lets you map your expressions onto 3D Animoji (great for sharing with friends) or open your phone securely with a glance.
Galaxy S8 Plus still has a lot going for it. Iris recogntion lets you get to your apps without remembering a code – and the camera takes impressive pictures even in low light, thanks to the large pixels. Before you decide, be sure to check our quick guide to the | 158 |
Sprints often come as a form of punishment in sports. Coach says you didn't push hard enough on that last play, or the team didn't stick to the game plan, or, simply, better conditioning is necessary.
Few welcome the aches and pains that come with pushing the body to its limits, but often those competitors who fight through it are the ones who win medals.
Maggie Lee still loves that fight.
Lee wanted her senior season with the Kearsarge Nordic team to<|fim_middle|>iers graduated. The next season, he had nine skiers, including Maggie competing with high school athletes while still in seventh grade. The team grew to 12, and then 20 and then 26.
"The continual development of the culture of our team, that's one of the things Maggie will go away from high school with the feeling that she can come back during, say, Christmas break and she'll see it is still there after six years of building," Kevin said.
For a sport so heavily focused on individual performance, the Kearsarge Nordic program strongly emphasizes the importance of team chemistry and supporting each other.
Ask Maggie about her individual accomplishments all you want, but she'll always shift the focus back to her teammates and how they made her the athlete she is.
"If I didn't have my teammates, I would not be very good," she said.
Their strategy on the course is to not lose each other, a chain of skiers trying to keep their sights on the next one ahead. That's how they push each other to be better, and that team mentality carried the Kearsarge girls' to their second consecutive D-III title. | be a special one. Not only was it her last winter representing the Cougars on the Nordic trails, it was also her last season skiing for her father and coach, Kevin Lee.
It's been a special ride for Kevin as well, as he watched his daughter grow into one of the best skiers in Division III.
"I think as she gets older she's gotten stronger, and longer races come with maturity as you get older," he said.
Maggie's linear progress as a skier runs congruently with the growth of the Kearsarge Nordic program. Kevin was starting from scratch seven years ago after all five of his sk | 129 |
A<|fim_middle|>gar Degas, "Femme s'essuyant (Seated Bather Drying Her Neck)", ca. 1905-1910. Charcoal and pastel on tracing paper, 27 1/16 x 22 7/8 in. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide, 1995.62
Fernand Leger, "Illustration in the book La fin du monde, filmée par l'ange N.D., by Blaise Cendrars" (Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1919), 1919. Color pochoir and line-block reproduction on paper, Sheet. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of the Reva and David Logan Foundation, 1998.40.77.10
Crown Point Press Archive
Acquired in 1991, the Crown Point Press Archive located at the Legion of Honor contains one impression (usually Artist's Proof 6) from every print edition published by Crown Point Press as well as many proofs from editions printed, but not published, by the Press since its inception in 1962 to the... View More | chenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts (AFGA) is the department responsible for the Fine Arts Museums' collection of works of art on paper: prints, drawings, and artists' books. Selections from the collection are exhibited in rotating exhibitions in specially designated galleries at the de Young and the Legion of Honor, while the remainder of the collection is stored in the department's state-of-the-art facilities at the Legion of Honor, along with the Museums' collection of photography. Much of the collection is available for viewing at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Study Center.
The department is named for Moore and Hazel Achenbach, who gave the bulk of their collection to the city of San Francisco in 1948, and the remainder upon Moore Achenbach's death in 1963. When they formed the collection, the Achenbachs intended that it would systematically illustrate the entire development of the graphic arts, from the 15th century to the present day. Through gifts, purchases, and the generous support of additional donors, curators of the AFGA have worked steadily over the years to realize this goal, filling in gaps and moving the collection forward into the 21st century. Many of the additional acquisitions form the basis for special collections within the department, such as the Anderson Collection of Graphic Arts, the Reva and David Logan Collection of Artist Illustrated Books, significant holdings of Japanese prints, theater- and dance-related materials, and an important group of Works Project Administration (WPA) prints and drawings allocated by the Federal Art Project. The department is also the repository of a number of archives, including the archive of the Bay Area's Crown Point Press and the graphic works of the Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha. Today, with more than 90,000 works of art, the AFGA is the largest repository of works of art on paper in the western United States.
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), "The Shell (Conus Marmoreus)", 1650. Etching, drypoint and engraving. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, gift of Dr. T. Edward and Tullah Hanley by exchange, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund and Anonymous Bequest, 1997.42
Richard Diebenkorn, "Green", 1986. Color aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, soap-ground aquatint, and drypoint on Somerset paper. Printed by Marcia Bartholme, Published by Crown Point Press, 53 11/16 x 40 3/4 in. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Crown Point Press Archive, gift of Crown Point Press, 1991.28.1274
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-Debby J. Gagne passed away peacefully on February 8th, 2019 at her home in Winslow surrounded by<|fim_middle|> supported and celebrated their academic and personal pursuits and achievements. After taking some time at home to raise the girls, Deb returned to work at Waterville Senior High School for 14 years in an administrative role. She then worked at the Central Maine Morning Sentinel and the Law Firm of Butler Whittier before her retirement in 2016. In her retirement she dove head first into her role as a grandmother, spending time in Massachusetts for newborn feedings, birthday parties and trips to the playground. Debby was an only child who had an exceptionally close relationship with her parents, caring for them throughout their lives and into their elderly years. She was always up for a Dunkin' Donuts coffee with her mother, Ruth, a game of gin rummy, baking and cooking, and taking day trips to the Maine Coast where they enjoyed shopping and eating lobster rolls.
She is survived by her mother Ruth, husband Roger, daughter Katie and son-in-law Brad Callow, daughter Shelley and son-in-law John Glidden, granddaughters Madison and Taylor Callow, cousin Cindy Hapworth, sisters and brothers-in-law Sandra and Earl Joler and Tom and Ruth Gagne and their children, as well as other relatives and cousins from the Bourque family.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at St. John The Baptist Catholic Church, 26 Monument Street in Winslow at 11 AM on Saturday, February 16th, followed by a reception to celebrate her life. A family burial will take place at a later date in St. Francis Cemetery, Waterville.
An online guestbook may be signed and condolences and memories shared at www.gallantfh.com. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Animal Refuge League of Portland (https://arlgp.org/make-a-gift/donate/) or MaineGeneral Hospice (https://give.mainegeneral.org/hospice) in memory of her name. | family after a year-long battle with ovarian cancer.
Debby was born in Waterville on August 16, 1955, the daughter of Raymond ("John") and Ruth (Mathieu) Bourque. She attended Mount Merici school as a child and graduated from Waterville Senior High School in 1973. Debby began working at Seton Hospital and then Colby College in Waterville in her early 20s and it was during this time she met her husband, Roger G. Gagne, of Winslow. They were married in 1978 and over the course of 40 years of marriage they were blessed with two daughters, Katie and Shelley, two granddaughters, Madison and Taylor, and always enjoyed a tight-knit family culture with most family members living in the Central Maine area. One of Debby's greatest joys in life was her girls - in fact, she decided to leave the workforce for 12 years to focus on raising them and always placed their well-being and happiness before her own. She was incredibly committed to her children. She attended every sporting and life event, made sure a warm meal was on the table every night and ensured that the girls were able to enjoy each and every day, including planning many memorable family trips and adventures. She always | 270 |
♠ Titanomachia, Fr 1 – Poetae Epici Gra<|fim_middle|>omy place in Hades as far distant from earth as earth is distant from the sky. Greek Text
Updated by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, University of Georgia, June 2020 | eci, vol. 1, p. 11, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
In some authors, all things are said to be from Night and Tartaros, but in others from Hades and Aither (Air). The one that wrote the Titanomachia says that they are all from Aither (Air). (trans. William Evans)
♠ Titanomachia, Fr 2 – Poetae Epici Graeci, vol. 1, p. 12, ed. A. Bernabé, Leipzig 1987.
Aither (Air) is the son of Ouranos as the one who wrote the Titanomachia says. (trans. William Evans)
♠ Titanomachia, Fragment 8 – Poetae Epici Graeci, vol. 1, p. 14, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
♠ Eumolpia ascribed to Mousaios, 2B14 – Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker 1, p. 25, ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz. 6th ed. Berlin 1951.
♠ ApB 1.1-2 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)
Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world. And having wedded Earth, he begat first the Hundred-handed, as they are named: Briareus, Gyes, Cottus, who were unsurpassed in size and might, each of them having a hundred hands and fifty heads. After these, Earth bore him the Cyclopes, to wit, Arges, Steropes, Brontes, of whom each had one eye on his forehead. But them Sky bound and cast into Tartarus, a glo | 392 |
Development of a measuring strategy for the representativeness of ammonia as a part of the additional measurement programme of ammonia ; phenomenology of ammonia and measurement simulations.
A programme has been developed for measuring concentrations of ammonia in high emission areas aiming at the validation of the system emission/dispersion/deposition of the transport model TREND (Asman and Van Jaarsveld, 1990). On two locations in the Netherlands (Vredepeel, Ede) the concentration of ammonia will be monitored. To analyse the spatial representativeness of<|fim_middle|>) and also a distinct diurnal pattern with higher concentrations during the day (7 mug/m3) and lower concentrations during the night (3 mug/m3). Monthly average concentrations show small variations for the Elspeet data and higher concentrations during early spring for the Vredepeel data. Peak concentrations (>90- percentile value) show no clear correlation with meteorological conditions. The simulations show a 20% inaccuracy in determining the annual average concentration for each additional location in the 5 x 5 km2 grid cell upon application of the developed measuring strategy. | the measurements for a 5 x 5 km2 grid cell additional measurements will be carried out. A measuring strategy has been developed based upon a phenomenological study of the behaviour of ammonia in ambient air and measurement simulations by using existing data. The main results of the phenomenological study show a positive temperature effect for the Elspeet data (high temperature, high concentrations | 73 |
This recession is causing many of us to make touch choices, and unfortunately, that often means less money is patronizing the arts these days. One way to raise money for a good cause is<|fim_middle|> more dollars to spare, there will be a silent auction featuring delights such as vintage items, cigars, and custom hats. All of the money raised will go toward the Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island June 6-7, which will feature daylong jazz performances for a mere $5 admission.
Dreamland Gala, 9 p.m. Sunday at The Green Building, 450 Union St., Brooklyn. | to throw a damn good party--after all, who doesn't want to take their mind off this economy? This Sunday night (May 24), if you have $30 to spare and you're in the city for the holiday, you should make a hop, skip, and jump over to the Dreamland Gala fundraiser in Carroll Gardens. Starting at 9 p.m., Michael Arenella and his 12-piece Dreamland Orchestra will perform during this speakeasy-themed night of music, dancing, cocktails, and treats. Don your best Roaring Twenties getup, sip from an open bar with top mixologists courtesy of Hendrick's Gin and D.O.C. wine shop, and nibble complimentary gourmet charcuterie from Stinky Brooklyn. Oh, and should you have the luxury of a few | 165 |
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British Humanities Index
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)
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Contains over 100,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
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An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000.
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Useful journals and websites for English Building History
Published by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
The Architectural Historian
Newsletter and magazine of the SAHGB
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings Transactions
Full of useful case studies
Journal of the American Society of Architectural Historians
Journal of the British Archaeological Association
British Archaeological Association conference transactions
Archaeological Journal
Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Group
Vernacular Building
Journal of the Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group
Buildings and Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
Journal published by the Society for Medieval Archaeology
Industrial Archaeology Review
Journal published by the Association for Industrial Archaeology
Post-Medieval Archaeology
Journal published by the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Twentieth Century Architecture
Published by The Twentieth Century Society, which has also published a series of volumes, including Industrial Architecture, The Heroic Period of Conservation, Post-War Houses, The Twentieth-Century Church
A key 19th and early 20th century journal, previously published as The Builder
Church and Heritage Building: the Journal of Ecclesiastical Architecture and Cherished Buildings
Articles on restoration and conservation, including recording
Magazine published by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Building Conservation Directory 2018
See also their extended bibliography
ICOMOS
A useful guide to a series of thematic publications
Gazetteer and bibliography of the medieval castles, fortifications and palaces of England, Wales, the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man
British History Online
Imagine York photo archive
Includes images of lost buildings
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Neighbors in the News | anski to step in as Roseville City Clerk beginning Jan. 1.
Zelmanski currently serves as the city's deputy city clerk. The current city clerk, Richard Steenland, is stepping down Dec. 31 to take up his newly elected role as 22nd District Representative in the Michigan State House.
"I'm humbled and thrilled that they put their trust in me," Steenland remarked. "I've been lucky for many years and I look forward to representing the citizens of Roseville and Warren to the best of my ability."
Zelmanski will serve as clerk during the last year of Steenland's term. She will then have to run in the November 2021 general election to retain the position. She would have had to run to retain the position next year even if it was not supposed to be the final year of Steenland's current term.
"I'm thankful to the mayor and City Council for giving me a wonderful opportunity," she said. "I am very excited to be working for the people now. I will need to be reelected into the position for a four-year term in November; that was when Rich's term would be ending if he were staying here."
Steenland was elected in 2007 as clerk. Prior to that, he had served on the Roseville City Council since 1993. He recommended Zelmanski to be his successor, and the two have worked together for several years.
"Jennifer started off as my part-time election aide many moons ago in 2007 and became deputy city clerk soon after," he explained. "She has done a superb job and knows the election process better than anyone. She takes a lot of pride in her work, and we have put together a process in the Clerk's Office of accountability and accuracy so that everything is properly balanced. If you contact the Macomb County election office, they will tell you we're one of the best election offices in the county, if not the state, and Jennifer has taken the reins of that process."
Zelmanski said she is excited about being the clerk and she feels prepared for it.
"I am super excited, but there are some big shoes to be filled," she said. "There's not too many additional responsibilities. I'll be helping out residents more and attending more City Council meetings and so forth. It's pretty much more of what I have been doing, only more so, and doing so in an administrative capacity."
She said she doesn't anticipate any major changes in how the department will be run compared to Steenland's tenure.
"We have been achieving all of our goals, so I won't be setting too many changes," said Zelmanski. "The department is where I want it to be. We have a great staff who has been doing a phenomenal job."
Steenland said most of the changes in the department he performed in the last few years have happened with Zelmanski's input, so she has already done a good job of shaping the Clerk's Office.
"When I came in here, we made a lot of changes to the office," Steenland said. "I am very proud that over the years, that even though we lost positions, we were still able to maintain the level of service we had to the community. I don't think anyone noticed that we lost two full-time people in that time. We streamlined the business license and FOIA processes. I feel proud of leaving this office in the state it's in."
Steenland said he wishes Zelmanski the best of luck and hopes they can continue to work together in some capacity as he begins his work in Lansing.
"I am looking forward to hopefully taking my many years on the local level and working at the circuit court and translating that into something that benefits residents at the state level," he said. "I want to move forward to address the many challenges at all levels of government, particularly with the pandemic. I want to find creative ways to work through the budgetary challenges we'll be facing."
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Anthony's wealthy family wanted him to be a great nobleman, but for the sake of Christ he became a poor<|fim_middle|>When the remains of Saint Bernard and his companions, the first Franciscan martyrs were brought to be buried in his church, Anthony was moved to leave his order, enter the Friars Minor, and go to Morocco to evangelize. Shipwrecked at Sicily, he joined some other brothers who were going to the church in Portiuncula. He lived in a cave at San Paolo leaving only to attend Mass and sweep the nearby monastery. One day when a scheduled speaker failed to appear, the brothers pressed him into speaking. He impressed them so that he was thereafter constantly travelling and preaching. He taught theology through Italy and France.
A gifted speaker, he attracted crowds everywhere he went, speaking in multiple tongues; legend says that even the fish loved to listen. One of the most beloved of saints, his images and statues are found everywhere – though none of them portray him as a heavy-set man, which some reports claim he was
One source of the well-known patronage for the recovery of lost objects comes from a legend that, long after Anthony's death, his old prayer book was kept as a treasured relic, and one day it disappeared. People prayed for help in finding the lost item. A novice found it and returned it; he later admitted that he had "borrowed" the book and returned it after receiving a vision of an angry Anthony.
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Zac Brown Band have enlisted the help of Kacey Musgraves for a song on their new album. In a short video clip posted<|fim_middle|> Musgraves at the microphone, collaborating on the song's chorus. "It would be cool if it was just me and you and it was real small," Musgraves suggests after Brown says they were singing too fast.
The song, coming on Friday, April 21, is the latest glimpse into the band's forthcoming album Welcome Home, due out May 12. They have been sharing several new songs with fans including "My Old Man" and "Family Table."
The group's new album will coincide with their Welcome Home Tour kickoff in their hometown of Atlanta, Ga. The album returns ZBB to their musical roots.
"We're looking forward to heading back on the road in 2017 and sharing some new songs with our fans," Brown says in a press release.
While the band has been working on the follow-up to their 2015 release Jekyll + Hyde, two members have welcomed new additions to their family. Fiddle player Jimmy De Martini and his wife have added a daughter to their growing family while multi-instrumentalist Clay Cook welcomed a son.
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"A little glimpse into our time recording 'All The Best,'" the band writes. "So fortunate to have Kacey Musgraves (@spaceykacey) join us on an old favorite. #AllTheBest Friday, 4/21."
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913–1926
Edited by Marcus Bullock, Michael<|fim_middle|> critic of German literature." But the scene as he found it was dominated by "talented fakes," so-to use his words-"only a terrorist campaign would I suffice" to effect radical change. This book offers the record of the first phase of that campaign, culminating with "One-Way Street," one of the most significant products of the German avant-garde of the Twenties. Against conformism, homogeneity, and gentrification of all life into a new world order, Benjamin made the word his sword.
Volume I of the Selected Writings brings together essays long and short, academic treatises, reviews, fragments, and privately circulated pronouncements. Fully five-sixths of this material has never before been translated into English. The contents begin in 1913, when Benjamin, as an undergraduate in imperial Germany, was president of a radical youth group, and take us through 1926, when he had already begun, with his explorations of the world of mass culture, to emerge as a critical voice in Weimar Germany's most influential journals.
The volume includes a number of his most important works, including "Two Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin," "Goethe's Elective Affinities," "The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism," "The Task of the Translator," and "One-Way Street." He is as compelling and insightful when musing on riddles or children's books as he is when dealing with weightier issues such as the philosophy of language, symbolic logic, or epistemology. We meet Benjamin the youthful idealist, the sober moralist, the political theorist, the experimentalist, the translator, and, above all, the virtual king of criticism, with his magisterial exposition of the basic problems of aesthetics.
Benjamin's sentences provoke us to return to them again and again, luring us as though with the promise of some final revelation that is always being postponed. He is by turns fierce and tender, melancholy and ebullient; he is at once classically rooted, even archaic, in his explorations of the human psyche and the world of things, and strikingly progressive in his attitude toward society and what he likes to call the organs of the collective (its architectures, fashions, signboards). Throughout, he displays a far-sighted urgency, judging the present on the basis of possible futures. And he is gifted with a keen sense of humor. Mysterious though he may sometimes be (his Latvian love, Asia Lacis, once described him as a visitor from another planet), Benjamin remains perhaps the most consistently surprising and challenging of critical writers.
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Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the general editorship of Michael W. Jennings. This volume, the first of three, will at last give readers of English a true sense of the man and the mans' theets of his thought. A separate volume will consist of his book The Arcades Project, the magnum opus of his Paris years.
The writer Walter Benjamin emerged our of the head-on collision of an idealistic youth movement and the First World War, which Benjamin and his close friends thought immoral. He walked away from the wreck scarred yet determined "to be considered as the principal | 169 |
Sol: "It's Not Over"
Sol Campbell remained fully focused on Macclesfield's survival battle after his side's brilliant three points against Port Vale, but he was clearly pleased with the afternoon's result.
After Notts County also picked up maximum points, the Silkmen remain two points above the drop and have<|fim_middle|> for a draw, as when that happens things can go wrong.
"It's not over so we will approach it properly. You've got to make sure that you are switched on and go for three points."
By Matt Bates | the relegation battle firmly in their hands going into the last game of the season.
All eyes now turn to Cambridge United, but the team will be buzzing after a crucial victory in Burslem.
"The lads have got to be proud of themselves, obviously we are under a lot pressure with the situation that we are in" said Sol.
"It was a really good contest and we came out on top.
"The big pitch was really good - we couldn't stretch it out too much, we had to work in blocks. It helped that it was raining so we could move the ball around. We had to dig in and work hard to match Port Vale.
"Fantastic encouragement from the fans, they were in full voice, willing the guys on and pushing them forward.
"It was a great game with some good tackles, good passes, good combinations and we really enjoyed it out there."
At the end of the ninety minutes, David Fitzpatrick's wonderful strike proved the difference. It was his first goal away from the penalty spot since December 2017 – and it worth the wait.
"I said to Fitzy, 'When was the last time you scored a goal in open play?' And he was blank; it was a long time ago" smiled Sol.
"I'm pleased for him, he's a top guy and it was fantastic finish.
"The final ball was missing for us [in the first half]. So, I really concentrated on the last third, focusing on the right pass or the right shot, and then we started to get the balls in the right areas.
"Harry could have easily had a hat-trick, the 'keeper made a good save, but had he been a bit sharper he could definitely have had a one or two.
"The guys managed it well, and it was a big shift for them as it was 100% working from the first second to the last, and hats off to everyone who took part."
We may have won the battle, but we are yet to win the war, so the players will head into the week fully focused ahead of next Saturday.
"We are always going to play to win" added Sol.
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U.S. Congressman Danny K. Davis Joins Attorney Jeffery Leving with a Back to School Message
By FEI — September 03, 2014
U.S. Congressman Danny K. Davis joined<|fim_middle|> I say thank you." | Attorney Jeffery Leving as a guest on a special Back to School edition of Chicago Counterpoint TV
U.S. Congressman Danny K. Davis, D-Ill, encouraged viewers during a live broadcast of Chicago Counterpoint TV to get involved in the early education of their children to improve reading scores.
"We need to convince children at an early age that this business of education is vital and the best way to reduce illiteracy,'' said Davis, a guest of the recent Back to School Special Edition of Counterpoint TV.
Davis is a longtime supporter of the Fatherhood Educational Institute, founded by Leving to provide positive role models for fathers, as well as essential legal education to unwed dads, men in divorce and Chicago divorce lawyers seeking to expand their professional knowledge.
Leving also serves at the pleasure of the governor as the chairman of the Illinois Council on Responsible Fatherhood.
The Congressman complimented Leving for his tireless work and advocacy on behalf of men seeking to be better fathers.
"I applaud you for the public interest activities in which you are engaged," Davis said. "(For) pushing a concept called responsible fatherhood. For that, | 229 |
PRAYER FOR ONESELF - Lord God, Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, I come before you in the name of the Lord Jesus. I ask that I may have the powerful protection that comes form the Precious Blood of Your Son that was poured out for me on the cross at Calvary. In the name of Your Son, the Lord Jesus, I ask that you send angels to protect and<|fim_middle|> praise, now and forever. Amen.
PRAYER FOR ANOTHER - Father in heaven, I lift up (name)_ to you in the name of Your Son the Lord Jesus. In Jesus' name I ask You to release warrior angels to drive away from (him/her) any evil spirits that may be harassing, controlling, attacking or deceiving (him/her). Let your servant _(name)_ enjoy the powerful protection that comes from the Precious Blood of Your Son, Jesus Christ, which was shed for (him/her) on Calvary. Let (him/her) hear Your voice and always walk in Your ways. Amen. | defend me from any attack of the enemy and to defend all the members of my family, my friends and loved ones. Protect and bless everyone who has asked me to pray for them. Give me the grace to hear your voice and the courage to walk in your ways. I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, who will come again in the fullness of his glory. To him be glory and | 81 |
Guide to the Family Papers of William S. Jackson, 1859-1889
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Biographical Sketch of William S. Jackson and Family
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Family Papers of William S. Jackson
William S. Jackson, 1829-1889
MSS#69
Date [inclusive]
2.5 cubic feet (1 box and 6 separately bound manuscript volumes)
The material in this collection is in English.
William Stanford Jackson was a Pittsburgh and Idlewood, Pa. businessman of numerous trades during the mid to late nineteenth century. These diverse businesses included a veterinary practice, livery stables, and a hotel. These papers include personal journals and financial materials primarily relating to Jackson's business ventures.
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William Stanford Jackson moved from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh in 1849 at the age of twenty. He began several business ventures; unfortunately most were unsuccessful. His cattle dealing and veterinarian practice failed when a colleague absconded with profits and savings of the company. Destitute, Jackson was forced to turn the family's Greenwood home into a hotel, which was called the Idlewood Hotel and Cottages. Jackson married Katherine A. Morange (1836-) in 1859 and fathered three sons, Chevalier (1865-1958), Morange Stanford (186<|fim_middle|>.)
Workingman's Mutual Savings Bank (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Idlewood (Pa.) -- Social life and customs
Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Social life and customs
Allegheny -- Greenwood -- (Pa.)
Jackson, William Stanford -- 1829-1889
Jackson, Chevalier, -- 1865-1958
Jackson, M. Stanford, -- 1860-
Jackson, Shirls, -- 1870-
Banks and banking -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Cabs and omnibus -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Stables -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Transportation -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
box folder
Miscellaneous material 1876-1890 1 1
M. Stanford Jackson
Shirls Jackson
W.S. Jackson Co. Account Books
Ledger 1858-1859
St. Charles Livery and Stables
Daily Register 1871-1873
Trip Daybook 1871-1873
Idlewood Hotel and Cottages Guest Registers
Workingmen Mutal Savings Bank Stock Ledgers 1873-1874 | 0- )and Shirls (1870-). Chevalier became a famous physician specializing in peroral surgery and endoscopy, eventually inventing the bronchoscope, a device that revolutionized laryngology and removes foreign objects from the esophagus. Besides the hotel, William managed the St. Charles Livery and Sales Stables located on Fourth Street near Smithfield Street, operated several coal mines and stone quarries and a harness and saddlery firm called Jackson and Frew. The elder Jackson died in the presence of his family at Idlewood while celebrating the Christmas holiday in 1889.
The bulk of this collection consists of ledgers and registers associated with William S. Jackson's various businesses. However, the four private journals in Box 1 written by Stanford and Shirls reveal to the reader a personal account of daily activities and feelings about events including: the tragic death of their father, turning their home into a summer hotel, obtaining their first jobs, etc. The miscellaneous folder from Box 1 contains materials relating to promotion of the hotel, including dance cards and menus, maps and floor plans of the hotel, blank checks, receipts, and correspondence from Stanford to his mother (1886). The W.S. Jackson and Co. account records include cash disbursements and invoice records. The guest registers from the Idlewood Hotel and Cottages (1876-1889) will prove interesting to researchers investigating the lifestyle and social customs of the 1870s and 1880s. The daily register and trip daybooks from the St. Charles Livery and Stables (1871-1873) record customer's name, rental equipment used, and dates of rental. The stock ledgers from the Workmen's Mutual Savings Bank (1873-1874) record buyer's name, stock price, date of purchase and number of shares exchanged.
The William Stanford Jackson Family Papers are housed in one archival box with additional volumes placed on the shelf and arranged alphabetically by title.
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God's dream/calling for us
What happens when the plans for your life don't work out as expected? Our readings today offer examples of people in the Bible whose lives ended differently than they thought. What is Mt Zion's calling (fancy word for God's dream for us)?
Children's Sermon
What do you want to be/do when you grow up? Why?
I wanted to be an astronaut because I thought space was really cool. But do you know what happened? I grew really tall and heavy. Now I'm half an inch too tall and 20 pounds too heavy to be an astronaut<|fim_middle|> same thing God told Abraham: It is too small of a thing that you will become a nation. I will make you a blessing to all nations. It's the same thing Christ said about God: It is too small a thing that God just save Israel. I have come that all people might be saved.
It's the same thing Peter discovered last week: It is too small a thing that you focus only on sharing the message of salvation with your Jewish sisters and brothers. The Gentiles need the message of salvation as well.
A theme in Scripture about God
In God's vision, salvation is never just for one small group.
God's not raising up prophets just so Israel can be saved.
God's not causing food to grow just so farmers can eat something.
God's not creating beaches just so those with money can use them.
God's not letting pilgrims come to America just so white people can enjoy the land of the free.
God's not raising up prophets just so those of African descent can have a better life.
God's not sending Jesus just so the people in church can go to heaven.
What do you think of Mt Zion's call in light of God's vision?
Where have we let Mt Zion's vision become too small? I know this congregation has gone through some hard times in the past decade. I know we are much smaller than we once were. We could gripe and complain about that, and that's exactly what the prophet did. "I've labored in vain," the prophet says. "I've spent my strength for nothing."
But the prophet doesn't stop at complaint. If you read the psalms, you'd know that complaint never has the final word. The prophet continues, "Yet surely my cause is with the Lord, and my reward with my God."
"Even when I'm failing," the prophet says, "I know that I am following God." Can we say the same thing? Whether we are succeeding of failing, whether we are growing or shrinking, in everything we do, we are following God?
God's vision: send the light of salvation into the world
As Bishop Munib Younan, former bishop of the Lutheran church in Jordan and the Holy Land, said, "There will never be peace if we're only working on peace in Israel or we're only working on peace in Palestine. There will never be peace if we're only working on peace for the Jews or we're only working on peace for the Muslims. We will never have peace until we are working on the peace of everyone together."
As Bishop Desmund Tutu, former bishop in South Africa, said, "Ubuntu is the idea that I am not whole without you. And you are not whole without me. Until we can learn to forgive each other and reconcile, this world will never be whole."
As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "When we allow freedom to ring – when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black people and white people, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, Free at last, Great God a-mighty, We are free at last."
First Reading: Isaiah 49:1-7
1Listen to me, O coastlands,
pay attention, you peoples from far away!
The Lord called me before I was born,
while I was in my mother's womb he named me.
2He made my mouth like a sharp sword,
in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me a polished arrow,
in his quiver he hid me away.
3And he said to me, "You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will be glorified."
4But I said, "I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my cause is with the Lord,
and my reward with my God."
5And now the Lord says,
who formed me in the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to him,
and that Israel might be gathered to him,
for I am honored in the sight of the Lord,
and my God has become my strength—
6he says,
"It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob
and to restore the survivors of Israel;
I will give you as a light to the nations,
that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
7Thus says the Lord,
the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,
to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations,
the slave of rulers,
"Kings shall see and stand up,
princes, and they shall prostrate themselves,
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."
Gospel: John 1:29-42
The next day, John saw Jesus coming towards him and declared, 'Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, "After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me." I myself didn't know him, but I came baptizing with water for this reason: that he might be revealed to Israel.'
And John testified, 'I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. I myself didn't know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, "He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit." And I myself have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.'
The next day, John again was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, 'Look! The Lamb of God!'
The two disciples heard John say this, and they followed Jesus. When Jesus turned and saw them following, he asked them, 'What are you looking for?'
They replied, 'Rabbi' (which translated means Teacher), 'where are you staying?'
He answered them, 'Come and see.'
So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.
One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon's brother. He first found his brother Simon and said to him, 'We have found the Messiah' (which in Greek is "Christ" and in English means "Anointed").
He brought Simon to Jesus, who looked at him and said, 'You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas' (which in Greek is "Peter" and in English means "Rock").
God's calling, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, God's dream, Bishop Munib Younan, Bishop Desmund Tutu
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© 2021 Mt Zion Lutheran Church. Site by Clever Dog Creative | . My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted to be, but sometimes there are things that make it impossible for us to follow our dreams.
In our first reading there was a person who was just known as God's servant. And God's servant knew exactly what he was supposed to be: He was supposed to help his neighbors follow God. He says that was his dream from the moment he was born. But he wasn't any good at his dream. The Bible doesn't say why. It just says he kept failing at what he was supposed to do. How do you think you'd feel if – like me or God's servant – you found out that you can't do the thing you wanted to do when you grow up?
Do you know what God told the servant?
God said, "It's OK. You don't have to be good at everything. I have better dream for you." And God's servant was given something to do that he was really good at. Do you know what happened when I realized I couldn't be an astronaut? God said, "It's OK. You don't have to be good at everything. But if you trust me, I have better dream for you." And God eventually helped me discover that what makes me really happy is being your pastor.
In the sermon in a little bit, we're gonna hear about another person whose name you might know who thought he wanted to be one thing, but then God came and said to him, "I have better dream for you." I'm glad that you have dreams about what you might do to make this world a better place, but like it did with God's servant and with me, sometimes dreams don't come true. If someday you discover your dream isn't working out, I want you to know what I learned the day I discovered I couldn't be an astronaut: God will always be there to say to you, "It's OK. You don't have to be good at everything. I have a better dream waiting just for you."
Dear God, Help us fulfill our dreams. But if they don't come true, remind us that your dreams for us always do come true. Amen.
What is Mt Zion's calling? (Fancy word for God's dream for us)
What is our purpose? What's our reason for ministry? Why does this church exist?
I want to tell you something about callings. There once was a man who thought he knew what his calling was. He went to school to become a minister. After much studying, he got his first call. It was a good call, I mean a really good call, but after some time he became homesick. So he got up, moved across back across the country, and found a new call at a church much closer to home.
That's what his mission was. Pretty simple. Ministry and family. Sounds like a good story, doesn't it? But then something happened. The news was all about this local woman causing a stir. The man's friends realized this was it; this was the opportunity. All they needed was a leader. You were thinking maybe I was telling my story, didn't you?
Dr Martin Luther King's calling
But this is where the similarities between my story and this story end, because this is the story of how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., came to be the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King didn't have ambitions to become the face of racial justice. He wasn't planning on becoming a world-renowned saint.
Dr. King was gonna preach for a while, get out from under his father's massive shadow and establish himself as a preacher, and then become a professor at a university. That was his plan. But then Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat. And then the idea of a boycott sprung forth. And a group met in Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Dr. King's congregation, to organize some leadership.
And this part of the story is probably familiar to everyone. No one wanted to step up into leadership. Everyone turned the role down. So instead of getting wisdom or experience like leadership demands, they elected the newest person in the group to be president. And that's how Dr. King, at the age of 26-years-old, became the face and voice of the Civil Rights Movement. Because no one else was willing to do the job.
You want me to do what?!?
I can just imagine what the young Dr. King was feeling. He was probably as sheepish as the servant in Isaiah. I can't do this. I'm called to this little thing over here – taking care of Dexter Avenue Baptist – and that's enough of a challenge as it is. And you want me to do what?!? And then best of all, they gave Dr. King, who normally took about 15 hours to prepare a sermon, 20 minutes to get a speech ready for the first mass gathering of the Montgomery Bus Boycott over at Holt Street Baptist.
I don't know what I would have done. I would have gotten stuck on saying, "You want me to do what?!?" Because God told Dr. King, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant in this one small place. I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
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