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Hello, dear friends. I am writing to you from my new sacred space high up looking out to the frosty treetops where I see thin sheets of ice are clinging to outstretched branches, that in every other season but this one, delicately shade this old home of ours. It's a space feels fresh and alive, and smells richly of juniper, sandalwood, and black spruce—a woodsy escape right here in my bedroom as I begin my journey.
Crafted just this morning, this quaint but inspiring little spot is one that welcomes me in and invites me to let go, just as I welcome you in and invite you to do today before we begin. It's a corner of this busy world just for me, a sweet spot in our home, and slow and silent refuge for my heart and soul's wanderings. I wanted to make a harbor that I could sink into mindfully with gentleness and grace, and our bright bedroom is just the place. I moved my antique wooden desk up here a little while ago to sit beneath the wall of windows facing the southwest side of our home. Even on a dreary and gray day such as this one, it's cozy, light, and full of warmth. On my desktop I have just a few things: a small oil lamp for golden light, a new green plant for life, my computer for sharing with you, a new journal and pen for reflecting, coffee for savoring, a sheepskin to keep my back comfy, and my oil diffuser to balance and ground my emotions as I write.
Your first assignment is to make a sacred space for yourself. It doesn't have to resemble mine at all, but it should speak to you and reflect the calm you so desire. It could be a seat at your dining table, a corner of your living room, a desk in the hallway, or anywhere you feel gives you respite with renewed energy. Wherever it is you choose to make your sacred space, do so thoughtfully, simply, and with care. This spot will be where you do most of your reflecting if you can, and will be a home for your throughout this Rest Retreat.
Assignment One: Make a sacred space and share that on Instagram as your photo for this Rest Retreat. I will do the same.
Once you have your space set up, pull out your journal and give yourself some time to answer the questions below. Your answers can be as long and reflective as you like, but make sure to give yourself complete freedom when answering them. No one will read your words but you alone. You have a permission slip to let go and say whatever it is you want—things you'd never dream of sharing on social media. How freeing, right?!
Reflection Questions Before Beginning: Complete before January 1st
- Why, in this season of your life, does this Rest Retreat appeal to you? Why do you need this break from social media right now, and what do you hear your soul telling you?
- What does rest look like specifically for you? Give detailed examples of these things and note why you find each one to be restorative.
- In what ways does social media, and screens in general, make you feel unhappy, anxious, agitated, and/or unfulfilled? You can be as specific or as general as you'd like.
- What do you hope to accomplish by the end of the Rest Retreat?
- What does a perfect day look like for you?
Weekly Practices: Complete before January 1st
- READ Maria Popova's article on Brain Pickings titled An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How To Live With Presence. Journal your reaction to this piece, and then write about how you feel you could be more present in your own life. How is spending a lot of time on social media an abstraction that can keep you from living a more present life? What does social media unhinge within you? Do you agree that, "Happiness isn't a matter of improving our experience, or even merely confronting it, but remaining present with it in the fullest possible sense…"? This article is rather long and existential, but what other kinds of questions or thoughts arise when you read it?
- LISTEN to Mary Oliver's poem Wild Geese below. Note how her words make you feel, and then also, how hearing her voice rather than merely reading this poem affects you. What does Wild Geese shake and stir up within you? In what ways do Oliver's words welcome you as you are?
- WATCH the TED talk below and write down three ways you can incorporate some reasonable stopping cues into your day. We will revisit these cues in the following week.
- DO consider taking up a physical practice to implement and get your body moving this month. I have just joined a local yoga studio and will be taking weekly classes, but I also plan to walk with the kids as much as possible despite the cold weather. This practice can be in your home or outside of it, but should be free of work and worry. Whatever it is you choose to do, make sure it is restorative and not too strenuous.
- Log off of all social media before January 1st and review the Rest Retreat Schedule.
- Check back here each Monday, or in your mail inbox if you subscribed to Homesong, with another round of weekly reflections and practices. Including this Preparations post there will be five Rest Retreat posts in total.
- PRINT THE REST RETREAT CALENDAR ABOVE and write out the weekly practices (READ, LISTEN, WATCH, DO) you plan on doing throughout the week so you can affectively manage your time. If you are someone who wants to do everything in one day, that's alright, but I highly suggest you split the reflection and practices up so you do not end up too overwhelmed. Follow the directions on the calendar and give yourself two days a week off for rest – mark those with an "R".
- When you check in on Monday for the following week's work, you can share as much or as little about this retreat as you'd like in the comments section for the week you've just finished. I will be doing the same.
- Take a long, deep breath in and exhale. Enjoy this time away from the tug of social media, and allow your heart to open up and feel the fullness and beauty that being present will offer you in this season of your one wild and precious life.
With Love and Care,


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I have a problem understanding how to use perfect in the following sentence:
Ich bin mit dem Bus in das Stadtzentrum gefahren.
I know we are supposed to use the auxiliary verb haben in perfect when we have an accusative object in the sentence.
Does this apply when there is an accusative object as a local preposition?

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I'm very, very particular about where I sit in a theater. I basically believe there is only one "right" seat in any theater, and if I don't get it I'll be annoyed for the entire movie. So imagine my horror upon discovering that the theater I hadn't gone to in years had converted to recliner seats (which cut seating down by two thirds) AND required you to reserve assigned seats in advance (for an additional fee), unless you're willing to take your chances at the box office in hopes that some lazy bastard with a smart phone hadn't already reserved The Only Good Seat.
I decided to reserve my seats online...but the seating chart made no sense with the resized seats and aisles. So I finally picked some likely looking seats, then tried to reserve them. But no - first I'd have to create an account with the theater chain and give them my name, address, phone number, email, and credit card information. Choosing not to, I then tried to do a "guest check out" using a virtual credit card number (to prevent identity theft)...but the theater website claimed that my credit card provider rejected the transaction.
Fine. Mrs. J and I went to the theater early (for the first showing of the day), and requested our chosen seats at the box office. And they were open! Huzzah! So we hurried into the entirely empty theater and tried to find our seats. We were in row "E" but couldn't find any markings to tell us which row was which. We eventually discovered that the designating letters were subtly woven into the design of the rug and tastefully unlit. After this squinting discovery, we hurried to our seats in the exact center of the row.
Aaaand, the seats were horrible. WAY too far from the screen. We might as well have been at home watching TV. So we found the seats we really, really wanted and I had to trot my happy ass all the way through the mega-multiplex and outside to the box office again to beg for an exchange. This was granted, and I huffed and puffed my way back to our seats. At which point Mrs. J perfectly reasonably wanted some popcorn and a soda. So off I went to the concession stand, where exactly one person was behind the counter filling the orders - slowly - for a multiplex with 17 freaking auditoriums. I eventually got a medium popcorn ($9) and large coke ($6) and headed back to my seat to reflect on the fact that I was already out $30 for a matinee performance of a movie.
We played with the recliner seats a bit, which required a button control to electronically raise and lower your legs, and tilt your seat backwards so that your eyes would focus naturally on a spot about 10 feet above the top of the movie screen. Mrs. J liked the leg support of the recliner because she has short legs and her feet don't touch the floor when using regular movie seats. I, on the other hand, quickly decided that recliner seats in a movie theater are an offense against God and the natural order of things. So I sat bolt upright the entire time.
To kill time, the theater showed us a variety of commercials in which kids and adults communicated via Rap, followed by "entertainment" tidbits - one of which was "movie trivia." They then showed clips of a recent-ish movie in which Sandra Bullock plays a wealthy white woman who adopts an absolutely giant black teenager and makes his dream of playing football come true. No, really. "You're making his life better," smarmed a woman on screen. "No, he's making my life better," Sandra Bullock replied with the predictability of every sunrise ever. The movie was "The Blind Side" although my guess of "Liberal Wet Dream" didn't seem far off.
Then the trailers began. The first depicted a charming young black couple in a car, going on a date, cute as a couple of buttons. A classic romcom, right? Well, no - they're soon pulled over for a turn signal violation by a racist white cop who pulls his gun on the clean cut young man. A scuffle ensues, the cop gets shot by accident, and the rest of the movie is about two sweet black kids running for their lives from despicable, murderous white policemen. "Wow," thought I, "we really must come back and drop another 30 bucks to see that!" Not.
Next up was a trailer for a movie in which four attractive young women of color (not "The Squad" - we said "attractive," remember?) are bumping, grinding, and doing pole dances in a strip joint as dollar bills are thrown at them. The women then team up to use their sexual skills to skim thousands of dollars from evil white bastard Wall Street types who, after all, are the "real" thieves in this world. The movie is called "Hustlers," and we'll be rushing out to see it right after Hell freezes over.
At long last, the feature film started: Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." The film was "meh" at best, had no discernible story, lacked Tarantino's usually witty dialogue, and had only one good twist which Tarantino stole from one of his own movies. It's not a horrible film, and its technical aspects are good, but its main virtue is being instantly forgettable. I'll give it a "C" because if I rate it lower, I'll feel like even more of a dope for laying out so much money.
So, that was my curmudgeonly reintroduction to moviegoing and popular SJW culture. Whee.
And have I mentioned that the reason I even went is that a psychiatric professional had encouraged me to start attending movies as a means of reducing my constant state of anxiety? Spoiler alert: I'm going to stick with therapeutic doses of Clan MacGregor - $30 worth of which would kill a man outright.
After writing all of the above, I decided "who the heck wants to read that much crap about me being a sourpuss and cheapskate with an obsessive-compulsive fixation on theater seats?" After which I tried desperately to find some news item suitable for a cartoon and commentary.
Eventually I found a story in which Joe Biden's brain surgeon (from decades ago) was coming forward to attest that Joe doesn't have brain damage, despite all the appearances to the contrary...
Yeah... that's lame. Not really up to the high professional standards people expect from Stilton's Place. So I decided to redouble my efforts and really, really, really find a good idea to write about and...BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK!
Penny (the official dog of Hope n' Change) was yapping like an absolute maniac. Oh, she frequently loses her mind over pedestrians, bicyclists, Amazon deliveries, UPS trucks, and suspicious looking clouds...but this was different and more urgent. Curious, I looked out my office window to check what sort of apocalypse was coming and saw...
But no - it was almost certainly none of my business. I should just ignore the distraction. It was probably just something to do with one of the neighbors. But...what if one of them was a violent maniac with a weapon?!
Try though I might, I couldn't really refocus on writing because it's so damn distracting to have a police cruiser sitting mysteriously at the end of your walkway. Which it did for most of an hour.
Eventually the policeman left, and I learned it was a friendly visit to assist one of my neighbors (who is not a violent maniac). But by then my brain was absolutely shot, which is why you've just had to suffer through my endless bitching about going to a movie, a lame Joe Biden cartoon, and a rambling dialogue about my nascent paranoia.
If only there was some way I could make it up to you. Maybe I can ask a friend for a favor...
Better luck to all of us on Friday!


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Assistive technology (AT) tools can help a person plan, organize, and keep track of his calendar, schedule, task list, contact information, and miscellaneous notes. These tools allow him to manage, store, and retrieve such information with the help of special software and hand-held devices.
AT tools that assist with organization and memory fall into several categories:
Free-form database software
Used in conjunction with word processing or other software, this tool allows the user to create and store electronic notes by "jotting down" relevant information of any length and on any subject. The student can later retrieve the information by typing any fragment of the original note.
What type(s) of learning difficulty do these tools address?
This type of tool may help people who have difficulty with: organization and memory.
Products to consider
Information/data managers
This type of tool helps a person plan, organize, store, and retrieve his calendar, task list, contact data, and other information in electronic form. Personal data managers may be portable, hand-held devices, computer software, or a combination of those tools working together to share data.
What type(s) of learning difficulty do these tools address?
This type of tool may benefit people who struggle with organization and memory.
Products to consider
Paper-based computer pen
This technology records and links audio to what a person writes using the pen and special paper. It enables the user to take notes while simultaneously recording someone( e.g., a teacher) speaking. The user can later listen to any section of his notes by touching the pen to his corresponding handwriting or diagrams.
What type(s) of learning difficulty do these tools address?
This type of tool may benefit people who struggle with: listening, memory and reading.
Products to consider
Resources to help you evaluate assistive technology for your child
The assistive technology products listed on our site have been compiled in consultation with Marshall Raskind, Ph.D. This does not represent a comprehensive list. The inclusion of any product is not intended as an endorsement. The information is provided to guide parents and educators in selecting products to meet children's specific needs.
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It's been quite a while since I've discussed why the diagnosis of feedbacks in the climate system (and thus climate sensitivity) from observations is biased toward high climate sensitivity. It's a controversial topic, one which we have a few published papers on, yet one I am more firmly convinced about than any other climate research I have ever published.
I'm pretty convinced that most of our detractors on the subject don't even know what we are talking about. The refutations against our work have been a mixture of strawman arguments, red herrings, silliness, and deception.
To put it simply, if temperature change causes a change in the top-of-atmosphere radiative balance, then you can (with some assumptions regarding time lags) diagnose feedbacks by simply regressing the radiative variations against the temperature variations. BUT if it is instead a time-varying radiative imbalance causing a surface temperature change (causation reversed), then you cannot diagnose feedbacks.
If you try, then you will usually diagnose positive feedback, even if strongly negative feedback exists. Our most complete analysis of the effect was described here.
In general, both directions of causation are operating in the climate system. People like Andy Dessler will claim that ALL radiation changes are ultimately caused by temperature change, maybe at some earlier time, and so he thinks you can diagnose feedback.
But I totally reject that…there are many reasons why (for example) clouds (and thus albedo) can change that are not caused by temperature.
And if Dr. Dessler really believes it, why does he not include a time lag in his feedback diagnoses? (It usually take time — sometimes months — for the atmospheric response to a surface temperature change to fully develop). When you do that, the diagnosed feedback parameter almost always shifts in the direction of low climate sensitivity (Dick Lindzen has also published work on this issue).
For years, I've been mulling another reason (other than the radiation-causing-temperature change one) for diagnosed feedbacks to be biased positive. It would occur if different sources of climate variation have different feedbacks.
When feedbacks are strongly negative, then temperature changes will be minimized, because that's what negative feedback does — it damps temperature change.
But when feedbacks are positive, the temperature changes are allowed to grow.
So, the BIG temperature changes and their associated radiation changes during positive feedback events will dominate our observations of the climate system, while the small temperature changes during negative feedback events will be less noticeable.
The net result will be an average diagnosed feedback that is biased positive, that is, toward high climate sensitivity, because we are really only analyzing the big climate events that were allowed to grow due to positive feedbacks.
One can test this idea quantitatively with a simple 1D forcing-feedback energy balance model (like the one we have use in our papers, but here assuming a simple 1-layer swamp ocean 25 m deep, and a 30 day time step). If I force the ocean surface temperatures departures from an average state with a random number generator that is smoothed in time, then assume a sinusoidally varying feedback parameter between 0 and 6.4 W m-2 K-1 over a period of 28 months as the radiative response to those temperature variations, I get behavior like this:
The net feedback parameter diagnosis is then usually just the regression slope between the radiative flux variations and the temperature variations, which from the model output looks like this:
We see that the regression diagnosis of the feedback parameter is biased low. Instead of an average of 3.2 W m-2 K-1 as specified (which would be 1.2 deg. C equilibrium climate sensitivity), the diagnosis is 2.07 W m-2 K-1 (about 1.8 deg. C climate sensitivity).
If I add in some time-varying radiative forcing like we have addressed in our recent papers (e.g. this one), the bias toward high climate sensitivity is even greater (not shown here).
The above discussion is nowhere near exhaustive; I'm just trying to stimulate thought and discussion on an issue I feel very strongly about, that is: climate feedbacks diagnosed from observational data are very error-prone, with the errors most likely leading to overestimates of climate sensitivity.


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Whether you are preparing to purchase your first home or it has been many years since you last walked through the home buying process, you may be starting to feel overwhelmed at the thought of all of the work that lies in front of you. From concerns about finding the right home to the physical act of relocating all of your belongings after the closing, there is certainly a lot to think about.
While each home buying transaction is unique, the most successful home buyers have typically adopted a few behaviors. You may keep these in mind to help you navigate through the process with success.
Keep An Eye On Your Budget
Financial stress when buying a home is common. You may have saved for years to afford your down payment, but there are various expenses that some may have not calculated or planned for.
It is important to leave extra funds available for unexpected expenses, such as paying for the appraisal up-front on the home you have fallen in love with. Likewise, keep a close eye on your budget so that you are aware of your financial situation at all times.
An important strategy to stay on budget is to sit down with your trusted mortgage expert to determine what you can afford before you go look at homes. This may save you from falling in love with a property that is well outside your budget.
Be Available And Flexible
It is imperative that you remain available and flexible as much as possible. Your real estate agent may call you at the last minute with a great new listing that has come on the market, and you may need to be flexible with your schedule to see this property before other buyers do. In addition, you may need to be flexible and accommodating with regards to contract negotiations, working with title company requests and more.
Seek Advice And Knowledge
Buying a home does not have to be stressful, but it also is not something that you do every day. There is a lot for even an experienced home buyer to learn, and you should be prepared to seek advice and to educate yourself along the way. Ask questions as necessary, and use the Internet for additional research.
Home buying is a process, and you may consider taking one day at a time as you proceed through the journey to reach your ultimate goal. A skilled real estate agent parnered with a trusted mortgage advisor can both guide you through the process and can help you to more successfully reach your goal. Reach out to a trustred mortgage expert today to begin looking for your new home by figuring out what you can afford.


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RIP Phillip Seymour Hoffman
From CNN.Com:
(CNN) — Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his Manhattan apartment, law enforcement sources said Sunday.
Police said Hoffman, 46, was found on the bathroom floor and pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators combing the scene found two bags of what is believed to be heroin inside the fourth-floor apartment, law enforcement officials said.
Philip Seymour Hoffman arrives for the Los Angeles premiere of \'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\' at the Nokia Theatre LA Live in Los Angeles, California, on November 18.
Philip Seymour Hoffman arrives for the Los Angeles premiere of 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' at the Nokia Theatre LA Live in Los Angeles, California, on November 18.
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Police are investigating to determine whether anyone was with the actor when he died, the officials said.
Hoffman's body was discovered by a playwright who had been working with him, and a needle was found in one of the actor's arms, the sources told CNN.
Hoffman won an Academy Award for best actor for the 2005 biopic "Capote."
He was a beefy 5-foot-10-inch man, but was convincing as the slight 5-foot-3-inch Truman Capote. He had a booming voice like a deity's but often played shlubby, conflicted characters.
He could be heartfelt and giving, as with his male nurse in "Magnolia" or rock critic in "Almost Famous," or creepily Machiavellian, like the gamemaster in the latest "Hunger Games" movie or a "Mission: Impossible" movie villain.
He also appeared in "Charlie Wilson's War," "Doubt," and "The Master," for which he was nominated as best supporting actor.
According to a biography of the actor posted on the Turner Classic Movies website, last year Hoffman revealed he was seeking treatment for drug abuse, and "seemed to be confident that he was getting a handle on the situation."
Hoffman's father was a salesman and his mother was a family court judge, the biography says.
He landed his first professional stage role before graduating from high school and went on to study acting at New York University.
In Hollywood, his big break came with a small role as Chris O'Donnell's classmate in the 1992 film "Scent of a Woman."
For years, Hoffman was the kind of anonymous character actor who earned critical raves but was often unnoticed by the general public. He used his abilities to take chances with such directors as a then-unknown Paul Thomas Anderson, with whom he worked in "Hard Eight" (and several ensuing films, as both became better known) and Todd Solondz ("Happiness").
"I think about that a lot," he told Esquire in 2012 of his anonymity. "I feel it cracking lately, the older I'm getting. I think I'm less anonymous than I was."
Even after winning the Academy Award, he took challenging roles. He was an L. Ron Hubbard-style leader in "The Master" and an intense theater director in "Synecdoche, New York." Neither lit up the box office, but Hoffman's performances earned wide praise for their immersiveness.
Hoffman appeared last month at the Sundance Film Festival, where a movie he starred in, "God's Pocket," premiered.
After his Oscar win at the Academy Awards in 2006, Hoffman thanked his mother for taking him to his first play.
"She brought up four kids alone and she deserves a congratulations for that. Ah, we're at the party, Ma, you know? And she took me to my first play and she stayed up with me and watched the NCAA Final Four, and my passions, her passions became my passions. And, you know, be proud, Mom, because I'm proud of you and we're here tonight and it's so good," he said in his acceptance speech.
Hoffman stayed active on stage even as his star rose in Hollywood. He starred in a Broadway production of "Death of a Salesman" in 2012 and was co-artistic director of the Labyrinth Theater Company in New York.
He is survived by three children and his longtime partner, Mimi O'Donnell.


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The Creator's Calendar - DVD
Shimon Kefa (Peter) prophesied: "Yahshua ascended into heaven UNTIL the restoration of all things." One of the "all things" now being restored is the Creator's original calendar—the reckoning of time by which the Almighty created and still runs the universe. This is the calendar by which Israel conducted the Temple service, and the reckoning of time that governed when Yahshua went up to Jerusalem to fulfill the Spring Feasts of the LORD. Now, after nearly 2,000 years of religious superstition and ignorance, we can begin to understand the ministry of the Messiah and the Gospel chronology with more precise detail than could have been imagined since the onset of the Dark Ages.
Both Jews and Christians have forsaken the Creator's calendar for an invented reckoning of time. The modern Jewish calendar was invented in Tiberias in 359 of the Common Error, utilizing Babylon astronomy to calculate a complete new reckoning of time. The modern Christian calendar invented in Babylon nearly 4,000 years ago, remains just as pagan as the day it was fabricated. Join Biblical Historian, Michael Rood and his guest, Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Nehemia Gordon, as they expose both of these man-made calendars and turn to the ancient Hebrew Scriptures to rediscover the Creator's reckoning of time - so that we, the children of light, might not be ignorant of His times and His seasons.
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Next Wednesday evening, Plácido Domingo, the opera megastar who has recently been accused of sexual misconduct by 20 women, is scheduled to start a run of performances of Verdi's Macbeth at the most famous opera house in the United States: New York's Metropolitan Opera. The sold-out first show also features soprano Anna Netrebko, another of the operatic world's most bankable stars.
Many fans and fellow artists have rallied to Domingo's side in the wake of the women's allegations, which were published by the Associated Press in two reports. Netrebko posted on Instagram last month that she is happy to "share stage with fantastic Plácido Domingo!" In a statement to NPR last month, Domingo said: "I believed that all of my interactions and relationships were always welcomed and consensual."
The Met calls Macbeth a "powerful musical interpretation of Shakespeare's timeless drama of ambition and its personal cost," and this production is a chance for audiences to demonstrate their support for the singer.
But not everyone inside the Met is happy. A number of longtime employees at the opera house have told NPR that they are furious that the New York company is continuing its association with Domingo. These staffers believe that their employer has a specific responsibility to take allegations of sexual misconduct seriously after the downfall of James Levine, the Met's former music director of four decades, who has been publicly accused of sexual abuse by nine men. Levine was fired by the Met in March 2018. (Levine then sued the opera company, which filed a counterclaim; the two sides reached a settlement for an undisclosed figure last month.)
Four current Met employees spoke to NPR about the Domingo situation on the condition of anonymity because, they say, they fear retribution.
They insist that they do not want to harm the Met as an institution or impair the financially precarious art form of opera. But all four say — in comments that echo some of those from the women who spoke to the AP about Domingo's alleged behavior at LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera and what was then called Washington Opera, in Washington, D.C. — that it was "common knowledge" at the Met that Domingo would make sexual overtures to women there.
None said that they had directly experienced any misconduct, but several say they feel that the power dynamic between Domingo and rank-and-file employees is so overt and distorted that it has created an untenable work environment, and that they felt compelled to speak up.
"Everybody knows that Domingo is a womanizer and that he could be persistent," one of the Met employees, who has worked at the opera for decades, told NPR. This person also said that women working at the Met have known to avoid one-on-one situations with the singer — the same kind of strategy that a number of the women interviewed by the AP said had been deployed at other opera houses at which Domingo was appearing.
The same source also told NPR that there were a number of women at the Met who in the past have gone so far as to change their work schedules — denying themselves artistic and potentially career-furthering opportunities of working with the long-revered and influential singer — specifically to avoid having to interact with Domingo. "A lot of that stuff started happening in the 1980s," this employee said. "As he got older, it was less of a big deal. But still, women knew."
Another Met employee, a member of the orchestra, said that at least one person has already called in sick for rehearsals and performances of Macbeth to avoid working with Domingo, and said that they personally felt "livid" for having to perform alongside him. "I feel queasy in the pit during rehearsals, seeing him onstage," the musician said. "Especially given that the Levine debacle is still so fresh, the Met had an even greater responsibility to show that it had evolved. Instead, here's just one more catastrophic crisis — and it seems that at the Met, sufficiently powerful, popular men are beyond reproach."
Another employee said, "I wish he wasn't here. I think the Met is the face of opera in this country, and maybe even in the world — and having him on that stage sends a message that I don't want to be sending. I think a majority of our colleagues at the house feel similarly to how I'm feeling. But it's also confusing. People love him — Plácido is warm, generous and kind to individuals — but he was also not at all that to a not-insubstantial number of people."
In his statement to NPR last month, Domingo called the allegations in the AP reports "deeply troubling, and as presented, inaccurate." In a second statement sent to NPR earlier this month, his spokesperson, Nancy Seltzer, called the AP's reports an "ongoing campaign to denigrate Plácido Domingo."
When contacted for this story, Seltzer asked that questions be submitted by email. In response to NPR's inquiries, she sent this statement: "Plácido Domingo has been greeted by his colleagues at the Met in a warm and professional manner, as one would expect for an artist who has performed there for more than five decades."
Seltzer continued: "As has been stated in previous statements to the press, anyone who knows Mr. Domingo or who has worked with him knows he is not someone who would intentionally harm, offend or embarrass anyone. The outpouring of support for him from singers and musicians around the world attest to this fact. He is focusing on giving the public the best possible performance."
But Met employees are questioning the institution's commitment to statements it issued in the wake of the Levine accusations, including one released when the conductor was terminated from the opera house, which said: "We wish to provide the assurance that the Met is committed to ensuring a safe, respectful and harassment-free workplace for its employees and artists."
There have been no public accusations of misconduct by Domingo since Macbeth has gone into rehearsal. However, Met artists and workers say that they still feel uncomfortable, given the Levine situation. One of the Met employees who spoke to NPR, and who was at the Met for a long portion of Levine's tenure there, said, "Did that statement [from the Met] mean anything? The lesson I've taken away is that if you're powerful enough, people shouldn't bother to make a complaint. Nothing will be done."
"When Jimmy [Levine] was our music director," another of the sources who also has been with the Met for decades said, "there were all kinds of rumors, but no one came forth. We had to sit through it for 40 years. But when there were allegations, management got rid of him." Afterwards, this employee continued, "We thought, 'OK, after all this time, after we have endured so much, we're finally going to get protected.' But nothing has changed — the culture is so deeply embedded."
The sources told NPR that rank-and-file employees at the opera house, as well as many solo cast members, have been sent to anti-sexual harassment training since the allegations against Levine were made public, but that it rankled them to then see Plácido Domingo — who continues to be a powerful figure in the opera world — on the Met's stage. (Along with singing in Macbeth, Domingo is scheduled to perform in Puccini's Madama Butterfly in November.)
A current member of the Met orchestra described feeling angered upon seeing an HR representative carry anti-sexual harassment training materials into a rehearsal room at the opera house, after rehearsal had ended and Domingo had left.
Since the AP published allegations from the 20 women, a number of prominent American classical music and opera institutions have canceled engagements with Domingo, including San Francisco Opera, the Dallas Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Philadelphia Orchestra's current music director is Yannick Nézet-Séguin — who has also been the music director of the Metropolitan Opera since the beginning of the 2018-19 season. Nézet-Séguin did not respond to NPR's request for comment, made through his management.
By contrast, the Met has said that it will wait for the results of an investigation by LA Opera. That investigation has barely begun; according to the Los Angeles Times, employees at the California opera house just received an introductory letter from the lead investigator, Debra Wong Yang, this Monday. Similarly, no European institutions or opera houses have canceled scheduled performances by Domingo.
"I understand that it's easier for Philadelphia or Dallas or San Francisco to pull him," one of the Met employees told NPR, referring to the fact that those were each single concerts as opposed to the Met's extended schedule of opera performances, and also alluding to Domingo's long association with the Met: He's sung there more than 700 times. "But I find it troubling that we have the same music director as Philadelphia, and can't make the same decision," the employee continued. "I don't think it's Yannick — I believe it's the board [who is keeping Domingo on at the Met]."
The current chairman of the Met's board, Ann Ziff, is an extremely influential figure within the arts world. She's served on the Met's board since 1994 and gave a record $30 million to the opera company in 2010. She also has deep ties to Domingo's work: in 2015, the philanthropist joined the board of LA Opera — the house that Domingo helped found in 1986 and where he has been general director since 2003. Ziff was also one of the funders of a gala held in April that celebrated the 50th anniversary of Domingo's debut at the Met. Single tickets for the event started at $2,500.
The Met's production of Macbeth is being underwritten by several prominent donors, including Paul M. Montrone, who is president emeritus of the Met board.
The Metropolitan Opera is a complex organization: It employs workers who belong to several unions. Their job titles range from orchestra players and chorus singers to costumers, makeup artists, ticket sellers and stagehands. NPR attempted to obtain comments from several union leaders whose members work at the Met; most did not respond, and one referred NPR to the Met's publicity department. However, one of those unions, the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), which represents the chorus, soloists, stage managers, directors, dancers and choreographers at the Met, announced earlier this month that it had retained its own counsel to conduct a separate investigation into the allegations against Domingo.
NPR requested comment for this report from Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera's general manager. As with Domingo's representative, the Met also asked that questions to Gelb be submitted by email. In response, the company said in an email, "The Metropolitan Opera has nothing further to add to our initial statement at this time," and then repeated the statement it sent to NPR on Aug. 13, which read:
"We take accusations of sexual harassment and abuse of power with extreme seriousness. We will await the results of the investigation into Plácido Domingo's behavior as head of the Los Angeles Opera before making any final decisions about Mr. Domingo's ultimate future at the Met. It should be noted that during his career at the Met as a guest artist, Mr. Domingo has never been in a position to influence casting decisions for anyone other than himself."
The Met employees who spoke to NPR say that, due to the opera house's recent experience with Levine, it has a particular duty to take the needs of its artists and staff seriously. "We have so much history with Plácido, it means, I think, that we have more of an obligation to respond," said one of the sources. "Additionally, suspending someone pending a misconduct investigation is pretty standard; it's a measure that's there to protect everyone, including Plácido. He wouldn't have to face people, and people wouldn't have to face him. As it is right now, it's a very awkward situation."
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WASHINGTON – As family farmers and ranchers navigate warmer temperatures and increased weather variability as a result of climate change, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will play a vital role in helping producers adapt to and mitigate the adverse impacts of climate volatility.
National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson wrote a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today, highlighting the important work the USDA is carrying out on climate change and urging the Secretary to expand these efforts.
"Climate change is underway, and it is undermining the livelihoods of American family farmers and global food security," wrote Johnson. "We appreciate the many critical, laudable steps that the USDA has undertaken to help family farmers and ranchers cope with changing weather conditions and participate in climate change mitigation. We urge you to amplify USDA's commitment to these efforts, and to think creatively about more opportunities to connect with family farmers and ranchers on climate change."
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- The Natural Resource Conservation Service's (NRCS) efforts to engage producers on the benefits of enhancing soil health and climate resiliency;
- The regional Climate Hub's efforts to disperse location-specific information on changing weather conditions and what they mean for agriculture among producers;
- The innovative work of the Climate Change Program Office and Office of Environmental Markets, which establish opportunities for producers to receive value for environmental services, diversifying farm income, and ultimately reducing the need for regulation; and
- The many research endeavors that find new ways for producers to improve their margins while reducing greenhouse gasses, and to make their operations more resilient to climate interference, based on sound science and free of political interference.
Johnson noted that the USDA has the expertise to navigate very difficult issues and the ability to carefully craft messages that resonate with family farmers and ranchers.
"While climate change can often be a tough issue to broach in many communities, there is little doubt that farmers and ranchers want to do the right thing and leave the land in a better state than they found it," said Johnson. "USDA agencies, like the NRCS, are extremely effective at connecting with producers and landowners – regardless of their views on climate change – and encouraging them to take action."
"Through heightened awareness, effective communication, and continual education on climate change, we can secure the best possible results for American agriculture and the global food system," Johnson added.
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The First of Peter
5 Therefore, as a fellow elder, a witness of the sufferings of the Christ and a sharer of the glory that is to be revealed,+ I make this appeal* to the elders among you: 2 Shepherd the flock of God+ under your care, serving as overseers,* not under compulsion, but willingly before God;+ not for love of dishonest gain,+ but eagerly; 3 not lording it over those who are God's inheritance,+ but becoming examples to the flock.+ 4 And when the chief shepherd+ has been made manifest, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.+
5 In the same way, you younger men, be in subjection to the older men.*+ But all of you clothe* yourselves with humility* toward one another, because God opposes the haughty ones, but he gives undeserved kindness to the humble ones.+
6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time,+ 7 while you throw all your anxiety* on him,+ because he cares for you.+ 8 Keep your senses, be watchful!+ Your adversary, the Devil, walks about like a roaring lion, seeking to devour someone.*+ 9 But take your stand against him,+ firm in the faith, knowing that the same kind of sufferings are being experienced by the entire association of your brothers* in the world.+ 10 But after you have suffered a little while, the God of all undeserved kindness, who called you to his everlasting glory+ in union with Christ, will himself finish your training. He will make you firm,+ he will make you strong,+ he will firmly ground you. 11 To him be the might forever. Amen.
12 Through Sil·vaʹnus,*+ whom I regard as a faithful brother, I have written you in few words in order to encourage you and to give an earnest witness that this is the true undeserved kindness of God. Stand firm in it. 13 She who is in Babylon, a chosen one like you, sends you her greetings, and so does Mark,+ my son. 14 Greet one another with a kiss of love.
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In the motor sports obsessed U.S. you would think semi truck racing would have an active and devoted following but yet there is nothing. To add more confusion truck racing is very popular all across Europe with an actual racing body devoted to the sport. Yes, I know us Americans have the truck version of NASCAR but we all know that doesn't count. So what is the deal? A little digging around the web reveals an former racing league by the name of the Great American Truck Racing Series. Through the late 70's and into the mid 80's this group hosted a series of truck races at tracks across the country. By all accounts interest was high and participants numerous. There was even TV coverage with high production values and announcers like Brock Yates. Check out some of the clips below. It's amazing to see Brockways, Autocars, Whites, and Macks all racing side by side on step oval tracks.
Ahhh, now I could watch this each Sunday for a few hours. Sadly, it was not meant to be. BangShift.com did some digging on the GATR series and found that tracks hosting the big rigs suffered for it, literally. The weight of these racing trucks put together with the 10+ tires they ran would actually destroy the tracks by removing the top layers of asphalt. Running the trucks proved to be rather expensive with high insurance and tire costs. Sometime in the late 80's GATR disappeared and with it American semi truck racing.
If you still need a fix the video below shows what our European brothers enjoy.
And while there may not be a true national presence like GATR the rigs still race all across the country at small tracks, where some would argue the purest forms of racing still exist.
*UPDATE 6/26/2014* It looks like big rig racing is returning to America! Click here!


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Sojourner Truth
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CBN.com Born July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a former slave who became a journalist and launched a virtual one-woman crusade against the vicious practice of lynching. She died March 25, 1931.
Activist and journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an early proponent of civil rights. Editor and partial owner of her own newspaper, she published articles on topics considered controversial at the time. One of her main causes was fighting the practice of lynching, which she regarded as a horrific form of racial prejudice that no decent human being could ignore or justify. For years, the vicious practice of lynching had been widely used — especially in the South after the Civil War — as a means of punishing alleged criminals, although two-thirds of the victims were African American. The word "lynching" dates back to the late 1700s, when a frontier judge named Charles Lynch became known for dispensing with jury trials in favor of speedy hangings. These came to be known as "lynchings," and they later evolved into acts of mob violence in which someone was put to death, usually by hanging. Wells-Barnett waged her war against it in the press as well as on the podium, earning a reputation for fearlessness and determination despite numerous efforts to intimidate her, including death threats.
Ida B. Wells was born into slavery. Her mother, Lizzie Bell, had been bought and sold by a number of owners, while her father, James Wells, had but one master who was also his father and whose last name he took as his own. He was raised as his master's companion and was later apprenticed to a carpenter so that he could learn a trade. It was at the carpenter's home that James met Lizzie, who worked there as a cook, and the two eventually married. Ida, the first of their seven children, arrived during the summer of 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, six months before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
As was true of many former slaves, the Wells retained their old jobs even after the South had been defeated in the Civil War. But their expectations for their children had undergone a major change. It was very important to both parents that their children receive an education. James, for example, served on the first board of trustees for Rust College, a school founded and run by Northern missionaries. His children received their schooling there. Meanwhile, Lizzie also attended classes and learned to read the Bible. Favoring Shakespeare as well as the Scriptures, Ida was well on her way to completing high school when her parents and youngest sibling died along with 301 other residents of Holly Springs in the 1878 yellow-fever epidemic.
Thus, at the age of only sixteen, Ida B. Wells became responsible for her five younger siblings. Convincing the superintendent of a rural school some five miles outside town that she was eighteen, she obtained a position as teacher that paid her $25 a month. During the week, Wells lived near the school and her family stayed with others until she returned on the weekend to attend to chores such as washing and baking. In 1882, she and her two sisters moved to their aunt's home near Memphis, while her brothers remained behind in Holly Springs to work as carpenters' apprentices. Wells taught in Shelby County, Tennessee, while studying for the exams she needed to pass in order to teach in the city. Once she passed those exams, she secured a position in one of Memphis's black schools.
On May 4, 1884, Wells purchased a first-class train ticket for a trip to Nashville, Tennessee, where she was attending classes at Fisk University. When she boarded the train, however, the conductor told her to move back to the smoking car. Wells refused and bit him when he tried to force her from her seat. With the assistance of the baggageman, the conductor then ushered her out of the car to the cheers of many passengers. At the next stop, Wells got off the train and made the return trip to Memphis, where she filed suit against the railway company.
Wells won her case in circuit court and was awarded a $500 settlement, only to see the decision reversed by the Tennessee Supreme Court on the grounds that her intention had been to cause difficulty for the railway. As she later wrote of the incident, "[I] firmly believed all along that the law was on our side and would, when we appealed to it, give us justice. I [felt] shorn of that belief and utterly discouraged."
Even though Wells was discouraged, she was not about to give up the fight. Before long, the name "Iola" began appearing in black publications as the author of articles about race and politics in the South. Wells had been using the pseudonym for less than a year when, in 1887, she attended the National Afro-American Press Convention and was named the most prominent correspondent for the American black press. Convention delegates also elected her assistant secretary of the organization.
Eventually, Wells purchased partial interest in a black newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight (later renamed Free Speech), and became its editor. In addition to her writing, she continued to teach, using her time off in the summer to travel in the South soliciting subscribers and hiring correspondents.
Wells did not shy away from controversy in the pages of Free Speech. A turning point in her career occurred when she wrote an article that was very critical of Memphis's separate but not-so-equal schools. The anonymous piece described the rundown buildings and teachers who had received little more education than their students. Such revelations did not sit well with members of the local Board of Education. Along with everyone else who had heard of Free Speech, they knew that Wells was the one who had written the article. They also took issue with her claim that a member of the all-white board was having an affair with an African American teacher. The uproar cost Wells her teaching job.
Free to dedicate herself full time to the newspaper, Wells was soon earning enough to purchase a half-share of Free Speech. While her partner, J.L. Fleming, handled business matters, she took charge of the editorial and subscription departments, and under her leadership circulation increased from 1,500 to 4,000. Readers continued to rely on Free Speech to tackle the most controversial subjects, even when that meant speaking out against African Americans as well as whites — and even when it meant challenging a widely-accepted practice such as lynching.
Wells was in Natchez, Mississippi, when word reached her that her friend Tom Moss, the father of her goddaughter, had been lynched. Until that time, Wells, like most other people, knew that there were usually two reasons why a black man was lynched — because he had raped a white woman or killed a white man. Moss's only crime, however, was successfully competing with a white grocer, and for this he and his partners were murdered. Wells then came to the realization that lynchings were not being used to weed out criminals but to enforce white supremacy. So, in a series of scathing editorials in Free Speech, she urged African Americans to boycott Memphis's new streetcar line and move out west if possible.
African Americans heeded Wells's pleas and began leaving Memphis by the hundreds. Two pastors of large black churches took their entire congregations to Oklahoma, and others soon followed. Those who stayed behind boycotted white businesses, creating financial hardships for commercial establishments as well as for the public transportation system. The city's papers attempted to dissuade blacks from leaving by reporting on the hostile American Indians and dangerous diseases awaiting them out west. To counter their claims, Wells spent three weeks traveling in Oklahoma. Upon her return she published a firsthand account of the actual conditions. Fast becoming a target for angry white men and women, she was advised by friends to ease up on her editorials. Instead, Wells decided to carry a pistol. "[I had] already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked," she later recalled. "I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."
Wells spent two months after the murders of Moss and his partners investigating other lynchings across the South. Traveling from Texas to Virginia, she interviewed both whites and blacks to discern truth from rumor. As Margaret Truman wrote in Women of Courage, "To call this dangerous work is an understatement. Imagine a lone black woman in some small town in Alabama or Mississippi, asking questions that no one wanted to answer about a crime that half the whites in the town had committed." During the course of her investigation, Wells learned that rape was far from being the only crime lodged against victims of lynch mobs. Indeed, men had been lynched for "being saucy." In Mississippi, one victim of a lynch mob was accused of raping a seven-year-old girl. Wells discovered that the real story was that an adult white woman had gone to a black man's cabin of her own accord. The woman's father then led the lynch mob to safeguard his daughter's reputation.
On May 25, 1892, two months after Moss's death, an article appearing in Free Speech stated that "nobody in this section believes the old thread-bare lie that Negro men assault white women. If Southern white men are not careful they will over-reach themselves and a conclusion will be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women." Many white citizens of Memphis did not appreciate the implication that some of their women might prefer the company of black men, and the editor of the newspaper declared that the "black wretch who had written that foul lie should be tied to a stake at the corner of Main and Madison Streets, a pair of tailor's shears used on him, and he should then be burned at the stake."
Wells, who was on her way to New York City at the time, was unaware of the impact of her latest editorial until reaching her destination. It was fellow African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune, editor of the New York Age, who informed her that a mob of white men had marched into the Free Speech offices, demolished the printing press, and set fire to the building. Fleming, Wells's partner, had escaped just before the attack and was in hiding. The angry group had promised that both editors would be lynched if they ever again set foot in Memphis. Over the next few days, Wells received telegrams and letters from friends begging her not to return. They told her that there were instructions to kill her on sight, and a gunman had been spotted at the station whenever a train from the North was due to arrive.
Realizing that it was too dangerous for her to go back to Memphis, Wells remained in New York and accepted a job from Fortune. Among the first stories she wrote for the Age was a front-page spread detailing names, dates, and locations of several dozen lynchings. In many cases, the lynchers were prominent members of society who could have easily gone through proper legal channels had there been evidence of their victims' guilt.
Even though that particular issue of the Age sold 10,000 copies, it reached a predominantly black audience — not the northern white progressives Wells knew she needed to move to action if she wanted the lynchings to stop. In 1893, therefore, she set out on a speaking tour of the British Isles and Europe, where she found the white community was more receptive to what she had to say. With the help of various newspaper editors and organizations such as the London-based Anti-Lynching Committee and the Society of Brotherhood of Man, Wells's message eventually made its way back to the United States. Nevertheless, American newspapers continued to attack Wells, referring to her as the "slanderous and nasty-minded mulattress." Not only did Wells face opposition from conservative whites, but she also came under fire from upper-class African Americans who feared any threat to the security of their positions.
After returning from her speaking tour later in 1893, Wells moved to Chicago and began working for the Conservator, a black newspaper founded and edited by lawyer Ferdinand Barnett. When African Americans were banned from participating in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (held in Chicago), she teamed up with Barnett and Frederick Douglass to compile a booklet entitled "The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not Represented in the World's Columbian Exposition." Some 10,000 copies of it were distributed during the fair. That same year, Wells published A Red Record, which recounted three years of American lynchings. In order to avoid any charges of bias, she gathered all of her data from white sources, primarily the Chicago Tribune.
In 1895, Wells married Barnett, who shared her passion for civil rights. They settled in Chicago, where Wells changed her name to Wells-Barnett and divided her time between raising her four children and working on various causes of interest to her. She continued to crusade against lynching, for example, and was active in the women's club movement, which encouraged African American women to become involved in civic affairs at the local and national level. She also helped establish the first kindergarten in the black district of Chicago and joined noted reformer Jane Addams in a successful protest against a plan to segregate the city's schools.
Wells-Barnett spoke out against discrimination in other ways as well, denouncing the restriction of African Americans to the backs of buses and theater balconies and their exclusion from religious organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union. When she exposed the segregationist policies of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), several wealthy donors withdrew their support from that group and gave nearly $9,000 to the establishment of the Negro Fellowship Reading Room and Social Center. On two occasions, Wells-Barnett went all the way to the White House with her concerns — once in 1898 when she led a delegation to President William McKinley to protest the lynching of an African American postmaster, and again in 1913 as a representative of the National Equal Rights League, which asked President Woodrow Wilson to end discrimination in government jobs.
In 1909, Wells-Barnett attended the conference of radical activists that led to the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She resigned not long afterwards, however, convinced that the organization was not committed enough to militant action. Some years earlier, she had quit the Afro-American Council in protest against Booker T. Washington and his conservative policy of accommodation.
In the last twenty or so years of her life, Wells-Barnett devoted most of her time and energy to various civic and political activities in Chicago. From 1913 until 1916, for instance, she worked as an adult probation officer. She also remained busy with club work and founded the first African American women's suffrage organization. She even ran for state senator in the 1930 elections but was easily defeated.
Had Wells-Barnett been able to see the future, she might have been able to appreciate how much she influenced the civil rights movement of the 1960s with her own fearless battles against discrimination decades earlier. But she herself would not live to witness a new era of race relations. On March 25, 1931, Wells-Barnett died of kidney disease at the age of sixty-nine. Today, she is still honored as a woman who risked her own life so that the truth could be known and justice served.
Reprinted by permission of The Gale Group.
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About the Community of Arlington Heights
Arlington Heights is a village in Cook county in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it lies about 25 miles northwest of the city's downtown. The population was 75,101 at the 2010 census.
Arlington Heights is known for Arlington Park Race Track, home of the Arlington Million, a Breeders' Cup qualifying event; also hosted the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2002. It is also home to the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, which has one of the largest collections in the state, as well as the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, Saint Viator High School, John Hersey High School, South Middle School and Thomas Middle School.
Background Information
Arlington Heights lies mostly in the west side of Wheeling Township, with territory in adjacent Elk Grove and Palatine townships, in an area originally notable for the absence of groves and trees. The General Land Office began selling land here in 1835. In 1853 William Dunton, originally from Oswego, New York, persuaded the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad to make a stop here, and laid out a town called Dunton. Dunton Avenue, named after William Dunton, is the village's base line that splits addresses east and west, with Campbell Street splitting north and south.
Arlington Park Racetrack
By the turn of the century Arlington Heights had about 1,400 inhabitants, and it continued to grow slowly with a good many farms and greenhouses after World War II. By then Arlington Heights was also known for its racetrack, founded in 1927 by the California millionaire Harry D. "Curly" Brown upon land formerly consisting of 12 farms. Camp McDonald and two country clubs were founded in the 1930s. On July 31, 1985 a fire burned down the Grandstand. The current six story Grandstand was completed and opened for use June 28, 1989.
Business in Arlington Heights
Arlington Heights has experienced a recent boom in development of condominiums, restaurants and other businesses in the Central Business District or downtown area of Arlington Heights, with restaurants experiencing the greatest overall success. Although land and space is now limited in Arlington Heights; business and community development along with community design are key concerns of the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce with over 800 individual members and about 500 business members. The Village of Arlington Heights is also instrumental in business, residential and community development. The community is served by many fine hotels.
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I want to thank everyone for their help in commenting on printer types and coloring earlier this week. As you can see if you read the comments there are many kinds of printers and inks out there. Some work for coloring with Copics, some don't, some need to be heat-set, others just need to have the printout sit for a while.
Skim through the comments to see if your printer type is listed. Otherwise, just carefully test your printer's ink before you print up a bunch of things to color. If in doubt, just photocopy it.
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There were 120 comments, and our cute little bird has a lot of things he could be saying. I went to Random.org to use their number generator to find our Prize winner:
The winner of the prize pack is Carly!!
. "I guess Santa Claus really does exist" or
"Yes, Crafters there IS a Santa Claus"
2. I have a HP Photosmart C7280 All in One.
And I'm a Copic Virgin so I have no idea how they do with my printer. But, maybe it will be my lucky day & I will soon find out!
There were a lot of really cute sayings, so I had a hard time picking a new saying for the birdie. Check back for the final colored image and what the little bird thinks about the snowman with the giant Copic Marker.
As we get closer to the January Craft & Hobby Association shows, we are also getting closer to having all the Certification classes for Feb-April picked out. If you or your local stamping store will be attending the wholesale only Winter CHA Show you can stop by our booth, #2563 to meet all of our instructors. Get to know your regional instructor and get a special workshop set up at your store. You can also get ideas about teaching your own Copic papercrafting workshops, so stop by and chat.
There are a few options during both the CHA Consumer Craft Supershow and the CHA Wholesale Show.
• If you are a store, design team member, or instructor/employee for a papercrafting store you can register now for one of two Certification Classes. These are Beginner/Intermediate classes and are intended for people who will be going on to teach what they've learned to others. Certificatins are technique only, and no finished product will be made. Classes run from 9 am to 4pm and you can pick either Friday, Jan. 22nd or Saturday, Jan. 23. Send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com for an application. Note: Remaining spaces will open to the public after the first of the year. Get an application in now to be on the waiting list for these classes if you are not affiliated with a store or company.
• If you are a papercrafter searching for a good beginner workshop where you make a finished card and learn basic techniques you can take the Copic Cardmaking class during the CHA Craft Supershow. Friday Jan. 22nd from 1 to 3pm. Cost is $30 and you make 3 finished cards. Note: If this fills they will add extra sessions, so register NOW!
• If you are just wanting to hold, touch, color, and know why people are obsessed with Copic Markers you can stop by the SplitcoastStampers booth for a fun and cute make n' take all day, both Friday or Saturday of the Craft Supershow (if you're early they may also have cupcakes!)
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Although the San Antonio classes this weekend are full and closed, there are still some classes currently open and will be opening to the public in the next few weeks. Sign up now for the waiting list even if you are not affiliated with a store or other papercrafting company!
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Jan. 10th, Sarasota, FL taught by Sally Lynn -Open to Stores and Designers
Jan. 22nd, Anaheim, CA Taught by Sherrie Siemens, Colleen Schaan, & Kathy Sanders Open to Stores and Designers
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Feb. 21st, Shawnee, KS Taught by Sally Lynn. Applications have not gone out yet.
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RSA boss demands revamp of outdated privacy, security regs
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RSA Europe Corporate security policies that simply adopt regulations and obsess over privacy are stuck in the last century, according to senior execs at security biz RSA.
Tom Heiser, president of the EMC-owned outfit, told delegates to the RSA Europe conference that efforts to comply with red tape and standards is fruitless as the rules were formulated to thwart adversaries of ten years or more ago.
"Security based only on compliance or risk makes little sense. Adversaries can read compliance rules just as well as information security professionals," Heiser said.
He argued that "meeting compliance takes managers out of the loop", and called for a revamp in rules such as the PCI DSS: the payment card industry's data security standard.
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A Canadian ferry lost power but not momentum and caused boat owners some problems as reported here.
Witnesses said the 7,000-tonne Queen of Oak Bay missed the terminal berth and was blowing its horn as it crashed into Sewell's Marina.
Passenger Shawn Atleo was on the bow when the 140-metre-long ferry lost power.
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Austrian actor; born June 7, 1840, at Vienna; son of Adolf Herzfeld. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town, and entered a wholesale business house there as an apprentice. But, like his father, he soon forsook mercantile life and became an actor, appearing for the first time at Linz in 1857.
After taking part in the Austro-Italian war (1859) as a volunteer, he filled theatrical engagements at Brünn (1861-64); Leipsic (till 1870); the Hoftheater, Mannheim (till 1877); the Stadttheater, Leipsic (1877); the Stadttheater, Vienna (1878); and the Hoftheater, Stuttgart (1879). In 1889 he left the stage, and after a short stay in Vienna settled in the mountains of Carinthia; but removed in 1900 to Ratisbon, where he has since lived, devoting most of his time to writing for the stage.
His son, Leo Herzfeld (born 1872), also an actor, is engaged at the Stadttheater of Hermannstadt, Transylvania.
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"Some of the most fascinating and pressing problems open to science concern the structure and function of the human brain, that exceedingly complex organ believed to be the site of our thoughts, the storeroom of our memories, and the source of all human achievements, including science itself. A number of avenues are open through which scientists can approach and explore this intricate organ. Perhaps one of the most fruitful is to study equivalent structures in simple primitive invertebrates such as those living in the tropical waters near the Institute of Neurobiology."
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The Institute was established in 1967 by Professor José del Castillo, Distinguished Professor of the University of Puerto Rico, as a multidisciplinary interdepartmental facility dedicated to the study of nervous system structure and function. The Institute is presently composed of eleven laboratories that utilize a variety of model systems to address some of the most challenging issues facing modern Neuroscience – ranging from synapse development and specification in Drosophila to the molecular basis of addiction. The Institute of Neurobiology houses a NeuroImaging Core (confocal, live imaging, electron microscopy), a shared Molecular Neurobiology Core, and a Neurogenetics Core. Facilities are available for short and long-term visits by scientists and students.


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Zuora's Subscribed Institute Welcomes Boston Consulting Group to the Think Tank
New Research Partnership Focuses on Strategies for Optimizing High Growth Subscriptions
Redwood City, Calif – April 6, 2021 – Zuora, Inc., (NYSE:ZUO) the leading subscription management platform provider, today announced its joint research with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in collaboration with the Subscribed Institute, Zuora's think tank for the Subscription Economy®. BCG joins the Institute's growing ecosystem of partners, academics, and practitioners, focused on solving the challenges and unlocking opportunities to help subscription companies succeed.
The newest research[1] from BCG and the Subscribed Institute suggests that 70-80% of the revenue of a successful subscription business should come from existing customers to optimize growth. However, many companies often fall short of monetizing those relationships, according to the report, "How to Nail the "Land and Expand" Model to Drive Subscription Growth."
Co-author and pricing expert John Pineda, Partner and Director at BCG said, "Freemium models are useful for customer acquisition and expansion, but not for generating actual revenue growth. Technology companies that focus on landing a bunch of new accounts, without taking care of them will end up losing customers, as well as the incredible growth they represent. Pricing to value is key to improving core business profitability– and the subscription model makes it easy."
The report explores the direct correlation between the "land and expand" strategy and annual recurring revenue, by comparing non-subscription to subscription-based technology companies. Findings suggest that businesses with 70-80% of revenue coming from existing customers can achieve:
- Nearly 2X Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) Growth. When compared to traditional Hardware and Software companies, enterprise SaaS companies consistently focus on the expansion of revenue across four critical dimensions: upselling, cross-selling, growing volume, and capturing price increases.
- 30% Higher ARR. SaaS companies are stronger than non-SaaS companies at escaping the "leaky bucket" trap with a stronger investment in providing ongoing value to existing customers.
- Bigger Upsell Opportunity. For SaaS companies, land, expand, and retain performance improves with increase in ARR. Companies with more than $100 million in ARR consistently outperformed companies with less than $10 million in ARR in overall growth (+14%), average net expansion (+12%), upsell revenue expansion (+10%), new customer growth (+2%), and churn (3% lower).
"As-a-service business models are the future of economic growth," said Amy Konary, Founder and Chair, the Subscribed Institute at Zuora and former IDC analyst for digital business models of nearly 20 years. "We're thrilled to partner with BCG to continue providing the world with the leading research and expertise on subscription strategy and monetization."
Download the report here for best practices to improve your company's Land and Expand approach in today's Subscription Economy. Pineda and Konary are also published by the World Economic Forum.
For more information, contact the Subscribed Institute at: https://www.subscribed.com/subscribed-institute
[1] How to Nail the "Land and Expand" Model to Drive Subscription Growth, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)'s Value Science team and Subscribed Institute, March 2021
About Zuora, Inc.
Zuora provides the leading cloud-based subscription management platform that functions as a system of record for subscription businesses across all industries. Powering the Subscription Economy®, the Zuora platform was architected specifically for dynamic, recurring subscription business models and acts as an intelligent subscription management hub that automates and orchestrates the entire subscription order-to-revenue process seamlessly across billing and revenue recognition. Zuora serves more than 1,000 companies around the world, including Box, Ford, Penske Media Corporation, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Xplornet, and Zoom. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Zuora also operates offices around the world in the U.S., EMEA and APAC. To learn more about the Zuora platform, please visit www.zuora.com.
© 2021 Zuora, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Zuora is a trademark or registered trademark of Zuora, Inc. Third party trademarks mentioned above are owned by their respective companies.
About Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation—inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
[1] How to Nail the "Land and Expand" Model to Drive Subscription Growth, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)'s Value Science team and Subscribed Institute, March 2021
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