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Creating Home Outside: Landscape Design Workshop
Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio
Saturday, August 22, 2009 from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM (EDT)
Event Details
Join us for our second annual local LANDSCAPE DESIGN WORKSHOP with author and designer Julie Moir Messervy!
The Workshop:
Creating Home Outside is an action-packed, interactive workshop that guides participants in creating beautiful and meaningful outdoor spaces by introducing them to principles of good design. Through lectures, photographic examples, discussion, and hands-on activities, participants will learn the six-step design process that Julie presents in her newest book, Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love. The workshop will take participants through an experiential learning process that yields clear and satisfying results for homeowners and landscape professionals alike.
Join Julie and spend a refreshing day renewing your sense of curiosity about the landscape environment; learn how to strengthen the link between indoors and out, and how to evaluate needs and preferences to build a satisfying landscape. At the end of the workshop, you will realize that you have enough knowledge to complete a conceptual design for yourself or a client. You will also take with you a comprehensive folder of handouts and practical exercises that will help you implement what you've learned when designing your own (or someone else's) "Home Outside."
Julie and the JMMDS Team will host a local reception at the Saxtons River Inn on the evening of August 21, for attendees who arrive the day before the workshop. It will be a nice way to meet new people, share ideas, and meet Julie prior to the busy day of the workshop. The reception is included in the ticket price, as is a fabulous buffet lunch the day of the workshop. Scholarship assistance is available if needed; please inquire.
We will email a list of accommodations for participants who will be traveling from a distance. The Saxtons River Inn offers a special room rate of $99 per room, per night for anyone staying in town. There are a limited number of rooms available. Please contact the Inn directly and be sure to mention the Creating Home Outside Workshop to make your reservation.
When you register, please be sure to include your phone # and email address, and the best way to contact you. An email will be sent to all registered attendees with more details about the workshop. If you have additional questions after reading the email, please feel free to contact the office: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Driving Directions:
Click for driving directions to Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, VT.
Copies of several of Julie's books, including the most recent, Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love will be available for purchase at the workshop. Julie will also be available to sign books during the lunch break and at the end of the day. Cash or check only, please.
Join Us:
Last year's workshop was a great success; we received lots of positive feedback from participants, and the proceeds from the event went to a group of deserving local organizations. We had a lively day full of discussion, great lectures, and hands-on exercises, all against the backdrop of Vermont in the summertime. This year, we are looking forward to the same level of discovery, interaction, skill-building, and making new friends and connections. Join us: register at the top of the page to reserve your spot!n.
Comments from the 2008 Workshop:
"I was so inspired and energized by the workshop!"
"Warm and welcoming; wealth of information; practical and experiential; fun!"
"Can't wait to get back to my property and try some things out."
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Vermont Academy
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Saxtons River,
Saturday, August 22, 2009 from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM (EDT)
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The Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio is a team of landscape design consultants with a pioneering vision for creating inspired outdoor spaces of beauty and meaning. With three decades of experience, five books, and numerous high-profile lectures, internationally-acclaimed principal designer Julie Messervy has emerged as a leader in the evolution of landscape design. Together, she and her team strive to inspire design professionals and homeowners to envision and create landscapes that reflect a vision deeply rooted in imagination, principled aesthetics, and creative collaboration.


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"No, the key to wealth was opportunity. And if opportunity didn't come knocking than Mrs. Lowry says you must build your own door."
Outrun The Moon is author Stacey Lee's second book, and it is just as stunning and well-researched as her debut, Under a Painted Sky (which I reviewed here).
Set in San Francisco in 1906, Outrun the Moon details the journey of Mercy Wong, a fifteen-year-old girl living in Chinatown. Mercy is a US citizen, although her parents are not, and her family and friends live and thrive within the confines of Chinatown's industry. Mercy's father is a launderer, and her mother is a well-respected fortune teller. Mercy also lives with her younger brother, Jack, whose weak lungs keep him from running and playing as other children might. Aided by the medicine of their neighbor, Ah-Suk, Jack's health remains in check.
Mercy is smitten with her longtime friend, Tom. Tom is Ah-Suk's son and is expected to take over the family trade. However, Tom has dreams of flying, and he has even crafted a hot air balloon. Similarly, Mercy has dreams that would take her outside of Chinatown: she wants to run a successful business.
Mercy is an intelligent narrator who, despite her modern ways of thinking when it comes to business and the role of the female, deeply respects her upbringing and Chinese traditions. She has a dislike of the unlucky number four, and she frequently uses her mother's body-mapping techniques to discern qualities in individuals. For example, Mercy's high cheekbones (sometimes referred to as "bossy cheeks") denote an assertive nature. I found this mixture of modern thinking and respect for tradition to be incredibly refreshing and interesting to read. Mercy is also witty and quick to act, and I would happily read another book narrated by her.
Mercy Wong knows that she needs to further her education if she wants to make a name for herself in the business world, and so she strikes a deal with the wealthy Du Lac family. Chocolatiers by trade, Mr. Du Lac also serves on the board of St. Clare's School for Girls, one of the most exclusive private schools. An elaborate ruse is concocted, and Mercy is granted a trial period at the school where she must pretend she is a Chinese heiress.
Being the first non-white person at the school, Mercy garners a lot of attention – not all of it favorable. Soon after settling in, however, disaster strikes: the historic earthquake of April 18, 1906 sends San Francisco into turmoil, and the girls of St. Clare's have to put aside their differences to survive.
Outrun the Moon features a cast of unique and likable characters, each with their own flaws and inner battles. From enemies, to friends, to grumpy headmistresses, Mercy deals with them all. Reduced to living in a park together after the earthquake, the girls' true natures come to light.
Although Lee takes some liberties with historical accuracy (she changes the time that the earthquake hit Chinatown, among a few other things that she mentions in an author's note), I found Outrun the Moon to be a wonderful glimpse into a time period and a culture that I am not entirely familiar with. The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was a history lesson reduced to one class when I was in school, and I never stopped to think about the myriad of ways that people were affected and what this tragedy meant to the city. Between this book and Under a Painted Sky, Lee has single-handedly made me want to research periods in history to learn more. Anyone who can do that outside of a classroom is doing something right!
I want to thank Stacey Lee for providing me with an advanced copy of Outrun The Moon in exchange for an honest review. The book was released in May by GP Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, and I cannot recommend it enough. Go – read – and fall in love with a time and a place.
Danielle Villano is the editor of BiblioSmiles, and she is really glad you're here. Learn more on the About page. Tweet @daniellevillano.

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Chris Brown deleted his Twitter account back in November after a profanity-laden, misogynistic tirade against comedy writer Jenny Johnson. But he's had a back-up account that he used this week to express how he's feeling right now.
Brown tweeted the above picture along with the caption, "Painting the way I feel today. Focus on what matters!"
His fans were quick to assure him of his position and feelings:
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State budgets are doing better, but will they spend the new income?
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It's been four years since the great recession hammered state budgets. But new census data shows that state tax receipts crept back up to their pre-recession levels. In total, states collected nearly $800 billion last year. That's the highest level ever recorded.
The recovery has been fueled by increases in state income taxes, sales taxes and real estate taxes. "Our tax revenue has finally recovered. They are pre-recession levels," says Fred Church, the deputy budget director with the Ohio Office of Budget Management.
Return to pre-recession levels has allowed Ohio to spend money on programs that had been cut during the recession. "In this budget we were able to put significant amount of money back into K-12 education," Church says.
And much like other states, Ohio is using its budget surplus to repay the state's rainy day fund. "We'll probably bring the rainy day fund up to its target level of 5 percent of revenues," Church adds.
Ohio also hopes to take advantage of the budget surplus to lower state income taxes.
"States like Kansas, Missouri Ohio, Minnesota, and Massachusetts are looking at different types of tax changes," says Todd Haggerty, a fiscal policy analyst at the National Conference for State Legislators.
Depending on the political climate, some states are using surpluses to lower taxes while others are using the revenue to restore services.
"Things are improving. They are at a stronger spot then they have been in previous years, we're just not seeing the robust recovery that typified previous recoveries," says Haggerty. It took states only one or two years to get back to pre-recession levels in both the 1991 and 2001 recessions. This time around, it's taken four years.


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Where: Icefields Parkway, Alberta
When: August 2013 (The slow journey home)
What: Refusing to let a downpour get in the way of a good campfire.
|Less wild than it seems
Canadian Rockies... a highlight of our 10 months in North America. With a hire car (sorry, 'rental' car) and two weeks to go and do whatever we wanted, the freedom was enticingly good. Too bad the rest of the world have the same idea... but more on that another time.
There are so many awesome options for back country camping in North America. I quickly learnt that back country means walk-in, walk-out and camp basically wherever, not in the regimented allotted sites that national/provincial parks seem to be big on. I also learnt that back country camping is not an option for a couple of backpackers travelling with a year's worth of stuff and a $25 tent.
We reached the Icefields Parkway midway through the road trip. By this time we were used to showering every four days and eating whatever we could cook in our one pot. This campsite didn't actually have a name. Unless 'Overflow' was it's official title. After an entertaining and occasionally awkward conversation with the ranger, we learnt that the campsite was opened to hold all the summer travellers but had been opened this year due to another site further north being completely wiped out by the Alberta flooding. (Didn't hear about it? It was worse than Superstorm Sandy but you know, NYC is very important.)
|Nothing like RVs to ruin a great shot
The best part about 'Overflow' was the walk-in section (100m, not 10 kilometres). Finally we got to leave those smug RVs behind! And we could take uninterrupted photos of the *choose your own superlative: stunning/breathtaking/staggering* scenery and pretend we were more wild than we really were. We got a pretty good fire going considering all we had were damp logs and a rule forbidding kindling collection. Thank you hairspray! (It doesn't serve any other purpose on a camping road trip)
I do love making a fire (not in a criminal sense). I especially love the achievement of getting a fire cranking against the odds. Then the rain came.
Why did we even build a fire in summer? Was it particularly cold? Not overly*. But we'd paid the honesty box $8 and we had marshmallows for dinner. Plus it seems to be the thing to do in North America- it ain't camping unless there's a fire (even if you are wearing singlets and shorts).
I refused to let the rain ruin my hour of poking, blowing and splinters. I took matters into my own hands.
After twenty minutes of getting quite wet, I retreated to the tent, ready to concede defeat.
If you've sensed there is a fairy tale ending to this story, you won't be disappointed.
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On the down side, the umbrella was left reeking of smoke. As were all my clothes and everything in the bag the umbrella was later shoved in. 3 months on and after a hose down and being left out in the sun, the brolly is still a scented memento of an interesting road trip.
* Apologies for seeming like I'm interviewing myself. I slipped back into the North American style of asking myself a question then answering it.


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Flash from the past lands me live on the air
Ever have one of those random flashbacks where something you did or said years, even decades, ago comes flooding back into the present day? That happened to me today in a way I can't believe. After a fairly long business meeting, I looked at my phone to find numerous notifications flooding my inbox. A friend was texting … [Read more…]


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Northern Colorado 76 - 86 Illinois
Tisdale, Richardson, guide Illinois past Northern ColoradoDec 13, 2010 - 1:25 AM Champaign, IL (Sports Network) - Mike Tisdale and D.J. Richardson each had 14 points, leading 16th-ranked Illinois to an 86-76 victory over Northern Colorado.
Mike Davis added 12 points and 10 rebounds, while Bill Cole also had 12 points for the Fighting Illini (10-1), who have won seven straight. Demetri McCamey registered 11 points and eight assists in the victory.
Neal Kingman scored a game-high 21 points for the Bears (4-4), who had a modest two-game win streak snapped. Elliot Lloyd contributed 16 points, and Devon Beitzel had 13 points in defeat.
The game was won in the first half, when Illinois built a 19-point lead.
A 12-0 run by the Illini early provided a 24-12 lead. Cole produced a three- point play and was followed by consecutive baskets from Tyler Griffey to finish off the spurt.
McCamey and Jereme Richmond hit back-to-back layups with just over four minutes remaining in the period to extend the advantage to 36-22, and a 9-0 burst toward the end of the stanza ended when Cole's three provided a 45-24 margin.
Emmanuel Addo's jumper with seven seconds left in the half brought the Bears to within 45-26 at halftime.
Northern Colorado scored 12 straight points in the second half to trim their deficit to 67-57, but a pair of three-pointers by Richardson quelled the comeback attempt and put Illinois ahead, 75-59, with 7:37 to play.
The Bears never got closer than 10 down the stretch.
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This was the first meeting between the two schools in men's basketball...Illinois is 7-0 at home, while Northern Colorado is 0-3 on the road...The Bears committed 24 turnovers, compared to only 15 for the Illini.
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- Illinois' Tate rejoins basketball team after case dropped May 20
- Prosecutor: Case against Illinois' Jaylon Tate dropped May 19
- Brown gets new job at Illinois; Nunn pleads in battery case May 18
- Illinois' Nunn pleads guilty to misdemeanor, gets probation May 18
- Groce: Illinois' Black reinstated, will sit out 6 games May 6
- 9 years after Chief's end, Illinois looks for mascot May 2
- Boise State assistant named head coach at Northern Colorado May 1
- Northern Colorado fires men's basketball coach B.J. Hill Apr 21
- Illinois' Leron Black gets probation for threatening bouncer Apr 21
- Deal would reduce charge, let Illinois' Black avoid jail Apr 4
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As a PADI Divemaster, you'll lead others as you supervise scuba diving activities and assist with diver training. Whether you want to work at a faraway dive destination or close to home at a local dive shop, the adventure of a lifetime awaits you. PADI Divemasters are respected dive professionals who are aligned with the largest and most respected dive organization in the world – PADI.
Course Prerequisites: PADI Rescue Divers who are at least 18 years old may enroll in the PADI Divemaster course. You also need to have:
- Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) training within the past 24 months.
- A medical statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months.
- At least 40 logged dives to begin the course and 60 dives to earn certification.
Note that qualifying certifications from other diver training organization may apply – ask us for more details. Email us at email@example.com.
Course Materials: When you sign-up for the course, the course package includes the Divemaster Crew Pack which includes:
- Divemaster Manual
- Instructor Manual (for Divemaster-led programs)
- Divemaster Slates
- Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
- Scuba Tune-Up Workbook
- Professional Training Log
- Electronic RDP ML (eRDPML)
- Discover Scuba Diving Instructor Cue cards
What scuba gear will you use: As a dive professional, you'll want to have all your basic scuba equipment:
- Regulator
- Dive Computer
- Mask and Snorkel
- Fins and Booties
- Compass
- Torch / UW Light
- Whistle
- Delayed Surface Marker Buoy (safety sausage) and Reel
- Slate
- Exposure Protection (i.e. wetsuit) including pocket shorts
- Diver's Toolkit
- Dive Knife
- First Aid kit
- Pocket Mask
How long does it take: Depending on your pace and preparedness, it usually takes around 20-30 days which may be spread in several weeks and months. Some students opt to have weekend classes only which make the course span in 4-6 months.
How much does it cost: Course fee is Php 59,000. The course package includes:
- PADI Divemaster Crew Pack (PADI DM Materials)
- Divemaster Training
- Divemaster Internship
- Discover Scuba Diving (DSD) Leader Training (this allows you to independently conduct DSD/introdive on confined open water )
- At the end of the course, you will receive 2 professional PADI Ratings.
- PADI Divemaster
- PADI DSD Leader
- … and 6 other PADI ratings (if you choose to take the specialty courses)
- 5 PADI AWARE Specialties (optional; just pay for the registration fee; see specialties below)
- PADI Master Scuba Diver (if 5 specialties have been completed; registration fee is part of the package)
- Exclusions on the fees:
- PADI Divemaster Registration Fee ($AUD198 paid directly to PADI via credit card; PADI fees may change without prior notice)
- PADI DSD Leader Registration Fee ($AUD105 paid directly to PADI via credit card; PADI fees may change without prior notice)
- Divemaster Candidates are also highly encouraged to take 5 of the Project AWARE Specialties listed below that will reinforce their marine conservation involvement as PADI professionals. Course Fees will be waived. Candidates have to pay only PADI Registration (Php2,500 per specialty) which actually goes back to Project AWARE's marine conservation programs.
- Project AWARE Specialist
- AWARE Dive Against Debris Diver
- AWARE Shark Conservation Diver
- AWARE Coral Reef Conservation Diver
- AWARE Fish Identification
- AWARE Sea Turtle Awareness Diver
- AWARE Whaleshark Awareness Diver
- AWARE CoralWatch Coral Health Chart Diver
- Underwater Naturalist (payment on the manual is separate)
Payment Scheme:
- First Payment: Php30,000 as downpayment upon receipt of the manuals.
- Second Payment: Php 29,000 at the start of the training session.


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The Bible reading schedule my wife and I are using raised an interesting contrast between two passages from Monday's reading (which was Gen. 16-18 and Mark 6).
Is anything too hard for the Lord? (Genesis 18:14).
And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief (Mark 6:5-6).
In the first instance, the angelic visitors reassured Abraham (and an eavesdropping Sarah) that God indeed could give the elderly couple a child, even though he would be 100 years old (and she 90). But in the second instance, the text of Mark 6 says that Jesus could do very few miracles in Nazareth.
From one perspective, God's power is not limited by man's faith. God can do anything
He wants to do. And even though Abraham and Sarah literally fell down laughing when God told them He intended to keep His promise and give them a son of their very own, He kept His word. So God's power is not inherently dependent on human faithfulness.
At the same time, there are some blessings made possible by divine power that God does choose to dispense on the condition of faith. Many of Jesus' miracles of healing fall into this category. Jesus told the woman He healed of the bleeding disease in Mark 5, "Your faith has made you well." His power was the basis of her healing; her faith was the means of her healing.
And that apparently is the reason Jesus could not perform many miracles in Nazareth. It wasn't as if His power suddenly vanished, or that He was thwarted by some evil force. He could not do many miracles there because there were not many believers there – a fact which amazed Him.
Salvation is another example of a mighty work of God that is contingent on our response. God did not have to make salvation conditional – He's God! But He has chosen to give us a choice – to allow us to accept or reject the work of redemption. And how He must marvel at the refusals of a dying world to accept eternal life through His Son.


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7:02 a.m. ET — Here we go again. It's that time of year when the stars are aligned, when the moon is in its proper season, and when, for one glorious day, we get a full day of live NBA action. That's right, it's the day when the Orlando Summer League and Las Vegas Summer League overlap, when we get almost 17 consecutive hours of live NBA action. Like we've done a few times in the past, I'll be here live-blogging along all day. Well, almost all day.
First up! We get the final games of the Orlando Summer League, and the day's action will build to something of a crescendo tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET with what should be a great primetime match-up of 2015 lottery picks, as D'Angelo Russell and the Los Angeles Lakers will take on Karl-Anthony Towns and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Just for the heck of it, after that game we get an NBA Finals rematch, as the Cavs' and Warriors' summer league teams will square off at 10:30 PM ET.
So settle in, get your popcorn ready (or your oatmeal or cereal or whatever appropriate breakfast foods you prefer) and let's watch some basketball! I'll be checking in throughout the day, up until tonight, when my shift ends at 5 p.m. and I'm replaced by some fresh fingers here on the live blog to carry you through the evening hours.
Leading off the morning, we have the Clippers against the Thunder at 8 a.m. ET on NBA TV, in is the battle for fifth place in Orlando. You have questions? Comments? Thoughts? Drop them in the comments below and let's talk. Either way, we've got a marathon ahead of us. Let's watch some NBA Summer League action. See ya again here in about an hour or so …
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The process of converting street addresses (17150 East Gale Avenue, City Of Industry CA 91745) into GPS waypoints with latitude and longitude (N34.00016 W117.93220) is called geocoding. ExpertGPS has a built-in geocoder, the Go to Address command on the Help menu. But if you have more than a few addresses to convert to GPS coordinates, especially if they are in an Excel spreadsheet or some other delimited format, you might be better off using a free batch geocoder. Paste in a list of addresses, geocode them, and then paste the result into the Waypoint List in ExpertGPS.
Here are the steps I used to convert the address data below into GPS waypoints I could view on the map in ExpertGPS or send to the GPS receiver in my car as Points of Interest (POIs):
Arrange your data in Excel, and make sure it has a header row. I found some Excel data listing all of the Walmart stores in California – the sample data is listed below.
Label Address Phone
Wal-Mart 440 North Euclid Street,Anaheim CA 92801 (714) 491-0744
Wal-Mart 7901 Watt Avenue,Antelope CA 95843 (916) 332-3173
Wal-Mart 20251 Hwy 18,Apple Valley CA 92307 (760) 242-0626
Wal-Mart 2601 Fashion Place,Bakersfield CA 93306 (661) 873-7120
Click here to download the entire file
Go to a batch geocoding service, and paste your delimited address data into the form in Step #2. Press Validate Source, and then Run Geocoder.
After the geocoder finishes geocoding your addresses, select the output (Step #6 at batchgeocode.com) and paste it into the Waypoint List in ExpertGPS. The geocoded results should look like the ones below:
Label Address Phone bg_lat bg_long
Wal-Mart 440 North Euclid Street,Anaheim CA 92801 (714) 491-0744 33.836954 -117.941454
Wal-Mart 7901 Watt Avenue,Antelope CA 95843 (916) 332-3173 38.712346 -121.392048
Wal-Mart 20251 Hwy 18,Apple Valley CA 92307 (760) 242-0626 34.526579 -117.221709
Wal-Mart 2601 Fashion Place,Bakersfield CA 93306 (661) 873-7120 35.390789 -118.961578
Click here to download the entire geocoded results file
When you paste the geocoded results into the Waypoint List in ExpertGPS, you'll need to match up the columns in your geocoded data with the data columns in ExpertGPS. Make sure you're working with hddd.ddddd coordinates, WGS84 datum in ExpertGPS! Check the box that says your data has a header row. Match up bg_lat to Latitude, bg_long with Longitude. I put the store name data in ExpertGPS' Label field, and the address in Description. When you're done, click OK and ExpertGPS will create new waypoints for each address. You can double-click any waypoint to view it on the map, or send the entire list to your GPS receiver.
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The Colonial Theatre is proud to partner with the Keene Public Library in bringing back for a second time FREE public screenings of three of the Reflections Film Series. The Reflections project, launched in the fall of 2007, is a collaborative oral history production involving Cheshire Television, the Historical Society of Cheshire County, The Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce University, the Keene Public Library, the Keene Sentinel and Keene State College.
Trolleys, Trains and Flyers, Rail Travel in the Monadnock Region: Stories from Keene residents who remember the days when Keene was a railroad center. Interviews with Ernest L. Bell, Sally Bell, Donald Carle, Philip H. Faulkner, Jr., Judy Hall, Margaret Hanrahan, Robert Hardy, George Kingsbury, Harold Larro, David Proper, Betty Ripley, Norma Slanetz, and Maurice Whitney. Written by John Harris and James Rousmaniere, Jr.; edited by Lee Perkins, narrated by Guy MacMillin. Screened at Noon and 3:20pm. Run time: 55 minutes
The Great Hurricane of 1938 (in Keene): Keene residents who experienced the hurricane which struck Keene, NH on Sept. 21, 1938 share their stories in a series of interviews. This film includes historic film footage and photographs at the scene, as well as photographs taken before and after the event. Interviews conducted with Donald Carle, Dorothy Davis, Frederick and Janet Doolittle, Clarence Faulkner, James Fletcher, Jr., Robert hardy, George Kingsbury, Harold Larro, Betty Ripley, and Maurice Whitney. Edited by Lee Perkins, Narrated by Guy MacMillin. Screened at: 1:05pm and 4:25pm. Run time: 55 minutes
Flannels to Fuses: Textile Mills in the Monadnock Region: For over 100 years, textile mills were the foundation of the industrial economy in the Monadnock region. These were the cotton and woolen mills located at various sites such as Harrisville, Jaffrey, Troy and Keene. This film traces the history of the textile mills, and features reflections of local residents who recall the sounds of power looms and their great impact on the region. Interviews with Ernest L. Bell III, John Colony III, Joseph Descoteaux, Ray Eaves, John Faulkner, Joslin Kimball Frank, Polly Kendall, George Kingsbury, Jean Lane, Emile Legere, David Proper, Rita Rathburn and Marjorie Willimas. Written by Rose Kundanis and Melinda Marie Jette; edited by Lee Perkins. Screened at 2:10pm and 5:30pm. Run time: 60 minutes


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text: Borreguita is a little lamb who manages to trick the coyote who wants to eat her not just three but four deliciously satisfying times: she suggests that she'll grow if he waits; she describes the moon's reflection as a cheese, so that he jumps into a pond; she cajoles him into taking her place ``hold[ing] up this mountain'' while she goes for help; and, finally, she bravely volunteers to jump right into the coyote's mouth so that he can swallow her in one gulp--with the result that poor Coyote, his teeth aching, vows to leave the wily lamb alone henceforth. Aardema, a practiced teller of tales, paces this saga expertly and tells it with pleasingly sly wit. Mathers contributes her exquisite sense of design and luminous color, while focusing on the story's drama and humor and the contrast between the innocent-looking lamb and her obtuse antagonist. A fine story; outstanding illustrations. (Folklore/Picture book. 4-9)


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389 Eagle Drive - Jupiter, Florida
10 Bedroom, 8 full & 2 half bath custom estate with exquisite details throughout. This 10,000 square foot estate has soaring 15' to 24' ceilings in the living areas, marble and wood floors, antiqued mirror panels in foyer and dining room, crown molding and hand painted wall finishes. Mexican shell stone columns & trim inside and out. The formal living room has a stone fireplace, walnut floor and tiled bar with sink, refrigerator and ice maker. Dining Room has 15' corbelled celling and stone crafter columns. Gourmet kitchen has all of the bells and whistles including an oversized island, SubZero refrigerator, Thermador 6 burner range with grill and 2 Bosch dishwashers. Custom built-ins in library and office. Master suite has sitting area, his & her walk-in closets with private exercise room.
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7:06 Open with National Anthem and Pledge
7:07 Introduction
7:09 Executive Reports - President
Communicated with Attorneys and Media about lawsuit
Booked speakers for general meeting
7:10 Executive Reports - Vice President
Contacted Mark Lauretti to speak at general meeting
Interviewed about Stag Arms new .22
Helped events coordinator in printing flyers
Delivered food to the food pantry from last month's meeting
There's going to be a CCDL Trap Shoot. Flyers are available at th meeting. Put on by the Guilford Sportsmens Association
CT Sporting Arms is continuing to raise money for the CCDL by selling spare ammo people leave at the shop.
7:13 Executive Reports - Secretary
7:14 Executive Reports - Treasurer
We can now accept credit card payments for merchandise at meetings and events using our PayPal swipers.
7:17 Coordinator Reports - Membership
637 new since last month
7:18 Coordinator Reports - Events
Attended the Executive Member meeting
Worked on the Dinner, Rally, and Hunting and Fishing Show.
Hunting and Fishing show is this weekend at the CT Convention Center.
Our Anniversary Dinner is March 1st at the Aquaturf. Tickets and info available at our website and at meetings.
Our Rally at the capitol is April 5th 12-3. Full list of speakers to be announced, but key note speaker will be David Codrea (National Gun Rights Examiner -http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea / War on Guns Blog - http://waronguns.blogspot.com/)
7:20 Coordinator Reports - Permit Issues
Lots of changes after the new members joined the board. Seems a bit disjointed at the moment as procedures are rapidly changing from meeting to meeting.
Backlog is growing.
7:24 Coordinator Reprots - Merchandise
Regular merchandise and assortment of sticker colors available. Color decals available at meeting only.
Lapel pins and patches have been ordered and will be available at meetings when they arrive.
7:25 Local Counsel Martha Dean - Lawsuit Update
CT District Court and 2nd Circuit have bad 2A precedent.
Several cases limited Judge Covello's choices in our case.
Our case had some good factual findings, however at the appellate level, fact finding starts over again with a new court.
Since the 2nd Circuit court is generally more restrictive on the 2nd Amendment than other Circuits, we are primed for a SCOTUS showdown.
Our appeal must b efiled no later than May, State must respond by June, we can reply again in August.
We knew a loss at the Federal District was possible due to past history, but from the beginning we've planned to keep fighting this all the way to the end.
7:40 Brief Open Forum
7:46 Special Guest - Ron Wilcox
Congressional Coordinator for Republican Party
7:52 Special Guest - Peter Lumaj
Candidate for Secretary of State
8:00 Special Guest - Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti
Candidate for CT Governor
8:25 Break
8:40 Special Guest - State Rep. Penny Bachiocci
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor
8:45 Special Guest - Noah Enslow
Running for 42nd State Congressional District
8:49 Special Guest - State Senator Joe Markley
9:06 Closing words


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In an effort to make roadways in Virginia a little safer, state lawmakers spent a lot of time during the recently completed regular session eyeing stiffer penalties for people caught driving without a license.
With an eye on illegal immigrants, one bill that advanced from the statehouse to Gov. Tim Kaine's desk would allow courts to suspend for up to 90 days the driving privileges of someone convicted of driving without a license.
Despite stated concerns that the bill could lead to profiling, the Senate and House overwhelmingly approved the measure – SB113.
Among other legislation focused on illegal immigrants that didn't clear the chambers is a bill that sought to require that unlicensed drivers be arrested, fingerprinted and photographed. Virginia law now allows only for tickets to be issued.
Advocates said the enhanced penalties would guarantee that offenders are appropriately punished. Others said the bill would make it easier for law enforcement to detect illegal immigrants, who are not eligible for Virginia driver's licenses.
The bill – HB91 – advanced from the House but was killed in a Senate committee.
First-time offenders would've faced six months in jail. Subsequent offenses would've resulted in up to one year behind bars.
Another failed bill sought to get tough with people who owe money to local governments. The measure – HB133 – prohibited the issuance or renewal of a driver's license for anyone who owes fees or taxes to counties, cities or towns – including parking tickets.
The full House refused to advance the measure, effectively killing it for the year.
To view other legislative activities of interest for Virginia in 2008, click here.
– By Keith Goble, state legislative editor


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Hodson joins Phi Kappa Phi
Tonya Hodson of Marion, a senior in aeronautical technology at Kansas State University, was recently inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
As a senior, she was required to be in the upper 10 percent of her class in order to join the society. She was one of almost 150 new members.
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I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Love and Relativity by Rachael Wade
on December 12th 2012
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
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Love, life, and happily ever after? It's all relative.
Marine biology student Emma Pierce lives in paradise—geographically
speaking, anyway. Stranded on Sanibel Island, Florida, she works at a nursing home by day and spends her nights dodging the island's infamous bad boy, Jackson Taylor, at her favorite karaoke bar. Trying to heal from the loss of her sister and a failed relationship she rerouted her life for, she's ready to graduate and finally leave Florida behind.
When a run-in with Jackson and his rowdy crew goes sour at the bar one night, sparks fly and irreversible damage is done. It's no secret that Jackson loves to get underneath her skin, but this time he's gone too far. Now all he wants is to earn her forgiveness before she's gone for good, but their ideas of closure—and the future—are enough to keep them worlds apart.
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Kisses have learned a thing or two since 2011s The Heart of the Nightlife, they just haven't learned too much. Their songwriting a bit trickier, their palette broader, but they still sound like the soundtrack to a breezy summer night in a city filled with neon lights, caught in an 80s time warp. Even the song titles on their latest record, Kids in L.A., set up little scenes that reflect the pleasures of the season (At the Pool, Air Conditioning, Having Friends Over) in a way that's familiar to the band. But the youthful vibe belies the fact that the two masterminds behind Kisses, Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmunson, are, in fact, married a very adult commitment for such fresh-faced babies.
These are lush and carefree love songs, without a trace of hurt or heartbreak in sight. Dont be so cynical, Kivel sings on At the Pool, and youre inclined to agree. The song opens up into a chillwave soundscape, with hints of the kind of over-the-top melodrama weve come to associate with the soundtracks of '80s films like The Breakfast Club. To their credit, Kisses rein themselves in before they become schmaltzy, keeping everything tight and focused. In this way, the songs on Kids in L.A. remain sleek and modern.
Its also easy to hear washes of The Smiths on several of the tracks, perhaps most prominently on Having Friends Over. Kivel can do a convincing Morrisey when he wants to, adopting a slightly sadder, more morbid air for the song. Even if it wasnt meant to be a direct homage, it still shows that the record doesnt exist in a vacuum. The optimistic Adjust Glasses" closes out the album, finding Kivel and Edmundson harmonizing on a dreamy ode to youthful love and hope.
This album is being released just in time for summer, which is an appropriate time for the sort of sounds in which Kisses traffic. The strength of this record is that, even without sunshine to bolster it, these songs remain enjoyable and nuanced. Basically, Kids in L.A. is exactly the type of record that will be able to conjure summer back up, even once the weather turns cold again.
Essential Tracks: Having Friends Over", "At the Pool"


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The Deux Alpes ski resort has the advantage of a ski area that is adapted to meet all expectations and a skiable glacier that prolongs the pleasure of skiing. For the All Saints holidays in France, the 2 Alpes resort will open its slopes from October 22 to November 1, 2011, for its Open Glisse rendezvous.
Located in Oisans, in Isere in the French Alpes, the Deux Alpes is one of the first French ski resorts. The village is located at an altitude of 1650 meters and offers a festive, friendly atmosphere. Whether with family or with friends, it is possible to enjoy a lively after ski ambiance and to discover the pleasures of regional dishes offered on the menus of numerous traditional restaurants and gastronomical dining in a Michelin 1-star rated restaurant.
Ski side, the 2 Alpes resort disposes of ski lifts that rise to an altitude of 3520 meters, by way of, among, others, a funicular railway. The resort has one of the largest skiable glaciers in Europe and is well known for its summer skiing. The 2 Alpes ski area spreads over 1000 + acres of posted trails with a vertical between 1300 and 3600 metres. The ski area is home to a world reknown snowpark, slide zones, a boardercross with a vertical of 185 metres that is over 1000 metres long, a canyon, shutes and cornices… a liaison with the La Grave area is planned.
The Deux Alpes resort opens its slopes in preview during the All Saints holidays : it's the important Open Glisse rendezvous from Saturday October 22 to Tuesday November 1, 2011. Take advantage of this beautiful opportunity to step into skis or boards and onto fresh snow… at altitudes between 3600 and 3200 metres! Events are organized throughout the weekend. And for your ski hire 2 Alpes, the resort has several Skimium partner shops. Take advantage of a service that is both practical and economical : reserve your ski or snowboard hire with Skimium.co.uk, take advantage of price reductions on your equipment and pick the equipment up directly in the resort without having to worry about the transport…
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Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. announced a joint venture with the Addison company United Surgical Partners International Inc. that will create the largest network of ambulatory surgical centers in the country.
Under the agreement, Tenet will own 50.1 percent of the venture while USPI takes the remaining 49.9 percent. In total, the new pairing creates a network of 244 ambulatory surgery centers, 16 short-stay surgical hospitals, and 20 imaging centers throughout 20 states. Of those, 44 ASCs were Tenet's as well as all of the imaging centers. The rest came from USPI.
The combined operation brings partnerships with 50 health systems and more than 4,000 physicians. Tenet has shifted its focus to outpatient services, increasingly adding clinics and ambulatory surgery centers to its portfolio. In the last quarter of 2014—the company's most successful in a decade—its outpatient volume grew at twice the rate of its inpatient. This is, by far, Tenet's most aggressive move to bolster its outpatient offerings.
"It's really the way healthcare is moving," says Trevor Fetter, the CEO of Tenet. "So many procedures now can be done on an outpatient basis. The physicians prefer to practice in these more convenient, simpler environments."
Tenet, the third largest healthcare company in the U.S., now leaps past its closest competitor HCA's 113 freestanding ASCs. Prior to the pairing, Tenet had 210 outpatient facilities—including surgical centers and primary care or specialty clinics—which was up from 183 in 2013.
Tenet will pay about $425 million in cash to private equity firm Welsh Carson and USPI's other investors, as well as another $215 million for purchase of Aspen Healthcare, a British network of nine private hospitals and clinics in the United Kingdom. Tenet will take on an expected $2.2 billion in debt, primarily to refinance the $1.5 billion in existing debt that USPI has. The transactions should close by the third quarter of 2015, the company says.
In five years, Tenet expects to fully own the new company. It does not, Fetter says, have anything to do with Welsh Carson purchasing the Addison outpatient clinic company Concentra from insurer Humana.
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We've made two recent changes to the way that we develop new qualifications. We now produce FAQs for all new awards, which evolve as the qualification itself develops. And we also produce resource lists for new awards.
A resource list is a list of online and offline resources that can be used to deliver the new qualification. There is normally one resource list per unit. Each list will contain: YouTube videos, websites, Wikipedia articles, podcasts, online quizes, e-books and other online resources, as well as some offline resources such as text books and articles. The key thing is that these are linked to specific outcomes and performance criteria so that teachers know precisely where (and how) they can be used.
I normally ask the QDT to populate these lists (voluntarily) but, occasionally, the lead developer (or another member of the QDT) takes a more pro-active role.
Although we've only done a few, they have proven to be popular with teachers and lecturers. The Digital Passport lists were well liked by the pilot centres. Here is the one we created for Social Media Literacy (SCQF 4).
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Accessibility Plan: 2016 – 2019
The SEN and Disability Act 2010 extended the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) to over education. Denbigh Community Primary School has three key duties towards disabled pupils, under Part 4 of the DDA:
- not to treat disabled pupils less favourably for a reason related to their disability;
- to make reasonable adjustments for disabled pupils, so that they are not at a substantial disadvantage;
- to plan to ensure access to education for disabled pupils.
This plan sets out the proposals of Denbigh community Primary School to increase access to education for disabled pupils in the three areas required by the planning duties in the DDA.
The Accessibility Plan will contain relevant and timely actions to:
- Increase access to the curriculum for pupils with a disability
Eg. Expanding the curriculum as necessary to ensure that pupils with a disability are as equally prepared for life as are the able-bodied pupils. This covers teaching and learning and the wider curriculum of the school such as participation in after-school clubs, leisure and cultural activities or school visits – it also covers the provision of specialist or auxiliary aids and equipment, which may assist these pupils in accessing the curriculum.
- Improve access to the physical environment of the school, adding specialist facilities as necessary
Eg. This covers improvements to the physical environment of the school and physical aids to access education.
- Improve the delivery of written information to pupils, staff, parents and visitors with disabilities
Examples might include handouts, timetables, textbooks and information about the school and school events; the information should be made available in various preferred formats within a reasonable time frame.
It is a requirement that the school's accessibility plan is resourced, implemented and reviewed and revised as necessary. Attached is a set of action plans showing how the school will address the priorities identified in the plan.
This plan has been written by the Inclusion Manager in consultation with staff, governors and other stakeholders.
Date of Plan: October 2016
To be annually reviewed.
Definition of Disability
Disability is defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA):
'A person has a disability if he or she has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day to day activities.'
The definition includes people with: Hearing or Visual Impairment, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Mental Health Issues, Incontinence, ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Downs Syndrome, Medical conditions such as Cystic Fibrosis, severe Asthma, Diabetes, Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy and Sickle Cell Anaemia.
Facial disfigurement, severe Dyslexia, gross obesity and diagnosed eating disorders are all included.
The purpose and direction of the school's plan: vision and values
At Denbigh Community Primary School we are committed to giving all of our children every opportunity to achieve the highest of standards. We do this by taking account of pupils' varied life experiences and needs. We believe that everyone should be happy, safe and ambitious to reach their learning potential. We provide a fun; engaging and stimulating curriculum that ensures all pupils have the opportunity to do their best. We encourage resilience, collaboration, curiosity and self-worth, providing everyone with the skills they need to fulfil their dreams.
Our school aims to be an inclusive school. We actively seek to remove the barriers to learning and participation that can hinder or exclude individual pupils, or groups of pupils.
This means that equality of opportunity must be a reality for our children:
- girls and boys;
- minority ethnic and faith groups;
- children who need support to learn English as an additional language;
- children with special educational needs;
- gifted and talented children;
- children who are vulnerable;
We acknowledge that there may be times when this is impossible or inappropriate, despite our wishes or best efforts.
Information from pupil data and school audit
We currently have a whole range of children of all backgrounds, needs and abilities.
At October 2016:
- asthma
- eczema
- hearing impairment
- diabetes
- rare syndromes
- allergies – including those requiring Epi-Pens
We liaise with parents and professionals involved with the children to ensure we provide the right care for their needs.
All people consulted value the ability of the school to cater for the differing needs of pupils.
The main priorities in the school's plan
We take advice on support needed for children with disabilities and work with experts to ensure they have the support necessary to fully include them in the life of the school.
The action plan ensures that:
- The school draws on the expertise of external agencies to provide specialist advice and support.
- The SENCO has an overview of the needs of disabled pupils.
- There are high expectations.
- There is appropriate deployment and training of learning support staff.
- Successful practice is shared within the school.
- The school works with partner schools.
- Disabled pupils have access to extra-curricular activities.
January 2016-19
Access to the Curriculum
|Actions to achieve target
|Success Criteria
|Lead person
|Review Date
|Increase confidence of all staff in differentiating the curriculum
|Assess staff training needs on curriculum access Assign CPD for differentiation and recording methods
|Raised staff confidence in strategies for differentiation and increased pupil participation
|SENCO/Inclusion Manager/Learning and Teaching Lead
|On-going and as required October 2017 October 2018 October 2019
|Ensure classroom support staff have specific training on disability issues
|Through TA meetings & training Update on Dyslexia Update on how to support HI pupils Annual updates
|Support staff are even more aware and supportive of pupils needs Pupils well supported in lessons and interventions
|SENCO/Inclusion Manager/Learning and Teaching Lead
|On-going and as required Also review annually October 2017 October 2018 October 2019
|Use ICT software to support learning
|Review needs of learners to consider whether any new software or APPs are required to support access to curriculum Consider this in Data Review meetings and Personal Plan reviews
|ICT used where necessary – Clicker, recording devices (voice/visual) etc Pupils can access curriculum fully
|SENCO/Inclusion Manager/Learning and Teaching Lead
|On-going and as required Also review annually October 2017 October 2018 October 2019 Data review meetings
|All educational visits to be accessible to all
|Teachers of pupils with disabilities to plan for access to educational visits. Use LA guidance for planning accessible trips when finalised.
|All pupils with disabilities access school trips successfully
|SENCO/Inclusion Manager
|On-going and as required Also review annually October 2017 October 2018 October 2019
Physical Environment
Denbigh Community Primary School is housed in a purpose built school building. It provides wheelchair access to the main entrance, all Key Stage / Year group entrances, internal doors set at width to accommodate wheelchairs, ramp access to all levels and a disabled toilets are available in KS1 and KS2. There are also accessible toilets in the Early Years and Foundation Stage.
Delivery of information
|Actions to achieve target
|Success Criteria
|Lead person
|Review Date
|Ensure that information on the website can be enlarged and statement on the website if anyone requires information in another format
|Speak to the website team to check and place wording on the website if not already there and obvious. Messages in newsletters as a standing item.
|Stakeholders will know that if necessary, information can be presented to then in alternative formats.
|Inclusion Manager Web site team
|October 2017


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Drag & Drop Tabs From Firefox To Desktop To Create Shortcuts
Bookmarking a page in your browser is one of the most common ways to save a link but it's just as practical to save a link to a folder on your desktop. Not only can you select and open all links at once but you can also delete them just as easily. Drag Tab as Shortcut is a simple Firefox extension that lets you create shortcuts by dragging & dropping tabs on your desktop. Creating shortcuts on your desktop ensures you have less clutter in your bookmarks and that once you're done using them, they can be removed with ease.
Once the extension is installed, select and drag a tab as you would when opening it in a separate window. Instead of opening in the new window, a shortcut to the link will be created on your desktop. Shortcuts can also be created in folders by dragging and dropping the tab on a folder. If you have a folder you want to save multiple links to but it isn't in your local drive, create a shortcut to the folder on your desktop and drag & drop the tabs on the folder shortcut.
You can also drag & drop a tab on to the taskbar and it will be added as a pinned tab in your default browser. The extension can make it easy to share multiple links on chat or email by adding and sending them in a single folder instead of copying and pasting the links from the URL bar.The extension disables the detach and open in new window function for tabs but you can right-click the tab and choose Move to new Window and the tab will open in a new window. You will still be able to drag & drop tabs between windows. Shortcut thumbnails are created from the site's favicon. Remember; you only need your most frequently visited links in your bookmarks bar and not random ones that you save when you're researching something.
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Holiday Celebration December 13
Auburn, NY - Holiday Traditions is an event that was created by the Seward House over 30 years ago as a token of appreciation to the Auburn community. Since that time, other local cultural attractions and sites have opened their doors for free the second Sunday in December for residents to enjoy during the holidays. Now, the "open house" is a tradition and, again this year, participation has expanded to include churches and other non-profit organizations.
Auburn's Historic & Cultural Sites Commission
To ensure communication between the many Holiday Traditions' partners, the City of Auburn's Historic & Cultural Sites Commission coordinates publicity and advertising for this event. The Commission site members include Auburn Public Theater, Auburn Schine's Theater, Cayuga Museum & Case Research Lab, Harriet Tubman Home, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Seward House Museum and Willard Memorial Chapel.
The Cayuga Museum, 203 Genesee Street (315) 253-8051
From Noon - 5PM come visit the Cayuga Museum decorated for the holidays, and enjoy an art quilts display, which complements the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center's "Quilts=Art=Quilts" show next door. This year, the exhibit features new methods of traditional quilting from Watkins Glen quilter Sjoukje Schipstra. The museum's annual Quilt Show will be displayed in the downstairs galleries.
Patterns in Abstract Art will be exhibited in the museum's second floor galleries. This exhibit will feature paintings and prints by Lynne Taetzsch. Lynne is an author and abstract artist from Ithaca. These exhibits will run from November 13, 2009 through January 3, 2010.
The Harriet Tubman Home, 180 South Street (315) 252-2081
Although only open by appointment this time of year, the Harriet Tubman Home will be open from Noon - 5PM. Please call the Home directly for details on that day's program.
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee Street (315) 255-1553
From Noon - 5PMcome tour the 29th annual juried quilts exhibit Quilts=Art=Quilts, on view November 1 - January 10, 2010. This year's exhibition features 88 quilts by 66 artists, showcasing some of the finest examples of contemporary quilting from around the country. The 2009 jurors, Rosalie Dace, Kerr Grabowski & Margo Mensing, chose from 360 entries by 206 quilters and selected quilts for their overall visual impact, design and originality.
Quilt Trunk Show by Pat Pauly, 2PM
Known for her improvisational technique, Pat Pauly uses bold color and unusual juxtapositions of printed and painted fabric in her work. Her frequent lectures and workshops on contemporary art quilts carry the same qualities as her work - energized, spontaneous and definitive. A textile artist since 1981, Pat shows her quilts nationally as well as curates and designs exhibitions of contemporary and historic textiles. She maintains a studio near Rochester, NY.
Seward House Museum, 33 South Street (315) 252-1283
Victorian-style Christmas decorations fill the rooms of Seward House Museum. Throughout the afternoon, between Noon - 5PM, the "Key of C" singers will perform and tours will be given by docents; plus Civil War reenactors will be on site.
Seymour Public Library, 176 - 178 Genesee Street (315) 252-2571
From Noon - 5PM the library will offer tours highlighting the historical aspects of the building, which is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Tours will be given by the Friends of Seymour Library. Staff will be available to provide tours of the Mary Van Sickle Wait History Room. Genealogy experts will conduct tutorials on using library resources to conduct genealogy research, including the use of databases such as ancestory.com, Fulton History and Heritage Quest. Light refreshments will be served, and Christopher Molloy will provide harp music.
St. Francis of Assisi Church, 303 Clark Street (315) 252-7593
The Church, which is celebrating its 102nd anniversary this year, will host a free Auburn Chamber Orchestra holiday concert at 4PM.
St. Mary's, 17 Clark Street (315) 252-6343
St. Mary's will host a holiday Baroque "Musica Transatlantica" choral concert led by Director Colleen Liggert at 3PM followed by refreshments.
Ward O'Hara Agricultural Museum, Route 38A (315) 252-5009
Celebrate Christmas in the 1800s from Noon - 4PM at the Ward O'Hara Agricultural Museum. Enjoy free visits with Christmas animals and decorate your own Christmas cookies. Holiday music, horse-drawn wagon rides and hot mulled cider are also part of the Agricultural Museum's Holiday Traditions' celebration.
Westminster Presbyterian Church, 17 William Street (315) 253-3331
From Noon - 5PM, visitors can view a display of hand-sewn Advent banners that tell the Christmas story in needlework, and tour the historic church. The Cayuga Community College Chorus will be performing its holiday concert at 2PM, and the MasterWorks Chorale performing selections from its holiday concert at 4PM.
Willard Memorial Chapel, 17 Nelson Street (315) 252-0339
The Willard Chapel will host two performances for Holiday Traditions. One by local organist Sandy McNabb, performing holiday selections on the historic Steere & Turner Organ at 1PM and 3PM. Then Auburn's Purple Lancer's Band will perform at 2PM. Chapel tours will be offered throughout the day from Noon - 5PM. The Chapel will be fully decorated, complete with a Victorian Christmas tree.
For more information about Holiday Traditions, call the Cayuga County Office of Tourism at 255-1658. If you have questions regarding a specific venue, please phone them directly.
Join in on the Spirit of "Holiday Traditions"
Dec 03, 2009 by I Love New York Staff


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Mego: In Question
Maybe there is a lineage. Maybe if we dig up scraps of the eminently Austrian Schoenberg, scraps of the idiom-clashing Ives, scraps of Plunderphonic pioneer James Tenney. If we assume that the tone row was really a populist approach to composition and that the integration of popular music into dense dissonances and tape collages was somehow influential on future generations, maybe. Maybe if we imagine that the Velvet Underground were actually the first band to integrate art culture leanings with popular music, maybe. Or if we credit the influence of ecstatic electronic pop music, that somehow accentuated and animated previous conceptions of timbre and form, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Conny Plank, maybe even Joe Meek, for instance. Any other obscuro delight Pierre Schaeffer and Spooky Tooth, or the uneven contours of Lyle Lovetts head, or you know, Buffy St. Maries Illuminations, with all of its electronic ornamentation that might easily slide into Megos roster.
But considering the last stream of releases, that easily traceable history isnt so easily traceable, especially with the decidedly American frame-of-reference given here. Perhaps this is the strong suit a multi-cultural mixed salad and occasional melting pot, in the case of the ever-democratic FennOBerg amalgam, giving enthusiasts exposure to Viennese, Japanese, Australian, Austrian, Finnish, French, American, Italian, British, etc, etc, culture. Maybe the Innsbruck Winter Olympics of 1976 was the motivating factor; a toddler version of Ramon Bauer watching the good sportsmanship of competing nations and victory of Austrian Franz Klammer, the downhill skiing maverick gold-medallist. Or maybe the legendarily progressive School of Music in Vienna was responsible. As we take a look at this third wave of Viennese composers to turn preconceived notions of music completely on their head, there is an overwhelming sense of disorientation, an overwhelming amount of information and possibility. Anything in history could be relevant: millions of fragmented lineages; cultural events; an exchange of words; a limited print-run of an obscure detective novel; a tourist swept away under a bus.
To add to the enormous overload is a gurgling Fuck You iconoclasm lurking beneath the surface. Be it the four days of music on the new Farmers Manual DVD, the painfully irritating cotton candy streams of noise from Heckers work, the splattering, offensive cut-ups from Aleph Empire, the Buffalo Springfield sample on the Return of Fenn OBerg, or QuintetAvants proof that the ever-academic school of French Musique Concrete can just as easily and effectively be improvised, there is a sense of cultural relevance that Mego thrives upon, untouched by other labels, whether the accused are merely too wrapped up in nostalgic pop or simply resorting to releasing those archival reissues of important milestones. Mego even has the antidote to its own agenda in Noriko Tujiko, whose decidedly progressive pop music is by far the most accessible work in the labels catalog.
So, the last set of releases, as mentioned above, have been particularly crucial in setting the bar for challenging music. The releases, Farmers Manuals rla DVD, Aleph Empires 3 Playback Device Confusion Vol. 1, QuintetAvants Floppy Nails LP, Heckers 2 Track 12 12, and Massimos Hello Dirty CD, show Mego finally reaping the artistic freedom of nearly a decade of labor. Everyone partaking in this work is immediately implicated. The ability to experience all of this recorded material suggests some degree of complicity with the corporations that manufacture computers, DVD players, turntables, etc. Fetishistic packaging further commodifies the experience, be it Aleph Empires 3 shaped like a set of turntables or Heckers 12, wrapped in a somewhat vague plastic sleeve, duping DJs who dont know better. There are varying degrees of complexity implied here, but at the very least, a listener will be forced to wonder why a simple booklet tucked neatly into a jewel case has been sufficient artistic communication for the past couple of years.
Yet, lest ye to believe that these endeavors are mere adornment, in fact, the packaging and medium often serve as an initial insight into the work itself. Take for instance QuintetAvants Floppy Nails, an LP-only release dominated by skewered, tongue-in-cheek nostalgia, both in its media format and its willfully kitschy cover depicting a slightly pixilated Osmond family. The music, in turn, is a glorious return to Musique Concrete aesthetics. The ability to transport tangible sounds into a musical context, to manipulate them within a somewhat defined framework (but here, as always with Mego, those boundaries are blurred). Floppy Nails has an important distinction, though, a surprising blind-spot for the forward-thinking avant-gardists of the 50s; the simple addition of improvisation sets QuintetAvant apart from both traditions of tape music. In fact, the tape recorder aesthetics seem to set them apart from most forms of electro-acoustic improvisation, a genre that embraces abstraction more than tangibility.
This is a fundamental point for Mego: its music doesnt aspire to the same lofty goals of spirituality, aesthetic grace and perfection. There are none of the needlessly abstract gestures emblematic of art culture. There is a lucid clarity to Mego. This doesnt necessarily mean the music is somehow easier to digest; rather the releases all seem to have certain, identifiable thematic strengths. The prerequisite seems to be an emphasis on the intellectual over the sensual, though at best, neither is compromised.
rla, Farmers Manuals 4-day long DVD of mp3-encoded music conveniently seems to embody this seemingly paradoxical idea. The Mego website answers the self-posed question How to Deal with this DVD? in the usual deadpan the DVD shall be inserted into your computers DVD drive. To get to the files (mp3, quicktime, pics), just open the index.html from the DVD and load the content to your mp3, quicktime or other player. The truth being that there is no way to deal with this DVD four days of music is simply unprecedented in recorded music. rla is, hands-down, a landmark that will either be greeted with the same reverence as other legendary releases that heralded a new day in music-making, or it will completely dismantle that tradition.
Farmers Manual have always thrived conceptually. FSCK and Exploders_WE are early explorations into the finer points of CD player versatility, namely the precision of time-elapsed displays and randomize buttons, using the format as a springboard to delve into issues of technology and authorship. Yet discussing these ideas in a clear-cut fashion is completely contrary to the experience of hearing Farmers Manual. Their work is a detritus-laden landscape of imperceptible fragments, industrial repetition, and occasional blurts of humor. There is never any firm ground their music ranges from the brash and lazy to the concentrated and surprising, and always remains unsettling. Whereas a group like Kraftwerk slaved over their synthesizers to give the impression that machines did all the work, Farmers Manual seem to be the concluding gesture, music that very literally seems predetermined by the advantages and limitations of machines, and little else.
This is not necessarily the ideal kind of music that one would want in such excess, yet over the course of the DVD there is some marked artistic progress. This is, however, the perfect documentation of Farmers Manuals experiments; an endless stream of information (leaking over to the Internet, where all of the DVDs mp3s are archived, alongside of newer additions).
Mego, therefore, is a label that acknowledges abundance. This explains its affinity for noise. The idea of a perpetual assault, derived from the dregs and subconscious of a wasteful culture emblematic of Merzbows theoretical standpoints, seems to find a new outlet in Mego. More questions stem from this. Are we responsible as guardians of discarded culture? As archivists, when is it time to throw something away? When confronted with the reality of artwork liberated from restrictions of time, space, and economics, how do we respond?
Aleph Empires Playback Confusion Vol. 1 is charged by these issues as well, though perhaps his execution isnt quite as subtle as Farmers Manual. Empires 3 CD is reminiscent of cut-up collage-period John Zorn, with the exception, or rather inclusion, of the electronic music culture that Zorn was blind to as a composer (for further evidence see Zorns Songs from the Hermetic Theater). Abrasive, bloody, and perhaps embodying the virulent extreme of Megos combative stance, Playback Confusion Vol. 1 uses noise similarly to Tochnit Aleph labelmates Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock and precedents like Whitehouse, implementing sensory assaults through dynamics, but more so through the unsettling content. Whitehouse, even more than Merzbow, whom in retrospect comes across as somewhat academic as of late, showed that music was not as safe and comfortable as people seemed to think it was, that the lewdness of Purple Rain was hardly up to par with porn films and fascist propaganda. To some degree, this restores some actual potency to the lofty abstractions of music, yet as Empires CD concludes with a mocking cabaret number about concentration camps, When I was young, I was happy / Till some Nazis killed my Daddy, the nature of this kind of provocation seems ambiguous.
Heckers 12 effectively rankles in the more traditional sense, and essentially in the exact same vein as Sun Pandämonium. Superficially, its unsettling noise. Yet, Hecker doesnt conform to any of the standard noise clichés. There isnt just an abundance of filtered white noise or high-pitched frequencies; instead, Hecker takes tones and emphasizes higher-end, dissonant harmonics that are unmitigated in their unpleasantness, and then proceeds to layer these types of sonorities, sliding them up and down with a sense of aimless abandon. A co-release with Australian record label, Synaesthesia, this 12 is certainly one of the less essentially Mego releases, showing Hecker to be relatively complacent, stylistically, and will hopefully be offset by his upcoming collaboration with CD-damaging pioneer Yasunao Tone.
And speaking of CDs, the most recent release from Mego that the majority of people have the equipment to hear was released nearly six months ago. Massimos crushing Hello Dirty comes across as a pretty summation of the recent Mego agenda, beautifully tying the knot between the noisy junk erotic subconscious and the synonymously sensuality of rock n roll scorn. Hello Dirty is noises Presence, an onslaught of overwhelming velocity with a lurking, ominous suggestion of sexuality. Whereas Megos other releases certainly arent as hormonal, the recent batch has certainly been as confrontational, giving some contention to the predominant complacency of music.
Megos most lauded releases, Endless Summer, Sheer Hellish Miasma, and both of Noriko Tujikos successes concurrently have follow ups on other labels; Touch, Hanson, and Tomlab, respectively. Yet, all of these releases, be it Drumms Land of Lurches or Noriko Tujikos From Toyko to Niagara, show artists refining their experiments. Mego has somehow managed to avoid refinement for over seven years now, and perhaps there is no better compliment to pay to it.
By Matt Wellins