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She had worked Memphis before—but running errands for a white man rather than singing. That was in 1901, and he paid her 25¢ a week. Now she was back for the world premiere of the Robert Altman-produced Remember My Name, for which she composed and sang the score. The state of Tennessee declared "Alberta Hunter Day" and, at 83, the blues artist rode in a silver limo up Beale Street (where she was first inspired by W.C. Handy) and received the key to Memphis. "I couldn't have got then what I'm getting now," mused Alberta. "God has his own time."
From the '20s to the '50s she had sung from Chicago to Cairo and written dozens of tunes. The most popular, Down Hearted Blues, became a Bessie Smith hit. But Alberta never learned to read music. "I just keep humming until it sounds right," she says, adding cannily, "but I never hum a song for anybody until I have it copyrighted." Of Remember My Name, a character study of an ex-con (Geraldine Chaplin) and the man who done her wrong, Hunter observes: "Most people think you have to have trouble with a man to write the blues—I've never had the blues about no man, never in my life, baby."
In her infancy, her Pullman porter father died, and her mother was a maid in a white whorehouse. At 8, Alberta ran away to Chicago, and at 12 sang for $10 a week at Dago Frank's. Her fans in those days, she recalls, included confidence men and a pickpocket named Tack Annie, who "had a hook concealed in a front tooth to pick diamond stickpins out of gentlemen's lapels while leaning over them."
Hunter replaced Bessie Smith on Broadway in a 1923 flop, How Come (the implausible title character was a clarinet-playing Chinese laundryman). She had married a waiter (who later became a prominent labor union official) but soon ran away to London to play opposite Paul Robeson in Showboat. There she became the favorite songbird of the Prince of Wales.
In World War II Hunter headlined the first black USO troupe and played for Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov and Dwight Eisenhower in Frankfurt following the German surrender. But she gave up singing in 1954 upon her mother's death. Knocking a dozen years off her age, she went to work as a practical nurse at a New York hospital for the chronically ill. "I didn't sing a note for 20 years," she says, until she was invited to a Bobby Short party for Mabel Mercer last autumn. "Don't tell me Alberta's still around," marveled jazz impresario Barney Joseph-son, who immediately booked her into the Cookery in Greenwich Village.
That gig turned into an unlimited engagement. Hunter puts on two shows weeknights and three on weekends, her voice as honey-toned and velvet smooth as ever. And if the young audience doesn't remember her name, it won't soon forget. "I want a two-fisted, double-jointed, ahhh, rough-and-ready man," Alberta insists with a marvelous mix of immaculate diction and rhythm learned as a girl singing gospel all day Sunday. "Now he can be knock-kneed, box-ankled/He can even have frog-eyes;/That won't make a bit of difference/Long as he's o-kay… oth-er-wise." Arms akimbo, Alberta raises an eyebrow at her piano player. As one critic wrote, "She doesn't belt the blues, she insinuates them."
She lives alone on Roosevelt Island, not far from the hospital where she worked until she retired in 1977. Her prime passion nowadays is a daily visit to Macy's department store. Her main regret is that the "old dog" of a Memphis white man who exploited her at the turn of the century likely didn't live to see Tennessee's Alberta Hunter Day. Or hear about her invitation to a White House reception next month. If Alberta should win an Oscar for her first sound track (not inconceivable), she says that "would just about finish me off." It hardly seems likely.


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Jonathan Miller is DirectorDoc, TVDoc, ACtorDoc, WriterDoc, JokeDoc and more
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. While training in medicine, and specializing in neurology, in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.
Miller began directing operas in the 1970s and has since become one of the world's leading opera directors with several classic productions to his credit. His best-known production is probably his 1982 "Mafia"-styled Rigoletto set in 1950s Little Italy, Manhattan. In its early days he was an associate director at the National Theatre and later ran the Old Vic Theatre. As a writer/presenter of more than a dozen BBC documentaries, he has become a well-known television personality and familiar public intellectual in both Britain and the United States.
Miller studied natural sciences and medicine at St John's College, Cambridge (MB BChir, 1959),
1960s: Beyond the Fringe
Miller helped to write and produce the musical revue Beyond the Fringe, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in August 1960. This launched, in addition to his own, the careers of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Miller quit the show shortly after its move from London to Broadway in 1962, and took over as editor and presenter of the BBC's flagship arts programme Monitor in 1965. All these appointments were unsolicited invitations, the Monitor appointment arose because Miller had approached Huw Wheldon about taking up a place on the BBC's director training course. Wheldon assured him that he would "pick it up as he went along".[citation needed]
Miller's first experience of directing a stage-play was for John Osborne, whose Under Plain Cover he directed in 1962.[4] In 1964, he directed the play The Old Glory by the American poet Robert Lowell in New York City. It was the first play produced at the American Place Theatre and starred Frank Langella, Roscoe Lee Brown, and Lester Rawlins. The play won five Obie Awards in 1965 including an award for "Best American Play" as well as awards for Langella, Brown and Rawlins.[5][6][7][8]
He wrote, produced, and directed an adaptation for television of Alice in Wonderland (1966) for the BBC. He followed this with Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968) starring Michael Hordern, a television adaptation of M. R. James's 1904 ghost story "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad". By 1970, his reputation in British theatre was such that he mounted a National Theatre Company production of The Merchant of Venice starring Sir Laurence Olivier. He later resigned as associate director.
1970s: Medical history and opera
Miller held a research fellowship in the history of medicine at University College, London from 1970 to 1973. In 1974, he also started directing and producing operas for Kent Opera and Glyndebourne, followed by a new production of The Marriage of Figaro for English National Opera in 1978. Miller has become one of the world's leading opera directors with classic productions being Rigoletto (in 1975 and 1982) and the operetta The Mikado (in 1987).
Miller drew upon his own experiences as a physician as writer and presenter of the BBC television series The Body in Question (1978),[9] which caused some controversy for showing the dissection of a cadaver. For a time, he was a vice president of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.[10]
1980s: Shakespeare and neuropsychology
In 1980, Miller was persuaded to join the troubled BBC Television Shakespeare project (1978–85). He became producer (1980–82) and directed six of the plays himself, beginning with a well received Taming of the Shrew starring John Cleese. In the early 1980s, Miller was a popular and frequent guest on PBS' Dick Cavett Show.
Miller wrote and presented the BBC television series, and accompanying book, States of Mind in 1983 and the same year directed Roger Daltrey as Macheath, the outlaw hero of the BBC's production of John Gay's 1728 ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera. He also became chair of Edinburgh Festival Fringe board of directors.[citation needed] In 1984, he studied neuropsychology with Dr. Sandra Witelson at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, before becoming a neuropsychology research fellow at the University of Sussex the following year.
In 1990, Miller wrote and presented a joint BBC/Canadian production entitled, Born Talking: A Personal Inquiry into Language. The four-part series looked into the acquisition and complexities surrounding language production. Miller then wrote and presented the television series Madness (1991) and Jonathan Miller on Reflection (1998). The five-part Madness series ran on PBS in 1991. It featured a brief history of madness and interviews with psychiatric researchers, clinical psychiatrists, and patients in therapy sessions. In 1992, Opera Omaha staged the U.S. premiere of the Gioachino Rossini's 1819 opera Ermione, directed by Miller.
2000s: Atheism and return to directing
In 2004, Miller wrote and presented a TV series on atheism entitled Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (more commonly referred to as Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief) for BBC Four, exploring the roots of his own atheism and investigating the history of atheism in the world. Individual conversations, debates and discussions for the series that could not be included due to time constraints were aired in a six-part series entitled The Atheism Tapes. He also appeared on a BBC Two programme in February 2004, called What the World Thinks of God appearing from New York. The original three-part series was slated to air on Public Television in the United States, starting 4 May 2007, cosponsored by the American Ethical Union, American Humanist Association, Center for Inquiry, the HKH Foundation, and the Institute for Humanist Studies.
In 2007, Miller directed The Cherry Orchard at The Crucible, Sheffield, his first work on the British stage for ten years. He also directed Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in Manchester and Bristol, and Der Rosenkavalier in Tokyo and gave talks throughout Britain during 2007 called An Audience with Jonathan Miller in which he spoke about his life for an hour and then fielded questions from the audience. He also curated an exhibition on camouflage at the Imperial War Museum. He has appeared at the Royal Society of the Arts in London discussing humour (4 July 2007) and at the British Library on religion (3 September 2007).
Trailer of his direction of Mozart´s Magic Flute in Zurich 2000 (click)
In January 2009, after a break of twelve years, Miller returned to the English National Opera to direct his own production of La Bohème, notable for its 1930s setting. This same production ran at the Cincinnati Opera in July 2010, also directed by Miller.
On 15 September 2010 Miller, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.[11] In April and May 2011, Miller directed Verdi's La Traviata in Vancouver, Canada,[12] and in February and March 2012, Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in Washington DC, USA.[13]
On 25 November 2015 the University of London awarded Miller an honorary degree in Literature [14]

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It only takes a tiny drop of imagination to turn the mundane into an adventure. Adventurer Kirrily Dear shares her latest adventure, hoping to spark you treading down the trail to your own adventurous life.
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It only takes a tiny drop of imagination to turn the mundane into an adventure. Adventurer Kirrily Dear shares her latest adventure, hoping to spark you treading down the trail to your own adventurous life.
We can't tell you how much it makes our hearts swell with pride to read about, tell the stories of and support the daughters out there blazing trails for the next generation.
There is nothing too elegant about true exertion. We know this yet many of us have terrible trouble with our expectations around our race photos…Of all of the things that have the potential to 'undo' us, it's the sight of ourselves.
With a little shake of his head, he proceeded to challenge everything I thought I knew about 'skiing'. He offered up a place where you could have a powder run every run, a place with no crowds, no lift lines, no hole in the back pocket, a place called the backcountry.
Our addiction to our devices, to social media, to the every shudder, vibration and ping of our phones is real and it's an epidemic. Yet our world, as challenging as it is beautiful, has more colour than pixels could ever show, more connection than any social media and offers more adrenaline than any video game. So lets learn to log off and live!
"Vulnerability is our most accurate measure of courage. Tell me how vulnerable someone is willing to be, and I'll tell you how brave they're willing to be." Brene Brown
Sitting in the snow and over the coming days these are the lessons I have learnt from my 'failure' on Elbrus.
The 80's were a particularly wild and fun time for me, and Boy George was, and still is, one of my all-time idols, so I'm not even going to pretend for one second, I've never worn a dress before. What I've never done, however, is wear one hiking.
Adventure reminds us that we are fierce, independent and self-sufficient. Adventure also takes us back to nature, and as women, our connection with nature is undeniable - we need it to ground ourselves, re-connect and re-set.
One minute I was out running trails lost in my familiar backyard with the edges of my comfort zone safely surrounding me, the next, at the door labeled adventure racing, it swung wide open in front of me, exciting and beckoning.
People often ask me if I ever get frightened photographing wild animals. The answer is "no". I have stood next to black bears while they fished for salmon. I have remained absolutely still while wild horses galloped straight towards me. No, being out in the wild doesn't scare me. What really terrifies me is surgery.


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At some time yesterday, after reflecting on the article I posted, I decided to try and not plan my topics in advance, instead just jot down ideas as they come to me and revisit those notes later. The challenge I have with this is that when I'm inspired about something, I feel the need to write it out then and there, and when I don't those ideas sometimes get lost. Since, I'm determined to replace habits that haven't gotten me where I'd like to be, I tell myself that if the idea is inspiring enough then I'll remember it. I really only have support for this belief, since there are times that ideas return ages after they were first thought. Sometimes it only takes the right stimulus.
Last evening I was reading Neil Pasricha's "The Happiness Equation" and paused at the last sentence of page 100: "You need an IKIGAI first." In the following chapter he explains that it "roughly means 'the reason you get up in the morning'. You can think of it as the thing that drives you most." I snorted out a laugh and shouted in my head at Neil: "Don't you know that is what I've been figuring out for the last year or so!?!" As I read on he answered me with a tip that makes perfect sense to anyone sticking-up affirmations all over their personal existence or practicing the goal setting technique of breaking down the end goal into smaller manageable sub-goals. i.e. Me! Neil told me to write on a small piece of paper what I feel is the reason I get up every morning and tape that piece of paper next to my bed. He suggested I get my wife to do it too, so I could have an accomplice. He even graced me with the concept that I could, and probably would change it from time to time. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! All I had to do know, was figure out what I was getting up for in the morning, this morning to be precise.
This morning I was looking forward to completing my daily To Do's including writing this glorious article, but what else? Other than the satisfaction of checking off a few things, why was I doing them? Remember when I told you that sometimes it takes a while for me to get it, that I need a big fish slap in the face? Well, this one started with a small fish slap… I was doing all this to learn. I LOVE learning! I'm doing all this to learn more skills, more about myself, more about what I can do already or cannot do, yet. And, I'm learning all this, because I want to share it! Share it with my amazing and patient wife, my beautiful and brilliant daughter, my friends, and the friends I have not yet met. I realized I want to teach again!
I've considered this path many times before, and even created opportunities to teach and train at several passes in my life. It was what got me to stay, sometimes to long, in jobs I really disliked. It was what propelled me to teach in a country where I didn't speak the language. It was what fuelled the mission of my first company. It is what motivates me in my coaching and consulting. It is what inspires my writing and fuels my writing services. It's what drives my creativity when tutoring my daughter. Amazingly, today, right now in fact, is the first time I truly realize how much I want to teach! So, what do I do about the file cabinet full of excuses I've told myself to not do it? Locking them away doesn't solve anything. So, I intend to look each in the eye, as they come up, and have a debate with myself over each point!
Let's address only one for today, shall we? In North America, the current ideology of teaching, sucks! So, why should I go back to teaching? Watch Ken Robinson's Ted Talk on " How to escape education's death valley!" We are teaching to standardized tests… in other words, we are teaching our children to be average, to conform, and to be followers. The current system emphasizes Math & sciences, and deemphasizes humanities and arts. The secondary issue with this is that math and science are mostly being taught by wrote memory and practice. Where's the creative thinking? Where's the critical thinking? I hear teachers complain about classroom management, or that their students are disinterested and self-absorbed. I seldom hear teachers talk about the "a-Ha" moments they see in the kids eyes at a new understanding and discovery, or the giggles of fear at exploring the unknown. Probably because they don't give the kids much chance to discover anything. On top of this, we see a downplay of the arts and humanities. My daughter gets ethics one hour every 8 days from her music teacher. He is very well meaning, but clearly has too much on his plate and both his classes are suffering. When I ask her what she did in ethics, her answers now sound a lot like "nothing, much", or "we talked", and I have to drag that from her. She is usually very interested in sharing the discussions from this class. Her geography teacher is also her art teacher, and those subjects are split to half year each. She loves this teacher and these subjects, but I wonder if it is from the teacher, or from the fun facts I pile on to her drab textbook when we review together. We shall see when art starts in a week or so. Will I have to enhance the classroom curriculum on what is already my kids biggest passion?
Ok, enough complaining! The school & system's lack is an opportunity for me to share my passion and teach my daughter. And the added blessing is that she often laughs while we work together. Success! I love helping her consider alternative ways of looking at challenges. Am I doing this in any other part of my life? I need confirmation! Yes, I am. I have a great deal of mentors and teachers around me and I reach out to them whenever I can to learn from their experience. Lately, they have been reaching back and asking me for my advice on the same topics I used to reach out to them for. Maybe it's time I start to listen to these people I so highly respect and believe in myself more, believe that I am knowledgeable, that I am a good teacher. I want to teach again – I want my ikigai.
Join me and help me change our education system. Share Ken Robinson's Ted talk and let's get it to Justin Trudeau. Together we will give our kids the best & most creative education they need.
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I have a heart for fashion! I have always loved romantic and feminine costumes growing up–from figure skating costumes, to ballet costumes, to theatrical and historical costumes. I have always loved the flash of sparkle from sequins and rhinestones, the mix and feel of satin and lace, chiffon and tulle. I've spent many hours as I was growing up, and even now as an adult, cutting out pictures of oufits from magazines or pinning outfits on my Pinterest boards { www.pinterest.com/BebaPhotography }. Something about fashion makes me light up inside! I can literally spend hours looking at and drawing couture outfits and not grow weary of it. { Maybe that's why it's easy to blow an entire day on Polyvore or Pinterest! }
When Beba Couture and the idea of stylized couture princess photo shoots was birthed in my heart, I instantly knew that I wanted it to be special. I wanted to capture some of the romanticism of days gone by and something that was the essence of royalty.
I visited the library today and checked out several books….
Among those, I am especially excited about two of the books I found:
1. "The Givenchy Style" — text by Francoise Mohrt, The Vendome Press, 1998
2. "The Royal Portraits" — by Cecil Beaton & Roy Strong, Simon & Schuster, 1988
I love pouring over the photos and the designs contained within these books. They are so inspiring! I may not be able to duplicate the lavish gowns that the British monarchy wears in royal court, but I want to be able to dissect and pull the essence of details from them and make one of a kind pieces of my own through hand-rhinestoning and hand-beading.
When I used to ice skate, I use to hand-sew sequin and irredescent pearl designs onto my skating ouftits. I loved the way they sparkled in the light and even though the work was tedious, it was very worth it! Of course they won't be as lavish as the ones contained in these books, but I can certainly implement the essence of their intricacies and do what I do best.
I love pouring over the pages of "The Royal Portraits" because I love the artistic way that Cecil Beaton { Britain's royal photographer } has captured the regalness of the royal family. His style is artistic and different from what you'd see in a magazine.
Photo by Cecil Beaton as featured in "The Royal Portraits"
Photo by Cecil Beaton as featured in "The Royal Portraits"
It's like they're out of a fairytale. I want to find out what makes these dresses, these photos so magical and so royal.
I'm on a mission to unlock their magic.


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- The Essentials: Of Human Bondage (1934)
- Videodrome (1983)
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- The Essentials: Jezebel (1938)
- The Essentials: Now, Voyager (1942)
- The Essentials: All About Eve (1950)
- Staff Picks: Zodiac (2007)
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- The Essentials: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- On Stage: All About Eve
- Staff Picks: The Last Picture Show (1971)
Past Films
Member Picks: Holiday (1938)
- Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan
- Director: George Cukor
- Genre(s): Comedy , Romance
- Rating: NR
- Running Time: 96 min.
Member Picks showcases the movies that inspired the Moxie's biggest supporters.
Every month, one member picks a film that impacted their lives and we put it up on the big screen.
November's pick was made by moxie member Mark McQueary.
What do you love about this particular film, and why do you want to share it with others?
Hepburn and Grant, need I say more. They are one of my all-time favorite pairings, and this was their 3rd out of 4 movies together. "Holiday" was directed by George Cukor and is based on a play be Philip Barry. This same foursome came together again to make "The Philadelphia Story" a few years later. So many stylistic elements can be seen in "Holiday" that later appear in "The Philadelphia Story." You can expect crisp direction, witty dialogue, and superior acting. Let's not forget the wonderful supporting cast. Edward Everett Horton and Jean Dixon, as Prof. Nick Potter and his wife, are pure delight.
Synopsis: Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy +Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of supercharged star power. Katharine Hepburn and Doris Nolan play Linda and Julia Seton, two daughters of a very well-to-do family. Linda feels a bit lost in the shuffle as sister Julia prepares to marry self-made financier Cary Grant. Hepburn has always rebelled against her privileged trappings, and finds a kindred spirit in the unorthodox, iconoclastic Grant. On the verge of compromising his down-to-earth values with his marriage to the wealth-obsessed Nolan, Grant chooses instead to plight his troth with soul-mate Hepburn, celebrating his "liberation" by doing several cartwheels. Donald Ogden Stewart is careful to bring the pre-Depression frivolities of the Barry play up-to-date, first by changing the character of Grant's best friend (played in both films by Edward Everett Horton) from a lazy socialite to a dedicated professor, and by including several lines indicating how out of touch the privileged classes are—and choose to remain—with 1930s realities. The only element in which the remake does not improve on the original is in the casting of Hepburn's alcoholic younger brother; charming though Lew Ayres is in the 1938 film, he is still outclassed by Monroe Owsley in Holiday (1930). Katharine Hepburn managed to temporarily defray her "box office poison" onus when Holiday proved to be a success; alas, her next film, Bringing Up Baby (which reteamed her with Grant), was a financial bust, compelling her to return to Broadway—where she made a spectacular comeback in another Philip Barry play, +The Philadelphia Story.
"George Cukor brings out the best from all the players."- Variety Staff, Variety
"One of Cukor's best films."- Tom Milne, Time Out
"There are a thousand nonconformist comedies, but only one Holiday."- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader


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I want others to know that lupus does not mean the end of a life! Some of us are on dialysis and some have full time jobs. We all live very different lives with this disease, but still very normal lives as well.
Why is lupus a cruel mystery to you?
I have been on dialysis since 2012. My kidneys failed because of lupus. I need a transplant but I have to lose weight in order to get on the list. Right now I have lost 10 pounds, but I still have a long way to go. I also want to mention that my mom is 57 years old and she is my caregiver! We do home dialysis a she has a lot on her plate now, especially with a full time job then having to take care of herself. When I was first diagnosed I would have never have thought lupus would consume some much of my life!
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Happy Valentine's Day!
A few weeks ago, I issued a challenge: to have a stronger marriage by Valentine's Day. How did you do?
Even though February 14 is when we traditionally celebrate love, the time is always right to invest in your marriage. Use this day to consider what you may need to do to be a better spouse. How will you offer more forgiveness? How will you practice gratitude? How can you better love as Christ has loved you?
I offer this prayer from my book, Love to Stay, for you to post and share. Pray it with your spouse today to celebrate your relationship.
May you have a wonderful Valentine's Day with the one you love!


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"Resident Evil 7" PC configuration announced: your computer to upgrade the biochemical crisis 7, known as the return of the series of fear of the origin of the bio crisis 7 will be officially released on January 24, 2017. Today, the official release of the PC version of the configuration requirements. The announcement of the configuration requirements based on 1080p based resolution. Although the minimum configuration can be easily achieved, but the game also supports 4K resolution and HDR technology, so want to perfect the experience of the atmosphere of terror in the game, players still need to prepare a high-performance computer. Minimum configuration (1080p 30fps) operating system: 64 Windows 78.110: Intel Core i5-4460 2.70GHz processor, AMD or FX-6300 memory: 8GB graphics: NVIDIA GTX 760 or GeForce AMD Radeon R7 260X (1080p 60fps) recommended operating system: 64 Windows 78.110 processor: Intel Core i7 3770 3.4GHz AMD CPU or the same level of memory 8GB graphics: NVIDIA GTX 960 or GeForce AMD Radeon R9 280X相关的主题文章:


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Lang/Trachtenberg economic development transition pushes archaic transportation approach
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I'm working on analyzing the transportation claims in Mayor Gray's transportation transition document. Meanwhile, the economic development document contains some terrible transportation policy recommendations that need no further research.
That transition team, headed by Chamber of Commerce head Barbara Lang and former GW president Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, recommends that DC focus its transportation policy on making it easier for people to drive in and out of the District in order to bring in more jobs.
The transportation section, starting at the bottom of page 6, suggests retiming signals primarily around moving cars in and out, adding reversible lanes, and paying for traffic officers to direct traffic on major routes to Maryland and Virginia. These all represent the wrong approach. Basically, this is a traffic plan that comes from people who don't know much about transportation.
The following words appear nowhere in the document: Metro, bus, transit, bicycle, walk, carpool. There is one sensible recommendation, to better enforce no parking and double parking rules.
Roads in and out and downtown are already very busy, despite a century of public policy around moving vehicles in and out. Parking is scarce and expensive. To grow, DC doesn't need to move more vehicles. It needs to find ways to transport more people without adding more vehicles.
Bus and HOV lanes, for example, would let the same number of vehicles carry more people and provide faster ways in and out of DC for transit riders and sluggers. It would also do so without making dangerous roads, like Connecticut Avenue, even more dangerous for pedestrians.
It's also odd that this transition team thinks that the best way to bring jobs to DC is to move more suburban residents in and out in single passenger vehicles. Maryland and Virginia residents don't pay taxes to DC, and most of the jobs in the District now are government or nonprofit jobs that don't pay taxes either. Why should DC prioritize continuing this status quo?
DC needs more jobs in technology and other intellectual, "creative class" sectors which will attract people who want to live near their jobs. It also needs more jobs which can employ those who live in DC today but haven't been able to find jobs. This plan helps with neither.
This isn't such a surprise from Barbara Lang. She testified at a Council hearing in 2008 that it's not safe for her female employees to take Metro because they occasionally work until 10 or 11 at night. She also didn't know if she provides any SmartBenefits to employees.
It's too bad the DC Chamber of Commerce is instead acting like the Maryland and Virginia Chamber of Commerce. DC needs a business community that believes in the city and in growing the city's strengths, including its relatively low car dependence. The Chamber of Commerce needs a leader who recognizes that, and in the meantime, Gray should put little stock in Lang's ideas fresh from the 1950s.


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SPRINGFIELD- To promote government transparency and accountability, State Senator Tom Cullerton (D-Villa Park) championed the passage of the Illinois Debt Transparency Act.
Cullerton joined the Illinois Senate in voting to override Governor Rauner's veto of House Bill 3649, which requires state agencies to provide a more accurate accounting of bills and late payment interest penalties accruing.
"Illinois taxpayers deserve to know how their money is spent," Cullerton said. "This measure encourages responsible budgeting and the honest use of taxpayer dollars. I'm glad the Illinois Senate worked together in a bipartisan manner to take the necessary steps to promote a fiscally-sound budget. "
Currently, state law requires that on October 1 agencies report the annual aggregate amount of pending unpaid bills that were being held as of June 30. The comptroller's office then publishes the outdated information on their website.
This new law will now require state agencies to report the amount of unpaid bills, whether that amount was appropriated or not and an estimate of interest penalties accumulated on a monthly basis.
"This new law will promote help promote fiscal responsibility," Cullerton said. "Good government begins with accountability and transparency. State officials and agencies have an obligation to be transparent and open with the way we spend valuable state dollars."
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Its a great phone and i love it :)
It's a great phone but I need to change to a blackberry. Is there anyone who can tell me how to transfer my contacts from my samsung to the new phone without typing one by one?
I have this phone for 3 years now, and it was never damaged. Battery life is still like the first time i bought it. I have 2 phones now, but i can never say goodbye to this phone. I'm just using it now as my spare phone for calling, coz this phone never lets me down whenever i'm on call.
Too bad this phone has no other options for connectivity or photo sharing.
Hoping i can change the housing, coz the physical part is the only thing that makes it seems to be damaged. Nonetheless, my phone was never repaired!
I had this phone for three years. Now Im getting a new phone. Although I kept nagging about the bad cameras, Im going to miss it, because its actually great!
I recommend people who likes durable, strong phones, to buy it. (Obviously don;t try to break it on purpose ^^'') But so far I only have one scratch on it!
For people who was commenting on the low battery-life, it's actually not true. It only doesn't last long only if:
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Hope my opinions helped. Cheers.
at first,i was attracted to it bec the phone's shape was the trend 2 yrs ago and im still using it until now.i could access internet (yahoo.friendster,google) and read and reply to my emails but transferring my photos to computer costs me a lot because i dont have any usb cord that fits it.i thought its already provided when u buy it but it has only charger that uses the usb port,i tried to look for a usb port that could fit it but could'nt find ,until i've found out that i could transfer my photos from this phone using mms and send it to my email address so that's what i've done for the past 2 yrs and im still doing it until now.it costs P2.00 (philippine peso) to send 1 mms,so when u have 100 photos to transfer,that cost a lot.so im trying to look for a better phone to upgrade.but the good thing with the photos i've taken from this phone were clear when they are already transferred to my email and computer and what i enjoy with this phone is,i can access internet anytime but it also costs money.for u to save money,u can access gprs for emergency use only.
I had this phone a few years ago.
The one thing that really annoyed me about this phone was the little button on the side that takes pictures. A good feature when the phone is opened and you want to actually take photos. But when the phone was closed and something in my handbag happened to press on the button it would keep taking pics which would eventually just use up the memory.
Apart from this annoying problem I really enjoyed the phone.
Anonymous, 22 Jul 2008you can get it unloacked from any Samsung mobile care franchizee.Sumsung
this is avery nice phone.. very strong.. i've been using it for 2 years and everything still seems to work fine... though becuase i frequently drop it, there are already scratches at the back.. but still, it hasn't failed me... in terms of the specifications, i have to admit, the camera isnt good and it is a bit boring, but what's the use of phone anyways, for call and text... if i wnt portable entertainment, i have my zune for that.. :p
Can anyone tell me how I can get my pictures from the phone to my computer. I bought a usb cable from the markets and the disc was no good I have tried downloading the drivers from the net but it still isnt working.
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Gigbert_62, 05 Jul 2008Hi, I have same problem. My daughter locked it and forgot the password. Did you get any response?you can get it unloacked from any Samsung mobile care franchizee.
It is an excellent fone with very high performance, fabulus stand-by/talk-time, high resolution camers quality, and very very durable.
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its a good phone on the whole, has great looks, is small and light and its very durable. ive had it for 3 years and i dont intend to change it. however it has no infra red, no bluetooth, no mp3 and its camera sucks!! + u need to charge the mobile every 3 days - that bothers me! but on the whole its ok.


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My report after holding an 2-hour OpenStreetmap workshop in an elementary school.
OpenStreetmap for 10-year old kids
Sacré COEUR school Vienna in OpenStreetmap. Image rights: © OpenStreetMap contributors
I had the unique opportunity to hold my (and possible Austria's) first OpenStreetmap Workshop in an elementary school for a class of 10-year old students. True to Austria's best business practice, the workshop was arranged not by official request but instead by a chance chat - I discovered that the mother of one of my game programming students, Ulrike Heppner works as an elementary school teacher in Vienna's Sacré COEUR school and she invited me for an workshop.
As my experience of working with elemtary school children (her class consisted of 24 students, around 10 years old) is rather limited I decided not to try out one of my visual programming workshops but instead to try out something new. OpenStreetMap had always attracted my interest, but so far I was never able to figure out the OpenStreetMap editor. That changed this year as I discovered that the in-build, run-inside-a-browser map iD editor of OpenStreetmap is indeed so easy to use that children should be able to have fun with it.
understanding OpenStreetMap
After playing around with the OpenStreetmap editor using my own students as test candidates we discovered it is very simple to add or modify points of interest. The point can be any object of interest, from a park bench to a water fountain, but I was most fascinated that Vienna's Openstreetmapping community had already marked indiviual trees as (geolocated) points. (Vienna's Baumkataster - the official list of trees inside the city - is aviable for OpenStreetmappers as Open Data). Each point in openstreetmap can have several attribute fields, among others a free "note" field with details. For trees, there are ready-made fields containing information about the type of the tree, leaf type, diameter of crown, circumfence, height etc. And you can add your own field names and values.
Like the more popular Wikipedia project, all data inside Openstreetmap is licensed under the Open Database License, allowing anyone to use, edit and republish the data for free, like the creative-commons share-alike license license used for Wikipedia articles.
I figured out that measuring and editing data of trees in the shool garden should keep the children occupied enough for an 2-hour workshop. Vienna's Baumkataster apparently does not cover trees on private ground like inside the shool garden, so the children could really experience the "i made the first entry" feeling.
Like most elementary schools in Austria, Ms. Heppners classroom had 2 working computers, but was not equipped with tablets or laptops for each school children. However, an computer lab with internet connection did exist and was aviable for us. I also asked beforehand that the children should bring metric tape measure and pen and paper for measuring trees and other interesting objects in the school garden.
Normally I make sure to visit the computer lab before holding an workshop to get an idea about the speed and quality of the internet connection and the power of the hardware. Sadly I did not found time to do so before the workshop started.
Editing OpenStreetmap is only possible after registering an account using a valid email address.
I prepared some student email accounts for Openstreetmap because I wanted to focus the Workshop on the editing, not on registering email accounts.
The Sacré COEUR school in Vienna is a big, traditional building featuring it's own church, an elementary school, a gymnasium and a very nice school garden (a park), children playground and sport facilitys. The school is run by the catholic church of Vienna (Privatschule), meaning that parents have to pay extra fee even if the teachers are paid by the republic of Austria (generally, school is cost-free for all children in Austria). Unlike other (non-private) shools in Vienna, it offers school uniforms, prayer time and focus on language learning. Like in all private schools demanding fees, a side effect is a less diverse social background of students.
Wien_Gymnasium_Sacre_Coeur. Image rights: Invisigoth67 - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4086193
I met Ms. Heppner at school start and admired a bi-lingual morning prayer (german and english) in her class of (for my experience) unusual not-rowdy 10-year old boys and girls.
After a short introduction about OpenStreetmap, where I discovered that the children had very good command of the english language, I tried to explain my intentions with the workshop and that they should seek out objects of their interest in the shool garden, measure them, take notes and later add those objects and measurements into OpenStreetmap. The kids were mostly busy measuring each other with their metric tapes and generally excited to go out in the school garden while the other classes remained stuck indoors.
In the large shool garden the kids got instantly lost in small groups busy searching attractive trees and other objects to measure. I realized that I had forgot to tell the children to note the exact position of an object relative to reference points, as the objects (small trees, statues etc.) are usually not visible in the top-down, satellite photos of OpenStreetmap. It would also have been helpful to print out a map of the school garden in advance (with a 10x10 meter grid) or to assign children to specific map grids only.
After one hour of measuring trees and objects (a shool hour is usually 50 minutes) it was time for the children to return to class for their break and I was guided to the computer lab room.
I discovered that not every computer in the room had a working web browser (or working internet connection), but I managed during the break to set up 10 machines logging into Openstreetmap using my prepared student email accounts.
Then it got really noisy as 24 kids filled the room and clogged in groups at the machines, excitingly using OpenStreetmap to check out other continents, their family homes and the zoom function.
I did not managed to make the beamer work (and I doubted that the children would have paid much attention to it) so I sliced the task of making an entry into very little steps, divided the children into 2 groups and demonstrated each step for each group, one step at a time.
The steps consisted of:
- finding Rennweg 31 (1030 Wien), the school address, on Openstreetmap. This was very difficult for some children who had no prior experience on using (computer) maps
- zooming in, clicking away search results and donation hints of openstreetmap (using up large screen percentage on low resolution computers)
- figuring out where the previously measured obeject of interest (tree) is located on the satellite photo of the school garden
- clicking the "edit" button
- choosing the "iD" editor in the pulldown menu
- clicking on (create a new) point
- moving the crosshair to the correct location
- clicking once to create the new point (and not clicking again)
- typing / searching for the correct category (mostly "tree"). This proved difficult as some browsers were set to german language and some to english
- entering detailed data
- adding the "note" field and filling in the measurements and other observations
The final step, hitting the "save" button, was only executed by one group as the workshop was already over by this time.
editing the shool garden with OpenStreetmap. The tree stump was added by students. Image rights: © OpenStreetMap contributors
The concept of map-editing by drawing lines or marking areas was not part of this workshop, I concentrated only on creating/editing of "points".
The biggest problems I faced in the computer lab were not so much technical, but rather organisation: The kids were very excited (a world to discover) and keeping them calm and focused even for only short moments was difficult.
The accidential editing of existing structures (paths), like re-drawing an existing building wall, happened only once at one group and the children realised themselve that something was wrong.
Better knowledge of the written and unwritten guidelines of how to handle OpenStreetmap's object database (best practice for multilingual editing of free fields etc.) would have improved my ability to solve ad-hoc questions, like how to categorize a flower bed correctly.
As becoming an experienced and confident OpenStreetMapper is a question of practice, one single workshop was not the ideal time format. It was just long enough to give teachers and students a good impression of what is possible and to demonstrate how easy to use the iD-map-editor is.
Handheld devices (not used in this workshop) are at the moment good to use as an OpenStreetMap Viewer, but not ideal for using the OpenStreetMap Editor: For the editing of points, like in an computer paint program, high precision when clicking is required. If high-precision, internet-able, hand-held devices become more common (tablets with electronic pen?) a complete outdoor-workshop would be possible.
In most aspect, the workshop was better than I expected. The young age made the children very easy to excite about almost anything. No single child showed sign of being bored, and the children were not shy to ask me tons of questions. However, due to lack of time I was not able to let the children edit / add several points of interest or control / edit the data points entered by their peers, as I originally planned to do.
To use OpenStreetmap as a meaningful tool for teaching I figure several steps would be ideal:
- a class with regular, frequently access to the computer lab
- creating assistant roles for the more computer-experienced kids and a better organised splitting of children to the aviable computers based on skill
- repeating the use of student (email) accounts so that children could also learn the logging in (into OpenStreetMap)
- repeating use of OpenStreetmap so that students and teacher become familar with the concept and capabilities of the OpenStreetMap Editor(s), Map-View and object database
From the question of the kids, I understood that the children were grapsing the concept of crowdsourcing, public viewable data ("can anyone see what I added? - yes, worldwide! - wow!") how to react to wrongly edited data ("what will you do if someone paints a lake in your shool garden?") and the shared, collective ownership of the edited data.
I see OpenStreetMap not only as a worthy tool to learn in itself, especially for young students, but also as a potent teaching tool for students and teachers independent of age.
For example, several methods of measuring the height of a tree were possible (Pythagoras, measuring the tree shadow and time, or measuring a floor height and going upstairs to a floor heigher than the tree). While every good teacher can can give a homework like "figure out ways to measure the height of a tree", the beauty of using OpenStreetmap was that the children started asking this question themself.
It was nice to see what objects in the shool garden the children choosed worthy of measuring (from trashcans to single flowerbeds). An opportunity to specify plants by taking photos and looking up the name of the plant in wikipedia was lost due to lack of time, but some children brought me leaves of unknown plants wanting me to specify the plant type for the Openstreetmap database.
Most important, I realised that OpenStreetmap has high potential to teach very difficult to describe concepts by simply experiencing them:
The whole set of issues of crowdsourced, collectivly owned, free-licensed, easy-to-edit-by-everyone content like wikipedia articles, creative-commons artwork or free/libre open source software.
To have not only an abstract map symbol for "playground", but detailed (geo-located) points for see-saw, swing, slide and sandpit is meaningful and very clear to understand for every child. The joy and pride of creating public (geo) data for an worldwide audience was clearly visible when watching the kids interacting with OpenStreetmap. It may not be often the case that 10 year old kids in an elementary school can do things that are useful for the real world outside their classroom, but here it happened.
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Blended Zuppa Toscana - I had to strain it through a sieve. The end result tasted fine, but there was quite a bit of waste.
Canned Peaches smoothie - dump a can of peaches in the blender, then add a few scoop of vanilla ice cream. I found it too sweet, Daniel didn't like the temperature - he prefers ice cold smoothies. Alex slurped it down.
Yogurt. I bought a few of the "blended" variety from Fred Meyer. It packs 7 grams of protein in one serving. I plan to go to Costco today or tomorrow and buy some Chobani (Greek yogurt) - it has twice as much protein - but I'm a little concerned that I may need to thin it a little so that he can drink it - I'm also a little concerned about the fruit in it. Maybe I can make yogurt smoothies with it?
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The great Cheiro has written a book named "Fate and Fortune" . The 2nd part of the book is fully devoted to the science of numerology. He has gone into great details explaining the significance and combination of numbers. Based on this a chart is made of your birth number, lucky number, favorable numbers, unfavorable numbers etc. applying these number system gives you a happy and comfortable and a fortunate life.
Taking an example if a person's birth number is 4 and his lucky number is 6 and favorable numbers are 1, 5, 7,9 unfavorable numbers are 3, and 8. He can arrange to fix the numbers of his house, Car, Telephone and Mobile, credit cards and all other aspects where numbers are needed .He will be lucky regularly and get all his work done easily. He can select the lucky days of the week by numbers which are good for him.
Sunday to Saturday the numbers are :- 1 forSun,2 For moon, 3 For mercury4 for Sun again, 5 for Jupiter, 6 for Venus 7 for Moon again 8 for Saturn and 9 for Mars. On the same lines, you can get to know your lucky and bad years based on your age. Unlike astrology reading, a numerology horoscope does not need the 'time of birth'.
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Sometimes just sometimes things actually happen around here, and when stuff happens it does it with a bang. Tonight was one of those times and I happened to be around, I always seem to be around when shit goes down but that's just me.
Denenthorn was first to contact me via a mind link, odd I know he had done it before but I never pondered on how he could use it. The previous time he did it I was not in the best of moods, for everything he told me was about my brother. Most of my communication relies on the Shadow link between me and the Shadows, but there is another mental path if someone knows its there they can use it. Maybe thats what he used as he asked me if he could heal the Nareth, I couldn't care what he did to her to me she wasn't important. To me that wasn't the same Nareth but any and all Nareth belong to Legion.
Nareth had been hurt by the red skin Pontifex and obviously left to die there after, I had stalked in to the library to hear that she wouldn't stop feeding. It must have been extremely serious for her to take large amounts of blood, I half taunted them saying she should die since she had already died before. Grrbrool got all uptight telling me to piss off or call Legion, much as I enjoy calling out the broken one I at first refused. Not my problem not my concern but being Nareth is Legion's toy, I relented sending out a message to Lorne even as Denenthorn protested in my head about making Legion come. Too much chaos even for him, this coming from what he is HA.
I offered my blood to heal her now they refused me, I was going to taunt them further but an angel distracted me and led me outside. Pretty little thing a new Omegan in their midst full of innocence and naivity, I don't really like white wings they drive me nuts with their aura. For once I managed to hold back the urges of ripping her apart, there were other things going on when Lorne showed up I went back inside. Perhaps not the best of ideas of him to bring Brianna with him, he sent her away when it got to dangerous for her. As he worked on healing the Nareth I fed quietly on the chaos all about the room, after the extremely large burst of fire that came from the wounded woman the books went nuts.
Books flew off the shelves and began attacking all non Omegans in the library, I simply ignored them whatever damage they do to me heals so I didn't care. The library spirit was stressed its mood not helped by some interfering Kindred, nor was it helped by some curious Shadows that came by. Eventually though Denenthorn ordered all non Omegans but myself out of the library, the books resettled back upon the shelves once they had all gone.
However even in the calming quiet all was not right specially not with Denenthorn, his peacock blue eyes went violet just for a second. That wasn't all his shadow was not of an angel it was now demonic in apearence, my own shadow poked and prodded it while making a large fuss. Before I left I asked about the silver razor that had appeared around his neck, he said he was looking after it guarding it. It once belonged to Nareth..
Somehow all these things are connected, I'm going to tell Picket about Denenthorn.
Lulz of the day:
[16:41] Brianna Willenov: whats totally worth it o.O
[16:42] Blueray Darkes: Cutting kitty cats
[16:43] Brianna Willenov: Making meow mix? :D
[16:44] Blueray Darkes: Yes made from real meows
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Former Vancouver Whitecaps captain Jay DeMerit, the husband of 2010 Olympic ski-cross champion Ashleigh McIvor-DeMerit, could be enshrined in U.S. Soccer's National Soccer Hall of Fame.
On March 12, the organization revealed a list of 32 players that are eligible for induction this year. Voters can choose 10 players per ballot. Those with 66.7 or more per cent of votes will be inducted, while those with less than five per cent will be dropped in future years.
On Twitter, the native of Green Bay, Wis. said he is "honored" by the opportunity.
Manny takes season-high fifth
Whistler Mountain Ski Club alumnus Manny Osborne-Paradis hasn't had the results he'd hoped for in 2017-18, but he pulled out a timely top-five over the weekend.
The 34-year-old snagged his second top-10 of the year with a fifth-place finish in the Kvitfjell, Norway super-G on March 11. He was just 0.44 seconds back of Norway's Kjetil Jansrud, the winner, while Switzerland's Beat Feuz and Brice Roger were the runners-up.
"Turns out using the front of the ski is fast! So happy to finish 5th and qualify for the World Cup Finals in Super G," Osborne-Paradis posted to Facebook after the race.
Other Canadians also performed well, with Ben Thomsen and Dustin Cook placing 21st and 24th, respectively, while Whistler's Broderick Thompson was 34th.
Osborne-Paradis was also the top Canadian the day before in the downhill, taking 14th. Germany's Thomas Dressen edged out Feuz and Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal for the win. Thomsen was just behind Osborne-Paradis in 16th while Thompson placed 56th.
Youth luge nationals held at WSC
The local sliding season began to wind down with Luge Canada's Youth Canadian Championships at Whistler Sliding Centre on March 3.
In youth A men's action, Alberta's Colton Clarke edged B.C.'s Garrett Reid and fellow Albertan Devin Wardrope while on the women's side, B.C.'s Natalie Corless eked past national-level athlete Trinity Ellis of Pemberton and B.C.'s Caitlin Nash.
In the doubles race, Ellis and Nash took the win over Midori Holland and Corless and the Alberta duo of Gineva Miller and Jenna Smith. Albertans Wardrope and Ryan Kuehn were the lone sled on the men's side.
At the youth B level, only three Alberta athletes competed in the men's race as Oli Gionet cruised past Caden Struth and Theo Downey, who tied for second. On the women's side, Alberta dominated as Tora Yacey bested Jolie Brodylo and Tehya Baylis.
In youth C, Alberta's Giada Pfaff edged Abbie Clarke in the women's race, while in youth D, B.C.'s Fiona Campbell slid past fellow British Columbians Poppy Robinson and Soia Letchford. B.C.'s Liam McNolty was the lone youth D athlete on the men's side, as was B.C.'s Holden Zerebeski in open C12.
Lastly, in the youth consistency race, where sliders strive for two runs that are identical as possible regardless of total time, Noah Melun of B.C. pulled out the win over Alberta's Juliette Thompson and B.C.'s Matthew Susko.
Full results are online at luge.ca.
Pemby hoopsters make provincials
Both the Pemberton Secondary School boys' and girls' basketball teams competed at their respective provincial tournaments last week.
In the girls' single-A event in Chilliwack, the ninth-ranked Red Devils placed eighth after putting up a 1-3 record. Pemberton won its first game, edging No. 8 Grand Forks 43-41 to stay on the A side of the bracket. However, they ran into No. 1 Credo Christian, falling 75-24, before dropping decisions of 61-49 to No. 4 Nechako Christian and 51-47 to No. 6 Heritage Christian.
On the boys' side, the 14th-ranked Red Devils faced a tough draw. Pemberton dropped its four contests, starting with a 113-33 loss to No. 3 Kelowna Christian before drawing closer in defeats to No. 11 St. Andrew's (69-48), to No. 15 Fraser Lake (70-64) and to No. 16 Gold River (57-42) to finish 16th overall.
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The generation born between 1950 and 1970 has often been called The Baby Boomer Generation. There have been some variations on that title including The Me Generation, The Vietnam Generation and even for the sake of a certain comedian, The Al Frankin Generation. But the title that is most appropriate to where we are now, as we become caregivers for our children as well as our aging parents is "The Sandwich Generation".
This is a painfully appropriate term because those of us in our late 40s to early 60s find ourselves with responsibilities to the two generations before and after us, both of which can be quite needy. The result is a fair amount of stress on us as moms and dads with all the demands that rising children, teenagers or maybe the children of our children can put on adults in this new century.
At the same time, caring for aging parents can be even more stressful and hard on
The Sandwich Generation from an emotional stress point of view. The stress we realize when our parents begin to age is a new thing for us. Making ourselves aware of the needs of newborn babies is not hard to get our arms around at all. When everybody in the generation is having babies, there is plenty of support and help for those who are learning the quirks of what babies need.
In addition to the great support and "parents training" classes and books, the arrival of a new baby in the house is a source of joy. There is great hope at the arrival of a new child and taking care of our children carries with it that creative element of doing something for the future. We see in our children our legacy so seeing them succeed and helping them overcome difficulty is exciting as we do all we can to "launch" the next generation of our family.
But caring for aging parents carries less support and far less optimism. While there is some joy in knowing that helping your parents live a happy and productive senior life keeps grandma and grandpa around for the children, the senior years are ones that will have only one outcome. And as much as we do what we can to make things easy and give our aging parents the comforts and joys of the golden years, all the sugar coating in the world
won't cover up the fact that at some point the end will come and we, the Sandwich Generation will have to be there every step of the way to guide them through the end in the same way we guided our new children through babyhood.
The similarities between old age and infancy have been well documented. But it's very hard on caregivers to go from being the ones these parents were always strong for who always took care of us to seeing that dynamic completely reverse. To see daddy who was always the smart one, the strong one and the one you could run to, get weak and old and lose his mental sharpness is hard to watch. Now is the time when he has to turn to you.
It takes mature adults to be the sandwich generation. But we can take joy in knowing that, in a way, we are giving back to those strong parents who never spared any expense or time for us when we were growing up. Now when
it's you they need, they deserve no less devotion and dedication to doing all we can for them that they gave to us when we were youngsters.


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Microsoft open-sources yet another feature of Edge, "it has decided to make the GLSL to HLSL transpiler open source in order to help users who are working on similar WebGL projects, but also to support improvements brought by others to performance, correctness, and interoperability of WebGL." announced the Redmond company.
Adding further, the company says that it has decided to make it open source because, this is the "most critical component of the WebGL stack from an interoperability perspective." Additionally, it'll publish new scripts and documentation in the coming weeks and months to support development in this regard.
Though, Microsoft is making some parts of the Edge available to open source community, Nope, Edge itself won't be open-sourced, says the company, "One natural question following this announcement is whether this signals a move to open-source Microsoft Edge. At this time we have no plans to open source Microsoft Edge or EdgeHTML, but we understand and value the importance of being more open with our roadmap and our core technologies," the company added.
The GLSL to HLSL transpiler is part of the Microsoft Edge WebGL render and has the role of parsing the GLSL program and checking for security constraints before starting the conversion process that generates the HLSL output.
"Edge converts WebGL content to DirectX equivalents to display it; the WebGL renderer converts WebGL calls into DirectX equivalents, and the transpiler converts GLSL shaders to HLSL shaders," explains Microsoft.
Additionally, over the past few weeks, the company has shown how Microsoft Edge has been rearchitected to empower developers to build more accessible experiences on the Web with HTML5 and UIA.
Later, they added preliminary support for H.264/AVC support in the real-time communications (RTC) stack in Microsoft Edge, that helps enable interoperable video communications solutions across browsers for basic 1:1 calling scenarios.
Now in another blog post, the Redmond Software company announced that starting with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge will support the Speech Synthesis APIs defined in the W3C Web Speech API Specification. These APIs allow "websites to convert text to audible speech with customizable voice and language settings. With them, website developers can add and control text-to-speech features specific to their page content and design."
So, how do you test your site compatibility, with Xampp, Wampp or third-party Virtual Machines such as VMware, VirtualBox, Vagrant, or HyperV ? To ease your work, Microsoft has made available Windows 10 virtual machines with the latest updates to Microsoft Edge and or IE11 and the underlying web platform.
Download Windows 10 Virtual Machines here.


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John 14:13-14
"And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it."
As a community, we will gather together every Wednesday at 7pm for prayer. This gives us an opportunity to lift up our friends and family around us and to seek what the Lord has for us here in Cyprus. Everyone is welcome to join.
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Dog Separation Anxiety
However, have you ever find a situation your dog suddenly starts behaving in unnatural way. One of the many pressure confronted with a furry pal, separation anxiety is just one which many dogs incline to reveal as a result of the attachment for their individual spouse. They appear at a means of excessive barking, destructive behaviour, aggression, and self-mutilation as a result of intense attachment to a single individual.
The critical factor here to get a pet to understand is to not mistake medical conditions together with anxiety issues as a remedy for each of them might change radically.
Dogs which experience intense stress can be threat to the environment. They can even be dangerous for their security in addition to for the society. Chemical imbalance, lower resistance and other hormonal fluctuations occur as a result of stress and nervousness. Medicines will help considerably but you can't completely rely upon that. There are other factors also that play a significant part in reducing tension and anxiety.
Behavioral and anxiety medicines have emerged largely in the last couple of decades. A single formulation can not do the job independently. Pet parents will need to see this and ought to look about for a program of behavior modification together with making a few adjustments.
How do you help your puppy for this? For a variety of circumstances, various techniques need to be utilized.
Some dogs create serious stress problem because of too much affection to a single individual. To avoid such circumstances, that individual maintains a policy of aloofness. When returning home that individual shouldn't commend or reveal some other attachment to the pet, particularly when the puppy is going insane with joy. Give focus, when you discover he is relaxed, this provides him the message your focus comes once he's settled.
Dogs possess natural odor whereby a mommy pet ensures her offspring they're protected and can unwind and everything is nice. This element was synthesized and is offered in the kind of collars, diffusers and sprays. This artificial dog odor enables them to relax and reduce anxiety. It's highly effective when used in accordance with behavioral instruction. Adaptil collar and diffuser spray would be the very best choices to decrease tension and allow your pet to feel protected and protected.
Lot of strain and anxiety happen whenever your puppy doesn't have anything to do. Schedule his entire day with exercise walk and playtime together with going to a driveway with you whenever you've intended. This won't offer any space for anxiety and nervousness to buildup.
Talk with Your Vet
If you're finding it hard to deal with the present separation anxiety problem on your pet, the greatest alternative is to take him to a vet. Your vet would help by providing dog's medicine which could help towards development. Many times holistic application is designed for the dog to control stress and anxiety.


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This is a new website jointly produced by the Reading International Solidarity Centre and Tessa Willy of Roehampton University. It is very clearly set out and there are very useful links to other publications as well as framework that will guide you through developing a curriculum that incorprates the `global garden'. Highly recommended.
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Kelly Rutherford is the known face from the hit TV series Gossip Girl based on a book series of the same name. She is also known for essaying the role of Stephanie Whitmore on the popular late eighties-early nineties soap opera Generations. Kelly had married Daniel Giersch the famous businessman from Germany after a failed earlier marriage with Venezuelan banker Carlos Tarajano, in 2006 August.
While Rutherford hoped for marital bliss, she got a different return. On 2008, the 30th of December while still pregnant with a second child, Kelly filed for divorce from Giersch. In 2009 August the couple managed to reach a temporary solution with equal custody of the kids till April, 2010. Subsequently, a restraining order was obtained against Giersch by Kelly. Further, to that his passport and visa were revoked since her lawyers had tipped off the state department about his illicit and shady business dealings.
In a 2012 California superior court session, Giersch could not be in the US due to Visa issues, therefore the children lived in France with him and Kelly would get visitation rights only. The actress underwent a lot of trauma and legal conundrums to invalidate the court decision, while the father had not even applied for fresh entry to the US.
The June of the year 2013 had seen Rutherford's finances finally giving way to the extent that she had to declare bankruptcy claiming that she had spent almost all her earnings in legal fees which ranged between a million and a half to 2.5 million dollars. At the height of her plight she went desperate and started an online campaign which took signatures for her cause. Her celebrity friends came together and appealed for her and the required number of signatures was achieved.
Kim Kardashian was one of the celebs who most emphatically supported her and even posted a congratulatory message after she got the custody back on 24th May, 2015. Eight year old son Hermes and 5 year old daughter Helena will finally return to the US to reunite with their mother from Monaco. The motion will allow Rutherford to get a temporary custody of both children and also keep their passports till permanent custody is awarded.
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction had also been quoted by Kelly when twice she was prevented from meeting her own children by Girersch, whereby USA remained the habitual residence of the kids.


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Implementing ERP software can have many benefits but do most ERP implementations actually achieve these expected benefits? Our research has shown that many do not; according to our 2013 ERP Report, 56% of organizations have received less than 50% of the benefits they anticipated.
Panorama's ERP consultants have found that a defining characteristic of successful implementations is a strong ERP project team. When building a project team, organizations should of course look for necessary knowledge and skills but they should also engage team members with complementary personalities and potential to fill unique roles.
Professors Kenneth Benne and Paul Sheats published a study, Functional Roles of Group Members, in which they identified key personality traits that contribute to strong teams. Following are five of those personality archetypes that may be particularly useful in ERP project teams:
1. The Cheerleader encourages other team members to participate and recognizes them for their contributions. This role is especially useful for spurring engagement on both the project team and throughout the enterprise at large. The cheerleader role is essential to ERP project teams as well as organizational change management teams.
2. The Peacemaker helps team members reach a consensus when compromise is necessary. Peacemakers can do this by focusing on the success of the organization as a whole and explaining how overall success benefits everyone. This role is especially useful when defining and prioritizing business processes.
3. The Sergeant-at-Arms ensures that the team meets deadlines and expectations while adhering to the organization's core values. This role can help develop strong project controls and governance and gently remind team members of these guidelines.
4. The Good-Humor Man relieves the tension and anxiety that ERP implementations tend to bring. Although humor can sometimes serve as a distraction, the right amount of jest can lighten the mood and reenergize team members for project deliverables ahead.
5. The Contrarian is a critical thinker and innovator who is not afraid to share his/her opinion in a "groupthink" environment. This role can challenge team members to think about the implementation from a perspective of business results instead of from a technical perspective. The contrarian can also ensure that the project team does not blindly follow best-practices but considers what is best for the organization's unique business processes.
A successful ERP implementation is characterized by a strong project team with distinct roles and responsibilities. Surveying individual personalities can help project managers determine who would best function in each role.
To learn more, watch our free, on-demand webinar, Lessons Learned From Best-In-Class ERP Implementations.


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Before construction of the East Student Residence at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, the university's housing structure was a 1970s high-rise, flanked by mid-rise residence halls, all reclad in corrugated aluminum siding because the original brick was falling off. The new $37 million residence was conceived of as a sequence of townhouses, and it harnesses town-planning principles of European city squares to foster security and community.
The two- and three-story walk-up townhouses have front doors that open onto a porch or colonnade. Most of the 164 units also have a rear door with a small patio. Each unit includes a kitchen, dining area, living room, washroom and single bedrooms. There are two, four, five and six-bedroom units in a variety of layouts, including eight suites with barrier-free access.
A typical unit has bedrooms on the upper floors and measures 1,356 square feet. The cultured-stone cladding at the base of the townhouses visually echoes the limestone in campus buildings. There are subtle changes from block to block. Some roofs are pedimented; others have vaulted arches. Inside the perimeter defined by the townhouses are courtyards, colonnades, pedestrian ways and common areas.
The architect is The Ventin Group Ltd., Architects (Cambridge, Ontario).