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Wendy Vu was inspired at an early age to pursue medicine as a career. Her father was an orderly at the old Cottonwood Hospital in Salt Lake Valley and she began volunteering there the summer after eighth grade. Now she's a third-year medical student at the University of Utah.
Vu's trajectory toward medical school is one that included Salt Lake Community College. In academia, the College is highly regarded for its role in helping well-prepared students transfer to the state's four-year colleges and universities, and thousands of successful students each year follow the transfer path through SLCC.
Wendy Vu
During high school, Vu took concurrent enrollment classes at SLCC. In 2008, she graduated from Taylorsville High School and from SLCC with an associate's degree. "I had all of my general studies requirements taken care of at SLCC, which was a lot cheaper and helped save time when I got to the University of Utah," Vu says. "I was able to focus on the required courses for my major and pre-med track once at the U." Her goal now is a career in pediatrics after she graduates with an MD degree in spring 2017.
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All eight of Utah's public institutions, as well as Brigham Young University and Westminster College, accept SLCC courses numbered 1000 or above as general education, major credit or elective credit. The same holds true for most out-of-state schools.
About 73 percent of students entering SLCC intend to transfer to four-year institutions. Transfer students at SLCC include those with a handful of courses under their belt all the way to those who earn a two-year associate's degree. About 60 percent of those who enroll at SLCC and transfer out, go to the University of Utah. And from 45-48 percent of undergraduate transfer students at the U come from SLCC, and end up in different academic schools throughout the U.
"We absolutely regard Salt Lake Community College as our top feeder institution," says Mary Parker, associate vice president for Enrollment Management at the U. "We do a significant amount of recruitment there." She says the U is increasing its presence at SLCC campuses and focusing on creating more and better pathway programs between SLCC and the U. Access U, for example, guarantees SLCC students admission into the U and a guaranteed scholarship of up to $2,000 upon meeting certain qualifications and graduating from SLCC.
The U and SLCC also are exploring incentives like discounted tuition and priority registration to compel SLCC students to finish an associate degree prior to transfer. Once SLCC students transfer to the U, statistics show that they're succeeding academically and graduating. "They perform very well. The data shows that students coming in from SLCC are performing the same or better than some of our students."
Paving the way
SLCC's internal processes and programs as a transfer institution include articulation agreements with other schools: making sure a course offered at SLCC is the same as or similar enough at another institution to say it will transfer. "We can definitively say that we have worked very hard to ensure that a student who plans their time here can have a great preparatory experience for transferring," says Nate Southerland, SLCC assistant provost of Academic Support. "We have aligned our programs and pathways to as many of our transfer partners as possible."
Breeanna Dahle Gray can attest to that. She learned at Bingham High School in South Jordan about SLCC's biotechnology program and thought it might be something she wanted to do with her life. "I got into the biotech program and fell in love," she says. No, literally, she fell in love — with her husband Mike Gray, whom she met while taking a biotech class at SLCC. She invited nearly every SLCC instructor she had to the wedding. "They felt like family."
Breeanna Dahle Gray
Gray, 25, began taking classes at SLCC's Jordan Campus in the Jordan Applied Technology Center while still in high school. She graduated from Bingham in 2009, earned her associate's degree in 2010 and transferred to Utah Valley University, which she notes also offers night courses at SLCC's Jordan Campus. Now she's working full time in the biotechnology field and steadily moving toward a master's degree in biotechnology at the U.
Making the grade
Southerland says a lot of transfer students could easily start out at a four-year school, but for a variety of reasons they choose SLCC. "It has to do with cost, times classes are offered, the size of classes and where they're offered," he says. Gray can relate. Early on, she signed up for a physics class at the U with 250 students but quickly fell behind. "I was feeling lost—I was terrified," she recalls. Gray needed a smaller class with an instructor who could answer questions during class. She dropped the class and the next semester picked it up at SLCC, this time in a class of about 25 students. "It was really important for me to have the ability to go to the teacher in real time," she says. Gray earned an A in the class.
Kari Walker, 32, once balked at the idea of going to a community college. Now she says she kicks herself for not starting out at SLCC. Walker went to Utah State University, transferred to the University of Utah's Department of Physical Therapy and took prerequisites in physics, chemistry, anatomy and physiology at SLCC. She and several SLCC classmates in Melaney Birdsong Farr's human anatomy class at SLCC applied for and received a grant from the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS), earning them a spot as presenters at the 28th annual HAPS spring conference. "I had research opportunities, amazing opportunities, that U students can't have because they're in such big classrooms," Walker says.
Kari Walker
As a single mother to an 8-year-old daughter, she is still finding her way, and took time off from school this year to pay down student loans. She is considering a path toward education and leadership policy. "Our class sizes allow for students who don't have a firm idea of what they want to do to develop their academic personality," says SLCC Provost for Academic Affairs Clifton Sanders. As an instructor in the past, he often saw ability in students and would pull them aside and advise them on options. "I think that's something we do differently than other institutions."
Starting again
Karen Minchow in 2015 retired after 25 years as a captain, paramedic and firefighter with Salt Lake County and Unified Fire Authority, and knew exactly what she wanted when she enrolled at SLCC. She followed friends' advice to start at SLCC, which she did in 2011 and is currently in the Physician's Assistant program at the U.
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In most situations, building an implantable tissue from a patient's own cells would be ideal because they are compatible with that person's immune system. Realistically, such implants might also face fewer regulatory hurdles because the material is derived from the patient's own body. The ability of normal cells to multiply in culture is limited, however, making it difficult to generate sufficient tissue for an implant. Socalled adult stem cells from the patient's body or from a donor are somewhat more prolific, and they can be isolated from many sources, including blood, bone, muscle, blood vessels, skin, hair follicles, intestine, brain and liver.
Adult stem cells—which occur in adult tissues and are able to give rise to a variety of cell types characteristic of their native tissue—are difficult to identify, however, because they do not look very different from regular cells. Scientists therefore must look for distinctive surface proteins that serve as molecular markers to flag stem cells. The identification of additional markers would make it considerably easier to work with adult stem cells in tissue-engineering applications. Fortunately, over the past few years a number of major advances have been made, including development of novel methods of isolating the cells and inducing them to proliferate and to differentiate into various tissue types in culture.
Notably, Christopher Chen and Dennis Discher, both at the University of Pennsylvania, have demonstrated that mesenchymal stem cells, which are typically derived from muscle, bone or fat, will respond to mechanical cues from their surroundings. They have been shown to endifferentiate into the tissue that most closely resembles the stiffness of the substrate material on which they are growing. Other researchers have also shown that chemical signals from the substrate and surrounding environment are important for directing the differentiation of adult stem cells into one tissue type or another. Scientists disagree, though, about whether adult stem cells are able to give rise to cells outside their own tissue family—for instance, whether a mesenchymal stem cell could generate liver cells.
In contrast to adult stem cells, embryonic stem (ES) cells are easy to expand in culture and can differentiate into all the cell types of the human body. Langer, along with Shulamit Levenberg of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and her colleagues, has demonstrated that ES cells can even be made to differentiate into a desired tissue type right on tissue-engineering scaffolds. This capability suggests the potential to make 3-D tissues on scaffolds directly from differentiating ES cells. These cells do present various challenges, however.
Directing the uniform differentiation of ES cells into the desired cell types is still quite difficult. In attempts to mimic the complex natural microenvironment of ES cells and to optimize their differentiation, investigators are testing many conditions simultaneously to find the right combination of cues from different materials and matrix chemicals. They are also screening various small molecules as well as signaling proteins to identify factors that control "stemness"—the cells' ability to give rise to differentiated progeny while remaining undifferentiated themselves, ready to produce more new cells as needed.
Those insights could also be applied to producing cells with the capabilities of embryonic cells but fewer of the drawbacks. Beyond the difficulties just outlined, scientists are still unable to predict the behavior of transplanted stem cells in patients. Undifferentiated ES cells can form tumors, for instance, creating a risk of cancer if the cells are not all successfully differentiated before transplantation. In addition, researchers have been making efforts to address the ethical issues associated with deriving ES cells from human embryos by exploring approaches to producing ES-like cells from nonembryonic sources.
In the past couple of years remarkable progress has been made in producing ES-like cells from regular adult body tissue, such as skin cells. These altered cells, known as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, are emerging as an exciting alternative to ES cells as a renewable resource for tissue engineering. In 2007 Shiro Yamanaka, then at Kyoto University, and James A. Thomson of the University of Wisconsin–Madison first showed that cells of adult tissue can be transformed to a primitive iPS state by reactivating a number of genetic pathways that are believed to underlie stemness. Reintroducing as few as four master regulatory genes into adult skin cells, for instance, caused the cells to revert to a primitive embryonic cell type. The early experiments used a virus to insert those genes into the cells, a technique that would be too dangerous to use in tissues destined for patients. More recent research has shown that a safer nonviral technique can be adapted to activate the same repertoire of stemness genes and even that activation of just a single regulatory gene may be sufficient. The rapid progress in this area has tissue engineers hopeful that soon a patient's own cells, endowed with ES cell capabilities, could become the ideal material for building tissue constructs. And even as we experiment with these different cell types, tissue engineers are also refining our building methods.
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Greetings, common
mortal, to the home
page of the higher
being known to
humans as PIO!!!
Welcome back, vicious creatures, to my lately restructured virtual spaceship. This site has grown and it is now older, stronger and wiser. Or maybe just older. Yes, you will still find boring details about me, and you will still encounter my superiority complex (which is fully justified by the way, you miserable insect!!) Oh and yes! You'll still find those irritating as ever broken links. So don't worry you'll still feel at home aboard Spaceship Pio.
By the way, if you are a cat-maniac as much as I am, click on the logo here to enter my website dedicated to the domestic furry bundles of mischief. Most of it is under construction, but here you'll find interesting info, including myths involving cats, horoscopes for your cat, and some literature that also is about cats. Have fun reading through.
Aah, where are my manners? You're in my spaceship and I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Electrode and I'm actually a native from Mars. However since you obnoxious nosey creatures sent that Pathfinder Big Brother camera on my planet I had to leave my home, and well, here I am. You get what you deserve, hehe! Anyway humans call me Michael and therefore, if you're human you can call me Michael too, but I'll leave that to you to decide. Some may ask, why the Pio then? Well that's my second name, and since it's relatively uncommon I use it as my homepage user name. You don't like it? It's your problem honey!
By the way, it's also a code name, referring to the Project for an Intelligent Omnologist, which was a genetic experiment conducted by aliens to create the most intelligent and most beautiful and most perfect creature ever. That is me! But now that you know this, I'll have to kill you. Or else just gaze at the image below for 10 seconds and you'll forget everything.
What? You can't remember what you just forgot? That was the whole point of it stoopid!
So, I guess you're still not believing that I'm an alien. Ok, to be really sure go to my Electrode page, and you'll have the proofs you need. But be careful. I don't take any responsibilty for strange visits by the Men in Black which you might get in the next few days. Well, look at the positive side of it. You might appear on the X-Files without knowing it. By the way, this is a site about my race, the famous little green men - not to be missed!!! By the way, we're only green when we have our beauty mask on.
Despite the social prejudice and widespread opinion that aliens love eating cats, I'm one great cat lover, as I already said above. My cats are pampered and they all have their own homepages, so be sure to visit them. They are called Pizza (no I don't think of eating her) and Tybalt. Some other cats used to come frequently to our garden, for example Ginu who was one of the seemingly timidest cats you would probably ever see in your life, and Mozzarella, a white cat who used to spend a lot of her time in our garden when she was pregnant. Unfortunately, however, they will never come back now. Neither shall Fluffy (ok, not a very original name I admit). However the ultimate cat will always be our Amazing Ganni, who went away and never returned.
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eventually you will need glasses.
Going back to the most interesting subject of myself, I would like to say that I am a jack of all trades, even though I barely feel a master of any of them. I like to draw (some say I'm good at it, but they're lying), write poems, play the piano (another thing I pretend to be good at, but I'm not), and occasionally take part in some theatrical activities. At the moment I'm studying Geography and Anthropology at the University of Malta, and I find these two subjects to be very interesting. Other things I am also interested in are Tarot cards, history and art. I'm thrilled at anything which has to do with Ancient Egypt. Oh, and for fellow book worms, I've got my bookshelves online.
You may also want to look at my collection of quotes. If you would like to send me your favourite quotes, mail them to me.
Another hobby of mine which I guess most of you net addicts probably share is chatting! My favourites are ICQ, where my number is 12724510, and MIRC where you may find me as el-Moso. Channels I hang out in are #malta, #maltachat, #maltamad, #tarot, #catchat, #mist-on-a-quiet-lake and #merkabah (which has a very cool bot!)
At this point I don't know what else to say. But if you have to tell me something, just send it to me. Or else write it in my guestbook. - it needs filling. So I'll leave that in your hands.
Got those glasses yet?
At this rate you'll be needing binoculars.
Just take a look at how popular I am.
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WATER RESOURCES - Increasing Specific Capacity Through Well Rehabilitation
The City of Rockford, Illinois, needed to rehabilitate 11 of its 15 base wells due to a loss of specific capacity. For example, Well 42 had lost almost 60% of its capacity. Well 42 was originally constructed by Layne in 1991 to target the Galesville and Mt. Simon Sandstone formations with a total depth of 1,500 feet. The well's original specific capacity was 17.9 gpm per foot of drawdown. Prior to the rehabilitation, the well's specific capacity had dropped to 10.1 gpm per foot of drawdown.
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Blood and Pee
Hi There,
Had my bood pressure measured again today — 160/75. Then I went to the drug store and measured it in the machine. First reading was 154/94, 79bpm pulse. The second reading was 133/71, 78bpm pulse. I have no clue how accurate those things are, or why my blood pressure is so far over the map within just a few minutes. I think the anxiety about having my blood pressure measured may be making my blood pressure go up. Anyhoo, I got for a third reading next week, and if it's still crazy high, my doctor wants me to go on medication. Uhg. I've got one week to learn how to relax.
At least my blood & piss results are looking good. My doctor called them 'beautiful'. I've got no idea what several of these things are, just typing them in as they appear on the printout I got, with my best guesses in brackets.
Test results from April. 23rd 2005 (CR'ed for 3 Months)
Complete Blood Count and Differential
HGB 146 g/L (Hemoglobin)
RBC 4.74 10**12/L (Red Blood Cell)
HCT 0.43 L/L (Hematocrit)
MCV 90 fL (Mean Corpuscular Volume)
MCHC 345 g/L (Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Conc.)
RDW 12.9 % (Red Blood Cell Distribution Width)
PLT 184 10**9/L (Platelets)
WBC 5.6 10**9/L (White Blood Cell Count)
NEUT (42%) 2.4 10**9/L (Neutrophils)
LYMPH (47%) 2.5 10**9/L (Lymphocytes)
MONO (10%) 0.6 10**9/L (Monocytes)
EOS (01%) 0.1 10**9/L (Eosinophils)
BASO (00%) 0.0 10**9/L (Basophils)
Cell Morphology
Alkaline Phosphatase 62 U/L
ALT 15 U/L (Alanine aminotransferase)
Creatinine 88 umol/L
Calculated Glomerular Filtration Rate >60 mL/min/1.73m2
Glucose, Fasting 4.8 mmol/L
Potassium 4.0 mmol/L
Lipid Battery
Cholesterol 2.93 mmol/L
Triglyceride 0.67 mmol/L
HDL Cholesterol 0.94 mmol/L
LDL Cholesterol 1.69 mmol/L
Total Chol/HDL Ratio 3.10
Sodium 145 mmol/L
Urine Test
pH 6.0
Specific Gravity H>1.030
Protein negative
Glucose negative
Ketones negative
Hemoglobin negative
Leukocytes negative
Vitamin B12 504 pmol/L
Ferritin 112 ug/L
TSH 1.77 mU/L
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Chris Hubick / Apr 29 2005
"I've got one week to learn how to relax."
*clicks stopwatch*
🙂 😛
ur father / Apr 30 2005
why would we ever care?
eye care / May 3 2005
i care about aaron's well being.
if you don't, then go somewhere else.
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|Paynesville Press - July 27, 2005
Annie to be staged five times in August
Annie is nine days away, unlike tomorrow, which is - as revealed in one of this popular musical's songs - "only a day away."
Performances of the community production begin on Friday, Aug. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. A matinee is scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 7, at 3 p.m., and other show times are Monday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m.; Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 7:30 p.m.; and Wednesday, Aug. 10, at 7:30 p.m.
A 1970s Broadway show that won the 1977 NY Drama Critics Circle Best Musical, Annie is based on a comic strip from the 1920s. It was made into a Columbia Pictures movie in 1982, and inspired a Disney version in 1999.
In the show, Annie - a bouncy, optimistic 11-year-old who was left on the steps of an orphanage in New York City - runs away in order to search for her parents. Though she is discovered and brought back to the cruel director of the orphanage, Annie is whisked off to the mansion of billionaire Oliver Warbucks.
Annie (Rheanne Zimmerman) stars in the musical bearing her name, which will be performed by 36 community members in August.
Warbucks, who is normally quite self-absorbed, surprises his servants by announcing plans to adopt Annie. When Annie announces her dream to find her real parents, Warbucks aids her in the quest, using his influence with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Along the way, Annie inspires Roosevelt's New Deal that lifts the Great Depression, saves the rest of the orphans, and discovers what a family is.
Over a dozen songs - including "Tomorrow," "Easy Street," "Maybe," "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile," "You Won't be an Orphan for Long," and "Annie" - highlight the show.
The cast of 36 local residents includes Rheanne Zimmerman as Annie and Mike Noonan as Daddy Warbucks. Zimmerman, who hasn't been in choir since sixth grade because she had too many other classes she wanted to take, sings to her chickens to practice the music, she said. Playing the lead role has been interesting, she said, commenting, "I didn't realize how different the character would be from me."
Director Ian Pelton is "very able," according to Noonan, who added that he enjoys seeing the ten orphans work so hard. Though he has not been in a musical for a decade, he said that acting is "kinda like riding a bike...you just get back on."
With its catchy music - that the cast cannot get out of their heads, according to Pelton - the play is quite different than a bike ride in the park. There are "interesting, sort of dark aspects to Annie, even though it's about a cute little girl with red hair," said Pelton. The themes he refers to include the poverty of the depression and a merciless plot to kidnap Annie.
He added that audiences familiar with the spinoff movie may be surprised because some of the songs were replaced by different tunes when Annie went to the big screen.
Tickets for the five performances are $7 for adults and $5 for children 12 years of age and younger. General admission purchases may be made at the door or in advance at Bank of the West, Central Minnesota Federal Credit Union, Farmers and Merchants State Bank, Joel's Family Foods, and Paynesville SuperValu.
Seating in the lower section may be reserved by calling Colleen Pelton at 320-243-7221.
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{recipe} Rizogalo - Greek rice pudding
4 cups milk (I used 1 cup powdered milk and 4 cups water mixed)
1 cup long grain rice (uncooked)
3/4 cup sugar
4 tablespoons butter
1 cinnamon stick (used 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon if you don't have a stick)
3 whole cloves (or use a good pinch of ground cloves) I did this today
3 eggs slightly beaten
In a large saucepan add the rice and about 2 cups water. Bring to the boil (don't stir), then turn down to simmer and place lid on pot. Simmer until rice is almost tender.
Add milk, sugar, butter, cinnamon and cloves and bring back to the simmer. Stir frequently.
When mixture looks thickened, remove cinnamon stick and cloves.
Take about 1/4 cup of hot pudding mixture and add to beaten eggs. Stir and repeat. Then add egg mixture to pot and stir to thicken and mixed thoroughly. This prevents scrambled eggs!
Pour pudding into large serving dish or individual bowls and sprinkle with ground cinnamon.
Let cool and serve warm or chill and serve cold.


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About Us
Coronation Road Dental Surgery has been caring for the people of Southville and the surrounding area for over 100 years providing dental treatment under NHS, Denplan and Private Contracts.
The practice acts as an UN limited partnership and is owned by David Ash and Ian James.
David Ash BDS - Partner GDC 60583
I have been a Partner at Coronation Road Dental Surgery for 22 years and prior to that spent 5 years working in East Grinstead, Sussex.
I live near Cheddar and have four children whose ages range from 21 to 14. In my spare time I walk the dogs, play golf and ride my bike across the Somerset levels. I have a keen interest in our local football club and sports fields, spending a lot of time raising funds for their development and maintenance.
Dentistry is a very rewarding profession and I enjoy the relationships that I and our staff have with our patients. The trust and respect that we have is incredibly precious and makes turning up for work a pleasure.
We have invested heavily in technology and training over the years and as a consequence we are now saving teeth that would otherwise have been extracted.
I enjoy working under levels of magnification and the use of hard/soft tissue lasers which increases the precision of diagnoses and prescribing.
Ian James BDS - Partner GDC 60602
Bachelor Dental Surgery (BDS) 1985
Birmingham University
Diploma Post Graduate Studies (DPDS) 2003
Bristol University
Worked as partner at Coronation Road Dental Surgery since 1990.
Trainer on the South West Post Graduate Vocational Dental Scheme since 1996, involved with the further training of recently qualified young dentists.
Carry out all aspects of dental treatment but with a specialist interest in cosmetic work including tooth whitening, crowns and veneers etc.
Also, special interest in implant dentistry having undertaken 12 months further training 2006-2007 with General Implant Forum training.
Several hundred implant retained teeth provided since 2007.
Member of British Society of oral implantologists.
Committed to further training to improve treatment options for our patients.
Outside of work I enjoy playing golf and am a keen Scuba Diver. I have recently taken up road cycling in order to try to get fitter.
I live with my wife and two children in North Somerset.
Cameron Currie BDS GDC 112792
Cameron graduated from Bristol Dental School in 2007 and began his career here at Coronation Road Dental Surgery as a General Dental Practitioner. Following further study and examination he was awarded Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgeons by the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh in 2011.
In 2013 he successfully completed a two-year diploma in Endodontic Sciences at the world-renowned UCL Eastman Dental Institute. This has allowed Cameron to provide root canal treatment to the highest standards and he accepts referrals from General Dental Practitioners for this service. He continues his studies in this area and is also involved in the teaching of endodontics to both dental students and qualified dentists. In the future, following further training, Cameron plans to apply to be registered as a specialist.
Cameron's practice is limited to endodontics at Coronation Road Dental Surgery
Maria Lopez'Casas BDS GDC 82723
I qualified in Spain in 2000. After working in Spain for 4 years I decided to move to Bristol in 2004 because I wanted to gain experience of working in a completely different system and environment.
I was also interested in undertaking my Post Graduate studies abroad.
I have been practising at Coronation Road Dental Practice since 2004, where I have found a great team, a second family and very friendly patients.
I am especially interested in Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, and this is the reason why, after finishing my Postgraduate Dental Studies at the University of Bristol, I decided to join Warwick University's Master of Science Course in Orthodontics and I am due to complete this in 2012.
I am particularly keen on treating children and the elderly.
Alison Howe (Bristol), MFDS, RCS (Eng). GDC 74311
Alison qualified from Bristol in 1998 and has worked in the area ever since. Earlier in her career she worked full time in the hospital service
In Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and continues to enjoy the surgical side of dentistry to this day.
She has worked at Coronation Road since 2004 and never knows from one day to the next if she will be in the basement or the attic!
Outside of work, Alison is kept busy with her young family who enjoy cycling, swimming and baking together.
Victoria Charles BDS (Bristol) GDC 112985
Victoria qualified from University of Bristol in 2007. She has worked in two Practices in the Bristol area before joining Coronation Road.
In 2012 she achieved a Post graduate Certificate with distinction in Restorative Dentistry at the World renowned UCL Eastman Dental Institute.
This consisted of the latest evidence- based and practical techniques including veneers, crowns and advanced periodontal surgery. She enjoys all aspects of dentistry.
Outside of work, Victoria enjoys a range of sports and is captain of a well established ladies hockey team.
In her spare time she like socialising and cooking for friends.
Millie Baggot GDC 5650
Monika Filipowicz GDC 213251
I qualified as a dental hygienist in 2009 in Krakow, Poland. I have always wanted to move abroad in order to get more varied work experience and decided to move to Cardiff at the beginning of 2010.
I have been working in Coronation Road Dental Surgery since April 2012. I also work in other dental surgeries in Cardiff.
I am very dedicated to my professional development and constantly strive to improve my qualifications through taking various courses for Dental Hygienists.
Creating relationships with patients is also extremely important for me and I always gladly give them my advice on how to take care their teeth and gums.
After work I like to read books, watch movies and love to spend my free time cooking Polish dishes for my friends (bigos and beetroot soup are my specialities). I also love travelling and try to organize a trip every time I have couple of days off, because there are so many beautiful places around the world I haven't seen yet!
Debbie Tanner
Debbie has worked at Coronation Road since 1979, initially as a surgery assistant then receptionist and now as Practice Manager.
Her role involves dealing with all administrative parts of the Practice, dealing with patient enquiries, the Care Quality Commission Policies, ensuring that we are compliant in all aspects, Staff employment and contracts and still finds time to work some sessions in reception.
Out of work, Debbie enjoys shopping for shoes and bags going to the gym and became a nanny in May 2013 for the first time.
Lisa Steel
I joined the practice at 18 and have been part of the 'Coronation Road' team for 16 years.
I started off as a Trainee Dental Nurse under the support and guidance of Ian James and David Ash, and qualified as a Dental Nurse in 1999. I always wanted to further my knowledge and career so in 2001 I sat the Oral Health Educators course to use within the practice. I enjoyed the role as I was able to interact a lot more with patients. My current roles now include Assistant Practice Manager, Head Nurse and Implant Co-ordinator. I enjoy all these roles as it gives me a varied and interesting input to a "week at work at corrie Road" and keeps me focused, and busy in my chosen career.


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Parker's injury is currently being evaluated by Spurs medical staff while the first team squad are on tour in the United States.
Manager Andre Villas-Boas may have to do without Parker, who could also miss games for England, for the start of the new season.
Villas-Boas said, in quotes reported by several national newspapers: "There might be a small tear on his Achilles - we are at the moment evaluating the situation regarding a possible operation that can take four to six weeks normally to heal."
Parker's absence could see him sidelined until September, forcing him to miss Spurs' start to the Barclays Premier League campaign.
Parker could also miss England's friendly against Italy on August 15 and, depending on the operation date and his recovery, the World Cup qualifiers with Moldova (September 7) and Ukraine (September 11).


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text: Stephen Baker is a Melbourne-based graphic artist and illustrator working out of Magic Johnston Art and Design Cultural Complex in Collingwood. His bread and butter is designing prints for various commercial and boutique clothing labels, but with every other spare moment, Baker illustrates, paints, prints and puts together shows. No wonder we like his work so much.


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The ongoing ramblings of the Leader of the Living and his thoughts on Judaism, Israel and politics today. Contact me at email@example.com
Sunday, 20 March 2016
Dear Aaron, Please Shut Up
For example, consider sports interviews. The reporter approaches the star athlete and asks his opinion of his team's chances in the upcoming game. What is the athlete going to say? "Yeah, I think we'll get trashed today because frankly we were out partying late last night and we're just not in shape"? No, it's the usual bromides about getting pumping, taking the opposition seriously and giving it one's all.
Or maybe the politician being interviewed about potential government corruption. You know the standard answers will just flow through, from denial to accusation of the opposition politicians. Just once it would be nice to hear someone say, "Yes, you caught us, we're thieves and we'll do it again next chance we get."
Frankly, Donald Trump's stump speeches could be shorter to. All he really needs to do is stand up and say someone outrageous like "All Mexicans suck!" or "All women are sluts!" and then leave the stage. His longer addresses are just variations on that.
Finally there's the example given by the Satmar Rebbes, the latest one being Aaron during a visit to Israel. As usual he had only complaints for his hosts while accusing them of all sorts of crimes and plots against religious life in the State. Settlers are bad. The army is bad. The State is evil and a rebellion against God. Honestly, does he not have anything original to say?
In the lead up to Purim you'd think a religious leader of his stature would try something new. How about kindness to your fellow Jew regardless of his religious position or lack of one? Is that not in the Satmar playbook? How about reaching out to the hated Zionists and trying to influence them positively? Did his predecessor not leave him instructions on how to do that? How about something other than the predictable broadsides against people who, frankly, don't give a damn about what he has to say (and not just because they don't speak Yiddish)?
When we get to the end of the Purim story there is a little clue thrown into it as to how Mordechai's success sat with his confreres. It says that he was popular with rov echav, most of his brethren. Chazal tell us that this means there were those Jews who thought, even after all that had happened, that Mordechai had handled things poorly, that had he just sat and prayed and learned hard enough things would have worked out. We know the value of their opinion since we don't remember their names when it comes to this holiday but it does go to show that there have always been those who think that they have some kind of unique connection or ruach hakodesh that makes them smarter than everyone else and therefore entitled to criticize their perceived inferiors. This Satmar seems to be one of those.
But just as Mordechai's critics were lost to history, so too unconstructive critics of the State will probably disappear into the mists of time. Best not to pay too much attention to them now either.
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- Mr. Cohen said...
Orchot Tzadikim, Shaar HaShtikah, (21st Chapter):
"According to the Sages, most of the world's
[permitted] talk is unnecessary."
CHRONOLOGY: Orchot Tzadikim was written in Yiddish around year 1542 of the Common Era; the first known Hebrew edition appeared in 1581 in Prague.
"According to the original law of Mohammed, there are no innocent civilians.
Radical Islamists consider all people — in or out of military uniform — who do not believe in the original Islam of Mohammed, to be the enemy, until they convert or are subjected to Islamic law."
SOURCE: They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It (Introduction Chapter, page 3) by Brigitte Gabriel, year 2008, year 2010, St. Martin's Press, 288 pages, ISBN 0312571283, ISBN 9780312571283.
MICROBIOGRAPHY: Brigitte Gabriel, the author of They Must Be Stopped, is a Christian Arab, born in Lebanon. Arabic is her native language.
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- 20 March 2016 at 08:18
Because of their isolationism you tend to forget how numerous Satmar is, and will only grow more numerous and proportionally important In the American Jewish world. What this may bring, who knows....
- 20 March 2016 at 14:58
- Mr. Cohen said...
New True Kiddush HaShem Story:
- 20 March 2016 at 20:32
Mr Cohen, you are the epitomy of a troll. It's amazing that there are still blogs which haven't set your comments to automatically go to spam. Why don't you just start your own blog to espouse your nonsensical drivel instead of spamming everyone else?
- 21 March 2016 at 00:54
- Garnel Ironheart said...
Anonymous, I'm not bothered by him. He strongly believes in his cause and wishes to share it. He's not abusive, just persistent. No harm in that.
- 21 March 2016 at 08:52
How can someone try to be a constructive critic of the State if, based on his religious beliefs, he regards the secular state itself as inherently illegitimate? Should he ask the State's officials, employees, and other party leaders to resign or go on unpaid leave? Should he try to convince them or the voters to accept nothing short of the Geulah Sheleimah?
- 21 March 2016 at 14:17


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I've not been well over the last week or so. I think it's been a combination of factors which have built up. Work has been chaos of late, everyone aiming for a big deadline at the end of September. Things never calmed down after though, with long hours and time away from home again in October. Even the Monday after the BB200, which was planned to be an easy workday, had me on site until six, in the office til 8:30 pm and not home until 9. The whole week after the BB200 was stressful, long days and I was exhausted. There was no light at the end of the tunnel workwise, and there still isn't. I should have booked a couple of days off in restrospect, not so much for the physical recovery, but to deal with the mental side of coming down after an event which has been the focus of riding for a few months or so. Especially when I am still carrying pretty major disappointment in how I handled the time-trial nature of the event. I think I was sent over the edge by a trip to the Forest of Dean the following weekend, which compounded the frustration at my inability to race without massive anxiety, and I found myself getting stressed and tight chested just being in the environment, even though I had absolutely no plans to race whatsoever. Stupid, of course. Sat here typing this, my logical brain understands that it has become programmed behaviour and that I just need to find the right approach to deal with it. However, emotional inner chimp brain shouts and screams an awful lot louder..... "failure, failure when you do race, failure when you don't and to top it off, failure even when you are stood watching others". I might be vegan, but quite often I want to shoot the little bastard chimp right between the eyes.
So after a week of some pretty dark dark places in my head, exhausted, aching joints and dizziness, and realising I probably had a bit of cold compounding the nervous burnout, I had to rethink plans for this weekend. it was the one chance I had to complete a hilly 200 and keep the RRTY and AAARTY going for October. I really didn't want to just let the RRTY go, even knowing it was a risk to ride after feeling so ill. Chronic fatigue is not something to be messed with. However, with just two months to go until the end, it would be such a shame to call it quits, especially after getting through earlier in the year with a broken arm thanks to the help of the amazing Steve Abraham. Maybe, I could let the AAARTY slip if I had to, and there may be, if I am well, a chance to squeeze in a little 50 km hilly loop before the 31st October.
Plans were redrawn, a flattish 200 km (1900 meters elevation compared to my normal 3200 - 3700 meters) on a bike loaded with a Jetboil, and a massive amount of food. I made promises to myself: I would make sure I didn't get out of breath, I would stop every 50 kms to drink tea and eat proper food and I would take my time. The worst case would be a DNF and getting collected by Steve, and that wouldn't be so bad, at least I would have tried. The weather looked stable. It should be a lovely easy tour of the flatter bits of the Cotswolds and North Worcestershire. I knew it was a risk, but figured I know my body well enough to make sensible decisions.
In the end, it was a really pleasant trip. Pleasant verging on sedate I guess. I am not used to this kind of audax trundle and it felt very relaxed.
The 8 am skies were misty and it was with a proper autumn chill in the air. For once in my life I hadn't brought too much extra clothing and I pondered whether I would suffer later in the day, what with my plans to run the clock to full-value.
Mostly though, I didn't really think about anything much for long. Just happy to be on tiny lanes with the muted morning colours whizzing by.
With my definite plans to stop and eat properly every 50 kms, I didn't use the top tube bag for the normal eat-whilst-moving junk (I rarely stop properly on a 200, and mostly eat on the move), but instead it held the little camera. It was always available to whip out and take photos on the fly. Above is Mythe Bridge, a real audax landmark if you regularly ride Mr Blacksheep's events from Tewkesbury.
Tewkesbury also has a fantastic tarmac cycle route, traffic free and with only a handful of dog walkers at that time in the morning.
I had the embarrassment of overtaking a tractor on the flat somewhere East of Tewkesbury, only to immediately come to a gradual climb, for which I had neither the head or heart to smash and hold my position in front. The driver was not impressed to overtake me on the hill so the next time I caught him, I followed lazily until he turned off to the ploughing competition being held that morning. Oh, the joys of rural life!
I do love this little road bike. The bar bag held the Jetboil and I found the rattle and clonking of it nicely reassuring, and a reminder that I was out to tour, not get round by pounding pedals. I am just grateful that, even when I am unwell, I am fit enough to be able to comfortably tour a 200 km loop in a day.
Beautiful rose hips really showing their colour against the grey skies.
I was feeling alright at the first tea stop, although pleased I had made a deal with myself in advance to ensure I did actually stop. It felt like proper TLC for the world-weary to sit and drink Earl Grey on a beautiful historic stone bridge.
I took more pictures as I rolled through the scenery, guessing what secrets walled gardens hid. Topiary? Rows of neat veggies? Mulched beds put to sleep for the winter? A massive pump track with BMX doubles and a start ramp? Who knows.
There were a lot of roadworks, endless trenches, lorries, workmen, traffic lights with poor sensors and diversions, but luckily the few closures I saw were passable to cyclists. I don't mind waiting at red lights, it resets my rhythm and let's me look around properly for a while.
Churches blurred in large number. How strange now to think, at one time, these buildings would have been the absolute centre of the community, with the vast majority of people attending every week, week on week, their marriages, christenings, funerals all contained in their small villages. Was the enforced community spirit of that time an improvement, or was it just a cover for people living unfulfilled difficult lives in marriages which made them unhappy, with husbands that beat them, with diseases of which no-one talked and which were incurable? We romanticise the past, but I am not sure it was any better.
This is what happens when I am left without climbs to focus the mind, I often fall into pondering the universe instead. Still, the sun started to break through the mists, which lightened my thoughts and warmed my soul.
More beautiful autumn colours on another barely-driven, barely maintained, lane. Little hidden gems of peace in the middle of the midland hubbub.
A new bridge
The old bridge
A strange route over an unused crossing, quite fascinating to see. It's one of the things I love about audax, covering vast distances and seeing parts of the country you would never see otherwise. I doubt I will ever visit this place again, but I am so glad I got to see it before my time is up.
By the 100 km mark it was time for another stop, but first I needed to find water. Determined not to spend any money, especially on water, I started looking for potential refill sites and saw a sign for some kind of event. What an event it was, the beginnings of a weekend reenactment with lance-carrying knights and women in full medieval dress. The volunteers were happy for me to fill up from a standpipe and I left most enraptured by the efforts people go to following the thing that they love.
Before stopping, I crossed a few areas of sweeping hedgeless landscape. A reminder of the Fens, with big skies making me decidedly small and unimportant, in a good way.
One day I shall see the epic vastness of America. But for now, this will have to do.
Trundling along and happy to be overtaken by streamlined roadies in lycra, a banana in one pocket and a CO2 inflator in the other. I was just grateful to be out.
The sun properly showed his face at lunchtime, warming the tarmac, and my bare arms as I rolled up coat-sleeves.
For the second stop, I had hoped for a nice little village bench beneath an autumnal tree, and sure enough found one.
I didn't mind, it was just nice to see the orange leaves against the blue. If only every day could be so beautiful....but then, it would become the norm and we would become nonchalant to it.
Autumn never fails to take me back to some of the good times of my childhood. Fond memories of kicking around leaves, collecting acorns, chestnuts, beechnuts. Art classes trying to replicate the beauty of it all. Such a transient season, but that's what makes it so special.
Even the ladybirds were autumn coloured
The blue skies stayed for a while and I was grateful for the warmth. Past the halfway turn I began to ache and fever, but the sun kept the chills at bay.
A small cycle route turned out to be a mini-off road adventure, livening up the tedium of a tarmac B road considerably.
I liked it. I'm not sure all road riders would.
There were loads of selfies taken, although barely any made it past the 'not looking like death warmed up' vanity filter.
Another bridge. These little pieces of engineering to which we pay little heed, yet imagine, for a minute, a world without them.
It felt like autumn was increasing every minute of the day, leaves turning as I drifted past, watching them fall and trying to guess the wind direction from their path.
Fields of winter cabbage, or maybe spring greens, so dark compared to the fading verges.
A world without bridges, it would mean a lot of wet feet for a start....
Luckily this ford had a tiny ancient footbridge, and a perfectly placed picnic table to watch the cars splash through, meet a gorgeous puppy, and boil up my final cup of tea.
A really ancient feeling bridge
Protected from the wonders of modern technology, aka unruly floating cars, by nothing more than a bit of rope.
After the final stop, the last part of the journey was beneath threatening black skies
Luckily the rain held off and I stayed dry, as the late afternoon set in and the mists gradually began to build again.
For half an hour I played the 'do I stop and put lights on yet' game until I realised how stupid this was, it wasn't like I had hours of riding left to do, there was no need to preserve batteries and the extra energy pushing an engaged dynamo hub was minuscule compared to carrying around a day's worth of food and a stove on the bike.
I thought I knew all the lanes within 20 miles of home, but I found yet another, barely surfaced, hidden track. Another place I have never been before.
Those moody skies weighed heavy over the orchards of Clive's Fruit Farm, as my legs weighed heavy on the pedals. I had been in denial for 190 kms, but I knew I had one almighty climb coming up, and I knew I was going to suffer. The cold feverish feeling was worsening and I was definitely not well.
I reassured myself I had a granny gear and I just had to spin steadily up and over the ridgeline as the hills came into view.
Until I realised which way google had routed me. That will teach me for not checking over the GPX files. Old Wyche Road. A tough climb on a good day, but on a partially loaded bike when feeling unwell, it was too much to ask. I was briefly tempted to claim 'I couldn't go up the Old Wyche Road as it's one way', and ride the easy route up the steady gradient of the main road, but I knew in my heart that would be a lie. I knew, if I wasn't ill, I would have grunted my way up there, contraflow. I knew I had drawn up the mandatory DIY route so there was only one thing to do, ride as much as possible and push when my legs gave in. Any other option would be cheating. My head gave out much sooner than the legs, and it was a few minutes of walking to reach the top.
For once I couldn't have cared less about a failure on a climb. I was just grateful. Grateful to be at the top knowing it was all downhill to home. Grateful to have got through the October 200 and to know I have 5 weeks to recover before I need to be thinking about another 200 for the November RRTY, and grateful that, even on a day when I am really unwell, I can still comfortably trundle around a 200, have three significant stops, and be home before dark.
The whole day was topped off when I passed through the Wyche Cutting to be greeted by the most magnificent sunset over Herefordshire. I stopped, sat and stared, knowing I had 3+ hours in hand to make the last 2 miles downhill to home. There was no rush. Time to cool off my overheating forhead in the northerly breeze, time to take photos of sunlit dandelion clocks and time to chat to a local lady about our overwhelming fortune to live in such a beautiful location.


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Tuesday was Rooster Heaven day. Six of them went to that big hen house in the sky. Since they were older birds we didn't bother plucking them. We just skinned them out and processed them.
I think they knew their number was up. One of them tried to make a break for it while our backs were turned. Unfortunately, he made the mistake of returning to the chicken yard where he was quickly apprehended.
Such is the life of a senior rooster. The hens fare much better. A lot of homesteaders butcher their hens after their second year, but ours were such good layers, I saw no reason not to keep them. They already know the routine and I enjoy their company. --the roosters, not so much.
We'll be phasing out the black Australorp. They're great chickens and prolific layers, but they're too light for meat birds and we need birds to serve double duty. I recommend them if you're looking for lots of eggs though. They lay more than twice what the buff Orpingtons can produce.
The Americaunas have great personalities and are nice, practical birds. They're very inquisitive and self-sufficient. If they see there's no more feed being handed out, they'll go out in the woods and fend for themselves. When it's time to come in, they're the first ones back in the hen house.
The buff Orpingtons are the heaviest birds and the poorest layers, but they're such good-natured rascals. They don't hesitate to follow me into the feed room to see if I dropped anything. Of the three breeds they're also the brightest. If there's a way to steal a few extra kernels of corn, they'll find it.
We're making headway on the 'goat pen from hell'. It's almost done. But we still need to build a house for them. Since Greg's time here is limited, it looks like the goats will have to wait until next spring. I'd rather not over-winter young goats, especially since we're still new to goat raising.
My other wish is to raise a hog for meat. We've raised them in the past and the taste is incredible. Once you've had farm-raised pork, nothing else can compare.
We've had so many problems getting the goat pen done I figured I'd wait a while before I spring the idea of raising a pig to Greg. And I haven't even mentioned the fish pond yet. :grin: I don't want to stress him out before his time.
It's all part of my five year plan, which includes
• goats
• chickens
• fish
• pig
• extend the garden
• pipe water to animals and secondary garden
• invest in solar and/or wind power
• and oh, yes...write more books.
What's on your five-year plan?
Note: Don't give up on me followers and fellow campaigners. I should be caught up by Thursday so I can pay you all a visit.


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City of Harrisonburg Bicycle Plan
The City of Harrisonburg first adopted a Bicycle Plan in 1994, and after several updates, combined its Bicycle and Pedestrian Plans into one Plan in 2010. The City's Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan provides a framework for developing and implementing bicycle and pedestrian transportation in the City of Harrisonburg. Due in no small part to the hard work of SVBC members, City Council adopted the latest Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan in 2010. Read the Plan and more from the City here.
SVBC is working hard alongside the City of Harrisonburg to implement this plan.
In 2010, again thanks in large part to SVBC members, the City of Harrisonburg established a Bicycle and Pedestrian Subcommittee, following City Council action to formally add bicycle and pedestrian matters as an additional area of responsibility of the Transportation Safety & Advisory Commission. Several members of the Coalition sit on this sub-committee.
In 2011, Harrisonburg was designated a Bronze Level Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists.
A few of many SVBC Advocacy Successes:
Bluestone Trail
- SVBC members worked in partnership with City of Harrisonburg staff to develop a preliminary alignment of this trail, which was used to apply for initial grant funding and to gain the support and endorsement of City Council. The Bluestone Trail will be a 10-ft wide shared-use path that will connect Port Republic Road and Hillside Avenue (the entrance of James Madison University), Purcell Park and the Purcell Park Neighborhood, RMH Wellness Center, Ramblewood Park and surrounding neighborhoods, and points south near Pleasant Valley Road. The Trail will be hard surfaced for transportation and recreational use by walkers, joggers, bicyclists, etc. See here for more information.
Bike Rack Grants
- In 2011, SVBC offered its first bike-rack grants to local businesses. This year, 2013, we will offer a second set of bike-rack grants. Stay tuned!
Main St. Bike Lanes
- The first phase of the Main Street bike lanes were painted in August 2010. This was also the first project completed as part of the new 2010 Harrisonburg Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan. This first phase of the Main Street bike lanes go from Miller Circle to Cantrell Avenue. Since then, bike lanes have extended south on Main Street to Mosby Road. In the near future SVBC hopes to work with the City to extend the Main Street bike lanes further North and South.
Rockingham Drive Path
- This is the first piece of the EMU to Downtown connector. The path helps folks navigate from Graystone Drive to Dogwood Drive without having to travel on Chicago Ave. This path was finished in the spring of 2007.
Port Republic bike facilities
- Being part of the planning process for the Port Republic Road expansion was vital to making sure VDOT and the City of Harrisonburg included bicycle facilities to the City's eastern limit and into Rockingham County. The three phases of the Port Republic Road improvement project was completed in 2010 and includes bike lanes between Forest Hills Drive to Neff Avenue/Peach Grove Avenue and a shared use path from Neff Avenue/Peach Grove Avenue to the eastern city limit.
Design, Implementation and Construction of the Rocktown Trails
- One of SVBC's great successes is the construction and continued maintenance and development of the "Rocktown Trails" at Hillandale Park. This 3.5 mile (and growing) multi-user off-road trail system is a hit with all levels of mountain bikers, trail runners and hikers. Visit the City Park website and SVBC Hillandale Trail Page for more information.
Arboretum Multi-User Path
- Working with James Madison University, the City of Harrisonburg and Stone Gate Apartments, SVBC pushed and helped get this ½ path open to bikes. This path is a vital connector for JMU students and local citizens connecting Neff Avenue to University Boulevard. The path was finished to Neff Ave in the summer of 2008.
Westover Path
- SVBC believes every neighborhood should be safely connected to a local park, and the Westover Path provides this safe connection. At the end of Elmwood Drive this path connects the Dogwood neighborhood to Westover Park without having to get on Dogwood Drive.
Safer Railroad Track Crossing on South Main Street and Country Club Road
- SVBC worked with the Norfolk Southern RR Company and the City of Harrisonburg to create a safer crossing over the two most dangerous RR track crossings in the City of Harrisonburg. The project was completed in the fall of 2009.
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The registry contains information about a wide range of South African archival and memory institutions and organisations, and international collections that hold material related to Southern Africa.
The Free State Provincial Archives and Records Service
The Free State Provincial Archives in Bloemfontein, is currently administered as a Directorate in the Chief Directorate of the Library and Archives Services Programme in the Free State Department of Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation.
Fractal: Contemporary Arts Forum
Fractal is an ad hoc committee of the Friends of Oliewenhuis Art Museum, consisting of 3 â 10 executive members. It originated as a result of younger artists finding it increasingly difficult to make a living from the arts. The idea developed to try to promote the arts among the young people of Bloemfontein, and to involve them in productions, workshops and exhibitions.
One of our aims is to educate the general public and thus awake in them the desire to preserve our national art museums. A love among the people for art is an investment for art in the future. In the process members are also gained for the Friends of Oliewenhuis Art Museum.
Parys Museum
The Parys Museum houses hundreds of historic photos, documents and exhibits revealing the early days in Parys. Our building is also an attraction. It was erected in 1904 and built in the architectural style of the short 'Orange River Colony' period. Previous Tenants have included the Council, Barclays Bank, the Oranje Vroue Vereniging and the Municipal Clinic and Health Department.
Restoration of the building began in 1981 and was completed in 1982. The Museum opened in March 1983 and the building was declared a National Monument in May 1986.
The Museum was closed for a period of time but was reopened in 2010 after a dramatic effort by the local community led by the new curator Iris Andrew. Individuals and businesses contributed generously to the cause.
The museum can be visited from Monday to Friday between 09h00 and 16h00 and Saturdays from 09h00 to 13h00.
Free State Provincial Archives Repository Bloemfontein
The Free State Provincial Archives Repository in Bloemfontein, is currently administered as a Directorate in the Chief Directorate of the Library and Archives Services Programme in the Free State Department of Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation.
Sandstone Heritage Trust
The Sandstone Heritage Trust is a private preservation initiative established on a commercial farm in the Eastern Free State in South Africa. They consider themselves not as a museum; but rather as a private collection of Heritage items on a commercial farm and the staff do their best to keep everything in tip-top condition and to show visitors around as appropriate.
Aksie Heilbron
Aksie Heilbron is a local heritage organisation affiliated to Heritage South Africa (the oldest and largest organisation involved in heritage preservation in South Africa). It is involved in various heritage related activities in and around Heilbron.
Encyclopaedia of South African Arts and Culture (ESAAC)
The Encyclopaedia of South African Arts and Culture (ESAAC) aims to provide South Africans and others interested in the field comprehensive reference material to understanding (a) aspects of South African arts and culture from antiquity to the present, and (b) the rich cultural diversity characteristic of South African society.
Anglo-Boer War Museum
The Anglo-Boer War Museum in Bloemfontein does not only give the visitor insight into the Boer War through it`s unique art collection, dioramas and exhibits but also brings the visitor closer to understanding the background against which the war took place.
Florisbad Quaternary Research Station
Florisbad is a fossil-bearing spring mound situated 45 km northwest of Bloemfontein in the central Free State Province.
National Museum, Bloemfontein
The National Museum in Bloemfontein dates back to 1877, when its collections and displays comprised mainly rarities from around the world. Since then the Museum has developed into an institution of international stature, focusing on natural history, cultural history and art.
Wagon Museum
The Wagon Museum houses a collection of historical wagons and carriages, such as a spring wagon, Voortrekker ox wagon, transport wagon, stagecoach, mule wagon, spider and Cape cart.
First Raadsaal Museum
The First Raadsaal, the oldest remaining building in Bloemfontein, is a satellite museum of the National Museum, Bloemfontein. The history of the establishment of the Free State is exhibited / depicted here.
Freshford House Museum
The Freshford House Museum is one of the few houses of the upper middle class of the Edwardian Period that still exists in Bloemfontein.
Oliewenhuis Art Museum
Oliewenhuis Art Museum is housed in a Neo-Dutch style mansion, completed in 1941, which served as residence for the Governor General of the Union of South Africa.
Archive of Contemporary Affairs (ARCA)
The Archive of Contemporary Affairs (ARCA) is responsible for the collection, safekeeping, arrangement and description of archivalia and for making it accessible to researchers. At present the Archive houses 957 private document collections, covering approximately 3 500m of shelving space. This includes collections from economists, politicians, churches and cultural and community leaders.
Morija Archives
The Morija Archives: is housed at the Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa, University of the Free State. hosts a unique collection assembled by missionnaries since late 19th century, that forms part of the unique history of the Basotho nation. It covers colonial records, missionnary registers, ancient newspapers and valuable material in French as well as German and many African languages including of course Sesotho.
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) was established in November 1956 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church to provide humanitarian relief and welfare. Originally called Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service or SAWS, the name was changed to Seventh-day Adventist World Service in 1973.
ADRA was registered in South Africa in August 2000 incorporating the rich history of Adventist Community Services (ACS) which operated since 1973, and Meals on Wheels which operated in South Africa since 1964, and other community programmes like Love in Action and dorcas societies. ADRA South Africa now benefits from the global ADRA network as well as from the rich local history of the community service of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Africa.
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I was inspired by a picture I saw on the beautiful Style Me Pretty site - here is a link to this photo shoot with beautiful natural elements used for this wedding (http://www.stylemepretty.com/2011/02/25/love-bird-photo-shoot-by-amy-majors-photography/)
It looks like they actually dipped the LOVE BIRDS letters in bird seed and it's so cute...
Here are some new frames just listed in my Etsy Shop!
Here is a piece I just finished, may go in Greystone this weekend, will let you know!
I met Sarah Beth when I had my shop and she has been a great customer and I wanted to let you know that her and her husband are starting an online auction this weekend to support their adoption process for their child in Ethiopia. If you have a chance, I hope you will check out their auction - they have lots of great items available!http://eadyadoption.org/online-auction/


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Free agency doesn't get underway for another month, but Raiders left tackle Jared Veldheer is troubled by the slow pace of talks with the Raiders about a new contract.
Veldheer can become a free agent next month and has said that he wants to remain in Oakland. The team has sent the same message, but Veldheer said on 95.7 The Game that "a little bit of urgency from the other side would be nice" when it comes to actual discussions about a deal that would keep Veldheer in a Raiders uniform.
"It's tough when that kind of stuff happens, because it goes against everything that's been said about being a cornerstone of the team that [they're] going to build around," Veldheer said, via CSNBayArea.com. "It doesn't back up those words with the right action. Right now it's kind of, not at a stand still, but there's not a lot happening. I think that we need to move things on a little quicker. There isn't enough urgency, to put it in a football term."
Whatever the pace right now, it's hard to believe that the Raiders will let Veldheer get away. There's plenty of cap space to keep Veldheer, even if the Raiders have to wind up using the franchise tag to assure he remains in Oakland while the clock keeps running on their chance to reach a long-term extension.


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I have error "Can't find variable: fixinputs" after signing up and nothing works after it.
Also it is said now that "Your Platlform version is not compatible" - I have version 10.0.105.0
I would like to integrate this chat to our project so will appreciate any help on this issue:)
Thank you
Hello Mykola,
That first issue happens because SILK was upgraded and there are a few things that need to be changed on the application.
The second issue happens because this application it's in version 10.0.0.310.
In the next days, a new ShoutSystems version will be published with those issues fixed.
Thank you for your reply Magda,
looking forward for an update
Shoutsystems was updated.
Let me know if you have any question.
Thank you for being so quick - it is all working now!
I'm getting this error with an App (not ShoutSystems) I migrated from EAP10 server 10.0.0.308 to a Personal Environment on Server 10.0.105.0. What are the steps to fix the error?
Hi Gavin,Please check if you have the latest Silk Mobile version (if not, update it).Refresh your application references and layout blocks, and everything should work.Let me know if you have any more questions.PS: Is that an OutSystems featured app?Regards
Hi Francisco,
I already have the latest version (1.0.1) and had refreshed my references.No it's not an OS Featured app, it's a custom application. It was on an EAP platform running 10.0.0.308, I downloaded the oap and installed it in a new personal environment running 10.0.105.0
I've now copied the layout & menu webblocks over from a new 'clean' application and it seems to have fixed the issue but I'm a bit concerned about what else has changed in the new template.Regards,Gavin
I'm not sure if we have a list of what needs to be changed.If you really want to take advantage of all the latest blocks i would advise you to create a new application, copy everything (blocks and actions) and then add your logic, one by one. Otherwise i would at least recommend you look at layout and menu, like you already did, but also the offline block if it is important for your application. (It changed a lot)Regards


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London 2012 – Olympics? Worlds End? NOW Twitter?
An announcement was made today by Twitter to say that they have indeed selected London for the company's European HQ. London just winning over Dublin. Katie Jacob Stanton, who is Twitter's head of international strategy will be leading the London Office which they are hoping to open at the beginning of 2012. Apparently there are scouts looking at property's in West and East London. How can we cope with all the goings on for next year, first the world is going to end, then the Olympics now this! Earlier we saw this tweet from @KatieS This tweet has now however disappeared so I'm assuming they had a a few too many applications, although the link is still active. Good luck if you have applied for any of these Jobs, competition must be as fierce as lion hunting its prey!


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A new comedy is to be premiered in the High Peak.
Kind Hearts, Norman Blood will be hosted at the Green Man Gallery, Buxton tonight (Thursday, October 1) at 7.30pm.
The play has been written by Monyash resident Simon Corble. He was co-creator of the stage version of The 39 Steps stage show which ended a nine-year run in London's West End last month after winning "Best New Comedy" at the Olivier Awards in 2007, as well as a Tony on Broadway; it is still running in New York.
"Kind Hearts, Norman Blood will not be going straight to the West End," said Simon, "nothing does these days. It took The 39 Steps ten years from our producing the show in a tiny North Yorkshire theatre to it becoming an international success story, but I feel it in my bones that we are on to a winner with this one."
The performance at The Green Man Gallery is to be a "script-in-hand" - one step up from a reading and not a full production, though the producing company, found THEATRE, are promising sound effects, lighting and bits of costume and furniture.
Tickets £5, to enquire about availability call (01298 937735) or email: hello@ thegreenmangallery.com


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Graduating from Wimbledon College of Art in 2014, Mia Wilkinson now resides her practice in East London.
Obtaining inspiration from explicit niche-fetish online forums and social media accounts, Wilkinson uses the extreme body types explored and juxtaposes the female figures alongside one another in an aggressive, but playful and tangible narrative. Currently taking her sources from the bodies of female bodybuilders and SSBBW or squashers – a term used to describe a very overweight woman who are paid to eat or physically sit on a person for their own desires or sexual gratification – Wilkinson paints the women with a dark humour, underlying serious social issues within a media culture. From the classical female nude in art history, to issues of gender hierarchies within the Western world; ideas surrounding the use of the body and how modern society values and manipulates it are prominent ideas from Wilkinson's paintings.
The women Wilkinson paint are ambiguous as well as androgynous to the viewer, uncertain of their sexual objectives or gender, yet both forms are using the identity of their bodies as a commodity, something of vital relevance to Wilkinson's practise. The process of depicting the women begins with finding masses of imagery from Internet sites and collating body parts together. Line drawings are made of the collages and a composition of the background starts to emerge. Painting in oils, the canvas is primed a garish neon pink and the loopy, visceral paint brings life to the flesh with intense immediacy. Elements of the figures are scratched into or physically removed from the pallette, creating provocative censors. Genitalia and lips can be often seen as a gestural neon shadow, creating a wandering eye of something society sees as taboo. In a way this reflects the fact the the more Taboo something is, the more intriguing and provocative it becomes.
Solo Exhibitions:
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For German readers: some thoughts and notes and quotes on the music I'm listening - to be found on my new blog:
Also check out the great new, independent magazine get happy!?, reporting on music, movies and more:
Friday, April 02, 2010
Harry Carney Centennial Celebration (2/5)
Harry Carney – Centennial Celebration
Boston, Massachusets, April 1, 1910 – New York, October 14, 1974
The second volume continues the great small group sessions from the 1940s, including Carney's own H.R.S. session. He composed "Chili Con Carney" for Sandy Williams' session for the same label, and he was featured on a magnificient "Why Was I Born" on the Wax session with Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Jones, Lawrence Brown and Billy Strayhorn.
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- ubu said...
Discography - CD2/63:12
November 5, 1945 – Sandy Williams' Big Eight
New York City – HRS
Joe Thomas (tp), Sandy Williams (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Harry Carney
(bari), Jimmy Jones (p), Brick Fleagle (g), Sid Weiss (b), Shelly Manne (d)
Moutain Air (Tab Smith-Edmund Anderson) 3:03
Sumpin' Jumpin' Round Here (Brick Fleagle) 3:00
After Hours on Dream Street (Brick Fleagle) 3:20
Chili Con Carney (Harry Carney) 2:38
November 21, 1945 – Jimmy Hamilton and the Duke's Men
WOR Studios, New York City – Blue Note
Ray Nance (tp), Henderson Chambers (tb), Jimmy Hamilton (cl), Otto
Hardwicke (as,cl), Harry Carney (bari,cl), Jimmy Jones (p), Oscar
Pettiford (b), Sid Catlett (d)
Old Uncle Bud (Otto Hardwick-M. Jefferson) 2:59
Blues for Clarinet (Jimmy Hamilton) 4:19
Slapstick (Jimmy Hamilton) 4:07
Blues in My Music Room (Jimmy Hamilton) 3:10
Note: on Blues for Clarinet, Carney plays (cl) during the theme, but
(bari) in solo
January 10, 1946 – Jimmy Jones' Big Eight
New York City – HRS
Joe Thomas (tp), Lawrence Brown (tb), Otto Hardwick (as), Ted Nash (ts),
Harry Carney (bari), Jimmy Jones (p), Billy Taylor (b), Shelly Manne (d)
Old Juice on the Loose (Harry Carney) 3:12
Departure from Dixie (Harry Carney) 3:03
A Woman's Got a Right to Change Her Mind (Irene & J.C. Higginbotham) 3:27
Muddy Miss (Brick Fleagle) 3:05
March 18, 1946 – Harry Carney's Big Eight
New York City – HRS
Joe Thomas (tp), Lawrence Brown (tb), Otto Hardwick (as), Ted Nash (ts,cl),
Harry Carney (bari,bcl), Jimmy Jones (p), Billy Taylor (b), Jimmy Crawford
Minor Mirage (Jimmy Jones) 2:43
Jamaica Rumble (Harry Carney) 2:38
Shadowy Sounds (alternate take) (Jimmy Jones) 3:42
Shadowy Sounds (Jimmy Jones) 2:45
Candy Cane (Harry Carney) 3:13
1947 – Johnny Hodges / Jimmy Jones / Harry Carney / Lawrence Brown
New York – Wax
Lawrence Brown (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Harry Carney (bari), Jimmy Jones
(p), Billy Taylor (b), Billy Strayhorn (d)
Key Largo (Benny Carter) 2:38
same date & location
Lawrence Brown (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Harry Carney (bari), Billy
Strayhorn (p), Billy Taylor (b), unknown (d)
Why Was I Born (Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II) 3:12
Triple Play (Billy Strayhorn) 2:38
- April 02, 2010 10:17 am
- ubu said...
Get the music here, here, and here
I forgot to say: these are all tagged FLAC files, but you can also get cover art (self-made, hope there aren't too many typos there) here
- April 02, 2010 10:26 am
- BlueNote97 said...
I congratulate you. This is a labour of love and justice. Pas de doute que vous etes un grand connoisseur.
Merci beaucoup.
- April 12, 2010 1:09 pm
- Peter said...
Looks brilliant! Never heard these. Thank you very much!!!
- April 22, 2010 4:12 am
- Agamemnon Padar said...
I am speechless of the dedication you have put into this project. You are doing justice to one of the sadly most underrated and neglected musicians in history of jazz. I am raising a cold german beer to you from germany for this great work! Thank you mate
- May 15, 2010 2:22 am