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Here's what I don't do: merely make each page pretty. I use images, type, and color to persuade your donors exactly the way a writer uses words. The seamless marriage of design to story makes your message twice as powerful. Whether you're trying to win hearts, change minds, or form lasting connections, I can bring your stories to life.
As a second grader, I provided design direction on a logo for the high-tech start-up my father was working on in our basement. I didn't know how to tell him the typography was terrible. Happily, his business was an international success. And over time I got a lot better at helping my clients understand how to communicate with design. I launched Andrea Hopkins Design to focus my attention on nonprofits — to help them reach their supporters with communications that are as powerful as the work their organizations are doing.
Prior to starting AHD I was an art director, designer and technical illustrator at agencies in upstate New York where my corporate clients included Kodak, Xerox, and Hewlett Packard. As the art director for Cheney & Company in New Haven, my work for nonprofits included Yale University, The American School in London, Quinnipiac University, Norfolk Academy, Yale New Haven Hospital, Marymount School (NYC), and The American School in Japan.
In the distant past, I spent two years living in a village in Guatemala where I fell in love with Native American textiles. Upon my return from Latin America I settled in northern California where I began Wilderness Road Weavers selling my weavings in the Pacific northwest, Hawaii and New York City.
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Lee Ryan has issued a grovelling apology on Twitter for his behaviour towards both Jasmine Waltz and Casey Batchelor inside the Celebrity Big Brother house.
And the Blue star has also promised to set the record straight on his feelings, admitting he awoke today with a 'different view'.
Lee was evicted last night in a shock twist as CBB host Emma Willis entered the house during the 'frozen in time' task and whisked Lee away.
He was instantly grilled on flipping between Casey and Jasmine and after a solid night's sleep – and catching up on all of the headline he's been the subject of over the last three weeks – it seems he has a new tale to tell.
'I'm sorry if I hurt anyone for what I've done… I'm so so sorry,' Lee tweeted this afternoon.
Telling fans he's on BOTS (Big Brother's Bit On The Side) tonight, he then added: 'Watch bots tonight to hear me say something. Last night was really hard and confusing and a shock…. Woke up today with a different view.'
But while he might be keen to make amends, he has no regrets, adding: 'Thanks for all your support and love, it's been such a mad time for me but whatever has happened I'm happy I did it.'
Perhaps Lee was apologising for snogging Jasmine behind Casey's back:
Or maybe it was an apology to Jasmine for snuggling up to Casey behind her back:
Lee took to Twitter straight after his eviction last night to thank his loyal fans for their on-going support.
He wrote: 'Well there you go. Even the best roller coasters come to an end. Thanks for a the support and good wishes. It's been fun..! #CBB,' later adding: 'Normal service, badgers, aliens and random quotes will resume shortly ..'
If Lee needs some cheering up, perhaps he should take a look through his Blue bandmate Duncan James' blogs he's been writing for us on all things Celebrity Big Brother…
EXCLUSIVE BLOGS: Duncan James blogs on all things Celebrity Big Brother 2014


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Principal Diane Lau-Yee wants to remind everyone that the White Zone area on the 34th Avenue is drop-off only. This is the RLS school's ONLY drop off point on 34th Avenue coming cars.
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Work starts on a £4m care home
Work has started on a new £4m adult care facility that will create more than 100 jobs.
The first phase of development on the site in Waterville Road, North Shields, has begun.
The 40-bed home – to be operated by Lenore Specialist Care – will feature both fully and partially integrated apartments, communal facilities ,sensory therapy rooms, and family meeting rooms.
Lenore's service manager, Laura Murray-Walton said: "I am delighted to announce the start on site of such an exciting development.
"Lenore is the first care operator in the north east to develop a facility of this type which focuses on providing specialist care to people over the age of 18 who suffer from autism or learning difficulties.
"It has taken us a while to reach this stage as it was important that we got both the design of the buildings and the care services we could offer just right."
"Having achieved this, we are able to ensure that once we are operational, we are able to meet the needs of our service users by providing bespoke care packages.
"The mixture of residential and day care facilities as well as respite care sets us apart from other operators.
"We are looking forward to opening Phase One and welcoming our first occupants in early 2017."
Chairman of North Tyneside Council, Coun Gary Bell was the first to put a spade in ground to get this eagerly awaited development underway.
He said: "This is a great moment for both the local community and Lenore as construction work gets underway.
"Lenore has been providing care in the region for some four decades and this further investment shows the company's commitment, along with its dedication, to providing tailor made care solutions to as many people as possible.
"The scheme will also assist in regeneration in the area by creating jobs during construction and sustainable care related jobs once it is complete."
Other partners involved are architect Ian Belsham Associates, project manager Building Surveyors Ltd and consulting engineers James Christopher Consulting.
It is anticipated that Phase One will complete by December 2016 and work on Phase Two will commence straight after.


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News tag 'Charles Bennett'
Plenty of Oversteps poets are reading at Ways with Words at Dartington in the next fortnight, including Christopher North, Simon Williams, Susan Taylor and Miriam Darlington. Then on Saturday 13th there will be Oversteps events all day, featuring John Daniels, Kathleen Kummer, Jean Atkin, Charles Bennett, Oz Hardwick, Alwyn Marriage, Genista Lewes, Jennie Osborne and the singer-songwriter Zoë Marriage.
Charles Bennett's new libretto, 'Five Days that Changed the World', will receive its world premier at Worcester Cathedral on July 26th.
Oversteps News 25Oversteps News 25 brings news of two new publications this month.


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Goodbye to Hearing Aids, Glue Ear and ENT
When Kyd was diagnosed with Down Syndrome at only 24hrs old, I was thrown in to a completely different world, one full of hospital appointments and health scares, statements and DLA forms. One which the ups and downs (no pun intended) would make myself, and Kyd, into the people we are today.
Kyd was diagnosed with glue ear quite early on which is good, but resulted in several (under playing the amount here) extra hospital appointments a year with both ENT doctors (ear, nose and throat specialists), Audiology (hearing specialists) and the appointment of his 'teacher for the hearing impaired' (education specialist visiting him at nursery and school regularly).
What is Glue Ear?
Glue ear is a build-up of liquid behind the ear drum that causes mild/severe hearing loss in children. It effects those vital sounds that help with speech development (resulting in Speech and Language Therapists) and is quite common in children with Down Syndrome. Glue Ear is one of those common issues in children and if left untreated will eventually fix itself although the result of doing so can lead to a severe speech impediment.
How do they treat it?
Treatment for this within most children would usually be grommets but for children with Down Syndrome these can do more harm than good. Due to their small ear canals and malleable tissue/muscle tone the grommets can often get stuck in the ear canal and can even result in further surgery. For children with DS the treatment for Glue Ear is usually the
use of hearing aids on the effected ear(s) until the glue ear corrects itself, this can take anything from 1 – 10+ years, it really just goes at its own pace.
Kyd's Audiology/ENT story…
Kyd started wearing his hearing aids just before he was 3 years old. He started with two hearing aids and then eventually his hearing in his right ear was at normal levels and so he was down to one. He attended the Audiology department for his hearing tests, ear moulding (the bit that sits in the ear), fittings and emergency fixing. This meant an appointment at least once or twice a month at its worst and then ending in once every 6 months, with a few phone calls for replacements towards the end… As you can see, it wasn't an easy task having hearing aids to say the least and even worse because he has fought us every step of the way.
He hated wearing them. He would scream at me when I tried to put them in. Hold his hands over his ears so tightly I'd have to fight him then pin him down to get them in… not nice at 8.30am every morning. He never kept them in after all that trouble any way, he'd take them out on the way to school and 'lose' them.
He had a habit of 'LOSING' them, i.e. hiding them in strange places so he didn't have to wear them. When I say hiding, I mean he was like the champion of hide and seek type hiding and not always ALL of the aid, sometimes it was just the important parts of it, like the moulds or the actual aid, which was equally frustrating. To date we have found them in toilets, shoes, vases, cups, fish bowls, cats bowls, flower pots, street corners, drains (never recovered obviously), playing fields, parks, wardrobes, draws, toy boxes, sand pits, paddling pools, puddles, the dishwasher, washing machine AND the tumble dryer… I could go on, they are just a fraction of the hidey holes he has used over the years, I just wrote them up as they came back to me, I must admit I laughed a bit each time I found one and the more creative the hidey hole the more proud I was about his ability to think up new places each time.
We got clever though and we became one step ahead so he always had a spare pair waiting for us to spring on him when he performed his magic disappearing tricks… It was short lived, he just got slightly more devious and started hiding those too, leaving us with no hearing aids at all and constant emergency appointments. So we got cleverer and kept a pair at school too, where they would put them in and take them out each day, so that he had less chance of throwing them away and they served their purpose. This was an effective method and we only lost those ones a few times. Success… ish!
They do make it very child friendly though, he had a picture of Jake from the Tweenies in his first teeny tiny pair, then we progressed to England flags throughout the World Cups and Euros and, most importantly and most regularly, his beloved Reading FC badges too, so throughout the years he's really drummed up his own style in hearing aids. You see they have this little book of things you can have put in them, they range from TV characters to Footy and Rugby teams across the leagues and you can even have sparkly pink ones if you want… Kyd wasn't that keen on that idea though so he stuck with plain black for a while.
Hearing aids are great, they do what they say on the tin but they come with their own issues, other than trying to keep them in their ears, they can also cause really annoying whistling and also a huge build-up of ear wax, which in turn causes more whistling. This is where ENT comes in.
We saw the ENT doctor every 3 months, then 6 months, for 8 years.
Kyd's ear canals are teeny tiny compared to ours and even a normal amount of ear wax can create an issue for his hearing, this is a common issue in children with Down Syndrome. Hearing Aids create a suction in which causes ear wax to become more prominent within the canal (I can't tell you the science behind it all because it is too complicated, you can google that yourselves) and this can cause the waves from the aids to not reach the drum correctly, causing the whistling.
His ENT doctor started at age 2.5/3 by giving him ear drops to melt the wax, he hated it and we struggled to get it into his ear.
He then told us that warm olive oil did the same thing and it may be easier to put in as we could just drip it off a spoon… absolutely no difference, he hated it.
He then tried the hoover when he was about 5yrs old… nope, not the Dyson in the cupboard, but the teeny tiny suction stick that sucked the wax out, the doctor got a nice punch in the face by Kyd for that one.
He then, soon after, decided that maybe just a pointy mental stick (technical name for it) would work AND… it did *hurrah*… what came out of it though… *puke* I can honestly say that I have no idea how that much wax could come out of something so small.
We used the scraper method for years but as he grew older we returned back to each method and he did end up loving the hoover, giggled away each time, which again took out silly amounts of wax. We even tried Hopi Ear candles when he was big enough to lay still for long enough and that seemed to reduce the whistling and take out a small amount at a time in between appointments.
Teacher for the hearing impaired
Between all this he saw Helen. Helen was a teacher for the hearing impaired who came into his nursery and school termly to check his hearing aids and do some work with him to map out his progress. Helen was with Kyd throughout his Glue Ear journey and she was a huge part of his life. She travelled with him from Nursery to his first, second and then third, mainstream school. She saw him grow up, she watched his progress go from not doing or saying much at all to being able to do his times tables, write sentences and sign and speak actual sentences to her, enough for her to have a full conversation with him. She was a lovely part of this journey and her help with all the above has been priceless. She helped me through all of his Special Educational Needs Statements and with his Disability Living Allowance forms too. I miss her already. Even though we saw her less as his hearing got better, she was still a joy to be around and always put a positive spin on every situation. Her job was to monitor and plan Kyd's education throughout using his hearing aids and fix them when she could too, she did so much more than that and I am truly grateful to her. *I'm getting all emotional now so I'll shut up*
Being Discharged
This week Kyd was discharged from ENT, soon to be discharged from Audiology too. His hearing test came back with 'perfect' levels in both ears and his wax was at a minimal. He has reached the age in which glue ear fades and behind all that horrid glue was perfect hearing all along.
We have noticed a huge change in Kyd's speech in the past few months and this is a direct result of his hearing now being clear. We have a long way to go before other people can understand him better but we are on the right path now as we close the door on that chapter we open another in the task of getting his speech up to scratch.
We have had a long and winding journey with Mr Glue Ear and these blasted hearing aids and I guess grommets would have been easier and quicker but for Kyd they just weren't right, for Kyd, they would have been much, much, worse.
This week was a milestone in Kyd's life.
A milestone that we can look back on and think, in Kyd's words…
'HA, in your face Glue Ear, we beat you, now nothing can stop the mighty Kyd from being the best he can be, nothing at all'
OK he didn't say that but I know that is what he was thinking, he's a walking comic book at the moment!
Goodbye Mr Glue Ear,
it's been not so nice knowing you.


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At Big Block Realty, we know being a real estate agent isn't always easy. Sometimes it can get pretty rough out there, and the world isn't always fair.
Big Block Realty wants all our agents to have the latest helpful tools to increase their success.
Building a reputation for a 100% commission real estate business is about more than just making sales. Sometimes, it's about being able to laugh it off and drive on.
Real estate agents get stereotyped as much as any other profession. You may find that some of the most common are more true than others, but they're always good for a chuckle. See if you've been able to live up to any of these common stereotypes since you've been on the job.
1.) Real Estate Agents Are Worse Than Used Car Salesmen-
Tell someone you meet at a Christmas party you're a real estate agent and watch them flee before you like you have the plague. People assume we're always on the job, always look for the next client.
This is somewhat true, but we're still human beings and like to talk about politics and religion as much as the net guy or gal. Sometimes, it's nice to just enjoy a scotch at a party and not say a word about the housing market.
2.) Real Estate Agents Love A Good Motivational Speaker-
Most of us got into this business because we're good with people. We don't need professionals to teach us how to get ourselves out of bed and face the day. We don't need to pay a bunch of loud-mouths a lot of our hard earned money to school us on "how to make it happen."
We're good at sales and we're good with people. We're real estate agents. We don't need cheerleaders.
3.) Real Estate Is A Fall Back Career-
This is somewhat true. A lot of people looking to make a career change try real estate and bring their skills from their prior experience with them. And a lot of them do great and find it a great fit. But there are just as many young people getting their start in the world who decide it's right for them, too.
But is there something inherently wrong with being fifty-five, ditching a job you've hated for twenty-five years, and becoming a real estate agent? Nope. Not in the slightest.
At Big Block Realty, we want each and every one of agents to have the helpful tools that will increase their success. Want to begin a rewarding career with an integrity driven, 100% commission real estate brokerage?
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Get the Look: Penelope Cruz at the 2011 MET Ball./
Renato Campora for Frederic Fekkai created tousled tresses for Penelope Cruz for last nights 2011 MET Ball.
INSPIRATION: A modernized Sophia Loren; a super chic do
THE LOOK: A side part, full of volume and texture
HOW TO GET THE LOOK: Campora applied Fekkai Coiff™ Strong Hold Volume Mousse throughout and then formed a side part. He then used a ½ inch curling iron, pinning the up to let it cool. Once cooled, he took the hair out of the bobby pins and brushed the hair using the Fekkai Classic Brush to form the shape. To set the look, he sprayed Fekkai Coiff™ Sheer Hold Hairspray.
PRODUCTS ALL BY FEKKAI: Coiff™ Strong Hold Volume Mousse ($24), Fekkai Classic Brush ($95) Fekkai Coiff™ Sheer Hold Hairspray ($24)
Her makeup was done by makeup artist Matthew Van Leeuwen.
Matthew describes her look as all eyes, fresh skin and muted lips.
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The metropolitan government will spend ¥128.1 billion this fiscal year to relocate the Tsukiji fish market to the Toyosu district in Koto Ward, Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said Friday.
His announcement drew an immediate outcry from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, which holds a majority in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly and opposes the move to a site deemed highly toxic. The DPJ also threatened to block the budget for the move.
"I have decided to go with relocating Tsukiji market to Toyosu based on the deliberations of the assembly," Ishihara told reporters. "I will now make full efforts to relocate (the market) to Toyosu."
Ishihara said relocation would be quicker than rebuilding at the current site, as the DPJ wants. "Although the assembly has been reconsidering since April a plan to rebuild at the current location, it ended up finding it would take more than 10 years even if everything goes smoothly," he said.
Read the rest of the story: Tsukiji to relocate to Toyosu: Ishihara.


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Awarded: Best Illustration, GoldBest Skill, GoldInternational Industry, Certificate of ExcellenceRM 800 cash
Medium: Illustration
Artwork:Life on Air
Samsung Masterpieces
Awarded:USD 15,000 cashExhibition @ ArtScience Museum, Singapore4 Nights @ Marina Bay Sands, SingaporeSamsung DSLR + Tablet
Photographs:Hope at the Bottom of Pandora's BoxFoundation
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News:Featured as a resident artist. Works are currently exhibited and sold through a dedicated artist room and lobby.
Medium:Illustration, Music, Photography
Year:2015 - present
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Awarded:RM 2000 cashExhibition & Auction at Publika
Artwork:Childhood Memory
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Medium: Animated Film
Animation:Tooth Candy
WAO "Can you keep a secret?"
Awarded: Kancils 2016, Silver (Promo & Activation)Kancils 2016, Silver (Innovative Use of Media)Agency of the Year 2016 (Out of Home)London International Awards 2016, FinalistAPPIES 2016, Finalist
Medium: Sculpture
Installation:Can you keep a secret?
Maxis "Light a Life"
Awarded: Mobile Excellence 2016, Gold (Innovation)Mobile Excellence 2016, Gold (Mobile Site)Mobile Excellence 2016, Gold (Original Content)Kancil 2017, SiIver (Communications & Public Services)Kancil 2017, Bronze (Best Use of Tech)Kancil 2017, Bronze (Best Film Editing - Single)Kancil 2017, Bronze (Best Branded Content)
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Djibouti is seen as a key strategic location in the Horn of Africa, with United States, France and Japan already having facilities in the country.
"The negotiations have come to an end and the naval base will be built in Djibouti," Mahamoud Ali Youssouf told AFP on the sidelines of a summit of African leaders in Johannesburg.
"The goal of the base is to fight against pirates... and most of all to secure the Chinese ships using this very important strait that is important to all the countries in the world."
"For Djibouti, it's an additional strategic ally."
A former French colony, Djibouti guards the entrance to the Red Sea and, ultimately, the Suez Canal, and has been used by international navies as a hub in the fight against piracy from neighbouring Somalia.
"For a few years with the instability in Somalia, this region has become a refuge for pirates and the terrorist movements," Youssouf said.
In May, Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh told AFP that talks over the military base were underway.
Guelleh met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the summit in Johannesburg, where China announced $60 billion of assistance and loans for Africa.


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Another way to put it is this: The Arctic Ocean this May had more than three Californias less sea ice cover than it did during an average May between 1981 and 2010. And it broke the prior record low for May by a region larger than California, although not quite as large as Texas.
This matters because 2016 could be marching toward a new record for the lowest amount of ice ever observed on top of the world at the height of melt season — September. The previous record September low was set in 2012. But here's what the National Snow and Ice Data Center has to say about that:
Daily extents in May were also two to four weeks ahead of levels seen in 2012, which had the lowest September extent in the satellite record. The monthly average extent for May 2016 is more than one million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) below that observed in May 2012.
In other words, for Arctic sea ice, May 2016 was more like June 2012 — the record-breaking year. Going into the truly warm months of the year, then, the ice is in a uniquely weak state.
"We've never seen anything like this before," said Mark Serreze, who directs the center. "It's way below the previous record, very far below it, and we're something like almost a month ahead of where we were in 2012."
Granted, the NSIDC called the May numbers "tentative" because of problems with the satellites that scientists rely on to observe the Arctic, but added that they are "supported by other data sources."
The group also shared this NASA image, showing a highly broken-up field of ice in the Beaufort Sea above Canada, and a large gap of open water separating the ice from the coast:
The May record was driven, naturally enough, by significant warmth — Arctic air temperatures were 4 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit above average in the region, NSIDC said. Pockets of the Arctic had temperatures even more anomalously high than that.
Following an extremely warm winter for the Arctic, these temperatures suggest "that warmth has persisted through spring, and so we're in a bad way right now," Serreze said.
In 2016, Arctic sea ice has also experienced record low levels in January, February and April. In March, meanwhile, while the ice atop the Arctic Ocean was still growing rather than shrinking, it had the lowest peak extent yet observed in any winter since record-keeping began in 1979.
All of this has happened during a year that itself is blowing out old records for temperatures averaged across the globe.
And it matters so much because of the fear that we'll see the warming of the Arctic continually feed upon itself — less sea ice, a darker ocean surface exposed to space, more heat absorbed, less sea ice … and so on, and so on.
Granted, Serreze says we still can't be sure that 2016 will set an all-time-low sea ice record, besting 2012 — that still depends on summer weather.
"All we can say is that we are on a very bad footing," he said. "However, this is also part and parcel of a longer trend … we've always known that the Arctic would be the place most sensitive to climate change, and that's what we're seeing."
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CoCA Pops Presents
Jeremy Gregory's The Dirty Circus of Life at Columbia City Gallery
February 24 through April 3, 2016. Reception Saturday, February 27, 5-8pm
Columbia City Gallery
4864 Rainier Ave S
Seattle, WA 98118
Next up in our series of CoCA Pops, we're please to present Tacoma artist, Jeremy Gregory, who brings his art to life through paintings and hand crafted posable puppets in his upcoming exhibition "The Dirty Circus of Life" at Columbia City Gallery. Expect Jeremy to guide you through his observations of every day life. From the tricks of a mischievous magician to the inexcusable antics of clown cops!
Gregory's passion for turning his edgy and gritty style of art into 3-D posable puppets started about four years ago. He describes them as his own children with each of them having a unique back-story.
Like a type of Geppetto, he makes his characters even more life-like by using them to create action shots with story lines and has created a short stop-motion animation "Welcome to the Neighborhood." His stop-motion film took over a year to finish with help from Brian Parker, a professor at Tacoma's Bates Technical College in the Digital Media department along with four students from his class. The film stays true to the realistic and gritty art that Gregory is known for and like Pinnochio his main character, Jimi, learns a tough life lesson hanging out with the wrong crowd.
Gregory's talent has been recognized by City Arts Magazine as Tacoma's Top Comic artist. He had an alt-comic series in the magazine titled True Grit from 2008 - 2011. He is also an active participant in community mural projects in the Puget Sound region. He is a graduate of the Arts Institute of Seattle and currently teaches graphic arts in downtown Tacoma at School of the Arts High School. His artwork has been on exhibit up and down the west coast.
Artist's Bio
Jeremy Gregory, a Tacoma Washington native, was born an artist. He creates from personal inspiration and life experience.
A hyper-active child, Jeremy found solace in creativity; it was his way to focus extra energy and emotions. This would be the seed that planted his career. After high school graduation, Jeremy spent his time exploring life mostly skateboarding, snowboarding, painting, and crafting. In his late 20's he graduated from the Art Institute of Seattle (2001). Since that time, Jeremy has continued with his art career -- solo shows, collaborative shows, and commission work.
When you experience Jeremy's art you will find his approach unique, prolific, and raw. His work is based in storytelling and his imagination creates endless material, and people just tend to be drawn to his playful ways!
Currently Jeremy enjoys spending time on character design and production of his stop-motion world titled "Welcome to the Neighborhood."
You can also find him painting, illustrating, creating murals, or working in his sketchbook.
- See more at: http://www.cocaseattle.org/exhibitions/past/2016/jeremy-gregory/#sthash.jHArL5Wr.dpuf


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Connecting in Faith: Concord Road Children
Our children and youth are our gift from God. We believe that our youngest congregants must be taught the commandments of God's Word and the teachings of the Bible. Our goal is to help our children and young adults build a strong foundation for a Christ-centered life.
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The purpose of this ministry is to give our children training in spiritual leadership. This will be done through a well defined program. Activities will be arranged to get the best results in all things that are being taught. We will use the best instructors at all times. Our children are the future of His church and of our country they deserve the best we can give them.


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If you are a company that already publishes a sustainability report (or is thinking about doing it in the future), stop what you're doing and pay attention.
For the last 15 years, most sustainability reporting has been driven by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI ), which publishes a stakeholder-driven set of sustainability reporting guidelines designed to give companies a framework for disclosing their economic, social, and environmental impacts.
While GRI is an essential part of the sustainability reporting field, a new player has appeared who may shake things up: the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). The IRRC is a group designed to promote "integrate reporting" -- which is integrating sustainability and financial reporting into a single, more meaningful model.
Why is this important now?
The IIRC has launched the consulting draft of integrated reporting framework. Over the next ninety days, the organization is seeking feedback on the draft from companies, investor groups, reporting standards organizations, accounting bodies and regulators — basically everyone who has a stake in the transformation of corporate reporting.
The framework differs from standard financial reporting in a number of ways:
(For more information on the topic, check out the IIRC executive director's article in the Harvard Business Review).
Even if you aren't a publicly-traded organization and don't have equity investors, this is still important. The IIRC framework has the potential to change the types of questions that stakeholder will ask -- including customers, suppliers, financiers, and local advocates.
So check out the draft framework and make your voice heard. (At least take a look -- you'll want to know what's coming down the pipeline regardless of your level of commitment at this time!)


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Five Years For Gear Up Cyclery
Dennis Gibbs
November 10, 2015
Local Small Business Sees Growth And A Positive Future.
Gear Up Cyclery's five year anniversary mark means growth for this small business. The owners, Dennis, Janet, and son, Daniel Gibbs are expanding with "Outdoor Specialty, Adventure and Lifestyle" products. It has begun the expansion into the outdoor adventure/lifestyle category with well-known suppliers including Toad & Co, Kuhl, Marmot, Outdoor Research, Merrell, Osprey and Hydro Flask. Dennis Gibbs commented, "There is a little bit of outdoors in all of us, and our goal is to make it easy and enjoyable for anyone to get out there and enjoy it."
"Big Box retailers simply aren't providing the attention customers are asking for when it comes to making educated decisions on which products would best fit their needs," Daniel Gibbs added. Customers and the community at large will be impressed with the genuinely caring staff at Gear Up that are truly engaged in the interest of their customer's need in making outdoor/adventure decisions.
Five years is a landmark for any small business – especially one started in the depths of a recession. From humble beginnings at the corner of Center Street and U.S. 40 in Plainfield, Gear Up Cyclery has grown to become an established bike shop and recognized by the National Bicycle Dealers Association (NBDA) as one of the America's Best Bike Shops in 2014 and 2015.
What started as a dream for Janet and Dennis Gibbs has turned into a major anchor for downtown Plainfield and Hendricks County. Gear Up Cyclery opened its doors 5 years ago on January 10, 2011. "We wanted to create a bike shop that promoted the healthy lifestyle associated with cycling and would welcome any rider no matter what skill level," said Janet Gibbs, "We have customers tell us all the time how intimidated they feel walking into some bike shops, but you guys are so friendly and welcoming." Since opening its doors, Gear Up has focused on the most important thing: Treating people with respect and welcoming everyone.
"We thank our customers for their loyalty, and our employees for making this a successful business these last 5 years. With the success of the past and the positive trends now, there is promise of a great future," insisted Dennis. Daniel Gibbs joined the family business in 2012 and became a valuable asset in a short time. "We are all excited about what the future holds for Gear Up in the next 5 years," says Dennis.
Hendricks County and Indiana State Parks are a great resource for the surrounding communities. They provide trails for biking, hiking and running and space to enjoy our natural environment. There are lakes and surrounding wild life areas for fishing, bird watching, and camping. All these areas provide the community with activities to promote healthy lifestyle choices through connecting with nature and enjoying the outdoors.
"We are thrilled to be able to give back to our community through the expansion of Gear Up with the "Outdoor Specialty, Adventure and Lifestyle" products. We look forward to the opportunity to serve both existing and new customers with their outdoor/adventure needs," Janet added.


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This is verbatim the email I just sent to the IGDA SIGS-admin list, announcing the Voter Guidance Committee date and time:
OK! The results are in, and it looks like the most-convenient time for the most people is:
Thursday, Aug. 13, at 6:30pm Eastern time. That's 3:30pm Pacific time, and 10:30pm GMT.
We'll be holding this meeting on IRC. For those of you with an IRC client already, we'll be on server irc.chat-solutions.org on channel #voterguidance -- or for the sake of simplicity, you should be able to click this link for an in-browser client: http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.chat-solutions.org&channel=%23voterguidance
If you plan to attend and you haven't used IRC before, I highly advocate trying to pop in once before the meeting to make sure everything works properly for you. I'll be on the channel from now until the meeting, though mostly idle, going by the nick of Andrhia. If you have any trouble connecting or otherwise need technical help, do feel free to email me about it: email@example.com
Thanks, and please spread the word. :)
Let's just take a moment here to cheer for the IGDA, an organization where somebody like me, really just a nothing-special average member, can suggest something like this and get nothing but support instead of getting shut down. The IGDA: It's a great place, seriously. Now let's all help make it even better.


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Know Your Audience. Get crystal clear on who your blog audience is. When you are on top of the interests and behavior of your audience, you are better able to write content that grabs their attention.
Niche It. If you are writing for everyone, it is challenging to focus and develop a good relationship with your readers. Narrowing your niche will also help you buildup targeted traffic and position yourself as an expert in your field.
Be Consistent. Writing a blog post sporadically slow down traffic to it. I have heard various opinions on blogging frequency; however, most agree that you need to be consistent. I think that two to three times per week is a great goal. Treat blogging as part of your business strategy. Creating an editorial calendar can help you to be strategic and plan your post topics ahead of time. WordPress has a plugin in for this: Editorial Calendar.
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A couple of months ago, my sister, mom and I were filmed in my home with actresses Bern Nadette Stanis. She played Thelma in Good Times.
Her mom had alzheimers and Bern Nadette wanted to talk with other caregivers. I have to thank Paula, who leads the Harlem Alzheimers support group for that hook up.
I was nervous during the filming and after my husband said he wish he had cue cards to remind us what to talk about. UGHHHH! I felt horrible after the shoot because I was tongue tied and my sister felt horrible because she was crying. (You see some of that in the trailer.) Mom was just going with the flow. I just have to release and let go.
During the filming I did show some of mom's handmade quilts. I hope they show them.
It'll be shown on Centric TV and the show is called 'BEING.' (link to trailer) This Saturday July, 30th, 2016. Check the site for the time in your area.
If you are a caregiver, please go to these websites. They offer classes, support groups, 24 hour call support and more. You are not alone.
Caring Kind (NYC Chapter)
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Twenty-nine kilometers of real skyrunning with a 2.500 meter vertical climb and the starting and finishing lines in the beautiful location of Lungolago Marconi in Limone sul Garda are the distinctive elements of this race. After a two-kilometer stretch passing through the streets of Limone, the course reaches Reamòl. This marks the beginning of the breath-taking, rugged ascent that heads to Punto Larici, proceeds to Passo Rocchetta and Cima Mughera. From here descent on path "zete de Rans". Taking the Braséla path up and down you reach Doss dei Ruer from where you will do the second part of the Vertical. Arriving to Cima Mughera again you run left (toward Baita Segala) along the nr.101 and nr.421 then. From here you take the ascent to the GPM of the race, Monte Carone (1.621mt). Down again and up to Traversole path, touching Corna Vecchia and reaching Dalco. The last descent goes down to the technical track nr. 112 till Limone.
Limone Extreme Skyrace
Limone sul Garda, Lombardy, Italy
Start time: 6.00 pm
LENGHT: 29 km
VERTICAL CLIMB: 2500mt.
REGISTRATIONS' OPENING & CLOSING: inscriptions close at 600 competitors or 9th October
REGISTRATION FEE: Due to insurance reasons a F.I.Sky membership is mandatory. For members the registration fee is € 45,00 for those who aren't the fee is of € 50,00 including the daily F.I.Sky card.
RACE KIT: Dynafit wind vest
When picking up your race bib, you must present a copy of your registration, the bank transfer with the registration fee, the medical certificate for competitive sports (bring a copy which will be held by the staff) and the signed waiver of liability form (to download at the end of this page).
Remember that strangers living in Italy or Italians living abroad must provide an italian agonistic health certificate for athletic races.
RACE BIB/RACE KIT PICKUP: Friday from 12 to 5.30 p.m & Saturday from 7 a.m to 10.30 a.m.
MEETING POINT: Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018 - Lungolago Marconi - 10.30 a.m.
START: Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018 - Lungolago Marconi - 11.00 a.m.
PASTA PARTY: from 5.30p.m., Lungolago Marconi
AWARD CEREMONY: Saturday evening at 9.00p.m., Lungolago Marconi
Saturday evening PARTY with live music and DJ!!!
The Limonextreme Skyrace is open to anyone who is at least 18 years old. All athletes must be in possession of a valid medical certificate declaring fitness for competitive sports, according to DM 10/01/82. This certificate must be valid as of the date of the race and must be presented when the race bib is assigned. The Limonextreme Skyrace has a maximum limit of 600 participants.
No refund for cancellations.
Race packs can't be sent and can be picked up only at the race office in the race days.
The Race Director, at his discretion, can change and/or modify the race at any time (for example, the course, the start procedure, the length of the race, finish line, etc.) and he can suspend the race at any moment to better protect the athlete. If the race is cancelled, the registration fee will not be reimbursed.
Even if not explicitly indicated, these rules are applied in relation to the rules established by FSA-FISKY – Italian Skyrunning Championship. http://www.skyrunning.com/images/stories/pdfs/isf-sky-rules-2012.pdf
- The race bib must be visibly worn during the entire race.
- Each competitor is obliged to have a WINDBREAKER with him/her on departure. The jacket will be checked at the end of the race. If the athlete is found without this garment, he/she will be given a 3 minute penalty.
- The use of HEADPHONES is prohibited.
- The athlete must follow the regularly indicated course.
- Athletes stopped at the checkpoint must hand in their bib to the gate official.
- Athletes who withdraw from the race in progress must inform the organization and hand in their bibs to the staff at the nearest checkpoint.
There isn't a ski poles pick up service
See the video of the track above the page
There will be refreshment stations along the course in these locations: Dos de la Tera, Larici, Cima Mughera x2, at Val Salum, casa della lepre, Corna Vecchia, at the end of descent of Dalco. -WE SUGGEST TO HAVE WITH YOU MIN. 0,5 LT OF WATER & CUPS TO REFILL -
The athlete, fully aware of the responsibility for untruthful declarations, acknowledges and confirms that he/she has reviewed the race route and – being of sound mind – believes that it is appropriate for his/her technical level; that he/she realizes that said route includes stretches with fixed cords and exposed passages, even if assisted by organization personnel; that he/she is in possession of a skyrunning curriculum suitable for the competition in which he/she is registered, having recently participated in similar events and with mountain experience suitable for facing said route; that he/she has been duly informed by the organizers of the potential hazards of the event that takes place in a mountain setting with consequent objective hazards that cannot be eliminated for all competitors and to accept, in light of said knowledge, the risk nevertheless; that he/she expressly exonerates the organizers from all liability caused by negligence regarding any injury that the athlete sustains.
Athletes are requested to respect the environment. Therefore, they are asked to throw away garbage (for example, water bottles, cups, gel) in the trash cans set up along the route. Competitors who exhibit poor conduct that is not prudent or respectful of the environment will be penalized and may be disqualified, according to decision made by a special jury.
Free parking is available on Via Fasse and at the Palazzetto dello Sport on Via Tovo. Please remember that only paid parking is available near the start/finish line, also on the day of the race. The showers for the athletes are about 1 km from the start/finish line at the Sport Hall.
The first 15 men, overall, and the first 15 women, overall.
The first 3 men/women of the following categories: M40-49 / M50 - M59 / M60+
The athlete has to be present at the prize ceremony, no other person can take the prize instead of him.
Complaints are accepted up to one-half hour before the arrival of the last competitor. Payment of a € 50.00 fee will be requested: if the complaint is accepted, that amount will be reimbursed.
By registering for the event, participants in the race authorize the use of their images, photos and/or videos that will be used to publicize the event and/or area for affiliated purposes and they consent to the processing of their personal data, entered in the archives of the Organizer/Association. This data will be stored and conserved confidentially by the organizing committee and will be used for purposes related to the event, in conformity with Law. n. 675/96 of December 31, 1996, article 13 (Privacy Law). The data could be used also for sending publicity or news by the organizers and their partners/sponsors. This data can be modified or deleted at any time.
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June 5, 2018 Corporate Prayer Guide YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY Pray that you and your family would put no confidence in the flesh or human methods but rather lean on God to bring awakening. We are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh. Phil. 3:3 NEIGHBORS, CHURCH, AND COWORKERS Pray that your...Keep Reading


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Pine Haven Christian Communities' August community learning event will celebrate National Coffee month in an open to the public event.
This free event will be held on August 9, 2017, starting at 10:00 am in the community center at Pine Haven's Haven Drive campus in north Sheboygan Falls. Speaking at the event will be Karin Oliver-Kreft, marketing director and coffee aficionado, who will explain the different types and characteristics of coffee roasts as well as the different types of coffee drinks. Attendees will be able to enjoy free samples of coffee – provided by Daydream Café.
This coffee lovers' celebration is part of Pine Haven's "Learning For Life" series of educational events, which are open to the public and feature a new topic each month. The goal of these lecture series is to provide information that is of interest to the general population, offering them a chance to learn more about topics that will benefit them through life. Future topics are outlined on Pine Haven's Facebook page, so that the community can plan their attendance in advance. Refreshments will be served.
Reservations are not necessary. Event is listed under events on Pine Haven's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/PineHavenChristian/. Or you can reach Karin Oliver-Kreft on the phone at 920-550-5227 or via email: email@example.com.


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Behind the scenes of Melissa Bishop's back-to-back Canadian records
February 22nd, 2016 by Sinead Mulhern | Posted in Profiles | Tags: dennis fairall, Featured, melissa bishop
Melissa Bishop is on fire right now. She's following up a dream-like 2015 by setting yet another Canadian record, only to then break it just three days later. We talked to her after her whirlwind week in setting records and winning races in Ireland and Scotland.
In case you missed it, Melissa Bishop is the star of Canadian track right now. The 27-year-old is in her element these days as her track career hits high point after high point. Just this past week, Bishop set the new Canadian indoor 800m running 2:00.6 in Ireland on Wednesday and then proceeded to rest up and lower that time again, beating that record in Glasgow on Saturday. Bishop is one of the most admirable people in the Canadian running scene right now and of course, there's always lots going on behind the scenes to produce performances like hers. Here are a few fun facts about Bishop and her record runs:
In Ireland, it was all about that 600m point
You can watch the races but the video doesn't tell you anything about what's going on from the athlete's perspective. At the Ireland meet last week, Bishop was focused on running hard to the 600m point and then hanging on. "There isn't a lot of time to think about what you're doing," says Bishop. "In Ireland is was: Make it to the 600m and then see what you can do."
"Victory day for @bishopmelissa" as she sets ?? 800m indoor record in 2:00.60 https://t.co/Jx6m6nkX39
— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) February 17, 2016
Heading to Europe, the record was the goal
"We went in with the intention of chasing the record," says Bishop. "We were fairly certain that it would happen– we were in the right races." She had two chances to do it but she says it was important to try to get it the first time and not leave it to the Glasgow race. Similarly, after bettering the previous mark, she says it was important to still approach the Glasgow meet aiming to recover and run as fast as possible. Always take every opportunity, says Bishop.
You'll almost always catch Bishop nodding off on her flights
Travel can make or break your race. Bishop knows that. If you were to spot her on a flight, chances are you'd see her dozing off. Her flight to Ireland was a night flight and so it was extra important to be well rested. When adjusting to time change, Bishop recommends sleeping on the flight and not napping during the daylight hours upon arrival.
Despite her successful career, she still gets pre-race jitters
Does the record-holding athlete with a world championship performance like Bishop's silver medal run get anxious before the race? Yes. "Every athlete still gets nervous. Yes I'm nervous, I still have doubts but you focus on the reality and the reality was that I had two opportunities in Europe," she says.
Bishop has been with her coach, Dennis Fairall for nine years… and counting
Fairall has been her coach ever since she first arrived at the University of Windsor in Ontario. As Bishop explains, it's a close friendship as well as an athlete-coach relationship. Sadly though, Fairall had to step back from his coaching at the university to coach just a few athletes as he is not in good health. Fairall suffers from a degenerative condition called supranuclear palsy (PSP). It's emotional for the pair but as Bishop explains, it's not a hindering factor. "We know how to plan for it. He's still completely able to come to practice and coach me. He's still the same Dennis. We adjust accordingly," she says.
When she's not on the track, she's on the couch or in the kitchen
When not banging out a hard workout, it's about recovery. For Bishop, that means baking, cooking or reading books usually recommended to her by her massage therapist.
One of her best memories is a post-race hug she shared with Fairall
She's been coached by Fairall for nearly a decade. The best memory was when he hugged her after her race in Beijing in the summer. He's not a big hugger, she explains. "It was just as much of an accomplishment for him as it was for me," she says.
If in the beginning she were told where her career would go, she'd have been surprised
Arriving at the University of Windsor, the goal was to have a good experience running for the school. As the years went on, the athlete could see that she was progressing but in the early days, she says she "would have been a little surprised," if someone told her she'd become an Olympic and world championship runner.
Heading into Rio, health is her main focus
It's an Olympic year–everyone is looking at Rio. The more specific focus though is health. "I'm hoping to stay healthy and that Dennis stays healthy," says Bishop.


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Hello fellow curlers, the Misoula Curling Club hopes everyone is enjoying their time away from the ice. This email will serve as a summer update to what is going on in our curling world.
1. MCC board has been meeting and has preliminary dates for the upcoming season. There will be 2 seasons of curling. We will be running games that are 8 ends in each season. There will be league playoff Bonspiel again for our winter season.
2. The 2nd Annual Zootown Bonspiel will be our second bonspeil. This will be open to all out of town teams.
3. Butte Montana is going to be leasing to own our Neville rocks…. the older set… and MCC will be acquiring 2 new sets of rocks later this summer. Also around the state you will see Billings getting a program up and running. Butte will have ice this summer so keep an eye out for some updates on curling ice before our November start date. Facebook: Missoula Curling Club
4.MCC is looking for intrested curlers at getting certified as "Curling Instructors" Below are some updates on how to do this.
Westminster California:
The Orange County Curling Club will be hosting a USCA Level I Instructor's Course on Saturday, July 23rd from 3:30 pm – 7:00 pm. This class is intended for curlers who have the fundamentals down and want to learn how to share that knowledge with novice curlers.
The cost is $40 for USCA paid members. $75 for Non United States Curling Association members. Please, Cash or Checks only. Make checks payable to: Orange County Curling Club.
New instructors will be given the latest information from the USCA on teaching new curlers the basic fundamentals of curling. In addition to the 3 ½ -4 hours of classroom training, the new instructors will teach a Learn to Curl class that evening as part of the course. The Learn to Curl is from 7-9pm.
For more info or or to sign up here, Please visit:
Other important information on Curling can be found at www.curlingrocks.net.
5.We were all insured and signed up as US Curling members last year. This year we will be part of MOPAC which is the Mountain Pacific division of US Curling. We will be able to send teams to districts and so forth. More info to follow….
6. MCC will be an official Non-Profit this upcoming season and would love to hear your ideas on how we can help fundraise to keep our ice costs down and keep ourselves self-sufficient.
If you have learned of more information on curling please feel free to email me any information and I will pass it along to our members. Another place to post ideas and information is on Facebook under Missoula Curling Club.


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Runnymede is an Independent Catholic Preparatory School for boys and girls aged 3-11 years
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Edmund Rice (1762-1844) was the founder of the Christian Brothers. He was born in Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. As a young man he came to the bustling port city of Waterford and worked in his uncle's business. He was talented and energetic and soon became a very wealthy man. In 1785 he fell in love and married Mary Elliot. However, his happiness was shattered with the tragic death of his wife just four years later. Mary died in childbirth and Edmund was left with a handicapped daughter.
This shattering experience was to mark a decisive turning point in Edmund's life. He spent more and more time in prayer and in helping the great numbers of people in Waterford who suffered poverty and injustice. In 1802 he set up a free school for poor young people. Having provided for his daughter, Mary, who was cared for by his family, he left his comfortable house and lived over the school.
Influenced by the work of Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters, he gathered around him a group of men, forming a religious community of Brothers dedicated to 'raising up the poor'. Today he is honoured as the Founder of both the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers. Many others were attracted by his vision and generosity, and the educational mission of the Brothers spread throughout Ireland and to many parts of the world. All followers of Edmund Rice are committed to education as liberation.
The way of education begun by Edmund Rice expressed both sides of his character. Compassion for the children in his care and the fervour of his own personal commitment to Christ described his fundamental attitude, but it was balanced by the practical acumen of a shrewd man of business. Edmund not only had a vision of transformation for the poor boys of his own town, but he wanted to make it a concrete and lasting reality.
Christian Brothers' schools today are challenged by the story of Edmund as they seek to live out gospel values in the competitive climate of today's educational world. See Edmund Rice Schools Leaflet
For more information about Edmund Rice, please refer to the Global Edmund Rice website here.
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Turning Out The Lights: ConSentry Networks
(Note: We're keeping an ongoing tally of venture-backed company shutdowns this year as VentureWire reports on them. See the list below. Look for these postings under the title, "Turning Out The Lights.")
Once touted as the next big thing in information security, network access control has failed to live up to its hype. The space has seen a steady flow of failed companies over the last two years, but the recession and the shortage of venture funding that has accompanied it have sped up the pace.
The latest casualty, ConSentry Networks Inc., burned through more than $81 million before shutting its doors. News of the closing was reported earlier by Network World.
ConSentry built switches and controllers that have network access control capabilities embedded in them. Network access control technology seeks to limit or quarantine network access of unauthorized users or devices.
Venture capitalists have spent more than $550 million developing businesses to tackle this market in the last decade, VentureWire records show, but with little to show for it. Sales of network access control products have stalled at around $220 million annually for the last two years, according to research firm Gartner, and there have been no public offerings or blockbuster acquisitions.
ConSentry raised a $9.4 million recapitalization round in January, shortly after bringing in Joe Golden, a former partner at Accel Partners, as its chief executive. Existing investors Accel, DAG Ventures, Invesco Private Capital, Northgate Capital and Translink Capital contributed, as did new investor Vedanta Capital.
Milpitas, Calif.-based Consentry was founded in 2003. Other investors include Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and Sequoia Capital, which both hold common stock in the company after not participating in the recapitalization.
Golden declined to comment. VentureWire sought comment from certain investors, but none responded.
ConSentry now joins a growing list of former competitors that have fallen by the wayside.
In May, Nevis Networks Inc., which was also making switches with network access control, sold its assets out of bankruptcy to Aviram Networks Inc., a holding company that recently re-launched the business. Nevis had raised $32 million.
In February, Autonomic Networks Inc., which tried network access control technology for compliance auditing - an area that ConSentry began pushing in its final year - closed after failing to raise a new round to support its restart. In its first go-round, as a security appliance vendor named Vernier Networks, Autonomic had raised about $68 million.
Later that same month, Mirage Networks Inc., a maker of network access control appliances, sold to privately held Trustwave Holdings Inc., which uses the technology as part of its managed security service.
Other companies that operated in the space, Lockdown Networks Inc. and Caymas Systems Inc., shut their doors in 2008 and 2007, respectively.
Venture-backed companies remaining in the space include Bradford Networks Inc., ForeScout Technologies Inc. and Latis Networks Inc., which does business as StillSecure.
Below is a list of other venture capital-backed companies in alphabetical order that have gone belly up this year, as reported by VentureWire. If you know of any other such companies that have closed their doors this year, please send us a tip at email@example.com.
Allux Medical Inc., Menlo Park, Calif. - For the past four years, it had been developing devices for treating upper airway and dermatological inflammatory diseases. But the company shut down after raising at least $13 million from Prospect Venture Partners, Three Arch Partners and Venrock, according to our records.
Argolyn Bioscience Inc., Durham, N.C. - The peptide drug developer has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after preclinical studies did not show convincing enough data to move its lead pain drug forward. Argolyn received a $15.8 million commitment in Series A-1 funding in June 2007, a round that was voted Deal of the Year by industry group Southeast BIO. Intersouth Partners and Quaker BioVentures led the round, joined by Amgen Ventures.
Aspen Medtech Inc., Bellevue, Wash. - Unable to secure enough funds to continue operations, venture-backed medical device incubator Aspen Medtech Inc. shut down. Aspen Medtech was founded in mid-2007 with $1 million in funding from Prospect Venture Partners and Three Arch Partners. The company intended to launch one company in a medical device field to be determined.
Autonomic Networks Inc., Mountain View, Calif. - The company decided to shut its doors after failing to secure a new round of venture capital. Formerly known as Vernier Networks, the company started out in 2001 as a provider of network access control products that use computer equipment to manage the people and programs that have access to corporate networks. Under the new name the company made equipment that enables organizations to remain compliant with network security protocols. Investors included Allegis Capital, DCM, Foundation Capital, Masthead Venture Partners, Utah Ventures (now UV Partners), Venrock and Weber Capital.
BrightScale Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. - The maker of chips used for video processing shut down after it "came to the end of [its] rope," according to its main invesor, Adams Capital Management. In 2003, Adams Capital joined individual backers to invest $6.2 million in BrightScale, formerly known as Connex Technology.
Cogentus Pharmaceuticals Inc., Menlo Park, Calif. - The pharma filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after raising more than $80 million, including a $62.5 million round just over a year ago, from investors such as Apothecary Capital, Keffi Group, Prospect Venture Partners, Pinnacle Ventures and Ridgeback Capital. Cogent intended to conduct Phase III trials for a pill designed to provide protective cardiovascular benefits while reducing gastrointestinal side effects associated with anti-platelet therapy.
Coghead Inc., Redwood City, Calif. - With dwindling financial resources and an outstanding loan from Western Technology Investment, the Web application company shut down its operations and sold its intellectual property to one of its investors, SAP AG. American Capital Strategies Ltd. and El Dorado Ventures had also invested in Coghead.
Cswitch Inc., Santa Clara, Calif. - The maker of communications semiconductors failed to raise enough funding to bring its chips into production and abandoned an effort to sell the company, so it shut down. Cswitch raised $41 million over two rounds from investors including ATA Ventures, Bay Partners, Charles River Ventures, GF Private Equity Group, Harris & Harris Group, Masters Capital, Micron Ventures and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co.
DiObex Inc., San Francisco - Its venture backers - which include Domain Associates, Inventages Venture Capital, FirstMark Capital, Sofinnova Ventures and others - cut the company's headcount to zero and planned to sell DiObex's asset, a diabetes drug, after failing to raise capital on acceptable terms.
Dynogen Pharmaceuticals Inc., Waltham, Mass. - A planned merger with a special purpose acquisition company sputtered last year, and its lead drug candidate later failed in clinical trials, leading to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Dynogen raised about $67 million from a group that included Atlas Venture, Abingworth Management, HealthCare Ventures, Oxford Bioscience Partners, Pappas Ventures and SV Life Sciences.
Elephant Pharmacy Inc., Berkeley, Calif. - "Burdened with obligations" too big for the company to carry on, the operator of health and wellness stores shut its doors and is liquidating under Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The company had raised at least $49 million from Tudor Investment's Rapter Global fund, JPMorgan Chase's Bay Area Equity Fund., CVS Corp., David Hadley of D.F. Hadley & Co., and Arthur Rubinfield, former executive vice president of Starbucks Corp.
Hammerhead Systems Inc., Mountain View, Calif. - Big customers, a top-flight engineering staff and $110 million in venture backing was not enough to save Hammerhead, a data-switching company that closed its doors. The company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in May. Investors included Apex Venture Partners, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Foundation Capital, Lighthouse Capital Partners, Mayfield Fund, FirstMark Capital and Silver Creek Ventures.
Innovative Spinal Technologies Inc., Mansfield, Mass. - The spinal-surgery device maker reportedly shut its doors and filed for bankruptcy after seven years in operation. It had raised nearly $75 million in funding from investors including GE Healthcare, JPMorgan Partners, MPM Capital, OrbiMed Advisors and Oxford Finance.
Kadoink Inc., San Francisco - After failing to secure a second round of financing, the provider of a mobile content delivery and advertising platform discontinued its service. It raised a $7 million Series A round in November 2007 from Sutter Hill Ventures and angel investors. It also had a $2 million loan from Hercules Technology Growth Capital.
LV Sensors Inc., Emeryville, Calif. - A maker of semiconductors aimed at the automotive market, LV Sensors Inc. closed its doors in the spring after failing to raise a new round of capital. LV Sensors raised $27 million in two rounds of venture capital from Mayfield Fund, Panorama Capital and U.S. Venture Partners.
MetaRAM Inc., San Jose - Boasting some high-profile executives and investors, the semiconductor company shut down in July. The company's technology was designed to reduce the costs of servers and workstations by up to 90%. MetaRAM raised at least $8 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures and Storm Ventures.
Nanochip Inc., Fremont, Calif. - Early in September, the memory circuits maker set out to raise the $70 million it would need to finish development of its initial chips and bring them into production. On the advice of its investment banker, it gave up in October and officially shut its doors in May. Nanochip had raised $47.4 million in venture capital from investors including JK&B Capital, Intel Capital and Merrill Lynch. New Enterprise Associates also held a stake, but the firm had not invested in Nanochip since the company's 2004 Series B round.
NebuAd Inc., Redwood City, Calif. - The online behavorial tracking start-up, which drew Congressional scrutiny over its privacy policy, revealed in court filings that it shut down. NubuAd's "deep packet inspection" tracking technology delivered advertising tied to consumers' interests through partnerships with Internet service providers. The company's demise was a blow to Menlo Ventures and Sierra Ventures, which bet more than $30 million on NebuAd.
Nevis Networks Inc., Mountain View, Calif. - The company, which made a range of products that protect local-area networks (LANs) from unauthorized users, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Nevis had 165 employees in its heyday, and more than $32 million in backing from some of the venture industry's top firms: BlueRun Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and NewPath Ventures.
nTag Interactive Corp., Boston - After seven years of trying to modernize the corporate conference industry with digital name tags that can communicate with each other wirelessly, nTag filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Pilot House Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds had invested more than $20 million in the company starting in 2004.
OmniSonics Medical Technologies Inc., Wilmington, Mass. - The developer of an ultrasound technology that breaks up blood clots filed to liquidate under Chapter 7 bankruptcy in March. The company had raised more than $90 million from investors including Domain Associates, General Electric Pension Trust, Nomura Phase4 Ventures and Prism VentureWorks.
Ortega InfoSystems Inc., Fremont, Calif. - The company, which provided remote viewing of security facilities through a Web browser, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Previous investors included Harbinger Venture Management and Sycamore Ventures, which provided Ortega with at least $20 million. The last reported funding for the company was an $11.8 million Series C round in December 2002.
Pegasus Biologics Inc., St. Paul, Minn. - In May, the company ceased operations after unsuccessful fund-raising efforts and went into a sealed bid auction process for its assets. In July, it agreed to sell the assets to Synovis Life Science Technologies Inc. for $12.1 million in cash. The purchase price is less than the roughly $38 million in equity and debt raised by Pegasus. Previous investors in the company included Affinity Capital Management, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, Life Science Angels, Onset Ventures and Three Arch Partners.
SafePage Corp., Menlo Park, Calif. - Backed by Canaan Partners and founded in early 2008, SafePage was looking to build a "secure personal portal" that would give people quick access to their private Web sites. The eventual plan was to provide access to this data using online "widgets." It went straight from stealth mode to the start-up graveyard.
SiCortex Inc., Maynard, Mass. - A high-performance computing company backed by around $68 million in venture capital, SiCortex shut down after failing to raise adequate funding, making the decision to sell its assets and intellectual property. SiCortex raised about $68 million from Flagship Ventures, Polaris Venture Partners, Prism Ventures, JK&B Capital and Chevron Technology Ventures.
Silicon Navigator Corp., Cupertino, Calif. - Venture investors decided to pull the plug on this company, founded in 2003 as a provider of electronic design automation software for chipmakers. Silicon Navigator filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in January. Investors included Cadence Design Systems Inc., Intel Capital and ITU Ventures.
Sotto Wireless Inc., Bellevue, Wash. - The stealthy wireless service provider, whose executives and investors are linked to pioneering telecom company McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., failed to make enough traction and shut down operations. It raised roughly $14 million from Ignition Partners and VantagePoint Venture Partners.
SplashCast Corp., Portland, Ore. - The company, which lets people watch television shows within social networking sites, was unable to raise new funding and decided to shut down. In March 2008, SplashCast announced $4 million in Series A financing led by Australian media and advertising veteran Mark Bayliss with participation from angel group Emergent Growth Fund.
TallyGenicom LP, Chantilly, Va. - Printing products company Printronix Inc. tapped its owner Vector Capital for about $10 million in additional equity as part of a deal to buy competitor TallyGenicom assets out of bankruptcy. TallyGenicom, which was backed by Arsenal Capital Partners and founded in 2003, filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware.
TeachFirst Inc., Seattle - After a promising beginning, the educational training company fell on hard times and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, effectively putting an end to an eight-year-old company backed by several small funds and angel investors. The company had active contracts with at least 34 schools or school districts nationwide in 12 states.
TeeBeeDee Inc., San Francisco - The social networking Web site for people over age 40 went dark in July after the company to failed to find a suitable business model. Monitor Ventures and Shasta Ventures had invested $4.8 million in Series A financing. TeeBeeDee at its peak was receiving less than 200,000 monthly unique visitors and nine million page views, but the site would need to be five to 10 times bigger than that to be sustainable, it said.
Tipjoy Inc., Cambridge, Mass. - To the dismay of this start-up, the Internet seems to be full of lousy tippers. The company, which launched in early 2008 to become the Internet's tip jar for digital content, shut down its operations after running out of funds. Tipjoy's goal was to create an easy way for consumers to give money for good digital content. Users simply added a Tipjoy widget to their site, which enabled consumers of that content to contribute money. Tipjoy took a 3% cut of the payment amount. The company raised $1 million in Series A financing from Accelerator Group, Betaworks, David Shen Ventures LLC, and individual investors including former Google Inc. executive Chris Sacca.
Trusera Inc., Seattle - The operator of a health Web site that had teetered on the brink of closure since March, tipped over the edge in May. Trusera was backed with $2 million in funding from investors including Benaroya Capital; Erik Blachford, former CEO of Expedia Inc.; Christopher Ackerley, partner at Ackerley Partners; Kim Rachmeler, vice president at Amazon.com Inc.; and Craig Tall, vice chair of corporate development at Washington Mutual Inc.
Ugobe Inc., Eagle, Idaho - The maker of the Pleo robotic dinosaur - a lifelike, interactive toy that drew generous media coverage and many fans - filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in April. Ugobe's investors included First Round Capital, Frontier Management Group, Hyield Venture Capital, and Maxima Capital.
Ultreo Inc., Redmond, Wash. - The company, which made a battery-powered toothbrush that used ultrasound waveguide and sonic bristles, has shut down after failing to find an interested investor or buyer. Ultreo raised a total of $28.1 million in venture capital, including an $11.3 million round in May 2007, VentureWire records show. Its venture investors included Polaris Venture Partners.
Verified Pass Identity Inc., New York - The provider of faster airport security lines for approved travelers, which did business as Clear, has closed its doors less than a year after raising $44.4 million in venture capital. Spark Capital led a $44 million Series F in the company last summer. Prior to that, the company had raised $38.7 million. Its other investors include Baker Capital, GE Security, Lehman Brothers, Lockheed Martin, Syncom Venture Partners and Steven Brill, the company's founder and former chief executive.
Woven Systems Inc., Santa Clara, Calif. - The maker of a 10-gigabit Ethernet switch shut down after failing to raise a new round of financing. In August, it sold some assets and intellectual property to Fortinet Inc. Woven Systems $35 million across two rounds of funding from Goldman Sachs & Co., Mohr Davidow Ventures and Palomar Ventures.
Yoomba Inc., Menlo Park, Calif. - One of a number of VoIP technology makers to shut down. Yoomba offered a service that allowed people to send and receive phone calls and IM conversations from their email programs. Yoomba, originally from Israel, was backed by Global Catalyst Partners and U.S. Venture Partners.


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Usually early in whatever quarter of the year we're in I like to take a look at the Locus list of books coming out in the next quarter. I just like to see what's coming out that I should keep an eye out for. It's about that time. So, here's what I think looks good in the second quarter of 2009. Obviously, publishing schedules can and do change.
The God Engine, by John Scalzi: New Scalzi, and a novella? Yeah, I've gotta get me some of that. (Regarding Henry? Witness?)
The Revolution Business, by Charles Stross: I am seldom enthused about Stross's fiction, but I'd be happy with another half dozen more of this series.
Federations, by John Joseph Adams (editor): I like JJA's work as an anthologist, so there's no way I'm missing this one.
The City & the City, by China Mieville: Hey, it's new Mieville. I'm not sure I really care what it is about. It's worth a look.
Night of Knives, by Ian Cameron Esslemont: New Malazan from the other guy who created the world.
Son of Retro Pulp Tales, by Joe R. Lansdale (editor): First one was good, time for more.
World's End, by Mark Chadbourn: I know nothing, but I think this is going to be one of the major US releases of the year - along with the rest of Chadbourn's novels coming out in 2009.
Well...nothing. Joe Abercrombie's book is UK only, and nothing else really interests me.
Here's my Q1 list for 2009.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Forthcoming 2009: Quarter 2
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Posted by Joe on Thursday, January 29, 2009
3 comments:
- Jeff C said...
I dont see the last Ruckley on your list. Are you not a fan of The Godless World trilogy?
- January 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- Joe Sherry said...
Just haven't read it, actually. That's the Winterbirth / Bloodheir guy?
- January 29, 2009 at 6:39 PM
- Jeff C said...
yessir..and its pretty darn good, i think :)
- January 31, 2009 at 6:44 PM
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