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Hôtel du Vieux-Québec and Tournebroche restaurant are two of the most exciting things to happen at 1190 Rue Saint-Jean since the 1700s.
The building originally was a nunnery in Old Quebec and, after several incarnations over the past 300 years and a $2-million makeover, it reopened this spring. The news at this trendy boutique hotel includes major green ventures, a high-design reception area and lounge and the launching of Tournebroche, a gourmet rotisserie.
Hôtel du Vieux-Québec has been crafted by Chris Keating and his son, Justin, who is the managing partner. They have collaborated and created a progressive, environmentally sensitive hotel venture that they call HVQ for short.
A 'new' 300-year-old building
"Every year, we add more comforts and services," Keating said.
This year, one of the big investments is esthetic. The prestigious architecture firm Lemay Michaud redesigned the tiny reception area and stairwell, so when guests arrive, the message is: stylish, fresh and contemporary.
The living room is another appealing new space, with stone walls, recycled barn wood and a hint of industrial chic. There are books, board games, chess, an espresso machine, tea and fruit, as well as artifacts related to the hotel's history.
Upstairs, Hôtel du Vieux-Québec has 45 rooms on five floors and six family-friendly apartments in an attached building, all accessible by elevator. The walls are wood-panelled, with many of exposed brick or old stone. The furnishings are simple and comfortable, the result of a renovation a few years ago. Each room has one or two beds with 300-thread-count sheets, a flat-screen television with a DVD player, coffee and tea, a rain shower and a mini-fridge — so handy in summer, especially with children. Some rooms have espresso machines and gas fireplaces (for use from November to April), and one spacious room, the Québécoise, has a whirlpool tub.
The greening of a hotel
The Keatings have been awarded five out of five Green Keys by the Hotel Association of Canada for their environmentally friendly accomplishments.
Hôtel du Vieux-Québec uses solar power for certain systems. The energy-efficiency experts at Groupe EcoSynérgie of Quebec City installed panels that convert sunlight into electricity and reduce energy consumption. The rooftop panels also multi-task as a shelter for the hotel's own beehives; as well, the Keatings nurture an urban garden on their rooftop.
HVQ's eco-operating systems include low-mercury and LED lighting, energy-saving heat production, water-efficient bathroom systems, a water dispenser to encourage guests to refill their plastic bottles, eco-friendly cleaning products, recycled paper including tissues and toilet paper by Cascades, and biodegradable bags.
The lounge's new furniture was custom-made by Quebec craftsmen using wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, and containing no added urea or formaldehyde.
In 2009, HVQ became the first hotel in Quebec to become carbon neutral, which means that it purchases gold-standard offsets from Planetair (planetair.com) to compensate for the hotel's greenhouse gas emissions. (An offset funds the green ventures, balancing the buyer's emissions and energy use.)
The designer rotisserie
Guy Collin and chef Stéphane Roth run the gastronomic Le Patriarche, one of Quebec's few CAA-AAA five-diamond restaurants, and recently felt the urge to tackle "bistronomie."
They partnered with Justin Keating, and created Tournebroche at Hôtel du Vieux-Québec. The specialties are spit-roasted poultry and pork, served with gourmet sides such as chicken liver mousse and trout gravlax with grapefruit-zested cream, and craft beer from Microbrasserie de l'Île d'Orléans.
"Tournebroche is an upscale rotisserie," Roth said. "It's not fancy food, but we still call it terroir cuisine and we use local and mostly organic produce."
It's poultry with a pedigree. The organic chicken is cooked with a lemon reduction, the guinea fowl with a smoky licorice sauce. The bread, mayonnaise, ketchup and ice cream are all homemade.
You have heard it before: Save room for dessert. But I mean it. There is a supremely rich pouding chômeur with maple ice cream and sugar cream sauce, and a divine crème brûlée of the day.
Top summer happenings
Quebec City is jumping with summer events. There's the Festival d'opéra de Québec (Wednesday to Aug. 4), and the Impressionist art exhibit Morrice and Lyman in the Company of Matisse (at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec until Sept. 7). The exciting SAQ New France Festival (Aug. 6 to 10) will transform Old Quebec into New France of the 1600s and 1700s with food tastings, plays and concerts, street entertainers, parades and costumed hosts.
History comes alive at the colourful, emotional changing of the guard, a tradition at La Citadelle since 1928 (except when the glorious Royal 22nd Regiment were fighting, 1939-1945). This manoeuvre of the Van Doos runs for 35 minutes daily at 10 a.m., until Sept. 1, depending on weather.
Hôtel du Vieux-Québec: 800-361-7787, 418-692-1850, hvq.com; 1190 Rue Saint-Jean, Quebec City. Pet-friendly (limited), $25 per night.
Price: Approximately $228-$308 for two until Oct. 31 ($128-$198 from Nov. 1), including in-room continental breakfast basket (juice, fruit, pastries, yogurt, cheese and honey from those hard-working in-house bees), Wi-Fi, guided walking tour (summer), flat-screen cable TV and DVD movies with popcorn. Children under 17 stay for free in rooms with two queen beds.
Extras: Underground parking one block away ($17.50), boardroom with audio-visual equipment. Guests get a discount at Tournebroche. Packages are available with Le Patriarche and a museum trio (Musée de la civilisation, Amérique française and Place-Royale).
Tournebroche: 418-692-5524, tournebroche.com; 1190 Rue Saint-Jean, Quebec City, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Microbrasserie de l'Île d'Orléans: microorleans.com.
Quebec City tourism: 877-783-1608, quebecregion.com.
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There are lots of ways to get involved with Camfed and help girls in Africa. People around the world of all ages have run, biked, climbed and more to raise money for Camfed's programs.
Camfed is a non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating poverty in Africa through the education of females and the empowerment of young women.
Read the latest news and watch films about Camfed's work, the students we support, and the young women leaders and entrepreneurs in the CAMA network
Camfed tackles poverty and inequality by supporting marginalised girls to go to school and succeed, and empowering young women to step up as leaders of change.
Educating girls is the best investment we can make to alleviate poverty and create a safer world. It has an incredible multiplier effect, providing returns for generations.
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2005 Writing Courses
The 2005 Writing Courses are over, but this course information is on the site so that you can see what courses we have sponsored in the past.
- How to Write the Very Short Short Story, with Ruth Moose
- Saturday, January 8, 9:00am - 4:00pm, in Chapel Hill
This hands-on workshop will include examples, in-class writing exercises, and a discussion about short short fiction contests and markets. By the end of the day you will have completed drafts of at least two short shorts.
- Everyone Has a Story, with Ede Baldridge and Brooks Preik
- Saturday, January 29, 10:00am - 2:00pm, in Wilmington
This workshop will teach you how to write your family's history.
- Developing Your Writing Practice, with Nancy Peacock
- Tuesdays, February 8 - March 15, 6:30 - 8:00pm, in Chapel Hill
In this six-week class, through discussion and writing exercises, we will identify the components of an effective writing practice.
- Building Characters, with Lynn York
- Saturdays, February 12 - March 19, 10:00am - noon, in Chapel Hill
This class will combine the workshop experience with writing exercises, craft discussions and shared inspiration to get started on building the next generation of characters for our fiction.
- Bird Watching and Writing with Bill Griffin and Janice Moore Fuller
- Saturday, April 2, 8:30am - 3:30pm, in Salisbury
The workshop will begin with bird watching in Catawba College's 189-acre ecological preserve. After the field experience, the workshop will include an exploration of various literary models for writing about birds, followed by time for participants to begin writing pieces inspired by the morning's bird watching. After lunch, participants will share the work they have written and respond to each other's writing.
- The Artist's Way, with Maureen Ryan Griffin
- Saturday, April 16, 10:00am - 5:00pm, in Chapel Hill
Chockfull of writing, collage, and other exercises to tap into your creativity.
- Memory as Muse, with Nancy Peacock
- Three separate sessions, each at a different location.
Meets 9:00am - 1:00pm at all locations:
- Wilmington, Saturday, June 11
- Asheville, Saturday, August 6
- Chapel Hill, Saturday, August 27
This class will explore the use of memory in writing through exercises using prompts meant to probe our memories.
- Novel in Progress, with Lynn York
- Tuesdays, May 17 - June 21, 6:30 - 8:30pm, in Chapel Hill
This is the course for those people who have stopped talking about that novel they want to write and started writing it.
- Getting into Print, with Bridgette Lacy
- Saturday, July 9, 1:00 - 5:00pm, in Chapel Hill
This workshop offers practical advice on selling story ideas to newspapers and magazines and having fun in the process.
- A Writing Residency, with Pat Schneider
- Sunday through Thursday, July 10 - 14, in Raleigh
This workshop is for the writer in every person--to free the writer, to give the writer encouragement, confidence, and skill.
- The Artist's Way, with Maureen Ryan Griffin
- Saturday, July 23, 10:00am - 5:00pm, in Wilmington
Chockfull of writing, collage, and other exercises to tap into your creativity.
- Every Picture Tells a Story , with Maureen Ryan Griffin
- Saturday, September 10, 10:00am - 5:00pm, in Chapel Hill
In this one-day workshop we will explore the use of visual images as a means to create powerful fiction, non-fiction, and/or poetry.
- Works in Progress, with Nancy Peacock
- Two separate sessions, each in Chapel Hill on Tuesday evenings.
Meets 6:00 - 8:00pm on each date:
- September 6 to October 25
- November 1 to December 20
Works in Progress is an on-going roundtable workshop for beginning authors of fiction and memoir. Grow as a writer by learning critical reading skills, critiquing skills and the revision process.
- Pitching Story Ideas to Editors, with Bridgette Lacy
- Saturday, December 10, 10:00am - 2:00pm, in Raleigh
This workshop will offer practical advice on getting newspapers and magazines to say "yes" to your work.


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Governor's climate group makes recommendations
Gov. Tim Pawlenty appointed the 50 member group last spring. They've been meeting both in technical work groups and as a body, slogging through reams of data and listening to each other's expertise and concerns.
In the end, they decided on roughly 50 recommendations to forward to the governor and the legislature. Some they approved unanimously; others had less support.
They strongly endorsed the idea of a regional cap and trade program, an idea the governor is already pushing. The cap would set a limit on carbon emissions and allow companies to buy and sell carbon allowances. It would include electric utilities, industry, large agricultural operations and producers and importers of gas, diesel and heating fuels.
Some people represented those industries voted against the regional program. Eric Olson is with Great River Energy. He said a national program will work much better.
Regional programs will put our states at a competitive disadvantage. I think it's actually easier to pass a national program than a regional program.
"Regional programs will put our states at a competitive disadvantage. I think it's actually easier to pass a national program than a regional program. I think somebody said there's no way that it's going to be in effect for a couple of years, let's focus on the national program and try to get that done," Olson explained.
As to whether carbon allowances should be given away or auctioned off, the advisory group said that needs more study.
In the transportation sector, the group said Minnesota should replace a third of its gasoline with biofuels.
It recommended the Legislature should consider so-called climate-friendly transportation pricing, this might include a fuel tax or registration fees based on how much carbon a vehicle emits.
Also, the group agreed the state should fix existing roads before building new ones.
More controversial was the recommendation that Minnesota should adopt California's clean car standards. Opponents said it would tie Minnesota to the policies of another state, and the new federal standards will provide enough reductions. But more than half the group voted in favor of adopting the California standards. California and several other states, including Minnesota, are in court to force the federal EPA to allow them to set the higher standards.
Another controversial transportation item was a lower speed limit. Peter Sullivan works for a commercial vehicle leasing service. He said a lower speed limit might not be popular, but it's a good idea.
"It's a quick, immediate way for everyday people to make a contribution to stemming climate change by reducing the fuel consumption by reducing speed and saving money. Gas is 3 bucks a gallon," said Sullivan.
A small majority approved the idea.
Also by a narrow margin, the group voted to set a carbon limit for new coal-fired power plants. But they also decided that standard should not apply to two plants already on the drawing board, the Big Stone II plant and the Mesaba coal-gasification plant. Exempting those two plants did not make sense to Kevin Reuther. He's an attorney with the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, a group that's been fighting both plants.
"What's troubling is this is the group that was brought together to set out a plan for us, and it feels like they're not willing to be honest with Minnesotans, to let people know that there are decisions that are being made right now that are going to be very bad for our future. This was an easy step for them to have taken, which they didn't take," said Reuther.
No other coal plants are likely to be proposed in Minnesota until the technology is available to capture and sequester the carbon dioxide they produce.
These are all just ideas. The Climate Change Advisory Group is just that: advisory. It's submitting its proposals to Gov. Pawlenty, who will report to the Legislature late next week.


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Keiko Amemori
Keiko was born in Japan. She trained with Kazuko Suzuki in Japan and from 1995 to 1997 went to John Neumeier Hamburg Ballet School in Germany. After graduation she joined Norwegian National Ballet where danced various soloist and lead roles.
In 2001, Keiko left Norway and joined Northern Ballet with David Nixon. Until she left the Company in 2009, she danced all of the lead roles in their repertoire. Odette in Swan Lake, Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Constance in The Three Musketeers were created on her.
After leaving Northern Ballet in 2009, Keiko toured the UK with Wayne Sleep in his production Precious Little Sleep. She also rehearsed Northern Ballet Academy students performing in David Nixon's production of The Nutcracker.
Keiko returned several times to Japan to teach, perform and choreograph. For the Northern Ballet and Phoenix Dance Theatre Choreographic Workshop in June 2011, she created a piece called Flavour Fever.


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People in the final months of dementia will experience increased mental and physical deterioration and will need care for 24 hours per day. It is always best if care can be provided with a palliative care approach in the person's home or long-term care home as transfers to a hospital may cause great distress for the person.
The progressive nature of dementia means symptoms will ultimately worsen over time. How quickly this occurs varies from person to person. In the final weeks before death, the person goes through changes as the body gradually shuts down. As they lose their capacity for recognizable speech, nonverbal communication through the senses of touch, smell, vision and hearing will become increasingly important.
Some of the physical changes which often occur in the later stages of dementia include:
- Profound memory loss and loss of ability to communicate with words
- Loss of mobility, inability to sit up
- Difficulty swallowing foods and liquids
- Decreased interest in taking food and liquids, weight loss
- Poor blood circulation (colder hands and feet)
- Impaired bladder and bowel function
- Prone to infection
- Loss of facial expression
- Decreased senses
- Increased sleepiness or agitation/restlessness
- Increased phlegm and mucus/secretions
- Irregular breathing
- Irregular pulse
- Skin problems
- Hiccups
- Pain
Please note that some of the above changes may occur months/weeks prior to the end-of-life stage.
Effects of dehydration
Dehydration of the body as the person is dying is generally not painful in itself, and with the physical changes that occur at this stage, the person generally does not feel pain as intensely. A lower volume of fluids in the body also decreases cough, congestion, nausea and bloating.
Mouth and eye care
At the end-of-life stage, breathing through the mouth can cause the mouth and tongue to become dry and create discomfort. You can learn the steps from a home care person or staff at the long-term care home to keep the lips moist and to provide mouth care including cleaning the teeth, tongue and inside of the mouth.
For relief of dry eyes, you may need to use artificial tears in the person's eyes a few times throughout the day.
Additional resources
- For practical suggestions and tips to help you respond to these care issues, please read Late stage and End of Life in the Alzheimer Society "Progression" series.
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Penmen to the airwaves
I'll be talking with three of the most knowledgeable people I've run across trying to get my arms around this rollercoaster offseason on today's Season Preview Show (5-6 p.m.) on WWKB-AM 1520. You're sure to enjoy hearing the information and opinions all three will share on today's program.
The final of our five shows will be broadcast from Coca-Cola Field on April 5 as the 2009 Bisons arrive for the first time. If you've missed any of our three Season Preview Shows: CLICK HERE!
Here's who is on and how to read their work before the show;
Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News has covered the Bisons for over 20 years and has been privy to the franchise's most significant moments. He'll share his thoughts on the impact of the Mets affiliation and the things that could lay ahead for the new affiliate.
Toby Hyde orchestrates one of the most detailed blogs Mets fans have to follow the minor league action throughout the season. Part of the SportsNet New York network (SNY), the site features daily recaps from every US based minor league affiliate and has a very impressive library of Mets MiLB player biographies.
Adam Rubin has been on the Mets beat for the New York Daily News since 2003 and also contributes to Baseball America. Rubin's work is featured in the B.A. Prospect Handbook again this year and he will provide valuable background on why each player is ranked in system and who is on the fringes of making the Mets or becoming a Bisons player when he joins us from Port St. Lucie.
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Every day in this country social workers perform countless acts that make a real difference to the lives of thousands of people. What these social workers do involves kindness, compassion, courage, resilience, cleverness, and extraordinary levels of skill and wisdom. Social workers routinely meet the extraordinarily difficult challenge of having to balance empathy and compassion … Continue reading
Keeping stress at bay: Stress and Stress Management in Workplace Podcast by: Dr Neil Thompson (@DrNeilThompson) is an independent writer, educator and adviser. He edits the free monthly e-zine, Well-beingBULLETIN (www.well-being.org.uk). A blog and free Tip of the Week facility are available at his website, www.neilthompson.info and details of his audio-visual learning resources are available at www.avenuemediasolutions.com. Dr. Thompson is a member of @SWSCmedia Expert Panel. Join us … Continue reading
Wow! Being asked 'Why I am a social worker?' has taken me back to when I was asked this question for the first time, 16 years ago, at my entry into social work exam at and my first year on the course. My response today is pretty much the same as it was then. I … Continue reading
In this interview, Linda and Anne discuss their new book, Mastering Approaches to Diversity in Social Work, which looks at a range of diversity issues in social work practice and includes a model for understanding discrimination. Diversity is one of the nine overarching competences for social workers in the Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Workers … Continue reading
Thank you for joining us @SWSCmedia for our debate on Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development #GASWSD. Our online debate was accompanied by discussions at London Metropolitan University and following the parliamentary reception and the official presentation of the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development at Portcullis house to Ministers and Members … Continue reading
Briefing on the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development Commitment to Action Today we celebrate that social work is a global profession. We see that when we welcome internationally qualified colleagues who come to work in our teams. We celebrate it when we go to conferences and meetings where we meet social workers … Continue reading
Voices from the Future: Sasha Williams reflection on 1st year BSc students exploring the mission of Social Work. Podcast by: Sasha Williams (@sasemwills) is a PhD researcher interested in the area of child neglect and a Twitter Ambassador for @SWSCmedia. Join our debates every Tuesday at 8:00 PM UK / 3:00 PM ET and every Sunday 6:00 PM UK / … Continue reading
Trauma-Informed Social Work Practice: What Is It and Why Should We Care? Podcast by: Dr. Nancy Smyth (@njsmyth) is Professor and Dean of School of Social Work at University at Buffalo and Associate Research Scientist at Research Institute on Addictions. She is also a member of @SWSCmedia Expert Panel. Join our debates every Tuesday at 8:00 PM UK / 3:00 … Continue reading
It's an election year. Jobs and the economy are the top priorities that concern Americans. The government has made huge strides to prevent massive job losses for police officers, fire fighters, first responders, and teachers. Did you notice what was missing from that sentence? If you guessed Social Workers, you got it right. The National … Continue reading
I have been involved in studying stress for over twenty years now, and what has worried me most during that time is not the apparent growth of workplace stress as a phenomenon (worrying enough though that is), but rather the extent to which so many people now accept stress as inevitable. It is as if … Continue reading


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Parties & Events
John's offers a variety of parties and event options to suit any occasion!
- Birthday Parties – Our specialty! Kids of all ages will love having a party in a private room with a party host, food and fun! Choose from our many package and then customize it to meet your needs!
- Group & Sports – John's is a great gathering place for groups of all sizes! Groups include sports teams, worship groups, scouts, family gatherings and clubs!
- School Field Trips – Rewards your students with food and fun!
- Business Events – Give presentations and do team building activities in your own private room!
- Lock-Ins & Private Events – Have John's all to yourself! Perfect for grad parties, holiday parties, reunions and large family gatherings!
- Eat & Play Tours – Go behind-the-scenes of John's and make your own pizza! Great for schools, daycare centers, scouts and worship groups!


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The Philips AVENT Digital Bath and Bedroom Thermometer is a convenient way to monitor the temperature both in baby's room and in the bath. It has also been designed and tested as a safe, fun bath toy.
Product Features:
Product Features:
- Accurate temperature readings for bath or bedroom
- Complies with all relevant toy and safety standards
- Floats in water
- Operating temperature range: 10-45 °C
- Accuracy: +/-1 °C
- Battery type: 2 x LR44
Delivery CostOn all orders to mainland UK addresses we are able to offer an incentivised carriage charge based on your order value with us as follows:
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- Orders for the Scottish Highlands, the Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey), the Isle of Man or Ireland will all be charged at £9.95.
- We are able to deliver to European destinations and other parts of the world. Please refer our Delivery tab (at top) for more details.
Additional Information
- Learn more about Philips Avent
- Keeping your baby safe and happy is of the utmost importance to every parent. Finding simple and effective ways to do this lets you take time to relax and enjoy life. The Philips AVENT range of Health and Monitoring products can help.
- Young babies cannot control their own temperature and are more sensitive to hot water than an adult may be able to predict. Philips AVENT digital thermometers are a bright and cheerful way to keep baby safe and comfortable.
- Read about The A – Z of your Baby's Temperature


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FALL RIVER — Bristol Community College has broken ground on its first new building since 2001, with an official ceremony held May 23.
FALL RIVER — Bristol Community College has broken ground on its first new building since 2001, with an official ceremony held May 23.
The John J. Sbrega, Ph.D. Health and Science Building will boast the most advanced technological resources available to educate BCC's students in high-demand fields like nursing, dental hygiene, and life sciences, the community college said. Construction plans call for the approximately 47,000-square-foot building to be platinum LEED-certified and have zero net energy consumption annually.
The additional classroom space is sorely needed, the college said, citing BCC's enrollment increase of more than 80 percent during the past 14 years. The Fall River campus has the highest deficit of learning space in all of the state system.
Construction, by BOND, includes two full stories composed of teaching labs, offices, and community space. A central atrium will act as a common area, promoting informal group study and learning space for the entire campus. BOND will also construct new plazas and walkways to attract students to the building.
To offset energy consumption, ground-source and air-source heat pumps will be installed for heating and cooling. Fourteen of the building's 18 fume hoods will filter and return air to the space, rather than exhausting it into the atmosphere. And a photovoltaic array will provide power and shading.


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These LED strips have 30 individually controllable super-bright LEDs per meter, and we're selling these by the half-meter. They're a convenient way to get a lot of RGB pixels glowing with minimal wiring and cost. Strips can be cut with scissors at every single LED...this means you can cut each half-meter strip into 15 independent pixels, or to the exact length required by your project. Only three wires run through each strip: power, ground, and data.
Each LED has its own controller chip, embedded inside the LED itself. The red, green, and blue elements of each LED can be set to individual brightnesses of 0 to 255 PWM counts, corresponding to 0% to 100% brightness. This means each pixel is capable of 24-bit color.
Controlling the LEDs is fairly timing-intensive. If you are using an Arduino, you will need to use one of the available WS2811 libraries that have an assembly language driver for the LEDs. Faster controllers will likely have fewer problems, as long as reliable sub-microsecond I/O timing is possible.
Your order will be delivered in one continuous length up to 5 meters; 5 meter increments will be delivered on a spool. Sections of 1/2 meter are lap-soldered, which may offset the pixel spacing by small amounts along the strip.
Pixels per meter: 30 RGB 5050
PWM bit depth: 8 bits per color, 24 bits total
Mask color: black
Pixel pitch:33.33mm or 1.312 inches
Power: 5V, max 0.9A per 1/2 meter
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Weekend picks: 3 places for Easter
Easter is almost as popular at restaurants as it is for home cooks. Here are three places where you can celebrate. Reservations are recommended.
MIRABELLE, Stony Brook
The four-star restaurant's $62 fixed-price dinner, plus tax and tip, is from 1 to 7 p.m. Among the dishes: asparagus custard, asparagus-chervil salad with smoked salmon, spring pea soup, Sauternes-poached foie gras, loin of lamb and lamb chop, pan-seared shell steak, seared branzino, ginger-almond tart.
The Farmingdale restaurant offers brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost: $21.95 for adults; $10.95 for children. Selections include scrambled or poached eggs, mini-pastries and mini-bagels, pancakes, French toast, home fries and unlimited Mimosas and sparkling wine.
ROOTS BISTRO GOURMAND, West Islip
This stellar spot will have brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for $28; and dinner from 3 to 8 p.m. for $50, both plus tax and tip. Dinner selections include braised short ribs with caponata, mussel soup, pan-seared Atlantic salmon, roast duck a l'orange, roasted chicken breast and confit of leg, rum cake and sorbets. Brunch items include mussels and fries, onion soup, steak tartare.


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"Really, it's as quiet here as the country!" marveled Anglo-American poet W.H. Auden upon arriving in Brooklyn in 1939. "For the first time I am leading a life which remotely approximates to the way I think I ought to live."
Auden was not the first – and certainly not the last – great writer to discover the peculiar charms of New York City's most populous borough. Quieter than Manhattan, more human in scale, less terrifyingly expensive (in some neighborhoods anyway), Brooklyn has been providing refuge and inspiration for writers at least since Walt Whitman arrived in 1823 as a child of 3.
Today, "Brooklyn cool" has surged to such a degree – taking all the writers with it – that Malcolm Gladwell recently quipped: "Intelligent thought is not dead in New York. It has simply moved to Brooklyn."
The rich history of literary life in "America's first suburb" is very enjoyably explored in Evan Hughes's Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life. Even if you think you already know this story – and yes, yes, you may know all about the Brooklyn-ness of Whitman, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, and Jonathan Ames – intriguing surprises remain to be discovered in Hughes's book. (For starters, who knew that would-be novelist Gypsy Rose Lee was part of a tightknit Brooklyn Heights literary crowd that also included Auden, Carson McCullers and Richard Wright?)
Hughes is good at forging connections between the many Brooklyn authors whose stories he tells – everyone from Henry Miller to Marianne Moore to Jonathan Lethem – even as he gives the arcs of their careers fresh context by setting them against the dramatic ups and downs of the borough they all called home.
The subtitle on "Literary Brooklyn" may be a bit of an exaggeration (his book is really the unique story of Brooklyn and not the story of Boston, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, or any other American city) but he does engagingly track the dramatic shifts in social history and demographics – from the Depression to the Great Migration to suburban flight to the urban renaissance – that have made and remade Brooklyn so many times over the decades.
In fact for readers most familiar with the Brooklyn of today – the Brooklyn of "Baby and Me swim classes ... Pilates [and] the Food Coop" – Hughes's depiction of the much bleaker Brooklyn of the not-so-distant 1960s and '70s (18 methadone clinics in Fort Greene alone) may come as a shock.
Hughes finishes with the Brooklyn of today and – inevitably – asks whether a borough already crowded with the likes of Jhumpa Lahiri, Colson Whitehead, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jennifer Egan, and many other of today's best-known writers is a stimulating or a suffocating environment for a young talent.
In other words, has Brooklyn gotten too cool for its own good? Nah. As novelist Paula Fox noted when she left Manhattan's Upper West Side to make a new home in Brooklyn: "Here you are in America." Not really, some of us would argue. But, as Auden hinted, it's a very awesome approximation.
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The first few minutes of Shrek 2 are cluttered with more references to the movies than David Thomson's thick, rich history text The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Watching it is like sitting next to an ADD patient with access to a remote control and a hundred premium cable channels; you could try to keep count as the images flicker by, but ultimately it's a pointless exercise. They're piled one on top of the other -- the From Here to Eternity joke just as quickly becomes a Little Mermaid punch line that immediately gives way to a Lord of the Rings nod that rapidly evolves into a Spider-Man gag. It's delightful and delirious, but at first a little troubling, considering that the first Shrek amounted to little more than the sum of its pop-culture references and was about as slight as an issue of Entertainment Weekly. The cynic begins to wonder if the sequel isn't just more of the same -- Airplane! for the grown-ups who get the joke and another afternoon spent watching Nickelodeon for their more cinematically challenged children.
But soon enough the gags relent, and the story emerges as the main focus -- a story with spirit and soul enough to withstand the barrage of in-jokes and wink-wink-nudge-nudges, which are no longer the only thing in sight. This Shrek is funnier and warmer than its predecessor; it's better looking, too, no longer as clunky and junky as video-game graphics. It's as though the 2001 original was a demo reel for the latest installment in DreamWorks' lucrative franchise, based on William Steig's kiddie book. All the kinks have been worked out, and what emerges is a languidly paced, beautifully made, and amusingly told tale in which, duh, love conquers all with the assistance of a kitty cat who winds up the top dog.
The movie picks up immediately after the original's finale: Shrek (Mike Myers) and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) are on their honeymoon, and again hounded by Eddie Murphy's pain-in-the-ass ass, when word is sent that the princess' parents want to meet their daughter's new husband. King Harold (John Cleese), suffering from "an old Crusade wound," and kindly Queen Lillian (Julie Andrews) rule the land of Far, Far Away, a sort of combination Paramount Pictures lot, Disneyland, and strip mall dotted by such retailers as Tower of London Records, Burger Prince, Farbucks, and Gap Queen; yes, yes, 'tis a fine line indeed between parody and product placement. The king can't stomach his once-beautiful daughter's marriage to an ogre; the queen, echoing the famous Seinfeld episode, half-heartedly insists, "Not that there's anything wrong with it." (Shrek 2 is not a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner redux so much as a commingling of everything currently airing on TNT.) Over dinner, father and son-in-law brilliantly stage their own kind of food fight, a culinary kung-fu-ballet; the ogre isn't the only one with bad table manners.
There are others conspiring against the marriage, too. Fiona's Fairy Godmother, for one, voiced by Absolutely Fabulous' Jennifer Saunders, who plays the old witch more like Brando's Godfather. She's a blackmailer and tyrant, running a potion manufacturing plant out of "the old Keebler place" (says Eddie Murphy's Donkey) that's actually a sweatshop populated by elves in hazmat uniforms. Accompanied by bald, muscle-bound bodyguards in her pink stretch carriage, the Godmother wants Fiona to marry her son instead, a Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) who is more like a preening princess in love with only his golden hair. It's indicative of Fairy Godmother's sensibilities that her idea of a perfect fairy tale is Pretty Woman.
One day, perhaps, DreamWorks will allow Puss in Boots, a brilliant addition voiced by Antonio Banderas, his own feature film. The cat, feisty one moment and purringly cuddly the next, renders Myers, Diaz, and Murphy supporting players in their own feature. Puss is initially hired by King Harold to off his son-in-law; the cat, says the bartending Ugly Stepsister (Larry King), is "the only man who can kill an ogre." But he's too much of a pussy to do the job -- or maybe it's hard to kill anyone when you're licking yourself and coughing up hairballs and venomous one-liners. Among the newcomers, he's the most welcome.
This time around, the screenwriters (including one who penned Beavis and Butt-head Do America and two others responsible for Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) use the pop-culture gags as wallpaper -- literally, in the case of a Sir Justin (Timberlake) poster that hangs in Fiona's childhood bedroom, a charming little touch. Every frame contains its fleeting gag, be it a piano-playing Captain Hook who sings like Tom Waits and Nick Cave, a bush "shaped like Shirley Bassey," a Raiders of the Lost Ark homage scored to Pete Yorn's remake of the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen in Love," a Cops parody in which knights plant catnip on Puss in Boots, a line of dialogue from Sanford and Son, and Joan Rivers as Joan Rivers on the red carpet. But this time they add to the story, not detract from it -- or distract from it, to be more precise. Yes, they may date the movie like bell-bottoms tomorrow, but that doesn't stop Shrek 2 from being wonderful today.
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March 28, 2013
Michelle Sing is senior associate, communications and marketing at Ernst & Young LLP in the Philadelphia area. She holds a M.S. in broadcast journalism and an M.I.A. in non-profit management and corporate social responsibility, both from Columbia University, and she received her bachelor's degree in East Asian languages and cultures from Columbia College.
Sing has previously worked in various roles for L.E.K. Consulting, International Bridges to Justice, POV – American Documentary, "Nightly Business Report" at PBS, Weatherhead East Asian Institute and "Dateline" at NBCUniversal.
She says that the best part of her job is "constantly learning — a job working with the news media means there's something new each day."
How did you get your start in public relations?
I had an unconventional entry into public relations. I was an aspiring journalist, who had worked in management consulting, and I found that public relations allowed me to blend my love of news media, writing and business strategy. While in consulting, I focused on biotech and retail, and at Ernst & Young (EY), I primarily support the advisory (consulting) service line and act as the PR lead for the healthcare, life sciences and consumer products sectors. My varied experiences have come together in this role.
What made you decide to make the shift from broadcast journalism and non-profit/CSR to communications and marketing?
I've always been excited by the idea of macroscopic change and influence, and communications is an essential component of achieving that. My driving interest in becoming a mass communicator was the common thread between my broadcast and non-profit experiences, where I held roles in communications. I wanted to gain experience by working for a large, global organization, so I've been fortunate to work at EY. Communications and marketing involves creatively packaging and promoting notable initiatives within the firm, and I love contributing to that process.
What's a typical day like for you at Ernst & Young?
I can't say there's a 'typical' day on the job — and that's what keeps it exciting! In general, however, my day usually begins with catching up on the news of the day, particularly for primary areas I support. The remainder of the day is filled with any combination of strategy sessions to determine media hot topics, meetings with EY leaders to develop and draft thought leadership, calls with agencies to brainstorm new media angles, scheduling and facilitating media interviews, relationship-building calls with reporters and industry influencers, and managing industry awards/survey submissions.
What role do communications and public relations play in building the EY brand?
Communications, whether externally to the media or internally to EY's 167,000 employees, is an unrivaled vehicle of disseminating information. It's the primary way of bringing the important work and values that distinguish EY to a broad audience. I'm fortunate to work with leaders who recognize the value of communications, are committed to supporting our team's efforts and invest their time to address media opportunities.
What are some challenges that you face in your day-to-day job?
One of the areas I manage is health care. Its rapidly evolving landscape is rousing change that has far-reaching impacts. Keeping pace with the new legislation, regulations and technologies affecting this industry and beyond can be challenging, but it's also exciting to monitor the momentous transformation of this space.
Is this time of year particularly demanding or eventful for the company, as it's considered "busy season" in the accounting world and Tax Day is April 15?
There's no question that this time of year is incredibly busy for our client-serving colleagues in [the tax sector]. From a media point of view, each year at this time, we promote the latest version of the Ernst & Young Tax Guide. Our activity includes print and online outreach, plus satellite radio and TV media tours leading up to the April 15 filing deadline — all contribute to our spokesperson being the most quoted tax professional.
Earth Day is April 22, which brings CSR to mind. How does Ernst & Young display its socially conscious mindset to customers year-round?
At EY, we believe that one of the best ways to build a better business is to build a better world. Ernst & Young's CR strategy is focused on three "E"s — education, entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability. Our signature program for education is called College MAP, a team-based mentoring program, which helps young people from low-income communities become college-ready.
We also sponsor the annual Americas Corporate Responsibility Fellows program, which sends select EY employees on seven-week assignments where they leverage their workplace skills to meet the specific business needs of entrepreneurs in emerging markets at no charge to the businesses. To date, more than 60 high-impact entrepreneurs from the Endeavor Network in Latin America have benefited from this program.
What's the most important lesson you've learned that you use daily?
Be a team player. Don't dwell on problems, but work with your colleagues to find a solution that will get the job done right. In team settings, it's common for circumstances to change. Be flexible, chip in to help out and learn to adapt with the evolving situation. Also, do everything to the best of your ability. A strong work ethic is irreplaceable.
What's the job outlook like for new graduates and young professionals?
The job market is competitive, but companies are hiring. As you continue the job hunt, take measures to set yourself apart. You don't need a PR job to gain valuable PR experience. Volunteer for a non-profit — many organizations have groups for young professionals and functional committees, such as communications/media outreach.
What advice do you have for someone trying to break into the PR profession?
Develop a voracious appetite for the news and get your news from a range of mediums and through different platforms. Familiarize yourself with social media applications. You don't have to be a pro at using them, but understanding their function and reach will help make you a versatile PR professional.
What is the best leadership advice you've ever received?
Listen more than you speak, fervently build up those around you and remember that you're never too busy to say, "thank you."
Managing Editor Amy Jacques interviewed Michelle Sing for this month's member profile.
Favorite book?
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite movie?
"Shawshank Redemption," "Dirty Dancing" and "Remember The Titans"
Best place to travel?
Madrid, Spain
N. Paul Dusseault, APR says:
Great piece, Michelle. Thanks for sharing. Good to get to know you a little bit. May you never have a typical day.
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Agricultural lands; classification and assessment; mandated eradication or quarantine program; natural disasters.
The property appraiser shall, on an annual basis, classify for assessment purposes all lands within the county as either agricultural or nonagricultural.
Any landowner whose land is denied agricultural classification by the property appraiser may appeal to the value adjustment board. The property appraiser shall notify the landowner in writing of the denial of agricultural classification on or before July 1 of the year for which the application was filed. The notification shall advise the landowner of his or her right to appeal to the value adjustment board and of the filing deadline. The property appraiser shall have available at his or her office a list by ownership of all applications received showing the acreage, the full valuation under s.
, the valuation of the land under the provisions of this section, and whether or not the classification requested was granted.
Lands may not be classified as agricultural lands unless a return is filed on or before March 1 of each year. Before classifying such lands as agricultural lands, the property appraiser may require the taxpayer or the taxpayer's representative to furnish the property appraiser such information as may reasonably be required to establish that such lands were actually used for a bona fide agricultural purpose. Failure to make timely application by March 1 constitutes a waiver for 1 year of the privilege granted in this section for agricultural assessment. However, an applicant who is qualified to receive an agricultural classification who fails to file an application by March 1 must file an application for the classification with the property appraiser on or before the 25th day after the mailing by the property appraiser of the notice required under s.
(1). Upon receipt of sufficient evidence, as determined by the property appraiser, that demonstrates that the applicant was unable to apply for the classification in a timely manner or that otherwise demonstrates extenuating circumstances that warrant the granting of the classification, the property appraiser may grant the classification. If the applicant files an application for the classification and fails to provide sufficient evidence to the property appraiser as required, the applicant may file, pursuant to s.
(3), a petition with the value adjustment board requesting that the classification be granted. The petition may be filed at any time during the taxable year on or before the 25th day following the mailing of the notice by the property appraiser as provided in s.
(1). Notwithstanding s.
, the applicant must pay a nonrefundable fee of $15 upon filing the petition. Upon reviewing the petition, if the person is qualified to receive the classification and demonstrates particular extenuating circumstances judged by the value adjustment board to warrant granting the classification, the value adjustment board may grant the classification for the current year. The owner of land that was classified agricultural in the previous year and whose ownership or use has not changed may reapply on a short form as provided by the department. The lessee of property may make original application or reapply using the short form if the lease, or an affidavit executed by the owner, provides that the lessee is empowered to make application for the agricultural classification on behalf of the owner and a copy of the lease or affidavit accompanies the application. A county may, at the request of the property appraiser and by a majority vote of its governing body, waive the requirement that an annual application or statement be made for classification of property within the county after an initial application is made and the classification granted by the property appraiser. Such waiver may be revoked by a majority vote of the governing body of the county.
Subject to the restrictions specified in this section, only lands that are used primarily for bona fide agricultural purposes shall be classified agricultural. The term "bona fide agricultural purposes" means good faith commercial agricultural use of the land.
In determining whether the use of the land for agricultural purposes is bona fide, the following factors may be taken into consideration:
The length of time the land has been so used.
Whether the use has been continuous.
The purchase price paid.
Size, as it relates to specific agricultural use, but a minimum acreage may not be required for agricultural assessment.
Whether an indicated effort has been made to care sufficiently and adequately for the land in accordance with accepted commercial agricultural practices, including, without limitation, fertilizing, liming, tilling, mowing, reforesting, and other accepted agricultural practices.
Whether the land is under lease and, if so, the effective length, terms, and conditions of the lease.
Such other factors as may become applicable.
Offering property for sale does not constitute a primary use of land and may not be the basis for denying an agricultural classification if the land continues to be used primarily for bona fide agricultural purposes while it is being offered for sale.
The maintenance of a dwelling on part of the lands used for agricultural purposes does not in itself preclude an agricultural classification.
When property receiving an agricultural classification contains a residence under the same ownership, the portion of the property consisting of the residence and curtilage must be assessed separately, pursuant to s.
, to qualify for the assessment limitation set forth in s.
. The remaining property may be classified under the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b).
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a), land that has received an agricultural classification from the value adjustment board or a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to this section is entitled to receive such classification in any subsequent year until such agricultural use of the land is abandoned or discontinued, the land is diverted to a nonagricultural use, or the land is reclassified as nonagricultural pursuant to subsection (4). The property appraiser must, no later than January 31 of each year, provide notice to the owner of land that was classified agricultural in the previous year informing the owner of the requirements of this paragraph and requiring the owner to certify that neither the ownership nor the use of the land has changed. The department shall, by administrative rule, prescribe the form of the notice to be used by the property appraiser under this paragraph. If a county has waived the requirement that an annual application or statement be made for classification of property pursuant to paragraph (a), the county may, by a majority vote of its governing body, waive the notice and certification requirements of this paragraph and shall provide the property owner with the same notification provided to owners of land granted an agricultural classification by the property appraiser. Such waiver may be revoked by a majority vote of the county's governing body. This paragraph does not apply to any property if the agricultural classification of that property is the subject of current litigation.
The property appraiser shall reclassify the following lands as nonagricultural:
Land diverted from an agricultural to a nonagricultural use.
Land no longer being utilized for agricultural purposes.
For the purpose of this section, the term "agricultural purposes" includes, but is not limited to, horticulture; floriculture; viticulture; forestry; dairy; livestock; poultry; bee; pisciculture, if the land is used principally for the production of tropical fish; aquaculture as defined in s.
; algaculture; sod farming; and all forms of farm products as defined in s.
(3) and farm production.
In years in which proper application for agricultural assessment has been made and granted pursuant to this section, the assessment of land shall be based solely on its agricultural use. The property appraiser shall consider the following use factors only:
The quantity and size of the property;
The condition of the property;
The present market value of the property as agricultural land;
The income produced by the property;
The productivity of land in its present use;
The economic merchantability of the agricultural product; and
Such other agricultural factors as may from time to time become applicable, which are reflective of the standard present practices of agricultural use and production.
Notwithstanding any provision relating to annual assessment found in s.
, the property appraiser shall rely on 5-year moving average data when utilizing the income methodology approach in an assessment of property used for agricultural purposes.
For purposes of the income methodology approach to assessment of property used for agricultural purposes, irrigation systems, including pumps and motors, physically attached to the land shall be considered a part of the average yields per acre and shall have no separately assessable contributory value.
Litter containment structures located on producing poultry farms and animal waste nutrient containment structures located on producing dairy farms shall be assessed by the methodology described in subparagraph 1.
Structures or improvements used in horticultural production for frost or freeze protection, which are consistent with the interim measures or best management practices adopted by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services pursuant to s.
or s.
(7)(c), shall be assessed by the methodology described in subparagraph 1.
Screened enclosed structures used in horticultural production for protection from pests and diseases or to comply with state or federal eradication or compliance agreements shall be assessed by the methodology described in subparagraph 1.
In years in which proper application for agricultural assessment has not been made, the land shall be assessed under the provisions of s.
Lands classified for assessment purposes as agricultural lands which are taken out of production by a state or federal eradication or quarantine program, including the Citrus Health Response Program, shall continue to be classified as agricultural lands for 5 years after the date of execution of a compliance agreement between the landowner and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services or a federal agency, as applicable, pursuant to such program or successor programs. Lands under these programs which are converted to fallow or otherwise nonincome-producing uses shall continue to be classified as agricultural lands and shall be assessed at a de minimis value of up to $50 per acre on a single-year assessment methodology while fallow or otherwise used for nonincome-producing purposes. Lands under these programs which are replanted in citrus pursuant to the requirements of the compliance agreement shall continue to be classified as agricultural lands and shall be assessed at a de minimis value of up to $50 per acre, on a single-year assessment methodology, during the 5-year term of agreement. However, lands converted to other income-producing agricultural uses permissible under such programs shall be assessed pursuant to this section. Land under a mandated eradication or quarantine program which is diverted from an agricultural to a nonagricultural use shall be assessed under s.
Lands classified for assessment purposes as agricultural lands that participate in a dispersed water storage program pursuant to a contract with the Department of Environmental Protection or a water management district which requires flooding of land shall continue to be classified as agricultural lands for the duration of the inclusion of the lands in such program or successor programs and shall be assessed as nonproductive agricultural lands. Land that participates in a dispersed water storage program that is diverted from an agricultural to a nonagricultural use shall be assessed under s.
Lands classified for assessment purposes as agricultural lands which are not being used for agricultural production as a result of a natural disaster for which a state of emergency is declared pursuant to s.
, when such disaster results in the halting of agricultural production, must continue to be classified as agricultural lands for 5 years after termination of the emergency declaration. However, if such lands are diverted from agricultural use to nonagricultural use during or after the 5-year recovery period, such lands must be assessed under s.
. This paragraph applies retroactively to natural disasters that occurred on or after July 1, 2017.
Lands classified for assessment purposes as agricultural lands, which are not being used for agricultural production due to a hurricane that made landfall in this state during calendar year 2017, must continue to be classified as agricultural lands for assessment purposes through December 31, 2022, unless the lands are converted to a nonagricultural use. Lands converted to nonagricultural use are not covered by this subsection and must be assessed as otherwise provided by law.
s. 1, ch. 59-226; s. 1, ch. 67-117; ss. 1, 2, ch. 69-55; s. 1, ch. 72-181; s. 4, ch. 74-234; s. 3, ch. 76-133; s. 15, ch. 82-208; ss. 10, 80, ch. 82-226; s. 1, ch. 85-77; s. 3, ch. 86-300; s. 23, ch. 90-217; ss. 132, 142, ch. 91-112; s. 63, ch. 94-353; s. 1468, ch. 95-147; s. 1, ch. 95-404; s. 1, ch. 98-313; s. 1, ch. 99-351; s. 3, ch. 2000-308; s. 4, ch. 2001-279; s. 15, ch. 2002-18; s. 2, ch. 2003-162; s. 43, ch. 2003-254; s. 1, ch. 2006-45; s. 2, ch. 2008-197; ss. 1, 11, ch. 2010-277; HJR 5-A, 2010 Special Session A; s. 2, ch. 2011-206; s. 15, ch. 2012-83; s. 6, ch. 2013-72; s. 1, ch. 2013-95; s. 2, ch. 2014-150; s. 1, ch. 2016-88; s. 1, ch. 2018-84; s. 12, ch. 2018-118.
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"Big loss": Brooklyn fire chief dies suddenly
Longtime firefighter served department 42 years
BROOKLYN, Wis. — Longtime Brooklyn Fire Chief Phil Mortensen passed away suddenly Saturday.
Mortensen, 67, had served as the village's fire chief for nearly four decades. Neighboring fire department colleague Randall Pickering, fire chief in Fitchburg, said the cause of Mortensen's death has not been officially declared, but responders believe he had a heart attack.
Mortensen was found Saturday outside of his auto shop in what was suspected as cardiac arrest. Brooklyn EMS and fire crews responded, beginning CPR and transport to the hospital. Med flight was also called due to poor road conditions from an earlier blizzard, but despite the life-saving efforts of many, Pickering said Mortensen did not make it.
Pickering, who also serves as president to the Wisconsin Fire Service Administrative Association, said although Mortensen didn't die on a call, his death is considered a line-of-duty death since he died within 24 hours of responding to an emergency call.17884714
Pickering said Mortensen had close relationships with many of the fire and EMS teams in Brooklyn, having served the area as chief for more than 38 years and as a firefighter for 42 years.
In fact, Pickering said the fire chief's wife, Sandy, his daughter-in-law, and one of his two sons were all involved with area public safety, and it was Mortensens' own family and colleagues who came to his aid.
"His firefighters and his EMTs had to respond to the emergency, and in this case the emergency was him," Pickering said.
Pickering said he had known Mortensen for about 33 years.
"He was just the epitome of an absolute class act," Pickering said. "Beyond the village of Brooklyn, he touched many people throughout the years as an individual and a fire chief. You just wish there were 100 more like him in the world."
Dave Bloom heads up the nearby Oregon and Town of Madison fire departments.
Bloom says that he knew Mortensen from mutual aid calls, chaotic circumstances perhaps under which to meet, but Mortensen's dedication on those calls made a lasting impression.
"He led the department by example," said Bloom. "He would be part of the ambulance crew. He didn't stand back and supervise, he was part of the ambulance crew."
Those who knew Mortensen say the chief poured his life into the fire department, even moving his auto business into the former fire building, even leaving the numbers on the garage bays.
"Going to be a big loss to Brooklyn and Dane County," said Bloom.
Even though Brooklyn isn't a large metropolis, Bloom says good public servants are just as important in small towns as in large cities.
"The fires burn just as hot in a small town as they do in a big town," said Bloom.
Mortensen was a lifetime resident of Brooklyn and owned Mortensen Auto in the village.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
Assistant Chief Leif Spilde will serve as the interim chief, Pickering confirmed.


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Susie Edwards is used to waiting. She waits for test results. She waits for insurance, Social Security and Medicaid paperwork. But most of all, she waits for the day the doctor will call and she'll have to drop everything to go to the hospital. Edwards, 60, is on a waiting list for a kidney transplant.
Susie Edwards is used to waiting. She waits for test results. She waits for insurance, Social Security and Medicaid paperwork. She waits eights hours every night to be able to venture more than a few feet from her bedroom. But most of all, she waits for the day the doctor will call and she'll have to drop everything to go to the hospital.
Edwards, 60, is on a waiting list for a kidney transplant.
"The waiting is probably the hardest part for me," she said. "I'm not a very patient person. You can get discouraged with all the little things that go along with the medical commitments you have."
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, at any given time more than 55,000 people are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, with about 14,000 transplants performed each year.
Edwards' troubles began 20 years ago, after she was given the wrong type of blood during surgery.
"I developed signs right after surgery," she said. "I was on dialysis right after that because I lost kidney function. I did regain my kidney function, but since then doctors found both kidneys were heavily scarred and damaged, and they believe it was a result of that."
In the last three years, the kidney problems have taken a turn for the worse, and she has been on the waiting list for a transplant for two years. She has no idea when a kidney might become available.
"It could be any day or it could be a year or two more, I just don't know. When a match becomes available, you basically have to drop everything and go."
While she could see if her children are a match, given the family's history of diabetes she has not yet asked them to be tested.
"They have to look after their own life," she said.
Edwards has not reached a critical stage yet, and she and her husband of 41 years, John, manage her kidney problems through at-home dialysis. While it used to be that dialysis had to be done at a treatment center, recent technological advances have made at-home dialysis equipment smaller and simpler.
Edwards had a catheter surgically implanted in her stomach that allows her to hook up to the equipment. When she first started the treatment, she did the process manually and was hooked up to an IV pole with a drip. She needed to receive the treatment four times per day.
"I had to limit my activities within that time frame," she said. "It was easy to be shopping, lose track of time and then realize I had to get home."
Now, she has an automated machine that does the dialysis for her over an eight-hour period, usually at night. While she's hooked up to the machine, she can move only a few feet from the bedroom to the bathroom. But she gladly exchanges that restriction for the freedom to have the days to herself.
"It's a lot nicer than having to be at a dialysis center three times per week," Edwards said.
She goes through two six-liter bags of fluid each day, which cleanses the body by removing excess fluids, minerals and waste. The basement looks more like a medical storage closet, with boxes upon boxes of the solution stacked up. And while at first glance the equipment, tubes and machine look complicated, the couple said it's pretty simple once you know what to do.
Of course, it doesn't always go smoothly. John said once they had forgotten a step and the fluids did not drain. They were able to call the company who provides the medical equipment, Baxter Healthcare, and they were able to resolve the situation. The couple laughs about it now, but Edwards described that sensation as "a little uncomfortable," though for the most part she doesn't feel anything during the dialysis except a little cramping.
"It really is a very easy and convenient way to manage it if you have to do it," she said.
The equipment itself is fairly portable and their provider can actually ship boxes of the solution to a destination. Still, if the couple takes a trip for a few days to see their children in Indiana, it requires a lot of packing.
"You take a lot of stuff with you, but you don't bring a lot of stuff back," John said.
She still has to see her specialist, who is out of Peoria, at the Midwest Kidney Center in Kewanee, about once each month. Having the center in Kewanee is good for Edwards because she doesn't have to travel to Peoria each month.
Edwards said it has been family that has helped her survive this trying time.
"My husband has been very, very supportive," she said. "He's been willing to do whatever it takes to get me through this."
However, the longer she has to wait, the more the medical bills begin to mount. So, some of her friends are hosting a benefit for Edwards from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 17 at the American Legion, 571 E. North St. The event will feature an auction, food, music and raffles.
Edwards said before her situation arose, she never considered being an organ donor herself. Even though her disease will prevent her from being able to do so now, she wishes she could.
"It's an epidemic," she said. "(Before this situation) I didn't even think about being a donor. I always thought, 'what if I need it?'"
For more information on organ donation or to find out how to become a donor, visit www.organdonor.gov.
Did You Know?
More than 98,000 people are currently on waiting lists for organ donations. Everyday, about 77 people receive an organ transplant, but 19 people die each day waiting for a transplant.
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services


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Erec Toso was previously a guest on Arizona Spotlight in 2006, talking about his book Zero at the Bone, a harrowing first-person account of what it's like to be bitten by a rattlesnake. The book revealed Toso as a writer who delves deeply into his own soul to create his prose.
And now every Saturday, this busy author and U of A lecturer gathers together some pens, paper, and books, and travels to a state prison complex located on Tucson's south side. There, he holds two back-to-back workshops for groups of about 15-20 inmates. All of the participants are writers who want to learn more about writing.
The work these men produce is full of heart-stopping moments of seering truth and uplifting beauty. In this conversation, Erec Toso shares insight on what it is like to be confronted with the intensity, honesty, and drive that his workshop participants invest in their writing...
There will be much more about the inmate writing program featured on the first edition of AZ Illustrated's new weekly Arts & Culture edition, hosted by Elizabeth Burden. The program debuts Thursday, February 7th at 6:30 pm on PBS 6.
Erec Toso and Richard Shelton discuss the inmate writing program during an interview on AZ Illustrated.
About the writing workshop's literary magazine:
Richard Shelton began publishing Walking Rain Review almost 30 years ago. Walking Rain showcased inmate poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose, along with original images drawn both in prison and outside by ex-inmates.
The Lannan Foundation recognized the work that Shelton was doing, and awarded the prison project a grant that is currently administered by the UA Poetry Center.
Walking Rain went through 15 editions before Richard Shelton retired in 2010, when Ken Lamberton and Erec Toso decided to found a new review that both looked ahead and built on Shelton's Legacy.
They gave Walking Rain a nod with the title Rain Shadow Review, the first issue of which was published in early 2012. A second issue will be published in February, 2013. Issues of both magazines are available without charge at the UA Poetry Center.
Here is the text of the poem that Erec Toso reads at the end of the interview, written by Joe Bell:
No Secrets
One man
One woman
Hover on wheelchairs
Between racing skateboards
Economics of Reagan years
Never trickled down
Certificate of vows
Faded parchment
Broken bones
White lies
Scheduling love sessions
Between leaking bladders
Arthritic flare-ups
Varicose veins
Lengthening teeth
Lusty daydreams
Of Channel 4's weather gal
Awakened by flatulence
Mirages blinded by cataracts
A distant moon
A distant man
Dark spots on lips
Melanoma scars
Gravity severed
Decades cremated
High school yearbooks
Become obituaries
Religion reincarnates
Battling the hurricane with a bayonet
Conducting our locomotive
On the tail of a comet, we
Windsurf with
Coffee, cream, two sugars
Resurrection under construction
Written by:
Joe Bell
No. 245916
Santa Rita


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An Introduction to Meteor Radio Scatter
Whenever a meteor passes through the upper atmosphere it creates a column (actually an elongated paraboloid) of ionized air behind it tens of kilometers (km) long, called a meteor trail. Occurring at an atmospheric height of about 85 to 105 km (50 to 65 miles), this ionized trail is capable of reflecting radio waves from transmitters below on the Earth's surface. This type of reflection behaves very similar to light reflecting from a mirrored surface, and is called a specular reflection. Meteor trail reflections are brief, however. As the trail rapidly diffuses into the surrounding air, it quickly loses its ability to reflect radio waves, causing most reflections to last less than 1 second. Occasionally, a large meteor may create a trail capable of reflecting radio waves for up to several minutes. Meteor radio wave reflections are also called meteor echoes or events.
If the radio waves from the transmitter below strike the meteor trail at a perpendicular, or right angle, then the reflected signal will be directed back towards the transmitter itself. This is called back-scatter, and a station set up to receive such signals is called a meteor radar. Back-scatter is one of the most common methods by which professional astronomers study meteors using radio waves. These reflections can be used to study the meteors which caused them because each meteor will generate a unique signal based upon its mass, velocity, angle and direction of entry into the atmosphere, and distance from the transmitter. Current research of this type is being conducted using the powerful Arecibo Radio Telescope, located in Puerto Rico, to study extremely small micrometeors.
If the radio wave from the transmitter strikes the meteor trail at some incident angle other than perpendicular, then the reflected signal will be projected to some point on the ground some distance away from the transmitter. This is called forward-scatter, and the area on the ground where the signal has been reflected is called a forward-scatter footprint. This footprint will only be a few km wide and several km long. Meteor trails can reflect radio signals over distances of up to 2000 km (1200 miles) between a transmitter and receiver. most forward-scatter systems, however, operate at a distance of about 300 km to 1500 km (175 to 925 miles).
The forward-scatter of radio waves by meteor trails can serve two important purposes:
First, the trails can be used to send brief encoded messages to distant receiver sites. This is called meteor burst communications, and is frequently used as a backup means to satellite communications. In North America, the most widely known meteor burst communications system is the SNOTEL system, used by the U.S. Natural Resources Water and Climate Center, located in Portland, Oregon, to monitor rain and snowfall levels at remote stations throughout the Rocky Mountains. These stations are fully automated weather stations and meteor burst transceivers, which relay their information to a master station upon command. In addition, amateur radio enthusiasts, operating in the VHF bands, also make frequent use of meteor scatter (MS) , during major meteor showers.
The second purpose for forward-scatter is the study of meteors, and is similar to that performed by the back-scatter systems. The advantage of this method is that transmitters broadcasting for purposes other than meteor radio scatter can be utilized, thus allowing the construction of a receiving station only by the researcher. The disadvantage of this research method is that the geometry is much more complex than in the back-scatter condition, making meteor parameters more difficult to determine. Through the use of commercial radio transmitters, amateur astronomers have also begun to successfully establish forward-scatter receiving stations of their own. While most of these amateur stations are for the purpose of enjoyment only, a handful of stations have been established for the purpose of collecting data usable by the professional astronomical community.
The AMS Radiometeor Project
For nearly forty years the American Meteor Society (AMS) has encouraged its amateur members to experiment with the establishment of forward scatter receiver systems. First successes in this area were had by the Kansas Meteor Group, an AMS affiliate, in 1958. This group, led by Walter Scott Houston, established an automatic electronic system for counting meteor echoes from a professionally operated transmitter located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Featured in the July, 1958, Scientific American, this system remained in operation until the early 1960's.
During the mid-1970's, the advent of the personal computer made it possible for amateurs to establish forward-scatter data collection systems of an even higher level of sophistication. In order to germinate this potential within the amateur community, the AMS Radio Scatter Program was created by Dr. David Meisel in 1977. The purpose of this program was to establish a network of amateur operated forward-scatter receiving stations across a wide geographic area, each station automatically collecting data on the incoming meteor flux on a continuous 24-hr day basis. The data collected from these stations would then be used in the research conducted by AMS affiliated professional astronomers. During the decade of the 1980's, this program carried out experiments involving the establishment of meteor radio scatter receiving stations by groups of amateur astronomers, as well as preliminary work in using microcomputers for data collection. Notable successes included the work of William Black (1983) of Florida; Michael Owen (1986) of New York; and Meteor Group Hawaii, led by Michael Morrow and George Pokarney (1987). The most promising results were the experiments performed by Kenneth Pilon (1984), a Canadian amateur, who successfully demonstrated that a TRS-80 personal computer could be used to detect and make graphic printouts of meteor events.
Building upon the lessons learned from these previous attempts, the first full-time prototype station for the AMS became operational in March, 1993, utilizing an economical Apple IIe platform for data collection. This station was located in the rural countryside of northwest Florida (Poplar Springs) , and utilizes distant Television Channel 2 transmitters as its signal source. In late 1993, the AMS Radio Scatter Program was reorganized, and became the AMS Radiometeor Project. For several years, efforts were focused upon expanding the network, as well as increasing the reliability and sophistication of each individual station. Three stations were eventually established, located in California, Florida, and Virginia. Professional analysis of the collected data yielded several conference talks and an extensive paper in the European journal Planetary and Space science. By 1998, the data collection computers were significantly obselete to make further operation impractible, and the network of active stations was discontinued at that time.
Although the AMS does not currently have an active network of radiometeor stations, the society continues to support amateur efforts in this fascinating aspect of meteor science. For further information, see the links below.
Radiometeor Information, Observing Networks and Software
- RoswellMeteor near real time meteor and solar monitoring from New Mexico and Iowa – Stan Nelson and
Dennis Condron
- RadioMeteors Google Group
- Meteor and Colorgramme, an automatic radiometeor detection (Meteor) and display (Colorgramme) software package developed for the PC platform by Pierre Terrier and Philippe Boeuf respectively.
- Meteor Shower, Aurora and Sporadic-E Detection using Radio Signal Reflection, A wide variety of radio meteor information provided by Andy Smith G7IZU
- Some Notes and Equations for Forward Scatter compiled by James Richardson
- The Meteor Meniscus: Meteor Distance verses Meteor Zenith Angle by James Richardson
- AMS Radiometeor Project Bulletin 203 compiled by James Richardson


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Plasma Storm (TCG)
Pokémon TCG: Black & White—Plasma Storm (Japanese: プラズマゲイル Plasma Gale) is the name given to the eighth main expansion of cards from the English Black & White Series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. The Japanese release is the seventh of the BW era.
Clouds gather, Energy crackles, and when you play the Pokémon TCG: Black & White—Plasma Storm expansion, a new force will be felt as the tempestuous Team Plasma makes its debut! All must make ready for a new battlefield, featuring electrifying Team Plasma Pokémon, game-changing Trainer cards, and Team Plasma Pokémon-EX such as Articuno-EX, Zapdos-EX, and Lugia-EX. And, as all-new, powerful ACE SPEC cards blast the balance of power and even more amazing Pokémon-EX race into battle, a question must be asked: Trainers, are you ready? Prepare for the Plasma Storm!
Plasma Storm is the eighth Black & White Series expansion, released February 6, 2013. The Japanese counterpart Plasma Gale, was the seventh Japanese BW era expansion and was released September 14, 2012. The English release incorporates many different Japanese releases into its cardlist: Plasma Storm contains the remaining cards in the Freeze Bolt, Cold Flare, and Plasma Gale expansions, the remaining Eviolite alternate artwork left in the Keldeo Battle Strength Deck, the leftovers from the National Beginning Set, the entirety of the Team Plasma's Powered Half Deck, the Black Kyurem-EX Battle Strength Deck, and the White Kyurem-EX Battle Strength Deck, in addition to a few of the BW-P Promotional cards. Plasma Storm is the second largest set of the Black & White Series.
The Plasma Storm expansion features the debut of Team Plasma in the Pokémon TCG. Team Plasma cards sport a blue border and the Team Plasma Emblem behind the card text. Team Plasma Pokémon are all final evolutions and can evolve from non-Team Plasma Pokémon. All non-Pokémon-EX Team Plasma Pokémon are illustrated by 5ban Graphics. Their status as Team Plasma Pokémon allows certain benefits from other cards: Plasma Energy can be attached from the deck straight to a Team Plasma Pokémon by use of Colress Machine. Additionally, certain Team Plasma Supporter cards can only interact with Team Plasma cards, such as Team Plasma Grunt and Shadow Triad.
This set totals at 138 cards, 3 of which are Secret cards. The Secret cards are Charizard reprinted from Boundaries Crossed (Freeze Bolt in Japan), Blastoise reprinted from Boundaries Crossed (Cold Flare in Japan), and Random Receiver reprinted from Dark Explorers (the Reshiram-EX and Zekrom-EX Battle Strength Decks in Japan). Plasma Storm also features two Theme Decks, Plasma Claw and Plasma Shadow, centered around Druddigon and Giratina. Each deck contains an exclusive coin featuring the Team Plasma Emblem. Plasma Claw features Fire-type, Water-type, and Dragon-type Pokémon, while Plasma Shadow features Grass-type and Psychic-type Pokémon.
Plasma Storm features 8 Pokémon-EX, the most out of any Black & White Series expansion. Four of these Pokémon-EX come from the Japanese expansion Plasma Gale: Victini-EX, Articuno-EX, Cobalion-EX, and Lugia-EX, causing these four to be the only Pokémon-EX to have Full Art prints. The other four (Moltres-EX, Zapdos-EX, Black Kyurem-EX, and White Kyurem-EX) originate from the Black Kyurem-EX and White Kyurem-EX Battle Strength Deck. Colress also received a Full Art print originating from Plasma Gale.
In addition to Pokémon-EX and Full Art cards, Plasma Storm and Plasma Gale both feature 3 Ace Spec (Dowsing Machine, Scramble Switch, Victory Piece). Victory Piece is a Pokémon Tool that can be attached to Victini-EX, allowing Victini-EX to use its attacks without any Energy attached to it. Scramble Switch acts as a Switch that can also transfer as many Energy from the Old Active Pokémon to the new Active Pokémon as the player would like. Dowsing Machine has the same effect as the original Base Set card, Item Finder, did. Dowsing Machine would be considered a reprint, but the item from the games that it is based on changed both English and Japanese names.
Plasma Storm features various combos that are strong competitively. Utilizing the Poisoned Special Condition, Plasma Storm introduces both Hypnotoxic Laser and Virbank City Gym, a combination that will cause 30 damage between turns to the opposing Active Pokémon. This pair remained strong within competitive play throughout the next few expansions. Virbank City Gym could also be paired with Crobat, resulting in 60 Poison damage in between turns. Another strong Pokémon introduced within Plasma Storm would be Klinklang. This Klinklang card, with its powerful defensive ability Plasma Steel brought with it a return of Metal-type Pokémon in competitive play.
This expansion is riddled with errors. The Secret Charizard card was printed with a Fighting Energy symbol within its second attack instead of the correct Fire Energy. Additionally, Whismur, Loudred, and Exploud were erroneously placed before Lugia-EX in the setlist. Furthermore, the Full Art print of Colress was at first printed without all the special etching that it was supposed to (the original print lacked many of the wavy lines featured throughout the card). This mistake was corrected sometime during the initial print run. This Full Art print of Colress was also absent from many of the official checklists initially released for the expansion. It has since been added to the official one on Pokémon.com.
The Prerelease promo is Crobat from the BW Black Star Promos, which originated as one of the Japanese BW-P Promotional cards and given to those who bought a booster box of the expansion. In Japan, as a promotion for the expansion, those who go to several stores will receive one of four BW-P Promotional cards: Skarmory, Bouffalant, Team Plasma Ball, and N. Skarmory and Bouffalant were added to the English expansion, though Team Plasma Ball was saved for Plasma Freeze. The N alternate print was later released in English as a BW Black Star Promo.
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lostatlimbo wrote:
Actually, it is CC's problem. From a user standpoint, its a bad experience. Consider that many freemiums are brand-new to the site and are checking things out before deciding to pay premium. Not only do the ads give a poor first impression, but there is nothing indicating that a premium account would eliminate the advertisements.
Furthermore, because these ads are purposely created to cause confusion, it appears to new gamers as if the ads are referring to Conquer Club itself. CC is setting themselves up to lose customers who click on these ads and end up joining a completely different game site.
Imagine how this would appear to a new player to the site, sitting just above your game:
Its confusing and misguided and I guarantee its going to bite CC in the ass in the long run.
And as others have noted, re: "slippery slope" - its only a matter of time before the forums are littered with ads as well.
This +1. I signed up for this site and literally as fast as I could click around, see the options, no ads, and maps I pulled out my wallet and bought premium. Before my first game even completed! I signed up for 4 and went "I want much more than that!"
If this was in place back then, there likely would be 1 less premium player today.