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There are a few different devices that can be referred to as universal serial bus (USB) amplifiers, including desktop units, headphone amps, and more powerful home theater devices. In the most basic sense, a USB amplifier is a device with a USB input that can be used to drive loudspeakers. Desktop USB amplifiers sometimes include a built-in subwoofer, and usually power two additional speaker channels, though more complicated systems are also available. Headphone USB amplifiers are usually in-line devices that have a USB plug and tip-ring-sleeve (TRS) jack, though some include additional options. Home theater amplifiers that can be used with televisions and other devices usually have optical or coaxial connectors instead of USB ports, though some do include a universal serial bus input that is compatible with portable music players, laptops, and desktop computers.
Amplifiers are devices that are used to increase the power of signals, and they are found in many different applications. In the context of audio equipment, amplifiers are used to increase the power of audio signals in order to drive loudspeakers. The audio signal power provided by many input devices is not sufficient to power large loudspeakers, so these signals must be passed through amplification circuits. Since many computers and portable music players are capable of outputting digital audio signals through the universal serial bus interface, a USB amplifier can be used in conjunction with those devices.
One common type of USB amplifier is typically meant for desktop use. These amplifiers usually only have two channels of audio, and sometimes include additional input jacks for either digital or analog sources. Some desktop USB amplifiers contain built-in subwoofers, and have two or more TRS connectors for individual speakers. These systems sometimes have more speaker outputs, such as a 5.1 surround sound USB amplifier that is capable of producing five discrete channels in addition to a low frequency effects (LFE) channel.
Another similar type of USB amplifier is meant primarily for use with headphones. These amps sometimes also include a set of coaxial inputs and outputs, in addition to the mandatory USB input and TRS output. The more complex units that include additional coaxial outputs can often be used as desktop amps in addition to the primary headphone use. Some of these units can use batteries, though the power necessary to run these amps is usually provided by the USB connection.
Most home theater amplifiers that include digital outputs use coaxial or optical connectors, which are not directly compatible with USB. Some units do include a USB input though, which can allow a portable music player or computer to be connected. These USB amplifiers typically offer all of the same options and features as other home theater units, and can often be used to power a wider variety of speakers than other USB compatible amplifiers.
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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Mt 10/26-33
We now have returned after a long hiatus to our year long reading
of St. Matthew's Gospel. Today's Gospel continues a theme we have heard often in June
-there is no reason to be afraid. God loves us, Jesus loves us, we are of infinite worth
because of that love. Nothing, no threats, no evil tongues, no sickness, no failures, no
disasters can separate us from that love. It is one thing of course to profess this faith,
which we can easily do, trippingly on our lips and another thing to live that way. In
today's Gospel Jesus offers us the possibility of the joy and happiness which comes from
taking his promises seriously.
read the padre
Once upon a time back in the
last century there was a young woman from Ireland who had lost her parents and all her
family. Some kind people wrote to their relatives in America and said we have this
fourteen year old orphan here who is very bright and very pretty and very hard working, We
don't want her to go to the orphanage because she won't have any opportunities there to
develop her talents. Would you eve consider hiring her as a servant girl. You'd have to
pay her way over on the boat, but she'll work for nothing until she earns her fare. You
won't go wrong with her. So the Americans who could afford a serving girl, but never had
one and weren't altogether sure what they would do with such a person talked about it and
said, well, what have to lose. So they sent the fare for the boat and the train. And
waited for the young woman to come. She sailed from Kinsale. The last she saw of Ireland
were the twin spires of the church as they faded into the background. Weeks later, sick
and thin and exhausted, she arrived in the city where her master and mistress lived. They
took one look at the poor child and said, Dear, we don't need a servant, but we have room
for another daughter. When they brought her home the other children hugged her and said,
hooray! We have another sister. With their help she grew up to go to college and
university and become very successful and was a great credit to those who took her into
their family.
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Wednesday after a wobbly day of trading on Wall Street, and uncertainty loomed as investors looked toward the G-20 meeting of world leaders later in the week.
KEEPING SCORE: Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.9 percent in morning trading to 22,140.95, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 edged down 0.2 percent to 5,717.50. South Korea's Kospi was little changed, inching down to 2,098.23. Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 0.6 percent to 26,498.33, while the Shanghai Composite gained 0.3 percent to 2,581.64. Southeast Asian benchmarks were also mixed, with shares down in the Philippines but higher in Indonesia.
WALL STREET: The S&P 500 index rose 8.72 points, or 0.3 percent, to 2,682.17. The index jumped 1.6 percent Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 108.49 points, or 0.4 percent, to 24,748.73. The Nasdaq composite inched up 0.85 points to 7,082.80 after surging 2.1 percent a day earlier.
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MEXICO CITY, July 24 (Reuters) - Mexican breadmaker Grupo Bimbo said on Tuesday its second-quarter net profit fell 87 percent compared to the year-earlier quarter, after it took a $105 million charge for a voluntary redundancy program.
The company said net profit was 195.5 million pesos ($9.8 million) between April and June. Revenue rose more than 11 percent, mostly due to strong volumes in Mexico and recent acquisitions, the company said.
The company's U.S. subsidiary recently completed a voluntary redundancy program.
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As the sunlight has streamed into City Hall during the last two years, one thing has become extraordinarily clear: we've been substantially underfunding our infrastructure. One of our largest problems right now is that we need to refurbish the City's 3-million-gallon water tank on Whistle Lake Road, and we have essentially no reserves in our retail water funds to pay for it.
The initial staff proposal was to borrow money from general revenue to pay for the tank's refurbishment. The problem with that is we'd have to borrow all of the money over just five years, and the water utility funds would have to pay interest to the general revenue funds, necessitating a substantial increase in retail water rates. The staff proposal to structure those rates was simply to double the base rate (currently about $10).
When we discussed this issue at City Council early this year, I proposed instead that we apply to the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund for a loan for the money required to refurbish the 3-million-gallon tank. The DWSRF loans are extremely low interest (as low as 1%), and would result in an lower immediate cost to ratepayers. The loan application period starts September 1, and we should find out around the end of year if we are accepted.
Next, I argue we should change our water rate structure so that customers are incentivized to conserve water, and pay significantly more if they choose not to. The staff proposal to simply double the base rate would negatively incentivize water conservation and be a significant burden on customers that use small amounts of water. My water bill, for example, is regularly about $12—which is only $2 more than what I'd pay if I used no water at all.
There are three problems with our current water rate schedule:
1. We are not collecting enough revenue to pay for our infrastructure costs.
2. Our flat base charge is too large in comparison to our small demand charge (per gallon of water).
3. Our demand charge is the same rate whether you're using a few gallons or many thousands of gallons.
Problem #1 is making us scramble to find money for the 3-million-gallon tank, and we're seeing water line breaks because we're not quickly enough replacing our aging pipe infrastructure. We need to spend more money on both.
Problems #2 and #3 result in making our fee schedule regressive, impacting small water users proportionately more than large ones; and so customers using a lot of water don't feel much increased cost so there's not a significant price signal to conserve.
As you can see from this Association of Washington Cities utilities fees survey, many jurisdictions have a progressive, inclining fee structure, where the demand rate increases as you use more water. Your first 1000 cubic feet might be charged at $50/cf, but your next 1000 cubic feet is charged at $70/cf, providing a significantly greater disincentive to waste water. (1 cf is about 7.5 gallons.) We can structure our schedule to reduce the fiscal impact on small water users, while making large users pay an appropriately larger share.
Many councilmembers and staff are reluctant to move to an inclining-fee structure, mainly because it would be more complicated to calculate, but also because…it might incentivize people to conserve water, and thus reduce revenue. But many cities are able to make an inclining fee structure work just fine—92 cities in the 2012 AWC survey have an inclining-fee structure, versus only 47 for our uniform-block-style structure. We have absolute control over water rates, so we can adjust them as necessary to meet our revenue targets, while providing proper incentives and price signals to ensure conservation.
When the City Council last discussed this in the spring, we directed that staff bring back to us a new water rates proposal as soon as possible, so that we could begin phasing in new water rates slowly. Staff hasn't gotten back to us yet. We eventually will revisit this issue sometime this year, and I hope you will provide comment to the City Council at that time about how important this issue is.
Councilmember Liz Lovelett and I hosted a community forum on oil by rail—safety, preparedness, and response—last Wednesday in the City Council chambers. Councilmembers Adams, Pickett, and Johnson also attended and assisted with the event. As promised, here are some resources mentioned at the event. Video of the event is available on the City website.
Emergency resources:
Preparedness resources:
Media coverage of the event:
It's that time again... Councilmembers Eric Johnson, Brad Adams, and I are holding a community meeting on Tuesday, March 31, at 6:30 pm at the public library's main meeting room. Come chat with us about the city issues that matter to you! We'll be available to answer questions, hear complaints, and discuss policy. There may even be refreshments! Hope to see you there!
As the kickoff to our enhanced budget process this year, the City of Anacortes is holding an open house this Tuesday from 4:30-6pm in the council chambers at city hall.
Department heads will host tables about their departments and take your comments and answer questions about the services they provide. (They'll be taking notes!) City Councilmembers and the mayor will also be available to chat with attendees. There may be refreshments.
Tell us what you want the City to focus on, what we're doing well, and what we can do better! This event is an opportunity for people to interact directly with the managers providing city services, and have free-form dialog with your elected officials.
The event is loosely based on the White House's somewhat-fictional Big Block of Cheese Day, made popular by the television show The West Wing.
See you there!
Anacortes is the only city in Skagit County without a full-time employee city attorney. Each of our neighboring cities (including Bellingham, Burlington, Mount Vernon, Oak Harbor, and Sedro-Woolley) has a full-time employee serving as their city attorney. Bellingham and Oak Harbor have multiple employees in that role, and Sedro-Woolley has a combined city supervisor/city attorney position. Skagit County, likewise, has more than five FTE civil attorneys, of which I am one.
Mayor Gere has added a full-time employee city attorney to the 2015 preliminary budget. I strongly support the addition of a full-time city attorney, but not all the other councilmembers are convinced. Here's why it's important:
We'd save money. The mayor's 2015 budget proposal includes $120,000 salary plus benefits for a full-time city attorney. I think that we can probably hire cheaper than that—the City of Burlington's 2013 salary schedule for City Attorney ranged from $95,000 to $106,000/year—but it's a deal at almost twice the price.
Just because we don't have an employee city attorney doesn't mean we don't spend a lot of money on legal services. In 2013, we spent $231,731 on outside counsel, not counting the prosecuting attorney. Almost $70,000 of that went to our primary contractor, Brad Furlong, but the remaining $162,000 went to Seattle law firms (some of which bill at $500/hour).
The table below lists our outside counsel expenses over the last four years:
If we hire a full-time employee city attorney at $120k plus benefits, we may be able to eliminate hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside counsel expenses. (For comparison, the City of Mount Vernon budgets just $20,000 for outside legal services.) And when we have a full-time city attorney, we'll have someone in the office for 40+ hours per week—much more dedicated time than we currently get, and much better value for the money. Over time, the city attorney might also consolidate some work with the city prosecutor (another $66,000 contract), like Oak Harbor does.
An inherent problem with outside counsel is that contract attorneys don't have incentives to minimize time or cost—in fact, their incentives are to maximize complexity and billable hours. Remember the Tethys contract? It cost Anacortes $48k to have outside counsel draft that ill-fated document. An in-house city attorney without the need to generate billable hours might have started with a different approach—perhaps asking "let's first consider if this is a good idea." Remember our proposed Anacortes Municipal Code Title 19 to consolidate our land use procedures in a new title? We spent $13k for review of that document, but it's still not ready for adoption. It's much easier to set expectations for and review performance of an in-house attorney over a one-time contractor.
We'd protect the City from liability and improve governance. Having a city attorney is critical to risk management. One problem I've flagged many times before is that contracts are not regularly submitted to our city attorney for review before council adoption. The City needs standardized form agreements and new procedures to ensure that we have proper review, defined scopes of work, indemnification provisions, and proof of insurance before entering into agreements. And a fulltime employee city attorney could keep abreast of looming issues of substantial risk to the City—like the requirement to provide adequate defense for the indigent—that have never been identified for our City Council's review.
We'd get better advice. A separate, but unavoidable problem with having a contract attorney that bills by the hour is that non-attorney staff make decisions about whether to call the attorney for advice based on how much they think the attorney will charge. An employee attorney that doesn't bill by the hour can be expected to provide more accurate assessments of the need to investigate a legal problem. Additionally, City staff frequently rely on advice from WA Cities Insurance Authority or Municipal Research and Services Center, which are useful resources, but are not substitutes for advice from an attorney that is familiar with the City's unique circumstances.
We'd get more done. The state and federal laws that govern municipalities are many and complex. Staff need assistance drafting proper ordinances and resolutions. The Planning Department needs a city attorney to assist in code enforcement matters, in drafting our new development code, and in answering complex permitting questions. The Parks Department regularly needs assistance with property sales and acquisitions. In many areas, the City would benefit from having an attorney's assistance available all the time.
We'd keep the money local. A final problem with our current practice of spending all this money on outside counsel is that none of these attorneys live in our community. If we hired an employee city attorney, we could require that person to live here—both so that he or she would have some skin in the game, but also so that the City would be keeping those salary dollars in our local economy.
Your voice matters! If you want to tell the City Council what you think, attend the public hearing on the budget scheduled for Monday, November 3, at 7pm, at City Hall. Or email the City Council at firstname.lastname@example.com. We'll likely adopt the budget on November 17.
We had a great meeting last night at the library—one of the ones I host about every quarter. Among other topics, we discussed:
New garbage totes. Some people are dissatisfied with the different shape (and apparent smaller size) of the new automated garbage totes. The totes are printed with the City logo, and are not returnable to the seller. So what can we do?
First, make sure you were delivered the correct size tote. The tote size is printed on the lid, and your city utility bill indicates what level of service you've selected. The bill will say 20 or 32 gallon service, but the new small totes are actually larger than you had before at 24 gallons each. (The next size up is still a 32-gallon tote.)
Second, try packing your new tote differently. Because the actual volume is in fact larger than you had before, the only new constraint is the shape of the tote. Try removing bulky items from your trash bags and packing them in separately, or try flattening the trash bags before putting them into the totes.
Finally, consider whether you want to change your service level. Don't just trade totes with a neighbor (because each one has a serial number and is registered to your account). Call the City at 293-1900 and ask to change your solid waste service. Your options for residential totes:
Note that larger totes (of 64 gallons or 96 gallons, like our recycle and yard waste bins) are not available for residential services.
Holiday garbage pickup. People also expressed the (recurring) concern about not having garbage pickup in weeks with holidays on pickup day. For Monday pickup, which is much of Ward 1, a lot of holidays fall on pick up days, requiring residents to hold trash for two weeks, and now requiring truck operators to get out of their trucks to pick up trash by hand—which our new automation system is intended to avoid.
I've been pushing for every-week pickup for the last 30 months, and now we might actually be finally moving closer; at the end of next year, our recycle and yard waste contracts will simultaneously end and we'll be able to bid out both services together to a single provider. That'll provide an opportunity to require those providers to pick up every week, and we can direct our own solid waste staff to do the same. I'll also be pushing for better options in terms of food waste pickup, so that residents without a 96-gallon yard waste bin will get options for smaller containers at reduced cost.
N Ave Park. Several residents asked about what we could do to continue improvements to N Ave Park—about half an acre at the north end of N Avenue between Trident and Reisner. I recommend people that are interested in pushing for park improvements contact our city councilmembers on the City Council Parks Committee—Brad Adams, Erica Pickett, Liz Lovelett—and asking for that to be prioritized. On July 21, we'll be holding a public hearing on the Capital Facilities Plan, and that would be a good opportunity to advocate for park improvements before the entire City Council.
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Streets. As you've probably read, the City Council is considering a pavement improvement initiative, which I'll write more about later. Residents seem supportive of the proposed $20 car tabs and 9-percentage-point increase in the solid waste tax that would help fund the initiative. I expressed my commitment to not authorize more money for streets without a concrete plan for what streets we would actually pave.
Marijuana. We currently have a moratorium on recreational marijuana facilities (all three types: retail, processing, and production). The public hearing on our permanent regulations was continued to July 7, after which we may adopt the permanent regulations which would allow retail marijuana in the Commercial zone and LM1 zone, and production and processing in just the LM1 zone. You can see the zoning map here.
We recently imposed a new moratorium on medical marijuana after the State Court of Appeals for Division 1 ruled in Cannabis Action v City of Kent that the medical marijuana statute doesn't actually make medical marijuana or collective gardens legal. We'll be doing more with this, but I don't expect we'll allow collective gardens again. Instead, we expect the state Legislature to reform the medical marijuana statute and eliminate the unregulated collective gardens in favor of only allowing the highly-regulated recreational establishments.
Oversized Parking on Residential Streets. The Council has been working on regulations that would largely prohibit parking oversize vehicles, RVs, and boats in the city right-of-way. Our Planning Department is resource-constrained right now, but we're continuing to push for these regulations to get completed. Some people suggested continuing to allow oversized parking, but by permit only.
Blue tarps and code enforcement. Residents continued to ask for more and better enforcement of our land use codes, especially to eliminate temporary tarps and tent buildings. I believe we'd be much more effective at code enforcement if we had a city attorney, but we also simply need the administration to be more aggressive at code enforcement. If you have a complaint, you can submit a complaint form to the Building Department.
Semitrucks on M Avenue. Heavy trucks continue to damage our residential streets. The Council passed an ordinance last year (now codified at AMC Chapter 10.24) that restricts big trucks to designated truck routes in the City…but we still have a long way to go in terms of making the ordinance effective. More signs are clearly needed. I suggested we phase in larger fines. Some suggested photo enforcement. We'll continue to investigate solutions through the City Council Public Works Committee.
With the recent emphasis on the dangers of transporting volatile Bakken crude oil by train, it's important to point out that we on the City Council are cognizant of some of these dangers, and have been working to educate ourselves and look for opportunities to protect our community. We already have one refinery, Tesoro, receiving a 100-car oil train each day. The other Anacortes refinery, Shell, is currently engaged in permitting its own facility.
In February, Mayor Gere and Councilmembers Eric Johnson, Liz Lovelett, and I attended a rail safety roundtable with Congressman Rick Larsen. The mayors of Burlington and Mount Vernon, County Commissioner Ron Wesen, and Department of Emergency Management and fire officials also attended. Congressman Larsen was well-versed in many of the safety and environmental issues around the transport of oil by rail and briefed us on the agreement brokered by US DOT with railroads to lower speeds to 40 mph near and within very large cities, to conduct an additional track inspection per year, and provide $5 million nationally for additional first responder training. Each of the participants brought a number of concerns to the table, with the mayor of Burlington especially focused on the aging railroad bridge over the Skagit River—a bridge just upstream from the intake for the City of Anacortes's water treatment plant.
During the legislative session, Councilmember Lovelett and I signed on to a letter in support of HB 2347, which would have, among other things, required oil refineries to report the number of rail cars and type and volume of oil they are receiving, and the routes that the rail cars are taking to the refineries, and directed the Office of Financial Management to conduct a study of the State's capacity to respond to oil train accidents. The bill died in the Senate, but will be considered again next year.
In April, first responders from Mount Vernon, Burlington, and Skagit County Department of Emergency Management performed a tabletop oil spill response drill. These exercises help identify additional needs and strategies for responses.
At last week's City Council meeting, we received a courtesy presentation from the general manager of Shell Puget Sound Refinery on their proposed rail facility at March Point. (The Anacortes refineries are not inside the city limits, so permitting is handled by the County, not the City of Anacortes.) We were generally impressed by the safety measures Shell is designing into their new facility, and Shell committed at the meeting to fully complying with the latest federal standards for rail car design at the time its facility is built, but we still had many unanswered questions about the rail transport itself. Railroads are the jurisdiction of the federal government, not the city or state, and that's where we need to focus our efforts at achieving regulation that will prevent spills and explosions.
To that end, Councilmember Lovelett and I have drafted a resolution that would add our voice to the growing list of communities (including Bellingham, Seattle, Spokane, and Whatcom County) that have passed resolutions urging federal regulators to adopt strict rules governing the types of rail cars allowed to transport Bakken crude oil. The resolution as drafted also urges required third-party inspections of critical rail infrastructure—such as the Skagit River bridge and the Swinomish Channel swing bridge—and disclosure of those structural inspections to local communities.
The City Council will consider the resolution next week at its meeting Monday night at 7pm. It's our hope that the Council's adoption of the resolution will spur the federal government to action, before more refinery rail facilities are permitted, and before more railcars are purchased that don't meet the standards required to prevent spills and explosions.
Update: the City Council adopted Resolution 1889 on July 21, 2014.
At Monday night's City Council meeting (April 14) Eric Johnson, Liz Lovelett, and I will report on our March 10 visit to the Quimper Mercantile in Port Townsend. Inspired by our recent Council debate on the proposal to bring a Fred Meyer to the MJB property east of R Ave, our visit included interviews with the store management.
I'll update this post with more information after our presentation Monday night.
Our community is blessed with a wealth of talent and experience. In these times of declining revenues and big challenges, our city needs your help more than ever! That's why we've created a Talent Bank—a roster of volunteers the City can call upon to leverage their skills and expertise for our community's benefit. The Mayor also uses the Talent Bank as a unified application pool for appointments to City boards and commissions.
Download and submit an application online. Volunteer today!
On Monday, the City Council voted to deny MJB's latest proposal for a box store on their property on R Ave south of the skate park. The process that led to that decision received quite a bit of public testimony and interest, thanks to the City Council deciding to hold its own public hearing; the local community's efforts to get the word out, both pro and con; and Mayor Gere's expert administration of our meetings. Thank you to all who participated!
Many people testified that a big box store is out of scale with our community, and I certainly do not support an out-of-scale development. The proposal was for a 105,000 sq ft store, which, while larger than Safeway (50,000 sq ft), is significantly smaller than the 175,000 sq ft Fred Meyer in Burlington, which is approximately the size of our Safeway and its parking lot. But it's not dramatically out of scale with other uses in our community; for example, the hospital complex exceeds 200,000 sq ft. The main high school football field is more than 190,000 sq ft. Based on my review of the footprints of these existing uses, I believe a Fred Meyer of 105,000 sq ft stretching two blocks along R Ave and less deep than the Salvation Army parking lot could be made compatible with smart architectural design.
At the meeting, I proposed an alternative to the language we'd been asked to approve. In my proposal, we'd leave the property zoned industrial, so that industrial uses could still locate there, but also would amend the text for the industrial zone so that a 100,000 sq ft retail store could locate on R Ave if it met specific criteria to address its environmental and visual impact, and if it agreed to a development agreement with the City. Requiring a development agreement would provide for public input and a public hearing, and would give the City Council the ability to exercise its legislative and contract authority to control some aspects of the development. My proposal would not allow a new commercial area on R Ave; it would limit new commercial development to a single mid-size store.
I understand that many people feel a new box store of any size is undesirable. But what also weighs heavily on me is the realization that we cannot plan in a vacuum; we have to take into account what our neighbors are doing. My biggest worry is that we do get a Fred Meyer—a full-size Fred Meyer, located just outside the city limits on the reservation, where it has all the negative effects we fear from a full-size big box store, but where we have no ability to control its impacts or its size, and receive none of the tax revenue. Allowing a mid-size Fred Meyer may have been our best opportunity to prevent that.
I also appreciate and share the concerns of many who testified that a big corporate franchise will negatively affect the culture and identity of Anacortes. As we continue to talk about these issues in the 2016 Comprehensive Plan Update, I hope that our local entrepreneurs consider starting an independent general merchandise retail store, with or without groceries. I plan to pay a visit soon to Quimper Mercantile, a store owned by the local community that supplies "a broad selection of general merchandise," that recently opened in Port Townsend. Woolley Market, featuring "real food from around here" as well as household goods and other local products, plans to open this summer in Sedro-Woolley. We might be entering a new era of independent mid-size retailers—and Anacortes needs only a local entrepreneur to step up and make that happen for us.
This discussion, along with many others, will now continue as part of the purely legislative (and not quasi-judicial) process that is 2016 Comprehensive Plan Update, where the community will be completely free to interact with its elected officials. Look for more on the Comprehensive Plan and the update process soon on this blog.
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Dona i ocell (Woman and Bird), in the Parc de l'Escorxador (literally Slaughterhouse Park), was inaugurated April 16, 1983 and was meant to welcome visitors coming to Barcelona traveling overland. Placed in the same place where the slaughterhouse used to be from 1892 to 1979, it is a combination of phallic and female genital elements, evoking the Roman habit of engraving or carving such images or motifs on the city gates to wish travelers good health and give them strength. The collage of colors against the blue sky reminded me of some aquarel or oil pastel painting so I decided to enhance that by giving the not so beautiful buildings in the back some artistic daubs with a well known image editor. Perhaps you would like to follow this link to Joan Miró
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The Northern Wyoming Community College District Board of Trustees honored three of their outgoing members at their regular meeting Thursday night.
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After just over four hours of deliberations, the 12-person jury came back Thursday afternoon with a Guilty verdict in the 1st Degree Murder Trial of 29-year-old Sheridan resident Shawn Osborne. Osborne stood emotionless while District Court Clerk Nicki Arney read the verdict.
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Closing arguments in the 1st Degree Murder trial of 29-year-old Sheridan resident Shawn Osborne took place Thursday morning in 4th Judicial District Court.
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There has been some debate among City of Sheridan employees about changing their paid holidays. Veterans Day, because it always falls on November 11th, changes which day of the week it is every year. This is part of the reason some are asking about a vacation swap.
LADY GENERALS BASKETBALL - The Sheridan college Lady Generals fell to 2-4 on the season losing last night to North Idaho it was their third ranked opponent in their last four games North Idaho is ranked 4th in the country this week.
The Lady Generals started fast going out to a 12-3 lead but North Idaho reeled them in and took the Halftime lead and pulled away in the second half winning 85-70.
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Selenite, in my opinion, is one of the most beautiful crystals that you can have. And they are so versatile.
This stone vibrates at a very high frequency, which makes it perfect for meditation - as they help to open the passage between the spiritual and the Earthly, as well as elevating the consciousness to focus on the higher self. It is also excellent for focus and clarity of mind - so folks that are studying for an exam or have highly stressful, detail oriented jobs can benefit from keeping this stone on their desk.
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These towers, or skyscrapers, as I like to call them, are a powerful tool to have in your home or office. They will constantly cleanse and protect your space, by absorbing and dispelling negative energy. A suggested use, if you are wanting to create a crazy powerful energetic shield - place a skyscraper in each corner of the room - and voila - safe and highly protected sacred space.
Name after the Moon Goddess, Selene - you can easily see the connection with lunar energies.
Activating your crystal: hold it in both hands. Breath in and focus. Visualize your intentions.
Each skyscraper is approximately 4" tall, and range from 1.5"-2.5" in diameter at the base.
One word of caution - DO NOT cleanse selenite with water! Water will erode selenite very quickly!
Cleansing: Selenite is one stone that rarely needs to be cleared. In fact, I was taught to never cleanse it. However, if you wish, place it outside under a Full Moon, or noonday Sun - and leave for at least 4 hours. You can also cleanse it with Sage or Palo Santo sticks.


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I wound up getting water damage to my old Macbook Pro and lost everything, but I didn't let it get me down instead, I viewed it as a way to refresh my creativity and make new things. So look forward to a new layout.
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Jimmie Nicol
Jimmie Nicol
Nicol in 1964
|Background information
|Birth name
|James George Nicol
|3 August 1939
London, England, United Kingdom
|Drummer, business entrepreneur
|Years active
|Associated acts
|The Beatles, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys, Vince Eager, Oscar Rabin, Cyril Stapleton, The Spotnicks, Charlie Katz, Ray McVay, The Shubdubs
James George Nicol (born 3 August 1939) is an English drummer and business entrepreneur. He is best known for temporarily replacing Ringo Starr in the Beatles for a series of concerts during the height of Beatlemania in 1964, elevating him from relative obscurity to worldwide fame and then back again in the space of a fortnight.[1] Nicol had hoped that his association with the Beatles would greatly enhance his career but instead found that the spotlight moved away from him once Starr returned to the group, and in 1965 his subsequent lack of commercial success culminated in bankruptcy. In 1967, after having worked with a number of different bands which included a successful relationship with The Spotnicks, he left the music business to pursue a variety of entrepreneurial ventures. Over the decades, Nicol increasingly shied away from media attention, preferring not to discuss his connection to the Beatles nor seeking financial gain from it. He has a son, Howard, who is a BAFTA award-winning sound engineer.
Early career[edit]
Jimmie Nicol's career break came in 1957 when he was talent spotted by Larry Parnes whilst drumming with various bands in London's The 2i's Coffee Bar, a time that saw Britain's skiffle-dominated music scene giving way to rock and roll which was being popularised by its Teddy Boy youth. Parnes invited Nicol to join Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys whom Parnes co-managed with John Kennedy (Colin Hicks is the younger brother of English entertainer Tommy Steele, whom Parnes also managed). After taking a temporary break from the group to be a member of the original pit band in the Lionel Bart musical Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be at the Theatre Royal Stratford East Nicol rejoined Hicks's band for their appearance in the 1958 Italian film documentary Europa Di Notte, breaking them in Italy and subsequently allowing them to tour there extensively.[2] During the early sixties, Nicol went on to play for a number of artists, including Vince Eager, Oscar Rabin, and Cyril Stapleton and was kept in regular work through Charlie Katz, a well-known session fixer during that period. Nicol has cited drummer Phil Seamen and saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley as being his main influences.[3]
In 1964 Nicol helped to form The Shubdubs with former Merseybeats bassist Bob Garner, a jazz line-up similar in musical style to Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, a group with whom Nicol had sat-in with when they were the resident house band at London's now defunct Flamingo Jazz Club. Other members of The Shubdubs were Tony Allen (vocals), Johnny Harris (trumpet), Quincy Davis (tenor saxophone), and Roger Coulam (organ – went on to form Blue Mink). It was at this point that he received a telephone call from the Beatles' producer, George Martin. Nicol recalled: "I was having a bit of a lie down after lunch when the phone rang."[4]
With the Beatles[edit]
When Ringo Starr collapsed with tonsillitis and was hospitalised on 3 June 1964, the eve of the Beatles' 1964 Australasian tour, the band's manager Brian Epstein and their producer George Martin urgently discussed the feasibility of using a stand-in drummer rather than cancelling part of the tour. Martin suggested Jimmie Nicol as he had recently used him on a recording session with Tommy Quickly.[4] Nicol had also drummed on a 'Top Six' budget label album as part of an uncredited session band, as well as an extended play single (with three tracks on each side) of Beatles cover versions (marketed as 'Teenagers Choice' and titled Beatlemania) which meant that he already knew the songs and their arrangements. Producer Bill Wellings and Shubdubs trumpeter Johnny Harris (freelancing as an arranger and composer) were responsible for putting together alternative budget cover versions of songs taken from the British Hit Parade aimed at cash-strapped teenagers. Harris said: "The idea was for me to try and guess which six songs would be topping the charts about a month ahead. I would do the arrangements and then go into the studio and record 'sound a-likes'; the first EP (extended play) released got to number 30 in the charts. Jimmie was on drums and, as you can imagine, we covered a lot of the Beatles' songs."[5] Although John Lennon and Paul McCartney quickly accepted the idea of using an understudy, George Harrison threatened to pull out of the tour telling Epstein and Martin: "If Ringo's not going, then neither am I. You can find two replacements."[6] Martin recalled: "They nearly didn't do the Australia tour. George is a very loyal person. It took all of Brian's and my persuasion to tell George that if he didn't do it he was letting everybody down."[7] Tony Barrow, who was the Beatles' press officer at the time, later commented: "Brian saw it as the lesser of two evils; cancel the tour and upset thousands of fans or continue and upset the Beatles."[8] Ringo stated that "it was very strange, them going off without me. They'd taken Jimmie Nicol and I thought they didn't love me any more – all that stuff went through my head."[7] The arrangements were made very quickly, from a telephone call to Nicol at his home in West London inviting him to attend an audition/rehearsal at Abbey Road Studios,[9] to packing his bags, all in the same day.[10] At a press conference a reporter mischievously asked John Lennon why Pete Best, who had been the Beatles' previous drummer for two years but dismissed by the group on the eve of stardom, was not being given the opportunity of replacing Ringo, to which Lennon replied: "He's got his own group [Pete Best & the All Stars], and it might have looked as if we were taking him back, which is not good for him."[11] Later, on the subject of remuneration Nicol recalled: "When Brian [Epstein] talked of money in front of them [Lennon, McCartney and Harrison] I got very, very nervous. They paid me £2,500 per gig and a £2,500 signing bonus. Now, that floored me. When John spoke up in a protest by saying 'Good God, Brian, you'll make the chap crazy!', I thought it was over. But no sooner had he said that when he said, 'Give him ten thousand!' Everyone laughed and I felt a hell of a lot better. That night I couldn't sleep a wink. I was a fucking Beatle!" These sums of money, which work out at £50,000 per gig, for a total of £400,000 in today's money are unverified and extremely unlikely. [ref https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator]
Nicol's first concert with the Beatles took place just 27 hours later on 4 June at the KB Hallen in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was given the distinctive Beatle moptop hairstyle, put on Ringo's suit and went on stage to an audience of 4,500 Beatles fans. McCartney recalled: "He was sitting up on this rostrum just eyeing up all the women. We'd start 'She Loves You': [counting in] 'one, two', nothing, 'one, two', and still nothing!" Their set was reduced from eleven songs to ten, dropping Ringo's vocal spot of "I Wanna Be Your Man".[8] McCartney teasingly sent Starr a telegram saying: "Hurry up and get well Ringo, Jimmy is wearing out all your suits."[4] Commenting later on the fickle nature of his brief celebrity, Nicol reflected: "The day before I was a Beatle, girls weren't interested in me at all. The day after, with the suit and the Beatle cut, riding in the back of the limo with John and Paul, they were dying to get a touch of me. It was very strange and quite scary." He was also able to shed some light on how they passed the time between shows: "I thought I could drink and lay women with the best of them until I caught up with these guys."[12]
In the Netherlands, Nicol and Lennon allegedly spent a whole night at a brothel.[8] Lennon said: "It was some kind of scene on the road. Satyricon! There's photographs of me grovelling about, crawling about Amsterdam on my knees, coming out of whorehouses, and people saying 'Good morning John'. The police escorted me to these places because they never wanted a big scandal. When we hit town, we hit it – we were not pissing about. We had [the women]. They were great. We didn't call them groupies, then; I've forgotten what we called them, something like 'slags'."[12][7] By then the Beatles were becoming more restricted by their increasing fame and spending most of their free time inside hotel suites. But Nicol discovered that, aside from acting as a Beatle, he could behave much as any tourist could: "I often went out alone. Hardly anybody recognised me and I was able to wander around. In Hong Kong, I went to see the thousands of people who live on little boats in the harbour. I saw the refugees in Kowloon, and I visited a nightclub. I like to see life. A Beatle could never really do that."[13]
Nicol played a total of eight shows until Starr rejoined the group in Melbourne, Australia, on 14 June. He was unable to say goodbye to the Beatles as they were still asleep when he left, and he did not want to disturb them. At Melbourne Airport, Epstein presented him with a cheque for £500 and a gold Eterna-matic wrist watch inscribed: "From the Beatles and Brian Epstein to Jimmy – with appreciation and gratitude."[4] George Martin later paid tribute to Nicol whilst recognising the problems he experienced in trying to readjust to a normal life again: "Jimmie Nicol was a very good drummer who came along and learnt Ringo's parts very well. He did the job excellently, and faded into obscurity immediately afterwards."[7] Paul McCartney acknowledged: "It wasn't an easy thing for Jimmy to stand in for Ringo, and have all that fame thrust upon him. And the minute his tenure was over, he wasn't famous any more." Nicol himself expressed his disillusionment several years later: "Standing in for Ringo was the worst thing that ever happened to me. Until then I was quite happy earning £30 or £40 a week. After the headlines died, I began dying too."[8] He resisted the temptation to sell his story, stating in a rare 1987 interview: "After the money ran low, I thought of cashing-in in some way or other. But the timing wasn't right. And I didn't want to step on the Beatles' toes. They had been damn good for me and to me."
Later career and life[edit]
Nicol reformed the Shubdubs, renaming themselves Jimmy Nicol and the Shubdubs. They released two singles "Husky"/"Don't Come Back", followed by "Humpty Dumpty"/"Night Train"; neither of which was a commercial success. He was later called upon to again stand in for an ailing drummer when Dave Clark of The Dave Clark Five fell ill and Nicol's band, Jimmy Nicol and the Shubdubs, filled in for The Dave Clark Five in Blackpool, Lancashire.[4] Whilst there Nicol was reminded of just how popular, albeit briefly, he had been as a stand-in Beatle; receiving a bundle of 5,000 fan letters passed on to him from an Australian radio disc jockey. Nicol sent a message back thanking the fans, promising that he would one day return to Australia permanently.[4] He was later reunited with the Beatles when his band appeared on the same bill as them and The Fourmost on 12 July 1964 at the Hippodrome in Brighton. In 1965 Nicol declared bankruptcy with debts of £4,066, nine months after being a temporary Beatle.[8] Later that year he joined the successful Swedish group the Spotnicks, recording with them and twice touring the world. He left them in 1967, spending time in Mexico studying samba and bossa nova rhythms, whilst also diversifying into business. In 1975 he returned to England and became involved with housing renovations. In 1988 it was rumoured that Nicol had died,[3], the year after making his final interview and four years after his 1984 appearance at a Beatles convention in Amsterdam, but an article in 2005 by the Daily Mail claimed that he was still alive and living in London, refusing to do any interviews or talk about his tenure with the Beatles. It was later asserted by the same source that he had moved to Mexico in 2013 with his then-wife and was still living there as of 2017, despite family and friends having no contact with him.[14]
During Nicol's brief time with the Beatles both Lennon and McCartney would often ask him how he felt he was coping, to which his reply would usually be "It's getting better". Three years later McCartney was walking his dog, Martha, with Hunter Davies, the Beatles official biographer, when the sun came out. McCartney remarked that the weather was "getting better" and began to laugh, remembering Nicol. This event inspired the song "Getting Better" on 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[15] McCartney again makes reference to Nicol on the Let It Be tapes from 1969, saying: "I think you'll find we're not going abroad 'cause Ringo just said he doesn't want to go abroad. You know, he put his foot down. Although Jimmie Nicol might go abroad."
While appearing on the radio show Fresh Air hosted by Terry Gross in April 2016, Tom Hanks noted that he was at least partly influenced by Jimmie Nicol's experience with the Beatles when he wrote the script for his 1996 feature film That Thing You Do![16]
Discography and performance history[edit]
|Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys. (Colin Hicks is the younger brother of British rock 'n' roll star Tommy Steele).
|Vince Eager and the Quiet Three.
|Oscar Rabin Band.
|Cyril Stapleton Big Band.
|Session work (including jobs with musicians from the orchestras of Ted Heath and Johnny Dankworth).
|The Shubdubs.
|April / May
|Touring with Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames.
|The Beatles (as temporary stand in for Ringo Starr).
|Touring as: Jimmy Nicol & The Shubdubs
|The Spotnicks.
|Nicol lived in Mexico working with samba & bossa nova groups. He married and had a son, Howard, who in the 1990s won an award for his work as sound engineer on a BBC collection of Beatles recordings.
|Jimmie Nicol Show:
|"Blue Rain" (Mexican rock group recording in Nicol's house).
Information compiled from Archived 11 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
See also[edit]
- ^ He used the spelling "Jimmie Nicol" on his own bass drum. See the "Jimmie Nicol page from pmouse.nl". Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2006.
- ^ Norman 2009, pp. 180.
- ^ a b pmouse.nl 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f Harry 1992, pp. 484.
- ^ Darren Stuart 2012.
- ^ Badman 2000, pp. 101.
- ^ a b c d The Beatles 2000, pp. 139.
- ^ a b c d e Mojo 2002, pp. 108.
- ^ Harry 1992, pp. 45.
- ^ Norman 1993, pp. 231.
- ^ Badman 2000, pp. 103.
- ^ a b Q 2010, pp. 56.
- ^ Badman 2000, pp. 110.
- ^ Daily Mail, 2017
- ^ Miles 1998, pp. 313.
- ^ Tom Hanks Says Self-Doubt Is 'A High-Wire Act That We All Walk'. Fresh Air. NPR. 26 April 2016. Event occurs at 12:46.
Further reading[edit]
- Norman, Philip (2009). John Lennon. London: Harper. ISBN 978-0-00-719742-2.
- Badman, Keith (2000). The Beatles Off The Record.
- The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 0-304-35605-0.
- Harry, Bill (1992). The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 0-86369-681-3.
- Stuart, Darren (2002). Johnny Harris – Movements CD & 2LP. London: Warner Bros.
- Miles, Barry (1998). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. London: Vintage. ISBN 0-7493-8658-4.
- "Special Limited Edition # M-04951". Mojo. 2002.
- Norman, Philip (1993). Shout!. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-017410-9.
- "Collectors Limited Edition". Q. 2010.
- Baker, Glenn A. (1983). The Beatles down under : the 1964 Australia & New Zealand tour. Sydney: Wild & Woolley.
- Berkenstadt, Jim (2013). The Beatle Who Vanished. Rock and Roll Detective LLC. ISBN 0985667702.
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- "Jimmie Nicol". pmouse.nl. 2010. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012.
- Jimmie Nicol discography at Discogs
- Biography at feenotes.com


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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Louis Gallait
Flemish painter; born at Tournai, 10 May, 1810; died in Brussels, 20 November, 1887. He produced melodramatic and sensational pictures, very much on the lines of those of Ary Scheffler, with a leaning towards the pathetic and emotional side. Gallait was, however, a more accomplished painter than Scheffer, with whom his works have frequently been compared. His colouring was superior, and his drawing more accurate, but the two men were possessed of similar devotional fervour, and poetic emotion of a sentimental type. Gallait was a youthful prodigy, and produced his first picture when ten years old, obtaining an important local prize. One of his earliest performances was purchased by the municipal authorities of Tournai and presented to the Cathedral, and it was owing to the generosity of his own townspeople that he was enabled in 1835 to go to Paris and study under Hennequin. He became a member of the Institute of France, and honorary foreign Royal Academician. Several of his pictures were exhibited in London in 1862, and three at the Royal Academy in 1872, when he was residing at 51 Bedford Square. He painted in water-colours as well as in oil, and was made an honorary member of the Royal Institute.


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Since 1996, public schools and libraries have relied on the E-Rate program to provide telecommunications systems to millions of American students. Studies have shown improvements in test scores, graduation rates, and college admission rates as a result of improved telecommunications systems in the classroom. 2013 saw another milestone in the effort to provide our students with modern information systems—the ConnectED initiative is an attempt to provide 99 percent of America's K-12 students with high-speed internet access through more efficient use of the current E-Rate program.
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This chapter describes what steps to take next with Oracle Data Integrator.
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In case the execution did not complete successfully, please check the Operator details for the error message. In addition to this, the following log files will contain execution information.
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text: I've listened to a few more talks-on-MP3 from Greenbelt 07 that I missed at the time. Pete Rollins' Faith with/without God:towards a heretical orthodoxy was a rollercoaster of a ride. He delivered it in a fast, breathless way with sudden diversions and some sudden lurches ("I don't believe 100% of what I say either"). He said up front that (in effect) as a continental philosopher (whatever that is) it might be a hard ride; and, yes, afterwards I was left feeling a bit thrilled and queasy at the same time. I think his message could be summarised as "God is the ultimate reality" so questioning God's existence is a waste of time. But I couldn't be sure how to persuade others of this, or what difference it should make.Prof Keith Ward has completely different on Is Religion Dangerous?. Fast-paced and more analytical, it is still an excellent listen. He carefully took a hatchet to some of the arguments of the so-called 'New Atheists', particularly Richard Dawkins, who he knows from his time as Professor of Divinity at Oxford. I learned a good deal ranging from why Logicians will never be able to "prove God", to how some particle physicists are bringing God into their thinking, to why almost no wars have been fought for religion, and that atheism is a clear contributory factor behind Stalin's purges. Highly recommended.


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The Florida School of Holistic Living is honored to welcome
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Saturday March 4, 7 pm
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Fungi Perfecti founder and president Paul Stamets has been a dedicated mycologist for over 40 years. Over this time, he has discovered and coauthored several new species of mushrooms, and pioneered countless techniques in the field of mushroom cultivation. He received the 1998 "Bioneers Award" from The Collective Heritage Institute, and the 1999 "Founder of a New Northwest Award" from the Pacific Rim Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils. In 2008, Paul received the National Geographic Adventure Magazine's Green-Novator and the Argosy Foundation's E-chievement Awards. He was also named one of Utne Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" in their November–December 2008 issue. In February 2010, Paul received the President's Award from the Society for Ecological Restoration: Northwest Chapter, in recognition of his contributions to Habitat Restoration. In January of 2014, Paul received the highly acclaimed NAMA (North American Mycological Association) award for expanding the field of mycology for both amateurs and professionals. In 2014, Paul was chosen to be an "Invention Ambassador" by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest and most prestigious scientific organization in the world.
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Doors open at 7 pm; presentation will begin at 7:30 pm.