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Chicago is the perfect place to learn English and start your career on the global stage. Stafford House Chicago is located on South Michigan Avenue, steps away from a number of different attractions like the famous Bean, Grant Park, Buckingham Fountain, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Shedd Aquarium. Conveniently accessible by public transportation, there's no part of Chicago you can't experience easily from our English school.
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Stafford House Chicago offers a range of accommodation options. Whether you would prefer to live independently in a student residence, or with an English speaking family, we have a flexible accommodation option for you.
Living with a family in the Chicago area is a unique way to experience American traditions and culture first-hand. You will practice your English language skills with real Americans every day. If you would like to stay in a homestay, you are placed with a trusted family in the Chicago area. Each family is carefully screened and interviewed. We have single rooms or rooms with roommates. Families provide you with breakfast and dinner every week (14 meals). Most host families are located within 40-60 minutes of Stafford House by public transportation.
At Stafford House we do all we can to ensure we match you with your perfect homestay. If you wish to truly experience American culture by staying at one of our homestays, please allow us 4 weeks before you arrive at the school to arrange your accommodation to ensure we can find a homestay experience best suited to you.
Be inspired every day in the historic Automatic Lofts building with exposed brick walls, high factory ceilings and an unbeatable location in the trendy West Loop neighborhood. The Automatic Lofts are co-ed apartments with private bedrooms and shared bathrooms which can accommodate up to four people within the entire apartment. Student bedrooms are connected to spacious common areas and a shared kitchenette.
Located in Chicago's affluent Lincoln Park neighborhood, the Chicago Getaway Hostel is rewriting the house rules on hostel style. With lots of coffeehouses, restaurants, bars and local attractions Chicago Getaway Hostel is in the heart of the action. Close by to Lincoln park with its zoo and conservatory, there will be plenty to keep you occupied at the weekend. The school is just 25 minutes away by public transport.
Located in the heart of downtown Chicago in a vibrant university district, Hostelling International Chicago offers comfortable and contemporary accommodation in an historic building. Rooms are Single ( up to 8 people in an apartment) or Shared (up to 4 people in a room. Located in the downtown center, 2 blocks away from the school, Hostelling International gives you access to the best of Chicago!
All of our teachers hold teaching qualifications ranging from certificate to diploma level and are committed to continuous development and share our passion for learning English with our students.
Student Advisor
Brandon is the Student Advisor overseeing housing and student activities. He supports students with their accommodations, new student orientation, student outreach and event planning, and adjusting to life in Chicago. He's especially dedicated to ensuring our students have the best experience possible, turning Chicago novices into true Chicago experts!
Director of Studies
Dustin has worked in ESL for many years as a teacher, teacher trainer, and academic supervisor; he has been at the Chicago school since 2006. His job is to take care of all of the teachers, classes and students and make sure they have what they need to succeed. He loves to see students get inspired and excited to learn.
Student Services Manager/PDSO
Mariah is the Student Advisor/ PDSO at Stafford House Chicago. Mariah assists students with visa and program related services upon arrival in Chicago. She can relate to the international student experience as she has studied in both Canada and Spain. Mariah is passionate about international education and enjoys learning about the world through the eyes of her students.
Center Director
Megan Guimon is the Center Director in Chicago. She has lead the largest Stafford House School in the US for more than three years. Her commitment to education and multicultural experiences has helped create a welcoming and fun environment in the Chicago school.
Assistant Director of Studies
Tom Swietlik is our Assistant Director of Studies and teaches our Business English class. Tom has an MFA in Communications from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a CELTA certification from International House, and almost 20 years of teaching experience. He is an expert at delivering highly structured lessons that get students speaking about complex topics confidently and accurately. In his spare time, he enjoys making, repairing and playing guitars and ukuleles.
Aldo Pacini comes from Chicago. He has lived in Italy and is fluent in Italian and French, and he has been teaching English in the US since 2004. He is expert at making students feel comfortable in class and improving their confidence to speak English.
Brian Kopinski is originally from Grand Rapids, MI. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in English and is also CELTA certified. He has been teaching English around the world since 2011. He loves films, food, and sports. His motto is: "Try your best to take in everything - the good and the bad - and appreciate it all. Then make fun of it."
Donna Pitz has over 20 years of professional experience in international training, teaching, and leadership and has been teaching Professional Certificates at Stafford House for 2 years. She enjoys meeting students from all over the world and teaching them about American business, its strategies and culture. Her many years of professional work provide her with insight to draw from and share with students.
Erick Hernandez is from Chicago. He's fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and enjoys playing guitar, traveling, dj'ing, drawing and painting and listening to music. He can equally balance all aspects of an effective lesson (structure, production and fun) and get students to participate in an effective way.
Jeremy George is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He taught English in South Korea and Japan for several years before moving to Chicago. He thinks Chicago is the greatest city in the USA. He's very interested in world history, as well as being an expert in Marvel super hero movies, Lego building blocks, and Lord of the Rings.
Jon Etes has a BA in English Literature and is TEFL and CELTA certified to teach English. His areas of strength are language and grammar skills but also literature, writing, art, and photography. He has been teaching at Stafford House Chicago since 2011.
Steve Arnold has been teaching English for more than 15 years. He has taught in Japan and travelled extensively through most of Asia. Steve always encourages his students to explore Chicago and absorb the culture.
Trey Eckles is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. He has visited most of the countries in Western and Central Europe, Peru and Mexico and has been a language learner of Spanish, Czech, and Slovak. Trey first started teaching ESL overseas in 1999 and also has experience as a program administrator. He believes in instilling in his students a growth mindset: if you work hard, you can achieve great things.
It takes more than time in a classroom to learn English and our Social Programmes provide that extra experience that is so crucial to full fluency. Our Activity Leaders are passionate about Chicago and take students on activities designed to show off the special aspects of this great city, allowing students to fully immerse in, and experience, their new home.
| Price: Free!
Meeting point: Student Lounge
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Meeting point: Peggy Notebaert Museum
| Price: $19
Meeting point: 332 S Michigan Lobby
| Price: $57
Meeting point: Briar Street Theater
Meeting point: 4700 N Lincoln Avenue
Meeting point: 10300 S Western Avenue
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A healthy mix is key to students progression in English language and at Stafford House we are proud of a wide nationality mix across all our centres.
To browse our student stories, click on their profile image below to read detailed student profiles.
The part I liked most was learning about business language, self-promotion and the opportunity to work with native speakers. I also refined my skills with computer software.
My English experience in Chicago is complete. Here I can live in one of the biggest and greatest cities in the world, explore the diversity that only metropolitans can provide without giving up of living the real American culture. The city is home of many historical places and is a vibrant part of the American history. Stafford House allows me to make my English classes much more than lessons inside the classroom - they give me great opportunities to understand and experience the culture while I learn the language.
I am from Thailand. I have spent four months at Stafford house, and all staff is very helpful and generous to help me improve my English skills. I have gone to TOEFL Class and Business English Class. I learned a lot of skills such as reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It helps me to deal with the TOEFL exam but I also learn how I can use those skills that I have learned in everyday life. The business class is very interesting because it has a new interesting topic every week. I have an opportunity to make friends coming from other countries. A teacher is very helpful and always encourages me to speak English in and out classroom. There are a lot of interesting activities going on every week such as a restaurant tour, going to museums around Chicago, watching a movie, special activities, etc. Finally, all the staff and teachers are willing to encourage you to improve your English. I am looking forward to seeing you at Stafford House Chicago,
I'm from Taiwan. I graduated from Business Administration last year. I decided to participate in CPA course because I wanted to learn America business culture and improve my resume with an American work experience with the goal to find a better job when I go back to my country or find a job in China or U.S.
Staying with a host family was the best experience for me. Living with a family helped speed up my learning process, because we talked a lot during dinners.
I chose to participate in Career Preparation Activity because I wanted to improve my resume with an American work experience with the goal to find a better job in Journalism. My favorite experience was the networking events because it was the first time for me that I had the opportunity to work in the field of public relations and events and I'd always wanted to.
Chicago is a great city to live and experience new diverse culture. My English skills improve a lot through the classes that Stafford House provides. Now, I'm in TOEFL class, where we get solid practice in the class every day. I feel that my English is a lot better now than on the first day of class. The teacher provides us with different materials, not only from the textbook but also CNN news, TED, etc., so we learn more than rules from the textbook. We learn to prepare for TOEFL from real world examples and situations. It's a great class!
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TOEFL class not just helps you to get a high score in the test, it is also a great opportunity to improve your skills in reading, listening and speaking. The teacher will give you all the tools to recognize all kind of questions that you will see in the test and will give you different techniques which would help you to improve your abilities and make you faster and efficient.
I didn't have any knowledge about Project Management so I was really nervous before I studied in this class. But I realized that the teacher and classmates help me a lot. The class was really pleasant and it was not only useful for my career path and daily life but also it was a good chance to work with other international students. I practiced how to present in public places, how to do a project, how to communicate, etc. Moreover, the friendships that I have made with staff, teachers, and other students from Stafford House make them my lovely family in the United States.
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As part of the Project Management Program not only did I enjoy the course and the challenges it posed, but the program has significantly increased my knowledge and in turn my confidence. Studying in a multicultural environment has enhanced my communication skills, enriched my life experience, reinforcing my personal growth. Every class, professor and classmate has contributed to my rich education. I am thankful for what Stafford house stands for and I have no hesitation in recommending this course to others considering undertaking it.
The most beneficial part of participating in the Career Preparation Activity was learning how to work abroad and learning English in a different way. This experience will help me be confident when I apply to companies in the future.
I am a college student from Japan. I took a year off from my university to study abroad. I am taking Professional Certificates as regular classes along with CPA elective. I chose CPA to improve my resume and to experience an American workplace. I think it will help me when I look for a job because I wish to work for an international company in the future and it is good to know what American workplace is as well as how a global company works.
Through this working experience at Blackstone Group, I learned a lot. My tasks were not the same everyday. They gave me many different tasks with different people so that I could do wide range of work and interact with many people. I also appreciate their supportive attitudes. They brought me interesting tasks and gave me helpful feedback on my work such as report writing and email to clients. Also when I was in marketing class at intrax someone in the market department shared their marketing plans with me and when I was in project management class I was working with a project team so I could make connections between what I learned in class and what is happening in the actual business world.
I work for a pharmaceutical company in Japan and study in Chicago for several months to improve my English. The reason why I applied CPA program is because I wanted to practice English more with native speakers and to have a working experience in an American company or organization. As I work for the pharmaceutical industry, I looked for a company or organization related to healthcare. Although there were few options, I got a opportunity to work with Imerman Angels fortunately. My ordinary responsibilities were to support management of donation, the list of volunteer contact, and brochure requests from people who are interested in our activities. Coworkers are very kind and they accepted what I wanted to do. I asked them to let me join some social events (Brunch Run/Walk 5K, Sweet Treat Socials, Wings of Hope Gala, and Lunch & Learn). Especially in the events called "Socials" in our organization, I visited some hospitals and talked with some healthcare professionals and many cancer fighters and caregivers. I'm impressed by their mission and activities. These experiences must be helpful to work in the healthcare industry around the world.
I'm Spanish graduated in Business Management and Marketing, with 10 years of professional experience in Sales, Marketing and PR areas. I took the CPA program because I wanted to improve my English in a real professional English environment.
I had the opportunity to work on a variety of dynamic projects, observing numerous aspects of Marketing, PR, and Communication. From preparing presentations for potential investors, researching information about hospitality groups in Chicago and different conferences and workshops around US, updating their partner database thru phone calls, writing articles about actuality issues related with entrepreneurial and law aspects, preparing possible questions for different speakers in workshops, writing a welcome letter to participants upcoming events and taking part in different internal and external meetings. At the same time, I had the possibility of learning about the US professional culture and the differences respect to Europe. But, now, the most important thing to me is all of these things have increased my self self confidence and adds important value to my resume.
Chicago is a diverse city, so I had many chances to communicate with people who have different backgrounds. The knowledges that I got there helps me to be more active in classes at University now.
We have a range of programmes to suit all english levels. You can count on our experienced teachers to empower and guide you through your journey in English, they go the extra mile to immerse you in their language and culture.
The Essential programme consists of the Core Course in the morning.
Standard General English, Business and Exam preparation programmes consist of the Core Course in the morning plus one module. There will be no classes on Friday afternoon
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I've used bakeqtpi.bash (from gitorious repo), but it fails with during qtquick1 build:
qdeclarativeview_plugin.h:45:53: fatal error: QtDesigner/QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface: No such file or directory
I'm not quite sure how to fix this.
Is bakeqtpi.bash still the right method to generate an image supporting Qt5 for the RaspberryPi, or is there already a pre-built image available somewhere?
Thank you.
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This guy have some pre-built packages in his repository that you can install with apt-get (or aptitude or whatever you chose) on the Pi.
Even webkit works if you change depth of framebuffer first. ( fbset -depth 24 )

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XVIII Conference of the International Association of Health Policy in Europe, 21-24 September 2017, Thessaloniki – GreeceSubmitted by admin on Mon, 11/14/2016 - 21:04.
XVIII Conference of the International Association of Health Policy in Europe, 21-24 September 2017, Thessaloniki-Greece
European health policies in the era of capitalist crisis and restructuring
Call for Support to the Academicians Threatened by Prison in TurkeySubmitted by admin on Fri, 06/24/2016 - 11:49.
Call for Support to the Academicians Threatened by Prison
Turkish scholars have been subject to heavy pressures and constraints since the declaration of the petition "We'll not be a part of this crime" launched by the Academicians for Peace initiative in mid-January. In Mersin, a middle-sized city on the Mediterranean Coast, this climate of pressure has been experienced in an accentuated manner as the twenty-one petitioners of the city's University have since then faced very serious threats and sanctions.
La Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social manifiesta su indignación ante el asesinato de profesores en Oaxaca, México.Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/24/2016 - 11:41.
Oppose the persecussion of turkish academicsSubmitted by admin on Fri, 03/18/2016 - 16:20.
IAHPE is expressing its serious concern regarding the agravation of the situation in Turkey
Statement in memory of Dr. Quentin Young, 1923 - 2016Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/09/2016 - 19:02.
The following statement was released today by Dr. Robert Zarr, president of Physicians for a National Health Program:
Dr. Quentin D. Young, who served as national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program from 1992-2014, and who also served the organization's past president, died on March 7 in Berkeley, Calif., where he had been under the watchful eyes and care of his daughters and other family members. He was 92.
En defensa de la democracia y apoyo al pueblo BrasileroSubmitted by admin on Tue, 03/08/2016 - 23:46.
In Defense of the Autonomy and Institutionality of the Universidad Andina Simon BolivarSubmitted by admin on Fri, 02/19/2016 - 11:42.
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In prepared slow cooker stoneware, combine soy milk, water, oats, cherries, 1/2 cup (125 mL) of the maple syrup, salt and allspice.
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BYOD: Bring-Your-Own-Device to Work…But Don't Expect Much Security
Jun 24, 2011
Consumerization of IT is one of the major forces shifting the way office workers and organizations operate. Although still in its infancy, we can already see the effects of consumers bringing in personal devices and using personal online services within the workplace. And thanks to tech-savvy Generation Y'ers and Z'ers (born with iPod-in-hand), the consumerization-of-IT trend is only going to grow, and rapidly at that.
Because PCs have been the standard computing device for quite some time, an organization's IT department is able to easily administer access and information between a desktop computer and a company network. Today, the line differentiating work devices and personal devices is rather fuzzy, and the line between how those devices are used is even fuzzier. An organization's IT department now has to juggle multiple mobile devices where the majority of them are not company-owned.
In the InfoTrends' Mobile Knowledge Workers: Emerging Opportunities (US) study, we found that almost 64% of respondents purchased a Smartphone or mobile device that they used for business themselves.  Furthermore, participants used handheld portable electronic devices, including iPads, tablets, and Smartphones, for business more than 50% of the time (Figure 1). In addition, over 65% of respondents completely or somewhat agreed that mobile technology enabled them to better manage work/personal activities and that mobile technology enabled them to get more work done.Â
Figure 1: Approximately what percentage of the time that you spend using the following devices is for business versus personal use?
Workers use laptops, tablets, and Smartphones to network and collaborate with colleagues and clients. Mobile apps and cloud computing further fuel the way consumers operate within a this-is-how-I-work environment. So an IT department is stuck as the middle-man between ensuring an organization's infrastructure is secured via remote access while maintaining employee productivity/satisfaction by enabling personal-device use.
And as office workers continue to out-influence IT departments, should organizations just go-with-the-flow? After all, employees are more productive, and bringing in personal devices saves the company money. Sounds perfect, right?
Although nowadays it's common for employees to have better technology at home than at work, and for employees to require and expect anytime, anywhere access with the use of personal devices, that does not translate to organizations simply allowing it. Because then who and what is at risk?
Considering IT departments are primarily held responsible for an organization's infrastructure and personal mobile technology use is on the rise, it comes as no surprise that nearly 50% of IT respondents considered security to be the single most significant challenge to implementing mobile devices within their organizations. And I don't blame them given their current referee status.
What exacerbates this issue is the ease of accessibility to corporate networks combined with non-existent or minimal mobile computing strategies/policies within the workplace. Seventy percent of IT respondents reported that employees had remote access to company servers/data as their roles demanded, and 28% reported that everybody has access regardless of their position within the company. Among those companies who granted their employees remote access, 54% allow employees to access the corporate network via their personal devices (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Does your company allow employees to access the corporate network via personal devices?Â
Mobile access to company data from personal devices isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it can become a dangerous one if it's not done in a proper, secure way. And with over 50% of employees accessing company information from their personal device, lack of security could quickly spiral into an abundance of violations. So how many organizations are taking the necessary steps to ensure a safe and secure personal mobile-access experience? Not enough.
Glancing at Figure 3 below, you'd think that enterprises are doing a fairly decent job with implementing some type of security policy. And sure, about 66% of larger enterprises are on-board. But smaller organizations are at a huge risk by not having any type of security policy in place, which is even worse because they most likely do not have the financial capabilities to recover from a serious security breach of information. Although some organizations are getting it, many others are not, and they should be implementing these types of policies at a faster rate.
Figure 3: Has your company implemented any security policies or procedures related to the use of smartphones or mobile devices?
Of course employees shouldn't be forbidden from bringing in their Smartphone or tablet and syncing it up with their company's IT infrastructure and corporate network, but what needs to be put into place are IT policies combined with enterprise adaptability. And given the discrepancy between the rate at which consumerization of IT is growing and the rate at which organizations are adapting (only 26% of IT respondents say they already have a mobile computing strategy in place), organizations are lagging which signals a red flag in the area of security.
Considering 60% of IT respondents expect the number of mobile knowledge workers to increase in the next two years, the time is now for organizations of all types to seriously start looking at and implementing mobile device security policies that protect their employees, their IT department, and their data.
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BAXTER-An 82-year-old Pillager man was injured Friday, May 10, when the Ford Escape he was driving crashed into the median and went into the ditch on Highway 210 at Meredith Drive in Baxter.
The Baxter Police Department reported Robert L. Marshall was transported by North Memorial Ambulance to Essentia Health-St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd, where he was treated and released.
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Faro is offering a free webinar – Tuesday, May 25th from 2:00pm – 3:00 pm EST on rapid prototyping. The event includes a speaker from Pratt and Miller Engineering – a company based in Michigan that is heavily involved with corvette racing. If you take the 360 degree tour of their showroom you will see what I mean.
If you are a car nut and want to learn more about rapid prototyping this is a must.


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Multi-tasking, multi-linguist, hyper-intelligent, super-human people-pleaser.
Vlieger & Vandam comprise Carolien and Hein (respectively), a Dutch husband-and-wife team who's happy union was the result of a friend's casual match-making exploits. This cupidinous friend may well be eligible for a hefty finders' fee, considering the astronomical success of her little project both romantically (they married last year), and creatively. They now produce 2 collections a year, their products sell in over 50 boutiques around the world, and their much-loved Guardian Angel bag was added to MoMA's permanent collection in 2006.
Neither of them studied fashion, and perhaps that is why they have managed to corner a niche for high design, quality bags which combine irresistable tongue-in-cheek statements with practical usability and an across-the-board appeal.
I had the pleasure of meeting with them at their Rotterdam home / workshop, for some tea and biscuits, and a little chat.
We started with the inspiration for their Guardian Angel series as they explained (possibly not for the first time) how on moving to Rotterdam in 2002, they noticed the local media's focus on the threat of violence in the streets, villainising the city's immigrant communities. Says Carolien, "the bags were more a reaction to the media angle than to anything we experienced ourselves. We thought it was kind of over-reacted, a way to make people feel unsafe… We never expected to go on with the Guardian Angel bags for so long!"
Guardian Angel, "Messenger"/"Classic", Spring / Summer 2008
Indeed, the bags which feature embossed guns and knives in wool felt, were an instant hit and propelled the couple into the fashion stratosphere. Since then, says Hein "We change the shape of the bag a little bit and we change the colours every season". But Guardian Angel-fatigue is setting in for the pair. "We're kind of fed up with the gun and the knife", continues Carolien, "because we wanna go on and make other things… right now, finally, with the new collection, Camee, different clients are showing enthusiasm for our new stuff at last".
Camee, "Charlot"/"Moustache", 2008
The Camee series, debuted in January 2008 at the revered Premiere Classe fair in Paris, features minimal bust portraits in stark felt wool colours laid into the leather bags. Inspired by the portraits and landscapes of American pop(ish) artist Alex Katz, it also echoes an early experimental series of Vlieger & Vandam hats. Says Hein, "We made some hats some time ago, "Hair-wear" also of wool felt, in the shape of hair – and also one in the shape of a beard. And these bags are actually based on those hats we made. We wanted to re-introduce the hats, together with the new Camee bags. So it was a coming together of the colours inspired byAlex Katz plus the hats idea… ".
Carolien and Hein studied graphic design and 3D design respectively, but that didn't stop them diving headlong into the fashion world at the earliest opportunity. Rather than wasting time researching the complications of bagology, "we used second-hand handbags, cutting the tops off and attaching our felt design onto the clasp or zipper of the second-hand bag. We didn't know how to make bags, so we just cut the complicated part off the second-hand pieces and attached our own gun and knife designs!" explains Hein. And thus was born the first Vlieger & Vandam classic.
After showing the early Guardian Angel designs in an Amsterdam exhibition, they ventured to the States with a range of samples. Receiving warm, positive reactions from a bevvie of boutique-owners in the world's most critical city, New York, gave them the confidence to go into production proper.
GMT Charms (black), Autumn / Winter 2008-2009
They followed their hugely successful debut with an adorable line of smaller bags or travel "charms", the GMT series. Combining the relevance of Greenwich Mean Time for globe-trotters, with the three essentials for any sassy traveller: Glasses, Music and Tickets. Explains Hein, "GMT Charms is a collection of small bags: a glasses case, a name card holder and a mini pochette for your iPod or camera. All parts are detachable and can be connected to each other in different ways using the shoulder and wrist straps." They have since added full-size travel cases GMT Large and GMT Tote to the collection, with straps to connect the smaller charm pieces.
"Guardian Angel Collection", Vlieger & Vandam's original collection from 2002 made with the second-hand bags.
It wasn't long before their unique, witty inventions have led them all the way to the MoMA, who exhibited the Guardian Angel bag as part of the new wing's inaugural Safe, Design Takes on Risks exhibition in 2005. And following the show, the museum added the bag to its permanent collection. On the subject of career highlights, the beaming duo adds, "we're very proud of the fact that the Droog Design flagship store in Amsterdam will carry our GMT Charms this season."
Despite the ever-growing demand for Vlieger & Vandam products, their manufacturing process remains resolutely lo-tech. "We bought a really old hat-making press which heats the aluminium mould, and then he presses the negative with a pedal. We use moulded wool felt, making it wet, like hat-makers, then we wet the felt and press it," says Carolien. In perfect synchronicity they enthuse, "we love using felt, it's not a complicated material… It's very adaptable and we like the range of colours available".
Daschund Snow White, Autumn / Winter 2008-2009
The fluency with which they finish each others' sentences and seem to nod in agreement when either one of them speaks, sparks the question: what if Carolien's creative vision is vastly out of sync with Hein's – or vice versa?
Carolien replies, "it doesn't happen a lot, but if it happens then we understand why the other one wants to have it like that. I can't think of any incidents though… We always agree, it's never 'damnit, I want to have it like this.'" Hein seamlessly adds, "we just start making drawings and talking about things, it goes in a certain direction. If she really likes an idea, then she just keep on talking about it until I'm convinced – or the other way around. But for all the bags so far, we are both doing the designing."
And the fringe benefits of being married at work?
"We love living and working together, it's great that we get to share all the design fun and the struggle building up our brand. Sometimes when the struggle is hard we can concentrate together on making the best decisions and when things are exactly going as we want, or when unexpected chances are appearing we can enjoy it together", says Hein. He adds, "our collection is mostly based on our own experiences in daily life or on things we see or read. Because our lives are so much intertwined with our business, the collection is very personal and close to us."
Amazingly, the two of them still run the empire entirely by themselves doing everything from creation, production and distribution to press, promotion and sales. So – multi-talented. multi-tasking, multi-linguist, hyper-intelligent, super-human people-pleaser if you're reading this: Vlieger & Vandam are hiring in 2008!
Vlieger & Vandam
Address: Betje Wolffstraat 60, 3027 RN Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31(0)10 4677699
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haplotypecaller_gvcf_gatk4 failed to delocalize files
I was running haplotypecaller_gvcf_gatk4 for four samples in the same workspace. All but one finished the analysis. Message for the failed sample (all 50 shards) is as the following,
Task HaplotypeCallerGvcf_GATK4.HaplotypeCaller:5:1 failed. Job exit code 1. Check gs://fc-8da20bb3-0689-423f-b94b-8c196afd7a82/17ad2991-dab2-45c7-a68f-d5a31995f9c4/HaplotypeCallerGvcf_GATK4/5c9a1b93-7f39-424f-950e-70542e19e0b1/call-HaplotypeCaller/shard-5/HaplotypeCaller-5-stderr.log for more information. PAPI error code 5. Message: 10: Failed to delocalize files: failed to copy the following files: "/mnt/local-disk/HB3hg382.g.vcf.gz -> gs://fc-8da20bb3-0689-423f-b94b-8c196afd7a82/17ad2991-dab2-45c7-a68f-d5a31995f9c4/HaplotypeCallerGvcf_GATK4/5c9a1b93-7f39-424f-950e-70542e19e0b1/call-HaplotypeCaller/shard-5/HB3hg382.g.vcf.gz (cp failed: gsutil -q -m cp -L /var/log/google-genomics/out.log /mnt/local-disk/HB3hg382.g.vcf.gz gs://fc-8da20bb3-0689-423f-b94b-8c196afd7a82/17ad2991-dab2-45c7-a68f-d5a31995f9c4/HaplotypeCallerGvcf_GATK4/5c9a1b93-7f39-424f-950e-70542e19e0b1/call-HaplotypeCaller/shard-5/HB3hg382.g.vcf.gz, command failed: CommandException: No URLs matched: /mnt/local-disk/HB3hg382.g.vcf.gz\nCommandException: 1 file/object could not be transferred.\n)"
Please help.
Thanks a lot.
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KateN Cambridge, MA admin
That's an excellent question. I'm consulting with our GATK experts right now to double-check the scientific validity of combining the two runs, and I will let you know as soon as I know.
Geraldine_VdAuwera Cambridge, MA admin
Hi @mychung3265, you shouldn't need to merge the fastqs, and in fact you'll get better speed performance if you don't and instead process the data from those runs as separate read groups. However you should make sure that when you're adding the read group metadata, the SM value is the same for all of them. That's what GATK will use to identify whether your data belongs to a single or multiple samples.
So that error message, while long and complex looking, is actually telling you to open up a certain file for more information.
Check gs://fc-8da20bb3-0689-423f-b94b-8c196afd7a82/17ad2991-dab2-45c7-a68f-d5a31995f9c4/HaplotypeCallerGvcf_GATK4/5c9a1b93-7f39-424f-950e-70542e19e0b1/call-HaplotypeCaller/shard-5/HaplotypeCaller-5-stderr.log for more information.
When you open that file, it should have a message giving you further information about why your workflow failed.
Thank you for pointing out the stderr.log.
I cannot tell what went wrong from the file. (arguments at the end omitted)
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Djava.io.tmpdir=/cromwell_root/tmp.yGGSSl
01:51:51.886 INFO NativeLibraryLoader - Loading libgkl_compression.so from jar:file:/gatk/build/install/gatk/lib/gkl-0.8.3.jar!/com/intel/gkl/native/libgkl_compression.so
01:51:52.308 INFO HaplotypeCaller - ------------------------------------------------------------
01:51:52.308 INFO HaplotypeCaller - The Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) v184.108.40.206
01:51:52.308 INFO HaplotypeCaller - For support and documentation go to https://software.broadinstitute.org/gatk/
01:51:52.309 INFO HaplotypeCaller - Executing as [email protected] on Linux v4.9.0-0.bpo.5-amd64 amd64
01:51:52.309 INFO HaplotypeCaller - Java runtime: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM v1.8.0_131-8u131-b11-2ubuntu1.16.04.3-b11
01:51:52.309 INFO HaplotypeCaller - Start Date/Time: February 22, 2018 1:51:51 AM UTC
01:51:52.309 INFO HaplotypeCaller - ------------------------------------------------------------
01:51:52.309 INFO HaplotypeCaller - ------------------------------------------------------------
01:51:52.310 INFO HaplotypeCaller - HTSJDK Version: 2.14.1
01:51:52.310 INFO HaplotypeCaller - Picard Version: 2.17.2
01:51:52.310 INFO HaplotypeCaller - HTSJDK Defaults.COMPRESSION_LEVEL : 1
01:51:52.310 INFO HaplotypeCaller - HTSJDK Defaults.USE_ASYNC_IO_READ_FOR_SAMTOOLS : false
01:51:52.311 INFO HaplotypeCaller - HTSJDK Defaults.USE_ASYNC_IO_WRITE_FOR_SAMTOOLS : true
01:51:52.311 INFO HaplotypeCaller - HTSJDK Defaults.USE_ASYNC_IO_WRITE_FOR_TRIBBLE : false
01:51:52.311 INFO HaplotypeCaller - Deflater: IntelDeflater
01:51:52.311 INFO HaplotypeCaller - Inflater: IntelInflater
01:51:52.311 INFO HaplotypeCaller - GCS max retries/reopens: 20
01:51:52.311 INFO HaplotypeCaller - Using google-cloud-java patch 6d11bef1c81f885c26b2b56c8616b7a705171e4f from https://github.com/droazen/google-cloud-java/tree/dr_all_nio_fixes
01:51:52.311 INFO HaplotypeCaller - Initializing engine
01:51:53.038 INFO IntervalArgumentCollection - Processing 58696488 bp from intervals
01:51:53.051 INFO HaplotypeCaller - Done initializing engine
01:51:53.142 INFO HaplotypeCallerEngine - Standard Emitting and Calling confidence set to 0.0 for reference-model confidence output
01:51:53.142 INFO HaplotypeCallerEngine - All sites annotated with PLs forced to true for reference-model confidence output
01:51:53.143 INFO HaplotypeCaller - Shutting down engine
[February 22, 2018 1:51:53 AM UTC] org.broadinstitute.hellbender.tools.walkers.haplotypecaller.HaplotypeCaller done. Elapsed time: 0.02 minutes.
USAGE: HaplotypeCaller [arguments]
Call germline SNPs and indels via local re-assembly of haplotypes
Required Arguments:.....
stderr.log for samples completed the run had the following log after "HaplotypeCallerEngine - All sites annotated with PLs forced to true for reference-model confidence output"
07:36:30.908 INFO NativeLibraryLoader - Loading libgkl_utils.so from jar:file:/gatk/build/install/gatk/lib/gkl-0.8.3.jar!/com/intel/gkl/native/libgkl_utils.so
07:36:30.972 INFO NativeLibraryLoader - Loading libgkl_pairhmm_omp.so from jar:file:/gatk/build/install/gatk/lib/gkl-0.8.3.jar!/com/intel/gkl/native/libgkl_pairhmm_omp.so
07:36:31.053 WARN IntelPairHmm - Flush-to-zero (FTZ) is enabled when running PairHMM
07:36:31.054 INFO IntelPairHmm - Available threads: 2
07:36:31.054 INFO IntelPairHmm - Requested threads: 4
07:36:31.054 WARN IntelPairHmm - Using 2 available threads, but 4 were requested
instead of "HaplotypeCaller - Shutting down engine"
Does the WARNing explain why libgkl_utils.so was not loaded and the engine was shut down?
Would you share the workspace with [email protected]? I'd like to take a look at your stderr log. They're often quite verbose, particularly if the line you're looking for isn't one you've seen before.
I will also need the name of the workspace as well as the submission ID and workflow ID for the particular submission/workflow you are seeing this error on.
Hi Kate,
I've shared the workspace, fccredits-curium-ecru-4604/Germline-SNPs-Indels-GATK4-hg38_copy.
Submission ID: b2c0147e-008b-4492-a888-d9a5aa76f165
workflow ID: f03eea47-d055-4693-8c84-4eff29d176a9
Thank you!
Thank you for your patience; I've had a chance to look through your workspace, and I found the following error:
A USER ERROR has occurred: Argument --emitRefConfidence has a bad value: Can only be used in single sample mode currently. Use the sample_name argument to run on a single sample out of a multi-sample BAM file.
This error was in the stderr file for each of your sharded HaplotypeCaller calls. It would appear that the reason your run failed was because you ran the workflow on a multi-sample BAM. The error message above describes how you can either alter the WDL (the method) to use the
sample_nameargument, or you can split your multi-sample BAM into single-sample BAMs and re-run the workflow on each of those BAMs.
Hi Kate,
Thank you for replying. The sample HB3 is a single sample with 19 paired fastq files from two runs due to insufficient reads in the first run. Would this result in being recognized as a mutli-sample BAM file?
Should I merge the R1 reads and R2 reads prior to paired-end mapping?
Thanks again!
That's an excellent question. I'm consulting with our GATK experts right now to double-check the scientific validity of combining the two runs, and I will let you know as soon as I know.
Geraldine_VdAuwera Cambridge, MAMember, Administrator, Broadie admin
Hi @mychung3265, you shouldn't need to merge the fastqs, and in fact you'll get better speed performance if you don't and instead process the data from those runs as separate read groups. However you should make sure that when you're adding the read group metadata, the SM value is the same for all of them. That's what GATK will use to identify whether your data belongs to a single or multiple samples.
Hi Geraldine and Kate,
Glad to know the right and efficient way to analyze cases like this, l will split the runs for other similar ones.
Thank you both very much for your help.


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\nPetroleum Brownfields "That's a Good Corner"
\nThe P etroleum Cleanup and Redevelopment Fund (Redevelopment Fund)\, created wit hin the Division of Oil and Public Safety (OPS)\, is designed to catalyze the investigation and cleanup of contamination at abandoned and former ga s stations and other petroleum storage tank properties. These sites are
\ncommon in almost every community throughout Colorado\, many being una ddressed for decades. These former storage tank sites are generally not el igible to the Petroleum Storage Tank Fund (PSTF). The Redevelopment Fund c an provide reimbursement to a property owner for costs incurred for tank r emoval\, site assessment\, cleanup. The application process to become eli gible to the Redevelopment Fund will be discussed along with some success stories.
Tuesday\, March 26th\n
12 :00 to 1:00 p.m.\n
Box lunch Included\n
Check in begins at 11:30 a.m.\n
Colorado Division of Oil and Public Safety\n
6 33 17th St.\, Suite 500\, Denver CO 80202\n
Members $20 / person ~ Non-members $25 / person\n
Cash or Checks a t the check-in table only please\n
RSVP* by COB Friday\ , March 22nd to firstname.lastname@example.com\n
* As we o rder lunches ahead of time\, if you RSVP and cannot attend\, please let us know by COB Friday March 22nd. If you d o not give us notice and are a no show\, we will kindly request that you p ay for lunch\n
About the speaker:\n
Ms. Bral graduated from Ohio University in Athens\, OH in 1980 with a BS in Geology and in 1984 with a MS in Hydrogeology. While earning her MS degree she worked part-time as an exploration geologist for a small oil company in Marietta\, OH. After graduating with her MS degree\, she worke d with Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE) for 13 years in Gainesv ille\, FL and Denver\, CO doing petroleum and hazardous waste site assessm ent and remediation. In 1998 she founded Bral Environmental\, Inc. that sp ecializes in Phase I and II site assessments. In 1999 she joined the Color ado Department of Labor and Employment – Division of Oil and Public Safety (OPS) as an Environmental Protection Specialist in the Remediation Sectio n where she oversaw the assessment and remediation of petroleum contaminat ed sites. In 2004 she began managing the Colorado Petroleum Storage Tank F und that provides annual reimbursements of $35M to $40M. In 2017 she retur ned to the OPS Remediation Section and now\, in addition to overseeing sit e asssessments and cleanups\, she manages the Petroleum Cleanup and Redeve lopment Fund which provides reimbursement for tank removals and assessment and cleanup of "Brownfields" sites that are not eligible to the Petroleum Storage Tank Fund.\n
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20190326T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20190326T130000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:SWEP Speaker Luncheon with Jane Bral URL:http://swepcolo.org/?ai1ec_event=swep-speaker-luncheon-with-jane-bral X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:email@example.com DTSTAMP:20200525T225024Z CATEGORIES: CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:
Networking happy hour and pr esentation on Mastering Balance with Monica Graves\n
Feeling stressed out and looking for some new t ools to improve your life balance?\n
Monica Graves will be discussin g Mastering Balance which helps you get clarity on the ideal life you want to create through examining 10 key areas for your Balanced Life Vision. W e will define each area with the current level of success and satisfaction around that specific part of your life and list some new goals to improve them.\n
CB and Potts\n
NEW DATE: Wednesday May 22\, 2019\n
5:30 to 7:30 p .m.\n
Speaker starts at 6:30 p.m.\n
$10 SWEP members ~ $15 non-members\n
* includes drink ticket\n
RSVP by COB Monday May 20th to\n
firstname.lastname@example.com< /b>\n
Pay at the check-in table only please by Cash or Check\n
We hope you'll join us and bring a friend!\n
About t he speaker:\n
Monica Graves is a Licensed Louise Hay – "Heal You r Life" Workshop Leader. In 1993 she gave birth to her first child and wan ted to help make the world a better place for her son. In 1999\, she read the book\, You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay\, after experiencin g Esophagitis\, a condition characterized by ulcers\, which was caused by stress at her job as a designer in New York. She decided to quit her job\, move to Colorado and take a couple years off to explore life and to heal her life. Now Monica's life is filled with abundance\, she has two health y children\, a 33-year-long marriage to her soul mate\, and is a successfu l Realtor. Her upcoming book\, Mastering Balance\, will be publishe d in 2019. Monica is a Heal Your Life workshop leader to help others on t heir quest to heal. She currently offers Heal Your Life Workshops and Mast ering Balance workshops in Denver\, Golden\, and Winter Park\, Colorado. Y ou can contact Monica at email@example.com.\n
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DMNFR Ozone Nonattainment Area – Reclassification to "Ser ious" for the 2008 8-hour Ozone NAAQS\n
Ms. Sara Lubchenco b>\n
The current\, enforceable 8-hour Ozone National Ambient Air Qua lity Standard (NAAQS) is 75 parts per billion (ppb). Under the 2008 Ozone Standard\, the EPA reclassified the Denver Ozone Nonattainment area from "marginal" to "moderate" in the Spring of 2016. The region was given a de adline of July 12\, 2018 to attain with the 2008 Ozone Standard but was gr anted a one year "clean year" extension after petitioning EPA to exclude e mission monitor data correlated to wildfires events which met the EPA defi nition of "exceptional". The Governor's Office repealed the clean year ex tension request and the region is currently facing an impending reclassifi cation to "serious" nonattainment.\n
The current major source thresh old for VOC and NOx (ozone forming precursors) is 100 ton per year (TPY). A serious reclassification will reduce the major source permitting thresh old to 50 TPY. This means that the facilities operating as a minor source (i.e. emissions between 50 TPY and 99 TPY) will now be required to obtain a Title V Permit.\n
Wednesday\, October 2 nd\n
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.\n
Box lunch Included\n
Check in begins at 11:30 a.m.\n
Pinyon Environ mental\n
Me mbers $20 / person ~ Non-members $25 / person\n
Cash or Checks at the check-in table only please\n
RSVP* by COB Monday\ , September 30th\n
* As we order lunches ahead of time\, if you RSVP and cannot attend\, please let us know by COB Monday September 30th If you do not give us notice and are a no show\, we will kindly request that you pa y for lunch.\n
About the speaker:\n
Ms. Sara Lubchenco is a Senior Air Quality Professional and Project Manager with Tetra Tech. Sh e has her Bachelors and Masters of Science Degrees in Environmental Engine ering Specializing in Air Quality and holds a Professional Engineering lic ense in Colorado. Ms. Lubchenco has over 14 years of experience in variou s areas and industrial clients to include chemical manufacturing\, oil and gas\, manufacturing\, and Department of Defense. Ms. Lubchenco has exten sive nonattainment new source review permitting\, RACT analysis completion \, PTE assembly\, Title V application\, and compliance order/notice of vio lation support. Most notably\, she supported numerous facilities affected by the 2016 ozone nonattainment reclassification in 2016 and worked close ly with CDPHE and clients through the process.\n
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Rocky Mountain SWEP Progressive Dinner and Silent Auction\n
Date: Thursday November 14th\n
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.\, Check- in begins at 5:45\n
Old Spaghetti Factory (note new location in Westminster)\n
9145 Sheridan Boulevard\, Westmi nster\, CO 80031\n
DINNER INDLUDES:\n
Salad\, Main ent rée (choice of meat\, chicken or veggie)\, Dessert\, and Soft drinks.\n
Cash bar will be available.\n
SWEP Me mbers $25/ person ~ Non-members $30/person\n
No walk-ins will be accepted\n
RSVP by COB Monday November 11th*to email@example.com\n
You can pay at the door (cash or check) or send a Zelle payment through your bank to email@example.com (please put a note that it is for SWE P Progressive Dinner). Electronic payments will not be refunded.\n
About the Progressive Dinner:\n
The Progressive Dinner will invol
ve changing tables throughout the course of the evening\,
\nproviding opportunities to meet many people. This is a great networking event\, so bring your business cards and feel free to invite a friend! Silent auctio n items will be available to bid on during the evening so come prepared to try to outbid your competitors.
*OSF charges for dinners based on the RSVP numbers\, if you RSVP and cannot attend\, please let us know by COB Monday November 11th. If you do not give us notice and are a no show\, we will kindly request that you pay for your dinner.\n
For informat ion about the Rocky Mountain Chapter of SWEP\, please visit swepcolo.org p>\n
Proceeds go to the Rocky Mountain SWEP Scholarship Fund\n
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It begins with imagery of a Middle-earthian figure riding a horse and, soon after, swinging a sword at another similarly armed rider.
However, if you're expecting "Tolkien" to chronicle how J.R.R. Tolkien became the first name in fantasy fiction, you may find yourself as disappointed as a hobbit out of seed cakes and mince pies.
The biopic — which has had to weather criticisms from the late author's estate — is not a chronicling of his years writing "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, highly imaginative and descriptive works that remain important to so many people decades after their releases.
Instead, the film — very artfully shot, well-acted and largely compelling if not completely engrossing — is interested mainly in the years that formed the would-be author and creator of his own languages. It is a tale of loss and love, of school and war.
Above all, though, this is a story of fellowship.
Written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford and helmed by Dome Karukoski, "Tolkien" begins with John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Nicholas Hoult) on the French battlefields of World War I, where he has visions of his sword-wielding figures but soon cuts to a younger John Ronald (Harry Gilby) in an English forest where children are playing with toy swords.
Young John lives with his mother, Mabel (Laura Donnelly), and brother, Hilary (Guillermo Bedward), the patriarch of the family having died in South Africa when John was very young. Having homeschooled the boys since the family came to England, Mabel also fills their heads with fantastical stories that include, among other elements, dragons.
When she falls ill and dies, the family's priest, Father Francis (Colm Meaney of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Hell on Wheels") places the boys in a group home.
There, the teenage John will become enamored of another resident, Edith (initially portrayed by Mimi Keene but for most of "Tolkien" by Lily Collins).
Perhaps just as importantly, though, in terms of John becoming who he will ultimately be are three pals he makes at school: Robert Gilson (Albie Marber when he's younger, Patrick Gibson when older), Christopher Wiseman (Ty Tennant and Tom Glynn-Carney) and Geoffrey Smith (Adam Bregman and Anthony Boyle).
He first becomes friends, if you can call it that, with Rob after the two get into a scuffle on the rugby field and Robert's father, the school's headmaster (Owen Teale of "Game of Thrones"), orders the two basically become tethered. Soon enough, though, he is chummy with Robert and his pals Chris and Geoff.
The four take to hanging out in a store to share tea, cakes and ideas, and they form what they dub the Tea Club and Barrovian Society — or TCBS — and become thick as academic thieves.
Speaking of academics, John is desperate for a scholarship to attend the University of Oxford, but a budding romance with Edith — who likewise is yearning for a more-fulfilling future — may be getting in the way. At least that's how Father Francis sees it.
As alluded to, there will be time devoted to days at school and in world conflict, as well as some time before "Tolkien" has gone through its journey to John the writer, or at least the aspiring scribe.
While we're on the topic of writers, Gleeson ("The End of History," "Down to a Sunless Sea") and Beresford ("Pride") present a generally entertaining portrait of Tolkien but one short on real drama. And while they at least scrape below the surface of the man who gave the world Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn and myriad other great characters, they fail to delve all that deeply into his.
By contrast, Karukoski, a Finnish director whose credits include "The Home of Dark Butterflies" and "Tom of Finland," deftly guides "Tolkien," more than capably handling its nonlinear storytelling and at times ambitious visuals. (The visions of Middle-earth that soldier John has during the war become more elaborate.)
And we get a nice, if not remarkable, performance from Hoult ("The Favourite" and the "X-Men" movies of the last several years), who makes us root for John.
While Edith is not the center of the film and thus not as rich a character as John, the increasingly impressive Collins — who can be seen in the new Netflix movie "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" and the recent miniseries adaptation of "Les Miserables" on PBS — ensures she is reasonably memorable, thanks to a performance that commands your attention.
In fact, a couple of the movie's best scenes involve John and Edith being captivated with one another, such as when they enjoy a meal at a restaurant obviously above their financial status. After they share thoughts on language and storytelling — he introduces her to a beautiful word he has invented, and she pushes him to create a story for her about a strong and "opinionated" princess — she flicks a sugar cube onto the hat of a woman dining nearby. When she pressures him to do the same, he initially declines.
"What's the worst that can happen?" she asks him.
Karukoski then cuts to the pair being chased out of the restaurant, albeit in a very polite English manner.
Again, this may not be what you come into "Tolkien" expecting, but it is "Tolkien" at its finest.
3 stars
Directed by: Dome Karukoski
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney
Rated: PG-13 for some sequences of war violence.
Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes.


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The New York Times
The End of Federally Financed Ghettos
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD JULY 11, 2015
"The Supreme Court issued an important ruling last month when it reminded state and local governments that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 bars them from spending federal housing money in a manner that perpetuates racial segregation.
Last week, the Obama administration took an even more important step — one that has already changed the decades-long discussion about how to combat residential segregation. It rewrote the rules under the provision of the act that requires state and local governments to "affirmatively further" housing goals by making real efforts to cope with the cumulative results of the discrimination that confined black Americans to ghettos in the first place.
For the new rules to be effective, federal officials need to make clear that local governments can lose federal housing aid if they persist in dumping subsidized housing into depressed, racially isolated communities instead of putting more of it in integrated areas that offer better schools and job opportunities.
The fact that it has taken nearly 50 years since the law's passage for these common-sense changes to materialize is all the more distressing, given that federally sanctioned housing discrimination has played a central role in racial ghettoization.
The Fair Housing Act was intended to break down historic patterns of segregation. But it was undercut from the start by federal officials, including presidents who believed that segregation was the natural order of things. With the threat of sanctions almost nonexistent, many state and local governments confined subsidized housing to poor minority neighborhoods and found it quite easy to hide these wrongful practices behind ineffective, vaguely worded rules and loose oversight….
The rule is a warning for governments and nonprofit housing developers that have an interest in building as much subsidized housing as quickly as possible and that have been roundly criticized for building too much of it in depressed areas and speciously calling the process "revitalization." Builders will no longer be able to take the path of least resistance, avoiding better neighborhoods out of fear of not-in-my-backyard crusaders."
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It is after all, Six Million Dollars worth of Section 8 housing and we know that the lower classes don't like to mix with the upper classes in say, Tredyffrin Township. The lower classes might even think that's discrimination if they were mixed in with the upper crust. And we all know that the County would not discriminate by income or race.


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An easily missed, triangular patch of green space walled in between Madison, Pike, and 15th near Capitol Hill's radio and television towers could find new prominence if plans to build the most significant "living" building yet in Seattle continue to move forward. Tuesday, June 8th at 2pm in the Wyckoff Auditorium, a small group of Seattle University students will be presenting their findings on just about every aspect of the small park, called McGilvra Place, from its history to how pedestrians use the space.
The presentation will be the culmination of Seattle University's Community Design Workshop, a class that brings together students from all majors to complete a project for an actual client in the community. "This is not a theoretical workshop, but a practical task for a real firm." said Dr. Marie Wong, Associate Professor at SU's Institute for Public Service and faculty leader of the workshop. In previous years the Design Workshop has done studies on land use and zoning in Little Saigon as well as construction and maintenance of the Chinatown gateway. Like those projects, Professor Wong said she agreed to the McGilvra Place project because the students could see a real positive change for the community from their work.
The project came about when Point32 CEO Chris Rogers approached Professor Wong with the idea in anticipation of Point32's development of the Cascadia Center for Sustainable Design and Construction, which is planned for the adjacent property to the east, current home of C.C. Attle's. According to Rogers the project presented an opportunity "to demonstrate new ways of thinking about sustainability in the landscape, through green stormwater infrastructure, rethinking secondary roadways to better accommodate pedestrians and bicyclists, and ways to enhance existing open spaces that have been made inaccessible." The Bullitt Foundation, which will relocate its headquarters to a portion of the Cascadia Center building, has also shown support for the idee, applying for $650,000 from the Parks Levy's Opportunity Fund for the project.
Tuesday's presentation will cover the findings of four different teams involved in the Workshop. Chase Clancy, one of the two project managers of the workshop, provided a brief summary of what each of the four teams has been studying.
The Historical Research Team has been looking into the history or the park, along with the surrounding area, from roughly the 1860s forward. We have collected information about the history of the ownership of the land that McGilvra Place sits on, as well as the history of Madison, E. Pike St., and 15th, and the business development in the area. Also, we have collected a great deal of information about the streetcar era in Seattle, specifically looking into the history of the Madison Street Railway and the subsequent trolley and bus systems.
The Physical Investigations Team has been looking into what is actually at the park. This includes researching the eleven trees surrounding the park (although they looked like Sycamores, it turns out they are London Plane trees) and understanding what their average lifespan is, the typical structure of their root systems, etc. The physical investigations group was also tasked with researching and reporting on sustainable features that might be applicable to this pocket park, including different types of permeable pavements as well as bioswales and vegetative swales.
The Existing Park Management Team was tasked with researching who owns and who is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the park. It turns out that the trees are in fact owned by the Department of Transportation, but it is the responsibility of the Parks Department to maintain them. This team is also responsible for figuring out what the costs associated with the park are in its current condition.
The Human Observations Team took up the task of observing the park and the people and traffic that are in or near it. Staking out for multiple set times over the course of two weeks, this team recorded every person that was in or near the park, what they looked like, what they were doing, if they were accompanied by someone or alone, etc.
Chase, a junior majoring in Liberal Studies, said the class had been incredibly valuable because it had empowered the students by giving them an opportunity to do work that was practical to real world situations. Another student, Christina Walker, a Sociology major, echoed Chance's sentiments, explaining that the research had given her a very thorough understanding of the inner-workings of city infrastructure and budgets. "Working on this document has been an incredible hands-on experience and has given me the opportunity to work together on a community research and planning team in hopes to help a business better utilize a space in the community."


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"Japonisme in the Drawings and Paintings of Van Gogh" - Special lecture by Dr. Josine Smits
Lincoln Park
94121 San Francisco
Florence Gould Theater
When Van Gogh arrived in Paris in 1886, he discovered in Japanese prints a key to avant-garde pictorial techniques. The bright colors and energetic lines of Japanese graphic art helped him to develop a daring personal style. But the attraction went beyond new means of expression. Van Gogh felt a kinship with the harmonious way of life and the reverential attitude toward nature he perceived in the woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, and when he went to Arles in 1888 it was in search of his Japanese dream.
Josine Eikelenboom Smits, PhD, has taught 18th- and 19th-century art history at California College of the Arts, Stanford University, and U.C. Berkeley Extension. She received a master's degree from the Sorbonne and a doctorate from Stanford for a dissertation on Corot, on whom she has lectured at the Louvre. She studied the influence of ukiyo-e on the art of Van Gogh as a research scholar at Tokyo University.
We would like to thank the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco for their generous support of the artist's studio.
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