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(Bradenton, Fla., May 17, 2016) — The extremely popular "Art of the Costume" is back at State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota's (SCF) Fine Art Gallery beginning this summer and exhibit organizers are seeking uniforms worn by women throughout the decades.
The exhibit, "Art of the Costume: Women in Uniform," will honor women in the workplace by showcasing fashions that have influenced current trends. This will be SCF's fourth costume exhibition in the past six years. The exhibit is a collaborative effort of the SCF Fine Art Gallery; SCF Theatre program; the department of Art, Design, Humanities; local organizations and private individuals.
SCF is calling out to members of the public who own or have access to a uniform, along with any photo(s) of the individual wearing it, to submit the photos for consideration for the exhibit. Consideration will be given to all types of uniforms, including those from more obvious professions, such as military service, sports, medical and service, as well as uniforms for circus performers, mascots and mermaids.
The deadline to submit photos is June 23 and the notification of selections will be made June 30. Uniforms must be available for loan July 13-Oct. 28. To submit photos visit Women in Uniform Submission. Please upload photos and include your mailing address, phone number, email address and dates of photos, who is wearing the uniform or accessories pictured, and approximate values of each (not to exceed $200 for each item). Photos and information also may be mailed to SCF's Neel Performing Arts Center, 5840 26th St. W., Bradenton, FL 34207, attn.: Women in Uniform Committee.
As with past costume exhibitions, curators Joseph Loccisano, art gallery manager, and Kenneth Erickson, former SCF theatre program director, also will select exhibition items from a variety of sources.
The exhibit will be presented from an educational perspective, addressing broad historical, cultural, artistic and social issues related to work customs and fashions. The exhibit will showcase uniforms worn by women from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
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"We were endowed by our creator with our rights. Not the king, not the state, but our creator." – Mitt Romney
I heard this quote on the radio last week, and it's been gnawing at me ever since.
The conservative/libertarian reliance on the Declaration of Independence as all but coequal with the Constitution is annoying from a historical perspective – the two documents have different aims, different authors and a different set of signers. The Declaration was written to abolish the current government, while the Constitution was written to set up a government. As a result, many of the Declaration's signers, including its author, Thomas Jefferson, and "give me liberty or give me death" Patrick Henry refused to endorse the Constitution. They thought the government it created was too big.
So citing the Declaration of Independence as a relevant document for the current American government is annoying. Citing the deistic Creator formulation Jefferson included as a synonym for "nature" as if he really meant the all-powerful, directly involved God of the universe who is intimately involved in the lives of his children is frustrating.
But what really gets me about that line from Romney is that it's entirely wrong.
With what rights has God endowed us? The Declaration argues that "among" such rights are the ones to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But Jefferson was making an appeal to nature, not the divine. And the fact that he was writing this in an effort to throw off a government he felt was usurping those rights makes it clear they were not divinely given; if they were, no government would be able to take them away.
But let's look at this scripturally. Mormons consider themselves members of the Christian faith and include the Bible as one of their holy books. Where in the Bible does it indicate God has provided anybody with rights? The answer, of course, is that it doesn't. In fact, if we take the Bible literally – and any good Republican Christian does these days – the Bible seems pretty supportive of situations in which women and slaves have no rights at all. How many times do biblical writers tell slaves to submit to or obey their masters, for example? Five times! In Ephesians, Colossians, 1 Timothy, Titus and 1 Peter. On top of that, biblical writers twice tell oppressed Christians to respect and serve the government that is depriving them of their rights (Romans and Titus). That's a total of seven times in which the Bible basically tells people being deprived of "God-given" rights, "Don't worry about it."
The entire context of the Bible is within patriarchal, slave-owning cultures. Over the centuries, those taking the Bible literally have done so in support of slavery and denying women's equality. There is no sign in this collection of ancient texts of an Enlightenment-based concept of natural rights. In fact, God's own Law ensures the deprivation of those rights by enshrining slavery and the treatment of women as property.
In fact, when God comes to humanity in the flesh, he says very little about government at all, despite plenty of opportunities. After all, the Roman Empire was fairly new to the scene, and the Jews chafed under its oppression. In less than 50 years, they would rise up against it in an ultimately catastrophic rebellion. Every day Jesus walked the hills of Palestine, he would have had people muttering about the government and its policies – and plenty of opportunity to talk about the natural rights with which he had endowed all men and women.
But he didn't. The closest he gets is when he's twice asked about taxes.
In Matthew 17, the collectors of the temple tax ask Peter if Jesus pays it. The temple tax was collected from all Jews, regardless of income, for the upkeep of the temple. As Richard Bauckham notes in his enlightening work, The Bible in Politics, the temple tax was therefore regressive; like any flat tax, the burden fell heaviest on the poor. Further, the priests in charge of the temple usually exempted their friends and family, who were of course wealthier. Jesus is fully aware of this, as evidenced by the rhetorical question he asks Peter: "What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect taxes, from their children or from strangers?" Jesus tells Peter to pay the tax anyway, "just so we don't offend them."
But Jesus doesn't have a problem with taxes in general. As he famously says in Matthew 22, when asked whether God's Law allows Jews to pay taxes to Caesar, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's."
So if we are to simply take the literal words of the New Testament, the only rights with which people are truly "endowed by their Creator" are the rights to take and keep slaves and levy progressive taxes. Not exactly a support for limited government, is it?
But of course, that would be a misreading of the Bible. Because God talks quite a lot about his preferences, even if he doesn't swoop in and overturn the institutions of this world. In his kingdom, there is no slavery or gender discrimination (Gal. 3:28), for example, and there is certainly no rich or poor. To the extent that we can make our earthy governments reflect those heavenly priorities, we do a little bit to bring God's kingdom to earth.
In that sense, perhaps Romney isn't too far off: There will be God-given rights. But here's where he's completely wrong: The only institutions authorized by God to grant those rights here and now are our governments (see Romans 13).
And if Romney is truly serious about upholding the priorities of the Creator, he should probably stop advocating tax plans that would redistribute money from the poor to the rich. Jesus doesn't appear to be a fan of regressive taxation.


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Please don't forget to check out the video or podcast episodes based on this article. Also, make sure you read the prior article on divine incomprehensibility before moving forward!
We have covered divine incomprehensibility and now we're off to divine simplicity!
Sometimes the words we use in theology are not identical to how we use them in an everyday context. "Simple," for example, often indicates that something is easy to understand. In classical Christian theism, however, the simplicity means something quite different. We should always keep this in mind when we talk about God: when we talk theologically, our terms must be communicated well. That means that sometimes confusing terms like simplicity need to be properly defined.
Essence & Existence
Simplicity really starts by asking, "Is God's essence and existence one and the same?"
If we were to answer in the negative, what would that mean? It would mean, first of all, that God is composed and would therefore depend upon the aggregate whole (in this case, His essence and existence) to be who He is. Second, God would not exist in virtue of His very essence. In other words, God would not be necessary being, since to be necessary being would entail the identification of essence and existence.
Here's an example: Humans do not exist necessarily, they exist contingently. Existence is not entailed in the human essence. We can think of human-ness apart from the existence of any particular human. Bob, for example, does not exist by virtue of his human essence, he exists by virtue of being actualized by something prior to himself (i.e. his parents). Bob does not have to exist for the human essence to exist. So, Bob's essence and existence are really distinct even though Bob himself could not exist from his essence.
We should not think of essence and existence––being really distinct––as separable. Bob does not exist apart from his essence. In fact, Bob cannot exist apart from his essence. Rather, a human's essence and existence are distinct because there is a real distinction between Bob and his essence. All humans share Bob's essence––a human essence (having a rational mind, a body, etc). But they do not share in Bob's existence (Bob, who was born in 1981, who has brown hair, who is the son of Carla and Jim, etc, etc, etc). There is only one Bob in existence.
The above is called the uniqueness argument for the real distinction between essence and existence.
Contrary to creatures, God is not a Being of whom we can imagine essence apart from existence. To be God is just to be––God is necessary Being. Therefore, God's essence and existence are one and the same.
Actuality & Potentiality
There is actual being and potential being, and then there is non-being. Actual being cannot arise out of non-being since if there were something in non-being that would actualize non-being, it would no longer be non-being. Therefore, actual being cannot arise out of non-being. Actual being must rise out of potential being. But, potential being must be actualized by that which is already actual (potency can't actualize itself, because it is not actual by definition). Thus, everything that exists is either actual being or potential being.
If God were not simple, He would be a mixture of actuality and potentiality.
Now, if God were a mixture of anything God would be composed and therefore dependent upon His parts. This also applies to act and potency. If God is a mixture of both, He's made up of parts and is therefore dependent. Moreover, if God was a mixture of act and potency, what would actualize His potency? God would be dependent on a prior actualizer (remember, potency must be actualized, by a prior actualized thing). And even more so, if God was a mixture of act and potency, He would then be mutable, not immutable. Thus, God cannot be a mixture of act and potency, but must be pure act.
Humans are mixtures of actuality and potentiality. For example, Josh is actual, and right now, Josh typing on a keyboard is actual. But Josh potentially is not typing on a keyboard. Josh is actual (typing) and potential (not typing). Here is another way of putting it: Josh is actual in sitting down, but Josh has the potential to stand up. And one more: Josh is actual in actual existence, but potentially does not actually exist.
What Is Divine Simplicity?
When we say God is not composed, we are also saying that God is simple. By simple I mean that God is not composed of parts. The 2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith states:
1. The Lord our God is but one only living and true God; whose subsistence is in and of himself, infinite in being and perfection; whose essence cannot be comprehended by any but himself; a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; who is immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, every way infinite, most holy, most wise, most free, most absolute; working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will for his own glory; most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and withal most just and terrible in his judgments, hating all sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty.
( 1 Corinthians 8:4, 6; Deuteronomy 6:4; Jeremiah 10:10; Isaiah 48:12; Exodus 3:14; John 4:24; 1 Timothy 1:17; Deuteronomy 4:15, 16; Malachi 3:6; 1 Kings 8:27; Jeremiah 23:23; Psalms 90:2; Genesis 17:1; Isaiah 6:3; Psalms 115:3; Isaiah 46:10; Proverbs 16:4; Romans 11:36; Exodus 34:6, 7; Hebrews 11:6; Nehemiah 9:32, 33; Psalms 5:5, 6; Exodus 34:7; Nahum 1:2, 3 )
God is not composed. That is to say, God is not made up of that which is more basic than Himself. He does not depend on things that are lesser than He is in order to be who He is. As strange as this may sound, it's pretty basic. Let's use a kitchen table as our example. A standard kitchen table is made up of a top and four legs. Those parts are made up of other parts such as wood, nails, and glue. A table, therefore, depends on its top, its legs, and its building materials in order to be actual. A carpenter actualized this kitchen table. The Sommer family dinner table could not exist if it weren't for each individual part that makes it to be what it is.
Now, the kitchen table also possesses potency. Though it may actually be new, it's potentially old; though it may have four legs, it potentially only has three; and though it may be sturdy, it's potentially weak.
Humans are the same. Most basically, we are composed of body and spirit (or body, spirit, soul for you trichotomists out there). Our bodies are composed of various physiological materials to be what it is. We are who we are in virtue of our parts. I may be actually tall, but I'm potentially taller; I may not have a broken leg, but I potentially do, and so on.
All of created reality is this way. There is no contingent thing that does not depend on other things to be what they are (i.e. prior actual things which in turn actualize their potential).
God is not like this. He is not made up of anything in order to be who He is.


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Cloudy With a Chance of Rainbows
A scan of my digital photographs reveals that I've been habitually snaping and sharing images of clouds, not something I'd want to fill a photo album with. But they progressively tell a story that began with a "happy cloud." I had no idea that soon after that photograph, my cousin and I would experience weather in a way that felt like a ride on the tail of a harpooned whale.
Annmarie lives in Colorado, so if not for the Internet, it's improbable that we would have become friends, but I'm grateful that we are. There's no exact science to our friendship. We'll bantor daily for a week and then disappear into our daily lives for several weeks. There's never any pressure. We just pick up where we left off the next time.
My friendship with Annmarie has reintroduced me to my Mother's side of the family. My sister always said that the relationship between cousins usually reflects their parent's relationships to one another. That made sense, and in that way, my parent's and their siblings were like my own brothers and sisters, each busy caring for their families, getting together for major events, talking on the phone now and then. And when you're a family of eleven, you're your own dinner party. Your own world.
Last month, Annmarie flew into New York to see some friends, and afterwards we drove to visit our aunt in New Jersey. It was one of those furnace-like days in which you feel the moisture being sucked out of your hair and skin. The car we traveled in had no air-conditioning, and, far from the naive image I conjured of the wind whipping through our hair making it all right, the temperature registered 104 degrees inside the car while traffic inched along for half the ride. Then, even with the GPS, we got lost (courtesy of the New Jersey jug handle.)
When we finally stumbled through the doors of the crisp, clean assisted living residence and stood at the desk, the receptionist's eyes widened, her jaw hung.
"Oh, my," she said. "you look tired!"
Tired. You don't mean hot, do you?
I looked at Annmarie, whose cheeks were fire truck red; her hair and mine stood up. When the air that blows through your hair at 55 miles per hour feels like a blow torch, everything is going to stay exactly where it's blown. My voice was also gone, because my vocal cords were fried from breathing fire while speaking (nonstop), plus we dehydrated.
But it was cool now, and our aunt kept thanking God we came to visit. And while she smiled her sweet, loving smile, I stared back in awe. She is the only person I know who just gets sweeter as she ages. I shuddered as I thought of the quote I heard years ago: Whatever you are when you're young, when you grow old, you're more so. My aunt is an angel, pure joy and kindness, which just confirms everything I've known about her.
As we left, the only thing that knocked the needle off my record (pondering my current and future personality,) was the happy cloud that hung over the residence. Before we got into the car, I took some pictures of it. It was luminescent and looked like it was hung on a hook in the sky for our appreciation. After all, nobody else was out in the parking lot taking photographs.
The air was still furnace-like, so we wouldn't make the dehydration mistake again. Before we got onto the thruway, we sought a place to gas up and buy as much water as would keep cool on the ride home. That would be one mouthful, anything more would boil.
We found a supermarket and felt spoiled, dilly-dallying, searching for chilled water in the air conditioning. We exited feeling all perky-like and victorious with our water. But I looked over Annmarie's shoulder in bewilderment. The happy cloud was switched out for an ominous beast.
Annmarie looked at it, her face grim. "That's not good," she said. "That is a wall cloud."
"What a wall cloud?" I asked.
"The kind a tornado drops out of."
That suspicion should have changed everything. We might have hunkered down in the supermarket, found a pizzeria. But diid we?
Of course not.
Still basking in the afterglow of Poland Spring, we decided we'd assess the direction of the storm as we traveled along memory lane, past the house our aunt used to live in. The rain and wind was sudden and torrential. Annmarie continued driving, asking for a read off of numbers on the mailboxes. Lightning flashed, illuminating the car, revealing an opaque windshield and shadows outside. She reconsidered. "Okay, never mind that," she said.
"Annmarie, where are we driving?" I asked as we inched along. "I want to drive out of the storm," she said.
I'd been a passenger in the car with panicked drivers before, and I tried to assess her level of hysteria while suppressing my own. Conditions were bad. And I wasn't at all sure how my cousin handled that sort of stress. Perhaps I'd have to administer the Vulcan nerve pinch.
"Annmarie, we can't see," I said. "Aaaaaand we don't do well even when we can." That stark reality resonated.
"I just want to get away from the trees," she said. That was like trying to keep our feet off the sand on in the Sahara. Fortunately, there was a curb cut that led up a hill into a school parking lot, where lightening flashed wildly and we felt conspicuous, like we'd driven to the highest point to deliberately protrude.
When the rain lightened, we quickly began our journey towards the thruway but instead drove into the storm a second time (or into a second storm.) That was when we came across downed trees, large branches and streets that were littered with debris so it looked like the Fourth of July. We rounded the streets until we were right back where we started, near the supermarket. It was now dead, except for what sounded like a tornado siren and the shrill of emergency vehicles.
(The upside of the storm is that the temperature dropped about twenty degrees, so the vents now blew chilled air.) When conditions calmed again, we began the trip home, thankful for every mile that the road was clear. And as we drove along the parkways of Long Island, the roads were clean, dry and familiar. I thought about the journey, my aunt who keeps getting sweeter and others who choose joy and hope in the midst of difficult circumstances. Then there was Annmarie, who flew in from Colorado for all that it means to connect with old friends and her mother's siblings. We rode along quiet, coming down from a rush of energy that could have powered the east coast.
Dang that was exhilerating!
The next time I saw a foreboding cloud, I was preparing for night school and swung back and forth: Not going. Going. Not going. Going. Maybe I'd drive for ten minutes and see what the roads were like. But what if it was worse in Nassau County? I grew disgusted with myself. It was the first time in my life I treated rain as a deterrant. Then I recalled my storm outing with Annmarie and put my books down. I wasn't going.
And for the same reason, I picked up my books, got in the car and drove to school.
Before I reached the parkway, I pulled off the road to take this photograph:


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101-year-old Indian granny who runs like a bullet
She is 101 years old but can give ' competitors half her age on the running track a run for their money. Man Kaur is a centenarian sprinter from Chandigarh in Punjab in northern India. She might look frail but Kaur is an epitome of strength, grit and zeal. With 20 gold medals to her name in international competitions, Kaur is anything but your usual granny. She wakes up early morning for practice, runs 200 meters every day, goes to the gym and lifts weight so she can stay fit enough to continue her passion. The great-grandmother started her journey as an athlete just eight years ago at the tender age of 93. She had no prior sporting experience before her son Gurdev Singh, also a sprinter, suggested she join him in competing on the international master's games circuit. After a medical check-up, she was given the all-clear and since then the mother and son have taken part in dozens of masters athletics meets around the globe. In April this year, she participated in World Masters Games held in Auckland and won four gold medals in the 200-metre sprint, two kilogrammes shot put and 400-gram javelin in Auckland, taking her tally to 20. She clocked one minute 14 seconds as a small crowd cheered her on ending a mere 64.42 seconds off Usain Bolt's 100-meter world record set in 2009.


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2. The hum of the air conditioning/ heating system
3. The hum of the refrigerator
4. The tiny fan whirring in my computer
5. The high pitched waves from a t.v. on mute in the next room
6. Some other high pitched electronic waves whose source is unidentifiable
It's like my ears are being subtly bombarded by electronic background noise. I wonder what it was like before electricity. I wonder if people's aural relationship with the world was different. I wonder if being exposed to electronic noise, no matter how subtle, has any long term effects on our minds. Maybe subtle background frequencies from electronic devices slowly drive us insane.
Today, when the power went off, it was like the air had been purified. The only sound I could hear (and feel) as I lay stretched out on the living room couch was the sound of my own heartbeat. Everything else was beautiful, wonderful, almost tasty, silence.
I'll try to engage the few readers I have. Pause for a moment (don't worry, unless you have a bad Internet connection, my blog isn't going anywhere) Sit back and just listen. What can you hear at this very moment?


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Immaculate Heart of Mary church is located in the mountain town of Rico, Colorado.
It is a seasonal parish serving the summer tourists and residents who live in this beautiful mountain area. Rico is located at the base of Lizard Head Pass between Dolores, Colorado and Telluride, Colorado. The church is situated high on a steep hill near early mining operations within the town.
Rico grew as a mining town. The church began as the town's first schoolhouse. When population grew in the boomdays of the 1890′s, the building was deeded over to the Catholic Diocese and and the made into a Catholic church. The church at this location became known as Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church. For many years, Catholics in the Rico and surrounding areas were served by missionary priests who traveled great distances and under adverse travel conditions. Visits were sometimes infrequent.


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Firemen and the Sea
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You know that frustrating moment when you discover something that would have been really useful for your previous piece of work? Well I had that joy a few weeks ago when looking into the employment culture of occupations to compare to the Post Office.
This story starts with this engraving, an image I discovered during a research internship at the National Maritime Museum as part of my MA. I was intrigued as to why an image created to be sold and celebrate the landing of the Atlantic submarine telegraph cable in New York, in 1858, would have firemen as the central figures.
At one point my dissertation supervisor and myself discussed the use of firemen and the possibility of looking at the American use of the image as an opener to my dissertation. However my research didn't get very far and I went with the evening celebrations at the Imperial Institute marking the jubilee of submarine telegraph communication with the Far East in 1894. But those firemen have continued to bug me.
Then, some six months after I have handed in my dissertation and subsequently started my PhD, I came across an article by Shane Ewen called 'Managing Police Constable and Firefighters: Uniformed Public Services in English Cities, c.1870-1930' in the International Review of Social History, 51 (2006). In Ewen's article I was introduced to the relationship between firemen and the Royal Navy in British cities. Ewen details how in Birmingham, between 1880 and 1920, approximately half of new firemen were recruited from the Royal Navy due to perceptions of an overlap in the need for disciplinary procedures and control. This wasn't universal, Leicester and Edinburgh principally targeted semi-skilled and skilled workers, seeing the value in having practical skills among recruits. So it seemed, the origin of firefighter recruits stemmed from the perceived importance of certain attributes, either their skills or their ability to follow orders and live in a quasi-military regime.
Ewen didn't go into too much detail about the American system, though he did note that the nineteenth century saw the transition from a voluntary to municipal paid firefighting system. This was partly in an attempt to deal with the 'acute ill-discipline' suffered by the service in the 1840s and 1850s. Perhaps due to the bad behaviour, sailors were first choice for American firefighter recruiters too.
From a review in April's Labour History Review, I see that Ewen has written a book on the development of the fire service in Britain: Fighting Fires: Creating the British Fire Service, 1800-1978. Robin Pearson's review is full of praise of this work and through his review one of my questions is answered: why sailors and not the army? Sailors were preferred as they had the physical strength, and were used to working at heights and extreme conditions – heat, cold and damp conditions especially.
Truly fascinating stuff, and I will definitely be keeping an eye for Shane Ewen's book (it's currently over £50 in Amazon which is a bit over my budget). It also shows that as historians, our work is never done. Even once the work is handed in/published you still make new discoveries and these revelations give some way to shedding more light on this intriguing engraving.
I discuss the engraving in more detail in the blog I wrote for the NMM: http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/collections/2011/09/
Here is my dissertation on submarine telegraph cables (please note this opens a PDF document): http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/3388/1/McIlvenna_MA_dissertation_2011_-_Experiment_to_Relic.pdf
Link to Shane Ewen's 'Managing Police Constable and Firefighters: Uniformed Public Services in English Cities, c.1870-1930' in the International Review of Social History, 51 (2006). (Please note you'll have to pay to get this article): http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=420762&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0020859005002312
Shane Ewen's Fighting Fires: Creating the British Fire Service, on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fighting-Fires-Creating-British-1800-1978/dp/0230517102/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343582080&sr=8-1


text: Share: Comments Print March 16, 2012 at 8:46 AM Thursday's high-school softball highlights Posted by Sandy Ringer To be honest, I didn't expect to say any softball games played Thursday, because of this wet weather. But we got results from three. Unfortunately, we got a score only from one of them: Monroe 2, Edmonds-Woodway 1, in 9 innings (no details). Here are highlights from the other two: Lynnwood 13, Jackson 8 The two teams combined for 25 hits, but the Royals made the most of their 12, getting three apiece from Jasmine Edwards, Katie Eno and Jessica Gott. Each scored twice, too. Edwards had a home run and double to go with her single and drove in three runs. Gott also picked up the win on the mound. Jackson's Jessica Roy homered and doubled, finishing with four RBI and two runs scored. Dewey Davis smacked two doubles. Snohomish 16, Shorewood 0 (5 innings) Bailey Seek struck out 13 and allowed just two hits, including a double by Miranda Igl. Offensively, the Panters got three hits apiece from Kaitlyn Purvis (who also scored three times) and Karissa Lampher. Trystin Melhart added a double and a single. Comments


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Before you say I have a type, five of my top ten games of 2017 do not contain androids, virtual pop stars or cat girls. No wait, four. Still a large percentage.
The First 40 Hours Of Persona 5
While I cannot speak to the entirety of Atlus' latest teenager-powered role-playing game for reasons I'd rather not remember, the 40 hours of Persona 5 I did play were some of my favourite gaming hours this year.
I will admit this entry in the series was more style over substance, especially compared to Persona 4, but I like style a lot. The colours, the menus, the presentation and god, the music. I've got a nice long holiday vacation coming up. Maybe it's time to recapture my game. I need more motorcycle Persona in my life.
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone
Allow me to read from my 2016 top ten list: "Hatsune Miku Project Diva Future Tone arrives in North America in early January, meaning it might make this list again next year."
And here we are. I've spent more time playing Project Diva Future Tone than any other game this year, and that includes the massively-multiplayer online role-playing game expansion on this list. Every time I start Sega's massive rhythm game, with its 200+ songs, I lose myself for hours.
Hell, this list would have been done sooner had I not hopped into the game "for a second" to grab a screenshot.
The game's received three DLC song updates since it launched, and just this month it received an update that allows it to run at 4K on the PlayStation 4 Pro. Behold, 4K Hatsune Miku. So happy.
Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood
Final Fantasy XIV expansions aren't really expansions. They're more like full-fledged sequels, with self-contained stories, new and returning characters and gorgeous original soundtracks. Where the game's first expansion, Heavensward, was slow and plodding, Stormblood sees players leading not one but two uprisings against an evil empire.
Most importantly, I got to lead those uprisings as a Red Mage. If I'm being honest, if Stromblood was just a tiny patch introducing Red Mage to the existing game, it probably would have still made this list.
Yeah, I used a pig-riding screenshot.
Nier Automata
It's amazing what a host of artificial and alien life forms can teach a person about humanity. Nier: Automata married Yoko Taro's unconventional and blissfully dark storytelling techniques with PlatinumGames' penchant for satisfying action, creating a game that hit me on every level.
When not engaging in incredibly satisfying 3rd-person battles (or the odd scrolling shooter sequences) I was laughing, crying and making generally poor decisions over the fate of beautiful androids and rusted robots. And then there's this song:
I can't hear this without tearing up. Not after what I've helped bring about.
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
The really bad localisation just adds character. Nihon Falcom has been putting out excellent action role-playing games in the Ys series for decades.
They have always had solid combat and outstanding music, but none have had nearly as compelling a story as Lacrimosa of Dana. Helping heroic redheaded swordsman Adol and his friends survive a mysterious island filled with angry dinosaurs was a highlight of my 2017.
Hand of Fate 2
The world's best dungeon master returns for another round of card-based role-playing adventure. The original Hand of Fate was a lovely hybrid of deck-building and action RPG combat. The sequel adds new characters, game mechanics, dice rolls and mission variety, along with a great deal more personality.
The first game gently scratched an itch I didn't know I had. Then the developers spent a year growing out their nails, and the scratching is so much more satisfying. A little lower. To your left. Ahhh, yeah.
Rest in peace, Runic. You made some amazing games, including one that kept The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild from being in my top ten for 2017. Mysterious and beautiful, Hob was all the open-world, free-roaming role-playing game I needed this year.
It's a game with no words and very little hand holding, leaving the player free to get lost for hours while working towards reassembling a shattered world. As an added plus, the main character's sword never breaks the entire time. That's a good sword.
The Lego Ninjago Movie: The Video Game
I've played a lot of Lego games, and they're generally a lot of "same thing, different theme." So I was surprised to discover that what seemed like a hastily put together tie in for The Lego Ninjago Movie was actually one of the most innovative games in the long-running series.
It introduced new ways to move, an exciting new battle system, and it revamped basic mechanics like stud-collecting and character unlocking in supremely satisfying ways. The Lego Ninjago Movie game made this fall's big sequel, Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, look and feel dated. Here's hoping some of Ninjago's ideas make it into 2018's Lego games.
Star Trek Bridge Crew
I love Star Trek. The uniforms, the ships, the unrealistic expectations of what life in the future will be like. All of it. Star Trek Bridge Crew put me in there, thanks to the future science of virtual reality.
Yeah I had wobbly hands and my crewmates were often loud and rambunctious, but hanging out with people who share a passion for a common interest is wonderful. It's like late night at a Star Trek convention, the video game.
Night in the Woods is also part rhythm game. You know I love rhythm games.
Night in the Woods
Having grown up in a small, run-down industrial town, Infinite Fall's adventure about a college cat returning to her hometown to deal with her problems struck a chord with me.
I've always found that going back to my hometown helped ground me and gain fresh perspective on all the things I've experienced since leaving. I've never uncovered Conshohocken, Pennsylvania's dark secret, but I am pretty sure it's got at least one or two.


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Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation," Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I-VT) said he agrees with Pope Francis calling out "casino-type capitalism" which he says is "causing devastating problems."
Sanders said, "I think what the Pope has been saying in a very profound and deep way is that casino-type capitalism is causing devastating problems not only in terms of our climate but in terms of income and wealth inequality. He talks about the fact that all over the world, for example, we are ignoring the needs of senior citizens who often, in our country and around the world, are lonely, don't have the money they need for medicine or to heat their homes or to eat the food, buy the food that they need to survive. He has talked about an issue, John, that I am talking about a lot and that is young people throughout the world in our country today we have youth unemployment for white kids who graduate high school of 33 percent; Hispanic kids, 36 percent; African American kids 51 percent. And what the pope is saying there's something wrong internationally where almost all of the new wealth in this world is going to people on the top and so many other people are falling by the wayside. So, yes, I think that Pope Francis has played an extraordinary role; he has been a voice of conscience all over the world, speaking out for those people who don't have a voice, those people who are suffering. And what are you saying, enough is enough. Money cannot be the God of life. We have got to look at our kids, look at those people who are hurting. We've got to come together to create a new world and not a world in which a handful of people have so much wealth and so many other people are suffering. I am a great fan of Pope Francis."
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Jack's Pumpkin Glow: A Pumpkin Wonderland
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text: Signatures Bypassing Lawmakers, Activists Gather Signatures To Put Medicaid Expansion To A Missouri Vote By Christopher Beyer • Jul 11, 2019 Yaniv Ben-Arle / Flickr via Creative Commons Missouri lawmakers have, for years, decided against the part of the Affordable Care Act that would expand Medicaid—the government health care program for low-income residents. So now, activists are trying to do it themselves—by collecting signatures to get the issue on the 2020 statewide ballot. Activists say they added nearly 400 more signatures to their total at a Springfield parade earlier this month.


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a young violinist, Marlene Dietrich's beauty distracted audiences.
She kicked her legs in rowdy Berlin cabarets until Josef von Sternberg
cast her as "Die Blaue Engel," becoming an international
star and Hollywood's premiere femme fatale. Dismayed by the Nazis,
she became an American citizen, joined the American army in WW-II
as Captain Dietrich, who sang atop tanks accompanied by the cannon's
roar. As a cabaret diva, she revealed her passion for peace, singing
"Where Have All the Flower's Gone? in a dozen languages including
Hebrew. She retired from the stage at age 80 to live as a recluse
in Paris, yet often called her daughter in America five times a
day to catch up and chat about her four grandchildren.
Marlene Dietrich lived both public and private lives. To the public she was a cool seductress, amused by her shattering effect on men. But to a few, she was a steadfast lifelong friend. To many she was a hedonistic woman of affairs. But to those who knew her, she was a lover of poetry and astute observer of life. To the world she was a glamorous star. But she was also a lover of freedom who recognized the Nazis as a tragedy for Germany, and helped many escape to America.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Shares of Viacom rose Monday after the media giant moved to increase its stock-repurchase program by $100 million.
Companies can use stock buybacks to pump up their earnings. Buying back stock lowers the number of shares outstanding, which increases earnings in per-share terms.
Viacom VIA, +2.26% said it would expand its current $500 million common stock purchase program to $600 million, using working capital.
Shares of Viacom gained 1 1/8 to 41 1/2 by midday on Monday.
The company said the buyback would include Viacom's outstanding warrants.


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#1 Baseball Defeats Hawai'i 12-1 In Tempe Regional On Saturday
June 5, 2010
TEMPE, Ariz. - Zack MacPhee had four hits and Seth Blair threw seven strong innings as the No. 1 Arizona State University baseball team defeated Hawai'i 12-1 in Tempe Regional play on Saturday. A second consecutive sellout crowd saw the Sun Devils improve to 49-8 on the season with the win.
MacPhee went 4-for-5 and hit one of ASU's four home runs on the night. Kole Calhoun, Deven Marrero and Raoul Torrez also hit home runs in the game, while MacPhee, Marrero and Johnny Ruettiger all had three RBI each. Riccio Torrez had three hits, and Ruettiger, Marrero and Austin Barnes added two hits apiece.
Blair got the win to improve to 12-0, as he allowed just three hits and one run while striking out eight with no walks over seven innings. Jake Barrett and Jimmy Patterson each pitched scoreless innings of relief to finish off the win.
The Sun Devils, as the designated visiting team, scored four runs in the top of the first. Calhoun drove in the first run with a groundout, and then two batters later, Ruettiger hit a two-run triple into the gap in right center. Marrero then followed him with an RBI single to give ASU a 4-0 lead.
MacPhee hit a two-run homer in the second and Raoul Torrez hit a solo homer in the third to extend the lead to 7-0. That score stood up until the seventh, when Calhoun hit a solo home run, his team-leading 15th of the season, and Ruettiger had an RBI double.
The Rainbows scored a run in the bottom of the seventh, but ASU came back with a MacPhee RBI single in the eighth and a two-run homer by Marrero in the ninth.
The Sun Devils will face the winner of the 1 p.m. elimination game between San Diego and Hawai'i on Sunday at 6 p.m. at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark. San Diego eliminated UW-Milwaukee with a 22-1 victory in earlier action on Saturday.
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[Scottsdale Healing Touch shares...]
Are you feeling light headed and floating through your day? Do you run the "what ifs" throughout your day (what if I fall, what if I get hit by a car, what if I die). Anxiety is a feature of fear and without feeling divinely connected the anxiety levels skyrocket and push you upward so far that headaches are frequent and some experience dizziness or vertigo.
The positive connection to the highest chakra is the connection to the Divine. God, Jesus, Archangels, Buddha, whatever terminology feels comfortable to you. For some Nature is their Divine connection (like famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright - did you know Amy is a former tour guide at Taliesin West).
We are all Divinely driven at different points in life, some more than others. Let's find the balance for you that makes you comfortable. Pick a statement below and repeat it throughout your day.
Crown chakra affirmations
I feel connected with other beings, with heaven and earth, the whole of Universe
I know and I understand
I am one with the Divine
I am grounded on earth and connected with heavens
I understand deeper truth and connection
I experience, peace, love, and joy
I honor the divine in me and in others
I am at peace
I am
Register for the 7 Chakra Balancing workshop with Amy Stephens on Saturday, March 23 from 9am-Noon . Details at www.azhealingcenter.com/workshops


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When it comes to building Android apps, it's just as important for developers to consider the aspect of the app's design as it is for them to lock down and lay out a marketing and app monetization plan. Now with the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google has changed the design guidelines from the previous version of Android, and along with the new guidelines came a new look, called Material Design. In a recent post on the Android developers website, Google describes a brief overview of using the new Material Theme for the design inside of your app.
They detail what using the Material Theme provides for developers, which includes a few different key pieces like system widgets with changeable color palettes, touch feedback for those system widgets, and of course the most visual part of the whole thing, the transition animations for activities, like for example tapping on the floating action button or switching back and forth between pages inside your app. The material Theme is also broken up into two different types, which consists of a light material theme and a dark material theme. As a developer, it'll be up to you to decide which theme will mesh better with your chosen app color theme to provide the most visually appealing experience for users.
For developers to make their app more material, customization of the color palette is an important part as this is one of the defining design points of Android Lollipop and Material Design. Google states that developers can customize the color palette by customizing the theme's base colors to fit the brand of the app. As an example, think of the way Google has used the red color theme to represent Gmail in the latest version. Google also mentions that to do this, developers will need to define their custom colors using theme attributes when they inherit the material theme. For a reference of the code see the image below. Another big piece and perhaps the most important since this is where most of the color for your theme and brand will be present is to customize the colors of the status bar. Google stresses that it's important for developers to choose a color that best fits their brand but will also give enough contrast for the white status icons in lollipop. The status bar colors are broken up into two distinct types, the primary color, and the primary color dark, which is what we see in the actual status bar where the icons are sitting. Google notes that you can customize the navigation bar down at the bottom as well, but only if you're planning on making both the status bar and the navigation bar transparent, otherwise leaving the navigation bar black and customizing only the status bar is the way to go.


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18TH STREET BREWERY'S 'BREWERY ARTIST NETWORK' is happy to present our 4th Annual BAN ART FAIR on Saturday, December 1st, 2018 from 11am-5pm. The BAN ART FAIR is open to local and regional artists and crafters to showcase goods that have handmade elements in an open and unique brew pub setting. Artists and crafters will have their own 6ft x 4ft area in which to showcase their goods to the public, who can casually peruse the showcased goods and purchase items directly from the exhibitor. There is a table rental fee for artists and crafters who wish to showcase, but entrance to the BAN ART FAIR is free for the public.
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An EU Competition law Analysis of Online Display Advertising in the Programmatic Age by Damien Geradin & Dimitrios Katsifis Download the paper here Abstract Online display advertising, whereby publishers display visual-based advertisements (e.g. texts, images or videos) on their website against remuneration, represents a large source of revenues for publishers, large and small, offering […]Read more »
The P2B Regulation is a crucial piece of legislation for European businesses. The European Parliament Report is a good first step which rightly recognises that more needs to be done to ensure basic rules of fairness and transparency and prevent abusive practices that stifle innovation and restrict consumer choice. European businesses now call on the […]Read more »
Sounding Board On Disinformation Looks To Action Plan To Address Short-Comings Of So-Called Code Of Practice
Ahead of the publication of the Action Plan on Disinformation, Members of the Sounding Board of the Multistakeholder Forum1 on disinformation online (representatives from media, civil society, journalists, consumer organisations and academia) expressed their expectations with regard to European commitments in this field. The Sounding Board is particularly supportive of policies that would lead online […]Read more »
As we approach the final two negotiating meetings of the year on the Publisher's Right (including one this evening, Monday, 3 December), Google has ramped up its lobbying of both publishers and Member States, to render the publisher's right unenforceable. They've failed to kill it off completely, so now they seek to empty the right […]Read more »


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Sasha and Malia as Velasquez princesses by Betsy Gallery in Santa Barbara, CA
Many painters from Picasso to El Equipo Cronica and other artists have riffed on some of Diego Velasquez's most famous images. While living in Madrid, Spain in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s I saw the wonderful pop-art ceramic figures based on Las Meninas and other iconic Velasquez paintings made by two artists who called themselves El Equipo Cronica.
o now it is my turn to do some pop-art "Velasquez" mosaics-- based on the paintings he made of the Princess Margarita at two ages of her childhood. And who better to represent the new American princesses than the daughters of our President, Sasha and Malia. Sasha's image comes from Las Meninas and Malia's image is a portrait of the "infanta" (as the princesses are called) done a few years later.
The mosaics are made of glazed tile cut on a ring saw, permitting very narrow and curved cuts. A few porcelain roses cut off of thrift-store artifacts and some 24 karat gold Orsoni tesserae (from Venice, Italy) add glitz and dimension to this pair of wall hanging mosaics.
I teach the use of hand-made mosaic smalti at the Santa Barbara School of Mosaic Art where many other workshops are available. learned the ancient art of mosaic making at Luciana Notturni's Ravenna Mosaic Art School in Italy..


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In her devotional, Living A Divinely Inspired Life, Dr. Elizabeth Babatunde discusses 1 Thessalonians 1:8, noting:
"A life worthy of imitation is one that is surrendered to be used as a tool in the hands of God, to display His awesome power and glory.
What do people see when they see you? If someone walked in your shoes for 24 hours, what would they learn about Christ?"
1 Thessalonians 1:8 KJV:
"For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing."
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My present opportunity is to surrender at home as readily as I do at the College and in Adult Sunday School and let the Holy Spirit have Its unimpeded way.
As a new short semester commences, may grace and mercy encircle us as we abandon our will for Thine.


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There's good news surrounding SKSE-64 Bit and its latest build number of 2.0.3 alpha, which comes after the latest version 2.0.2. The SKSE team is still making steady progress on the Script Extender for Skyrim Special Edition and it can be downloaded right now.
The latest version of SKSE-64 Bit has arrived or better put the latest alpha build. It comes with a few new changes, which the news announcing the above comes in by a post update that the SKSE-64 Bit team published over on Reddit.
The latest build number of 2.0.3 alpha is still geared toward modders, and with Bethesda updating the Creation Club this version should only be tested and used if you are planning on joining the beta, but if you are still interested you can read the notice below:
"I've updated SKSE64 with the assumption that the current executable Bethesda has released in beta will go out to everyone once their initial testing period is over. Only use this if you're also opted in to the creation club beta, otherwise continue with 2.0.2.
They've hooked up a reasonable amount of the core functionality for Survival mode directly in to the engine, leading to new functions like
float Function GetWarmthRating() native
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on Actor. Also console commands IsOverEncumbered and GetActorWarmth. Presumably they will be releasing updated base scripts at a later time, so I haven't gone through and made temporary additions for all of the updated types."
The next part regarding this update deals with the "Whatsnew" section and support for runtime 1.5.3 and more. The latest move by the team reveals Armor and Actor scripts for new functions found in 1.5.3, as well as the following information:
- support for runtime 1.5.3
- update Armor and Actor scripts for new functions added in 1.5.3
- FastTravelEnd event sink (internal)"
All in all, it's good to see that the SKSE team is still working hard to bring gamers, modders and fans of Skyrim the 64-bit treatment, which each update of this endeavor will hopefully bring us closer to the final release.
Lastly, you can download the new alpha build by hitting up skse.silverlock.org.


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Collaborating to Support Economic Growth and Achieve Sustained HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Deborah Birx, Heath Tarbert on April 26, 2018
Fifteen years after the creation of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), control of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is within reach across much of sub-Saharan Africa. Thanks to American leadership and generosity, alongside the work of our many partners, we have saved millions of lives, averted millions of infections, and changed the course of the epidemic.
Effective public health investments are fundamentally investments in human capital and are correlated with greater economic growth and development. In the case of HIV/AIDS, the continued expansion of access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) saves lives, reduces disease transmission, and enables people living with HIV to resume their daily activities.
When HIV is unchecked and untreated, it not only has devastating consequences on an individual, but also stunts elements of broader human capital formation, including economic productivity, labor force participation, education, and entrepreneurial energy. Successful HIV prevention and treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa must now contend with the world's fastest growing cohort of young people, who are also disproportionately affected by HIV. Africa's economic future stability depends on ensuring that these young people are healthy, well-educated, and able to hold and create the jobs necessary for sustained prosperity.
In this context, PEPFAR and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (U.S. Treasury) have joined forces to reinvigorate dialogue with finance ministries and key international finance institutions to improve the coordination and efficiency of current HIV programs and plan for their sustainability and the eventual smooth transition of various responsibilities.
On April 19, 2018, on behalf of PEPFAR and the U.S. Treasury, we co-hosted a high-level roundtable discussion on the sidelines of the annual World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. The roundtable convened leaders from the U.S. Department of State; the U.S. Treasury; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS as well as finance ministers from the countries where PEPFAR collectively invests over 90 percent of its resources.
Together, we discussed how finance ministers can play a leading role in accelerating progress toward achieving and sustaining HIV/AIDS epidemic control, including by instilling accountability and efficiency into their national health spending. In the context of increased pressure on health budgets, participants also heard details of how this could be done from the ministry of finance in Uganda, where the U.S. Treasury is providing technical assistance to support an efficient and sustainable HIV/AIDS response.
In Uganda, the U.S. Treasury is leveraging its deep institutional relationships and policy dialogue with finance ministries as well as its many years of experience providing technical assistance to governments for improving overall resource mobilization and management. The U.S. Treasury is supporting the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to establish three key pillars of a sustained HIV/AIDS response: improved engagement and coordination with the Ministry of Health, stronger public financial management of precious health resources, and effective mobilization of domestic resources over time in close collaboration with donors.
The latest PEPFAR data show that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is coming under control in five countries and that up to 13 total countries could reach epidemic control by 2020 with PEPFAR support. These efforts will create a roadmap for health and finance ministers alike in the more than 50 countries where PEPFAR works. Yet, this will only be possible with the leadership and political will of all partners.
To build on our momentum and foster collaborative action, PEPFAR and the U.S. Treasury will follow up directly with finance ministries to drive an efficient and cost-effective response toward ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic and advancing our partners' continued economic growth.
About the Authors: Heath Tarbert serves as Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Investment Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Ambassador Deborah L. Birx serves as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State.
Editor's Note: This entry also appears in the U.S. Department of State's publication on Medium.com.


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Sol Tenerife Hotel, Tenerife
Located right on the beachfront in the heart of the Las Americas resort. The eternal spring climate, excellent services and superb facilities make the Sol Tenerife the perfect option for your stay on the island.
Among its services and facilities, the hotel provides Wi-Fi throughout the hotel, a tennis court, Internet Corner, 2 stages for shows and performances (one outdoor and one inside) and a private car park for 25 vehicles.


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Education Indicators in Focus
Education Indicators in Focus is a recurring series of briefs that highlight specific indicators in OECD's Education at a Glance that are of particular interest to policy makers and practitioners. They provide a detailed look into current issues in pre-primary, primary and secondary education, higher education, and adult outcomes from a global perspective, and contain an engaging mix of text, tables and charts that describe the international context of the most pressing questions in education policy and practice.
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- ISSN: 22267077 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/22267077
How have teachers' salaries evolved and how do they compare to those of tertiary-educated workers?
The combined effects of policy reforms to attract and/or retain teachers, and financial constraints in the context of the economic downturn in 2008 may explain part of the recent trends in teachers' salaries: decreases in statutory salaries and smaller salary gaps between levels of education. Nevertheless, statutory and/or actual salaries increased significantly in some countries between 2005 and 2014, even if in 2014 teachers' actual salaries remain lower than those of tertiary-educated workers in most countries.
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Redeyes joins Soul In Motion Agency
French DJ and producer Redeyes has consistently been at the forefront of Drum & Bass. Initially starting as a DJ, Julien Salvi soon found his way to the studio, fine-tuning his own blend of soulful music.
With a sound firmly embedded in Hip-Hop aesthetics and its music and culture, it is only natural that Redeyes' productions are also informed by Jazz, Soul, Funk and Dub. With such a variety of genres in his relm, Redeyes has gained traction from such diverse labels as Ninja Tune, Tru Thoughts, Brownswood and The North Quarter.
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Last night the Federal Government handed down the 2017-18 Federal Budget.
This year's budget was not expected to be one of great change for most investors and clients (thankfully as we are still dealing with the superannuation changes from the last budget that will be implemented in July 2017) and lived up to these expectations in most areas.
We have reviewed the Budget and prepared a summary of the key measures to be considered.
Pre and post retiree clients:-
- Additional super contribution options for downsizers
- Re-instatement of the Pensioner Concession Card for former pensioners
- Strengthening the aged care sector
- Medicare levy increases
New tax incentives to tackle housing affordability:-
The government has put forward a plan aimed at reducing pressure on housing affordability, including greater incentives for first homebuyers and downsizers as well as tougher rules on foreign investment.
1. From 1 July 2017, a First Home Super Saver Scheme will be introduced allowing individuals to make voluntary contributions of up to $15,000 per year and $30,000 in total to their superannuation account to purchase a first home.
Treasurer Scott Morrison said the First Home Super Save Scheme will attract the tax advantages of super.
"Contributions and earnings will be taxed at 15%, rather than marginal rates, and withdrawals will be taxed at their marginal rate, less 30 percentage points*," Mr Morrison said.
"Savers will not have to set up another account, they can just use their existing super account and decide how much of their income they want to put aside to save for their first home deposit.
*"30 percentage points" means 30% tax offset.
Super is designed as a long-term investment for retirement income purposes, so using it as a vehicle to save for a home deposit is sending a mixed message. Also be aware how the money is invested in superannuation may see capital go backwards.
2. In addition, from 1 July 2018, individuals aged 65 and over will be able to make a non-concessional contribution of up to $300,000 in proceeds from the sale of a principal residence, held for at least 10 years, into their superannuation.
That's $600,000 for a couple.
Existing voluntary contribution rules for people aged 65 and older (work test for 65-74 year olds, no contributions for those aged 75 and over) and restrictions on non-concessional contributions for people with balances above $1.6 million will not apply to contributions made under the new downsizing cap.
A welcome change as many people do leave their run to accumulate super to the last minute. We do see many clients downsizing their home being over 65 and having to leave their surplus money in a more highly taxed environment outside Super. Good to see that the $300,000 amount is not part of the non-concessional cap.
3. A 50% cap will also be placed on foreign ownership in new developments and will be applied through conditions imposed on New Dwelling Exemption Certificates. Developments must be multi-storey and have at least 50 dwellings.
Foreign investors will no longer be allowed to claim the main residence Capital Gains Tax exemption. In addition, foreign investors will be charged at least $5,000 annually should they leave their properties unoccupied or not available for six months or more each year.
Social Security:-
1. One off Energy Assistance Payment to pensioners $75 for a single person and $125 for a couple and payable 26/6/2017.
2. Enhanced residency requirements from 1 July 2018 - needing to be resident in Australia for a 15 year continuous period to receive Age Pension or Disability Support pension.
3. Reinstatement of the Pensioner Concession Card for those people no longer receiving the age pension as a result of the lowering of the assets test from 1/7/2017.
Tax Measures:-
1. From 1 July 2019 - increase in medicare levy by 0.5% to 2.5% of taxable income ensuring the National Disability Insurance Scheme is fully funded.
2. For the 16/17 tax year there is an Increase in Senior and Pensioner Offsets to $34,244 singles (was $33,738) and $47,670 as a couple (was $46,966), which means you can earn more in 'rebate income' before you would start paying the Medicare Levy.
So the majority of retirees over age 65 will continue to not be paying any Medicare Levy. Note that as superannuation pension income is tax-free for the majority of SAPTO recipients, this income is in addition to the income declared on your tax return for SAPTO purposes.
Rebate Income = taxable income plus reportable super contributions (salary sacrifice and deductible personal contributions) + Net investment loss + Adjusted fringe benefits.
Small Business:-
1. For small business a reprieve on the $20,000 write off on capital expenditure that was due to end on June 30, 2017. Small business will be able to take advantage of this write off for another year.
Aged Care:-
Increase in programs to help older people live independently in their homes.
Australian Bank Levy:-
Bank share prices are down as a result of the Federal Budget introducing a levy.
Our Stockbrokers advise that they would expect banks to pass on costs to customers and don't see a material impact on profitability, not seeing any risk to the stability of the financial system, though it is a reminder of the banks ongoing regulatory challenges.
Morrison announced a six-basis point levy on the big banks' liabilities, starting on July 1, but made clear that it would not affect either superannuation funds or insurance companies.
"This represents an additional and fair contribution from our major banks, is similar to measures imposed in other advanced countries, and will even up the playing field for smaller banks," he said.
Please note that any advice contained in this alert is to be regarded as general investment advice and factual of nature rather than personal advice. As it is not possible to take into account each client's individual circumstances, before acting on the recommendations contained in this report clients must determine the appropriateness of a particular recommendation in the light of their investment objectives and financial situation. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.


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Modernizing its Quality, Safety and Risk Management, Azores Airlines has implemented IQSMS. ASQS is excited to support the airline with our know-how in the improvement of existing quality and safety measures.
Aiming to bring the world to the Azores and the Azores to the world, Azores Airlines, a subsidiary of SATA Air Açores and formerly known as SATA Internacional, currently operates scheduled flights to Europe, North America and Macaronesia, contributing thereby to the growth and development of tourism in the Azores.
The Portuguese airline is headquartered in Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel in the Azores and has its hub, just like its parent company SATA Air Açores, at Aeroporto João Paulo II (Ponta Delgada Airport). Azores Airlines currently operates a fleet of 3 Airbus 310-300, 3 Airbus 320-200 and 1 Airbus 330-200 aircraft.
The Airline implemented 4 IQSMS modules, which support and improve the company's established Quality and Risk Management by providing a centralized database where all data like crew reports, audit findings and recommendations are entered, accessible and able to be processed twenty-four-seven. Additionally, the Airport and Flight Risk Module covers airport-related hazards, which supports Azores Airlines with the determination of the operational risk of served airports. IQSMS therefore facilitates risk mitigation in the airline's daily operations and contributes to an efficient workflow within the organization.
ASQS looks forward to a long-term cooperation with Azores Airlines. For further information regarding our new client, please visit https://www.azoresairlines.pt.
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CoM Publication Recognition
Through our scientific publications, we communicate our discoveries and advances in biomedical research. High impact publications can set the direction for entire fields of inquiry, and they can greatly impact the care provided to patients. In 2017, the CoM Office of Research will acknowledge the publications of our faculty, staff and students through our digital signage. In addition, we will celebrate the highest impact publication each month with increased publicity and inclusion in the annual CoM Research report.
Process: Each month the College of Medicine Research Cabinet will review all publication submissions and select the "UC College of Medicine Publication of the Month". The selection will be based on a combination of the impact of the journal in the field of study, the significance of the publication for impacting a program of discovery, or impact on clinical care. The Publication of the Month will be featured in the Dean's List, UC Health's newsletters, and it will be included in the Research Annual Report.
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Every Wednesday through the end of March, we will be doing Growler Power Hours from 4 pm through 7 pm! Come in and get 30% off all growler fills. Celebrate Humpday with some take home beer!
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City delegated a paramunicipal agency rather than its own real-estate department to find a buyer for Faubourg Contrecoeur site, retired agency manager says
Contrecoeur project was 'very political,' witness tells trial
The city of Montreal delegated a paramunicipal agency rather than its own real-estate department to find a buyer for the vacant city-owned Faubourg Contrecoeur site, and the agency outsourced every bit of work related to preparing the site for sale and holding the call for bids to find a buyer, a retired agency manager testified at the fraud trial connected to the land sale on Wednesday.
"Nothing was prepared internally," said Brigitte Dion, who was director of finance and administration for the Société d'habitation et de développement de Montréal (SHDM) before her retirement in 2016 after 36 years of service with the city's paramunicipal corporations.
The SHDM's handling of the disposal of the moribund 38-hectare site in east-end Montreal on behalf of the city, which wished to see it developed for 1,800 homes, including social and affordable housing, resulted in its sale at a heavily discounted price and at a fraction of its municipal assessment to Construction Frank Catania et Associés Inc. in 2007.
It was SHDM's executive director, Martial Fillion, who was in charge of this particular project, Dion told the court, testifying as a witness for the Crown.
Fillion, whom a previous witness described as someone with no experience or qualifications to be administrator of an agency, had served as chief of staff to Tremblay at city hall before being hired by the SHDM.
"This project was very political," Dion said.
Fillion would inform the SHDM's board of directors, to whom he reported, of the progress on the Contrecoeur project, would say he had been speaking with and had the agreement of city councillor Frank Zampino about some of aspect of the project, Dion testified. As chairman of the city executive committee, Zampino was the right-hand man of then-mayor Gérald Tremblay,
Dion, who attended the SHDM board meetings, also confirmed a previous witness's testimony that its members asked "very few questions" of Fillion.
However, Dion said, "there was no place at all for our opinions in this file."
In 2012, Quebec's anti-corruption squad, UPAC, arrested Fillion, Zampino, Paolo Catania, who headed Construction Frank Catania et Associés, four of the firm's former executives, Bernard Trépanier, who was head of fundraising for Tremblay and Zampino's political party, and former urban planner Daniel Gauthier, whom SHDM had contracted to have his firm carry out soil and other studies to prep the Contrecoeur site, write the call for bids and manage the bidding process.
Fillion died in 2013. Gauthier pleaded guilty to fraud charges when the trial opened in 2016. Trépanier's case is being heard separately from the remaining accused, who are being tried by judge alone.
The prosecution presented Dion with SHDM documents seized by the police and dated around 2009, which she explained showed Construction Frank Catania et Associés hadn't been making its loan repayments to SHDM.
Dion also testified about two cheques the SHDM made out to the construction firm, one for $3 million and the other for $2.9 million.
Both cheques were written in 2008 while Dion was on her usual twice-annual holidays in April and July, she said. She would have normally co-signed such cheques with Fillion, she said, but in her absence Fillion co-signed them with other SHDM employees.
The first cheque was a loan to Construction Frank Catania et Associés, which was supposed to be repaid by the firm before the second cheque was made – but wasn't, Dion testified.
Fillion, she said, had also unilaterally lowered the interest rate on the SHDM's loan to the Catania firm. Instead of the SHDM's preferential rate plus 2 per cent, as was written in the SHDM's development agreement with the construction firm, a document that eventually crossed her desk showed Fillion had signed off on charging the preferential interest rate plus 0.5 per cent, she said.
"It wasn't authorized," she said. Dion said she spoke to Fillion and had the lowered interest rate brought to the SHDM board for approval after the fact.
On another occasion, the Catania firm presented the SHDM with an $11 million bill to cover additional costs, she said. When it came up at an SHDM board meeting, Fillion assured the members there was no such claim for additional costs, Dion said.
"He lied," she said.
Dion said she refused to sign an executive summary concerning a resolution on the Contrecoeur project at one point.
The SHDM eventually suspended and then fired Fillion over the irregularities.
Before Dion, former city manager Claude Léger finished his cross-examination on Wednesday, answering more questions about the former director of the city's real-estate department, Joseph Farinacci.
Farinacci brought his objections to the city's sale of the Contrecoeur land to the SHDM to sell to Construction Frank Catania et Associés to Zampino, Léger testified on Tuesday.
"He (Farinacci) was convinced he could have gotten a better price for that land and manage it better than SHDM," Léger said on Wednesday.


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New Canadian radio telescope opens new doors in astrophysics
Karen Graham
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A new radio telescope in British Columbia, Canada is doing its job picking up mysterious signals from deep space known as "fast radio bursts" (FRBs).
This amazing radio telescope allows observers to see bursts of light traveling from galaxies far across the universe. The telescope is housed in an observatory south of Penticton, B.C., at the center of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME.
Construction on CHIME began in 2015, and a first light ceremony with Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan was held on September 7, 2017, to inaugurate CHIME's operational phase.
The revolutionary radio telescope housed in an observatory south of Penticton, B.C.
CHIME is not your typical telescope. It consists of four 100 x 20-meter (328 x 66 feet) semi-cylinders (roughly the size and shape of snowboarding half-pipes) populated with 1024 dual-polarization radio receivers, or antennae, sensitive at 400–800 MHz that can measure fast, short-lived bursts of light found on the radio wave spectrum called
fast radio bursts (FRB).
CHIME's low-noise amplifiers are made with components adapted from the cellphone industry. Believe it or not, but the telescope has no moving parts, yet it is able to observe half of the sky each day as the Earth turns.
Solving one of the newer cosmic mysteries
CHIME is a partnership between the University of British Columbia, McGill University, the University of Toronto and the Canadian National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory.
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment during construction of the parabolic trough reflector at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia, Canada.
Mateus A. Fandiño - The CHIME collaboration
As you may imagine, FRBs are only
milliseconds long bursts
of radio emissions coming from somewhere across the universe. They are actually one of the newer cosmic mysteries out there, having first been discovered about 10 years ago. CHIME has been
open less than a year
and was built to gather data on FRBs and other unanswered questions.
Astrophysicists have offered up a number of possible explanations for FRBs, including bursts from magnetars, exploding black holes, and yes, even highly advanced alien civilizations.
Detection of FRB 180725A
While still undergoing commissioning, on July 25, 2018, CHIME detected the first-ever FRB at frequencies below 700 MHz. The signal has been
designated as FRB 180725A.
This is important because the majority of the bursts they previously detected were measured around 1,400 megahertz.
Photo of galaxies.
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Deborah Good, a UBC Ph.D. student working on the project, explained that while the telescope is extremely sensitive, it's a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack using a large magnifying glass. "If you look in the right place, you'll find it. It's just hard to figure out where that place is," she said, according to
the Globe and Mail.
"With astronomy, we're trying to detect something that's out there and we don't get to control when it shows up," said Good, referring to the difficulty of the experiment versus more typical scientific experiments with human control. Good, by the way, dispels the notion the signals could be coming from some sort of life-form.
"There's a bunch of theories right now, but one thing we're really confident about is that it's not aliens," she said laughing.
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Have you ever laid in bed at night, stared up at your ceiling and day dreamt about what your life would be like if you just could accomplish one particular goal? This goal could be a wide variety of things.
Some people wish that they could make a specific team at school, make the school play, be able to finish their mile in gym class or be able to create a specific piece of art in their art class.
No matter what your goal is, you can make it something that you can accomplish. Sit down and work out a plan for yourself. When you know that a goal is going to be hard to accomplish, you are going to have to reach down deep within yourself.
There are going to be days when you are not going to want to push yourself to the next level but you have to do it anyways. Some days you may have to wake up early, push yourself harder, go without hanging out with friends or even go to sleep early.
Create your goal. Stick with your plan and work as hard as you can! You are capable of great things. When you put your mind to it – when you really dedicate yourself to a goal – you will find that you have much more power within you than you may have realized.
You should want your goal so bad, that there is not anything you want more than that goal. Want it just as much as you want to breathe, and you will get it.
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shearwater,common name for members of the family Procellariidae, gull-like sea birds related to the petrelpetrel
, common name given various oceanic birds belonging, like the albatross and the shearwater, to the order known commonly as tube-nosed swimmers. There are two families of petrels: the storm petrels (Hydrobatidae) and the diving petrels (Pelecanoididae).
..... Click the link for more information. and the albatross and including the fulmar. Shearwaters are found on unfrozen saltwaters all over the world, with 35 species in North America. They have tubular nostrils, hooked bills enlarged at the tip, short tails, and long, pointed wings. They feed on marine animals and oily matter on the open seas, coming to shore only to breed. Shearwaters are 15 to 25 in. (37.5–62.5 cm) long, dark above and light below—except for the grayish-bellied sooty shearwater, Puffinus griseus, of the Pacific, which migrates across the whole ocean region. Most common in the North Atlantic are the greater shearwater and Cory's shearwater. The slender-billed shearwater of Australia, P. tenuirostris, which also migrates over the entire Pacific, is a game bird known also as muttonbird or Tasmanian squab. The two fulmars, one of the North Atlantic and the other, the silver-gray fulmar, of antarctic regions, have thick, stubby yellow bills. Shearwaters are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Procellariiformes, family Procellariidae.
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Any of various species of oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus having tubular nostrils and long wings.


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Math Tools
Khan Academy--Literally thousands of instructional videos
Interactive Simulations--Perfect activities to use on a SMART Board!
Math Blog--Math teacher, turned researcher, Dan Meyer's math education blog.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives--More math simulations and manipulatives!
Math Tools for Kids!--Links to dozens of K-12 math sites from Trumbull County, OH Educational Service Center.
Illuminations--This is a great site built by the NCTM.
Dyscalculia.org--A very comprehensive site of math tools and research addressing math learning disabilities; some free, some for pay.
A Maths Dictionary for Kids--This site comes from a teacher in Australia. Very interactive!
Cool Math 4 Kids & Cool Math--Lots of fun math games and activities! Cool Math is focuses on higher level math skills (grades 6-10).
Squidoo Help with Math--More great sites listed, including a few above.


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01. Precast bioretention system
Oldcastle Precast announced that its BioMod Modular Bioretention System received equivalency approval from the Washington State Department of Ecology as a stormwater bioretention planter or planter box. The BioMod system is a conventional, vegetated bioretention system designed as a series of modular precast concrete sections that are filled with layers of mulch, bioretention media, and drain rock. By granting the BioMod "functional equivalency," Ecology formally recognized that Oldcastle's system does not need to go through the Technology Assessment Protocol – Ecology (TAPE) program for approval and may be designed using the same standards and criteria as any non-proprietary bioretention planter or planter box.
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02. Two-story moment frame
Simpson Strong-Tie displayed the seismic resiliency of a two-story Simpson Strong-Tie Strong Frame special moment frame at the 2018 Pacific Coast Builders Conference in June and showcased 3D modeling software along with state-of-the-art planning solutions from CG Visions. Acquired by Simpson Strong-Tie in January 2017, CG Visions provides BIM consultation, technology, and services to single-family and multifamily residential builders. Designed to provide optimal moment transfer solutions for both new and retrofit projects, the Simpson Strong-Tie Strong Frame special moment frame features Yield-Link structural fuse technology to ensure the resiliency of the frame during seismic events.
Simpson Strong-Tie
03. Stormwater system app
Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s (ADS) SiteASSIST mobile app provides detailed instructions and animated videos for installation of StormTech chambers used in underground stormwater retention and detention systems. Additionally, the app can provide access to the ADS and StormTech engineering department. The SiteASSIST app allows users to upload images and ask specific questions, which are addressed by ADS and StormTech engineering services. Additionally, contractors can schedule a pre-construction meeting via the app with ADS personnel. Other ADS mobile apps include the ADS Installation Guides and the Agricultural Drainage App. All are available in English and Spanish and are free to download from the App Store and Google Play.
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